Compared with Jingchu Lingnan, Shuozhou, Lanzhou, Daiju and other prefectures north of Taiyuan Province in Hedong Province, no matter which state they belong to, can be regarded as the third-class choice in terms of official selection and assignment. Of course, this does not include Yunzhou, which has just been reinstated for a year. Even if Yunzhou was out of the limelight during this year, and the Son of Heaven praised him repeatedly, it still couldn't hide the fact that Yunzhou had more troops than civilians and had been abandoned for many years.

Officials with backgrounds are no better than those profit-seeking businessmen, since they do not have the affection to share the joys and hardships with Du Shiyi to create a foundation together, and now they are just being called as cattle and horses in the past, and they will not expect to be promoted to the top of their posts soon. As a result, like the previous subordinate officials who went to the Yunzhou Governor's Mansion to take office, Han Buwei, who was elected as the Yunzhong Commander, was depressed since he learned of this appointment. He is still like this, and he has gone from the county chief to the two county lieutenants, which is even more sullen. They were not directly transferred here from the office after their term of office expired, but because they had been candidates in Beijing for quite some time, they had no way to refuse this official vacancy that they had waited for so hard.

When I arrived in Mayi, I saw that I was about to enter the boundary of Yunzhou, and many people who were already grinding on the road didn't want to move forward. Han Buwei only mentioned the hard work on the road, and after resting for two days, the others echoed one after another. At this moment, Han Buwei ordered the servants to buy wine in the wine shop, and he was drunk for two whole days, and when he was about to set off on this day, he was still a little hungover, and he was helped on the horse by his entourage, but he only heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves behind. When everyone looked back, they realized that it was a rider who came over at a gallop, and when he got closer, he rolled the saddle and dismounted: "Dare to ask everyone, but Yunzhong Ling Han Mingfu and his party?" ”

"It's me, what's the matter?" Han Buwei and Han Xiu, the servant of the Ministry of Works, are the same Changli Han clan, but they are of the same clan, but their ancestors have some grievances, so they are not close, so that he is fifty out of forty, but most of the time he is in the election. But out of the arrogance of the children of the family, when he spoke, he unconsciously brought out a bit of domineering.

The messenger breathed a sigh of relief, and after saluting respectfully, he untied the burden on his back, took out a sealed bamboo tube, and presented it to the Tao with both hands, "A certain messenger from the Ministry of Shangshu Province has been ordered to send you a new farewell.

A new farewell?

Han Buwei was taken aback at first, and then immediately showed joy, secretly thinking that there was some change in the DPRK, and he didn't have to go to Yunzhou to see people's faces? Not only him, but several other people looked at each other, and they also had the same thought. Han Buwei couldn't care about any more face, and he didn't let his entourage handle it, so he personally stepped forward and bent down to take the bamboo tube, cut open the mud seal, unscrew the lid, and took out a scroll inside. However, after only looking at the first one that belonged to him, he showed a blank expression.

"Huairen County, Yunzhou? What is this place? ”

Not only had he never heard of it, but no one else had heard of it, and they looked at each other for a while. And before the messenger came, he had been instructed by Qi Chao, the servant of the Shangshu Provincial Officials' Department, so he hurriedly explained: "Because of the book in the history of Du Chang of Yunzhou, please leave Huairen County outside of Yunzhou Yunzhong County, on the official road from Mayi to Yunzhong County, Bixia gladly agrees." Because the selection of the Ministry of Officials may not be in time, it was reassigned to the Huairen County Order of Han Ming Mansion, and the rest of you were also reassigned to Huairen County. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a dead silence. Thousands of miles to Yunzhong County, which only has a few thousand people, to take office, and even if you have to press the mountain of the Governor's Mansion, now you will be given Huairen, who did not have it before? How many people does Huairen have now, and whether there is a house or not is still unknown, just because Du Shiyi wrote the book, the Son of Heaven and the Monk Department actually agreed to his nonsense?

Han Buwei only felt that he was holding back the fire and being ashamed in his heart, plus he had drunk a little too much in the past two days to kill his sorrows, he only felt that his head exploded all of a sudden, and suddenly his eyes turned white, and he fell off the horse like an upside-down onion. Fortunately, the messenger was quick and rushed up to help him with an arrow, which prevented the new county commander from bleeding. Even so, Han Buwei still passed out with his eyes closed. Faced with this unexpected scene, the others were also in a hurry for a while, and after relocating the people in the guest rooms of the inn and inviting a doctor to treat them, they came to a conclusion that caught the others off guard.

"Han Ming Mansion...... I'm afraid it's because the mood swings are too strong, so the blood rushes up, this should be ...... Minor strokes. The healer cautiously said this conclusion, and then he excused himself with a prescription, and the rest of the others looked at me, and the messenger wanted to weep without tears. He has been chasing all the way for 600 miles, and he is already tired and wants to die, how could he encounter such a hellish situation?

Fortunately, Han Buwei's servant was still old-fashioned, and he bowed and asked the others to go to rest for the time being, and arranged the messenger in the post station, and he personally guarded the master's side. It wasn't until the needle was administered and the medicine was tossed for a day and a night that in the middle of the night of the next day, Han Buwei finally woke up and turned around. Seeing that the servant was about to call someone with surprise on his face, he immediately burst out with difficulty.

"Don't be alarmed"

"Does Ah Lang have any orders?"

It was said that it was a small stroke, but fortunately, the treatment was timely, and Han Buwei was also well maintained on weekdays, and at this moment he relieved himself and signaled the servant to come closer, and then said angrily: "That Du Nineteen good life will toss people, and he actually wants to send me to a new county for my illness, which is also a blessing for Saion." I dictate, find someone to write, and then send it to Chang'an, I would rather beg the bones to return to my hometown than be an official under this person"

"But if Ah Lang begs for bones and wants to recover in the future, I'm afraid he will ......"

"This time and that time, three or five years from now, who knows what will happen?" Han Buwei sneered, and then coughed repeatedly. After the servant brought tea and raised the pillow, he calmed down, then gritted his teeth and said, "I heard when I set off in Chang'an that Du Jiu's brother-in-law was also going to be released. That Cui Shiyi is just a child of a family, and he has only joined the army in polo for many years, but now he wants to be promoted to the United States, why? You managed to find someone to let out a little rumor, the new land in Huairen County, there are no houses and city walls, and even the people under your jurisdiction don't know where they are, since Du Shijiu has been nepotism, how can he not know that his brother-in-law is cheaper?

"Ah" The servant was stunned for a moment, and only said cautiously for a long time, "Bixia is accurate to Du Changshi's book, which shows that he is favored, if he really spreads such remarks, will it harm Ah Lang?" ”

"Do you think that Du Nineteen has no enemies? I just have the heart to lose my career, and I will never let him have a good time."

Han Bu came at the right time for this little stroke, but seeing that he was gradually waking up, he said that his legs and feet could not move, even though Luo Xiancheng and the other three subordinate officials were despised, but it was not good for anyone to continue to delay the departure day. It's just that when they gathered their families and set off from Mayi to Huairen, who didn't know where they were, several people were all very angry. This is true of the masters, let alone the servants. Among the four people, two people are out, two people are Mingjing, the family background is only medium, and there are only ten servants together, but fortunately, there are still guides, and this day can be rushed to arrive at a Yunzhou official post that was just built last year before dark.

Seeing that there was even a guest house next to the official post, Luo Xiancheng, who is now temporarily in charge, suddenly wondered: "Why do you want to build a guest house here?" ”

A post man who came to greet the guest replied with a smile: "Luo Shaofu, this is a place for Du Changshi to let the people who moved to Yunzhou have a place to settle on the road, so on the way from Mayi to Yunzhong County, every sixty to eighty miles or so, there is such a guest house, and now there are thirty or forty people living in this guest house." ”

Luo Xiancheng was certainly surprised, as were several other subordinate officials who were originally unhappy in their hearts. However, when they were curious to take a look at the guest house, they found that it was the people who had migrated to Yunzhou, and some people even said that they could reach Huairen County in one more day, and they didn't need to walk another day or two to live in Yunzhong County, and as soon as they arrived, they would immediately distribute rations and seed fields.

"This Han Ming Mansion is obviously taking advantage of illness to pick a child, I want to ask, what are you going to do?"

"The tricks of pretending to be sick have been used by Han Mingfu, what can we do? As the chief officer, he can come to this set, and I have been in exile for twelve years, and it was easy to get Lieutenant Yun...... No, now it should be said that it is the position of Huai Renwei, where can there be any luxury? It's a big deal, be a monk for a day and hit the clock for a day" This is the attitude of Captain Feng.

"It's better to stay up for a day than to go to the southwest to deal with those barbarians. That Du Nineteen's methods are vicious, and he used to deal with Chengdu Wei Wang Ming, but he let him stop thinking about being an official for the rest of his life" This is the attitude of Master Zhang

As for the Zhao County Lieutenant, he smiled and said, "There is news for you to know, two days ago, I listened to the corner of Han Ming's Mansion with a disagreement, and I got a piece of news. Han Mingfu was not angry, so he was going to let people go back to Beijing to spread the news, saying that Du Changshi was nepotistic and planned to provoke the DPRK and transfer his brother-in-law. You should have heard about that polo joined the army, Cui Shiyilang, right? If Du Changshi is really willing to let his brother-in-law Huairen County come to suffer, why don't we follow it? You know, those who followed Du Changshi to Yunzhou at the beginning were all unambitious, and now they are all appointed to official positions, if they can really benefit the future, why don't we learn from our predecessors? ”

This surprised everyone else. But after careful weighing, they have to admit that they are not capable of slacking off or stumbling behind them, so it is most appropriate to wait and see what happens.

However, even if everyone from top to bottom had the worst guess about the situation in Huairen County, when they finally arrived at their lodgings under the guidance of their guides the next evening, and they were still in a heavy mood when they saw clearly the checkpoint in the middle of the official road and the many houses where construction was being carried out.

It's just a county without a city... But the most decent house in the whole Huairen County is about the post station and guest house next to it, which is really a typical example of poverty and whiteness