Chapter 1: The House of Great Goodness

Jingshi Jiumentun, everyone knows that Master Shen is a very good person.

Master Shen is not an official master.

Master Shen is a businessman. A very successful businessman.

Master Shen has a lot of business. Clothing, food, housing, transportation, money, food, soldiers, Master Shen did everything, and he made a lot of money in everything.

However, Master Shen has a principle in doing business. Master Shen's principle of doing business is that business can be done, but not too deeply. It's okay to make money, but you can't make too much. You can't make so much money that your peers don't have any money. In particular, you can't make so much money that you can bring danger to the Shen family and yourself.

Master Shen knew that clothing, food, housing, transportation, money, food, and soldiers, each of which was the foundation of the people, and each of them was the foundation of the country. If the business is too deep, if the money is too much, it may affect the people's capital, and even the country's capital.

If the business is done like this, then the deeper the business is done, the more money is made, and the more dangerous the Shen family will be. For no king, or court, would like to see a merchant do business to such an extent.

Therefore, Master Shen is only doing some of these seven businesses. To be precise, what Master Shen made was the most luxurious of these seven things.

In the clothing business, Master Shen only uses the best fabrics. Clothing must not only be good, but also expensive.

In the food business, Master Shen only uses the best ingredients. The ingredients must not only be good, but also expensive.

In the business of living, Master Shen only uses the best building materials. Building materials must not only be good, but also expensive.

In business, Master Shen only uses the best car materials. The car material must not only be good, but also expensive.

In these four businesses, Master Shen not only uses the best and most expensive materials, but also uses the most skilled, veteran, talented, and experienced masters. Such materials and such a master ensure that the clothing, food, housing, and transportation made by Master Shen are good and expensive.

In the business of money, Master Shen only does ancient money. Ancient money must not only be real, but also old enough. It's true enough, long enough, to be elegant. The more elegant the ancient money, the higher the price, and the more profitable it is.

In the grain business, Master Shen only makes refined grain. The quality of refined grains must not only be high, but also the origin must be very scarce. High quality and scarce, such fine food is not only delicious to eat, but also a status symbol.

In the business of soldiers, Master Shen only does decorating soldiers. It doesn't have to be useful, but it has to be gorgeous enough. Those noble sons in the capital who didn't even know how to hold the sword, if they didn't hang a sword made by Master Shen's family around their waists, they would be embarrassed to go out with their friends.

Although the price of these things made by Master Shen is frighteningly high, the business is even better than frightening. Because, among the Beijing teachers, there has never been a shortage of rich and noble people. The rich and noble never lack a lot of silver.

What the rich and noble lack is something that can show their great wealth or nobility. And these things made by Master Shen just met their needs.

Therefore, although the things made by Master Shen's family are extremely expensive, those rich families are eager to buy them.

Doing the business of these rich families all the year round, and dealing with dignitaries and nobles all the year round, Master Shen will naturally be able to eat.

However, Master Shen knew that just being able to eat well among high-ranking officials and nobles could not be regarded as really eating, and it could even be said that he could not eat it.

Because, what Master Shen wants is not just the wealth and tranquility of the Shen family for one generation, two generations or three generations.

Master Shen hopes that the wealth and tranquility of the Shen family can be passed on from generation to generation. Even if it can't be passed down for thousands of generations, at least it has to be passed on for ten or eight generations.

Master Shen is good at reading scriptures and history. Therefore, Master Shen knew that if he wanted to pass on the wealth and tranquility of the Shen family to at least ten or eight generations, the Shen family would have to be able to eat among the common people. And it must be eaten among the common people.

The people are the foundation.

Dignitaries, emperors and generals, come one stubble after another, go one stubble after another, rise one stubble at a time, and fall one stubble at a time. but all the peoples, as one is ever.

When the people do not move, they are humble as grass. When the people move, it is the sky, and it can be overturned.

Master Shen is familiar with the scriptures and history, and naturally understands that in all dynasties, when the people moved, who were the first to be unlucky. The Shen family must not be one of those people.

Therefore, Master Shen did good.

An iron rule that Master Shen added to the family rules handed down by the ancestors of the Shen family is to do a good deed every day.

The Shen family must do at least one good deed every day.

It has been nearly 20 years since Master Shen wrote this iron law into the Shen family's family rules. In the past 20 years, the Shen family has done not 100,000 good deeds, but at least 80,000.

It is no exaggeration to say that none of the ordinary people in the area of Jingshi Jiumentun have not received the good deeds of the Shen family. In this part of Jingshi Jiumentun, the reason why the road is smoother, the reason why the bridge is more stable, the reason why the water is clearer, and the reason why the trees are denser is because at least half of the money in it is from the Shen family.

Moreover, Master Shen also has some principles for doing good. Master Shen's good deeds are not simply giving soup porridge in the year of the catastrophe, let alone casually throwing a bag of silver at the homes of those poor families.

The first principle of Master Shen's good deeds is not to embarrass the recipients.

Throwing a bag of silver is easy to do, but it can easily hurt the self-esteem of the person who is doing good. If it hurts the self-esteem of the person who is good, in Master Shen's view, doing good is especially evil than doing evil.

Therefore, Master Shen is very particular about doing good.

For example, one of Master Shen's good deeds is that in the most famous rejuvenation hall in Jiumentun, ten patients who come here every day will automatically be credited to the Shen family's account.

Wealthy families, even if someone in the family is sick, it is very rare for the patient to come to the rejuvenation hall with the sick body. Therefore, the beneficiaries of Master Shen's good deeds are basically poor families.

With this alone, the Shen family not only relieved the difficulties of many sick people, but also avoided the embarrassment of showing kindness to others face-to-face.

For example, a new bridge is going to be built over the river in Jiumentun. In addition to donating silver, Master Shen also took the initiative to take care of the food for the laborers.

The meals that the Shen family sends to the laborers at each meal are not only oily and watery, delicious, but also sufficient. It is enough that even if those laborers let go of their bellies and eat, they will not be able to finish eating. It is enough that every laborer can not only eat and burp well, but also let his own baby take some home in line with the principle of hard work.

Another principle of Master Shen's good deeds is that the Shen family should do good, and the Shen family should do good. The Shen family should not be good, and the Shen family will definitely not be good.

There is no big or small good, and there is no difference between what should be done and what cannot be done. But Master Shen insisted, there are some kinds, and the Shen family can't do it. In other words, there are some goodness, the Shen family can't do it on its own, and it can't do it too much.

For example, when there was a white disaster the year before last, even the land of Jingshi was full of hunger.

Among the Beijing teachers, almost all the wealthy families with some compassion have set up porridge sheds to give porridge to save the people.

The Shen family also took it. The Shen family not only built a porridge shed, but also built some sheds for the victims to escape the cold.

Shuntianfu naturally also took it. Moreover, among all the porridge sheds for soup kitchens, the porridge sheds in Shuntianfu are undoubtedly the most numerous and the largest. Among the porridge in Shuncheonfu, rice is also the most.

After a white disaster, Shuntianfu Yin not only did not receive criticism from the imperial court, but was greatly praised by the imperial court because of his strong disaster relief.

Shuntianfu was not only praised by the imperial court, but in the midst of the catastrophe, I don't know how many victims drank hot, sticky and thick white porridge while praying to the gods and Buddhas to let the gods and Buddhas bless the gods and Buddhas of Shuntianfu Yin, the great lord of the blue sky.

Only the Yin of Shuntian Mansion knew that before the White Disaster came, there was not much grain in the treasury of Shuntian Mansion. Only Shuntian Mansion Yin knew that before the White Plague came, Master Shen had personally entered his study and donated a large amount of money to him.

Master Shen is so kind and generous, the people in Jiumentun naturally remember Master Shen's goodness. The Shen family occasionally needs to do something, and the people in this area will take the initiative to come to the door to see if they can help.

Not only the people in Jiumentun know that Master Shen is a good person, but even the dogs in Jiumentun also know that Master Shen is a good person.

Master Shen occasionally walked around the area of Jiumentun, and the watchdog in the people's house barked when they saw people, and when they saw Master Shen, they didn't hum or ha, shaking their heads and tails.

can make the people feel so much, and even let the people's dogs be like this, the Shen family can naturally be called a person who can eat in the hearts of the people.

The Shen family is so kind to its neighbors day after day, year after year, the government naturally can't turn a blind eye. The Shen family received the praise inscriptions from the Shuntian Mansion and the members of the Jingzhong for their good deeds, and the hall was already full of them. Even directly above the gate of the Shen family, there is a big plaque. On the plaque, framed are the four envious characters of "House of Great Goodness".

These four big characters are from the hands of Du Wenyuan, the emperor of the dynasty.

According to the grapevine, Du Wenyuan wrote it for the Shen family, and it was not originally these four words. Du Wenyuan was the first to write, originally the four words "the house of the best". It's just that because the word "to" is too public, Du Wenyuan changed it to the word "big".

It is even reported that the reason why Prime Minister Du did not dare to use the word "to" was because Master Shen's good deeds had already been spread into the palace. Today, it seems that he has already planned to give the Shen family a golden pen. The word "to" left by Prime Minister Du Cheng is left for today's son. Because, only the Ninety-Five Supreme can give this "to" word.

With such success, such a good meal, and such a reputation, in Master Shen's heart, it is said that there should be no more trouble.

It's just that every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and everyone has some troubles.

The Shen family also has scriptures that are difficult to read. Master Shen also had troubles in his heart.

What worries Master Shen is his youngest son.