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"If you want the young men in the clan to come out and do something, you can also take this opportunity to arrange for them to come and meet you. Who knows what it might be. There will always be opportunities for them to succeed."

Marquis Yong'an thought that if Yuntang could select some smart, calm and capable young men from the clan, they could do some trivial tasks for her and also help the young men in the clan.

The Jiang family has produced many military men since his ancestor produced a military general, and also made the early two generations of the Yong'an Marquis era glorious.

By his generation, fewer and fewer people practiced martial arts. Some studied and took the imperial examinations to become officials, some worked in the market, and some helped manage the property of the marquis's mansion.

These are the clan members who stayed in the capital. The others who gradually branched out and scattered all over the place are naturally not mentioned here.

This clan in the capital also branched out from the ancestral hometown, and no longer has much contact with that place.

For generations, the clan that remained in the capital had always been dependent on the Marquis' Mansion, and it was also the responsibility of the Marquis' Mansion.

The family is in decline, and it is difficult for the children to achieve great success. Marquis Yong'an cannot send people to heights that are not suitable for them, so he can only try his best to arrange a way out for them.

Those who were able to read were sent to study and become officials. Those who could not or did not want to become officials went to clan schools or opened their own private schools, or worked as managers or accountants in shops.

Nowadays, only a few uncles and brothers have become local chief clerks and seventh-rank county magistrates, and the rest have all entered the market and become common people.

Yuntang needed people to do the work when he first set up his government, so Marquis Yong'an came up with this idea of ​​having the best of both worlds.

Yuntang didn't feel anything about this suggestion.

Although she has a high status and can go to court leisurely when summoned by her third senior brother, she has no real job. She can't send all the Jiang family members to the southwest to open up wasteland and farm for her.

But Yuntang said he could understand that Marquis Yong'an was worried about his family.

But she didn't want to suddenly become the Jiang family's big backer, making the Jiang family members think that they could expand their disproportionate ambitions with her protection.

She directly expressed her concerns. Yong'an Hou's expression froze. He hesitated for a while before saying:

"You are right. Although I am trying to find a way out for my people, I cannot control what they think. Even if I have this intention, I should proceed in an orderly and gradual manner."

If I help too much at once, the clan members will think that the Princess Protector of the Nation is a member of the Jiang family and will definitely protect them, and they will have thoughts that they shouldn't have, wouldn't that implicate Yuntang?

Thinking of this, Marquis Yong'an felt a little scared, and then looked at Yuntang with shame.

"I was not thoughtful enough, father."

"Father, you don't have to do this. As the Marquis of Yong'an, you have the responsibility to seek benefits for the clan members. It's understandable that you think this way."

"Besides, my father didn't ask me to seek an official position for my clan. He just wanted to give his son a chance. It's just that my clan is still very unfamiliar to me, so I thought of this hidden danger."

Yun Tang smiled indifferently and said, "Father, you also understand that those people who have been sending me invitations to make friends with me before and after the New Year also have those intentions in mind, right?"

"It's understandable that you have such thoughts. Who doesn't want to move up? Who doesn't want a bright future? Even unrelated outsiders are like this, let alone clan members?"

"Now that I have opened my house to welcome guests, as a clan member, I want to take advantage of my position and want to attach myself to you. It has nothing to do with whether people are good or bad."

"It's better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. The fact that the clan has been attached to the Marquis' Mansion for many years but has not produced any capable children speaks volumes about the problem."

Yuntang's words made Yong'an Hou stunned again.

He chewed on these words carefully, and his mind flashed through the figures of the tribesmen he had seen, the temperaments of the elders he knew, and the attitudes of the children who had done nothing wrong.

After a while, Yong'an Hou looked at Yuntang helplessly: "Tang'er, our clan has been following the Hou Mansion in Beijing for generations."

"Throughout the generations, there has never been a bad person, nor a playboy or a troublemaker. Even those from poor families have to work hard to earn money to support their families."

“Although I don’t have great talent, I’m not a lazy guy either.”

So, what’s the problem with the tribe?

Yun Tang smiled and said, "There must have been some great generals in our family, right? Why haven't there been any in recent years?"

Marquis Yong'an's expression froze, and he felt a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

"I know." Yun Tang sighed in his heart and understood the difficulties of Yong'an Hou.

"Even the glorious Yong'an Marquis Mansion is a family of military generals. The previous generation only produced my grandfather, and this generation only has my father, second uncle, and eldest brother continuing on the path of military generals."

"The tribe members probably don't see a future in officialdom, and giving up martial arts to pursue literature has not yielded any good results. Their children have lost their fighting spirit, but they can work in the market and live a down-to-earth life. They are not bad in nature."

Yuntang laid out the gradual transformation of his clansmen over the years, and Marquis Yong'an was stunned, but on second thought it seemed to be true.

Let’s not talk about what’s happening in the clan, just talk about his second and third brothers. They have clearly been learning martial arts since childhood, but now his third brother can only pass the imperial examination and become a minor official to make a living.

My second brother joined the South Camp but could only gain experience as a senior.

He was the eldest son and could have inherited the title. He could have made some progress in the northern border, but he was transferred back to the capital to work as a minister in the Ministry of War, who also had a lot of experience.

Not to mention the eldest son, even his second uncle had to endure it, let alone him?

When the second son was young, he made a great ambition to be both civil and military, and he even passed the imperial examination and became a scholar. It was obvious that he wanted to follow the path of his third uncle.

In this peaceful and prosperous era, there are indeed too many idle generals.

The children of military families have to endure if they want to earn military merit on the battlefield. Those with wealthy families can afford it, but those with less wealthy families can only find other ways out.

He vaguely knew that his clan members made this choice because they had no better way out, but he also believed that the family's decline was also due to the lack of success of his children.

Unexpectedly, Yuntang pointed out the essence of the problem directly, that it was because the effect of giving up martial arts and pursuing literature was not very good that the family gradually fell into decline.

"Father, don't worry about these things. The most urgent task is not how to make our clan rise, but to build up our family fortune. The assets of the Marquis's Mansion are almost not as good as the dowry of Princess Kangning."

Just one sentence made Yong'an Hou's face turn red and he felt a little aggrieved.

Princess Kangning was born in Prince Cheng's Mansion, so her dowry was of course very generous, and her property brought in a lot of income every year.

Although he had never contributed to the official account of the Marquis's Mansion in the past, he still added a portion of the betrothal gifts for his two sons to the official account, making the marriages grand and glorious.

The Marquis' Mansion originally had many properties, but it also had to subsidize the clan every year, and the clan school has always been funded by the Marquis' Mansion.

Originally, the purpose was to teach children to read and understand reason, but later on, the hope was to teach offspring who could take the imperial examinations. Therefore, the clan school had to hire good teachers, provide more books, and writing materials, etc.

Those who enter the government to work as officials also have to provide some extra money as bribes, and those who are sent to work in other places also have to give some silver. When they arrive in the countryside, they can also add some small properties to support their families.

Unless you are a high-ranking official, life is very difficult, and you still have to socialize, curry favor with your superiors, and make connections...

Unless you are a corrupt official, or are good at networking and have the help of merchants, how can you have a rich and prosperous future?