West of Tianjin, Jiajia.

Jia Lian was carrying a little girl with a pink carving on her shoulder. Jia Lian, who is already twenty years old, still has a face, only a short beard under his nose can be regarded as a trace left by the years on his body.

That's right, it's April of the seventh year of Longzheng, and two full years have passed since the war in northern Xinjiang.

At the beginning, Chen Ke took advantage of the opportunity of Fuquan's killing to disguise and sneak attack the Qing army, and defeated the main force of the Qing army opposite Ningyuan in one fell swoop.

Then, according to the order of the Military Aircraft Pavilion, the main force of the Guanning Army took the opportunity to unite with the Jinling battalion to advance westward, and defeated the Mongolian cavalry that was originally scattered in one fell swoop. Frightened, the Rakshasa people who followed behind hurriedly retreated for hundreds of miles, saying that they had nothing to do with this battle.

The great victory in northern Xinjiang made the prestige of Emperor Longzheng increase rapidly, taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Emperor Longzheng quickly adjusted the military cabinet and cabinet, Han Feng, Xu Jia, Lin Ruhai and a number of important ministers of the imperial party were promoted to Beijing one after another.

Especially Lin Ruhai, Lin Ruhai, who had just entered Shenjing and took up the post of Imperial History of the Right Capital, was promoted again in just over two months, and directly became the first official under the cabinet.

If it weren't for Lin Ruhai's somewhat shallow qualifications, it is estimated that he would have entered the cabinet directly and would have been appointed as an associate minister of the cabinet.

Lin Ruhai's promotion was so abrupt, but neither the officials of the DPRK nor the military raised any objections. Because everyone knows that Lin Ruhai is actually stained with the light of his wife and nephew.

In the Northern Xinjiang War, the young uncle of the Jia family turned the tide in a serious way, and was the key to opening the war situation in Northern Xinjiang.

It was he who solved the treason case led by the Yang family in Jinzhou City. And it will be calculated to break the Manchu Eight Banners. It was precisely because of the quick settlement of Liaodong that the two armies of the Jinling battalion and the main force of the Guanning Army, which were freed up, were used in the other two directions, which broke the strategic balance and achieved a great victory.

However, after the war, the Son of Heaven rewarded meritorious deeds, and a total of three marquises, eight counts, twelve viscounts and twenty-one barons were canonized and promoted. Jia Lian did not receive any reward.

Some imperial historians and officials objected to this, but the bigwigs of the two cabinets did not say anything. And the Rongguo Mansion is not only not despised, but more prosperous.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the reason why the emperor did not reward Jia Lian was not because he despised the Jia family. On the contrary, it is to attach importance to the Jia family and Jia Lian. In other words, it is Jia Lian's holy family Zhenglong.

Otherwise, Emperor Longzheng would not have ended up in person, preferring to withstand the pressure of the imperial court, regardless of the damage to his reputation, and turn a blind eye to Jia Lian's great achievements.

And Lin Ruhai was promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Officials less than two months after taking over as the imperial history of the right capital, which was part of the compensation given by the Son of Heaven to Jia Lian.

At the same time, Chen Youli and Chen Youdao of the Chen family were also promoted, and they were promoted from the positions of Shenjing Yin and Shandong Bu political envoys to the center respectively, although the actual power did not necessarily increase, but there was undoubtedly more room for maneuver.

Of course, the promotion of the Chen brothers is not only because of Jia Lian, but also because of Chen Menglei. After the first assistant Xu Yuan became a minister, Chen Menglei, who was already the second assistant of the cabinet, did not compete for the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, and cooperated with the emperor to let the younger and more energetic Han Feng be directly promoted to the scholar of Wenhua Palace University and become the first assistant of the cabinet.

This made the emperor full of gratitude to the Chen family.

Two years have passed, and in these two years, Emperor Longzheng took advantage of the opportunity of the great victory in northern Xinjiang to expand his power in the court. In one fell swoop, he occupied the majority of the power among the ministers.

With the support of the Emperor Taishang, the other two factions in the court also slowly gained a firm foothold. After a fierce game, the balance was once again formed.

Jia Lian is sometimes glad that he stayed in Tianjin, so that he could stay away from the turmoil in the court without being blocked.

Of course, he himself has had a lot of good news in the past two years. Not long after Jia Lian returned to Tianjin from Liaodong, Ping'er and Liang Ruowei were found to be pregnant.

So in the past two years, Jia Lian has had four children born.

Wang Xifeng gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses in the fifth year of Longzheng. Jia Lian was overjoyed and named his son-in-law Jia Ai, and his daughter-in-law Jia Qiao. Well, it is the name of Jia Lian's children in the original book of Red Mansions.

The second son born to Ping'er, Jia Lian was named Jia Ying, and the second daughter born to Ruowei was named Jia Fei.

When Mother Jia heard that Wang Xifeng was born, she was very happy. specially took Wang Xifeng and the child back to live for a while, but soon sent them back.

Since then, Jia Lian's family has been staying in Tianjin to live their own small life.

"Daddy, daddy, look what Aunt Xue took me to find."

Just as Jia Lian was playing in the garden with her eldest daughter Qiao'er, a little girl with bright eyes and bright teeth walked in with little Jia Ai.

Jia Lian looked at Xue Baochai, who was just over eight years old and showed a situation of calamity to the country and the people, and shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly.

About half a year after Master Xue left Tianjin, Aunt Xue and Xue Pan came to Tianjin. I don't know if Master Xue had a death posthumous will, Aunt Xue neither mentioned the matter of the Xue family's head of the Great Seal, nor did she mention the matter of sending Xue Baochai to Shenjing to prepare for entering the palace.

In this way, the Xue family bought a house near the Jia family manor in Tianjin and settled down.

Jia Lian originally planned to take Xue Pan with him and train him well. When he takes over the Xue family's business in the future, Jia Lian will not live up to the trust of Master Xue on his deathbed.

If it was just Xue Pan being lazy, Jia Lian would not feel embarrassed. He has a way to clean up like this, not to mention anything else, as long as Xue Pan is thrown into the camp of the Beizhen Mansion Division, Jia Lian can also refine him into steel.

But if Aunt Xue came forward, it would be different, Jia Lian had just cleaned up Xue Pan a few times. Aunt Xue came to the door to cry and wipe her tears, and said that Xue Pan was still young.

This makes Jia Lian angry, there is no way to do it. Aunt Xue is Wang Xifeng's serious aunt, Jia Lian can't beat or scold, so she can only do this first.

However, Xue Baochai often goes in and out of the backyard of Jia's house, and gets along well with Jia Lian's wives and concubines and children.

Especially Jia Ai, I like this Aunt Xue very much.

Jia Qiao, who was on his shoulder, couldn't sit still when he saw his brother coming. I scurried down and played with my brother.

Seeing Xue Baochai leave with the child, Jia Lian was a little depressed. Jia Lian understood what this treasure girl thought at the beginning, that is, she planned to use Jia Lian to take charge of the family business, and Jia Lian also felt that it would be okay if Xue Pan was really unbearable to hand it over to her.

After all, they are all descendants of the Xue family, and they are not entrusted with anything.

But what the hell is this now, seeing the little girl with affection in her eyes, Jia Lian is a little unbearable. And it seems that Xue Baochai has already captured his own home. Even the most thoughtful Wang Xifeng regards her as a member of the family, and I leave this position to Sister Lin.

Jia Lian let out a helpless "sad cry" in his heart.