After being reborn as a man, the woman improved her family's fortunes through education.

Chapter 420 Landlord Jiang, who has good interpersonal relationships

Jiang Xiaoqi was unaware of Lord Chen's plans and, of course, didn't care about a few boxes of pastries.

After all, his Liuxiang Pavilion alone can earn tens of thousands of taels a month, not even counting the branches in the south.

Back home, Jiang Xiaoqi told his grandfather about what he had gained that day. The landlord Jiang didn't think that buying information for a hundred taels of gold was too expensive.

Safety is the top priority. It's wise for a person to keep their own grandson out of the way and achieve their goal while remaining hidden.

A wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall. Although His Majesty the Emperor is not a dangerous wall, all those princes are ticking time bombs.

If you detonate even one of these, even the strongest wall could be reduced to ashes.

"You've found a good person. He's a seasoned veteran from the Hanlin Academy. He may seem indifferent to worldly affairs, but he's actually very shrewd."

"Yes, Grandfather, not only that, but in the past few months I have discovered that Lord Chen is exceptionally quick-witted, and sometimes he also takes on some 'opportunistic' tasks."

He's a senior colleague, but he lacks ambition. Now that he's getting old, his colleagues trust him a lot.

Whenever anything interesting happens in someone's household, Lord Chen always finds out through his own channels immediately. He's practically a chosen intelligence agency.

Landlord Jiang nodded and also talked about his progress in the Ministry of Revenue.

Unlike the Hanlin Academy, which was a relatively inconspicuous department, the Ministry of Revenue was a more complex and murky place.

Even though Jiang, the landlord, had worked in the Ministry of Revenue for more than three years, he couldn't say he knew everything about the Ministry. Furthermore, it remained to be seen who the powerful officials in the Ministry were working for.

However, Landlord Jiang also has his own advantages. Because of his strong personal abilities, he has become increasingly valued by his superiors in recent years.

Because of his age, his superiors did not suppress him, and his colleagues did not fear him. After all, everyone thought that he was already in his sixties and could only work for a few more years.

Why make enemies with such a capable and non-threatening colleague over trivial matters? Moreover, Landlord Jiang's popularity has become the highest in the Ministry of Revenue.

This is quite similar to what Lord Chen did; both of them seem to have benefited from being older.

Being older means you won't block other people's way, and you'll be happy to lend a helping hand when needed. Who wouldn't love a colleague like that?

More importantly, we are all respectable people, and as colleagues, we still need to maintain appearances.

Most people in the Ministry of Revenue held their positions based on their skills, and this group had the most respect for capable people, since they might need to ask them for help someday.

Therefore, during his three and a half years in the Ministry of Revenue, the landlord's popularity within the ministry actually improved year by year.

After all, even those who disregard camaraderie should at least consider the principle of "respecting the elderly as one would one's own parents."

Landlord Jiang was second only to Minister Wang in age.

Despite his advanced age and high abilities, and seemingly keeping his distance from everyone, Landlord Jiang had already subtly infiltrated several small groups, maintaining a relationship that was neither overly intimate nor distant.

As Jiang Xiaoqi listened to his grandfather explain his position in the Ministry of Revenue, his eyes were filled with admiration.

“Grandfather, your methods are truly ingenious. You have seamlessly integrated yourself into every office of the Ministry of Revenue without anyone noticing.”

Landlord Jiang waved his hand with a smile, "There's nothing I can do about it. My official position is lowly, so I have to have some useful qualities to be taken seriously."

Of course, the hardest thing is to earn someone's respect and trust. In officialdom, there is no true friendship, only eternal interests.

It's already quite an achievement to be remembered when needed and forgotten when not.

Jiang Xiaoqi increasingly felt that his grandfather and Lord Chen were similar, but his grandfather's political career must have been longer than Lord Chen's.

Lord Chen will retire in a few years, at the latest by the age of seventy.

Given my grandfather's current health condition, he should be able to work for another twenty or thirty years without any problem. Even if he were to work his way up through seniority, he should be able to reach the rank of a third or fourth grade official, right?

And my great-uncle, he really needs some rest and recuperation. If he continues in office for another ten or twenty years, the position of Minister of Works isn't out of the question.

The meeting between the two sides went smoothly, so Jiang Xiaoqi temporarily put the matter aside.

After all, the Liu family's small banquet is just around the corner, and the gifts for their guests haven't been prepared yet.

Back in my own yard, I closed the door, and my consciousness entered my study space.

The study space is now the bedroom of the Maoqiu system. Although it already has a custom-made cat carrier made by a famous carpenter in Beijing, the Maoqiu system still often goes back to the space to sleep.

They only come out to bask in the sun when the sunlight is at its best, which is quite similar to the habits of raccoon dogs.

"Host, you're back. I've found what you wanted. Here's a reward of 500 points~"

"Hey, are you trying to rip off some sucker? What do you mean 500 points? Do you think I don't know the going rate? It's at most 50 points."

"Take it or leave it. I definitely won't redeem anything over fifty. I can easily pick out a few other similar gifts; the Liu family won't complain anyway."

"Oh, host, this is just a small business. It was hard to get it from the farming system. Why don't you go check out the pharmacies outside!"

A Ganoderma lucidum of this quality would fetch several hundred taels of silver! Moreover, there are no high-quality blood Ganoderma lucidum within the Great Zhou territory!

Jiang Xiaoqi raised an eyebrow; this wasn't the first time he'd heard the names of other systems from the system itself.

His own unfortunate system is the "Scroll King System," while the system that can be exchanged for medicinal herbs, ingredients, and grains is the "Farming System."

Of course, there are other systems, such as the "Lucky Koi System," the "Check-in System," and the "Famous Minister System."

Anyway, no matter how I listened, his system sounded like something out of a sledgehammer or nut.

However, his own system argued that only his system could be bound to the auxiliary Scroll King system, allowing dozens or even hundreds of people to work for the main system online.

It was also explained that Jiang Xiaoqi is no longer a simple host; he is now a host capitalist who can exploit the infinite value brought by the subsidiary system.

Of course, the subsidiary system must be related to the main system, even if the relationship is complicated.

This is actually to prevent people who own the main system from endlessly and recklessly binding to subsidiary systems. With the kinship restriction, at least a limit can be set on the number of people that can be bound.

However, the system may not know the true state of the human world. In later generations, having six friends on WeChat on a mobile phone is enough to know almost everyone in the world.

In ancient times, even those beyond the fifth degree of kinship could be considered to be related by blood. It is worth noting that a large and powerful family could have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of members.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be the saying "emperors come and go, but powerful families remain."

The powerful families were like an entity that the emperor could never kill, could not leave, could not get rid of, or could not get rid of.

Getting back to the point, Jiang Xiaoqi still spent fifty points to obtain the Blood Spirit Mushroom.

He knew that the Liu family needed this right now.