"Second master, the master and the uncle have returned home." A second-class maid came into the house and said.

Lin Liu hurriedly stood up, and Zhang Sheng's family, who was guarding on the side, was also busy beckoning other maids to come over and wait for Lin Liu to change into clothes for going out.

I don't know if it's because the Lin family is guarding filial piety, or just Jia Baoyu is a special case, anyway, Lin Liu didn't see a red dress in his closet, he was very satisfied with it, not everyone wants to be a "red envelope".

After changing his clothes and leading the two maids, Lin Liu walked briskly towards the main courtyard, and when he arrived, the cheap father Lin and his brother Lin Ruhai had just arrived at the main courtyard.

Lin Liu hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "Son, please father, mother, I have seen the eldest brother." ”

After Lin Ruhai got up to return the salute, Master Lin said, "Sit down!" ”

Lin Ruhai and Lin Liu sat down on the chairs on the left and right sides of the lower head, and then they heard Mrs. Lin ask, "Master, but there is something in the clan?" ”

Master Lin and Mrs. Lin were talking Lin Ruhai and Lin Liu naturally couldn't interject, they could only sit down and listen, and they didn't know if Lin Liu was too sensitive, or what, he just heard a trace of disgust from Mrs. Lin's words!?

Master Lin seemed to understand Mrs. Lin very well, looked at her and said with a smile: "It's a good thing, the patriarch inadvertently met our family's old acquaintance Brother Jia, a first-class Shenwei general, who was appointed as the governor of Gusu by the emperor's grace, and we will be away from filial piety for half a year, and we should also be active for the things after filial piety." ”

"It's a good feeling! Or the patriarch is thoughtful. Mrs. Lin smiled, but she didn't know why Lin Liu felt that Mrs. Lin's words were very meaningful.

Master Lin smiled and said nothing, he understood Mrs. Lin's thoughts very well in his heart. Just understand what can it be, on one side is the family, on the other side is the wife, and Master Lin can only pretend not to know.

The Lin family doesn't know if it's because of the evil caused by following the Zhong/Tai/Zu to fight the world, since the establishment of the Zhong Kingdom, the Lin family's heirs have not been abundant, if this alone is nothing, as long as there is a son, the son is promising, and it is not a big deal if there is a little, and there will be no brothers.

However, the problem of the Lin family is much more serious than this, and the lack of heirs is also the problem of a few aunts, but the problem is that the reason why the Lin family has no heirs is because most of the men in the Lin family are weak and sick.

And the founding emperor of the Zhong Dynasty, Zhong/Tai/Zu Yuan Xu, saw that "when the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was in power, he did not have the silver to pay for the army, and the treasury did not even have rats, but after the capital was breached, the ministers who were raided by the rebels of the rebellious party, especially the Wenchen, whose families were all Wanguan's wealth was drained", after he ascended the throne and became emperor, he cut the welfare of the scholars across the board.

What benefits?

If you become a showman, you can be exempted from the errand between yourself and your wife, you don't have to kneel when you see the county, you can't torture the county at will, and you can see the county when you meet the official business. The best-performing students in the show are given monthly food by the government. Becoming a lifter not only has the benefits of showing talents, but also exempts them from servitude, and the family's fields do not have to pay taxes.

Although Zhong/Tai/Zu is not an illiterate person, he was also born in the army, and in the Song and Ming dynasties, except for the military attache who could sit on an equal footing with Wenchen when he founded the country, the military generals at other times were automatically two levels lower than Wenchen, so Zhong/Tai/Zu was disgusted by a group of sour Confucian Wenchen when he joined the army when he was young, and a large number of so-called "village sages" and "clear streams" were all rich and oily, so after he took the throne, it was stipulated that only people in official positions or village eunuchs could be exempted from conscription. And even so, the field is not exempt from tax, and must be taxed according to the law.

This decree is good from the perspective of the whole country, but it is even worse for the people of the Lin family.

You must know how many children of the Lin family are weak and sickly, it is impossible to enlist in the army, and even scientific research is a problem. The children of the Lin family do have the talent to read, but the problem is that the body is not healthy, the county examination, the government examination, and the hospital examination are all joint examinations for six or seven days, and the township examination and the general examination are even more exams for nine days in one go, and the children of the Lin family can't survive at all.

Besides, whether there is a son to inherit his bloodline is a question, where are the other people of the Lin family in the mood to conduct scientific research!

Therefore, there are many children in the Lin family's clan, and there are more than a dozen Xiucai, who can be ...... Hehe, not a single one!

It's not that you don't have enough knowledge, but that your body can't hold it.

And being frail and sick also means one thing, in this era when you have a cold can kill people, coupled with the slow effect of traditional Chinese medicine, the doctor is not a charity hall, and the medicine is expensive, and being sick can really bring down a family, not to mention that the whole male family of the Lin family is like this. There are no scientific examination benefits again, and every year the Lin family has to spend money to hire people to serve in place of the children of the Lin family to serve as conscripts, and no matter how thick the family foundation is, it has to be tossed over the past few decades.

If everyone in the Lin family is like this, it would be nothing, but although Master Lin's branch has been a single lineage until he is a single lineage, Ding is also very rare, but not only does he have a title inheritance on his head, but every generation is not said to be extremely smart, but it is not a gentleman who can mix well in the officialdom, not to mention that he can still have the normal ice charcoal benefits and gray income in the officialdom every year, and the family is rich enough to buy good tonic medicinal materials to regulate the body, all of which has naturally become a factor of envy and envy for the rest of the Lin family.

Fortunately, these people are still sober-minded, and they also know that if it weren't for Master Lin's gang in the officialdom, they would have mixed well, so that many people would have taboos in their hearts and dare not attack the Lin family's clan, otherwise the Lin family would have occupied so many good and high-grade fields in Gusu, and they would have been seized by someone a long time ago. Therefore, although they are jealous, they also hope that Old Master Lin will do as big as possible in order to protect them.

This is, of course, a superficial appearance of hello and me.

In private, there are many people in the clan who cry poor to Master Lin, of course, the Lin family still has to show face, and it is impossible to directly let Master Lin take real money out to them, it is too cheap, and they can't pull down their faces.

But the literati have more eyes than ordinary people, and everyone's excuses are so good!

Let Master Lin work hard to buy more acres of grange houses near Zuqi, so that the expenses for sacrificial supplies come from here, and then the Lin family's family school is also located here. The elders and young of the contract clan set the rules, and in the future, they will be in charge of the year's acres of land, money, grain, sacrifices, and supplies according to the house. Even if there is sin, everything can be entered into the official, and this sacrificial inheritance will not even enter the official. It was defeated, and the children and grandchildren went home to study and farm, and there was also a regression, and the sacrifice could be continued forever.

What a noble reason to think about your children and grandchildren!

The name of this grange house and the record of the government are naturally the name of Master Lin's branch, but Master Lin's branch is to be an official, and this official depends on the emperor's meaning, Tiannan and Haibei have not been determined for more than ten years, and Master Lin's branch is a standout, so it is naturally impossible to take care of it personally, but the matter related to the future of the children and grandchildren is handed over to the henchman and the housekeeper is not at ease, naturally this grange house and acres and so on can only be handed over to the Lin family in the clan to be responsible.

Although there are many acres of land in this grange, you have to pay taxes every year, and the income after deducting a series of expenses is far less than the income of Master Lin's official income, and the people in the clan are so miserable, is Master Lin living a good life and being embarrassed to ask for that little silver?

Naturally I'm sorry!

After all, if it really makes trouble, it is still Master Lin who does not hesitate to pity the old and the poor, even if he does not break the law, his reputation will be ruined.

Think about it, you are not even willing to help your own blood relatives, can you still be expected to help people with foreign surnames at a critical time? If this reputation spreads, Master Lin will definitely not be able to make a friend and ally in the officialdom.