After Xiao Yungui finished speaking, Hong Yun'er was also silent for a long time, and only said after a while: "Yes, the current social situation in the country is beyond our imagination, and we are used to calling people who are connected by blood and marriage as relatives. However, what is prevalent in the country today is the feudal clan system that is born with blood relations as the link. This kind of clan organization, which takes the patriarchal patriarchal system as the core and is characterized by blood kinship and hierarchical moral relations, plays an extremely important role in regulating social relations and promoting the harmonious operation of society in the economic, political, and cultural activities of the country. Clan organizations maintain and meet the common demands of members of the same clan in all aspects of production, life and even religion through the joint clan and the collection of clans, the clan organization maintains and satisfies the common demands of the members of the same clan in all aspects of production, life and even religion, and then regulates and stabilizes social relations within the clan community, and maintains and promotes the harmonious operation of the clan community, between clans and even the whole country. Clans are self-governing, the so-called autonomy, in which each clan coordinates community affairs, even involving state affairs, while the government gives clans the power to participate in the administration of justice, set their own clan rules and resolve some civil disputes, and supports the clans' requests to maintain local public order and mutual aid and school running that are conducive to local social stability. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Yungui sighed lightly and said: "Yes, it's all to blame for the perverted court of the Manchu Dynasty, this court is the court of the minority ruling the majority, in order to stabilize its rule, the Manchu Qing Dynasty vigorously promoted clan governance, and delegated local power to the clan, the power of the clan is so big that it can determine the life and death of people, and the tax rate can be discussed with the government. ”

Hong Yun'er continued: "Yes, in order to stabilize the rule and promote the stability of social order, the Manchu Qing first tilted its policies. In the ninth year of Shunzhi, there was a "Six Oracles Lying Inscription", in the ninth year of Kangxi, sixteen oracles were formulated to replace the original six oracles, and in the second year of Yongzheng, the sixteen articles of the oracles were specially explained. It was designated as the "Sacred Teachings". The second of them says that for the first time, the clan of the Du clan added the clause that the clan should be friendly with each other as a holy oracle issued to all the people. In addition to using enslaving Confucianism to stabilize scholars, Manchu also used the fundamental people of the clan order, Lunzhong, filial piety, and younger brother to stabilize the people! The Manchu emperors knew that dynastic order could only be maintained if the people had established harmonious relations with their clans. ”

Hong Yun'er paused and continued: "The clan itself has clan laws and family rules for arbitrating disputes within the clan, which maintains harmony within the clan. One of the major characteristics of the clan organization group is that it can be used as a control system for rural society, and this characteristic is still present even in later generations. The patriarch or clan chief who leads the clan members has the power to preside over the clan sacrifices, control the daily life of the clan, and arbitrate clan disputes. During the Yongqian period, Zeng ordered the trial implementation of the clan system, which served as an intermediary between the government and the clan, and granted the clan a quasi-official status. In the fourth year of Yongzheng, the village where the clan lived, the clan shili was strong, and the Qing government specially stipulated. There is a big village in the place, there are more than 100 people in the tribe, and the armor can not be checked all over, and the people who have the prestige in the clan are established as the clan leaders, if there are bandits who make them report, if they are biased, they will be punished according to the protection of the armor. ”

Xiao Yungui heaved and said: "The Manchu Qing Dynasty also granted the patriarch the right to inherit the heir, the right to educate, the right to economic adjudication, the right to investigate public security, and the right to kill the clansmen. As a result, clan laws and clan rules are often able to resolve intra-clan conflicts before the government. This gave an organization between the people and the government, and it is undeniable that the clan system really solved a lot of troubles for the Manchus. ”

Hong Yun'er sighed with one hand: "The biggest obstacle that the clan has brought to us to the new deal is still economic. The economic foundation of the clan played a huge role in relieving the clansmen and maintaining clan relations, and before the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of the industries belonged to small farmers and private ownership. After that, it was gradually concentrated into public or family property, so that the economic function of the family organization was increasingly enhanced. It gradually evolved into a for-profit economic entity. So as to promote the extensive development of the family system. The common investment of the clansmen in a certain cause has brought them closer together, and the common basis of interests has made the relationship even closer. The clan field is the basis of the economic activities of the Jiangnan clan. In the name that the clan land is public property and cannot be violated, the clan landlords mobilized the whole clan to vigorously safeguard the clan's ownership of the clan land. Under the banner of clan land ownership, the clan will generally protect it as the public property of the clan, which strengthens the sense of identity of the clan. Since Jiaqing, the poor class under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been expanding, while the Qing court's relief capacity has deteriorated, and the focus of the Qing court's relief policy has had to change from direct relief to persuading the people to donate. It's like since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom started its army, the Jiangnan clan responded to the call of the Qing government and the squires of their own clan, actively donated money and food, and even formed a regiment to practice self-protection, which is really a headache. ”

At the beginning of the establishment of the township officials and township soldiers system in Sufu Province, the township officials and township soldiers appointed by the West Temple were all spontaneously elected by the local people. And at this time, who will the people elect to serve as township officials and township soldiers? In this country, where more than ninety percent of people are illiterate, the people elected by the people must be people of high moral standing in the countryside. These people are often the patriarchs of the clan.

After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied Sufu Province, only because the doctrine promotion and various policies of the West Temple were relatively peaceful, it had little real impact on the rural clan Shili, and the clan Shili who dared to resist was ruthlessly wiped out by the Taiping Army. But most of the clan shili did not directly resist the Taiping army, and these clan shili chose to remain silent to protect themselves.

Later, the township officials and township soldiers were selected, and these clan shili did not have much opposition, after all, the township officials were elected by the people, and the township officials must still be the patriarch of the clan, and even what was arranged into a two Sima according to the twenty-five households, in the clan shili, this is similar to the previous Lizheng system, so there is no contradiction. As for the establishment of township soldiers, it is better, and there is a township warrior group composed of their own children in the clan shili, which is also used to protect the village on weekdays, and everyone in the clan is welcome.

However, as the West Hall began to carry out the new policy, a series of land systems, justice, taxation, and decrees began to be issued, and the clan shili began to counteract the new policy. The Sufu Juntian system was the first system that had a great impact on the clan's land production, and the clan shili often had public fields and clan fields, which were almost collectively owned fields, and the essence of the Juntian system was in the word Juntian. The patriarchs and clan leaders who controlled the majority of the clan's fields were naturally reluctant to take out most of the fields that they had managed to occupy and distribute them to some side relatives in the clan. However, the equalization system stipulates that if a clan shares land, the land shall be divided equally according to the households in the clan. So the contradiction came, and lawsuits within the rural clans over the division of the clan in the field sprung up like mushrooms.

At the same time, many of the laws and regulations of the West Hall were formulated in the direction of industrial and commercial economic development, which was very different from the economic model of self-protection in the clan shili, and Xiao Yungui's original intention was to support industry and commerce to break the small peasant economy in the countryside and break this self-sufficient economic model. Only by turning the agricultural population that cannot be accommodated by the land into the industrial and commercial population, the agricultural capital into industrial and commercial capital, and the small-scale peasant handicraft commodity economy into the industrial commodity economy, can Sufu Province embark on the road to prosperity and strength.

But Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er both ignored the resistance of the clan shili, after the promulgation of the new policy, many places are still acting in accordance with the original clan law, which makes the officials of the West Hall a big headache is that no matter how they publicize the benefits of the new policy, people are just a sentence, this is the law set by the ancestors!

After thinking for a moment, Xiao Yungui touched his chin and said: "It seems that we still can't stick a rod into the end, too much rush is counterproductive, the clan shili we still can't shake its foundation for the time being, we can only set up some factories jointly run by the government and businessmen first, and impact the small peasant economy in the countryside with advanced production machines and cheap goods." At the same time, more schools and literacy night schools will be set up to further open up the wisdom of the people, and slowly people will change their clans into relatives. There is nothing wrong with the mutual assistance and mutual protection within a clan because of people's blood relations, but the clan cannot be above the laws of the state. ”

Hong Yun'er nodded and said, "Now it's still time to use the clan shili, and those township officials you want to see tomorrow will definitely petition you for some sensitive issues, how are you going to deal with it?" ”

Xiao Yungui frowned and said, "I don't have any good ways for a while, do I want to agree that they should act according to the original clan laws and regulations?" ”

Hong Yun'er shook her head and said: "No, the new political and legal decree has only been issued for a few months, and it is the time for us to establish the credibility of the law of the West Temple, and it is not good to change the decree every day." ”

Xiao Yungui scratched his head and said, "Then what should I do?" It is really difficult to rely on other people's shili and not be able to compromise and implement the original decree. ”

Hong Yun'er smiled slightly and said, "Why don't you go to Zuo Xiang to discuss?" ”

Xiao Yungui patted his head and said: "Prime Minister Zuo has been working on the new deal for a while, and I am also busy with the reorganization of the army, so I haven't met him for a long time." ”

Hong Yun'er smiled and said: "I guess that Zuo Xiang has already made a calculation, can't you hear or see these problems when he is the commander-in-chief of the new policy?" ”

Xiao Yungui paced a few steps and said: "Okay, I'll go to Zuo Zongtang, and I'll also ask him, weishenme He is in charge of the new policy, but he wants to kick these questions to me." With that, Xiao Yungui turned around and walked out of the study, and rushed to Zuo Zongtang's mansion with a few guards.

Zuo Zongtang's mansion is not far from the West Palace, Xiao Yungui is very unscrupulous to squeeze Zuo Zongtang's surplus value, in order to allocate the mansion to Zuo Zongtang, he chose to build a mansion not far from the West Palace, which is also part of the Humble Administrator's Garden, so it is away from the West Palace. Xiao Yungui just hoped that Zuo Zongtang would live closer to Xiwangfu, so that he wouldn't be able to run far even if he got home from work.

When he arrived at the gate of Prime Minister Zuo Zongtang's mansion, he saw Zuo Zongtang waiting at the door, and Zuo Zongtang, who was far away, smiled and arched his hand: "King Xi, my subordinates have been waiting for you for a long time." (To be continued......)