The carriage traveled along the broad riverbank for Two Quarters of an Hour and arrived before a stretch of courtyards.
"Deputy Hall Master, over there is the deputy hall master's home!" Yang Chengyi pointed to a courtyard standing on the hillside.
This area was made up of courtyards belonging to the major families. The thirty-one families of the Clan Council all had a courtyard here.
Of course, not all of their tribesmen lived here. Only each family's clan head and a few younger members lived here; most of the major families' tribesmen lived in Longevity City and the villages and towns to the south.
In the Spirit Source Land, the children of each family had no privileges. Perhaps they could temporarily live here because of family connections, but once they started families of their own, positions would be arranged for them, and they would move out of here, establish new households, and live their own small lives.
The Clan Council was formed from many families, but in reality, these families had already lost the characteristics of clans. They did not maintain the scale a family ought to have, nor Will Not there be a situation where several dozen or several hundred people from One Person family lived together.
According To Yang Zhengshan's idea, the concept of family would be preserved at the upper levels—that was, the Clan Council—but at the lower levels, the form of families could not appear.
Once a man married, he would immediately break away from his original household and establish an independent one.
In short, it was a forced division of the family.
This included the Yang Family; the descendants below were the same.
Then, the children of the many families would live mixed together, preventing everyone from banding together in family form to fight for