Chapter 887 0882 [Governor Wei knows how to divide and provoke]
Great clans and great clans are also different.
The Chen family in Jiangzhou takes care of everything in the clan.
Although the clan members have to hand over their income, they can also keep part of it, and the remaining money is distributed by the family.
There is no need to worry about birth, old age, illness and death, and there is no need to worry about food, housing, marriage. You can choose to study and become an official, you can choose to trade and do business, or hold various positions within the clan.
When encountering three disasters and six diseases, the family immediately comes to help.
As for the Hu family in Hualin, their management was more relaxed and they encouraged people to spread their branches. Officials often moved to other places.
Separation of families within the clan is also allowed.
But each family is also controlled by the family. They also have family property and relief funds, and they will also help the tribesmen tide over difficulties.
The above two families all belong to "Yimen"
The third stop is Jianchang.
The next Leitang Hong family did not engage in the "Yimen" business model.
There are family assets, but not much.
There is relief money, but it is not sufficient and the scope of relief is even smaller.
A large family has been divided into several branches, each with its own clan leader. There are connections with each other, but there are also conflicts, and even occasional land disputes.
Under each sect branch, it is divided into many small sects and small households.
There are even those who are not doing well enough and have become tenant farmers, having to farm the land of wealthy members of their own clan.
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The location of the Hong family in Leitang is sandwiched between the Chen family and the Hu family.
Moreover, the Hong family has conflicts with the Chen family.
Jianchang County is the home base of the Hong family, but the Chen family has been annexing and expanding in Jianchang.
Zhang Liangyou and many scholars followed the governor and killed them in a mighty manner.
There are three to four thousand scholars, and about two thousand people signed up.
They were extremely excited at the moment, as if they had been practicing hard in the mountains for ten years and then suddenly came down with their swords to slay demons.
The fleet had just arrived at Pingting Town and had not yet arrived at Jianchang County. The heads of several clans of the Hong family were already waiting outside the town.
Wei Liangchen passed by here when he went to deal with the Hu family.
A few days have passed, and word has spread about what happened to Chen in Jiangzhou.
"Old man xxx pays homage to the governor!" Several clan leaders bowed in unison.
Wei Liangchen asked: "Who is the head of the Hong family?"
An old man took half a step forward: "Old man Hong Xu."
Wei Liangchen asked: "Do you know about the Chen family in Jiangzhou?"
Hong Xu replied: "I have heard a little bit about it."
Wei Liangchen asked: "What do you, the Hong family, think?"
Hong Xu said: "The Hong family will definitely cooperate with the government to acquire land. If the governor is short of manpower, the Hong family is willing to provide a hundred literate young people to accompany him."
Are you giving in now?
Wei Liangchen felt so boring.
He had just started to exert his efforts and only managed two families, but the third family was actually frightened.
Actually, it would be abnormal not to be scared.
The Leitang Hong clan started its fortune later, far behind Yimen Chen and Yimen Hu. Moreover, being sandwiched between these two Yimen, there was not much room for mergers and expansions.
The two bigger ones next to them were all subdued, but the smaller one in the middle still dared to jump?
Wei Liangchen's mood became cheerful and he directly talked about personal matters: "When I was young, I heard about it. I heard that there was a scholar in Leitang, called Hong Shimin. He had five sons, one of whom died young, and four of whom were Jinshi. They were called the Four. Britain."
Hong Xu replied: "That is my uncle, who has been dead for many years. The four Yings are all my cousins, and the last Ying also died of illness last year."
"What a pity." Wei Liangchen sighed.
Hong Shimin was Huang Tingjian's brother-in-law. The Hong family owned a Leitang Academy, where Huang Tingjian gave lectures all year round.
Because Huang Tingjian was in charge, Leitang Academy was one of the best in Jiangxi at that time.
Later, it was implicated in the party struggle, and then Yuanyou was banned. Leitang Academy gradually declined. Currently, there are only two to three hundred students, and most of them are children of the Hong family.
The Leitang Hong family is continuing to decline.
Hong Xu led Wei Liangchen to the academy, chatting all the way without talking about serious matters.
While chatting, Wei Liangchen asked: "Poyang Hong family, are we still close to you?"
Hong Xu replied: "Although the two ethnic groups share the same ancestry, there are so many Hong families in Jiangxi that they don't have much connection."
Wei Liangchen said: "Write a letter to the Hong family in Poyang and say that the Hong family in Leitang is willing to cooperate with the landowners. In two days, I will send officials and scholars to Poyang to clear the landownership."
"I will definitely write and tell you." Hong Xu agreed quickly.
The Hong family in Poyang currently has a Hong Hao, who serves as the Right Shaoqing of Dali Temple and is on an envoy to the Western Regions to contact Yelu Dashi.
Hong Hao was known as "Su Wu of the Southern Song Dynasty". Because of his tough attitude, he was detained by the Jin Kingdom for fifteen years.
Hong Hao also had a son, Hong Shi. When he was 13 years old, he was attacked by mountains and seas. He fled with his elderly grandmother, sick mother, five brothers, and three sisters. He was dismissed from office by Qin Hui for many years. Later, during the great victory of Caishiji He performed meritorious service and became the prime minister during the Xiaozong period of Song Dynasty.
Wei Liangchen continued: "Your Majesty has a decree. If it were not the Yimen family, there would be no need to move so many people. As long as you, the Leitang Hong family, manage the land honestly and obey the imperial court, you can move one-fifth of the land. However, half of the Yimen family must be dismantled, and the remaining ones must be divided up and analyzed!"
"Your Majesty is wise!" Hong Xu was overjoyed.
"Yimen" is righteous, which is beneficial to local stability, especially in disaster years.
Therefore, it is politically correct whether from the perspective of Confucian morality or imperial rule.
The imperial court encouraged and rewarded this model, and big families imitated it one after another.
For example, Fan Zhongyan did this to the Fan family.
But Fan Zhongyan's righteous family is similar to the Hu family in Hualin, and not as perverted as the Chen family in Jiangzhou.
The Yimen model that was rewarded in the Song Dynasty is now suppressed by the Ming Dynasty!
Wei Liangchen said: "When you move, you decide for yourself who will go and who will stay. But remember, those who have little land will not move."
Hearing this, the smile on Hong Xu's face disappeared.
Many Hong clan members, due to their long bloodline, have become tenants or homesteaders. Hong Xu planned to move these people away, but Wei Liangchen actually had a plan to deal with it, leaving no loopholes for him to take advantage of.
This is forcing the Hong family to divide the family and farmland themselves!
It is impossible to pretend to divide the family, because the government will clear the land and then watch the wealthy families divide their families.
Once the family division is completed, the government will issue the land deeds, and all previous old land deeds will be invalidated.
The government clearly knows how many people and fields each family has. Based on the land and population, it determines which family meets the conditions for migration.
If the division of property is extremely thorough, there is no need to move. Will this happen?
possible.
But that definitely belongs to a ruthless person, which means giving away a large amount of land for free to down-and-out tribesmen, or even to tenants with a foreign surname, without leaving much for themselves.
If it can be achieved to this extent, the imperial court is happy to see its success.
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The heads of several major clan branches of the Leitang Hong clan sat together for a meeting to discuss.
"The imperial court is too cruel, forcing us to divide our family into pieces."
"Is it possible to give away the land to the tribesmen and tenants first, and then take it back after the storm has passed? Or when the land is donated, the family of the recipient of the land can write an IOU, and then use those IOUs to exchange for the land deed?"
"Are you a fool to be a government official?"
"Why can't you do this?"
"Whether it is land divided between families or land donated to foreigners, the land deed must be reissued by the government. How can those small households be willing to hand over the land deed after they have obtained it? They will definitely report it to the government at that time, even if they have an IOU.
It will also be judged invalid."
"It's more than that. Governor Wei is extremely cunning. Not only did he divide and disintegrate various clans, but now he wants to sow discord within the clan."
"Why can't I understand?"
"In the past, we were able to resist the government because the whole family was united. Once the family is divided and the property is divided, it becomes a mess. If you want to take back the land deed, the first person to object is not the government, but the tribesmen and foreign surnames who have obtained the land! When the time comes,
, it’s not that the Hong family worked together to suppress the foreign surname, but that the tribe and the foreign surname joined forces to resist the clan!"
"This guy surnamed Wei is indeed not a good person. Sooner or later he will be struck by lightning!"
"so what should I do now?"
"We can only try to separate the families as much as possible, but each branch must have land in its hands, otherwise it will be impossible to maintain it in the future. Move away those concubines who have children, maids who have children, and those who are uneducated and have bad behavior. But concubines
If the son born by your servant is good in learning, he must stay and take the imperial examination."
"Those who move must also have land in their name, which can be used to exchange land with those in Hunan. Are these lands handed over to the government?"
"What else can you do? The Chen family in Jiangzhou has surrendered, and you still want to fight against the imperial court?"
"It's too much to bully others! If the Supreme Emperor were in power, such a thing would definitely not happen. The Supreme Emperor is a benevolent king, and the current emperor is just..."
"Silence! Don't speak nonsense, or you may risk annihilation."
"..."
This group of old men discussed and discussed in the secret room and found that all the loopholes had been blocked by Wei Liangchen.
In the end, Hong Xu could only conclude helplessly: "We are nothing, and the Chen family in Jiangzhou has suffered heavy losses. The Chen family has to move away half of the clan, the Jiangzhou land has been replaced, and the family has to be divided. His family, the Chen family in Yimen, Jiangzhou
, from now on we can only be called the Chen family in Jiangzhou. We only need to move one-fifth of it, and the ancestral hall is in Jianchang, so we no longer have to be afraid of competing with the Chen family for land!"
"Yes, although we are miserable, the Chen family in Jiangzhou is even worse. Counting inside and outside, we still make a profit." This man knows how to settle accounts.
Hong Xu suddenly laughed out loud: "I heard that the head of the Chen family, as well as several clan elders, were taken to Nanchang and handed over to the Three Laws Division for trial. What they did made the court angry in the former Song Dynasty, and now they actually
Still not restrained.”
"Yes, there are many righteous sects in the world, but there are few such as the Chen family in Jiangzhou."
"Let's settle this matter quickly. There are still a few members of my Hong family who are serving as officials, so don't affect their promotions."
"As long as there are members of the clan who are still serving as officials, one day we can revitalize the family!"
"..."
Outside Leitang Academy.
Zhang Liangyou couldn't help but ask: "Governor Wei, the previous dynasty has always praised Yimen, why did the Ming Dynasty suppress Yimen? The students have this doubt in their minds, and I beg the Governor to enlighten me."
When he asked this question, the accompanying scholars looked over one after another, pricking up their ears and waiting to hear the answer.
Wei Liangchen smiled and said: "Everyone, come over and sit down where you are. Don't be afraid of getting your clothes dirty. As early as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court split up the migrating clans in Kaifeng Mansion, and many courtiers raised questions. Did you know that at that time, His Majesty
What was the answer?"
(I recommend Daoyi Geng’s new book "The Brilliant Chinese Year 1991". After reading this book today, Lao Wang decided to write about the city for the next one, and the beginning of the new book has been conceived.)
(I will post the link to Dao Yigeng’s new book later.)