The yamen is not far away, and it is only more than a mile away from where Sun Dan lives, and it is three streets away. In Sun Dan's impression, the street where the county government is located is called the yamen.

Sun Dan walked in front of him, and he walked chicly, while the water catcher and the fourth servant trotted all the way behind, which looked like two long followers, which made Sun Dan feel a little funny. As long as this person is fearless, he will naturally have an indescribable bearing, and his mood will naturally be relaxed. The so-called people first humiliate themselves, and then they are humiliated by others. In the second life, even if you can't live as freely and casually as in your previous life, you have to live as a person no matter how you say it, and you can't be humiliated by others.

"Go so fast, hurry up and reincarnate!" The fourth child kept muttering in the back.

Generally speaking, when officials arrest people, they all shout at each other, and the arrested people also bow their heads and shrink their heads, looking like they are mourning. But Sun Dan walked with a swagger, as if he was going to a banquet. The pedestrians on the road looked interesting, and they all pointed and whispered to them.

Seeing being watched, the fourth child was annoyed, and couldn't help but look around viciously with round eyes.

The water catcher still nodded to the neighbors one by one with a smile on his face, and occasionally said hello.

Sun Dan nodded secretly, this water catcher is also an official errand, but is he modest and cautious, but he looks like a character, very much the temperament of an old fritter in the political circles of later generations, this person is not as simple as he seems on the surface. Such a person seems to be harmless to humans and animals, but if he can achieve the position of the chief catcher in this county, he must have his way. If you want to mingle in this small place in the future, this person is worth befriending.

However, the future will have to wait until this hurdle is passed. Although he relied on the memories of later generations to fool these two people and say that they were members of the Sun family of the Marquis of Huichang, he would definitely find someone from the Hou family of Huichang to confront and review the county, and then he would be able to deal with the people of the Sun family. If it is exposed by the time, I am afraid that there will be big trouble.

However, when encountering such a thing, you can't just sit back and wait.

Quietly laughing bitterly, Sun Dan almost sighed: Lao Tzu was worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth in his previous life, he loved to learn since he was a child, honored his parents, and was diligent in his work. After work, if you don't flatter or dominate, you are a qualified civil servant, why did you get involved in such an unfortunate thing?

glanced back, in the surging crowd behind him, Zhi Niang's slender body was squeezed from time to time.

Sun Dan saw her lips move slightly, her hands folded, and she didn't know what she was muttering.

Sun Dan is the matter of the Hou family of Huichang is not big, but it is not small. It's too small, but it's just to catch a laborer and send it to the front line, and recently, Zou Ping has sent thousands of men to the Jiangnan front. However, Zouping County is a large county in Jinan Prefecture, and it is a rich place for individuals to be grounded. More than 150 years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the four seas were leveled, and the people of Zouping were not short of money, and most of them used money to serve in the army. The army was also willing to extract cash from the locality in order to buy grain and straw on the spot in Jiangnan to recruit people. If the matter is bigger, if Sun Dan is really a member of the Sun family of the Marquis of Huichang, he will enjoy the policy of rent exemption and exemption from military service. If he is arrested indiscriminately, it will be a provocation to the Sun family, which really angers the Hou family of Huichang, but things are not good.

When he came to the Yamen, the county magistrate Zhang Da went out to inspect because of the previous sandstorm and was not in the Yamen. The water catcher had to go to Zhang Zhixian in person, and at the same time sent someone to the Huichang Marquis Mansion to report the matter, asking them to send someone over to confront him, and then put Sun Dan in the county government signature detention room. This matter can't be completely listened to Sun Dan's words, and you really have to invite the three parties together to make it clear.

Sitting in the signing room, Sun Dan took a deep breath, sorted out the thoughts in his head, and felt much more stable.

Speaking of the wealthy families of the Ming Dynasty, there were really a lot of noble families when the country was founded. For example, the Chang family, the Lan family, the Tang family, and the Qingtian Liu family. But Zhu Yuanzhang killed the heroes, and the heroes of the founding of the country were empty, and many big families also disappeared in the long river of history. After the change of Tumubao, the nobles who accompanied the northern expedition of Ming Yingzong were killed and wounded, and the family at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty finally dispersed, and there was no one in ten.

However, the Hou Sun family of Huichang is an exception.

When it comes to the largest family in the Ming Dynasty, in a sense, the Sun family is the most powerful.

The prominence of the Sun family began with Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, that is, when Emperor Xuande Zhu Zhanji. And Emperor Xuande's empress Xiaogong Empress Sun is a member of the Sun family in Zouping, Shandong.

That's right, the Hou Sun family of Huichang is the so-called relatives.

However, the Ming Dynasty was heavily guarded against foreign relatives, and according to the ancestral system, whether it was a prince or a relative, they had to be raised as pigs by the state and were not allowed to engage in politics.

But Empress Sun was deeply favored by Emperor Xuande, and she also turned a blind eye to the Sun family's politics.

Emperor Xuande died there at the age of thirty-seven, and the successor to the throne was the seven-year-old Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, who was the initiator of the Tumubao Change. As the biological mother of the little emperor, the Empress Dowager, Sun lived in the Qianqing Palace.

Sun Jizong, the uncle of the little emperor and the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Sun, also became an official of the Ming Dynasty and was named the Marquis of Huichang.

After the Tumubao Rebellion, Yingzong was captured by the Warats. Under the leadership of the minister Yu Qian, Zhu Qiyu, the younger brother of Dai Yingzong, ascended the throne, which was Emperor Jingtai for Daizong, and defeated the invading enemy.

Seeing that there was no point in continuing to kidnap Yingzong, the Warat people released Yingzong in August 1450.

In the first month of the eighth year of Jingtai, Emperor Jingtai was critically ill. On the 16th, Xu Youzhen, the deputy imperial historian, led the army into the South Palace at night and supported Yingzong to seize the door and restore the throne. This is the "change of seizing the door", also known as the "restoration of Nangong".

On the surface, the change of seizing the door was done by Xu Youzhen, but in private it was Sun Jizong's strategy.

After the restoration of Yingzong, Sun Jizong's uncle naturally had to be reused. Sun Jizong was also promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet, supervising the affairs of the five military camps and the affairs of the military capital. In this way, Sun Jizong can be the first person in the Ming Dynasty to grasp the military and political power.

Zouping Sun also took the opportunity to soar into the sky, Sun Jizong's brothers were all made marquis, and more than 20 descendants of the Sun family were made officials above the fifth grade.

Such a prominent family, even if it was a hero at the time of the founding of the country, everyone can't compare.

Not only that, relying on himself to be a relative, the Sun family is also arrogant, and dares to do anything daring.

After the restoration of Yingzong, the Sun family ran rampant in their hometown and embezzled a large number of official fields. In its heyday, the family had thousands of acres of fertile land and thousands of slaves. The fields at home are all over Shandong, Zhili and Henan. In later generations, there was another place in Tianjin called Huichang Houdi.

The embezzlement of Guantian was a big crime in the Ming Dynasty, and Guantian was the emperor's body, and he reached out into the emperor's pocket, which was naturally an unforgivable sin. At that time, Zhang Mao, the British duke who fought the emperor's idea with Sun Jizong, and Zhang Jin, the marquis of Taiping, were arrested and imprisoned by Jinyiwei and exiled from their homes. As for the Sun family, the emperor only dismissed the official positions of several of Sun Jizong's subordinates, hastily closed the case, and then turned a blind eye, and Xili was sloppy. After all, it's his uncle, and he really can't do it.

From this incident, it can be seen that the Sun family's status in the emperor's mind.

The Yingzong Dynasty has been away for more than 50 years, but when it comes to intimacy, the current emperor Zhengde is also a relative of the Sun family. Even if the Sun family has not been as strong as before in recent years, it is also the largest family in the country, and it is not something that a small Zouping county can afford.

Moreover, the Sun family is all people who don't rub sand in their eyes, and they have always been arrogant. If you can climb to the Sun family. Zouping County dared to pull him Sun Dan to do hard labor, which was a provocation to the Sun family, and anyone who became the magistrate of the county had to weigh it.

Now, the crux of the matter is how to fool the people of the Changhou Sun family and make them recognize themselves as poor relatives.

In ancient times, the patriarch of a large family was prominent, no matter how far away relatives came to the door, he had the obligation to help. This is not a temporary obligation, nor is it a moral obligation, but has a deep socio-economic context.

For example, if an ordinary peasant wants to gain a certain social status, he must study and become an official. The road is long and arduous and will take several generations. First of all, this farmer needs to work hard and accumulate a certain amount of financial resources in order to support his children and grandchildren to study without production.

No matter in any era, studying part-time is a great drain, and many times it requires the whole family to pay at the same time. And that effort can be generations.

Therefore, in the concept of ordinary people, a person who has become a great official in his studies is not because of his own efforts, but his success is closely related to the common ancestors of several generations. Therefore, as long as it is a clansman with the same ancestor and the same surname, the successful person has the obligation to help them in times of need.

Moreover, this kind of care and support is not meaningless, because no one can predict that his descendants will not be supported by the recipients.

As stated in the 15th Year of Wanli, this economic power relationship is sublimated into abstract morality.

But in essence, it's an economic powerhouse.

This is the clan of feudal society, the grassroots organization of the ruling class.

These materials were all in Sun Dan's mind, and he suddenly remembered them. Speaking of which, Sun Dan's father is really a collateral of the Sun family of the Marquis of Huichang, but after so many generations, this bloodline has also faded a lot. His father's name was also not entered into the Sun family's family tree.

Anyway, everyone is surnamed Sun, and they are related by blood, although they are far away, but they can be pulled out, they are still a family, and this thing can't be faked.

I just don't know that the Hou Sun family of Huichang is willing to admit that he is a poor distant relative.

Whether they admit it or not is another matter, but not doing anything by themselves is not Sun Dan's standard for life. So, he decided to take a risk.