Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 857

The Clan Mansion is the institution that manages the affairs of the royal family in the Ming Dynasty. It is in charge of the emperor's clan roster, composes the emperor's genealogy on time, and records the clan's children's concubine, name, title, hereditary title, time of birth and death, marriage, posthumous title, burial, etc.

The clan's statement of request is also reported to the emperor by the clan's government on their behalf. It also has the responsibility of sending and receiving documents, managing internal affairs of the clan, registering the yellow book and red book, and confining criminals.

The announcement of Wang Yan's order requiring the clan to change the land deed within a time limit caused an uproar in the clan immediately. It was always the clan who robbed private assets, but this time they became the targets of the robbery.

Is this world still the Zhu family's world?

The clans hated Wang Yanhe and the ruling Chu Party to the bone. They wished they could pull him down now, and then ransack his family and exterminate his family, so as to relieve their hatred.

In Nanjing, outside the clan mansion, thousands of clan members gathered, and the crowd was furious.

Generally speaking, one cannot stay in the capital after conferring feudal vassals, but this time the suzerains and vassals gathered together, in fact, after the imperial court decided to move the feudal clan to Taiwan, they took the initiative to call the clan to Beijing.

In the lobby of the clan mansion, more than 20 princes and county kings sat on both sides. King Tang, as the clan order, sat in the middle hall. So didn't show up.

The king of Tang served as the patriarchal order, and he was still in Guangjing. At the time when the court was in trouble, Su Guansheng took the clan's sword, and the king of Tang used his salary to help the members of the clan, which made him gain a lot of prestige in the clan.

Compared with the Chongzhen Dynasty, the number of the current clan has been reduced by more than half, and the pressure on the court has been reduced. Yan wants to take the opportunity to get rid of this burden, and the king of Tang also supports it, but as a political enemy, he does not intend to do things for Wang Yan, just like when Wang Yan was fighting with King Lu, he once again fought with each other.

King Qin explained the decree issued by the Ministry of Households to the clans, and the clans and vassals in the hall immediately became angry.

"King Qin! What good does Wang Yan offer you? You can agree to such a condition. Isn't this deceiving everyone?" Yifan Zhu Youzhen was very dissatisfied with King Qin.

His fief is in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, with tens of thousands of acres of land, and moving to Taiwan is tantamount to killing him.

The suzerainty and vassal reforms of the imperial court began in the Guangjing era when Su Guansheng was a scholar and concurrently the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Later, when the court situation improved, many clans began to appeal to the court to restore their treatment, and often came to the Tang king to complain, wanting to overthrow Su Guansheng's reform strategy and restore the clan's interests.

Although King Tang didn't have a regent, he was one of the kings of governance after all, and he was the head of the court. He had to consider the possibility of him being in power, and he couldn't leave such a big problem for himself, so he supported the reform of the vassal clan, but he also He didn't want to be this villain, so he handed over the affairs of the clan mansion to Zhu Cunshu, Zuo Zongzheng Qin Wang, on the grounds that he was busy with business.

In this way, he will not offend Wang Yan and the clan. If one day Wang Yan is removed from power, he can use Wang Yan's head to quell the clan's grievances and gain high prestige.

Of course, Wang Yan can be killed, but the reforms he carried out must be preserved, just like King Qin Huiwen killed "Shang Yang", to calm down the mood of the old nobles, but the reform measures that are beneficial to the country must be preserved.

King Tang's abacus was clanging, but it hurt Zhu Cunshu, King of Qin. He was already close to Wang Yan, and now the clan suspects that he has taken refuge in Wang Yan and betrayed the clan's interests. He has become a cross in the clan Before entering the door, the mouse was grabbed by the lapel of the Liao King Zhu Shugui and questioned him.

Zhu Cunshu was bitter and bitter. Seeing that the king of Tang did not speak, he could only explain himself, "Everyone, who can beat the king of Chu and the court now? It's not that I didn't talk about the difficulties of the clan, but the king of Chu didn't listen to me either." Yes! If you all blame me, then this Zuo Zongzheng, you can choose someone else."

Yi Fan Zhu Youzhen was speechless for a while, but Xiang Wang Zhu Changcheng came out and said: "You are Zuo Zongzheng, can you not accept orders? Now that the orders from the imperial court have been issued to the clan's residence, you still say that you have not taken refuge with Wang Yan?"

The clans in the hall immediately quarreled, but no matter how much they quarreled, it still couldn't solve the problem. Tang Wang saw that this would go on forever, so he finally stood up and made peace.

"Everyone, be quiet!" King Tang waved his hand to make everyone quiet, and King Qin was also a thunderbolt for him, so he opened his mouth and said something for him, "The officials of the Ministry of Households sent the decree and left, and did not win over the clan. The opinion of the government, this alone can be a testimony to King Qin."

Everyone listened and fell silent for a moment, but immediately someone said to him: "King Tang is the patriarchal decree and the king of governance, he wants to be the master of our clan! People from the Zhu family can't let Wang Yan be bullied by an outsider!" !"

The hall immediately became noisy again, so the king of Tang waved his hand again, and when everyone gradually calmed down, he said slowly: "The court only gave half a month, and everyone is still arguing, blame this, blame that, if this goes on, time will be exhausted." It was a waste. The key now is to think of a way, how to solve the problem. Everyone is a little angry today, let’s just look at it like this, let’s stop here today, everyone go back and calm down, think of a way, we will discuss it another day.”

After Tang Wang finished speaking, he stood up, turned and left the main hall, and entered the inner room.

Seeing this, King Yu immediately followed inside, leaving everyone looking at each other in blank dismay.

Everyone regarded him as the backbone, and were waiting for him to make the decision, to say a countermeasure, but they didn't expect him to just say a few words, and then left directly.

Seeing this, King Xiang Zhu Changcheng flicked his sleeves and left with a cold snort. Everyone stood in the hall for a while, and then they all left the hall one after another.

In the inner room, Tang Wangfang sat down and took a cup of tea, and Yu Wang followed in.

"Brother Wang, the reform of the Chu Party is too urgent, and it has angered the clan. This is Brother Wang's opportunity. Even if Brother Wang does not stand up publicly, he should secretly set up obstacles for the Chu Party!"

Tang Wang heard the sound, and when he reached the teacup, he put it back on the table, and said solemnly: "Don't forget the lesson from last time, don't meddle in this matter, so as not to be caught by Wang Yan again."

King Yu felt humiliated when he remembered what happened last time.

The king of Tang looked at his expression and softened his tone and said, "Wang Yan won't allow others to make trouble when he moved to Taiwan. Now that the emperor can't be in charge, the clan can't be Wang Yan's opponent. If he resists, he will only ask for trouble. Besides, the clan really needs to be reformed, and it is not convenient for Gu and King Lu to do this kind of thing, so it is better to simply throw the bad name to Wang Yan."

King Yu came out of the clan's mansion, and when he went outside the mansion, he found that the crowd had not dispersed.

When King Yi saw him coming out, he immediately went up a few steps. There was no way, who made the Tang clan far superior to other clan clans, "Yuwang, it is a rare opportunity for us and our clan to get together, why don't we go to the Juxian Building for a drink and discuss it by the way, how about it? "

King Yu hesitated for a moment, looked at King Qin who was standing next to him, "Will King Qin go together?"

Embarrassment appeared on Zhu Cunshu's face, he forced a smile and said, "Another day! I still have something to do today."

After speaking, Zhu Cunshu cupped his hands, took his leave and left.

King Xiang, who was at the side, came over, spit, scolded "traitor", then cupped his hands to King Yu and said, "That guy definitely voted for Wang Yan, it would be better if he didn't go, so as not to inform Wang Yan, "

(End of this chapter)