Chapter 753: Chapter 1: My Great-Grandfather Is Wang Shouzhe

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Changning Guard Xin’an Town.

Since the start of land development, it has been nearly fifty years.

Today, Xin’an Town has entered a mature development stage, with numerous estates scattered throughout the area.

Apart from noble family estates, there are also villages built along the mountains and rivers. The villagers are civilians who followed the Wang Family to pioneer the area in the early days.

These civilians come from impoverished civilian families in Changning Guard or nearby guards, or tenant farmer families who have dissolved their contracts. Although migrating to open up land is dangerous, once successfully settled, they can achieve a significant increase in their total household income from self-cultivated fields.

The Changning Wang Family holds a Pioneer Order to develop land in Xin’an Town, not to say that they enclosed all the land of Xin’an Town to become the Wang Family’s private estate.

The Daqian Kingdom encourages pioneering and even provides some financial support. The main goal is to expand the national territory and increase the living space for the entire human race. Therefore, families participating in pioneering have the right to enclose land to build estates according to their investment, but they must also guide willing civilian pioneers to reproduce and reside in the area.

Additionally, the government will divide territories among noble families based on mutual agreements, and all civilians within these territories belong to the territory of the noble family. Noble families have the responsibility to safeguard the territory and maintain the peace, as well as to collect taxes and fulfill other responsibilities.

As compensation, ten percent of the four percent tax collected within the noble family’s territory goes to the local noble family.

From this, it is evident that land and civilians under noble family jurisdiction are called territories rather than private domains. Only those estates measured, registered, and recognized by the government can be considered the noble family’s legitimate private property.

However, the Changning Wang Family is so powerful that the influence of the local government has been minimized. As long as they do not violate national laws, in most situations, they do as they please.

Fortunately, the Changning Wang Family is not a tyrannical noble family that exploits civilians. Instead, they take good care of civilians under their jurisdiction, always thinking of them whenever there is an opportunity to prosper.

Xin’an Town East River Village.

This place is located in the northwest of the town. Due to the abundance of rivers and rocky hills, the arable land here is fragmented and scattered, making it unsuitable for the Wang Family’s large-scale estate production model.

As a result, a group of civilians settled here, guided by the Wang Family for land development. Over the past decades, East River Village has grown to a settled population of about 1,300 people. A small portion of good land is used to cultivate the Wang Family’s grain seed, while most of the inferior land has been transformed into a mulberry-fish pond model.

Fish raised in the ponds are uniformly purchased by Wang’s Fish Stall. The variety of mulberry trees provided by the Wang Family is of high quality, resulting in a high survival rate of silkworms and superior cocoon quality.

Furthermore, there is no need to worry about the sale of the cocoons, as the Marriage Alliance’s collective silk factory will make unified purchases.

Therefore, the villagers of East River Village have a decent income and, living in peace and contentment, are willing to send their children to the [Village School] for elementary education.

The Village School is an elementary school jointly run by the Wang Family and the government, with "teachers" trained by the Wang Clan Academy rotating teaching assignments at each school, educating school-age children in basic education, charging only basic fees with the rest subsidized by the Wang Family and the government.

East River Village School, located at the entrance of the village, is built with high-quality bricks and foreign cement. It’s not very pretty but extremely sturdy. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

At this time, around seventy or eighty students are attentively listening to a lesson inside the school.

Outside the classroom.

A slightly chubby man, looking about fifty or sixty years old, was nodding and smiling as he said, "Seventh Young Master, our East River Village School has always been one of the more outstanding schools in Xin’an Town. Every year a few excellent students pass into the Wang Clan Academy, and each year someone is selected for the Wang Family’s household servant team."

Nowadays, it’s not just anyone who can become a household servant of the Wang Family.

To enter the Wang Family’s household servant system, one must have relatively excellent grades in the entire Wang Clan Academy. Their future career paths can start from roles like maid or servant, gradually progressing to steward-type management positions or even Chief Steward-level leadership positions.

Besides the household servant system, the Wang Family also has a household servant system and a household generals system. The last two have slightly lower performance requirements but have higher bloodline talent requirements. Additionally, there are various working systems within the Wang Family, representing different development directions.

The one referred to as "Seventh Young Master" is a young boy with a tender face. He wears a cloud-pattern spirit cotton cloth brocade robe, with a jade belt around his waist, sword shoes on his feet, and spirit jade hung at his waist, a typical young master from a wealthy family.

This young master’s identity is not simple; he is the eldest great-grandson of the current direct lineage of the Changning Wang Family, Wang Anye, known as the Seventh Young Master due to ranking seventh in the An Generation of the Wang Family.

Moreover, his maternal family’s background is equally extraordinary. His mother, Qiaan Yurou, is the direct eldest granddaughter of the current clan leader of the Longzuo Qian Family. With the status of being from the direct lineages of both the Wang Family and the Qian Family, one can imagine the prominence of Wang Anye’s status.

As a result, aside from two clever servants shadowing him on his outings, he is openly guarded by two Spirit Platform Realm household generals.

In secret, there is also a Celestial Human Realm household general from the Qian Family, Elder of the clan, watching over him twelve hours a day. This shows the Qian Family’s focus on this external direct lineage bloodline.

This level of protective treatment is unique within the Wang Family.

Wang Anye, with his hands behind his back, lazily asked, "I heard that Liu Lizheng recently took a concubine? Congratulations, congratulations."