Feng Xing
Character List
Updated as of November 28, 2020
FANG FAMILY
A literary family famous for their career as private advisors; residing in Yuyao.
- Fang Feng Sheng – female lead; her male persona is Fang Feng Fu
- Fang Yan – deceased; courtesy name, Fang Qi Zhi; Zhou Guang Rui’s advisor
Servants:
- Zhi Chun – one of Feng Sheng’s personal maidservants
- Zhi Qiu – one of Feng Sheng’s personal maidservants who was planted as a spy on Wang Yue’er’s side at the beginning of the story
- He mama – Feng Sheng’s nanny
- Uncle Yu – Fang family’s housekeeper; Fang Yan’s closes attendant
- Wang Er’s family – Feng Sheng’s dowry servants
- Dao Qi & Hu Si Niang – Uncle Yu’s friends from the jianghu that protected Feng Sheng in Yangzhou
Ancestral Home:
- Fang Cang – Feng Sheng’s Second Great Uncle
- Fang Mu Ran – Fang Cang’s son
- Liu-shi – Third Madam of the Fang ancestral home
IMPERIAL FAMILY
Ruling family of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
- Jianping Emperor – monarch of the Great Zhou dynasty
- Consort Li – fourth consort; Zong Yue’s mother who used to be a thin horse from Yangzhou
- Zong Yue – male lead; third prince
- Empress Chen – Jianping Emperor’s legitimate wife
- Zong Duo – the crown prince
- Prince Wu – second prince, son of a noble consort
Servants:
- De Wang – Zong Yue’s personal eunuch
- De Cai – Zong Yue’s personal aide for gathering intelligence
- Eunuch Huo – a palace eunuch the Jianping Emperor sent to Haizhou to assist FFS and FJC in implementing the new policy
- De Quan – chief steward of the Wei Prince Manor
- Dong Mei – head maid by Feng Sheng’s side in the Wei Prince Manor
SUN FAMILY
Feng Sheng’s in-law family at the start of the story. A family of scholars in decline; residing in Shaoxing.
- Old Madam – Second wife of Old Master Sun (deceased)
- Wang Yue’er – orphaned grandchild of Old Madam from her deceased youngest daughter
Eldest Branch:
- Sun Qing Bin – Eldest Master of the Sun family; born of the Sun family’s deceased first wife and raised as a wastrel by Old Madam
- Huang-shi – Eldest Madam
- Sun Wen Mao – Third Young Master
- Hu-shi – Third Young Madam
- Sun Ru Hua – Third Miss; concubine-born daughter
Second Branch:
- Sun Qing Hua – Second Master; Old Madam’s legitimate son; Shaoxing Prefectural Magistrate
- Song-shi – Second Madam
- Sun Wen Cheng – Fourth Young Master; Feng Sheng’s ex-husband; took the provincial exam
- Sun Ru Yi – Fourth Miss; Wen Cheng’s legitimate sister
Servants:
- Chun Zhi – Old Madam’s first-rank maid
- Zhou mama – a nanny by Old Madam’s side and one of her trusted confidantes
- Fei Cui – Sun Ru Yi’s personal maidservant
- Granny Wang – a granny who does rough work at Autumn Hall
- Xiao Tao – one of Feng Sheng’s servant girls in Autumn Hall
- Xiao Die – one of Feng Sheng’s servant girls in Autumn Hall
- Qian Er – a manservant of the Sun family who claimed to have an affair with Feng Sheng
YANGZHOU
A prefectural city known to be a place of luxury and corruption.
- Uncle Hou – Fang Yan’s sworn brother and Feng Sheng’s teacher; advisor to Lord Du
- Du Ming Liang – Yangzhou prefectural magistrate
- Zhou Guang Rui – deceased; a salt distribution commissioner convicted for embezzling salt tax
- Huang Jin Fu – Yangzhou salt merchant
- Ninth Concubine – Huang Jin Fu’s outside mistress
- Nineteen / Huang Ying’er – Ninth Concubine and Huang Jin Fu’s daughter
- He Lun – Salt Distribution Commissioner of the Liang Huai Salt Administration
- Wei Tong Xin – Vice Prefect of the Salt Distribution Commission
- Advisor Ma – He Lun’s private advisor
- Jiang Fu – head merchant in Yangzhou; top salt merchant in Liang Huai
- Chen Family Head – one of the top ten salt merchants in Liang Huai
- Lu Zi Yue – FJC’s best friend
TAIZHOU
A county-level city where FJC took office as the county magistrate.
- Fan Jin Chuan – Taizhou county magistrate; Feng Sheng’s master (as of the moment); courtesy name Zi Jin; a tanhua and previous Left Admonisher of the Left Secretariat of the Heir Apparent
- Xiao Qi – Jin Chuan’s page boy
- Hu Nan Chun – Jin Chuan’s predecessor
- Assistant Magistrate Liu – assistant magistrate at the Taizhou yamen
- Gou Qing – Inspector of the Military Inspectorate in Taizhou
- Bao-shi – Fan Jin Chuan’s mother
- Man’er – Fan Jin Chuan’s betrothed
CAPITAL
- Court Elder Song – Zhou Guang Rui and Fan Jin Chuan’s mentor
- Sun Cheng Zhang – Vice Minister of Revenue
HAIZHOU
A county-level city in Huaibei where Feng Sheng pioneered the solar evaporation method for salt-making.
- Second Assistant Zou – Second Assistant Salt Controller of the Haizhou Division in Huaibei
- Old Wang – old farmer who used to be a water circuit official that helped Feng Sheng with the solar evaporation method
- Old Man Ma & Ma Xiao Hu – grandfather and grandson pair who work with Feng Sheng in the Haizhou solar evaporation salterns
- Aunt Hu – second assistant Zou’s wife