Yang Huairen and his entourage rested in the pasture for one night, and the next day they entered the city accompanied by General Yang Shihu. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tongyuan county is located in the middle of Huanzhou, with mountains on both sides, the county seat is built on the mountain, the northeast is a cliff, and the southwest is the Huanjiang River. Because it is a border fortress, the city wall is nearly five feet high, and although it is not as grand as Tokyo City, it is also very tall and majestic in the morning light.

There are only two gates in the north and south of the city, and when Yang Huairen's car came to the south gate, there were already local officials waiting in line outside the gate.

Yang Huairen felt funny when he saw this meeting, he was not a Qincha, and this time he came to Huanzhou, he was still degraded in name, not to mention that he was very low-key all the way to the west, these officials in Tongyuan County actually knew that he entered the city today, it seems that although these people are in the borderland, they are very well-informed.

It's not strange to say, and it's not these officials notified by Yang Shihu. In the entire Huanzhou territory, administratively speaking, Yang Shihu, the military capital Yu Hou from the fifth grade, is just a military leader, and it stands to reason that the highest administrator should be the parent official of Tongyuan County.

But in fact, Tongyuan County is a border county, and the authority of the county order is really pitiful, and even dispensable, and the real power officials who really have the right to speak are basically in the Tongyuan Military Division.

There are four leaders in the Tongyuan Military Division, and if they are ranked backwards according to rank and power, the fourth is the training envoy of the Huanzhou Regiment from the sixth grade.

Originally, this kind of official position was still a substantive position, and he was responsible for the organization and training of local township soldiers and people. In the early years of the Song Dynasty, regimental training envoys were generally concurrently served by the local governor's assassin history, county order, county lieutenant, or the highest military commander in the local army.

In the middle and later periods, the redundancy of court officials was serious, so the regimental training was separated from this official position and held by a special person, just to arrange more officials.

However, in the period of party strife, the regimental training became a fixed ministry assigned to the local government by officials who were unwilling or degraded in the center of the imperial court, and gradually became a kind of fictitious position, of course, there should still be some powers, but the power was relatively small.

In third place is Yang Shihu, a military capital like Yu Hou, as a truly capable military commander, this official position also sounds very powerful, but this power is also relative, Du Yu Hou can command the army to fight in wartime, but he does not have the power to mobilize the army at will.

This is the drawback caused by the military system of the Northern Song Dynasty, which was caused by the use of literature to suppress the military, and the real military officials can only be a "general", but they do not have the right to be "handsome", and the people who hold the power of "handsome" are civilian officials who do not know much about marching and fighting.

In second place, he is a military observer, and in most cases, he also serves as a deputy commander of the army, and in a sense, he is actually a military supervisor.

Speaking of which, this military supervisor is even more ridiculous, not even a civilian official, but a eunuch. In ordinary places, this position is also held by a civilian official, but when it comes to the border army, the court doesn't know what to think, so it is necessary to arrange a father-in-law to serve, in fact, everyone knows in their hearts that this father-in-law is just the emperor's eyeliner.

This is not the most exaggerated, by the time of the Huizong Dynasty, the Northwest Frontier Army re-established the Jingluo pacification envoy as the highest commander of the border army according to the Tang system, and it was also served by a eunuch trusted by the emperor, forming a funny situation in which the eunuch was in power, the civil official was secondary, and the military attache had no power.

In the end, the first place was the commander of the highest commander of the Tongyuan Military Division. However, this kind of high-level military governor is nominal, and most of them are held by the imperial relatives or honorable relatives who stay in the capital, and they do not need to really take up their posts in the local government.

In this way, the boss of the Huanzhou territory is a eunuch. Thinking of this, Yang Huairen understood why this eunuch knew when he arrived in Huanzhou and entered the city again this morning.

The three Lianzi brothers arrived in Huanzhou one step earlier, and when they entered Tongyuan County, they naturally had to contact the local internal guard, it seems that this eunuch and military supervisor of the Tongyuan Military Division is likely to be an internal guard, so it is not surprising to know Yang Huairen's whereabouts.

Yang Huairen didn't like this kind of scene very much, so he degraded it to this place, and entering the city was a trivial matter that was not as good as sesame and mung beans, but he was made so many tricks by this military supervisor, it was a waste of money and labor.

In the current environment, Yang Huairen also understands that this father-in-law is just trying to please him, the master of the internal guard, even if he doesn't like it anymore, he can't help himself.

Yang Huairen jumped out of the carriage, glanced at the officials who bowed down to greet him, and quickly found the father-in-law.

It's not that Yang Huairen's eyes are good, but that this father-in-law is too eye-catching, he is really very tall, not as good as Brother Tianba, who is nearly two meters tall, but he also has a figure similar to that of Brother Heiniu who is more than one meter nine.

Although he was about forty years old, he wore a scarlet official robe and a black sarong-winged hat, but he did not have the temperament of a civil official at all.

His fair skin is a little scary, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, red lips and white teeth, and when he laughs, it makes people feel very kind, and he misses the characteristics of his identity, because he has no beard on his mouth at all, and he is cleaner and brighter than a woman.

Yang Huairen couldn't guess that this was the eunuch, but there was really no distinction between men and women.

Seeing Yang Huairen get out of the carriage, the eunuch respectfully hurried a few steps to greet him, and saluted first, "Xiaguan Tongyuan Military Observation Envoy Tong Guan, welcome the arrival of the Hou Ye." ”

Yang Huairen naturally returned the salute with his hands crossed, and halfway through the salute, he suddenly buzzed in his head, almost scared out of a nervous disorder.

Tong Guan?! I'll take it, I'm too familiar with this guy, in all kinds of film and television dramas based on the Water Margin in later generations, there are this buddy, I didn't expect this guy to be both an internal guard and a military supervisor in Tongyuan County, and let me meet him!

Yang Huairen knew that Tong Guan, as a famous eunuch in the Northern Song Dynasty and one of the six thieves, was a very typical traitor in history, but the bad things that Tong Guan did were basically in the Huizong Dynasty.

Affected by the age and makeup of the actors in film and television dramas, Yang Huairen felt that Tong Guan at that time was only forty or fifty years old, to be counted like this, Tong Guan is now in his twenties, still a young man, and now seeing Tong Guan's appearance in the last years of Yuan You, Yang Huairen secretly scolded those film and television dramas in later generations for being really unreliable.

Yang Huairen did not show disgust because he knew that Tong Guan had become a traitor after ten or twenty years, but remained in the surprise that impressions and surprises collided with each other.

Tong Guan looked at the look of surprise on Yang Huairen's face, and was also a little surprised, but then he thought about it, maybe it was because they were also internal guards, which made Yang Huairen feel that he had met him in Tongyuan and showed that kind of joy.