Chapter 1 Traveling back 250 years ago...

In the 30th year of Qianlong (1765 AD), Lushan County, Ruzhou (Zhili Prefecture).

Chen's family in the south of the city.

Outside the gate is the South Street of Lushan County, which has been bustling with traffic and people coming and going. But inside the gate, it is quiet, and even the servants dare not raise their voices.

Chen Dianli, the only son of Master Chen, the 15-year-old Master Chen Ming, suddenly fainted while enjoying the cool in the courtyard six days ago. This made Master Chen and Madam Chen very anxious. The next day, even the old lady of Tumen Old House rushed to the city.

Chen Dianli spared no effort to save his son. When the doctor in Lushan was useless, he sent people to the state capital to invite a famous doctor. As a result, the lady in the state capital had not arrived yet, and Master Chen, who had been tossed around by the doctor in Lushan County for three days without any improvement, woke up on the fourth day. The Chen family hurriedly asked the famous doctor who had just arrived in the state capital to consult with the doctors in the county. A group of people pulled their beards off, but they couldn't explain anything. But they couldn't lie to Chen Dianli. Chen Hui, the eldest master of Chen, had been working in the county government for three generations. He was in charge of the household affairs of Lushan County for ten years. The weight of his words in Lushan County was not seven points as heavy as that of the county master, but only five points. Who knows if there will be a "traitor" to report it after talking nonsense here, so as not to get mutton and get a fishy smell.

In the end, the famous doctors reported the truth and could only prescribe a warm and nourishing prescription to calm the nerves and nourish the brain, and then asked the Chen family to take care of it carefully and told the Chen family not to make noise.

So in the three days since then, the Chen family even slaughtered the guard dog.

The sun shone on his buttocks, and Chen Ming got up from the bed with a lazy look on his face. There were no watches in the house in this era. Looking at the sunlight outside, it was probably after nine o'clock.

The servants and maids waiting in the outer room hurried in after hearing the noise, either helping the young master to dress, or carrying a copper basin, a towel, green salt and a toothbrush. Yes, there were toothbrushes in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. This thing refreshed his impression of the Qing Dynasty.

"Are there any relatives coming today?"

"Young master, the seventh master from my hometown has arrived long ago and is talking to the old lady and the lady. The master is also here."

"Oh? Father didn't go to the county government today?"

Chen Ming was slightly surprised. It has been three days since he traveled through time. Combining the three days of experience with the memories in his mind, he can clearly know the weight of the Chen family in Lushan, and also know what kind of person his father is now.

This is a person who is very similar to his father in the previous life. He is not good at expressing his feelings. Although he looks gentle and easy to talk to, it is actually the appearance given by his profession. Inwardly, he is a person who expresses his feelings with actions. This made Chen Ming feel a little more about the true father-son relationship with Chen Hui. With the assimilation of memories, Chen Ming accepted this pair of cheap parents in this life. I just don't know how sad my father and mother in the previous life would be after receiving the notice of my death. Fortunately, I still have an older brother.

Perhaps, Chen Ming in this time and space may also "travel" to his own body in the 21st century.

No matter how much he missed Chen Ming, he could only bury it in his mind, or find a trace of his father from Chen Hui's behavior in his memory.

Chen Hui treated his son very strictly. He never allowed him to enter the casino of the women's branch and implemented strict financial control. But on the other hand, every birthday and festival, Chen Ming always received a generous gift from his father.

- Not gold or silver, but physical objects that cannot be sold. For example, jade chess pieces, antique carvings, or good horses!

The 15-year-old Chen Ming has been learning the skills of accounting from his father for seven years, and he has been an apprentice with his father since three years ago - he has seen the dark side of society.

Through "memories", Chen Ming found that **** is really good. No matter how evil the officials in the previous life were, they were not as evil as this era. In the 21st century, there are still some constraints. What about now? The real king's law can't beat the father's mouth.

Nowadays, the county government does not have so many bureaus and departments. There are three classes and six rooms in total, among which the household room is the most expensive and the criminal room is the most powerful. Chen Ming's father is the head of the household room-the clerk. As long as the household room and the criminal room communicate well, and share a little with the local snakes such as the local security chief, when it comes to collecting taxes, the taxes paid by the fat sheep without eyes will be reduced by one or two, and then it will be said that they concealed their property and evaded national taxes, and the yamen runners of the criminal room can directly arrest them.

The victim can file a complaint, but the prerequisite is that you can submit the complaint, and then how much money will it cost to file a complaint? I don't know that the yamen is famous for "the yamen opens to the south, and you can't come in if you have a reason but no money"?

You have suffered so much, spent so much effort, and spent so much money, but you may not win the lawsuit. Why bother to confront the people in the household department? When you are blackmailed, just give the money to the household department and everything will be fine, right? The money spent is probably less than the lawsuit.

Chen Hui has been the clerk of the household department for ten years. Before that, he had worked in the government office for sixteen years. The Chen family has been working in the county government since the generation of Chen Ming's grandfather. They were unemployed at first, and it took 20 years to fill a regular position. It took thirty years from Chen Ming's grandfather's generation to get the position of clerk. Even though Chen Ming's grandfather died a little early and there was a gap of six or seven years in the middle, the Chen family really established a foothold in Lushan County Government. That is also the struggle history of the Lushan Tumen Chen family's prosperity.

So regardless of the Chen Hui family in the county town, if they don’t get involved in the family shop business, it’s Uncle Wutang who is running it; if they don’t take care of the mineral deposits in the mountains and the porcelain kiln in Tumen, it’s his second uncle who is taking care of it. My second uncle is a concubine. He lives in an old house in Tumen. On weekdays, there are It's very sad that an old Buddha is pressing down on the head of a family; but Chen Hui is the well-deserved patriarch of the Tumen Chen family, the head of the family, the title deed of the entire Chen family's 800 acres of public land, the title deed of the shop, and the porcelain kiln mineral deposits All the documents were held in his hand. And as the main lineage of the Chen family, Chen Ming also knew that his family still had a full 1,500 acres of land. No one in the entire Chen family would say no. This is the intimidation and influence of a 'pianli'. Of course, Chen Ming's eldest brother also played a role in this. His eldest brother was the eldest son of a concubine. Chen Ming and his wife gave birth to him eight years ago. Before Chen Ming, Chen Hui only had one son, Chen Gang. After four or five visits, Chen Gang appeared, not even a daughter. According to Chen Ming's opinion, this must be Chen Hui's own physical problem.

When Chen Gang was twelve years old, he was adopted by Chen Hui to his elder brother Chen Qingping. This uncle of Chen Ming was a rare intellectual in the Chen family. He was a 17-year-old high school scholar. His 19-year-old daughter-in-law died of illness less than a year after marrying him. , and didn’t leave anyone behind. Chen Ming's aunt returned to her parents' home with her dowry. The Chen family was not a wealthy family, and Chen Qingping didn't even have a son or a half left behind. There was no reason for her aunt to stay.

Chen Hui adopted Chen Gang and gave it to Chen Qingping. There has been a gap of seven years. It sounds nice to inherit the incense, so that Chen Qingping can still pay a tribute during the Qingming Festival, and save the hard life in the underground. In fact, it is Then Chen Qingping's reputation as a scholar helped his eldest son wash away the stain of being a government official.

Yes, since Emperor Yongzheng pardoned the ten most despicable people, yamen servants can also take the exam for merit. But even if he really has a future with this background, he will be 'looked at differently' by others. It even affected Shilin's reputation, preventing Chen Gang from reaching Beijing no matter how talented he was.

Speaking of which, Chen Hui also has a fatherly heart.

Chen Ming was only five years old when Chen Gang adopted him. Now his relationship with his eldest brother cannot be said to be close, but he is not too distant either.

Anyway, everyone has passed away, and they no longer have any inheritance rights to the Chen family's family business, which poses no threat to Chen Ming. Moreover, Chen Ming, his mother, the Gao family, and his uncle Gao Pengqi donated money to the prison guards in their early years, wiping out all the Gao family's wealth, and obtained the position of inspector of Luyang Pass in Lushan County. That's the No. 1 tyrant in Lushan County! If the Chen family didn't want to fall out with the Gao family and turn the in-laws into enemies, Chen Ming's family fortune would be as stable as a mountain.

So it is very accurate to say that the Chen family is a deep-rooted local tiger in Lushan County. As long as there is no major chaos, the Chen family's wealth can continue for decades or hundreds of years. If Chen Gang can really be named on the gold list, the Chen family can even transform into a scholarly family in the future, and enter the stage of Lushan or even Ruzhou.

Chen Hui didn't go to the county office today because it was Xunxiu of the county office. Are officials also human beings? Do they need to rest as human beings?

Chen Ming was washed and dressed neatly, and breakfast was already placed on the table in the outer room. There is no big fish or meat. He needs to be warmed up now. Big fish and meat are no longer available to him. A bowl of golden millet porridge, a stack of pickles, one mixed with cucumbers, one mixed with ears. Lushan is famous as the hometown of fungus. There is also a cut salted duck egg with red yolk and DC oil. , which makes people feel appetizing just by looking at it. Of course, two snacks are also indispensable.

Chen Hui's thinking may have changed ten years ago, after his eldest son Chen Gang passed away and took the throne of household administrator. Maybe it was because he wanted to build up his image, but his 'taste' had become bland anyway, and he had to eat light meals even when he was eating. With Chen Ming's illness, his breakfast became even lighter. This kind of breakfast is simply too simple for the Chen family's family status. If it were the original Chen Ming, he would have been tired of eating like this for many days in a row. But Chen Ming has changed the core. For Chen Ming from the 21st century, this is definitely delicious!

How can the millet porridge on street breakfast stalls in the 21st century taste like this?

He still couldn't understand why Yuan Chen Ming fainted all of a sudden. He himself was not struck by lightning in the 21st century, nor did he touch the switch, so why did he wear it? Or clear wear?

This is the 30th year of Qianlong's reign, and the Qing Dynasty's national power is still at its peak. My family is so wealthy...

While Chen Ming was thinking, "Put it on without rebelling, use the electric drill on the chrysanthemum", he was secretly confused in his heart. This is not the late Qing Dynasty, when rebellion was the general trend. It wasn't even the last years of Qianlong's reign, when there was still the White Lotus Sect as an ally.

In the middle of Qianlong's reign, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was at its most powerful, it was not easy to rebel even if the rebellion succeeded!

How good and great is Chen Ming's family now? Fifteen hundred acres of land, 400 acres of which is on the shore of Zhaoping Lake, is the best area in the entire Lushan County. Four hundred acres are all top-quality paddy fields.

In Lushan, in this Lushan County with seven mountains and one river, the total land area recorded in the fish scale book of the whole county is only more than 360,000 mu. Including the private land reclaimed in the mountain valleys and the hidden land hidden by the powerful landlords, the total land area of ​​the whole county does not exceed 350,000 mu. In the middle of Qianlong, the peak period of the imperial power of the Qing Dynasty, Lushan County could still hide more than 10% of the land. Chen Ming didn't know how to judge it. Say this is a sign of the end of the Qing Dynasty? Chen Ming, who is not well-informed and not profound, has no right to speak on this point. However, the best paddy fields in the whole Lushan County are only 13,000 mu. All of them are by the Zhaoping Lake, visible to everyone. The Chen family can occupy 400 mu of land, which shows the status of the Chen family in Lushan.

With such a family background and wealth, Chen Ming, who has worked hard for many years in the 21st century and has a monthly salary of less than 6,000 yuan, cannot refuse. People are greedy for comfort and enjoyment. If he didn't know history, and didn't know about China's humiliating history a hundred years later, it would be a good thing to enjoy a lifetime of wealth and honor in peace and quiet.

The Chen family also has its own porcelain kiln. Ruzhou was a major production base for porcelain a thousand years ago. It is now in decline, but Chen Ming knows the formula of bone china. Let the craftsmen of the Chen family follow the formula and they can always make it. In Chen Ming's cognition, this thing should have a certain market. It may be a blockbuster!

Moreover, he also knows how to use the blast furnace and make steel in a primitive way. Although it is also a mouth cannon, it is all the talent opened by the singularity, but Chen Ming knows about Lushan. In his previous life, he worked in Luohe [Henan]. Luohe is very close to Lushan, which belongs to Pingdingshan! Lushan is a place with coal and iron, and Chen Ming's original memory also confirms this.

The Chen family has two small mines in the mountainous area northwest of Lushan, one for coal and the other for iron ore, not far away. At the same time, the Chen family also runs a small coal mine. In the real hometown of the Chen family, Xiaonangou, west of Tumen, the Chen family's iron smelting plant and blacksmith shop are all there. That is the real old nest of the Chen family.

There are about 100 aboriginal households in Xiaonangou, and 80% of them are surnamed Chen. So since Chen Ming's grandfather, he has opened an iron shop and a private mine in Xiaonangou, the old base that the Chen family can trust.

The Chen family took private salt from outside, and through their own relationships, they opened up connections with the villages in the mountain valleys, and even the villages that were not recorded in the official books. They used salt, cloth, food and other necessities of human life to exchange iron materials, furs, and medicinal materials with these villages, and then transferred these proceeds to the outside. Even some of the iron materials that they could eat were circulated in the blacksmith shop, and the kitchen knives, scissors, iron pots, sickles, shovels, etc. that doubled in value came out. The Chen family made a profit of no less than five times! Even after the upper and lower levels were divided into profits, the Chen family could still make a lot of money.

Chen Ming is confident that he can make the Chen family more prosperous in his hands. By the way, he also knows how to refine glass.

Therefore, Chen Ming thinks that he will live a comfortable life with a stable life. If the eldest brother Chen Gang can pass the imperial examination and then pass the imperial examination, even if it will affect Chen Ming's status in the Chen family, the Chen family in Lushan will be more stable. Such a life is very attractive to a ** from the later generations like Chen Ming.

However, kneeling on the ground as a slave for a lifetime, Chen Ming thinks that it is not a good taste. Let's take it one step at a time!

Now the Chen family is still his father Chen Hui in charge. No matter how high Chen Ming thinks, it is a daydream. Take it one step at a time. If you want to do something, you must have strength in your hands. He is a very practical person!

Therefore, Chen Ming will not forget history. He wants to change the fate of all China. This is the lowest bottom line! But he will not be arrogant and look down on others. What he has to do now is to accumulate strength bit by bit!

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