Chapter 1,252 Mrs. Ouyang

Wang Gui quickly changed the subject: "What are you talking about? Su Mingrun was born in a poor family. He was lonely and poor since he was a child. He has lived a hard life since he was a child, and he can't get into the limelight."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk..." Speaking of this lady, she was not happy: "Su Mingrun took care of the family and started a business at the age of five, united Jiang Qing at the age of six, closed the winery at the age of seven, opened the salt well at the age of eight, and went to Dali to capture Nong at the age of nine. So smart!"

"When you were admitted to the imperial examination, I paid a lot of money for your dowry. You were already in your twenties at that time, right? How dare you say that you are poor?"

"Also, when the Song Dynasty compiled genealogies, it started with Duke Fan Wenzheng, Mr. Lao Quan and my brother. If you have power and wealth, you are considered a wealthy family? Why don't you see a few people making genealogies?"

Speaking of Wang Gui, something bad happened again. After five generations of chaos in the Song Dynasty, many family lineages were wiped out and lost. So Su Xun, Ouyang Xiu, and Fan Zhongyan coincided with each other and pioneered the practice of revising genealogy in the Song Dynasty in order to achieve the goal of "respecting the clan and collecting the clan." "the goal of.

The genealogies of each family are similar but closely related. Su Xun wanted to compile the "Su Family Genealogy" because he believed that in those aristocratic families since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the "officials" in the family "may last for hundreds of generations, without temples or clans." The ancestors are not forgotten, the clan is not dispersed, and its power is suitable to perish and survive alone, because of the power of genealogy."

On the basis of distinguishing between distant and distant relatives, and combining the clansmen of the same clan, those clansmen who are "poor and have no home to return to" can be "collected" by the rich in the clan. In this way, the feudal family organization can be unified and maintained, allowing the weak to survive, and allowing the weak to survive. The family continues.

Therefore, he compiled the genealogy of his family in order for future generations to view the genealogy and "the heart of filial piety and brotherhood can spontaneously arise."

Su Xun drew on the genealogical certificates from before the Song Dynasty, which recorded the "succession of the family" and were mainly used to show family status. The official genealogy bureau recorded a copy for verification and filing, and used it as the basis for appointing officials.

Combined with the official entry system, it is the "nine-grade Zhongzheng system".

Passed down from generation to generation, the traditional gentry monopolizes the power of governance, which is called "the law of the great clan".

In the Song Dynasty, the nine-level Zhongzheng system was completely replaced by the imperial examination, and the large-scale method had actually lost its political significance. Therefore, when Ouyang Xiu and Su Xun were revising genealogies, they switched to the "small-level method", that is, "beyond the fifth generation, the Yi-zong method".

Su Xun's method is: "Any legitimate son who later obtains a genealogy will retain his great ancestor and move it to his great ancestor's father."

Compiling genealogy in this way "can be applied to the whole world, so it is a genealogy, and the methods are all small clans." It is more operable.

After the Five Dynasties, most of the country was destroyed, and a new class of scholar-bureaucrats emerged.

Because of the relative instability of economic and political status, if you want to trace the deeds of your ancestors for more than five generations, you often encounter the embarrassment of being poor and humble in the past.

Since there is a lack of records and it brings disgrace to the clansmen, the best way is to simply remember only five generations, that is, use the method of small sects.

Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, and Su Xun were all well-known among the scholar-bureaucrats. After they opened the genealogy for the first time, it immediately became the standard for the form of genealogy.

Many emerging scholar-bureaucrat families who became officials in the imperial examination followed suit, and it gradually became a feudal ethical code that had a profound influence on later generations.

It should be said that everything is often beautiful, positive and progressive in the early stages of its birth.

This kind of system has bureaucrats as the core force, the "small clan system" as the patriarchal system, family property as the material foundation, genealogy as the tool for union and maintenance, the ancestral hall as the center of activity, "family law" and "loyal covenants". The feudal family organization established as a management method by "rules" did indeed play a role in uniting and gathering the strength of relatives, rebuilding the family and social ethical order, and jointly fighting against natural and social crises for a period of time in China after the Five Dynasties of Chaos. It plays a positive role in the reproduction and continuation of the family.

Of course, later on, with the development of society and the rigidity of the patriarchal system, this set of things gradually became a shackles of society, and became a way for the big landlords to tie the peasants of the same ethnic group into the family's large land ownership economy, and to fix it on the landlord's powerful farm, so that they can carry out whatever they want.

The "patriarchal ethics" that cruelly enslaved and exploited cannibals ran counter to the original intention of Su Xun, Fan Zhongyan, and Ouyang Xiu when they created it.

Of course, that was hundreds of years later. Just look at the Song Dynasty now. When genealogy and family rules first appeared, it blinded the eyes of the world.

What is more special about the Su family than the Ouyang family and the Fan family is that their ancestor was once the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and the family escaped the war in Sichuan, so the Su family still retains a complete "family temple" structure!

Of course, the word "temple" must be matched with "jue". The title of the Song Dynasty cannot be inherited.

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Therefore, if the political achievements of future generations cannot catch up with their ancestors, the "family temple" will be embarrassing.

Fortunately, Su You solved this embarrassment when he was six years old. It was very simple. He just changed the name of the family temple and called it the "ancestral hall" as the place where the clan members worshiped during the four seasons.

This ready-made method picked up from later generations greatly surprised Tang Yan who visited the Su family for the first time. He thought that the Su family had a righteous village, a sacrificial field, and an ancestral hall.

If there is no master on the shelf, the food in the kitchen will be the same.”

Ranked first among the Jiangqing family in Meishan, the Su family is indeed well-deserved.

Su Xun's old face swelled with shame. It was only then that the old cousin came up with the idea of ​​rebuilding the genealogy.

The implication of Mrs. Wang Gui's words is that it doesn't matter if your old Wang family has been a Jinshi for four generations, so what if you are now the Prime Minister? You haven't even compiled a genealogy, so why are you comparing your connotation with our Ouyang family and Su family?

There is no way to argue with this theory, and you will lose if you argue. Compared with financial strength, power, qualifications, ability, and literary talent, the evildoers of the Su family are really capable of fighting.

In other words, Su Mingrun was cunning and cunning. He knew that he was still young and had a long career ahead of him, so he specially designed a place for himself to hide in a military aircraft. Otherwise, Wang Gui would be a little scared if he really had to jump out and fight Wang Gui.

I had no choice but to forcefully change the topic again: "I will take a break tomorrow. I will accompany my wife for a walk. Can I go to Kaibao Temple to fulfill my wish?"

"Huh?" The lady was obviously very happy: "What? How did my husband change his temper when he couldn't invite people before?"

Wang Gui smiled and said: "People become less stubborn when they get older. Since my husband took office as prime minister, it can be said that the country has been peaceful. Although there were two battles in the west, fortunately, they were all won. Although Hebei suffered disasters, it was miraculous.

There was no shortage of disasters, and even the locusts failed to cause serious harm."

"With you taking care of the family, everything goes smoothly. Plus Yi'er is in high school, and I have a good match."

"Kunshan County, where Your Majesty asked Yi'er to go, is a good place, even better than Wendeng, where Su Mai went. In three years, his performance will definitely improve, and after that, it's time to find a state capital to serve as a general judge."

"Such good things happened one after another, which made my husband feel a little guilty. He went to Kaibao Temple to relax and seek some peace of mind."

The lady said: "I, a woman, don't understand the affairs of the imperial court, but I feel that the market in Bianjing is much more lively than when Wang Xianggong was there. Didn't it say that hundreds of thousands of troops were moved to Sanji and Sifu? Why are there still so many troops?

so many people?"

Wang Gui said: "Everyone who leaves will come, but those who leave are poor and those who come are wealthy."

The lady said: "I heard that people from Central Shu are immigrating to Jinghu? As long as you go there, you can get a hundred acres of land for a small fortune? Most of the Xianggong people live in Huayang, but they are also people from Central Shu. They dare not come to you, so they wrote to me,

Let me inquire."

Wang Gui said: "Isn't the land in Huayang good? Why do you want more land?"

"Oh, my husband is really an unworthy man!" the lady said angrily, "I asked Zhongshan to find out. Jinghu North Road has now opened up a large area of ​​good land. Between Xiangtan, Liling and Tanzhou, it is the ancient Chu and Guizhou provinces.

The county where Emperor Yan’s mausoleum is located is called Qizhou.”

"Zhongshan wrote a letter saying that Sitong has found many mineral deposits there, and the surrounding land is fertile and flat. It is also on the side of the Xiangjiang River, with the benefits of the Wei, Lu, Tao, and You rivers, which can be regarded as first-class.

place."

"Except for food, how much land is left in the Sichuan tribe's land? Zhongshan said that if some tribesmen were moved there, half of them would grow rice, and the remaining half would just grow cotton and oil crops, the benefits of that land would be huge!"

"You have always been generous to your brothers, but you have never assigned them jobs. There have been complaints among the clan for a long time. Now you can lead by example and comply with the edicts, and you can exchange less for more and help your clan relatives, but it is not the best of both worlds.

What a good thing?!"
Chapter completed!