Chapter 77 From the sixth rank, deputy general flag

Yang Qingchen smiled and said, "Okay, you don't have to be polite. Without your trick, they wouldn't have found a reason to suppress Dongchang."

"Your performance is very outstanding this time, and the Jinyiwei also has a great advantage in this court struggle. The governor has decided to promote you to the position of deputy general banner, starting from the sixth rank, with a monthly salary of forty taels."

With that said, Yang Qingchen took out an appointment letter and handed it to Ji Chen.

Ji Chen:???

Vice President Flag?

From the sixth grade?

He was a little confused. From the sixth rank of deputy general banner, this was already a very big official position.

Ever since the incident in the court came out, Ji Chen knew that he would be rewarded. He thought he would be rewarded with some money, but he never expected that he would be directly promoted.

After all, his position has been promoted quickly enough.

In just a few months since he came to Qixia Town, he was promoted from the seventh level to the sixth level.

In just a short time, he was promoted to three levels in a row. Strictly speaking, he was promoted to more than three levels in a row.

At this moment, Ji Chen's thoughts were flowing rapidly, and his whole brain was running at high speed. Soon, he clarified the key points.

I have passed the assessment and review of Jin Yiwei.

From the change in Yang Qingchen's personality and attitude, he could feel that he had truly become a member of Jinyiwei and they accepted him.

Generally speaking, if you don't have connections or background in Jinyiwei, you have to start as an agent first, and you should start as a ninth-grade agent.

When you have enough qualifications or merit, you can then raise the small flag, which is the ninth rank.

Most people are done with it when they reach the small flag. The most they can do is to gain qualifications, accumulate merits, and improve their grades, from the eighth grade to the full eighth grade.

Xiaoqi, who is at the eighth level, has basically reached its peak.

Unless he has great merit, he will be promoted to deputy flag officer, starting from the seventh rank.

And as soon as Ji Chen took office, he was promoted to acting flag officer from the seventh rank. It can be said that he rose to the top in one step, and he was still a person without any connections or background.

Upgrading five levels in a row and reaching the sky in one step is unique and very abnormal.

When something goes wrong, there must be a monster, Ji Chen deeply understands this.

Is it possible for a person with no connection or background to directly upgrade you to five levels in a row?

There is only one reason for you to die, and it is a worthy death.

From the moment he became the acting flag officer of Seven Heroes Town, he knew that Jinyiwei did not accept it. He was just a chess piece used to break the deadlock in Seven Heroes Town.

A chess piece meant for sacrifice.

The reason is still related to the chaos in Qixia Town. Even the last flag officer was killed on the street, which shows how deep the water in Qixia Town is.

At first, it was not that the commander-in-chief Yang Qingchen and the governor Chen Chong did not have the plan that Ji Chen would also die on the streets.

After all, with Ji Chen's reckless character, it is very possible for him to die on the streets.

In addition, the capital police were about to come, so he was given the right step and was given a deputy flag officer from the seventh rank.

If a seventh-grade flag official died on the street within a few days of taking office, they had enough reason to use the Beijing Police as an excuse to take action and clean up the situation in Qixia Town in a drastic way.

This is also the reason why Yang Qingchen assigned Ji Chen a task as soon as he took office, and Jingcha had previously taken care of Qixia Town.

In order to push Ji Chen and all the factions in Qixia Town to a dead end, they would attack them all in one fell swoop.

Who would have thought that Ji Chen's fierce horse would suddenly find a way out and turn the road of death into a way of life.

In addition, there were a series of things that followed, including killing hundreds of Xingchang households and thousands of Xingchang households in Dongchang, exterminating the Green Forest horse bandits, and joining the Wei Governor of Dongchang.

This chain of plans allowed them to see Ji Chen's abilities and methods, and then they officially accepted Ji Chen as one of their own.

Seemingly reading Ji Chen's thoughts, Yang Qingchen explained: "This is a necessary process. If a person wants to get enough protection, he must show enough value."

"Understood!" Ji Chen nodded. He agreed with this point. No one was willing to pay a high price to protect a loser.

It would be the same if it were him.

Mediocre officials are sometimes more harmful than corrupt officials.

Ji Chen then added: "In total, I have been promoted to seven levels in a row. Will anyone be dissatisfied?"

In a few months, he went from being a useless monk to becoming the vice-general flag of the sixth rank of Jinyiwei, and was promoted to seven levels in a row. This was unreasonable, and he was afraid that someone would hold on to this matter.

"Who dares to disobey?" Yang Qingchen said domineeringly.

"Jinyiwei is different from other organizations. Jinyiwei rewards based on merit. Rewards for merit and punishment for mistakes. This is the promotion system of our Jinyiwei. No one dares to disobey. If not, he will be killed. He will continue to kill until he is satisfied."

'Domineering, this is very Jin Yiwei!' Ji Chen said in his heart.

Immediately, Yang Qingchen took out five more silver notes with a face value of one hundred taels.

"This is the reward given to you by the governor!"

Ji Chen was a little surprised, five hundred taels, this reward was more than his annual salary.

According to his current monthly salary of 40 taels, it is only 480 taels a year.

"This is too much!"

"Haha!" Yang Qingchen smiled heartily and said, "Take it! You deserve this. Jin Yiwei will never treat his own people badly, especially his hard-working brothers. Only this thing is the best motivation."

"In this case, I would be disrespectful!" Ji Chen picked up the banknotes on the table and put them into his arms.

After chatting for a while, Yang Qingchen put away his expression and said seriously: "I am here this time to give you a task."

"Sir, please speak!"

"Didn't you annihilate a martial arts alliance before? What the governor wants is to let you re-establish a martial arts alliance before Beimang retreats and while your prestige is still there, and support an alliance leader.

The Mobei Wulin is under control."

"Beimang is going to retreat?"

Ji Chen was a little surprised. He had heard Zhao Guangrong say before that the crisis in Beimang was about to be resolved. Now Yang Qingchen also said that Beimang would withdraw its troops. It seemed that the court was about to make a big move.

Yang Qingchen said: "Now that the Minister of War has come out, the first thing he should do is to clean up Beimang. He will use troops against Beimang at the beginning of the new year at the latest, and then he will intervene in the affairs of the court."

Ji Chen's thoughts began to spin and he quickly analyzed the important clues. The Minister of War was arrested by Dongchang on suspicion of colluding with Beimang.

And Dongchang does have this right. After all, Dongchang has the responsibility to supervise all officials. In this regard, it even has greater rights than Jinyiwei.

The Jin Yiwei monitors the world, mainly targeting Jianghu, and also supervises hundreds of officials. There will be a conflict between this and Dongchang, mutual checks and balances, and supervision. This is the art of emperors.

The five parties in the court are the most terrifying imperial art. Since party fighting cannot be avoided, then several more parties should be established to carry out their own responsibilities and check and balance each other. Even if the emperor falls, the court can still operate normally with the support of the five parties.

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The Minister of the Ministry of War was imprisoned for colluding with Beimang. After he was released from prison, the first thing he did was not to target Dongchang, but Beimang. Does this mean that Dongchang most likely colluded with Beimang? The Minister of the Ministry of War could not find evidence because he could not find any evidence.

That's why we pointed our finger at Beimang, trying to find a breakthrough in Beimang.

Of course, this was just Ji Chen's guess, because Zhao Guangrong once told him that someone in the court did collude with Beimang, but he didn't know who that person was for the time being.

In addition, the governor now asked him to take control of the Mobei martial arts forest. Ji Chen quickly concluded that something was going to happen in the court, and it was probably related to the use of troops by the Minister of War.

Combined with Zhao Guangrong's identity, Ji Chen quickly understood that it was not that the Minister of War did not take sides, but that he planned to form his own faction, and he supported Zhao Guangrong.

The situation is complicated!

The time soon reached noon.

"Let's go, brother, I'm the host. I've been here several times and I don't have time to treat you. I must treat you today. Give me a chance."

At Longmen Inn, Li Dazui cooks himself.

As expected, our ancestors once had royal chefs, and their craftsmanship is definitely not impeccable.

Ji Chen once wanted to recruit Li Dazui to Jinyiwei and become Jinyiwei's cook, but he was severely rejected by shopkeeper Tong.

We have already poached Xiao Guoguo, Bai Zhantang, and the scholar.

Fortunately, these three people can be recruited, including a waiter, a handyman, and an accounting clerk.

If Li Dazui is poached again, her inn will really have to go out of business. After all, Li Dazui is a signature.

The meal cost one or two and a half silver. It was not too expensive, but it was not cheap either.

When Yang Qingchen left, he took away sixty-nine dragon-blood horses, leaving only ten for Ji Chen. This made Ji Chen feel very distressed.

After all, I managed to capture it with great difficulty.

But you didn't refuse the reason given by them. Seventy-nine dragon-blooded horses, Qixia Town Jinyiweifu Yamen couldn't afford to raise them.

Ji Chen was speechless. During this period, he was almost going crazy raising horses. Then they were not horses at all, but gold-swallowing beasts. The money he spent every day made his body ache. He was ready to sell some horses.

Yang Qingchen took away sixty-nine horses and left ten for Ji Chen, and promised to allocate fifty taels of silver every month for horse maintenance.

Ten horses and fifty taels of silver show how expensive it is to raise these dragon blood horses.

A horse costs an average of five taels of silver a month, which is more expensive than raising a calf in the previous life.

A Maverick costs less than five thousand a month.
To be continued...