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

Chapter 394 Magna Carta ([-])
Three years later

Spring of the 48th year of Marquis Yan (258)
Chang'e City

"what!!!"

boom!
A girl was thrown from the window on the third floor of the City Lord's Mansion, and then hit the ground, completely dead.

Not long after, Chang'e City Lord Wang Ting came out of the City Lord's Mansion, and sternly said to the citizens: "Women who are unfaithful, punish them! Subjects who are disloyal, punish them!"

The surrounding citizens were frightened by his gesture.

This is already the No. 30 second woman killed by Wang Ting after he took office as City Lord of Chang'e.

And he killed more than a hundred men, all for disrespecting Zhou etiquette.

Although Wang Ting is a child of the Wang family, he belongs to the Confucian school of the Wang family, and he became a member of the family council only through his father's single pass.

But he himself is very disgusted with everything in the family now, and thinks that the family is going astray.

He does not approve of the current buildings, because in order to save construction costs, these buildings use a lot of nails. They are not pure Chinese mortise and tenon structures, not orthodox, not Chinese, and not in line with Zhou rituals. Therefore, all nails must be banned. Nails It is a kind of defilement to Chinese architecture. All buildings must use mortise and tenon structure, which is the orthodoxy of China.

There is no China after the nail, and there is no China after the volcanic mud!

Not only does he not recognize the architectural structure, but also the development model of the family. He believes that the family should devote all its resources to cultivating scholars who are well-read Confucian sages, instead of consuming resources overseas to open up wasteland and fight against aborigines every day.

As for the various copper-smelling customs in Chang'e City, he is even more disgusted, and women are not at home to care for their husbands and children, but can do business and administration at will.
"This family with broken rituals and music needs me to save!" Wang Ting was extremely determined in his heart. He wanted to eradicate all villains who destroy rituals and music, and create a world of rituals and music with only gentlemen.

Adhering to this concept, he wantonly killed those women who showed their faces in Chang'e City, and mutilated those who did not respect etiquette and music.

Among the 300 members of the family council, there are more than 100 from the Overseas School, less than 100 from the Confucian School, and the remaining [-] people are neutral.

The overseas faction has almost no sense of belonging to the Central Plains regime. For them, the life and death of the Central Plains does not matter at all, as long as the family can develop and grow overseas, even if the Central Plains people die, it will have no effect on them. It is nothing more than immigration. Times are more troublesome than before.

The Confucian school hopes to focus on the Central Plains and strive to cultivate more scholars, instead of fighting with a group of uneducated overseas aboriginals every day and doing meaningless things like opening up wasteland every day. If you have time to open up wasteland and expand, it is better to read more The basic sage book, that's what really counts.

The neutral group thinks more simply, as long as the family can grow and develop for a long time, any method will do, whether it is Confucianism or land reclamation, it is just a means, and the development of the family is the goal. You cannot put the cart before the horse, and you cannot abandon the goal for the sake of the method.

At present, the head of the family, Lu Lingqi, is considered to be a neutral faction, and Shang Shuling Wang Ba is also a neutral faction. Among the nine family members, three are neutral factions, four are overseas factions, and two are Confucianism schools.

The Confucianization of the family has to be traced back to the three generations of patriarchs - Wenjun Wang Tairan, but Wenjun advocated Confucianization at the beginning only to better learn the advanced culture of the Central Plains and communicate with the Central Plains.

In other words, from the very beginning, Confucianism was only a means to develop the family, not an end.

The Wang family can learn Confucianism for the development of the family, or abandon Confucianism for the development of the family. This is the original intention.

But after a long time, it is inevitable to fool one's own descendants. It is true that more and more Wang family children have become loyal supporters of the ritual and music system, and they can actually do not care about the development of the family in order to maintain the ritual and music .

But the girl Wang Ting killed today was not an ordinary person, but the daughter of the president of Chang'e's No. [-] wealthy merchant guild [Egret Guild].

For a long time, the Wang family and these [guilds] developed from the bottom-level people have always been in harmony with each other, and the two sides often cooperate with each other, but this kind of cooperation is almost unsustainable.

Conflicts of ideas, conflicts of interests, conflicts of power boundaries, and so on.

another month later

"kill!"

Thousands of guild soldiers rushed to the City Lord's Mansion, all of them were private soldiers hired and trained by [Egret Guild].

In order to better suppress the aborigines, the Wang family gave the local forces relatively large military freedom, so that the local immigrants could spontaneously organize to fight back against the aborigines, and there was no need for the Wang family's security forces to suppress the aborigines in person every time.

The advantage of doing this is that it greatly saves the cost of land reclamation, and there is no need to raise a huge army. The local people themselves are the army, which is equivalent to saving military expenses. The disadvantage is that it will cause local independence.

"Quick! Stop them!"

Inside the City Lord's Mansion, Wang Ting was in a panic. There were only dozens of security guards around him, and they were no match for the [Egret Guild].

It has been more than two hundred years since Chang'e City was established, but this is the first time someone dared to attack the City Lord's Mansion.

Fortunately, the 【Egret Guild】did not really dare to launch a rebellion. They just surrounded the city lord's mansion and asked the city lord Wang Ting to stand up and explain why they killed innocent people.

"A group of beasts without king and father!" Wang Ting yelled at the guild soldiers outside the city lord's mansion, "Unfaithful, unrighteous and unfilial beasts!"

In the end, [Egret Guild] still broke into the city lord's mansion, and put more than 30 security guards, the city lord Wang Ting, and five or six Chang'e city officials under house arrest.

another month later

Liaodong
Royal Manor
It is a rare event for the nine nobles to get together, and they are discussing a recent major event.

That is, a group of merchants, handicraftsmen, craftsmen, doctors, and sailors in Chang'e City captured the City Lord's Mansion under the leadership of the [Egret Guild], and put the new City Lord Wang Ting under house arrest. They also announced that Chang'e City will be autonomous from now on and will no longer accept the Wang family. direct rule.

For the Wang family, this incident was even more shocking than the fall of the Han Dynasty.

After all, the subjugation of the Han Dynasty will not affect the interests of the Wang family, so it does not matter whether the country is subjugated by the Han Dynasty, and the Wang family will not care.

However, when a city riots, the citizens of the city actually declare autonomy. This is an earth-shattering event, and it will shake the rule of the Wang family overseas.

Bao Bao Bao...

"In any case, the rebel army cannot be allowed to continue to be arrogant. Immediately convene a family meeting to discuss the mobilization of the army to suppress the rebel army." A Confucian school official said angrily.

"As far as I know, they didn't really rebel. After capturing the City Lord's Mansion, they didn't burn, kill, loot, let alone kill and set fire. They simply put our officials under house arrest. They hoped that we could allow them to govern themselves. They didn't want us to send them out. The brutal officials to rule them, as for taxes, they are willing to continue to pay according to the original standards."

"There is no need to manage the city, and you can continue to collect city taxes. There is no room for relaxation."

A family secretary of the overseas faction said that as long as these cities can continue to pay taxes, it doesn't seem to be a big deal whether they are self-governing or not.

"Reporting to my family! News from Busan!" At this time, someone sent the latest news from Busan City.

When they saw the news from Busan City, the family members fell silent.

It turned out that the [Taoyuan Guild] in Busan City followed suit after seeing that the Egret Guild had captured the city lord's mansion. They wanted to gain autonomy, but they were relatively more moderate and did not launch a riot. They just wrote a letter requesting autonomy and is willing to spend money to buy the right to appoint and remove official positions in the City Lord's Mansion from the Wang family. At the same time, all taxes are paid on time, and the Wang family will not lose a penny.

(End of this chapter)