I haven't been a boss for many years

Lu Cunjiu sat on a chair in the Lu Clan's Ancestral Hall, holding a cane in his left hand, and gently put down the teacup with his right hand: "Everyone, I am working on building rights for the villagers in the New Territories. I think everyone here has heard the news."

Several gray-haired elderly people in their 80s, dressed in Tang suits, dozed off on a few Taishi chairs, and attended the clan meeting like mascots.

The remaining seven fifties, trembling, mature people sat in the middle chairs.

These seven are the remaining seven patriarchs of the "eight major surnames" in the New Territories, namely Chen, Zheng, Dong, Huang, Wang, Ou, and Zhang.

Next, there are Lu Pingxin, Lu Pingyuan, Lu Pingqiang, and Lu Zhihui, the four new generation backbones of the Lu family.

Patriarch Dong lightly brewed tea, blew on the hot soup, and said: "Mr. Lu speaks out for us villagers in the New Territories. We are very grateful. Is there any news about Lou Quan?"

The Lu family was the leader in the [-] incident. On the one hand, they provided food to support the families, on the one hand, they sacrificed the lives of their children, and on the other hand, they provided weapons.

During the incident, Lu Cunjiu was also a fierce man who went into battle with a gun, built a position, and exchanged fire with the British army and police.

At that time, the Lu family had many soldiers and was powerful. Now, the Lu family has relationships with the four major real estate developers, and has a close relationship with He Yihai.

20 years later, it is still the first thing in the countryside of the New Territories.These 20 years are not long, so that people will not forget the prestige of the year, and 20 years, not short, so that people will not remember the dead back then.

Patriarch Huang looked excited and excited: "Grandpa Lu, our seven surnames have agreed to fully support you, and the contract will follow what you said."

Lu Cunjiu nodded: "Through a lot of activities, there is a little news from above, but before that, we have to clarify the matter. The property right is the property right, and it is no longer called Ding Quan, because the building right no longer belongs to the men. All, all the following activities also need girls to step up and carry them."

"At least, we are doing things under the banner of girls, we should rectify the names of girls, this is what Mr. Zhang means."

Patriarch Chen asked in confusion, "What name does the girl want?"

"Join the genealogy and enjoy the same rights as men!" Lu Cunjiu said.

"Wow!"

In the ancestral hall, the pot exploded.

Chapter 636 Clan

countryside.

Predominance of men over women, men superior to women, the eight words are not written to read, it is a bloody reality that happens in every village.Allowing women to have the same power as men is breaking the bottom line of vested interest groups.

Don't look, in the mainland in the 00s, it has become a common thing to write girls on the family tree and tombstone. In fact, in the New Territories in the 80s.

It was the first time for a girl to go on the genealogy, and it shocked everyone's ideas. The most difficult thing in the world to break is thought!

When you break a person's thinking, you deny the existence of a person, change a person's behavior, and then change a place, a city, and the world!

Sometimes even if the interests are in front of him, it is difficult for a person to escape from the prison of thought, because all his behaviors must be changed with his thoughts. People live a lifetime, familiar rules, who is willing to change, who can change?

The head of the family surnamed Chen immediately retorted: "Ancestral family law, Chinese tradition, women are not included in the genealogy, and no tombstones are engraved. It is okay to give women rights, but not to enter women in the genealogy."

Lu Cunjiu had expected it a long time ago, and said firmly: "The newly applied property rights are in the names of the girls, so they should be put under the names of the girls. We can't even write their names in our genealogy. The ghost of the Hong Kong government Do you do charity?"

"Your own people have to think highly of their own people before they can seek power from others." Lu Cunjiu held the pole with one hand and clenched a fist with the other, and said with confidence: "In the world, there are either men or women, and there is no second kind of people!"

"Explain that men can go to the family tree, but girls can't?"

Patriarch Dong scolded: "Fart!"

"Men defend the country, work to support the family, parents rely on men, children rely on men, and family continuity depends on men. It sounds good, men and women are the same. When going to the battlefield, girls carry guns to the front? "

"Or, can a girl carry a family?"

In fact, there are only a few girls who can carry guns on the battlefield and support their families. Men generally bear the greatest responsibility of society, and naturally demand the greatest power from society.

Since ancient times, a country has few women and many men, so women can be robbed. If there are few men and many women, women have to raise children for other races.

This is not an extreme situation, but a universal value. Sweet words cannot refute the ancestral family law, because the ancestral family law itself has its own truth.

Lu Cunjiu sighed, "Dong Sheng, times have changed. Women can hold up half the sky. Girls from some villages in the interior have begun to be included in the genealogy."

"We in the New Territories are slower than others?"

Patriarch Chen sneered: "Ajiu, we villagers in the New Territories rely on unity and rely on men to build a place for survival. The girls do make contributions, but we don't stick to the rules, do we?"

He spread his hands and said proudly: "Now that there is a pig cage, are girls forbidden from serving?"

"No!"

"In each of our villages, whoever beats his wife, who commits adultery, enters the ancestral hall and goes to the ancestral hall, and those who do wrong things leave the house, what the uncles say is more important than the court, and the girls will never be humiliated and suffer. They should divorce If you get divorced, you get a lot of money, and when girls go to university, every village will give money, just like men, so that people who can't afford to read can read..."

"Let's not talk about eating, wandering, the girls are just like the boys, now, you want to let the girls enter the family tree, so the boys won't have to inherit the family business in the future!"

Nowadays, ancestral halls in rural areas of the New Territories are indeed more effective than courts. The courts can only decide whether to divorce or not, but the division of property and interpersonal relationships are all tied to the countryside.

The genealogy is the internal household registration in the countryside. One family has one surname, and one person has one person. Only those who enter the genealogy have the right to inherit.

This right of inheritance does not come from the law, but from the rural convention, but it is much more effective than the law.

After all, the inheritance can be distributed in advance, and the testator will be affected by various aspects, such as human feelings, ideas, etc...

There is a convention that only those who belong to the family can get the inheritance, and the name of the genealogy is very important. Those who enter the genealogy can not only inherit the inheritance of immediate relatives, but also share the inheritance of extinct relatives.

In the 80s, adding girls to the genealogy affected not the face of men, but the interests of men. In fact, the so-called conflicts were conflicts of interests.

Master Chen slapped his thighs continuously, beat his chest and stamped his feet.

Patriarch Wang stomped his cane, sighed, and began to play the emotional card.

"Brother Jiu, housing prices in Xiangjiang have started to rise again, and the development of the New Territories is slow. Men will start families and start businesses in the future. There are too many places to spend money."

"Girls are going to get married after all. Marrying in the New Territories is still a good fortune. What if you marry in Kowloon, Central, overseas, or the Mainland?"

"All the money is taken away by the girl, and the man who stays in the New Territories can't afford a wife, and has no money, the whole New Territories will be in chaos!"

Lu Cunjiu closed his eyes: "Yes, yes, what you said is not wrong, it is me who is wrong, it is this cruel world... I am so old, who doesn't know that Ding Quan is the supreme, it is just a kind of necessity, to survive. strategy?"

"But now there is an opportunity to make money. If you don't write the girl on the genealogy, the ghost will have no way to pass."

He adjusted his mentality, looked around, and said aloud: "I didn't deliberately make things difficult for you! It's the problem that the ghost gave us! We can't pass this test, and the whole New Territory will be finished together!"

"make money?"

"Go home and raise pigs!"

Guilo also has a lot of research on the traditional contradictions of the New Territories villagers. Since the New Territories villagers use women's rights as a weapon to attack, Guilo raises the issue of genealogy to the New Territories.

You want to talk about women's rights?

First solve the internal inequality between men and women before the Hong Kong government can consider solving the women's rights issue for you, otherwise it is not that the Hong Kong server does not agree.

You are not worthy!

The seven Patriarchs calmed down after hearing the words, and quietly sipped their tea.

Lu Pingyuan, Lu Pingxin, Lu Pingqiang, and Lu Zhihui have been sitting in chairs. In this case, the younger generation is not qualified to participate in decision-making.

This is not a piece of business, but a piece of news. It is a big discussion involving the rural conventions of the New Territories. Only the eight major surnames Grandpa who can appeal to the villagers of the New Territories are eligible.

In the midst of a heated debate about breaking the "men are superior to women", there should be no behavior to break the "respecting the old and loving the young", otherwise the younger generation will be completely crushed to death by the old bones.

The attitudes of the four people to support equal rights between men and women are also different. How to reach a consensus on different ideas is a difficult problem. After a long time, the head of the family surnamed Chen cupped his hands and said: "Sorry, A Yuan, our surname Chen values ​​blood inheritance and cuts off the money for children and grandchildren , would rather not make money."

"Aaron!"

Lu Cunjiu opened his mouth and shouted: "This matter is beyond your control. The preparatory work has cost a lot of money, and the four bosses are waiting to reap the rewards."

"Can't get money."

"They won't let it go!"

Chen Hailong clasped his fists again: "I'm sorry, please tell Mr. Zhang, I have one life, come and pick it up at any time."

"Hey, can't each give way?" Lu Cunjiu clenched his cane tightly, and said aloud: "Write down the genealogy, the girls will benefit, get the property rights, they can trade, open shops, and subsidize their families, and the boys will also have to Benefits, it is obviously a win-win thing for both parties, why make it as if we have to separate the family."

Dong Mingchuan picked up the teacup, sipped the tea and said, "Brother Jiu, what you said is correct, but we are different from you, we all have males."

"You only have one girl, it's hard to understand our difficulties."

Indeed, Lu Yongcun dared to promote girls into the family tree, not because of how great he is and how far-sighted he is, but because there are no boys in his family.

Just a girl.

In the future, after the girl gets married, the son-in-law will basically take away all the family property. Even if she intends to recruit a capable husband-in-law, that is a truly capable man.

Who changed your surname and shifted your spectrum?

No one accepts it anymore!

Therefore, Lu Cunjiu had thought very openly for a long time. In the future, he would find a capable son-in-law and hand over the family business to his son-in-law, but writing the genealogy would be fine.

Give birth to a few grandchildren, buy one of them to follow the mother's surname, and just pass on the surname. If you expect a person to abandon his own interests to do something, it is impossible to do it well. If you can make the best use of the situation, let those who are capable do it well. thing.

Even if people use it correctly.

Lu Cunjiu was noncommittal to Dong Sheng's words: "Things are indeed difficult, but the rewards are also great. It must be because the few of you didn't leave."

Dong Sheng nodded and said, "Send the Taoist money to your door. If you don't make money, you don't make it for nothing, but it's about family inheritance. Even we can't make decisions on behalf of the villagers."

"I need to go home for a meeting."

The five surnames Zhang, Ou, Huang, Wang, and Chen stood up and said, "Grandpa Lu, please wait for us to unify the opinions of the villagers before I will give you an answer."

"Please!"

Lu Cunjiu raised his hands and got up, put on a green shirt, and sent the six people away from the ancestral hall.

"Ayuan."

"Aqiang, what do you think?" He stood at the entrance of the ancestral hall, with his cane in both hands, turned his head and asked the young man behind him.

"I support you."

Lu Pingqiang nodded: "Since Zhang Sheng and the others have already made a decision, they can't do anything. The New Territories do not necessarily rely on the four big bosses, but the Lu family relies on Zhang Sheng."

"Ah."

"You know how to think about the family, I am very happy, but don't think that you are at a loss." Lu Cunjiu said with emotion: "A genealogy is a list after all."

"The more names there are, the stronger the power. If you don't write girls, you'll lose an arm in vain. Those who want to go out will come out from them. The New Territories will develop well in the future. Are you afraid that no girls will marry?"

"The key is a family, one mind!"

Lu Pingqiang was thoughtful.

night.

seven o'clock.

"Zhang Sheng, I'm sorry to bother you." Lu Cunjiu sat on a long table in the lobby on the first floor of a small house, holding a phone and said, "In the afternoon, I called old friends from the eight major families in the New Territories to have a chat."

"Is it not going well?" Zhang Guobin knew it at a guess.

"The old foxes in the country are not easy to deal with... Besides, the clan system itself has the advantages of concentrating small efforts and accomplishing big things. To a certain extent, it is born to squeeze the value of some groups to ensure the continuation of the clan, but the effect of clan feeding back members , at least to ensure that every member will not be beaten to death, starved to death, or bullied to death.

"In the prosperous age, we can concentrate resources to cultivate talents, expand the influence of the clan, and give dividends and support to clan members."

It is very difficult to change the clan system, even to eliminate the clan system. A considerable number of people enjoy the benefits of the clan system when they are young, and they will yearn for the clan system when they grow up.

The clan system can also give people the realization of identity and status, and then give the clan a sense of honor with celebrities of all dynasties, various ancestor worship ceremonies, and deepen the brand through behavior.

Even if rural people move to the city, they will still rely on genealogy, traditional festivals, ancestor worship activities, fellowship associations, etc., to continue to pass on the clan system.

There is a saying that is very realistic, joining a flawed organization is better than no organization behind it!

There have always been clans in the country, but they were hidden at certain stages, and then they showed their fox tails, making them terrifying to see.

The New Territories family didn't hide at all.

However, the existence of the clan system does not directly conflict with the inclusion of girls in the genealogy. In later generations, rural clans have generally included girls in the genealogy.

Chapter 637 Brother Hao, I want to follow you

Lu Cunjiu said frankly: "Zhang Sheng, things are indeed a bit hindered. The several surnames cooperate on the surface, but they have their own problems in private. After all, it is not a trivial matter to change the clan and family law."

"Among them, the Chen family in Tuen Mun opposed the most fiercely and left on the spot."

"Mr. Chen won't give me face?" Zhang Guobin sneered, and put the pen on the table: "Okay, leave the Chen family's affairs to me."

"Other clans... Please Lu Sheng make connections."

Lu Cunjiu said: "This is nature!"

The affairs in the countryside must be handled by Lu Taigong, otherwise, Lu Taigong is not qualified to distribute the money, but if there is a problem, it must be handed over to a professional person.

As the leader of the project, He Yihai, the big boss, did his part.