Chapter Eighty-Three: Wu Jin Yun's Family

"The Qingzhang over there in Biling is over?" Zhu Jianjun looked at the accounts in his hand and asked Yu Mian.

Yu Mian said: "Exactly, the minister naturally does not dare to deceive the prince. ”

Zhu Jianjun said: "This shouldn't be." ”

Zhu Jianjun has personally measured in the field, so he naturally knows that the workload in it will not be completed in Wujin County alone. However, the progress on the side of Biling was somewhat beyond Zhu Jianjun's expectations.

Biling is the name of the ancient county of the Qin and Han dynasties, but it has been drowned in the dust of history this morning.

Now the land in this area is Changzhou, not Biling.

But this does not mean that the name of Piling has completely disappeared.

At least at this time in the Ming Dynasty, there was a village under the jurisdiction of Wujin County, called Biling, which was in the capital city of Changzhou, that is, fifteen miles east of Wujin County.

Of course, this is not just talking about a place in Piling, but a large number of villages in the direction of Piling, that is, villages in the east and southeast of Wujin.

Yu Mian said: "The Yun family has made great efforts. ”

When Zhu Jianjun heard this name, he immediately remembered it.

If you don't go to Changzhou Wujin, many people probably haven't heard of this surname, but if you haven't heard of this name after coming to Changzhou, you can only say that it is too lonely and unheard.

Without him, the Yun family is a big surname in Changzhou, and 99% of China's Yun surnames are in Changzhou, and some of the rest are from Changzhou.

In later generations, Yun Daiying, the founding martyr of this dynasty, was the queen of the Yun family in Changzhou. It is also a first-class family today.

Now the surname Yun in Changzhou may not be the first surname in Changzhou, after all, there is still the surname Zhao in Changzhou, and the surname Wang is also a family heirloom of poetry and books, and the family tree is turned up, and some say that it is Wang Xie in the old days. Some say that it was after the Tianshui Dynasty.

Everything has a great background, and the children are also very competitive.

But when it comes to the Yun family, no one can ignore it in Changzhou.

During this period of time in Changzhou, Zhu Jianjun naturally couldn't ignore the Yun family, and he still knew a lot about the Yun family.

The Yun family has lived in Changzhou for generations, and the indeed, Changzhou natives, unlike many other surnames, many of them have migrated from other places.

However, the genealogy of the Yun family says that their ancestors lived in Biling in the late Western Han Dynasty as Liang Wangxiang. But the generations are old, and it is not credible, after all, the ancient family tree is the same as the modern people. Like to find a prominent ancestor.

However, during the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a person in the Yun family who became a scholarly family, which made the Yun family rich.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Yun Shixing took the township teenagers to protect the territory and the people, and was quite prestigious in this place, but when the world was decided, he disbanded the township teenagers and distributed some good land by the river to other clans. He took on the conscription himself.

In this way, nature has great prestige in the countryside.

Now the head of the Yun family is the grandson of Yun Shixing, Yun Yong. He is also over seventy years old, and he is very prestigious in the local area, and the locals call him Mrs. Yun.

Since the beginning of Yun Shixing, the Yun family has actively cooperated with all the measures of the imperial court, and the Yun family has responded instead of everything that the imperial court has explained.

During the orthodox years, the old man Yun Yong donated grain to the imperial court twice, totaling more than 2,000 stones.

Now in the ancestral hall of the Yun family, there is also a plaque of righteous people issued by the imperial court, which can be regarded as a symbol of the honor of the Yun family.

Although the Yun family is not really rich.

But there are many Yun families, from the Southern Song Dynasty Jinshi to the present, the Yun family has developed six or seven generations, divided into two branches, the north branch is the long branch, in the Southern Song Dynasty it was an official eunuch family, but to the Ming Dynasty, it was the south branch that prospered, and the old lady Yun was the south branch.

But his branch has become the speaker of the Yun family, which can be seen in general.

This is the rise and fall of the Yun family, but on the whole, the Yun family has developed rapidly, and many places in the southeast of Wujin are the villages of the Yun family.

Therefore, with the power of the Yun family, it is not difficult to take out so much money.

If the old man Yun is in the same style as before, he actively cooperates with the land, first private and then public. It is not impossible for the work of Qingzhang to progress rapidly.

Zhu Jianjun couldn't help but sigh and said, "If everyone in the world is like a Yun family, why not ask for the world to be cured." ”

Zhu Jianjun's idea is normal in this era.

Under the regulations of Emperor Taizu, the imperial power did not go to the countryside, so the end of the Ming administrative system relied on these clans and village sages to rule.

At the beginning of each prefectural order, I always have to visit the local fathers and elders.

What is a Local Elder?

Ordinary people do not live to be sixty or seventy, and even if they do, they cannot be called fathers.

People like Yun Yong are the so-called fathers and elders in the local area.

Of course, people like Yun Yong are still in the middle of the food chain of their fathers and elders, because the Yun family can only be called a local powerhouse, not a gentry.

Because although there are many people in the Yun family who are food chiefs, they are not considered officials in the eyes of the government, but they are the official positions of big men in the eyes of the people.

But this is not always an official.

Only if someone in the family is out of the family, the Yun family will be a different situation.

In history, the efforts of several generations of the Yun family finally produced a jinshi in the Hongzhi period, and after that, the fame is endless, and the talents are numerous, and it has been extended to the present.

A country's upward trend is not only manifested in finance, but also in popular morale.

In the ideal political ecology of Confucianism, it is a very ideal state for the government to cooperate with these virtuous gentry to govern the locality.

In this era, there are still many virtuous gentry in the world like the Yun family. But Yu Mian knows Jiangnan better than him, after all, Yu Mian grew up in Hangzhou, and it is also a township. He said: "Your Highness, the Yun family is good, but there are some things Your Highness also has to think about, I heard that the family that followed the Yun family to protect the territory and the people, as well as the Jin family, the Pan family and several other families, and where are these families now?" ”

Zhu Jianjun listened, frowned slightly, and looked through the yellow book, although there are these surnames, many of them are no longer among the big surnames.

What happened, Zhu Jianjun doesn't have to think about it, after all, in the decades since the founding of the country, there have been too many storms, major cases at the beginning of the country, and the migration of people from Jiangnan to Fengyang and other places.

Perhaps, their descendants are not worthy of the same thing.

There are so many possibilities.

He just looked at the results.

If you think about it, you will know that the family that was able to join forces with the Yun family at the beginning, even if it is weaker than the Yun family, will not be too weak. But now that these families are gone, the Yun family is becoming more and more prosperous.

Zhu Jianjun frowned slightly and said, "What does this mean?" ”

Yu Mian said: "Although loyalty and righteousness have been passed down for a long time, the big family may not have any selfishness. ”

Yu Mian has also heard of these things, and the Yu family is not a big family in Hangzhou. It can even be said that it is very thin, but Hangzhou is not without big families.

Among the twists and turns, Yu Mian has never seen it, but he has also heard it.

Zhu Jianjun pondered for a while and said, "Let's go to Yunjia." I want to meet Old Man Yun. ”

It's not that Zhu Jianjun hasn't done anything for a while, he understands at least one thing, in local administration, it is often impossible to bypass these local clans. Or rather, big ones.

Especially the grain chief system of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to prevent the officials from exploiting the people, Emperor Taizu let the people bear the responsibility of collecting, collecting, and escorting the grain tax, and the people who bear these burdens are the grain chiefs.

Generally, these grain chiefs are from large families.

Among the several grain chiefs in Wujin County, one of them is from the Yun family.

This situation is not only in Wujin County, but also in many places. Under the county, the Ming Dynasty's ruling model was semi-autonomous.

The root of this model is the township covenant.

This family gift made by Zhu Xi is actually the origin of many familiar big family models. The only difference is that the family rite is the same surname, and the township covenant is with different surnames, and many big families talk together to deal with things in the village or town.

You can even use lynching, many times, I don't want to tarnish the reputation of the family because of the lawsuit, many things are decided by the family itself, and the official is not seen.

Zhu Jianjun has heard of this form, but he has never seen the specific situation.

Later generations have certainly criticized this model extremely, but every system, when it was first born, has its vitality.