Chapter 29: The Clans
"You continue to stare at the loom and the spinning machine, and you can't be ambiguous."
Lin Mu was very satisfied with Zhang Yang's efficiency, but he had a lot to do next, and Zhang Yang lacked skills, so he couldn't help but feel that the current manpower was a little stretched.
So he said: "Uncle Zhang, now our Lin family's family business is getting bigger and bigger, Shan Hu is the nursing home, and he needs to be responsible for forming our Lin family's nursing home guard, and he is indispensable for the next group training, Hu has accounts to manage, and now Zhang Yang is responsible for the cloth and spinning, and if the soap workshop is built, we will not be busy." ”
"Young master, the old slave has thought about this matter, in fact, if the young master wants to find more people...... Uncle Zhang reminded.
Lin Mu suddenly remembered in his mind, and he said, "You mean to contact the second and third uncles?" ”
"Yes, young master, in order to prevent the second master and the third master from being involved in the military case, the old man deliberately drove them out of the Lin family compound, and agreed that the old man would not get along with each other, but now that the military case has passed, the young master should also go to the second master and the third master to clarify this matter, if they understand the good intentions of the master, they will definitely come back to help the young master, after all, the three brothers of the Lin family were iron plate back then."
Lin Mu frowned, he always carried the letter left by Feng Lin Shu, which mentioned why he drove away Lin Mu's second and third uncles back then.
Originally, he felt that there was no need to untie this dead knot, and there was nothing wrong with each passing his own way, but now his thoughts were a little shaken.
In feudal society, the people at the bottom are often unable to rely on the government to protect their own interests, are bullied by outsiders, encounter injustice, and the government can not solve the problem by the clan, so the protection of the clan is extremely important in the feudal society, and the people even only know the clan, not the emperor.
Until the establishment of a modern state, the functions of the grassroots government were more efficient and powerful than those of the clans with one surname, so the people with a sense of security abandoned the clan relations that had been passed down for thousands of years, and could live well by relying only on individuals.
However, even so, there is still a strong clan culture in many contemporary places, where the clan still plays an important role at the grassroots level.
Therefore, after thinking about it, Lin Mujue's feudal society like the Chinese Dynasty, the clan relationship is a barrier to protect himself, and the establishment of a modern country needs to destroy the clan relationship where the clan law is greater than the national law is a matter of the future.
Thinking of this, he said: "Uncle Zhang's words are reasonable, especially this group practice, if you can't trust the people to control it, it will be difficult to guarantee that there will be no problems, since Uncle Zhang mentioned the second uncle and the third uncle, do you know where the two of them live now?" “
"Back to the young master, after the master drove them out of the Lin family's compound, the two of them returned to the Lin family's ancestral land and county." Uncle Zhang was happy, he saw that Lin Mu was tempted.
"Clean up, let's go to He County now."
Lin Mu has never dragged his feet in doing things, not to mention that at the moment when he is employing people, if there are Lin children joining in the group training, his command of the team training team will be even more like an arm.
Uncle Zhang answered yes and turned to prepare the carriage.
Lin Mu was also about to go back to clean up, when the guard who followed King Duan yesterday suddenly arrived at the door, saw Lin Mu, and the guard said: Lin Mu said, this is your official robe and official card, Your Royal Highness has reported your official position in the palace, and you will be the attendant of Duanwang's Mansion from today onwards. ”
Lin Mu took the official robe and the official card, the officials of the Chinese Dynasty were graded according to the color of the official robe, his official robe was green, corresponding to the seventh-grade official, and the official card was very simple, just a bronze medal, and the corresponding position and grade were written on it.
"Thank you."
Lin Mu wiped a cold sweat, and at the same time took out ten taels of silver to pay the guards for errands, this official robe is green, but fortunately the official hat is black, otherwise he would not be comfortable wearing it.
The guard pushed the silver back, but his eyes looked at the single tiger behind Lin Mu, "Lin Shi said that you don't have to be polite, there is no shortage of silver under it, but there is only one less opponent, if you are lucky, can you have a few moves with the nursing home that Lin Shi said." ”
When the guards entered the door, Shan Hu stared at the guard Duanwang, and when he heard this, his eyes suddenly widened as big as the copper bell, "Who shoots whom." Shan Hu said with a smile.
Lin Mu could see from the performance of this guard yesterday that this person was a master, but he was in a hurry to leave and was not in the mood to watch the competition, so he said: "I'm really sorry, Lin is going to go out soon, it's better to go another day." ”
"It's fine." The guard arched his hand, as if remembering that he hadn't reported himself yet, so he said, "In Xia Ranyun, this is my leave." “
Sending Ran Yun away, Lin Mu returned to the backyard, told Xiao Ke to take care of the slave for a day, and took Shan Hu and Zhang Bo to He County.
The administrative area of the Chinese Dynasty is divided into thirteen roads, each road has three levels: government, state and county, of which the road is equivalent to the contemporary province, the government is equivalent to the provincial capital, the state belongs to the prefecture-level city, and the county is the county seat.
He County is the county seat within the jurisdiction of Jiangning Prefecture, only 30 miles away from Jiangning City, and it can be reached in half a day by horse-drawn carriage.
In Lin Mu's memory, he had a vague impression of He County, so he could only arrive at He County in the evening under the guidance of Uncle Zhang, and then arrived at Linjiazhuang, where the Lin family ancestral hall was located.
"Young master, something seems to have happened to Lin Jiazhuang!"
As soon as the carriage entered Linjiazhuang, Uncle Zhang pointed to the crowd gathered in front of him and said.
Lin Mu looked and saw that there were hundreds of people holding sticks at the head of Linjiazhuang and confronting another group of people.
After getting out of the carriage, he walked forward with Shan Hu, Zhang Bo and others.
Seeing the sudden appearance of three people, the two groups of people facing each other looked at Lin Mu at the same time.
At this time, two middle-aged people stood out from the group in the east, among which the older one had a thin face and a high nose bridge, while the younger one was of moderate stature and soft face.
Seeing Lin Mu, both of them were shocked, and said loudly: "Lin Mu! ”
"Second uncle, third uncle."
These two people are none other than Lin Mu's second uncle Lin Qing and third uncle Lin Yang.
"What are you doing when you come back!" , The two seemed to be pleasantly surprised at first, but they seemed to think of something, and they were suddenly a little angry.
Lin Mu said: "When my father was escorted to Jingshi, he left a letter, and the second and third uncles knew it when they read it. “
Lin Qing and Lin Yang glanced at each other, becoming more and more surprised.
"Lin Mu? Your father is the Lin Mu who was killed, yes, yes, you came just in time, Lin Shu died According to the rules of the Lin family, you are the current Lin family head, and today we will talk about the matter of the land. “
At this moment, a shrill voice suddenly sounded.
"Second uncle, third uncle, what's going on?" Lin Mu looked at the clamoring person.
Lin Qing said: "The person on the other side is from Hanjiazhuang, and they want to force our Lin family to sell them a hundred acres of fertile land adjacent to the Han family at a low price. “
"Isn't this a forced buying and selling? Isn't there a royal law? Uncle Zhang said angrily when he heard this.
Lin Yang sighed, "The Han County Order of Hexian County is the head of the Han family, and he is the king of Hexian County, so we can't go to the county government to complain, so we can only come with them." ”
Lin Mu had no expectations for the corrupt scholar bureaucracy of the Chinese Dynasty, and he could only fight for the big backers of these bullies who were rampant in the township.
He said to Lin Qing: "Today, my nephew will let them understand what the royal law is!" “