Chapter 6 The mob (1)

Author: Immortal Grass Bean Curd

Chapter 6 The mob (1)

fifteen days later

cold dew

Silver Moon Harbor

Eleven merchant ships appeared on the horizon and finally anchored in the harbor.

After nearly three months, the caravan heading to Jiaodong for trade finally returned.

"Master, it's time to get off the boat." Third uncle Wang Shu reminded from the side.

"Yes." Wang Taihao responded lightly, and then said to the two girls behind him: "Nujiao, Lan'er."

"My lord..." The girl Lan'er lowered her head and nestled into Wang Taihao's arms in front of Wang Nujiao.

"Cousin, is it really okay for us to buy so many armors?" Wang Nujiao on the side seemed to have looked away, turning a blind eye to the situation, and asked Wang Taihao seriously about business.

"What are you afraid of? I am the adopted son of King Jiaodong, and King Jiaodong will guarantee our Wang family. Besides, Wangjiazhuang is far away from Chang'an, and the court cannot control it." Holding the girl in his arms, Wang Taihao got off the boat with a smile.

I don't care that buying and selling armor without the permission of the court is a capital offense in the Han Dynasty.

While the two were discussing the purchase of armor, Wang Song and his servants began to count the goods.

"Let's go back to the village to rest first. We will hold a family meeting in a few days to discuss the results of this trade and the future development." Wang Taihao took the little girl Lan'er's hand and got into a carriage, heading towards Wangjiazhuang Manor.

go.

Wangjiazhuang is built on a small extended peninsula of the Liaodong Peninsula. It is surrounded by the sea on three sides: east, south and north. There is only a narrow passage in the west. On this narrow passage, there are also Juma, Arrow Tower, Watchtower and Stone Fort.

, trenches and other defensive facilities were used to defend against sneak attacks by the indigenous people in the northern mountains and forests (Wangjiazhuang called them "jian people"), and on the other hand to prevent rebellions by serfs and tenant farmers.

The entire southernmost part of Tashui County in the Liaodong Peninsula is under the control of Wangjiazhuang. There are no yeoman farmers here, only tenant farmers and serfs. There were originally yeoman farmers in several local villages, but they were all forced to sell their farmland to Wangjiazhuang at a low price during disaster years.

From then on, they became tenant farmers of Wangjiazhuang for generations, and all hunters, fishermen, craftsmen, etc. here were managed by Wangjiazhuang. Naturally, they did not need to pay taxes to the Han court, and all the fruits of their labor belonged to Wangjiazhuang.

These are the results of decades of hard work by Wang Kang, the founder of the Wang family.

Family discussions are the rules set by the ancestor Wang Kang. Unless there are special circumstances, they will be held once a year to clean up the current year's financial bills and discuss the next year's financial budget. All members of the family who are over 16 years old

, both men and women can participate. The first wife or son-in-law of a family member can also participate in the meeting with the consent of the head of the family.

Moreover, due to the influence of Wang Kang, the first head of the family, there is no Central Plains tradition of male superiority and female inferiority in Wangjiazhuang. Both men and women enjoy equal inheritance rights. For all descendants of the Wang family, men can marry their first wives and take concubines, and women can also take in husband-in-laws.

The status within the family only depends on whether you have the blood of the Wang family in your body, not whether you are a boy or a girl.

The Wang family calls this patriarchy. Within a family, only the head of the family is the most respected, and the gender of the head does not matter.

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five days later

The last two moments

Wangjiazhuang Assembly Hall

duang——duang——

The servants rang the bronze bell.

The adult descendants of the Wang family, as well as their wives and sons-in-law, who were taking a nap, woke up one after another, washed their faces, sobered up, and rushed towards the council hall on foot. They needed to arrive before the last four minutes.

About two-quarters of an hour later, most of the people had arrived.

The entire meeting hall is quite large and can accommodate more than a hundred people at the same time.

When everyone took their seats, it could be said that the lines were clearly divided. The people present were divided into three camps, namely the eldest brother Wang Liang's lineage, the second brother Wang Chong's lineage, and the third brother Wang Song's lineage. As for the fourth brother Wang Yue, because he had already married outside, so

Unable to come to attend the family meeting, the old grandmother sat next to the head of the family.

"The master of the house is here!"

When everyone was talking about it, Wang Taihao came late and apologized to everyone: "Taihao is late, I hope everyone will not blame him."

Squeak——

The door to the meeting hall was closed by the servants outside, and all the maids had already been driven out.

At this moment, Wang Taihao was sitting on the main seat minding his own business, taking a cup of hot tea to drink and scanning the people in the hall.

The people present were divided into three groups, namely:

[Da Fang: Wang Tairan (Wang Taihao’s younger brother)

Second house: Wang Chong (second uncle), Li Cuier (second aunt), Wang Taiyang (cousin), Zhang Xiuwan (Wang Taiyang’s first wife), Wang Roujing (cousin), Zhou Ming (Wang Roujing’s son-in-law)

Third bedroom: Wang Song (third uncle), Lu Yueling (third aunt), Wang Nujiao (cousin)]

Including the old grandmother and Wang Taihao, there were only twelve people in total, and it looked so desolate in this meeting hall that could accommodate more than a hundred people.

Since it was the first time for a family meeting to be held, the inexperienced Wang Taihao was very nervous.

"Do as I taught you before," the old grandmother reminded Wang Taihao.

"Yeah." Wang Taihao nodded. He felt a lot more relaxed with his grandmother sitting beside him. He immediately put down the teacup in his hand and was about to speak, but found that someone was missing, so he asked his third uncle Wang Song: "Third uncle, what are you doing?

Why didn’t Tyson come?”

The Tyson Wang Taihao is talking about is Wang Taisen, the son of his third uncle, and Wang Nujiao's half-brother. However, Wang Nujiao is Wang Song's legitimate daughter, and Wang Taisen is Wang Song's bastard, so relatively speaking, he is still Wang.

Nujiao's status is higher.

"A few serfs from Tianxuan were causing trouble. Tyson went over to deal with it. He won't be back until later." Wang Song knelt down on the mat and replied truthfully.

Tianxuan is a serf organization. The reason why such an organization came into being is because a few years ago, thousands of serfs made trouble at the same time and almost captured Wangjiazhuang. In the end, the third uncle Wang Song took a boat across the sea to Liaodong County and asked the county.

After Shou asked for help, the county lieutenant personally led the county soldiers to suppress the serfs, and Wangjiazhuang was able to survive. Afterwards, Wangjiazhuang had to contribute a large amount of wealth to the officials of Liaodong County in return.

After this incident, the ancestor Wang Kang divided the serfs, tenant farmers, craftsmen, fishermen, hawkers, and ordinary people under the jurisdiction of Wangjiazhuang into seven parts according to the Big Dipper, namely Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, and Yu

Heng, Kaiyang, and Yaoguang were governed by seven members of the Wang family respectively, and Wang Taisen was in charge of Tianxuan's serfs.

And every year, the serfs and tenant farmers of the Big Dipper compete with each other. Those who rank high will receive rewards, and those who rank low will be punished.

In this way, these people at the bottom can be divided, let them compete with each other, prevent them from uniting, and prevent Wangjiazhuang from facing the anger. In this way, the children of the Wang family can enjoy a comfortable life without any worries.

"Oh." After hearing his third uncle Wang Song's explanation, Wang Taihao responded, and then said to everyone: "In that case, let's start this year's discussion."

"Later, the third uncle will first report on the accounts and income of this trade, and then the second uncle will report on the various expenses and income of the village this year, and then Tairan will report on the deaths, births, and escapes of farmers in the Big Dipper this year. Finally,

…”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Before Wang Taihao finished speaking, the door of the meeting hall was knocked violently.

"Master, masters, Master Taison, he! Him!" the slave outside the door shouted very loudly, with a cry in his voice.

"I'll open the door." Zhou Ming, the son-in-law of the second room, knew that he had the lowest status among everyone present, so he consciously got up and went to open the door.

squeak--

"Lord!!!"

As soon as the door opened, several servants supported a young man covered in blood. This young man was about eighteen or nineteen years old. He was Wang Taisen, the concubine of his third uncle Wang Song.

"Sen'er!!!"

"elder brother!!!"

When Wang Song, Wang Nujiao and their daughter saw this situation, they quickly stood up and stepped forward.

"What's going on!? What's going on!?" Wang Song held the seriously injured concubine and asked the servants with anger in his eyes.

"Reporting to the master, yes, when Shaojun Taison went to appease the troubled serfs, he didn't expect that those serfs had already planned to surround him. Shaojun broke out of the siege and fled back to the village under the protection of our servants.

, but those servants have been killed by the rebellious serfs and tenant farmers!" The servant told the story in fear, for fear of being angered by his master.

"How could a few farmers hurt my Sen'er?" Wang Song continued to ask.

"Reply to the master, not a few, but hundreds!"

"What!?"

Everyone present, including Wang Taihao, was shocked. They did not expect that the matter would become so serious.
Chapter completed!