Not long after Li Tong came to Lintai, he felt that what Shen Junliang and others said about Lintai's affairs was boring and really not modest.

For example, in the straight hall of this official house, although there are also many files, especially in the middle hall where the eunuch Shen Junliang sits, all kinds of books and volumes alone are piled up in two large boxes.

But Li Tong took a closer look, only to find that there were almost no transactional books, most of them were all kinds of books, which showed that Shen Junliang's work status as a big eunuch was very consistent with the description in Bai Juyi's poem.

The most eye-catching decoration of the central hall is the large hall wall, which contrasts with the inner wall of the official hall, and the wall of this hall is also full of handwriting.

Li Tong read casually, and found that this hall wall record mainly tells about the history of Lintai and some internal regulations, and then looks at the thin handwriting, inexplicably a sense of familiarity, and when he looks at the writer, it is actually Ouyang Tong, the old gentleman.

Thinking of Ouyang Tong, Li Tong's thoughts couldn't help but diverge a little, at the beginning of this year, this old gentleman was recalled from the Wanzhou Depreciation Institute to serve as the secretary of the court. Half a year has passed, but I haven't heard the news of Ouyang Tong's return to the capital.

Thinking of this section, Li Tong opened his mouth to inquire slightly, and Shen Junliang did not know about this. However, Li Qiao remembered after a little recollection, saying that Ouyang Tong was sick on the way, and it seemed that he stayed in Chengdu, Shuzhong, and a few days ago he also complained to the court and asked for his resignation. It can also be seen that the benefits of introspection are very advantageous, at least at the level of information acquisition.

Hearing Li Qiao say this, Li Tong couldn't help but be faintly worried. Speaking of which, although he and Ouyang Tong have never met, it is precisely because of this old gentleman's suggestion to ask the young king to go out of the pavilion to study, that their brother's fate has taken a substantial turn, and then everything that follows has happened, which also makes him sincerely grateful to Ouyang Tong.

However, it is in vain for him to worry now, and what he can do is limited, so he can only pray in his heart that this old gentleman can turn evil into good fortune, return to the capital safely, and visit again when the time comes, looking for opportunities to return.

A few people chatted in the straight hall for a while, Li Tong occasionally looked out of the door, and found that before noon, there were already Lintai officials who had left early, some of them even came to the straight hall to inform them, and some people simply slipped away.

In this regard, Lintai King Shaozong, who is in charge of the daily operation of Lintai, did not ask much questions, and still read a copy of the ancient scroll with fascination.

In the whole morning, there was only one official matter of Lintai, that is, Liu Guangye, a Lintai lang, went to the court to ask for a batch of books related to written exegesis, which was enough to borrow a large box of books, and two officials were responsible for carrying them away.

"The Prime Minister of the Fengge Sect was ordered to reform and create, and the library books of the libraries were taken from all the museums."

Hearing Li Qiao's casual words, Li Tong didn't react at first, and only after a moment did he realize that what he said was probably about Zong Qinke being ordered to make words.

Li Tong was not curious about Zong Qinke's order to make characters, but asked a little strangely: "Is Lintai affiliated with Wenchang?" What is Liu Lang driven by Fengge? ”

"Not to mention Liu Lang, half of the people in the party should have been sent to Fengge for use. Today's Lintai can be said to be lacking in people and sleepy, each seeking a way out. ”

Wang Shaozong closed the scroll and said to the young king with a smile. It's just that after he said this, the eunuchs in the hall, Shen Junliang and Li Qiao, looked a little unnatural.

Shen Junliang was ashamed because the officials of Lintai could not ask about the ministry internally, and they could not resist the forced conscription outside, which made the entire Lintai disheartened. As for Li Qiao, it is exactly the kind of representative who is uneasy about the ministry and seeks another way out as Wang Shaozong said.

In the half day since he entered the agency, Li Tong has understood the sophistication of the Lintai people. Shen Junliang, the eunuch, is just a fictitious eunuch, and he lacks a sense of existence inside and outside. If the others still have a way out, they will all run separately, and they have no intention of staying in Lintai at all. At present, only relatively pure old scholars like Wang Shaozong are left.

In a more literate tone, this is a besieged city, the people outside squeeze their heads to get in, and the people inside want to get out with wide eyes.

There is still a period of time before noon, and there are officials who tend to go to the court, bringing a task of Wenchang Province: Dugu Qingyun, the general of the Right Weiwei, died of illness in Fangzhong's house the day before yesterday, and the line has been handed into the interior, and the Wenchang Shangshu Bureau has assigned the task of preparing for the minister's funeral, and the Lintai Subordinate Books Bureau is responsible for drafting inscriptions, sacrificial texts and other manuscripts.

"General Dugu has died of illness?"

Li Tong was a little surprised when he heard this, he talked about this incident with Dugu Qingyun's son-in-law Yang Zhiyi on the way to the court not long ago, but he didn't expect that such a general of Nanya would have died of illness the next day.

But it's not worth being overly sad, at least it's a good death. Now those incumbent generals of the Southern Ya, as far as Li Tong knows, there will be several people who will not be able to escape the cruelty of political struggle in the next few years and will die.

Nothing else, there's finally something serious to do. Probably because it was too boring, although this was a task assigned to the Writing Bureau, several officials from the province of Lintai Zhitang also got together and discussed.

The officials of the Shangshu Bureau sent Dugu Qingyun's line, the so-called line is a person's life history, inscriptions, and sacrificial texts need to be used in the materials, if it is really a famous general who needs to be passed on in the history books, and another copy will be copied and sent to the history museum for archiving.

It has to be said that when the history museum was stripped away, the affairs of the Writings Bureau were really pitiful, and only small things such as writing inscriptions and sacrifices were left.

Li Tong is very interested in this, he has picked up a lot of tombstones of the ancients before, and many inscriptions such as epitaphs have also been sorted out, if it weren't for the nature of this work, he wouldn't have come to this world. There are a lot of finished products, but the production link of this industry has not been seen much.

The line was written by Dugu's family looking for someone outside, and thousands of words were sprinkled to summarize the life of Lonely Qingyun. When it was circulated to Li Tong, he also read it quite seriously, this can be said to be the most primitive historical material, although he was not very interested in Dugu Qingyun and his affairs, but he could also understand many details of the times that were lost in many historical books in later generations.

When he saw the writer of the line at the end, Li Tong couldn't help but be taken aback again, the author of this line scroll was actually a big hand Liu Zhiji. Liu Zhiji may not be very famous in the traditional literary circles, but his fame in the historical circles is much louder, and his "Shi Tong" is a masterpiece of historiography.

Li Tong still sighed that Lintai was worthy of the attention of Shilin, he had come here for such a short time, and he had already directly or indirectly come into contact with so many famous early Tang scholars, and a few people in the rear circulated the papers, but they had already started to talk about it.

"This is a detailed ruling, a wide range of references, like a clever woman's skillful hands, and meticulous fiber. This author Liu Zhiji, I and my brother Liu Zhirou are quite rewarded, and I often hear his people sigh that the family is more handsome and young than the brother, and now it seems that it is indeed extraordinary. ”

Several people around were still talking about Dugu Qingyun, and when they heard Li Qiao sigh like this, they couldn't help but be curious, and they all came forward to wait for the article to be circulated.

Whenever a person has any talent, it is always inevitable to show off his skills and compare them, and the copy of the book written by Liu Zhiji was handed into the signature, which quickly diverted the attention of the literati and writers in Lintai, and the content of the discussion also turned to the appreciation of the article.

Li Tong stood in the straight hall, seeing this scene, he couldn't help but sweat profusely, and secretly said Fortunately, there is no Dugu family present in Lintai now, otherwise seeing you guys talking about crooked buildings so recklessly, an old fist is indispensable. It's already very sad that the elders are dead, even if you judge the head, you have to find the right point!

Li Tong was still complaining in his heart, Lintai Lang Yuanxingchong, who rushed from outside after hearing the news, finally pulled the topic back after reading the line papers, and talked back about Dugu Qingyun, but what he said was even worse than the previous few who discussed literature.

"This is a detailed and specific list. It's just about the life of the deceased, but it's not like the story......"

Yuan Xingchong held this copy of the book and talked endlessly.

Li Tong was already very interested in gossip, and when he heard Yuan Xingchong tell the story of a long time ago, he also went up and listened carefully.

It turns out that this Dugu Qingyun, although he is surnamed Dugu, sounds like a Xianbei person, but retrospectively, he is actually a Han with strong roots, and it is also the Longxi Li family of Li Tong and their own family.

Originally, it was also a distant branch of the Li Tang clan, but in the Sui Dynasty, he was given the surname Dugu because of his merits, and he had a good national surname, but he lost it because his ancestors were too competitive.

But this is not the most depressing part of the Dugu family, Yuan Xingchong defended himself, and directly took off the Dugu family's shame bottoms.

It turns out that this Dugu family gave the surname not because of what great achievements were made in the Sui Dynasty, and its real surname was still in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the ancestor of the Dugu family was rewarded as a defeated pawn to Dugu Xin, one of the eight pillars of the country at that time, as a house slave, and because of the merit of the master, he was given the surname Dugu.

After hearing the reason, Li Tong was also overjoyed in his heart, but he felt that this Yuan Xingchong was really bad. The dignified Longxi Li family was given the surname Hu is already very aggrieved, and now the surname is not easy to change, and it is also to seek a good face by hiding this disgraceful past of the ancestors, but you have to turn out the old things of people, show that you can, right?

It is reasonable for Yuan Xingchong to insist on this, his background is the Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the master of Dugu Xin, Yuwentai, is still his courtier, you are a house slave who still wants to play sloppy in front of the descendants of your master's master, when people don't read and don't study history?

However, in addition to feeling funny in his heart, Li Tong looked at Yuan Xingchong's serious face, but had a wonderful feeling of the wheels of history rolling: What about your Northern Wei royal family, now that you see my Longxi Li family and the king of Tang County, don't you have to bend down obediently?

Everyone discussed it for a while, and then they turned back to writing an epitaph for Dugu Qingyun. Originally, Li Qiao didn't take this kind of small work very much, but after seeing the lines written by Liu Zhiji, he had a little idea of winning in his heart, and he actually planned to write it himself.

Seeing that Li Qiao was already pondering his thoughts, Shen Junliang, the eunuch next to him, moved in his heart, turned to look at Li Tong and said with a smile: "I wonder if the king is interested in trying his hand?" ”

Is this still my business?

When Li Tong heard this, the rolling wheel of history in his heart suddenly heard it, and when he looked up again, he saw that the officials in the hall were all looking at him with interest.