Since entering mid-April, a news has spread in the yamen of the Ministry of Industry: Mr. Jiao Shunjiao, who has only been in office for half a year, will soon be promoted again!

Logically speaking, this is obviously against the rules.

But considering that Jiao Shun was a lucky person and had made real achievements, the credibility of this rumor is still quite high.

It is precisely because of this that the criticisms that had been hidden in the dark have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. The people who use them are just the same old ones: they were born into slaves, they were lucky enough to be well-off, and they were deprived of everything.

But considering the scheming skills that Jiao Shun has shown in the past six months, and the appreciation that Su Shilang has shown more than once, the turmoil this time is not as intense as when he first took office.

There was only one person inside, and his reaction was far more intense than last time.

This person is none other than Han Sheng, the director of the Department of General Affairs.

The reason is very simple. Jiao Shun was originally the emperor's thorn in the Ministry of Works. If he were to be overthrown now, he would definitely not be allowed to remain in his post as a supervisor.

In the Ministry of Industry, there are only two sixth-rank official positions with the most powerful power: one is from the sixth-rank Dudu Shizhong, but this is an extremely noble official of science and education, which is higher than the ordinary ones.

Civil servants pay more attention to family background, and it is absolutely impossible for Jiao Shun, who was born as a slave, to hold this position.

The other one is Han Sheng, the director of the Department of General Affairs.

This position is equivalent to the director of the general office. It can be said to be the link between the previous and the lower, and it is also the most convenient for the comprehensive implementation of the New Deal.

Therefore, it is not difficult for anyone with a little bit of brains to guess that Jiao Shun will either not be promoted at all, or if he is promoted, someone Han will definitely replace him!

Of course, Han Sheng will probably go further by then.

But Han Sheng was not satisfied with this, and was even aggrieved.

You must know that after serving as the head of the Department of Affairs, after accumulating enough merits and qualifications, one can usually surpass Yuan Wai Lang and be directly promoted to Chief Si Lang.

But now that he has only a few qualifications and no outstanding achievements, it is absolutely impossible for him to be directly promoted to the position of head doctor, or even...

There is also the possibility of leveling!

How could Han Sheng accept this?

He was furious for several days, thinking hard about how to break the situation and avoid being replaced by Jiao Shun.

only……

Will the plan be settled?

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At the same time, Jiao Shun was extremely busy.

Firstly, in official matters, we have to make every effort to prepare for the enrollment of the craftsmen's children. Secondly, privately, there is another major event to be prepared - also in March, the heroes of the Southern Expedition who came to Beijing to report on their work also brought a large amount of wood and countless materials.

Souvenirs.

Needless to say, the wood is exactly what the capital city urgently needs.

However, those souvenirs are a bit troublesome. Most of them are leftover trophies picked up by others. They are tasteless and discarded. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them.

Even though the Xue family managed to eat nearly half of it, the rest was still difficult to deal with.

But it won't work if you don't deal with it.

Those Qiu Ba were not easy to deal with either. They kept holding back the wood and refused to deliver it, insisting on waiting until the loot was sold out.

In desperation, Jiao Shun had no choice but to show off his face and run around, giving up a lot of favors and adding a lot of money, and then he sold the things for a high price.

After careful calculation, after all the lumber was sold, the silver in his hands would only be two to three thousand taels at best.

If you estimate favors at the expense of money, you won’t even know whether you will gain or lose!

Of course, he didn't gain anything.

At least those people had accepted him as a good friend and promised that three or four batches of wood would be delivered in the future. On April 18, another banquet was held at Qinghong Tower to honor Jiao Shun.

In this room, he was changing cups and cups and didn't say much.

Coincidentally, Jia She was also hosting a banquet at Qinghong Tower that day to relieve his boredom.

But it turned out that in the first month of the first month, Jia pardoned Sun Shaozu's money, and he originally wanted to use the name of Rongguo Mansion to pay for the military department. Unexpectedly, just in time for the imperial court to express his merits, he wanted to transfer some officers from the south to serve in Beijing.

This capital camp is a mess. Since the imperial court has already promised soldiers for the Southern Expedition, how can there be any idle posts for Jia She to use as prostitutes?

If you insist on taking food from the hands of the heroes of the Southern Expedition, not only will the risk be extremely high, but there will be no profit at all, and fools will not be willing to engage in this loss-making business. Therefore, even if Jia She moves out the imperial concubine, he will still hit a wall.

According to common sense, since this matter has not been completed, you should refund the money to others.

But the money has already been spent to a great extent, and the money will definitely not be refunded.

In fact, Jia She went to Sun Shaozu again and asked him to pay out another five thousand taels of silver!

The reason is still there.

Now that the Nanmanzi have disrupted the market, your official position is no longer the original price, but the money you paid is still the original five thousand taels. How can you succeed like this?

I have to say that Jia She is really a talented person when it comes to deception and extravagance!

But Sun Shaozu was not a fool either.

After hearing these words, he immediately said that it was not impossible for him to grit his teeth and come up with another five thousand taels of silver, but Jia She had to set up an IOU of ten thousand taels of silver, lest he lose the money and never get it back.

The two sides argued for a long time, and in the end they only wrote down an IOU of five thousand taels of silver - how could such an official matter go away without a lot of trouble?

Jia She was extremely dissatisfied with this. He originally thought that after taking the silver, he would divide up two thousand taels to smoothen the relationship with Sun Shaozu, but now he is only willing to take out 500 taels as a show - this is definitely not enough, but only

If you can't do it, then you can continue to ask for money from him!

If he could coax out another ten thousand to twenty thousand silver, even if he spent most of it and had four to five thousand taels left to help him run an official career, it would be more than enough.

If Sun Shaozu refuses to ask for more money, then he can only be blamed for giving up halfway. It is absolutely impossible to repay the money. If he can, he will go to Jia Yucun to complain and see who wins and who loses!

With this intention of defaulting on his debt, after Jia She got the money, he immediately held a banquet in Qinghong Tower and found a group of fans and a few bamboo strips for fun.

I was laughing heartily with my pink head being flattered, but I didn't expect the noise next door to get louder and louder. They were all yelling and shouting from rough men speaking bad Mandarin.

Jia She was immediately annoyed and called the waiter who served the food to ask who was next door.

When he heard that it was the "Army Master" from the south, Jia She was even more furious. If these Qiu Ba hadn't taken up official positions, how could he have lost face in the Ministry of War and been forced to write an IOU to Sun Shaozu?

"Go to hell!"

At that moment, he slapped the case and said: "Let those country bumpkins be quiet for me!"

The meddler immediately appeared on the table and moved to the private room next door to spread the message.

Not long after, he heard that the neighbor next door had quieted down, and Jia She felt that he was showing dignity and dignity. Just as he was twirling his beard and feeling proud, he saw the meddlesome person leading the person in.

When the man entered the room, he smiled and held his hands in greeting: "Jiao Shun has met Mr. Pardon."

Seeing it was Jiao Shun, Jia She could not help but frown and asked in confusion: "Why are you here?"

"Master."

The meddlesome person rushed to explain: "I went to the next room and found that Uncle Jiao was also at the table."

"Um?"

Jia She asked suspiciously: "Are you entertaining those thieves and troops here?"

"Master Zheng, be careful what you say."

Jiao Shun said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "These are all meritorious soldiers from the Southern Expedition - not to mention that I am not hosting a banquet for them, but they are hosting a banquet for me."

"Please?"

Jia She became more and more disbelieving and snorted: "You have such a big tone! Who knows that these southern barbarians have made great achievements, and their eyes have grown to the top of their heads, and even the fourth and fifth grades will not take them seriously.

, not to mention you, a mere seventh-grade official from the Ministry of Industry?!"

Although the lumber transaction was not hidden from the Duke's government, Jiao Shun had no intention of explaining it in detail. He just bowed and smiled without saying anything.

Jia Sheyuan was displeased with him. Seeing that he refused to tell the truth, he impatiently dismissed Jiao Shun and asked everyone present if they knew what was behind this.

There is really someone who can answer him: "I heard that the matter of letting disabled soldiers go to the Ministry of Works to work as supervisors was secretly initiated by Uncle Jiao. With this matter going on, those Qiu Ba will naturally want to know about his situation."

"Not only that, I heard that those Qiu Ba brought back a lot of junk from the south. Thanks to Uncle Jiao and Uncle Xue, they helped them sell it."

"So, doesn't he have some friendship with those people?"

Jia She twirled his tiger beard with gleaming eyes, and for a moment some ridiculous thoughts came up. He thought to himself that if Jiao Shun could come forward and find a gap in the hands of those killers in the south, wouldn't he save more money?

Overhead?

On a whim, regardless of whether the idea was reliable or not, he summoned Ms.

When Mr.

Now, not only is the palace paying more and more attention to him, even the empress in the palace specially sent someone to ask him to listen to him more in the future."

At this point, Ms. Xing carefully probed: "How about we just do it for real?"

"What kind of fake show is this for real?!"

When Jia She heard this, he immediately glared, rolled up his sleeves and said, "Let the slaves of the Wang family give birth to children and take advantage of my daughter? Bah~ You have the nerve to say it!"

Seeing that he was annoyed, Mrs. Xing naturally did not dare to say anything more.

It's just that he is complaining in his heart. This requires the horse to run and not let the horse eat grass. In the end, won't Jiao Shun hate himself to death?

She wasn't worried about this before, but now Jiao Shun is becoming more and more powerful, and she heard that the emperor is going to promote him.

It's only been half a year since I was promoted again. How can I still be successful if I wait for seven or eight years?

After much deliberation, Mrs.

Things far away have been arranged, but what should we do about things close in front of us?
Chapter completed!