Red Mansion, Second Master Lian is too despicable

Chapter 72 72 Jiangnan Road

In other words, after the Jia family handed over military power, the Wang family also handed it over immediately. The ancestor of the Jia family later failed to become the governor of Jiangnan Province, but became the governor of the Beijing camp, while the Wang family and the Zhou family had Nine Cities. The official positions of the Military and Horse Division and the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army.

From this point of view, the risks are not as big as the Jia family, and the returns are not lower than the Jia family.You have to know how many people were eyeing the Jia family's Jiangnan Road; facing those people, the Zhou family and the Wang family only dared to call themselves second-rate.

Thinking of this, Wang Gen smiled.

"Uncle, it seems that my Wang family is still superior in skills!"

But Wang Yun smiled even brighter.

"Haha, so the Jia family's methods are the best!"

Wang Gen was a little puzzled. Calculated based on input and output, the Wang family clearly made more money, so why was it that the Jia family had better means? So he asked.

"Why?"

Wang Yun replied.

"Because, a few years after the start of the new dynasty, everyone discovered that the Jia family, which seemed to have been eliminated in Jiangnan in advance, really had the situation under control."

Wang Gen didn’t understand even more.

"how do I say this?"

Wang Yun said.

"Because at the beginning, no one saw the tricks of the Jia family's stragglers."

People who are floating in the clouds do not understand the difference between clouds and mud.Wang Gen didn't understand what the general could do if he didn't even have any soldiers.asked again.

"What do you mean?"

But Wang Yun took up his pen and wrote down two words, "official" and "official"!After speaking, he said to Wang Gen.

"The Jia family is a straggler. At first, everyone thought that the Jia family had abandoned those thieves and formed an army, and took the brothers who had raised an army back to Beijing to enjoy the glory and wealth."

The status of soldiers in previous dynasties was not high. After the founding of the current dynasty, it was better. Only good family members could join the army. Taizu was still wise and understood that if a soldier has nothing to do, he will have no fighting spirit on the battlefield.

Either we should give honor to the soldiers, or we should not give them the capital to support their families.

However, the new dynasty is in ruins and waiting to be revitalized. There is no money or food to support the army, so we can only give glory to the soldiers.

This is the fearless spirit of the soldiers of this dynasty who died in battle in the early years of the dynasty!

But before that, soldiers were recruited to capture strong men.

As the saying goes, good men should not be soldiers. Since the Song Dynasty, soldiers have been those who were poor and could not survive, or were prisoners.

Therefore, there is a saying that good men should not be soldiers, which also means that the social status of this big-headed soldier is very low.

In this way, no one thought that the Jia brothers would worry about the future of this group of thugs who worked hard and would not stop at night.

Even when reviewing what happened at the time today, Wang Gen subconsciously believed that the Jia family only gained wealth after reaping the benefits of surrendering military power first.It never occurred to me that skirmishers had other benefits.

Who knows, Wang Yun said.

"No one thought at that time that within a few years, the leading soldiers who followed the Jia family in the Jiangnan area would all become ministers, prefecture officials, Daoku ambassadors, and Xuanxuan through their fellow soldiers. Divisional ambassadors, government taxation department ambassadors, departmental department prison managers, departmental department warehouse ambassadors, inspectors, and soil inspectors."

Then he pointed to the word "official".

"My dear, do you understand what this means?"

After hearing what his eldest father, Wang Yun, said about so many low-level positions that had just entered the ranks, Wang Gen didn't take them seriously. They were all rank-[-] and low-ranking officials. They were a little better than officials, but not much better.This is also normal. A minister’s family education rarely mentions the organizational procedures of the township chief.

Not to mention this, county officials above the seventh rank are nothing in Wang Gen's eyes, let alone these guys who have to work all their lives to reach the seventh rank.

This is the unspoken rule of officialdom.Only those who join the seventh-rank official are qualified to be promoted to the fourth-rank official. Of course, this is just a qualification, not necessarily. Most seventh-rank officials can work up to the sixth rank. It would be good to be given a fifth-rank treatment when you become an official. But if you are a fourth-rank official, Pinguan, when you first became an official, you must have at least started as a county magistrate.

In terms of reputation, they have to be the same Jinshi. Only those with a Jinshi background can compete for the third rank to enter the cabinet.

As for officials who start at the eighth or ninth rank, unless there are any accidents, their upper limit will be the eighth rank. If they are given seventh rank treatment when they become official, it is because of good policies.

But Wang Gen thought about it carefully, if he was a court official and all his subordinates were from the Jia family, even if they were of low rank, then whatever he wanted to do would depend on the Jia family's will!

What's even more frightening is that according to the number of stragglers of the Jia family at that time, not to mention the officials under his command, even the accounting clerks may not be all members of the Jia family, so this official would not be able to work.

You must know that at the beginning, the Jia family was scattered and had no military power. Based on this calculation, how many disciples of the Jia family were there in the entire Jiangnan area?
Thinking about it makes me hairy.

Seeing that Wang Gen didn't speak, Wang Yun continued.

"Have you figured it out? Haha, son, you don't know that when the Jia family brothers were alive, the emperor's words were just a formality in Jiangnan, but the Jia family's words in Jiangnan can mobilize people."

Wang Gen spat out in horror.

"That's why there is a theory about the guardian talisman of the Jinling area?"

Wang Yun said indifferently.

"Haha, that used to be a protective talisman in the south of the Yangtze River!"

This puzzled Wang Gen even more.

"How come such a huge foundation cannot be passed down to Jia Daishan's generation? Then Rongguo Gong Jia Daishan is also a figure."

But Wang Yun was very disdainful.

"Character? What character? Bullshit character."

Wang Yun looked very angry. Wang Gen knew that his eldest father seemed to have had an affair with the two Jia family members when he was a child. He had looked down on these two people since he was a child, so he kindly consoled him.

"Father, I am the Duke of the country!"

Wang Gen didn't understand why his father, the second generation of the Jia family, could be so childish.

And Wang Yun understood that what Wang Gen meant was that he inherited the title of Duke from Laozi, and his eldest father only inherited a count from Laozi Houmen.

It seems that the Jia family should be more capable, but my uncle looks down on this Duke, which is a bit unreasonable.

Therefore, Wang Yun wanted Wang Gen to understand that this was not the way things were seen, and said seriously.

"My son, Jia Daishan can become the Duke. Is that because his father has the ability? It has nothing to do with him? I can't be the Marquis. That's because of my father, that is, your grandfather is not capable. It's not my fault. ah."

As he said this, Wang Yun dusted off the word "virtue" on himself.

"If I can successfully pass on my position as the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army to you, and pass on my position as Earl to Qiuyang without being demoted, then that's what I'm capable of. Do you understand?"

Only then did Wang Gen understand that the failure of the second generation of the Jia family to pass on the title and the loss of the position of Jiedushi of the Beijing Camp was enough to show that the second generation of the Jia family was incompetent.

But it was an incident of that magnitude at that time, a major event in which the first prince had done something bad. Under such a turmoil, the Jia family could still be preserved, and Jia Dai's good deeds and Jia Daihua's deeds could not be as bad as the eldest father said.

"Father, according to rumors, Duke Rong is not so miserable!"

(End of this chapter)