Chapter two hundred and eighty eight collecting money
The old man has a good look!
When I went to court, I could clearly see the hesitation and scrutiny in the eyes I was looking at those civil servants, and I couldn't help but smile to myself.
In the next few days, there was a lot of fun in the official circles of the capital.
It is rumored that several senior ministers in the current cabinet were found out about their mistakes and severely punished, leaving them disgraced and embarrassed.
In addition, there are some important officials in the civil service group who have also received today's rebuke for no apparent reason.
For a time, everyone in the officialdom of the capital was in danger, wondering what madness was going on right now?
When the news reached the ears of the elder, he just smiled softly and took it as a joke.
That day, I was talking about the imperial examination with Shuang Hou, the historian. With the strength of the eldest master, he naturally knew that "walls have ears", and it could only be done by today's people.
It's not his personal secret anyway, so the elder naturally doesn't mind firing.
No matter who is the emperor, he will not feel better after hearing what the eldest master said, not to mention that his words are the truth and there is no fraud at all.
He had previously served as an official in Jiangsu Province, and as the local administrative chief, although the elder was not responsible for education and imperial examinations, the literary style of Jiangnan was flourishing, and his intelligence spies were not vegetarians, so they could easily detect some clues.
The chief envoy has a lot of resources in his hands and knows many secrets. With just a little comparison, he can detect some of the secrets of the Jiangnan imperial examination.
What I said to the two Marquises of the Shi family and the branch of the Wang family is definitely not an exaggeration.
In the imperial examination in Jiangsu Province alone, the Grand Master went through two rounds, and most of the successful candidates were students from academies in various places. It's not that they didn't have real materials, but that they were suppressed by poor students who were not as unbearable as they imagined.
The Jiangnan area had a prosperous literary style and a fairly developed economy. After the Grand Master took charge of Jiangsu Province, the economy became even more prosperous.
The local people and gentry attach great importance to the education of their children. Even if the teachers they can hire are not as powerful as those in the academy, there are so many geniuses from poor families in Su Province?
They may not be as good as the academy contestants in terms of examination experience, but their talent and writing skills are not bad at all, with only a few omissions at most.
But this is the situation. Few geniuses from poor families who have not joined the academy can succeed in one fell swoop.
Oh, if you are not too famous and have great talent for taking exams, it will be difficult to get recognized by the examiner and become a real candidate.
Either they join a certain academy, or they work hard and wait for the examiner of that year to be merciful and allow the genius from a poor family with gray hair to pass.
Reality is so cruel!
It's a pity that the eldest master is only the chief envoy and not the governor. Otherwise, he would be qualified to intervene in the imperial examinations in Jiangsu Province. Not to mention overcoming the shortcomings of the imperial examinations, at least he must give geniuses from poor families a chance to succeed.
These things are all true, and there are records in the database collected by the great master. If one day he becomes unhappy, or becomes unhappy with the people and things in Jiangsu Province, he can kill many people if he directly sends them to the present desk.
Even though it seems difficult for civil servants to be hereditary, through the academy, they can give the children of civil servants who have succeeded in the imperial examinations the best way out. As long as the family does not decline, there will always be a chance of recovery.
This is also the reason why many warriors envy the scholarly family. They only see that the scholarly family will last for hundreds of years, but they do not see clearly the real tricks played by these literati.
The reason why the elder secretly informed Jin Jin was that he naturally had the idea of letting Jin Jin involve Jing Wenchen's energy.
The Jia Family School successfully passed the examination for twelve talented people. Although it had a minimal impact on the civil service power, there were still some people in the civil service group who could not see it and wanted to secretly hinder the Jia Family School.
The elder himself is not afraid, but the Jia Clan School will inevitably suffer a heavy blow.
After all, it was all a business that he had put a lot of effort into. If the Jia clan failed to live up to its own example, that would be fine. If others want to do something evil, they have to ask the big master if he agrees?
Why not, before the civil servants in Beijing take action, let them have some fun. Don't always find fault with others. I really think you guys are good birds.
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As the major noble families in the capital imitated the Jia family studies, reorganized the family studies and changed the teaching methods, the market in the entire capital became much more peaceful.
There was no way around it. In the past, those libertines who were fooling around outside and doing no good things were all sent by the family leaders to be sent to the clan school for reform.
Those who are cruel are even more willing to give up. If they can't learn a craft to make a living or practice good martial arts, they can't expect to graduate from the clan school. No matter how old they are, they will have to work in the clan school until they can marry a wife and have children.
, if you want to inherit your parents' property in the future, it will also depend on their performance in family studies.
For a time, all the great noble families were in mourning, and the capital city was naturally much more peaceful without the most trouble-making young man.
The eldest master helped the Shi family and the Wang family to set up a joint school outside the city, specializing in teaching the children of the two families. The supervisors invited were all veterans of the army. Anyway, they had the same purpose, to train the energetic younger generations of the two families.
Don't expect to get out after graduation.
On the other hand, the Jia clan school suddenly became famous, and the number of relatives who wanted to send their children to school suddenly increased sharply.
Lian Er and Wang Xifeng did not dare to respond randomly. They did not dare to act recklessly until they knew what the elder was thinking.
The eldest master is the pillar of the family. Even a fool can see it now. Ethnology is an area of special concern to the eldest master. Lian Er and his wife do not dare to interfere randomly.
On this day, Lian Er went back to the government office and just walked into the main room of Rongxi Hall. Even Wang Xifeng was sitting there with an ugly face and was quite unhappy.
"Hey, who made Feng Lazi displeased? This is a recipe for great misfortune!"
Lian Er came over with a smile and asked curiously: "Second Grandma, which blind wife is the one who provoked your old man?"
"Humph, you are not my good aunt, she will try her best to cause me trouble!"
Wang Xifeng looked unhappy and said angrily: "She received a lot of benefits from relatives and agreed to let their children join the clan and learn to read. Then she turned around and left the matter to me!"
"What?"
Lian Er was taken aback and said dissatisfiedly: "The second wife is really willing to make any money. You didn't agree, did you?"
"I was in the Rongqing Hall at the time, and the old lady was watching. I naturally had to accept the formation if I lost the battle or not!"
Wang Xifeng said depressedly: "After I came back, I thought about it, didn't I fall into the trap of my good aunt? I really can't feel better if I don't!"
In other words, after the elder took away Sister Qiao, Wang Xifeng's originally wavering thoughts were completely on the side of the elder.
With Sister Qiao as her concern, no matter how evil-hearted Wang Xifeng is, she will not be coaxed by Mrs. Wang, and will naturally put Dafang's interests first.
"Hey, we're in big trouble this time!"
Lian Er did not blame his daughter-in-law, but said distressedly: "It's not easy to randomly stuff people in the clan school. If you don't do it right, you will annoy the great master!"
"Why, isn't it just a matter of sending a few children from relatives into school? What's the big deal?"
Wang Xifeng was very disapproving and continued: "Besides, are there still fewer children from relatives in the clan school?"
"Oh my second grandma, you don't know!"
Lian Er smiled bitterly and said: "There are indeed many children from relatives in the clan school, but they have signed a contract with the clan school before they go to school. If they perform too poorly and are punished by their teacher or expelled from the clan school, they are not allowed to do so.
Noisy, otherwise Ethnology will always be closed to their children!"
"So severe?"
Wang Xifeng was taken aback and said nonchalantly: "Then let those relatives continue to sign the contract!"
"They won't sign it!"
Lian Er said depressedly: "With the second wife speaking for them, those naughty relatives will not let go of such an opportunity. They will definitely take advantage of it!"
"how so?"
Wang Xifeng didn't understand and said angrily: "Where did they get the courage?"
"The second wife took advantage of their filial piety!"
Lian Er said angrily: "Don't they dare to drive away their children if they don't sign the contract?"
Wang Xifeng was dumbfounded and didn't believe it: "They dare?"
"Whether you dare or not, you will know after you try it!"
Lian Er shook his head and said gloomily, "I don't know what the second wife thinks. Clan studies are for cultivating disciples for the younger generations of the clan, not a tool for her to make money!"
Sure enough, it was not as Lian Er expected. When Wang Xifeng contacted the relatives who had gone through the back door and hinted that they should sign a normal contract with the clan school, they were flatly rejected.
These relatives still have some financial resources. Not only are they unwilling to sign an "unreasonable" contract with the clan school, but they also strongly demand that their children must be sent to a serious school to read the Four Books and Five Classics and take the imperial examination.
Wang Xifeng was dumbfounded and said she couldn't make the decision.
The relatives who had paid a lot of money were immediately angry, and they all went directly to the second room to find Mrs. Wang, asking for an explanation from Mrs. Wang.
At this time, the Rongguo Mansion was much stronger than the same period in the original work. These relatives made a lot of money by taking advantage of the power of the Rongguo Mansion.
In the past, the Jia Clan School was simply a place to hang out, and these relatives with more money would naturally look down upon it, but now the situation is completely different.
The Jia family's clan studies have completely established a reputation, and these wealthy relatives are naturally jealous and want to send their children to the clan studies for training.
But the ethnic knowledge they found out made them quite dissatisfied.
It was just a contract to let the teacher do whatever he wanted, but the clan school had the power to send students to each branch school at any time, which made them unhappy.
Who would send their children to school not for the purpose of taking the imperial examination and becoming an official? But if they send their children to Baigong School because of the "random assignment" of ethnic studies, they will still cry to death?
Therefore, relatives who were well aware of Rongguo Mansion's style of doing business resorted to money to clear the way.
Lian Er and Wang Xifeng in the first room are cautious, but Mrs. Wang in the second room is greedy for money. She doesn't care about the requests made by her relatives. After taking the money, she agrees indiscriminately, regardless of whether she can do it.
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After all, Mrs. Wang is Mrs. Wang, but she just used some tricks to make Wang Xifeng sit on the wax.