As the saying goes: Wealth does not return to the hometown, such as brocade clothes at night. In other words, this person has become famous, if he does not return to his hometown to show off and glorify his ancestors, it is undoubtedly equivalent to walking at night in beautiful and expensive clothes, who knows?

Don't you see a certain real estate tycoon and a certain big name who acts in sketches, and when you return to your hometown to meet people, you will send a lot of cash? Today's people are still like this, let alone the ancients, and the etiquette of the ancients returning to their hometowns to worship their ancestors is much more complicated than in modern times, the higher the status, the more complex the etiquette, and the greater the pomp.

Xu Jin's current identity can not be said to be disrespectful, the marquis of three thousand stones, the court member of the three products, and the honor of the special Guanglu doctor and the prince Shaobao on his head, the key is that Xu Jin returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors and brought a lot of imperial gifts, which is even more amazing, for example, there is a Xuande furnace and a plaque of "Xu's ancestral hall" written by Emperor Jiajing's imperial pen.

The incense burner and plaque given by the emperor! Who dares to slack off?

The eighty-year-old patriarch personally led all the men of Xujia Village to burn incense and pray, bow three times and bow nine times, and performed full etiquette, and finally carefully invited the priceless Xuande furnace into the Xujia ancestral hall to worship, and the plaque of the imperial gift was also hung in a precious place.

When it is about to get dark, all the ritual processes are completed, but this is just an appetizer, and the day after tomorrow is the official day of ancestor worship, and the etiquette will be more cumbersome.

When Xu Jin returned to his residence, he was already tired and had a sore back, and Xu Kang's little guy was so sleepy that he fell asleep directly in the arms of Xu Fu at home, which made Xiaowan's heart ache.

It is said that the courtyard where Xu Jin and others live now is where the old mansion of the Xu family is located, but the old house has been demolished and rebuilt, and the area has expanded nearly ten times, and it is a courtyard-style mansion with three entrances and three exits. Of course, Xu Jin paid for the money to build the house out of his own pocket, and the construction started two years ago, and it was just completed at the end of last year. It really doesn't cost much to build a house in the countryside, and the total cost of such a big house of six or seven hundred square meters is not a thousand taels of silver.

However, it is not surprising that it only cost fifty taels of silver for Xu Jin to set up a store of hundreds of square meters in Shangrao County, and the house in the Ming Dynasty is really cheap, not fried to the sky like now.

Gossip is not mentioned, and it is said that on February 18, Xujia Village held a grand ancestor worship ceremony, and held a three-day flowing water banquet, anyone can come to eat, so the villagers of ten miles and eight townships have rushed to Xujia Village, the excitement can be imagined, and the Shangrao County Order, who received the news, also rushed to meet Xu Jin with a group of officials, and even the mountain chief, teachers, and scholars of Xinjiang Academy also came to visit.

This is amazing, Xu Deming, the old, has been so excited that his face is full of red light for days, but he feels that the limelight of his life is not as good as these few days, and he is pacing around with his head held high all day under the imperial plaque in front of the ancestral hall with crutches all day long.

The old patriarch Xu Deming is enjoying it, but Xu Jin is miserable, just looking forward to the end of everything soon, as the protagonist, the sacrifices and entertainment in the past few days have made him almost tired like a dog, and he can fall asleep almost as soon as he gets into bed every night.

Fortunately, after three days of flowing water seats, he finally slowly relaxed, Xu Jin can finally accompany his wife and children to live a few days of leisurely pastoral life, every day in the field to play, interest also took his son to the field to experience farming life, fishing, catching yellow eels, digging birds' nests, but Xu Kang, the little guy is very happy.

After living in the village for three days, on February 13, Xu Jin said goodbye to his clansmen and set off for Yugan County to attend the wedding of his second brother-in-law Xie Erjian.

After many years, the Xie family reunited again, and the mixed joys and sorrows will not be repeated, and said that on the first day of the first month of March, Xie Erjian and Cen Lan held a grand wedding, almost all the people in the town came to participate, and many local civil and military officials in Nanchang also came to congratulate, which was really not an ordinary lively.

After attending the wedding of Xie Erjian and Cen Lan, and living in Hongya Town for half a month, Xu Jin planned to leave for Beijing. Returning to Beijing in Yugan County is naturally the most comfortable and fast way to take the waterway, entering Poyang Lake, going down the Jiujiang River, and then going down the Yangtze River, you can reach Nanjing within a few days.

However, on March 15 of the fourth year of Jiajing, just as Xu Jin was about to leave, an urgent official letter was sent to Xu Jin from Hangzhou.

It turned out that it was the Westerners who came, to be precise, Clarke, the governor of the Portuguese Indian colony?? Cabul came in person, he came to negotiate with Xu Jin!

It is said that when Xu Jin left Manraka last year, he told Yu Dayou to take precautions and prepare for the counterattack of the Westerner fleet, and asked him to subdue and fear the Westerners first, and then let them pass through the Strait of Malacca and come to Daming to negotiate with him.

Xu Jin was full of confidence in Yu Dayou's ability, so he had expected that the Westerners would eventually compromise, and ran to Daming to negotiate peace with him, but the Westerners came a few months earlier than he expected, because it was only mid-March, and the southwest monsoon had just begun to blow.

Why did the Portuguese governor arrive in Hangzhou in mid-March?

It turned out that about two months after Xu Jin left Manraga last year, the governor of Kabul led a murderous fleet from the Indian Ocean to the outside of the royal city of Malacca, and launched a fierce attack without saying a word.

It's a pity that the governor of Kabul, known as the "great conqueror", met the opponent this time, and "Yu Long Qihu" was not in vain, the two sides fought fiercely for more than ten days, and finally Yu Dayou skillfully tricked the main force of the Western fleet into the city of the king of Malacca, and then gathered and annihilated, wiped out more than half of the opponent's troops in one fell swoop, and then, the Ming army took the initiative to kill out of the city to conduct a naval battle, the Westerners were defeated again, and even the ship of the governor of Kabul was captured by the Ming army.

In the end, Cabul had no choice but to admit defeat and sue for peace, and offered to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty. Since it was already mid to late August at that time, and the northeast monsoon was about to blow, Yu Dayou planned to wait for the southwest monsoon to blow next year before sending someone to escort Kabul to Daming to negotiate with Xu Jin, but Kabul did not want to waste more than half a year waiting for the monsoon, and strongly requested to go to Daming immediately.

Yu Dayou finally agreed, and at the beginning of September of the third year of Jiajing, the warships of the two Ming armies set off from the Strait of Malacca to Daming with a Western negotiation delegation headed by Kabul.

However, the ship turned to the monsoon in the middle of the line, under the blowing of the north wind, the ocean current began to flow from the northeast to the southwest, the two Ming warships were in difficulty, and finally could only stay in Luzon (the Philippines) for a few months, until the first month of the fourth year of Jiajing, the north wind weakened and set off again, and finally arrived in Guangzhou in mid-February, and then it took more than a month, a few days ago to arrive in Hangzhou, and it happened that the local officials in Hangzhou knew that Xu Jin was in Jiangxi, so they hurriedly sent an urgent report to inform Xu Jin.

To get back to the point, and said that after Xu Jin received an urgent report from Hangzhou, he could only cancel the plan to take the boat and rush back to Hangzhou by carriage.

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