August 15, Midyear Day.

The Midyear Festival was supposed to be a day of family reunion, but as early as a few days ago, Chongzhen sent an 'invitation' in his private name to the nobles who were on holiday with the Ming Dynasty.

This makes the second monk of the Xun relatives feel their buttocks, how can there be a banquet on the Midyear Festival, the Central Plains Festival is the day of the family reunion, what is Your Majesty going to do?

Besides, Your Majesty has always been frugal, and this is the first time that you have gathered the country's lords and relatives to have a banquet in the eighteen years of your reign, and Jiannu has just been destroyed, is it that Your Majesty is happy and wants me to wait to sing the praises of merit?

Well, it's not like, Your Majesty has always been thrifty (picking) thrifty, how can you be so kind?

On the day of the Midyear Festival, many nobles entered the palace with such thoughts.

There are really a lot of hereditary nobles in the Ming Dynasty and the country, but most of them are distributed in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, even if they have sent fast horses to pass on a few days ago, most of the fast horses are still on the road.

But Chongzhen just set the date on August 15, and it doesn't matter if you can't get it, you can just get it.

In the spacious Imperial Palace, Nanmu square tables have already been set up, and rows of Huangmen Gong'e are in and out with jade plates of delicacies.

"Old man, my brother hasn't seen you for a long time, are you still strong?" Taining waited for Chen Yanzuo to walk in front of the current Duke of Wei, Xu Yunjue, and said hello.

Before Chongzhen arrived, the Ming nobles in the hall began to talk, after all, everyone made a fortune in each other on weekdays, and they didn't see each other a few times a year.

"Brother Chen, it's really, I haven't seen you for more than a year, I heard that brother, you have made a lot of money in the tea business recently, what's the matter, don't you invite me to drink two cups when you go back?"

Xu Yunjue, the Duke of Wei, lived in Nanjing, and this time he happened to come to the capital to see his daughters and sons-in-law, and by the way, he chose a location for the new store.

The sons of the old Xu family are not angry, they only know how to drink and joke all day long, and their own industry has to be managed by Xu Yunjue himself.

"Compared with my grandfather, where can I put this bit of family property in my brother's hand on the table, stay at night, go to my brother's house at night, let's not get drunk!"

Taining Hou Zushang is a subordinate of the Xu family, and he also has business dealings.

"Grandpa, you are well-informed, and you are from your own family with Your Majesty, do you know which one Your Majesty is playing?"

As soon as the Marquis of Taining said this, the two tables on the side were not angry, if it was about qualifications and titles, Xu Yunjue, the Duke of Wei, was the best.

The Xu family has been a family of two princes since Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, both of whom are hereditary, and there has been a queen, if it is really calculated according to generation, even Chongzhen has to be called a cousin, and his status is not high.

"Alas, don't look at the old man's jokes, we have lived in Nanjing for a long time, and we can't see Your Majesty a few times a year, so we have already been divided, but this is the case, a few brothers have to ask the old man." As he spoke, Xu Yunjue looked at Zhou Kui, who was lying on the table and was about to fall asleep.

"That's right, if you talk about closeness, Jiading Bo is the leader among the relatives, Jiading Bo?" Taining Hou saw that Zhou Kui was sleeping and did not forgive.

In fact, Zhou Kui has never fallen asleep, but this guy is not very good at dealing with many nobles, he ...... I always feel that these guys don't have good intentions towards him, and they always speak in a weird way.

Let's take this Taining Hou as an example, the two of them originally opened a cloth village in the capital, Taining Hou took the road of small profits and quick turnover, and Zhou Guozhang always felt that this guy was deliberately targeting him and wanted to crush him.

Zhou Kui's family was poor when he was young, and his family was still poor when he was young, relying on a brick knife to support his family, until his daughter flew on the branch and became a phoenix, he could be regarded as living a good life.

Yes, he just thinks that these guys look down on him, but his son-in-law can't help but come when he summons him.

So he would rather be alone, thinking that after the banquet was over, he hurried home to count the money, the accounts of various shops in the middle of the year had just been completed, and he had earned more than 200,000 taels.

"We don't know, our daughter's elbows are now turned out, and you don't know, our son-in-law has now put our grandson in prison, how dare we touch that mold."

Zhou Guozhang spoke in a loud voice, not only the nobles around him, but even the eunuchs waiting around the hall listened to it sincerely.

The corners of the mouths of several eunuchs who knew the inside story twitched, thinking that Zhou Guozhang was too presumptuous, and said in their hearts that even if you are Guozhang, you can point fingers at the things that Lord Wansui wants to deal with?

But no one went up to persuade him to be cautious, and who would be happy with a thankless task?

Since the last time Zhou Kui was smashed by Liu Hong, this guy went to the palace to sue and was reprimanded by his daughter, he held back a fire, Liu Hong gradually he couldn't fight, but he annexed several grocery stores in the capital one after another.

Zhou Kui is a smart person, he can't fight ruthlessly, these powerless and powerless small traders can still be bullied, Ma Wu's family was forced to hang themselves, this matter caused trouble in Shuntianfu, but in the end they were suppressed by the top.

After all, he is His Majesty's father-in-law, who can do anything with him, even if Jiadingbo is shameless, the royal family still has face!

"It's useless to ask our family about this, you have to ask the Liu family boy, you tell them about it." Zhou Kui was too lazy to take care of this group of birdmen, his mind was now full of more than 200,000 taels of silver that he had received one after another, and he casually pointed to the sincerity of Liu Kongzhao, who was surrounded by a circle.

If it is said that few people remember the sincerity, but as soon as it is said that Liu Ji and Liu Bowen, the military advisor next to Zhu Chongba, who is like a god, it will be clear that this Liu Kongzhao is the sixth grandson of Liu Bowen.

Liu Bowen, a military strategist, politician, and writer in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, was a scheming and a meritorious figure of the Ming generation, but this guy doesn't know what he did, and his descendants are not on the right path.

For example, Liu Kongzhao, the last descendant, is in his thirties, and he still wanders around like his son and brother all day long.

He traveled back and forth between the capital and Nanjing's various noble families, and he was busier than Xu Yunjue's family, which was in full swing in business.

What are you busy with? Say matchmaking!

Yes, you read that right, this guy likes to talk about matchmaking.

The eldest son of the Huaining Hou Chang Yanling family and the youngest daughter of the Wuqing Hou Li Cunshan family, the youngest son of the Xinning Bo Tan Hongye family are the eldest daughter of the second brother of Shanbo Wang Daoyun, the Zhenyuan Hou family, the Dongning Bo family, and the Taikang Hou family......

Even the Duke of Qianguo, who is far away in Yunnan, has made several trips, and finally married Mu Tianbo's eldest daughter to the nephew of the British Duke Zhang Shize.

If Liu Bowen knows that his descendants have become matchmakers like Liu Kongzhao, it is estimated that the coffin board will not be able to hold it down.

Liu Kongzhao boasted that he was old enough to go down to earth, and told his relatives that the matchmakers were all going there in person, and they had traveled all the way to the point of madness.

But because of this, Liu Kongzhao knows a lot about the nobles in the court, and most of the nobles also like to talk to them, after all, no one has a wife and a marriage.

Liu Kongzhao was surrounded by a group of marquis and earls, some asked him to add dogs to himself, some asked this and that, and heard Wei Guogong and Guozhang Zhou Kui call him, and it took a lot of words to get rid of that group of old nobles.

"Your Majesty has arrived!" Before Liu Kongzhao reached Zhou Kui's table, there was a dead shout of a male duck.

The voice fell, and the nobles in the hall immediately stopped making a sound, and Chongzhen walked unhurriedly to the throne wearing a dragon robe and a black gauze winged crown.