Brother Rong of Red Mansion

Chapter 118 Wu Jinxiao comes to Beijing

Since ancient times, reforms must touch the interests of certain people and be opposed.

The same is true for the big movement of Jia Rong's rectification of clan studies.

This time, Jia Rong heard a lot of opposition from the people in Jingcheng.

But he was resolute and implemented various policies very forcefully.

As long as Jia Rong and Jia Zheng have the same attitude, no one else can overturn their decision.

Especially the few people who went to Xuanzhen Temple outside the city to disturb Jia Jingqing's cultivation were severely punished by Jia Rong, who directly canceled their duties in the clan.

Do you really not take me, the acting patriarch, seriously?

Jia Rong's cruel methods frightened many people, and the opposition voices in the clan suddenly fell silent.

Still the same sentence: They are a bit bullying Jia Rong because he is young.

I always felt that due to seniority and etiquette, Jia Rong did not dare to do anything to them.

However, Jia Rong's attitude "frozen their hearts."

That's really heartless.

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In this way, the rectification plan of the Jia Clan's free school was on the right track step by step.

All the schoolchildren first took a round of preliminary examinations and were divided into various classes. They began to be taught professional knowledge by professional teachers. Under the encouragement of the elimination system, they were forced to start "involution".

In particular, Jia Rong sent all the elites of the Jia clan who were close to him to "re-educate" in the clan school.

Jia Qiong, Jia Chen, Jia Lin, Jia Heng, Jia Yun, Jia Ling, Jia Chang, Jia Ping and other Jia Clan talents who Jia Rong attached great importance to and worked for Ningguo Mansion were all assigned to the Jia Clan Free School. , study again and make progress, and complete the final exam.

Even a few of them are like this, and the others have nothing to say.

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Jia Rong breathed a sigh of relief as the Jia Clan's voluntary education was on the right track. She took some free time to meet with village leaders outside the customs, took stock of the warehouses and treasury, and prepared for New Year's Eve sacrifices and other chores.

It’s almost the New Year and everything is busy.

Jia Rong ordered people to open the ancestral hall, clean it, pack the offering vessels, invite the deity, and clean the upper room to prepare the remains and images.

At this time, both Ning and Rong's houses were busy.

Jia Rong even went to the Ministry of Rites and received the "Spring Festival Reward", which was a yellow cloth bag containing two hundred taels of gold, equivalent to two thousand taels of silver. There is a seal on the yellow cloth pocket, which reads "Emperor's Enyongxi" in four large characters, and there is also the seal of the priest of the Ministry of Rites Temple, and a line of small characters written below:

"Ning Guo Gong Jia Yan and Rong Guo Gong Jia Yuan gifted the Eternal Spring Sacrifice reward in total to two cents, with a net discount of two thousand taels of silver. On a certain year, month and day, General Wu Yi, the hereditary fourth rank, and Jia Rong, a guerrilla from the Beijing Camp, received it in the hall. They were in charge of the year. "Someone", a red ink stroke below.

Jia Rong opened his bag and divided it into two parts. He took one for himself and sent the other to Rongguo Mansion. Then he took the empty bag into the ancestral hall and burned it in the furnace in front of his ancestors.

On this day, the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Ningguo Mansion prepared sugar cakes, millet cakes, jujube cakes, walnuts, and fried beans to worship the stove. The purchased stove horses were burned as a sign of sending the Zao Lord to heaven. At the same time, he "bribed" the Stove God's mount, the Stove Horse, with forage mixed with black beans, hoping that the Stove God would speak kindly to him when reporting his duties, so as to reap more blessings from the Jade Emperor.

Jia Rong also followed the fashion trend in the palace and changed into python clothes and gourd-view patchwork.

"Sir, here comes Wuzhuangtou from Heishan Village." In the Ning'an Hall, Jia Rong set up two tables, together with Mr. You, Qin Keqing, Jia Xichun, Lao Niang You, Second Sister You, Third Sister You, Mrs. Zhen, and others. Jia Zhen's concubines Peifeng, Qi Luan, Zhang Wenhua and other female family members were happily eating New Year's wine.

Suddenly, a girl came into the hall to report and handed over a red sticker and a bill.

"Just in time, he's the only one missing."

Jia Rong smiled and nodded.

Immediately, he opened the red sticker on the wine table, which read:

"The head of the village of Heishan under my door goes in and bows in filial piety, wishing the master, wife, and madam good luck and good fortune. May you be blessed with great happiness and prosperity in the new year, may you be honored and safe, may you be promoted to a higher position, and may everything go well."

In an instant, Jia Rong smiled. "This Wu Jinxiao is quite interesting."

At this time, several village leaders from outside the pass came, but it was not as interesting as what Wu Jinxiao wrote, and there were not so many auspicious words.

From this point of view, Wu Jinxiao is "more capable" than others.

Then, Jia Rong unfolded the bill, which was densely packed with the rent paid in Heishan Village: "Thirty big deer, fifty deer, fifty roe deer, twenty Siamese pigs, twenty soup pigs..."

During this period, Jia Rong reviewed many autumn rent bills.

The physical bills of each village head were actually very different. Jia Rong glanced at them and knew it in her heart.

Therefore, Jia Rong looked directly at the silver item.

Sure enough, it said, "The silver for selling grain, livestock and other items is a total of five thousand taels of silver." This is the same amount of silver as the autumn rent of other village heads outside the pass.

Compared with the 53 taels in the 2500rd chapter of the original book, "Wu Jinxiao's Bill," it has doubled.

Seeing this, Jia Rong secretly sighed, "Fortunately, I got dressed early. During this period, the capital chain of Ningguo Mansion has not been broken, and there is still a lot of money reported by village heads in various places. It is enough to maintain the operation of Ningguo Mansion and can smoothly support it." My reform plan. If it were delayed a few years, I’m afraid it would be difficult.”

At this time, Jia Rong had finished counting all the accounts of Ningguo Mansion.

In terms of cash rent for a single autumn, the amount reported by Guanwai is 12 taels, the Shenjing report is taels, and the Jinling report is taels, a total of about taels.

When Jia Rong left Shenjing and went south to the south of the Yangtze River, a batch of "spring rent" was reported in September, which was about 40,000 taels, and he had already spent 20,000 to 30,000 taels.

In addition, the "silver deposited" in the original bank of Ningguo Mansion.

At this moment, Jia Rong has about three hundred thousand taels of cash in hand.

The working capital of more than 300,000 taels makes Jia Rong confident in his work. This is the confidence he has as the head of Ningguo Mansion.

Jia Rong apologized, left the wine table, and went to the south hall to meet Wu Jinxiao.

Wu Jinxiao, wearing a fur hat and cotton-padded jacket, dressed like a wealthy country man, came in and kowtowed to Jia Rong. Jia Rong helped him up and asked him about the scene outside the customs.

The answer is similar to that of other dealers.

They all say it's difficult, and the weather outside the customs is getting worse every year, and the harvest on the farm has been reduced, and it's not as good as every year.

"After the New Year, I'm going to take a trip outside the customs to take a look at the situation in the village." Jia Rong said slightly to let Wu Jinxiao be mentally prepared.

Then he added:

"I am rectifying the family education during this period. I heard that your children and grandchildren are not young anymore. They will bring them to Beijing to go to school next year, so that they can get closer to the masters and brothers in the mansion."

Wu Jinxiao was taken aback and quickly kowtowed in gratitude, "Thank you so much, Master."

Jia Rong helped him up again, but Wu Jinxiao said: "It's windy and snowy outside the pass, and I have a rich body, so why should I suffer such a crime? Isn't it better to enjoy the glory and wealth in the sacred city? I heard that the emperor has granted me the title of guerrilla in the capital." When I was born, it was the time when I was studying, practicing martial arts, and preparing for the military and political examinations."

Jia Rong smiled and said deliberately, "Are you stopping me from letting me go? Is there something fishy in the farmland outside the pass that you are hiding and don't want me to know? Well, as the saying goes, the sky is high. The emperor is far away. You and your brothers are the heads of the big village outside the pass of Ning Rong and Rong. They are in charge of the small village below. It is the Tu Emperor. You are usually domineering, so you must not want me to disturb you. "

"master--"

With a pop, Wu Jinxiao knelt down.

(End of this chapter)