Out of Chang'an, through Ning, into the boundary of Jingzhou, all the way more and more desolate, along the way the villages and towns show the image of depression and withering, ruins and broken walls can be seen everywhere, even the prosperous temples and Taoist temples in the past are also empty, and the hustle and bustle of the past is no longer seen.

Guo Ying couldn't help but sigh softly, and said: "The thieves are hateful, I still remember the poem written by Wang Jiangning (referring to Wang Changling) fifty years ago when he passed through Jingzhou, saying, 'There are border towns in the west, pavilions in the north, Jingshui is full of white smoke, and the state city is hidden in cold trees', but now it is ...... Alas! ”

Wei Gao, who rode with him on a horse, heard this, and sighed, and said: "Since the 14th year of Tianbao, Tubo captured Taozhou, Helong has been repeatedly ruined, although Jingzhou has been preserved, but it has also been repeatedly plundered by Tubo, major wars and small wars continue, the people are displaced, and the people's livelihood is withered, which is reasonable.

I remember that there were 16,000 households in Jingzhou at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, but now I am afraid that even 11 or 1,600 people may not be left. ”

After finishing speaking, Wei Gao sighed again: "I am a scholar, and I often worry about Sheji and Li Shu, and I am on the strategy, but when I arrived at the border, I realized that the world was difficult and the people were in difficulty." ”

Hearing this, Guo Ying suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at Wei Gao and Fan Ze, and said: "The world is difficult and the people are suffering, but at this time when the world is restless and the country is in turmoil, my husband should forge ahead with wisdom and courage, clean up the old rivers and mountains, and return the world to peace." ”

Wei Gao also held Guo Ying's hand with Lerma, and his eyes were firm.

"What the virtuous brother said is very true, although I am a scholar, I am most unaccustomed to seeing the Shenzhou Lu Shen and Hulu wreaking havoc in my life, but the scholars of the Jin Dynasty sit across the river and watch, travel the mountains and rivers, and talk about the behavior of drinking and feasting......

It coincided with the generous speech of the virtuous brother poetry meeting, so I decided to put pen to paper, and this time I came to Jingyuan with the virtuous brother, it was the idea of recovering the rivers and mountains. ”

Fan Ze looked left and right, but he really couldn't interject, so he could only echo casually: "I'm the same!" ”

"It's a pity that I have a low position, and I can't give the two brothers and high-ranking officials." Guo Ying shook his head and said regretfully.

Wei Gao replied with a smile: "Between the world and the world, but there are one or two like-minded people, it is enough to comfort the life, why do you need high-ranking officials." ”

Guo Ying listened, and said with a smile: "Don't you want to come to a drama of thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, don't bully the poor youth, and teach Zhang Shangshu to know that he looks down on your son-in-law is the most wrong thing he has done in his life?" ”

Although Zhang Yansheng is now serving as the envoy of the Jiannan Xichuan Festival, because the Jiedu envoy is only a kind of envoy with the envoy and not the minister, people are generally competent officials, for example, Zhang Yanxian's official is the secretary of the military department of the inspection school and the imperial history doctor, so people mention him is naturally Zhang Shangshu or Zhang Dafu.

As for why it is called Zhang Shangshu instead of Dr. Zhang, it is even simpler, and the official must be shouted at a higher level.

However, most of the warriors don't care about this, and the titles of ambassador, marshal, duke, and general are called casually, and these big bosses don't care about those social etiquette, just shout and say it.

Guo Ying doesn't care much about this, but when talking to literati such as Wei Gao and the crown prince, he will pay more or less attention.

Wei Gao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then smiled heartily: "When I first came out of Zhang's Mansion ten years ago, I thought about returning to my hometown like Han Xin and Su Qin, but unfortunately I have traveled to dozens of states and counties, and I have never been appreciated by anyone, and I have even been poor.

In the end, under the recommendation of his old friend Lu Zhen, he went to the Ministry of Rites to recruit a Bang Lang, and then he became an official...... I did Huazhou to join the army.

When I think about it so far, I still can't help but be ashamed, how dare I say that I will regret it. ”

Hearing this, Guo Ying couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

This Bang Lang is actually a very interesting official position, to put it bluntly, it is to pull the coffin and sing an elegy to the emperor, empress, prince, and prince when they are funeral.

However, this coffin is not carried in vain, and as soon as the funeral is over, Bang Lang's dossier will be handed over by the Ministry of Rites to the Ministry of Officials in charge of organizing and personnel, and transferred to the procedures of assigning work and promoting officials.

In other words, if you are selected to be a bang, you can become an official.

This is also the Tang Dynasty in addition to the imperial examination, recommendation, military merit into the other way to enter the office, but this way to enter the official is controlled by the dignitaries, generally only the children of the official eunuchs above the sixth grade can apply for the recruitment of Bang Lang, not the turn of the civilian hundred businessmen.

Of course, all things in the universe are conserved, and there must be gains and losses, and officials who serve as officials who are in charge of the government will generally be despised and excluded by their colleagues.

The reason is very simple, I have worked hard for ten years to study hard in the cold window, and you will climb on my head as soon as you carry the coffin, who can swallow this breath.

When Wei Gao joined the army in Huazhou, he also experienced a lot of twists and turns, and his feelings were warm and cold.

Guo Ying naturally doesn't know this, but he is still very optimistic about Wei Gao, just because history has proven his ability.

As a traverser, he doesn't really need to be discerning, more often than not, just follow the map, after all, no dynasty or generation is indispensable to cattle.

Although he doesn't necessarily know everything, Guo Ying, some famous figures, still knows a little bit about it.

For example, Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Liu Yuxi, these little kids, Li Guangyan, Li Yu and these rising stars......

As for Ma Sui, Hun Xuan, Li Sheng, Lu Zhen, and Li Mi, who have already made a name for themselves, they don't need to mention more.

Of course, Guo Ying is not a big historical touch, an expert in historiography.

On the contrary, his shallow historical knowledge is all learned from the examination of "Qin Officials", "Fu Han", "Late Tang Fusheng" and other references to online texts, at most plus a certain Q&A, a popular science video of a certain station, and a post from a certain bar.

"Meng Fuzi said that the heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, and starve their bodies and skin...... In my opinion, God wants to send you a great responsibility. Guo Ying took over with a smile.

Frankly speaking, he also wanted to see what kind of changes Wei Gao, a scholar who had shined in history, would bring to history when he appeared on the border of Tang and Tibet several years in advance.

After all, Wei Gao in history is a defensive master like Meng Hui and Wei Xiaokuan, and he is also extremely good at defending and counterattacking, mobilizing the enemy's forces in defense and annihilating them.

"If there is such a blessing, I will cherish it for a good life." Wei Gao arched his hand and replied seriously.

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On July 18, the day of the end of the year, Guo Ying and his entourage of more than 100 people finally rushed to Jingzhou Prefecture and settled down.

This is also the location of the main camp of the Jingyuan Army, and the Jiedu Embassy is in the city.

The establishment of Jingyuan Town was eleven years ago (768), when Emperor Shizong in order to control and strangle Tibet, Gongwei Xijing Chang'an to Ma Ling as the Jingyuan Festival envoy, so that he commanded the four towns of Anxi, Beiting Xing Camp soldiers and horses moved to Jingyuan.

The total strength of the Jingyuan army has been between 20,000 and 30,000, and its main force is the elite of Anxi, Beiting, Bahanna, and Dashi who entered the Central Plains during the Anshi Rebellion, although there are only 15,000 people, but because of their strong combat power, they have always been counted as the main town.

With the main force of the Shuofang army to defend the town of Suining, Fengxiang Town, composed of Huanglong youth, Hehuang Yitu, Shangdang Gaodu soldiers, and called the three major towns in the northwest.

The total strength of the three towns was no less than 100,000, and they jointly built the defense line in the northwest of the Beijing Division.

To put it mildly, the other four towns Shuofang, Dunfang, Tiandejun, and Zhenwu Army are tied together, and one of these three towns alone is enough for them to drink a pot.

This army from the northwest court of Anxi made great achievements in the pacification of the Anshi Rebellion, the battle of Xiangji Temple, the battle of Xindian, the battle of Weizhou, the battle of Yecheng, the battle of Heyang, and the battle of Zhaojue Temple...... He participated in all the great battles and fought countless times.

However, the imperial court for their positioning is not the country's ministers, but firefighters, after the Anshi Rebellion was pacified, the imperial court dismissed these elite soldiers everywhere, and the soldiers were often placed in the agricultural mulberry, and they were sent to the border where the population was poor and the soldiers had no food to garrison.

The soldiers were quite complaining in their hearts, so there were repeated rebellions, and the imperial court also believed that the Anxi court army was infected with the habit of Heshuo's arrogant soldiers and fierce generals in the environment of weakened centralized power and bad law, and repeatedly suppressed this army.

For example, Li Shi's edict to destroy the mansion of his predecessor, the envoy of Jiedu, was a warning to the soldiers and horses of the camp.

Because after Ma Lan's death, there was a rebellion in Jingzhou soldiers, but it was only the successor Jiedu who handled Duan Xiushi properly, so he did not cause a catastrophe.

Of course, most of the Anxi and Beiting soldiers and generals who entered the defense center are now deceased, and the Anxi and Beiting soldiers in the camp today are basically recruited from the frontier later, except for the surviving veterans and their children, and they are not the Anxi and Beiting armies in the real sense.

In addition to the soldiers and horses of the four towns and the Beiting camp, the rest of the soldiers were the anti-autumn soldiers from the four directions, which was the army levied from the Kwantung Domain by the imperial court to curb the invasion of Tibet after the Anshi Rebellion, and was generally led by the soldiers and horses under the local Jiedu envoy.

This soldier has a wide range of sources, including Youzhou soldiers, Huaixi soldiers, Xuzhou soldiers, Guangwu soldiers, and Xia Cai soldiers......

Guo Ying remembered that when the "Jingyuan Mutiny" in history, the Jingyuan soldiers went their own way, some rebelled, some Qinwang, and some watched from the wall, probably the reason is here.

However, the combat power of these anti-autumn soldiers is just like that, if you want to achieve great things, you still have to look at the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the four towns and Beiting camps, they are the essence of the Jingyuan army, just like Wei Bo's soldiers are to Weibo Town, and the Chengde cavalry is to Chengde Town.

Unlike Wei Boya's soldiers, who were experts in civil wars and outsiders in foreign wars, this army was very capable of fighting, after all, they were fighting with Tibet every year.

It's a pity that they chose to watch from the wall at a critical time, not only did they not work hard but also colluded with the rebels, and they were finally rectified by Li Sheng and died in the long river of history.

Of course, this is not to blame them, during the Anshi Rebellion, they rushed to thousands of miles and bloody battlefields, in addition to being injured, what did they get?

However, Guo Ying thought to himself that since he came to Jingyuan Town, there was no reason to let these loyal and brave men who shed blood and sacrificed for the Tang Dynasty embark on the wrong path in history.

Of course, mutiny still has to be mutiny!

Only by reforming the old can we be new!