Chapter 069: The Strategist of the State

The stars are hanging in the flat field, Yu Di Long sat on the city head, looking up at the stars dotting the sky, his heart and mind swaying, and he could never see enough. This child’s good fortune was enough to make the personal disciples of all the top Jianghu sects blush. Both possessing Wang Xianzhi’s 30% gift and being able to receive guidance beside Xu Fengnian. Yu Di Long retracted his eyes and heard his master say “July Flows Fire, September Grants Clothes”.

Xu Fengnian looked at the overhead that this year’s west falling speed is slightly strange big Mars, some smile, Tai’an City Chintian Supervision has a full-time stare at the big Mars fire Zheng, are poor old man, but this year has been depreciated two in a row, because it did not say a reason. When the capital white case, that year also by the position of the center of the sky west fall strange fast big Mars can be regarded as the main culprit. Dynasty prosperity is auspicious iterative, the country will be chaotic is a bad omen appear, changed a teenager to do the supervisor of the Chintian Supervision this year is really not half a moment to stop. Xu Fengyen turned his head to look at the northern land outside the city, away from the Yang court has been considered the most extensive since the Qin dynasty, and there are Xu Snapdragon and Yan Zhi Wang Zhao Bing, two vassal king of the border, the Zhao room spread far and wide the border work is to reach the apex of the various dynasties, Tai’an City, the temple, a collection of ministers and ministers, Secretary of State in the same hall, Xu Fengyen many times want to personally ask the Zhao family son of God, in addition to that a little bit of the program of the husband is not vibrant! Apart from the imperfections of the husband’s program, what else are you not satisfied with? Xu Fengyen subconsciously looked to the east of Tai’an City direction, thought of the Zhao room to bow and scrape Bieye child, the old scholar’s days are not too good, the key is that the days of the chief minister will only be more difficult, this time by means of the restoration of the West Chu, he conducted the suppression of martial arts to cut down the feudalism of the move, completely touched the two scales, the sky grudges not good to say that the people are angry for sure, the Guangling King Zhao Yi, including the royal family of the clan king is destined to harbor a grudge in the heart, plus that set of long-standing grudges, the clan king is destined to be the most powerful, and the clan king is destined to be the most influential. Together with that set of long-standing grudges of the Zhao family of Tai’an City, as well as all of the field by a paper order not to leave the territory of the princes, under the sky surnamed Zhao’s royal relatives, no one has a good feeling about him. And forced military generals from all over the world to bring troops to the periphery of Guangling “practice”, almost all the pugnacious military generals led by Gu Jiantang were offended by a clean slate. Xu Fengyen lamented: “Martial invincibility, Wang Xianzhi is dead. You, the invincible Wen, you have to change the law at this time according to that sparing policy of Lu Dang, do you really think that you can end up in a good way? Do you really think you are standing emperor?”

Xu Fengyen did not gloat about this, although Zhang Julu was the mortal enemy of Northern Liang, but in this world, there are always a few deviants who are more capable of winning the heartfelt respect of their enemies, and Xu Snapdragon was also one of them. Beimang female emperor, Gu Jiantang, the old Jing’an king Zhao Heng, these opponents who should hold the most grudges against Xu Snapdragon, on the contrary, have never verbally abused Xu Snapdragon in their entire lives. Xu Fengyen sighed softly, told Yu Di Long to go, and the child popped down to the top of the city. Xu Fengyen before entering the city had already learned from Wang Lingbao’s mouth that the two people he wanted to see on this trip, coincidentally, are not in Qingcang city, his younger brother Xu Longxiang with only eighty riders went to the border north of Lin Rumor military town, chasing a group of horse thieves who claimed to be a thousand people, Chen Xiliang is in the outside of the city somewhere for the Youzhou border army “recruiting”, almost every day in the past two months, sleeps outside the city at night. Outside the city.

Xu Fengyen and Yu Dilong came to the residence of Liuzhou’s assassin who had taken over the Dragon King’s Mansion, the residence was brightly lit, and almost all the officials sitting behind a desk dealing with political affairs were young faces, half of these outstanding talents were the scholars who had been screened to enter the Liang Province, and half of them were the descendants of the honored nobles from the old three states of Northern Liang Province. Xu Fengyen entered a small yamen house in charge of grain and grass under the household house, just saw the assassin Yang Guangdou in the upside down with a wolf brush knocking an official’s head, cursing, one of the eighteen generations of the ancestors did not fall, were cursed all over the place, that look at the uniforms should be food Cao Lang’s young man was full of red face, was the assassin of the Lord so insulted in front of his peers, the rank of the rank of the difference of a hundred thousand eighty thousand miles, naturally did not dare to refute, and consciously aggrieved, the handsome seven-foot man with a handsome face. Handsome seven-foot man, even sobbing. Yang assassin is still not the past, angry shooing the pen back to the young man, stained with ink on the other side of the hand on the official robes of a messy wipe, a cold snort, said: “tomorrow morning this official to come again, if it is still a muddled account, hey, your grandfather is the Wei Tieshan, this official can not afford to mess with, not good enough to depreciate your official, but let you roll to near the toilet of the ceremonial room of the shabby place to go, this kind of small things! I can still do it! Yutonghe, you don’t even need to wash this official robe when it’s dirty, you’ll most likely need to change it tomorrow anyway.”

The young man’s face was pale, clenched his teeth, although still choking on his words, but there was no fear in his eyes, and some of his eyes were broken, saying, “Mr. Assassin, the Lin Rhythm military town is under the jurisdiction of three counties, and the new construction has only been built for such a short period of time, and I, along with my three colleagues and six subordinates, only sleep for three hours every day, although there are indeed mistakes in the recording of the Lin Rhythm’s fourth-class fields, this has already been the work of my people. This is already the limit of the ability of the subordinate officials, if you think that the subordinate officials are not able to do this job, think that the subordinate officials are borrowing the shade of their ancestors to eat and drink here, do not need to find excuses to make things difficult, the subordinate officials themselves to go to the ceremonial room to take up their duties now!”

Yang Guangdu blew his beard and eyes, hesitated for a moment, and then sneered: “Your kid has backbone ah! Then don’t talk nonsense, get lost. Our Liuzhou ceremony room, that is the first important government office, responsible for persuasion and education, this official estimates that the displaced people like to listen to your Yu Tonghe Yu Dazi’s monks, maybe next year will be able to produce a basket of scholarly talent.”

Yu Tonghe give so a squeeze, wow, really tears like rain. His grandfather Wei Tieshan that is from the cavalry vice commander of this high position retired from the meritorious veterans, not to mention off the armor is not a few years of work, and succeeded the position of Wei Tieshan He Zhonghu has always been the former as an elder brother, very respect, Wei Tonghe’s father Wei Jinshui also did the border army of the fourth grade generals, was extremely trusted by the He Zhonghu, Wei Copper River and many lying on their fathers to enjoy the successes of the children of the general species is not the same, do not like to soldiering hi Reading, and full of zeal, heard that the North Liang Road, the newly established flow of the state in dire need of officials, almost stealing from the family to run to the land of the stragglers, and has not been letting their colleagues know their identity, until this night was the assassin of the Lord uncovered the point of breaking, the house of those officials to the shock of the light. However, Yu Tonghe’s temperament is gentle and soft, indeed not too much like the elders of the family. If it is the old Liang Wang Tieshan so reprimanded, even if you do not dare to scold, will not say a word, but will not be aggrieved full of tears.

Yu Tonghe without any steps to go down, it can only go to the courtesy room that kitten and dog three or two clean water yamen miscellaneous, raised his arm and wiped his tears, but also did not forget to make a bow to the house of the people to say goodbye, just as he lowered his head to go out of the yamen house, was standing in the doorway of a person pressed on the shoulder, Yu Tonghe raised his head to see a warm and mellow smile unfamiliar face, the uninvited guest laughed softly: “Lord Assassin is provoking you, why don’t you appreciate it? Yu Tonghe, don’t you know that your grandfather and our Assassin Yang have been drinking buddies for many years? Would he really be willing to throw you into the ceremony room? If he really dares to do that, the Assassin will be chased and beaten by your grandfather.”

Yutonghe was stunned and asked in a daze, “You are?”

Yang Guangdou, who had been dismantled, said with a blank stare in dismay, “Idiot, why don’t you kneel down when you see His Highness?!”

As soon as he heard the word prince, the room full of young men who accompanied Yutonghe to stand together to be lectured were all blazing and in awe, and immediately wanted to kneel, Xu Fengnian waved his hand and said, “No, no, no, no, you all sit down and continue to deal with the political affairs. Liuzhou set up three towns and eight counties, a hundred things are waiting to happen, everything is difficult at the beginning, so get through this wave, practice makes perfect, it will be much easier in the future, and strive for the time when the assassin lord would like to scold you all so that he can’t find an excuse. This period of time, indeed is fortunate all of you, later this king will give all the Yamen all send a few jars of wine, well, the ceremony room side will send more, according to the assassin lord’s saying, leaning against the thatched latrine, always let the smell of wine overpower the smell of urine to do.”

The atmosphere in the room was suddenly much more relaxed, and the young officials all had some smiles on their faces.

Yu Tonghe even couldn’t help but swallow his saliva, he stood alone in front of the Northern Liang King, if he didn’t know the identity okay, but after the assassin lord broke the secret, he immediately felt a puff of invisible majesty, it’s not that Xu Fengyen really how imposing, but it’s just that Yu Tonghe this weak scholar scares himself. Xu Fengyen’s son of his highness as a wave of twists and turns, first of all, countless curses, and then overturned, even Huaihua General Zhong Hongwu to easily suppressed, hereditary recklessness after the title, but also the feat, refused to return to the holy decree, vigorously reorganize the Beiliang army, kill Wang Xianzhi, patrol the border, set up the flow of the state. How can Yutonghe not be scared? In fact, ordinary officials, no matter how infamous a feudal king, will be on thin ice. But those Beiliang King those deeds, for more in the closed window hard study of the Yu Tonghe, feel not deep, really let him feel admiration for Xu Fengyen is a matter of their own “small things”, the establishment of the flow state, Liyang on this treasonous behavior without consideration of the court center, seems to be a little indecisive suspicion, and is not sure whether to issue a decree of reprimand, and the subsequent development of the state of affairs. Reprimand, after the development of the more let the northern Liang people belly laugh, for example, Liuzhou governor Yang Guangdou’s salary money and corn, etc., surprisingly, only slightly inferior to the chief minister of the adults, the monthly material money alone has three hundred Guan, and Wei Tonghe such as can only be into the grade of the flow of the state officials, the material money also has fifteen Guan, pay firewood fifty bundles, and even have Liyang senior officials are only equipped with the spring silk, winter silk, each of the five pairs of the court “! The court “favors” the officials of Liuzhou, simply to the point of no return. Yu Tonghe did not think that any other vassal king could make the Liyang court hemorrhage money like this, neither King Yanzhi nor King Guangling could do it!

Xu Fengyen didn’t stay long, and walked out of the house with Yang Guangdou, this old man who was a border official was obviously in a good mood, and laughed softly: “Chen Chengmu is a man of all plans, I underestimated him before, it’s really condescending to be a Qingcang Chengmu, and I, the assassin, should be allowed to make the wise man right. Small 200,000 stragglers, the initiative to go to the Youliang two states to join the army has always been a minority, so far is still less than 10,000 people, I was at first at my wits’ end about this, can’t let the Dragon Elephant Army put a knife on the neck of the stragglers, forcing them to go to the border. But Chen Xiliang used a strategy, immediate effect, the displaced persons of each household, only one person to enlist, you can receive arable land in Lingshou, and enrollment in the Beiliang household ultimatum, corresponding to the Xu Beihao’s planning in Lingshou territory, those who are afraid of the death of the rich gentry have to sell their ancestral property, and now Lingshou fields are quite a lot of vacant land, this one to and fro, the flow of the state at least to the border of the northern Liang sent 40,000 soldiers! Forty thousand soldiers who will fight for their wives, children and brothers behind them! Your Highness, do you think Chen Xiliang being a martial city pastor is too much for his merits?!”

Xu Fengyen previously only knew that the number of participants in Liuzhou is expected to surge, but has not yet gotten his hands on the detailed spy reports, once he heard the huge number of 40,000, but also quite shocked, to know that the Guangling Road side of the fight seems to be turning upside down, the whole world are all stretched their necks and eyes eyeballs staring at the imperial court for this to read a few thousand pounds of spit, the number of people who really put into the battlefield is only close to one hundred thousand, but Chen Xiliang alone, silently to the But Chen Xiliang alone, silently brought 40,000 soldiers to Northern Liang, and don’t forget, the 40,000 of the Northern Liang army, is not the kind of 40,000 people can be comparable to Yang Shenxing’s? Once a good man commented on the strength of the military around the Liyang, the results were widely circulated, the man may be deliberately to the Northern Liang army on the fire, even said that the Northern Liang army a horse can be offset by the Liyang other elite horsemen two, Northern Liang a foot soldier against the Liyang elite foot soldiers three. However, Yan Wenluan, who never boasts, did say privately after the restoration of Western Chu that if Yang Shenxing’s 40,000 Jinan soldiers were replaced with his 20,000 foot soldiers, the Polaris military town could be taken down in one fell swoop, and naturally, there would be no subsequent great defeat at Scattered Barns.

Xu Fengyen helplessly said, “The stragglers moving into Lingzhou can get a household registration, Chen Xiliang did not greet the Qingliang Mountain side beforehand.”

Speaking here, Xu Fengyen laughed: “Lord Assassin, is this giving that guy Chen Xiliang a cover? What, afraid that I will punish him for both offenses?”

Yang Guangdou laughed out loud and did not hide it, saying bluntly, “Yes, Chen Xiliang comes from a humble background and truly cares for the people, this is something that even a simple-hearted descendant of an illustrious nobleman like Yutonghe would never be able to do. Your Highness, you can’t let this good seedling die prematurely. To be honest, if you really want to take Chen Xiliang in Liuzhou Liwei, I can’t stop you, but afterward, I will definitely pull him into this Assassin’s Mansion and offer him as a treasure.”

Xu Fengyen said frankly, “At first, I was planning to reward and punish Chen Xiliang, but on my way to Qingcang City, I met a Luming Song Clan descendant who, like you, spoke highly of Chen Xiliang, so I was dissuaded. And I found a point, wutong courtyard side have my second sister lead, plus the old set of strategist staff to assist, deal with the general political affairs of northern Liang has been very far-fetched, if really fight, estimated that even if I myself a day twelve hours a day to stay behind the desk, may not be able to busy over. Now Qingliang Mountain face, but is to solve some of the Northern Liang Road of the old bad habits, roughly can still according to the rules of gradual progress, this war a fight, I definitely want to go to the border, when there is a headache.”

Yang Guangdou said in a deep voice: “Your Highness is saying that Qingliang Mountain lacks a Li Yishan whose eyes and tactics are enough to control the big picture?”

Xu Fengnian nodded.

Yang Guangdou lamented, “This kind of character, not to say once in a century, but once in a few decades, even if there is one, it will be in the Zhao family’s urn in Tai’an City, so where will it be our turn to go to Northern Liang? Like rushed to the flow state of nearly a hundred students, and Beiliang local will be kind of scholars, together there are more than two hundred, but I look at it, the top of the good material, that is, Yu copper river this level of heart and talent, need to carve, not ten years of work, where can be a unique, under the sky is the number of the most easy to be an official, but to put it mildly, when the corrupt officials need to be gifted, not to mention a can be assured of one party’s ability to be a government official. Now I’m hoping that those who are in the field of scholars, can quickly rise out of a few, can not simply be a diamond in the rough, have to be the kind of molding can be used on the beautiful jade. Chen Xiliang and Xu Beihuan of course very good, but in the end or young, Li Yishan and his seat with the same seat of Nalan right Ci this a few seek the state of the man, but also by the smoke of the Spring and Autumn little by little smoked out, and Chen Xiliang also, Xu Beihuan also, there is a fatal flaw in their own skills can not be changed ah.”

Xu Fengnian softly said, “For the world to recognize the prestige.”

Yang Guangdou said with a tired face, “This world is so cool, the dogs of the powerful valves are better than the high priests of the humble family, especially before the Spring and Autumn Period, no matter how powerful you are, as long as you don’t have a family background, it’s hard to get things done, nowadays it’s only a little bit better, maybe it’ll get better in the future, but we can’t afford to wait for it in Beiliang.”

Xu Fengnian said to himself, “It seems that we have to hurry.”

Yang Guangdou, who is a veteran, lowered his voice and asked with a face full of surprise: “But do you have a candidate?”

Xu Fengyen laughed bitterly, “This kind of thing, it is not a matter of two lovers not working, the eight characters have not even started yet, let’s see my luck.”

Yang Guangdou, smiling playfully, said, “Rumor has it that the Xiangfan City’s Lu Dang was once ignored by the king?”

Xu Fengyen did not deny it, and said mockingly, “I don’t know who is the blind one.”

Yang Guangdou laughed it off and suddenly asked, “I heard that the guy from the Shangyin Academy has come out and went to Tai’an City?”

Xu Fengyen’s face was a bit hazy as he nodded, “Started slaying dragons.”

Yang Guangdou laughed coldly, “Cunning rabbits die and dogs cook, killing deer is the right thing to do!”