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.

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:

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

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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