In the city of Wuzhou, Xiao Jiasui, the capital of the south of the line, was entertaining Guizhou to appease Chen Wenzhao at a small banquet.

This meeting was the first time that the two of them had time to sit down and talk in detail, which was different from the previous formal occasions when they only talked about business, and even went their separate ways.

Xiao Jiasui is not surprising, he will be the governor of eastern Guangdong Province not long after. And just by looking at Chen Wenzhao's name, you can know that this person is the future governor of Guixi Province.

Therefore, this banquet is said to be Xiao Jiasui's comfort to Chen Wenzhao, who has worked hard in recent days, but it is better to say that the two future neighbors are using this to "spy on the enemy".

Chen Wenzhao was originally the former governor of Jiangnan, and that position was extraordinary, which also shows that his people had weight in the Lu Qi Dynasty. He and Zong Ze have always been good friends, and the two of them have been neighbors in Liangshanbo for a long time. However, because of the summary of government affairs last year, the corruption of officials in Jiangnan Province reached a new high, and he was first reprimanded by the emperor. It can be said that it laid the groundwork for his current fate.

The current Chen Wenzhao, not only is the important position of the governor of Jiangnan gone, but his official position has also been reduced by one level compared with before, which can be regarded as a "historical" precedent for the demotion of the feudal officials of the Lu Qi Dynasty. Although this was done by Guixi, Chen Wenzhao's promotion again was just around the corner.

The originally pale complexion has also turned into a healthy flush after two months of hard work. Although the body is still thin, it makes people intuitively healthier.

After two months of hard work, following the Lingnan army, pacifying the people of western Guangxi, organizing the people of Qi, and adjusting the contradictions between the indigenous people of western Guizhou and the Han people, and the contradictions between the Lu Qi court.

The former is key, and the latter is dispensable. Because wherever Lu Qi's army passed, the young people and Tusi there obediently gave up all the political rights they had obtained from the Southern Song Dynasty in the past.

Lu Qian wouldn't really ask them to make toast. The state is where they belong. Of course, the governors could be held by these indigenous leaders, but some of the auxiliary officials in the state were sent by the Lu Qi court.

The imperial court will also set up facilities such as the Xuanzheng Division, schools, and hospitals there, that is to say, from the very beginning, Emperor Lu did not intend to ignore them, and from the very beginning, Lu Qian thought about infiltrating them.

The natives were naturally reluctant, however, helplessly, they had all been subdued. The loser has no right to object.

As the protagonist of this banquet, Chen Wenzhao raised his glass frequently with a faint smile on his face.

Chen Wenzhao's head position is Xiao Jiasui, and next to him are some officials of the Lingnan Metropolitan Protectorate.

Wuzhou is the east gate of western Guangxi, which is the confluence of the Guijiang River, the Xun River and the Xijiang River, and nearly 1,000 rivers and streams of all sizes converge in Wuzhou to flow into the Xijiang River, and then flow into the South China Sea through the Pearl River.

After the soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of the Lingnan Protectorate attacked Guixi, this place was the base camp of the army, and Xiao Jiasui always sat here to dispatch material supplies. Because the westward march of the army is not only a military task, but also a political task.

From arranging households and people, clearing acres of land, to purging the enemy and leasing land. There are also a series of government offices, the existence of township officials, and the birth of schools and hospitals......

This is inseparable from Xiao Jiasui, the number one person in Lingnan.

Although he also hopes to make military achievements, since he Xiao Jiasui joined Lu Qi, almost all of his capital has been taken from the battlefield, and in a sense, he has regarded himself as a military position. Even if he is in charge of the Lingnan Metropolitan Protectorate, those who are very related to military affairs are different from pure civilian officials. Why don't you want to go to the front line and command the battle? This is like that military general, how many people are willing to stay in the city in peace, just patrol and do things on weekdays?

Fighting on the battlefield and seizing the merits of the war, this side is the volunteering of the generals!

However, he stayed in Wuzhou this time, and he was in a very good mood. Because he has a close relationship with Chao Gai and Lu Zhishen, those two seem to have a rank not much higher than him Xiao Jiasui, but their energy in the government and the opposition is not comparable to Xiao Jiasui.

Xiao Jiasui got a very key indication in the communication with the two, and it was this indication that made him choose the current trajectory. And let go of the military a little bit and distance himself, he no longer needs to show the martial arts in the way of civil and martial arts. He should focus on showing his talents in domestic affairs, so that he can fight for a brighter future in the future!

Although the protagonist of the Guixi Grand Stage is destined to be Chen Wenzhao, he Xiao Jiasui can also become an important supporting role.

Although this place is mountainous and watery, there are tens of millions of acres of cultivated land according to statistics from all over the world. Not to mention the endless wealth hidden in the mountains. Although the population is slightly small for various reasons, this place is the main passage for the army to capture Dali in the future, and it will take the road that was opened with money in the previous Zhao and Song dynasties for more than 100 years and walked out in the 100,000 mountains - Guangxi Maima Road.

Is the Zhao family short of horses? Not to mention that you can't buy horses in the north, and the price is expensive, I thought of Dali and Tubo. If so, there will be a state-led business road based on Guangnan West Road and formed by the later generations of Qiandi, Dali and Tubo to buy horses.

By the way, many agricultural technologies from the south were also introduced to many indigenous people in Guizhou along the Wujiang and Yuanjiang rivers, easily overpowering the primitive and backward agricultural production techniques of slash-and-burn farming.

Although the latter area is almost all within the territory of Zhao and Song, you can look at the name of the central and southern Guizhou - the prefecture led by Qianzhou. Its history can be traced back to the Kaiyuan period of Li Tang. Qianzhou has 50 prefectures including Lao, Fu and Qian, and its territory governs about 300,000 square kilometers of the junction of present-day Chongqing, Guizhou, Hubei and Guizhou. Zhao Song followed the routine. Virtually unchanged for hundreds of years.

That place is lagging behind.

In fact, Qiandi does not produce horses, and the horses are all from Dali and Tibet. Especially the latter! Qiandi is more of a transit station, and Dali people can also be regarded as a middleman.

Or to change this 'Guangxi buy road' into a statement, everyone will be more familiar with the ancient tea horse road.

At the same time, it was also a road, and the horses were sold to Zhao Song, and the money obtained was not to be brought back to his hometown, but to buy silk, porcelain, tea, cloth and other utensils. Just like the transaction between Zhao Song and Khitan Xixia, this is a complete transaction chain.

And now what Lu Qi wants to plan is to follow this trade route, which has a history of more than 100 years, and bring the war directly to Dali after a certain explosion point is detonated.

That Zhong Xiang and Wang Qing have been gearing up for a long time.

However, fighting a war requires consumption, whether it is money, food or military supplies, and neither of these can be supplied by Guixi, so only eastern Guangdong can be relied on.

Chen Wenzhao is envious of Xiao Jiasui, who is in charge of the eastern Guangdong Province, and for Xiao Jiasui, this is a signal that Emperor Lu wants to reuse him.

Chen Wenzhao himself once had a very bright future, but he messed up himself in Jiangnan. Although those pickled things did not involve him, how could he, as the governor of Jiangnan, not have the slightest responsibility?

Now that he has such a future, he is very satisfied. Emperor Lu still left him a piece of affection, although this affection is not as good as that Tao Zongwang, who is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and the largest contractor in the world, and the greasy and oily in the project can't be washed and dried. The Ministry of Industry is the hardest hit area of corruption and crime every year, but Tao Zongwang can 'stay out of the matter'. And that's where sentiment comes in.

However, Chen Wenzhao can't envy this feeling, because the road is all walked by himself, if he could have joined Liang Shanshuibo with Zong Ze and his son, would he still be with Zong Ying now? Zong Ze's sons are all feudal officials.

Emperor Lu has already shown mercy to his subordinates, otherwise......

At the end of the banquet, when Xiao Jiasui sent Chen Wenzhao away, the latter was still thinking about this matter in his heart, and secretly made up his mind that he would do better in Guixi. Otherwise, he would really have to be the same as Sun Zhaoyuan, Li Mida and the like.

There are also grades among the feudal officials. Guo Yong, Cheng Wanli, Song Jiang, Zong Ying, Hu Cheng, this is the same grade. That's either because he was put into effect early, or because he has a variety of relationships with Emperor Lu, and his feelings are not ordinary, and his status is naturally more than one end.

And the rest of Li Guang, Li Liang, Zhang Xiaochun, Chen Guan, Chen Zhenghui, etc., are another grade. These people are either extraordinary, or have outstanding merits, or have unusual qualifications, Chen Wenzhao is in this file.

But now he has to be with Sun Zhaoyuan, Li Mida, Huang Qianshan and others. Huang Qianshan was the prefect of Mingzhou before, and after Chen Wenzhao was demoted to Guixi, the governor of Jiangnan fell on his head. Although there is still a word 'line' in front of it, as long as you don't make mistakes in a year or two, your status will naturally be unshakable. Just like Chen Zhenghui before, the same is true for the newly established governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who jumped from Hangzhou Mansion Yin.

Looking up at the sky, the sky was gloomy, and the rain was crackling. In summer, it is rainy in Lingnan.

"Chen Xianggong, such weather is inconvenient for material transfer and storage, and you must be careful about the loss." In good faith, Xiao Jiasui gently mentioned Chen Wenzhao. Although he thinks that Chen Wenzhao has also been a eunuch for many years, he should know this bit of cattiness.

The latter sighed slightly in his heart when he heard this, of course he knew. Rainwater makes grain "moldy, black and rotten", which is a habitual method on the grain road. In fact, compared with the greasy grain, the land boundary of western Guizhou is now raining constantly, and he is more concerned about "arranging households and people" and "clearing acres of land", as well as "leasing land".

This is Guixi. Whether it is to organize households and people, or to clear the acres of land, or to lease acres of land, to transfer money and grain materials, to collect and give relief to local displaced people, even the rain is really a big hindrance. The material loss is indeed more than usual.

"It's not the right time for this rain!" Chen Wenzhao showed a wry smile on his face: "Whether it is clearing the acres of land, or organizing households and people, leasing land, or collecting refugees and displaced people, this rain has taught the officials to make it three more points difficult out of thin air." ”

Xiao Jiasui said comfortingly: "The general trend has long been clear. Just be careful, and nothing will happen. People from all over the world are also attached, which is the work of Chen Xianggong. ”

"I hope so." Chen Wenzhao had a wry smile on his face, looking at the crackling rain and talking.