"It's so good, so good! At least, he is no longer so impeccable." In a garden beside Luoshui, someone also praised loudly at a private banquet: "It's just that we are investigating I've been waiting for a long time, but I couldn't do anything, but I didn't want to end up in the government office."
"But thinking about it, it's not impossible." Another person took advantage of the situation and said: "After all, there are more than hundreds of thousands of vassal children who have stayed in the capital all year round, and there are countless others who are not registered. Among them The relationships and origins are so intertwined that they can be sorted out one by one."
"It's just that what people would never have imagined is that a direct descendant of the official family would end up alone and unknown in the market, and then have a chance encounter?" Someone else said with emotion: "This is too much. It’s too bizarre, just like a scripted story from a Bianwen or Bai opera.”
"Masters... Masters, are you paying too much attention?" But there was also a fourth person who gently knocked on the ancient wine glass with chopsticks and said: "Shouldn't the focus be on his attitude towards this, rather How was your background before awakening? But anyway, there will be a lot of things happening in the court."
"That's right!" The person who spoke at the beginning shook the jade cup in his hand with some annoyance: "The three supporting families at the beginning, with the coordination of the Political Affairs Hall, finally reached an agreement with Ouchi to maintain the status quo; but now that he is involved in Tonghai The office is related to one family and three families, so I'm afraid..."
"I'm afraid he may not care about one or two, but the landless feudal lord will not let go easily." Someone immediately said: "But isn't this the opportunity we expected? The only way is to create further variables. , break the status quo, and we will have more future to look forward to!"
Before he finished speaking, everyone else fell silent. But he is faintly afraid of it; as one of the bloodlines and descendants left by Liang Gong, whether it is the Great Xia of the Western Kingdom or the Nanhai Gongshi, they are giants that have been away from the center all year round, but cannot be ignored and are indispensable. .
The Jingzhao family, known as the "landless vassal lord" and the "daily pastor", has been firmly behind the scenes for generations, staying above the court disputes. The Empress Dowager Yao and Shun also relied on the relative neutrality of the Jingzhao family to suppress Fu. The three generations of the Zheng family have always excluded them from the political hall.
Even Tonghai Gongshi, which has the lowest foundation, is its own entity in Yizhou. Had it not been for the internal strife in the Tonghai Palace, it would have been really outrageous; and Empress Dowager Yao and Shun took the initiative to suppress all material arguments and doubts; how could the imperial court have intervened so easily?
Therefore, if anyone in the DPRK wants to do something with this, it will be difficult to have enough influence and powerful intervention on the existing Tonghai Office. After all, the prince in power is the legitimate heir to the palace, and no one except Tong Haigong can question his status.
As long as they are not committing the ten heinous crimes of treason, self-reliance, and regicide, there is conclusive evidence; just relying on some incited side tribesmen to make specious and catch-up accusations, even the vassal academy and the vassal Don’t even think about passing the preliminary proposals in the State Council easily;
What's more important is the attitude of the person who wants to arrest the censor; as long as he doesn't care about it, no one can hope to hide it from him and claim his rights in Tonghai Palace on his behalf. After all, there are very few coincidences of similar looks in this world, but they are not enough to prove it.
"Everyone, we seem to have overlooked a key point." However, after a long silence, someone still had an idea and said: "Perhaps from the standpoint of the imperial court, it is difficult to say this again and again; but as a Jingzhao family member, can't we Don’t you care about your bloodline wandering outside?”
"As long as enough suspicion and grounds are given, wouldn't the landless feudal lords of the Zong family try to dig deep into the cause and effect and root causes? Such things that are inconvenient for the court to do, but they do it without hindrance, there are some things hidden No matter how deep it is, it will inevitably see the light of day again."
Just when the upper floors of the court in Luodu and Chang'an were undercurrents due to this news, there was surprisingly no movement in Shangyang Palace where the emperor lived; various secretly related memorials Hearing and hearing, they all stayed in silence like a stone sinking into the ocean. There was no news.
Even some of the courtiers who were nearby were given instructions and requests, and they cautiously made insinuations on the basis of some insignificant trivial matters; they were also lightly influenced by him to look at it. Just like the semi-retired Jin Shang, he has no interest in this and is unwilling to participate in it.
On the contrary, news soon spread from the inner palace that a favored young concubine was kicked out of Shangyang Palace without hesitation because she talked too much while serving the emperor. Yuan was relegated to the last of the eighty-one royal wives; she was like being relegated to the cold palace and ordered other courtyards to reflect on themselves.
At the same time, Jiang Tian and his party had already boarded the northbound carriage on the horse-drawn track. As one of the legacies left by Liang Gong, the passenger and freight vehicles that crisscrossed the horse-drawn tracks had already flourished all over the Tang Dynasty; especially in the flat and vast Central Plains.
A variety of continuously extending double-track tracks, even between Hexi, Guanzhong, Heluo, and Xichuan, formed a large and small track network connecting most cities. At the same time, it forms some kind of mutually nested docking system with the southeast and southwest waterways with dense river networks south of the river.
In contrast, the rail network with the two Beijings as hubs only maintains a rather limited and subtle single-line connection. Therefore, relying on the transportation capacity provided by these rail networks, the imperial court was able to quickly transport troops and mobilize supplies, and quickly formed an overwhelming local advantage to quell the unrest.
Therefore, during the period when Jiang Tian went south to quell the demonic chaos, there were also constant turmoil in the north. However, most of the demonic changes and anomalies that broke out in the densely populated hinterland were quickly extinguished by local officials and imperial garrison troops. On the contrary, the situation is more prominent in the sparsely populated Yanbian area.
For example: Several princes outside the Great Wall reported that they discovered the existence of the suspected ancient mythical beast "wildebeest" between Hetao and Dashaqi, and many mares from the herd were abducted. There are also rumors that business travelers encountered hordes of human-headed harpies north of Daqing Mountain, raiding people and animals.
In the territory of Huanglong Prefecture in the north of the Andong Protectorate, there were fish-shaped monsters in the water that cut off bridges and overturned boats; they caused many tragedies and repelled the soldiers of various vassals who came to encircle and suppress them several times. But the most serious situation is the demon disaster located north of Yanshan, at the junction of Raole and Songmo Dudu Mansion.
In the local Lulong Mansion, two groups of people who went to crusade have lost contact; and the Youzhou branch of the newly established secret censorship department also lost a lot of manpower; they had to ask for help from the Dongdu headquarters. One of the documents asking for help was also forwarded to Jiang Tian nearby.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Jiang Tian decided to take the initiative to accept this request for help. Most of the sergeants and auxiliary personnel accompanying him escorted the documents, documents, equipment and materials to the Yellow River, and then returned to Xijing upstream. Jiang Gao, on the other hand, traveled northward in light clothes, waiting for opportunities to harvest the newly emerged aliens.
Therefore, compared with the rolling floods in spring, the horse-drawn rail cars, which are almost unimpeded in all seasons, have become the first choice for convenient transportation. Of course, traveling in the Central Plains is a different kind of scenery.
Jingnan and Jiangxi are relatively full of pools and marshes; or Lianghuai is full of fragrant rice and wheat, and there are ponds everywhere; or Jiangdong and Zhejiang are full of river networks and weaving boats; or there are endless peaks, The mountains and rivers of Fujian; the main feature of the Central Plains is that it is large and flat.
There is a straight and vast skyline in all directions, and it seems that you can't see any edge even if you walk for days and nights; various densely populated, prosperous and prosperous cities, towns, and villages are densely scattered along the track, which is basically impossible to see. It makes people overwhelmed and quickly becomes insensitive.
The only thing that can bring some freshness and novelty to Jiang Tian's boring journey is probably the special food from different places that he can get from the nearby markets and vendors every time he switches to horses at the stop. For example, Laiju’s clam braised noodles, Jeju’s pork belly, Jeju’s sweet spin...
After crossing the Yellow River, it became Bozhou's Huozi, Dezhou's oil chicken; Jizhou's crispy fish and bean soup, Jingzhou's sheep shred fried cakes; Yingzhou's tripe meat, Cangzhou's three-color sheep, apricot cheese cake; donkey meat crispy cake in Mozhou, and after entering Zhuozhou, it turned into beef and mutton soup.
It's just that this time, in addition to staying close to him day and night, he can also act as Linghu Xiaomu, who can transfer coordinates from a distance at critical times. Jiang Tian also brought with him Shen Yizhi, a former bachelor who had changed his appearance and changed his name to Xu Zhixing; in a sense, this tragic encounter changed him a lot.
Perhaps, only in the face of these alien struggles and battles can this de facto cheap uncle slowly let go of his pent-up feelings and gradually come out of this haze of becoming an inhuman thing. . Therefore, Jiang Tian rarely found time to chat with him.
Only then did I begin to understand that this cheap uncle was worthy of being from a scholarly family known as the "Golden Horse of the Jade Hall" for generations, a bachelor of Dongge who was promoted to a serious class of eight classics, and a professor at Peking University. He was knowledgeable in many fields. Hearing widely, citing classics, he can be said to be a walking bookcase with two legs.
Therefore, Jiang Tian quickly made arrangements for him. At least he served as a compilation consultant in the Xijingli Academy, and was also responsible for civilian teaching; he made up for the many lay sergeants and expert team members, as well as those clerical officials and subordinates from lower levels; plate.
Don’t underestimate the role of educational foundation. Whether it is Xijingli Xingyuan’s supporting production technology, or research and development applications for heterogeneous species, or deeper mysterious exploration; they all require corresponding knowledge foundation and threshold. The existing personnel, It seems so precious.
In this back-and-forth discussion and thinking, the plan for re-learning and reinventing the Xijingli Hangyuan staff is gradually taking shape. After changing to the horse-drawn exclusive carriage for the seventh time, we finally arrived in Lulong Mansion and stopped at Jieshiguan Station outside Youzhou City. (End of chapter)
