Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 187 Four Years
In Yulin Town, Jia Qiang welcomed his old acquaintance, Zhang Yi, the eunuch in charge of the Royal Horse Supervisor.

After some polite remarks, Eunuch Zhang Yi read out the imperial edict.

The imperial edict only praised Jia Qiang a few words, which did not surprise Jia Qiang.

Before, he had the official position of Jiedu Envoy of the Beijing Camp, which was not considered a real reward.

Because the Jingying Jiedushi is the second rank, while the governor of the nine provinces is the first rank. Although the governor of the nine provinces is a temporary official position, he cannot be rewarded with an official position lower than himself if he achieves great merit.

By the time Jia Qiang reached this stage, her title had reached the level of Marquis, and her official position had reached the level of a first-grade military officer, which to some extent was close to the limit.

It will be difficult to get promoted any further. Jia Qiang's resume is too thin and he needs more and more important achievements.

Both Emperor Jingwen and the Supreme Emperor were aware of this, so they kept giving him credit until his patrol was over. Only then would the credit from the patrol plus his previous military exploits allow him to be promoted to a more important position in a reasonable manner.

In the original book "Dream of Red Mansions", the reason why Wang Ziteng was promoted to a highly respected official was because of his years of accumulation and his contribution to patrolling the border.

The imperial edict also gave Zang Feiyu a new reward. He was promoted from the commander of the guards of the third rank to the chief soldier of Yulin Town, the second rank.

Of course, there is also a reason why the Supreme Emperor feels powerless and is releasing his power little by little.

It seems that Wu Zicang's official position is not as good as Zang Feiyu's Yulin Town General Soldier, but in fact Wu Zicang's reward even exceeds Zang Feiyu's.

This is different from Jia Qiang's previous deputy commander. This deputy commander has real power and is under Jia Qiang, the governor of the Beijing camp.

As for the secret situation, just think about the more than 6,000 strong generals scattered in the northern army, and you can know that most of the middle and high-level military attachés are 100% loyal to him, and you can also know his control over the northern army. .

On the other hand, there are rumors that the day he returns to Beijing will be the day he takes over power, and many people do not want him to take power.

However, the good news was that the secret decree gave him great power. He could decide whether to appoint or dismiss the northern army at a single word. All he needed to do was report it to the Ministry of War afterwards.

Opening the imperial edict, Jia Qiang couldn't help but frown slightly when she saw the content above.

Of course, the Supreme Emperor's trust in Jia Qiang also depends on one more important factor, which is the blood of the Tian family flowing in Jia Qiang's body.

The northern army that he reorganized was completely different from before in every aspect.

"Jia Hou, receive the secret edict!" Eunuch Zhang Yi said in a deep voice when he and Jia Qiang came to a separate room after announcing the edict.

In four years, he captured more than 500 military attachés, giving him a reputation for being selfless in the military.

The emperor was old, and the Tatar invasion of Dagan exposed the problems of Dagan's army.

Although Jia Qiang had done so many things, no matter who he was, he didn't know what he was doing.

It was also because of Jia Qiang's recommendation and Jia Qiang's approval that Emperor Jingwen didn't have to worry at all. Even the Supreme Emperor would be willing to accept Wu Zicang, a military attaché who originally belonged to Emperor Jingwen, to take over as the military envoy of the Beijing Camp because of his reasons. .

On the one hand, he captured too many military attachés in the northern army, which offended many forces, and these forces did not want him to have an easy time.

Of course, he himself did not have the ability to personally intervene. There were not many people in Daqian who could reassure him. The older generation of generals had many connections in the military, so even if they had the ability, they would not be able to do so.

And such an official position is related to the rise and fall of a family.

Of course, in the past four years, the impeachment of him in the court has never stopped.

He needs to conduct inspections of all Daqian troops in the entire north in the next few years.

Jia Qiang is almost the same as a lonely minister, and he is very powerful. With a group of personal soldiers, he can defeat 100,000 Tatars. These people are the best candidates to supervise the Daqian army.

No one would believe that the unknown warrior he promoted was trained by him and was loyal to him.

Jia Qiang likes to promote useful people. As long as she has the ability, she will be reused by him.

This is not an easy job. Just traveling around Daqian North is a hard job, and the troubles encountered are unimaginable.

He took out an imperial edict and handed it to Jia Qiang, who knelt down and took it with both hands.

Jia Qiang made the recommendation at this exact moment, allowing the two guard commanders to occupy important positions.

But Jia Qiang is different. Jia Qiang is extremely young and was expelled from the Jia family in the capital. She has no relationship with the Jia family.

In the secret decree, the scope of his power to control the nine provinces was expanded to include the entire north.

Of course, Zang Feiyu was able to get this position because of Jia Qiang's suggestion in the book. He had contributed to the recovery of Yulin Town. In addition, Jia Qiang's recommendation, especially Jia Qiang's recommendation, allowed Zang Feiyu to be promoted to the chief soldier of Yulin Town.

There was another rumor circulating among the Daqian army.

This is definitely an extremely important official position. The commander-in-chief of Jiubian Military Town controls the most elite army in the north of Daqian.

Time flies, four years have passed in a flash, and Jia Qiang's footprints have spread all over Jiubian and Daqian North.

As for Wu Zicang, he was promoted to the second rank of deputy commander of the Beijing camp.

This was also the four years he had been running his own power. In four years, not to mention that the entire Daqian Northern Army had surrendered to him, but at least half of the military towns in the Nine Borders were willing to follow him.

"I will live up to the trust of the Supreme Emperor!" Jia Qiang solemnly replied.

There are only so many positions at the pinnacle of power. If Jia Qiang occupies it, others will be gone.

Putting Wu Zicang in this position was obviously preparing to take over as the governor of the Beijing camp.

The military town covers the area where the general soldiers are almost equal to the emperor.

In this way, among the nine military towns in Jiubian, Jia Qiang alone occupied the power of three towns.

If Jia Qiang alone could not supervise the troops and horses in the Daqian world, the Supreme Emperor would have wanted Jia Qiang to sort out all the soldiers and horses in the Daqian world.

In four years, he trained more than 6,000 100% loyal generals, all of whom he used his power of supervision to disperse into the Daqian Northern Army.

"The Emperor has said that he doesn't believe anyone but Jiahou. Daqian's army is so corrupt that it must be rectified!" Eunuch Zhang Yi said in a deep voice.

In the northern suburbs of the capital, a team of a thousand people was marching. The high flag with the word 'Jia' erected showed the identity of this team.

Jia Qiang was sitting in a luxurious carriage, which was suitable for a marquis.

At the age of twenty, his face lacks the immature look of a young man, but his long-term supervisory power and control over the life and death of officials have given him the aura of a superior.

For four years, although he was busy with supervisory duties, these did not affect his cultivation.

The 'Taixu Sutra' and 'Maitreya Zen Recumbent' have never stopped. After four years of practice, his strength has improved a lot, but the potential of the 'Taixu Sutra' and 'Maitreya Zen Recumbent' seems to have been exhausted. His attributes have not increased for a long time.

Theoretically, the "Taixu Sutra" he practiced should not exhaust its potential so easily, but he used magic power to practice the "Taixu Sutra", which made him lose the constraints of the immortal and the distinction between the realms of the immortal.

The 'Taixu Sutra' only allowed him to gain strength, physical fitness and spiritual growth, but it could not allow him to achieve an essential improvement like an immortal by breaking through the realm.

Of course, his situation is extremely special. He is not following the same path as the immortals. It is also a path that has never been followed before or since.

No one has ever been natural before, and no one but him can use mana to practice the cultivation methods of immortals. There will be no successors because everything he practices requires the presence of the game board.

In the past four years, he has come into contact with many strong players. These are not the strong players he trained, but the strong players who were born as generals.

Many of the heroes were caught by him for committing crimes, and he also gained a lot of skills in general training.

It's a pity that there are so many techniques that generals can practice, but there are only two that can be practiced and are useful to him.

This also greatly improved his strength again. His mind sank, and the game character status panel opened.

Name: Jia Qiang [Level 28]

Occupation: Taoist priest

Power: 600
Constitution: 80
Agility: 119
Spirit: 80
Life: 800
Mana: 80
Skill: Healing [Advanced]

Mental warfare [advanced]

Poison Technique【Advanced】

Soul Talisman【Advanced】

Corpse Exorcism [Advanced]

Substitute Talisman【Advanced】

Group Invisibility [Intermediate]

Ghost Shield【Advanced】

Holy War Armor [Intermediate]

Lion's Roar【Elementary】

Soul Wall [Elementary]

In four years, because there has been no large-scale battle, his game character level is still level 28 and has not been improved.

According to his judgment, as long as there is no large-scale war, he does not need to think about improving the character level in the game.

His strength reached 600, which also made his strength reach kilograms.

His physique and spirit have both improved to 80. No matter how he practices the 'Tai Xu Sutra' and 'Maitreya Zen Relief', he will not be able to improve his physique and spirit by even 0.01.

His spirit reached 80 points, which was eight times the limit of a mortal's spirit. It also gave him an eight-fold increase in the power of each skill.

A physical constitution of 80 points gave him a stronger body, giving him 800 points of life, which was completely incomparable to his summons.

The immortals he had seen only had more than three hundred lives, but his life span was two or three times that of the immortals.

Among the thousands of people following Jia Qiang, there was only one strong general, Qian Hu. This Qian Hu was not the strong general he trained, but the strong general Qian Hu who took the initiative to join him.

He asked this thousand-man team to escort him back to Beijing. As for the warriors he trained, he didn't want to expose too much.

The more warriors he trains, the clearer he becomes that this matter cannot be known to outsiders, and his relationship with these warriors can only be known to himself.

Once known to outsiders, Daqian will never tolerate him.

Even with the favor of Emperor Jingwen and the Supreme Emperor, if they learn about this incident, Emperor Jingwen and the Supreme Emperor will never tolerate such things happening, and all favors will become a thing of the past.

Emperor Jingwen was very kind to Jia Qiang. Even Jia Qiang's appointment to Lin Ruhai's family was arranged by Emperor Jingwen. Jia Qiang always remembered this love.

Jia Qiang can clearly feel the sincerity of the Emperor's feelings for Jia Qiang.

Jia Qiang's arrangement of the northern army in Daqian was just an instinctive act of self-preservation by a time traveler.

In fact, apart from being 100% loyal to him, everything he did was of great benefit to Daqian.

More than 6,000 powerful generals have been invested in the Daqian Northern Army, which has greatly increased the strength of the Daqian Northern Army. It can be said that if the Tatars invade again, they will encounter unprecedented resistance.

In addition, the armies in other places in Daqian also have many warriors trained by Jia Qiang, but the proportion is much smaller than that in the northern army.

"Yan Qianhu!" Jia Qiang looked at the environment and shouted to Yan Qianhu, who was leading the team.

"What are your orders, Mr. Jia?" Yan Qianhu immediately rode his horse to Jia Qiang's carriage, jumped off the horse and bowed to ask.

"We have arrived in the capital. You and your subordinates can go and live in the West Camp!" Jia Qiang waved her hand and ordered.

Now that his influence is too strong, he cannot bring his army to Beijing. Even if Emperor Jingwen and the Supreme Emperor don't care, others will find opportunities to join him.

"Follow the order!" Yan Qianhu responded without any hesitation.

Yan Qianhu made a gesture with his hand, and all the thousands of people he brought with him left in unison in an instant. The whole process followed orders and prohibitions, which was truly a sign of strict military discipline.

Jia Qiang smiled slightly, this was also one of the achievements of his four years in Daqian North.

His military training methods were implemented throughout the Daqian Northern Army, which greatly increased the discipline of the Daqian Northern Army.

The thousand-man team just now is an ordinary one among them.

Nowadays, no one in the army dares to say that Jia Qiang is young and has no qualifications.

Four years ago, he defeated the Tatars and drove the Tatars out of Daqian. This was his achievement. In the past four years, he trained the northern army into elite troops. This achievement even exceeded the achievements of the battle four years ago.

His military training method has become one of several important military training methods in the Daqian Army. Unfortunately, his military training method must have certain leadership ability to achieve it. Only in the northern army can he have strong generals who are absolutely loyal to him. The method of military training was promoted in the northern army.

When it comes to other armies, even officers would not be able to endure such strict military discipline, let alone demand it from their subordinates.

After Yan Qianhu left, less than twenty people remained beside Jia Qiang's carriage, and only two carriages with luggage followed his carriage.

It's not that he is incorruptible, but that all his belongings are put into the inventory in large boxes.

He pays great attention to his own image. The higher he reaches a high position, the more he has to pay attention to this to prevent being criticized by others.

He just wanted to show the world that he had been in power in the north for four years with only the luggage of two carriages.

When he saw a pavilion, he couldn't help but think of Jia Rong. During the four years in the north, he also wanted to find Jia Rong.

Unfortunately, he learned that Jia Rong became seriously ill in the second year after arriving at the border.

After holding on for two months, he died and died in a desolate place at the border. Fortunately, someone collected his body and did not let it be exposed in the wilderness.

All Jia Qiang could do was to find Jia Rong's bones and find someone to send them back to the Jia family's ancestral land and into their ancestral graves. This matter would need to be done after he returned to Beijing. This could be regarded as a testament to his brotherhood with Jia Rong.

(End of this chapter)