Niu Xianke went back to Liangzhou in a dashing manner, and the folds were handed over, but there was still no substantial progress in the search for iron ore.

Under the prophecy of the "Holy Son", many people in Zhangye County who have entered a state of agricultural slack carry baskets to the vicinity of Longshou Mountain in Shandan County to find the so-called "heavy stones". Fang Chongyong also didn't expect that Fang Laique's card was so easy to use and so inspiring.

To put it simply, it is much easier to use than a direct order from the government.

After arriving in Liangzhou, Niu Xianke personally supervised the dispatch of 2,000 Han people and 2,000 Sogdian Hu soldiers to Ganzhou. The government office here in Ganzhou only needs to be responsible for the daily expenses of the training of the united soldiers.

The first batch of 20,000 horses of silk has been rationed.

In the autumn of this year, the Hexi Corridor was exceptionally calm, and the expected large-scale invasion of the Tubo people did not happen at all.

So where is the direction of the Tibetan attack?

In fact, now the conclusion is very clear, the Tubo people are sending troops to attack Longyou, and they don't want to entangle with the Tang army in Hexi at all.

Previously, after the Tubo army took Xicangzhou, which was located in the plateau region, it attacked Taozhou (Lintan, Gansu) with heavy troops.

Brother Ji ordered the main force of Longyou to go south to the rescue, so that Du Hope almost vomited blood!

Theoretically speaking, Jige's method is a good way, and each army on the right side of Longyou is defending its own place, and the Lintao army, which has the largest mobile force, is responsible for support. But the problem is that the road in Longyou is much more difficult than the road in Hexi, and a large area is a mountain road!

The Hexi Chishui Army could be a big brother to fight all over the five states of Hexi, but the Lintao Army could not reinforce the armies on the Longyou border in time.

Sure enough, under the siege of the Tubo people, the capital city of Taozhou, Lintan was captured, and the Momen army retreated to the foot of Kongtong Mountain in the east of Taozhou, holding the choke point to Minzhou (Minxian County, Dingxi City, Gansu).

Ji Ge was furious and ordered the Lintao army to speed up and go south to rescue. Du Hope had to abandon his baggage and personally lead his troops south on the mountain trail, and countless mules and horses died of exhaustion on the mountain road.

However, just as the forces of the Tang army gathered in Taozhou, intending to encircle the invading Tubo army in Taozhou, the Tubo people waved another shot and plundered Taozhou and divided their troops!

The first part of the Tubo army withdrew to the plateau, garrisoned Xicangzhou, and transported away the looted goods; One walked the mountain road, abandoned the armor and baggage, climbed over the snow-capped mountains, and attacked Diezhou from the north!

At the same time, Tibet crossed through the Maqu area controlled by the Dangxiang people from the west, sent troops to attract the attention of the Tang army, and then used the soldiers and horses from the north to sneak attack.

The Tang army's defense in Diezhou was very weak, and there was only one Hechuan garrison as an early warning, and there were only 1,000 soldiers and horses.

Under the enemy's back, the Hechuan garrison army was scattered, and the remnants of the army retreated to Changfen County in the east. The Tubo army attacked Changfen again, took the empty Changfen County, and then went deep alone, took Danzhou (Zhouqu, Gansu), and pointed directly at Wuzhou, an important town in Longyou (Wudu District, Longnan City, Gansu)!

Tubo's series of combination punches stunned the Tang border army in Longyou.

The original plan of the Tang army was to compete with the Tubo for the hometown of Tuyuhun, and planned to compete with the Tubo people on the front line of Qinghai Lake. It's just that what I didn't expect was that the Tubo people didn't play cards according to Ji Ge's idea at all. They gave up fighting with the Tang Army in the strong Hehuang (Xining City and its surroundings) area, and held their troops on the northern front, but they put the breakthrough on the Longnan line!

The field army that can be mobilized under the command of the Longyou Jiedu envoy has basically been transferred to the Hehuang line north of the Longyou Jiedu envoy defense area, resulting in the emptiness of the troops in Longnan, and the Tubo army took advantage of the weakness to enter, and the first-line border town was lost!

Wuzhou is already the second line of the Longyou Jiedu Envoy Defense Area, if it can no longer be defended and let the Tubo people capture it, a huge defensive black hole will appear in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty.

The Tubo people occupy Wuzhou, they can attack Hanzhong in the east, and they can attack Shu in the south, but it is really not good, and they can withdraw to the plateau to the west! The border situation in Datang will enter the mode of "short board effect".

No matter how well the Hexi side was defended, the Tibetans could get what they wanted from Longnan and avoid using troops in areas where the Tang army was well-armed.

When Du Hope rushed to Diezhou with the Lintao army to "live up to expectations", the Tubo people who had plundered all the way had already fled, and after distributing a part of the looted goods to the party members in the Maqu area, Shi Shiran left the territory of the party members.

That's right, the Tubo people didn't want to capture Wuzhou at all this year, and their strategic goal in this battle was very clear: grab it and run. Therefore, the time to send troops was earlier than in previous years.

And no one in the party wants to offend in the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo people, and often does this kind of thing with one eye and one eye closed.

This time, it was just Du Hope who was careless and did not flash, and did not expect that the party members of Maqu would actually allow the Tubo army to cross the border.

This kind of thing without proof is not good for Datang to find trouble with the party members, and he is also worried that the other party will completely fall to the Tubo people in the war between Datang and the Tubo people. So I had to swallow my anger, looking forward to slowly settling accounts with the party members in the future.

Brother Ji, who was so disgusted by a series of war reports that he couldn't eat, could only reluctantly accept the bitter fruit of this loss that was not a big loss, but the insult was capped.

It felt like being slapped in the face on a horse, and when I came back to my senses and wanted to get back to the field, I found that the other party had already hid in the lair, and I was surrounded by little brothers who were not easy to start.

Ji Ge was so aggrieved that he decided to remove Du Hope from his post after this battle.

……

"Why is it so small?"

Looking at the big stone in front of him, Fang Chongyong asked dissatisfiedly.

At this moment, the front of the yamen was full of people, and everyone was watching this huge stone that had taken a lot of effort to transport into Zhangye City.

Although the shape is irregular, this stone, which is one zhang long, half a zhang wide, and half a zhang high, is indeed not small.

It is true that there are many mountains in Hexi, but it is indeed not a simple matter for such a heavy stone to be transported to the city.

"Back to the envoy, this stone is not small."

Yan Zhuang said with an embarrassed face.

Fang Chongyong is a person who is too smart to talk most of the time, and he has Zhizhu in his hands when he does everything. But there are also times when the questions asked are very appropriate for his age, which is a great lack of common sense.

"It's a little small, so that's it."

Fang Chongyong sighed and suppressed the disapproval in his heart.

"Envoy, this stone is more than enough to be a Shinto monument!"

Yan Zhuang persuaded quietly.

Fang Chongyong was stunned for a moment, and then asked rhetorically: "What kind of monument is that?" ”

"A Shinto monument is a stone monument that stands in front of a tomb to record the life deeds of the deceased. Record the life of the deceased, the contributions made, etc. Shinto is the tomb road, and the stele refers to the stele standing on the tomb road.

Didn't the envoy want to erect a Shinto monument to his ancestors? ”

Yan Zhuang explained speechlessly.

He heard that Fang Chongyong's father, Fang Youde, the envoy of Youzhou Jiedu, was born in Shazhou, Hexi (Dunhuang), and set up a Shinto monument here in Ganzhou to show his grandfather's prestige and fabricate some "great achievements".

This is how many people in officialdom play!

"Well, I'm not going to erect a Shinto monument."

Fang Chongyong sighed, he originally wanted to play a surprise, but he didn't expect it to be frightened, so that everyone in the government knew that he was going to erect a Shinto monument for his grandfather.

"You go and ask the best stonemason in Zhangye City to trim and polish this stone, and then have people carve the common medicines of "Qianjin Fang" and "Materia Medica" on this stone.

Well, the accounts of the government should be clearly written, and the entries should not be sent to the conscription, and the people should not be disturbed. ”

Fang Chongyong said in a big way.

Yan Zhuang hesitated slightly, and then asked in a low voice: "Envoy, the accounts of the government have spent a lot of money recently. Although it is all official business, although his subordinates also know that the envoy wants to benefit the place, but what will he do next year if he spends so much money? ”

He didn't ask questions for no reason, but Fang Chongyong has done a lot of big things recently and spent a lot of money.

The first is to set aside a vacant lot outside Zhangye City, surrounded by a fence, and subdivide the area inside, and set up a notice board at the entrance.

This place is the location of the market outside the city of Ganzhou in the future, and the market is opened on one day in the middle and late of each month.

Here, no matter whether Hu Han has a household registration in Ganzhou or not, whether he is a merchant or not, he can take what he wants to sell here to sell, and there are sergeants who are guarded by Zhang Ye to maintain order.

Except for the prohibition of buying and selling human beings, there are no taboos on other goods, and the government officials do not ask the source.

Even if it is the sale of stolen goods, the Ganzhou government government does not care.

However, as long as they dared to make trouble in the bazaar, they were punished as robbery and murder, and they were sent to the newly developed coal mines south of Shandan to collect coal.

The government only collects transaction tax, one penny for every 30 wen, and one penny for the part less than 30 wen, and the goods are not allowed to stay in the market after they are sold, and merchants are not allowed to purchase in the market.

The second is to choose a special place in the city to weigh and purchase old threads, old ropes, rags, hemp wool and other things that cannot be used by residents in the city.

Then a special paper-making workshop was built by the weak water, and these old things were used to make paper for the office, and sold it at a reasonable price in the city to subsidize the office expenses of the government.

The last one is this stone tablet.

Fang Chongyong wanted to engrave the symptoms and prescriptions of common diseases on the stone tablet so that ordinary people could also see them.

In the Tang Dynasty, a Shangzhou with a population of more than 100,000 households had a maximum of 20 medical officers in the state capital, which was still a theoretical configuration.

In a lower state with a population of tens of thousands, the state capital has no more than 12 medical officers. For example, in Ganzhou, there are less than 12 people, and the actual operation level of many "medical officers" is not even as good as Anaye.

In Datang to see a doctor, there is a folk saying called "no doctor is traditional Chinese medicine", that is: if you are sick, you don't go to the doctor to carry it, which is equivalent to inviting an average level of medical officer to see a doctor.

Carving the prescription on the stone tablet is tantamount to letting the people have symptoms and take the medicine themselves. It seems to be a small thing, but sometimes the role it can play cannot be underestimated.

Each of these items has to be paid by the government office, and Fang Chongyong is not stingy, with a wave of his hand, what should be done must be done.

In addition, he also wrote off all the office expenses owed over the years, and the money owed to local businessmen and ordinary people was also presented, and a large number of white slips were written off.

If you have money, you don't have to expire and invalidate, Brother Ji gave 200,000 horses of silk to the Ganzhou Mansion, Fang Chongyong was not polite at all, the money that should be spent will be spent, and this will be used to fill the hole, and all the bullshit things that Ganzhou Mansion got out of the past have been solved in one go.

"This, I can't tell you too much, anyway, I have a number in my heart, do you understand?"

Fang Chongyong whispered to Yan Zhuang.

Seeing the other party's thoughtful look, Fang Chongyong emphasized: "If this official leaves Hexi, he will definitely find a way to mobilize him to go together, so you don't need to think too much, just do things well." ”

Upon hearing this, Yan Zhuang nodded understandingly.

In other words, if he doesn't understand it, then he's a stupid donkey!

Why is Fang Chongyong now frantically making political achievements in Ganzhou and frantically filling the holes in the past?

Because there is wine today and drunk today, tomorrow will be sorrowful tomorrow.

Now in the situation of Ganzhou, he has found coal again, and he is making great efforts to find iron ore and build an iron smelting workshop.

Therefore, Fang Chongyong's "history of bicycle assassination" is not long. He will most likely be transferred next year, the only thing he doesn't know is where he will be transferred and on what basis.

Or it is also possible to return to Chang'an.

Since he can't keep his biggest "political achievement", it is not surprising and reasonable to be desperate to brush up his reputation now.

I believe that this is also tacitly approved by some people.

What Fang Chongyong is doing now is to sell the good of the local forces in Ganzhou, and just settling the arrears of previous years is not something that ordinary assassins can do.

"The subordinates understand, so they will arrange it."

Yan Zhuang saluted with his hands and then quietly left.

After he left, Anaye leaned over, grabbed Fang Chongyong's cuffs and asked in a low voice:

"Lang Jun, you embezzled the public funds of the government to buy me a set of medical books that are only available in the state government, will something happen?"

Hearing this, Fang Chongyong laughed and said: "You are also studying medicine, and taking that set of books can be regarded as benefiting the people, how can you call public funds for private use." ”

Lao Tzu didn't complain when his political achievements were robbed, those people complained about it! What's wrong with using public funds to buy a set of textbooks for a personal nanny.

Fang Chongyong scolded in his heart.

He had already learned from Niu Xianke that Li Linfu planned to send someone to take over the affairs of Ganzhou, so that he could be mentally prepared and not think too much.

If there is no desire, Fang Chongyong knows that his behavior may cause many people to be jealous.

It's better to let go like an ordinary teenager, take the opportunity to rub oil, and plucking geese is the norm in officialdom.

Don't do anything, others are worried about your revenge afterwards!

"However, you also bought me a lot of brocade robes that can only be worn by adults......"

Anaye looked confused, not knowing what to say. She understood what Fang Chongyong meant, but now that they are all too young, they can't do anything like a concubine.

She trembled when she held it.

"yes, so what? Whose business is it that I buy a few sets of clothes for my woman? ”

Fang Chongyong asked angrily.

If you don't defile yourself, how can you give Li Linfu an excuse, how can you justifiably demote yourself?

God knows what bad idea this guy will come up with!

When he thought of this, Fang Chongyong was angry.

At this moment, Yan Zhuang, who had just left in a hurry, turned back and was sweating profusely!

"What's going on in a panic?"

Fang Chongyong scolded with a displeased face.

"Envoy, the big thing is not good, the Xixing Temple is besieged, and many believers want to see the Holy Son, and they have already clashed with the abbot of Facheng."

Well?

Hearing this, Fang Chongyong looked puzzled.

Isn't Fang Laique's play over, and now what's going on?

"Take the official to see it!"

Regardless of the solemn obstruction, Fang Chongyong went directly to the Xixing Temple, which was not far from the palace.

(End of chapter)