The entire Old Tong family is extremely large, with a total of more than thirty blood lines.
Tong Tulai was subordinated to the Xianghuang Banner Manchuria, Tong Yangxing, Tong Yangcai, Tong Shan, Tong Yangze and others were subordinate to the Zhenglan Banner Han Army, Tong Zhenguo, Tong Biao, Tong Zhao, Tong Yangqian and others were subordinate to the Xianghong Banner Han Army. In addition to the Tong Jia clan
The rest are all under the banners of Manchuria.
Among them, the mainstream of Lao Tong's family is affiliated with the Zhenglan Banner Han Army.
According to convention, all the successive heads of the old Tong family must be the commander of the Han army in the Zhenglan Banner in order to be widely recognized by the entire family.
Unfortunately, Yuzhu happens to be in charge of the affairs of the Zhenglan Banner, Manchuria, Mongolia, and the Han Army. In fact, his power far exceeds that of the previous heads of the old Tong family.
In other words, all the household affairs of the mainstream branch of Lao Tong's family are inseparable from Yuzhu's decision-making.
In the history of the Tong family, even if they hedged their bets, Longkodo secretly supported the fourth child, while Tong Guowei and Elundai supported the eighth and fourteenth children.
However, after Lao Si came to power, due to the collapse of Longkodo, Tong Banchao, who was once prominent for a while, completely left the core circle of power.
However, the old Tong family's luck was not too bad. The two first-class sons were inherited by Qingfu and Kuadai respectively.
However, during the Qianlong Dynasty, Qingfu, who had won the first-class dukedom for nothing, offended Qianlong for a trivial matter and committed suicide for the serious crime of delaying the military plane.
Yuzhu entered the house and saw that, good fellow, there were people from all the thirty or so branches of the old Tong family present.
If it were before, Yuzhu would definitely not be able to recognize so many relatives.
Now, Yuzhu has been in power for many years and is the commander-in-chief of the three flags of Zhenglan Banner, so he can barely recognize everyone.
Tong Guowei was also a sensible person and arranged to meet Yuzhu's relatives, all of whom were of the same generation.
It is natural for people of the same generation in Manchuria to greet each other with shoulder-to-shoulder greetings.
After a lot of fussing with etiquette, surrounded by his younger relatives, Tong Guowei sat in the chief position on the left.
Among the people present, Yuzhu had the highest power and status.
In terms of title, Yuzhu is the auxiliary Duke of the clan, much higher than Tong Guowei's first-class Chengen Duke.
In terms of official positions, Yuzhu once served as the general of Fuyuan, the bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion and the secretary of the Ministry of household affairs.
The relatives were full of smiling faces and asked Yuzhu to take the second seat.
But Yuzhu waved his hand and said: "Filial piety comes first among all good deeds. Is there any reason to sit side by side with the ancestors?"
This statement is very tenable!
Tong Guowei couldn't help wiping his beard and smiled slightly, and said: "I am already old. The future of the entire family depends on you and your Amma. Since everyone unanimously recommends you to take the second seat, just sit down. It would be hypocritical to continue to pester me.
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Now that Tong Guowei had spoken, Yuzhu saluted and sat down at the second seat calmly.
The two principals took their seats, and the rest of the family members took their seats in order according to their seniority and status.
Yuzhu knew in his heart that the east wing of the main courtyard of the old house had always been a special place for family meetings.
The patriarch of the Tong family used to be Tong Guogang, but now he is Tong Guowei.
Today, Tong Guowei deliberately brought Yuzhu to the east wing to show his face. He had only one purpose, to formally announce to the entire family that Longkodo and Yuzhu were the next and next heads of the family.
According to the family rules set by Tong Tulai, the inheritance of the family head cannot pass through Longkodo and be passed directly to Yuzhu.
In fact, Tong Guowei also knows that with Yuzhu's current power and status, he may not look down on the old Tong family's position as head of the family at all, right?
Well, the main reason is that during the rise of Yuzhu, except for Longkoduo who secretly made great efforts, others, including Tong Guowei, did things that were icing on the cake.
"You guys have always said that there are many difficult things at home. Now, the people who can help are at my side. If you have any requests, just ask them." Tong Guowei said this, not being an old fool, but deliberately trying to
Yuzhu pulled back into the big family.
Because Yuzhu has always been close to the relatives in the family.
Except for the four-season etiquette, Yuzhu rarely interacts with his relatives in private.
With Yuzhu's current state of mind, when he looks at these relatives, he can only think of two words: trouble!
Although it is normal for a person to achieve enlightenment and for chickens and dogs to ascend to heaven.
However, based on Yuzhu's experience, he would rather promote the confidants he personally trained than his relatives.
The main reason for this is that when the forest gets bigger, there are all kinds of birds.
In the past, Yuzhu had suffered all kinds of overt and covert losses from her relatives. But the problem was that after suffering the losses, she always had a hard time talking about it and could not explain it clearly.
Hi, everyone is eagerly waiting for Tong Guowei to speak.
Now that Tong Guowei took the initiative to speak and put up the ladder, it was like a dam bursting, and everyone followed up with various requests.
Yuzhu didn't look at Tong Guowei, he knew in his heart that the old guy deliberately set up such a trap, although it caused him a lot of trouble.
However, as the saying goes, eating people is soft-spoken and taking advantage of others is short-handed. Yuzhu helped his relatives and could still earn some money from his good reputation.
In this kind of society that pays attention to involvement, the meaning of family is unusually important.
Generally speaking, as long as someone is kicked out of their home, there is no future for them.
In the Qing Dynasty, the essence of the imperial power not extending to counties was actually to hand over the power vacuum in towns and villages to the clan power represented by the Jin gentry.
After Yuzhu gradually came to power, he did not vigorously recruit the Tong family. In fact, he did it to show the old emperor.
Why?
At the beginning, the so-called Tong Banchao was just an expedient measure adopted by the old emperor shortly after he came to power.
Now, the old emperor has been emperor for more than fifty years, and it is impossible to allow the second Tong Banchao to appear in the court.
In the entire Lao Tong family, when it comes to understanding the old emperor, including Tong Guowei, they are far inferior to Yuzhu and Longkodo.
The old emperor was actually a reasonable emperor. As long as Yuzhu did not follow the path of a powerful minister, the old emperor was quite tolerant of him.
Yuzhu knew what he was doing and used his power and influence to support his family cousins. Even if the old emperor knew about it, he wouldn't have any other opinions.
The main reason for this is that Yuzhu always has a sense of propriety in handling things and will never go beyond the limits.
In order to show his importance, Yuzhu ordered people to get paper and pen, and record the cousins' requests one by one in front of Tong Guowei.
However, when it was the turn of Yang Leji, the grandson of the former Jiangxi governor Tong Guozheng, Yuzhu was still quite surprised.
Yang Leji said calmly: "The honors can be obtained on the horse, so why do you need to give them to each other privately? My great-uncle and great-nephew took their leave."
In full view of everyone, Yang Leji walked away gracefully, without taking away half of the clouds.
Yuzhu nodded secretly. People can be poor, but they cannot lose their ambition.
Regardless of whether Yang Leji has real backbone or is fake, his arrogance is commendable.