The letters that Han Xiufeng asked Yu Youfu to send back were mainly to report safety. The Taiping bandits invaded Jiangning and even Yangzhou were just a matter of just taking over. As for the more than 10,000 taels of silver remitted, it was the income from the price sale of the salt seized by the anti-smugglers, and the family was kept for 1,000 taels of money, and for the parents who were far away in Zouma, each of the three brothers was 100 taels. It was not that they were reluctant to give more, but that the country people had never seen so much money, and giving too much would cause problems.

Duan Jiqing looked up at Guan Bantou and then said, "Lao Guan, Zhixing not only did not forget you, but also those uncles in the yamen who had taken care of him before. He asked him to take out the silver and get you 1,500 taels. Five hundred taels are yours. The remaining 1,000 taels are to help you divide the remaining 1,000 taels, saying that he has a account there."

Zhuzi couldn't help but smile and said, "It was just that before the fourth brother went to Beijing to invest in the capital, everyone helped to collect the money."

"If you don't say it, I almost can't remember it. It seems that there is a account, and it seems that Wang Jingcheng helped me remember it." Guan Bantuo thought about it and sighed: "Siwazi is really. He is so busy with official business and is so far away from home. He still remembers us in his heart. Seeing so many babies growing up over the years, he counts Siwazi's most promising!"

"This is a drop of water that should be repaid with a spring of water." Duan Jiqing smiled and continued, "Zhuzi, your fourth brother has never forgotten you, but the money will not be given to you. He said in the letter, "I will help you build a small courtyard and ask your sister-in-law to buy a dowry for your youngest sister. After getting married, don't live next to the coffin shop, change the place and set up a new home."

"Thank you Duan Jingcheng." Zhuzi grinned.

"No need to thank me. If you want to thank me, thank you fourth brother, thank you sister-in-law."

"Yes, yes, you're always right, thank you sister-in-law."

"Okay, okay, why are you doing this alone?" Qin'er smiled and looked at Duan Jiqing with her baby in her arms.

"How can I spend the remaining silver? Zhixing also said in the letter," Duan Jiqing took a sip of tea and held the letter again, "Zhixing said that the yard is too small now, so if you have the right one, you can change it. If you change to a larger house, you will have to spend the money left, so you can go to Jiangbei to buy dozens of acres of land."

Qin'er asked with a bitter face: "Dad, this yard is pretty good and not small, why do you need to change it?"

"If I had put it in the past, I naturally didn't have to change it, but now it's not as good as before. It's really not possible to change a larger house."

"Why isn't it better than before?"

Duan Jiqing looked back at Yu Youfu, then looked at his daughter and smiled, "Qin'er, there is something I haven't told you. I don't tell you, because I'm afraid you're worried, and the other is that the court's official documents have not arrived yet, and the city has been stormy and stormy before the official documents have arrived."

Qin'er asked anxiously: "What the hell is it?"

"Zhixing has been promoted," Duan Jiqing turned around and looked at Yu Youfu and Zhang Shiheng and said, "Yufu, shortly after you, Young Master Shiheng and Ambassador Han and his family set off from Yangzhou, the Taiping bandits captured Jiangning and planned to divide their troops to invade Yangzhou. Taizhou seemed not far from Yangzhou, and I didn't know if there was no one under Taizhou Zhengtang, so I asked Zhixing to donate a sixth-rank top belt and recommended Zhixing to act as a deputy to the state."

"What happened later?" Zhang Shiheng asked anxiously.

"Later, the Taiping bandits really occupied Yangzhou, Zhixing led a thousand townsmen to a place called Wanfuqiao to block it. Not only did they block the bandits, but they also killed more than 400 bandits. This was a great victory! When the emperor was happy, the imperial envoy Zhixing was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Transport Department when he was happy. "

Qin'er was frightened and couldn't help asking: "Dad, so the fourth brother is leading the army to fight now?"

"I have led the troops to fight, but it was the one in Wanfuqiao. Now I am a fifth-rank salt official, so there is no need for him to lead the troops to fight." Duan Jiqing was most happy when his son-in-law was promoted and wealthy. Thinking about it, he put down his letter and smiled: "The deputy of the Lianghuai Transportation Bureau is the most fat in the world. If he can be a fifth-rank salt official for three or five years, he can earn at least 30,000 taels!"

When Siwazi set out from Hai'an, she was still a ninth-grade patrol inspector. Unexpectedly, just two months have passed, Siwazi has already become a fifth-grade deputy. Yu Youfu felt like he was dreaming and asked skeptically: "Duan Jingcheng, how do you know these things?"

"Isn't Yangzhou occupied by bandits? The Yangzhou branch of 'Risenchang' naturally cannot be opened again. The shopkeeper of the general account didn't know where he heard that a clerk in the Beijing branch had a friendship with Zhixing, so he sent that clerk to Taizhou to set up a clerk. The clerk naturally had to visit the guild hall before leaving from Beijing."

"I know this, it must be Xiao Wuzi."

"Anyway, no matter how wealthy he is in Rishengchang, if he wants to go to Taizhou to do foreign exchange transactions, he has to ask Zhixing for care. So whenever there is news about Aisheng, the Beijing branch will tell us the Ba County branch and let the shopkeeper of Ba County branch tell me." Duan Jiqing paused and smiled and said, "In the past half month, I have received two news. One is that Zhixing has become a member of Shangzhou and led a thousand townsmen to win a great victory. The other is that the emperor is grateful to Guo Peilin, the salt transport envoy of Lianghuai, and the news that the emperor is granted the news that Zhixing is from the fifth-rank top belt and specially awarded Zhixing the deputy of Lianghuai.

Guan Banting knew the inside story, and had been helping inquire these days, and couldn't help but add: "Zhixing was promoted to the position of a juren as a Jinshi. The court will issue a document to our Sichuan Taiwan Producer, the Taiwan Producer will give the Dao Office, the Dao Office will give the government office, and the government office will transfer it to our Ba County County Office, and the county magistrate will register."

"What registration?" Qin'er asked curiously.

"We need to indicate the current rank of the official position in the household registration list of the household house and what position the official position is. If we don't give a document to the county government, the county magistrate will not know these. If we meet my dogdan in the future, how can we treat him with courtesy?"

"My baby is still young!"

"I'm just giving an example. Let's put it this way. Once the court's official documents arrive, this family is a serious family of officials! Zhixing's father is far away in the countryside of Zouma. My father-in-law is the only one in the city. Duan Jiqing can be the leader of this family. Although he is not a gentry, he is at least a gentry. Even if he goes to the government office, he has to give me some face, let alone go to the county office!"

Qin'er never thought that his father had become a high-ranking official. She was happy, but Duan Jiqing and others were not happy, and asked absent-mindedly: "Have the court's official documents arrived?"

"It's a coincidence that you arrived in the morning, just like Youfu and Young Master Zhang." Duan Jiqing put down the letter and held the teacup and said, "The Dao Bureau that arrived in the morning will be able to arrive at the county government office tomorrow afternoon at the latest. But we can't wait until tomorrow, and the yard will have to be cleaned today."

"What are you doing in tidying up the yard and asking someone to have a drink?" Qin'er asked in a low voice.

"I won't invite you this time," Duan Jiqing waved his hand and smiled proudly: "In the past, Zhixing was a small official, and if you want to be proud, you can only ask those juren to save your face. Now it's different. Zhixing is such a high official, so we don't need to curry favor with those juren anymore. Only those juren can curry favor with us."

"Then you still have to clean up the yard."

"When the court documents arrive at the county government office, the county magistrate will come to the door to congratulate him."

Duan Xu only knew that his son-in-law had been promoted, and he didn't know how old the official was. He couldn't help asking: "The county magistrate wants to come to the door in person. So, Goudan's father's official position is bigger than the county magistrate?"

"This is naturally. Do you know that Zhixing's current officials are about the same size as the Tongzhi Master. Moreover, Zhixing's top belt is granted by the emperor and his official position is given by the emperor. This is a great grace and a great glory! Not to mention our Chongqing Prefecture, even the entire Dongchuan Road, there are not many in Sichuan!"

Thinking of the man who was thinking about day and night, Qin'er thought to herself and became a high-ranking official, "Dad, I want to take Goudan to take her horse."

Duan Jiqing was stunned and immediately reacted: "Yes, yes, yes, it's time to go to Zoumagang. Zhixing couldn't come back from his busy official documents. Who would help us do this matter of Guangzong and Zuzu? But we have to wait a few days, and wait for my father to finish the work in front of you to send you two mothers."

"I miss my mother too, and I miss home too." The youngest girl blurted out.

"I want to go there!" Guan Bantou stood up and smiled, "Duan Jingcheng, you guess you can leave one day. I will go to the yamen to take a leave."

In Duan Jiqing's eyes, Zhang Shiheng was not only a young young man, but also a bunch of white money. He stood up and said, "It depends on how long it will take to finish the work in front of him. Otherwise, you can prepare first. It is rare to go to relatives. Moreover, this time you go there to have to hold a drink. What if you are not prepared properly, what should you go?"

"What do you need to prepare?" Qin'er asked anxiously.

"Prepare more things that are not available in the countryside, don't be reluctant to spend money, and don't worry about too much things and don't carry them. At worst, you can hire a few more porters at that time."

Zhuzi looked up and smiled, "Sister-in-law, leave this to me, I know if there is anything in the countryside."

"Okay, look at it and get you money later."

As soon as Qin'er finished speaking, Duan Jiqing looked at Zhang Shiheng and smiled, "Shiheng, it's a coincidence. Your father happened to come to our Ba County with Wu Daotai a few days ago, so he stayed at the Huguang Guild Hall not far from the county government."

"Mr. Duan, my father is in Ba County?"

"What do you lie to you?"

"I thought my father was in Chengdu!"

"The Salt Tea Ceremony is in Chengdu. They came to do business this time. I heard that they were raising funds for the quelling chaos in Jiangsu. I know you haven't seen your father for many years. Let's go, I'll accompany you to find your father!"

"Thank you Mr. Duan, thank you Mr. Duan!"

"If the family doesn't say a few words, there is no need to be so polite." Duan Jiqing patted Zhang Shiheng's arm, his eyes full of kindness. He really thought that he was Zhang Shiheng's elder.

Sichuan has a salt farm, but Lianghuai produces sea salt, and Sichuan produces well salt. In addition, the imperial court did not set up a salt transportation department in Sichuan. Sichuan's salt administration has always been the governor of Sichuan, and the salt affairs have always been handled by the salt tea ceremony. It is said that Lianghuai Salt Transportation Envoy is the most fat in the world. In fact, Sichuan's salt tea ceremony is just as fat as Lianghuai Salt Transportation Envoy, but it is not as famous as Lianghuai Salt Transportation Envoy.

It is precisely because the salt tea ceremony holds the power to buy and sell salt tea, Wu Wenxi was invited by the Eight Provincial Train to stay at the Huguang Guild Hall when he arrived in Ba County. These days, he either met local officials or was busy meeting merchants in the Eight Provincial Train. He had no time to meet Duan Jiqing who had visited several times. But now it is different. Yu Youfu not only helped Wu Wenxi's friend Zhang Dejian bring his son, but also brought news from the Yizhen Wu family. This is a huge favor!

Guan Bantu reacted and hurriedly said, "Duan Jingcheng, Young Master Zhang, I will lead you."
Chapter completed!