What Zhao Mo brought was really good news.

Knowing that his father Qin Ping would be transferred back to the capital soon, and there was no need to wait until next year, Qin Han was really surprised and delighted.

However, in addition to the surprise, she was also a little unhappy: "Since my father has made meritorious contributions, why should he be demoted? Even if the official position in the capital is higher than that of the local officials of the same rank, he can be transferred to the capital evenly." Now it's as if my father made a mistake, and I really feel sorry for him. ”

Zhao Mo paused, a little embarrassed: "Is this...... I saw that there were just two good positions vacant in the city guard, and the position of the suppressor from Wupin was just right for Uncle Ping, so I secretly promoted it. If there is a suitable official position of the fifth rank or the fourth rank, I will not place Uncle Ping Cousin in the city guard. ”

Qin Hanzhen asked him: "Isn't there still a position of commander of the fourth grade? Although it is two levels higher than my father's current rank, after all, he has made meritorious contributions, and it is not a big deal to be promoted exceptionally, right?"

Regarding this point, Zhao Mo also considered it. He explained to Qin Hanzhen the fact that the position of commander had long been in charge, and mentioned the situation of several famous families in the capital now: "In the past, the Ma family only had General Ma Lao in Beijing, and General Ma Lao was notoriously untidy and only bored to run errands, so he was not publicized in Beijing. But now that his nephew has been transferred back to Beijing and joined the camp in western Beijing, he has also brought many henchmen and generals, and the weight of the Ma family in Beijing is a little different. In addition, there are the Cai family and the Min family. Huang Jincheng is about to be transferred back to Beijing, his grade is high, and the Huang family behind him should not be underestimated. ”

The emperor is not young, and the prince's health has improved, and it is obvious that the emperor has plans to build momentum for the prince and prepare for the future transition of power.

The crown princess's cousin, although he did not succeed in entering the city guard, also got a good messenger in the forbidden army.

The Huang family has always been a die-hard supporter behind the prince, and Huang Jincheng is a cousin who is on good terms with the prince, and a leader in the younger generation of the Huang family. He has been promoted rapidly in recent years, although he has the credit of saving the prince, and the Huang family has helped him in Beijing, but his ability is also quite outstanding. Now, he is about to be transferred back to Beijing to take up a post, and the military attache of the second rank will never be a small person who can be ignored. When he returns to the capital, sooner or later he will set foot in a high position with actual military power, thus breaking the original balance of power of the generals in the capital.

The Ma family returned to the capital and became the successor and arm of General Ma, and directly grasped the power of the camp in western Beijing, and through the rectification of the army, all the subordinates who worked with him were eliminated, and the whole battalion was completely subdued.

The Marquis of Yunyang has always been a powerful person in the army, and he, the Cai family behind him, and the Min family of the alliance and several other generals will not be willing to be squeezed by other forces, and they are also trying to stabilize the power of their own side.

In fact, the emperor originally transferred General Ma into Beijing in order to balance the Su family of the Xihou Mansion in Zhenxi. Unexpectedly, the Su family knelt fast, and it was no longer a climate. Su Boxiong, the son of the Hou of Zhenxi, was actually doing a good job in Shudi, but even so, he was just atoning for his father. If you really want to bring the Su family back to its former glorious status, I'm afraid it will be difficult. The Su family is no longer a threat, but the Ma family has risen in power. Coupled with the emperor's intention to promote the military power on the side of the prince, the power structure of the military in the capital will change so much.

It's hard to say whether such a change will bring bad results. But after the decline of the Zhenxi Hou Mansion, the remaining Jiangmen families are basically loyal to the monarch, but they have their own positions in private, and they have no bad intentions. Even if there is a little confusion, it should not hinder the overall situation. It is only in this sensitive period that some official transfers need to be handled carefully, so as not to accidentally step on the thunder.

Zhao Mo said to Qin Hanzhen: "The position of the city guard who is the commander of the fourth rank is reserved by the Ma family for an old general of his own family. This old general is the cousin of General Ma, and he is almost old age, and it is estimated that this is his last official position. I have heard that he has been guarding the town of Yulin for many years, and I know your father. Back then, your father was almost taken to Datong, but he proposed that your uncle be able to successfully promote on behalf of his brother, and he also asked him to help intercede. It is said that he once joked in front of people, saying that if you had a daughter, you would hire your father as a son-in-law. Your father is his old subordinate, and if you return to work under him, you will surely get along. ”

The so-called words about recruiting Qin Ping as a son-in-law are of course just joking. The old general does have a daughter, but he is more than ten years older than Qin Ping, and he is almost ready to be his mother. However, the old general's only son died at an early age, and his old wife was too sad to follow, and he had no intention of remarrying, and now he lives with the family, and he is counting on his nephews for his retirement. The position of the city guard in command of the affairs is the filial piety of the nephews and nephews to him, who is old and not as good as before, but still refuses to rest, thinking that he has something to do in this position, and does not have to work too hard, only patrols the city every day, goes home on time, has three meals regularly, and after the expiration of three years, he can retire to old age.

The Ma family has such a plan, how can Qin Ping rob it? After all, he was his former superior, and he still has to read a little incense. Otherwise, Qin Ping will not only directly offend the Ma family, who has always been good friends with his family, but also leave a ruthless and unrighteous negative image to the other bigwigs in the army, which will not be beneficial to his future development.

Qin Han really understood: "I see, then you really shouldn't rob it." When my father comes back and works under the old general, he should get along well with him, and everyone can worry about it. ”

Zhao Mo smiled slightly: "According to Uncle Ping's temperament, he will definitely have a lot of respect for this old general, so that the connections on the Ma family's side can belong to Uncle Ping." It was not because he gave up the opportunity for promotion to his younger brother Qin An that he almost broke off his relationship with the Ma family. Obviously, he has been guarding Yulin Town for many years, and he almost lost his life, but he couldn't get the help of his boss, and he cheapened his younger brother.

Zhao Mo still had an idea, but he didn't tell Qin Hanzhen. That is, since the veteran of the Ma family has no children and is optimistic about Qin Ping, a junior subordinate, then as long as Qin Ping gets along well with the other party in the next three years, it will be logical to get the recommendation of the other party after three years and succeed the other party as the commander. At that time, Qin Ping had already obtained the official position of General Xuanwu from the fourth grade, although it was a false title, the rank was real, and he was officially promoted to the fourth rank, and he had the original boss as a guarantee, and with the support of the Ma family behind him, at least eighty percent of them might succeed.

At that time, the Cai family and the Min family were Qin Ping's in-laws; Huang Jincheng of the Huang family had a good relationship with the Yongjiahou Mansion; and the crown princess would not go against the prince's uncle and cousin. If there is no accident, the success rate can almost reach nine out of nine, and no one will oppose Qin Ping's promotion at all.

Qin Ping is indeed demoted and returned to Beijing now, and he has been wronged a little. But after three years, if he can be successfully promoted to the fourth grade, in terms of time, it is the same as when he takes up a position in the local government, gradually rises from the fourth grade, and then rises to the fourth rank after three years, and the speed is the same. Moreover, the rank of the military attache in Beijing is higher than that of the military attache of the same rank in the local area. That's a small advantage.

Qin Hanzhen tilted his head and looked at Zhao Mo: "In this way, my father was demoted and returned to Beijing this time, which is not a loss?"

Zhao Mo smiled: "Of course I won't suffer." Can I still make my father-in-law suffer? If it weren't for the complicated situation in Beijing now, where competing with others for those relatively high positions is prone to conflict with several famous families in the military, I would not have made this decision to let Uncle Pingbiao take a step back in exchange for the favor of several famous families in the army. Actually, it would be nice if Uncle Ping's contribution to this return was greater, and it would be more logical to be promoted by skipping the ranks......"

Qin Hanzhen interrupted him: "Why is my father's credit not great? What he has done can really be remembered for a hundred years!"

What Qin Ping did was to ban smoking and sell cigarettes!

You must know how panicked she was when she saw a Western merchant ship carrying opium in Guangzhou. She had long forgotten what she had learned in history class, and she didn't remember that the opium trade had started so early. Fortunately, at this time, there were not many merchants engaged in the opium business, only a few British merchants participated, and the goods did not flow into the country in large quantities, and the people had not yet formed a trend, but there were already many addicts. She decisively asked Li Zi to collect relevant information, personally wrote an investigation report, and tried her best to make the consequences as serious, and then arranged for the soldiers who were destitute because of their family's smoking to run to her father to cry, and then sent her own report, pestering her father to persuade him for three days, and finally persuaded him to unite with the local government to jointly take an anti-smoking action.

It's a pity that his grandfather and grandmother have set a date for leaving Guangzhou, and Qin Hanzhen can't wait for a result of the ban on smoking, so he has to return north. She specially left Li Zi as an assistant by her father's side, just to make sure that this matter would not go over. Now that things are going well, and the Guangzhou government has also clearly ordered a ban on smoking, when she learned the news, she was so excited that she almost couldn't sleep! However, because opium had not yet spread in large quantities in China at this time, many people did not know the harm, nor did they know that it was something that brought disaster to the country and the people, so that the credit of her father Qin Ping was despised by many people, and even Zhao Mo was no exception.

Qin Hanzhen secretly sulked, but he couldn't tell Zhao Mo about history, so he could only say angrily: "You don't know anything at all!"

Zhao Mo looked at her helplessly: "Okay, okay, Uncle Ping has indeed made a great contribution." Even the emperor praised him. ”

Qin Hanzhen glared at him: "Anyway, you have to remember that the kind of thing called opium, some people call it big smoke, and some people call it Fushou ointment, can bring disaster to the country and the people! Don't believe those foolish people who say that it is good for the body, as long as you hear and see a little bit, you must quickly stay away, destroy it if you can, and don't let it poison the people! This thing will destroy the health of the people, weaken the people, destroy the land and not grow food, and the army becomes vulnerable, and the foreign merchants who sell it to the country just want to make money!" Because our domestic tea, porcelain, silk, and so on are very popular in the West, and they sell too well, but they don't have enough goods to sell to us and make money from our country. In order to make up for the trade deficit, they will deliberately import such harmful things and want our people to become addicted, so that they can only pay tribute to them with white flowers and silver, but they will forget all the etiquette and morality! If someone recommends this kind of thing to you, no matter who the other party is, you must strictly reject it, and you must never fall for them! As long as this thing is stained, this life will be ruined! I am telling you this very seriously, and you must remember it!"

Zhao Mo was stunned, surprised by Qin Hanzhen's seriousness at this time. He sensed the seriousness of this matter, and Zhengse nodded: "Don't worry, cousin, I will remember." ”