As all the candidates left, the excitement of the general examination gradually calmed down in the capital.
However, the successful reports of the imperial examination are being sent to all states and governments as quickly as possible in the name of the imperial court.
A fast horse rode through the official road like a shooting star, passed through the city wall amid flying dust, and went straight to the Zhizhou Yamen in Lingzhou.
Lingzhou is adjacent to Qianzhou. In addition to Congxing Prefecture, it has six counties under its jurisdiction, with a total number of households of more than 300,000.
At the junction of the two states, the landform is complex, the mountains are rugged and changeable, and the broken hills and rivers separate the official road, leaving a narrow and rugged road.
However, because there are three official mines in the state, it is considered the state capital on the top list of Dayu Dynasty.
"Good news! Good news! This time the subjects will be opened for trial, seven people from Lingzhou will be on the list, seven people from Lingzhou will be on the list!"
The good news quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys of Congxing Prefecture. This achievement is second to none among the southern states.
So as soon as the good news arrived, the entire state capital was excited, and people came forward to watch.
Yang Anguo, the prefect of Lingzhou, did not waste any time and immediately arranged for the announcement of the list, which was a good show off.
The year before last, he had a chance to be promoted to a higher level, but due to a dispute between his family and his family, he ended up causing a storm in the city. The censor immediately took part in his book, and the matter of promotion was settled.
In the past two years, he had been disheartened and unmoved. It was not until he heard the good news that he felt a little happy.
Now I don’t dare to hope for anything else, I just want to keep this official title.
At the same time, the good news also reached Zhizhou Yamen.
Lingzhou Zhizhou, whose full name is Zhilingzhou Prefecture Military, is in charge of the military and political affairs of a state.
The prefect of Lingzhou is in charge of the government affairs of a state.
The two yamen divide work and cooperate to jointly manage Lingzhou's large and small affairs.
A soldier who joined the army saw the good news, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he ran to the inner office with joy.
"General! General!"
"The good news for the test is here, guess who Huiyuan is?"
Lingzhou Zhizhou was sitting behind the desk and flipping through the files. Hearing this, he raised his eyes, with a look of disapproval on his young and handsome face.
This person is none other than Tang Hao!
"So happy, is he your son?" The man who came to join the army was a close confidant he brought from Qianzhou, so Tang Hao teased.
He immediately became happy when he joined the army, "How could I be so lucky? But this year's Huiyuan is someone you know."
"I know you?"
Tang Hao has only been working in Lingzhou for two or three years. He usually deals with either officials or businessmen, but rarely interacts with scholars. As for this year's general examination candidates...
So his heart moved, he stood up and asked: "Could it be that kid from Qianzhou?"
"That's right! It was him, Qianzhou Chen Ping, who ranked first in high school four times, and who made me famous!"
Those who join the army still remember that when he left Qianzhou, Tang Hao went out of his way to say goodbye to Chen Ping.
"It's really him. Even though this kid is so weak, he's really good at reading!"
Tang Hao recalled that this newly minted Huiyuan was almost killed by Ling Shu in the past, and sighed with emotion: "Surviving a catastrophe will bring blessings. If this kid acts more cautiously, his future future will definitely be limitless."< /p>
These words may sound like they are meant for Chen Ping, but they are actually meant for me back then.
The ancestors of the Tang family were originally literati, and there were also two great scholars. Unfortunately, they were on the wrong team in Tang Hao's grandfather's generation, which ultimately led to the Tang family's decline.
It is common for imperial courts to contend and political parties to be hostile.
But Tang Hao's grandfather asked that no Tang family disciples should become officials. Tang Hao's father was a filial piety and did not dare to disobey his father's orders, so he gave up literature and joined the military.
By the time it was passed down to Tang Hao's generation, his grandfather had already passed away. He didn't like reading when he was young, and his family had already fallen into decline, so he kept traveling in the world.
When his father was still alive, Tang Hao once mentioned that he wanted to join the army and hope to serve the country. However, his father insisted on family rules and firmly disagreed, so he had to give up.
Fifteen years ago, he was the same age as Chen Ping. By chance, he encountered collusion between officials and businessmen. One person and one sword directly disrupted the business. Who would have expected that such impulsive behavior would lay the foundation for the future destruction of the Tang family.
It didn't take long for the official to find a pretext and put everyone in the Tang family in prison. His father was tortured to death, and his mother also committed suicide.
Eighteen-year-old Tang Hao was filled with grief. On his way to the government to seek revenge alone, he was stopped by that man.
If it hadn't been for that person's appearance, Tang Hao would have died on the streets.
He told Tang Hao that he could help him find out the matter, and revenge must be avenged through the law.
As expected, not long after, the imperial court sent people down to conduct a thorough investigation. In the end, the official was executed and beheaded in public in the street.
He also told Tang Hao that there were many such black sheep in the court, sucking the blood of the people and eating the flesh of the people. Would you be interested in working with him to kill them all and restore peace to the country?
"Treat your home as your home, your hometown as your hometown, your country as your country, and the world as your world!" This was a sentence that Tang Hao's father often mentioned when he was alive, but he did not dare to go beyond it because of the ancestral precepts.
Now that his grandfather and father are gone, Tang Hao originally planned to serve the country, but finally followed that man resolutely.
After training in the Northwest Army for many years, he was arranged to return to Qianzhou and lurk next to Ling Shu.
After Ling Shu died, he was transferred to Lingzhou by his superiors.
We are both eighteen years old, but there is a world of difference between me and Chen Ping.
Tang Hao was filled with emotion, "When I was eighteen years old, I was still eating and waiting to die, but this kid is much better than me."
"I still think the general is very powerful. A few years after we arrived in Lingzhou, the general was already the governor of Lingzhou. Even if it were Chen Ping, he might not be able to reach this position." As a close confidant in the army, of course I have to support him.< /p>
"Civil and martial arts are of different streams and should not be confused."
Tang Hao glanced at Joining the Army and said, "Look at what he did in Qianzhou, how could he be worse?"
"But when the general came to Lingzhou, didn't he act vigorously and resolutely?"
These are not flattering words for joining the army. When he first came to Lingzhou, Magistrate Yang had just lost the opportunity to be promoted. It was at a time when he was depressed and all matters in the state were handed over to Tang Hao.
But Tang Hao had never been exposed to government affairs and basically learned it from scratch, but he handled everything properly and was finally recognized by everyone in Lingzhou officialdom.
Half a year ago, Tang Hao was promoted from the position of general judge when he first arrived to the current position of magistrate.
Tang Hao waved his hand and said: "Okay. Stop flattering me. What happened to the things I asked you to check before?"
Joining the army quickly handed over his hands seriously and replied: "Back to General. According to your instructions, we investigated all the trading houses in Lingzhou. After the Northern Campaign, there were a total of seven trading houses whose business did not rise but fell. Among them, four of them were in Congxing Mansion. home, and the other three are in different counties."
"Where are those three families?"
"None of them are near the government iron ore mine. Over the past six months, we have made careful inquiries and found no signs of smuggling from the iron ore mine."
After hearing this, Tang Hao pondered for a moment and sneered: "The three companies in the county will not withdraw for the time being and continue to keep an eye on them. But there must be something wrong with the four companies in the state capital. During the war in the north these years, they were still moving goods everywhere. Now the war It stopped, but business dropped. There must be something wrong!"
Since Tang Hao was transferred to Lingzhou from above, there are naturally clues pointing here, but the specific situation has not yet been figured out, so he has been secretly arranging major trading houses.
More than half a year ago, Qingzhou and Jianzhou were investigated one after another, and then the war in the north suddenly ended. This caught the organization behind the scenes a little off guard. Under such circumstances, there would definitely be unusual signs, so Tang Hao was given a chance.
In the end, he found some clues by comparing the quantities and batches of goods transported by various trading houses before and after the war ended.
"Yes, I will make arrangements right away."
Joining the army, he cupped his fists to receive the order, quickly turned around and left.