Bachelor

Chapter 8
The yamen is not far away, only a mile or three streets away from where Sun Dan lives.In Sun Dan's impression, the street where the county government is located is called Yamenkou.

Sun Dan was walking in front, and he walked in a chic way, while the water catcher and the fourth yamen servant trotted all the way behind, looking like two long-term followers, which made Sun Dan feel a little funny.As long as this person is fearless, he will naturally have an indescribable bearing, and he will naturally feel at ease.The so-called people humiliate themselves first, and then they are humiliated by others.As a human being in the reincarnation, even if you can't live as freely and freely as in the previous life, you have to live in your own way, and you can't be humiliated by others.

"Going so fast, hurry up and reincarnate!" The fourth child kept muttering behind him.

Generally speaking, when officials arrest people, they usually shout five times and drink six times.But Sun Dan swaggered as he walked, as if he was going to a banquet.Pedestrians on the road saw it interestingly, and they all pointed and whispered.

Seeing being surrounded by people, the fourth child was annoyed, and couldn't help but look around viciously with round eyes.

Shui Tuotou, on the other hand, still nodded to the neighbors in the neighborhood one by one with a smile on his face, and occasionally said hello.

Sun Dan nodded secretly. This Shui Tuotou is an official post after all, but he is not modest and prudent, but rather a character. He has the temperament of an old-fashioned politician in the later generations. This person is not as simple as he looks on the surface.Such a person seems to be harmless to humans and animals, but there must be a way for him to be the head arrester of this county.If you want to hang out in this small place in the future, this person is worth making friends with.

However, the future will have to wait until this level is passed.Although I used the memory of later generations to fool these two people into saying that I was a member of the Sun family of the Marquis of Huichang, the magistrate will definitely find someone from the Marquis of Huichang's family to confront and review. Woolen cloth.If someone exposes it at that time, I'm afraid there will be big trouble.

However, when encountering such a thing, you can't just do nothing and just wait for death.

With a wry smile, Sun Dan almost sighed: I was worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth in my previous life. I loved learning since I was a child, respected my parents, and was diligent in doing things.After work, if you don't flatter yourself, don't bully you, a qualified civil servant, how can you have the bad luck of time travel?

Looking back, among the turbulent crowd behind her, Zhiniang's slender body was squeezed and disappeared from time to time.

Sun Dan saw her lips moving slightly, and her hands clasped together, not knowing what she was muttering.

Sun Dan is the matter of Huichang Hou's family, whether it is big or small.To put it mildly, it's just a laborer sent to the front line. Recently, Zouping has sent thousands of men to the Jiangnan front line.However, Zouping County is a large county in Jinan Prefecture, and it is a rich place for personal grounding.In the more than [-] years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the world has been peaceful, and the people of Zouping are not short of money, and most of them pay for their duties with money.The army is also willing to exploit cash from the local area in order to buy food and fodder locally in the south of the Yangtze River to recruit civilians.If things get worse, if Sun Dan is really a member of Huichang Marquis Sun's family, he would have enjoyed the policy of exempting rent and service.If he was arrested indiscriminately, it would be a provocation to the Sun family, which really angered the Hou family of Huichang, but things were not good.

When we came to the yamen, Mr. Zhang, the county magistrate, went out to inspect because of the previous sandstorm, but he was not in the yamen.Shui Tutou had no choice but to go to Zhangzhi County in person, and at the same time sent someone to Huichang Hou's Mansion to report the matter, asking them to send someone to confront him, and then placed Sun Dan in the county government's custody room.This matter cannot be completely listened to by Sun Dan. It is really necessary to invite the three parties together to make it clear.

Sitting in the signing room, Sun Dan took a deep breath, sorted out the thoughts in his mind, and felt much more at ease.

Speaking of the rich and famous families in the Ming Dynasty, there were quite a few noble families when they founded the country.For example, the Chang family, the Lan family, the Tang family, and the Qingtian Liu family.However, Zhu Yuanzhang slaughtered the heroes, and the heroes of the founding of the country from the dragon era were all gone, and many big families also disappeared in the long river of history.After the change of Tumubao, the nobles who accompanied Ming Yingzong's northern expedition were all killed and injured, and the aristocratic families at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty finally dispersed, and there was no one left.

However, the Housun family of Huichang was an exception.

Speaking of the largest family in the Ming Dynasty, in a sense, the Sun family is the most powerful one.

The prominence of the Sun family began in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, that is, Emperor Zhu Zhanji of Xuande.Emperor Xuande's empress, Empress Xiaogong, is from the Sun family in Zouping, Shandong.

That's right, the Housun family of Huichang is the so-called foreign relatives.

However, the Ming Dynasty strictly guarded against foreign relatives interfering in politics. According to the ancestral system, no matter whether it is a prince or a foreign relative, they must be raised by the state as pigs and not allowed to participate in politics.

But Empress Sun was deeply favored by Emperor Xuande, and she turned a blind eye to the Sun family's political career.

Emperor Xuande died there at the age of 37, and the successor to the throne was the seven-year-old Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, who was the initiator of the Tumubao Change.As the little emperor's biological mother, the Empress Dowager, Sun stayed with her in the Qianqing Palace.

The little emperor's uncle, Sun Jizong, the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Sun, also became an official of the Ming Dynasty and was named Huichanghou.

After the Tumubao Incident, Yingzong was captured by the Oirats.Under the leadership of the minister Yu Qian, Zhu Qiyu, the younger brother of Yingzong, came to the throne as Daizong, that is, Emperor Jingtai, and defeated the invading enemy for the first time.

Seeing that it was meaningless to continue kidnapping Yingzong, the Oirats released Yingzong in August 1450.

In the first month of the eighth year of Jingtai, Emperor Jingtai was critically ill.On the [-]th, Xu Youzhen, the deputy censor, led an army into Nangong at night, and supported Yingzong to seize the door and restore it.This is the "change of seizing the door", also known as "restoration of Nangong".

On the surface, the change of seizing the door was done by Xu Youzhen, but in private it was Sun Jizong's plan.

After Yingzong's restoration, Sun Jizong's uncle will naturally be reused.Sun Jizong was also promoted to be the chief assistant of the cabinet, to supervise the military affairs of the five army battalions and to be in charge of the military affairs of the rear army.In this way, Sun Jizong can be grasped as a military and political power, and he is well-deserved No. 1 in Ming Dynasty.

The Sun family of Zouping also took the opportunity to soar into the sky, and all the brothers of Sun Jizong became marquises, and more than [-] descendants of the Sun family became senior officials of the fifth rank or above.

Such a prominent family, even the heroes at the founding of the country, cannot be compared.

Not only that, relying on being a foreign relative, the Sun family is also domineering, and they dare to do anything that is daring.

After the restoration of Yingzong, the Sun family ran rampant in their hometown and embezzled a large number of official land.In its heyday, the family had tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land and thousands of servants.The fields at home are all over Shandong, Zhili and Henan.In later generations, there was another place in Tianjin called Huichang Houdi.

Embezzlement of official land was a serious crime in the Ming Dynasty, and official land was the emperor's body, so if he put his hand into the emperor's pocket, it was an unforgivable crime.At that time, the British Duke Zhang Mao and the Taiping Hou Zhang Jin, who were playing the emperor's idea together with Sun Jizong, were arrested by Jin Yiwei and imprisoned, and their homes were ransacked and exiled.As for the Sun family, the emperor only dismissed several of Sun Jizong's subordinates from their official positions, closed the case hastily, and then ignored them.After all, he was his uncle, so he really couldn't do anything.

From this incident, we can see the status of the Sun family in the emperor's mind.

It has been more than [-] years since Yingzong's reign, but in terms of relatives, the current emperor Zhengde can be regarded as a relative of the Sun family.Even though the Sun family's momentum has not been as good as before in the past few years, it is still the largest family in the country, and it cannot be provoked by a small magistrate of Zouping.

Moreover, the Sun family are all people who don't rub the sand in their eyes, and they have always been used to being overbearing.If you can climb up to Sun's house.Zouping County dared to drag Sun Dan to do hard labor, which was a provocation to the Sun family. Anyone who was the county magistrate would have to weigh it.

Now, the crux of the problem is how to fool the Changhou Sun's family into recognizing him as a poor relative.

In ancient times, the clan was the most important thing. Once the patriarch of a big family was prominent, no matter how far his relatives came to him, he was obliged to help.This is not a temporary obligation, nor is it a moral obligation, but has its deep socioeconomic background.

For example, if an ordinary farmer wants to gain a certain social status, he has to study and become an official.The road is long and arduous, requiring the efforts of several generations.First of all, the farmer needs to work hard and accumulate a certain amount of financial resources in order to support his children and grandchildren to study without production.

No matter in any era, studying off-the-job is a great consumption, and in many cases, the whole family needs to pay at the same time.Moreover, this effort may last for several generations.

Therefore, in ordinary people's minds, a person's promotion to a high official in his studies is not due to his own efforts. His success is closely related to the common ancestors of several generations.Therefore, as long as the same ancestors have the same surname, the successful people are obliged to help them when they need it.

Moreover, this kind of care and support is not meaningless, because no one can predict that his descendants will not be supported by the recipients.

As stated in "The 15th Year of Wanli", this economically powerful relationship has been sublimated into abstract morality.

But in essence, this is still an economically powerful relationship.

This is the clan in feudal society, the grassroots organization of the ruling class.

These materials were all in Sun Dan's mind, and he only remembered them all of a sudden.Speaking of which, Sun Dan's father is really a collateral lineage of Huichang Hou Sun's family, but after so many generations, this blood relationship has faded a lot.His father's name was also not included in the Sun family tree.

Anyway, everyone's surname is Sun, and they are related by blood. Although they are separated by a little distance, they are still a family, so it cannot be faked.

I just don't know whether the Sun family of the Marquis of Huichang is willing to recognize himself as a poor distant relative.

Whether they recognize it or not is another matter, but it's not Sun Dan's standard to do nothing.So, he decided to take a chance.

(End of this chapter)