Huaqing Palace has beautiful scenery and pleasant environment, hot spring food, and no complicated public and private affairs to disturb, just like a paradise. But Xue Chongxun only stayed here for three days and couldn't stay, precisely because no one bothered him. This feeling is very strange, just like skipping school when he was a student in the past, he was always very unsure, of course, he remembered being a qualified and good student when he was a student.

Neither the comfortable pleasures nor the warmth of the Sun family could keep him, and he left the Huaqing Palace three days later. At this time, the sky is also clear, the semi-dry road after the rain is neither muddy nor too much dust, the sky is bright, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, it is indeed a good weather for travel.

Xue Chongxun looked at the outside scenery from the carriage and felt that it was natural, fresh and simple, the crops and the hillside woods contrasted with each other, and he didn't want to go back to Daming Palace so soon, so he thought about lifting the curtain and sent a message to a general riding a horse next to him to go to Wugong County. The general responded with a fist on his horse, and then kicked his horse and stepped forward to report to Li Kuiyong, the captain of the Flying Tiger Regiment, the leader of the guards.

Huaqing Palace is in the east of Chang'an, and Wugong County is in the southwest of the city, Xue Chongxun's team from Huaqing Palace has to pass through Chang'an to go to Wugong County, but they did not enter the city and went directly to the west. Naturally, there were guards who went back to report the emperor's itinerary and inform the magistrates of Wugong County, but few people on the road knew that this group of men and horses would be the honor guard of the Son of Heaven. The carriage in which Xue Chongxun rode was old and ordinary, and there was no special mark. However, the cavalry of the accompanying Flying Tiger Regiment is strong and strong, well-armed and well-armed, and it is not an idle soldier or horse at first glance, and most people think that it is the men and horses of a certain prince and nobleman.

There are many towns in this Jingzhao Mansion, Xue Chongxun and others rested on the road for a night, and only arrived in Wugong County the next morning. Xue Chongxun was not interested in the government affairs of Wugong County at all, there were more than 1,000 counties in the country, and Wugong County was just one of the small ones among so many yamen, and it was managed by its own higher-level government, so he directly asked the officials of the county government to do what they should do, and they didn't have to prepare anything for the emperor's chariot; Only let the Shenji Department under the Beiya system receive it. He remembered the stories of some emperors who visited the local government privately, and after thinking about it, if there was indeed such a thing, most of those emperors were for fun, otherwise one or two thousand counties in the country took the time to investigate one by one in person, wouldn't it hurt? Blind tossing can also play into Mingjun, Lao Tzu is just playing with women and being scolded?

The Shenji Department is a yamen that has just been established, and it has incorporated the craftsmen and craftsmen of the workshops that developed cannons in the Ming Guang Army in the past, and the establishment is equivalent to the Jiafang Bureau, and the higher-level yamen is the ordnance supervisor, which is a department of the Northern Ya Forbidden Army Organization. Its office yamen is located on the north bank of Weishui in Wugong County, next to the Mingguang Army barracks, at this time the main force of the Mingguang Army is still fighting in Yingzhou, and there are only more than 1,000 weaker soldiers in the barracks to guard the camp and be responsible for the vigilance of the nearby Shenji Department. There is also a yamen in the Xuanwu Gate of Daming Palace, which is mainly responsible for transmitting the decrees and liaison relations above.

His prefect's position was called Ling, his name was Xiao Dan, a young man in his twenties, and he claimed in front of Xue Chongxun that he had been a petty official in the pro-kingdom. Xue Chongxun had no impression of this person at all, but he felt that it should not be fake, it was impossible for this person to do this position at a young age without nodding, and because of this kind of trivial matter, lying in front of the emperor was also found out.

By noon, Xiao Dan had prepared a sumptuous banquet in the yamen of the Shenji Department, and there were courtesans to help the fun, probably the official prostitutes sent by the Wugong County Order. At the banquet, officials from the yamen, officials from Wugong County, and nearby poets who were a little famous were invited to accompany the banquet. These people were very excited at the banquet, and it was estimated that the fact that they had drunk with the emperor would be a capital to show off in the future, and it would greatly improve their social status.

Before Xue Chongxun moved his chopsticks, he said to Xiao Dan: "Call the craftsmen who have been rewarded for making cannons in the past to have dinner together." ”

Xiao Dan was a little surprised, after all, the traditional status of Shinong industry and commerce is a consensus on the surface, craftsmen are not without human rights, but compared with officials and literati, it is too difficult to put on the table. However, this was the emperor's holy decree, and he could only happily check the roster and call a group of craftsmen in short clothes and rough clothes to come to the banquet, and a group of people were flattered and knelt on the floor to the emperor on the public seat, and could not say anything other than shouting longevity. Xue Chongxun said flat, these people were still kneeling, so he said angrily: "Do you have to come down to help you before you are willing to get up?" ”

"Hurry up!" Xiao Dan hurriedly shouted.

The craftsmen got up from the ground one after another, and an old craftsman with a white beard said with a happy face: "The grass people have lived for most of their lives, but I didn't expect to see the Son of Heaven with my own eyes!" "As for whether this Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty or the Son of Heaven of the Jin Dynasty, it should make no difference to him, who is the emperor makes no difference to the common people, as long as it is not an alien regime that treats the Han people as cattle.

Although such a scene was expected by Xue Chongxun, he was still happy in his heart, after all, the common people didn't care much about whether he had won the country or not. Xue Chongxun said: "The merits of the Great Jin Dynasty are too clear, you have meritorious service to the country, and you deserve the respect of the world and the reward of the imperial court." The last time those four guns reduced the casualties of the Imperial soldiers, and this is the credit. It's just that the materials in the early stage are not good, and you have to find a way to make better weapons. ”

Xiao Dan hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, the ministers will definitely do their best to serve the country. ”

Xue Chongxun saw that the courtesans in the hall were average in appearance and skills, of course, they were far from the women carefully selected by the Daming Palace Teaching Division, and as soon as he was in a good mood now, he waved his sleeves: "The courtesans here will be rewarded to meritorious craftsmen tonight." ”

Those young craftsmen's eyes suddenly lit up and they even forgot about their gratitude, and the old craftsman just now looked embarrassed, I don't know if it was because he was in tears when he came to see X.

During the banquet, the "celebrities" sang poems that praised virtue, although Xue Chongxun could only copy poems and basically couldn't compose poems, but the quality of other people's poems could still be roughly heard, and he felt that these people were doing some nonsense that wasted paper and had no content and meaning, obviously poets who can make poems that have been passed down through the ages are not seen everywhere, and as long as they are literate in small places, they can call themselves literati. He was not interested in the performances or poems at the banquet, and when he had eaten his fill, he went to inspect the iron-smelting and artillery-making workshops. The officials had no choice but to stop the banquet and hug Xue Chongxun to see the workshop by Weishui. Iron smelting workshops need to be drained with water to blow air, so most of them are built by the Weishui River.

The martial arts county order and the Shenji agency order Xiao Dan didn't feel very good, because the program of the luncheon obviously didn't make the emperor feel comfortable. The emperor is basically in the palace, and there are really not many opportunities to come to their side in person. The special martial arts county commander secretly thought that the Son of Heaven was expressing dissatisfaction with himself, and the good official prostitute was actually rewarded to a lower-level craftsman, wasn't this a slap in the face?

The whispered words of the staff made him even more nervous: "Today's good women are known to the world, and it doesn't matter what you eat, the important thing is that there is no woman who makes Imajo happy." It's no wonder that we, how many looks can the official prostitutes in the little Wugong County have? ”

Although the staff didn't say it thoroughly, not long ago, many people had heard that the emperor used troops in the northeast to rob beautiful women, and this martial arts county is close to the Gyeonggi area, and the county order and other officialdom are mixed people, where do you not know? It's just that the rumor-mongers have been exiled for thousands of miles, and the staff are reluctant to say it directly, which means alluding to this matter.

Of course, the county magistrate didn't want to be a county magistrate in Wugong County for the rest of his life, so he thought for a while and asked, "We don't have a woman who looks outstanding under our rule?" The staff suddenly said: "There is a village called Taojiazhuang by the Weishui, the last time I rode a horse from the river, I saw a woman in Huanyi by the water, I wanted to buy a concubine, but I sent someone to inquire that this woman has been married to a wife, and her husband is a farmer with land. A friend persuaded him that he didn't want to ruin his reputation because of a woman, so he gave up. This woman's skin is very beautiful, if she is recruited to enter and dedicate to today, there will be no difference...... Even if something happens, her husband's family will make trouble above, and the top will not take Ming Gong anything, this is dedicated to the Son of Heaven. ”

"Is it really as beautiful as you say?" The county commander immediately moved his thoughts, frowned and muttered for a moment, "At present, I am here, and I must do it properly based on peace and quiet...... In this way, you go to the county and use the seal to bring some servants to Taojiazhuang to recruit a group of women, under the pretext of cooking for the people who repair the city wall, and recruit a group of people to recruit the 'Huanyi Girl' as well, so that it can be reasonable. When the matter is over, we will compensate his husband's family with some land and money, scare him, and it will be fine. ”

The staff happily agreed: "Ming Gong has thought it through. ”

The county magistrate smiled again: "When you come over, you must be polite and don't slack off." If you really like it today, you want to take it back to the palace to pamper her, and you will have to reward her family with rich clothes and food, maybe the woman will remember our merits. ”

The staff also laughed and said: "It's not impossible, what Ming Gong said is very true." ”G