Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1197 Promotion
"Now, the problem is clear." Shangluo also took a sip of tea.

As a Roman vanguard, Titus has verified the rules here with his actions, that is - Xu Fu came for him and has nothing to do with others.

"Well, Captain Lu, I will go find another person who is being targeted to discuss a solution. You guys just wait here for a while."

Shangluo was about to leave when Lu Huaiyang stopped him:

"I say, Shangluo, even though you are the only one who can trigger the mission, you don't have to separate us - soldiers are here to carry out missions. If it helps the mission, then we should go. We can't have a meeting at the foot of the mountain and eat a big meal with canned food, and then watch you suffer on the mountain."

"It's not impossible." Lu Liang next to him interrupted.

"Is that what you should say to a friend? You should raise your hand and say, let's go together, right?"

"Why would I go? I'm not his girlfriend or boyfriend. Why would I go through fire and water with him? For such a small salary, why would I risk my life?"

"What about the favor he showed you by guiding you to the Qi training stage?"

Lu Liang spat out a mouthful of tea and said, "Sorry, sorry. I ate too much pork elbow and my blood sugar went up. I almost forgot about this. I have to repay this favor. Shangluo, if you can help me, just let me know."

"Look, Shangluo," Lu Huaiyang said with his hands spread out, "Our child is still very useful at the critical moment, and he will go up when he should. Many Jinyiwei here have been able to embark on the path of cultivation because of your kindness, which is a great favor. We Qigong practitioners are all very particular, much more particular than those alchemists. This karma must be repaid."

"Yeah, yeah." Lu Liang nodded and said, "Look at me, I'm not interested in other people's affairs at all. Just for this favor, I can do anything you ask me to do."

"Some are allowed and some are not." Lu Huaiyang pulled her to the back.

"Aiya! Dad! What are you thinking, you old-fashioned guy? I'm just saying that I can support him. What on earth are you thinking? Aren't you too open-minded? We young people are very conservative."

【In theory, it is true. According to statistics, your country's birth rate has been hovering at a historical low for a generation. Your country first reached 100 million people 8 years ago, then soared, but in recent decades it has fallen again and stabilized at 8 million. Well, you young people are really conservative in this regard. 】

"Uh," Shangluo touched his forehead, "I don't quite understand the current situation of 'complete industrialization' here. After all, before the invention of the car, the country had already laid out a capillary-like railway network. I really don't understand the development process here. The customs here are spirally upward."

He had seen old imperialist countries before. But this was the first time he had seen the old Celestial Empire. The current Ming Dynasty was actually very open in some places that Shangluo did not expect, but it was also very conservative in other places that he did not expect. But after all, they were all his own people. Although Shangluo could not quite understand this spiral process, he could understand the current situation.

"So Uncle Lu, please believe in the strategic determination of young people. We are very strategically determined." "That's right." Lu Liang expressed his agreement, "You old men should stop interfering, we are very determined. I'm just afraid that you will beg me to stop being so determined."

"Uh..." Lu Huaiyang was speechless for a moment, "Sure enough, I am still too old. When I think about how I am only a thousand households at such an old age, it is really difficult, difficult."

"Oh, right." Shangluo suddenly asked, "Uncle Lu, I have a question - isn't your family a hereditary thousand households? Why is your title still a thousand households? Haven't you made any progress over the years?"

"Alas." Lu Huaiyang sighed, "Although it is hereditary, it still needs approval. The Jinyiwei is particularly difficult to deal with, because the Qigong practitioners in the Jinyiwei are all deadlier than the others. The people at the top can't make room, and the people at the bottom really can't move up. There is nothing we can do about it, because the Jinyiwei has only so much funding, and opening one more thousand households means opening one more business. Now there are Jianqi Xuanlei Dan, Shanyi Mingxiangbu, plus Dunjia, Qiyuan, and Shenda Sanchuan. The Jinyiwei Nanzhen has a total of 13 thousand households and 13 businesses, which is already too much. If there are more, the funding will not be enough."

"So my dad wasn't promoted to a thousand households until I was in the fourth grade of elementary school. He waited until he was 4 to be promoted. Normally, you get promoted to this level at around 40. Even so, it was accelerated because my dad had the hereditary position of a thousand households in the Jinyiwei. In theory, he could be given priority under the same conditions. If he hadn't had the merits of his ancestors, he probably wouldn't have been able to get promoted to a thousand households until he was 40."

"Then after this time..." Shangluo touched his forehead, "Captain Lu, shouldn't you be promoted?"

"It's not that easy, we still have to wait?" Lu Huaiyang was stunned, "Yes! Shangluo, promotions in the Heavenly Court are under your jurisdiction, right?"

"Yes, it's my responsibility. I think you should have been promoted a long time ago. Why didn't you tell me?"

"I wouldn't have thought about this if you hadn't told me. So, can I get promoted?"

"That's too much!" Shang Luo replied, "It's reasonable for you to be promoted to Lu Qianhu - then how do you get promoted? The next level is the Pacification Division?"

"Not really. The Zhenfusi is supposed to be lower than the Qianhusuo. Let me put it this way, Shangluo: the Weisuo here is a unit that manages military households, but it can also be a unit that handles affairs. The Zhenfusi is a special office that handles affairs. Although its rank is actually lower than the Weisuo, it is similar to the difference between the six ministers and the university scholars who enter the cabinet. The university scholars are only fifth-rank officials, but the ministers plus this 'small' fifth-rank official can enter the cabinet. This is the same. With the title of Zhenfusi, you can be called 'Seal General'."

"That and the weaving general are"

"Yes, just like the General of Weaving. But the General of Weaving belongs to the North Town, not our South Town. There is a division between the generals of the South Town and the North Town. The North Town is in charge of things outside the Grand Palace, and we are in charge of things inside. The Weaving Bureau is outside, so the General of Weaving belongs to the General of Seal of the North Town. And the position above me is the General of Seal of the South Town. The official title has not changed, but the power has changed."

"They are all generals, what's the difference?"

"There are many titles for Jinyiwei generals. The generals holding seals in the north and south towns are the most powerful ones under heaven and man. As for the general of weaving, it's the same thing - if there is a government office or a headquarters, there is a general. That's how the generals in charge of weaving, casting and other affairs came about.

(End of this chapter)