A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 884: Win-win situation for the four families in the Weaving Bureau, the four envoys of the new Baoying system
Runzhou, Jiangning City
As a historic city with a long history of peace, people in Jiangning have a unique sense of relaxation.

Many people in the city learn to read, and everyone enjoys reading, but there is also prosperous business.

Especially in the textile industry, the Su family, the largest cloth merchant in Jiangnan, is located here. In the entire Jiangning City, most of the people are weaving looms. The women are good at making plans, and the men are good at calculating.

In addition, the Nanzong Mingyuetang, which controls the Jiangnan Bai family, is also located here. The largest restaurant in Jiangnan in the city center - Mingyue Tower, is owned by the Mingyue Bai family.

This building is also the location of the Bai family's Jiangnan Council. As for the backyard, it is located in Runzhou City, not far away, only half a day's boat ride.

In the backyard of Mingyue Tower, Bai Qingfeng and Su Zhaohe were separated by distance, but seeing the servants busy outside the door, one could tell that Bai Qingfeng was going on a long journey.

"Brother Zhaohe, I am going north this time mainly to attend the family meeting of Master Xin. As for the Weaving Bureau, I will leave it to you. Please bear with me."

Bai Qingfeng grabbed Su Zhaohe's hand and instructed.

"Brother Qingfeng, rest assured. I know the importance of the Weaving Bureau. It is enough to change the price of cloth in Jiangnan. With the help of the Chamber of Commerce, the price of cloth in the whole world may be determined by us from now on."

The two are not only in-laws, but also partners.

The weaving bureau that the two were talking about was jointly funded by the two clans, and its full name was "Jiangnan Weaving Bureau".

The Bai family provided the technology and the Su family provided the sales, and the two companies jointly invested 3 billion yuan.

Two years ago, the Jiangnan branch of the Bai Family Academy invented a new loom that was dozens of times faster than the old one. After research, the family decided to give it to the Jiangnan Bai family for use.

From now on, this technology will belong to the Jiangnan Bai family, but the Jiangnan Bai family needs to transfer 10% of the profits generated by the new looms to the master every year.

In order to prevent the leakage of technology, Bai Qingfeng and Su Zhaohe decided to build a workshop in a centralized manner and assign special personnel to guard it. They selected a site outside Jiangning City to build the workshop and recruited 3,000 weavers.

According to the two men's estimation, when the weaving bureau is completed, the three thousand looms will be able to weave three hundred thousand pieces of silk every year. Whether they are distributed domestically or sold overseas through Bai's voyages, it will be a huge profit.

In order to better provide raw materials, the Bai and Su clans won over the Chen and Qian families in the Chamber of Commerce. Because the Chen and Qian families were the largest landlords in Jiangnan, the weaving bureau would get silk from the mulberry fields of the two families in the future.

This formed a huge interest group consisting of the four families of Bai, Su, Chen and Qian.

This time, Bai Qingfeng left behind the current Mingyuetang Bai family, and even the most important weaving bureau of the Jiangnan Bai family, which had not yet been built, and hurried north to Bianzhou to attend the Southeast Conference hosted by Bai Xin.

Inspired by the rebels' occupation of Hebei and severing the family's ties between the north and the south, Bai Qing believed that the main family was located too far to the north, and that the descendants left in various places could not completely control the branch clansmen south of the Yellow River.

So in addition to the main courtyard, a new East Courtyard was established, and Prince Xin was appointed as the head of the East Courtyard.

In the past two years, Bai Qing, in view of the confusion in family positions, with multiple people holding one task and many people unclear about the scope of their responsibilities, issued the "Baoying New System" at the beginning of the year.

The highest leader of the Bai family is still the head of the family, and the main courtyard where the head of the family is located extends out in turn.

The chief court official is appointed by the head of the family himself, and there are two court assistants who assist the chief court official and manage all the affairs of the Bai family. It is the highest administrative body.

The [Record Room] beside the head of the family is still retained, with the chief recorder in charge of the secretaries for consultation.

The main courtyard is divided into several rooms, with the room owner as the chief official and under him are many managers who assist the room owner and the courtyard head in managing the family affairs.

There is a [Court of Elders], which consists of nine elders, who are recommended by the clan members of various clans. The standard is that they are respected clan members in the family. There are nine vacancies, and they can be replaced or appointed with the consent of the head of the family. It is also called the "Court of Nine Elders". It can supervise all the Bai clan members in the world except the head of the family, and has the right to impeach anyone to the head of the family.

There is also a [Bubei-in], which is only responsible to the head of the family. It has one director, two assistant directors, and several warrior leaders. Ordinary members are called "samurai" and their duty is to practice martial arts.

There are also the [School of Teaching Classics], [School of Inquiry], [School of Craftsmen], [School of Maritime Customs], [School of Justice], and [School of Genealogy], all of which are directly affiliated with the head of the family at the same level as the Main Court, the Court of Clan Elders, and the Court of Military Preparations.

The number of people is more or less, covering all the fields that the Bai family is currently involved in, just like a small court.

In addition to the Nine Courts, there are six sects and seven associations, namely the clan system including the main sect, and the parliamentary system including the Shandong Council.

Bai Qing only made some minor changes to the six sects, stipulating the powers of each hall under each sect, which could not be changed without authorization.

The "Baoying New System" stipulates that each clan needs to set up a clan government, with the clan leader as the core, and nine patrol courts under it. They are connected with the nine courts in turn, accepting the dual leadership of the clan leader and the nine courts, and being in charge of various miscellaneous affairs within the clan.

The clan leader must be appointed by the head of the family himself, and the other general affairs hall masters must be selected by the clan leader and then reviewed by the main courtyard clerk office before they can take office.

The parliament is basically the same as before, with little change, and still has a speaker, six members, and several clerks.

Responsible for advising local clan members, supervising the masters and principals of the clan hall, and reporting to the Clan Elders' Council. His duties are similar to those of the Clan Elders' Council, except for the difference in the scope of authority.

Although Bai Qing had a good idea, as mentioned before, the main courtyard was too far to the north. For example, in places like the Southern Sect, Southwestern Sect, and Overseas Parliament, if they wanted to get a response from the main courtyard for some major events that were beyond their authority, it might take a month.

In order to respond promptly to clansmen from all over the country, Bai Qing set up the East Court Envoy in Bianzhou as his representative in the south, with the power to act flexibly.

The Eastern Sect, Southern Sect, Shandong Parliament, Jiangnan Parliament and Overseas Parliament were assigned to the Eastern Court Envoy, and Bai Xin was appointed as the Eastern Court Envoy.

As for Bai Jing, he had already returned to Songxi and was appointed as the dean of the academy by Bai Qing.

An unnamed manor outside the city of Bianzhou, where the leaders, speakers, hall masters and members of the East Sect, South Sect, Shandong Parliament, Jiangnan Parliament and Overseas Parliament gathered together.

As for the regent, he had been abolished by Bai Qing and replaced by an inspector, who served as Bai Qing's tentacles in various places. The level of power was determined by the amount of power granted by Bai Qing, and they served as the eyes and ears of the local area.

Bai Qing followed the example of the imperial court and established four ranks of envoys belonging to him: temporary envoy, envoy holding envoy, holder of envoy's ...

The East Court Envoy is a member of the Imperial Court, who can punish ordinary clan members in peacetime and core clan members below the clan leader and the Speaker in wartime.

The Inspector is a temporary envoy of the rank of an envoy holding a seal. During the mission, he can punish ordinary and core clan members to deter the local authorities. Once the mission is completed and the seal is handed over, his power will no longer be valid.

The rank of temporary governor was an honorary authority. Bai Tailong, the leader of the Southwest Sect, was granted the title of pacification envoy by Bai Qingjia, which was the rank of temporary governor.

Core members of the tribe cannot be punished in peacetime or wartime, but ordinary members of the tribe can be punished in wartime, and this punishment is often given to important officials and generals of the front army who hold respected positions.

As for the fake Jieyue level, it means that the head of the family is present in person and can punish all clan members, even the head of the courtyard, the clan leader, the elders, and the speaker.

Bai Qing would naturally not grant such power to anyone easily.

(End of this chapter)