Chapter 119: Cutting off the head of the chicken and burning yellow paper
The Ye family's temple, today is the day when Ye Kai and He Xiwen agreed to cut the chicken head and burn yellow paper about brothers, the Ye family, the Zhang family, as long as it is a Chinese with a head and a face in Pettani and Kuala Terengganu, they all came to witness.
The family temple is different from the ancestral hall, the ancestral hall is a place to worship the ancestors of the big family of the Ye family in the big day, and even in order to strengthen the cohesion in recent years, the family elders of the Chen family, the Jiang family, and the Huang family have also moved here to worship.
The family temple is a place where a family worships their direct ancestors, of course, ordinary families cannot have a family temple, only the patriarch's house like Ye Kai's family or a large number of people and flourishing descendants are cherry
He Xiwen grinned and glared at Ye Kai very covertly, because he had just found out that he had been pitted!
He has always regarded Ye Kai as the head of the Ye family, because this Ye Hou Ye is so eye-catching that many people have forgotten that Ye Fulai is the real patriarch of the Ye family.
It's okay now, He Xiwen thought that he had taken advantage of Ye Kai and became his eldest brother, but now, He Xiwen was quite a bit crying and laughing.
He hasn't become a big brother yet, it is estimated that he has to have one more father first, this is about a brother witnessed by a bunch of people, isn't Ye Kai's father his father, and his father will have a little request in the future, will he listen to it or not?
And now it's not just the two of them who are bowing to each other, Ye Kai also pulled Gu Lihuan in.
He Xiwen didn't agree, but after suddenly finding that there was still a Ye Fulai on his head, He Xiwen suddenly felt that it didn't matter, his father had one more, and he still cared about a second brother!
Of course, Ye Kai didn't add Gu Lihuan in order to make up the numbers, he went to Europe immediately, here in the Ye family, he has to rely on his cousin Ye Huan to master, Tuntian, business, etc., the most suitable successor in his heart is Gu Lihuan.
But the Ye family is a family-style group linked by the clan, Gu Lihuan is a foreigner, not from Guangdong but from Fujian, after Ye Kai leaves, he will definitely not be able to command the Ye family!
So Ye Kai pulled him into the sworn team, so that after Gu Lihuan became Ye Kai's second brother, he would be the Ye family's own person, and he would have sufficient qualifications and reasons to direct the rest of the Ye family to do things.
It's just that He Xiwen, who was originally going to be Ye Kai's eldest brother, was completely speechless, he was now trapped by Ye Kai, and he was originally evenly divided between the two powerful factions, and after adding a Gu Lihuan who had no strength, the feeling of being a king side by side was gone, not to mention that there was an extra father!
So He Xiwen, who felt that he definitely didn't lose before, now finds that he has lost at least 100 million.
The ritual of chopping the head of a chicken and burning yellow paper has been seen the most in later generations, when it is in Hong Kong movies, which is a custom that has been passed down for thousands of years.
Receiving a righteous son to worship his father, marrying a brother with a different surname, is the most important part of the Chinese style of Jianghu culture, starting from the famous Liu Guan Zhang Taoyuan righteousness, the righteous marriage Jinlan has become the most advanced and sacred ritual in the rivers and lakes.
This point is deeply engraved on the soul of every Chinese Rao, and many times the righteous brothers and righteous brothers will be even closer than their own brothers.
The meaning of cutting off the head of the chicken is very simple, that is, to take a majestic and majestic rooster to cut off the head of the chicken, and the burning of yellow paper is a person holding a piece of yellow paper, on which is written the eight characters of the birthday of Rao and the poisonous oath that needs to be made when bowing.
When the worshipper finishes the prayer, he sprinkles the blood of the rooster on the yellow paper, and then burns the yellow paper, and the prayer is completed.
"I, Ye Kai, He Xiwen, and Gu Lihuan are about brothers with different surnames today, and in the future, we should support each other, work together, and create a great cause. If there is a disobedience, cut off the children and grandchildren! ”
The three of them read the oath aloud, others swore in front of Yue Wumu in the martial temple, and the three of them swore to the spiritual position of Shao Wuzi.
After reading it aloud, Zhang Chaorong, who was already in charge of the ceremony, cut off the head of the rooster with a knife, the rooster that lost its head was still struggling, and the blood of the chicken was sprinkled all over the three of them, and Ah Shan, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly brought the brazier over, and the three of them immediately threw the yellow paper into the brazier.
"Licheng!" Zhang Chaorong, who was in charge of the ceremony, shouted loudly, and then three bowls of wine stained with a little chicken blood were served, and the three of them took it and drank it all!
"Big brother!"
"Second brother!"
"Third brother!"
No matter what the three of them thought in their hearts, they were still excited on the surface, as if they had really become brothers so far.
In fact, it's just that Ye Kai didn't feel very sacred in his heart, but in the eyes of others, the three of them will really be like brothers in the future!
This is actually the embodiment of the spirit of the Chinese contract, which represents three people who are not related by blood and have become brothers through a yellow piece of contract.
After drinking the chicken blood wine, it was natural to talk about the wine banquet, and the three of them held hands and drank drunk!
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The 700 people who need to be dismissed have been selected, and these dismissed soldiers will return to the various settlements and villages around Pattani, and in the future, they will be responsible for the training of Ding Zhuang in the village, as well as the security of the village.
All the Ye family members scattered between Pattani and Johor moved back to the area around Pattani after a month of intermittent migration.
In the past, there was no way to feed so many people, so they could only scatter and explore, but now with the land along the Tani River and the mature fields cultivated by other Malays, it can fully feed these hundreds of thousands of people.
So in the past month, according to Ye Kai's meaning, the Ye family has concentrated in several places near Pattani, especially by the Tani River, and the Ye family will also build a city in the river bay!
Of course, this is also to protect the clan and the clan property along the Tani River, after the first battle of Pattani, the hostility of the Malay natives towards the Ye family has risen sharply, and it is very dangerous to scatter the clansmen outside.
After the dismissal of 700 people, there were more than 1,200 people left in this barracks, a black flag with a leaf character and a red flag with a Tang character, which were solemnly handed to Ye Huan's hand by Ye Kai
From now on, Ye Huan is the commander of the first target of the Ye family in Nanyang, directly in charge of the thousand clan soldiers, when Ye Kai is there, he accepts Ye Kai's command, and when Ye Kai is not there, he will obey Ye Fulai's arrangement to a certain extent.
The left battalion commander is Huang Laosi, and the battalion commander of the right battalion is Chen Wenqi.
As for the independent brigade of Huashantang, the captain was temporarily replaced by Zeng Qianhu, because Ye Kai had already decided to bring his cousins Ye Ming and He Yuer to Europe.
After awarding the flag and announcing the appointment, Ye Kai led everyone to his camp, and the clan soldiers were established, and the corresponding treatment must follow.
The standing 1,000-man pacesetters were given 30 acres of fertile land by the Tani River for each soldier, and a total of 1/2 silver for monthly salaries and other supplies, as well as food and clothing.
The non-reserve soldiers scattered to the villages were given ten acres of land, paid one tael of silver a month, and were not responsible for food, but they had four sets of standing military uniforms and necessary weapons a year.
On the surface, because there is no such suitable land, it is just allocated to each family's house, and secretly it must be to weaken the control of the clan chief and clan elders over the clan soldiers.
The scattered non-reserve soldiers need to maintain a two-one exercise, generally in units of twenty people, with a tent commander as an officer to manage, and the shed commander must not only lead the soldiers to practice, but also test their bayonet skills, musket loading speed and marksmanship.
At the same time, the clan soldiers need to be responsible for training Ding Zhuang, who is not given land and monthly salary in the village, and they need to do weekly exercises under the supervision of the clan soldiers, and there will be corresponding requirements for the use of muskets.
All this training and assessment is to ensure the mobilization ability of the Ye family soldiers, according to Ye Kai's requirements, the Ye family soldiers must be able to mobilize the number of people to 3,000 when they are mobilized, and all of them are equipped with muskets.
When the Red mobilized, they were able to raise the number to 10,000 to 12,000 men, most of whom were armed with muskets.
With such mobilization capabilities, whether it is a Bugis or a Dutchman, the Ye family can cope with it!