Happiness had arrived with such suddenness.
Although Zhao An had considered that his one thousand taels might catch the eye of the Old Ancestor and Grand Secretary Heshen, he never imagined the effect would be so profound. The Old Ancestor had granted him a five-rank promotion, vaulting him from a minor ninth-rank official to a legitimate seventh-rank official in a single stroke.
Promoting a deputy township head to the principal of a key prefectural middle school was, if not unheard of, certainly enough to make anyone’s jaw drop.
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