When Zhuge Weidao got off the car outside the gate of the Hou Mansion in Wuxiang, and then walked into the Hou Mansion accompanied by Guo Xiaobao and He Tianran's two subordinates, all the way through the lobby, the second hall, the third hall, the inner hall, and the Yanlou, and went straight to the back house.

He finally knows what Houmen is as deep as the sea and what is a top-level gate valve!

Such a big Hou Mansion is still one of the mansions owned by the Zhuge family, one king, two dukes and three marquis.

When he was studying in Beijing, he looked at the mansions that once belonged to this king and that duke, and he was still envious in his heart, so he couldn't wait to shout "The big husband should be like this". I didn't expect that today I would really become the son of the new Ming top gate valve of the Zhuge family!

Walking on the spotlessly clean brick road, the curtains of the houses hang low, and the flowers and mountains and rocks are stacked on both sides. The male servants and the women of the Wa Kingdom who wore white and cyan servant clothes bowed their heads and saw Zhuge Weidao all saluting respectfully.

Zhuge Weidao was immediately ...... I kind of understand the "dissatisfaction" of King Zhuge Wuzhong and why Zhuge worked so hard for the Tao.

Although the Zhuge family has been due to the existence of the ancestors' "wordless prophecy" (which did not predict the future of China) and the existence of the "Twenty Volumes of the Book of Heaven", what they have done for more than a hundred years can be regarded as a model gate of self-denial and love for the people...... But the gate valve is a gate valve after all!

King Zhuge Wuzhong may have seen the trend of the Zhuge family before his death, but he was powerless to change it, so he was so angry in the portrait.

And Zhuge Weidao, who was born in this brilliant and prosperous top gate valve, and was talented himself, was of course unwilling to fall from the top of the mountain. And King Zhuge Wuzhong just left a military division system, which can allow the talents among his descendants to climb up with their abilities. Of course, the qualification to climb up can be obtained through the exam, but whether you can climb to the position of military advisor or not depends on your own powers.

That's why this Zhuge is the Tao, and he will exert all kinds of means, just to be able to stand out from the eight hundred Zhuge ......

Zhuge Weidao thought as he followed Guo Xiaobao along a long walkway all the way inside, and soon arrived at the gate of a garden. Looking up, a cornice is in the middle of the mountain rocks. It seems that someone upstairs is stroking the piano, and the sound of the piano is a bit rapid and chaotic. Even Zhuge Weidao, a music layman, can hear that the person who strokes the qin is irritable.

In the sound of the piano, Zhuge Weidao followed Guo Xiaobao into the garden, and then followed the stairs built in the rockery and strange stones, and went up to an attic erected on a high place. The attic is facing Shichahai, sitting in it can not only see the boats and boats coming and going on the Shichahai Sea, but also can see the scenery of the Fengge Dragon Tower on the opposite bank and the Xiaohan - there is more than one Wuwang Mansion over there, as well as Chengwang Mansion, Zhennan Wangfu, Zhendong Wangfu, a total of four palaces, all lined up along the north shore of Shichahai, that is really grounded and rich!

Zhuge Weidao stopped outside the attic, looking at the scenery while pondering the relationship between himself and his stepmother.

Just as he was thinking about it, a maid standing outside the attic whispered: "Old lady, the second master has arrived." ”

The sound of the piano inside suddenly stopped, and then an angry voice came out: "Daozi, come in and talk." ”

Walking into the pavilion, Zhuge Weidao saw a middle-aged beauty in her thirties who looked round and jade, sitting upright behind a table with a zither, and two maids on both sides. Zhuge guessed that this must be his stepmother, Guo Xiaobao's aunt Guo Rong.

Zhuge Weidao's eldest brother Zhuge Weixue also sat on a chair next to him, with a wry smile on his face, pointed at Guo Rong with his finger, and hugged his fist again, probably asking Zhuge Weidao to hurry up and meet his stepmother.

After all, stepmothers are also mothers!

Zhuge Weidao saw this scene, but he breathed a sigh of relief - it seems that the relationship between the original Zhuge Weidao and his stepmother is still very pure, so he hurriedly saluted respectfully: "The child is the Tao, please say goodbye to my mother." ”

"Smack!"

Guo Rong, the stepmother who was angry when she saw it, had already slapped the table, but Zhuge Weidao was startled.

What does this mean? This woman gives herself the same money as Empress Dowager Zheng, she should value herself a lot, why is she turning her face now?

Zhuge Weidao, this amnesiac Zhuge is confused, and Zhuge Weixue over there has already spoken: "Second brother, my mother is angry because of the lifelong agreement between you and Natalie. ”

What?

This time, Zhuge is even more confused, does this matter have anything to do with her becoming a stepmother? That eldest brother is the father's Zhuge for learning, it's not good! Zhuge Weixue is the current Wuxiang Marquis, the head of the family!

Zhuge Weixue saw Zhuge Weidao's confused appearance, and sighed, his brother who can pinch and calculate is already an alternate military advisor, but he has not recovered much memory.

"Second brother," Zhuge said again, "I also know that my mother has been matching you with the eldest lady of the Dahei family." You brought it up yourself, but now ......."

"What? Big Black House? Zhuge was stunned and stunned, "Which country?" Why is this surname so strange? ”

Zhuge Wei said: "Japanese, do you remember the four major chaebols of Japan? ”

The four chaebols...... Sumitomo, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Yasuda and their four families, of course Zhuge Weidao remembers, but there is no big black family in it!

"It's not very clear." Zhuge Weidao asked, "Which four?" ”

Zhuge sighed for Dao: "It's Sumitomo, Daikoku, Goto, and Tagawa." Among them, Sumitomo made his fortune by developing Besko's copper mountain, and the ancestor of the Daikoku family was a mint, and he often opened a mint to mint silver coins for the shogunate......"

"Ginza Daikoku is often ......," Zhuge Weidao had already remembered, "Is that Goto the one who opened the Golden Throne?" ”

"Yes, yes, one minted silver coin, one minted gold coin," Zhuge learned the Tao, "the Tian Chuan family is the Qian Zheng family, and the copper coin is minted." Their family is actually not Japanese, it is a branch of the Zheng family in Japan. In today's Japan, except for the Tokugawa clan, which is a hereditary general, it is the richest of the four...... After the Japanese National Studies carried out the Restoration and opened the country, these four followed the shogunate to invest in industry and commerce, and secretly engaged in human trafficking, making a lot of black money. If the daughter of this big black family marries into our family, how can the dowry not be less than one million silver yuan, right? ”

"But aren't Japan and our Ming Dynasty opposed?" Zhuge asked with a frown.

Zhuge Weixue, who asked this question, was speechless - he actually knew that his good brother and stepmother Guo Rong were planning to marry the Japanese national chaebol Dahei family, and now it seems that he is in Zhang Luo.

However, Zhuge Weixue, the eldest brother, now does not dare to count the brothers with amnesia, because he already knows that his younger brother has passed the military division test and is already an alternate military adviser - amnesia can also become a military division, and it was unanimously passed, and there is no one left.

"Daozi," Zhuge said to his brother patiently, "our relationship with Japan is very complicated, and we can't generalize. In Japan, it is mainly the samurai class that is the enemy of us, especially those poor middle and lower-ranking samurai who fantasize about fighting with us.

However, Japan's chaebols and big businessmen do not dare to be our enemies, and businessmen are pragmatic, and a comparison of how much steel, coal, oil, grain, and electricity Japan has will make everything clear. How can Japan be our opponent? Moreover, the real profitable business of those big Japanese businessmen is controlled by us except for mining in their country! Fight with us? Isn't that crazy? Therefore, the relationship between the four major Japanese chaebols and us is very good. It is also common for the concubines of the four major chaebols to carry huge dowries to the concubines of the eight great families. ”

"Mother," Zhuge Weidao looked at the angry little mother, and said with a smile, "I have Natalie now, so let's push this family business." ”

"Pushed?" Stepmother Guo Rong was about to explode, pointed to Zhuge Weidao's nose and said, "This is a family affair that he begged me to talk about...... He said that this family can not only get a large amount of dowry, but also close the relationship between the Zhuge family and the Japanese chaebol, and can use the chaebol to restrain the shogunate and the Xiong clan in the future. With these relationships, it will not be difficult to find a military division position in the future. ”

Zhuge Weixue saw that his mother had exploded, and hurriedly helped persuade him: "Mother, don't worry, this is the matter...... He has to go with the flow, doesn't he? ”

Guo Rong became even angrier when she heard this, pointed to Zhuge Weixue's nose and shouted: "Now your brother is confused and has fallen in love with a Rakshasa girl, are you also confused as a big brother?" I'm not going! ”

After saying this, the stepmother got up suddenly, kicked over the piano table in front of her, and then rushed out without looking back, leaving only the two Zhuge brothers there with big eyes and small eyes.