If you talk about the two most famous Xu Ge elders in the Ming Dynasty, they are undoubtedly Xu Jie and Xu Guangqi.

Both of them are from Songjiang Prefecture, but Xu Jie is from Huating County, and Xu Guangqi is from Shanghai County, and there is no direct clan relationship. Of course, when it comes to "Xu Ge Lao" now, there must be no doubt that Xu Jie, because Xu Guangqi and his father have not yet been born.

Xu Jie's life was very tortuous. A young prodigy, a young angry youth, middle-aged and black, and a powerful minister in his later years. Xu Yuanzuo didn't understand why later generations liked Zhang Juzheng and ignored Xu Jie, obviously Xu Jie's life story is more interesting, and from the perspective of the power struggle in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Jie's is an important figure connecting the previous and the next.

He studied under Xia Yan, the minister of power, and after Xia Yan was killed by Yan Songdou, he and Yan Song were close and willing to go down. In the end, he defeated Yan Song, and cultivated the last minister of power in the Ming Dynasty - Zhang Juzheng.

In Xu Yuanzuo's view, Xu Jie can definitely be ranked first among the wise and resourceful people who have used their minds in China for 5,000 years.

Now I have to go to his home for an interview, and He Yi received an interview notice from HSBC before graduating that year!

In the second year of Longqing, Xu Jie, Xu Ge should have just given his respects.

Xu Yuanzuo dug some deep in his mind as he walked: not only did he just reach Shi, but he also faced Gao Gong's counterattack, and the entire Xu Party was like a frightened bird.

Now should be the time when he is most unsatisfactory!

Xu Yuanzuo was happy in his heart. If you want to make a good impression, it is easiest to take advantage of people's illness and low state. Although Xu Jie has already given his age, it is impossible for him to recover one day, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the words of the elder Zhishi Pavilion are enough to send him, a grassroots people, to the sky!

If you want to say that nobles help each other, this is the real nobleman!

Xu Yuanzuo suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and he hurriedly stopped his steps and almost bumped into Lu Fuzi.

Lu Fuzi turned around and said, "This is Steward Xu's house, you wait at the door first." He was afraid that Xu Yuanzuo would have no experience in human relations, and he confessed two sentences of etiquette taboos, so he stepped forward and knocked on the door.

A doorman came out and opened the door, invited Master Lu to come in, and motioned to the Xu family and his son to avoid it with his eyes, so as not to block the main entrance.

Xu Yuanzuo looked at the clothes worn by the menzi, and it was not bad, which showed that the Xu family really deserved the name of the first in Songjiang.

Xu He probably realized that he had no chance to enter after all, and his expression was a little lost, and he still refused to give up. Xu Yuanzuo looked at his father's appearance, and felt a little unbearable, in the end, there is still a unity and continuity between spirit and body!

Just as he was about to comfort this unreliable father, the door of Steward Xu's house creaked open.

"Xu Yuanzuo?" Menzi's gaze fell on Xu He, as if he felt that this was a little too old. He looked at Xu He again, but felt that this seemed to be a little too small.

"Yes, yes, it's Xiao Ke." Xu Yuanzuo hurriedly stepped forward, and for a moment, he appreciated the influence of genes.

Indeed, if there is a father, there must be a son!

Xu Yuanzuo hurriedly collected his mind and didn't let Xu He's shadow come out.

"You come with me." Menzi stared at Xu Yuanzuo and said, in other words, he said to Xu He: You wait outside for me.

Xu He's whole face wrinkled, and he shrank into the corner of the wall and licked his wounds alone.

Xu Yuanzuo didn't have time to soothe his father's wounded heart, and followed Menzi into the gate.

As soon as you enter the gate, there is a sedan hall, although it is not big, but it is a functional building that a large family must have. Xu Yuanzuo passed the front yard with the doorman, did not enter the main hall, turned into a moon gate, and suddenly the rocks and vines came to his eyes.

- This yard is not bad!

Xu Yuanzuo quickly rolled his eyes and looked at the garden. Because there is no relationship between tourists, the flowers and birds in the garden, the winding path and the pavilion, but more flavorful artistic conception than those crowded historical gardens in later generations.

Lu Fuzi and Xu Cheng, the manager of Xu, were sitting in the flower hall chatting.

"Come on, come on, this is the student I recommend, Xu Yuanzuo." When Lu Fuzi saw Xu Yuanzuo, he stretched out his hand to greet him.

Xu Yuanzuo looked at Xu Cheng and saw that this person had a long beard and a blue face, although he had some wrinkles, he did not look old, but gave people a feeling of rich experience and reliability. If he didn't know that he couldn't take the imperial examination as a servant of the Xu family, anyone would suspect that the person sitting here was an idle and elegant man.

"Master Xu." Xu Yuanzuo hurriedly stepped forward to salute, picking up a nice call. Anyway, in a few years, the titles on the Jiangnan side will be chaotic, and anyone can be called "master" and "official".

Shouting it out now is actually just keeping up with the fashion.

Master Xu was really relieved: "This is my lord's clan." ”

Xu Yuanzuo was suddenly so frightened that his legs were weak.

Even as a person of later generations, he also knew that in the Ming Dynasty, which attached great importance to family genealogy, he could not recognize relatives indiscriminately. In particular, small families cling to large families will not only be ridiculed, but will also attract great disgust. If you meet a big family with moral purity, even if you don't feel that your ancestors are defiled, you will feel that such a number of people have forgotten their ancestors, and they are definitely villains who cannot be socialized!

Xu Yuanzuo didn't need to guess to know that it was Lu Fuzi who said it, so naturally he couldn't defend it immediately, and he always felt as if he was in a little trouble.

"I heard that your family is in a bit of a difficult situation right now?" Xu Cheng said again.

Xu Yuanzuo stubbornly said: "So ask the steward to give me an errand." ”

Xu Cheng nodded: "Do you know what my Xu family's biggest business is?" ”

"Cotton?" Xu Yuanzuo said tentatively. He only learned today that Lu Fuzi had found him a wealthy family called the Xu family, where did he have the kung fu to do his homework?

Xu Cheng smiled and said, "Actually, my cotton cloth business is secondary, and the biggest business is actually Songjiang rice." ”

Xu Yuanzuo suddenly realized.

Songjiang Province is the country's largest, and probably the world's largest exporter of cotton cloth, and it is also the country's largest grain importer. It's just that when people in later generations mention the development of Susong's handicraft industry and squeeze agriculture, they will always quote the number of the late Wanli period - at that time, the amount of grain produced by Susong was almost negligible.

In fact, the quality of Songjiang rice is very good, and it was once a tribute rice of the imperial court.

"But if you want to talk about cotton, it's not bad." Xu Cheng said without changing his face: "Because the income of rice and grain has gradually weakened, the income of cotton cloth is increasing day by day. In three or five years, I am afraid that the Xu family will specialize in cotton cloth and rice grain. He changed his words: "Do you know what business I, the manager, manage in the Xu family?" ”

Xu Yuanzuo secretly looked at Xu Cheng, and thought a little in his heart: seeing that he had a white face and a long beard, he was obviously not a person who often went to the field. However, looking at the loneliness in his expression, he was not the slightest excited when he talked about the sharp rise in the cloth market just now, neither because the city government was very deep, nor was it deliberately suppressed, so it can be seen that most of the cotton cloth business with the Xu family was lost.

"I don't know." Xu Yuanzuo said honestly.

"yes, how do you know." Xu Cheng's tone was gloomy, and he paused for a moment before saying, "I am in charge of the Xu family's most inconspicuous property, this old mansion." ”

Xu Yuanzuo was slightly relieved. There is a lot of land in the city, and it is really terrifying that a steward can save such a large mansion.

Xu Cheng sighed: "There is also a new house that is empty and unoccupied. ”

Xu Yuanzuo was a little surprised, if it was just like this, why did he recruit his own guy? Although it was not long before the Ming Dynasty, the people of this era clearly divided public and private. The public is used in the industry, and the private is used in life. A private person may be transferred to a public use, but a public person cannot be transferred to an inner house to help with household affairs.

――Could it be that Master Lu sold me to the Xu family as a slave? It's ridiculous.

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