Ziqing and Wei Bo, Youzhou, Chengde and called Heshuo four strong towns, strong strength, strong independence, the imperial court has always been preferential to the four towns, Li Shigu is recommending a positive eight products to the imperial court, the court is very happy to agree, the military department officially wrote Ziqing, awarded Li Maozheng eight products under the right Jin Wu Wei Si Ge, Muwen and the body to pass to Ziqing, followed by a set of eight military generals robes and armor weapons.

Li Shigu sent a Confucian official to Chengwu County with Jia Zhiyan to read out the appointment, and awarded Li Mao with the official certificate, robe and military weapon.

The Jiedu entourage officer is Li Mao's shogunate in the Ziqing Pinglu Military Jiedu Embassy, and the right Jin Wuwei Si Ge is his leading official, but in fact, he does not have to be on duty in the right Jin Wuwei, nor has he ever been to the Jiedu Embassy.

Gushan Town's envoy is Li Mao's current errand, and even if he is in office, the envoy is an official position temporarily set up for the envoy to do something, and it is a temporary official, and he has no rank or very appointment, and if he has something, he will set it up, and if he finishes it, he will be revoked. Jie Du envoy, the soldiers and horses were also temporarily set up at first, after a long period of evolution before becoming a permanent official, even so the attributes of its envoy have not disappeared, for example, the festival and the soldiers and horses do not have a specific rank, judging their status must look at their own officials, Li Shigu started when the imperial court awarded the right Jin Wuwei general, the official rank is three products, and then continue to increase the official, not long ago with the title of Pingzhang, among the ranks of the envoys, become the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Mao took over the right Jin Wuwei Si Ge who was stamped with the seal of the Ministry of War, and for a long time he couldn't believe that this was true, and he became an official in such a daze? Or is it a positive eight products?

"Is this true? You slap me and see if it hurts. ”

Qin Niang grinned back at this unreasonable request, and then she twisted Li Mao's arm fiercely.

"Whoa, it hurts, it hurts." Li Mao screamed, hurting in his arm and sweet in his heart.

Qin Niang covered her mouth and giggled, her eyebrows curled into a curved crescent.

"It seems to be true, I really became an official of the Tang Dynasty, an official, I can still be an official, this is really the emperor's grace." Li Mao offered the official certificate and robe in front of the incense case, looked at it again and again, and the treasure was amazing. Qin Niang prepared incense and candles, persuaded Li Mao to bow three times in the direction of Chang'an, thanked the Son of Heaven for his kindness, and also bowed three times in the direction of Yunzhou, in order to thank the envoy for his grace. Li Mao bowed a few times according to his words, and also bowed in the direction of Gushan Town by the way, and it was Yu Hualong who recommended him, can he be ungrateful?

In the first year of coming to Chengwu County, Li Mao had a lively and lively life, jubilant, the new official had just taken office, the enemy did not, there were a lot of stammers, and there was no need to invite others to eat everywhere, these days were really a good life like a fairy, but the good times did not last long, as soon as the spring began, Su Xiaodu's project to build a new city officially kicked off, and since then Chengwu County has been eventful, Li Mao has also fallen from the gods to the dust, and has made a foot not touching the ground, and he is tired between Su Xiaodu and the county.

The specific work of the envoys in Gushan Town is to contact the local government to recruit and transfer people, and the second is to deal with the peripheral work of the project, straighten out the relationship between the military town and the locality, and straighten out the relationship between the military town and the prefecture and county. Su Xiaodu's geographical remoteness, simple folk customs, and peace with the military town, the difficulty is to deal with the relationship with the state and county, land requisition, send husbands, ask for money and grain, are all very headaches.

There are two motivations to support Li Mao's hard work, the encouragement of one step to the sky is one aspect, and the key to supporting him is loyalty to others, diligence and self-denial, and perfection. Xue Rong naturally gave full support to Li Mao, tried his best to facilitate the land acquisition and dispatch of husbands, and also gave the green light to the transfer of money and grain, and specially sent a recorder to capture the position of gold envoy.

The officials of Chengwu County also fully supported Li Mao, which is not to say that they have any overall view, but it is really an out-and-out drudgery to lead this errand, which is really not something that ordinary people can do. Those arrogant soldiers are more difficult to serve than their fathers and mothers, and it is a trivial matter to lose their official positions and resign unwillingly, whether they can retreat with their whole body is between the two words, and now that Li Mao is there, everyone is secretly relieved, if Li Mao can't stand it, maybe this unlucky errand will fall on whom.

The reaction to the construction of a new military city in Chengwu County was mixed. As far as the officials of Chengwu County are concerned, this matter naturally does more harm than good; the military town and the county are at the same level, the military and the government do not interfere with each other, and the military personnel who violate the law should be dealt with by the local government, and the military family members who violate the law should be dealt with by the local government, but in actual operation, the military town often disposes of the crime committed by the military town itself, and the local government has no right to interfere.

This is bound to greatly weaken the authority and influence of the Chengwu County Ya, and not only that, once the military town is built, with its huge population advantage, it will soon form a new bazaar center, which is bound to weaken the industry and commerce of Chengwu County, which has already withered.

However, the local people and merchants do not see it very well, and in their opinion, the construction of the new city is beneficial and harmless to Chengwu County, at least the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. First of all, the soldiers stationed in Xinjun Town are regular court officials, and they are well paid, and the four thousand officials plus the families of the soldiers have tens of thousands of people to eat and drink, how big is this business? Secondly, once Gushan Town is completed, the dry road to Yunzhou and Yanzhou is expected to be opened, which is undoubtedly good for promoting the business of Chengwu County.

In addition, with the mirror of the military town, the official governance and morality in Chengwu County will also be improved, the reason is very simple, if the gang of corrupt officials in Chengwu County dare to behave like before, the people can raise their feet to go to the military town, and it is actually a very simple matter to spend a little money to send a military name.

Whether happy or worried, in favor or against, no matter what the people of Chengwu County think, the construction project of the new military city still started as scheduled.

The new military city was named Gushan Town, and the city was built on a small hill, which was fusiform, high in the northwest, and gradually low-lying in the southeast. Before the construction of the new city, 3,000 dingfu were mobilized to flatten the entire small hill and cut it into a fusiform terrace, and then built the wall with blue stripes of stone along the edge. The northwest side of the platform is about six zhang above the ground, and after cutting, it forms a natural stone wall, and only needs to build an oblique retaining wall with blue bricks to prevent the earth and rock from falling.

The remaining three sides need to rebuild the wall, the average height of the city wall in the planning is four zhang eight, the base is two zhang two thick, and the plate building method widely used in the northwest is different from the rammed earth wall, the city wall of Gushan Town adopts the new building process of combining the masonry method and the plate building method, and builds the brick and stone composite city wall, this kind of city wall is not only solid, but also resistant to wind and rain erosion, in the case of no human destruction, it will not collapse crookedly for thousands of years.