On the ninth day of December in the second year of Shun, the edict envoy of the Great Zhou court, the scholar of the Duanming Palace, led a group of 24 people to arrive in Yanzhou, and officially announced to Li Wenge, the queen of Yanzhou Jiedu, that the Great Zhou court appointed him as the envoy of the Jiedu, and at the same time deployed Zhecongruan to announce his title to the Guanbei camp, and announced the worship of the album to Li Bin, the observer of Yanzhou.

At noon the next day, a grand ceremony was held in the military field of the school in the south of Yan'an County, and the edict envoy Wang conferred the Shuangjing Double Festival symbolizing the power status of the Jiedu envoy to Li Wenge on behalf of the emperor.

On this day, the soldiers of the Yan'an Regiment of the two battalions drove to the school field in full armor, stood in a phalanx as a team, and quietly waited for the start of the ceremony, waiting for the moment when their commander officially became the highest military and political governor of Yanzhou.

Zhe Congruan led all the officers above the command of the Zhejia army to attend the ceremony.

Li Bin was dressed in a purple robe and wore a beam crown on his head, and led all the civil officials of the state to stand on the military platform of the school, ready to pay a congratulatory salute.

Zhou Zhengyu led all the officers of the Eighth Route Army to stand on the other side, all wearing crimson or green or green official uniforms, and wearing the popular cross-legged heads, this old bastard who was still a scumbag with no official rank a year ago was so excited that he burst into tears, and he was a soldier for 20 years, and he was cautious for 20 years, but in the end, he relied on this stunned young boss and this group of bear soldiers who were originally a mess to become a five-grade general in a blink of an eye, and put on the crimson official robe that his family had never dared to think about for ten lifetimes.

To tell the truth, at yesterday's dinner, when the dignified Imperial Court Duanming Hall Bachelor Inspection School Rite Department Shangshu Wang Wang personally toasted himself and very affectionately called himself "General Zhou". Zhou Zhengyu almost lost his temper on the spot, obediently, that is a big official who can be counted even in the capital, and it is said that one is just a little bit worse than Zai.

In all fairness, Zhou Zhengyu's salary has not risen very fast this year, and the dignified inspectors and soldiers have all commanded the envoys, and so far the monthly military salary has only been ten yuan - this is already the highest in the military town, and this year Zhou Zhengyu has been heartbroken in order to manage the logistics of the rapidly expanding team. Be careful with him. Every account in the army and the localities must be thoroughly studied one by one before they are allowed to draw circles. From food, clothing to armor and weapons, from arsenals to hospitals, from labor camps to wounded camps, every military reform in Li Wenge's land was dripping with Lao Zhou's hard sweat. As the stall got bigger and bigger, Zhou Zhengyu even forced himself to recognize words, at least to recognize the number words and some basic nouns, so that he could understand the account books that were gradually becoming more and more complicated.

Recently, Zhou Zhengyu's sleep time has been getting shorter and shorter. Although Lu Xun is now sharing some daily work in the Xiang Corps, Zhou Zhengyu is still starting to feel too busy, to be honest, at his age, it is really not cost-effective to work so hard for such a small amount of food.

But Zhou Zhengyu did it willingly, and a piece of paper in the military department actually didn't mean anything, but the feeling of being an official was different from the feeling of being a big-headed soldier. Originally, Zhou Zhengyu had little interest in Li Wenge's new military salute, and Li Wenge never asked him to learn this kind of military salute as well. Zhou Zhengyu even thought this kind of etiquette was very strange and funny at the beginning. But with the popularity of the flat-chested salute, more and more soldiers began to perform this kind of military salute in front of Zhou Zhengyu. At first, Zhou Zhengyu generally waved his hand and walked away, but later on. When he received the salute from others, his sense of self-satisfaction became stronger and stronger, until he finally began to learn to return the salute. Now, although he is still a forty-year-old veteran, he is usually unkempt and unkempt, but once a junior officer or soldier salutes him, he will immediately straighten his waist and return the salute, absolutely without any slightest, and that seriousness almost makes even young people feel ashamed.

Lao Zhou is a real person, although the absolute salary is not high, but the promotion of his own status is real, even if he is a team leader in the Zhangwu Army, he does not put him in his eyes, beating and scolding is commonplace, but now, Zhang Tu, the deputy commander of the Zhangwu Army, almost did not dare to breathe when he stood in front of him, and the others were even more respectful and worked hard, lest they annoy the "Zhou guerrilla", and they would not have the quota to enter the Liutao Pavilion, which would mean that the job was smashed.

And all of this is due to Li Wenge.

Although Li Wenge has long been the number one person in Yanzhou City, as long as this young boss is in public, he always maintains a high level of courtesy and respect for himself, even if he has achieved the defense of the four grades, he is still "Brother Zhou" and "Brother Zhou", so that no one in the whole army dares to call his name publicly. Recently, he has been preparing to follow Shen Chen's example and use a word or alias, so that even Li Bin can't call himself "General Zhou".

Standing on his right side are the officers of Shen Chen and Wei Xunwei, and the one who commands the array of troops under the stage is the newly appointed Yan'an Regiment Yu Marquis Zhe Yuqing, this little guy officially entered the Eighth Route Army as a representative of the Zhejia Army, although he is young, he is experienced in combat, and has received the most rigorous military training since he was a child, and on the basis of military command, he is even more professional than Shen Chen and others, such a person is undoubtedly the best candidate for the chief of staff of the combat unit.

He also served as the professor of the Liutao Pavilion, the "professor" of this era is actually just a kind of honorific title for the teacher, Li Wenge directly turned this term into the junior title of the teachers of the Liutao Pavilion and Fenglin Academy, the intermediate title is called "teaching", and the senior title is called "teacher".

At 0:00 p.m., the ceremony officially began.

Like Li Bin, Wang walked up to the platform wearing a purple robe and a beam crown, followed by an extremely young green-robed official, and behind this official were ten eight-grade officials of the Ministry of Rites, each of whom had a thing in his hand, namely four door flags, two dragons and tigers, two knots, four spears, and four leopard tails, a total of sixteen pieces. The knots are made of gold and copper leaves; The flag is made of nine sheets of red silk and is adorned with a bronze dragon head coated with gold and shaped like a wooden plate.

The degree of moderation is generally granted to each of the festivals, and until the end of the Tang Dynasty. In order to reward the people for their great efforts in destroying the Yellow Nest, they began to grant the festival degree to make the double festival to show the authority of the local life and death, and the number of local officials increased from eight to sixteen.

The king walked up to the high platform and stood with his back to the south, and the green-robed salute immediately sang in an extremely loud voice: "Yanzhou civil and military, all soldiers, bow to welcome the emperor's writing——"

The decree is read on such occasions. You don't have to kneel. Everyone on and off the stage lowered their bodies at the same time. Bow down and wait.

The king nodded, stretched out his hand to take the edict held by the salute officer, and read it out: "On the 11th anniversary of the third year of Guangshun, the Great Zhou Emperor said: The major affairs of the country are in the Rong Dynasty, and I inherit the Han Zuo and Wei Yanxu. The sea is swinging. The border is rampant, the thieves are wantonly plundering, the false banners are indiscriminate, the conquest and punishment cannot be overcome, and there is no way to determine the border without crusade. The establishment of the general, the three generations of the sergeant, the commission of the Yuan Rong, the Han and Tang dynasties because of the war Dirong. Ritual treatment. Rong Shi conferred the title. The amount of requisition is based on thatched soil, and the princes of military merit are so Yu built Jiuding. Zhou Gong discussed the five lords, Bai Jing and Huang Cheng, and rewarded and punished. Li Wenge, the general of Zhongwu and the defense envoy of Yanzhou, resisted the enemy and abandoned the enemy, and Yi Di was frightened when he heard it, patrolling the border and garrison, and the Sixth Army was excited. Therefore, the Duanming Palace Bachelor, the School Rite Department Shangshu Wang, the Dragon and Tiger Festival, the Golden Seal and the Purple Ribbon, the Entrusted Frontier, and the worship of the ministers. It is the military and the people of the county, all from the order, Wen Qingwu, with any rewards and punishments, the river and soil of the Ping country, the suppression of the Weide, so that the old and young in the border state, the birth of Kangning, the edge of the county Li Shu, the industry from Xile, Cheng Hao Tianqi Ze, the body bows to the grace! The system is to be fed, and Erqi is admired......"

After reading a long edict in the format of 46, although Li Wenge was dizzy to hear it, he still understood the general meaning. Zhou Zhengyu and other generals in the army and the soldiers of the two battalions standing under the stage are far apart, one by one, they are staring at each other and do not know what to do, and their eyes are full of large and small circles, you look at me, I look at you, no one knows what it means.

Li Wenge bowed down and raised his hands, and said in a loud voice: "Minister-Li Wenge-Feng-Thanks——! ”

Li Bin, Qin Gu and other civil officials of the state government bowed down and said: "Ministers-Fengzhi-Thanks——! ”

At this time, Zhou Zhengyu and the others bowed down unevenly and shouted: "Ministers-Feng-Thanks!" ”

After they finished shouting, Li Wenge spoke again: "Long live my emperor - long live - long live - long live -"

This sentence was practiced for a whole day yesterday, and 500 people shouted in unison: "Long live my emperor - long live - long live——! The momentum is also quite amazing.

Wang Hanxiao handed over the text to Li Wenge, and Li Wenge straightened up. The young celebrant on the side sang loudly, "Bestow the Champion General Festival—"

The two salute officers stepped forward with Jingjie in their hands, and in the queue of military attachés, Shen Chen and Wei Xun came out of the queue and walked behind Li Wenge.

A salute officer handed the banner to the king, and the king turned around and handed it to Li Wenge, and said loudly: "From now on, as far as the sky, the general will be the commander-"

Li Wenge bowed down to take the flag, turned around and handed it to Shen Chen.

Wang took the dragon head scepter in the hand of another salutant, handed it to Li Wenge, and said loudly: "From now on, as for the spring, the general will control it-"

Li Wenge bowed down to take it, turned around and handed it to Wei Xun, then turned around, knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "The ministers heard, the country cannot be governed from the outside, and the army cannot be controlled from the middle." You can't be a gentleman with two hearts, and you can't be suspicious of the enemy. Since the minister was subject to the previous authority, the prestige of the flag symbol, the minister did not return the invitation. May the king also give his order to the ministers with a word. If you don't allow it, the minister won't dare to do it. If you allow it, you will accept it. ”

The king's face was solemn, and he said, "Xu Zhi—"

Li Wenge knocked: "Minister Li Wenge - Honored with the festival——! ”

At this point, the entire festival ceremony was completed, and Wang Chaoqian helped Li Wenge up, and said: "General, please get up!" ”

Although the king is a scholar of the Duanming Palace, but once Li Wenge receives the festival, he is already a festival envoy, above the king, the five generations system, the festival envoy is to see the prime minister of the dynasty, and only the peace ceremony, the king is not the prime minister, once the great gift is completed, there is no identity of the festival on behalf of the heavens, and he will not dare to receive the gift of Li Wenge again. Therefore, he said politely: "The general stands at a young age, and he is upright, and Wang admires him to the ......."

Li Wenge hurriedly humbled: "The Cultural Revolution is embarrassed ......"

At this time, the king said very politely: "Please wait a moment for the general, and the salute officer will be the general Mingjie......"

The so-called Ming Festival is to explain the scope of power of the festival, which is a fixed procedure after the festival of each town is made.

Li Wenge stretched out his hand and said, "Please-"

The Ming Festival did not belong to the emperor's ediction procedure, so the green-robed official came forward to bow and salute. He said without humility or arrogance: "General, please forgive me for being presumptuous-"

Li Wenge smiled: "Your Excellency, please-"

The salute official said with a solemn expression: "The axe of the festival, the authority of the Son of Heaven is also, the lord of the people to give it to the ministers, it is a reward and punishment on behalf of Hao Tianxing, so it must not be disrespectful, and it cannot be used wantonly......"

Li Wenge nodded: "Yes-"

The salute officer said: "The reward is exclusive, and all officials below the fifth grade will be exempted." The general can do it himself. Below the third grade, more than five grades will be promoted. The general must play the pavilion and give orders to his subordinates—"

Li Wenge said yes again.

The salute paused and said, "If there are no exceptions, the Taiwan Pavilion will not reject the general's request for ......."

"If the Taige refuses the general's request for recital, the general can play directly to His Majesty, and his subordinates have no right to ask the general's direct performance, and the direct performance will be directly transmitted to the Holy Hearing ......through the Privy Council."

"Yes!"

"The official is a famous instrument of the court, not a general who governs the people. Not to be taken lightly; If you are not incompetent and mediocre, you must not take it without permission! ”

"Yes!"

"Jie Monopoly Killing, if an official below the seventh grade is guilty, the general can immediately behead him, the fifth grade below the seventh grade or above can be beheaded first and then heard, and the general below the third grade and above the fifth grade can participate in the impeachment, and be convicted after the reconsideration of the Taiwan Cabinet!"

"Yes!"

"The general holds the festival, and the punishment can be carried out. And so on. It is all feasible, Ling Chi, car cracking, and capital punishment are not feasible! ”

"Yes!"

"Dali Temple, Criminal Department. There is no right to reject the general's decision, but His Majesty and the Taiwan Cabinet can reject the general's decision! ”

"Yes!"

"On the General's Day, the imperial history must not be killed, and the Yanzhou Observation Envoy and the Observation Judge are not among the killables!"

"Yes!"

"Dabi is the heavy punishment of the country, human life is the heaviest thing, the authority is in hand, the general should use it carefully, and the punishment is prudent, it is the way of the gentleman to hold the punishment, not to kill indiscriminately, and the national code does not allow it!"

"Yes!"

Although he was only a petty official in a green robe, he had no stage fright, standing there like an elementary school student explaining the scope of authority and the restrictions imposed by Li Wenge sentence by sentence.

Li Wenge listened very carefully, without the slightest impatience, and after listening, he bowed his hand to the salute official: "The Cultural Revolution is taught!" ”

The salute officer also bowed his hand and said lightly: "Don't dare!" ”

It was only during this period of effort that Li Wenge looked at this praise officer. This person is very young, there is no beard on his lips, but he is born with a burly figure, elegant appearance, and a bit of celebrity style.

Although the appearance and temperament are not bad, but they are slightly raunchy......

There were a few strands of uncombed hair exposed under the head, the chest of the official uniform was stained with a little oil, and the belt around the waist was slightly crooked......

It seems to be a normal so-so guy.

Li Wenge secretly wondered how the officials of the Ministry of Rites dealt with Li every day, how could they send such a guy with a rather sloppy image?

However, looking at this person's demeanor and steady speech, he is indeed a person who can cope with the big scene at ease, and this person does not have the slightest concern about his status and power, which alone can prove that he is not a straw bag - it is no wonder that being an official in the court, especially in the Ministry of Rites, is used to seeing big scenes, and this little thing in front of him may not be anything at all in the eyes of others.

At this time, the civil and military officials in the surrounding areas began to come over to congratulate Li Wenge, and Li Bin added the title and congratulated Li Wenge.

After the ceremonial ceremony and congratulatory banquet on this day, Li Wenge seemed to have run a 10-kilometer armed cross-country, and his whole body was sore, and he finally stayed up until the evening when everyone dispersed, but Li Bin stayed.

“…… After a year of hard work, I finally achieved positive results......" Li Bin laughed.

"Your old man has to worship the prime minister, but you come to make fun of the younger generation......" Li Wenge replied with a smile.

Li Bin shook his head: "It's not in the Taiwan Pavilion, Pingzhang is just a false title for the old man." Compared to the power of moderation, it is far behind......"

He paused and said solemnly: "Although it is a good thing to have power in hand, but you have to use it well to make good use of it, so that it can finally become a good thing, does Huairen understand what the old man means?" ”

Li Wenge smiled and nodded: "...... Exercising power like a father and son in a high-ranking servant will eventually harm others and themselves, which is a lesson from the past! ”

Li Bin nodded and said: "It's good that Huairen understands, in today's world, power often uses power everywhere, and there are very few people who can make good use of power. ”

As he spoke, he said: "Wang is going to leave for Beijing tomorrow, and you have thought about going to Beijing to sacrifice horses?" ”

Li Wenge was surprised: "Sacrifice horses? ”

Li Bin smiled: "You were drunk and confused yesterday, didn't you listen to what the king said?" ”

Li Wenge scratched his head in shame, his new body is really not good, he didn't take it seriously when he wanted to drink two catties of old white gan, but now the wine with a very low degree is less than half a catty and it is chaotic, which is really embarrassing.

“…… This is the practice of the imperial court to worship the festival town, the new festival town to the imperial court to offer Xie Jingjie official horse, you this time the right Xiaowei general champion general inspection school Taibao, but also to the court to add official horses, autumn expedition victory, but also to offer the capital horse and the crusade victory horse, four horses together, at least more than 100 horses. The king said, "The Holy One intends to summon you to the court to report to your majesty, but he is afraid that you will be suspicious, so he makes it clear that it depends on your own wishes, and if you are not willing to go, then send an envoy to the court with the celebrant and bring the horses to the court!" ”

"The celebrant officer?" Li Wenge was stunned.

"Yes!"

"Won't he go back with the king?"

Li Bin smiled bitterly again and again: "It seems that you really couldn't drink yesterday, that praise official was specially sent by Taifu Temple to Yanzhou to escort the horses, not the attaché brought by Wang Cong from the Ministry of Rites, the horses are not collected, how can he return to the dynasty to restore his life?" ”

Li Wenge asked blankly: "He is not an official of the Ministry of Rites?" ”

Li Binqi said: "Didn't you hear when the king introduced him yesterday? ”

Li Wenge shook his head and said embarrassedly: "Yesterday I was so drunk that I couldn't do it, and I couldn't remember anything......

Li Bin laughed and said: "It's a shame that you still follow the king to salute him, and you haven't lost your temper at all, and you don't remember anything today!" ”

Li Wenge sneered, lamenting in his heart that he had really chosen the wrong body for this reincarnation.

Li Bin laughed for a while before he said, "That praise official is the Taifu Temple, who is in charge of Ma Zhengdi. The family is a family of eunuchs, his grandfather was a judge, his father was a waiter, he himself was a shadow official, he had never tried to make a department, and he was prepared from a thousand cattle step by step to become the master of the country, and a year ago he moved to the Taifu Temple......"

"What's his name?" Li Wenge asked as he tried to recall last night's banquet.

"He is a native of Anci in Youzhou, the son of Lu Qi, a squire of the Later Jin Army, named Lu Duan......" Li Bin replied with a twist of his beard.