Bullying a businessman, Zhu Jinglun actually didn't want to, who told him to be too short of money. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now there are more than 3,000 people to feed, 2,000 smokers and 1,000 coolies, they can't afford to support them, and Hou Jin insisted on recruiting another 800 people for him.

The Hakka people are really very poor, when Hou Jin began to recruit soldiers in the prisoner coolies yesterday, telling them that the salary is the same as that of foreigners, almost everyone is willing to sign up, after all, they are still prisoners, and they are trembling and don't know how the government will send them down, and now the government is recruiting them, this is Zhao'an, and they will definitely not want their lives, and there is money to take, so fools don't do it.

But Hou Jin made a very obedient request, that is, let their patriarch come to collect people, let them register their names and places of origin, so that they could inform their clan.

At this time, these people hesitated, they didn't want to involve the clan, they worked as coolies for foreigners, they all used fake names, what kind of necks, monkey faces and the like, but now the government wants them to tell their clan, is it to find trouble with the clan?

After hesitating for a long time, under Hou Jin's repeated persuasion, someone decided to take a risk.

When several nearby patriarchs came to recognize and confirm that they were correct, the patriarch didn't want to cause trouble, and the children of his family went to work for foreigners because they couldn't eat, and went to be foreigners' ghost soldiers, and they also knew about it, and even took the initiative to encourage them to go, but this was against the government and the court, and they were inevitably apprehensive. As soon as they heard that Hou Jin called them to come, one was to recognize the people, and the other was just to let them be a guarantor, so they all agreed, and wrote a letter of guarantee, guaranteeing that these people would never flee as soldiers, and if they fled back to the clan, they would definitely be captured and sent to the government.

In this way, the first batch of coolies became village warriors who vouched for the family, and the remaining coolies became active, reporting their clans one after another, and asking people to invite their own family heads. Early the next morning, more than 800 people signed up. In the end, after screening, a total of 800 people were accepted, and those coolies who were eliminated either did not have a clan, or the clan was unwilling to give them a guarantee, so they could only continue to stay in prison as prisoners.

Seeing that among the 1,000 coolies, 800 people could be recruited, Zhu Jinglun couldn't help but sigh that the clan power of the Hakka people was so great, if it was a Cantonese person, it would definitely not be able to reach such a ratio, that is, the manhole Lian Yong recruited by Chen Gui, and the proportion of the children of the Chen family was not half.

What surprised him even more was that among the 800 Hakka children, there were more than 30 literate people, and the literacy rate was really not low, on average, one out of more than 20 people was literate, which was higher than the average literacy rate of the Qing Dynasty, but you must know that these people are just coolies with the worst economic conditions, and they are definitely not rich children.

When asked, I learned that the Hakka clan is very powerful, maybe not every clan is very rich, and even some clans, the whole clan is a tenant of a certain landlord, but many clans have a tradition of insisting on education, as long as their ancestors have a certain generation, they will leave a considerable amount of property as public property that cannot be distributed, these public properties may be acres of land, or houses, collectively referred to as sacrificial industries, reported in the government, told that the government is as their family sacrificial clan industry, in the era of filial piety governance, Even when these sacrificial industries are raided, the government will open up the net. There is a section in the Dream of Red Mansions, where wealthy people such as the Jia family also spend their efforts to buy a sacrificial property, just in case. When Wu Bingjian divided the Wu family, he added all the savings of his father Wu Guoying's life to the sacrificial industry without any reservations, and only the newly added assets of the Wu family in the Wu Bingjian era.

These sacrificial industries are often centered on the ancestral hall, with fields and schools, so as long as a certain clan has passed a certain era, it is very likely to buy an ancestral hall and a family school for the children of the clan to study for a long time, so there are many very poor families who can even study in the clan family school. It's just that the optics can read, and if you want to take the imperial examination, it is also very difficult, without inviting famous teachers and Confucians, just by self-study, there will not be a single talent in several generations, so the dozens of scholars recruited by Zhu Jinglun are limited to literacy, and according to their words, they can only come out to make a living after enlightenment, and they are not in school.

But this is already an unexpected surprise, and no one can better understand the difficulty of recruiting a scholar in the Qing Dynasty than Zhu Jinglun. Although the level of these people is not high, they are just enlightened, not to mention showing talents, and there is not even a child, but who will be a coolie if they really have the identity of a child?

Therefore, Zhu Jinglun even directly selected these people and used them as the seeds of military officers, not only selected a few Indian officers who could already speak a few simple Cantonese words to train them in various military skills, but also specially invited a bookkeeper in Xin'an City to teach them arithmetic and bookkeeping.

After arranging these things, Zhu Jinglun immediately rushed to the manhole market, the Chen family's loss this time was too heavy, although the Chen family decided that this was their business, but Zhu Jinglun could not pretend to be innocent, if it were not for the fact that he led the troops to be stationed in the manhole market, the foreigners might not find where to go, and even to a certain extent, Zhu Jinglun stationed the troops in the manhole market, just to attract foreigners, is to transfer the tiger away from the mountain. The sacrifice of the manhole was part of Zhu Jinglun's plan, but Zhu Jinglun really didn't expect the price paid by the Chen family of the manhole to be so big.

One thousand children of the Chen family, after the two battles of Xin'an City and Shajingxu, have lost more than 500 people, and most of them are young and strong in the clan, it can be said that they have lost a whole generation of young people, which is on the verge of extinction for a feudal clan.

When Zhu Jinglun arrived at Chen's house, Chen Zhiting was organizing people to bury the dead and worship their ancestors in the family ancestral hall.

“…… Do not cut off the incense in every room...... Since then, people of all clans, regardless of their relatives near and far, rich or poor, can enter the Chen family's school...... The bloodline of the Chen family will live forever, share honor and disgrace, and be rich and noble! ”

Zhu Jinglun didn't bother, but quietly listened to Chen Zhiting leading the people surnamed Chen to swear to their ancestors, and with him, they were all men, from the white-haired old man to the infant baby, and finally kowtowed together, sacrificed wine, and put three animals.

Probably Zhu Jinglun understood the content, the Chen family did hit too hard this time, five hundred young people died in battle, and there were more wounded, many of them have lost their ability to work, as well as fertility, it can be said that they can really continue the prime of life, I am afraid that there are not even three hundred, for a large family that has moved here since the Southern Song Dynasty and multiplied for thousands of years, if special measures are not taken, although the entire clan will not be destroyed, but many branches that have been separated may be extinct.

The measures of the Chen family are that if there is no branch without heirs, the clan will be the master, make an oath in front of the clan tablet, and pass on a male from other branches, and those who are capable will succeed the young and be raised; Those who are incapable, inherit a strong labor, provide for the elderly, and continue the incense.

Another important content is that all people surnamed Chen are allowed to study at the Shajing Family School in the future. This is quite rare, you must know that the Shajing Chen family school is a well-known school. The key is that the teachers here are all well-known Confucians. Even if it is placed in the entire Canton, it is quite level.

Such a thousand-year-old clan, the accumulation of the heritage is extremely profound, they are best known for the ancestor once married the princess of the Song Dynasty, and even the ancestral hall is called the horse house, but the princess of the Song Dynasty is not so easy to marry, and the princess itself proves that their family has been quite successful before.

Their ancestor Chen Menglong was a concubine, but Chen Menglong's grandfather Chen Junqing was already an important minister of the imperial court, and even Yu Yunwen, a famous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, was recommended by Chen Junqing. Chen Junqing's son Chen Yingyuan is not as good as his father, but he is also an official like Yin of Tianfu. With the accumulation of two generations of his father and ancestors, Chen Menglong has the capital to marry a princess.

After Chen Menglong's death, the Southern Song Dynasty perished, his son moved to Lingnan with his bones on his back, and pioneered for thousands of years. Chen Junhui of Yabian Village, Ende Township, near Shajing, was born as a Jinshi in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), and was awarded the magistrate of Ji County, Weihui Prefecture. In You, Chen Gui is a native of Jinshi, and has served as the head of the household department.

Therefore, although he is not a high-ranking official eunuch, he can be called an official eunuch in front of an ordinary gentleman family; In front of the ordinary eunuchs, they have more heritage and can be called a thousand-year-old family.

The talents who went out of the Chen family school, although there are no champions, and there are not many jinshi, but the show talent and lifting people are a big handful, and Lingnan is much worse in humanities than Jiangnan, so the Chen family school here in Shajing can be called the school that local scholars dream of entering.

It is now open to all members of the Chen clan, whether rich or poor, which gives a great hope to those who have fallen into poverty. As long as one child is promoted, the whole family and even the family can turn over. Perhaps it won't be long before many Chen families will rise.

Silently calculating the significance of Chen Zhiting's re-establishment of family rules this time, Zhu Jinglun suddenly found that this clan system may not be flexible enough in the face of the unpredictable new era, but in the face of the crisis, there is a special resilience, perhaps it is this resilience that allows them to survive from the danger of extinction again and again.

In the past, Zhu Jinglun had the impression that this kind of feudal clan under the Confucian patriarchal system was feudal dross without any merits, but this time Chen's method of coping with the crisis made him have to admit that this clan system, which has lasted in China for thousands of years, still has its merits.

Perhaps it is time for me to re-examine traditional institutions and culture.

Just thinking about it, Chen Zhiting had finished sacrificing to his ancestors and was invited by his disciples to meet with Zhu Jinglun.

Zhu Jinglun was very concerned: "Brother Chen, is there anything that needs to be done next?" ”

He really wanted to do something for the Chen family, so as to make up for the damage he caused to the Chen family.

Unexpectedly, Chen Zhiting was very stubborn: "When my brother was there, he said first, 'Don't tell the gentry, don't give to the official, donate and fight'." ”

Zhu Jinglun arched his hand, the Chen family planned to resist by himself, of course, he didn't intend to just express his admiration.

"You don't have to fight with me. If I can't do anything else, I will try my best to write to the Guangzhou Mansion and ask the court to exempt your family from the food payment for the coming year. It's time for your family to breathe a sigh of relief! ”

Chen Zhiting sighed, hugged his fists and saluted, inheriting this favor, it has never been the style of this big family to be competitive, they are more of the golden mean.

Zhu Jinglun also said: "I know that your family may not be willing to accept government relief, but if you are in need, I am personally very willing to help you." Probably soon I'll be a rich man! ”

Zhu Jinglun said very uncontrollably, he really felt that he was about to get rich, as long as Fang Shan acted strictly according to his plan, he would have the opportunity to make a fortune.