"Your great-grandfather grew up in your maternal grandparents' family, and your great-grandmother also came from a scholarly family and taught your great-grandfather to read from an early age.

It's just that the law of the Xuan Dynasty is different from that of our Great Zhou Dynasty, at that time, the industrial and commercial hierarchy of Shinong was strict, and the children of the merchant family were not allowed to enter the official examination.

However, your great-grandfather was gifted and intelligent since he was a child, and he never forgot to learn and learn virtues, and your great-grandmother did not want him to do nothing in his life, so she took advantage of his father's family and was familiar with the governor of Hangzhou at that time, and changed the name of your great-grandfather's household registration, saying that your great-grandfather's household registration was unknown, and he died early in exile, so your great-grandfather followed his mother and settled in Hangzhou.

At that time, the government was chaotic, the war was endless, the people were displaced, and there were often migrants who died in foreign lands, which was not uncommon.

Because of this, your great-grandfather was freed from the confines of the son of a merchant, so that he was able to participate in the scientific examination and enter the army, and wanted to benefit the people.

But the dynasty changed, and what your great-grandfather thought and wanted died after all.

At the beginning of the Great Zhou Dynasty, in addition to the important positions in the court, the local officials of all sizes were basically retained, and then slowly changed from top to bottom, and the household registration atlas of those people was just a copy of it, and because there were a lot of literary books, it was troublesome to copy, and there were more displaced people at the beginning, so the original master was also a province, and many ancestral origins were erased, which was a new dynasty restart. Where the displaced people are naturalized, it is counted as there, so now the Chu family in Hangzhou and the Chu family in Panyu are already two families in terms of household registration, and they have nothing to do with each other. ”

Hearing this, Chu Ping was finally relieved, and then said: "So, the Chu family in Hangzhou is not involved in anything related to smuggling.

In this case, why did the Chu family have business in Panyu? The two Chu families, do they have business dealings? ”

Chu Yuanshan was surprised by Chu Ping's keenness, but he didn't know if it was his own conjecture or someone told him.

Chu Yuanshan pondered for a moment and said, "Yes, the Panyu Chu family cloth shop was opened by me when I went to Panyu." ”

Chu Ping stared at Chu Yuanshan and said, "So, the Chu family does have business dealings with the Panyu Chu family?" ”

Chu Yuanshan nodded: "Yes." ”

Chu Ping said anxiously: "Grandfather, our Chu family's shops in Hangzhou, Beijing, and Tianjin, as well as the Zhuangzi below, are the money earned not enough for our wealth for generations?" Why do you want to risk losing your head and go to deal with the Panyu Chu family? ”

Chu Yuanshan twisted his eyebrows and said, "What do you know?" At the beginning, our Chu family's business in Hangzhou had just started, and everything was not complete, and there was not much foothold in Hangzhou, where there were many sewing workshops and cloth workshops.

Your great-grandfather had a hard time, and at that time, the imperial court was fighting with Xuandao for many years, and was in urgent need of ships and warships.

At that time, one was that your great-grandfather originally did not allow us to enter the office, and the other was that the Great Zhou Dynasty allowed the children of industry and commerce to participate in the scientific examination, so there was no need to deliberately avoid suspicion and draw a clear line with the Panyu Chu family, for the vitality of our family, I went far to Panyu, tried my best, knocked on the door of the Panyu Chu family, and the Chu family had business dealings, and because of the relationship with the Panyu Chu family, I got a little light, and set up a shop in Panyu, and there was a little business route.

At the beginning, the Panyu Chu family was infinitely beautiful, and they had no idea of smuggling at all, which was decades later...... Xuandao was recovered, and the imperial court's law of banning the sea gradually collapsed, and those descendants of the Chu family were greedy for money, so they gradually began these deeds. ”

Chu Ping vaguely heard some clues: "Then why did my father and mother suddenly go to Panyu this time, and I haven't come back for so long?" ”

Chu Yuanshan pondered for a moment again, and then said: "Because during the New Year's Festival, a ship of the Chu family that went to the South Seas sank, and a ship's goods were lost. ”

Chu Ping's heart shook: "What does this have to do with us?" ”

Chu Yuanshan said: "The Chu family in Panyu has suffered heavy losses, so I can't pay the money to buy goods from the Chu family's cloth store for a while. ”

Chu Ping was puzzled: "Ordinary purchases, don't they all pay with one hand and deliver with the other, since we have sold the cloth and collected the silver, what does it have to do with us whether they sink the ship or not?" ”

Chu Yuanshan looked at Chu Ping, as if he was thinking about whether he could tell himself the whole thing, his eldest son and grandson, he was bent on taking the entrance examination to become an official, so he didn't know as much about the family's business as his younger brother Chu Kuo, originally Chu Yuanshan wanted to help his grandson go all the way, and it was good for the two of them to be in business and politics.

But on the contrary, Chu Ping noticed the clue so early, after all, he was a member of the Chu family, and he couldn't hide it for a while, so it was good for him to know, people always had to go through some wind and rain to grow up: "Eighty percent of the silk they brought to sea came from our family."

Therefore, the price of silver every time is after returning from the sea, and the silver is brought back before it can be paid to the Chu family.

Therefore, the incoming and outgoing accounts of the Panyu Chu family are huge. Nor is it accounted for with the shops in the neighboring places.

This time the shipwreck caused heavy losses to our Hangzhou Chu family. ”

Chu Ping hurriedly said: "Smuggling, since there is such a big risk, then let my father and mother take advantage of this incident to draw a clear line with the Chu family in Panyu, the Chu family's silver is enough now, it is better to withdraw as soon as possible." ”

Chu Yuanshan slowly returned to the Taishi chair behind the table and sat down: "Your father also said the same, he is timid, and he has long wanted to wash his hands in a golden basin when it comes to Panyu Buxing, but your mother doesn't allow it."

One is that the Chu family is deeply involved, and suddenly withdrew, just afraid of suspicion over there. Moreover, this road has a huge profit, and your mother can't give up half of the Chu family.

Besides, we don't earn this money, and a bunch of people are chasing after us, and it is better for us to take this money and open a porridge factory and a hospice than for them to take this money and do evil.

Three, now the imperial court ban on the sea is relaxed, many ministers are in the book to open the sea ban, if you can enter the court as an official, you can also help implement this policy, then the Panyu Chu family will not be considered smuggling. ”

Chu Ping said: "The imperial court has changed the law, and it is true that going to sea after changing the law is an ordinary merchant ship exchange, but the exchange before the change of the court law is still smuggling, which is irrefutable."

I went to Panyu, I went to persuade my mother to stop the business with the Chu family in Panyu. ”

Chu Yuanshan twisted his eyebrows and said: "I said, the matter of the Chu family in Panyu will not implicate our Chu family in Hangzhou."

As far as we are concerned, it is only sold to the Chu family for silk fabrics, and as for whether they are used for smuggling or to make clothes for their own people, we don't care about this.

If the affairs of the Panyu Chu family are exposed, then only the nine clans of the Panyu Chu family will be destroyed, and they will not be able to implicate the hawkers who sell salt to their family, and the people who have business dealings with their family will all be questioned. ”

Chu Ping looked at Chu Yuanshan with a firm look in his eyes: "As my grandfather said, in terms of the court law, there is still room for gambling in this matter, but in terms of morality and conscience, this is all self-deception!"

It's not that we don't know the purpose of their silks, we obviously know that they use these cloths and silks for personal purposes, and if we don't report them, or draw a clear line with them, we actually go along with them and make personal gains, how can my grandfather be at ease and calmly? ”