Shaoxing City is located in the north-central part of Zhejiang Province, east of Ningbo Prefecture, south of Taizhou and Jinhua County, west of Hangzhou Prefecture, north of Qiantang County and Jiaxing County, known as "the state of cultural relics, the land of fish and rice".

Shaoxing in the Xia Dynasty was the center of the Yue Kingdom, and the Qin Dynasty was called Jijun, and the Jin Dynasty was changed to Huiji. After the Sui Dynasty, alternately called Huiji County or Yuezhou, to the Southern Song Dynasty, Gaozong Zhao constructed the meaning of "Shao Yishi's Hongxiu, Xing a hundred years of Pixu", in the fifth year of Jianyan (1131) changed the Yuan Shaoxing, Shengyue Prefecture for Shaoxing Mansion, is the origin of the name of Shaoxing.

The Yuan Dynasty was set as Shaoxing Road, and the Shaoxing Mansion was restored during the Yuan Shun Emperor, and the Ming Dynasty followed.

As a famous land of fish and rice, Shaoxing's ceramics and paper industry, silk fabrics have been famous since the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the pharmaceutical industry and winemaking industry in the Song Dynasty are more famous.

In recent years, a number of wine-making and sauce garden workshops have appeared in Shaoxing Prefecture, and the annual output of rice wine has reached about 40,000 tons, and bean curd and silk tea are exported to Europe.

Shaoxing was the most brilliant in the Song Dynasty, it is one of the two major cities after Jinling, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it is still the most prosperous commercial and agricultural town, and the development of its handicraft industry has been extremely rapid in recent years, which has promoted a prosperous business.

Such a commercial city in the south of the Yangtze River is also one of the famous cultural centers, and Yanyu Shaoxing has given birth to Wang Xizhi, Xie An, Wang Xianzhi, Xie Daoyun, Lu You, Xie Lingyun, He Zhizhang, Wang Mian, Wang Yangming and other well-known historical celebrities and countless officials.

In addition, Shaoxing's most famous is the officialdom slang of "no Shao can not be a ya". In the Qing Dynasty, the office of the world's scribes was almost monopolized by the Shaoxing people, and the rise of the Shaoxing scribes and masters originated from the Ming Dynasty, and the comprehensive rise of the Shaoxing people originally originated in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Geng, who was born in Shanyin, Shaoxing, promoted many Shaoxing scribes. These scribes supported each other and formed the "Shaoxing Gang of Scribes".

Earlier in the Song Dynasty, officialdom in various places already liked to hire Shaoxing people as shogunate scribes, the biggest reason is that Shaoxing's literary style is blazing and there are many talents. Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains scholars have migrated and settled in batches, forming a moving situation of studious ambition, respecting teachers and choosing friends, reciting the sound of strings, and hearing each other in the house and up to the scholars. Down to Penghu, he is ashamed not to train his son with poetry and books.

There are many reasons for the formation of Shaoxing masters, one is to take the Ming Dynasty civil and military scholars as an example, there are as many as 560 people in Shaoxing, and under the influence of such a literary style, Shaoxing people generally have a higher cultural literacy.

Second, the population is constantly increasing, and the arable land in Shaoxing cannot be carried, and all the land that can be cultivated has been planted with crops, even on the banks of the waterfront. There was almost no gap for those who could be cultivated, and the regional discrimination during the Hongwu Dynasty caused the people of Shaoxing to bear the heaviest taxes. In order to make a living, people set up thriving handicrafts and businesses.

Scholars, on the other hand, disdain to do business, and naturally move to promote their own strengths. The plan to go out to be a staff member is the Ming Dynasty's version of the tertiary industry.

The third is that the imperial examination is too difficult, and it is necessary to study to gain fame. It is the goal of generation after generation of Shaoxing people, the proportion of Shaoxing people in the early Ming Dynasty, accounting for more than 10 percent of the province, behind the astonishing figures, it means that the competition is fierce, Shaoxing people want to take the test to show talents, compared to other places is undoubtedly much more difficult.

Although the establishment of the ancient officialdom was very large, the official positions were limited, and even many jinshi had to wait for the appointment of officials at home.

A large number of scholars below the rank of the person could not cross the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination, and had to find another way, or seek fame, or survival, being a scribe is naturally the best choice, and then the scribe will be an official.

There are also some scholars who choose to seek wealth, become lawyers, or simply go into business.

Fourth, the ancients paid the most attention to a "voice", and Shaoxing people paid special attention to the kinship including hometown, blood, teacher, etc., and the Shaoxing halls all over the world provided a convenient platform for communication. The father dies and the son succeeds, the brother dies and the brother dies, and the children marry, so that the generations of Shaoxing masters are endless, coupled with the characteristics of Shaoxing people who are shrewd and capable, and are good at cases, and finally almost monopolize the industry, which can be called the uncrowned king of officialdom, rampant in the world, and is an indispensable class tool for the feudal dynasty to rule the people.

The master brought a master character, which was a popular title from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, probably in the Ming Dynasty, and the master was equivalent to half a master.

Before the Qing Dynasty, it was more called "shogunate", and later many generals and ministers also called themselves shogunate, so they extended the corresponding titles such as shogunate, shogunate, and shogunate, and their social status was extremely high.

In the Ming Dynasty, the status of the master gradually polarized, and low-level officials and wealthy families also hired the master, most of whom were called the old master and Xibin, and the master called the master's family Dong Weng, the east family, which seemed to be a traditional guest-host relationship, but in fact formed an employment relationship, which was equivalent to half a domestic servant.

Xu Wei, who is known as the first talented person in the Ming Dynasty, is a typical Shaoxing master. However, Xu Wei is a figure in the Jiaxing period and has not yet been born at this moment.

In the city of Shaoxing, the prefect Mo Chang met with Eunuch Yao, and after returning to the yamen, he immediately acted vigorously and quietly convened the county orders. In order to complete the task, he personally led officials at all levels, local leaders, county and township magistrates, matchmakers, and so on, to search door to door, making sure not to miss a beauty.

But soon alarmed the city inside and outside the city, some officials secretly spread the news, Shaoxing is the place where kinship is most valued, in a short period of time, a ten, ten to hundred, people with daughters have gotten the news.

In order to grab time, at this moment, it doesn't matter whether the man is good or ugly, and he doesn't ask whether the age or family background has money, as long as he can marry his daughter first, it is a blessing.

The most students in Shaoxing are students, and for a time Luoyang paper is expensive, and the readers who have not started a family have been robbed. Some people who got the news late were all choked, and later even the primary school students who passed by on the road looked good, no matter how old you are, they were directly pulled to the house to worship and marry.

Mo Zhifu didn't expect the people of Shaoxing to be so fierce, and they actually regarded the notice of the government as nothing, but the law didn't blame the public, and they couldn't arrest all the people, right? He didn't have the guts.

Mo Zhifu was very angry, except for the first unlucky county town where he went first, and selected more than a dozen girls with good looks, there were basically some crooked melons and cracked dates left in other places.

What's going on? There have been Shaoxing with talents and great beauties such as Xie Daoyun, and this time many people said that they offered seven or eight stunning colors? It's okay if you don't complete the task, I'm afraid that Eunuch Yao will blame him for intentional neglect.

Mo Zhifu frowned, and it was not impossible to find a stunning beauty under his rule, but he didn't worry about marrying when he came to the state, most of Xu's people had heads and faces, or they were not suitable for age, they were either too young or too big, and they must be between thirteen or fourteen years old and eighteen or nineteen years old.

reluctantly recruited hundreds of girls, and there were a lot of good-looking ones, but the result was either a small family, or they were ready to be cultivated as a cash cow, which was not pure, in short, Mo Zhifu was not satisfied.

Mo Zhifu thinks that the prince will not like beauties with only beauty? The palace can't tolerate smoke and flattery, so what's the use of sending 10,000 pampered beautiful palace maids? If you can't be a concubine, it's all in vain.

It's also this Mo Zhifu who thinks too much, and doesn't understand how the family flowers have the fragrance of wild flowers, the truth of Wang Ba's view of mung beans, and the hobbies of the God King in history are strange.

Mo Zhifu hopes to send a peerless beauty, and he must consider whether the family background of the stunning beauty can be his help in the future. Because the big guy sends a beautiful woman together, the prince will remember which green onion you are? And if you choose a family with an ordinary family background, you will not be able to become a concubine in a short period of time, in short, the knowledge here is great.

At this time, a very famous master in his house named Yuan Chengyu, who was about the same relative of Yuan Kong in Yunnan, said: "My lord, Duke Yao was ordered to choose a beautiful woman this time and serve the East Palace, this is a major event of the imperial court, and I dare not hide it." I have always known that Miss Xinrui, the granddaughter of Fang Xiaoru, is unparalleled in the country and is worthy of favor. Why don't you report by name, if you are lucky, you will also have the honor and favor? ”

Fang Xiaoru? Mo Zhifu frowned, that was the most disliked character of King Yan, half of the prime minister of the Jianwen Dynasty, although the saint did not condemn the Fang family, but he was also assigned to settle in Shaoxing, and the three generations of children and grandchildren were not allowed to go out.

Mo Zhifu slowly shook his head and said: "This mansion admires Lord Fang's virtuous name, isn't his granddaughter a talent?" It's really inconvenient to report. ”

Yuan Chengyu said with a smile: "Why did the adults excuse the Fang family? Do you have to cling to him and disobey the holy decree? Besides, the ready-made stunning color is not reported, and the flag mother is in vain, in order to prevaricate the difference? ”

Mo Zhifu's face changed color slightly, fortunately, the imperial court had already promised not to pursue Jianwen's old ministers, otherwise the master's joke might kill him.

The Fang family's fame is too great, how dare Mo Zhifu beat his family's idea? Especially his granddaughter has already promised someone, if she sacrifices someone, won't she be sprayed to death by the saliva of the world? Reduced to a street rat that everyone despises.

Master Yuan looked at Mo Zhifu and was silent, and said with disappointment: "Since the adults are unwilling, then tomorrow the next day they should look for someone with an identity, and then go to see Yao Gong, and then they will not be able to report this matter, and the adults will not be martyred!" After saying that, he arched his hand and left in a huff.

Mo Zhifu was still hesitating here, and was just about to speak, but the person said goodbye without saying goodbye, and suddenly had no idea. I thought that even if I let go and act according to him, I would be too ruthless in front of the Fang family, and I would still be Fang Xiaoru's protégé.

Besides, how can there be a reason to break up people's marriages? But once this guy really found someone with an identity and reported his name, this is good, first there is a disadvantage, and then there is a deliberate concealment, probably my official has also done it. (To be continued......)