Regarding Shen Rong's father, Shen Wansan, even Zhu Su, who came from later generations, had heard of it.

In later generations, there is a story that Shen Wansan and Zhu Yuanzhang built the Jinling City Wall together, and was later assigned to Yunnan for offending Lao Zhu. However, in fact, Shen Wansan has never seen Zhu Yuanzhang in his life.

Even, he did not live to the time when the Ming Dynasty was established.

Today's Shen Rong, the head of the Shen family, is already in his last years, and Shen Wansan, who makes Zhu Su feel like thunder, has been an ancient man for many years. The story of the Shen family, which was most widely circulated in later generations: the construction of the Jinling city wall and the jealousy of Zhu Yuanzhang were also purely false. Shen Rong only worked with his younger brother Shen Wang to contract some small projects and build some pavilions and pavilions for the Ming Dynasty, at best he was just a small contractor.

And Lao Zhu also took good care of the Shen family at first. After all, Shen Rong's father, Shen Wansan, has a similar journey to Lao Zhu: they are all poor tenants, and by chance, they were recruited by Lu Daoyuan, a wealthy gentleman in Jiangnan, as a son-in-law, and they managed their finances well and finally became a giant.

And the Shen brothers were also rewarded by Lao Zhu for several petty officials because of their interest.

But the ending of the Shen family's distribution with Yunnan is real, and the reason is not because Lao Zhu is jealous of the Shen family's wealth, and the heroic and majestic generation of founding emperors is afraid of a businessman. The reason why the Shen family was assigned was mainly because Shen Rong's younger brother Shen Wang had a son-in-law named Gu Xuewen.

There is nothing wrong with this Gu Xuewen, but he has a friend named Wang Xing.

Wang Xing has a wide range of friends, and Gu Xuewen, the son-in-law of a businessman, was originally just one of the insignificant. In later generations, people like Wang Xing are called well-connected, and there are only benefits and no harms. However, it is very fatal in the Ming Dynasty, this Wang Xing has a very good friend: the future Ming Dynasty military general with the most great achievements, the official worship of the prince and the prince of Liangguo Gong Lanyu!

In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, the Lanyu case occurred, because of this layer of relationship that should have been insignificant, the Shen family was involved in the abyss of the Lanyu case, and since then it has been completely annihilated in the long river of history.

It can be seen that the status of businessmen in the early Ming Dynasty was cheap. Without power as a backer, no matter how much your family fortune is, it is just a mansion in the air that will collapse at any time!

"Father." At the back of the hall, a young man walked into the house with a sad face. Seeing him, Shen Rong was immediately furious: "Sen'er, why haven't you left yet?" You want to be angry and die! ”

"Wait until King Wu's soldiers surround the mansion for a while, and at that time, it will be difficult to fly even if you have wings!"

"Can a child abandon his father and live in the world?" Shen Rong's son, Shen Sen, knelt down in the rain with a thud, and a flash of lightning reflected a miserable look on his face. "The Shen family still has a second uncle who continues the incense, and the son is only willing to die with his father!"

"You, you, you, alas!" Shen Rong's fingers trembled and pointed at his beloved son, who he had only obtained until he was old, and wanted to scold him, but his words turned into a long sigh. "That's it...... Sen'er, come over and hide from the rain. ”

"Yes." Shen Sen didn't know whether it was rain or tears on his face, but he sniffled, slowly got up and stood behind his father as usual. Shen Rong looked at his son who was indifferent on his face, and then looked at the old housekeeper beside him, and said with emotion: "Ah Fu, you are still loyal." ”

"Yesterday, I burned the body deed of the mansion and let the people in the mansion flee for their lives, but I didn't expect these servants who seemed to be loyal in the past to scatter in an instant. I also took my Shen family's belongings. ”

"Hey, people's hearts are not ancient. People say that Bandang knows loyal ministers, or Ah Fu, you are the most loyal......"

"Well, you can die with my father and son."

As he spoke, he straightened his sleeves and tried his best to sit upright on the last Huanghuali chair.

"Master......" Ah Fu bit his lip, as if he was making up some kind of determination.

"Ah Fu ......"

The old servant's call made Shen Rong's eyes suddenly hazy. A thousand words came to my heart, and I had to close my eyes and hold back tears.

"Master, Ah Fu is not surnamed Shen. Presumably Lord Wu won't blame me. ”

"Ah Fu has been serving you for so many years, this chair under your ass is not too much to reward me, right?"

"Hmm...... Well? ”

Shen Rong opened his eyes in shock, and the housekeeper Ah Fu actually took away the valuable Huanghuali chair and threw the former master, Master Shen, to the ground.

Then, under the shocked gaze of the father and son, they put the extremely heavy chair on their heads to keep out the rain, and left in a hurry!

"This! This Diao slave! Shen Sen's whole body trembled. The Shen family has treated these subordinates well for decades, and when disaster comes, no one is willing to die with the Shen family!

"Let's go. The fact that he was able to leave at this time was a testament to his loyalty. Shen Rong stood up with his son's support. After all, it is just bound to a paper contract. The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the unprofitable deed has been ruined by me, so he should naturally take care of his own life. Alas! ”

Although he was open-minded, he couldn't help but feel miserable in his heart, shook his head and sighed.

……

It should rain heavily, but it will never be able to drench our Wu prince Zhu Su. Zhu Su led Wu Wangwei's armor gate into the city in a high-profile manner, those guards had been training for a long time, and the pace was neat and orderly, and Zhu Su nailed thick leather to the soles of their boots, and the sound was loud when they stepped on the ground, and they were as straight as javelins in the rain. The momentum of more than 20 people is not much better than that of hundreds of people, how can the people have never seen such an army? Naturally, he thought that he was a murderous elite soldier, and he would inevitably see blood when he entered the city this time.

Shen family, it's over!

Zhu Su hid in the sedan chair and didn't know that the few guards he brought with him stirred up rumors all over the city, and even attracted many imperial historians who were already gearing up to use his face to brush up the officialdom's prestige. It wasn't until the carriage arrived at the door of Shen's house that he and Li Jinglong, who came with him, opened the curtain of the carriage. As soon as he opened it, he saw the Shen family as if it was a broken wall, and the whole person couldn't help but be stunned.

"Jiujiang, this is the Shen family that is the richest man in Yingtian? How does it look like you've been ransacked? ”

"I didn't ...... That's right, this is indeed the Shen family. How did it become like this? ”

The uncle and nephew got out of the carriage and saw that the originally magnificent gate had been torn down. The concierge was empty, not to mention the chairs, not even a bench. When I walked in, I saw that even the copper nails on the door had been picked off with a knife.

This is clearly a dilapidated house that no one lives in.

"Could it be, really, the wrong one?" Li Jinglong also began to lose confidence.

He looked around blankly, and saw that in front of the front hall, there was an old man with a disheveled hair and a soaking wet young man sitting on the steps, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Fifth uncle, there seems to be an old man and his stupid son sitting there." The nephew went over and asked. ”

With that, holding an umbrella and taking two guards, he cautiously walked in front of the two.

"Uncle, is this the richest man in Yingtian, the old man Shen's house called Shen Rong?"

(End of chapter)