The Huizhou Municipal Government is not large now, and dozens of officials have been parachuted from above, supplemented by the officials of the original Huizhou Mansion, it can be said that the Huizhou Government has taken over the management ability of the Huizhou Prefecture in the original Qing Dynasty, but it has not expanded into a strong level of local governments in the North American provinces of the Tang Dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but this does not prevent the civil service team from doing things.

With a bit of flattery, the local official originally became the secretary of the current mayor Chao Qing. The secretary said: "Mayor, there are Xiao Bai and Ten people kneeling outside, all of them are people sent by those big clans, saying that they are petitioning to make our city government change its course. ”

Chao Qing nodded and said, "Got it, let them kneel." ”

The secretary was slightly surprised and said, "But the old people outside are looking at it, I'm afraid it won't affect it well." ”

Chao Qing laughed and said: "The influence is the impact, I know that the Huizhou clan is powerful, and it can even replace the official, and there are private trials and lynchings." But now under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, the legal society, the modern country, the old set no longer works, except for the parasites in the big family that let others feed, who is really willing to live a good life, who wants to be limited by such a deformed existence of the family? Let them kneel, remember to say hello to the military and police when it is past the hottest, and take them all away if they are obstructing public order, and if they don't leave, they will be greeted with electric batons. ”

The farce in front of the city hall finally ended after the appearance of the military police. As in most places, local law and order is now managed by the military, and it is forced to do the work of the police but are actually soldiers. But because of the violent apparatus, the policies of the new regime were able to be carried out.

The Huizhou Municipal Government of the Tang Dynasty dealt with the local clan forces and played a set of combination punches.

The next day, a convoy of trucks entered Huizhou Prefecture and truckloads of rice were delivered. On the same day, the Huizhou grain store opened and began to sell grain at an ultra-low price lower than half of the market price. This was Mayor Chao Qing's first move to suppress local food prices. Unlike some areas in the north, where the number of yeoman farmers is quite large, the vast majority of land under the clan system in Huizhou is in the hands of clans. Huizhou is mountainous, grain production is small, per capita acres of land is even only 1.9 acres in the Kangxi period, to Daoguang fell to 1.5 acres, and at that time 4 acres of land can feed a person, so Huizhou grain mainly depends on foreign transportation, grain prices are the highest in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although the locals in Huizhou basically use their own grain, there are more people who do not plough the fields, so the grain trade still accounts for a very important income of the clans. Chao Qing transferred grain from other places to Huizhou, which was equivalent to giving the Huizhou clans a critical blow.

In the Chen clan, Chen Fanghe and other elders gritted their teeth and scolded the Tang people.

Chen Guochang expected this, and said: "Datang has good farming conditions in North America, and it is said that there is more arable land than the Central Plains combined. The Tang people also had chemical fertilizers, farming machines, etc., and the yield was extremely high, and large areas of land were fallow. In recent years, the price of grain in various places has been so low, all because of the pressure from North American grain. If the Tang people want to control food prices, it is as easy as a finger. ”

Chen Fangwei said: "Selling grain at half price, the Tang people will definitely lose money, according to me, together with other clans, they should use this price to collect the grain of the Tang people." I see how much food they can afford to lose so much. ”

Chen Guochang still objected, but the opposition was invalid. The Chen family quickly contacted several clans and immediately purchased food on a large scale. Chao Qing in the city government knew about this, smiled and said nothing, but only informed Shanghai to send grain to Huizhou.

This battle against grain prices took more than 10 days to move grain from Shanghai, and Chaoqing's transfer of grain from Shanghai only had transportation costs, because those stored old grains that were themselves Datang were ready to be scrapped or industrially produced. The Huizhou clan ate a large amount of grain with full combat effectiveness, but they did not let the price of grain rise even a penny.

And at this time, Chao Qing's second move of combination boxing also came.

The thing that Chen Guochang doesn't want to see is coming, their Chen family mainly exports Huizhou products to various places, and acts as an agent for Datang goods by the way. Originally, Huizhou merchants were trafficked with their own goods, but later, because Datang's logistics force was too strong, Huizhou merchants thought that it was more profitable to use Datang Transportation Company, so now they have basically departed from the intermediate logistics process.

The Chen family has been informed that the transportation company they work closely with has been too busy to take over their business. The previous family, which has been selling Tang goods to the Chen family, also said that the company's business has recently adjusted and temporarily stopped cooperating with the Chen family. Chen Guochang naturally knew that the Tang businessmen were not state-owned or private, they were actually one, and if the government made any moves, it would definitely be able to mobilize public and private businessmen to deal with it together.

The Chen family's main income now is counting on business, and this time it is equivalent to smashing the business in their hands, and it is unfortunate that everyone in the clan is unlucky, and even many clansmen who are usually involved in business have begun to strongly oppose it.

Chen Guochang's cousin Chen Guoxi usually does not dare to be presumptuous in front of the clan elders, but this time he directly proposed, saying: "Although there is a lot of clan land, a little grain is not worth much money at all, and renting it to tenants does not have much income every year. The real important thing in the family is the trade route, since ancient times the people did not fight with the officials, it was said that when the Manchu Qing Dynasty came, the clansmen abandoned the Han family's clothes and crowns, this time it was just to divide the clan land equally to the family, in the end, the field is still our Chen family's own. If we continue to make trouble with the government like this, we can only suffer from the loss of our Chen family, and I am afraid that the great family industry will be destroyed in the hands of our unscrupulous descendants. ”

Chen Fanghe slapped the table and said angrily: "Presumptuous, when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, although it was easy to shave and obey, it was still the law of the ancestors, and the ethics of Gangchang are still there. ”

Chen Guoxi suffered the greatest loss because of this incident, and he also had a big opinion on the elders in the clan, so he contradicted and said: "According to the meaning of the fourth uncle, any country and any dynasty are empty, that is, the clan is the largest." It's chilling to say that. I don't think it's important that Tsunade is not the monarch's father, but the power of some people. ”

After speaking, Chen Guoxi brushed his sleeves and left, no longer paying attention to the rotten wood at home.

The same scene is also playing out among many clans in Huizhou. In a big family, there are always some capable people, and there are always some people who don't do anything to take advantage. Blood ties are at the heart of the family, but interests also play a key role. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were many things about the fighting for family property between the Huizhou clans, and the major clans also set up a lot of family rules to avoid the scene of brothers falling on the wall. However, this old system, which has restricted the development of people, cannot solve the problem fundamentally, and although it is difficult for the big family to completely decline, it will always be hit by some family contradictions.

What Datang needs to do is only to stimulate the pursuit of fairness in people's hearts and divide the interests of people with different identities in a large clan. (To be continued.) )