Hou Fangyu came out of the Kaifeng Prefectural Office, took a carriage, and returned to the Hou's house in the city.

The luxurious carriage passes through two five-chamber archways, with words such as "father and son Jinshi" and "loyalty, filial piety and morality" written on it, indicating the family's family.

Each of these arches describes the awesomeness of the Hou family. The "father and son Jinshi" refers to Hou Xun and his father Hou Zhipu, both Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty. "Loyalty, filial piety and political virtue" praises the Hou family's loyalty, filial piety, and virtuous officials, and has political achievements and virtue.

In addition, the Hou family was in his hometown of Shangqiu, and there were also seven or eight archways where Hou Xun and his brothers passed the imperial examination and won the Jinshi.

Thank God, if you can have one, you can be called a local prominent family. If you look at the Hou family, you will know that the Hou family is not easy to mess with.

However, although there are many archways in the Hou family, they have little virtue.

Let me first talk about Hou Xun, the big boss of Donglin, the Minister of Revenue in the Ming Dynasty. He has never done anything commendable in his life. The most well-known thing is that he promoted Zuo Liangyu.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Hou Xun chose to live in seclusion and did not serve in the Qing Dynasty. At first glance, it looked pretty good, but in fact it was probably not the case.

In the third year of Shunzhi, Hou Xun returned to Shangqiu and spent a lot of money to build the famous "Houfu South Garden" in his hometown. The garden is said to be beautiful, and Hou Xun was deeply drunk and said, "I didn't know that old man was coming."

This shows that Hou Xun, the Minister of Revenue, was not in vain. The court was destroyed, and the Hou family's wealth was still amazing. As a minister of the previous dynasty, he was so rich that he did not exploit the Qing Dynasty officials and even let him build gardens and enjoy them. This is not in common sense, and there is no problem.

You know, another big boss from Donglin, was too cold. Later, because he was biased towards the Ming Dynasty, he was repeatedly imprisoned and his family wealth was also torn aside.

When talking about Hou Fangyu, although there is a peach blossom fan to whitewash him, it cannot change the nature of his national scum.

There were many traitors in the Ming Dynasty, and they were stupid and bad, so Hou Fangyu could definitely rank first.

He first used his father Hou Xun and Zuo Liangyu's relationship to instigate Zuo Liangyu to rebel in the east, causing the collapse of the Hongguang court and easily destroyed by the Qing army.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Hou Fangyu did not reflect at all and devoted himself to the fight against the Qing Dynasty. Instead, he immediately knelt down, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and then participated in the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty. Thinking of becoming an official in the Qing Dynasty, he failed to pass the exam, which became a laughing stock.

Hou Fangyu was not willing to accept this, so he turned to offer advice to the Qing Governor Zhang Cunren, digging the Yellow River, flooding the Yuyuan Rebel Army, drowning more than 100,000 Rebel Army and millions of living creatures. In summary, there are four words "national scum".

In fact, even if he didn't offer his advice, the Qing army would dig a river. Zhang Cunren just claimed to the outside world that Hou Fangyu offered his advice and led hatred from the Qing army to Hou Fangyu.

As a result, the Qing court performed hypocritically and scolded Hou Fangyu, but instead of giving him an official position, he won the hearts of the people. However, this stupid and bad Hou Fangyu offered a plan and took the blame, but got nothing.

When traitors failed like this, it can be said that the traitors in the late Ming Dynasty were both stupid and bad.

At this time, the carriage passed through the archway and came to a large mansion. The servant in blue-clothed felt hat and capable hands and feet immediately held the reins of the horse, opened the car door, arranged his footsteps, and helped Master Hou get out of the car.

"Have everyone here?" Hou Fangyu asked the butler.

The butler nodded quickly, "Young master summoned me, whoever dared not come, I'm waiting in the flower hall."

Hou Fangyu nodded with satisfaction, and then, under the guidance of his servant, walked along the long corridor to the flower hall to meet the guests.

Along the way, the corridors passed by were carved beams and painted buildings, and each hollow window had different patterns and completely different styles.

On both sides of the corridor, the towers and lofts are connected, and rockery and ponds are accompanied by each view. Each scene costs a huge amount of money, and the simplicity reveals the identity of the rich man of the Hou family.

At this time, Hou Fangyu came all the way to the flower hall. Several merchants inside drank a few pots of tea, but they had no intention of being impatient.

The Hou family is a big family in Henan and a big boss in Donglin. If they offended the Hou family, it would be difficult to do business with merchants.

"Young Master is here!" the servant outside the door suddenly shouted loudly.

Several wealthy businessmen stood up and bowed to Hou Fangyu who was walking in, "Young Master Hou!"

Hou Fangyu waved his hand, walked to the central hall and sat down, and said to several merchants: "I know everyone is doing business with the Dengfeng Chitie, but from today on, I don't want another grain of rice and a spoonful of salt to enter Dengfeng."

The merchants looked at each other in the hearing, and the transaction with Dengfeng made everyone profit. After a sudden stop, the losses of various businesses and chambers of commerce would be huge.

An old man saluted and said, "Young Master Hou, why is this sudden refusal to do it? Besides, even if we don't sell it, Old Xier will sell it!"

Hou Fangyu glanced at the old man. It was from the Yangzhou Salt Merchants Association and said in a deep voice: "Old Xier has to warn them that they are not allowed to sell it to Dengfeng, otherwise they will not come to the south to purchase goods in the future."

These merchants are representatives of various business names or chambers of commerce in Henan. Although Hou Fangyu has a great influence, he is not Hou Xun after all, and he cannot order them.

Therefore, Hou Fangyu explained: "Everyone is a businessman from the Ming Dynasty. If you want to make money, you can't be short-sighted and need to consider the overall situation. I ask you to do this, not to say that you will not do this business, but to raise the prices of grain and salt to make everyone earn more. Selling grain and salt to Dengfeng now will only strengthen the red thieves, which will not benefit us and the court. If we raise the price, we can not only make more money, but also consume the red thieves, making them half-dead and surrender to us!"

When the merchants heard Hou Fangyu say this, they immediately understood that Hou Fangyu wanted to start a price and squeeze Dengfeng dry.

Gentlemen and merchants are incompatible with the bandits.

Because of the interests of the merchants, they traded with Dengfeng and earned money, but they were indeed afraid that they would raise the thief and would be detrimental to themselves.

Therefore, it is indeed a good note to increase the price and let Dengfeng spend more money to buy their goods.

The merchants laughed and said, "Young Master, this is really a brilliant plan to have the best of both worlds!"

Hou Fangyu smiled slightly, "If you let the news go out, no one is allowed to do business with the Chi Thief. In addition, some people will be sent to the four counties to spread the news, so that the people of the four counties and the hungry people who poured into the four counties know that the Chi Thief's food will be exhausted. Humph, then, it will be twenty taels and one stone, and they will all beg us!"

"I know!" Several businessmen saluted with smiles.

Hou Fangyu waved his hand and asked them to go back. After everyone left, Hou Fangyu smiled and made a lot of money this time. Then he went to Nanjing to be sober and redeem Miss Xiangjun.

Last year in Nanjing, Hou Fangyu met Li Xiangjun, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai River, and immediately became fascinated by the fact that he saw.

He wanted to redeem Li Xiangjun and buy it back as a concubine, but unfortunately he was very generous in Nanjing and spent a lot of money on his hands. His family sent someone to call him home, so Hou Fangyu had to leave Nanjing temporarily.

However, when he arrived in Henan, Mr. Hou always missed Miss Xiangjun.

Hou Fangyu thought of Li Xiangjun and felt restless. Suddenly, he saw a beautiful maid entering the door. His white skin and thin waist were immediately overjoyed.

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