Early the next morning, Liu Cun changed into the official uniform of the county order, got on a rare four-wheeled carriage, and went straight to the north gate of Xiahe City to meet the angels.

County Cheng Guo Tang, county lieutenant Wang Qi, Ling Shi Zhouchong and others were already waiting outside the main hall, and when they saw Liu Cun coming, they hurriedly greeted them, and surrounded Liu Cun into the main hall.

After waiting for half an hour, a group of well-fed angel attachés and more than a dozen forbidden soldiers came out to set up a guard of honor, and many people asked Liu Cun with a big grin? Then he grinned and looked up and down at Liu Cun, who respectfully returned the salute, very rude and domineering.

Everything was ready, the little eunuch in charge of the honor guard sang, and the angel Zhang Dun immediately walked out with a square step and a smile, and the two young eunuchs behind him held a tray covered with yellow silk.

Liu Cun took three steps forward and bent down to salute: "It's too late for the lower officials, please forgive me!" ”

The tall Zhang Dun looked Liu Cun up and down with interest, nodded while looking at it, seemed very satisfied, greeted Liu Cun kindly, and then instructed Liu Cun to kneel down and accept the order.

As expected by Liu Cun and Mi Zhu, the first decree was to declare the gold-painted porcelain fired in Langya Zhushan as "Langya tribute porcelain", and required Langya County to contribute one hundred and eight sets of gold-painted porcelain to the imperial court every year from this year onwards for sacrifices and state banquets.

The second decree commended Liu Cun for his merits in resettling the displaced people and conquering the Yellow Turban thieves, promoted Dongwu County, and ordered Liu Cun to be the Taishou of Chengyang County, Qingzhou, and to govern Dongwu, and ordered Liu Cun to rectify the important military and political affairs of the eleven counties under his jurisdiction, including Dongwu, Langya, Zhucheng, Dongguan, Dong'an, Gumu, Changping, Anqiu, Gaomi, Qianqi, and Zongcheng, and to count the population and acres as soon as possible, compile a book, and report it to the imperial court before the end of the year.

The officials who knelt on the ground in the hall were amazed, and they all felt that the decision of the imperial court was too sudden, and the re-established Chengyang County no longer belonged to Xuzhou, but belonged to the jurisdiction of Qingzhou. Could it be that the news of his construction in Tongxian County has reached Luoyang?

Angel Zhang Dun, no matter how the officials in the hall were amazed, handed the edict into Liu Cun's hands with a smile, and cordially helped Liu Cun, who received the decree and bowed again: "Lord Taishou, can you lead our family to the pottery kiln that burns beautiful utensils to open your eyes?" ”

Liu Cun quickly reacted: "Thanks to the emperor's blessing, Langya ceramics are given such a huge honor, Weichen is grateful and sincerely afraid, and he hopes to get the guidance of the angel!" Angel please! ”

Zhang Dun laughed: "Lord Liu is really good at talking, haha!" Sure enough, there is no vanity under the fame! Okay, our family will work hard for Lord Liu. ”

The guard of honor rolled out again, Wang Qi, who was notified by Liu Cun, was excited, and took the lead in leading the way to open the road, and all the officials got on the carriage to follow the angel, and the team composed of thousands of people and horses and dozens of carriages drove to the north of the manor, entered from the gate of the manor, came out directly from the back door, and finally stopped at the wide field in front of the pottery workshop at the northern foot of Huangdao Mountain.

Zhang Dun got out of the carriage, smiled at the hundreds of officials surrounding him, walked to Liu Cun's side and praised the scale of the workshop, and then pointed to the smoke rising at the foot of the mountain in front of him and asked kindly: "It seems that the kiln that burns fine ceramics is in that place, right?" ”

"Exactly, the road is not easy to walk, and the angel walks slowly." Liu Cun cautiously followed Zhang Dun's side, feeling uneasy in his heart.

After walking dozens of steps, Zhang Dun approached Liu Cun slightly: "Lord Liu, I heard that the most exquisite and rare ceramic top-grade and Langya mirrors are secretly fired at the foot of Zhu Mountain by the sea?" ”

Liu Cun hurriedly explained: "Half a year ago it was true, now they have moved here, Zhushan is close to the sea, the sea breeze is too strong, and too humid, no matter how hard it is difficult to burn high-grade ceramics, often more than ten or twenty kilns fired out, only to get one or two fine products, and it is difficult to obtain better porcelain than pottery, and the materials needed are transported from Langya, Zhucheng and Gaomi and other places outside, it is very inconvenient, so it can only be moved to this buried a lot of clay under the Zodiac Mountain, a few months down, the ceramics fired out are much better than the two old kilns in Zhushan, After asking the old craftsman, Xia Guan learned that Feng Shui, soil quality, air flow, direction, etc., have a great impact on firing, and this place under the Zodiac Mountain is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there are lakes and springs in the west, which is the best place to fire ceramics, so Xia Guan simply moved the craftsmen of Zhushan to here. ”

Zhang Dun suddenly realized: "No wonder I heard about Zhushan pottery at the beginning, no one in the world in Luoyang mentioned Zhushan pottery for a while, and the most praised is Langya ceramics, we didn't expect that there are so many exquisiteness in firing ceramics, this time it is an eye-opener." ”

Liu Cun's tense nerves also relaxed, accompanied Zhang Dun and the officials to visit the two kilns that were being fired, and then looked at the ordinary low-temperature porcelain that had just been taken out of the kiln.

It was nearly noon when he left the ceramic workshop, Liu Cungong invited Zhang Dun to the east of the city to have a drink, the interested Zhang Dun readily agreed, Liu Cun immediately asked Wang Qi to invite the officials to have a drink together, and he accompanied Zhang Dun directly around the city to the east of the city Guantao Pavilion, Lehaha's Mi Zhu has been waiting there for a long time.

Zhang Dun was very happy to see Mi Zhu, and the three of them each took one or two entourages to the private room on the third floor, and after washing their faces, they picked up the teacup and tasted it comfortably, and the exquisite dishes were quickly served like water.

Zhang Dun was very happy to see Liu Cun so shrewd, and called Liu Cun, who was going downstairs to arrange a banquet for the officials: "Lord Liu doesn't have to care about those subordinates, he has someone else to greet them, let's get together rarely, it's better to be quiet." ”

Mi Zhu also said: "Zijian doesn't need to go down, there are Lord Cheng, Lord Wang, and Lord Guo downstairs, and they won't snub anyone." ”

Liu Cun had no choice but to come back and sit down, Zhang Dun waved away a few waiters, ordered the two little eunuchs he brought to serve wine, turned to Liu Cun and said very seriously: "Next, our family wants to announce the emperor's oracle to Lord Liu, adults don't need to kneel to answer, just sit and listen!" ”

After Zhang Dun finished speaking, he stood up, straightened up and conveyed his message: "The emperor said: Liu Aiqing, I know that you are a genius, extremely smart, you have made a lot of exquisite utensils, and the poems you make on the teapot are also good, since you joined the office, you have been very respectful to me, and you have done a good job in recruiting and suppressing the Yellow Turbans, and with the soldiers of just one county, you have achieved a record of nearly 10,000 captives at the head of 4,000, which is really much better than those rice bucket generals under me, so I don't want your things in vain, take the county official position in the eleven counties of Chengyang County and exchange it with you, you can use whoever you like, and you can report it at the end of the year. The eleven county officials totaled 800 gold, and handed them over to Zhang Dun to bring back, and within four years, I would no longer appoint others to be officials with you. ”

Liu Cun and Mi Zhu were dumbfounded, looking at Zhang Dun who was sitting down with a smile, unable to say a word.

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