For example, Yuan Yuan said earlier that Lin Ruhai may have millions of family properties, but even with the support of rong guofu, Jia Lian could not take away all his property. Why?
Lin Ruhai should have an heir, and Dai Yu, as the only daughter, is neither the only one in her parents' inheritance nor the first heir, and in the end she only receives a dowry under her name.
1. Lin Ruhai should have an heir and bear the responsibility of continuing the incense.
Some people will say that when Lin Ruhai was seriously ill in the book, Jia Lian and Daiyu were with him, how could he disregard his flesh and blood daughter, elbow out, and give the family property to outsiders?
In this way, before Lin Ruhai's death, the possibility of arranging an heir in his will can really be ignored? Not really.
Lin Ruhai
If he had not died suddenly, Lin Ruhai would have arranged for the establishment of an heir before his death.
In the feudal patriarchal society of ancient men's superiority and inferiority, under the traditional marriage system of male and female marriage, women "married and obeyed their husbands", and only sons could perform the task of passing on the inheritance and undertake the responsibility of sacrifice.
There is a sentence in the "Night Talk of the Hearth": "As the old saying goes, there is a son and everything is enough." ＂
Having ten daughters, ten sons-in-law can not be a son, just as the so-called "family has ten thousand gold is not rich, five sons are desperate."
Dai Yu is the only daughter, and the Lin family is a family, and must be passed down from heir to the heirs to undertake the responsibility of sacrifice.
The so-called filial piety has three, no queen is greater, and it is impossible to break the incense after death. After all, the ancients regarded death as life, the daughter eventually returned to a foreign surname, the grandson and son-in-law would not preside over the sacrifice, and the ancestral incense was broken.
Wu Zetian and Di Renjie
Just as the historical empress Wu Zetian, because Di Renjie said: Regarding the matter of sacrifice in the hereafter, from ancient times to the present, there is no childless nephew and aunt, and the idea of passing on the children of the martial family was immediately cut off.
Bao Yu loves Lin sister the most, and also filial piety is to rank her first after the old ancestor and her parents, and Lin Ruhai, who is full of learning, will not forget the ancestor even if she hurts her daughter again.
Therefore, Lin Ruhaito is isolated from Jia Fu, and will inevitably arrange for his step-son, and the property will also be distributed. It is absolutely impossible to say that all the property will be attributed to Daiyu, who will marry far away.
Lin Daiyu
Moreover, lin Ruhai's failure to establish an heir before his death does not mean that he did not have it after his death.
First of all, Lin Daiyu is the only daughter who has not yet left the cabinet, and according to the old customs, Lin Ruhai must immediately neutralize an heir from the sons of the clan after his death and preside over funeral affairs. Logically, the establishment of heirs is something that Jia Lian and Jia Fu oppose and are invalid, and must be approved.
Secondly, the Lin family, which has property and employment, has become a "desperate household", and the coveters among the clan will naturally stand up and compete.
Jia Min died early, but several concubines and aunts are still there, and it is entirely possible to have one of the heirs as a nephew, as long as he has the status of heir, he can legally inherit the Lin family's property.
For the aunt, this is equivalent to the husband's death, and the concubines with a humble status have the opportunity to become the head of the house, of course, they can't ask for it.
As for the adopted son and nephew Bai to get a family property, only need to provide a few more Lin ancestors, which is not a problem at all. For the Lin clan relatives, it is also a good thing that the fertile water does not flow into the fields of outsiders.
Stills from "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Therefore, even if Lin Ruhai and his wife have died, the patriarch and Daiyu's aunt and her mother's family, plus the family that intends to inherit their sons, can still join hands to complete the act of establishing an heir and obtain the legal qualification for separating the family and dividing the property.
In addition, Jia Fu could not hide the sky and cross the sea to prevent the Lin family from establishing an heir.
When a person like Lin Ruhai, who has a high-ranking official dies, he is bound to handle the funeral with great fanfare, and it is impossible to conceal it.
Lin Ruhai can marry Qianjin Jiamin of the Rongguo Mansion, the natural door is right, the family strength cannot be underestimated, no more than the grassroots Tanhualang. The Lin family's near branch is gone, and there are still many side branches.
The clan power of the large families in feudal society has great rights, even if the aunt and grandmother are weak, watching the Lin family incense cut off such a thing, the family elders absolutely cannot tolerate it.
The Lin family is uncertain, but see the jia family's situation in Jinling, there must be someone in Suzhou who looks at the old mansion. Since Jia Lian, who was far away in the capital, could arrive, the burial would take forty-nine days, and for more than a month, the Lin clan relatives arrived a little later when they heard the news.
The Lin clan and the same sect are uncertain, but there must be someone in Suzhou who looks at the old mansion, see the situation of the Jia family in Jinling, since Jia Lian, who is far away in the capital, can arrive, the burial takes forty-nine days, more than a month, the Lin clan relatives learned the news and arrived a little later.
Second, Lin Ruhai's heirs have more priority to inherit than Daiyu.
For example, the "Qinghui Canonical Examples. Account. The BannerMan's Raising of Heirs also stipulates that heirs have the right to inherit the ancestral lineage and inherit the inheritance. In other words, the heir is the son of a succession of clansmen and has more priority in inheriting property than the biological daughter of the deceased.
As far as the author Cao Xueqin came to the family, after the death of his great-grandmother Li's son Cao Yin and grandson Cao Yun, he succeeded his brother Cao Quan's son Cao Fu and took over the position of Jiangning Weaving.
And the "Great Ming Order. The Household Order stipulates that the deceased has no sons, and his surviving person and clan may set up an heir for him, usually from among the sons and nephews of the deceased's same clan. If there is no heir for the deceased, the entire estate is divided equally among the daughters.
That is to say, only if there is no heir for Lin Ruhai, the orphan daughter Daiyu can inherit all the property of her parents. However, as mentioned before, Lin Ruhai must continue the incense after his death and inherit his family property.
Third, the process of Lin Daiyu inheriting her parents' inheritance is actually the process of contesting the power of the Jia Lin family.
As the saying goes, a strong dragon can't fight a snake on the ground, and although Rong Guofu is a magnate, the Lin clan relatives are more advantageous and people, and they are not ordinary small people, and it is impossible to let the Jia family cover the sky with one hand.
The local official in Suzhou said that he was very embarrassed: there were people in the imperial court who were relatives of the Jia family and the Lin family, and they would not look up to see each other in the future, and neither side could afford to offend.
Therefore, As daiyu's guardian, Jia Fu had great power in the middle of the dynasty and Jiangnan and had to make concessions.
The Lin clan is allowed to participate in the distribution of Lin Ruhai's estate as heirs. For example, the ancestral mansion houses dedicated to the ancestral arches are certainly not OK, and the real estate cemetery can certainly not be auctioned off all.
Sun Jia Lian, the governor of rongguo, went to handle Lin Ruhai's affairs as Jia Min's nephew and as a zhiguan family, and in addition to determining the dowry for Daiyu, he could take the grounds of the dowry of Lin Daiyu, his daughter who had not yet left the cabinet, win gold and silver soft or antique dividends that belonged to Jia Min, and take advantage of some land properties to take advantage of the power.
Of course, Jia Lian will not let go of deposits, accounts receivable and collections and other gold and silver assets that are soft and easy to liquidate.
Jia Lian
The reason is very simple, it can be said that it is Jia Min's dowry, or pretending to be the Jia family's silver deposit, or borrowing money, so as to sell the land and house under the name of the Lin family on the grounds of recovering the arrears, relying on strong power to seize the property. For example, when Jia Qiang went to procure small plays, she extracted 100,000 taels of silver stored in the Zhen family in Jiangnan.
Jia Lian was a director of the Rongguo Mansion, experienced and properly handled, and Jia Mu was relieved to send him there. During this period, Jia Lian sent Xiao Wei back to the house to get big hairy clothes, but it was just a pretext, mainly to listen to Jia Mu's instructions on the disposal of the Lin family's property.
Fourth, even if the parents have a million inheritances, Lin Daiyu, who is not out of the cabinet, can only get a dowry.
Jia Fu's encroachment on Lin Ruhai's property was not carried out in the form of Daiyu inheriting her parents' inheritance to a large extent, except for Jia Min's personal belongings, it was carried out on the grounds of recovering Jia Fu's arrears and other reasons.
When Sister Lin returned to Jia Province, most of the property became a windfall in Jia Lian's mouth and was encroached upon, and the property that really clearly belonged to Daiyu's name was only a dowry.
Even so, the Jia family did not care about it in detail.
At least Jia Lian won Lin Daiyu a rich dowry. Daiyu's dowry was brought back to Jia Province and handed over to her grandmother Shi Taijun for safekeeping, and people were also carefully blessed by him, and their lives were guaranteed.
In ancient times, the folk called childless households "extinct households", and the inheritance left by the general "extinct households" is difficult to be attributed to the names of daughters or survivors, and the phenomenon of swallowing up orphans and widows is very common.
If it were not for the appearance of such a rich lady's family as Rong Guofu, or the fallen children who had no power and no power, and could not speak, the Lin clan colluded with the government to occupy the property, symbolically giving Daiyu a little money and sending it away.
If there is no one in the Jia family, Daiyu's greatly reduced dowry money will even be kept by her aunt or clan, and she does not know how much it will consume when she leaves the cabinet.
Therefore, the young and lost rich girl, if there is no support from relatives, the ending is also quite bleak.