wealthy lord

Chapter 1 Choose a wife or join the army?
  "Sacrifice your ancestors and kneel down!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the bells and drums rang.

The Lin family's ancestor worship ceremony officially began.

The Lin family is a vassal king with a different surname in Fengyang County, one of the thirty-six counties of the Daduan Dynasty. He has the status of a hereditary prince and controls a hundred thousand troops and horses in border towns. In Fengyang County, he can be said to cover the sky with one hand.

Today's King Fengyang has thirty-six sons.

These sons also believed in King Fengyang's tenet of having more children and more happiness. By the third generation, their number had reached five hundred.

Lin Yun was one of these five hundred people.

It has been three months since I traveled to this world.

Lin Yun also understood the current situation.

His father was not the eldest son of King Fengyang, and Lin Yun was not the son of his father's first wife. He was just a bastard son born to a beloved concubine. Lin Yun's mother also died in childbirth.

Regardless of his status as a king or his wealth, it has nothing to do with Lin Yun.

After the ancestor worship ceremony was completed.

The clan elder asked all the Lin family children to stand up and said loudly: "According to the ancestral teachings of my Lin family, all Lin family children have two choices when they reach adulthood."

"Those who stand to my left will enlist in the army and make great achievements!"

"Whoever stands on my right will choose a wife, fiefdom, and spread the branches and leaves of my Lin family!"

The clan elder opened his hands and said, "Children, make your own choice."

More than twenty Lin family disciples immediately stood on the left and right sides.

Although it is their own choice, it is not difficult to see that those who choose to join the army are mostly the eldest sons.

The ones standing on the right, like Lin Yun, were mostly descendants of the collateral family.

This has become a consensus among the descendants of the Lin family.

The eldest son came out legitimately, joined the army, and after making great achievements, he returned to the clan to compete for the last hereditary and irreplaceable throne. As for the concubine from the side lineage, under the arrangement of the family, he took a wife and found a piece of land to live in peace.

Of course, there are always exceptions.

There was a collateral concubine standing on the left with a face full of unwillingness, and his eyes were full of resistance to the injustice of fate.

Lin Yun did not go out of his way. He knew very well how much he weighed. He has no special abilities, and the original owner of the body has never practiced martial arts. After waiting for three months, the standard system for time travelers has not fallen into his lap.

Enlist in the military?

I heard that the border is not peaceful these days, and northern barbarians frequently come to harass him. With his thin arms and legs, he may die miserably outside the border!
  “Once you’ve made your choice, you can’t regret it!”

"Those who join the army must leave the ancestral hall and head to the border in three days!"

A dozen or so Lin family children left the ancestral hall. When they looked at Lin Yun and his group, they had contempt and disdain in their eyes.

The clan elder looked at the remaining dozen or so Lin family disciples.

"In a clan, those who have made contributions to the clan are worthy of commendation, but it is equally important to spread the branches and leaves of the clan. Today, after you choose a wife and a land, you must not forget that you have royal blood in your body and cannot be insulted!"

"Choose a wife!"

"Choose a fiefdom!"

The clan elder just finished speaking.

The side doors on the left and right are open.

A group of servants came in from the right, holding a wooden plate in their hands. On the plate was a map of the fiefdom.

A group of girls came in from the left.

These girls are dressed in red clothes and have red gauze on their faces. Although they are festively dressed, their hands and feet are shackles!

The shackles and handcuffs jingled as I walked in from the door. These girls are all sinners, or their descendants.

Among them were captured alien girls, daughters of corrupt officials, and convicts.

Whoever you marry, then... you must wash away the sins of these women and pay off their debts.

The Lin family's purpose for doing this was, firstly, to squeeze out the surplus value of the descendants of the descendants, and secondly, to prevent them from using the power of their wives' clan to return to the clan and compete for the throne.

"Who among you will choose the fiefdom first?" the clan elder asked.

At this moment, all the Lin family disciples began to give in.

According to the rules of the clan, the person who gets the land is chosen first, and then the wife.

Although there are good and bad fiefdoms, the difference between the best and the worst is not too far off.

But the debts carried by those girls are completely different.

Among the fifteen girls, the one with the least sin was a merchant's daughter, whose debt was one thousand taels of silver!

The one with the heaviest debt was a barbarian female warrior. She killed thirty people in the border army and needed to repay thirty thousand taels of silver!

While everyone was trying to give in, Lin Yun suddenly stood up.

His eyes were firmly fixed on a map.

He stepped forward and took the map in his hands, trembling all over.

This place is called Niubei Mountain, so named because the mountain looks like the back of an ox lying on the ground.

Niubei Mountain is twenty miles long and nine miles wide. The mountain is covered with red rocks. The smell of rotten eggs always permeates the mountain, so that not a single blade of grass grows and it is completely barren.

At the foot of the mountain where the bull's head is, there is a lake. There is a village around the lake. There are only a hundred families living on fishing. The population is only 500, and the annual tax revenue is only 200 taels of silver.

"I want this fiefdom!!"

Lin Yun said.

The clan elder looked at Lin Yun, glanced at the fiefdom map in his hand, frowned and asked, "Are you sure?"

"I am sure!"

The clan elder shook his head and sighed, and announced loudly: "Lin Yun, the chosen fiefdom is Niubei Mountain!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was in an uproar.

They had already inquired about the relevant information of this fiefdom.

There is also an understanding of optional fiefdoms.

There is no doubt that Niubei Mountain is the worst place!

"Be the first to choose a fief, but the last to choose a wife!!"

"Niubeishan is a broken place! The tax revenue is less than 200 taels a year. He is afraid that he will have to pay off the debt for the rest of his life!"

"Hey, since he was struck by lightning three months ago, he has been acting a little abnormally."

"That's good. At least the bad land like Niubei Mountain won't fall on us."

Lin Yun took the map and retreated into the crowd.

He sneered inwardly at other people's comments.

Break the ground? Bad place! ?
  Ha ha! ! !

People in this world have actually created a mine full of gold.

Call it breaking ground!
  Call it a bad place! ! !

(End of this chapter)