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


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