Chapter 268: The Luo Family
Although it was very disturbing for Daqi to have a vicious dog barking at him after a few years, for the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, everything that should be done was done, and the busy days of not touching the ground were also idle again.
"Governor Dadu, there is a letter from Datong!"
The little official trotted and handed the letter in his hand to Jia Hui, who was sitting in the side room drinking tea, and then stood aside respectfully and waited for the dispatch.
"Datong? Oh. After casually glancing at the monogram in the center of the envelope, and after confirming that it was indeed Cui He's handwriting, Jia Hui took out the letter opener to open the envelope, took out the letter paper and swept it
After a moment, Jia Hui breathed a long sigh of relief and put the letter paper on the small table.
There's a clue.
After receiving their own orders, Cui He and his wife immediately took action, and tried to gather information at a recent gathering of local high society in Datong.
The woman in charge of Li Sanniang naturally had no gain, but Jia Hui didn't care, it was already rare to smuggle salt and iron on weekdays to let the housewives know, and the smuggling of artillery was naturally the less known the better.
However, Cui He's side went a lot smoother.
With the chatter and inadvertent clichΓ©s, coupled with a little observation, the suspicion of the Jin Shang Luo family is constantly increasing.
"Go and get the information of the Datong businessman and the Luo family." commanded the little official, and the little official hurriedly ran to the archives to transfer the files.
What are the Jin merchants, especially the Jin merchants in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Jia Hui understands very well, how can he not beware?
Since Cui He and his wife officially established the intelligence network of Datong, all the Jin merchants who had a bit of a climate were made into archives and entered into the archives of the Zuojun Governor's Mansion.
Soon, the little official returned to the side room with a thin wooden box three inches thick.
"Governor, the file is here!" The little official first swept the dust of the wooden box with a feather duster on his desk, signed his name on the seal and stamped a small seal, then used a knife to cut the seal, opened the box and took out the file, and put it in front of Jia Hui's desk.
Holding the file in his hand, Jia Hui casually handed the stack of unprocessed documents in his hand to the little official: "Well, these are the 'light' things that I haven't dealt with yet, you can look at and deal with them first." β
"Huh?" Hearing this, the little official suddenly panicked, "Cousin. Ah no, the Grand Governor, I am a petty official, how can I trespass to deal with the Metropolitan Governor's errands? β
"Less nonsense, let you deal with it, you will deal with it! Besides, I'll look at it again after you've dealt with it, and if it's a little wrong, you can take care of your skin! Jia Hui smiled and scolded the little official, then stopped paying attention to the little official's shirk, lowered his head and began to browse the Luo family's files
Seeing this, the little official could only pull the corners of his mouth bitterly, sighed and took the stack of documents away, picked up the pen and dealt with it
Yuan Keji, the chief housekeeper of the county mansion, is also the son of Jia Hui's maternal uncle Yuan Rong, and Jia Hui's cousin, who has been working diligently in the Governor's Mansion for five years.
There was also a cousin who was on an errand in the Governor's Mansion before, but he only worked diligently for a while, and after figuring out the rules of the Governor's Mansion, he was no longer diligent, but began to mess around.
Let's mix it up, after all, he is the cousin of the Grand Duke, and his background is all over the sky, so everyone doesn't pay much attention to him.
After Jia Hui found out, he just shook his head, and after scolding "rotten wood can't be carved", he didn't care about him anymore. After all, although he is messing around, he is also messing around after doing his job well, and Jia Hui will turn a blind eye.
However, the real reason why Jia Hui drove him out to replace him was nothing else, it was that he couldn't figure out what he should do instead of Jia Hui!
At that time, a few petty officers who had committed crimes wanted to try to follow Jia Hui's path to avoid punishment, and by the way, they would find a backer.
But because they didn't come into contact with Taiwei's door, as Taiwei's cousin, the one who was easier to see became their breakthrough.
So after spending about two thousand taels of money and bribes, the man patted his chest and promised to help them do this, so he asked them to go back to the inn and wait, while he turned around and returned to the governor's mansion, intending to help them run one or two.
Then there was no then, the entire Governor's Mansion was Jia Hui's people, and when the person who went to the person in charge of this kind of thing in private to talk about it, the official in charge accepted it on the surface, but in fact, as soon as he left, he went straight to the festival hall to report the matter.
Jia Hui was furious, hung the man from a tree in the front yard of the Governor's Mansion of the Left Army, and forcibly broke a whip.
The next day, Yuan Keji, the little cousin, came to take over his brother's errand with a pale and trembling face.
Compared with his brother, Yuan Keji is really conscientious, and the only drawback is that he is too timid.
Jia Hui felt that he was indeed a talent, so he decided to focus on training.
Just when Yuan Keji was carefully handling the documents, Jia Hui also opened the Luo family's files.
Like most businessmen, the Luo family's development process is also decent.
The ancestor of the Luo family was a person at the end of the Liang Dynasty but not so late, he was still the father of the queen at that time, and in the early days of the Mourning Sect, the ancestor of the Luo family, who was still a teenager, started his entrepreneurial journey.
The ancestor of the Luo family is a native of Yangquan, at first, he was only the second son of a certain town under the jurisdiction of Yangquan, a certain wonton family (roadside stall) that has been passed down for four generations, because the wonton stall is only passed on to the eldest son, so the ancestor of the Luo family knew that he had to find another way to make a living at a very young age, and began to accumulate money early.
After he got married at the age of sixteen, he moved to Taiyuan City with his bride and set up a stall to sell wontons.
However, it is only the first-class craftsmanship in the town, and it is not very good in the provincial capital Taiyuan. There is no eye-catching craftsmanship, and there are no regular customers when they first arrive, so the stall of the ancestor of the Luo family has only been dry for eight months before it is yellow.
The daughter-in-law also ran away with someone!
Seeing that his career was not going well, his small family was also separated and disintegrated, and his dream of wanting to do a career eight months ago was buried deep in his heart.
So he joined the largest grain merchant in Shanxi at that time, the Hong family's shop, as a partner.
Because he can write and settle accounts, he soon fell into the eyes of the head of the Hong family, who often came to the store to see, and let him be the bookkeeper, and after a series of tests, he found that he was a conscientious and never cheating, so he was ready to focus on training, and he was promoted to the shopkeeper of a shop after not working for long.
In the past few years, the ancestor of the Luo family has a house, the money is there, and even the daughter-in-law has another one, she is still the concubine of the head of the Hong family, and she is also a beautiful girl, and I don't know how much better it is compared with the ex-wife who ran away with someone before!
Similarly, since he has become the son-in-law of the Hong family, he is the Hong family's own person, and he can naturally lift the smuggling of the Hong family's most profitable business.
Smuggling salt, iron, and grain to the Mongol tribes!
I have to say that the ancestor of the Luo family is also talented, and after only following a few caravans, he can lead the team to do business alone after visiting all the Mughal tribes that the Hong family has come into contact with.
And so it passed seven years.
I thought that this kind of life could go on like this, and finally the Luo family developed into a vassal family of the Hong family, however, since it was written "however", it would be an accident if nothing else.
Mourning for the tax increase.
As soon as this decree that directly led to the separation and collapse of Da Liang was issued, the whole world exploded in an instant, and countless heroes, demons and monsters all pulled up soldiers and horses to start begging.
The Hong family originally didn't want to be involved in the dynasty hegemony, but the third son of the family was unwilling to be lonely, he sold all the properties assigned to him by the family to his sister-in-law, that is, the ancestor of the Luo family, and then pulled a wave of soldiers and horses to start his journey.
Less than half a month later, the Hong family received the news of his death, and was chopped up by Wei Ming, the son of Wei Chaoqing, the pacification envoy of Shanxi at the time.
What is rebellion? The great sin of the Nine Clans!
Before the Hong family could react, a group of cool soldiers rushed into the Hong family viciously, cutting people when they saw them, killing them whenever they met, and the huge Hong family was gone
And the ancestor of the Luo family, as early as when his unreliable brother-in-law sold his property to him, he felt wrong, and took his wife and children back to the mountains of Yangquan's hometown to take refuge, and Wei Chaoqing also felt that the son-in-law of a mere concubine couldn't make any waves, so the Luo family finally escaped the catastrophe.
It wasn't until the Battle of Tongguan that Wei Chaoqing, Wei Ming and his son led the Jin army into the customs and King Zhongqin was trapped and killed by Jia Yuan in Qishan, and the ancestor of the Luo family returned to Taiyuan with his own property, and used the connections of his father-in-law's family plus the connections he had accumulated over the years to re-do business, including smuggling.
Even smuggling is still the main part of the business, in order to better control this smuggling route, the Luo family even moved out of Taiyuan City and migrated to Datong.
To this day, the Luo family has been standing tall in Datong.
The only regret is that the Luo family doesn't seem to have the talent to read, and there is only one person in the whole family.
After reading the whole article, Jia Hui didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the Luo family, Cui He was confused?
Closing the file and placing it on the small table, Jia Hui lay down on the pillow, tilted his head and thought about it.
Well?
Jia Hui raised an eyebrow.
The current Lang Zhong of the Ministry of Industry Yu Hengqing Officials seems to be from Yangquan, right?
"Self-denial."
"Ah, the Grand Duke?" Yuan Katsuji, who was carefully processing the paperwork, was taken aback, thinking that he had made some mistake, and stood up with a "bang" and almost lifted the small table.
"I won't beat you, what are you afraid of?" Seeing the timid appearance of his little cousin, Jia Hui rubbed his head with a headache.
"Hehe" Yuan Keji smiled a little stiffly, and then lowered his head again, not daring to look at Jia Hui.
No way, the blurred appearance of his eldest brother being beaten by this cousin a few years ago was too scary, so scared that he didn't sleep peacefully for several days, even if it had been five or six years, whenever he saw Jia Hui, his mind would unconsciously pop out of the bloody and blurred body that had been pumped
"Tsk, forget it." Jia Hui shook his head and didn't care about him anymore, anyway, in the Governor's Mansion, this kind of cautious temperament is not a bad thing.
"Who is the current Ministry of Industry Yu Hengqing official Shilang? Where are the people? β
"Yu Heng Qing Minister's Langzhong." Yuan Keji thought for a moment, "Does the Grand Governor mean Wei Chen and Wei Langzhong?" I remember, he seems to be from Yangquan, Shanxi."
"yes." Jia Hui nodded, thoughtful.
Although the Luo family moved to Datong, it does not mean that there is no contact with Yangquan's hometown, and the heads of the Luo family in previous generations will return to Yangquan for retirement.
Therefore, maybe there is really some connection between the Luo family and Wei Chen!
"You wait a while to find Tan Ji at the embroidery place, and ask him to focus on the relationship between the Luo family and Wei Chen. Let's just say I doubt there's any connection between them. β
"Yui!" Yuan Keji hurriedly responded.
"Well, go ahead." After thinking about it, it seemed that there was nothing else to do for Yuan Keji to do, so Jia Hui waved his hand at him, Yuan Keji understood, and hurriedly saluted Jia Hui, and then grabbed his things from the small table and left the side room.
Jia Hui checked the paperwork that Yuan Keji had just handled, and after finding that there was no problem, he stamped it with a big seal, put on a big coat and threw it to a small official casually, and then skipped work and went home.
Ming'er is overjoyed!
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On the twenty-fourth day of September in the third year of Qingtai, it is suitable for marriage.
Today is the day when Xue Baochai was officially carried into the county mansion and became the concubine of the Taiwei.
Although it is completely inferior to the scenery and scale when Jia Hui married Li Kun, after all, she is a noble concubine and an old relative, even if it is not as good as that wedding, it is still necessary to do a ceremony to give the Xue family dignity.
The county mansion can be described as full of lights, so lively!
Even the old lady who was about to get along with Jia Hui was dressed very festively today, and came to the county mansion with a smile on her face to visit her six great-grandchildren.
"Old Ancestor, Old Ancestor, Aunt Xue is going to be our aunt?" The eldest daughter of Jia Jingyu, the demon king of the county mansion, stared at the old lady with big eyes, with an excited face
These days, in order to build a good relationship with the people of the county mansion, the Xue family has used the ability to make money, and it has integrated into the general environment of the county mansion like a cloud, and it is even very popular!
Of course, there is also Xue Baochai who is a noble concubine, and her status in the family is second only to that of the main mother Li Kun, which also has something to do with it.
Although Yue Liduo is a good concubine and is also quite favored, her mother is not prosperous, and she even has to rely on the county mansion to live, which is still a little unsightly in front of Xue Baochai, the eldest daughter of the Xue family.
Even Jia Ying, these children, were also stained and stuffed with a lot of gold and silver leaves by Xue Baochai in private, and one of them was counted as a sit-down boy for Xue Baochai.
Li Kun was very helpless about this, and he failed to completely clear it up after collecting it many times in a row, so he had to give up.
The children are also lucky to have their own little coffers.
"Yes, Miss Bao is about to become your new aunt." The old lady hugged Jia Jingyu in her arms and said with some emotion.
He saw that Xue Baochai was a good girl, with a good appearance, a good family, a sensitive mind, and a clever mouth, except that it might be because of the family style, so the style of acting was a little angry, but this did not affect her being a good girl, but what about it.
Evil, why was he caught six or seven years in advance by that little bastard?
(End of chapter)