The Doulu Army was one of the Seven Armies in Hexi, responsible for the defense of the entire Shazhou region, similar to the current military division.

Today's Hexi Jiedu envoy is An Sishun, shrewd and cautious, with the cunning of the Sogdians, because of his noble background, his father is the right Yulin general An Bozhu, who has received a comprehensive loyalty to the monarch since he was a child, and his cousin An Lushan is still fundamentally different.

The military envoy of the Doulu army is named Lu Jiong, who has a good relationship with the current Longyou Jiedu envoy Ge Shuhan, but he is a little estranged from An Sishun, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu. After Wang Zhongsi was killed by Tang Xuanzong, he left two inheritances of Hexi Longyou. I thought that it was Ge Shuhan who inherited Hexi, but who knew that the emperor did not let them get their wish, and gave Hexi to An Sishun and Longyou to Ge Shuhan.

Lu Jiong's heart was very unhappy, the boss who appreciated him was thousands of miles away, and the person who didn't appreciate him became the top boss, so he was confused all day long, worried that An Sishun would take it off on the occasion of the exam.

From now on, there are only two people who can decide his fate in Longyou, one of them is An Sishun, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, and the second is Li Siye, the envoy of Longyoudao, so even if he lies in bed with his head covered at night, he doesn't want to dream of these two bosses.

One day, Lu Jiong and several entourages patrolled along the Yangguan and Yumen passes on the Gobi Desert, and returned to the military envoy's residence in Dunhuang in the evening.

He sat in the partition door in the back hall, ordered the cook to peel and wash the game he brought in casually, boiled it into meat soup and steak, poked it with a silver knife and dipped it in the old vinegar of Shanxi, and put a pot of wine in his hand, and poured himself a drink to relieve his worries.

He didn't know what the exam score An Sishun gave him, and he didn't have much hope, and the worst case scenario was to end his military career silently and be taken down by someone who made excuses. An Sishun has just become an envoy to Jiedu, and he may replace the middle and high-ranking members of the army with fresh blood, replace them with trusted Sogdians, and turn him into a deputy military envoy and sit on the cold bench on the side.

He had nothing to do about what was about to happen, but to be happy for a while.

The housekeeper walked in with a limp, crossed the threshold and stood still and said, "Ah Lang, there is a guest outside the door, claiming to be the staff entourage of the envoy of the Beiting Festival. ”

Lu Jiong was drunk, and subconsciously refused: "The staff of the Beiting Festival envoy came to me to do something, I don't see it!" Although Lao Tzu is the military envoy of the Doulu army, he is not something that a cat or a dog can see. ”

The lame steward can support half of Lu Jiong's family, and he is also very concerned about General Lu's personal future, and he persuaded and corrected him very rationally: "Ah Lang, officialdom should make more good connections, and besides, this Beiting Jiedu envoy is not small, they all say that the prime minister's family is a seven-grade official, and the staff of the Jiedu envoy can at least top an eight-grade official, in case this staff has a good relationship with this Jiedu envoy, in case this Beiting Jiedu envoy has a deep relationship with the DPRK and China, won't your own problems be solved?" Besides, it's hard for you to get to this point, and you're still picking and choosing what to do with visitors. Coming into contact with these people is like going into an antiquities shop - picking up leaks. We don't create opportunities ourselves, but we can't let them fly by, you name it. ”

Lu Jiong may have been annoyed by the lame broken mouth, so he had to admit angrily: "Okay, okay, okay, I see that the person is always good, let him in!" ”

"Ah Lang, wait a minute, the old slave will invite someone for you."

Lu Junenvoy snorted heavily, lifted the silver knife and cut a piece of fat on the wooden plate, lifted it and threw it into his mouth.

The lame steward hunched over and invited the guest to step into the threshold, coughed and stood on the side of the door, worried that Ah Lang would be embarrassed to talk to the visitor, so he could go in and save the scene.

"Dai Wang meets with Lu military envoy." Dai Liulang saluted with his hands crossed, and his name was not preceded by any title.

Lu Jiong looked up, but saw that the other party was wearing a black robe standing at the door to block the light, his face was purple and reflective, and he was so stiff that it was a little oozing.

A man who claimed to be a member of the staff of the envoy of the North Court Jiedu came to see him in mysterious clothes and a mask, which made him feel very uncomfortable, as if the other party was pretending to be garlic. He was very unhappy in his heart, obviously you are coming to see me, what's the matter with blocking your face?

"Why don't you show your true face, or think that my husband is not qualified to see your face."

Dai Wang turned his head to look at the two maidservants standing in the room and serving, and Lu Jiong snorted dissatisfiedly: "You guys go out." ”

The two women walked out through the side door, bypassing the gloomy-looking man.

Dai Wang stretched out his hand to cover the mask and gently took it off, revealing a face with scars and scars, even a person like Lu Jiong, who was accustomed to seeing the miserable hell in the world, felt panicked, and even the flesh poked on the knife couldn't reach out to his mouth.

Full.

He felt sorry to let a stranger expose his ugly face in front of him, if he had to say any sincerity, this was the greatest sincerity.

Dai Wang's identity in front of him is even more confusing, who wants to use a physically disabled person except himself, unless he has something extraordinary, and the identity of this Beiting Jiedu envoy does not know whether it is true or false.

"Well, you better put it on, please take a seat."

Dai Wang put the mask on his face, knelt opposite Lu Jiong, and said: "My family Ah Lang is the envoy of the Beiting Festival and the interview envoy of Longyou Dao, the herdsman of Longyou, the recruiting envoy of Longyou, and the imperial historian Li Siye. ”

Lu Jiong raised his eyebrows in surprise, hurriedly put the silver knife on the plate, sat on his knees and asked, "Mr. came to me, is it on the order of your family's Ah Lang?" ”

The lame steward who was hiding outside tugged at his beard and complained that his master couldn't speak, how could he go straight to the door single-handedly?

"Yes and no."

Lu Jiong leaned forward: "Oh, how can I say this." ”

Dai Wang took out a letter from his arms, stood up and walked over and presented it to Lu Jiong with both hands, and said: "This is a letter written by Ah Lang to the general, and I ask the general to look at it." ”

Lu Jiong glanced at it hesitantly, opened the envelope and read it carefully, the content of the letter was full of greetings, indicating that he had love for Lu Jiong, and if he had the opportunity in the future, he would definitely reuse it without asking for anything. It may seem like an empty word, but it feels like a kind of credential to him, because the underside of the letter is stamped with various sigils, such as the seal of the Imperial Doctor.

"I came to the general to discuss a business with the general through Ah Lang's identity, this business has nothing to do with Ah Lang, but I can help the general."

"Business?" Lu Jiong took a deep breath: "I am an official of the imperial court, I must first abide by the rules and regulations of the imperial court, and the rest are secondary." ”

"Of course, how dare a contemptible person talk about a business that violates the law in front of the general."

"Okay, let's hear it?"

"The contemptible people want to build a trading house in Yangguan, and they want to make it convenient for the general to circle a piece of land. Due to lack of money, he temporarily borrowed a few military tents in the army. ”

"Oh, it's easy, you just have to borrow it." Lu Jiong felt that things were not so simple.

"Our firm will have a large number of goods from Khotan every year, enter the customs to seek speed, if the tax is a little cumbersome, so I want to agree with the general, give the general a quota of 5,000 per year, and the goods of my firm will be exempted from customs inspection in the future."

"This ......"

Lu Jiong has to think about it. Although a commercial bank's lack of taxes will not cause much loss, in fact, many wealthy families in Hexi are doing this, so he can be regarded as a fat man.

Lu Jiong still has a bottom line in his heart, he usually gives convenience to these people once or twice, one time and one knot, like Dai Wang's request for convenience on a yearly and monthly basis, it is indeed a bit excessive.

(PS: Thank you for calmly appreciating the wind and clouds.) )