After the new Jinshi in Liyang passed the imperial examination, he was often not immediately appointed. Before formally replacing his official positions, he was sent to the six ministries and other yamen to intern in political affairs. This is the so-called Jinshi system. After the new emperor ascended the throne, he went further and set a precedent for officials to observe the borders of the Ministry of War. This was one of the proposals of King Zhao Xun of Jing'an that year, and the purpose was to prevent the Ministry of War from talking about military affairs on paper and not pragmatic. It can be seen that the current Zhao family emperor is particularly obsessed with this young vassal king who was loyal to the Jingnan Dynasty.

.This time, the Ministry of War, which was attracted by the government and the country, left the border, and the officials of the Ministry of War were not of high rank. Among them, Kong Zhenrong, the officer of the Vehicle and the Automobile Department, Gao Tingshu, the chief of the Wuxuan Qing official department, and Yan Chiji, the chief of the Arsenal Department, were all typical young faces in the capital. There are two reasons why all the big men in the court were concerned about it. One is that the preferred location for the border was not the expected two Liaos, nor was there an Eastern Front that the Minister of War Xu Gong echoed each other in the local area, but the northwest border of the desert, the North Liang Road!

The second reason is that the officials carefully selected by the Ministry of War are extremely intriguing. Among them, Gao Tingshu, the new ranks, and Wu Congxian and others were able to gain fame in Tai'an City in the same year. Obviously, relying on their identities as one and three, is not enough. If it weren't for the Shinsanlang's efforts to promote the fire of poetry and lyrics, they would have lost their glory in the political field for two or three months. In that yamen, Zhao Jiawen, with many high-ranking officials, has been in the Yonghui era for more than 20 years, and there is no shortage of top scorers.

The second-class Tanhualang, as for the Jinshi, there is even more to count. Who doesn’t know that Jin Lanting, a famous man from the dynasty who had the kindness of Gao Tingshu, regarded the father and son of the Xu family in Beiliang over the years? In addition, the patrol of Yan Chiji and Kong Zhenrong is worthy of fun. Because a woman came to Beijing, Yan Jiexi, Yan Chiji and Yan Chiji became relatives of the emperor. What’s even more unexpected is that the fourth prince without ambition can easily break the royal family’s legend with an uncontested attitude.

The unshakable lord's eldest son, who was bound by the thunder and finally became a gentle and smooth road to the south. The father-in-law Yan Jiexi was previously a Grand Secretary of Dongyuan Pavilion, and the Yan Chiji, who was often bullied by the Tai-Ancheng playboys at the beginning, has now become the uncle of the dynasty. Who doesn't know that today's son not only has a deep relationship with the queen, but he always gets along with this gentle brother-in-law before ascending the throne. Otherwise, Yan Chiji could not have served as the Arsenal Department of the Ministry of War as a Jinshi not long ago.

The head of the official, how could he personally send him off on the day of his report, and even let Lu Shangshu of the Ministry of War to greet him? Kong Zhenrong was also from the Northern Liang Dynasty. His father Kong Dahe was an official in Beijing because of his merits and joined the second prince. Kong Wuchi and Yan Chiji were both brothers who could wear pairs with the current King of Northern Liang when they were young. In addition, Li Hanlin, the only one who stayed in Northern Liang, the four of them visited together in Northern Liang that year, even if there were not a hundred brothels in Beiliang, there were still seventy or eighty.

In this way, it would be a big deal. The four brothers, not to mention Xu Fengnian, the hereditary border vassal king, even if Li Hanlin had a father who was the second-rank master of Li Yang, what official position is now? He is just a small crossbowman! Moreover, Li Gongde, who is generally believed to be skilled, has only been a rank-level official for a few days. Before his butt was warmed up, he quickly squeezed out such an outsider as Song Dongming. On the other hand, in the capital, not to mention Yan Chiji, who was transcendent, Kong Zhenrong was already a hot and powerful figure in the Ministry of War. If you go to local prefectures and counties, no matter you are a large number of county magistrates, you must be honest with Kong Zhenrong and be careful to entertain him. Maybe the latter is not willing to appreciate it.

Since it was the border of Guanzheng, of course, it was to go to Youzhou without leaving Lingzhou, which is known as the Little Jiangnan. Not long after they entered the country, they received shocking news that the Beimang army advanced in three lines. Several old men from the Ministry of War originally wanted to circle around the relatively calm Youzhou border and give the court an explanation. Then they immediately set off to Jibei and greet the newly rising Yuan Tingshan. Then they went to the two Liaos and met Gu Jiantang, the country's great pillar and Xu Gong, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War. The way should be safe and sound without any rain. They never thought that it would be such a difficult situation to enter the eastern part of Youzhou. God knows whether the Northwest barbarian surnamed Xu felt that he had been swept away by the court and was brave. In anger, he simply let the Beiliang border army dress up as Beimang cavalry and take their group of Guanzheng officials in the Ministry of War?

Several old men who had seen the sinister officialdom quickly stopped at a border post station. They went all night and couldn't discuss a perfect plan. However, the young and energetic Gaotings was quite dissatisfied. They not only proposed to go straight to the gourd entrance of Youzhou, but also to go to the Hutou City, the largest northwest pass in Liangzhou to take a look. The old people who were already afraid of the cold were so scared that they were purple. If it weren't for the second-hand man who was lucky enough to have a good impression of Gu Jiantang and Lu Shangshu, they would have waited to sit on the bench of the Ministry of War after returning to Beijing.

Yes. Compared with Gaotingshu, who was not afraid of tigers, the young uncle Yan Chiji, who was gentle and polite along the way, was really acquainted in the eyes of those old foxes in the officialdom. He picked the wicks at the post station for a few times. In the end, Yan Chiji gave an idea, which soon made the old man think more and more "suitable". The uncle suggested not to go to Youzhou or to the northern line of Liangzhou, but to go directly to the Prince of Beiliang and Qingliang Mountain. Dendrobium Liang, the doctor in charge of the specific affairs of the Qingli Department, pinched his beard, calmed down, squinted his eyes and smiled, saying, "Good".

Lord Liang became more and more pleased with this young uncle. It would be nice to go to Qingliang Mountain, which is so stunning. No matter how rebellious the King of Beiliang was, even if he dared to send troops to resist the imperial edict, he would not be so bold that he would kill people in his palace? Besides, with the real friendship that Yan Chiji and Kong Zhenrong and the King of Beiliang were saved, even if there were not many left, going to the Prince of Beiliang should not be a Hongmen Banquet. Besides, no one has ever heard of the spectacular scene of thousands of carp rolling in Chaohu Lake? There are so many officials in Tai-Ancheng, how many people have the opportunity to see it with their own eyes? Gao Tingshu, who seemed very energetic after leaving the capital, he hesitated for a moment, and finally did not say anything that would offend the public. It seems that the identity of Yan's uncle is indeed not something that he, the second-hand man with an unstable foundation, could provoke.

When the Guanzheng team stopped to rest at the post station bordering Liangliangzhou, Kong Zhenrong, who had returned home after entering Beijing, found Yan Chiji who was reading the books of sages at night. After sitting down, Yan Chiji gradually faded away the unconscious atmosphere of the foreigners entering Beijing. Moreover, he was full of poetry and literature. After the Yan family became prosperous, this weak young scholar also became more independent invisibly, which made the father, who was a scholar in the main hall, feel very happy. Kong Zhenrong did not speak, and Yan Chiji did not speak actively. There was only his sound of flipping books and the occasional slight sound of the wick cracking in the room. Kong Wuqi couldn't hold back and asked in a muffled voice: "Yan Chiji, would you say Brother Feng be angry? Don't see us?"

Yan Chiji continued to read the book, but he seemed not sure, and said softly: "No way."

Kong Zhenrong, who had just shaved his beard, touched his stubble, sighed and said sadly: "It's okay, at least I have been with that guy Hanlin and Brother Feng for a few years. I went to the capital several years ago. Last time I went to Brother Feng for a while. My father was confused and tricked me to the south of Jingji early, but in the end I didn't meet. Yan Chicken, you studied more, do you think Brother Feng really didn't think I was unfaithful? If I had known this was such a silly situation, even if I ran away from home, I wouldn't have gone to the capital with my father."

Yan Chiji did not turn over the book anymore, and stopped on the page at hand, silent.

Kong Zhenrong asked, "Why don't you go to the Ministry of Personnel or the Ministry of Rites and come to the Ministry of War to do anything? Haven't you hated blood in wars the most since you were a child?"

Yan Chiji sighed: "It's because he hates you that he wants to go to the Ministry of War."

Kong Zhenrong said with a blank look: "You scholars are so versatile that they don't say anything directly. Others take off their pants and fart them, but you are wearing pants and shit."

Yan Chiji's eyes suddenly became a little sharper, looked out the window, and whispered: "When you go back, say to Uncle Kong, don't contact the King of Tang, who is the only one who is a vassal of Jiangnan Road."

Seeing Kong Zhenrong's confused appearance, Yan Chiji burst out from his teeth almost one word at a time, "Especially the incident of the Tang King sending people to Beijing to offer auspicious white deer, so your father must not get involved!"

Kong Zhenrong wondered: "Isn't this a good thing?"

Yan Chiji sneered: "Don't worry about anything. Just say it to your father and say it was my heartless words after a family dinner. Your father knows the severity and interests."

Kong Zhenrong, who used to help Yan Chiji block the wind and rain, said, looking at Yan Chiji's face, and said softly: "Yan Chiji, I don't seem to know you anymore."

Yan Chiji's originally tight face was a little softer, and he picked up the books on the table again and said to himself, "I don't want it either."

The next trip to Liangzhou allowed the old men, including the Qing Lishu, the doctor of the Qing Lishu, to slowly let go of their hearts, which were already hanging in their throats. Not only did the troops in various places in Liangzhou open a door for convenience for them, but a newly appointed lieutenant personally led the army to escort them to the outside of the city of the state. Although it was somewhat surveillance, it was at least a sufficient face to watch the Ministry of War on the table. Although the doctor, Dendrobium Liang, was not from a military corps, had a good vision as an old minister of Zhang Lu of the Ministry of War. Yi Ye Zhiqiu could weigh the strength of the military strength in the Beiliang area, far better than Jingji and Jizhou, which had been passed by before. Naturally, in his heart, the 300,000 frontier cavalry of the Xu family, which was the most powerful in the world, was quite moved. It turned out that the light cavalry in Beiliang Road was already so majestic.

When the people of Liangzhou were seen as monkeys, the Guanzheng team came to the gate of the royal palace at the foot of Qingliang Mountain. When they saw the pair of stone lions that were two tall, even the knowledgeable old men of the Ministry of War looked at each other and gasped in the air conditioner at the same time. It was so grand! Yan Chiji and Kong Zhenrong's expressions were a little complicated, while Gao Tingshu snorted coldly, which scared Dendrobium Liang to cough a few times, fearing that the people in the Beiliang Palace would listen to their ears. In Liyang, there has always been a saying that the local officials were three feet short of the capital, which means that the power of the capital officials was to compare with the power of the capital officials.

Local officials are naturally three ranks higher than those of the Ministry of Personnel who are arrogant to the Beijing officials. Although the Ministry of War, which has lost its backbone, has begun to be overwhelmed by the Ministry of Personnel led by the new Liyang "Heaven Official" Yin Maochun, the majesty is still there. As the chief officer of the office who is in charge of various maps in the world, Dendrobium Liang is also a scholar who claims to be proud of himself. Therefore, when he took the lead in walking into the side door of the Beiliang Palace, the Beijing official with a swaying sleeve while walking was still very arrogant, and even the officials in the palace couldn't help but take a look at it.

King Xu Fengnian of Beiliang did not show up from beginning to end. He was the guest of the Deputy Envoy of Beiliang Road, Song Dongming, who came forward to the visit. He said that the prince was in charge of military affairs at the border, but he was really unable to escape. Dendrobium Liang and his old foxes were reluctant to let the man slaughter the son of the slaughter and ignored them, and said a lot of beautiful words that he didn't want to pay any money. He praised the King of Beiliang for his daily life and devoted himself to the northwest gates for the court, etc. Song Dongming, the self-proclaimed Deputy Envoy of Beiliang, smiled and accepted the King of Beiliang in full. Perhaps because of the morale of the Deputy Envoy of the Central Plains, it really made people feel like spring breeze. Dendrobium Liang and others immediately felt much more relaxed, and they also felt a little sincerely regretful that Song Dongming was really covered in dust. If he went to the temple in the capital and stood side by side with the ministers and ministers of the dynasty, it would be pleasing to the eye.

After Song Dongming welcomed the officials of the Ministry of War, he unexpectedly had no intention of fooling people into making batter. He put down the chopsticks on the dinner table and stood up to take everyone to his office on the hillside of Qingliang Mountain. He took the initiative to tell the sensitive military affairs, including the appointment of the captain in Beiliang Road and the promotion of the border army. The Ministry of War was somewhat of a patrol for the emperor, but Dendrobium Liang then went to Jizhou to think so. How dare they be so arrogant in Beiliang Road? I thought they could have had a few full meals and drink those pots of green ant wine, and even made plans to be hung coldly. The old man, including Dendrobium Liang, insisted on listening and not speaking, but Gaotingshu was not particular. He asked about the distribution of troops in Beiliang and some specific border troops several times.

Song Dongming didn't see any unhappy expressions, and he just found some excuses to skip them. Dendrobium Liang was originally willing to be a ignorant young man, Gaotingshu, who was ignorant of life and death, would be a contribution to the icing on the cake if he could really spy on the truth. However, after the young chief asked repeatedly, Song Dongming narrowed his eyes and lowered his head to drink tea. Dendrobium Liang could not sit still. He glanced at the door in fear that when the deputy commander threw the cup, five hundred knives and axes rushed out, pressing them to the ground and chopped them all to feed the dogs. Dendrobium Liang hurriedly smoothed out and said that he had heard that the red carp leaping in Chaohu Lake was the best in the world and wanted to take his colleagues to see. Song Dongming did not get up this time, but just smiled and asked his subordinates to lead the Ministry of War to listen to Chaohu Lake.

Then Song Dongming came to the top of the mountain alone, looked at Xu Fengnian who had been rushing back to the palace after taking a walk, and asked, "Since you are back, don't you talk about the past?"

Xu Fengnian shook his head, looked at Tingchao Lake, and said, "Mr. Song, accompany me to the back of the mountain, let's go together to engrave the two hundred and ninety-six names on the monument."

Song Dongming nodded.

The deputy commander of the strategic envoy who walked on the back mountain with Xu Fengnian was obviously holding his breath for a long time, and finally couldn't help but say angrily: "What a wealthy person who doesn't return home is like walking in a night clothes! But are there two hundred and ninety-six people in Beiliang?"

Xu Fengnian said calmly: "Just remember it ourselves in Beiliang."
Chapter completed!