Chapter 20: Clan with a big surname
Huaiyuan Town has always occupied an extremely important position in Tongbai Mountain, but it has long been affiliated with Biyang County. At the same time, Biyang is the capital of Tangzhou Prefecture. Therefore, whether the big clans in Tongbai Mountain are competing for the powerful, running business, and their children attending county schools and prefecture schools, or wanting to live a more comfortable and safe life, they often buy property in Biyang.
The Tongbaishan clan also has a considerable number of roles in Bianyang serving as officials, and even accounts for a considerable proportion of state, county and government offices.
Because these people were destroyed and Bianliang was in danger, the imperial court sent Jieshuai to Caizhou, gathering the king's troops from all over the southwest, and Huaiyuan's county was assigned to Caizhou, and the news that the Manghu Xu Huai came out of Zhixin County soon spread in Biyang City.
The criticism of Xu Huai, Tongbaishan and others by Ning Ci, deputy envoy of the Transportation Transportation, Gu Zhihui and others was naturally spread through various rumors.
When Ning Ci discussed with everyone, although he secretly proposed to prevent Xu Huai and the people in Tongbai Mountain from being unpredictable, he also complained about the many orders issued by the imperial court to pay tribute to the royal court, but no one was willing to provoke them when Bianliang was in a hurry.
Of course, Huaiyuan was divided from Biyang County from then on, and even had no relationship with Jingxi South Road. They thought they didn't need to be too afraid of the people in Tongbai Mountain.
However, the people in Tongbaishan who are in Biyang, especially in Biyang, feel completely different.
Xu Huai, Xu Wujiang and others quelled the bandits and chaos. The gratitude of the clans of the big surname was too mixed with too much force. In addition to the Zhong and Tang clans, other clans of the big surnames could not suffer heavy losses in the Tongbai bandits, they were forced to distribute a total of more than 200,000 qians of money and grain in order to maintain such a large-scale village camp and subsequent construction of Huaiyuan City, and supply troops and weapons.
This is definitely not a small amount.
After quelling the bandits, the Xu family and the Tang family all needed a grand funeral because the heads of Xu Wufu and Tang Wenzhong needed a grand burial, sold land houses at a discount, and a large number of young and strong losses. The land conflicts in the mountains were all alleviated, and the previously high land prices plummeted; the businesses of each family lacked enough labor in tung oil, lacquer, wood and other businesses. The children of the cold clan such as Xu Wujiang controlled the township and suppressed the monopoly of the big clans over various operations and mountains, forest and mines. All of these things will inevitably lead to the big clans being greatly damaged in another sense.
Learning from the pain, the clans of the big surname love and hate the people of Tongbai Mountain, and as the bandits left, they gradually became more hatred and less love.
The establishment of Huaiyuan County and merged into Caizhou have little impact on the common people and wealthy families outside Tongbai Mountain, and has a great impact on the Tongbai Mountain clan, which has been rooted in Bieyang for many years.
As soon as the news came out, it was like a blowout.
The head of the Jin family was an old lady from Jin who was over 70 years old. He was not only the head of the Jin family's eldest son. His son, Jin Zhuangcheng, passed the imperial examination in his early years and served as the Hanlin Academy, the magistrate of Jiangxia County, the magistrate of Xiuzhou, and went to Huangzhou as the magistrate three years ago.
In Biyang, the heads of the clans in the family who were in a panic after hearing the rumors, but they all ran to Jin Longquan's home late at night. In addition to the old lady of Jin Long in her later years, she was obsessed with eating vegetarian food and worshiping Buddha in her later years and did not care about the world, but also mainly during the bandit suppression period. Jin Longquan was the backbone of the clans in the family, and she had been working with Xu Wujiang, Xu Wukun, Xu Huai and others, and was more aware of the situation there.
Jin Longquan is a bandit in Tongbai Mountain
After the riots were wiped out, the magistrate Cheng Lunying saw that the prefectures and counties were unable to support the people who had made contributions in suppressing bandits. He was especially transferred by Cheng Lunying to the county lieutenant and commanded the county archer, and gave the position of the Wushu General of the Huaiyuan Inspection Office to Xu Wujiang as the position of Xu Wujiang.
Tang Tiande also sneaked to Jin Longquan's house late at night. When he walked into Jiaxiang, he saw the light coming out of the yard of Jin Longquan's residential house. He knocked on the door and walked through the hanging flower hall. The door of the living room was open, and twenty or thirty people gathered together to talk. The old lady Jin, who thought she was ignoring the world, sat in the hall fairly and spoke in a daze:
"... Although each family has been rooted in Biyang for many years and even three or four generations, the old houses in the ancestral industry are still in Tongbai Mountain. Now Huaiyuan has been divided from Biyang, but it is not a separate county under Tangzhou. If it is really a separate county under Tangzhou, it will only benefit each company without any disadvantages. After all, Biyang has always been a prefecture city, and everyone has a family business in Huaiyuan Town, so it is icing on the cake. But now? Huaiyuan has established a county, and it has been divided from Tangzhou, and even from Southwest Jing Road. In the future, each company will be a foreigner in Biyang. The business operated in Biyang has been in charge of officials for many years and even three or four generations. Do you think about it? If you don't let it go, will it still be as unpredictable as before?"
After Tang Tiande tiptoed to everyone, he thought to himself that it was no wonder that the old lady of Jin could not sit still. The whole thing was too involved in the Huaiyuan family.
Everyone's ancestral property and land were all in Tongbai Mountain. In the past, they were included in Caizhou, Northwest Beijing Road, and they had to deal with officials there. They had no connections, so there was much less room for them to be able to be compatible with. In the Bianyang City, they all became strangers. I don't know how many people watched the benefits they had enjoyed in the past, so many people were destined to snatch them in the future.
Tang Tiande has lived in Biyang for a lot of time in the past two years, mainly thinking about planning a lack of officials, but now he has completely cut off hope.
"If Huaiyuan has established a county, it is necessary to set up three government offices (institutions) and six wards. Even if the offices only have the Jingcheng, and there are two or three clerks in the year and two or three clerks, there will be almost twenty officials missing - since this matter cannot be changed by manpower, should we go back and think of a solution?"
Tang Tiande glanced inside, but it was built by the second son of the Ji family who was appointed as the clerk in the state yamen. He used to show off his power, but at this time he was in a panic.
The old lady from Jin said tiredly:
"We don't have this dream of spring and autumn. Not to mention that Xu Huai's rash man has never slandered us. Xu Wujiang took out the township camp from Longquan to the generals. In the past two years, which team can get people in? After suppressing the bandits and turmoil, they sold the Tang Wenzhong family and Xu Wu's wealthy family as if they were the most profitable? Who took advantage of the bandits and threatened us to reduce the rent for all the villagers' families - why don't you understand, they are two people with us. We run to the door at this time, don't we be afraid of being blackmailed again?"
"I'm afraid we can't wait for us to go back, so we have already blackmailed the door-"
A middle-aged man walked in panting. He obviously heard what the old lady in Jin said,
"Huaiyuan has released news that each family must hand over the village soldiers within three days, and the Xinxian military inspector will select Wang Yijun to recruit him. If there is any violation, he will deal with the bandits with the order. There is another thing. Zheng Tu, the meat-selling person, has been following the rash goods in recent years, but he has become more developed. He has taken a guru in Shuozhou. It looks really greedy, but what kind of personality does his wife have? How can he do it?
Wish? When Wu learned that Zheng Tu had returned to Huaiyuan and had not even returned home, he made a big fuss. He grabbed Zheng Tu and was about to beat him, but he somehow collided with the rash guy. The rash guy kicked him and his wife lost half his life. If someone hadn't stopped him, the rash guy would have drawn his sword and cut the wife of Zheng Tu's family into two pieces. Even so, the rash guy didn't want to spare the woman easily and took him to prison, and he wanted to gather a hundred criminals in Huaiyuan, and then behead him and establish his authority together!"
"Tian Xiong, you're all in Jingfang Building today. How do you know so detailed?" Jin Longquan sat next to the old lady in Jin and asked the middle-aged man curiously.
"Hey, it's not my second brother's family. I used to tell my daughter a marriage, Xu Xin, the grandson of Xu Zhongyu, Xu Qi's grandson. This marriage was not bad. I heard that Xu Xin has made a lot of military achievements and even became a general in the imperial guards. However, Xu Zhongyu's son Xu Wujun came to the door today and said that he would marry the two immediately. He also said that Xu Huai's rash man had given a three-day deadline. Tell me, this is not a marriage, this is not a robber? Even if he takes a bitch from a bitch building and becomes a concubine, he can't be so hasty and fool the matter. My father knew about this in the old house and almost fainted. He took my second brother to take his daughter back to Biyang overnight. Even if he dies, our Tian family can't afford to lose this person!" The middle-aged man Tian Xiong said in a complaining voice.
"Look, who would still want to go back to Huaiyuan?" The old lady of Jin shivered and poked the floor tiles with her crutches, shouting angrily, "Absurd, ridiculous, bandit style, this is simply bandit style!"
The crowd was angry when they waited, but they couldn't discuss a solution from both sides. They had to leave one by one late at night, just saying that they would continue to inquire about the news and watch the situation - Tang Tiande also left with everyone first, hid in the depths of the alley, ensuring that everyone left the house of Jin Longquan. He ran over and knocked on the door. Seeing that it was Jin Longquan who opened the gate himself, he said awkwardly: "I seem to have something left in your living room, I'll look for it..."
"But this jade pendant?" Jin Longquan spread his hands and handed a jade pendant to Tang Tiande, looked at his face and watched for a while, "Do you still want to come in and have a tea?"
"Ha, oh, I'm a little dry-mouthed. It's the New Year, and the weather is really bad!" Tang Tiande squeezed into the door, beat him up, followed Jin Longquan, and walked towards the living room.
The two of them sat down in the living room again. Jin Longquan did not ask the old servant to boil a pot of water again. He silently drank the remaining cold tea for a while before asking, "What do you think about this?"
"There are not enough people in the hall to play alone. What can I think?" Tang Tiande smiled bitterly, "but he talked for a long time, but no one mentioned the matter of serving the king. Bianliang is really in such a critical situation. Aren't the Chihu people still far away?"
"How could I know this?" Jin Longquan also shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"What do you say?" Tang Tiande asked.
"What do you say?" Jin Longquan asked back.
"Can we not play the puzzle? Otherwise, no one will test anyone and write notes directly on the mind. If it matches it, we will sit down and discuss it slowly. If it doesn't match it, we will swallow the note. Master Jin, please pretend that I haven't turned my head back for the second time?" Tang Tiande said.
Chapter completed!