Chapter 85: Who Wants to Be an Official?

"Li Weng, I see that Uncle Nine is most likely hysterical, and the private property and private land in the third room are not his alone, how can he return them to the public middle school?

And our Ye family has not done this for hundreds of years, if everything is returned to the public school, what are we people desperately trying to cultivate everywhere for? Don't you just want to have a share of the family business to pass on to future generations! ”

The people who came out to oppose this time have not been following Ye Wenxin, but have always supported Ye Fulai's Liufang clan elders, and his words are not unreasonable, if they do what Ye Wenxin said, then it will not be 'centralization' but a collective commune.

The atmosphere in the Zhongyi Hall cooled down, and the property of each house and family was taken back to the public middle school, and the power of the patriarch was continuously strengthened, which was not started by Ye Kai, but planned from Ye Kai's grandfather, Ye Longxin.

Therefore, all the patriarchs and clan elders in this Zhongyi Hall, except for Ye Fushun, who does not have much land and private property, basically do not support it, and they also maintain a high vigilance against this.

"Fourth uncle, at this time and that time, now in this Pettani and other places, the Malay indigenous people are multiplying day by day, thirty years ago they were about the same number as us, and now they are more than three times as many as us.

If we can't concentrate our strength, in another twenty years, the Malays will be five or six times as large as us, and with the connivance of the Western Yi people, will there still be a foothold for my Ye clan in this land of Pattani? Ye Fulai still didn't say anything, Ye Kai had no choice but to sigh and start speaking.

"But if you want to take back the private property and private land of each house, won't all their years of hard work be in vain? I think in this way, we don't need the Malays to fight, we will have to break up ourselves! ”

The fourth uncle of the sixth room looked at Ye Kai with an angry face, he felt that Ye Kai was simply young and vigorous, and when he got the title of Siamese, he knew that he was a few pounds and a few taels, and he was completely irresponsible!

Looking at the anger of this fourth uncle, Ye Kai also sneered, these private properties and private fields are said to belong to each house, but in fact, they are all in the hands of these patriarchs and clan elders, how can ordinary family members and newcomers have any private property?

They are actually similar to these old tenants, that is, they don't have to pay the same taxes as the mainland, but Ye Kai can't fight with them now, so he can only think of other ways.

Before returning to Pattani, His Majesty the First King of Siam promised me that as long as we help the Siamese people to win Pattani, the First King will establish a governor's palace in Pattani, and the governor will be held by the Siamese and stationed in Songkhla.

The deputy governor will be my father, and the deputy governor's yamen will be set up in our Pattani, below this deputy governor, there will naturally be officials at all levels, although it is inevitable that some Siamese people will be officials, but they can't take all the officials, most of the official positions must be left to our Ye family! ”

There are officials! This topic immediately brought up everyone's interest, Chinese have always had two hobbies, one is land, the other is to be an official, the dynasty is Tian Shelang, Twilight Dengtianzitang, the desire of the Chinese people to be an official, has not changed until the 21st century.

"According to my nephew's conjecture, this Pattani Governor's Mansion has to be divided into at least two prefectures and more than a dozen counties, and we Tang people are far more than Tai people, how can His Majesty the First King give up the Ling Yin of seven or eight counties to us!" Ye Kai continued, while paying attention to the expressions and demeanors of everyone around him.

Sure enough, as soon as the word Ling Yin came out, the expressions of the people present changed, and the patriarchs and clan elders who felt that they were qualified to be Ling Yin all showed eager looks.

"Shu Wu, don't lie to your fourth uncle, there is really a county order?" The eyes of the six rooms and the four uncles lit up, and they looked at Ye Kai with 'tiger eyes'.

County order, thinking that after his death, he can engrave the position of XX Ling Yin on the tablet, and he can also draw a portrait of an official uniform to hang in the ancestral ancestral hall, and the fourth uncle is not calm.

"Of course, this time my nephew saved the life of the Siamese crown prince Ishara Songtun, just a few orders Yin, His Majesty the First King will not be stingy!"

"But even if all of us have official positions, what about the clansmen below? How do they live now after receiving private property and private land from the public school? ”

"Yes! Oh, yes! They are all clan relatives, we can't have officials, they eat the soil! ”

After getting Ye Kai's affirmative answer, the clan elders began to discuss, Ye Kai smiled and looked at a fat man with the loudest voice, this is the patriarch of the Chen family, Ye Fulai's cousin.

"Uncle, Shu Wu is not going to take all of everyone's private property and private land into the ownership of our father and son, but to distribute these private properties, especially private land!"

After Ye Kai finished speaking, he watched the crowd begin to quiet down before he continued, "I think so, instead of owning private property and private land in each house and family, it is better to be thorough, let's count all the industries in the clan, and a cultivator will have his own land, according to the oral teaching of the field, the men will be granted thirty acres of land, and the women will be given twenty acres, and in the future, these lands will directly belong to individuals, and they only need to pay a little rent and tax to the clan!" ”

This........!

The clan elders are not calm, they originally thought that these two fathers and sons, one with a red face and one with a white face, wanted to pinch the patriarch's property into their own hands, but I didn't expect that this Ye Fulai father and son were still Li Chuang Wang!

"Shu Wu, there are only four people in the fifth uncle's family, so there can be a maximum of 120 acres of land? What is this enough for? ”

A tall and thin man looked at Ye Kai with a gloomy face, their family now has more than 2,000 acres of land, if they follow Ye Kai's method, 90% of the land will be gone, and his family has been rich for several generations, and he will not farm his own land for a long time, if the clansmen and new guests have fields, even if they don't share his 2,000 acres of land, they will only starve to death.

"Ahem!" Ye Fulai coughed twice, the bad news Ye Kai said, of course, the good news has to be said by him, the patriarch.

"That's what I think, the private property of each family, except for farm tools and grain, the rest of the gold and silver belong to whoever owns.

Of course, everyone has to give a little concession to the price, and whoever sells more private land will be given priority to my official positions at all levels below the deputy governor. After finishing slowly, Ye Fulai looked at the tall and thin man who was still unhappy.

"Old Five! What do you say you're in a hurry? Let me ask you, who are more people in this Pattani? Of course, there are a lot of Malays!

How much tax have they collected from us over the years, can they not spit it out for me? Hundreds of thousands of Malays are here, can they still run? Are you still afraid that no one will farm?

I don't want to say anything else, but in addition to the 50,000 acres of land given to Shuwu by the first king, there are still more than 400,000 acres on the side of the Tani River?

These lands are planted by tens of thousands of Tai people? His Majesty the First King must not let us Tang people take care of it first? If you become an official, isn't it better to eat the difference than your little land? ”

"That's right! Big brother, you're right! Why didn't I think of that? After the Pattani, we are officials, we are superior people, we have to let these Malays come to Lao Tzu as tenants, and this Sultan's Palace is said to be full of gold, just grab some points! ”

The atmosphere in the hall of loyalty and righteousness finally changed from doubts to heat, this land occupied by the Tani River occupied by the Malays, but the most fertile in the whole Pattani, and the Malays in Pattani can't just run away, although they are lazy, but as long as they have a whip in their hands, they are afraid that they can't cure the lazy donkey?

"Ligong, just say what to do! We've already had enough of those black monkeys, the Chen family listens to you, let's fuck the damn vote! ”

"Big brother, the fourth room listens to you, as long as you give me a county order to be in charge, I will give my life to do it with you!"