"Why?" Wang Sili asked in surprise: "Li Siye is a person with a pure temperament and a frank personality, even Li Shiniang chose him as her husband, which is enough to explain his character." ”

Huangfu Wei glanced at him and said, "When did the sword dancing woman become your yardstick?" I've never said he's characterful, it's just ...... It's just that Li Kang of the Wei and Jin dynasties said that the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it, the pile will come out of the shore, and the flow will be turbulent; Walk above men, and the crowd will not. I have never given people a rating of superiority, even Fumeng Lingcha Gao Xianzhi is just up and down, middle and upper, if he gives Li Siye a promotion, far beyond his colleagues and officials, it is not beautiful to him. ”

In order to prevent the border generals from entering the court, the generals recommended by His Majesty for several years were all Hu people, such as An Lushan, Shi Siming, An Sishun, Fumeng Lingcha and others. I am worried that the praise will be too much, so that Li Siye will fall into the sight of this person, and he will be guarded against and suppressed by him before the climate is achieved, which is really more than worth the loss. ”

"So I decided." He unfolded a booklet, wrote on it, and said: "I gave Li Siye the most three-kindness, the evaluation of Shangzhong, this evaluation is also rare for me, and it is especially important." ”

While Wang Sili expressed regret, he also deeply admired Huangfu, and he didn't expect that just giving people an evaluation could be considered so deeply.

People like him don't have so many twists and turns, and they don't have so much foresight, I'm afraid that they can only be a military general in this life.

Huangfu Weiming held the carriage and said regretfully: "Although I gave him a middle school on the surface, but here. He pointed to his heart, "I'm here to give him a top." And when I return to Chang'an this time, I will recommend him to His Royal Highness the Prince, which is also a good opportunity for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to choose a capable minister. ”

He said these heartfelt words to Wang Sili, stretched out his hand and pushed open the window of the carriage and looked out. The horses stomped on the surface of the dry rocks, leaving the oasis far behind, and began to walk up the barren and desolate Gobi Desert. The last poplar tree that could be seen had already left ten miles away, and if it went in the wrong direction and plunged headlong into the Tulun Moraine Desert, where even wild beasts could not survive, it would be extremely unlucky.

At the end of March, the team of the interview envoy came to Khotan Town, and since this was also the jurisdiction of Li Siye, Huangfu only sent Wang Sili to take the team to Khotan City to evaluate the old general Li Zan. secretly gave him the same middle-class evaluation as Gao Xianzhi, which felt like a consolation prize for the old general, after all, he was already in his early fifties.

The road the team traveled back to Longyou was on the southern Silk Road, that is, the section from Khotan Town through the desert to Yangguan, stretching for thousands of miles, whether it was close to the Tulun moraine or facing south near the Kunlun Mountains, it was a wild and uninhabited land.

Huangfu Weiming had never been to the west of the moraine, let alone to such a desolate place at the southern end of the trade route, where the rocks were exposed to the scorching sun, and the entire horizon was covered with the kind of dry sand and hard stone landforms, except for the post station of thirty miles and one post.

He secretly regretted in his heart that the evaluation of the examination of the officials in Anxi was too low, and he always subconsciously compared the officials in the west of the city with the officials of the prefectures and counties in the interior, but he was separated from their working environment, there were nearly 100 prefectures in total, but geographically it was equivalent to the combination of several border towns in Hedong and Hexi, and it was not easy to maintain the rule of the west with only 24,000 Anxi troops.

At the same time, the desolation of the west means that the news is lagging behind, and what happened in Luoyang, Chang'an, can only be transmitted here after two or three months.

They entered Yumen Pass and turned to Zhangye City, and stayed in the city at night only to know that there were two small things that happened in the court, both of which were related to Fan Yangjiedu's envoy An Lushan.

The first thing is that in the first month, An Lushan entered the court to report that last year, when the Fan Yang Festival made a locust plague in Yingzhou, he personally set up an altar to worship the sky, burned incense and prayed: "If the minister is worried about the wrong and the king is disloyal, I am willing to make the worm eat the minister's heart; If you live up to the gods, may the worms disperse. ”

As soon as he had finished saying this, a flock of birds flew from the north and pecked away all the locusts, and yes, a flock of birds pecked away all the locusts, and there was not a single one left.

The emperor actually believed this kind of thing.

It is said that this incident is not an empty nonsense of An Lushan, and according to the reports of officials of various provinces last year, the area infested by locusts was not Yingzhou, but several Yingzhou were the most harmful. Fan Yang Jiedu didn't know what method was used to kill locusts, but it was definitely not a bird catching insects, and the crops in Yingzhou did not suffer much loss that year.

Huangfu Weiming didn't know why An Lushan had to make up a supernatural story for Li Longji to tell Li Longji about the manpower feat of clearing the locust plague.

If, according to Li Siye's explanation, auspiciousness and supernatural are to strengthen the centripetal force of the people to the rule of the dynasty, there is nothing wrong with this.

Huangfu Sinong didn't see it that way, he thought that An Lushan would rather hide his merits and abilities, but also maintain the character of a loyal minister. He made up this kind of nonsense to tell the emperor that it was his loyalty to the emperor that moved the heavens, so he sent birds to catch locusts, which was far more effective than Li Siye's worship of the well.

The emperor thought about it again and again, and decided to report the water from Geng Gongjing to the emperor as auspicious, which would also be the first time he broke his rules and reported auspiciousness to the emperor in his life. Why, even he didn't know.

The second incident was a scientific research scandal, which also occurred in the first month. At this time, Li Linfu concurrently served as the secretary of the ministry, responsible for the scientific examination, he worked in the political hall every day, and entrusted all the scientific research to the waiters Song Yao and Miao Jinqing.

In today's imperial history, Zhang Yi is very favored in front of the emperor, and these two guys decided to go through the back door for Zhang Yi's son in order to tie up Zhang Zhongcheng.

This year, there were 10,000 candidates for the scientific examination in Chang'an, but only 64 people were selected, with Zhang Yi's son Zhang Zheng as the top of the list, which led to a boiling of group discussions, and the scholars were all fried. Who in the whole Chang'an doesn't know that Zhang Zhongcheng's son is a straw bag who can only eat, drink and have fun, and who is the face of choosing him as the champion? It's too daring.

It just so happened that the son of Su Xiaoyun, the former county commander of Jixian County, also failed in the exam, maybe this old Mingtang was angry, so he told An Lushan about it. An Zhongcheng decided to speak up and entered Nannei and reported to Emperor Li Longji.

Li Longji held back his anger and called all the winners to the palace for an interview, and Zhang Zheng was exposed at this time, he sat in front of the examination room with the test paper in hand, and did not drop a word for a whole day, and directly handed in the blank paper. At the time, people called it Trolley.

The emperor canceled Zhang Zheng's qualification as the champion, and demoted Song Yao and Miao Jinqing to Wudang and Ankang Taishou respectively, Zhang Yi to Huaiyang Taishou, and all officials of the Ministry of Rites such as the examiner were demoted to Lingnan as officials.

Such punishment was much lighter than that of the later Ming Dynasty, which also shows that the political importance of scientific research in the Tang Dynasty has not yet reached the level of implementation in the bones of the Ming Dynasty.

In this scientific research scandal, the only beneficiary may be An Lushan.

An Lushan served as the envoy of the Pinglu Festival at the same time as the imperial history of the Zhongcheng, has the right to play, he set up in this incident is not afraid of the powerful, outspoken and admonishing the image, at the risk of offending Li Linfu, Song Yao, Miao Jinqing and others, the scientific research scandal is exposed to the world, but also made Emperor Xuanzong more fond and trust him, after all, in this period of Li Linfu's reign, there are not many people who dare to tell the truth.

Hearing about these two things, Huangfu Weiming also had a little more affection for An Lushan, a Hu general. This man may seem rude and careless, but he can speak uprightly. He had previously made up supernatural events such as birds and locusts, and perhaps his motive was to consolidate the rule of the empire and to make the emperor more convinced of his loyalty, as Li Siye said, and this move also won him a lot of prestige.

At the end of April, Huangfu Weiming traveled south along the Hexi Corridor to Chang'an to report the results of his course to the emperor.

At the same time, the conscription order issued by the Anxi Protectorate from Qiuzi sent fast horses to Li Siye. He opened the letter under the lamp and opened the official letter, which was to temporarily appoint him as the head of the left and right Yu Hou Army, and take 5,000 people under the command of the Shule Army to the Shaye River to exterminate the Huang Tuqi Shihe Mo Dagan.

It's going to start fighting again, and the scars on his back have long been peeled off, although he still feels awkward, and this time he doesn't know how many shots and arrows he will take on his body.

(PS: Thanks to the distant starry sky 123 for the red tip.) ）