Today's Song Clan's Presbyterian Church is destined to be very lively. Since the first elders meeting was held, even during the great funeral, the elders meeting has been held as usual.
The elders are quarreling, and they are not all idiots who only yell and do nothing. There is no delay in quarreling at the meeting and plotting at the meeting. Over the past few days, many secret discussions have been reached in private. Many secret discussions were moved to the table and fixed by the elders' collegial meeting.
Eight out of ten of these issues that reached a consensus were to carve up the interests of the Song Clan's various industries. The main target of the division is naturally the property that belonged to the family in the past, and many of them were divided into various houses and families under various names. The other ones were aimed at Song Zhongnian's long house.
Song Zhongnian has been the head of the family for many years, and the long house will more or less benefit from it. In terms of industrial interests, it is still far superior to other houses, especially after Song Zhongcheng was dismissed from the position of great elder, the only one who can compete with the long house The ones that fell gradually did not fall.
But once Mrs. An Guo left, the situation was different. On the matter of removing Song Zhongnian from the position of Patriarch, all the families reached an astonishing consensus. Therefore, when it comes to a collegiate discussion, usually only Song Zhongnian and a few elders from his own side object, while the rest of the elders join in, the majority overwhelms the minority, and the matter is settled.
This kind of thing happened a lot, so Song Zhongnian was naturally very angry, and later on he didn't go to the elders' meeting very much. As soon as he didn't come out, the elders naturally became more arrogant, and even put their ideas on the inherent property of the long house, shouting the slogan "Equalization of the rich and the poor".
They said it confidently: "They are all descendants of the Song family, so why do you have so much property?"
When it comes to the total amount of this industry, the elders naturally never mention the number of people supported under the name of the long house, the ethnology, social relations, support for distant relatives and other expenses that are maintained by the lord according to the ancestral practice.
This nonsense is taken seriously as a truth. Song Zhongnian is well-educated anyway, and he needs to save face. He can't settle accounts with them one by one like a big kitchen goes to the vegetable market to buy goods. , was so angry that he walked away.
The collegiate agreements were reached one after another, and the elders seized all the time to allocate property and deploy people. After some people get the long-awaited rights and interests, they are even on their way to other places to take up their posts regardless of whether the mourning period has passed.
Although the real divisions are basically the public property within the clan, the direct descendants of the Song Clan and many offshoots have lived together for generations, and the internal and external expenses of public facilities such as roads and energy towers, as well as private troops and mercenaries, all rely on the public property. income. The distribution of public property income has always been determined by the head of the family. Therefore, all the elders clearly divided the public property, so they were cutting Song Zhongnian's power.
When Song Zining and Qianye walked into the conference hall, the elders were starting a new agenda for the day.
"For the thirty-two shops in the west land, 60% of the annual income goes to the fourth house, and the rest is divided equally between the third house and the nine houses. The owner of the shop is managed by the fourth house. Do all the elders have any objections to this discussion?"
"Seconded."
"no disagreement."
"Fourth room, shouldn't you treat me tonight?"
A chubby old man stood up, clasped his fists in four salutes, and said, "Yes, yes! Tonight I will be the host, and everyone will come! If you don't have any, you will look down on our fourth room!"
All the elders laughed and responded one after another.
At this moment, a cold voice came from the door: "I just look down on Sifang, so what can I do?"
The entire elder meeting fell silent instantly. The fat elder looked angry and looked in the direction of the sound, but his expression changed instantly, and he said in a broken voice, "Zining, why are you here?"
In recent years, Song Zining's reputation has been really strong, and his cultivation has grown by leaps and bounds. Although many elders' impressions of him are still from the time of the Song Clan's final exam a few years ago, they have more or less heard about his deeds, and they know that the Song Clan is now Among the younger generation, there is no comparison.
The people around Song Zining were familiar to many people. That inhumanly beautiful face is really impressive and unforgettable.
At that moment, an elder pointed at Qianye and said in a trembling voice, "You, you are..."
Qianye smiled and said: "Under Yeqian, everyone, don't make any mistakes."
Immediately, an elder acted angrily and shouted, "You dare to come here, do you know where this place is?"
Qianye calmly said: "What kind of place is this? Anyway, it's not a dragon's pond or a tiger's lair. It's neither a battlefield of bloody battles nor a city that never falls. I come and leave whenever I want, so why bother what kind of place this is?"
The elder was trembling with anger, and said: "You are really arrogant! Are you not afraid that the old man will send someone to take you down with an order?"
Qianye stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes were like lightning, he scanned the room, suddenly laughed dumbly, and said: "I don't even have a god general, and you want to take me down? I'm not talking about you, but everyone present here with this level of cultivation, On the battlefield, it’s all rubbish.”
"Arrogance!"
"Bastard!"
"Where is the ignorant junior, get out quickly!"
Amidst the reprimands, Qianye remained unmoved and just stood at the door. All the elders cursed and cursed, but no one dared to come within three meters of Qianye's body. They all hid in the crowd and scolded from a distance. His face was pale, and he faced Qianye directly, but he didn't dare to say a word.
These few were still cursing inwardly, but it wasn't Qianye who scolded, but the same clan behind them. When they wanted to retreat just now, there were many hands pushing and shoving behind them, pushing them out again.
Seeing this scene, Qianye was thoughtful, and said to Song Zining, "It seems that my reputation is quite scary?"
Song Zining rolled his eyes at him, and said angrily, "What's there to be proud of?"
Song Zining walked to the center of the meeting room, slapped a stack of collegial documents on the table, and said in a deep voice, "These are all collegial decisions made by the elders in the past few days. In my opinion, they should be burned here."
This sentence immediately caused the elders to explode. That was their painstaking efforts for several days. How could they spit out the meat in their mouths. There were a few people who didn't care about Qianye's presence, jumped out, pointed at Song Zining and cursed.
Song Zining ignored those people, mobilized his force, and said calmly: "These collegial meetings are all signed by the relevant elders. To put it bluntly, it is called iron proof. I said it was burned. It is all for the good of everyone."
His voice was not loud, but he suppressed all the noisy voices, so that everyone could hear them clearly, as if the sound was transmitted to their ears. Many elders were startled and thought to themselves: "This little Qi, is his cultivation already so high?!"
Song Zining's cultivation base of sixteenth level of original force is truly strong wherever he is placed, and his frontal combat power is even stronger on the big battlefield. It can also be said that he is almost invincible at the same level, and he can definitely suppress him. Just Zhao Jundu, Qianye and those terrifying super geniuses.
"This is the Presbyterian Church, it's not a place where you can play wild!" said an elder in the crowd, but his voice was not loud, and he lowered his neck and slowed down his tone. All the elders echoed, and the arrogance actually disappeared a lot.
Song Zining said: "My Song family in Gaoling has family laws, and the family has family rules. These collegial agreements are all written in black and white on the public property of the family. This is a blatant violation of family rules, let's not talk about it. There is no public property in the clan, how to maintain so many private troops, how to pay the salaries of tens of thousands of mercenaries and over a hundred strong men? Arrears of their salaries, all the elders want to experience what it means when the moon is dark and the wind is high, when murder and arson ?"
"These are things that have been decided upon by the elders of the clan. You don't need to worry about it, Xiao Qi!"
"that is."
"It's none of your business in the Presbyterian Church! How can a child with a yellow mouth have a place to speak here?"
All the elders talked to each other, the more they talked, the more energetic they became, and they were so courageous, they gradually gathered around the conference table.
Song Zining's eyes became colder, he raised his voice, and shouted, "If you do this, you are clearly breaking up the family! After a hundred years in the future, what face will you have to meet your ancestors!"
Some elders hesitated a little and showed shame, while others didn't change their expressions for a moment and ignored it. The taste of the meat in your mouth is really good, why would you want to spit it out? To make them spit out their flesh is really more sad than killing them.
Song Xiuwen stood up and said angrily: "Xiaoqi! How can you, a junior, speak on such occasions? Several of those collegial meetings were signed by your head of the family. Do you want to admit it?"
The head of the long house and the head of the Song Clan are both Song Zhongnian.
Song Zining looked through several copies in a row, and sure enough some of them had Song Zhongnian's name in the signature column, he couldn't help sighing, and said, "Whoever signed these collegial agreements, would they still have the face to enter the Song Family Ancestral Hall? The old ancestor just left, and you are busy here to divide the family. There are so many outsiders in the garden! Among other things, as long as these collegial agreements are spread outside, the Song Clan will lose face! You think that you Where can your reputation be better?"
Song Zining paused for a moment, and said with some self-mockery: "Now the Song Clan doesn't have much face left. But since you are all engaged in business, you should know the importance of reputation and reputation. If you are so untrustworthy, who will want to be with you in the future?" Doing business? How much property, won’t it be wiped out sooner or later?”
These words made sense, some elders flinched back and were even more ashamed, but most of them became angry from embarrassment.
Song Xiuwen had already made his mark, so he turned his heart away and said ruthlessly: "The loss of the family property is also in our hands. We are willing to lose, so what can we do? What the elders' meeting decides must be carried out! Don't use your ancestors as a law. Let’s talk about things, even when the laws of the Great Qin Dynasty were revised, the family laws and family rules were also made by people, and our elders can make changes through a joint discussion!”
Song Zining never thought that he would say such a thing, so he was stunned.
Qianye had been leaning against the door looking at the crowd, and suddenly said, "Zining, why haven't you seen your grandfather?"
Song Zining smiled wryly, and suddenly felt disheartened, and said, "It's fine if you don't say anything."
Those clan collegiate meetings should have been well preserved in the Wenshu Pavilion, but how did they get into Song Zining's hands neatly? The reason why can't be elaborated. At such a time, Song Zhongnian still shrank and refused to come forward, obviously he just didn't want to face the elders, and planned to throw all the pressure on Song Zining, so as not to come out and become this villain himself.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the situation of the Song Dynasty is life and death. Once the public property in the clan is divided up by the various houses, it is impossible for the Song Clan to think about it. Under such circumstances, Song Zhongnian still refused to stand up. No wonder Song Zining didn't want to say a word.
If Song Zhongnian had been tougher earlier, with his status as duke, son-in-law, prince, and grandson-in-law princess, it would have been extremely difficult to keep the family from being degraded, but it would not have led to the current situation of fragmentation.
As soon as he said that, Qianye understood, and said, "Your Song family has been in business for a thousand years, and you are really talented!"
Over there, Song Xiuwen had already fought his way out, and his momentum was in full swing, so he was not happy at the moment, and pointed at Qianye's nose and cursed: "What are you, you dare to make irresponsible remarks to me, the Song Clan..."
He hadn't finished speaking when he heard a crisp sound, and Qianye had already slapped him in the face!
The slap was so heavy that Song Xiuwen spit out his teeth, and flew out in a circle, slammed into the wall hard, and passed out instantly. On the way, he also knocked down several elders, and the conference hall suddenly became chaotic.
A few elders pointed at Qianye tremblingly, and said, "Our Song Clan is a reasonable place, you, why are you..."
Qianye slowly withdrew his hand, smiled brightly, and said, "I'm not a very good-tempered person. When someone points at me and scolds me, they will usually be unreasonable if they can do it."