Chapter 4 Li Dongyuan's family is rich

Fortunately, Li Dongyuan was born in a wealthy family. He was born into a wealthy and landlord family. If one had to choose two words to describe their family, it would be rich. Not ordinary rich people. When the ruler of the Dajin Kingdom first arrived, he wanted to find out who was rich in the local area, so he made a statistics. The result of the statistics was that the Li family was exposed. It turns out that the richest man is very rich. The low-key Li family. There are a lot of houses, and the unoccupied ones are rented out to hard-working white-collar workers; there are a lot of land, and the idle ones are used by farmers to grow cash crops, so the life of the Li family is very comfortable.

So what kind of business did the Li family do to make a fortune? The historical record seems to be very unclear. According to "Yuan Shi", their family has been so rich for a long time, and they have been the "Sheng family" of this place for many generations. However, someone also told a vivid supernatural story, saying that Li Dongyuan's ancestor was poor when he was young, and sat in the room to read at night, and then the Liaozhai-style story happened.It is a bit unreliable to say that he is reading a book, and a beautiful woman emerges from the basement on the west side of the room. If a person emerges from the ground, no matter how beautiful he looks, he will faint when he sees it Yes, this Li Dongyuan's grandfather not only didn't faint from fright, but also sat and chatted with this beautiful woman. Usually when chatting with beautiful women, he always asks where do you live?do what kind of work?The ancestor of Li Dongyuan was no exception, so he asked the girl: What kind of ghost are you?Which part does it belong to?The beauty listened, smiled sweetly, did not speak, picked up a pen, and wrote a line on the case table, which read: "Xu Shen is ashamed of Shuang Nan".

After finishing writing, he went back to the field. Looking at it this way, this beauty's temper is indeed quite weird, and she left before she could do anything. Later, the ancestor read the poem written by Du Fu and Du Zimei, and suddenly realized that what she wrote was that she was gold, and then dug wildly at the place where the beautiful woman disappeared, and finally dug out a bamboo basket笥), on which is pressed a stone, engraved on the stone: "Jin Yijian, given to Li Shi, Sun Yiyi, named later generations". This is a typical unreliable story of "the book has its own golden house", and what is even more unreliable is that it even predicted Li Dongyuan's future medical career, which is obviously a boring fabrication by scholars.But I think it also illustrates at least one problem, that is, the wealth of the Li family aroused speculation back then.

So, the question is raised again: Why is the Li family so rich? Now, let us thoroughly uncover this historical mystery! It turned out that Li Dongyuan's ancestor was the Generalissimo stationed at the border in the Song Dynasty!In his later years, Marshal Li was ordered to guard the border to prevent the invasion of Xixia. Now, Marshal Li's tomb has been found in Huangling County, Shaanxi Province. Li Dongyuan is the fourth grandson of Marshal Li.Now everyone understands that it is normal for a descendant of a marshal to have some money, but you, a descendant of a marshal of the Song Dynasty, now live under the jurisdiction of the Dajin Kingdom, which is always easy to cause trouble, so Li The family made up some stories similar to myths to distract the public's attention. This is a very clever approach. As a result, many people in later generations were deceived. Now, the truth of history has finally been revealed.