My parents are omnipotent

Chapter 245 Law and Clan
Yang Xiaotao flipped through the pamphlet that Mr. Pan had someone hand over to her, "The Li family gave the Qi family a 20% bonus from their own tea business for the next [-] years."

Ye Anlan clicked her tongue, "It's a bloodbath."

Li's tea business is mainly based in Jeju, and has expanded to nine counties around Jeju. This business earns Li no less than [-] taels of silver every year.

20% bonus for 200,000 years, that is a total of [-] taels. No wonder the head of the Qi family and the elders are suppressing Qi Hongling's parents and not allowing them to stand up for their daughter.

But all of this has nothing to do with Ye Anlan, she has no intention of crossing over the Qi family to fight for Qi Hongling, but she will not abandon Qi Hongling just because of Li's and Qi's attitude.

As long as Qi Hongling is the teacher candidate she wants, then she will recruit him into the women's school, and will not consider the opinions of the Li family and the Qi family.

Coincidentally, this so-called "clan" was also one of the cancers that Ye Anlan couldn't get used to after coming to this ancient time.

Ye Anlan still has a good impression of those clans that sincerely protect the children of the clan, such as the Li clan where Li Jing belongs.

But compared to this kind of clan with relatively normal ethos, Ye Anlan has seen more people in this world who use their power and status to bully their relatives, and even blatantly seek wealth and death, and eat the blood of their relatives.

These people disregarded the law but were extremely united, and it was difficult for even the local government to reach into their family.

Even if there is a life lawsuit between the same clan, the weaker side is forced to have no other way out, and has no choice but to sue the government. Most of the officials' handling measures are basically to send it back to the clan for trial.

In this way, those poor people who were originally victimized by the clan members are no different from sheep entering the tiger's mouth.

They complained that every day should not be done, that the land and the earth are not working, and that no one cares about their unjust death.

This is still a very small number of people who dare to fight. Those who have not had time to fight and have no courage to fight, let alone those who are under the high pressure of the clan, or live in fear, despair and depression, or live with hatred and humiliation. will be ruthlessly deprived.

One of Ye Anlan's bottom lines is "killing for life". She can even insist on "father killing son, husband killing wife" to the extent that she needs to pay for life, let alone those patriarchs, patriarchs, etc. The banner of the clan has harmed the lives of the clan in private.

She expressly forbids everyone under her command to engage in the practice of "returning to the clan for trial on its own". However, whenever someone beats a drum to sue, no matter who the accuser is, the officials under her rule must conduct a trial and pronounce a sentence in accordance with the law. Turn a blind eye to those vulnerable groups who seek help from the government.

If someone doesn't follow her rules, Ye Anlan will also have the crime of "bending the law for personal gain and laziness in politics" waiting for him. Depending on the seriousness of the case, he may be demoted, dismissed from office, imprisoned, or beheaded.

And in order to let the people under the rule know what they can ask the government for help, Ye Anlan specially asked people to compile a lot of scripts and operas to talk and sing everywhere.

This kind of propaganda method that entertains and educates is much more effective than dry propaganda of laws and regulations. The common people don’t even need the help of scholars to “translate”, and they can understand by themselves that they can ask the government for help when they encounter problems. And if they sue the government about this matter, how the government will probably judge it.

Ye Anlan's move actually received a lot of doubts at the beginning, because since ancient times, the imperial court has implemented a policy of ignoring the people, and the ruling class believes that the less the people know, the more they can live in peace, instead of always thinking about it. What's going on.

However, Ye Anlan, who has studied ancient history, knows better than them that "fooling the people" is not a panacea that can ensure the long-term stability of the dynasty.

She said that what the common people want is actually very simple, as long as you can let them have enough food and clothing, live and work in peace and contentment, they will never be full and want to overthrow the emperor himself.

On the contrary, even if you don't let them read a single word, once they are forced to be impatient and can't live anyway, they will have the courage to pick up hoes and sickles to fight against the regular army.

It has nothing to do with knowing more or less, whether the mind is dull or active, it's just the survival instinct of human beings at work.

What Ye Anlan wants to do now is to allow as many people as possible to live an ordinary but stable and happy daily life.

Maybe it's because she is also very good at instigating people's hearts occasionally, or maybe her subordinates, including Pei Huaiyu, are actually full of passion to help the world and the people.

In short, after Ye Anlan told everyone her true thoughts openly, everyone agreed with Ye Anlan's proposal with a look of excitement.

Relying on the fact that "whoever has the biggest fist is right" is now a period of war, in the states and counties under Ye Anlan's control, they are vigorously implementing various policies and laws that Ye Anlan has spent months and forgetting to eat and sleep.

In other places, it's okay to say, because there is no big family who can wrestle with the government overtly and secretly, the people under Ye Anlan's command have done a good job in implementing the new law.

But in Jeju and Yanzhou, because of the existence of the Li family, the Cui family, and the Wang family, the new laws promulgated by Ye Anlan, but all the clan-related regulations, without exception, cannot be implemented in place.

They ignored Ye Anlan's new law, and still follow the old rules and handle clan affairs by themselves.

Other second-rate, third-rate or even low-rate families all followed the movements of these great families.

Although the father-killing of the son was never heard of, but the husband-in-law killed the daughter-in-law, the patriarch and the elder forced the clansman to death, and even the whole family of the clan, it happened frequently in these two prefectures.

Although the officials of the two states are diligent, the two states occupy a large area, and the counties, towns, and villages are scattered. In addition, in ancient times, all news can be spread quickly through the Internet, so many things happen Even the news could not reach their ears.

Even in some extremely xenophobic villages, Ye Anlan's free theater troupe couldn't get in.

The theater troupe couldn't get in, and the incidental propaganda couldn't be carried out, and the people in the village had always been the same as before, and there would be no change in consciousness at all.

In this kind of place, Ye Anlan and the others can only find other ways to break into the other party's interior, whether it is to lure them for profit, or to enforce them in the name of the government, in short, Ye Anlan will not give up any village or town under his jurisdiction. .

Of course, she will not let her subordinates continue to be tough. Since they want to fight against the old customs, the first thing they need to do is to understand the local folk customs and power distribution.

Only by knowing themselves and the enemy first, and then thinking of ways and strategies according to local conditions, can they change those outdated habits at the premise of paying the minimum price.

(End of this chapter)