Chapter 887 0882 [Governor Wei Knows How to Divide and Instigate]

Big families are not the same.

The Chen family in Jiangzhou takes care of everything in the family.

Although the family members have to hand in their income, they can keep a part of it, and the rest of the money will be distributed by the family.

There is no need to worry about birth, old age, illness and death, and no need to worry about food, shelter and marriage. You can choose to study and become an official, choose to trade and do business, or take up various positions in the family.

When encountering three disasters and six diseases, the family will immediately come to help.

The management of the Hu family in Hualin is more loose, encouraging the family members to branch out, and officials often move to other places.

The family division is also allowed.

But each family is also controlled by the family. They also have family property and relief funds, and will help the family members through difficulties.

The above two families are both "Yimen"

The third stop is Jianchang.

The next Leitang Hong family did not adopt the "Yimen" business model.

There is family property, but not much.

There is relief money, but it is not enough, and the scope of assistance is smaller.

A big family has been divided into several branches, each with its own patriarch. There are connections between them, but there are also conflicts, and even occasional land disputes.

Under each branch, there are many small families.

Some of them are even poor and have become tenants, and they have to rent the land of rich families in the same clan.

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The location of the Leitang Hong family is sandwiched between the Chen family and the Hu family.

Moreover, the Hong family and the Chen family have conflicts.

Jianchang County is the base camp of the Hong family, but the Chen family has been annexing and expanding in Jianchang.

Zhang Liangyou and many scholars followed the governor to kill.

There were about two thousand of the three or four thousand scholars who signed up.

They were extremely excited at the moment, as if they had practiced hard in the mountains for ten years and suddenly came down with a sword to kill demons.

The fleet had just arrived in Pingting Town, and had not yet arrived in Jianchang County. The clan leaders of several branches of the Hong family were waiting outside the town.

Wei Liangchen passed by here when he went to deal with the Hu family.

A few days later, the experience of the Jiangzhou Chen family had spread.

"I, xxx, pay my respects to the Governor!" Several clan leaders bowed in unison.

Wei Liangchen asked, "Who is the head of the Hong clan?"

An old man stepped forward: "I am Hong Xu."

Wei Liangchen asked, "Do you know about the Chen clan in Jiangzhou?"

Hong Xu replied, "I have heard a little bit about it."

Wei Liangchen asked, "What do you think of the Hong clan?"

Hong Xu said, "The government will measure the land, and the Hong clan will definitely cooperate. If the Governor is short of manpower, the Hong clan is willing to provide 100 literate young people to accompany him."

So you surrendered?

Wei Liangchen felt so bored.

He had just started to exert his strength and only dealt with two families, but the third family was actually scared.

Actually, it would be abnormal if they were not scared.

The Leitang Hong clan started to prosper later, far less than the Yimen Chen and Yimen Hu. Moreover, it was sandwiched between the two Yimens, and there was not much room for mergers and expansion.

The two larger families next to them surrendered, so how dare the smaller one in the middle jump?

Wei Liangchen became cheerful and talked about his personal matters directly: "I heard about it when I was young. I heard that there was a scholar in Leitang, called Hong Shimin. He had five sons, one of whom died young, and the other four became Jinshi, and they were called the Four Heroes."

Hong Xu replied: "That was my uncle, who has been gone for many years. The Four Heroes are all my cousins, and the last one died of illness last year."

"What a pity." Wei Liangchen sighed.

Hong Shimin was Huang Tingjian's brother-in-law. The Hong family had a Leitang Academy, where Huang Tingjian taught 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 party disputes, followed by the Yuanyou Party Ban, and Leitang Academy gradually declined. Currently, there are only two or three hundred students, and most of them are descendants of the Hong family.

The Leitang Hong family is in continuous decline.

Hong Xu led Wei Liangchen to the academy, chatting all the way without talking about business.

As they chatted, Wei Liangchen asked, "Do the Hongs of Poyang still have close contact with you?"

Hong Xu replied, "Although the two clans are of the same origin, there are so many Hongs in Jiangxi that there is not much connection."

Wei Liangchen said, "Write a letter to the Hongs of Poyang and say that the Hongs of Leitang are willing to cooperate in measuring the land. In two days, I will send officials and scholars to Poyang to measure the land."

"I will definitely write a letter to tell you." Hong Xu agreed quickly.

The Hongs of Poyang currently have a Hong Hao, who serves as the Right Shaoqing of the Dali Temple and is on a diplomatic mission to the Western Regions to contact Yelu Dashi.

Hong Hao is known as the "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 has a son, Hong Shi, who encountered a search of mountains and seas at the age of thirteen and fled with his elderly grandmother, sick mother, five younger brothers, and three younger sisters. He was dismissed from office by Qin Hui for many years, but later he made great contributions in the victory of Caishiji and became the prime minister during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of Song.

Wei Liangchen continued, "Your Majesty has decreed that if you are not a Yimen family, you don't have to move so many people. You, the Hong family of Leitang, just need to honestly measure the land, obey the court's land tax distribution, and move one-fifth of the land. The Yimen family must be demolished half, and the remaining ones must also be divided and divided!"

"Your Majesty is wise!" Hong Xu was overjoyed.

"Yimen" advocates righteousness, which is conducive to local stability, especially in years of disaster.

Therefore, whether from the perspective of Confucian morality or from the perspective of court rule, it is politically correct.

The court encouraged and rewarded this model, and big families followed suit.

For example, Fan Zhongyan did this to the Fan family.

But Fan Zhongyan's Yimen is similar to the Hu family of Hualin, not as perverted as the Chen family of Jiangzhou.

The Yimen model rewarded in the Song Dynasty is now suppressed by the Ming Dynasty!

Wei Liangchen said: "When you migrate, you decide who will go and who will stay. But remember, those who have no land or little land will not migrate."

Hearing this, the smile on Hong Xu's face disappeared.

Many members of the Hong clan have become tenants or self-employed farmers due to their long bloodline. Hong Xu planned to move these people away, but Wei Liangchen actually had a plan to deal with it and did not leave him any loopholes to exploit.

This is forcing the Hong family to divide the family and the land themselves!

It is impossible to pretend to divide the family, because the government will measure the land and then watch the big families divide the family.

Once the division of the family is completed, the government will issue the land deed, and all the old land deed will be invalidated.

The government knows clearly how many people and how much land each family has. And based on the land and population, it is determined which family meets the conditions for migration.

If the division of the family and the division of the property are extremely thorough, no one will have to migrate. Will this happen?

It is possible.

But that is definitely a ruthless person, which means giving away a large amount of land for free to the impoverished clan members, or even to tenants of other surnames, and not leaving much for themselves.

The court is happy to see that it can be achieved to this extent.

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The clan leaders of several major branches of the Leitang Hong clan sat together for a meeting to discuss.

"The court is too cruel, forcing us to split up the family."

"Can we first give the land to the clan members and tenants, and then take it back after the storm has passed? Or when giving the land, let the family that received the land write a promissory note, and then use those promissory notes to exchange for the land deeds?"

"Do you think the government is stupid?"

"Why can't we do this?"

"Whether it is the land divided by the division of the family or the land given to outsiders, the land deeds must be reissued by the government. How can those small households be willing to hand over the land deeds? At that time, they will definitely report to the government, and even if they have promissory notes, they will be judged invalid."

"More than that. This Governor Wei is extremely cunning. He has divided and disintegrated the various clans, and now he wants to stir up relations within the clan."

"Why don't I understand?"

"In the past, we were able to resist the government because the whole clan was united. Once the family is divided and the property is divided, it will become a mess. If you want to take back the land deeds, the first one to oppose is not the government, but the clan members and outsiders who got the land! At that time, it will not be Hong The clan members and the outsiders are united in their rebellion against the clan!"

"This Wei man is really not a good person. He will be struck by lightning sooner or later!"

"What should we do?"

"We can only try to divide the family, but each branch and each room must have land, otherwise it will not be able to maintain in the future. Move away those children born to concubines and maids, as well as those who are uneducated and behave improperly. But the children born to concubines and maids, if they are well-educated, must stay to take the imperial examination. "

"The people who move away must also have land in their names , used to exchange land with Hunan. These lands will be handed over to the government? "

"What else can be done? Jiangzhou Chen family has surrendered, do you still want to fight against the court?"

"This is too much! If the emperor was in power, such a thing would definitely not happen. The emperor is a benevolent monarch, and the current emperor is a..."

"Shut up! Don't talk nonsense, be careful of the disaster of extermination of the clan."

"..."

This group of old men discussed in the secret room and found that all the loopholes were blocked by Wei Liangchen.

Hong Xu could only helplessly conclude: "We are nothing, the Jiangzhou Chen family suffered heavy losses. The Chen family had to move half of their clansmen away, and their Jiangzhou land was replaced countless times, and they had to split up. He, the Jiangzhou Yimen Chen family, can only be called the Jiangzhou Chen family from now on. We only need to move one-fifth, and the ancestral hall is in Jianchang, so we don't have to worry about competing with the Chen family for land!"

"Yes, although we are miserable, the Jiangzhou Chen family is even more miserable. All in all, we are still the winner." This old man knows how to calculate.

Hong Xu suddenly laughed out loud: "I heard that the head of the Chen family and several other elders were arrested and taken to Nanchang for trial by the three judicial departments. Their behavior angered the court in the former Song Dynasty, and now they are still not restrained."

"Yes, there are many righteous families in the world, but it is rare to see the Chen family in Jiangzhou."

"Let's end this matter quickly. There are still several members of my Hong family serving as officials, so don't affect their promotion."

"As long as there are still members of the family serving as officials, one day the family will be revitalized again!"

"..."

Outside Leitang Academy.

Zhang Liangyou couldn't help asking: "Governor Wei, the previous dynasty has always praised the righteous families, why did the Ming Dynasty suppress the righteous families? I have this doubt in my heart, and I sincerely ask the governor to enlighten me."

After asking this question, the accompanying scholars looked over and pricked up their ears to listen to the answer.

Wei Liangchen smiled and said, "Everyone come here, sit down where you are, don't be afraid of getting your clothes dirty. As early as the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the court split up the migrating clans in Kaifeng Prefecture, and many court officials raised questions. Do you know how His Majesty answered at that time?"

(Recommend Dao Yigeng's new book "Brilliant Years 1991". After reading this book today, Lao Wang decided to go back to writing about the city next time, and the beginning of the new book has been conceived.)

(The link to Dao Yigeng's new book will be posted later.)