Although Zheng Yi had such feelings, when it came to the interests of the core of the family, he had to continue his words: "Zhong Yi, the courtesy of a gentleman, you must know how to let others finish their words!" ”

His words seemed to be criticizing Qin Yi, but Qin Yi didn't seem to be cold, and Qin Jia on the side reacted fiercely: "When it comes to the gentleman, I don't know who is secretly doing something contrary to the gentleman's character!" ”

"Let's not talk about all this." Zheng Yi was not annoyed, and with a slight sentence, Qin Jia's complaints were brushed aside, "To put it simply, my Zheng family has taken a fancy to your talent and wants you to be our family's clansmen, and after you are admitted to the imperial examination in the future, you can also do things for my Zheng family." ”

Not only Qin Yi was stunned for a moment after listening to Zheng Yi's words, but even Qin Yi's parents, who had a somewhat low expression just now, also felt a little incredible. Let's not talk about how the Zheng family treated Qin Jia before, let's just say that at this moment, the clan companion that Zheng Yi mentioned is enough to shock everyone.

What is Companion Learning? As the name suggests, it is a person who accompanies the children of the Zheng family to study, and to put it more bluntly, Zheng Yi wants to recruit Qin Yi into the Zheng family and do things for his family.

Of course, the most direct beneficiary of this kind of work is also the Zheng family. They were able to use Qin Yi's newly established reputation to expand their influence in the entire county and even the state capital. What's more, in the future, if Qin Yi is admitted to the county school, the state school, or the state academy, it will bring greater benefits.

Qin Yi's parents are coarse people, so they naturally don't understand these truths, and the reason why they are surprised is another matter. Just imagine, everyone's impression of the Zheng family before can be described as extremely bad; Now the Zheng family has a helmsman who comes out and invites Qin Yi to their house to do things, and it seems that he wants to give a lot of compensation, which naturally surprises Qin Yi's parents.

Qin Yi and Qin Jia were different, they understood very well that Zheng Yi's true intention was to do this. It is not so much to let Qin Yi join the Zheng family and expand their family's influence, but to buy Qin Yi and make him a part of them.

"Zhong Yi, you have to think about it!" Zheng Yi saw Qin Yi pondering, and he was pacing in the courtyard, "Those who know the times are Junjie, look at the talented people who have come out of the poor now, which one doesn't rely on rich families, or cling to those famous families, so as to obtain funding and embark on a higher level of imperial examination?" ”

When he said this, Qin Yi naturally understood the meaning. The phenomenon expressed in it is indeed a fact. In today's Xia Dynasty, among the people who read, there are still many people who come out of the poor family to read. They don't have enough financial means, so in order to be able to support themselves, they can only take refuge in those famous families.

And this kind of refuge, to put it bluntly, means that the famous families rely on those poor children to become local officials after passing the imperial examination, bringing them shelter, or just like Zheng Yi's purpose, through the reputation of the poor people, expand their influence, so as to develop their own power, in order to achieve a certain monopoly.

This phenomenon is extremely common, and if you can go deep into it, you will find that those famous families in the whole world will have an intricate relationship with some officials. They build and weave a network that controls some non-official resources in the world, and even official resources, which affect all aspects of people.

Even, above the court, the Son of Heaven will be afraid of these officials with deep backgrounds, such as the first assistant of the cabinet.

Hundreds of years ago, the Xia Dynasty once faced collapse, and the reason for this is because of this. At that time, Emperor Xuanzongwu Xia Zhengping, with his own strength, swept away all kinds of evils in the world, and also eliminated this hidden family power, so as to inherit the unification of the former Xia and establish the Han Dynasty. However, in later generations, this power revived, and after the change of national name, it gradually controlled some aspects of the Xia Dynasty.

In fact, the history books divide the Xia Dynasty into three periods, the first of which was before Emperor Xuanzongwu Xia Zhengping, called the former Xia; After Xuanzong Zhongxing, the country was renamed Han, which lasted for about a hundred years, and the 100-year Han or the Middle Han Dynasty; The current Xia Dynasty is called Later Xia.

The symbol of the separation between the former Xia and the Han Dynasty is that Emperor Xuanzongwu swept the world and killed the usurper Shen Buyi for more than ten years; The symbol of the Middle Han Dynasty and the Later Xia Dynasty was when the name of the country was changed during the Tianshun period of Emperor Yingzongrui of this dynasty, which was also the time when the family power seemed to resurge.

It was also at that time that the prime minister system, which had been abolished in the Han Dynasty, was re-established. It's just that in another way, it's called the cabinet system. The first assistant in the cabinet is similar to the prime minister who once existed, and his authority is even higher than that of the prime minister! Of course, it is customary to refer to the first assistant of the cabinet as the prime minister, and occasionally he will be called the left servant of Shangshu.

In fact, it's just the same authority, not the same name, and it's all essentially the same.

Fortunately, during the Tianshun period, someone proposed to restore the sub-feudal system of the former Xia, but it was not accepted. If it is accepted, I am afraid that the current Houxia will also be the same as the Qianxia of the year, and will enter the abyss of chaos in the world. Many people understand that all of this is because of the resurgence of family power!

"Isn't it, Zhong Yi, don't you think that what Young Master Ben said is all about you?" Zheng Yi's words interrupted Qin Yi's thinking, "Just imagine, relying on your family's current living standards, I don't know if I can support you to the county school?" Let's not talk about county school, even county school may not work? ”

"Joining our Zheng family can allow you to get what you want, even if you enter the state school or even Taixue in the future, our Zheng family can provide you with sufficient money. And all we want is a contract with you! ”

As Zheng Yi spoke, he took out a yellowed piece of paper from his chest pocket and placed it on the stone table in the courtyard, with something written on it, and at the same time stamped with this big red seal.

Qin Yi saw it really and understood what Zheng Yi meant, joined the Zheng family, did things for it, studied for the clan, and made a contract, to put it bluntly, he wanted Qin Yi to sell himself to the Zheng family. In the future, the Zheng family will also use Qin Yi's actions to become one of the higher-end family forces.

Qin Jia on the side, listening to Zheng Yi say this, probably knew what it meant, his expression was a little complicated, and his eyes drifted to Qin Yi, wanting to see how Qin Yi faced it.

Qin Yi's expression was very indifferent, he was not tempted by this kind of thing at all, he faced Zheng Yi, his voice was a little cold: "Compared with joining the family forces, the contemptible person would prefer to be a free body, not subject to any coercion!" ”