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Chapter 646 Recutting the Gentlemen (Please Subscribe, Please Recommend)
Immediately afterwards, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a decree, the Tweet Order.This decree stipulates that all the descendants and concubines have the right to inherit the family business.After the death of his father, apart from having the power of the head of the family, the eldest son has to negotiate with the brothers to share all the land, wealth and houses equally.At the same time, the heirs who have separated the family before their father's death have no right to obtain the family property.

As soon as this order came out, the majority of poor people didn't care, after all, their family property was close to nothing.Even if there is some family property, it will be divided among the brothers after death, allowing them to fend for themselves.So there is no problem with inheritance.

But the gentry is different. They have many heirs, and they pay attention to the eldest son running the house, and the second concubine divides the house, and each is in charge of affairs.The family's fields, wealth, and ancestral halls are all in the hands of the Patriarch.But now the government has actually intervened to drive a wedge between relatives and estrangements.If this Tweeting Order is followed, the brothers in each house can divide up the power in the hands of the Patriarch.If there is no land and wealth, the head of the family will have no power to control the houses, and the whole family will be disbanded.

Hengshan's decree must be stopped, and almost all the gentry patriarchs are aware of this.This decree has touched their fundamental interests.With the spread of this decree, the brothers in the house seemed to see hope and began to move around.

Although the gentry seem to be harmonious, in fact, the internal struggle for power is very fierce.No one wants to depend on others forever, and their future and destiny are all in the hands of one person.The introduction of this decree immediately gave them hope.As long as you can own your own fields and wealth, who cares about the patriarch?Even if they can see the intention of this decree, but at this time for their own interests, they can't care about it.

In today's major gentry clans, not only brothers are fighting each other, but also father and son are fighting each other.For the sake of his own power, the head of the family cruelly suppressed a group of brothers who tried to resist, expelled them from the family, and removed the genealogy.For the sake of their future inheritance rights, the eldest sons no longer cared about the brotherhood, and resorted to all means to encourage their father to separate the brothers and set up households before they were alive, so as to make a living by themselves.

For a time, the entire gentry was in a state of panic.What kind of benevolence, righteousness, filial piety and fraternity are all silt in front of interests.

In the end, the patriarchs of the gentry couldn't take it anymore, and they didn't dare to fight against the government, so they had to turn their attention to Pei Yan again.Although everyone was annoyed at him for not speaking for the gentry, in the final analysis, Pei Yan was both a gentry and the only one of the gentry at the top of Hengshan.Now that he is at the end of the road, he can only put his hope on Pei Yan.

Therefore, many patriarchs gathered outside Pei's mansion and asked to meet Pei Yan.But Pei Yan was willing to see them at this time, but he couldn't.Seeing that Pei Yan refused to see them, all the patriarchs immediately became angry from embarrassment, and shouted loudly at Pei Yan for being a stalker.

Although Pei Yan was in the inner courtyard, he could not stop being angry when he heard the scolding from the gentry patriarchs outside, but showed joy instead. "Hehe, the more you hate the scolding, the more stable my position in Hengshan will be. Curse it, scold it, it's your own death, no one else is to blame."

After everyone dispersed, it was finally quiet outside Pei's residence.At this time, in the Duke's mansion, Niu Dali was reporting the situation of Pei's mansion to Lin Yifan.

After hearing this, Lin Yifan smiled in surprise, "It seems that Pei Yan has some brains and knows which side he is on. Not bad!"

"My lord, what should I do next?" Niu Dali asked excitedly.

"Hehe, the next step is of course another strong medicine." Lin Yifan said with a smile, "while they angered me, they will carry out the government orders that were difficult to implement before. When my anger is hard to dissipate, They didn't dare to act rashly. Dali, inform Wu Ming that it's time to act."

"Yes!" Niu Dali immediately accepted the order.

Within days, the newly formed Ministry of Justice issued its first decree, a ban on lynching.All punishments come from the government, and private punishments are strictly prohibited.If you dare to use punishment privately, you will be punished as a crime.

Now it's all right, the clan's children who were punished by the family because of the conflict of interests, rushed to the government one after another, sued the family head for abusing lynching, and asked to be punished.

Just when the homeowners were frightened, the Ministry of Justice quickly made a supplement. This order will be implemented on the date of issuance, and the previous matters will not be dealt with.

After adding this, the Patriarchs finally secretly heaved a sigh of relief.But then he became frowning again, unable to use punishment, so what else can be used to restrain those traitors?Without the deterrent force of family law, how can we unite people?

As Lin Yifan said, because some nobles attacked the Women's Administration, the Duke was angered.Now that the Lord is in a fit of anger, who dares to write a letter to persuade and ask for his life to be withdrawn?
As a result, many gentry began to target the Ouyang family who had single-handedly promoted the unity of the gentry.

Today's Ouyang Rui is not as energetic as before.With the introduction of these three decrees, a series of turmoil occurred within his Ouyang family.Until today, it was not easy to calm down.The price is that the power of the head of the family has been taken away by the various houses.

Unfortunately, misfortunes never come singly, before he could recover, the criticisms from the various noble families began to target him.Many gentry severed ties with their families and cut him off.

Ouyang Rui was so angry that he almost fell ill. When these nobles planned to target the Women's Government Office, they all spoke so impassionedly.When things came to an end, they all retracted one by one, and did such nasty things at both ends of the snake.

However, this is not the end of the story.Ouyang Rui's in-laws, the Qi family from Huazhou, dared to publicly divorce his younger sister because of childlessness, that is, infertility.If it was before, even though his younger sister Ouyang Qian was barren, the Qi family would not dare to divorce their wife hastily.But now it is clear that the Ouyang family, as the main messenger of this matter, will inevitably be suppressed by Duke Hua.The Ouyang family was about to collapse, and everyone was afraid of being implicated.

After picking up his younger sister, Ouyang Rui looked at Ouyang Qian who was ashen-faced with heartache and self-blame, "Sister, I'm the brother who is sorry for you."

Ouyang Qian is over forty now, but she is well-maintained and looks dignified and beautiful. She looks only in her thirties.At this time, although her expression was decadent, she did not cry like a soft woman, but calmly comforted Ouyang Rui, "Brother, since the incident has already happened, there is no need to blame yourself. I have been in the Qi family all these years. It's just a dispensable person. It's our family's business. As a member of Ouyang's family, my younger sister naturally has the responsibility to share with the family. "

Ouyang Rui was silent when he heard the words.Over the years, he also knew the grievance of his little sister in Qi's family and her infertility, which was the greatest tragedy for a woman.

(End of this chapter)