The personnel adjustment of the imperial court was not limited to the two ministers, and then the Son of Heaven, the Right Prime Minister and the Ministry of Officials issued dozens of personnel adjustment orders in succession, involving the position adjustment of nearly 100 officials.

For a time, the hearts of the people in the imperial court fluctuated, and everyone was talking about this official adjustment, which was the most drastic adjustment since the Son of Heaven ascended the throne.

In the afternoon of this day, Xue Xun returned to the mansion with a heavy heart, Han came up to take off her husband's coat, Xue Xun waved his hand, "I'll go to the inner study to sit for a while, you can fry a cup of tea for me!" ”

He turned around and walked to the inner study, looking at her husband's worried back, Han was really surprised, her husband was in a hurry to see his son every day when he came back, never an exception, what was going on today?

She asked the maid to fry a pot of tea, and walked into her husband's study with the teacup, and when she saw him sitting at the table in a daze, she put the teacup on the table and asked, "Master, what happened?" ”

Xue Xun sighed and said, "Yang Xiangguo came to talk to me today. ”

Han was taken aback, "Could it be that Yang Xiangguo wants to remove you from your official position?" ”

Xue Xun shook his head, "It's not to be dismissed, but to transfer me to Bashu to take up a post." ”

Han Shi breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "I won't let you go to Jianzhou again!" ”

"This time I went to Chengdu Mansion to serve as the governor and was promoted to the doctor of Yinqing Guanglu, which seems to be the meaning of the Son of Heaven,"

Han's eyes widened, and he was surprised and delighted: "Isn't this a promotion?" Why are you still worried, I thought something was wrong? ”

Xue Xun sighed, "This promotion is too fast, I was still a sixth-grade petty official the year before last, and I was promoted to the third-rank in just two years, and my virtue is not worthy, I don't want to accept it." ”

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Han Shi was a little anxious, poked her husband's forehead with her finger and said: "Others can't be promoted even if they want to, it's good for you, you actually think that you were promoted too quickly, I just don't know what to say about you." ”

Xue Xun unhappily brushed his wife's finger away, "What do you know, this is my son-in-law's promotion to me, I can't ask for it." ”

"This.... What does this have to do with son-in-law? ”

Xue Xun shook his head, "The son-in-law led the army to a great victory in Shazhou, this time the court decided to deal with it in a low-key manner, and will not give the son-in-law a promotion and knighthood, the Son of Heaven felt a little guilty in his heart, so he took the opportunity of this official adjustment to give me a promotion, even if it compensated for the grievances of the son-in-law, the son-in-law is a national merit, what is my promotion?" ”

"You're a rumor!"

"What rumors, it was told to me by the privy envoy Huo Gonggong himself, he is the person next to the Son of Heaven, of course he knows the truth."

Han Shi said for a while: "Even if this is the case, if you refuse to accept it, wouldn't you have disappointed your son-in-law even more, at least the son-in-law knows that his merits have been compensated to a certain extent, and he is also a little more comfortable, and Tao'er is also happy." ”

In fact, what Han said made a little sense, whether it was from the position of the Son of Heaven or from the position of Guo Song, this arrangement was acceptable to everyone, but Xue Xun was a little sad about the hurdle in his heart, and he felt that his talent and virtue were not worthy of this position.

Xue Xun sighed, he felt uncomfortable in his heart, but the will of the Son of Heaven had already been issued, and he couldn't help it.

"Pack your things! Three days later we went to Chengdu. ”

"What about the safety on the road?" Han still remembers the halfway horror he encountered on his last trip to Bashu.

Xue Xun thought for a while and said: "This time, we will try to be as simple as possible, we don't need to bring anything with us, and the imperial court will send an army of 100 people to escort us to Chengdu Mansion, so there should be no problem with safety." ”

..........

Camel bells sounded, the yellow sand was long, a team composed of thousands of camels and three thousand Tang Army cavalry had already walked through hundreds of miles of desert, bid farewell to the yellow sand, a large poplar forest appeared in front, and then walk dozens of miles to reach Puchanghai.

"This time I feel very relaxed in the desert, and I don't have the feeling of dying at any time at all.

Guo Song smiled and asked several accompanying generals around him, they had all followed Guo Song to Anxi back then, and they still remembered the pain of the desert.

Li Bing raised his hand and smiled: "I'll say it first!" I think the most important thing is that there is enough water, at the beginning we underestimated, the water hose was less, and there was no water halfway through, and the pain at that time was mainly the feeling of having no water, and people were going to die of thirst. ”

Guo Song nodded, "That's right, who else can add it?" ”

Liang Wu raised his hand and said: "I think it's because there are so many camels, they are the barriers, they surround us at night, and they are not afraid of wind and sand." ”

The crowd was arguing, some were in favor of sufficient water, and some thought that the main reason was the abundance of camels.

Guo Song waved his hand and smiled: "Actually, it's very simple, that is, we are familiar with it, as long as we are familiar with a road, it will become shorter, and each of us has this experience."

Of course, the scale is very important, two people crossing the desert and 20,000 people crossing the desert are not the same thing at all, with a huge scale, you can carry a huge amount of resources, so I think that in the future, you need to cross the desert more than 1,000 people and 3,000 camels, in addition to set up supply points at both ends of the desert, mainly water, but also to erect guiding towers in the desert, so that people and camels can maintain sufficient physical strength, and it may only take four days to cross the desert, and the connection between Shazhou and Anxi will become closer. ”

Li Bing thought for a while and proposed: "Actually, I think that a tribe can be migrated to Puchanghai, and then set up a city to guard the city, and then Shazhou will also set up a city to guard the city, and slowly inns and taverns will come out, so that a commercial supply point along the way will be formed." ”

Guo Song sighed slightly: "Whether these tribes are guarding the city, or commerce, they originally had them, and there were even small towns, but unfortunately they were all destroyed by the war, unless they drove Tubo out of Anxi, they would not allow the strengthening of ties between Shazhou and Anxi, don't think too much about it at this stage, as long as the water supply station and the guiding tower in the desert are erected, it is already very good." ”

After walking for more than ten miles, at this time everyone had already felt the water vapor in the air, and suddenly their spirits were greatly lifted, and they accelerated their speed and ran forward, and the soldiers in front of them had already shouted, at this time, even Guo Song saw that a blue lake like a jewel appeared in front of them, as far as the eye could see, the waves were vast, and Pu Changhai had arrived.

.........

After a day's rest in Pu Changhai, the team continued westward along the Chihe River, and did not encounter the Tubo army along the way, and eight days later entered the territory of Qiuci country.

The white-haired veteran headed by Guo Xin is Guo Xin, he saw the Tang army team, he turned over and dismounted from afar, ran over, Guo Song hurriedly dismounted, the two hugged each other tightly, tears flowed down, it has been eight years since Guo Song left last time, eight years later, Guo Song once again led the troops to arrive, the soldiers on both sides looked at this scene, all burst into tears.

Guo Xin choked up and said, "Virtuous nephew, you are finally here." ”

Guo Song restrained the sadness and excitement in his heart, nodded and said, "I said, I will definitely come back." ”

Guo Xin looked at the camel behind him and couldn't help asking, "Are there any supplies for us?" You know we are really difficult, last year in Anxi snow disaster, our sheep all froze to death, the food ran out, we can only rely on fishing, catching voles, digging grass roots to survive, many people are so hungry that they can't walk. ”

"Doesn't King Guizi care about you?" Guo Song said angrily.

Guo Xin shook his head and sighed: "They have been moving away for five years, and only Tang Jun and his family are left in Qiuzi City, but the land outside the city refuses to give us, they come to plant wheat every spring, harvest it in autumn, and there is not a single ear of wheat left, and in winter, life is very difficult, each person only has a bowl of thin porridge every day, barely guaranteeing that they will not starve to death." ”

Guo Song pointed to the camels and said: "These 3,000 camels are loaded with grain and all kinds of materials, together with the camels, they are all for Anxi, I have led the army to conquer Shazhou, and establish a material supply channel from Ganzhou to Shazhou, and then from Shazhou to Anxi, but I think we still have to find a way to make Anxi self-sufficient in grain." ”

"Let's go back to this later, let's go back to Qiuzi City first!"

Everyone and Guo Xin saw each other one by one, and many people Guo Xin still recognized him, which made him sigh, especially when he heard that Guo Song had been promoted to the envoy of the Hexi Festival, which made him even more happy and emotional, Guo Song persuaded Guo Xin for a moment, and everyone turned over and got on the horse, urging the horse to go to Qiuzi City, which was more than ten miles away.

(End of chapter)