While waiting, the time has come to April.

More than 10,000 people who participated in the scientific expedition left the capital one after another, and even their scholars and servants took them with them, so that the capital lost 20,000 or 30,000 people.

These people belong to the high-consumption group, and their departure makes the traders and people engaged in the cultural and entertainment industry in the capital very reluctant.

Even the organ rental prices of those famous prostitutes in Qinglou have dropped a lot.

After Xu Qingfeng's family came to the capital with 5,000 taels of silver, he moved out of his original residence, rented a small courtyard to live in, and waited for the official award.

At first, I thought that I would be selected by the Hanlin Academy, so I made the idea of living in the capital for a long time, and I started to look at the house and wanted to buy a house here.

As a result, he was not selected, and he was still relatively depressed.

If he is not selected, he can only be a magistrate, and there is no need to buy a house in the capital to live, so he didn't go to see the house, waiting for the ministry to arrange an errand for him.

It didn't take long for the position to be arranged.

In the north, more than 2,000 miles away from the capital, there is a Gumu County, where the magistrate of the county happened to be promoted, and the position of the magistrate was vacant, and the ministry gave the position of the magistrate to Xu Qingfeng.

After receiving such an acceptance, Xu Qingfeng was stunned.

That Gumu County is in the north of Daqian, and Xiaojin Prefecture of Youyun Province is above the border of Daqian, although Gumu County is not on the border, but it is only a hundred miles away from the border.

There is a strong enemy in the north of Daqian who often invades them, and that is the barbarians.

Although Gumu County is a hundred miles away from the border, it has been invaded three times in the past ten years.

After learning the specific location of Gumu County, Xu Qingfeng cried, and when he offered incense to Liu Qing, he asked with tears in his eyes:

"Lord Land, what mistake did I make, and the court wants to send me there to be an official?"

That's right, such an appointment, in his opinion, is distribution.

It is the sinful people who go there to be officials.

He couldn't understand why a top ten person in the palace examination was assigned there to be an official.

He has not officially entered the officialdom, he is just a reserve, and he has not offended anyone, I don't know why there is such an encounter.

I felt panicked.

The joy of the high school jinshi was gone by this time.

What he feared was that he would encounter a barbarian invasion while in office, and he might lose his life.

began to think about whether to resign and return to their hometown with the honor of being a jinshi, which can be regarded as the glory of their ancestors.

Regarding his crying, Liu Qing gave the following explanation:

"The reason I learned is that you have been visiting the Qinglou all this time, and those people in the Ministry of Officials think you are frivolous and careless, and they want to give you a heavy burden and let you settle down."

Xu Qingfeng was very aggrieved: "Lord Land, I haven't been to the Qinglou specifically, I have participated in the poetry meeting with those in the same year." Some of them were also chosen as Gurgies, so why did I have to send them to the war-torn land when it was my turn? ”

"Because you are more famous," Liu Qing replied, "they know which Qinglou a merry genius named Xu Qingfeng went to write what poems on that day, and which Qinglou he went to write what poems that day." The people who go with you are not famous, and therefore do not enter their ears. ”

This answer made Xu Qingfeng even more aggrieved - is it also a mistake to be famous?

During this time, he participated in a lot of poetry meetings, and he took out more than a dozen poems from that parrot, all of which are works that can be passed down through the ages.

At every poetry meeting, he took the name of the poet, and then the body of the Oiran, which also made his reputation as a merry and talented man spread far and wide, and his reputation was full of Beijing.

It's just that he never thought that he would be dragged down by his talent and fame, leaving a frivolous and incomparable impression on the bigwigs in the ministry, and sending him to a remote war-torn area as an official.

However, Liu Qing still comforted him:

"The Ministry of Officials arranged it like this, and it is not all suppression, in fact, it also has the meaning of sharpening you."

"Although there is a certain risk in being an official in that place, if you are an official in that place, you will be promoted very quickly. Your predecessor, because he was in office for three years, did a good job of logistics for the border pass, the county was invaded, and the grain and people were transferred to the county seat in a timely manner, and the county seat was not broken, so he was promoted this year, and became the prefect of the anointed land in the south, and was promoted from the seventh grade to the fourth grade, and how many years have passed. ”

"You were not elected to the Hanlin Academy, and taking this road of meritorious service is also a shortcut."

"And for the time being, you don't have to worry about the war, the northern barbarians have already sent an envoy to talk to Da Qian this spring, and Da Qian admitted that they are a country, and they will not have another war with Da Qian. The peace treaty that has just been negotiated, at least for the duration of your term of office, will not be war, and you can develop with peace of mind. ”

"Moreover, I have everything with me, as long as you sincerely believe in me and build a temple for me over there, I can solve any problems for you."

Speaking of which, it is still for the sake of incense faith.

This place was specially chosen by Liu Qing for Xu Qingfeng.

There are several reasons why you would choose such a place.

The first one, although it is only one county, is very large, the size of four natural counties.

Although the population is not as large as that of Naturalist County, it is also twice the size of Naturalist County.

The common people there are basically criminals who are distributed there, and their main task is to grow food for the imperial court and provide it to the border army.

In this way, there was no need to transport grain from the interior to the border gates, which saved the imperial court a lot of expenses.

-- The world's transportation capacity is very poor, the transportation cost is too high, and nine out of ten portions of grain transported from the interior to the border pass are eaten on the way, and only one part can reach the border pass.

The land in that area was actually still fertile, but it was close to the northern barbarians, and it was often subjected to war, and no one wanted to go there to farm, and a large area of land was barren there.

Later, the imperial court couldn't bear the pressure of transporting grain there, so it sent a large number of criminals to farm there.

To die is to die.

Anyway, people who have committed crimes do not feel sorry for them when they die, but they also eliminate hidden dangers in society.

If you are lucky enough to live, then work hard to farm the land, and leave 30% of the grain you grow, and give the rest to the imperial court.

Because of the war, no landlord bought land there, and the land belonged to the imperial court.

In this way, the problem of the difficulty of grain transportation for the border army has been well solved.

Being an official there is indeed easy to promote.

For the common people there, farming to survive in a war-torn land is a difficult life, and if they are unlucky, they die in war.

Their mood is hopeless.

In such a place, Liu Qing felt that it was easier to develop believers.

That's why he brainwashed the officials of the Ministry of Officials through dream-making, and asked them to talk about this official position to Xu Qingfeng.

Where would Xu Qingfeng know that this was the reason?

While aggrieved, he made a decision - never to go to the Qinglou in the future, it will affect his career too much.

At the same time, he also made another decision - to be more sincere to the land lord in the future, otherwise if he is not sheltered, he may die in that war-torn place in the future.