When Second Master Zhao came back in the evening, Hui Ya asked him about clan studies, and Second Master Zhao hesitated slightly, thinking that now that the overall situation has been decided, it doesn't hurt to let the children know. waved away the subordinates, beckoned Huishan and Huiya to sit down beside him, Zhao Erye pondered for a while, and then slowly talked with tea.

The Zhao family originated in Hai'an County, although there have been no high-ranking officials in the court for hundreds of years, and there have been no feudal officials, but every generation has children and grandchildren who are officials and generals in the court, and it is also a big family in Hai'an, even in Beijing, there are houses and sacrificial fields.

The big families all have clans, there are ancestral halls, there are sacrificial fields, there are patriarchs, and the Zhao family has reached the generation of Master Zhao, and the descendants of the patriarch of the clan have withered. Although there are many children and grandchildren, the Zhao family has also devoted all their resources to cultivate them into the ranks, but they have only cultivated a six-grade petty official, and they are not hanging on to the top, and there are no children and grandchildren who can come out to top the beam.

As a descendant of the side branch, Master Zhao, although he did not receive any special care from the clan, he emerged on the battlefield with his strength and martial arts. started from the lowest level of soldiers all the way, and he actually became such a big official as the commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and became the new pillar and new pride of the Zhao family.

In addition to Master Zhao, Uncle Zhao and the Third Master are also walking well on the road of military attaché, and they have been promoted steadily, and now they are also serving as deputy commanders, which is also very good. Even if Second Master Zhao did not follow the path of a military general, with his true talent and learning, he was appointed as a seventh-rank official without using the resources of the Zhao family.

Master Zhao's branch, the first four men in the family are all officials, and although the number of grandchildren is not large, it can be seen that they are all good seedlings. And the clan patriarch, I don't know if it has been a long time of comfort, and it took all the resources and strength of the whole clan to cultivate a six-grade petty official, and then there was no achievement.

Comparing goods has to be thrown, people want to die more than people, the Zhao family clan is in such a state now. Although the patriarch of the clan is still their branch, their prestige and status in the clan are not as good as before. Now that their branch is the one who opened the ancestral hall to worship and write the family tree, some people still remember that there is still the majesty that can make the entire Zhao family tremble by stomping their feet on weekdays.

Compared with the weakness of the clan, the prestige and contribution of Master Zhao's branch to the clan. It is becoming more and more obvious, especially after Master Zhao became the commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, the status of Master Zhao's clan in the clan far exceeds that of their clan.

How could they not panic when the status of the clan was threatened, or was it unprecedented? But panic is panic. He also tried to firmly regain his position in the clan, but nothing worked.

And the current patriarch was powerless to find out who the patriarch was and which clan was, in fact, most of the clansmen didn't care, all they cared about was how much benefit the clan could bring to them and how much dependence it would bring. And the current clan, which has no benefits to gain and no reliance on what it can provide, has become a complete chicken rib in the eyes of the clan elders and clansmen.

The most fortunate thing is that Master Zhao still has the men of this branch. There is no intention to replace the clan and replace the patriarch. Otherwise, with the current situation of one strong and one weak, as long as Master Zhao moves his fingers slightly, the clan position of their branch will be completed.

The patriarch of the clan could not find a child who could make great achievements in his career in three generations, so he simply gave up the idea of competing with Master Zhao, and calmed down and pondered his status. After pondering for a long time, Patriarch Zhao suddenly found that as long as he managed the entire Zhao family well, even if there was no one in his own team to be a high-ranking official, Master Zhao would not give himself anything.

Therefore, run a clan to learn and prosper the descendants, and serve the prosperous clan of the sacrificial field well. These things were slowly carried out under the Zhang Luo of Patriarch Zhao. Naturally, the money used to run the clan school is the money used to buy the sacrificial field. They are all looking for people in the clan, and Master Zhao has become the first place that comes to mind and can get a large amount of sponsorship.

"This is the current situation of our Zhao clan......" Second Master Zhao explained the general situation in the clan clearly, and it had already taken a lot of time, bowed his head and took a sip of tea, but found that the tea that he had been holding in his hand had been cold.

"Daddy. You change a cup of hot tea. Hui Ya took the teacup from Zhao Erye's hand, poured the residual tea inside, and refilled Zhao Erye with a cup of hot tea that had just been delivered.

In her previous life, let alone the situation of the Zhao family, even the clan and the patriarch, Hui Ya had never heard of it, and now when she heard about this intricate relationship and the entanglement of interests involved, Rao is Second Master Zhao has tried to say it as simple and easy as possible, and Hui Ya still feels that her head is a little big.

"Originally, I just thought it was just a school, but I didn't expect there to be so many things in it......" After hearing these words, Hye-sun couldn't come back to his senses for a long time. Hui Shan is already old, and he has always studied in the academy before, so when he heard about running a clan school, he didn't pay attention to it. Now that I have listened to my father's explanation, I know that there are still many twists and turns here.

"Then Daddy, the clan study is opened in the name of the clan, and the place used and the money spent have to be paid by our family, right?" Huiya has been studying accounting for so long, although she knows that running a family study is a major matter that is beneficial to the whole family, but the first thing that comes to mind is to see how much it will cost.

"Uh......" Second Master Zhao is a scholar, and he doesn't pay much attention to mundane things on weekdays, and when he was asked by Huiya, it seemed that when the patriarch came here, it was really for such a thing. He was a little dumbfounded by Huiya's question, and laughed dryly, but he didn't know how to answer well.

"Dad, although it is a good thing to run a clan study, this is a lot of money, you have to discuss it with your grandfather!" Huiya looked at her father's appearance and her brother's confused expression, and knew that these two men in her family simply didn't take the silver as a big deal, and couldn't help but start chattering.

"The land price in this capital is quite high, especially the house, almost to the point where every inch of land is expensive, if you want to run a clan school, count the place used as a school, and then count the place where Mr. will live, a two-entry courtyard may not be enough, and it is not good to have a three-entry courtyard."

"This three-entry courtyard, if it is folded into silver, it will cost two thousand taels to say the least, plus the consumption of books and paper in the family studies, and the bundle for Mr. is the least, ten taels of silver per month. This is not counting the daily food for the students, please clean the yard and maintain order or something. ”

"I don't know how much my grandfather's silver is, but my father's money is less than ten taels of silver a month, and the family doesn't have much income, but you have to post such a large amount of silver...... Hui Ya frowned and muttered, this transaction is not worth it.

"This ...... It's really true! "I don't know if I don't settle the account, and I am shocked when I settle the account. Although the Zhao Mansion has the ability to take out the courtyard of the three entrances, and also has the ability to give ten taels or even twenty taels of silver a month, but for the patriarch to talk casually, is it really worth paying such a big price for his own family? Second Master Zhao's heart was also a little empty. (To be continued.) )