Protect Our Clan Leader

Chapter 753: Chapter 1 My Great Grandfather is Wang Shouzhe_1

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New Peace Town of Changning Wee.

Since its reclamation, nearly fifty years have passed.

Now, New Peace Town has reached the maturity of its development, with a variety of farms of varying sizes dotted across the town.

Aside from the farmsteads owned by prominent families, there are also individual villages, built near mountains and rivers. The villagers all originally followed the Wang family to reclaim the land.

These commoners were poor families from Changning Wee or nearby areas, or tenant farmer families that have broken their contracts. Migrating to reclaim the land was dangerous, but if successful, they could obtain a significant increase in their family income through ownership of their own cultivated land.

When the Changning Wang Clan obtained the Expansion Order for New Peace Town, it wasn’t to claim all of the land in this town as their private farms.

The main purpose for Great Qian Land to encourage land reclamation, and even provide some financial support, is to expand the territories, augmenting overall human habitats. Hence, the families who participated in the reclamation had the right to preferentially encircle and establish farms according to their inputs. However, they also had to guide ordinary people to multiply and grow here.

In addition, the Government Office would demarcate the areas under the purview of prominent families, based on agreements between such families. All the commoners within the designated part are under the administration of these families. These families bear the responsibility of protecting their lands and citizens, coupled with obligations such as tax collection.

In return, out of the four parts of the tax from the family’s jurisdiction, one part goes to the local prominent family.

From this, it can be seen that the lands and common citizens under a family’s jurisdiction are governed by them, not as private territories. Only those farms that are measured and registered by the government, and are approved, can be considered as legal private properties of the prominent family.

However, the Changning Wang Clan is so powerful that the influence of local government offices is minimized. As long as their actions do not break national laws, in most cases, they have free rein.

Fortunately, the Changning Wang Clan is not one of those predatory types of prominent families that oppress common citizens. Rather, they take good care of ordinary people under their jurisdiction, always considering them for opportunities to make money.

Dongbin Village in New Peace Town.

This place is located in the northwest of the town. Due to the numerous river banks and rocky hills, the lands suitable for farming here are fragmented and do not meet the Wang Clan’s large-scale farming mode.

Therefore, a group of commoners settle here and, guided by the Wang Clan, they reclaim the land. After several decades, Dongbin Village has a settled population of approximately 1300 people, farming on mediocre land and transforming most of the poor-quality land into fish ponds.

The Wang Clan’s stall would purchase all the fish reared in the ponds. Moreover, the Wang Clan provides high-quality mulberry species with high survival rates of silkworms, resulting in extraordinary cocoons.

And there’s no need to fret about sales of cocoons either, as the consolidated silk factories of the In-laws Alliance would acquire all of it.

Because of this, the villagers of Dongbin are well off and live happily. They are even willing to send their children to the village school for enlightenment education.

The village school is jointly operated by the Wang Clan and the government, providing basic education to children of appropriate age. The teachers are cultivated from Wang Family School and rotated among different village schools. Only a small fee was charged, the rest was subsidised by the Wang Clan and the government.

The Dongbin Village School, situated at the entrance to the village, is built with fine brick tiles and cement. It might not appear very appealing, but it’s very sturdy.

At this time, about seventy to eighty children were attentively listening to their lessons in the village school.

Outside the classroom.

A slightly overweight, rich looking man around sixty years old was saying with a nod and a bow, “Seventh Young Master Wang, our village school in Dongbin has always been among the better ones in New Peace Town. Every year, three or four outstanding students are accepted into the Wang Family School, and every year, some are selected to join our Wang Clan’s team of household servants.”

Nowadays, not everyone can become a Wang Clan household servant.

To get into the Wang Clan’s household servant system, one must have outstanding academic performance in the entire Wang Family School. In the future, they can start as maids or pageboys, gradually ascending to managerial positions, or even leadership roles, such as the Great Steward.

In addition to the household servant system, the Wang Clan also has systems for house servants and heads of households. The latter two require slightly more relaxed academic performances but place higher demands on bloodline talent. Besides these, the Wang Clan also has various profession systems, each representing different career paths.

The one referred to as “Seventh Young Master” is a young boy with a childish face. He is dressed in luxurious clothes made of cloud-patterned Spirit Cotton, with a jade belt around his waist, sword-like shoes on his feet, and a Spiritual Jade hanging at his waist… a typical rich, spoiled child from a wealthy family.

This little lord’s identity is not as simple as it appears. He is Wang Anye, the legitimate eldest great-grandson of the current generation Changning Wang Clan. He is the seventh of the ‘An’ generation of the Wang family, hence he is commonly referred to as the Seventh Young Master.

Not only that, but his mother’s family also has an extraordinary background. His mother, Qian Yurou, is the legitimate eldest granddaughter of the current Clan Leader of the Longzuo Qian Family. With the statuses of both the Wang and Qian families’ legitimate eldest lines, one can imagine how high Wang Anye’s status is.

Therefore, even when he is traveling outside, besides the two smart young servants with him, there are also two house guards from the Spiritual Platform Realm attending to him publicly.

In the background, there is an Elder of the Heavenly Human Realm from the Qian family, keeping watch over him twenty-four hours a day. This shows that the Qian family attaches great importance to this external legitimate bloodline.

This level of guard duty is unique to the Wang Clan.

Wang Anye, with his hands clasped behind his back, asked lazily, “I heard that Liu Lizheng has taken a concubine recently? Congratulations, congratulations.”