Although the Zhenxi Army promoted five people in one go, Du Shiyi naturally would not rashly bring them back on the return trip. The handover of military personnel is the same as the handover of civilian officials, and there are corresponding steps, and we should not rush it. And during his stay in Hezhou, although even the scholars who came to confess did not hesitate to take the time to see him, it can be seen that Miao Yansi, the assassin of Hezhou, has very few times, which further confirms the speculation of outsiders about the relationship between the two. Even when he left to return to Shanzhou, Miao Yansi only showed his face after the most reluctance, and he didn't say a word of superfluity.

Therefore, after walking out of Caohan City for a long time, when a group of people were drinking and resting, Wang Changling asked with some puzzlement: "Even if the marshal has some old disagreements with Miao Yuanjun, but Dashuai has always been a very tolerant and elegant person in the past, how can he be so incompatible with Miao Yuanjun?" ”

Wang Changling, who was more outspoken about this, dared to say that Gao Shi had been thinking about this question in his stomach for a long time, and he didn't ask it. At this moment, he was also very interested, so he quietly came up.

Wang Changling and Gao Shi, one is free and easy, the other is high-spirited, and Du Shiyi is the same age, now there is a difference between up and down, although they can't show intimacy in front of people, but when there are few outsiders, the two of them are more casual, and Du Shiyi doesn't think it's angry. At this moment, in the face of such an inquiry, Du Shiyi was silent for a moment, and suddenly said: "At the beginning, I was in Shangshu Province after the provincial examination, and then I was required to take the examination of the Ministry of Officials, and even when I was in charge of Zhihe Sun Wuke, it was when Zhang Jiazhen was in power and Miao Yansi was the master......

After briefly talking about the several stumbling blocks that Miao Yansi had made for him, he then said: "Moreover, Wang Majie was suddenly demoted from Taile Cheng to Jeju Sihu to join the army, and it was also because Zhang Jiazhen wanted to implicate King Qi and shake Zhang Yangong's phase, so he used Miao Yansi's clever strategy. As soon as Wang Majie came out of Beijing, he actually wasted his career for more than ten years. I'm afraid, I'm afraid that Wang Xiaqing, who is still in Luoyang, hates Miao Yanji even more than his brother. If it weren't for the fact that the father was not as good as the son, and the two sons of Miao Yanji were different from their fathers, one was calm and dignified, and the other was conceited, but he was also anxious for justice and righteousness, I would not have been angry when I was in Yunzhou, but treated them well. ”

These joints, Wang Changling and Gao Shi are the first time they have heard of them. Both of them are people who repay virtue with virtue and repay grievances with straightforwardness, and they don't think there is anything wrong with Du Shiyi's hostility towards Miao Yansi, and Gao Shi even has a deeper dislike for Miao Yansi because of this: "Miao Yansi was so energetic when he was a member of the Zhongshu House, but as soon as Zhang Hedong fell, he had been working abroad for more than ten years, and he didn't even know how to converge!" ”

"This is the way the party struggle is, not to mention, he doesn't like it, I don't like him, it's not a day or two."

Du Shiyi didn't want to dwell on this topic any more, so she changed her words and said: "The most important thing now is recruitment. The reason why I wrote to His Majesty that the Anren Army and the Heyuan Army had increased their troops was because the number of fugitives who moved to the land of Helong has increased day by day in recent years. Although the imperial court decreed strictly, and punished it immediately as soon as it was noticed, it could not resist more and more people fleeing. Rather than making those sturdy Dingkou tenant farmers black, it is better to relax the restrictions on conscription and allow their families to settle down with rent reductions and exemptions, so that Longyou can not only replenish the soldiers, but also recruit more people to reclaim the fields. ”

Before Du Shiyi summoned the generals of the Zhenxi Army in Wuwei Hall, Wang Changling and Gao Shi were all present. But the letter asking for additional recruits in the Heyuan Army was drafted and written by Du Shiyi himself, and neither of them knew about it, so it was inevitable that they would have doubts in their hearts, and when they heard such a reason, the two of them finally understood. So, on the next way back, Du Shiyi had to analyze the pros and cons of Yu Wenrong back then, and he was so sharp that he was three points, even though the two of them didn't have much of a good impression of Yu Wenrong in the past, and now they have to admit that if they want to say that they are the first good at financial planning, Yu Wenrong is still above Pei Yaoqing today.

"Today's Chinese book makes Zhang Zishou Zhang Xiangguo outstanding in rhetoric and brilliant in writing, but his attainments in financial planning are not as good as Pei Xiangguo, and even less than Yuwen Rongyuan. At the beginning of last year, he even opened the ban on copper coins because of the shortage of copper coins, and couldn't help but mint money among the people. Therefore, no one is perfect. If Yuwen Rong is still around, he can stabilize the trend that was stable after the previous Kutian Kuto, and then fled again......"

Du Shiyi stopped abruptly at this point and did not continue. But Wang Changling and Gao Shiquan are such smart people, and they have already made up the following half of the paragraph. But Du Shiyi himself knew the truth, but he still didn't say a word.

After each Dingkou comes of age, the system of dividing the land into 100 acres and adding Yongye field is no longer feasible, and the current rent and tax adjustment system has long been full of holes, but even so, it is still difficult to fully implement the two tax systems of household tax and land tax! Now is not the time for him to be full of ambition and dare to make drastic moves, Li Linfu has already ascended to the position, and he himself is in a high position, and he will never bet on this kind of reform!

On this return trip, Du Shiyi did not choose to cross the Yellow River from the Imjin Gudu of the Jishi Army, but deliberately rode around the east of the Yanquan Bridge owned by the Tubo people on the Yellow River, and overlooked the bridge made of wood and stone built by the Tubo people on the Yellow River for soldiers and horses to pass through. Ascending high and looking into the distance, this section of the Yellow River is narrow, the terrain is dangerous, and it is the place where soldiers must fight.

The land of Hehuang has always been one of the centers of the tug-of-war between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, so although the boundary between Chiling has been since Zhenguan, the real boundary depends on the strength of the two countries. For example, when Zhongzong was alive, he actually gave the land of Jiuqu in Hexi as a dowry to Tubo, so Tubo once built the Hongji Bridge on the Yellow River one hundred and forty miles west of the Jishi Army, which became an east-west artery for soldiers and horses to pass through at any time. It was not until the second year of Kaiyuan, when the Tang Dynasty and Tibet were repeatedly fighting, so the bridge was the main route for the Tibetan army, which was demolished under the advice of Yao Chonglu Huaishen. And the same is true of this salt spring bridge, when the two countries were at war, the battle for this bridge was fought many times, but it ended in the defeat of the Tang army several times.

"If the Tang Dynasty and Tubo can temporarily stop fighting and stop their troops as they do today, it will be fine, if the war starts again......" Du Shiyi pointed to the Yanquan Bridge with a horsewhip in his hand, and said word by word, "Then this bridge must be taken down first, and the road to Tubo's march will be cut off!" ”

"It's not enough to take this bridge, if you want to hold on here, I'm afraid that the Tibetans will attack from time to time in an attempt to recapture it. The marshal allowed me to say that the city of Caohan in Hezhou is not as wide as the city of Huangshui, and 11,000 troops from the west of the town are stationed in the city, and many of them are stationed in Qingshui Township. If this is the case, if the Salt Spring Bridge is taken, it is better to divide the western army to garrison near this Salt Spring Bridge. Gao Shi saw that Du Shiyi nodded when he heard this, and couldn't help but be more energetic, "As for the defense of Hezhou Caohan City, the northwest is this Yanquan Bridge garrisoned by the Zhenxi Army, and the southeast is leveled and guarded, so only one more military town needs to be set up in the west, so that each other is the horns, and the Caohan City can be as stable as Mount Tai......"

Gao Shi went to Hezhou this time, and he really worked hard, and he naturally seemed to be very sure when he talked eloquently at this time. It was about to see that although Li Bai and others shined in the erudite and scholarly vocabulary, but in essence did not enter the center of the imperial court, but only as a minister, he instead worked hard, and spent more effort on military affairs than Wang Changling, at this moment he started from the Yanquan Bridge, to the defense of the entire Hezhou, and then to Longyou and Hexi, and when he finally felt satisfied, he found that Du Shiyi and Wang Changling were all looking at him thoughtfully.

Is it that he is too carried away, so there are many loopholes in it?

"Duff, it's very good, go back and sort these out and write a note to me." Du Shiyi intersected with many literati and writers, so naturally he often tried to test what everyone was good at. I have to say that arrogance is a common problem for all talents, so many ideas are big and inappropriate, like Gao Shi, who can have such a strategic vision not long after taking office, at least among the many famous poets he intersected with. Therefore, seeing that Gao Shi was suddenly overjoyed, he said to Wang Changling Nunu, "Young uncle, Duff has found the right direction, what about you?" ”

"That's why I said, if Duff had reached the first earlier, he would definitely not be like me, and he would not be able to stay in the capital for a lifetime!"

Wang Changling smiled self-deprecatingly, and then said casually: "Through the great ambition of the world, I was almost cut off during my time as an official in Liangjing, and now I only think about doing what I can, and first do a good job as the secretary of Longyou Jiedu." Of course, I can't catch up with Zhang Qijun, but I can't make people laugh at the handsome and knowledgeable people. I have an idea, the handsome festival is Longyou, and there are countless scholars who have come to meet him, and many of them are eager for us shogunate officials. In this case, since the marshal has set up four classes in the Longyou Elite Hall, and has been promoted by monthly examinations, why not check whether they are virtuous or not among those who meet the scholars, and if they are willing to stay, they will serve left and right to prepare for praise? And the people who left praise are also assessed every month, and the sages are selected to use them, and even recommended to the court? ”

The system of the Longyou Elite Hall is different from the original state school, because in the face of the children of military attachés, most of them have a very poor foundation in history and history, and even have no foundation at all, so he let Du Guangyuan and others enroll in it, more to stabilize the hearts of the officers, and then select talents through ranks, which has been quite effective in the past two years. Wang Changling's use of the elite hall as a metaphor for those scholars who come from all over the world is undoubtedly a hint that Du Shiyi can gather a group of people as his team, and then assess the virtuous and foolish like the students, and keep the best people by his side.

As soon as the words fell, without even waiting for Du Shiyi to answer, Gao Shi suddenly changed color and said: "Young uncle, do you want the handsome man to accuse people of gathering private individuals and plotting misdeeds?" ”

Seeing that Wang Changling was surprised, Du Shiyi also nodded and said: "Although what the young uncle said is very much in line with my heart, but you must know that the Dao, the judge of the festival degree, the secretary of the department, the inspector and even other low-level shogunate officials, also did not have it before. If I gather a large number of scholars who have no official status around me, and also evaluate them for promotion, and select the sages and staff secrets, then Duff's concerns are likely to become a reality. By that time, I will have a thousand mouths and I will not be able to tell! ”

In the final analysis, when he recommended Li Bai and others back to the DPRK to take the examination for the Erudite Vocabulary Department, was it not because of this heavy concern?

However, without waiting for Wang Changling to become frustrated, Du Shiyi smiled again: "However, since you have brought it up, you will come forward to screen and screen for me yourself, among those who come to see me, who is virtuous and who is not enough." In the past, when Qijun first came to Shanzhou, he had been to the city to invite a banquet, and now that you have officially started the position of secretary, you might as well show the pride of making friends all over the world! As for Duff, you have such a strategic vision, I just have something to ask Liangzhou Hexi Jiedu Niu Dashuai to help, after returning to Shanzhou, you go to Hexi for me and worship Niu Dashuai! ”