Jinling City Lotus Fang Zhoujia Garden.

Zhou Lao Zhuangyuan, who was sitting on the main seat, couldn't help but be relieved when he saw the anger in the hall. In fact, he knows better than anyone that if he really wants to fight a lawsuit, he has no chance of winning.

As a veteran of the Donglin Party who has been immersed in officialdom for many years, Zhou Lao Zhuangyuan knows the power of public opinion best, and only by continuing to encourage more Shilin celebrities and young scholars to participate, work together, and create a greater momentum to win public opinion and sympathy, can the hated Zhu Daolin be brought down and stink, and can he take this opportunity to give a stern warning to the nobles of Jinling City who want to turn over.

The reason why the old champion of Zhou showed his old face and messed around with nonsense was that there was one most important reliance that he did not say: the food and clothing parents of the Donglin Party who had been hiding behind the scenes for decades had been deeply disturbed by the "Bofu Money Village" jointly established by the two great nobles of Jinling City and the century-old famous Ying family, and felt inexplicable fear of the capital and expansion speed of the Bofu Money Bank's nearly 10 million taels of silver.

The Ningbo Xie family in the eight great families began in the Zhengde period, and in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, Xie Pi ranked third in the middle hall test, and the official to the left waiter of the Ministry of Officials and the Hanlin Bachelor was in charge of the academy. His son Xie Zheng was awarded the Zhongshu Sheren in the shadow of his father, and later entered the Wenyuan Pavilion to do things, pre-revised the history of the emperor, promoted the Ministry of Rites to the Wailang, and was named the deputy envoy of the Liao Lord.

After more than 100 years of operation, the Xie family has millions of acres of fertile land in Ningbo, Shaoxing and other places, and is actively engaged in maritime trade. The far-sighted head of the Xie family had previously proposed to "establish a larger, more well-funded money bank to curb the expansion of Bofu money bank", but he did not get the support of the major families.

As long as several major families join hands to set up a few big money houses, not to mention the capital of tens of millions of taels of silver. Even hundreds of millions of taels of silver can be easily scraped together, and with a little operation, it can block the life of Bofu Bank.

Thanks to the preferential treatment of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and the hard work of generations of scholars over the past hundred years, the famous scholars and the entire family did not have to pay a penny in taxes, so that more land was concentrated in the hands of the gentry and wealthy families. This alone represents a huge amount of land wealth accumulated over more than 200 years.

Over the past 100 years, almost all the family gate valves have invested the wealth obtained from the land into industry and commerce that bring greater profits, and the largest trading houses, money houses and sea trade fleets in the Ming Dynasty are all industries controlled by the family gate valves in various places.

After more than 100 years of operation, these industries with millions of assets have brought countless wealth to the family lords in various places, coupled with the national policy of banning the sea successfully promoted by the government and opposition forces after becoming an ancestor. The sea trade of the Ming Dynasty was completely controlled by the door valve of the Southeast Family.

The monopoly of sea trade not only does not need to pay any taxes, but also brings huge profits far beyond the previous two hundred years for the southeast family gate valve, creating prosperity in the southeast region and the southern coastal areas, giving birth to thousands of millionaires who have benefited from sea trade, and the huge profits obtained by the southeast family gate valve who controlled the sea trade of the Ming Dynasty are not to mention, no one can say clearly.

But insiders know that more than seventy percent of the wealth in the world is concentrated in the hands of the southeast gentry class and the powerful led by the eight great families.

For example, the Songjiang Xu family of the late Shoufu Xu Jie, not only owns millions of acres of fertile land. It also grasps the economic lifeline of the four counties of the prefecture, and only saves land and industrial and commercial taxes every year. You can get more than 2 million taels of silver, and if you add industrial and commercial profits and sea trade income, the total annual profit of the Xu family is almost a quarter of the total tax of 20 million taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty!

Although the vast majority of the family gate valves in Daming cannot be compared with the Songjiang Xu door valve, the major family gate valves on the southeast ground are not inferior, in addition to the large amount of land, mines and real estate they own. What bank does not have a few million taels of silver in its treasury for many years?

Even the old champion of Zhou, who has been developed for more than 20 years after being poor, has 800,000 taels of silver in the silver treasury at home, not to mention the eight major families in the southeast?

From the bottom of his heart, Zhou Lao Zhuangyuan supported the establishment of several big money houses with assets of tens of millions of dollars to suppress the emerging forces composed of Jiangnan Xungui and Daomen. It is a pity that the proposal of the Xie family in Ningbo is empty talk!

However, the major families have always been very consistent in guarding their vested interests, especially the sea trade, which has continuously obtained huge profits in the past hundred years, and will never allow any emerging forces to get involved in it.

Therefore, Zhu Daolin, a mysterious maritime merchant who was born on the rich side, became the first target of the southeast family gate valve, even if he did not join forces with the political opponent of the gentry class, the noble class, and did not have any political ambitions, he was still the target of the southeast family gate valve that must be severely cracked down!

The reason why Zhou Lao Zhuangyuan made the low-level mistake of underestimating the enemy before was completely because he was too conceited, too confident in his own influence, and he didn't know that Zhu Daolin had caught up with a terrible person with real power, Wu Jingxian, the deputy supervisor of Nanjing Town Guard and the deacon eunuch of Dongchang Jiangnan, and the eunuch in charge of the Tongyuan Bureau.

Even if he returns in vain in the end, as the elder of the Donglin Party, the Confucian predecessor Zhou Lao Zhuangyuan, can also use this to show his attitude to the parents behind him, even if there is a sacrifice, it is worth doing, and in the end it is only those ignorant scholars who are abandoned, except for the loss of a concubine who has never been obtained, he Mr. Zhou has nothing to lose, and he can still go back to his hometown in Suzhou to be a respected rich man.

On the morning of the next day, the city of Jinling was lit up everywhere, and the laughter and laughter were endless, and as far as the eye could see, there was a happy and peaceful festive atmosphere everywhere.

After Zhu Daolin attended the grand opening ceremony of the United Merchant Shop, he didn't care about saying goodbye to the Franc Machine who was sighing on the side, avoided the crowd in advance, and slipped out of the back door of the shop warehouse yard first, and returned to Zizhuyuan by carriage.

After changing his robe, Zhu Daolin, together with Lao Shi, the chief steward who had been waiting for a long time, and several civil and martial arts instructors, followed the eight carriages full of sugar cakes and bamboo and wood toys to Yixue, visited the homeless orphans, distributed all the sugar cakes and toys on the carriage to each child, listened to the reports of the old history and the civil and martial arts teachers in the laughter of the children, and carefully observed the children with excellent quality and outstanding performance in the direction of the fingers of the civil and military teachers.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the grand banquet of the West Cross Courtyard began on time.

Ying Changpei, Zhao Xunting, Zhang Deyi brothers, Yan Yihe and Xin Chengbo's two sons all came to the banquet with their families, and the big housekeeper of the courtyard, Lao Shi, and the two leaders of the courtyard were happily present, plus Zhu Daolin's group of wives and concubines, the front and back yards added up to a total of eight tables.

The girls who love beauty hung strings of red lanterns, and placed exquisite daffodil bonsai and plum blossom vases everywhere, decorating the entire West Cross Courtyard with red and lively atmosphere, full of laughter inside and out.

At night, the people who didn't dare to drink too much took their wives and concubines out of the nest again, rushed to the bank of the Qinhuai River, boarded a large painting boat booked in advance, and boated on the sparkling wide river, holding fine wine, watching the crowded happy crowd, and enjoying the beautiful night scene of the fire trees and silver flowers on both sides of the river.

Because he was too happy, and today's opening was a great joy to create a business prosperity that had never been seen in the history of Jinling City, Ying Changpei and Zhang Deyi and Yan Yihe got drunk one after another.

Ying Changpei, supported by his concubine, lay on the side of the boat and vomited a mess, singing loudly but not out of tune, and finally turned into an unpleasant noise Zhang Deyi, who was pressed in the boat building by his eldest brother Zhang Dezhong and was not allowed to come out again.

Yan Yihe, who vomited all over the ground, didn't know where he was, lying on the deck of the bow of the ship and falling asleep, several loyal relatives wiped Yan Yihe's face and robe, and carried water to wash the vomit on the deck, but accidentally poured Ying Changpei, who came over slowly.

After Ying Changpei vomited, he originally felt much better, but now he was stimulated by the cold water, and most of the wine woke up directly in the exclamations of a group of family members.

Zhu Daolin and Xin Chengbo's two sons saw this scene, laughing so much that their stomachs hurt, and after laughing, they saw that there was really no way to continue playing, Zhu Daolin proposed to go ashore and go home to rest, and everyone also agreed, at this time, nearly half of the people who celebrated together fell, and the boat was full of vomit filth and bad smell, and it was really not interesting to play again.

After Zhu Daolin said goodbye to everyone, under the escort of several junior brothers, he took a group of wives and concubines to detour for more than three miles, boarded the carriage that came to greet him and returned to Zizhuyuan.

Zhu Daolin whispered a few words to his fiancée Xiaoying, who insisted on serving him, and in Xiaoying's slightly resentful and self-reproachful eyes, he left the West Cross Courtyard with apologies and went to the East Cross Courtyard where the students had been on vacation.

After entering the East Cross Courtyard, Zhu Daolin did not go to the backyard to look for Xu Fu and Liu Yatou and others, who had just separated, but quietly entered the empty dark classroom in the left wing, sat directly on the podium, raised his right hand, gently rested on the diamond ring on his left wrist, closed his eyes and breathed for a moment, and entered the familiar and distant magical world. (To be continued......)