Chapter 113

Jia Hui is the Regional Commander of the Wucheng!

Calculating the entire Divine Capital at 5 people per household, the total population of the capital during this period is approximately 680,000, not including the military personnel stationed in the capital and the various service staff within the palace.

As of now.

The capital's population has likely already surpassed 800,000.

Over eight hundred thousand people!

Population represents economy and profit!

With people and power, one never has to worry about a lack of opportunities to rake in money!

Even a clean Prefect can rake in one hundred thousand taels of silver in three years.

Remember.

This is still for an incorruptible, clean official!

Therefore, for this position held by Jia Hui.

Raking in several thousand taels a month is no problem!

It is effortless.

And that is putting it conservatively.

If one were to be even more shameless in their greed.

Extorting even more is not impossible.

In reality.

It is far more lucrative than Jia Hui's regular third-rank Assistant Regional Commander position!

Although the Wucheng Military Bureau is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War.

Most of the time, Jia Hui's position is more akin to that of a civil official.

Jia Lian felt sour again!

He was jealous!

He was envious!

At this moment, Jia Hui is both a Supra-Rank Marquis.

And holds the rank of third-rank Assistant Regional Commander, leading several thousand troops.

As well as being the regular third-rank Regional Commander of the Wucheng Military Bureau, leading another six or seven thousand troops!

Adding it all up, he commands over ten thousand troops!

His position is high, and his power is great!

If one were to say.

Previously, Jia Hui's regular third-rank Assistant Regional Commander position was mainly responsible for external warfare.

He had little say in the imperial court except during wartime.

Now, it is different.

His weight in the imperial court has greatly increased!

This is a dual elevation in both military and political standing!

Even some second-rank officials.

Might not have as much authority as he does.

Only first-rank high officials can firmly suppress him!

And how many first-rank high officials are there?

The most terrifying thing is!

Most other officials of the third rank and above are at least thirty or forty years old!

First-rank officials are all fifty or sixty!

And what about Jia Hui?

He is only fourteen or fifteen years old right now!

This is what is truly terrifying!

Ten years from now, he will only be twenty-four or twenty-five!

He will still be younger than the vast majority of court officials and key ministers!

There is a high hope of rising to the second rank within ten years.

By the age of thirty or so, there is even hope of becoming a first-rank high official!

This is simply too frightening!

How can Jia Lian compare?

Compare with his head?

Right now, between him and Jia Hui.

One is truly a dragon that has wandered into a shallow stream and will eventually ascend to the heavens—a true dragon, a Qilin child!

And him?

Not to mention being stinking fish or rotten shrimp.

At most, he is something like a small deer.

Completely unworthy of mention!

This made him feel bitter to the extreme!

Why is it like this!

The Dao of Heaven is unfair!

Clearly, I am the legitimate eldest son of the Rongguo Prefecture!

Clearly, I am the one who should have this noble status!

That Jia Hui is merely a child from a side branch!

How can he compare to me!

I am not reconciled!!!

Jia Lian was filled with grief, indignation, and frustration, feeling powerless to the extreme!

However.

The vast majority of people present did not even look at him directly.

Of course.

Nothing is absolute!

"This Jia Hui explained to the Emperor that the Divine Capital is in chaos, with soldiers ignoring unlawful acts and obeying the laws of the powerful."

"His Majesty was furious because of this."

"Therefore, he granted him the power to control the Wucheng Military Bureau, allowing him to reorganize it and severely punish those who break the law."

Just as Jia Lian was feeling stifled and unreconciled to the extreme.

Someone leaned in close and whispered to him.

Jia Lian looked over in confusion.

He saw that the other person was in his twenties, not much older than himself.

He looked very unfamiliar.

"Brother, who are you?"

"I am the new Tanhualang, currently serving as a Hanlin Academician, Ouyang Xu. Greetings, Brother Lian!"

Ouyang Xu hurriedly bowed in return.

He came from an ordinary family; although he lived in poverty, his ambitions were not poor, and he was very good at studying.

As a scholar, compared to Jia Hui.

Every gesture he made carried the air of a scholar.

Regarding this.

Although Jia Lian was a military noble, he actually had a better impression of scholars.