The person who knocked on the stick has been found. Should I take Peng Fu up to take revenge?

Yang Cong looked carefully at the two strong men in black, and his heart suddenly stumbled. These two guys were full of fierce faces and muscle mass. Peng Fu was not necessarily their opponent!

Also, the Chen surnamed obviously wanted to incite himself to go up and beat him up. It was probably because he had planned it, and he might suffer a great loss when he brought someone up.

He is not the naughty man who knows nothing. He has been struggling in society for so many years in his previous life. He can see this scene at a glance.

This Chen surname should be a terrifying existence that he can't afford to offend, otherwise, people wouldn't dare to be so arrogant in Hui'an.

He thought for a while, stood up suddenly, as if he was about to pounce on him and beat someone up. Then Mr. Chen's eyes really lit up, and he showed a smile of a successful plan.

Unexpectedly, Yang Cong didn't rush over to beat someone, but bowed to the young men at the same table and said, "I'm a little dizzy, I won't be with everyone tonight."

After saying that, he turned around and walked downstairs.

Now, not only the rich young masters who were on the same table with him were stunned, but even the people on the table of Mr. Chen were stunned.

Rumor is that Yang Cong is not an irrational young man? Why is he so "rational" now?

At this time, Yang Cong was still a rich man who was a bit arrogant and a bit arrogant on the surface, but his thinking had become sophisticated and smart.

As the saying goes, "A hero will not suffer any loss in front of you." If someone clearly wants to deal with you, then you go over and clean up for others, that means you have a brain disease.

Of course, Yang Cong was not sick in his brain, so he chose to go home and make plans after he figured out what kind of identity Mr. Chen was.

Although he didn't know what the person surnamed Chen had at this time, he understood why the person surnamed Chen had to deal with him. This matter was related to a very important marriage, the marriage between the Yang family in Hui'an and the Zhang family in Dongling.

Dongling is just a township below Hui'an County, but the Zhang family in Dongling is the most famous family of officials in Hui'an and even Quanzhou today.

The Zhang family has been promoted to a family of officials for more than a hundred years. During this period, there were countless scholars and scholars. There were several county magistrates alone, such as Zhang Lun, Pingxiang County Magistrate, and Zhang Shen, the magistrate of Yingde County.

Of course, just a few juren who became county magistrates was not enough to become the most famous family of officials in Quanzhou, because there was not no one in Quanzhou who had passed the Jinshi, and in the Ming Dynasty, there were not only one or two Jinshis in Quanzhou.

The reason why the Zhang family was promoted to the most famous official family in Quanzhou was mainly because of Zhang Yue, the pillar of this generation.

Zhang Yue, whose courtesy name was Weiqiao, was born in the fifth year of Hongzhi. In the eighth year of Zhengde, he passed the first place in the provincial examination at the age of 20. In the twelfth year of Zhengde, he was a Jinshi in high school. After more than ten years of ups and downs in the officialdom, he was finally promoted to the right assistant censor of the Censorate in the 11th year of Jiajing!

Moreover, it is rumored that Zhang Yue was deeply appreciated by the current emperor and had a bright future. Therefore, the Zhang family in Dongling became the most famous official family in Hui'an and even Quanzhou.

The reason why Yang Cong didn't expect this marriage was that the hope for this matter was very small, so small that there was almost no.

Zhang Yue's daughter Zhang Zhen is the most talented woman in Hui'an and the most beautiful woman in Hui'an. It is rumored that Zhang Zhen is only 28 years old, and she is very good at fish and geese, and she is shy about flowers. She is good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. However, these seem to have nothing to do with him.

Their Yang family really wanted to marry the Zhang family, but the Zhang family was not happy.

When Zhang Yue was just a Jinshi in high school, the Yang family started to organize this marriage. Yang Cong was only a few years old at that time, but until now, the Zhang family has not nodded.

The reason why the Zhang family did not want to marry the Yang family was mainly because the identities of the two parties were too different.

These days, it was not the world of rich people, but the world of gentry. Although the hierarchy of the Ming Dynasty was not as strict as the Yuan Dynasty, the people were also divided into hierarchies.

The hierarchy system of scholars, peasants, industry and commerce that lasted for thousands of years was also popular in the Ming Dynasty. The gentry class was the highest, and the officials and families were even the leaders of the gentry class. They even exceeded the scope of the common people and were the ruling class between the royal family and the common people.

However, merchants are the lowest among the common people, because commercial transactions must rely on farmers and craftsmen to produce things to have a basis for transactions. In other words, without the previous farmers and craftsmen producing grain and various utensils, merchants have no basis for survival at all.

The ancient ruling class believed that if everyone went to do business, then everyone would have no food, no clothes to wear, no house to live in, and no utensils. Therefore, the ancient ruling class did not encourage people to do business, which is also the reason why merchants were ranked last.

Of course, merchants are not the lowest in the world, because there are untouchables under ordinary people, that is, people who are classified as lowly because of their ancestors' crimes. These people cannot even intermarry with ordinary people, cannot take the imperial examinations, and can only be regarded as untouchables for the rest of their lives.

The reason why merchants have a higher status than unforgivable people is that their ancestors did not commit unforgivable crimes. In the eyes of the gentry, there is actually not much difference between merchants and unrequited people. Therefore, the one with the surname Chen would call himself a unrequited person because his family was born as a merchant, and no matter how rich his family is, it would not change this fact.

Of course, merchants can change their status to a certain extent when they have money.

The most direct way for merchants to get rid of their low status is to take the imperial examination. Merchants can take the imperial examination. As long as they pass the imperial examination, they can also slowly become gentry.

Another way is to pay donations, that is, donate silver to the court. If the donation is about 100,000 taels, the court will praise a seventh-rank idle position. The donated official is also considered an official and has a similar treatment to ordinary officials. However, the donated official cannot be classified as a gentry class. In other words, after the person who received the donated official passed away, the rest of the family still has a merchant household registration or a half-untouchable.

Yang Cong's grandfather Yang Rong donated 100,000 taels and obtained the position of the Chief Secretary of the Guanglu Temple in Nanjing. He went from wealth to honor to an official position, gaining a certain status, thus ensuring that his own interests are not infringed.

However, this is only temporary. Once Yang Rong dies, the Yang family becomes an ordinary merchant again and becomes a half-untouchable who is bullied by gentry.

So, the Yang family thought of marriage.

If we can marry the Zhang family in Dongling, the Yang family will not have to worry about being bullied by the gentry, because the Zhang family in Dongling is the most famous official family in Quanzhou Prefecture today and the leader among the gentry.

In fact, this marriage was not thought of by the Yang family. In the century of independence of the Ming Dynasty, I don’t know how many merchants have gained social status through marriage with gentry and preserved their own property.

However, this kind of marriage is usually caused by a woman from a merchant family who marry into a gentry family and then accompany most of her property as a dowry, so as to obtain the protection of the gentry. Like the Yang family, it is a bit whimsical to marry a daughter of a fourth-rank official of the dynasty and obtain the corresponding status.

This is why Yang Cong didn't care much about this marriage, because this kind of thing was too difficult and there was almost no hope of success. So his grandfather Yang Rong had been to the Zhang family in Dongling for several days, but there was still no news.

In order to hang out with the big tree of the Zhang family, the Yang family has also put a lot of effort over the years. After Yang Rong won the donation, he has always been flattering Zhang Yue's father Zhang Shen. As a county magistrate who retired, Zhang Shen was not very easy to reject the favor of an official from Guanglu Temple in the current dynasty, so the two became "knowledge friends".

This time, Zhang Shen’s 60th birthday, Yang Rong even ran to the Zhang family in Dongling early, and handled it as a master, paying and working hard.

He just wanted to impress Zhang Shen with his "sincerity", let him let go, and agree to marry his granddaughter to his eldest grandson.

If Zhang Yue's career still did not improve at all, Yang Rong's unremitting efforts would really touch Zhang Shen.

Unfortunately, it was this year that Zhang Yue suddenly gained the appreciation of the emperor. He jumped from the seventh-rank censor of the Censorate to the Right Chief Censor of the Censorate, and he also got a job of tutoring Yunyang Prefecture.

This is a great deal to govern Yunyang Prefecture, because Yunyang is located at the junction of Huguang, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces. This Yunyang governor is equivalent to managing the military and political affairs of Huguang, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces. He has a very special status. Basically, after training in Yunyang Prefecture for three years, he will definitely be promoted. In other words, Zhang Yue will be the right deputy censor of the Censorate in the future, and a third-rank official in the court. He may even be promoted to the right censor of the Censorate in the Censorate in the future or the left censor of the Censorate in the future, and control the entire Censorate in the Censorate.

This is naturally a good thing for the Zhang family in Dongling, and a great thing, but it is not a good thing for the Yang family in Hui'an, because the Zhang family was not willing to marry the Zhang family in the past, and the Zhang family now makes the Yang family unable to afford it!

Of course, at the beginning, the Zhang family was not whimsical, because Zhang Yue had just passed the high school Jinshi and Yang Rong had just won the donation. The status gap between the two parties was not very big, so there was still a little hope for this marriage.

However, it’s different now. Zhang Yuedu is in the position of the right censor of the Censorate of the Censorate. It’s really unreliable for a merchant to marry him.

Yang Cong didn't understand why his grandfather had to continue to work hard to promote this marriage. In his opinion, there was no hope for this marriage.

He didn't know why Mr. Chen came to knock on his slap because of this.

Perhaps this young master Chen felt that his family was so successful that the Yang family always pestered the Zhang family, which was an insult to him, so he wanted to humiliate himself.

Perhaps this young master Chen felt that his family could not afford to rise, and the Yang family might be able to rise, so he had to deal with his potential enemy.

In short, this Mr. Chen came for this matter.

Yang Cong already understood the reason for this matter, but he still had no idea how to avenge this revenge.

At this moment, his grandfather was organizing a birthday celebration in the Zhang family in Dongling, and his parents were also busy with the Yang family's salt business outside, so they couldn't come back at all. How could he, a rich young man who had not yet started a family and started a business, take revenge?

Yang Cong sat in the carriage and thought about it. After about a quarter of an hour, the Yang family's mansion arrived. However, the carriage did not stop. Peng Fu and Hou Zhitan, who were rushing the carriage, greeted the guard, and the carriage went directly into the huge Yang's mansion from the side door. It was not until about half a minute later that it stopped in the courtyard of a large courtyard.

Although Yang Cong had some messy impressions in his mind, he was still a little shocked when he saw everything in front of him. The Yang family is really rich. A young master who has not yet married has a three-in-one mansion. This mansion covers more than ten acres of land!

Moreover, the treatment of the eldest young master of the Yang family is more than this. Not only is he accompanied by Fat Tiger and Skinny Monkey, but he also has two personal maids. There are as many as five or six old ladies who wash, cook and clean him.

Now they are in the front yard of the third courtyard, but Yang Cong is not living in the front yard. Peng Fu and Hou Zhitan live here, and Yang Cong lives in the second courtyard in the middle.

According to the rules of wealthy families, Peng Fu and Hou Zhitan would not enter the middle courtyard if they were fine. After getting off the carriage, they came to the gate of the middle courtyard and shouted twice: "Little Bear, Xiao Feng, the eldest young master is back."

Soon, a tall and strong girl with a simple appearance and a petite and delicate girl with a beautiful appearance ran out from inside. They skillfully took Yang Cong's arm from Peng Fu and said with concern:

"Master, what's wrong with you?"

"Master, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"

this?

Yang Cong thought for a while and said vaguely: "It's nothing, I just fell down accidentally and helped me to the bedroom."

In fact, he didn't feel anything abnormal in his body at this moment. He was just afraid that he would take the wrong path this night because his mind was messy. He really couldn't remember where the bedroom was. It would be better to pretend to be injured and let someone help him.

Upon hearing this, Xiaoxiong and Xiaofeng hurriedly helped him walk to the bedroom of the main house.

Fat tiger, thin monkey, little bear, and little phoenix, why do you feel like you have entered a zoo?

Fortunately, my bedroom is not an iron cage.

Yang Cong sat on the exquisite carved wooden bed, looking at the luxurious furniture around him and the cute and charming Xiaofeng in front of him, his heart was in a mess.

A mansion with a beautiful maid, a man who is rich and rich, looks very happy.

However, it is not easy for rich people to live at this time. In the Ming Dynasty, it was not that easy for ordinary merchants to keep their property, especially during the Jiajing period, under the leadership of Yan Song, corrupt officials at this time were notoriously terrifying.

Alas, let alone Yan Song, this is a playboy with unknown names that can make him feel extremely troubled.

How to avenge this revenge?
Chapter completed!