Chapter 54 Jia Zhen’s Farewell

After leaving Yingchun, Jia Lian began to think about Jia Cong.

Jia Cong had been studying in the clan school with Jia Huan before, but the clan school of the Jia family has long been no longer a place to learn.

For things like clan studies, basically every aristocratic family will be established to provide for the children of the family and the children of the family and among their relatives and friends to school.

Although Confucius began to advocate private learning since the Spring and Autumn Period and emphasized teaching without distinction, in fact, knowledge is still monopolized by aristocratic families.

Children from these aristocratic families are a little older and can go to the clan to study. What they can learn, see, hear, and even what they don’t like are all difficult for children from poor families to come into contact with each other for the rest of their lives.

This is reality.

No matter how talented or qualified you are, you must be trained by aristocratic families and become an aristocratic family before you can get in touch with these knowledge.

If you want to learn this knowledge by yourself, it will undoubtedly be a dream.

Some people may say, then why were there so many poor children in ancient times who passed the imperial examination and even became senior scholars?

This talks about the identity scope of poor families.

The so-called poor children do not mean poor people, but rather poor gentry. Later, they also generally refer to small landlords, small families, and families with a little wealth.

Only such a family can cultivate scholars.

Most families cannot even eat enough, so how can they still have the spare money to train scholars?

It can be said that none of the people who can afford to read books are truly poor.

Because books themselves are the most valuable things in this era.

You should know that the price of a Three Character Classic is nearly one tael of silver now, and the price of a set of Four Books is even dozens of silver.

As for the concept of one tael of silver, you can tell it just by talking about it. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the price of a pound of pork was only more than twenty yuan, which shows the actual value of one tael of silver.

So, it is no exaggeration to say that the value of any book can allow an ordinary family of four to live a good life for a year.

The Jia family was originally from a mud-legged family, but with the efforts of the two dukes Ning Rong, they have their current status. Naturally, the two dukes of the Jia family were willing to learn from the aristocratic families, so the current Jia family was learned, just to be afraid that the children in the clan would not be able to afford to study because of their poverty.

Moreover, the Jia family also stipulates that all clan members who have official positions and titles in the court must provide clan education silver as the study fee for the clan middle school students.

This was originally a good thing. In recent years, the Jia family's school has become increasingly relaxed. Jia Dairu has gradually controlled the power of the clan, and the clan has gradually become a place for children in the clan to have fun.

Originally, as the patriarch, Jia Zhen should have dealt with these things, but Jia Zhen was too lazy to manage these messy things, so he would not care about the life or death of the clan school.

So, the clanology became even worse.

Jia Lian still knows a little about the Jia family's learning. After all, in the original work, the Jia family's learning has become a place for eating, drinking, having fun, and even gambling.

And the current teacher in the Jia family is Jia Dairu.

Jia Dairu is a person of the same generation as Jia Daishan and Jia Daihua. Speaking of Jia Dairu, we have to talk about Jia Dairu's journey to the imperial examination. This old man is also a scholar and has never even passed the exam for a juren in his life. So in the end he could only be a principal, director, class teacher, and teacher in the Jia family.

Speaking of Jia Dairu, he is also a very tragic figure.

There are three major misfortunes in life: losing father in early years, son in middle age, and grandson in old age.

I don’t know if it was Jia Dairu’s luck or bad luck. He encountered all these things. Before he grew up, his father disappeared. He finally got married and had children. He thought that he could enjoy the happiness when his son got married. Unexpectedly, his son died, leaving only one grandson to live with him.

But even so, Jia Dairu put all his hopes on his grandson Jia Rui, hoping that his grandson could make his debut and be able to make a name for himself.

Unfortunately, all this was lost by Sister Feng.

Of course, this is something in the original work. Jia Rui is still alive at this time.

However, even though Jia Rui is still alive, his clan studies are already in a bad state. Jia Dairu is now a monk who hits the clock every day. No, this old monk doesn't even hit the clock anymore. Now he just regards the Jia family learning as a tool for his own money to support his family.

Jia Lian was also very disdainful of Jia Dairu. In such a large clan, Jia Dairu's thoughts were obvious.

It is nothing more than just wanting to monopolize the resources provided by the Ningrong and the two mansions. The Ningrong and the two mansions pay hundreds of taels of silver every year. These hundreds of taels of silver can make Jia Dairu's family live as a nourishing life.

But I just don’t know if this life is really that easy to use the future of the next generation of the Jia family as capital for enjoyment?

Thinking of this, Jia Lian came to Ning Mansion and found Jia Zhen.

"Brother Lian, what's wrong with looking for brother?" Jia Zhen was a little confused about Jia Lian's arrival.

Jia Lian was not polite to Jia Zhen. Now the most powerful man in the Jia family is himself. Even if Jia Zhen is the patriarch, it is useless to him.

If it weren't for the old hooligan Jia who was unwilling to go out, Jia Lian would have been passing by with the big house and the clan.

"Brother Zhen, brother, I have been concerned about Cong'er's studies recently, so I paid attention to the clan studies of our Jia family. I didn't know if I didn't read it, but when I saw it, I was shocked by my brother." Jia Lian said.

Jia Zhen then suddenly realized that as the patriarch, he knew a little about the Jia family's learning situation, so he said, "I don't know what Brother Lian has to do. I will tell you my brother will do it for you."

Seeing Jia Zhen so careful, Jia Lian couldn't say anything else and directly made a request: "Brother Zhen, let's rectify the clan school!"

"Reorganize the clan school?" Jia Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This is fine. I have long been dissatisfied with the clan school. It is just that due to the face of the Confucian ancestors of the Confucian school, it is difficult to rectify it directly. Now, since Brother Lian feels that the clan school is not good, it seems that the clan school should be rectified."

Jia Lian nodded with satisfaction and said, "Brother Zhen thinks this way. We don't say that the clan school is better than the academies in Jiangnan, but at least we can't be as messy as before."

"Don't worry, Brother Lian, just look at your brother. Brother will never let you down!" Jia Zhen quickly patted his chest and promised.

It’s not that Jia Zhen listened to Jia Lian so much. It’s mainly because he was shocked by Jia Lian’s words before, but now he is trying hard to hold Jia Lian’s thigh.

How could Jia Zhen miss such a good opportunity now? As for Jia Dairu's life and death, Jia Zhen would not care about it.
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