Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 82 Family Cheng System and Family Elder System
another three months later

Royal Manor
Song Qianru Study Room
"The tenants are living too hard. I want to reduce the tenants to the fifth floor." Song Qianru works in her own study, and is planning to further restructure the Wang family, one of which is to continue to reduce the tenants' rents.

During Wang Kang’s period, the tenancy was eight floors, but at that time, the main income of the Wang family relied on trade and plunder, and the tenant farmers could also benefit from the process of plundering Jianren, which was not too bitter.

During Wang Taihao's period, in order to support a large number of soldiers and satisfy the extravagance and waste of the family's children, it was temporarily increased to nine floors and nine floors, which made the tenant farmers miserable. They actually joined the serf rebels and secretly established the Hongyan Road. A wave of rebellion is brewing.

During Wang Tairan's period, it was lowered to the seventh floor, and the tenant farmers barely survived, and the wave of rebellion disappeared instantly.

Song Qianru is also considered a kind-hearted woman. She had no right to decide the tenant's rent in the past. She suggested to Wang Tairan to continue to reduce the rent many times, but she was rejected.

Now that she has become the long-term acting head of the family, she wants to start her own reforms.

However, she is only an acting head of the family after all, and such a decision still needs the unanimous consent of Wang Roujing, Wang Laojiao, and Xu Caiwei.

"Submit this letter to the three elders." Song Qianru asked Wang Xiaoqian to copy three copies, and then ordered a soldier, and she still remembered that this soldier was one of the serf soldiers who robbed He's manor. He was promoted to a personal soldier, and was assigned two maidservants from the He family to be wives and concubines.

"Yes." The soldier is now in his early 60s, with a lot of white hair growing on his head. Since the Wang family no longer adds new soldiers, his son can no longer be a soldier, but can only be a soldier in Yinyuegang. Craftsman, life is not bad.

The three family elders Song Qianru mentioned were Wang Ruojiao, Wang Roujing, and Xu Caiwei.

Because the three are in charge of adjudicating family affairs, everyone respectfully calls them elders, which can be regarded as a special title due to special circumstances.

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"Two sisters, take a look. Jia Cheng's reform proposals are all in this piece of paper. Let's discuss which ones are approved and which ones are not approved. Those that are approved will be implemented directly, and those that are not approved will be submitted to the Liaodong County Mansion. It is up to the Patriarch of Changzhi to decide." Xu Caiwei opened the letter handed over by the soldiers, and said so to Wang Luojiao and Wang Roujing next to her.

After several months, everyone also found it inappropriate to call Song Qianru the head of the family. After all, Wang Changzhi was already the official head of the family, but calling the acting head of the family was not very respectful, so they simply followed the example of the Chang'an court and called Song Qianru the family cheng.

It means that Song Qianru, acting head of the family, is equivalent to the prime minister of the Wang family.

Over time, the name Jiacheng has been recognized and used by everyone.

The Wang family didn't have a family prime minister, but if there were more people calling, there would be one.

"Yes." Wang Luojiao and Wang Roujing also took it to read.

Because there are three family elders, every time Song Qianru submits a letter, she must make four copies, one for herself and the other three for the three elders.

But over time, Song Qianru found that it was too troublesome to write three more copies in person every time, so she asked Wang Xiaoqian, one of the Wang family's children, to be her master book, equivalent to her secretary, to help her copy the backup copy.

The documents in the hands of the three of them were all copied by Wang Xiaoqian.

"The first decision of the family is to re-establish the trade relationship with the Central Plains. What do the two sisters think?" Because Xu Caiwei is the widow of the former head of the family and has a special status, she always proposes it on her own initiative.

"Yes." Wang Ruojiao replied. She used to be in charge of trade in Xuxiang County, Donglai County, Central Plains. Central Plains.

"No." Wang Roujing replied, she was arranged overseas by Wang Taihao when she was a girl, and she had never been to the Central Plains, so she was not interested in the Central Plains. She hoped that the Wang family would focus more on overseas.

"Then the first decision cannot be passed." Xu Caiwei shook her head, Jiacheng's decision must be approved by all three of them, and even if one of them disagrees.

"Jiacheng's second decision is to reduce the tenant's rent to [-]%, two sisters?" Xu Caiwei continued to ask.

"No." Wang Roujing and Wang Luojiao disagreed. The Wang family was already unable to make ends meet. Over the years, because the soldiers had died a lot, they managed to balance their income and expenditure. If the rent of tenants continued to be reduced, wouldn't the Wang family be able to make ends meet again?How do the children of the Wang family live?The Wang family doesn't run charity, as long as the tenant farmers are alive, why treat them so well?

"Then, the second decision is not passed." Xu Caiwei continued to propose the third decision in Song Qianru's restructuring.

"The third decision of the jiacheng is to prohibit the children of the family from hunting young wild people, prohibiting the children of the family to hunt pregnant wild people, and only to hunt old wild people, so as to give the mountain people more opportunities to reproduce, so that they can grow more Good way to increase the population," Xu Caiwei continued.

"Yes." Both Wang Roujing and Wang Ruojiao agreed. This is actually the same as the fact that hunters are not allowed to kill pregnant doe when hunting. It is for sustainable development. For the Wang family, it is a wise decision to plan ahead. The two of Jiao have no interest, so there is no reason to disagree.

"Then this item doesn't need to be submitted to the Liaodong County Mansion, and it doesn't need to be decided by the Patriarch of Changzhi. We can just implement it." Xu Caiwei smiled. She didn't have too many opinions. All the older sisters agree, so she naturally agrees.

Then, she continued to put forward Song Qianru's next decision.

"Jiacheng's..."

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Liaodong County
"In the future, if the family elders do not approve the decision, let Jia Cheng make another decision. The second time, if the family elders still disagree, then submit it to me."

"Also, unless it's an urgent matter, for such a small matter, you can submit it every three months. Don't come several times a month. I don't have time."

"Such trivial matters, don't submit them in the future, let the family cheng and the elders discuss them on their own, and hold a temporary family meeting to make a decision if the discussion fails. Anyway, don't submit them to me again."

Wang Changzhi exhorted the soldiers who delivered the letters in front of him. He was very annoyed by the family letters that came almost every few days. If he was not afraid of internal strife in the Wang family, he would not be bothered to be the head of the family.

Therefore, in order not to let family affairs bother him, he decided to further delegate more power to Jiacheng and the three elders.

"Yes." The soldier who delivered the letter was also very happy. He was running between Liaodong County Manor and Wang's Manor almost all the time. As soon as he returned to Wang's house, he had a new letter to be delivered to Liaodong County Manor. There was almost no rest time. Now you can only come once every three months, which is really a lot easier.

All restructuring is a reasonable change based on the actual situation, not a decision made by someone.

Because the serfs were preparing to rebel, Wang Tairan decided to learn the tenant farming system of the Central Plains. Because the emperor Liu Che charged heavy taxes on commerce, the Wang family cut off trade with the Central Plains.

Because Wang Changzhi didn't have time, the long-term proxy patriarch appeared, because the long-term proxy patriarch was an outsider, so the patriarch appeared, and because Liaodong County was too far away from Wang's manor, the decision was changed to once every three months.

These changes are all in response to real situations, not someone's whimsy.

(End of this chapter)