From the royal capital of Dingxi to the northwest, enter Zhangye County, trace the flow along the weak water, travel about 600 miles, is Jiankang County.

Jiankang is not the old Longzhou, but more than 30 years ago, in order to settle the displaced people, the Dingxi Kingdom divided the three counties of Jiuquan County, Huishui and Lejun. In other words, this county is an overseas Chinese county. The inhabitants of the county are not only natives, but also a large number of expatriates and ladies.

Le Chun is the county ruler.

The spring rain has been going on for two days.

On this day, on the east tower of Lejun City, there were more than ten people sitting or standing, watching the two play.

The two people who played against each other were based on a single bed, both of them were dressed in high crowns, and the crown was the Jinxian crown of the two beams, wearing a green ribbon, which was a costume of 2,000 stones.

One of these two people is Taishou Duya of Xihai County, and the other is Xin Er.

Placed on the nineteen-line chessboard between the two beds, at this time the white son is absolutely dominant, such as an ambush on all sides, the conflict between the sunspots is difficult to come out, and there is no life. Xin Er watched the situation for a long time, abandoned the sunspot in his hand, and said with a smile: "I admit defeat." ”

Duya smiled and said, "Hand talk, little trick ear." I'm not good at this, and it's just a fluke to win this game. ”

The person sitting next to Xin Er disagreed, and retorted: "Player, Yiye, how can it be called a small skill? Touching his beard, he commented, "Why should Du Fujun be humble. I look at Jun's chess skills, almost through the secluded, although I can't be called respectful of Long, but also a heroic. Turning to Xin Er, he continued, "Ming Gong's chess skills are just clumsy, and he is far from being Du Fujun's opponent. ”

In modern times, Go has long been no small skill, and it has been more and more respected by scholars and doctors, and it is popular in the world. Especially in this dynasty, "there are only literary and artistic chess books in the world", and Go has gone hand in hand with literature, metaphysical interpretation, calligraphy and other categories.

The level of chess players, originally there was no clear level of regulations, the beginning of the dynasty to the player to set the product, according to its chess strength, borrowing the name of the "nine products in the positive" of the nine products, but also divided into nine products, Tongyou is the fourth product, clumsy is the ninth product.

The person who commented on it was named Zhang Daojiang, and he was a subordinate official under Xin Er, but he was very direct in his words, and he didn't give him face at all in front of so many people.

The people watching the chess are dressed in official clothes, crowns and skirts, printed ribbons and lotus bags, and waist swords; There are also self-proclaimed amorous, towel cranes, and handle versions. They are all subordinate officials of Xin Er and Duya. Hearing Zhang Daojiang's unkind evaluation of Xin Er's chess skills, two or three of Xin Er's subordinate officials showed unhappy expressions.

Xin Er doesn't know how to play chess, can play two moves with Du Ya, or the chess moves picked out from memory, he was not annoyed when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "Is it already in the product?" "It's a bit of a disgrace.

Clumsy is the lowest ninth grade, but there are still a large number of chess players who can't be determined. The name is in the ninth grade, which is better than the outside of the product. Of course, this name is in the ninth product, but when it is only discussed in private, the real product needs to go through a large-scale competition.

Xin Er put on silk shoes, went down to the ground, and paced to the railing of the building.

The city wall of Lechuan City is four or five zhang high, and the building is more than two zhang high, and it can be seen more than ten miles away from the railing.

The rain is drizzling and the countryside is verdant.

The wide official road extends from the east gate forward. From time to time people in garments came in and out of the city. Ten miles away, there is a dock fort in the north of the road. On the south side of the road, three or four miles away is a ditch, which is drawn out from the weak water of a hundred miles away in the northeast, and ends at the south of the city, which is clear and clear like a belt. In the farmland along the canal, you can see many farmers and apprentices working. Looking to the south, the Qilian Mountains are towering and continuous.

It's been almost two months since I arrived in this city.

After capturing the royal capital that day, Guo Yi instructed the believers in the palace to kill Ling Hu Yong, intending to take the opportunity of Yong's corpse to assassinate Ling Hu Feng again, and then collect the "fisherman's profit", but he was unexpectedly killed by Ling Hu Feng, who had already taken precautions.

Linghu Feng's army entered the city, except for a few, the civil and military ministers in the court all surrendered to greet him, and he was the new king of Dingxi that night.

Next, similar to Ling Hu Yong's original actions, Ling Hu Feng was also a non-subordinate, but not as powerful as Ling Hu Yong.

Subsequently, Linghu rewarded the meritorious hero, as he promised, and gave Cao Fei the position of leading the army, and Koji Shuo worshiped as the marquis. Fu Qiao and Jia Zhen each have their own promotions. When he arrived here, he gave Xin Er two choices, was he willing to be the governor of the capital in the court, or to go out of the town?

The governor of the capital is an official position that the Linghu clan has taken care of.

Although the Linghu clan is called the king, in order to unite the hearts of the people of Longdi, it has always been mainly based on the Tang Dynasty, so after being called the king, in order not to make this "King of Dingxi" have a false name, he has received several official titles, the full name is: Holding the Jie, Taiwei, Dadu Governor, Longzhou Mu, Huqiang School Captain, Dingxi King. Through these ranks, they were in charge of the rewards and punishments, military, political, and Fuzhuyi powers of Longdi.

Among these titles, the most important are the Metropolitan Governor and the Longzhou Mu, one in charge of the army and the other in charge of the government.

The highest governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is the King of Dingxi himself, followed by the left and right Changshi, then the left and right Sima, and the second time is the consultant to join the army and Zhu Cao Peng's subordinates.

The four positions of left and right Changshi and left and right Sima, according to the imperial court system, can actually only have one member in the governor's office, but the Linghu clan is still called Tang Chen, just to avoid causing a backlash from the people and to fight against foreign enemies, and its living honor guard is close to the imperial family; The hundreds of bureaucrats placed in the bureau have long gone beyond the scope of the statutory officials, and most of them are imitated by the central government, only slightly changing their names or increasing their members, as is the case with the long history and Sima of the Metropolitan Governor's Office.

There are two long histories on the left and right, and the left long history is in charge of the affairs of the whole government, and is also in charge of the affairs of the "middle soldiers" stationed in the royal capital; Right Changshi is mainly responsible for the affairs of "foreign soldiers" outside the royal capital. One China and one foreign country is also to prevent someone from having too much authority.

Although he is not in charge of the army, the logistics, troop size, training, deployment, transfer, promotion and demotion of officers of all the armies of the entire Dingxi Kingdom are under his control, and the direct subordinates of the king of Dingxi often participate in the military aircraft, which can be described as cronies and important ministers.

After consideration, Xin Er did not choose this position.

For two reasons.

First of all, in his opinion, the position of the governor of the Governor's Mansion seemed to be similar to the complex of many departments of the Military Commission in later generations, and he had no experience in this area in his previous life or present life. has no experience, if you force it to do it, it can only be two results, or be overridden by subordinates, or be punished by Linghu Feng because you didn't do things well.

Linghu Feng is by no means benevolent, and Changshi's position is so important, once he can't be satisfied, the consequences can be imagined.

Secondly, after witnessing Linghu Feng's various power tricks and cruel killing, Xin Er's heart really wants to stay away from him.

Therefore, he chose the latter, and earnestly begged that he was willing to be like Koji Shuo, for Linghu to go out of the town, to the king of An,—— after being worshiped as a marquis, he soon returned to Tangxing, still sitting in the east of the state, in case the Qin State took advantage of the chaos to attack.

Linghu Feng immediately appointed him as the general of Yingyang, and supervised the military of the three counties of Xihai, Jiuquan and Jiankang on a false basis, and also served as the Taishou of Jiankang, and joined Zhonglang. Give him three thousand horses. Because he saw that Linghu Le was reluctant to give up on his foreign appointment, he received the official son of the world's son.

Xin Eryuan is just the squire of the Principality of Linghu Fengfuping, the ninth grade, General Yingyang and Taishou are the fifth grade, and they are only two levels lower than the official General Zhendong of Koji Shuo, and he was promoted to the fourth rank at once, and the rocket-like speed is not enough to describe.

What's more, the important thing is to give him the power to "fake festivals" and "supervise the military of the three counties".

Since the beginning of this dynasty, the system of giving generals and officials who are recruited or out of the town has been prevalent.

The governors are divided into three categories, "all the armies" is the top, "the army is in the line", and "the army is the second", and "the army is the subordinate".

Koji Shuo is the "military governor of Longdong Counties", which is the highest of the three categories; Xin Er had never been in charge of the army alone before, and his qualifications were too shallow, so it was impossible to be a "governor", but it was already obvious that Linghu Feng had reused him.

"False Festival", the festival refers to the festival, which represents the lord and is a symbol of power. The practice of giving the generals and the festival is also roughly divided into three classes according to the size of the power, with the "envoy holding the festival" as the top, the "holding festival" as the second, and the "false festival" as the bottom. The "envoy of the festival" must kill less than 2,000 stones; "Holding the festival" kills people who have no official position, and if they are military, they must be the same as the envoys; "False Festival" is only for military personnel to kill those who violate military orders.

It can be said that the power of "Governor" and "False Festival" is much heavier than that of Xin Er's own officials, General Yingyang and Jiankang Taishou, and with these two titles, Xin Er can be like Koji Shuo, in addition to managing the military horses of the headquarters, he also has jurisdiction over the garrisons of Xihai and Jiuquan counties.

As for being a Zhonglang, he is an additional official who shows favor. This position is a close minister of the sovereign, and with this official title, Xin Er can enter and leave the palace, and theoretically express his opinion on the government affairs of the imperial court. Shiziyou is one of the official positions of Shizifu.

There are a lot of officials, and there are many officials at present.

looks very majestic, but in the past two months in Jiankang County, Xin Er feels constrained, as if he is stuck in the quagmire, and he is not happy. Even sometimes he thinks that it is not as comfortable as when he was in Zebian.

For example, Zhang Daojiang, after Xin Er took office in the county, he was personally removed from the local crown clan and appointed him as the head of the county government. But this guy relies on the power of the family, obviously he is a subordinate official, and he always looks high, from his evaluation of Xin Er's chess skills, it can be seen that he has no respect for Shangguan's consciousness.

Xin Er is not a person with a small belly, begging to not save him on the battlefield, and after the war, he still talked nonsense, didn't Xin Er clean him up, didn't he even poke him? Because of this, the subordinates' eyes are higher than the top, and it doesn't matter too much, so it doesn't matter if they are reluctant. But the problem is that there is more than one Zhang Daojiang, regardless of the local gentry, only a few of the scholars he uses in the county government are like this, which makes people very uncomfortable.

His subordinates were disobedient, and the civil and military forces of Xihai and Jiuquan counties, which were under his control, did not cooperate much.

Because of military affairs, Xin Er was assigned to the two counties to send a document, and asked the Taishou of the two counties to come to Jiankang County to discuss, Duya arrived late, but the Taishou Dan of Jiuquan County has not yet arrived. Today, I received a message from the subordinate of the Fen Dan, saying that the Fen Dan was about to reach Le Chun in the morning, and Xin Er invited Du Ya to meet him. Seeing that it was almost noon, leaning on the railing and looking out, there was still no trace of Pandan.