Especially after being exposed to the official duties of the Yanxunshiyamen, the abilities of the six Jia clan students in the capital improved the most.
Salt dealer, salt cuber, salt farm...
Colleagues, local powerful, powerful gangs...
Private salt dealers, brutal thugs, some unexplainable powerful beings...
All kinds of people from all walks of life gathered around the Yangzhou Salt Patrol Censor’s Yamen, which was an eye-opener for the students who came for internship to increase their knowledge.
Some guys even have ideas for them.
The purpose is to find out the latest trends of the Salt Patrol Yamen, or some temporary regulations.
Of course, it would be best if we could figure out the thoughts of Lin Ruhai, the censor of the Salt Patrol.
Especially those salt merchants, their actions can only be described as outrageous.
In order to buy them off, I had to spend thousands of taels of silver!
Not only money, but also graceful and charming Jiangnan beauties.
To be honest, how can the few students from the Jia clan who come from a relatively well-off family or better than a well-off family withstand the temptation?
Fortunately, Jia Rong gave special instructions before coming, so they avoided the test of their souls.
You don't have to be polite about the money given from outside, but you have to explain the matter clearly to Lin Ruhai later and get Lin Ruhai's approval.
Lin Ruhai had obviously been mentally prepared for this. Seeing a prominent student of the Jia clan school, he was willing to take the initiative to explain the matter clearly to him, so he naturally had no intention of making things difficult.
The key thing is that the first batch of Jia clan students will only stay with Lin Ruhai for a year at most.
After one year, you have to return to the capital no matter what, otherwise the clan will be exterminated directly!
In addition, in addition to the duties of bodyguards, the group of guards who followed also had the responsibility of supervision.
Moreover, with the end of the college examination in the capital, the next batch of ethnic studies students will arrive and the guards will be rotated first.
When the New Year is over, students who will be admitted will return to the capital one after another next year.
In short, Jia Rong regarded Yangzhou Xunyan Censor Yamen, run by Lin Ruhai, as a training ground for ethnic studies students.
In The Story of Red Mansions, Lin Ruhai was fooled to death in the position of Salt Patrol Censor.
This is very unreasonable!
You should know that in the past, the Yangzhou Salt Patrol Censor could serve for two terms at most, which took two years.
But Lin Ruhai stayed there for at least nearly ten years, which was completely inconsistent with common sense.
No matter how much trust you have with the Emperor today, such a situation will never happen.
Jia Rong didn't have the time to think about the secrets inside, but he could use the Xunyan Yushi Yamen as a training ground for students who wanted to be successful in clan studies.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Yanxunyan Censor Yamen was the official center of Jiangnan and deservedly the center of the storm.
The interests involved are so astonishing that all kinds of people can't help but reach out and grab a handful.
Of course, as long as the relationship has not been completely broken, or the balance of officialdom has not been broken, no force from any side will dare to act against it.
In this way, as long as you are not involved in the center of the storm and are just practicing at the Salt Patrol Yamen, being a temporary worker is not life-threatening.
Sooner or later, students who have gained a position in ethnic studies will enter the officialdom. As long as they have been practicing in the Xunyan Yushi Yamen for a year and a half, they will basically be familiar with certain methods of the officialdom.
At least, when they enter the officialdom, they won't accidentally step on a minefield and blow themselves up because they don't understand anything.
This is also the advantage that noble families like Ning Rong Erfu have.
You can act boldly, as long as you don't violate the bottom line. Compared with the so-called official families or aristocratic families, it is always more convenient and wanton.
Obviously, Lin Ruhai at this time had already acquiesced to Jia Rong's actions.
Not only was there no resistance, on the contrary, they were very welcoming.
Apart from anything else, the arrival of students from the Jia clan in Beijing made their family's life brighter and brighter.
Just for this reason, taking a little risk is nothing.
As long as he does not have huge corruption problems, neither the emperor nor today will touch him easily.
For no other reason, in his first year as Salt Inspector, he sent the salt tax money to the capital treasury on time and in quantity.
For this point alone, it can be considered a credit to the court at this time.
During the last period of his reign, the emperor relaxed his control over officialdom because he wanted a good posthumous reputation.
Things became simple after that. Official disciplines were loose, corruption was rampant, and all kinds of idleness and laziness emerged in endlessly.
The most important thing is that in order to attract fame, the emperor frequently visited Jiangnan in the last few years of his reign.
That cost is beyond the reach of even gold and silver.
The final result is that the national treasury is so empty that it can run away from home.
The emperor also opened up a very bad opportunity, that is, allowing officials to borrow money from the Ministry of Household Affairs. Of course, his original intention was good, but it was a pity that the integrity of officials could not be trusted at all.
Anyway, in the last few years of the emperor's reign, not only the officialdom was in chaos, but the national finances were also at risk of collapse.
I don't know if he didn't want to take the blame, but the emperor simply gave up the throne to Jin Jin. At the same time, the mess left behind also needs to be dealt with by Jin Jin.
Under such circumstances, one can imagine how important the salt tax revenue is to today's imperial court.
In the first year that Lin Ruhai took the post of Yangzhou Salt Inspector, he sent 11 million taels of salt tax money to the capital, which was definitely comparable to 30% to 40% of the entire dynasty's annual fiscal revenue.
With regard to his ability to do things, even if he doesn't feel happy at the moment, he has to be called a capable official.
It's funny to say that it wasn't until the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the second batch of scholars from the Jia clan in the capital were about to leave for the south that the Jia clan in Jinling learned about the actions of their fellow clansmen in the capital.
No matter what they were thinking, in short, during the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, the Jinling Jia family gave a very heavy gift to the Yangzhou Salt Patrol Censor Yamen.
Not only was it a gift, the younger generation leaders of the Jinling clan also came to meet with their fellow clansmen in the capital in person, wanting to know the reason.
The people in the capital did this quietly, and the people in Jinling felt very embarrassed and at a loss.
However, when they found out that the young people sent by the clan in the capital were either Tong Sheng or Wu Xiucai, one can imagine their surprise.
At the same time, the Jinling Clan felt quite embarrassed. They never expected that the Jingcheng Clan would have younger generations taking over.
There is no need to meet in person to know that the children of the clans in the capital who can hang out with Lin Ruhai, the Yangzhou salt inspector, are definitely the best among the younger generation, and they are all going to enter the officialdom and have a bright future.
On the other hand, the children of the Jinling clan are all playboys.
As long as you are not confused, you can basically guess what the situation will be like ten years from now. The gap between the clans in the two places will become wider and wider...