Although the 6,000 soldiers of the Tang army died in the southwest of Songjiangchuan, and although the 15,000 people who traveled with them also disappeared in the southwest, no one in Chang'an City was worried about Yunchu's father and son.

Even Yu Xiurong is only occasionally worried, and her worries are only about whether the father and son can eat well, sleep well, and get used to the climate in the southwest.

Yu Xiurong is like this, and the rest of the people are not worried.

The last battle report from the southwest was that the 700 sons of the Southwest Barbarian Battalion fought against 10,000 barbarians in the southwest, and finally annihilated more than 10,000 barbarians in the southwest at the cost of 47 people.

Especially when the Ministry of Rites, with the blessing of a full set of honor guards, went door-to-door to inform the parents of the news of the death of the children of the Rites, they could not see much sadness on their faces, and even told the Ministry of Rites that the elder brother died in battle, and his family still had a younger brother to go on, and the uncle died in battle, and the nephew could continue to go.

The people of Chang'an have always been very keen on fighting with the county, and this time the war in the southwest once again proved that it is definitely a suitable business to go out to fight with the county.

The 50,000-strong army rushed forward for 1,200 miles in the southwest forest, and the barbarians in the forest surrendered to the wind, not to mention, the barbarians in the forest even volunteered to wave their swords to their fellow clans as the pioneers of the Tang army.

Until now, the army led by the county honorable man has only seven hundred worthless men and horses who have really gone out to fight.

Now, forty-seven have been killed in battle, more than ten thousand enemies have been killed, and these forty-seven gentlemen, each of whom has received the highest reward.

This is not only stated in the military newspapers, but also in the private letters written by the soldiers to their families, in which some of them jokingly claim that they are now doing not the work of the army, but the work of craftsmen and farmers.

In Chang'an in May, the peonies purchased by the government began to decorate the city, which led to the entire Chang'an becoming a peony city, full of gorgeous peonies that only saw flowers but no leaves.

Usually at this time, no woman is willing to wear gorgeous clothes, as for incense powder, hair oil and other things are even more unwilling to be contaminated, without it, just because there are peonies in Chang'an City, there are many bees.

Chang'an in May has been warmed up, whether it is the willows on the embankment of the Bahe River, or the lotus flowers on the Qujiang Pond, the grass on the Longshou Plain, or the ravines and waterfalls in the Zhongnan Mountain, they are all better than the faces of the merchants in Chang'an City who have made a lot of money.

People are now accustomed to Chang'an City, which does not close the city gate at night, and has also become accustomed to the two huge gaps in the long city wall of Chang'an.

Since Chang'an merchants discovered the stone grease water in Gaonu County, Yanzhou, they bought a large number of Japanese slaves, dug huge pits on the flat ground, waited for the stone grease water to slowly seep out of the soil, and then put the stone grease water into an iron pot to refine, and finally got the best lamp oil.

It is said that there are many merchants who collect resin water all over Gaonu County, and the black smoke produced during the oil refining period obscures the sky and the sun......

As a result, the price of Chang'an lamp oil immediately collapsed, and the oil refining merchants wailed, seeing that it would be another merchant tragedy about to break out, so the Chang'an government took the opportunity to reach a suitable price with the oil refining merchants, and purchased all the stone resin water produced in Gaonu County, so that the oil refining merchants could make money, and the people also had a relatively cheap lamp oil to use.

That is, because of the lot of oil, the street lamps of Chang'an City are endless all night, and the rich places such as Pingkangfang, Jinchangfang, and the East and West Cities can be called brilliantly lit.

For this reason, Lu Zhaolin, the head of the household department of Wannian County, wrote "Chang'an Ancient Meaning", which is comparable to Yunchu's poems.

Chang'an Avenue is even narrow and sloping, and the green cow and white horse are seven incense cars.

The jade chariot crossed the main house, and the golden whip flocked to the Hou family.

The dragon title covers the sunrise, and the phoenix spits tassels with the sunset.

Hundred-foot gossamer scrambles around the tree, and a group of delicate birds cry together.

On the side of the thousand doors of the swimming bee and butterfly, the green tree and the silver platform are of ten thousand colors.

The double road crosses the window as a acacia, and the double que is connected with the wings of the phoenix.

The Liang family painting pavilion rises from the sky, and the Han Emperor's golden stem is straight outside the clouds......

The whole poem is sixty-eight sentences, four hundred and seventy-six words, and only one seven-word long body will be the prosperity of the imperial capital, the beauty of the palace, and the prosperity of the characters, leaping on the paper, the richness of its content, the grandeur of the picture, and the people who do not love Chang'an can not do it.

As soon as this poem came out, the literati of Chang'an thought that this seven-word long body covered Zuo Sizhi's "Sandu Fu" more than a notch.

Early in the morning, Yang Jiong, the deputy director of the household room, hurriedly came to the household room, although it was early in the morning, he made himself sweaty, took off his crown as soon as he entered the door, went to the robe and changed into heelless soft shoes, and held the herbal tea cow to drink, before he said to Lu Zhaolin in the innermost window position: "The blankets of the second cotton spinning factory have finally been all out...... From today, I can live some comfortable days.

Zhao's iron pot, have you figured it out? ”

Lu Zhaolin said lazily: "Eighty thousand iron pots......"

Yang Jiong frowned and said, "Didn't the Zhao family know that this time the iron pot was supplied at a low price, and it would leave an empty rice bowl for the children and grandchildren in the future?" ”

Lu Zhaolin said: "The Zhao family naturally agreed, and now I'm worried about how to reply to the county honor." ”

Yang Jiong smiled when he heard this: ""Chang'an Ancient Meaning" was born, and some of you blew it. ”

Lu Zhaolin handed a letter on the table to Yang Jiong and said, "Take a look, this is a letter from the county honor, and the letter says that I have a lot of things." ”

Yang Jiong took the letter and hurriedly read it and said, "Tell me a hundred ironies? The county is dissatisfied with the second half of "Chang'an Ancient Meaning"? ”

Lu Zhaolin nodded and said: "The county respects that it is good to praise Chang'an, what to do after promoting it first." ”

Yang Jiong frowned and said: "Only in this way can the idea of "Chang'an Ancient Meaning" go up, if you only praise but don't suggest, this poem will fall behind." ”

Lu Zhaolin took a sip of herbal tea and sighed: "I made a mistake." ”

Yang Jiong was puzzled and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Lu Zhaolin said with a smile: "We shouldn't veto our construction of Chang'an for so many years as the head of the Tang Chang'an Qipin Household Department, if a certain family is a white ding, or a rotten Confucian, the last two sentences of this poem 'unique Nanshan osmanthus hair, flying around and attacking people's clothing' are naturally excellent pressers."

It's a pity that a certain family is now a proud and powerful head of the household department of Wannian County, if even people like me are beginning to worry about the construction of Chang'an, what do you let others think?

This time I was mistaken, and next time, don't learn from me when you write about Chang'an. “

Yang Jiong sniffled and said, "Only say the good, don't say the bad, don't express worry?" ”

Lu Zhaolin smiled bitterly: "Since my generation is the principal of Chang'an, then, we must accept Chang'an, praise Chang'an, praise Chang'an, elevate Chang'an, and beautify Chang'an. ”

Yang Jiong laughed and said: "It's really the main purpose of serving Chang'an wholeheartedly as required by the county honor, not only for our bodies, but also for our hearts." ”

Lu Zhaolin said again: "The county letter also asked us if we should go to the southwest Xinna land to be the chief official of a state, do you want to go?" I've thought about it, just in terms of grade, I can take advantage of the boss, not to mention that it's all Xinna's land, just do something, and the officials can get the upper evaluation, and come back after five years of term, at worst, it's a state's other driver. ”

Yang Jiong said: "Are you going?" ”

Lu Zhaolin glared at Yang Jiong and said, "I'm leaving, you can sit in my place, right?" ”

Yang Jiong said: "It looks like you're not going." ”

Lu Zhaolin pointed at Yun Chu's letter with his finger and said, "Look clearly, it's the deputy who is going, and the deputy is going." ”

After that, he patted his chest proudly and said: "There is such a talented official as a certain family, if you can't find another way for this deputy position, won't you always be depressed and live under a certain family for a long time?" ”

Yang Jiong frowned and said, "Wait for me to think about it in the long run." ”

Lu Zhaolin said: "A good opportunity is fleeting, Master Shen has already signed up for a lot of deputy positions there, if you go late, don't say I didn't inform you."

Yang Jiong shook his head and said: "I want to go to the north, where there is a long stretch of yellow sand, a cold wind and strong grass, a lonely city, a wolf smoke, and endless thieves, it is more suitable for me." ”

Lu Zhaolin said with a smile: "Nonsense, now the Western Regions is about to become the best place for public security in the Tang Dynasty, and the thieves are either busy digging gold for Queen Naha, or busy herding sheep and cattle, and they have no time to rebel, and they don't have the time to be robbers."

It's hard to come back if you go to the Western Regions, and Queen Naha's command is lacking a top-notch official like you, with the temperament of respecting their family, if you don't squeeze the last drop of oil out of your bones, even if you run fast. ”

Yang Jiong seemed to have made up his mind, and resolutely said to Lu Zhaolin: "Prepare a good poem and send me to read it when I go to the Western Regions." ”

Lu Zhaolin got up and took Yang Jiong's hand and said: "There may not be a good sentence like the county's 'no one in the world knows the king', but it will not use a spineless sentence like Wang Bo's 'children and daughters dip together'." ”

Yang Jiong laughed and said: "Very good, it suits my temperament of 'I'd rather be a centurion than a scholar'." ”

Seeing Yang Jiong go to Shen Zhushu to run for his own future, Lu Zhaolin was somewhat unwilling, but, considering that the future of the Lu family is now on him, it is really not suitable to go to the southwest or northwest, otherwise, he also wants to go out for a walk, and it is the time for the Tang people to set foot in the whole world.

Seeing that the sun was in the west, Shen Ru, the chief bookkeeper, looked at the file on the table and sighed slightly, this is a matter of no choice, there are only so many positions in Chang'an, and the number of talents that can be accommodated is limited after all.

Although it is a good thing to let these people go out to exercise, but seeing the young talents he had painstakingly taught leave Wannian County one by one, Shen Ru's heart was still empty.

He didn't know what kind of mood the county zun was in the face of such a situation, anyway, his mood at the moment was terrible, and when he thought that ten days later, a large number of Bai Ding would enter Wannian County, Shen Ru's head began to hurt.

At this moment, he misses the days when the county was in Chang'an, as long as the county is there, which of those children who come to the proud family dare to look up?

(End of chapter)