Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 79 The end of the era
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Horseshoes trampled on the grass outside the manor, and when they came to the woods where the ancestral mausoleum was located, there was the sound of fallen leaves being crushed.

Wang Tairan galloped in the strong wind, the evening wind blew over his face, and the fiery clouds in the sky sprinkled the rays of light, caressing his wrinkled face full of vicissitudes.

Looking at the many tombstones in the ancestral mausoleum, he has endless emotions.

"I have seen the lord."

Several soldiers of the royal family guarding the ancestral tomb greeted him. These soldiers are also old. Over the years, many soldiers have died, and some soldiers died in overseas colonies. There were originally 230 five soldiers, but now only There are 110 six soldiers left.

Since the imperial court continued to squeeze the powerful gentry, Wang Tairan did not intend to increase the number of soldiers to avoid financial bankruptcy.

"Well, you just need to guard your posts. I'll go in and wander around."

Wang Tairan pushed back those soldiers who wanted to follow him and protect him, and went into the depths of the forest alone.

The entire ancestral mausoleum is divided into three parts.

The outermost is the soldier cemetery, where the soldiers of the Wang family are buried here, or outsiders who are related to the Wang family, or outsiders who are more important to the Wang family, such as Song Qianru and others will be buried here after death.

Inside are the children of the Wang family. All descendants of the Wang family, male or female, will be buried here after death. For example, the fourth aunt Wang Yue who died of lust a few years ago, or Wang Taiyang who died of malaria overseas last year. Another example is Wang Taisen who was assassinated by followers of Hongyan Dao in Luoyueyuan this year.

The innermost one is the royal family's past dynasties. At present, there are only the tombs of Wang Kang and Wang Taihao.

Wang Tairan, Wang Roujing, and Wang Ruojiao are the only remaining members of the Wang family who once met ancestor Kang.

An era... is ending.

"Grandfather, brother, Tairan came to see you." For some reason, Wang Tairan felt that his time was short, maybe it was an illusion, or maybe it wasn't.

Kneeling in front of the tombs of Wang Kang and Wang Taihao, he recounted his achievements to the two deceased, and finally said: "Tairan, I did my best, for this family, I did my best."

After paying homage to the two ancestors, Wang Tairan left the ancestral mausoleum, rode on the steed, galloped towards the manor, and asked himself in the cold night wind: "What kind of posthumous name will the lineage function give me after I die?"

This posthumous title is the evaluation of the patriarch's life by the function of the lineage, and it will be left to the future generations in hundreds or even thousands of years. A good posthumous title will be admired by future generations, otherwise, it will be cast aside .

The patriarch himself could not change his posthumous title, and Wang Tairan didn't know how Goldfinger would evaluate him.

"I have seen the lord."

After returning to the manor, several servant girls in the manor greeted him.

"En." Wang Tairan responded casually, and then walked towards the study while thinking about the heir.

He once promised that he would pass on the position of patriarch to his elder brother Wang Taihao's descendant Wang Changzhi, but Wang Changzhi is still in office, there is really no way, he can't just let the Wang family give up the hard-earned position in order to inherit the position of patriarch Liaodong prefect position.

The position of the Liaodong prefect is more important to the Wang family than Sangong, after all, the Wang family's basic territory is in Liaodong.

Since Wang Changzhi cannot inherit, it seems that he can only let his children inherit.

The daughter has already married out, the eldest son is still the county magistrate, and the second son...is too incompetent to be seen, so he can only be managed by Luoyueyuan as a tenant farmer.

Wang Tairan will not harm the entire family for his own selfishness, let alone let his second son, who is a waste material, be the head of the family for his own offspring to be the head of the family.

Decades have passed, and he is still Wang Kang's good grandson and Wang Taihao's caring younger brother.

Although Wang Chaoge has the best attributes in the entire Wang family, her temperament... Sigh!

Wang Tairan knew that Wang Chaoge's child didn't care about the life and death of the family at all, if she was the head of the family, the Wang family would openly rebel under her leadership within a few days.

She is a beautiful woman who likes war and fighting. No matter who the target of the war is, it is best to be as strong as possible. She likes to challenge high difficulty.

Therefore, Wang Chaoge must not be the head of the family, otherwise the Wang family will have a decisive battle with the Han court the next day.

As for Wang Changjiong, the Wang family needs to keep a high-ranking official in the central government who will not be a high-ranking official. This will not arouse the emperor's suspicion, but also provide the Wang family with shelter in the court.

Get rid of those in high positions, then get rid of outmarriage, get rid of waste wood, and get rid of the special case of Chaoge.

The entire Wang family couldn't find a suitable successor.

At present, the situation of the four generations of the Wang family is like this.

[Big room: Wang Changzhi, Wang Changsheng, Wang Changtu, Wang Feifei (female)

Erfang: Wang Chaoge (female), Wang Changnian
Three bedrooms: Wang Changye, Wang Changyu, Wang Xiaoqian (female)
Four rooms: Wang Changjiong, Wang Miaochun (female), Wang Changan, Wang Yanrong (female), Wang Hanyan (female), Wang Lingxue (female)]

Erfang's bloodline is the most noble, it is the only direct bloodline of the ancestor Kang, but now the population is withered, only one man and one woman are left, of which Wang Changnian was born to his cousin Wang Taiyang with a North Korean slave girl after he got drunk overseas.

Thinking like this, Wang Tairan has come to the study, while Wang Ruxuan and Xu Caiwei have already left.

Stretching his shoulders and wiping the sweat on his face after riding a horse with a cloth, Wang Tairan continued to deal with family affairs.

First of all, the construction of Taohuayuan Castle has already started. Wang Luoxi, Wang Anke, and Wang Changan, who are responsible for the construction of Taohuayuan, sent him a request for instructions. It turned out that they found a better building location and asked to change it.

For this kind of thing, he naturally had to go to the field to investigate it himself. After all, the construction of the castle Peach Blossom Spring was too important.

Although Taohuayuan has a nice name, it is actually a military castle that the Wang family plans to build.

Under the deliberate oppression of the Wang family for more than 30 years, the population of Shanlin Jianren has dropped from [-] when Wang Tairan first took office to [-] today.

If this continues, it won't be long before the Wang family's favorite consumables will be exhausted.

In order to prevent no slaves to be used in the future, the Wang family changed the previous rule of exhausting resources for fishing, adopted a sustainable development rule over the people in the mountains and forests, and encouraged the people in the mountains and forests to live more and faster, so that the Wang family would have enough slaves to squeeze.

In the past, the Wang family slaughtered the people in the mountains because the Wang family was seriously injured in the battle in the Nuolan River Valley. They were afraid that the people in the mountains would take the opportunity to threaten the rule of the Wang family, so they needed to deliberately reduce the population of the people in the mountains. Now the Wang family has been recuperating for decades. It has already developed, and the people in the mountains and forests can no longer threaten the rule of the Wang family. At this time, the Wang family needs a large number of people to go to those uninhabited islands overseas to develop farmland.

Whether it is killing the people in the mountains and forests or encouraging the people in the mountains and forests to live more and faster, although the methods are different, they are all for the benefit of the Wang family in essence, and the ultimate goal is the same.

Therefore, the Wang family decided not to slaughter the Shanlin Jianren, but to build a military castle in the deepest part of the Shanlin Jianren's habitat, so as to supervise the Shanlin Jianren at any time. , and turned the remaining 2 mountain and forest people into tenant farmers of the royal family.

After reading Wang Changan's request for instructions on the re-site selection of Guan Taohuayuan, a military castle, Wang Tairan was about to reply when he suddenly felt dizzy, so he rested his forehead with his left hand and closed his eyes for a rest.

however……

Snapped!
The writing brush in Wang Tairan's right hand fell out of his hand and fell on the table, but he himself still didn't respond at all.

"Lord?"

A servant girl brought footwashing water and was about to wash Wang Tairan's feet, but found that Wang Tairan seemed to be asleep.

But the lord used to snore when he slept, but now he is so quiet.

With a skeptical attitude, the servant girl approached Wang Tairan cautiously, feeling the breath from the tip of Wang Tairan's nose with her fingers.

However... I can't feel the breath at all!
"Master! Master!"

boom--

The servant girl yelled, stepped back quickly, and accidentally stepped on the wooden basin filled with footwashing water.

(End of this chapter)