Zhang Heizi rode his horse and walked on the official road leading to the west.

His heart also rose.

This time, he has been promoted to a hundred households!

Hundred households, hundreds of households!

This is a real sixth-rank official position in the court!

He is also an official!

Behind him were four new recruits.

After he became a hundred households, he naturally had soldiers.

This time, he rushed home.

After becoming a Baihu, he was proud for a long time. Suddenly he heard the news that He Maming and Zhang Tong had to take leave and go home.

Zhang Tong had a father-in-law who used to look down on him. Now that he has become a small flag, he will of course go back to Yue's house and let the people of Yue's family take a look, raise their eyebrows and exhale.

He Maming was beaten to death and didn't want to take the imperial examination, but his father insisted on forcing him to take the imperial examination. After several times, he did not even pass the exam, so he left home. Before leaving home, he left a note saying that he would be able to do his own thing outside before returning home. However, He Maming had been living for so many years but had not made any appearance. Now that he has become the chief banner, he thinks to return to his home that he had been away for twenty years.

After hearing the reasons why Zhang Tong and He Maming returned home, Zhang Heizi couldn't help but lit up his eyes. He was not looked down upon at home, but now he has been a household home. According to the words, what is it? Yes, is it a return home in a grand manner or a home in a grand manner? Let the people at home also have a good understanding of the majesty of our Zhang Da Baihu.

I guess they were beaten to death, but they couldn't think of themselves as a householder!

Secondly, Zhang Heizi's hometown is just an ordinary farmer, and he will be bullied by landlords and bullies in the countryside. He took the identity of a hundred households and went home, and who would dare to bully his family in the future? To put it bluntly, he would go home to support his parents even if he became a hundred households.

So, our Zhang Heizi and Zhang Dabaihu are now going home after taking leave.

The four new recruits who followed him were used to protect him. The world was too chaotic these days, with the chaos in the northwest, and the Qing Dynasty outside the pass, bandits from all over the country were infested, and it was really afraid of accidents when they went out alone. But now five people, five knives, normal bandits would not choose such a target and treat them as robbery.

Is it a horse? There are now 46 horses in Qingshandun. With the sake of the big and hundreds of households, it is naturally not difficult to borrow one.

Zhang Dabaihu was training four new recruits: "You guys, are you very envious to me now as a hundred family?"

Of course the four recruits nodded.

Zhang Heizi laughed: "Tell you a secret: follow He Touer, He Touer is the reincarnation of gods and Buddhas. Follow him and you will have blessings and you will be promoted and rich."

Well, if He Xuan was here, he would probably kick Zhang Heizi away again. This guy will promote the idea that He Xuan is the reincarnation of a god and a Buddha.

The group of five people traveled for a while and finally arrived at Zhang Heizi's hometown.

The Xia, Huatou Town under Liang County under the rule of Luliang Prefecture under the Western Province.

Huatou Town is just a small town.

Its specialty is a snack called Huatou. This snack does not have it outside. It is somewhat similar to cakes, but it is slightly different.

Zhang Heizi rode a horse and was proud.

The people next to them would see Zhang Heizi from time to time and muttered in a low voice: "Who is this person?"

"It seems like he is a military official, but he still has an official position."

"Then let some."

In this era, there is no emphasis on the relationship between the military and the civilians, and many people are afraid of the soldiers. Is there a reason? Isn’t there a saying: thieves pass by like combs, and soldiers pass by like combs. In the old days, bandits and bandits plunder the people were like combs, and they survived afterwards; officers and soldiers plundered the people as if they were combs with bamboo combs, and then robbed them all. It means that in the old days, officers and soldiers harmed the people more than thieves.

Not to mention that many officers who do not have the ability to kill thieves and tatars will kill good people and make achievements.

Zhang Heizi rode his horse proudly and slowly rushed to his home beside the town.

His family's population is not complicated.

Zhang’s father, Old Man Zhang, is in his fifties this year. Of course, his physical strength has not declined at all.

Zhang’s mother, Song, is in her fifties this year.

Zhang Heizi's second brother Zhang Gou'er, Zhang Gou'er is almost thirty this year, and she has a family and a daughter.

Zhang Heizi's third brother Zhang Zhuer, Zhang Zhuer is in his early twenties this year, and his family is poor and cannot afford to be married.

Zhang Heizi's fourth sister Zhang Qian and Zhang Heizi have three or four years of not going home. However, I remember four years ago, when I was about twelve years old, my sister was quite beautiful.

"Who are you?" Zhang Heizi was just dismissed and saw an overly beautiful girl asking in local dialect.

Although this girl had coarse clothes, her skin was quite white, like cream, and her melon-shaped face had a kind of beauty. For a moment, Zhang Heizi was a little stunned.

Zhang Heizi also skillfully said in local dialect: "I am Zhang Heizi, who are you? Can my third brother Zhang Zhuer ask for his wife?"

After hearing this, the girl with a surprisingly beautiful dress in coarse cloth looked at Zhang Heizi carefully: "Are you really a big brother? I am Zhang Qian."

"You are my sister. The little girl who was a little neat and didn't leave her nose everywhere, she looked like this?" Zhang Heizi was also surprised.

This made Zhang Qian both embarrassed and angry: "Is there anyone who is the eldest brother like this?"

"By the way, where is my parents?" Zhang Heizi asked.

"We've all gone out to do things. Now it's cold and there's no living in the field. My father goes up the mountain to chop firewood to sell it, so he can sell it for some money. My mother also goes with my father." Zhang Qian asked, "Brother, you look so majestic now. Could you become an official?"

"Of course, your brother, I am a hundred households! Have you heard that, hundred households! It's the sixth rank!" Zhang Heizi said proudly, waiting for his sister to express his admiration.

Although this town is indigenous, everyone has heard of the official positions of hundreds of households.

Zhang Qian directly widened her eyes: "Brother, are you serious? Have you become a hundred households? That's a high-ranking official, brother, you're not bragging, right?"

Zhang Heizi was waiting for this: "Do you think I look like bragging? You haven't seen that I have personal soldiers behind me." He pointed to the four new recruits beside him, and led these four new recruits. He was one to protect the safety, and the other to show off that he also had personal soldiers.

Then Zhang Qian believed it: "Brother, you have become a householder. I heard that it is very difficult to get promoted in the army. How can you do it?"

At night, everyone else in the family came back.

Then, everyone was shocked and Zhang Heizi actually became a household!

This is a sixth-rank official!

When they see a grain chief, they feel that they have met a very big official!

Now, it’s an official who is too big to be even bigger!

The Zhang family was shocked, and they couldn't believe it.

And Zhang Heizi became more and more proud.

"So, the people from the Fan family dare not make any decisions about our little sister." Zhang Zhu'er asked.

"What does the Fan family mean?" Zhang Heizi asked, "Can my sister be beautiful, so someone has come to make an idea?"

"Yes." Zhang's father, Old Man Zhang, nodded with a dry tobacco: "Fan Helin of the Fan family, I want to be your little sister as a concubine. Fan Helin is only in his thirties, but I heard that he likes *** and is attracted to the women who have been taken into the mansion. Many of them are killed by them. What should we do if we are worried about?"

"Fan Helin, Fan family." Zhang Heizi couldn't help but wiped his cold sweat from the end when he heard this.

In this era, there were mountains and western areas, and there were eight monster-level merchants.

The eight major masters are the Wang family, Jin family, Fan family, Wang family, Liang family, Tian family, Zhai family, and Huang family.

Their chiefs are Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang and Huang Yongfa.

These eight people are the famous Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants.

In the late Wanli period, after Nurhaci betrayed the Ming Dynasty and established the Later Jin regime in Liaodong, the foreign trade business of the Shanxi merchants suffered a severe blow. Faced with the attacks of the Later Jin, the Ming army was defeated repeatedly, so they used economic wars to impose an economic blockade on the Later Jin.

The situation at that time was that the Later Jin army captured the towns of the Ming Dynasty and plundered a large amount of gold and silver. However, these gold and silver that could not be eaten and drunk could not enhance the strength of the Later Jin regime, but instead, too much gold and silver caused inflation and weakened its strength.

Shanxi merchants who encountered problems in development saw the opportunity to make money. Shanxi merchants had various materials urgently needed by Houjin, and Houjin had a large number of gold and silver that were jealous of merchants. Therefore, the classic saying in "Das Kapital" - if there is 50% profit, they will take risks; if there is 100% profit, they will go crazy; if there is 200% profit, they will dare to trample on the principles of everything in the world - it becomes a reality. The two sides hit it off, and Shanxi merchants began to risk their lives, violated the ban of the Ming government, and smuggled food, gunpowder, metal, salt and other materials from Houjin. Among them, the eight most famous companies, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dayu, Wang Dengku, and Tian Shenglan.

Moreover, these Shanxi merchants not only smuggled materials, but also collected information from the Ming Dynasty for the Later Jin regime. Li Guangdou wrote in the article "How did the "Shen Shangs" in China's No. 1 merchant gang decline?": "In the late Ming Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty rose. In order to pursue greater profits, Shanxi merchants even engaged in the "interconnection with foreign countries". Historical records, the gunpowder of the Later Jin, 80% of the grain and more than 60% of the metal were all provided by the Shanxi merchants. Even the information from the capital of the capital was meticulous to the names of the generals, the number of soldiers and the fine equipment of each pass were also provided by the Shanxi merchants. It can be said that the Shanxi merchants made great contributions to subverting the late Ming regime."

The Later Jin army continued to bleed from the Ming Dynasty through war, and the Shanxi merchants continued to smuggle blood to the Later Jin regime. In the end, the Ming Dynasty collapsed under internal and external attacks. Therefore, Wen Jianping said in "The Shanxi merchants, the gravediggers of the Ming Dynasty": "If there was no financial resources of the Shanxi merchants, there would be no courage of the Qing army, and the Qing Dynasty would not be able to defeat the Ming Dynasty and seize the Han world. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Shanxi merchants were gravediggers of the Ming Dynasty."

These eight great masters of Shanxi merchants are all eight great masters who sell their country.

Because of their strong financial resources, the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi merchants were in the territory of the Ming Dynasty and had unimaginable power and power, which was not something that a single hundred household could afford.

Zhang Heizi's back couldn't help but get wet, but he still said with a force: "Don't worry, I'm a hundred households at least, and the Fan family will give me some face."

...

the next day.

Fan Helin's butler, a man named Fan Dafu, came.

This man is about fifty years old, fat, and his eyes narrowed. Occasionally, a tiny and cold air squinted in his eyes, which makes people feel terrible.

Four and five servants were beside him.

Fan Dafu walked to the door of the Zhang family and said arrogantly to the people in the Zhang family: "Our Second Master Fan wants to take your Zhang Qian as makeup. It is your family's luck. This is thirty taels of silver, which is the cost of buying a concubine in our Fan family."

Old man Zhang, Zhang Gou'er, Zhang Zhu'er and others from the Zhang family, as well as Zhang Qian, who is related to fate, all looked at Zhang Heizi.

Zhang Heizi gritted his teeth: "Butler Fan, my name is Zhang Heizi, Zhang Qian's elder brother. I am a hundred-rank family and a sixth-rank official in the court. Can you forget about this matter and sell me my face?"

"The sixth-rank official of the court?" Fan Dafu looked at Zhang Heizi and smiled, "Then he should be a little face. Let's do it. The cost of taking concubines has increased to 100 taels, don't say I don't give you face." He pulled out a silver note of 100 taels from his sleeve, threw it out directly, and threw it on the ground.

Fan Dafu actually wanted to laugh. What kind of power is their Fan family? It has something to do with many generals of the second-rank, third-rank, fourth-rank military officers, as well as civil servants of the second-rank, third-rank, and fourth-rank. When will a sixth-rank household dare to ask their Fan family to give face? It's ridiculous!

Zhang Heizi said: "The leader I followed is He Xuan and He Deputy Qianhu, who was personally named the world's number one general by the emperor. Please give me some face."

"What is that? To put it bluntly, he is just a deputy Qianhu. Besides, he is just your leader, and he may not necessarily stand out for you." Fan Dafu sneered: "This time, Zhang Qian, our second young master is going to make a decision."

Seeing how he gave in, Fan Dafu was reluctant to give face, and his fierceness in his bones was also aroused: "Beat, beat me. Let's see who dares to steal my sister."
To be continued...