Chapter 6489 Running in both directions

Chapter 6489 Running in both directions
Hu Yan glared at her own father in dissatisfaction. It seems you really don’t know how many daughters and granddaughters you have. It’s rare that you still know me. Oh, I should thank my husband for his efforts over the years. It has made you look up to me and remember who I am. Really!
"Don't be angry. In Liangzhou, we can only rely on our sons. Your father can have the current status, apart from my own efforts, the rest is all due to your five brothers, two younger brothers, and a dozen nephews. Do you think I can rely on you?" Father Hu glared at his daughter with dissatisfaction. Does it matter if he just forgot how many daughters and granddaughters he has?

"Besides, you should also thank your brothers and younger brothers. Without them to support you, do you think our family would be so easy to talk to?" Father Hu said with a hint of sarcasm.

What is the so-called local clan characteristics? This is it. The Hu family in Anding thought that they were playing a high-end and classy family dispute, but it turned out that the traitors in the family were actually following the local clan characteristics.

But you know what, this feature is actually quite useful. Nowadays, having many strong men means strong strength, especially in places like Liangzhou, where there are a lot of strong men who have been serving in the military for many years, and it is really useful.

"Oh." Hu Yan was really troubled by his father's words and had no way to refute it. He could only nod in agreement.

"Don't be unconvinced. Your greatest success in this life is not that you have a quick brain, that you can learn all the common words through private lessons from your family, or that you can keep accounts and do math. To be honest, we can find two or three people in our family with your ability. Your greatest ability is that you are lucky to find a good husband." Father Hu glanced at his daughter who was somewhat unconvinced. He thought Wang Xi was outrageous.

"As for other clever tricks, forget it, everyone has them!" Father Hu said with disdain, "I, your father, have no ability. If your father had your husband's ability, our family could at least become the head of the stable Hu family. Damn it, why don't I have this ability, a tenth-level title."

"Level thirteen." Hu Yan interrupted his father. The tenth-level title was a few years ago. It seems that you really don't care about it at all.

"Promoted again?" Hu's father sighed, "Come on, you just married a good husband. Your other abilities are nothing compared to this. If you go back to the local area at level 13, even if it's a relocation, you can find a lucrative job with a salary of 1,000 shi. Do you know how many high-ranking officials there were when the Hu family was settled in their native land?"

The position of Qianshi is undoubtedly considered a high-ranking official. In the local area, he is at least the magistrate of a large county with tens of thousands of households. Except for not being in charge of military affairs, he is in charge of all matters in the county. If he stays in Chang'an, his counterparts are the chief secretaries under the Three Dukes and the assistants of the Nine Ministers. Although his actual power is not so high, for a normal family, he is undoubtedly a high-ranking official.

"Almost. As long as your son is not too bad, he can establish a family. And as long as he can maintain it for a few generations, it will not be difficult to become a local tyrant." Father Hu said calmly. At least it was not that difficult in the eyes of a grassroots like him. He knew how he went from being a poor man to this level in the past few decades. The characteristics of the local clan are very interesting!
It’s because Father Hu has no strength and no luck. If he had Wang Xi’s ability, huh, huh, even if it’s a bonus of the times, it’s real ability.

"Dad, can I ask you a question?" Hu Yan was not stupid. She vaguely understood what her father meant, but her father seemed unable to say it himself at this juncture, so he could only find a way to save the situation in this way.

Hu Yan was silent for a while after hearing this. She also realized that all the initiative had been taken away by her father. This was also the first time she had a serious communication with her father. It was also the first time she realized that her father's understanding of many things was far superior to hers.

"Because the Hu family has not produced any talents in the past hundred years, they can only rely on their old capital. In addition, Liangzhou is a remote place, so even Jiang and Wang, who don't have the title of Guannei Hou, can be regarded as local tyrants. Think about it." Father Hu said with disdain, "So, do you understand how lucky you are?"

Father Hu glanced at Hu Yan, and the silly child finally understood that Anding Hu was Anding Hu, and his father Hu was Old Father Hu!
Just because Anding Hu family has the ability to swallow up your Wang family doesn’t mean we have the ability to do so. Isn’t this a great help?

Hu Yan thought for a moment, then looked at her biological father.

Move to another place and help the son-in-law work. At least the son-in-law will not treat him badly. It is indeed more comfortable to live in Anding Hu's now than decades ago, but this is the ceiling. The rest depends on how far Anding Hu's can develop. The old man himself is old and has no ambition, and he also has to consider his children and grandchildren.

To the point that Hu Yan is now somewhat hesitant about whether she should tell her father. It seems that her father is stronger than her. If she follows him, will her brothers and sisters rob her family? Oh, she is not worried about her brothers and sisters who look tall and strong. She is now worried about her father. Her father does not seem to be simple at all. It seems that it is mainly because they did not communicate enough before.

"You're just jealous, aren't you? If you were to switch places with those aunts, nieces, sisters, and sisters, wouldn't you be jealous? They're just gossiping." Father Hu sneered and said, "Bring them more gifts, go and have a chat. Each family has its own difficulties. You're being smart, but it's useless. As a relative, you can be more generous and you're not bad at that."

"If my husband were in the old Liangzhou and relied on himself, would he be able to start his own family?" Hu Yan looked at her father in disbelief.

"It is very important to have more children." Father Hu said to Hu Yan.

"Four." Father Hu said calmly, "Only four, and one of them is a lucky one, so you really married well."

Hu Yan was somewhat surprised when she heard this. Could it be that the Hu family of Anding, a family that was able to provide them with shelter during the Qiang Rebellion in Liangzhou and had such a great reputation, had only four high-ranking officials?

"Don't they have any bad intentions?" Hu Yan said with some dissatisfaction, "There is not even a little envy in their eyes, it's all jealousy from the bottom of their hearts. You know how jealousy breeds hatred."

"Oh, I see." Hu Yan had a clearer grasp of her home.

"Can our family move?" Hu Yan estimated the abilities of her brothers and determined that they would not be her opponents, but could suppress her own father, who was already over sixty and would not cause any trouble, so she decided to be filial to him.

Hu Yan shook her head when she heard this. She really didn't know this.

"Go ahead and tell me. It's rare to see you come to see a father like me." Father Hu said casually, even twisting his chair a few times. "For your husband's sake, tell me what you want to say. If you don't want to say anything, leave the gift behind and go out and chat with your sisters, aunts, nieces, etc. They don't have any bad intentions."

"Okay, now tell me what you want to say." After suppressing his daughter from all directions, Father Hu looked at Hu Yan and asked.

"Yes, I remember. I remember." Hu Yan nodded.

"Ask." Father Hu said casually.

If we go to live with our son-in-law, at least we can bring some people to help with management, which is like a timely help. At least we can get a status. Our son-in-law has the strength of a prince, so it shouldn't be a problem for us to become a county marquis for free.

Nonsense, of course that’s not a problem!

Even if the son-in-law has no conscience, the father-in-law will come to his aid at this time, and his descendants can also enjoy this level of treatment. In this case, there is nothing else to say, of course, choose the son-in-law.

No matter how much of a daughter is spilled water, she is still closer than a relative within five generations of mourning!

Ever since Anding Hu told Hu's father about this in private, Hu's father had other ideas. Loyalty to the family? Yes, but not much!
In the past, when people joined the Hu family in Anding, wasn't it just to have a good background, and the fact that their surname was indeed Hu?

If I invest in my daughter now, she can have a better future, so why not?
Maybe the children of my own family are indeed loyal to their family, but for Dad Hu who came from a humble background - I came here just to eat the rice of the Hu family in Gui'an, now there is a better place, let's go.

This is what it means to run in both directions.

"So, now you should be able to better understand why others are jealous of you." Father Hu said to Hu Yan calmly, without giving a definite answer, but it was equivalent to giving an answer. Hu Yan scratched her head, and understood. How dare an ordinary family say such a thing? They asked dozens of people, nearly a hundred people, to move away. I understand, I understand. It's my problem. I didn't have a broad mind before.

"Even now I still don't know what your situation is. If you really knew, you might not be jealous anymore." Father Hu said calmly.

That's right, for Hu Yan's sisters, aunts and nieces, what they were jealous of was that Hu Yan married a good husband, a husband who was understandable to them.

That’s why there is jealousy. Once the news about the fiefdom is released, people will no longer be jealous because they don’t know what to be jealous of anymore.

Essentially, they were jealous of a girl who relied on luck to marry a man with potential, who went from poverty to rise, met him in obscurity, and finally stood at a height that they could hardly reach.

Nonsense, how can this not make people jealous?
Even if he was benefiting from the dividends of the times, who could have thought that an ordinary centurion could reach this level? This is the thirteenth level of nobility, and it is not the end.

Although the concubines' daughters who were taken to the centurion for blind dates were of good quality, they were definitely not the best concubines' daughters from the close branches of the families. Except for Zheng Ling, who faced the reality too early and was almost driven crazy by etiquette and laws, and decided to escape from this damn place at the age of seven, most of the concubines' daughters were only above-average in the major families.

The problem is, ten years have passed in a flash, how many of the concubine daughters from the close branches of the families, or even the concubine daughters from the legitimate bloodline of the family, have married better than this group of people?
The death rate of the Han army's land forces was not high, and the death rate of commanding personnel was even lower. Coupled with the special talents like Guo Hong's that were obviously prepared to prevent beheading, as long as the army was not completely wiped out or they were extremely unlucky and hit by stray arrows, death would basically not have anything to do with them.

In addition to Yuan Fengchu's wave of blind dates, the quality of the centurions who participated were very good. They were basically the best of the best. As long as they did not run away early, they basically all had the tenth-level title.

No matter how badly they are doing, as long as they are not dead and have lived to this day, they can at least get a fiefdom document. Liu Bei and Chen Xi did not give too many rewards to the officers who followed them in public, but privately, many hidden benefits had actually been maximized.

Guo Hong and others joked that the fiefdom obtained by the Hu family of Anding was just a pseudonym. If one really wanted to trace it back from the orthodox perspective, it was not as good as that of Lao Liu. Lao Liu had real documents and a Roman fiefdom order. At least the documents were complete and the legal system was sound.

To put it bluntly, when the Central Asian families develop and really start to annex each other, the Anding Hu family will be destroyed, and the other families will most likely force the surviving members of the Anding Hu family to return to their home country, and forget about giving them fiefdoms. They will just leave you with incense and that's it.

But the fiefdom of the sixth brother was annexed. The descendants of the sixth brother, with the documents and the fiefdom order, might be able to play a game of survival of the two groups. Even this legal system could be used as a reason to start a war.

This is also the reason why Guo Hong and others teased that their father-in-law's family was really not good enough, and why Hu Ting felt that her mother's family was becoming more and more shameful.

I came here to learn, but I learned nothing. My father-in-law is even worse than my useless brother!

I was very careful every time I went to my father-in-law's house, afraid of being embarrassed. When I went to my sixth brother's house, I ate and took things. Before leaving, I even kicked my sixth brother's dog, just like at home. As a result, my father-in-law's place was not as good as my sixth brother's. What the hell, I gave the gift to my father-in-law and went to my sixth brother's place for a feast. At least it would not be restrained.

This is the thinking of the officers and soldiers of Ganges River who have now recognized the reality, and it is also the reason why this group of people are confident - it turns out that my father-in-law's family is also a waste, and I thought I was the only waste!

This is the misalignment of cognition, and now this misalignment has gradually been restored in this survey arranged by Changan.

In fact, these things were also the knowledge that Chen Xi had originally planned to let these middle-level officers gradually realize in the following years. In the early years, this knowledge was useless because the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth level titles were not enough for these aristocratic families to fight for, and they were not even qualified to touch the branches.

But it’s different for the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifth level titles. Although they are still not enough for these powerful families to challenge, they are not even qualified to touch them.

After all, the things that aristocratic families play with are still more particular. It is impossible for them to be ruthless directly. Unless it comes to a life-and-death situation, most of the time they don't fight head-on. There are always layers of barriers between them. The ones who are really ruthless are usually those at the bottom who are driven and can't even be considered as gloves.

When faced with individuals who have truly mastered certain resources, or the upstarts and powerful, they basically resort to oppression. There are some who will destroy them humanely, but they are very rare.

After all, they have developed to the point where they have control over certain social resources, which means that they have enough power to fight back against the children of the powerful, or even the powerful themselves. However, having the ability and having the courage are two different matters.

When there is a filter bonus, even a brother with a thirteenth or fourteenth level title would find it difficult to have the courage to do so, but when the filter is broken - fuck, is the head of the Anding Hu family a three-headed and six-armed evil god who appeared from nowhere? Just do it if you provoke me. If I can't destroy the century-old lintel of your Anding Hu family, can I still knock off your head of the head?

This is how courage is born.

As long as the invincible golden body exists, the longer the time, the fewer challengers there will be. But if the invincible golden body is cracked, everyone will rush to challenge it and divide the golden body into pieces. How can this be justified by the people's love for the powerful!
Although Chen Xi's arrangement could not shake the families that stood proudly at the top of the circle, it did break the beauty function of most of the aristocratic families, allowing these middle-level officers from ordinary people to look at these families from a normal perspective.

This is a necessary step from dependence on aristocratic families to independence. Only after this step is taken can the new class planned by Chen Xi during the Taishan years exist independently.

Otherwise, it would be nothing more than a tentacle that would soon be assimilated by the major families.

In Chen Xi's view, everything that is currently happening in Central Asia is more like a correction of social perspectives, allowing the new class to truly realize their own status, and then begin an endless entanglement, confrontation, quarreling, and support with these ancient dignitaries, and finally truly form a class that is powerful enough and stable enough.

As for how to prolong it indefinitely, that is of course the fat piece of meat of Ganges River. Realizing that the aristocratic families are just like that, the middle-level officers will certainly fight to the death without hesitation, and even develop to every possible means. Moreover, Chen Xi firmly believes that in terms of ruthlessness, the awakened middle-level officers will definitely far surpass the major aristocratic families.

After all, the middle-level officers are now following the barbaric and bloody path of the ancestors of the major families. They were just more restrained at their father-in-law's house before, but now they have to let go - how many lives do you have? Is your family enough for us to kill!
After hundreds of years of development, the major families are bound to maintain some dignity unless it is absolutely necessary. It is impossible for them to rely purely on ruthlessness. However, it is different for middle-level officers - if you make them angry, they will sharpen their swords today and see the moon's shadow. When the moon is at its zenith, it will be the time when your family will be destroyed!
Bullshit, this is not a game at all!
In fact, Chen Xi has also realized that due to the great expansion of this era, the ways of playing in all classes and all places are really too complicated.

There are big governments that control everything from heaven to earth and the air; there are local feudal lords who divide the land into different levels; there are people who are dependent on their local clans and bloodlines; there are people in remote mountainous areas who survive on their own in the wilderness; there are all kinds of fancy things.

In short, it highlights the complexity and diversity of human civilization.

Chen Xi let it go. Anyway, I will pretend not to see anything if you don't do these things in China. I don't care if you cause public outrage abroad or even go against the trend of the times and establish a slavery system. Anyway, the slap won't hit me on the head, so it doesn't hurt.

As for whether you will be overthrown or not, it’s none of my business!
There is one thing that has not changed for Chen Xi from the beginning to now, that is, Chen Xi is very clear about what he is doing and what he wants to do, and then he keeps working hard towards this goal.

　It’s Lantern Festival, remember to eat Lantern Festival dumplings

　　(End of this chapter)