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Chapter 456 Jia Butang

On the fifth floor of Sihai Restaurant, the Presidential Room.

The original price is three taels a night, but the current price is five taels a night, because it is a private room for the president, minister and nine admirals, if it is too cheap, Master Jia will be unhappy.

The presidential standard room for the five-two-one night is still very good. It is well-decorated, and it is more grand than ordinary officials' homes, but it must not be compared with the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Under the two large oil lamps, Jia Liu, who had just returned from the canal wharf, was looking through the Life and Death Book of Qing Ming Officials sorted out by Shuan Zhu, and found that Master Shu was actually ranked seventh in the central official part of the Imperial Ming Official Book.

This ranking is quite high, and some military ministers are ranked below.

Wen Fu and Agui ranked [-]th and [-]th in this life and death book respectively.

Mingliang, who died at the beginning of the year, was ranked in the twenties, and Fu Longan, who unfortunately died a few days ago, was ranked higher, ranking sixth in front of Bachelor Shu.

Laofu ranked No.20 three.

The internal ministers, management ministers, and imperial ministers who died heroically with Fu Longan were basically well-known and ranked higher than the old and rich.

The main reason for the high ranking of Shu University is that he successively participated in the four major wars in the middle and early Qianlong period, namely, the suppression of Jinchuan, the Junggar tribe, the Huijiang aristocratic rebellion, and the Burmese conquest.

To be fair, it was a great achievement.

The resume is even more abundant, which is jaw-dropping, such as Shangshu, Minister of Internal Affairs, Infantry Commander, Governor, University Bachelor, General Yili...
Belonging to the only surviving civil and military veteran of the Qianlong Dynasty so far.

Under the influence of Jia Liu, Shuan Zhu is still quite professional. The book of life and death of officials is very authoritative. It not only refers to the official resume and employment experience, but also combines factors such as birth, ancestors, first wife, and merit. It can be said that this era The most authoritative first-hand materials on leading cadres.

In fact, there are many official resumes like this in the capital, because there is a market for such materials for leading cadres.

Officials in the Ministry of Officials colluded with outsiders to wholesale official files. The customers were mainly officials from other places, and the prices were high.

It's just that the official watch made by these people is a bit amateurish compared to the one made by Shuan Zhu.

After picking up the pen and crossing Lao Shu's name, Jia Liu looked at the resumes of the deputy governor Wu Shibu, the first-class guard Yilin and others who were ranked behind.

Basically the same, they are all the guards of the palace with advanced family relations.

Similarly, the names of these people were crossed out by Jia Liu.

When I was about to close it, I accidentally saw that Shuan Zhu ranked He Shen No. 20.

Regarding this ranking, Jia Liu believes that it is objective. After all, although He Shen was promoted by the fourth devil to the Military Aircraft Department and became the Minister of Internal Affairs, his tenure is short and he is promoted by the Rockets. more accurate rankings.

After closing the book, Jia Liu planned to ask Shuan Zhu to update it after the Chinese New Year, because the ominous events in the city caused the death of a large number of central government officials, which had affected the comprehensiveness of the book.

For example, Lao Fu's current ranking is definitely not No. 20, not No. [-] or No. [-].

Throw the outdated life and death book on another "Great Elimination of Thieves Records", which is different from the life and death book, the removal of thieves is mainly the rankings and resumes of the Manchu and Han generals in the Jinchuan Army.

The criteria for being selected into this book are young, well-educated, and capable of playing.

At that time, more than 25 generals of the Eight Banners were included in the book when it was compiled, and it was as thick as [-] pages. However, this book has basically been eliminated now. When you open it, you can see that there are dense forks on every page.

Right now, there are only two people who meet the above three conditions.

One is Dingxi General Feng Feng's promotion, and the other is the Eight Banners savior Jia Liu himself.

In view of the fact that Feng Sheng'e had already proposed to Lao Fu to lead the army into Huguang to encircle and suppress, Jia Liu must have a corresponding deployment.

So, after scratching the itch on his butt, he wrote two letters.

One letter was to the second father-in-law, Bo, and the other letter was to the third father-in-law, Mr. Gu.

The content of the two letters is different, but the purpose is the same.

It is the cooperation between internal and external lines, so that Fengsheng, whose official ranking and prestige are currently higher than Jia Liu, can make a big fall in Huguang, thus paving the way for his son-in-law Jia Jia Shikai to be appointed as the general of Dingxi.

The facts are obvious, if there is another accident with that kid Feng Sheng'e, besides Jia Liu who can lead troops to fight and support the Qing Dynasty in the south, who else, who else?
The writing style of the two letters is very distinctive, they are not written like ordinary people's letters, but are all numbers.

Jia's ciphertext.

The previous issue of the decoding software was "Qianlong Imperial Poems", this one is "Kangxi Dictionary", and the next issue Jia Liu plans to use "Thousand Characters".

The numbers correspond to the number of pages, columns, and words, respectively.

In addition to knowing the decoding software, no matter who gets these two letters, they will be at a loss and don't know what they mean.

The way of this password transmission has been mastered by the Liaison Office. There are special personnel responsible for decoding the code from Mr. Bo, who will be the governor of Sichuan, Mr. Li, the governor of Sichuan, and Mr. Gu, who has led the army to capture Wuchang.

Of course, Jia Liu did not dare to say that he was the inventor of the cipher. In fact, this method of information transmission had been used as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods of China. He just carried forward the wisdom of his ancestors again.

Looking up and looking out of the window, except for the lanterns hanging on the pier, the canal is black and dark, and the night is quiet.

Demu knocked lightly on the door.

"Come in."

Jia Liuduan sat behind the Eight Immortals desk in the temporary office, habitually using a hand warmer instead of a thermos cup.

"Bah!"

After a standard military posture, Demu brought a sad news to the President. Due to the long time of drowning and his advanced age, the scholar Shu Hede unfortunately passed away during the rescue process in Tongzhou.

"Really? This is really a very regrettable thing."

Jia Liu looked solemn, stood up and bowed towards the city of Tongzhou. After counting for three seconds, he raised his head sadly and said, "Can you give the Grand Scholars the last respect?"

“Pretty decent!”

Demu said that the body of the scholar has been covered with a white flag, and has sent people to buy a coffin, and tomorrow he will use a horse to drive the soul of the scholar back to his homeland.

Jia Liu nodded: "You guys are doing a good job. The bachelor has been an official for a lifetime. He must have some savings and inheritance. We must send someone to protect his family from criminals."

"Whoo!"

Demu responded.

"Since the Grand Master has died, someone must pay the price for it, and the Grand Master must not be allowed to sacrifice like this!"

Jia Liu came to the lobby on the first floor.

In the hall, 24 Manchurian officers of all sizes, including Wu Shibu, the vice-captain of the Manchuria of Xiangbai Banner, Yilin, the first-class guard of Qianqingmen, and Batubao, the second-class guard of Qianqingmen, invited by Wang Chaoxing, the commander-in-chief of Zhili, were waiting.

The whole process seemed relatively peaceful. Except for the first-class guard Erin who raised doubts and was stunned by the Ye Bilong knife, everyone else came to the military discussion calmly.

Because, they thought that Master Shu was also here.

However, after coming here, I didn't see Master Shu. Only the main generals of the green battalions in various provinces were there, and all of them looked strange, and the admiral Jia Jia didn't show up for a long time, which made all the Manchurian generals a little uneasy.

Seeing that Admiral Jia Jia had finally appeared, Wu Shibu, the Vice Commander of Xiangbai Banner, got up immediately and asked, "I don't know why Master Jia summoned us here?"

Batubao looked around, and asked a little strangely, "Where is Shu Zhongtang?"

Zhongtang is the name of the Cabinet Grand Scholars before Yongzheng. Because the Grand Scholars are the same as the prime minister, they have great power.

In the Kangxi Dynasty, Mingzhu was in charge of the Ministry of Officials. Every time the officials of the meeting hall in the ministry were divided into two sides, Mingzhu was in the middle, so there was a saying of "middle hall".

The power of the cabinet in the Qianlong Dynasty declined, and the Minister of Military Aircraft was respected, but Shu Hede was a bachelor of the Wuying Hall, the most honorable bachelor, and he deserved the title of Zhongtang.

Under the central hall there is a department hall, under the department hall there is a system platform, under the system platform there is a Fu platform, under the Fu platform there is a fan platform, and under the fan platform there is a Dao platform.

Jia Liu concurrently served as the right servant of the Ministry of War, and was also a Manchu official, belonging to one of the six hall officials, so local officials respected him as "Master of the Ministry" when they saw him.

The Lord of the Ministry just glanced at Deputy Wu and the third-class guards, ignored them, and went straight to the chair set up above the center of the crowd. After sitting down, he subconsciously picked up the tea bowl, took a sip of tea, and scraped it with the tea cover. Scratching the edge of the bowl, he said lightly: "As a Manchurian, why do you want to fight against the imperial court?"

(End of this chapter)