Patriarch, he doesn't want to take the imperial examinations

In the past, when Meng Qing transported grain to Jiangnan, he settled in Jiangning Mansion (now Nanjing) in Jiangnan Province. His family was in the grain business, and most of the people who dealt with him in Jiangnan were grain merchants.

Mengqing transported the grain that was not common in the north and the south to the south of the Yangtze River, resold it to the local grain merchants, and then bought the grain from the south of the Yangtze River from the local grain merchants and returned it to the north, and distributed it to the large, medium and small grain merchants in the capital area. store, and earn the difference from it.

Although the north-south trip took half a year, Mengqing made a lot of profits on this trip, and most of the grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River are fixed partners, and there are generally no money arrears, cutting corners, etc. between the two parties. Shoddy and other bad situations.

As in previous years, Meng Qing transported grain to the south of the Yangtze River in the autumn of the previous year and still settled in Jiangning Mansion. Originally, he had already handed over all the affairs in early December, and his wife was still at home. I left earlier, and I just rushed back home a year ago.

But one of the businessmen who dealt with him kindly invited him to stay at his home for a few days.

The businessman's name was Tong Ziang, who lived in Suzhou Prefecture and was in the brocade business.If you want to talk about how a grain merchant in Mengqing got involved with a brocade business.

But it turned out that Jiangnan was rich in brocade, Meng Qing thought that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, so he happened to buy some brocades that were fashionable in Jiangnan and went back to make clothes for his family.

A grain merchant who cooperated with him in business heard that he wanted to buy brocade, so he recommended Tong Ziang's.Meng Qing came to the shop and carefully selected a large number of fashionable brocades. During the period, he had a lot of conversations with the owner of the shop.

Boss Tong heard from Meng Qing that his surname was Meng, which was not common among them, but it was a coincidence that Boss Tong's father was also named Meng, and like Meng Qing, his ancestors were also from the capital.

Boss Tong joked that Meng Qing and his father are probably from the same family.Meng Qing didn't take it seriously, their family is not the only family named Meng in the whole capital, it's no coincidence that they are the same family.

The two were about the same age, and they talked a lot. Boss Tong saw that Meng Qing was a real person, and his money was generous. He bought a lot of brocades in his shop, so he wanted to make friends with him.

So he invited Meng Qing to Suzhou for a visit. His family lived in Suzhou Mansion, where Tong's silk and satin shop head office opened.

Meng Qing was only thinking about his family, so he didn't have the time to go to Suzhou, so he tried to find a reason to shirk it.

But Boss Tong is not a fuel-efficient lamp either. A businessman is usually very careful. He thinks that Mengqing came from the capital. The so-called many friends have many paths. Today he first handed over Mengqing as a friend. In the future, his Tong family will expand their business to the capital, so they will have a place to stay. If they can make friends with dignitaries in other industries through Mengqing, it will be a good deal.

With such an idea, no matter how Meng Qing shirks, Boss Tong will not agree. He only said that Suzhou is not far from Jiangning Mansion, and one day is enough to go back and forth. Meng Qing will go to his house for two or three days, then return to Jiangning Mansion, Going north by boat, he can reach the capital in less than half a month, and it will not delay his return home for the New Year.

Seeing that Boss Tong was too enthusiastic, Meng Qing couldn't evade it any longer. He also wanted to see Boss Tong's brocade village in Suzhou Prefecture, so he followed others to Suzhou.

After arriving in Suzhou, Boss Tong did not immediately take Meng Qing to his silk shop, but brought someone to his home.

Meng Qing met Boss Tong's father here. At first, Meng Qing wondered why Boss Tong didn't take his father's surname. After understanding, it was exactly as he thought. Boss Tong's father broke into Tong's house backwards.

Because both of them were surnamed Meng, Meng Qing chatted a little more with Boss Tong's father. When they talked about the generations of their ancestors, both of them were shocked that they were actually a family.

Boss Tong's father was Meng Qing's cousin, and the two were uncles and nephews.

Speaking of this uncle, Meng Qing couldn't help but think of his uncle's father, that is, Meng Qing's grandfather. It was his grandfather who turned the grain farm owned by his great-grandfather into tickets and ran away, causing him to Grandpa has been searching for it for many years but to no avail.

Now the grandpa's son is a door-to-door son-in-law, and he is not welcomed in other people's homes. Meng Qing also heard from this uncle that his grandpa's family is not doing well now. With the slightest bit of sympathy, he secretly scolded them for what they deserved.

Stealing his family's grain farm into tickets and running away, causing the family to go bankrupt and worry about it, and he ended up in a miserable end, which is not what he deserved.

In Meng Qing's heart, he hated that grandfather, and he didn't even have much affection for this uncle.I thought about staying in Tong's house for two days and then leaving, but after my uncle's son, Boss Tong, knew that they were uncles and nephews, he not only refused to let him go, but forced him to stay here for the New Year.

Meng Qing couldn't push it no matter what, so he had to write a letter to his family explaining the reason why he couldn't go back, and he stayed in Tong's house for the end of the year before returning home.

But he said that the Tong family not only had one son, Tong Zi'ang, but also two sons and one daughter.

The second son, named Tong Zisheng, was [-] years old. He was a scholar in the college examination the year before last, and he studied in a prefectural school in Suzhou Prefecture.

Because Meng Qing lived in the Renfu for twenty days, the so-called etiquette is reciprocal, when Tong's family proposed that if his family's son is promoted in the provincial examination in the future, the next year's capital will hold a general examination, and their family's son will be promoted to their Meng family. Stay for a while.

Meng Qing agreed without thinking.Less than two years later, Tong Zisheng actually passed the Juren examination, and Tong's family sent him a letter saying that Tong Zisheng had already left home, and if there were no accidents, he would arrive at their Meng family in mid-October.

The Meng family waited like this for more than half a month. On the afternoon of October [-]th, the family was sitting in Mengzhen’s yard chatting to pass the time. The doorman suddenly ran over to report: "Master, there is a young gentleman visiting outside the door, saying yes Came from Jiangnan."

When everyone heard this, isn't this young son from Jiangnan Tong Zisheng?

Sure enough, everyone came to the gate to see that the guest who came from Jiangnan was Tong Zisheng, the youngest son of the Tong family.

Tong Zisheng had met Meng Qing before, so he greeted Meng Qing first, and then, under Meng Qing's introduction, took a photo with other members of the Meng family.

"Hello Cousin!" Tong Zisheng smiled and bowed to Mengzhen, who heard the strangeness of the address.

Next came Meng Hong, and Tong Zisheng called out: "Second cousin, I'm here for the first time, please take care of me in the future."

Tong Zisheng is 20 years old this year, the same age as Meng Hong, but because he is a few months younger, he calls Meng Hong his "cousin".

Meng Hong didn't feel much about this claim, he just nodded in response: "Since Cousin Tong has come to our house, he is our guest, so we should naturally treat you as a landlord and take good care of you. "

After Tong Zisheng greeted Meng Hong, he met Meng Che and Meng Yuan again. Since they were still children, he seemed a little careless, and after casually calling "Fourth Cousin" and "Fifth Cousin" , led by the Meng family to the Mengzhen courtyard.

Tong Zisheng only brought a young servant with him this time. It was the first time for the two of them to travel far away, and they traveled a lot by water. During the [-]-day trip, more than ten days were spent on the boat. of.

I don’t know if I don’t go out, but I realized that I was seasick when I came out. Tong Zisheng suffered from seasickness, and he didn’t suffer in vain all the way. Even when he arrived at Meng’s house now, he still felt a little dizzy, not to mention the climate in the north and their south of the Yangtze River. It's quite different, the sky here is a bit dry, Tong Zisheng's throat is uncomfortable, and he can't get used to it for a while.

Seeing that the man's complexion was not very good, Meng Qing hurriedly took him to the Sixth West Courtyard which had been cleaned up in advance to rest.

This person has been exhausted all the way, and he came all the way from the south of the Yangtze River. Meng Qing has been doing business for many years as a layman. This person is tired after traveling a long distance. He needs to take a good rest to recover. .

After the settlement was settled, Tong Zi was promoted to master and servant, and the Meng family father and son gathered in Mengzhen's room to talk again, and the most talked about was about this guest from Jiangnan.

Meng Hong said that the southerners were indeed different from their northerners, not only were they outwardly elegant, they also looked very spiritual.

Meng Qing then continued: "A person who passed the Juren examination at a young age can't be spiritual. It's not like you. You just know how to hang around outside all day long, and you don't look serious."

It has been a long time since Meng Hong had quarreled with Meng Qing. Meng Qing's behavior of exalting others and belittling his own brother made Meng Hong very unhappy, but he was too lazy to argue with Meng Qing. It is not a day when Meng Qing sees him as unpleasant It's been two days, anyway, no matter what he did, he couldn't catch Meng Qing's eyes, so he simply shut up and let Meng Qing sing a one-man show by himself.

"Besides, Tong Zisheng has already married and is a few months younger than you. What about you? You have to wait a year."

Originally, Meng Hong's mood had calmed down, but Meng Qing seemed to be on fire, and he didn't say a word that pleased him, so why did it get involved in marriage again? Isn't he already engaged? It's just delayed, how could this be used by Meng Qing to make a fuss.

"Father!" Meng Hong yelled, "I still have to leave beforehand, I'll come back to see you later." 36 strategy, walking is the best strategy, Meng Hong didn't want to argue with Meng Qing, so he decided to run away.

However, Meng Qing did not intend to let him go, and stopped him, "Where are you going, there is no room for you here, what are you hiding?"

"Meng Qing!" Meng Zhen, who had been sitting next to the two of them, finally couldn't stand it any longer. He felt that Meng Qing was very inexplicable sometimes, and Meng Hong didn't say anything. Why did Meng Qing keep holding on to people? Unreasonable.

"Father..." Meng Qing called out.

Dad is so nice!Meng Hong thought to himself.

At this moment, the servant who took Tong Zisheng's master and servant to rest in the West Sixth Courtyard ran in and reported, "Master, young masters, Mr. Tong just drank a few sips of tea, and suddenly he vomited, and his nose was bleeding a lot. "

Everyone present was shocked, Meng Qing was even more shocked, he hurried Ah Qing to invite a doctor, while he led the others to the West Sixth Hospital in a hurry.

The author says:

Jiangnan Province in the Qing Dynasty was equivalent to today's Jiangsu, Anhui, and Shanghai.In the early Qing Dynasty, Jiangnan Province had a vast territory and heavy government affairs. In order to better rule such a large place (in the early Qing Dynasty, internal and external troubles, political instability, and fear of turmoil in such a large place in Jiangnan), Emperor Shunzhi divided Jiangnan Province into Jiangnan You and Jiangnan Left, when Emperor Kangxi arrived, Jiangnan Right was changed to Jiangsu Province, Jiangnan Left was changed to Anhui Province, Jiangsu took the first characters of Jiangning and Suzhou, and Anhui took the first characters of Anqing and Huizhou.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the taxes and taxes of the Jiangnan province accounted for one-third of the country’s total, and in each scientific examination, the number of people on the list in the Jiangnan province accounted for nearly half of the country’s total, so there is a saying that “half of the world’s talents come from Jiangnan” .

That is to say, Jiangnan is big, rich, and talented, so it's a good place.

The above is from Baidu.

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