Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 994 I understand everything
"So you won't agree to give up the land under your name?" Zhou Banxia nodded decisively. Normally, no one would be so tactless as to personally approach her and ask her to give up the land.

As for the other two groups, let's not even mention them.

I understand everything I understand.

Regardless of the size of the sacrificial land, since the couple was able to donate sacrificial land once, they would inevitably do so a second, or even a third or fourth time.

If you force her to do something against her will and upset her, what benefit will you gain? A smart person won't lose more than they gain by doing something small, and won't try to get her to say something when she's not home.

Even if her husband isn't home, she still has her in-laws. Who would dare to push their luck and ask her to transfer the land in front of the house? They'd be lucky not to be kicked out by her in-laws.

The purpose of setting up ancestral fields is for the benefit of future generations. Could it be that the idea of ​​establishing the first line of defense on the outer perimeter is not for the benefit of future generations? Her parents-in-law would never agree to anyone disrupting their youngest son's plans.

And her father is not someone to be trifled with either; there's absolutely no way he'd let her give away her "dowry land."

In her father's words, "If you don't care about money, I can't control you, but if you dare to resell the courtyards, shops, and fields registered in your name, I won't let you off the hook."

Her father shouldn't worry too much about her not being able to save money. How could he let the land right under his nose slip through her fingers? Anyone who talks to her about it is her father's enemy.

Furthermore, "Generally speaking, it is best to establish sacrificial fields next to the clan's residence, but this clan's residence, in a broad sense, refers to the place of origin."

For example, the first Duke of Liang not only allocated a large area of ​​sacrificial land to Yangzhou before the branching of the clan, but also added more sacrificial land there after the branching of the clan.

According to my uncle, this is why my master did everything he could to protect the Liang State Duke's family from being implicated and to hide my uncle in Yangzhou Prefecture, entrusting him to the clan chief there.

Firstly, sacrificial fields belong to the clan and do not belong to any particular branch of the clan. Unless it is a serious crime like confiscating nine generations of relatives, the imperial court generally will not confiscate the entire clan's sacrificial fields.

This is the last guarantee left for future generations, which is equivalent to donating public resources to the clan. It belongs to the family and has the advantage of having sacrificial fields that cannot be touched.

Therefore, many families like to buy ancestral land and donate it to the clan as soon as someone gains power. Even if someone makes a mistake and is dismissed from office, as long as the crime does not extend to the whole clan, they can still live a comfortable life when they return to their hometown.

The first Duke of Liang did not have this intention when he completely separated from the Yangzhou branch of the family. Now, several generations later, the cause he planted back then has come to fruition.

My uncle was being closely protected by the Zhou clan chief in Yangzhou. Although there was some exchange of benefits involved, the Zhou clan did indeed put in a lot of effort.

Especially in her uncle's affairs, the fact that the Zhou clan chief chose a wife's family for her uncle is a good indication that the Xu family privately owns quite a few ships.

If the Chen family, the first generation of the Marquis of Chengen, was a family of pirates who had been whitewashed, then the Xu family was more or less a family of minor officials in the Suzhou area.

It's just that people have different opportunities. Back then, the Chen family killed the Yuan army because of the revenge of the first generation of Cheng'en Marquis's father, while the head of the Xu family in that generation was more shrewd.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the status of Han people was very low, but the Xu family actually did quite well under the leadership of the generation of the head of the family until the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

Later, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the world was about to descend into chaos and various uprisings were rising up, the then-head of the family made the decision to retire to his ancestral homeland.

He completely relinquished his minor official duties in the canal transport system, and after not getting involved in the various uprisings, he retreated to his ancestral homeland. Although there were some close calls, he escaped the chaos of war without serious injury.

Then came the founding of the Great Liang Dynasty. The head of the family ordered his eldest son to lead a portion of the clan back from their ancestral home in the countryside to develop in Yangzhou Prefecture.

And what about him?

Based on the various rumors she heard and put them together, if she wasn't mistaken, the person in charge back then definitely didn't truly relinquish his duties. He simply transitioned from a minor official in charge of the canal transport to someone actively involved in it, which led to the current rumors that the Xu family secretly held a significant stake in the maritime trade.

The Xu family is truly extremely wealthy.

The dowry left by her master's mother was quite substantial, especially considering she was the eldest daughter of the Duke of Liang and a princess. But what about her aunt's dowry?

Besides the dowry bestowed by the royal family, there were also rare ancient books and other dowry items from the Duke of Liang's mansion, the value of which was difficult to estimate. Her aunt's dowry was probably no less than that of her master and mother.

My aunt said it herself; her dowry list was only the official dowry because it needed to be registered with the government.

It is easy to imagine how much she was pampered from childhood as the aunt of the only legitimate daughter of the Xu family head, who also had two legitimate brothers and one legitimate brother.

For her son's third-day celebration, she received so many gifts that she couldn't carry them all. There were shops, estates, longevity locks, and the like. Her son, Yuan Ge'er, is already quite wealthy.

Moreover, before her aunt got married, aside from the fact that all the wedding gifts she received since childhood went into her aunt's private coffers, her monthly allowance alone had increased without decreasing since childhood.

All things considered, Tie Yi is certainly optimistic. It has to be said that the Zhou clan chief put a lot of thought into choosing a good marriage for her uncle, one where he could live off a woman.

Gu Wenxuan almost burst out laughing when he heard this. He couldn't imagine his master living off a woman. To avoid laughing out loud, he interrupted Zhou Banxia halfway through her sentence.

"First, we have it; second, what about..."

"Two?" Zhou Banxia was about to say something, but then she thought better of it and shook her head. "Two, of course, means we should get back to the point."

"Think about it, since the first Duke of Liang successively allocated sacrificial fields to that clan, doesn't that mean those sacrificial fields couldn't all be adjacent to each other?"

“I naturally understand this principle, but when the other party acquired the sacrificial land, it was impossible that they only bought a hundred acres of land, regardless of which time it was acquired.”

We are incomparable to those great figures. Even if Lord Zhao had ranked fifth in the imperial examination and passed the second-tier examination, he would only have acquired two hundred acres of sacrificial land.

"So, you were planning to buy a few acres of ancestral land for your clan after you pass the imperial examination?" Zhou Banxia was dumbfounded. "After you pass the examination, you plan to donate a few acres of ancestral land?"

"Twenty mu."

"...Won't that be too much?"

"Twenty mu of land is worth more than that?" Gu Wenxuan looked shocked. "One mu of land is worth ten taels of silver, so twenty mu would be worth two hundred taels of silver, wouldn't it?"

"To pass the provincial examination, one has to donate two hundred taels of silver. Even if you're lucky enough to get the top score in the provincial examination, you still have to share the reward. Did I take the exam for the clan? What kind of logic is that!"

"..." If you calculate it like that, we can't talk anymore. Zhou Banxia glared at him, laughing and crying at the same time, "Be serious, didn't Lord Zhao buy a hundred acres of sacrificial land after passing the imperial examination?"

"That's one way to put it, but the hundred mu of sacrificial land, which was supposedly set up by Lord Zhao for his clan after passing the imperial examination, was actually twenty mu of sacrificial land the first time."

Later, Madam Zhao became pregnant. At that time, the Zhao family school wanted to hire a teacher and expand the school, so Madam Zhao sent someone to send back one thousand taels of silver.

The Zhao family patriarch then used the remaining silver to buy eighty acres of both good and bad farmland, claiming that their prodigy had acquired a hundred acres of sacrificial land for the family.