Chapter 245： law and clan

Chapter 245 Law and lineage

Yang Xiaotao flipped through the pamphlet that Mr. Pan had someone hand over to her, "The Li family gave Qi 10% of the tea business dividends for the next 20 years."

Ye Anlan clicked his tongue, "This is what I paid for."

Li's tea business is mainly based in Jeju, and has expanded to nine counties around Jeju. This business earns Li no less than 100,000 taels of silver every year.

The 20-year 10% dividend is a total of 200,000 taels. It is no wonder that the head of the Qi clan and the elders are suppressing Qi Hongling's parents and not allowing them to stand up for their daughter.

But these have nothing to do with Ye Anlan, she has no intention of crossing the Qi family to fight for Qi Hongling, but she will not abandon Qi Hongling just because of the attitude of Li and Qi.

As long as Qi Hongling is the teacher candidate she wants, then she will recruit him into the women's school, and will not consider the opinions of the Li and Qi clans.

Coincidentally, this so-called "clan" is also one of the cancers that Ye Anlan can't get used to after coming to this ancient time.

Those clans that sincerely protect the children of the clan, such as the Li family that Li Jing belongs to, Ye Anlan still has a pretty good impression of them.

But compared to this normal clan, Ye Anlan has seen more people in this world who use their power and status to oppress their relatives, and even brazenly seek wealth and death, and eat the blood of their relatives.

These people ignore the law but are extremely united, and it is difficult for even the local government to reach into their family.

Even if there is a life lawsuit between the same clan, the weaker party is forced to go to the end and sues the government in desperation. Most of the officials' handling measures are basically to send it back to the clan for trial.

In this way, those poor people who were originally victimized by the clan members are no different from sheep falling into the tiger's mouth.

They call every day should not be, call the earth is not working, and no one cares about the unjust death with hatred.

This is still a very small number of people who dare to fight. Those who have not had time to fight and have no courage to fight, let alone those who are under the high pressure of the clan, or live in fear, despair and depression, or live with hatred and humiliation. will be ruthlessly deprived.

One of Ye Anlan's bottom lines is "killing for life". She can even insist on "father killing son, husband killing wife" to the extent that she needs to pay for life, let alone those patriarchs, patriarchs, etc. The banner of the clan has harmed the lives of the clan in private.

She expressly forbids everyone under her command to engage in the practice of "returning to the clan for trial on its own". However, whenever someone beats a drum to sue, no matter who the accuser is, the officials under her rule must conduct a trial and pronounce a sentence in accordance with the law. Turn a blind eye to those vulnerable groups who seek help from the government.

If someone doesn't follow her rules, Ye Anlan will also have the crime of "bending the law for personal gain and being lazy in government" waiting for him. Depending on the seriousness of the case, he may be demoted, dismissed from office, imprisoned, or beheaded.

And in order to let the people under the rule know what they can ask the government for help, Ye Anlan specially asked people to compile a lot of scripts and operas to talk and sing everywhere.

This kind of propaganda method that entertains and educates is much more effective than dry propaganda of laws and regulations. The common people don’t even need the help of scholars to “translate”, and they can understand by themselves that they can ask the government for help when they encounter problems. And if they sue the government for this matter, how will the government probably decide.

Ye Anlan's move actually received a lot of doubts at the beginning, because since ancient times, the imperial court has implemented a policy of ignoring the people, and the ruling class believes that the less the people know, the more they can live in peace, instead of always thinking about it. What's going on.

However, Ye Anlan, who has studied ancient history, knows better than them that "fooling the people" is not a panacea that can ensure the long-term stability of the dynasty.

Ask her to say that what the common people want is actually very simple. As long as you can let them have enough food and clothing to live and work in peace and contentment, they will never be so full that they want to overthrow the emperor himself.

On the contrary, even if you don't let them read a single word, once they are forced to be impatient and unable to live anyway, they will have the courage to pick up hoes and sickles to fight against the regular army.

It has nothing to do with knowing more or less, and whether the mind is dull or active. This is just the survival instinct of human beings at work.

What Ye Anlan wants to do now is to allow as many people as possible to live an ordinary but stable and happy daily life.

Maybe it's because she is very good at instigating people's hearts occasionally, or maybe her subordinates, including Pei Huaiyu, are actually full of passion to help the world and the people.

In short, when Ye Anlan told everyone her true thoughts openly, everyone agreed to Ye Anlan's proposal with a look of excitement.

Relying on the fact that it is a period of war where "whoever has the biggest fist is right", they have vigorously implemented the various policies and laws that Ye Anlan has spent months and forgot to eat and sleep in the states and counties under Ye Anlan's control.

In other places, it's okay to say, because there is no big family who can wrestle with the government overtly and secretly, the people under Ye Anlan's command have done a good job in implementing the new law.

But in Jeju and Yanzhou, because of the existence of the Li family, the Cui family, and the Wang family, the new laws promulgated by Ye Anlan, but all the clan-related regulations, without exception, cannot be implemented in place.

They ignored Ye Anlan's new law, and they still follow the old rules and handle clan affairs by themselves.

Other second-rate, third-rate or even low-rate families all follow the movements of these big families.

Although the father-killing of the son has never been heard of, the husband-in-law killed the daughter-in-law, the patriarch and the elder forced the clansman to death, and even the whole family of the clan, it happened frequently in these two prefectures.

Although the officials of the two states are diligent, the two states occupy a large area, and the counties, towns, and villages are scattered. In addition, in ancient times, all news can be spread quickly through the Internet, so many things happen No, the news did not reach their ears.

Even some villages that are extremely xenophobic, Ye Anlan's free theater troupe can't get in.

The troupe couldn’t get in, and the incidental propaganda couldn’t be carried out, and the people in the village were always the same as they were before, without any change in consciousness.

In this kind of place, Ye Anlan and the others can only find other ways to break into the other party's interior, whether it is to lure them for profit, or to enforce them in the name of the government, in short, Ye Anlan will not give up any village or town under his jurisdiction. .

Of course, she will not let her subordinates continue to be tough. Since they want to fight against the old customs, the first thing they need to do is to understand the local folk customs and power distribution.

Only by knowing themselves and the enemy first, and then thinking of ways and strategies according to local conditions, can they change those outdated habits at the premise of paying the minimum price.

(end of this chapter)