When resources are sufficient, humans can spread their branches very quickly.
In a big family like the Zhou family, which is not short of money, many men have wives, concubines, and children.
In just a few decades, the brothers were able to give birth to a large family of more than a hundred people.
The Zhou family has been inherited for nearly two hundred years. It can be imagined that the family is huge and has many branches scattered throughout Dakang.
At this time, the most important thing is the direct line of the clan, and the side branches will not be so important.
For example, Liu Bei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in his previous life was from a royal family. After generations of reductions, he became a commoner in Liu Bei's generation and was reduced to selling straw sandals to feed his family.
This is true for the royal family, let alone the Zhou family.
If Master Zhou is just one of the many branches of the Zhou family, the Zhou family in Bianjing may not even know about his existence, and Jin Feng won't have to worry so much when dealing with him again.
"This Master Zhou secretly controls the Jinchuan County Magistrate. He is also the target of my brother's secret observation in Jinchuan. He has been investigated clearly for a long time."
Qing Mulan smiled and said: "Don't worry, sir, the news is absolutely accurate."
"If he is just a side branch, how can he have so much energy to control a county magistrate?" Jin Feng asked.
"The person who supports County Magistrate Zhang is not Mr. Zhou, but his cousin Zhou Changlin from the county seat." Qing Mulan said.
"Zhou Changlin..."
Jin Feng felt like he had heard this name somewhere.
By the way, Tang Dongdong said back then that her enemy was Zhou Changlin from the county town!
"Is Zhou Changlin the largest cloth merchant in the county?" Jin Feng asked.
"Yes." Qing Mulan nodded: "Sir, did you listen to what Dongdong said?"
"Do you know Dongdong's identity?"
Jin Feng glanced at Qing Mulan in surprise.
"I didn't know it before, but now that I've found Zhou Changlin, I naturally know about the fight between the Zhou family and the Tang family."
Qing Mulan said with emotion: "I used to think that Dongdong's conversation and temperament were very good, but I didn't expect that there would be such a past event."
Tang Dongdong has been determined to be a more successful cloth merchant than his father since he was a child, so he has secretly learned relevant knowledge about the textile industry since he was a child.
But just like the difficulties faced by Qing Mulan, Dakang has too many restrictions on women.
Even though Tang Dongdong's father noticed her management talent at a very young age, he never allowed her to get involved in the family's textile workshop.
After his family fell into ruin, Tang Dongdong was trapped in the small Guanjiawan, just like a hidden dragon stranded in a shallow puddle, unable to display his great abilities.
Fortunately, she met Jin Feng.
Jin Feng wanted to be a business owner, while Tang Dongdong wanted to show off his ambitions, and the two hit it off.
After the textile factory got on track, Jin Feng basically ignored it and left it completely to Tang Dongdong.
Tang Dongdong did not disappoint Jin Feng. Since taking over the textile factory, he quickly managed the factory with hundreds of people in order.
It's not easy to meet a strong woman these days. Ever since Qing Mulan found out that Tang Dongdong was the director of a textile factory, she felt like a hero.
However, Tang Dongdong was very busy every day, and Qing Mulan was also very busy with training every day. The two of them never had many opportunities to communicate. At most, they only met occasionally at Jin Feng's house and nodded to each other.
It wasn't until this investigation of the Zhou family that involved the Tang family that Qing Mulan had a deeper understanding of Tang Dongdong.
"Instead of talking about Dongdong, let's continue talking about Zhou Changlin and Master Zhou."
Jin Feng brought back the topic.
"Zhou Changlin and Master Zhou's father are brothers, but he has a much better life than Master Zhou's father. He is the largest cloth merchant in Guangyuan County, and has also renewed his relationship with the Zhou family in Bianjing. It can be said that he is very skillful.
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Qing Mulan said: "It's interesting to say that Zhou Changlin is better than Master Zhou's father, but his three sons are not up to par. They are all playboys. Their knowledge, scheming, methods and other aspects are not as good as Master Zhou.
Jinchuan is an important kudzu producing area on Xichuan Road. In order to support County Magistrate Zhang, Zhou Changlin put a lot of thought into it, but he handed it over to Master Zhou and did not let his son interfere."
"This is too messy..."
Jin Feng scratched his head a little irritably.
He originally thought that Master Zhou was just a side branch of the Zhou family and could be dealt with at will, but now he knew that Zhou Changlin was standing behind Master Zhou.
The county town is equivalent to the prefecture-level city in later generations. Jinchuan County is under the jurisdiction of Guangyuan County, and Guangyuan County is under the jurisdiction of Xichuan Road.
Zhou Changlin can become the largest cloth merchant in a county. Although his power is not as great as that of the Zhou family in Bianjing, for the current Jin Feng, he is still a behemoth that cannot be provoked.
Otherwise Tang Dongdong would have attacked him long ago.
"Sir, you are worrying too much. In fact, the relationship between Zhou Changlin and Master Zhou is not good."
Qing Mulan said: "Zhou Changlin does not trust Master Zhou and only uses him as a tool to control County Magistrate Zhang. Except for the big sacrifice held by the Zhou family in Bianjing twelve years ago and requiring all clan members to be present, he usually does not give Master Zhou anything.
The opportunity to contact the Zhou family in Bianjing, and not even allowing Master Zhou to leave Jinchuan, is tantamount to strangling Master Zhou's channel to climb up.
Master Zhou himself understands this, so he has been looking for opportunities to break away from Zhou Changlin all these years, coveting your spinning wheel, and deliberately provoking the bandits because of this.
The most important industry of the Zhou family is textiles. If you give your spinning wheel to the Zhou family in Bianjing, the benefits the Zhou family can get from it... I can't imagine how big it will be.
Such a great contribution is enough for Master Zhou to get rid of Zhou Changlin and enter the Zhou family in Bianjing. He will definitely not tell Zhou Changlin.
In fact, over the years, Zhou Changlin has become more and more dissatisfied with Master Zhou. Now that you have a title, if you can find evidence that Master Zhou cultivated bandits, then even if you kill him, Zhou Changlin will not stand up for him."
"this……"
Jin Feng's eyes suddenly lit up.
It's not surprising that Qing Mulan knew about the bandits' provocation.
Qing Mulan has even found out about the Tang family, and you'll be damned if you don't know about it yet.
Jin Feng's mind started working rapidly.
Although many people know that there are officials behind large groups of bandits, this is an unspoken rule and there is no way to expose it.
Secretly colluding with and cultivating bandits. According to the laws of Dakang, he is guilty of the same crime as the bandits. The lightest case is that he will be sent to the vanguard camp, and the worst case is that he will implicate the nine tribes.
With the level of evil committed by the bandits in Tiegongshan, beheading would be a light matter once caught.
In fact, the Jinchuan County Government has been looking for Tiegoshan and several other groups of bandits, and the reward is not low. The head of an ordinary bandit is equivalent to half of the reward for killing a tiger, and the reward for big and small bosses is even higher. As for the bandit leader, the government has offered a reward of three hundred taels.
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But everyone knew what was going on, and no one would rather go to the mountains to kill tigers than actually take the heads of the bandits from Tin Can Mountain to the Yamen to collect the reward.
"Mu Lan, is this your speculation, or do you have accurate information?"