The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 178 It's Less Than Four Thousand
Since mid-April, a piece of news has spread in the yamen of the Ministry of Industry: Mr. Jiao Shunjiao, who has just been in office for half a year, is about to be promoted again!
Logically speaking, this is obviously against the rules.

However, considering that Jiao Shun was originally a lucky person, and he has made real achievements, the credibility of this rumor is quite high.

It is also because of this that the criticisms that had been hidden in the dark have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain, and the people who used it to talk about the matter are nothing more than the same old ones: born in slavery, lucky enough to get ahead, and eat inside and outside.

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

There was only one person among them, and the reaction was far more intense than last time.

This person is Han Sheng, the head of the Department of Affairs.

The reason is very simple, Jiao Shun was originally the emperor's nail in the Ministry of Industry, and if he were to be overthrown now, he would definitely not be allowed to be a supervising supervisor.

And in the Ministry of Industry, there are only two rank-[-] officials with the most real power, and there are only two official positions from rank-[-]: one is from the rank-[-] government, but this is an extremely noble official of science and Taoism, which is more expensive than ordinary officials. Civil officials pay more attention to background, and it is absolutely impossible for Jiao Shun, who was born as a slave, to take up this position.

The other one is Han Sheng who is the head of the Department of Affairs.

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

Therefore, it is not difficult for someone with a little brain to guess that Jiao Shun will either not be promoted at all, or if he is promoted, he will definitely be replaced by someone Han!
Of course, at that time, Han Sheng will probably go one step further.

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

You must know that after you have accumulated enough achievements and qualifications to be the head of the Department of Secretary Affairs, you can usually surpass Yuanwailang and go straight to the head of the department.

But now that he is still inexperienced and doesn't have any solid achievements, it is absolutely impossible for him to be directly promoted to the commander-in-chief, and even...

There is also the possibility of leveling!
How could Han Sheng accept this?
He was furious for several days, racking his brains thinking about how to break the situation and avoid being replaced by that Jiao Shun.

only……

Will the plan come out?

…………

At the same time, Jiao Shun was very busy.

On the one hand, it is necessary to make full preparations for the admission of craftsmen's children in official affairs, and on the other hand, there is another important matter to be prepared in private—also in March, the Southern Expedition heroes who went to Beijing to report on their work also brought a large amount of wood and countless Souvenirs.

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

However, those souvenirs are a bit troublesome, most of them are leftover trophies picked by others, and it is a pity that the number of them is huge if they are tasteless.

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

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

Those Qiu Ba were not easy to deal with, they kept holding back the wood and refused to deliver, insisting on waiting until the spoils were sold out.

In desperation, Jiao Shun had no choice but to put down his face and run around, wasted a lot of favors, and made up a lot of money, so he sold the things for a lot of money.

After calculating inside and out, when the wood is sold out, the silver that falls in his hands will be two to three thousand taels at best.

If the human favor is estimated in silver, I'm afraid it's hard to know whether it will be a profit or a loss!

Of course, he is not without gains.

At least those Qiu Ba had already accepted him as a good friend, and promised that there would be three or four batches of wood in the future, and on April [-]th, they would hold a banquet in Qinghong Tower to reward Jiao Shun for his work.

He changed cups and cups and didn't say much.

Coincidentally, Jia Amnesty also hosted a banquet in Qinghong Tower to relieve his boredom.

But it turns out that Jia pardoned Sun Shaozu's money in the first month of the lunar year. He originally wanted to rely on the famous head of Rongguo Mansion to prostitute the military department. Unexpectedly, just in time for the imperial court to reward his meritorious service, he wanted to transfer some officers from the south to serve in Beijing.

There is a carrot and a hole in the Beijing camp. Since the imperial court has promised to the soldiers of the Southern Expedition, how can there be free time for Jia She to go whoring for nothing?
If he insisted on snatching food from the heroes of Nanzheng, not only would the risk be extremely high, but also there would be no profit, and fools would not be willing to do this loss-making business. Therefore, even if Jia She moved out the imperial concubine, it would still hit the south wall.

According to common sense, since this matter has not been completed, it is time to refund the money to others.

But that money has been spent in various ways, and the refund is definitely not possible.

What's more, Jia Amnesty turned to Sun Shaozu and asked him to pay another 5000 taels of silver!
This reason is still available.

Now that the market has been disturbed by the Nanmanzi, the price you want for an official position is no longer the original price, but the money you pay is still the original 5000 taels, how can it be possible?
I have to say that Jia She is really talented when it comes to cheating, abduction and extravagance!
But Sun Shaozu is not a fool either.

After hearing these words, he immediately said that it is not impossible for him to grit his teeth and take out 5000 taels of silver, but Jia Amnesty must issue an IOU of [-] taels of silver, lest his money will never come back.

The two sides wrangled for a long time, and in the end they only wrote down an IOU of 5000 taels of silver—how could this matter in official circles not go unnoticed?
Jia Amnesty was extremely dissatisfied with this. Originally thinking of taking the money, he divided up 2000 taels of Sun Shaozu to clear up the relationship, but now he is only willing to take 500 taels for show-this amount is definitely not enough, but the only way to do it If it doesn't work, then we can continue to ask him for money!

If he could coax out another ten or twenty thousand silver, even if he spent more than half of it, the remaining forty to five thousand taels would be more than enough to help him run an official.

If Sun Shaozu refuses to pay any more money, he can only be blamed for giving up halfway. It is absolutely impossible to pay back the money. If he has the ability, he will go to Jia Yucun to file a complaint and see who wins and who loses by then!
With such recklessness in mind, after Jia She got the money, he immediately set up a banquet in Qinghong Tower, and found a group of fans and a few bamboo strips for fun.

He was hugging his fans and laughing heartily, but the noise from the next door was getting louder and louder, all of them were yelling and yelling.

Jia Shedang was even annoyed, so he called the waiter who served food and asked who was next door.

When he heard that it was the "jun lord" from the south, Jia She became even more furious. If these Qiu Ba hadn't taken up official positions, how could he lose face in the Ministry of War and be forced to write an IOU to Sun Shaozu.

"Go to someone!"

Immediately, he took the case and said: "Let those country bumpkins give me some peace, sir!"

Immediately there was the good-natured person on the table, and he transferred to the next room to spread the word.

It wasn't long before I heard that the neighbors were really quiet, Jia She felt dignified and majestic, and just as he was complacent, he saw that good-natured person leading someone in.

When the man entered the room, he smiled and cupped his hands in salute: "Jiao Shun has seen Master She."

Seeing that it was Jiao Shun, Jia Amnesty couldn't help frowning, and asked in confusion, "Why did you come here?"

"Master."

The good-natured person rushed to explain: "I went to the next room, only to find that Uncle Jiao is also at the banquet."

"Ok?"

Jia She asked suspiciously, "Are you entertaining those thieves here?"

"Master Pardon, be careful with your words."

Jiao Shun said neither humble nor overbearing: "These are all meritorious soldiers of Nanzheng - besides, it's not me who entertained them, but they hosted me."

"Please?"

Jia Amnesty became more and more unconvinced, and snorted, "You are very arrogant! Who doesn't know that these southern barbarians have made meritorious deeds, their eyes have grown to the top of their heads, and they don't pay attention to those of the fourth and fifth ranks. , let alone you, a mere seventh-rank official of the Ministry of Industry?!"

Although the timber business was not hidden from the Duke's house, Jiao Shun didn't intend to explain it in detail, so he just bowed and smiled and didn't say much.

Jia Sheyuan just saw that he was not pleasing to the eye, and seeing that he refused to tell the truth, he waved Jiao Shun away impatiently, and asked everyone present if they knew the reason for this.

There was really someone who could answer him: "I heard that Uncle Jiao secretly started the matter of sending disabled soldiers to work as supervisors in the Ministry of Industry. If there is such a thing, those Qiuba naturally want to know about him."

"More than that, I heard that those Qiu Ba brought back a lot of junk from the south, and it was thanks to Uncle Jiao and Uncle Xue that they sold it for them."

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

Jia She twitched his beard with bright eyes, and for a moment some absurd thoughts appeared, thinking that if Jiao Shun could come forward and find a vacancy in the hands of those killers in the south, wouldn't he save more money? ?

This idiot came up on a whim, and regardless of whether his ideas were reliable or not, he called Mrs. Xing when he got home, and arranged the matter for her. As usual, he still had to use Yingchun as bait.

When Mrs. Xing heard that she was going to do this again, she seemed worried about something, and said, "Master, Jiao Shun is not as good as before. Because of his plan a few days ago, he let that precious jade go straight to heaven. Now not only is the mansion paying more and more attention to it, but even the empresses in the palace specially sent someone to let him listen to him more in the future."

Speaking of this, Xing cautiously probed: "How about we just make a fake show and do it for real?"

"What kind of fake show is real?!"

When Jia She heard this, she immediately stared at her, then shook her sleeves and said, "Let the Wang family's child-bearing slaves go after my daughter? Bah~ You have the face to say it!"

Seeing that he was annoyed, Xing naturally didn't dare to say anything more.

It's just that he complained endlessly in his heart, and he wanted the horse to run and not let the horse eat grass. In the end, Jiao Shun didn't hate himself to death?
She wasn't worried about this before, but now that Jiao Shun is getting more and more powerful, it is heard that the emperor is going to give him a promotion.

It's only half a year and he's going to be promoted again, what if he's going to be able to do it in seven or eight years?
After much deliberation, Xing simply wrote a letter to Nan Bian'er, urging his elder brother and sister-in-law to come to Beijing as soon as possible, so that he could make a record with his natal niece.

This far away is well arranged, but what should be done with the things that are close at hand?

That Yingchun is not with him now, not to mention that he has used what was available before, and Jiao Shun is not a master who obeys his words, so he really has nothing to do for a while.

(End of this chapter)