At that time, the big ships were rushing southward, although it was still a confrontation between the Jin and Song dynasties, but there was no ban on private commercial exchanges, and the merchant ships were not conspicuous. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, they were afraid of accidents, and they did not load any cargo on the ship, and drove as fast as if they had some special mission.

The crew on the ship was very respectful to Dong Qing, and took care of him very thoughtfully and meticulously in life, but he didn't talk much and never talked about other things.

When the ship reached the south, the merchant was already waiting on the shore.

He invited Dong Qing to drink in the restaurant and wash the dust for him.

After some greetings, the merchant took out 20 taels of gold and said, "This is for your mother and wife to make a birthday." ”

Although gold was not yet in circulation at this time, as long as it was exchanged with pledges all over the country, a large amount of money would be obtained.

Dong Qing saw that this merchant brother gave such a generous gift, and remembered the woman's parting instructions and refused to accept it.

The merchant said, "You go back to your hometown with your bare hands to meet your mother and wife, and you have no money, do you want them to starve to death?" ”

He forcibly left 20 taels of gold, turned around and took his leave.

Dong Qing did not forget the woman's advice, chased after him, returned 20 taels of gold, and showed the old robe to the merchants.

The merchant was first surprised, and then said with a smile: "My wisdom is really inferior to hers, so my responsibility to help my sister is not yet over." If she gives birth to a girl next year, I will definitely take her back south and reunite with you; If you give birth to a boy, I don't care, with the intelligence of my sister-in-law, she will add branches and leaves for your Dong family in the north------ and if there is a chance in the future, she will go to Jiangxi to recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors, please cherish it! ”

After saying this, the merchant walked towards the north without looking back.

It is said that Dong Qing returned to his hometown in Jiangxi, and his old mother, wife, and two sons were overjoyed.

The old mother asked him how he had lived in the past few years when the Jin people invaded Shandong, and how he had returned to his hometown from the north.

Dong Qing reported how he went into exile for more than three years, how he met the shopkeeper, how he married a concubine, how the concubine took care of her life, and how she entrusted her brother to send her back to her hometown.

and took out the robe that the concubine gave when they broke up and showed it to the family, and also said how the concubine repeatedly told him to keep the robe.

The careful wife took it over and looked at it carefully, only to see that the sewing place was faintly visible golden yellow, and when she opened it to take a closer look, it turned out that there was a lot of foil gold sewn inside.

Dong Qing used the money to subsidize his family's expenses.

After some time, Dong Qing rushed to Lin'an to meet the court of the Great Song Dynasty to explain what happened, and the court gave him the official position of Yixing Wei.

Although the family's life was settled, he often missed the woman who was far away in the north, but he had not heard from her for many years, believing that the woman must have given birth to a son for him and might not return in the north.

As it turned out, the woman had a son, so she settled down in Guantao, and while she was dealing in flour, she disciplined her son strictly, and invited a famous teacher to educate him.

Later, when his son was a scholar in the Jin Dynasty, he married a wife and a concubine in Jinbang High School, and the branch of the Dong family in the north blossomed and grew stronger.

Passed on to Dong Fang's generation, the Dong family in the Guantao area has become a family member, and many members of the Dong family have become local officials...... Originally, whether it was the Great Song Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty, everyone in the family was generally not allowed to be an official in their own family location, but after the Tatars came, everything was different, whoever took refuge in them first, they let whoever became an official, and there were no other requirements!

Of course, the people of the Dong family immediately took refuge, so it was only natural that Dong Fang became the local official in charge, specifically responsible for a Tatar nobleman...... The Tatar bandit groups are still far from completing the regularization of the official system, especially the local officials, who are still basically primitive.

Kublai Khan, the leader of the Tatar bandit group, is also studying accepting the advice of Pingzhang Ahmad to sell the positions of local officials to some of the great families, which will help accumulate military spending.

For the common people, they can repeatedly exploit them, and for the local tyrants, they still have to pay attention to their methods and strength after all.

This proposal is now being vigorously opposed by the Hanfa faction, not because it is a solution proposed by the financial management faction, but because it is a great political regression!

Whoever has money will become an official, and then become an official and then get it back...... So where will those elites who study the scriptures hard and are full of statecraft, such as themselves, go from here?!

In this way, the country will not be a country!

Therefore, this method has not yet been rolled out on a large scale...... It has only begun to be implemented on a pilot basis in some places, especially in places far away from important cities, which have been semi-publicized.

The Dong family took advantage of this opportunity to obtain the position of magistrate in the Guantao area, and they introduced Dong Fang, an outstanding talent of their own family, to represent the interests of the Dong family.

Dong Fang is indeed a discerning talent, at the beginning, he did not dry up and fish, but also implemented a series of local policies for rest and recuperation...... After all, this is where he has lived for generations, and all the assets of the family are here, so he can't just take a handful and run.

However, as the war progressed, the current situation was somewhat different.

When the Dong family worshiped their ancestors, the elders of their clan held a family meeting, and all the important members sat in a large room in the ancestral hall and listened to the discussion between the Dong family patriarch and several elders.

It was a fateful family meeting.

First of all, they listened to the officialdom report of the local magistrate Dong Fang.

Dong Fang said that at present, the court is relatively chaotic, the Hanfa faction and the financial faction are in a mess, and the financial faction uses the ****** to fight the other faction, and at the same time takes the opportunity to accumulate wealth, which is highly valued by the big bosses; The Han faction fought back in the interests of the country and the people, and because of the large number of officials in the imperial court, their strength was not small, especially among some local officials, there were more people who identified with the Han faction.

This introduction made everyone fall into silence...... The patriarch of the Dong family is over eighty years old, and he has seen many changes with a smile, he is in charge of the big ship of the Dong family like an old helmsman, and he has avoided countless storms and waves over the years.

The old patriarch said a few of his ideas in a deep voice.

The first is to increase the transfer of family industries to the Jiangnan West Road area of the Great Song Dynasty.

As early as the end of the Jin Dynasty, this northern branch of the Dong family had completed the task of recognizing their ancestors and returning to their ancestors, and they had already quietly transported the bones of their considered ancestors, Dong Qing's concubines, back to the Dong family's hometown and returned to the ancestral grave of the Dong family.

Of course, the Dong family on Jiangnan West Road was very happy about the return of this branch of the Dong family, and they also reorganized the family tree...... In this time and space, there is no big family that does not want their people to prosper, and besides, the Dong family in the north not only does not need them to help, but instead transfers some industries to them.

Now, the patriarch of the Dong family in the north has decided to increase the transfer efforts...... This is an unprecedented decision!

In the troubled times when the whole dynasty was destroyed by the Tatars, there was no such plan, but to make this decision in a relatively calm moment, is it a bit blind?

Everyone was quietly looking at the old patriarch, waiting for his explanation...... (To be continued.) )