Qigong, not Hong Qigong. This is Chen Ming's uncle, that is, his uncle. If it was according to the customs of Chen Ming's hometown in the previous life, he would directly call this the seventh master. But now it's the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the clan rules are big.

Chen Hui is of course the patriarch of the entire Chen family, but he must also be polite to the elders, let alone Chen Ming.

So Chen Ming, who came in with a clean mouth, gave the seventh prince a salute very respectfully, and said, "I've seen the seventh uncle." ”

Of course, the Seventh Duke came today to express his condolences, and Chen Ming's safety is directly related to the stability of the entire Chen family. If it weren't for Chen Ming's cheap eldest brother who went to Kaifeng two months ago, he would definitely have to go to his home.

This year is the second time that Chen Gang has been killed, and the autumn examination - the township examination, that is, the examination of people. Chen Gang had already taken the scholar to Kaifeng.

If he can win the middle school this year, next year, the 31st year of Qianlong, he will be able to try to pick the most dazzling pearl in the imperial examination room. And Chen Ming's cheap sister-in-law was already pregnant, and the old lady gave instructions before she came to the county seat from Tumen, so she didn't have to go.

The Chen family is running normally now, the seventh prince enters the city, don't look at the old man who came to the door early, I don't know and think that he got up before dawn, in fact, this Chen Ming's seventh uncle has a courtyard outside the city, which is specially used to settle down when entering the city. For example, during the annual New Year's Festival, you can't live in Chen Ming's house as soon as you arrive in the city!

It's not that you don't have any money on hand!

The Chen family is the most traditional family-style group in China, and nine out of ten people who occupy key positions in the entire interest chain are surnamed Chen. Chen Hui eats meat, and they also gnaw bones and drink broth, and an elder like Qigong, who is alive and still in charge, has a family of one or two hundred acres of land and one or two houses.

Don't think that one or two hundred acres of land is less. This is Lushan, not the Great Plain of Eastern Henan. In Lushan County, which has a population of more than 200,000 and less than two acres of land per capita, 1,200 acres of land is already very good. Now is not the time of Kangxi, the fertile fields in Jiangnan during that period were only 2 or 3 taels of silver per mu, and now it is the 30th year of Qianlong, China's population has moved towards 200 million, and the price of fields in Jiangnan has soared to ten taels of silver per mu.

Of course, the price per mu of land in Lushan County is not as good as that of the land in the south of the Yangtze River, but because the fields here are scarce and densely populated, the land price is higher than that of Chenzhou and Guide, which are rich counties in eastern Henan.

The grade of dry land varies from the lowest 2 taels of silver per mu to the highest of 5 taels of silver per acre. The most valuable irrigated land in Lushan County, the total value of 13,000 acres of land around Zhaoping Lake is definitely more than 100,000 taels. In the past five years, the paddy fields around Zhaoping Lake have only been traded three times, and the transaction price has not been less than 8 taels of silver per mu. And unless it is a last resort, almost no one will sell this piece of land.

One or two hundred acres of land is at least five hundred taels of silver. In the whole of China, a family with a family of five hundred taels of silver is not considered poor wherever he goes.

The 'family meeting' didn't last long, and there was no time for Chen Ming to intervene. Not long after Chen Ming arrived, Chen Hui went to the study with Qigong to have a secret meeting, which made Chen Ming feel that he was waiting for him on purpose.

After chatting for a while with the kind-looking and loving cheap grandmother and cheap mother, Chen Ming returned to his room. The Chen family's house is not big, and the courtyard of the three entrances is inhabited by Chen Hui, Chen Ming + the old lady, and the two aunts who are still there today, so Chen Hui bought out the neighbors on the left and right early, and the two entered the small courtyard, opened up the courtyard wall, and regarded it as the Chen family's cross-courtyard. Chen Ming's residence is the north courtyard, and the south courtyard is the fixed place for the old lady to settle when she enters the city. On weekdays, there are people who often clean and don't live there.

Chen Ming decided to take advantage of the time to send the old lady back to Tumen this time, and really took root in the Chen family's roots. Since his grandfather died of illness, the old lady was reluctant to stay in the city, and insisted on returning to her hometown in Tumen, where the old lady's maiden home was. That's why there is a second uncle who is a pensioner's wife, and a grandfather's father is alone in the city.

Chen Ming and his father Chen Hui have different ideas, and their outlook on life and ideals determine the difference in each other's paths. In Chen Hui's eyes, the most important thing for the Chen family is not the 1,500 acres of land, not those storefronts and private mines, but the location under his buttocks.

Without standing in Lushan County, the Chen family is at most a squire and a tyrant, and if they accumulate wealth, they are also a fat pig in the eyes of those who wear official skins. As long as you want to slaughter and eat meat, there is nothing that you can't kill.

Therefore, in Chen Hui's eyes, the most important thing for the Chen family is this official skin that has been passed down from generation to generation. Officials and wardens are not yet officials. But in the people, they represent officials.

But Chen Ming is a person in the 21st century, even if he has not made up his mind to rebel now, if you want him to waste time in Lushan County, it is also asking him to commit suicide slowly. He wants to return to what he thinks is the real power, and grasp the real power in the old base of the Chen family.

Bone china, small blast furnace, maybe.

Making money is by no means Chen Ming's first priority, controlling power, and the most important thing is to get some control of the Chen family's armed forces, which is the most important thing. The Chen family has been engaged in illegal salt for a year or two, and the private salt team at hand can be called a strong army that can be recruited and warned. Chen Ming didn't know how many people there were, but it definitely exceeded fifty.

For Lushan County, where there is only one green battalion soldier in the county seat, fifty men who dare to fight and kill are already a force to be reckoned with. If the power of the local squires is shielded, fifty men who dare to fight and kill will already be able to go straight to the county seat, and if those green battalion soldiers dare to go out of the city to face the battle, it will definitely not be the private salt team that will finally go to see the king of Hades, but these soldiers of the Great Qing Kingdom.

Chen Ming didn't realize in his heart that in addition to the 'burden of history', he had actually been affected by a sense of fear. He was afraid that his identity would be revealed, so subconsciously he wanted to stay away from Chen Hui and his wife. There must be many people in Tumen who know Chen Ming, but when it comes to familiarity, even his loving cheap grandmother is not necessarily comparable to a girl in the Chen family. So he has always had a faint rejection of this home in the county, and now he is sending the old lady back to Tumen, what a good opportunity, and he will use it immediately.

There are not many people in the Chen family, the girl, the mother-in-law, the housekeeper, and the porter, a total of ten people. Chen Ming has only one servant to follow on weekdays, one girl next to each of the two aunts, and a maid and a mother-in-law by Chen Gao's side, this mother-in-law is Chen Ming's personal servant Liu Wu's wife, and the porter is his father. The housekeeper is a domestic servant, the wife and children are all in the Grange, and there are three left, one is a coachman, and the cook-in-law is a family of two, and the children are also in the Grange, and then there is a little girl who has a hand.

The Chen family has 1,500 acres of land, counting the hidden field, there are 1,700 acres, the 400-meter paddy field cannot be faked, and the remaining 1,300 acres are two Zhuangzi, which is not only a good place for the Chen family to settle people, but also a good place to reward meritorious heroes. For the subordinates, they are loyal and hardworking, so that the master can look at the good, mention the sons, be a banker, and the future generations will have a head.

Chen Ming recuperated at home for another four days, and then after a dinner, he proposed to follow his grandmother to Tumen for a while, and Chen Hui agreed with a little contemplation. Only Chen Gao's is very worried, she now wants to tell Chen Ming a good family affair as soon as possible, get married early, and give birth to an heir, which is at ease. Chen Ming's three days in a coma frightened her.

The next morning, Chen Ming rode a horse, followed a two-wheeled carriage, and walked out of Lushan County. There was also Liu Wu by his side, Liu Wu riding a mule.

Regarding Chen Ming's idea of returning to his hometown, Liu Wu was not happy, how could there be a county seat in Tumen to stay comfortable. Chen Ming was very happy to see this, he always wanted to throw this personal guy far away, but this was obviously impossible. The subordinates in this period have no human rights, but they can't be replaced for no reason if there is no reason.

Liu Wu's careful thinking didn't work, and he didn't need Chen Ming's cheap father and mother to speak, Liu Wu's father and mother took the initiative to clean up this kid. So Liu Wu obediently took care of the package and rode a mule to the countryside.

Since then, Chen Ming has walked out of the gate of the Chen family for the first time. On the crowded South Street, Chen Ming was very nervous the moment he rode on horseback, but the horse was docile and did not have the bad scene he expected. He comforted the horse with a slightly rusty movement, took the reins of the horse, and the horse obediently turned half around, and Chen Ming completely relieved his heart. ――I really know how to ride a horse!

After stabilizing his mind, Chen Ming relaxed and admired Lushan County.

Tumen is in the west of Lushan County, and their group needs to go to Tumen from the south of the city to the west of the city, and go out of the west gate.

This is a very different picture from the pigtail scene in TV movies, it is the real folk life in the middle of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the breath of history is blowing in the face. Chen Ming walked from South Street to the center of the city, turned to the west to the West Gate, walked all the way, watched all the way, if he crossed back, he could point to the nose of those braided drama directors and scold, what the hell, when filming the streets and alleys, fill in the shadows of women less, see how many mothers are there on this street?

As an ordinary county seat, there are not so many people walking in the streets and alleys, and there are not all kinds of stalls on both sides of the streets. What should we do with the shops on the street?

Again, men's braids won't be that chunky. The thick and shiny braids may only exist on the heads of the powerful in Beijing. This period is not the Daoguang period, let alone after the Second Opium and Chip Wars, the hairstyles of men in this era are only a little better than the money rat tail in the Kangyong period, and the ground with long hair on the head can have a bowl mouth, not the kind of coarse porcelain bowl, the braid can be as thick as a thumb, which means that the hair is good, but it is not the yin and yang head in film and television dramas. [Looking at the portraits of Kang Mazi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, there are sideburns in front of the ears, and the Han people can't do it. Looking at the paintings depicting the Manchu Qing Dynasty by the Magalny mission to China in 1792, the Han people's hairstyle is the size of a slap on the back of the head, and as for the shiny braids, it is not nutritious, it is dirt and head oil. Do you think that washing your hair in this era is as convenient and easy as in the 21st century? Soap, that is, pancreas, fragrant pancreas, this thing has been available for a long time, but is that something that ordinary people can use? That's it!

And it's not convenient to wash, no one is waiting for you, and you can expect your braids to not shine when you come alone.

Finally, there is the street, restaurants, pharmacies, money villages, pawnshops, all walks of life hang under the guise of dense, dense, different, the only similarity is to be conspicuous. It is very different from the clean streets in many pigtail plays, or only a few shops hanging under the guise of a few shops. The shops in the Manchu Dynasty, in addition to signboards and disguises, are very different from the current storefronts. Or, to a certain extent, this guise was an advertisement in the Manchu business community.