The swallows flew lightly across the fields and landed in their nests under the eaves, chirping non-stop.
The field ridge continues to the foot of the mountain in the distance, looking like a straight black line.
A white ditch surrounds the field, sending gurgling clear water into the field, silently watering the green rice seedlings.
The farmer, wearing a raincoat, was joking with his neighbors and carefully inspecting the rice fields.
Some people also sang folk songs, but they went out of tune while singing, which caused a burst of good-natured laughter.
The rooster ran around proudly, sometimes crowing loudly, sometimes lowering his head to peck.
An old yellow dog lay lazily on the porch, staring blankly at the post road.
More than ten carriages came on the post road.
The warriors carrying swords and bows were the first to clear the way, showing extraordinary momentum.
The carriage was covered with a raincloth, and under the raincloth were boxes one after another, stuffed to the brim.
The motorcade stopped in front of a city gate.
A knight dismounted, walked forward to negotiate, and issued some certification documents.
The general guarding Guancheng was alerted and went out to greet him personally.
After exchanging pleasantries, the motorcade continued its journey towards the east.
"The reputation of officials has spread to Longzhou." The guarding knight said in an admiring tone: "The son of the Zhe family actually knows the official reputation of the envoy."
"They just do it for the sake of Prince Lingwu." Huang Tao said with a disapproving smile.
After saying this, he got out of the carriage, turned over and mounted a horse. It was too stuffy in the carriage, so he had to get out for a walk.
After riding his horse to the back and chatting with his wife and children, Huang Tao took one last look at Guancheng.
To the west of Guancheng is the landscape of Qinzhou where he lived for several years.
There is no doubt that this experience was precious to him. Not only did he live a very comfortable life, but he also accumulated a lot of experience as an official.
Of course, the official position and the state and county magistrate are not the same thing.
"Does your Majesty seem sad?" A knight galloped up from behind and the knight asked with a smile on his horse.
"Where does the sadness come from? It's just some emotion." Huang Tao shook his head and said: "I am going to Shaanzhou. The mountains are high and the road is far. I felt something for a while."
"Do you have any good words?" "Qilang" asked with his eyes shining.
Huang Tao laughed when he heard this: "I have been busy with secular affairs all these years, how can I find the time to recite poems and compose poems?"
"Shichiro" sighed regretfully.
This is a fact. Cui Zhaowei was still the number one scholar, but after he became an official, he was so focused on working hard that he had no time to write poems. On the contrary, those scholars who failed many times wrote poems and poems and became famous all over the world.
What a pity, the poetry world has lost a great hero!
"Qi Lang is going to Shaanzhou now, and he is going to be very successful." Huang Tao said with envy.
Qi Lang's name was Zhao Guanwen, a native of Guizhou, and quite talented. He was Huang Tao's old acquaintance in Chang'an when he was rushing to take exams.
After Qinzhou was released as the governor, many people went to Qinzhou to rely on Huang Tao, and Zhao Guanwen was one of them.
It happened that the Prince of Lingwu County was looking for a teacher for his children, so Huang Tao recommended Zhao Guanwen, saying that he had "the talent of the top scholar". The Prince of Lingwu County ordered him to go to Anyi County, Shaanxi Province for an "interview".
As for Huang Tao himself, he will serve as the deputy envoy of the Baoyi Army and the governor of Guozhou. How can a smart man like Huang Tao not know the implications of the transfer across Guanzhong?
In fact, he thought he would continue to stay in Longyou Town because Shao Shude had vaguely revealed this intention to him.
It has been nearly six years since Longyou Jiedushi Xiao Yu left the town in the second half of the third year of Guangqi's reign (887). Originally, after this year, he was going to Tongzhou and transferred to Weibei with Ren Yuji.
Jiedushi.
But Xiao Yuan was old and might not live for two years. Shao Shude felt sorry for him and pressed the button.
Qinzhou is the largest state in Longyou Town. As the governor, Huang Tao is actually very hopeful to take over as the Jiedushi envoy after Xiao Yuan resigns. As for Xiao Yun, the deputy envoy of Jiedu County, regardless of the fact that his daughter is in the royal palace of Lingwu County
However, as a member of the Xiao family, he has the least chance.
Xiao Yuan has been the prime minister for seven years, and the Xiao family in Lanling is also a powerful figure. Starting from the third year of Guangqi's reign, countless people went to Hezhou to seek refuge. If Xiao Yuan was to take over as the Jiedu envoy, wouldn't Longyou Town need a surname?
Xiao?
Therefore, Xiao Qu's chances are far less than Huang Tao's.
But the situation in the world was changing in a dizzying way. Without paying attention, Prince Lingwu swallowed up Shaanxi, Guo, Hezhong, and continued to maintain the tradition of merging a town into one town every year - the town in Hezhong that he is still trying to swallow this year is a bit big, maybe
I can't swallow it yet.
Shaanxi and Guo, the land of two towns and seven states in the middle of the river, are undoubtedly important to the great cause of Lingwu County. The eastern gateway of Guanzhong will have a broader rear.
Now, probably because he wanted to rectify the situation, Huang Tao received the transfer order and served as the Deputy Envoy of the Baoyi Army and the Governor of Guozhou.
The Baoyi Army only has jurisdiction over Shaanxi and Guozhou. Shaanzhou has always been a commander-in-chief who also serves as governor. Now Guozhou is given to Huang Tao alone. The intention of dividing Li Fan's power is very obvious.
But he probably won't move his position now, because the time is too short, it doesn't look good in terms of appearance, and it's easy to chill the hearts of those who surrender.
Huang Tao estimated that when the time is right, Li Fan will probably move to the town, and then he can legitimately serve as the governor of the Baoyi Army. The current position is just a springboard - but it is also a crucial step.
"Being able to get this good opportunity is inseparable from the virtue of being recommended by the emperor." Zhao Guanwen saluted on his horse and said: "If I have an assignment in the future, I will never refuse."
Huang Tao nodded imperceptibly.
After becoming an official, you no longer have the freedom and ease of a scholar. After all, only a few people can make up their mind and leave with their seals. How many people in the world can look away from the word fame and fortune?
The motorcade traveled eastward, passing through Longzhou and entering Fengxiang Prefecture.
After crossing Longshan, Huang Tao and Zhao Guanwen clearly felt something was different.
After all, the Zhe family is a martial artist, and the way they govern the place is to take things easy and do nothing. To put it bluntly, they just let things go their own way.
Military discipline seems to be very average, as can be seen from the fearful looks on the faces of the people.
However, the local people in Fengxiang Prefecture have a good opinion of the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief Zhe Silun. They think he is much better than his father. He at least understands the sufferings of the people and works tirelessly. He often inspects the prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction. However, it has only been a short time and no changes have been seen yet.
.
While Longweiyi was resting, Huang Tao went to pay homage to the battlefield.
More than ten years ago, Shang Rang led an army of 50,000 from Chang'an to conquer Fengxiang in the west. Tang Hongfu, who had left Shuofang as Jiedushi and wanted to come to Qinwang, defeated Chao's army here and beheaded more than 20,000 people.
This may be the most critical battle after the nest enters the pass.
At a critical moment when many people surrendered to Huang Chao and accepted fake posts, and towns all over the world were hesitant to wait and see, the great victory of Longweipi came out of nowhere, making people feel that the Tang Dynasty had not exhausted its energy and had great potential. At this point, the reinforcements from the towns began to march towards Guanzhong
, even the distant town of Jingnan sent five thousand soldiers.
Elite troops from the feudal town gathered in Guanzhong, and soon defeated the 150,000 Chao army and fled.
But now it seems that the chaos in the nest is just the beginning after all, and the power of the imperial court is still uncontrollably dissipating.
Are there fewer and fewer people who love the imperial court every year? Huang Tao looked at the Qinzhou students who came with him. They probably had no sense of belonging to the imperial court at all.
Being able to study Confucian classics in prefectures and counties seems to depend on the King of Lingwu. Being able to serve as an official depends on the King of Lingwu. So why do you still want to be in the imperial court?
Five students from Qinzhou Prefecture School and ten students from Shanggui, Fuqiang, Longcheng, Qingshui, and Chengji counties will be divided into 23 counties in Guo, Shanxi, and Jiangzhou (
He served as officials at all levels in Lushi County.
There are more than a hundred high-level positions in total, plus a larger number of miscellaneous positions (official positions) such as wardens, interrogators, administrators, warehouse governors, and city magistrates. A considerable number of them will fall on the heads of Confucian classics students.
, how can they not be grateful?
Confucian classics students in prefectures and counties are not very high-ranking in terms of background. High-ranking families usually have their own private schools, and few study in official schools. Even if they are willing to come, they generally do not choose them, but leave the opportunity to more senior people.
There are many students from small families.
Who said studying is useless? Hasn’t the opportunity come now?
Don't underestimate the miscellaneous positions such as county clerk, judicial officer, recorder, etc. How many people still can't get them? After taking office, even if you work in the lower county, your monthly salary will be two to three thousand yuan, plus other unspeakable things.
The income is more than enough to support a large family, and can even support children and grandchildren to study or practice martial arts, which lays the foundation of a small family.
These small families will only be grateful to Prince Lingwu and are his most solid supporters.
The imperial court? What benefits did the imperial court give me? Longyou and Hexi were recovered by Lingwu County Prince. He also spent many years establishing Confucianism. The 200 yuan a month subsidy for prefecture Confucian students was also paid by Lingwu County Prince.
Yes, what efforts did the imperial court make?
This is how the "people's" heart comes about.
This requires you to be able to endure loneliness, invest a lot of resources for a long time, do not expect immediate results within a few years, and finally reap the sweet fruits.
Prince Lingwu has been very patient in handling every major event, such as martial arts, economics, horse administration, etc., and now he is starting to reap the rewards one after another.
In another six or seven years, agricultural and engineering students will appear one after another, and they can also serve as officials. By then, the foundation of the Lingwu Prince's ruling area will be more solid.
Although the investment in setting up education is huge, the rewards are also huge. The only drawback is probably that the payback cycle is a bit long, and most people don’t have the patience.
At the end of June, the group arrived in Chang'an and stayed at a farm purchased by Jinzouyuan in Wannian County.
Zhao Guangyin, the chief memorial officer, came to visit Huang Tao in person.
He passed the Jinshi examination this year and might serve as a local official in the future. Coupled with the status of his two brothers, Huang Tao did not dare to look down upon him and was polite to him.
"I miss Chang'an after being away for so many years. Zhao Diguan lives in this place of fireworks all day long, and he is much more comfortable than me." Huang Tao said with a smile.
"It's not that good!" Unexpectedly, Zhao Guangyin sighed and complained: "The situation in Chang'an is unstable and undercurrents are surging. I want to jump out of this pit of fire."
"Oh?" Huang Tao was surprised and asked: "Chang'an is peaceful and peaceful, why is it a fire pit?"
"The Shence Army praised Ximen Zhao for being extremely domineering and arrogant in the capital of Japan. Shi Zan of the capital of Yushan was not a good person, and all the children in Xu Zhen's general school were not economical lamps, making the capital a mess. I heard that Li Kuangwei was about to enter the court.
We have arrived in Shaanzhou, is this person easy to get along with? The people in the capital don't have a good impression of Youzhou soldiers." Zhao Guangyin said.
Ximen Zhao, whose original name was Fu Daozhao, was Ximen Zhongsui's fake son. He was a member of Qin Zongquan's old tribe and was known for his bravery.
Needless to say, Shi Zan practiced martial arts at a young age, went to many battlefields, and fought head-on with Zhu Quanzhong's generals Zhu Zhen, Huo Cun and others.
There will be Lee Kuangwei coming soon, as well as the soldiers who came with him to seek a living, and thousands of party members. Are they willing to be inferior to others?
Chang'an is quite lively.
"It's better to follow Huang Shijun to Guozhou and join the military." Zhao Guangyin sighed: "That's where we have the opportunity."
Huang Tao smiled and explained: "Why are you in such a hurry, Mr. Zhao? It's so important to be an imperial official. You are so lucky that you don't know how lucky you are! Helping the Marshal to inquire about court news and exchange official documents is a key position. All the princes in the court have a key position.
If there is any trouble, if you pass it once, the commander will think of you once, oh, you!"
"I just want to do something practical. After studying for so many years, I always have some ambitions. I can't put them into practice in this place."
"This..." Huang Tao somewhat understood him.
Scholars always have some ambitions. Managing the military and the people and benefiting one party can indeed better reflect a person's value.
"Take your time, don't rush." Huang Tao could only advise: "What's the latest news in Chang'an?"
"The biggest news is that Li Kuangwei has entered the court. There are also rumors that Wang Ke, the military envoy of the National Protectorate Army, is about to enter the court, but the court has not yet officially dismissed him." Zhao Guangyin said.
Wang Ke enters the court? This is worth pondering. Huang Tao thought secretly.