As the end of the year approaches, each of the government offices in the capital has begun an end-of-year inventory of the sixth year of Longyuan. Jiao Shun, as the chief steward of the Ministry of Works, is naturally no exception.

First, he went on a few days and finally finished the year-end summary, and Chen Shangshu talked to him alone, hinting that he was ready for the handover after the New Year in advance. Jiao Shun had long expected that after he served as the fourth-rank Young Secretary, the position of the sixth-rank chief would be handed over sooner or later.

However, the position of Shaozhan was just a false title, and there was not even a place to work properly. Therefore, he lost his job as the manager of the Ministry of Works, and his rights were greatly reduced.

Fortunately, this is just an excessive amount. After the new emperor ascended the throne, all officials in the Zhanshi Mansion would be rewarded. Jiao Shun did not expect to continue to be promoted. He would be able to transfer a fourth-rank official with real power.

Based on all aspects of intelligence considerations, he believed that he would most likely be assigned to the Tongzhengsi. First, the Tongzhengsi was a melody tube of the imperial branch, which was conducive to his assistance to the young emperor; second, if he wanted to fully deploy the wired telegraph system, he also needed to cooperate with the Tongzhengsi.

However, when it comes to Tongzhengsi, what Jiao Shun values ​​most is public opinion propaganda. After all, no one understands the importance of the public opinion position better than him these days.

These are all later stories.

But on the 17th day of the twelfth lunar month, Jiao Shun was taking stock of important matters that needed to be handed over, such as the preliminary preparations for the Beijing-Xiang Railway, and saw Zhao Yan, the head of the handyman office, bringing his son-in-law Jia Yun to the door.

After a few polite words when they met, Zhao Yan stabbed his son-in-law in the waist with his finger. Jia Yun was forced to speak embarrassedly: "Entertainment Father, everyone outside said that you will be promoted after the New Year. I wonder if it is true?"

"Even if you are not promoted, the position of the head of the Department of Service should be given up."

After Jiao Shun finished speaking, seeing Zhao Yan's frustrated look, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Old Zhao, you don't need such a slut. You have been in charge of the handyman office for almost a year, and everyone still recognizes you very much - that is, your age is not enough, otherwise I would like to recommend you to be the head of the department."

Zhao Yanqiang smiled and said modestly: "Sir, I'm proud. If it weren't for the adults, this position as the chief worker in the handyman office would not have fallen to me."

He was a juren and was appointed as the chief of the handyman office by Jiao Shun, who was a member of the party. Now that Jiao Shun left, he is inevitably a little nervous.

However, Jia Yun didn't care much about this. Although he is now stationed in the Military Administration of the Ministry of Works, his official position is in the Governor's Office of the Five Army.

Therefore, he helped Jiao Shun comfort Zhao Yan: "Don't worry, even if the adoptive father does not serve as the head of the Department of Affairs, the General Office of Engineering and Science is still affiliated with the Ministry of Works. If you look down and see him, the Ministry of Works will always keep a sympathy."

Seeing that they both said this, Zhao Yan could only nod as optimistically as possible and said, "I hope so."

Seeing that he was so depressed that he was not interested, Jia Yun took the initiative to change the topic and said, "I accompanied the people from the Governor's Office of the Five Army to see the Thunder God Train. It was indeed a great power and Lingling. That is, the adoptive father, and others would probably want to break their heads and never think of it!"

"Just a pretty guy."

Jiao Shun waved his hand unconsciously. The so-called Thunder God Train is actually a tank. After he talked loudly in front of the Supreme Emperor, he set up a necklace for the tank when he came back.

In the past six months, the first aircraft finally emerged not long ago.

In fact, to be more precise, this thing should be considered a premature baby, because the engine is not yet mature, and the push ratio is extremely stretched, resulting in the car body being too bulky and slow, and the passing ability is poor, so basically they can only creep on specially laid and compact land.

It is difficult to carry artillery on the car for the time being, and the machine gun has not been developed yet, so it can only be equipped with two tiger squat cannons to fill the storefront. Although it is quite terrifying when spraying iron sand, it is basically just a look that is not useful.

Originally, Jiao Shun didn't plan to take out this thing, but the Ordnance Department couldn't help but make a premature baby with no practical significance. He even asked the Five Army Governor's Office to send someone to check it out.

After all, it is just to get to the KPI at the end of the year.

"You can't say that either."

Jia Yun smiled and said, "At least the prospect is promising. The people in the Governor's Office of the Five Army were completely out of their minds. When they returned, they sighed to me, saying that once this thing was released, they would fight again in the future, but it would be completely different from before."

After following Jiao Shun for so many years, he has experienced it. Now on Rongning Street, it is also the famous Wu Ye of Yun - especially when he gets to power by marrying Jiao Shun's goddaughter, he is a gossip that idle people talk about. However, when they used to say it, they mostly joked, but now they are only envy, jealousy and hatred.

After chatting about the idle articles of the Ministry of Works, Jia Yun suddenly remembered something again and said, "By the way, the Tianjin Navy sent someone to me, hoping that the military representatives of the Tianjin Shipyard could come out of their navy, so that it would be convenient to coordinate in the future."

"Tianmen Navy?"

When Jiao Shun mentioned these four words, he immediately thought of Sun Shaozu and frowned and said, "Can't it be the rogue surnamed Sun again?"

If it weren't for Sun Shaozu, Jia Yun wouldn't have mentioned this matter specifically.

"It's that guy!"

Jia Yun smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't want to pay attention to him at first, but I didn't expect that there was a rumor from the Governor's Office in the Five Army, saying that the Zhongshun Palace had come forward to plead with it, and it was difficult for the superiors to refuse, and it would be suppressed in half a year."

Jiao Shun had known that Sun Shaozu had some connection with the Zhongshun Prince's Mansion, but he did not expect that the Zhongshun Prince would take the initiative to plead for him - you should know that in the past, King Zhongshun had always been a rude to these generals.

Jia Yun said at this time: "It's okay to be a military representative, I'm afraid the royal palace will support that guy elsewhere."

Jiao Shun naturally understood what he was referring to. At the moment, his face was slightly darker, and then he sneered: "What are you afraid of? It's hard for a clean official to make a decision. He is the prince and he is always not good at interfering in other people's family affairs!"

After hearing his confidence, Jia Yun felt much more relieved. Looking at his father-in-law Yi Xingshan, he seemed to have nothing else to say, so he was about to pull Zhao Yan to say goodbye and leave.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Jia Baoyu's tits brother Li Gui suddenly broke in. Seeing that he was wearing mourning on his head, Jiao Shun and Jia Yun subconsciously stood up.

Sure enough, the next moment, Li Gui exclaimed and said sadly: "Sir, our old lady... is dead!"

At the beginning of the month, the old lady was already dying. When to die, it was only a matter of time. Therefore, when I heard that the old lady was gone, neither of them was surprised. Instead, they felt that the boots finally fell to the ground.

But after all, he was an elder, so Jiao Shun still showed a little bit of Qi Rong at the right time and asked again: "Have you ever sent someone to inform me of my family?"

Li Gui kowtowed and said, "It was originally intended to be sent, but the third girl said that the wife was pregnant and was afraid that she would not be frightened, so let us inform the adults first."

Jiao Shun breathed a sigh of relief, took out his pocket watch and looked at Shichen, then said to Jia Yun: "You go there first, I'll go home and change my clothes and then arrive."

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Rongguo Mansion.

That afternoon, Xue Baochai was depressed in the study again as usual.

After reprimanding Jia Rong that day, she sent someone to investigate the matter secretly and found that what Jia Rong said was not false. Baoyu really set up a tablet for Qin Zhong in Tiegan Temple, and he had to recite scriptures and salvation for Qin Zhong every few days.

But what Jia Rong didn't say was that he was the person in charge of this matter!

Thinking that Jia Rong was helping the King and was running to her side with bad intentions, Xue Baochai became more and more disgusted with this person - everyone said that appearance was born from the heart. It was really a shame that a villain like him could have such a look!

Of course, what Xue Baochai couldn't understand even more was what Jia Baoyu did.

She could still understand her entangled with Lin Meimei. After all, she was a childhood sweetheart, but she was like this for a young man who had died for a long time...

The previous eulogy has already made me laughing stock. If this incident spreads again, wouldn’t it be even more ridiculous to the world?!

Thinking of Jia Rong's resentful appearance when she left, Xue Baochai stood up resolutely and ordered: "Go and find out where the master is now."

In order to avoid this incident being spread, Jia Baoyu's absurd behavior must be strangled in the cradle, and Jia Rong must be kept silent.

If it were in the past, in order to avoid making things worse, she would definitely have to go to Mrs. Wang to come forward, but now the relationship between the two aunts and nephews is cold, and even Jia Baoyu has changed from being a treasure to being abandoned. It would be inappropriate to find Mrs. Wang again.

So she was going to just get the matter in front of Jia Zheng, as for what price Jia Baoyu would pay for it...

Humph ~

Isn’t that all he asked for?!

However, after just after the order was over, Ying'er came in panic and reported: "Girl, Yuanyang sent someone to send a message to him, saying that the old lady had died!"

Although he has never been very close to the old lady, when Xue Baochai suddenly heard the news of her death, she still shook her head and sighed, and then she started to suffer difficulties again. It would be inappropriate if Jia Mu had another news of the standing tablet to Jia Zheng when she died.

But this kind of thing is long and dreams, especially when the old lady is having funerals, she will inevitably invite countless relatives and friends to come. Once the news is spread...

Because she was confused, she rushed to the old lady's yard a little later. At that time, most of the people had gathered together, and even the next door Youshi had arrived, and was discussing the funeral with Li Wan and Tanchun around Mrs. Wang.

When Xue Baochai saw Youshi, she immediately had an idea, so she found a reason, called Youshi and Tanchun outside the door, first talked about what Baoyu and Jia Rong did, and said, "I originally wanted to ask my wife to make the decision, but when I met the old lady, I died, so I couldn't let the master and his wife get distracted for this, so I wanted to ask my sister-in-law and her third sister for an idea."

When Tanchun heard that Jia Baoyu had done such a foolish thing again, he pulled off his filial hat and gritted his teeth and said, "Second brother, really... sister, don't worry, I will tell him in a while, let him remove the tablet first!"
Chapter completed!