He knew that Yi Shiying was a gentleman and loved talents, and would not really do anything to him, a young man who spoke freely. Therefore, he was very calm.
The two met again the next day. When Yi Shiying saw Li Xia calmly taking care of himself, he knew that Li Xia had no introspection and couldn't help but sigh.
"Don't worry, Mr. Yi, I was really anxious yesterday. How about this, whether the five-foot road is sparse or blocked, I will inform the court and let the court decide."
"Oh, okay."
Li Xia pointed to the folded quilt and said, "Yi Shouchen gave me this residence last night."
"I have to give it to you..." Yi Shiying said: "I was going to the military camp to stay overnight."
"Anyway, I'm very grateful for this kindness." Li Xia bowed.
It is said that Jia Sidao invited Li Xia to Fengyuan for a luxurious reception, but he did not receive such courtesy.
Yi Shiying also calmed down his anger and said with a straight face: "The imperial court has its own rules and regulations, and how the war is fought must be ignored. You pride yourself on your talents, but you can't do everything according to your ideas. Do you understand?"
Li Xia said: "I think passive defense is not appropriate after all, so I got a little excited."
"Young people are too sharp-edged, which is a disaster rather than a blessing."
"Thank you Shouchen for your suggestion."
Yi Shiying had no right to detain Li Xia, so he found a way out and no longer said, "I'll let you go down the mountain after you figure it out." Instead, he glared at him and handed over the two volumes of military books in his hand.
"I think I should give you some books on self-cultivation, so I can pick them up next time."
Li Xia smiled and reached out to take it.
One is Tang Taizong Li Wei Gong's Questions and Answers, and the other is The Military Classics General Essentials. Both are handwritten copies by Yi Shiying. The content of the books is not much, but there are many insights written on them.
"Such a generous gift, the kid is scared."
"Don't be afraid when you should be afraid." Yi Shiying cursed, chuckled, then straightened his face and shouted: "Congratulations! Send Li Zhixian down the mountain."
Li Xia walked all the way through the school grounds and met Jiang Fan at the city gate.
"The county magistrate."
"Where did you get covered in mud?"
Jiang Fan didn't dare to hide anything and said in a low voice: "It's nothing, just a fight."
"Um?"
"An officer from the Changning Military Academy saw the villain and muttered to his companions, 'Why is there such a cripple?' The villain heard it with his ears, tripped over him for a few words, and started fighting."
When Zhu Cheng heard this, his face darkened and he said angrily: "Which son of a bitch?!"
"I wish you to be calm, General." Jiang Fan said hurriedly: "He didn't know that the villain was the Qingfu Army at first. After the fight, he said he wanted to drink wine to make amends."
Li Xia asked: "Is there wine on this mountain?"
"No, he gave the villain an IOU."
Zhu Chengdao: "Show me."
Jiang Fan dug with one hand for a while and took out a piece of wrinkled bark.
Zhu Cheng looked at it and frowned. He saw that there was only a picture of a wine bottle engraved on it, and there was no signature on it. He really couldn't tell which of his subordinates was the bastard.
"No one wrote down your last name?"
Jiang Fan obviously didn't intend to betray the other party, so he took back the piece of bark with an apologetic smile and said, "I don't even know his name, even if you are a villain."
Zhu Cheng spat and said: "The person who eats Qingfu's food and beats Qingfu is an ungrateful bitch. When I find him, I'll give him a few whips."
"It doesn't matter, we won't get to know each other without fighting."
Li Xia saw that Jiang Fan was quite protective of the Changning Military Academy general, and knew that there was no big conflict, just a small fight.
"It's a good thing that they can make friends. I hope that the two armies will be as close as brothers in the future."
Zhu Cheng secretly thought that Jiang Fan was also stupid. He accepted the note and replied with a smile: "We will be as close as brothers. There is nothing to say about Li Zhixian's character."
Several people slowly walked out of the city gate. Zhu Cheng insisted on sending Li Xia down the mountain, saying that his life was at stake and he could not refuse.
The mountain road is narrow, so we can only walk in tandem and chat.
"I was passing by from the east a few days ago and saw that the Changning army seemed to be fighting with the Bo people?"
"It's not a big war. Now the main focus is on appeasement to prevent these southwestern barbarians from defecting to Mongolia. But these Bo people are very arrogant. General Yi saw that just appeasement was not enough, so he had to win over and divide, and wiped out several small tribes to scare the monkeys. Only then did several big tribes want to sit down and have a good talk."
Li Xiandao: "I have been in southern Sichuan for a year and heard that the Bo people have a long history. They have lived with the Han people for thousands of years, engaged in farming, and are called 'the wisest among the barbarians'?"
"That was a long time ago. General Yi said it was the time of Prime Minister Zhuge." Zhu Chengdao said: "In our Song Dynasty, the Bo people had rebelled countless times."
He raised his hand and pointed at the mountains in the distance.
"Look over there in Li Zhixian County. That is Bowang Mountain. There is Jiusi City on the mountain. During the Zhenzong Dynasty, Dou Po, Dou Wang, and Dou Lang successively launched armies against the Song Dynasty. They fought for two hundred years until the fifth year of Zhenghe. In the battle, the rebellion of more than 100,000 Bo people was put down, so our Changning Army was built here to guard one side in order to prevent the Bo people from rebelling again."
Li Xia nodded, thinking that after more than two hundred years of conflict, there might be some problems with the Song Dynasty's strategy towards the Bo people.
"Is there anyone in the Changning army who can speak Bo language?"
Zhu Cheng thought for a moment and said, "There are a few Bo prisoners."
"Can you lend me a loan?"
"Of course it's okay. In a few days I will lead the troops to Qingfu County for joint training and then bring them to Li Zhi County."
"Thank you, General Zhu."
"What's the big deal? I'll tell you more if Li Zhixian is interested in the Bo people."
The group of people walked slowly down the rugged mountain road, chatting while walking.
Zhu Cheng spoke from behind, while Li Xia listened from the front, thinking about how to educate the Bo people by combining the experience of later generations with the knowledge of this world.
They didn't know that this small talk might have prevented the demise of a tribe.
After a long trip, Li Xia rushed back to Qingfu County in the afternoon of the next day. Han Qi'an saw him on the city wall and came to meet him from a distance.
"Alang is back. Mr. Yang is here. He just had a quarrel with the landlord."
Han Qi'an recently heard about Yuan Haowen's death and felt a little disappointed. He missed his late wife even more, but he usually didn't show it and acted as if he was cautious.
He smiled bitterly and spoke in a low voice.
"When Yang Gong arrived at noon, our people were taken to the county at Xuzhou Wharf, and the residence was already prepared. More than a hundred people entered the city by car and horse. The landlord heard that a famous Confucian from the north had returned, so he went with his father to wait for the invitation. We had a great conversation and even visited the county town together, but when we talked about the legal system of the Jin Kingdom, we started to quarrel about the imperial examination."
Even if they are both scholars, the quarrel will be like that.
First, the quarrel was about the legal system, which was nothing more than old talk, and then the quarrel was about the imperial examination.
Fang Yankai laughed at the imperial examinations of the Jin Dynasty, thinking that Yang Guo, a scholar like Yang Guo, did not have real talent.
Yang Guo gave an example: Xin Qiji failed in the Jin Dynasty, but he was still able to serve as an official in the Song Dynasty. This shows that the Song Dynasty was not as good as the Jin Dynasty.
Fang Yankai asked back, "Do you know that Duke Jiaxuan didn't intend to become an official and failed on purpose? Even if he really failed, how could Duke Jiaxuan's words be compared to Duke Yang? From this we can see how decadent the Jurchen imperial examinations are."
Yang Guo was speechless for a moment.
Fang Yankai then asked, "If the Jurchens were the orthodox people in Zhongzhou, why did the Jurchens and Han people take separate exams, and set up a special Jurchen Jinshi exam, so that the Jurchens could become officials after just one exam?"
Yang Guo was old and his speech speed was slower. Later, when it came to the level of academic knowledge in the imperial examinations of the two dynasties, he couldn't compete with Fang Yankai.
"Are you done arguing?" Li Xia asked.
"Yes, there are still cases in the landlord's book that need to be dealt with, and the court is in session. Yang Gong is still depressed, and he is on the top of the city."
Li Xia raised his head and glanced at the city wall. When he got to the top of the city, he saw Yang Guo standing alone with his hands behind his back, looking at Qingfu County in a daze.
"Mr. Yang has arrived. It would be rude for me to welcome you from afar."
Yang Guo turned around and glanced at Han Qian behind Li Xia. He knew that Li Xia had heard about the quarrel and felt a little embarrassed.
How can the old man express his feelings? He can't stand it.
"It made Feiyu laugh." Yang Guo sighed, pointed at the county seat, and said: "In the past, I thought that Han officials like us managed Henan in an orderly manner. Now I see that this small county town is so prosperous and I feel ashamed.
Na."
Having said that, he finally regained his dignity as a famous scholar and said again: "The few children in my family are all mediocre. I wonder if I can send them to stay with Fang Zhengshu and learn how to govern?"
Li Xia couldn't help but nodded when he heard this.
Yang Guo was very clever in this move. He not only took the overall situation into consideration, expressed to Fang Yankai that he wanted to put an end to the past feud, but also sharpened the children in the family so that they could integrate as soon as possible.
On the other hand, if there are a few young and energetic people from the North under Fang Yankai's staff, there will inevitably be some minor troubles. This can be regarded as a small revenge and test for Fang Yankai.
It can even test Li Xia's control over Qingfu County.
"Okay." Li Xia said, "I will arrange this, and the landlord will agree."
Yang Guo stroked his beard and smiled, finally overcoming the discomfort of being ridiculed when he first arrived.
"Qingfu County is so prosperous. How about Junlian? How about Weining Prefecture? How about Zhaotong Prefecture?"
"In the land of Junlianjisi, Weining City is newly built, and Zhaotong City has not yet been built, so it is far inferior to Qingfu City."
Yang Guo waved his hand and said: "After all, it is a traffic artery and covers a vast area. It can't be any different."
"You'll know when Mr. Yang sees it." Li Xia said, "I have to go to the camp to arrange some things. Would you like Mr. Yang to go with me?"
"Okay, okay, let's get a glimpse of the Qingfu Army today."