Chaos in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Chapter 21 The East Building Crisis
The youngest Guan Zhengdao saw that there was a difference of opinion. Although he wanted to redistribute the land, but seeing the tough attitude of the patriarch and the fourth brother, he was ambiguous and dared not express his opinion.

The power of the patriarch is very great. Apart from the fact that the elders of the patriarch can speak, it can be said that a family is basically the voice of the patriarch.

The elders of the Guan family are gone, and there are only four brothers left. Guan Zhengkun basically has the final say on everything.

The reason for the patriarch Guan Zhengkun is very simple. The reason for the current situation is because of the marriage contract between Donglou and the Wei family, and the culprit who angered the Wei family and caused the Guan family to suffer revenge is Guan Ziyang of Donglou. It should be borne by Donglou himself.

Guan Zhenggan's face darkened when he heard Guan Zhengkun's words.

It seems that today's clan meeting is aimed at their East Building...

Guan Ziyang looked at the faces of his second uncle Guan Zhengkun and fourth uncle Guan Zhengde. Although he was very annoyed in his heart, he couldn't say anything, not only because he was just a child in their eyes, but also a junior, and because he really couldn't refute !
Next, I mentioned the matter of Yinhu.

The Guan family is a commoner family, so they were not allowed to have a shady household, but the officials of the county government have a quota of shady households, because those who work in the county government naturally lack labor in the fields at home. Shade household, help him to work at home.

The shady household in the east building is Wang Dayong's family, that is, the father of Hei Nuer.

Now that Guan Zhenggan has no errands in the yamen, this shade household can no longer exist. Wang Dayong was a refugee who escaped the war in the north and was forced to move south, and later became the shade household of the Guan family.

If you want to have a shade household, you need money.

The gentry in the Eastern Jin Dynasty belonged to the red family, the common people belonged to the yellow family, the landless people belonged to the white family, and the refugees belonged to the unregistered.

During the Sujun Rebellion, the imperial court began to be afraid of the refugees who moved southward, and did not dare to let a large number of refugees cross the river, so they issued a "Crossing River Order".

Undocumented people are not allowed to cross the river. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Qingzhou and Xuzhou were set up as Overseas Chinese counties to resettle undocumented refugees. Therefore, Wang Dayong lost his status as a shady household and would be sent to Overseas Chinese.

Qiaozhou is also a border town that is temporarily under the control of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Now the northern Houzhao and the former Qin are both eyeing the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Whenever a war breaks out, Qiaozhou will be the first to be devastated by the war.

There were no gentry in Qiaozhou, and the local corvee and taxes were much higher than those in other states and counties. Most of the people in Qiaozhou were from Bai nationality, so it naturally became a key area for exploitation by the Eastern Jin regime.

(Note: Different from the overseas Chinese state in history, the overseas Chinese state in history is a county that was occupied by the Hu people in the north and established by overseas Chinese in the Eastern Jin Dynasty)
After the autumn harvest, the government officials who come to collect taxes will usually check their household registration. It is a felony for common people to collect undocumented refugees. Therefore, Guan Zhengkun's intention is to report to the court immediately and send Wang Dayong's family to Qiaozhou.

Although this matter is very aggrieved, there is really no other way. I used to serve as the county magistrate in the county government, and I know that the imperial court attaches great importance to local household registration verification in order to expand its military strength.

If the Guan family is caught hiding homeless refugees, let alone the East Building, the entire Guan family will be doomed.

As for the third matter, it seems insignificant compared with the first two.

Under Guan Zhengqian's struggle, the Guan family got two places in Bailu Academy, which is the Taixue of Shu County.

If a student wants to embark on an official career, he must be determined, and if he wants to be determined, he must enter Taixue.

In the nine-rank Zhongzheng held every three years, the Zhongzheng officials will only take the students of etheric studies as the object of inspection.

However, the number of places in Taixue is limited, and county-level places will allocate the number of places in Taixue to various families in the county according to local conditions. Of course, the gentry and common people are separated. After they enter the Taixue, they also have an inner court and an outer court. So the quota is also separate.

These two places were originally reserved for Guan Ziyang and Guan Zimu, the son of the fourth son Guan Zhengdao, but the patriarch Guan Zhengkun suggested that Guan Ziyang's place should be given to his eldest son Guan Zisong.

Guan Zisong is a fool. He is seventeen or eighteen years old and still can't memorize "The Analects of Confucius", so he is not a material for reading at all.

Guan Ziyang's quota was snatched this time because the Guan family punished Guan Ziyang for offending the Wei family this time.

Guan Zhenggan remained silent about the first two matters, but when he heard that the patriarch was about to deprive him of the Imperial Academy quota that he had won so hard to prepare for Guan Ziyang, he immediately lost control of his emotions.

"Second brother, are you trying to drive me to the east building? I was the one who fought for this place in the Imperial College. My Ziyang's talent is obvious to all. He is the most talented and hardworking in the Guan family! Why do you !” Guan Zhenggan roared at the top of his lungs.

Everyone was taken aback when they heard that the always gentle and refined boss of the Guan family suddenly yelled and got angry at the clan meeting in disregard of etiquette.

After all, he used to be the magistrate of the county government, the most respected member of the Guan family, and the face of the Guan family in Fuling County. Compared with the patriarch Guan Zhengkun, he had a higher reputation in Fuling.

But once the county magistrate loses his official hat, he is just an ordinary person, just the head of the Guan family's east building.

Guan Zhengkun was also frightened by Guan Zhenggan's fury, but he was the patriarch after all, and he said in a light tone: "Ziyang's knowledge is good, but you know that people outside will call him 'fool', even if he enters the court in the future As an official, he is so stupid and dull, how can he understand the way of doing things for an official."

"And more importantly, the Wei family sent someone to inform me that if Guan Ziyang is given a place in the Imperial Academy, then none of the Guan family will be able to enter the Imperial Academy..."

Guan Zhengqian suddenly stopped.

That's right, the number of Taixue places is still in the hands of the county magistrate Chang Zao. Although the number has been reported to Shu County, he only needs to write a letter, and changing the number is only a matter of his words.

Finally, the patriarch Guan Zhengkun called out Guan Zisong and rolled up his sleeves in public. Everyone was slightly surprised to see the three striking welts on Guan Zisong's arms.

"Who hit this?"

"It's too ruthless!"

"Could it be someone from the Wei family?"

With an innocent face, Guan Zisong said aggrievedly that Guan Ziyang beat him with a whip indiscriminately.

Guan Ziyang was about to defend himself, but Guan Guiying stood up first. She also pulled up her sleeves, showing the welt marks, and said loudly, "Big brother hit me first, and brother Ziyang took revenge for me!"

"I didn't hit you because you came to disturb my study and told you to go away and didn't listen, so I accidentally hurt you, but Guan Ziyang didn't accidentally hurt you. He beat me three times viciously. I didn't fight back because of my brotherhood..."

Guan Zisong's skill in sophistry is really amazing...

Guan Guiying burst into tears: "You are talking nonsense! You are lying, woo woo woo..." But she didn't know how to expose Guan Zisong's lies again.

The patriarch Guan Zhengkun said: "Okay, Donglou should be in a lot of trouble today. Brother, I won't enforce the family law in public anymore. You can go back and educate Guan Ziyang. After all, our Guan family is in today's situation. It's Ziyang's fault..."

Guan Zhengqian said: "Ziyang is my son, I trust him, he has done nothing wrong!"

Guan Zhengdao also said: "It's normal for children to play and play with each other, why bother to care about it and hurt our brotherhood, second brother, let's forget about it..."

The clan assembly is gone...

The crisis of the Guan family gradually turned into the crisis of the East Building after the clan meeting.

(End of this chapter)