Although Wang Shanxi was on the way to Jinling, he could already predict that he would usher in various good things such as promotion and fortune, because he successfully found Australia!

However, he still didn't expect that when he arrived in Jinling City, the treatment he enjoyed was much higher than expected.

Originally, he thought that it was estimated that only people from the Military Intelligence Department would pick up the ship, and then after waiting in Jinling City for a few days, he would meet the senior management of the Military Intelligence Department, and then he would quietly wait for the reward from above.

But he didn't expect that in addition to the high-level officials of the Military Intelligence Department, there were also people from the Hanlin Academy who came to pick him up!

The Hanlin Academy of the Tang Dynasty is different from the Hanlin Academy of all dynasties, and its status is quite special, on the basis of maintaining the traditional Hanlin nobility and great future, the Hanlin Academy also has some special rights.

The Hanlin Academy of the Tang Dynasty is more important than the Hanlin Academy of all dynasties!

In addition, the Hanlin Academy is so special that it cannot be regarded as an ordinary bureaucratic institution at all, because the Hanlin Yuan of the Tang Dynasty is essentially the emperor's private secretarial institution, but this secretarial institution is a bit huge, even if it is except for the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial Assets Section, these two are just hanging the name of the Hanlin Academy, but in fact they are institutions that have no actual relationship with the Hanlin Academy.

However, the total number of people in the other departments of the Hanlin Academy has reached nearly two hundred!

There is no way, there are nearly twenty departments in the Hanlin Academy, and there are only ten people in each department, which is two hundred.

In fact, many departments do not have even 10 people, because the Secretariat alone occupies more than 30 people.

He was picked up by a deputy chief of the immigration department of the Hanlin Academy, surnamed Sun, who was young and spoke very kindly, but Wang Shanxi did not dare to be arrogant, and really regarded himself as a distinguished guest.

But when they first met, they said very politely: "There is Lord Laosun to welcome you from afar, it is really embarrassing Shanxi!" ”

That Lord Sun, who seems to be young, but he speaks and does things without leaking, and he didn't say anything about Wenchen's attitude of looking down on military generals, and said with a smile: "Major Wang is Your Majesty, and he has been running overseas for more than a year for the country, why can't he afford to be greeted by me, come, let's get into the carriage first, it's bumpy and tired on the way!" ”

Lord Sun is polite, but Wang Shanxi is even more polite!

He knew very well that the Hanlin who came to pick him up seemed to be just an ordinary deputy section chief, but when it came to political status, he, the army major of the Military Intelligence Department, was not as good as this deputy section chief Sun.

Because before he got off the boat, the accompanying person said that the person who came down to pick up the person was the deputy chief of the immigration department of the Hanlin Academy, surnamed Sun, don't look at it as the deputy section chief, but he was a middle-level official who lectured from the five grades, and one of the more core middle-level officials in the Tang Dynasty.

And this person, who was the county commander of a certain high-class county before, was able to fight his way out of countless competitions, so that he was selected to enter the Hanlin Academy, and it was not a flat transfer, but a promotion and transfer, which is enough to prove his ability and background.

In the future, when he goes out of the Hanlin Academy, it is no surprise that he will definitely be promoted!

Even if he was squeezed out after just one year of ordinary service, the worst thing he could do after he went out was to go to the local government to serve as the governor of Zhengwupin, and the better thing was to stay in Gyeonggi to serve as Zhengwupin.

If he is released after serving for three years, it will be even more powerful, if he is released to the local area, he will not be able to start from the four-grade mansion and the governor for a few years, then it will be a prefect.

If you stay in Gyeonggi, although it is unlikely that you will be promoted two levels in a row, you will often hold an important position in the fifth grade.

In other words, as long as he is not stupid, then within three or five years, the position of a local prefect or the central government will be nine out of ten.

In a few more years, if you continue to climb one or two steps, you will basically go to the posts of senior officials such as directors of various ministries and political envoys.

He Wang Shanxi is just an army major, and he is not a general in the field army, his major rank, strictly speaking, is a civilian military rank, because although he Wang Shanxi was born in the martial arts school, but he is not very hard, he has never been on the battlefield, and has always been engaged in espionage work.

And when the head of the Military Intelligence Department is the rank of major general, even if he can be promoted in the future, he will basically end up as a colonel in this life.

These two people are very polite to each other, Wang Shanxi is polite to Lord Sun, because he knows that this person is very likely to become a high-ranking official in the ministry in the future, even if he is not a high-ranking official in the ministry, but he is also a high-ranking official such as a political envoy and a director.

And Lord Sun was polite to Wang Shanxi because he clearly knew that His Majesty valued Wang Shanxi, or more precisely, His Majesty valued overseas colonies

The officials who can squeeze into the Hanlin Academy, although they are generally young, but all of them are human spirits, and Lord Sun can guess from the attitude of the Son of Heaven with his eyes closed that Wang Shanxi is about to soar!

As a civil official, although Lord Sun despised those generals from the bottom of his heart, Wang Shanxi was not a military general in the traditional sense, he was a civilian officer, and he still had a navigator.

This navigator was not said by Lord Sun himself, but by His Majesty himself.

For such a person, even if he is not friendly, but it is better to be polite or polite, try not to offend, after all, the career is dangerous, no one can guarantee what will happen to him in the future, if he is unlucky in the future, these people who are offended now will not let go of the opportunity to step on it.

The two men rode in a carriage together, and several of Wang Shanxi's subordinates and Sun Daren's attachés, as well as the people who came to pick them up from the Military Intelligence Department, rode in several other carriages.

The difference is that the carriage in which the two of them ride is a high-end four-wheeled carriage, while the others ride in an ordinary large four-wheeled carriage, and the comfort of riding is naturally a little different.

Wang Shanxi sat in the carriage, almost couldn't feel the bumps on the road, and then couldn't help but sigh: "This carriage is strange, it's not bumpy at all!" ”

He has been away all the year round, and he has been sent overseas three years ago, although he comes back several times a year, but he still doesn't know much about some changes in China.

At this time, Master Sun said: "Oh, this is thanks to the spring, the previous carriage was not so comfortable!" ”

Spring? Wang Shanxi knows this word, after all, he is an army major, so he naturally knows the spring, when they go to sea, they meet the natives, and they use a flintlock pistol to fight, and there is a spring in the flintlock pistol.

But the carriage with springs was his first ride!

Master Sun also continued at this time: "You see that the carriage we sit in is much more comfortable after installing springs for shock absorption, and now the various yamen have basically adopted new horse-drawn carriages as official vehicles on a large scale, and no one uses sedan chairs!" ”

The officials of the Tang Dynasty also used to use sedan chairs, but Li Xuan didn't like sedan chairs, because as a means of transportation, this thing had no role in promoting roads, industrial development and even animal husbandry.

For Li Xuan, who wants to build an industrial age, this kind of cheap and easy-to-use thing is worthless, what he needs is a horse-drawn carriage, so as to stimulate the construction of roads, the development of animal husbandry, and the continuous improvement of horse-drawn carriages, which will eventually evolve into internal combustion vehicles.

As for the thing of the sedan chair, how far it rolls!

Therefore, Li Xuan took the lead in no longer using a 36-carrying sedan chair, but using a carriage to travel!

The Son of Heaven doesn't sit in a sedan chair anymore, and those officials still dare to sit? Could it be that you think you are more awesome than the Son of Heaven?

So, gradually, in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, officials rarely take sedan chairs, military generals travel on horseback, and some civil officials also travel on horseback for convenience, of course, more use of carriages.

Officially, it is generally equipped with a carriage for official use, but it is not worthy of a sedan chair and a sedan chair driver!

The officials used horse-drawn carriages, and the gentry naturally did the same!

The social climate in recent years has become, a decent gentry travels, either in a carriage, or directly on horseback, in a sedan chair? That's too outdated, and people will laugh at it as dirt buns.

It's a pity that there are too few horses in Datang, even if the horses used to pull the cart are not demanding, but the total number of horses is small, and it is difficult to meet the demand, so now you can often see that the cart is not pulled by horses, but by various mules and donkeys.

However, nowadays, due to the high demand for horses in the market, the price of horses is gradually rising, resulting in a very high enthusiasm among farmers to raise horses.

The people in the north have the conditions to directly raise Mongolian horses, and those who have the means to directly find Central Asian horses from the military's horse farms for breeding, while the people in the south have begun to raise southwestern horses on a large scale.

Although the southwestern horse is not very suitable as a riding horse, it is still barely usable as a service horse, especially in the mountainous terrain of the south, and it is very easy to use.

Li Xuan is naturally quite comforted by the behavior of spontaneous large-scale horse breeding among the people, horses are extremely important for a country, especially for an agricultural country, it is even more important to maintain a certain number of horses.

In peacetime, the military's horses are self-sufficient from the military's own horse farms, and occasionally a batch is purchased from abroad, but when the war breaks out, the demand for horses will increase dramatically, and these horses can be conscripted and used as military horses.

Judging from the current size of the Tang Dynasty, at least one million horses need to be kept, and if there are more, it would be even better.

Now, it is still a little far from this goal, but Li Xuan believes that under the premise of maintaining the two-step process of civilian horse breeding and the military breeding horses on their own, this level can be achieved in the future.

Well, it will be easier to achieve this goal when you take the northern grasslands in the future.

Riding in a comfortable four-wheeled carriage for business, Wang Shanxi made his way into the city, and then checked into an inn inside the Military Intelligence Department, where he would rest while waiting for the summons of the Son of Heaven.