Daming has regulations, but anyone who travels as a talent does not need a guide. So thoughtful is there

At dawn on the second day, he had a simple breakfast with Qi Yanwu, Zhou Zhi wore a square scarf and a green cloth shirt, tidying up neatly, Qi Yanwu was wearing a short coat, and the two came out of home and went straight to Gaochang Town.

In Gaochang Town, Qianli Piaoxiang Restaurant met Li Maoyuan, hired a carriage, and the three of them went directly to Qingdu County. From Gyeongdu County to Boye County, through Boye, and then Qingyuan County, rest overnight in Qingyuan, and go straight to Gaoyang County along the official road in the northeast direction on the second day.

After calculating that the road was more than 200 miles, they arrived at Gaoyang County in the evening of the second day.

Among the many counties under the jurisdiction of Baoding Prefecture, Gaoyang County is a very small county. But it is this very small county, but it has a very historical history, and it is said that this place is the hometown of Su, which can be described as an outstanding person.

Despite its location in the interior, the people here seem to be more enlightened than people in other places. During the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court did not attach much importance to commerce. There is no way, the old Emperor Zhu of the Ming Dynasty was born as a cattle herder, he just attaches importance to agriculture, and thinks that as long as the people plant the fields well, the world will be rich.

Later emperors naturally followed Zhu Yuanzhang's example, did not attach importance to commerce at all, and even restricted commerce, and discriminated against merchants.

But Gaoyang County paid attention to the development of commerce very early. Maybe because the land in this place is barren, the food output will never make the people hungry. The people deeply thought that as long as they had money in their hands, they would naturally be able to buy food and fill their stomachs.

It is for this reason that almost everywhere in the small county of Gaoyang there is a commercial development, where the germ of capitalism appears prematurely.

The small traders and hawkers in the streets are not at all enough, and the most developed here are textile workshops.

Zhou Zhi is very clear that in the later generations of Gaoyang County has the name of "textile city", the output of various textiles in all parts of the country are not to say, but also exported to all over the world.

Hehe! The textile development of Gaoyang County in later generations may have originated from the Ming Dynasty at this time.

Sun Gong's family is in Gaoyang County, and their family is naturally developing a textile workshop. At first, although the Sun family was not a big household in the county, but the development of textile was very early, but also very fast, just more than ten years of hard work, the Sun family in the textile ranks among the top eight in Gaoyang County textile, and the Sun family has become one of the few wealthy households in Gaoyang County.

Of course, the Sun family naturally knows that the development of business will be looked down upon after all, and they will never be able to enter the house and become a powerful person, so the Sun family also attaches great importance to reading.

However, the descendants of the future generations do not seem to have any competition, and if they talk about business, they may be the first to be the way and very shrewd. But when it comes to reading, it's not worth mentioning. Sun Gong is a very good leader among the descendants of the Sun family, and he was admitted to Xiucai at the age of twenty-three.

Therefore, Sun Gong's status in the family is quite high, the patriarch of the family, and Sun Gong's father Sun Lian and others let Sun Gong study everywhere. Although Sun Gong has not participated in a township examination, after several years of hard study, coupled with his talent, he seems to be full of wealth at this time, and I believe that in the year of next year's big competition, there will definitely be achievements.

may be the reason why Sun Gong studied hard, and the Sun family would only appear a few decades later, a famous Sun Chengzong in the history of the Ming Dynasty and a flower in the imperial examination.

The Sun family suffered a catastrophe this time, and the specific details are not known, and Zhou Zhi and Li Maoyuan are harboring various speculations in their hearts.

And they entered the city through the west gate of the city of Goyang. The officers and soldiers guarding the city seemed to turn a blind eye to the three of them, and came to the old city street very comfortably, asked passers-by, scanned the courtyard of the Sun family's house, and went straight to the Sun house.

The Sun Mansion was built on West Street, and the three of them sat in a carriage, and the sound of looms could be heard almost everywhere, and the family was busy. Sun Mansion is a huge mansion, with two big black characters written on the high gatehouse: Sun House.

At this time, the door was closed, and the Sun family's downfall could not be seen from the outside. But when they knocked on the door, they couldn't hear the echo from inside for a long time. Really helpless, Zhou Zhi and Li Maoyuan shouted loudly outside the door, and a crack slowly opened in the door, and an old head poked out from inside.

The old man looked Zhou Zhi up and down and the three of them were connected, and Zhou Zhi and Li Maoyuan hurriedly stepped forward to explain. The old man seemed to be very surprised, and muttered, "I didn't expect that someone would dare to come to the door of Sun's house, so please come in quickly." ”

This old man seems to be the housekeeper of the Sun family. The old man led the way in front, and the three of Zhou Zhi followed, and the old man had to nag a few words from time to time, "Alas! The trees are falling and scattered, and the world is hot and cold! The Sun family is lonely now, no one will come to the Sun family again, and the former door will never be seen again. The two of them came from afar, and they even came to visit my young master, and the old slave thanked the two of them for my young master. ”

Speaking of this, the old butler unconsciously burst into tears.

Zhou Zhi and Li Maoyuan actually deeply experienced the fall of the Sun family since they entered the gate of the Sun family. The various flowers and plants in the courtyard seem to have not been taken care of for a long time, and even the stone tables and stone benches placed on the side of the corridor have long been covered with dust.

At this time, hearing the old housekeeper's words, both of them couldn't help but feel a little sad.

What the hell is going on? Why did the Sun family fall?

The old housekeeper walked a few steps, seemed to be very moved, and continued, "The Sun family was still a cloud of slaves two months ago, and the courtyard was full of laughter. But now, alas! All the slaves were left with only one old slave, and they all ran away, they all ran away! It's really a bunch of unpopular things, have you forgotten the kindness of the old master and the young master to them?

My young master is also mentally poor now, and he is seriously ill, what a good person my young master is, the old slave just hopes that the young master can get better as soon as possible.

If the young master heard that the two of you had come to visit him, I don't know how happy he would be! ”

He nagged and led Zhou Zhi and Li Maoyuan through the front yard, through a few corridors, and finally stopped in front of a house in the backyard.

At this time, Li Maoyuan's face was already very anxious, you must know that although Li Maoyuan is a lifter, his family has always been very poor, and when he was studying in Liu Yu's school in Li County, Li Maoyuan was not less helped by Sun Gong.

It was the ten-mile Piaoxiang Restaurant opened by Li Maoyuan and his cousin in Gaochang Town, and Li Maoyuan borrowed 300 taels of silver from Sun Gong before he bought shares.

When he was in Lixian, Zhou Zhi and Sun Gong also had a lot of contact, Sun Gong had a cheerful personality, not to mention being kind to others, it was his belly's knowledge, and he would give Zhou Zhi guidance without concealment. In Lixian, Zhou Zhi actually received a lot of guidance from him and benefited a lot from it.

Sun Gong, who was in good health a few months ago, didn't expect to be sick, and from the mouth of the old housekeeper, it seemed that he was not lightly ill this time.