There are two passes in Yanmen, there is Xicheng Pass in the west, and less than 20 miles to the east of Yanmen County in Daizhou, it is Dongcheng Pass. Du Shiyi still remembers that when he traveled to Yanmen Pass, the magnificent gate city located in the Great Wall, although it enjoyed the name of Yanmen Pass in later generations, but in this era, the so-called Yanmen Pass should be the east and west two gates at the same time, and the importance of Dongcheng Pass is lower. Because the west pass in the west is the gateway to Daizhou, it is often the main gate when it is said that the Yanmen Pass is said outside.

This place is lonely on the Gouzhu Mountain, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, in the years when the Turks repeatedly invaded the border, but with the advantage of #11 burial to protect the safety of the people of Daizhou.

On this day, those who followed Du Shiyi to Xicheng Pass for inspection, in addition to Wen Zhengyi, who volunteered, there was also Feng Laosheng, who had a relationship with Du Shiyi when he entered the city before, and Yue Wuniang, who had not suddenly come to Daizhou before. It's just that the latter dresses up as a man, and when she goes to Guancheng, she doesn't know where she goes, and Du Shiyi doesn't bother to care about her. At this moment, he walked and looked, but when he saw that the soldiers were all strong and strong, but the clothes and armor looked old, he turned his head to look at Wen Zhengyi, who smiled slightly and did not say a word. And Feng Laosheng was not so calm when he faced his gaze.

"What do you command?"

The guards from the city gate were transferred to the Governor's Mansion as the gatekeepers, and they all seemed to be the same, but because of Feng Laosheng's encounter with Du Shiyi at the city gate, there were many people under him, and he himself had some unrealistic hopes, but he almost couldn't even see Du Shiyi's face for more than ten days, so he gradually became depressed, secretly thinking that how could he be so lucky, and he could ascend to the sky in one step, but who would have thought that he would be named by Du Shiyi to follow him today. He cautiously waited for Du Shiyi's instructions, and sure enough, the next moment, Du Shiyi opened his mouth.

"There should be 500 people stationed in Xicheng Pass according to the system, and the mountains are high and the roads are dangerous, and it is inconvenient to hoard military rations, so you follow General Duan to the treasury to count and report the numbers to me."

The so-called General Duan is Duan Guangzhen, the brigade commander who guards the Xicheng Pass. Although he was only a brigade commander with 500 soldiers and horses, this person had been cold and neither humble nor arrogant from greeting to talking, so when he heard this, Feng Laosheng mistakenly thought that Du Shiyi was calculating his disrespectful crime by counting the balance of the grain depot, so he hesitated for a moment and immediately agreed.

And when the two of them left, Du Shiyi gestured to the servants to disperse, and then looked at Wen Zhengyi with a smile and said, "What Elder Wen didn't finish that day, can you say it now?" ”

To be able to go from the Ming Jing to the Ming Jing step by step, from the eunuch to the Liubu Lang official, for the officials from Daizhou who were born in Daizhou, Wen Zhengyi is already an outlier. Facing Du Shiyi, who had already been appointed before he was young, he sighed at a young age, and then said in a low voice: "The third tiger is what I said, there is no native family in Daibei. ”

As soon as these words came out, Du Shiyi couldn't help frowning thoughtfully, but didn't ask. He knew very well that since Wen Zhengyi had picked out the topic, he would no longer hide it. Sure enough, as if he had been thinking about this matter for a long time, when Wen Zhengyi really began to speak, he was gushing, but his expression was full of bitterness.

"In that year, Liu Wuzhou raised troops from Shuozhou, broke through Yanmen, and always firmly occupied the land of northern Jin, and at its peak, he even possessed Jinyang, which shook the government and the opposition. Many states and counties north of Jinyang, because of the Turkic neighborhood in the north, the motto of the famous family is that the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, so the family foundation is rarely established here, and Liu Wuzhou does not know how to marry a good family, blindly abductive, and rampantly expropriate, so Shuozhou Daizhou and other states have been infinitely beautiful because of the heroes, most of them did not end well after Liu Wuzhou's defeat. From Wude Zhenguan to Kaiyuan, Daizhou or Shuozhou, all in all, in the counties north of Taiyuan, there are very few civil officials. ”

He concisely recounted the history of the beginning of the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, and then after exposing this point, he said infinitely melancholy: "Just as the envoy encouraged everyone before, there were many heroes in the north, so at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there were indeed many heroes who entered the country with military merits. But at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, martial arts were emphasized, and now that the founding of the country is far away, and the country has been honored and pillared, it is still difficult to make his son enter the ranks, not to mention the inferior military merits. The Zhichong Mansions in various places are full of guards waiting for the military selection of the Ministry of War, but few of them can release the brown. There are few wars, and one or two generations will be completely annihilated, and naturally there are few military attache families like those generations of martial arts in the Helong Youyan area. ”

Wen Zhengyi noticed that Du Shiyi had been listening very carefully, and he couldn't help but have hope in his heart: "However, Daizhou is not without outstanding talents, and it is not without real sharp people, I have a friend who forgets his old age and lives in seclusion in the Xiawu Mountain, this person knows everything about astronomy and geography, and then he has always avoided it. Not only him, but also the people who have paid tribute to the state over the years, have been held by the Pei family, the Wang family, the Miao family and many Hedong clan branches accounted for the vast majority, and the humble people are rarely able to stand out. As for the talents who are proficient in martial arts and military strategy, not to mention anything else, Duan Guangzhen, the brigade commander of this Xicheng Pass, is. ”

As if he was afraid that Du Shiyi would not believe it, he explained in detail and said: "At the beginning of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, there was a battle between the Tang Dynasty and Li Daji, the king of Xi, and Sun Jian, the governor of Youzhou, was defeated and died. Duan Guangzhen, who was born in Yanmen County, Daizhou, was sixteen years old at the time, and he was around General Pei, and then served in the Andong Protectorate of Yingzhou, who knew that he would meet Khitan Kou Yingzhou again. After coming and going, although he made many military exploits, because the main general suffered defeats every time, Zuihou was transferred back to this generation. Although he was a local, there was no one in his family, and his personality was cold, so Zuihou was sent to this Xicheng Pass. Today's Xichengguan is close to Shuozhou, which is inconvenient to pass, not to mention the delay in supply, and often deducted. In addition to the main general, even the soldiers are often punished for committing crimes, which is really embarrassing."

The name of the summer house, Du Shiyi, who has read poetry and books, naturally knows it. At that time, Zhao Xiangzi went north to the summer house and asked the acting king, and then Zhao Xiangzi killed the acting king, and the acting king's wife, that is, Zhao Xiangzi's sister, committed suicide here. Xiawu Mountain is connected to the Juzhu Mountain where Yanmen Pass is located, that is, Yanmen Mountain, which is an extremely dangerous place in the north of Daibei. Seclusion in this kind of mountain can be more difficult than in Songshan. It's just that whether Wen Zhengyi's words are worthy of being believed, he still has to put a question mark for the time being. However, Wen Zhengyi's statement about the fact that it was difficult for the local civil and military forces in Daizhou to get ahead, as well as the matter of Duan Guangzhen, the general of the Xicheng Pass, made him pay extra attention.

With a deep groan in his heart, he suddenly raised his head to look at the other party and said with a smile: "Elder Wen is so attentive to me, aren't you afraid that I will turn around and ignore your words, or will I sell you backhand in order to get married?" ”

Du Shiyi said this, Wen Zhengyi let go of the biggest burden in his heart. He breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the towering mountains on both sides, and said in a low voice: "Born in Yanmen, grew up in Yanmen, I have done my best since I entered the office, but I am only a Lang official to the end of my life. Originally, I had planned to follow the example of Lu Gong, the master of the king, and set up a hall to teach the disciples, hoping to see the disciples in the court in my lifetime, but I didn't want Bixia to let the envoy make the emperor Yanmen. In the past, the monarch was in Chengdu, and the local wealthy families in Chengdu were able to leave Shu and enter the south of the Yangtze River; The envoy is in Yunzhou, and most of them are homeless people and other rabble in Yunzhou, and they even set up Peiying Hall so that orphans can live in peace; Therefore, I think that if the envoy supervises the Yanmen, he will not make the Yandai continue to sink."

Speaking of this, he bent down and said deeply: "Wen is old, but if you are really ambitious, Wen is willing to serve the work of dogs and horses."

Du Shiyi has only been in office for a few days, and she didn't even have time to touch the specific situation of a subordinate official, but let people go around to carefully explore Wen Zhengyi's character. I learned that he has been a eunuch for 20 years, and his political achievements are remarkable, and he is quite famous, but unfortunately his two sons are all unqualified and have not been released, and his grandson is still young. Judging from this person's consistent reputation, it is very likely that these are true. Therefore, he stepped forward and helped him up with both hands with a smile, and said with a pleasant face: "Old Wen is serious. You are a senior, and I have more to borrow from in the future. ”

I said so much from my heart and lungs, and it was not in vain, when Wen Zhengyi, who was a lot older, was helped up by those two strong hands, he only felt a bright light in front of him. When Du Shiyi pulled him along the wall to look around, he took this opportunity to talk about a lot of Daizhou's geography and people's feelings, especially the subordinate officials of the Daizhou Governor's Mansion, he commented on them one by one, especially the Hu Cao who was born in the Pei family and the Boling Cui clan joined the army Pei Haiyun, and Gong Cao joined the army Cui Hu, he focused on explaining them. This time passed quickly, and when Du Shiyi was chewing on this information carefully, he saw that Feng Laosheng had already trotted back.

"Envoy, envoy" Running quickly in front of Du Shiyi, Feng Laosheng took a deep breath, and then said like a cannon, "The grain in Xicheng Pass is less than ten stones, most of the bows and arrows are insufficient, and there are many decayed swords, even the battle robes are ......."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Du Shiyi saw that the brigade commander Duan Guangzhen was coming this way, so he waved his hand to stop Feng Laosheng, and when Duan Guangzhen came closer, he said lightly: "Duan Guangzhen, since you took office, you and I have reported the shortage of grain and ordnance allocated by the Governor's Mansion one by one."

Du Shiyi was clearly lukewarm to herself before, and at this moment she sent Feng Laosheng to follow her to check the grain depot and arsenal and come back, and in the blink of an eye, such a sentence burst out, and Duan Guangzhen suddenly showed a deep surprise. Although he is unsociable, he is not a fool, his gaze swept to Wen Zhengyi's face, and he saw that the old man who was highly respected in Daizhou bowed slightly to himself, although he didn't understand why the other party wanted to help him, but since Du Shiyi was willing to ask, he was excluded and treated harshly, so he had to live a cold life in this Xicheng Pass, so he solemnly gave a military salute.

"The garrison of Xichengguan is five hundred, and it should be allocated thirty stone of military rations every month, but most of the time it is less than fifteen stone, and I have detailed account books here. As for the bow and arrow, there are more shortages, and I have recorded the wear and tear during the exercise in detail for the envoy to check in detail. ”