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Wang Chuanxiong, courtesy name Xian'an, was fifty-four years old, a Chinese from Xiangyang, and was elected during the Tianqi period. Because he was in his forties when he passed the imperial examination, and was in poor health, he gave up his intention to continue taking the imperial examination for Jinshi. thought.
Living quietly at home to teach his children and grandchildren, he once hoped that his son could inherit or even surpass his own imperial examination career and win another Jinshi for the old Wang family.
However, his only son still did not do well in the imperial examination. He was almost forty years old and was still just a student, which was a shame for him.
On the contrary, his grandson has more potential in his career. He was admitted as a student member the year before last when he was just sixteen years old, and he is expected to make further progress in the future.
In this way, they can live up to the scholarly reputation of their Wang family.
The Wang family is a relatively well-known scholarly family in Xiangyang Mansion. Although the number of members is small, there are currently three men in their family, all of whom are famous.
And their ancestors also produced one Jinshi and two Juren.
In my hometown, when talking about the Wang family, who doesn't know that the Wang family has a Jinshi archway and three Juren archways.
If such a traditional scholarly family had followed the pace of earlier years, the Wang family would have continued to accumulate strength in the local area and spare no efforts to train the royal family and grandchildren to participate in the imperial examinations in order to win the title of examiner and even Jinshi, and once again make the name of the Wang family resounding. Xiangyang Mansion.
But all this began to change one after another the year before last.
The year before last, bandits broke into Xiangyang Mansion and Yunyang Mansion. A large number of bandits and officers and soldiers repeatedly fought in this area. The Wang family was also in bad luck.
Several farms under his name were plundered and suffered heavy losses.
Even many tenants of the Wang family were kidnapped, killed, or fled, so much so that some of the Wang family's land was abandoned last year.
Because there are not enough people to rent the land.
Of course, these are nothing. The most important thing is that their Wang Family Manor was invaded by bandits once. Although the core members of the Wang Family had fled in advance to avoid disaster, the manor was looted by bandits after they were breached, and the Wang Family Manor was also looted. After living in it and repairing it for hundreds of years, the already magnificent mansions were burned down by the thieves.
This wave completely caused the Wang family to hemorrhage, and decades of accumulation were wiped out, because the house in their hometown was burned down, and in order to rebuild the house, the Wang family spent a large sum of money.
In the end, in order to avoid the war, the Wang family simply moved to Xiangyang City and lived in a house.
I plan to avoid the chaos of the past few years before returning to my hometown. Anyway, it will take time to rebuild the house in my hometown.
After moving to Xiangyang City, the Wang family was still unlucky. They had just bought a luxurious house worthy of the Wang family at a price lower than the market price. However, within a few days of entering, someone came to the door and said that the house belonged to their family. …
If it was an ordinary person, Wang Chuanxiong would have asked his servants to beat him out on the spot, but he was from Xiangyang Mansion...
As a result, after reporting it to the official, they investigated and found out, well, this yard was indeed the property of Prince Xiang's Mansion. It was secretly sold by a steward of the Prince's Mansion who managed the property, in collusion with a steward of the Wang family who came to Xiangyang Daqian Station to purchase the house.
It is said that the steward of the palace not only secretly sold this luxurious mansion, but also took a concubine whom Prince Xiang had just adopted and flew away...
These are not the key points. The key point is that when the Wang family purchased the house, because there were insiders colluding with the palace officials, the documents signed later were also fake...
After all, the house cannot be transferred through normal procedures...
To put it simply, the Wang family spent a lot of money from the boss and finally bought a fake house deed... and lived in this yard for a few days...
In other words, the Wang family, who could cause an earthquake with just a stomp of their feet in Guanghua County, was dealt with as soon as they moved to Xiangyang...
After all, everyone in the Wang family did not expect that someone would be so bold and dare to deceive the Wang family.
In desperation, he had no choice but to move out of the newly purchased house and stay at a friend's house for a while before selling the house again and moving in there.
Later, when he lived in Xiangyang, all kinds of bad things happened one after another, and the eldest grandson even became seriously ill for a time.
By February or March this year, Wang Chuanxiong’s son started doing saltpeter business with others...
The partners said that this business is very simple. The capital is paid by the customers, and the customers also come to contact them. The Wang family only needs to clear official relations in Xiangyang City, obtain the source of goods smoothly, and ensure that the goods can leave Xiangyang.
After all, the Wang family is a scholarly family, and the Wang family's master is still a civil servant, so he has some respect in Xiangyang.
That's why people came to seek cooperation.
It didn't take long for Wang Chuanxiong to discover that his son had strengthened his waist and brought home a lot of money. When he asked out of curiosity, he discovered that his son was in the business of contraband such as saltpeter.
He immediately got angry and wanted to ask his son to withdraw to avoid getting into trouble.
The result was good. As soon as the Wang family said they wanted to withdraw, the partner announced himself: We are from the Baoxiang Army Commercial Department...
This saltpeter business is not something the Wang family can just quit if they want to...
If you dare to withdraw from the front, I will send someone to take care of the back. It is hard to say what will happen to the Wang family when the time comes.
After all, it is a grave sin to collude with a bandit!
This made Wang Chuanxiong extremely horrified. After asking carefully, he found out that his stupid son and that idiot, as scholars, went straight to business and asked the housekeeper to deal with it without understanding... He couldn't get away even if he wanted to.
In the end, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue doing business.
But while I was doing this, I discovered that the rural protection army had already reached Xiangyang City!
When the Baoxiang Army captured Xiangyang, the Wang family also received preferential treatment as a supplier with a "good" cooperative relationship with the Baoxiang Army. A large number of materials seized by the Baoxiang Army in Xiangyang City were sold through the Wang family's trading firm. …
The Baoxiang Army even confiscated the house that had previously ensnared the Wang family, and then gave it to the Wang family to show that the Baoxiang Army was kind to their friends.
As a result, it didn't take long for the entire gentry circle in Xiangyang Prefecture to know that the Wang family and the Baoxiang Army were colluding with each other!
By this time, the Wang family had actually been completely helped by the rural protection army to get on the pirate ship, and it was so difficult to get off even if they wanted to.
Faced with this situation, after Wang Chuanxiong thought hard for several days, he simply gritted his teeth, stamped his feet and leaned directly towards the Baoxiang Army. He openly and honestly became the official partner of the Baoxiang Army, handling various official matters for the Baoxiang Army. Supplies, real estate, etc. were confiscated.
His son even went directly to become an official in the Baoxiang Army, and now he is a sixth-grade director in Xiangyang Mansion.
When Luo Zhixue won a complete victory after the Battle of Yuzhou and returned to Xiangyang in June, the Internal Affairs Department began to select beautiful girls from good families to join the general's mansion.
The selection range is naturally from the gentry class and middle and low-level officials who are related to the rural protection army. Although the Wang family has few men, there are still many women.
Wang Chuanxiong happened to have a granddaughter of the right age. Because she was beautiful and dignified and unmarried, she was naturally chosen.
In fact, the Wang family was unwilling. However, officials from the Internal Affairs Department investigated and inquired about the well-cooperated gentry families one by one. The Wang family could not deceive the king by saying that they did not have an unmarried daughter of the right age.
When the officials of the Internal Affairs Department saw the Wang family daughter, they were shocked and wanted to give the Wang family daughter a spot as a show girl on the spot. Is it possible that the Wang family dared to say no at that time...
As a result, the Wang family's daughter successfully entered the General's Mansion, and soon gained Luo Zhixue's favor and respect after entering the General's Mansion.
After Luo Zhixue officially proclaimed himself emperor in Hanyang, he conferred low-level titles on a group of women. This time, more than a hundred women were conferred, except for Hou Yunmeng and Wang Qiaoer because of their pure appearance and the fact that they were a little earlier than Luo Zhixue. Every bit of talent has been awarded.
Among the other women who came up in the draft, the highest one was awarded the title of Noble, but there were only three women.
Wang's daughter is one of them.
Up to this point, the overall rhythm is actually quite normal. However, not long ago, officials from the Hanlin Academy arrived in Xiangyang and met with Wang Chuanxiong...
When Wang Chuanxiong heard that his granddaughter Wang Guiren was selected by His Majesty Luo Zhixue and planned to be crowned queen.
His whole body is not well...
At that time, he felt very strange. He was surprised, but also a little scared...
Well, now that the Great Chu Empire has gained momentum, it is naturally a good thing for the daughter of the Wang family to become the mother of the Great Chu Empire, as it will bring glory and wealth to the Wang family.
But Wang Chuanxiong is also worried that if the Great Chu Empire is wiped out by the imperial court in the future, other gentry families who have defected to the Great Chu Empire, even if they have already served in the Great Chu Empire, may turn around and defect to the Zhu Ming Dynasty or something else. New Dynasty.
After all, the gentry families who have defected to the Chu Empire now have more scholars. Even if the Chu Empire is destroyed in the future, it is impossible for the Zhu Ming court or other new dynasties to kill so many people cleanly.
But his Wang family?
It would be extremely difficult for the Queen of the Chu Empire's natal family to switch to Zhu Ming or the new dynasty.
In the past, the Wang family could be said to have been kidnapped and taken aboard the Da Chu Empire's pirate ship.
But once the Wang family's daughter becomes the queen, the Wang family will all become part of this bandit army.
This feeling of surprise and fear has been tormenting Wang Chuanxiong. Even on the way south, Wang Chuanxiong's mood seemed gloomy.
However, this feeling disappeared immediately after he arrived in Wuchang City!
He didn't know why, but when he saw the clean and tidy streets in Wuchang City, he was stunned, and then many thoughts suddenly appeared in his mind.
It's not like he has never been to Wuchang City before. In fact, he has been here several times.
But the current Wuchang City is completely different from the Wuchang City he knew!
It's clean, tidy and orderly, and even the shops on both sides of the street look pleasing to the eye.
Wuchang City seems to be getting better now.
Since the Chu Empire can make Wuchang City better, perhaps it can also make the whole world better.
And the Great Chu Empire, which can make the world a better place, will most likely not be a short-lived dynasty, and may even unify Kyushu.
In this way, as the relatives of the founding emperor and the father-in-law of the country, their family is prosperous and wealthy!
After many thoughts flashed through his mind, a smile began to appear on Wang Chuanxiong's face, and he immediately said to his eldest son, who was staring at the street dumbfounded: "What are you still doing? Let's go, they are still waiting in front!"
