The political situation and the court situation in the center of the Tang Dynasty are closely related to the local and border town affairs.

For example, in the fifteenth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Tubo generals Xinuo Luo Gonglu and Candle Dragon Mangbuzhi captured Guazhou (Jiuquan), captured Shi Tian Yuanxian, and not only robbed the materials hoarded in the city, but also deliberately demolished the city wall of Guazhou City.

Also in this year, the former envoy of Hexi Jiedu, Wang Jun, was attacked and killed by the Turkic tribes.

The drastic changes in the military and political situation in Hexi made Tang Ting worried, so Xiao Song, the prime minister who was over sixty years old, was ordered to serve as the envoy of Hexi Jiedu and judge the affairs of Liangzhou as the secretary of the military department.

This is a typical border town erosion, and the central officials are in charge of the overall situation. Because the ordinary bureaucrats in the border towns can no longer afford to bear the responsibility for the collapse of the strategy.

Similarly, officials who do a good job in border towns will also enter the center as important officials. For example, Zhang Shouqi, such as Niu Cyclamen, etc.

This is also the normal flow of the Tang Dynasty officialdom border towns and centers in the Kaiyuan period, which has a strong positive significance.

Now, Wang Zhongsi led his troops to conquer Tubo New Town, coupled with Cui Xiyi's transfer, which led to a new round of reshuffle in Hexi's power structure. Cui Xiyi's departure was not a big deal, but according to the old rules of the Tang Dynasty regime, his staff and adjutant were also dismissed.

These people who are familiar with local affairs in Hexi either seek other jobs or switch to others. In short, this wave of changes has led to the emergence of many vacant official positions in Hexi. For these vacancies, not only the local forces in Hexi are eyeing them, but also the center of the imperial court is also extremely concerned about them.

Subsequently, the specific battle report and related affairs, the mountain of concerts was sent to Chang'an by different local officials in Hexi through the post station channel, and in the complex information, "Fang Chongyong", which should not have appeared in the eyes of everyone, appeared frequently in the report.

Almost all of them are full of praise.

Even Wang Zhongsi did not hesitate to praise him, saying that his future son-in-law "although he did not have the merit of perseverance, he still had a good plan and was useful for armament." Cui Xiyi said that Fang Chongyong "is benevolent and loves everyone, does not hesitate to work hard, and morale is inspired".

It may be true that Fang Chongyong has done something, but his father Fang Youde is the envoy of Youzhou, and many bureaucrats are willing to spend a sedan chair to carry people, which is the key factor that cannot be ignored!

So Li Linfu, who saw the stitches, suggested to Li Longji that he should be rewarded for meritorious deeds and promoted Fang Chongyong to be the Sima of Liangzhou with merit, and he should not be biased because of his age.

The official position of Sima of Liangzhou is the second-in-command who assists the Liangzhou Assassin in managing the internal affairs of Liangzhou, and in a nutshell, it is the chief official who manages the specific affairs of Liangzhou City.

In the Tang Dynasty, a state generally had three chief administrators, one was positive and two deputies, the positive one was called Thorn Shi, the deputy one was called Sima, and the other was called Changshi.

Sima and Changshi have no distinction between high and low official positions, and there is not even a division of labor in the strict sense of the word. Their work is assigned by the assassins, and the errands are assigned to whoever they are, and they belong to the people who "do practical things".

Under these three people is the full-time Si Cao, that is, the six Cao, such as Bing Cao is in charge of the development of the armed forces in the state, and Fa Cao is in charge of the law, etc.

The right to join the army in a state capital that can barely be used. It's not a big problem to put a pig in charge, and the pig won't find fault anyway.

But if Sima Liangzhou lets a pig serve as the job, then the problem is too big! Originally, Xiao Jiong served as the deputy envoy of Liangzhou Sima and Hexi Jiedu, and now Xiao Jiong is the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, and it is also a proper duty to give up the position of Liangzhou Sima.

It's just that no one expected that Li Linfu would play like this! A ten-year-old child served as the second-in-command of Liangzhou...... It's too exaggerated, but it's impossible for anyone with a normal brain to be so childish.

The state hierarchy of the Tang Dynasty was different, and it was roughly divided into upper, middle and lower levels. The Sima of the upper state may be from the fourth rank, and the Sima of the lower state is from the sixth rank. And the remote states are basically inferior states, so these Sima are just sesame officials from around the sixth grade.

And Liangzhou does not belong to the upper, middle and lower streams, it belongs to the Liangzhou Mansion with the status of "super product", and the status is analogous to Shenzhen in the previous life! The population of the whole state is nearly one million, and there are more than 100,000 households and hundreds of thousands of people in Liangzhou City alone.

It's incredible to think about such a population managed by a ten-year-old child!

Without exception, Li Linfu's recital was met with unanimous fierce opposition from both the government and the opposition.

At the behest of Li Linfu himself, even his own cronies and henchmen vehemently opposed the matter.

Zheng Shuqing, the assassin of Qizhou, also deliberately wrote to Li Longji to brush his sense of existence, saying that Fang Chongyong was "young and ignorant, debauched and invisible, and could not be entrusted with important tasks", and if the sage really did not know how to place him, he could be transferred to Qizhou as Sima.

Anyway, this year, Qizhou Sima's term of office has just expired, and there is a vacancy. Place this person in Qizhou, so that it is very close to Chang'an, and there will be no major incidents.

It's just a similar invitation to pet, and it was soon drowned in the condemnation and cursing of Li Linfu by the Manchu civil and military, saying that he "regarded state affairs as child's play and was unworthy of being the prime minister".

Li Longji was also hesitant and surprised by this.

What is surprising is that Fang Youde's unscrupulous son seems to really have some ability, and after arriving in the border town, he can actually play tricks, which makes everyone praise, and so many people say good things for him.

What hesitating is that the position of Liangzhou Sima is too important, and even much more important than the assassination history of ordinary states and counties.

Not to mention that this position was handed over to Fang Chongyong, even if his father Fang Youde was to take it, Li Longji was a little hesitant. Because the old side can only fight, he is not good at dealing with foreign races, and he may not be a good hand at the operation of the nodes in the Western Regions.

If Fang Youde goes to the Western Regions, he will definitely make a mess over there.

Li Linfu's suggestion to let Fang Chongyong serve as the Sima of Liangzhou is nothing more than to show outsiders that he is not "jealous and jealous". As long as he is talented, no matter what identity or age, he is willing to be promoted and reused.

Li Longji knew his mind and didn't care, these were the small routines of various prime ministers since the beginning of the century. He was still very satisfied with Li Linfu's ability to handle government affairs.

The government and the opposition are scolding Li Linfu, doesn't this just prove that the other party can sit in the position of prime minister all the time? If the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty breathed out from the prime minister's nostrils, then what use would he, the son of Chang'an and the sage of the Tang Dynasty, want?

Li Longji did not alienate Li Linfu because of his scolding, but trusted him more.

However, Li Longji still clearly vetoed Li Linfu's ridiculous suggestion to promote Fang Chongyong, a ten-year-old child, to be the Sima of Liangzhou, and instead promoted Su Zhilian, who was the assassin of Ganzhou at this time, and transferred him to the neighboring Liangzhou to serve as the Sima of Liangzhou.

Su Zhilian was born in the Su clan of martial arts, and at the age of twenty-four, he began to serve as the assassin of Ganzhou, and was familiar with Hexi affairs. Moreover, this person is in the prime of life, he is exactly twenty-eight years old this year, and he has served as an assassin for four years, and it is time to turn to be an official elsewhere, or wait at home for the election of an official.

It is just right for him to serve as the Sima of Liangzhou, and it is easy to do things with acquaintances in Liangzhou.

As for the vacancy of the Ganzhou Assassin History, it was temporarily replaced by Ouyang Jin, the military envoy of the Jiankang Army to which Ganzhou belonged. Ouyang Jin is brave and good at fighting, and he was the Jiankang military envoy who succeeded Zhang Shouqi at the beginning, and he continues to this day, and he can be regarded as Zhang Shoujue's descendant.

Then there was a series of official transfers and vacancies, but there was nothing to do with Fang Chongyong. He appeared frequently on the song, and he didn't even catch a single hair.

As for Su Zhilian, who is only twenty-four years old and can serve as the assassin of Ganzhou, in stark contrast to Fang Chongyong, who can become an official in Hexi at the age of ten, it is not a slot.

The central government had no objection to Li Longji's edict, and the edict was smoothly delivered to Liangzhou along with the post station system.

This kind of decree in line with the basic structure of the Tang Dynasty was like eating and drinking water for the people in the officialdom, and it did not cause any waves.

People with good deeds pushed back Su Zhilian's official experience, and found that if this person was born in the imperial examination, he would have to be a jinshi at least ten years old, and he kept being promoted all the way, and his luck was so good that he could serve as the assassin of Xiaozhou when Su Zhilian was full of Ganzhou assassins.

They couldn't help but sigh that in the Tang Dynasty officialdom, it was difficult for the children of the poor family to be officials, and it was really difficult to explain.

After all, you can only participate in the imperial examination at the age of fourteen, and you will be at least sixteen years old when you take the Jinshi examination, and you will have to wait for three years to be elected after winning the Jinshi, which is nineteen years old. The school scholar is already considered high, and he will be twenty-three years old after four years of work. When it turns to the history of assassination, it will be the year of establishment at the earliest, and it is the norm to serve as a history of assassination in the year of not being confused.

Therefore, Li Bai's dislike of the imperial examination is not all because of his identity as a businessman.

The main reason is that he can only write poetry, and his talent in other aspects is limited; Second, even if you are admitted, it will take the year of the monkey to get ahead. Li Bai, who advocates "life is short, candle night tour", naturally thinks that instead of participating in the imperial examination, it is better to kneel and lick the powerful as quickly as possible, who makes him not a powerful man?

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Fang Chongyong didn't know that he had caused a lot of waves in the court, he was very busy now, except for not going to the yamen of Jiedu Mansion and Liangzhou Mansion at all, he was busy on tiptoe all day long.

However, his so-called "busyness" is to go around inside and outside Liangzhou City, watch more, listen more and learn more, and don't care about specific things.

On this day, Fang Chongyong came to Dr. Li's medical hall again to see how Brother Ji's health care medicine was being developed.

However, this highly skilled medical officer handed an ordinary small clay pot in front of Fang Chongyong.

"The saint's medicine is still being tested, and it's almost time to get an eyebrow. However, what Fang Junenvoy entrusted was very easy to do. ”

After the two of them sat down, they opened the black clay pot that looked unremarkable and was only the size of a palm.

"Envoy Fang said that the hemostatic medicinal materials will be semi-carbonized, I tried to get it, anyway, there are relevant records in the ancient books. I found a few people with knife wounds to take medicine, and found that the hemostatic effect was really good, and it was ......"

"And the herbs can be stored for a long time without rotting, right?"

Fang Chongyong asked with a smile.

Medical Officer Li was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly and said, "That's true." ”

Chinese herbal medicine semi-carbonized hemostasis, since the Han Dynasty there have been books about this matter. It's just that because of the lack of information and the lack of urgent need after the change of dynasty, this direction has been shelved, and there has been no substantial progress.

Before, Fang Chongyong asked Medical Officer Li to try "quick hemostasis", just to get a "battlefield first aid kit" out.

"It's really a good idea to tie up a bleeding limb with strips of linen boiled in boiling water, and then use semi-carbonized herbs to stop the bleeding quickly.

The point is that both of these things can be packed in a clay pot, which can be stored for a long time, can be carried with the army, and everyone can save in times of war.

It's not really hard to get these things out, it's just that no one thought of them before. Now Fang Senjun thought that this alone would save the lives of countless soldiers and soldiers in the west of the river in the future. ”

Doctor Li sat in a wheelchair and bowed deeply to Fang Chongyong and said.

He has seen a lot of "Yanei", after all, when he followed Li Yi, the king of Xin'an, it was not unusual for there to be any goods in that circle. There are those who are scheming, those who are naïve and ignorant, and those who bully men and women who do not know how to check, but people like Fang Chongyong who do not seek fame and fortune and do practical things do not have it.

This half-grown child has a strange temperament, he is like a tourist who is free from officialdom but does not enter it deeply.

"Eh, in his position, he is planning his own affairs. I, the deputy military envoy of the Baiting Army, are just bastards, and I can't carry them on my shoulders, but it's best to ask about specific military affairs.

Joining the army in the state capital is also a position that can be managed but not convenient to manage. Now Hexi's affairs, both civil and military, have been running freely, and there is no need for me to intervene. I take care of those things, and others are annoyed when they see me, and they have to spend time dealing with me when there are many things, so annoying!

It's like now, I don't look for fault, everyone in the Hexi government gives me convenience, I can go wherever I want, I can have whatever I want, and no one will embarrass me, isn't it good. ”

Fang Chongyong waved his hand and explained disappreciably.

Now that he is in Liangzhou, he is almost "walking sideways", because Fang Chongyong has a compulsion in his heart, not to interfere in the political and military affairs of local officials, and not to cause trouble to those people.

Anyway, he has a strong background and an official position in the state government to join the army, and wherever he goes, there are relevant officials to welcome and send him to give him the greatest convenience. It's really a bit like Fang Laique often said, as long as you want, you can go anywhere to eat without spending money, and you can buy things anywhere without paying.

As long as Fang Chongyong, the "Yanei", is happy and responsible, the local officials in Liangzhou don't mind giving the green light, Fang Chongyong can go wherever he wants to visit, and there are people in front of the saddle and behind the horse along the way, which makes him embarrassed!

Take the two copies of the state government's army and the deputy military envoy of the Baiting Army, as well as local officials at all levels to send people to serve and tour guides, this kind of high-level treatment of eating and playing is probably the first since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.

Fang Chongyong has no doubt that the loss is that he is young, if he is a little older, he is afraid of the different styles of orchids in various places in the Hexi Corridor, he has to play all over it, and whatever type he wants, someone will offer it diligently, and he doesn't need to spend money, he doesn't have to think about the consequences, just play openly.

"It's better to take the envoy of the Fang army with you, take a trip to the Chishui army, and offer this thing."

Doctor Li said with some courtesy.

Fang Chongyong nodded slightly, with a slight emotion in his heart.

Fame and fortune are really an iron curse that everyone can't escape, and the medical officer in front of him is no exception.

"That's nature, let's go now. To Chiwu Town, you can go now, and you can get there before sunset. ”

Fang Chongyong said with a smile, not taking this matter too seriously.

Doctor Li didn't seem to be able to wait for a moment, and he didn't mind being a favor. Compared with making "health medicine" for Ji Ge, Fang Chongyong felt that the first aid on the battlefield was a great benefit to Hexi.

Before the two went out, Dr. Li instructed Anaye to take care of the door of the medical hall, and then took the initiative to find someone to rent a carriage.

Anaye pulled Fang Chongyong aside, lowered his voice and asked eagerly, "I heard that many people are saying that you are going to be promoted, why are you still so indifferent?" ”

Although she didn't say it, she already regarded herself as the other party's future concubine in her heart, and her attitude was naturally very different from before.

"It's all about trying to please my father, it's just human nature. My current official position is far more than the establishment that should be, and I will return to Chang'an smoothly in the future, what kind of official will I be promoted, you really think too much! ”

Fang Chongyong shook his head with a smile.

He knew that many people wrote to Chang'an to give advice to Ji Ge, saying that he, the Yanei, had done a lot of practical things in Hexi and should be rewarded.

These people are just selling their own scumbags. It is estimated that Brother Ji will complain in his heart, and he will put these nonsense on the shelf.

After all, let a child less than ten years old be a big official, Datang pill!

Fang Chongyong looked at Anaye and found that this native girl of the Western Regions didn't seem to be very smart.

"Don't believe it, there was an official named Su Zhilian who came to Liangzhou City to see a doctor before, and he was only twenty-four years old when he first arrived in Liangzhou City, and he was already a thorn in Ganzhou! My father showed him a doctor's illness, and he also left a pair of words, which said that the doctor is benevolent! ”

Anaye said anxiously, Fang Chongyong climbed too fast, making the sense of crisis in her heart indescribable.

"Twenty-four-year-old Bianzhen Thorn History? Is the imperial court so outrageous? ”

Fang Chongyong was stunned for a moment, and found that he didn't seem to be the only Yanei in Liangzhou! There is an even more outrageous one!

Assassin Shi is not an idle position like joining the army in a state capital! That's to do practical things!

You must know that Lao Zheng has such a strong background, and he was in his thirties when he was the assassin of Kuizhou!

"How do I know about the affairs of the imperial court?"

Anayah said with a roll of her eyes.

Seeing that Medical Officer Li was coming, Fang Chongyong waved his hand and said, "We're going to the Chishui Army garrison, and we'll be back tomorrow." ”

After speaking, he pushed Dr. Li's wheelchair and left the medical hall.

Anaye looked at the back of the two leaving, and always felt uneasy in her heart, and for a while she didn't know whether to stop Fang Chongyong.

The details of historical materials have been verified, and the outrageousness of the Tang Dynasty officialdom is really outrageous.

(End of chapter)