Chapter Seventy-Three: Don't Offend the Reader

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The Meishan Su family is said to be after the Meizhou Thorn Shi Su in the Tang Dynasty, but at that time, only the Shi clan had a genealogy...... The reason why the Cheng family is called 'Jiang Qing' is because they have a family tree...... The Su family has no genealogy, so there is no evidence. It has been confused until Su Xun's generation, his elder brother Su Lianzhong Jinshi, the entire Su family is honored, and later the old man Su Xu died, and when the monument was buried, someone proposed, let's also have a whole family tree.

After years of unremitting research, he finally understood the nine generations of the Su family from Su Wei to Su Xu, so that more than 300 households surnamed Su in Meishan found their ancestors at once......

Don't underestimate this small genealogy, but it can make people of the same clan who are related by blood unite and become a clan. Sure enough, since seeing this genealogy, the Su clan people have a feeling of blood connection. They unanimously decided to engrave it on the tablet and erect it next to the ancestral grave for their descendants to pay homage to.

In order to protect the genealogy from the wind and frost, the Su clan also pooled money and built a genealogy pavilion. As for the errand of carving the monument, it was handed over to Su Xun, who was especially good at it. Today is the day when the genealogical monument is erected, and nearly 1,000 men from all the clan gather at the ancestral grave to celebrate this grand event.

Chen Ke and Song Duanping, also as guests, were invited by Su Xun to watch the ceremony, and the two naturally couldn't arouse their interest, but out of politeness, they stood solemnly by the pavilion, looking at the Su family with full eyes, where they were commanded by the master of ceremonies to do this and that.

Song Duanping's eyes straightened, and his voice was like a mosquito's chirping: "What do you say Uncle Su asked us to do?" ”

Chen Ke shook his head, he was also the second monk and couldn't touch his head.

"I feel that he has a lot of plans." Song Duanping whispered: "On the way here, you look at his whole person, that is to be desperate." ”

"Hmm." Chen Ke nodded, he also felt that Su Xun was going to make a big move.

The two were talking, and when they saw Su Xun standing in front of the stele pavilion, they both stopped talking.

I saw Su Laoquan wearing a blue-black sacrificial dress today, his eyes swept over everyone with a deep gaze, and his voice was deafening: "My Su family has been moving to Meishan for ten generations since my distant ancestors, and there are no less than 1,000 people surnamed Su in Meishan alone, but there are no more than 100 people who are close to each other, and they can't get together happily every New Year's Day." Those who are a little more distant from each other do not move around each other, so there is no way to show the villagers that we are a clan, and we are often bullied by the wealthy clan. Therefore, it is not entrusted by the clan elders to make this "Su clan genealogy", set up a pavilion in the southwest of the tomb of Gaozu, and engrave a stone to commemorate. ”

"The reason why I worked tirelessly to sort out the family tree is to tell the whole clan that blood is thicker than water, and we are all family! The family does not speak two words, I hope that all the people who are at the scene, from now on, the old man in the family dies, everyone will go to the funeral; Someone in the family got married, and everyone went to the wedding; If the ancestors were widowed and lonely, then the rich people in the clan had to adopt and support them. If any of the clansmen are bullied, everyone must support them! If anyone doesn't, the people will come together to spit on him! ”

Su Xun's opening remarks were indeed affectionate enough, and even Chen Ke thought that he was here to watch how the clan society was formed...... Before this, people did not have a clan concept, and they all lived in small families, but looking at Su Xun's posture, it seems that it is the abuse of the era of the big clans in later generations.

But when he heard 'if any clan encounters bullying, everyone must support it', his expression couldn't help but be a little weird, this Su Laoquan, wouldn't it......

Sure enough, the foreshadowing was completed, and Su Xun's true purpose was revealed. He immediately changed his words: "Why emphasize this, because the customs of the village have been corrupted. I still remember when I was a child, the villagers especially knew how to abandon evil and promote good, and when they saw someone who did injustice, everyone would spit on him together, so that he could not gain a foothold. But now? But they regard those unrighteous deeds as ordinary, and are at peace with those who are unrighteous. It all started with someone in the township! ”

The people of the clan immediately looked at each other, who is Su Laoquan going to scold?

I only heard Su Xun's voice rise sharply, and he said sharply: "This family is a prominent family known as 'Jiang Qing' in the township." It is precisely because of this that he has greatly corrupted the atmosphere in the township, far beyond leisure! ”

"Since then, people have chased away their brother's orphaned sons, and the kindness of the township is thin!"

"Since then, people have taken away the land of their ancestors and deceived their orphans, and the township lacks filial piety!"

"Since then, people have been told by their orphans, and the etiquette and righteousness in the township have been abolished!"

"Since then, people have added their sons and concubines to their wives, and the villagers have not been mixed!"

"Since then, people have been obsessed with lust and father and son are not strict, and the political turmoil of the boudoir!"

"Since then, people have been insatiable in desecrating money, but the rich are virtuous, and the road of shame is stopped!"

Chen Ke, Song Duanping, Su Shi brothers, and all the Su clan people present were all shocked to the ground. Fools can hear who he is scolding, and he scolds so bloody!

Before it was over, I heard Su Xun continue to criticize: "These six evil deeds are the unrighteous acts that everyone tried to spurn when I was young. Now there are some ignorant people who say, "What kind of person is he, and if he does this, we will have no choice but to do it." As everyone knows, his carriages and horses are prominent, and his concubines are beautiful, which is enough to confuse the villains in the alleys! Its official power is enough to shake the prefecture and county! His deceitful words are enough to deceive the gentleman, and he is really a thief in the state! ”

After a pause, Su Xun finally slowed down his tone and said: "I don't dare to tell the villagers about this, so I can only write it into the "Genealogy Pavilion Record", and privately warn my clansmen not to be affected by him, and secondly, let him himself hear that his face is hot and ashamed, and he can't eat because he sweats!" ”

What a big hatred this is, not only scolding a dog's blood spray, but also carving it on the stele. Su Laoquan launched this kind of vicious energy, which really made people shudder.

"However, I like ......" Chen Ke secretly praised, just like Confucius taught us - repay grievances with virtue, how to repay virtue? Repay grievances with straightforwardness, repay virtue with virtue!

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Back on the Qingshen boat, Su Xun swept away the haze, held a jar of wine, and laughed while drinking, as if he had done something extremely happy.

Chen Ke sat in the stern of the boat and spoke in a low voice.

"Your Lao Tzu is so ruthless, you actually scolded Cheng Jun so much on the genealogy tablet, and forced the Cheng family directly into a corner." Song Duanping raised his thumb and said, "Sure enough, ginger is still old and spicy!" ”

"It's not just spicy, it's just spicy!" Chen Ke was also convinced: "Uncle Su's hand is higher than my idea, it can be described as a trick!" ”

"......" The Su family brothers are a little embarrassed, after all, they are ugly, but now they are being praised by their father, they naturally can't be as easy as Chen and Song, let alone evaluate. But the brothers are extremely intelligent people, so they naturally know that letting their father make such a fuss will completely reverse the situation.

Su Xun's approach seems reckless, but it is the 'first strike is strongest' in the art of war. Knowing that conflict is inevitable, I will seize your problem and make a big fuss about it before you start, so as to make the conflict between the two families known to the whole world.

What's more, Cheng Jun is still a provincial-level cadre, so any subsequent lawsuit conflict between the two families will inevitably be in the spotlight.

As long as the attention is on, things will be easy to do. Because if the prefectural and county officials are partial, they will inevitably be said to be 'officials protecting each other'. This is not a big deal in other dynasties. But in the Song Dynasty, it was an exception, not to mention the grinding and exploration division, and the Yushitai, just talking about the official position setting of the stacked bed frame house in this dynasty, it would be an old life.

The Song Dynasty's superb official appointment system will not be repeated for the time being, as long as you know, whether it is 'Zhizhou' or 'Zhixian', it is not an official name, but a kind of 'sending', and the full names are called 'Zhizhou Affairs' and 'Zhixian Affairs' respectively. And his own official may be the head of a certain yamen in the capital, a foreigner, or the like, but he has never been to work.

It's not that the adults are deliberately absent from work, it's that there is no place for them in the first place. The officials who really sat in their seats were other yamen, and they were all 'sent'.

Not to mention that outsiders are dizzy, even the officials themselves don't know which yamen they belong to.

I don't know, this is Emperor Taizu's mysterious imperial technique, you don't need to know where you belong to, as long as you know your 'sending', treat yourself as a brick in the Great Song Dynasty, where you need to move it.

As for those officials who were not 'sent', they unfortunately became one of the legendary 'redundant officials'. Many and useless are called 'redundant', and the many and useless officials in the Great Song Dynasty account for almost half of the official ranks. This has led to a situation where there are more wolves and less meat, especially those sought-after official positions, which are coveted by several people, waiting for the incumbent to make a mistake so that they can take over his 'dispatch'.

There are no fixed-term errands, and there are so many waiting to be taken over, so that officials have to be cautious, and 'being stable and not causing trouble' has become the official business of the vast majority of officials.

Therefore, once the matter is big, the government can only deal with it impartially, and any 'conventions' will be floating clouds......

And Su Xun bombarded the Cheng family's big-character poster and engraved it on the genealogy tablet, making it impossible for the Cheng family to trace and eliminate the impact...... Unless they smash the Su clan's genealogy tablet, but that is tantamount to digging up people's ancestral graves, the matter is even bigger.

Therefore, the Cheng family not only could not destroy this monument, but also had to send someone to guard it, so as not to be framed.

But the Cheng family didn't dare to sue Su Xun for defamation, because everything he accused was well-founded. If it is investigated, it can only be the Cheng family who will be embarrassed.

It's like a fight between the two, no matter how strong you are, if I pinch the egg, there will be no curse at all.

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