The reef was hesitant.

He can understand the hard work of his grandfather and grandmother, and he doesn't want to do anything that worries the second elder, but if he wants to improve his status as soon as possible, he has to go to the battlefield to make military achievements. In the frontier, there is no faster way to ascend than this. Becoming a clerk, doing daily accounting, clerical work and other work, he can only slowly boil up his qualifications, God knows how many years it will take to have a decent enough identity to be sure to help Miss Benefactor?

He can only give himself four years at most. After four years, Miss Benefactor will suffer. Even if he can have high-ranking officials in the future, he will not be able to make up for this regret!

The reef was entangled, but Begonia felt that he was thinking too much.

She said: "Grandpa and grandma hope that you are safe and sound, and it is also for your sake. I also hope that my brother can live a long and safe life, and not leave early like my father and mother. Even if you are a civilian in the border army, it doesn't mean that you don't have the opportunity to make military merits, so why limit yourself too much? ”

Haijiao looked up at her: "If I do some errands in the border army to take accounts and draft documents, where will I have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield?" Not to mention elevation! I'm not very old now, so I don't have much time to ......."

Haitang interrupted him: "Who said that you must go to the battlefield to kill the enemy in order to make military merits?" The third prince of the Hu people who was just caught, and those spies, don't you have your credit? If you don't go to war, you can still catch spies and listen to information. As long as you can remember the experience of your previous life, and put on an excuse that sounds reasonable, you can win the trust of the generals. With real credit, can they still leak you over when you are rewarded for meritorious deeds just because you are a civil servant? ”

Hai Jiao paused, and his expression softened: "That's right...... It's just that when I worked as a clerical worker, I was buried in the yamen all day long, and I didn't have the time to run out, so I was afraid that if I said that I had found a spy, others would not believe it. ”

"It's up to you to make excuses to gain people's trust." Begonia smiled, "We can study this kind of thing slowly, now let's consider another more important thing first." ”

Hai Jiao was puzzled: "What could be more important than this?" ”

Of course there is.

Haitang approached the little brother and lowered his voice: "Didn't you hear it?" In order to allow you to successfully join the army as a civilian, Grandpa has decided to stay in Suzhou City for two or three more years. In order to make him agree to return to the guard, General Gu also used the promotion to persuade him. According to the plan that grandpa told grandma, he planned to rise to the sixth rank before becoming a scholar. As for whether it is from the sixth grade or the sixth grade, it depends on luck. With his grandfather's qualifications, as well as his connections and achievements in the border army now, he feels that it is no problem to do this. Brother, don't you think that grandpa is promoted faster than you? Instead of expecting your brother to officially join the army in the future, and then find opportunities to make meritorious contributions and slowly climb up, wouldn't it be more convenient to help grandpa rise to the top? ”

Haixi Cliff has no shortage of qualifications and connections, in the past, because he wanted to protect Xie Wenzai and others, he deliberately kept a low profile, and even if he had the opportunity to be promoted, he would rather let it go, so he only stayed in the position of Zhengbapin after 30 years in the army. But General Wednesday and General Gu obviously thought that he deserved better treatment, and did not hesitate to promise him a promotion. If Haixi Cliff could have reached the rank of the sixth rank or the sixth rank in three years, then if Haijiao helped him find an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, how far would he be able to ascend?

Wouldn't it be easier for Hai Xiya to become an official of the fifth rank or above, and Haijiao to rely on his grandfather's official status than for him to rise to the same rank in just four years? Even if it's a fox and a fake tiger, as long as it can achieve its goal, it's no problem.

Hai Jiao quickly understood the meaning of his sister's words, and his eyes couldn't help but light up, but he quickly thought of the point: "Grandpa's martial arts are rare...... I can do those opportunities for meritorious service, but my grandfather may not be able to do it. ”

Begonia asked him, "Can you give me an example?" If it is a merit such as catching a spy or something, as long as you tell your grandfather the news of the discovery of the spy and ask him to report it to the generals, just like this time you caught the spies of the Hu people, won't grandpa be able to make meritorious contributions? ”

Reef sighed. Where in the world are there so many spies to catch? In his previous life, he worked as a horse slave in a merchant horse farm surnamed Sun for three years before fleeing back to Suzhou. He can be said to have a limited understanding of what happened in Suzhou City in those three years, and he completely relied on what he heard from other people's hearsay during the period of doing odd jobs to earn travel expenses three years later, and even the time of the specific incident could not be guaranteed, so how could he easily rely on this meritorious service?

The only piece of news he can remember about the spy is that in the summer of next year, the Hu people planted a few eyes and ears in the city, one of which was accidentally broken by someone and killed several people in an attempt to escape, and the people of Suzhou Wei chased them until they were outside the city before killing them.

He knew the son of one of the deceased in his previous life, and it is said that the other party once passed by the murderer who had just finished the murder and escaped with a life, and he always regretted that he failed to discover the true face of his father's murderer in time and missed the opportunity to take revenge with his own hands.

Haijiao knew what day and where the murder occurred, and also knew the identity of the murderer when he was lurking, and now when he ran back and forth on the street of the Bell and Drum Tower every morning, he didn't pay much attention to the movement of that house, just waiting for the Hu people to move in. When the time comes, he is very sure whether he finds a reason to arrest someone in advance, or pretends to catch the murderer by accident. He was quite confident in his martial arts and felt that he could do it. But if it was Haixi Cliff, who was usually martial arts and was old, he had no confidence.

I'm afraid that Haixi Cliff will not be able to subdue the murderer, but will be victimized by the murderer and become a member of the victims.

But if the murderer is not subdued, just providing clues to Suzhou Wei's people and letting others arrest the criminal, even if Haixiya can get a share of the credit afterwards, it may not be enough for him to be promoted. Thinking about Haijiao, I can't help but feel that it is not cost-effective to give up this good opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

Haitang frowned slightly when he heard this: "It makes sense for my brother to think so." Such a little credit is really not enough, or should we let grandpa directly report that the murderer was a spy planted by the Hu people, and don't wait for the murder to happen? It's also a lot of credit to be able to find a spy, and you don't have to give up the bulk of the credit. Are there any other opportunities to make meritorious contributions? It's okay not to catch spies. ”

Haijiao thought for a while: "There is also a river and ocean thief who fled to Suzhou......

This gang of Jiangyang thieves once robbed the treasury silver, killed officers and soldiers, and disappeared without a trace after fleeing with the money. There are their sea fishing documents everywhere in the country, but no one knows that they have fled to the border city, and they disguised themselves as ordinary people and opened shops. In the Mid-Autumn Festival next year, one of the thieves from Suzhou accidentally felt homesick and went to the only shortbread shop in the city opened by Suzhou people to buy cakes, but was recognized. He killed the shopkeeper and customers present on the spot, escaped from the door, and was slashed by a hundred households passing by. When his accomplices were arrested, the government found out that they were the Jiangyang thieves who had been wanted.

Hai Jiao knew the exact time of the murder, and he only needed to find this group of people in advance, and the government would know their details as soon as he compared the sea fishing documents, and he didn't have to make any effort to get the credit.

However, just like the previous situation of catching spies, what he could do, Haixiya may not be able to do, and the latter has no reason to pay attention to the sea fishing documents in Ganzhou, and may also wonder how Sun Tzu knew the news. Haixiya may have a way to win the trust of Suzhou Wei, but Haijiao is not sure that he can win the trust of his grandfather.

Haijiao looked at Haitang and smiled bitterly: "When I think about it like this, I feel ...... Instead of convincing my grandfather to do these things, I might as well do it myself. ”