Someone once said that the rich post roads of the Liyang Dynasty are spread out with the iron hooves of a lame man.

A huge convoy set foot in the Xiaoranpo Inn in Youzhou. The inn was not big, but it was cleaner and cleaner than the Zhongyuan Inn. In fact, the convoy traveled westward. After entering Youzhou, which was under the jurisdiction of Beiliang Road from Jizhou, Hezhou, he found that there were many inns along the way, and there were often feathered cavalry galloping by. The convoy made a joke before, and heard that the Northern Liang border army had a lot of arrogant soldiers and generals, and the cavalry was among the top ones. There were many big figures in the convoy.

I have heard of some border military affairs, and it seems that there is a cruel rule that the post cavalry was hitting people on the road. Therefore, when the vanguard of the convoy was more than 60 people, when the vanguard of the convoy entered Youzhou, I met a Beiliang post cavalry who rode a horse from north to south for the first time. If I found that the post cavalry appeared at the fork intersection, it would be very likely to cut off the entire cavalry in the middle. You should know that the three or four carriages in the center were all sitting on the palace nobles with red pythons and white jade.

What should I do if I had a conflict with the Beiliang cavalry? The elite escorts from the capital of the sixty cavalry were suddenly panicked. Although officials from all over the country wanted to worship them as their ancestors when they went west to Beiliang this time, but facing a few Beiliang cavalry, the vanguard turned their horses and stopped the convoy behind without saying a word. They would rather congested together than let the cavalry unobstructed. The cavalry, who had already made preparations for a short stop, obviously did not understand the huge momentum of this vanguard.

What was the convoy thinking? When he continued along the north-south post road, he couldn't help but turn his head and look at the fork. His eyes were strange, probably because he felt that those foreigners who looked quite polite were too polite. Afterwards, a captain from the Arsenal Department of the Ministry of War explained that the entire convoy learned that the post cavalry was sent behind the post cavalry, which showed that this person was an ordinary post cavalry in Youzhou, and the intelligence he conveyed was only the most common type.

However, the vanguard Huqiu Captain, who was self-decided, was not scolded. An old eunuch wearing a big red python robe expressed the thoughts of everyone in the convoy.

"In Beiliang, we should be careful to sail the ten thousand-year-old ship."

Nowadays, most of the soldiers and soldiers in Liyang understand one truth: the world's soldiers are divided into three types: weak brigades and strong army, and the last one is called the Beiliang Iron Cavalry.

Last time, King Xinliang only led less than a thousand cavalry of Baima Yi to enter the important area of ​​Jingji, but it turned out to be in a state of no one. This storm that made Tai'an City lose all its face directly led to a royal general being held accountable and resigned by the clan's office. The Ministry of War did not intervene. However, no one in the capital city's officialdom knew that the yamen that held the world's military power had not had a good face to treat the generals from Jingji in the past six months. Every time he came to do business, it was almost like owing tens of thousands of taels of silver and not paying it back.

Later, at the end of the Guangling Road war, the 10,000-heavy Dragon Cavalry suddenly came out of the pass. Xu Gong, the Minister of War, who returned from the Liao Dynasty, personally led the elite troops from the capital to intercept it. There were also cavalry troops from Jizhou and Qingzhou, and even local garrisons tried their best to serve their lives. They were different from the same frustrated? Now there are rumors in Tai'an City that the reason why Lu Sheng, who had experienced the Guangling War, jumped over the Dragon Gate like a carp, rather than Xu Gong, who had made contributions in the Liao Dynasty, stood out because of the thunder and light rain, was that His Majesty the Emperor was too disappointed with this Confucian general who was born in Jiangnan Road.

Xiaoranpo Inn was neither lukewarm nor flattering, nor cold-eyed to these emperors who were visiting. The eunuchs in charge of seals were not surprised by this and did not pick on such matters. First, the eunuchs in Liyang rarely went out of Beijing to go around. At most, they had some secret contacts with the weaving bureaus in the Central Plains and the local official camps, and they would not openly appear in the sight of the officialdom outside the Beijing. Second, after the old emperor of Liyang had brought in the world and the eunuchs who were destroyed, these eunuchs were against each other.

Zhao Shi was grateful. Whether it was the old man who had experienced the war in the Spring and Autumn Period or the younger eunuchs they brought out, there had never been any rumors of rioting in the inner court for twenty years. The eunuchs' interference in politics was extinct. As powerful as the previous term of the Sili Supervisor, Han Shengxuan, was only one of the three major demons in the Spring and Autumn Period in the world. He was loyal to this official in the world, and had no doubts about the loyalty of the world's officials. Later, Song Tanglu, who was young, took over the Sili Supervisor, and was well-known among all civil and military officials.

The Xiaoranpo Inn was not enough to accommodate eunuchs who announced the imperial eunuchs, the imperial guards in the imperial palace and the elite cavalry of the capital. If there were other places, all prefectures and counties were properly placed and promised not to disturb the people. As for whether they really did not disturb the people, the several eunuchs in the Yinshoujian naturally turned a blind eye. After arriving at the jurisdiction of Youzhou, there were many inns but not big, and it was common for most of the teams to send orders to hide and sleep in the open. However, the Yinshoujian took the initiative to discuss with Youzhou Inn to avoid disturbing the rest and recuperation of the people in the Northern Liang Dynasty. Moreover, the convoy purchased additional items along the way and would never speak to Youzhou.

After entering the inn, three eunuchs in the big red python uniform gathered in the hall to discuss matters as usual, but did not rush to speak. Instead, they drank a pot of tea prepared by the servants by Xiaoranpo Postmaster and waited patiently for news from a confidant eunuch. Soon the young eunuch respectfully led a young scholar-like figure and walked into the hall. The young eunuch with his eyebrows down and looked at the door, closed the door, and waited outside the door. When he saw the young man wearing a literati blue shirt, the three big men of the seal supervisor immediately stood up to greet him, lowered his voice and smiled slightly, "I have seen Mr. Chen!"

The husband said that it was originally a kind of respectful saying by Lao Liyang, which was specially used to respect the military boss or the ministers who held the rank of the court. Once the ranks were above and below, the people who received this title were full of plans, and there were probably only seven or eight people. However, at that time, the Tang Dynasty dynasties in the Eastern Vietnam, which were in line with Liyang, still had the national strength and had the saying of the husband, but it was extremely indecent. It means that those handsome men and actors had a delicate voice, and they had the style of raising children and actors in the south of the Yangtze River, and were known as famous scholars and romantic people. Among them, there was a little bit of ridicule of Liyang. In the Yonghui year after Liyang annexed the Central Plains.

During this period, the grandfather of Tai'an City gradually disappeared, and after the Xiangfu year, it rose again, especially the inner court, and the eunuchs in the palace met some Liyang ministers who could walk in important places in the palace and ban, and they all liked to be called Gonggong. This time, of course, no one dared to confuse Gonggong from Jiangbei and Jiangnan. In the eyes of eunuchs with extraordinary vision, even one of the six ministers could not receive this honor. Only the Secretary of the Secretariat Qi Yanglong, the Secretary of the Secretariat Zhao Youling, the Left Master of the Menxia Shengshen, and Chen Wang, the Left Master of the Left Master of the Left Master, Chen Wang, and the Only Four, could make them call Gonggong even with their surnames.

The identity of the person in front of him was revealed.

Chen Shaobao and Chen Wang are the next best candidate for the Liyang Prime Minister.

The eunuch in charge of the seal is a kind and thin old man. If he replaced the eye-catching big red python robe with Taoist robe, he might be a fairy-like man. He sat down after Chen Wang sat down, without hiding his worries in his expression. His voice was sharp but not harsh, and he slowly said: "Mr. Chen really wants to go north of Youzhou? Without Mr. Chen as our backbone, our family is so nervous."

Chen Wang, who was a private visit to the public, left Beijing this time, only a handful of people were qualified to know, and he could count it with one hand. He smiled and said, "Eunuch Liu, don't worry, this time I will send an imperial edict to Qingliang Mountain, there will be no mistakes."

If someone else was so perfunctory and comforted, no matter how good the eunuch in the seal and qi cultivation skills were, he would secretly feel angry and embarrassed. But since Chen Shaobao said this, the old eunuch would be a little relieved.

The practice of public schools in the officialdom is originally a smart person who can be a superior official, so they often speak and do things with mystery. Both parties can't help but think deeply, and they can't help but think about it in one sentence, which is called "the truth is not enough." Especially the old Minister of Personnel Zhao Youling and the Yonghui Prime Minister Yin Maochun, who chatted with them, the most intelligent temple pillars, who dared to take it lightly? I'm afraid that when they retired, "The weather is good today", they can make the officials in their ears chew for a long time, catch the wind and shadow, and think carefully, how tired. Of course, this kind of fatigue still makes many officials enjoy it. But how many temples are there in Liyang?

People are different. Even if the "Zhao Family Gun" in Tai'an City where all the talents in the world are in the trap, some people still stand out, such as the old chief assistant Zhang Julu, Tantan Weng Huanwen, and Xiangfunian finally has another Chen Wang. Speaking to these three people, no matter the size of their official hats and the height of their official titles, they don't have to make any effort to deal with them. In short, it is a very worry-free thing. The reason is very simple. If you can't flatter these real masters and ministers, you will not be punished by their words, and the three of them may not be the official saints who have no desires or demands, but even if they have something to ask for, probably not everyone can understand what the so-called gains and losses they are in that realm?

In the past few years, the Tai'an City officialdom has been highly praised by Jin Lanting, who has risen to the top, but what is the truth? Perhaps the slap in Tantanweng had long revealed the secret of the world in his early years.

A mountain is higher than another mountain. Smart people will always meet smarter people. It is easy to be an official by relying on intelligence alone, but it is not easy to be a high-ranking official. It is extremely difficult to be a Shangshu who truly takes charge of the court, and it is even more difficult to be the chief minister who leads the world's ministers.

Now the officialdom in Beijing is convinced, and it is not an exaggeration to look up to Chen Shaobao no matter how high he is.

Compared with Zhang Julu, who once made Tai'an City tremble, Chen Wang's disadvantage is that his reputation is almost nothing, and he is both a mentor and a father-in-law's legacy. After all, Chen Wang was born in a cold family. Although his father-in-law is also a royal relative, he actually has a very small help.

The advantage is that Chen Wang is a well-deserved minister of the emperor and a confidant supported by the current emperor. The most important thing is that whether Chen Wang was helping Yin Maochun to preside over the local evaluation of Beijing, or served as the "Emperor's Teacher" in the diligent room, or finally promoted to the Secretariat of the Secretariat, Chen Wang's behavior and character and character fell in the eyes of the entire Tai'an City. Compared with the old assistant Zhang Julu who showed his sharpness after making a splash, Chen Wang always gave people the impression of being gentle and kind.

It is not an aggressive character at heart. This is tantamount to great good news for civil officials in the temple, because it means that once Chen Wang becomes the top leader of the Shangshu Province in the future, the entire Liyang officialdom will usher in a relatively stable period of peace. Even if there are still various official conflicts, they will only have promotions and demotions, regardless of life or death. There will not even be a desolate scene of being banned from a lifetime of official career due to hatred by one person.

It is strange to say that almost everyone in the entire Liyang officialdom now does not understand what Chen Wang, who is promoted step by step, does not want to be an official? Chen Wang has never said it personally, nor does he express such emotions.

This time, Chen Wang appeared in the convoy. Eunuch Liu, the eunuch in charge of the seal, was shocked when he saw the Zuo Sanqi Changshi himself. As for why Chen Shaobao secretly joined the convoy, Eunuch Liu and his men were very secretive and did not even dare to speculate on it.

So at this moment, Chen Wang asked him to leave the convoy immediately and go north separately. The three eunuchs in python sermon looked at each other.

Chen Wang's expression showed a trance. After quickly retracting his thoughts, he chuckled softly: "The three father-in-laws may have forgotten that my fellow villager is in Youzhou, Beiliang."

Returning home in glory?

Eunuch Liu asked carefully and tentatively: "Mr. Chen needs thousands of cavalry escorts from the capital?"

Chen Wang waved his hand and said, "I don't have to follow a horse, how dare I use public weapons for private use?"

Before Eunuch Liu could speak, another old eunuch in the Seal and Strip Supervisor said in a hurry: "Grandpa Chen, don't! Don't worry, please don't. If all the imperial guards and the cavalry in the capital are handed over to me, our three people would not be brave. After all, the court's dignity cannot be lost. But I believe no one will say anything more. If anyone really dares... our family will pull out his tongue! Mr. Chen is the mainstay of Liyang today, so you must not have any risks in Beiliang, otherwise our three people would not be ashamed to return to the capital alive!"

The eunuch Liu, the eunuch in charge of the seal, nodded vigorously with deep understanding.

Chen Wang smiled and said, "Three father-in-laws, Your Majesty has personally begged one person to escort me back to my hometown."

The three old eunuchs who had been in the Tai'an City Palace for most of their lives were shocked.

Please!

Today, who can let His Majesty the Emperor "please" ask Chen Wang to escort him back home?

Chai Qingshan from Dongyue Sword Pool obviously does not have this weight, and the ancestors of the Wu Family Sword Tomb may be a little less good.

Chen Wang stopped and explained some matters related to the delivery of orders to the three eunuchs of the Seal and Strip Prison, and then stood up and left.

After the three eunuchs in python robe personally sent Chen Wang to the outside of the hall, they saw a young strange eunuch standing under the steps. After careful look, they still couldn't remember when there was such a junior in the Seal and Strip Prison.

But after seeing him, Chen Wang nodded slightly, but the latter was indifferent. When the two turned around and left, the young eunuch was vaguely in front of him.

Not long after, a carriage quietly left the Xiaoranpo Inn and headed north.

Chen Wang got on the carriage and bowed to the groom and thanked him: "I'm sorry, sir."

The young official who only wore an ordinary eunuch's costume and had a shirt, his face was cold.

The carriage was slowly, less than half a mile away, and two riders stopped beside the post road, an old man carrying a sword box with a strict spirit, and a beautiful woman with a sword as beautiful as a flower.

It was Mi Fengjie, a master of the Zhixuan Realm who had personally absorbed into the Fushui Room, and Fan Xiaochai, who is now at the peak of his life in the Fushui Room.

These two riders acted as entourages, following the carriage neither far nor close.

In the next inn, another young official from Beiliang who was carrying a pot of green ant wine boarded the carriage and sat opposite Chen Wang.

He looked at the Zuo Sanqi Eunuch who was roughly the same age as him, and Chen Shaobao, who was the highest official position in the Liyang court of the Northern Liang clan, raised the wine pot in his hand and asked with a smile: "Mr. Chen, do you want some drink?"

Chen Wang's face was flat and he shook his head, "Don't drink."

He sighed in his heart.
Chapter completed!