The structure of the Zuo clan and all other clans is the same: the patriarch is the central figure, holding the right to distribute the public property within the clan, such as public wealth, public land, and public party.

At the same time, the most prestigious elders of each house would form a dual council with the patriarch to negotiate matters within the clan.

In recent times, there have been meetings in the clan more frequently than in the past.

A few days ago, when the Land Acquisition Office first entered the village, there was a meeting in the clan, and the only consensus reached at the meeting was to "wait and see what happens". Not long after, however, the second emergency meeting began. This time, the topic is how to deal with the scum Zuo Ping in the clan.

Speaking of Zuo Ping, this person is also a strange one. In their generation, Zuo Ping ranks seventeen, so people usually call him Zuo Seventeen.

The seventeenth on the left is the second son of the sixth room. When this gentleman became an adult, he received the property rights of 70 acres of land from his family, and he didn't want this goods to suddenly become addicted to gambling after the death of his parents, so he sold more than 30 acres of land to the clansmen after going around for a few years.

Originally, no one cared about this kind of thing, which big family didn't have a few scum? Seriously, many people are watching from the sidelines, waiting for the next time the goods are lost, the title deed will be released to continue to bid.

I don't want a thunderbolt on a sunny day: the land acquisition office for renting a stack is here.

Where there is competition, there is contrast. After observing for a period of time, Zuo Seventeen found that this rented house for land collection was indeed Tong Suo, real money, so his mind moved.

You must know that he only has 40 acres of land left in his hands, and most of them are not good land, that is, ordinary middle and lower fields.

Then if the land is exchanged according to the conditions given by the rent, he can get 60 acres of neat land in other counties. In this way, his assets have increased a lot, whether it is to continue to rent or to lose the bet in the future and sell it, it is a kind of attack, retreat and defense.

So Zuo Seventeen secretly went to Fengxian to take a turn, and after inquiring about the specific situation with the rich peasants who ate crabs, this gambler was really tempted.

However, it is not so easy to sell land, and there is a hidden problem to be solved: theoretically, he can only sell land to the clan.

This is necessary and understandable: the clan is not a joint-stock company for future generations, and if the descendants are allowed to sell the land to outsiders, it will not take a few generations for the clan to disappear.

But Zuo Seventeen really wants to get out of the clan, he just wants to stay away from those clansmen who mock him all day long and wait to take advantage of him.

He is a man with dreams, he doesn't want to be trampled under his feet for the rest of his life, he has waited for a few years, just to wait for an opportunity to get into the gambling house and kill all sides and get rich overnight. Then tell everyone that what he lost must be returned!

Now that the land requisition office has appeared, Zuo Seventeen's opportunity has finally arrived, so he didn't hesitate anymore, and knocked on the back door in the middle of the night, planning to have a good talk with this group of land collectors.

The result of the conversation was very satisfying: the land acquisition office agreed to place his plot in Xiaoshan. In this way, he will run away to Shaoxing, and in the future, across the Qiantang River, the clan will not be able to do anything with him.

So someone went home in a hurry and prepared the title deed.

However, what Zuo Seventeen didn't expect was that early the next morning, he was escorted into the ancestral hall, and inside were the members of the Senate who were waiting for him.

Who betrayed him? Brother and sister-in-law across the wall.

Under the reminder of the family law (red lacquer stick), Zuo Seventeen quickly confided in everything. After that, he was given another board, and then ordered to stay at home to recuperate from his wounds, and not to go anywhere.

As for his title deed, after being discussed by the clan, it will be kept by his brother, and if Zuo 17 wants to sell the land in the future, everything will be handled by his brother.

To tell the truth, this result is already very fair and merciful from the perspective of the clan. Zuo Seventeen didn't lose anything except for being beaten with a stick, if he really wanted to sell the land, he would still get silver, but it was the internal price of the clan.

But things in the world are never so simple. The eggs are already broken, can you expect the flies to let them go?

On the day that Zuo 17 was repaired, a certain county secretary office rushed to the injured person's home to offer condolences after hearing the news. After that, Yu Bende put his hands behind his back, hummed a little song, and came to the door of Zuo's house and asked to see Zuo Hongtang.

Zuo Hongtang naturally didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly invited someone Yu to the hall to watch tea.

From the perspective of the large class, in ancient times, there was a clear saying of "scholars and people, industry and commerce". However, this is only a crude division, and within each class, according to the strength of the class, there will be many smaller classes.

For the "rich" class of the Ming Dynasty, there were also several divisions.

Excluding those royal relatives and relatives, it is naturally the gentry class that occupies the top of the food chain. The real gentleman refers to a "high-level intellectual family" in which someone from the family is a prominent person, or at least a family with a person who has raised or retired officials in the township.

If this kind of family is operated properly, if someone from generation to generation is prominent, then the clansman can engrave the high-end nameplate of "poetry and book heirloom" on the door of the brain. This title sounds very elegant, but it represents a top magnate who eats people and does not spit out bones.

The government has no way to deal with this kind of family, and Xu Jie is the best example: in his career as a first assistant, the Xu family has constantly embezzled hundreds of thousands of acres of land in his hometown.

Later, after Gao Gong made Hai Rui the governor of Yingtian (Jiangsu + Shanghai - Provincial Wei Shuji), the super anti-corruption stunned Qinghai Rui was ready to fight a dozen local tyrants in the jurisdiction. When he found out that the Xu family was the biggest local tyrant in the entire Southern Zhili, he began to confiscate the land, and by the way, he also arrested Xu Jie's son.

However, this is useless: Xu Jie, an old comrade who has taken a back seat, found a relationship, spent a little money, and transferred Hai Rui away - there is a cloud in the time: the prime minister of the family can chase the style of the imperial court.

This is the strength of the top gentry family: Hai Rui was still sent away by two moves, and those officials, big and small, on weekdays, are even more inseparable from the fetters of relationships within the officialdom.

So the gentry are in fact the biggest moths of the state: they turn a large number of yeoman farmers into tenant farmers of their own, and the large amount of land they occupy is not taxed, which is equivalent to putting the state treasury into their own pockets.

To some extent, this is the true meaning of "the king and the scholars rule the world together": the emperor allows the senior scholars to share in the state taxes.

Below the top gentry, there is the ordinary gentry class. This kind of is usually the kind where only one generation has come out, or the younger generation has not been connected after the death of the older generation, but the relationship between the DPRK and China is still there, and the residual power still exists.

Even this kind of gentleman is not something that the government can handle. The family pays the tax of 500 acres of land, but there are still 1,000 acres that do not pay taxes - the main body of tax collection is the county government, whether it is the sesame county order or the dick Sixu official, there is also no way in front of this kind of people.

The next thing is the local tyrant in the countryside who talks about "farming and reading heirlooms" every day.

This kind of family is the third order of the pyramid, there have been no big officials in the clan, but small officials and small officials are continuous, deeply rooted in the local area, hidden fields and hidden households are common, tax arrears are standard actions, and county tax officials are often in a bargaining mode.

And the Zuo family, who Yu Bende came to talk to today, is the lowest level of the pyramid: the local tyrant in the countryside.

This family is the most numerous country power. This generation has no political energy, and can dominate the local area, default on taxes, and rely on tonnage: hundreds or thousands of clans, united to fight with tax collectors.

And the reason why Yu Bende chose Zuojia Village in front of Xiong Dao was also because he was self-aware: Zuojia Village was close to the port on the one hand, and on the other hand, because there was no political family here that cultivated and read heirlooms, and Xu officials like him could barely carry out here.

After entering the hall, the two sides watched the seats and served tea. Yu Bende was not in a hurry at all, he unhurriedly raised the lid of the tea bowl and watched the water droplets on it fall into the bowl attentively.

And Zuo Hongtang, who has big ears, does not have such qi cultivation skills. You must know that on the first day of the land acquisition office, he sent someone to invite Yu Bende in private, but he was rejected by the other party.

So he has been waiting to meet Yu Bende these days: "Master Yu, I can look forward to you today, what is the inside story behind this land purchase, please give me advice!" ”

Yu Bende nodded with a smile. Although he didn't come to Zuojia Village many times, and he wasn't very familiar with Zuo Hongtang, today he obviously felt that the head of the family was not confident enough.

Thinking of this, Yu Bende opened his mouth and said: "Master Zuo, this land purchase is explained by the big man above, and the villain is just running errands and helping out." ”

Zuo Hongtang couldn't help but feel nervous when he saw this old official so determined: "Oh, I don't know if it's enough?" ”

"Nature is not enough." Yu Bende curled the corners of his mouth. This kind of family without political energy, his tone is very equal: "Counting all the land in Zuojia Village, there is still about some owe." ”

"Huh!?" Zuo Hongtang was shocked: "Where is the big man from?" Appetite is not small! ”

Yu Bende didn't bother to explain to these rural buns, even if he said it, the deputy general who was recruited to guard Xiamen represented had no concept of what these rural buns had no idea: "It's the big threshold in the house, the housekeeper is still in the county, and the rest of the villains don't know much." ”

After coping with a sentence, Yu Bende finally said the purpose: "Master Zuo, this hindering the errand is not like what people like you do?" ”

Zuo Hongtang still didn't recover from the shock just now. In his impression, it seems that only the emperor's relatives have the ability to uproot the people of a place, so he will not be very focused, and after thinking about it, he realized that Yu Bende was asking the guilt: "Master Yu, please make it clear, why has the Zuo family stopped you from doing errands in the past few days?" ”

"Hehe, then Zuo Seventeen is lying on the bed, how can I hinder it?"

When Zuo Hongtang heard this, he instantly understood, and then he was immediately furious: "That beast is my Zuo family's private matter, so you don't have to worry about this, right?" ”

"How does Master Zuo attack his nephew, it really doesn't belong to the villain. But for now, this document is in charge of the villain. ”

When Yu Bende said this, he slowly took out a deed from his arms and put it on the table. Take a hundred plating on the latest chapter of "Luming Claw Book House" to read it for free for the first time.