Six outstanding students from the Jia Clan School temporarily lived in the guest house in the middle courtyard of Xunyan Yushiyamen.
The hostess Jia Min had already ordered her servants to clean it up before. Two people entered the small courtyard together and could easily accommodate more than ten or twenty people.
There are only six students who live in the guest house of Xunyan Yushi Yamen.
As for the Ning Mansion Guard who escorted them, they were arranged at the Salt Camp, not far from the Salt Patrol Censor's Yamen.
After all, it is an important government office with a huge amount of money in its hands. How could it not have deterrent force?
The Salt Guards were an armed force specifically affiliated with the Yanzheng Yamen, which shows that the imperial court attached great importance to the Salt Patrol Yamen.
This group of Ningfu guards will not return to the capital for the time being. They will follow the first wave of ethnic studies students to stay in Yangzhou.
When the second wave of outgoing students arrives, they will change classes with their colleagues behind them.
After all, it is thousands of miles away from the capital, so necessary military support is indispensable.
What exactly is the situation in the local area? The information collected through the news channels of Ning Rong's Second Mansion cannot reveal it.
It can only be said that it is just in case. If there is any man-made disaster, at least with the riding skills of the students and the nursing staff, as long as they are not too unlucky, it will be no problem to rush out of the dangerous area.
As for greeting the Jinling Jia clan, it's just an extra layer of insurance.
The Ning Rong Mansion is not very clear about the current situation of the Jia clan in Jinling.
The widely circulated official amulets of the four major families must have taken advantage of the Jinling clan.
Jia Rong does not know whether the Jinling clan has completely transformed into a local power with the help of the power of Ning Rong's second mansion.
As for whether the Jinling clan had participated in the salt administration, the Ningrong Mansion also kept a dark eye.
Under such circumstances, the Jinling clan is really not worthy of trust.
Before those few outstanding students left the capital, Jia Rong told them in private, and more than once.
Jia Rong's idea is very simple. If he comes into contact with the Jinling clan, he should not easily get involved in the affairs there, let alone agree to any requests made by the clan there.
Whatever information you heard or saw about the Jinling clan, it is best to record it in notes and then send it to the clan academy after returning to the capital.
If you encounter something important or urgent that concerns the Jinling clan, you can ask Lin Ruhai to help deliver the letter.
In short, it is best not to get involved in matters related to the Jinling clan.
It can be said that the Ningrong Second Mansion has taken great care of the Jinling clan, and has even maintained it for nearly a hundred years.
Every few years, money will be spent to purchase a batch of sacrificial fields, which will be placed under the name of the Jinling clan and serve as the clan property of the clan members.
The so-called field sacrifice is the final guarantee for the entire Jia family.
Just like public property, every year the clan members can get a part of the output from the sacrifice fields, no matter how poor the family is, they can get a share.
Of course, the sacrificial fields are also managed by the Jinling tribe, and there must be some dirty things involved, or things that are hidden from the superiors and subordinates. As for how well they manage it, the capital is not very clear.
Sacrifice fields are a clan property recognized by the imperial court and the government.
Generally speaking, as long as it is not a catastrophic catastrophe of genocide, the court will basically not perform clan sacrifices.
After nearly a hundred years of accumulation, the number of recorded sacrificial fields in Danning Prefecture alone has exceeded 10,000 acres.
What is that concept?
Based on the output of the paddy fields in Jiangnan, if there are two crops per year, the annual harvest from one mu of land should be about seven dan.
Ten thousand acres of sacrificial land is seventy thousand stones!
After deducting various expenses and some unexplainable consumption, the annual food surplus is at least 20,000 to 30,000 dan!
If it is evenly distributed to all clan members, every family will be well-off, which is the minimum standard.
Of course, things won't be that simple.
Naturally, Ningrong and Rongfu will take the lion's share of the profits, and some powerful people from the Jinling clan will also share a large share of the profits.
But what is left is enough for the rest of the tribe to have enough food and clothing, and there is still enough money left to support the children at home in school.
This is just the guaranteed income from the field sacrifice. How much benefit can be involved in a single protective talisman?
But even so, the Jia family in Jinling has not become a powerful family in Jiangnan!
There are not even a few talented people among the clan’s descendants in the past hundred years!
To put it bluntly, it is worse than the clansmen in the capital!
Under such circumstances, how could Jia Rong encourage the students to take the initiative to contact the Jinling clan?
Lin Ruhai naturally didn't know what Jia Rong was thinking, so he warmly received the six students from the Jia clan school in the capital.
Jie Feng Yan gave them a few more days to repair, and then they began to understand the specific conditions of these outstanding students one by one.
His talent in reading, as well as his understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics, after examination, the conclusion can only be average, very mediocre.
However, the foundation is quite solid. If you are willing to work hard, it is not hopeless to pass the examination.
Of course, he meant taking the exam in the capital, not Jiangnan.
Obviously, Ningfu in the capital city has no such thoughts and plans, otherwise it would not send people to Yangzhou to get in touch with the practice.
Lin Ruhai is not a pedantic person. In fact, he still approves of Ning Mansion's behavior. Naturally, the choices will be different depending on the situation.
For example, in the Lin family, when his father died young and Lin Ruhai was still young, the orphans and widowers had to struggle to maintain the family business.
When Lin Ruhai reaches adulthood, he can actually become an official without taking the imperial examination. It is not difficult to directly enter the officialdom through the connections left by his family.
But the problem is that Lin Ruhai needs to support the Lin family.
The most important thing is that he needs to ascend to a high position as soon as possible, at least a feared position, otherwise the Lin family's fortune will be difficult to protect.
After all, as time goes by, many old relationships and friendships in the past will gradually become distant and fade away, and in the end there will even be no intersection at all.
The reality is cruel, especially for official families!
If you don't have enough strength or potential, why should others treat you as an equal or look down upon you?
If Lin Ruhai has not climbed to a certain high position before these personal connections can no longer guarantee the Lin family's fortune, then everything will be over.
Obviously, the imperial examination is the best way!
Of course, if you have an old father-in-law, your future career will be easier. At least you don’t have to worry about being squeezed out and suppressed, which consumes time and energy.
It was because of marrying the official daughter of the prince and being the top prize in a certain examination that Lin Ruhai became a third-rank official in the court in just ten years.
There are many capable people in the officialdom. Without the strong support of his father-in-law and the strong connections brought by the imperial examination, Lin Ruhai would have dreamed of becoming a third-rank official before forty...