In the second year of the reign of King Ding, on the tenth day of the seventh month, in Suwandu, Chenghai County.

Zhu Heji was sitting in a rickety open-top four-wheeled carriage, frowning, and not knowing what he was thinking. In the carriage, there were only two women, Da Boling and Qiu Shuzhen, and a woman who was eighty-nine years old.

Qiu Shuzhen looked very excited and looked around at the scenery beside the official road. Dabo Ling borrowed the fat boy named Yixin, the son of Zhu Heji and Qiu Shuzhen, to play with. She

In fact, I was about to become a mother. After Zhu Heji worked harder and harder to hold hands, the hard work finally paid off, and I was diagnosed with Ximai in May.

It was precisely because Qiu Shuzhen was bringing her child and Da Boling was diagnosed with Ximai that Zhu Heji thought of getting this four-wheeled carriage.

The reason why he took the pregnant Da Bo Ling and the child-rearing Qiu Shuzhen all the way to Chaozhou was mainly because when he met Zheng Jing, he could stop by Zhucuo Village, Suwandu, Chenghai County to pay homage to his ancestors——

Pay homage to Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Zhu family in Chaozhou!

Well, some of Zhu Yuanzhang’s descendants are now Chaozhou people!

But this is also the need to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

It turns out that after Zhu Heji took control of Guangzhou, people claiming to be Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants came to seek refuge from time to time. Although most of them were fake, some were genuine.

For example, a group of bearded people came from Xinning County and Yangjiang County. The "average beard length per capita" is more than one foot, and they are also one size larger than the ordinary Cantonese. They can also speak with an accent of Nanyang, Henan, and they speak like "Zhongzhong"

"When Zhu Heji saw them, they knew they must be relatives without looking up their genealogy.

The Heavenly King Zhu had long told him that there were "ten men and nine beards" in the Tang family, and all of them were relatively big and had bad tempers... Emperor Longwu was a big bearded man with a hot temper.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, when he was the king of Tang Dynasty, he actually beat to death an uncle who was suspected of poisoning his father with a stick, and seriously injured another uncle.

Later, in August of that year, the Qing army invaded the pass and burned and killed him. The fiery-tempered king of the Tang Dynasty secretly recruited troops and led 3,000 troops to the north when Shangshu was not allowed to ask Qin Wang. Later, he was ordered by Chongzhen to return, and encountered another enemy on the way.

When they arrived at the Peasant Rebellion Army, they won a random fight. There were many bearded eldest sons of the Tang Dynasty among King Qin's army at that time. In fact, they didn't know how to fight at all. They just looked too fierce and frightened the peasant army on the opposite side.

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After recognizing these bearded relatives from Xinning and Yangjiang, more and more Zhu family members successfully recognized their relatives - when Guangzhou fell, there were more than 20 vassal kings, county princes, and Zhu family members in Guangzhou city.

There were countless generals and lieutenants. Even though many were killed by the Qing army, some still ran away. These people did not know how much hardship they suffered and how difficult their life was. When Zhu Heji was in Guangdong,

After the rule became stable, they came back one after another.

After recognizing these poor relatives, Zhu Heji was "not very righteous" and did not restore their titles and worldly positions, nor did he use the imperial government's finances to pay them salaries.

However, he still used a lot of money from selling perfume to distribute to these "poor relatives", and then gave them a good piece of land in Chaozhou - Chenghai Suwandu, which was originally one of the Chaozhou Five Tigers

, Xu Long, who was later captured by the Qing court and sent to Beijing to become a Manchu, and his clan's property were all given to these poor relatives. Qiu Hui and Da Boling's clansmen were also asked to help take care of this group of Zhu family members who were in trouble.

These Zhu family members can take root in Chaozhou as soon as possible and then spread their branches.

The reason why Zhu Heji arranged his distant relatives in this way was not because he was really reluctant to part with the money.

After all, after the chaos in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there are not many Zhu family members who can still find Zhu Heji. Moreover, under Zhu Heji's management, the finances of the Guangdong imperial court are quite generous. I really want to treat these people like pigs again.

It's nothing to raise.

But the lesson of the Zhu family’s descendants being slaughtered like pigs and sheep in the late Ming Dynasty is still vivid in our minds. How could Zhu Heji repeat the same mistake?

Therefore, Zhu Heji will no longer let the descendants of the Zhu family, including his own descendants, be "pigs"... Of course, he will not let the descendants of the Zhu family do things that are too incompatible with his abilities.

Of course, he would try his best to promote and re-employ the descendants of the Zhu family who were indeed capable. And for the Zhu family who were young and could still be trained, he would also provide money to run schools for them. But for those Zhus who had no ability and could only live a casual life.

Sorry, family, their mission is to go back to the countryside of Chaozhou to take root!

There are two main reasons for this arrangement.

First, Zhu Heji started his career in Chaozhou, and there were many Chaozhou people. Chaozhou people treat Zhu Heji just like Fengyang people treat Zhu Yuanzhang!

However, Chaozhou people like to stick together with fellow villagers and are relatively exclusive. However, Zhu Heji was not born and raised in Chaozhou. His ancestral home is Fengyang, his ancestors were sealed in Nanyang, and he was born in Wen'an City, Xinning County, Guangzhou.

Therefore, Zhu Heji has always been worried that when he gets further and further away from Chaozhou in the future, he will be regarded as an outsider by the Chaozhou hero group.

Therefore, he wanted to take root in Chaozhou by creating the Zhu clan in Chaozhou.

Another reason for arranging for the Zhu family to take root in Chaozhou is that Zhu Heji learned the lesson of the Ming Dynasty's clan's success in driving high and moving low, and wanted to explore a path that could truly allow the clan and royal family to thrive... In his opinion

, the royal family who cannot support themselves and eventually become a heavy burden on the country will not end well in the end.

The ones that can really develop and exist for a long time are the royal clans that can make a living and take root among the people, and are not much different from ordinary people.

In addition, Zhu Heji did not want the families of the heroes of the Ming Dynasty to develop into parasite families like the "Rongguofu" and "Ningguofu" in the future, and he also did not want them to become trash like the children of the Eight Banners in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, the era of military aristocrats conquering the world has passed... Now is the era of muskets, artillery, and grenades dominating the battlefield, let alone the future.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Therefore, Zhu Heji hopes that under the demonstration effect of the Zhu Ming royal family, the future families of the heroes of the Ming Dynasty can gain more earthly qi.

But now that he was about to meet his poor relatives, Zhu Heji was a little unsure...don't let his "loved relatives and friends" put him in trouble!

Just when Zhu Heji was a little worried, the team of carriages and horses saw several large-scale enclosed buildings in Zhucuo Village that relied on each other and gathered together. This Zhucuo Village was originally called Xucuo Village, a city in Chenghai.

The former home of the wealthy Xu family. Xu Long, the patriarch of the Xu family, was originally a powerful figure in Chaozhou. He also helped the Manchus resist Zheng Chenggong and was awarded the title of General Soldier.

But this kind of family still did not escape the blow of coastal relocation. Xu Long himself and his family were moved to Beijing to become Manchus, and his clan was moved to Chengxiang County in the northern mountainous area of ​​Chaozhou where Hakkas gather...

...Throwing a Chaozhou family into a group of Hakka clans, I really don’t know what Man Qing’an is thinking!

There is also a circle of earthen walls outside the large buildings. Outside the earthen wall is a "village protection river" that has been filled with water and turned into a small canal. There is a suspension bridge on the "village protection river" that has been put in place for a long time.

Come down.

On the outside of the suspension bridge, there were already a large number of men wearing cross-collar commoners, scarves on their heads, and long swords hanging from their waists waiting neatly. There were also men performing lion dances and beating gongs and drums. They were also waiting for a long time. There were huge bunches of firecrackers.

Hanging on the fork pole, the thick incense heads were held in the hands of several men wearing "Confucius clothes", waiting to be lit.

Zheng Jing and Chen Yonghua, who were preparing to meet Zhu Heji in Zhucuo Village, had already arrived. Under the escort of a group of soldiers in military uniforms, they were also standing outside the suspension bridge to greet the arrival of Prince Ding Zhu Heji.

When Zhu Heji's chariot and horse team approached, a man who looked a little bit like the King of Heaven Zhu immediately gave an order. The gongs and drums were beaten, firecrackers exploded, and lions danced. People waiting at the door were waiting.
Chapter completed!