The name Pizhou is relatively unfamiliar, because it was changed in the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan.

The original name is Fengzhou, which has been used since the time of the Western Wei Dynasty, and can be described as a famous name, and there are records in the pre-Qin era.

In the "Book of Songs", the "Feng Feng" of the "Fifteen Kingdoms Style", that is, here in the city, describes the production and living conditions of the ancient ancestors.

It has been the main road from Chang'an to Longxi since ancient times.

The gateway to the south of Pizhou is called Fengmen, which is a village and more like a market town. There was a post station managed by the imperial court, which was responsible for receiving officials coming and going. The name of this post station follows the name of the place, and it is called "Fengmen Station".

Fang Chongyong, as a "low-powered" supervisor of the imperial history, is still a central Beijing official, and when he comes to the Fengmen Station, he will naturally not be received by the post station.

Eating is the best meal to eat, living is the best guest room to live in, although the scale of the Fenmen Station is not large, but it is the spirit of twelve points to serve Fang Chongyong, the supervision of the imperial history.

After a tiring night's journey, when Fang Chongyong came to the hall of the post station for dinner the next day, he called the post guard to interrogate.

"What kind of dispatch does Fang Yushi have?"

The thin jailer in front of him rubbed his oily hands on his clothes, his face was full of smiles, and he asked enthusiastically.

"Don't worry, sit down and eat bread with someone, and talk while eating."

Fang Chongyong pointed to the position next to him and said.

"I can't make it, what kind of identity is Fang Yushi, this ...... Square peg. ”

The postman was flattered, as if frightened.

Fang Chongyong nodded slightly, without reluctance, grabbed a "dough cake" on the plate on the table, handed it to the post man and said, "If you are invited to eat, just take it." ”

"Huh? Good, good. ”

This Fang Chongyong, who didn't even know his name, stood beside him in fear, took the cake and whispered: "What does Fang Yushi have to ask, he knows everything and says everything." ”

The location of the Fengmen Station is in Xinping County, Pizhou, and the county seat is also the state of Pizhou. The place where there is a coal mine in the legend is not in Xinping County, but in the south of Sanshui County, north of Jingshui, and the two places are separated by a Jingshui.

After a little inquiry here yesterday, Fang Chongyong felt that the matter of opening a coal mine would not be as simple as he imagined.

"The white Ji bun of the post station, Fang Yushi still likes it?"

The post guard asked in a low voice, the white Ji bun in his hand was just holding it, and he didn't dare to eat it in front of Fang Chongyong.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a difference between dignity and inferiority, and the hierarchy was strict. Meetings on any occasion will be divided into one and will not be ambiguous. There is a set of unwritten, but smooth "unspoken rules" for getting along between superiors and subordinates and between colleagues, according to the size of the difference in status.

Non-liuguan is not as good as a dog in front of liuguan, and the officials who are released are shorter than those in Beijing, and among officials of the same level, those who enter the official are half a cut shorter than those in the imperial examination.

And to supervise the imperial history in the locality, you can punch and stab the history and step on the county order. Cleaning up the post guards is often just a matter of one sentence, not only pinching the county officials, but also "taking charge of the situation". The operation of the post station is also within the scope of "supervision" of supervising the imperial history, so it is not difficult to understand that this post guard is trembling in front of Fang Chongyong.

Fang Chongyong's previous life, the cultural dross in the book society, many of them were brought over from the Tang Dynasty, and after being localized from the book, they were passed down from generation to generation as "heirlooms".

For example, this kind of casual two people together, they have to compare the rules of high status, and the book is "blue out of blue and better than blue".

"This white Ji bun is very good, even if it is sold in Chang'an, it is more than enough. You eat, the official doesn't like to be informal. ”

Fang Chongyong waved his hand and said.

Looking at this post man's skinny body, you know that his food is not very good on weekdays. The white bun I just ate is crispy on the outside and crispy on the inside, and it is very good.

But this does not mean that the person who cooks can also eat something similar, let alone the post man who sweeps the floor and feeds the horses.

"Fang Yushi just asks."

The postman nodded gratefully, and began to gobble it up.

"Here in Pizhou, does anyone use charcoal to make a fire for warmth?"

Fang Chongyong asked disapprenosingly.

As soon as he heard this, the post man swallowed the white Ji bun in his mouth, wiped the scraps on his mouth with his sleeve and said:

"Coal?

Don't hide the imperial history, it's hard to say elsewhere, the south of Pizhou is the mountain, and the trees in the mountain are lush. The other side of Jingshui is also a big mountain, and it is not difficult to get firewood to the ferry, and it is more than enough to burn the fire at home.

There are not many people in Pizhou itself, even if they are woodcutters who sell charcoal, they will burn the cut wood into charcoal and send it to Chang'an for sale, who will look for any charcoal. ”

Seeing that Fang Chongyong was very easy-going and had no official pretensions, and the post guard also talked eloquently, he obviously didn't think much of the word "stone".

Xinping County, also known as Pizhou Prefecture, is built on a flat land recessed by the mountain range in the south of Jingshui, and there are many canyon roads leading to Yongshou County in the south, which is a plain terrain surrounded by valleys.

In general, the terrain near here is a small plain + valley canyon, and no matter where the nearby villagers go, they can just chop some firewood on the mountain, and there is no urgency to find alternative energy sources at all!

In other words, firewood is completely worthless here, and what is lacking here is not firewood, but the means to transport firewood away!

Seeing that Fang Chongyong didn't speak, the post guard said quietly: "If Fang Yushi wants to play around, there is a good place to go." ”

"Oh? What's so important about that? ”

Fang Chongyong asked suspiciously.

"Back then, Emperor Taizong defeated Xue Ju's army at the shallow water source, and the shallow water source battlefield was at the ferry here along the Jingshui to the northwest for dozens of miles.

And the place where Emperor Taizong stationed troops was in Pizhou.

At the foot of the mountain, not far west of the north side of the station, there is a Yingfu Temple, which was built by Emperor Taizong to commemorate the fallen soldiers in the Battle of Asasuilwon.

Fang Yushi can go and worship. ”

The postman whispered.

The Beijing officials casually wander around the local area and call it "not doing official business", while the Beijing officials worship the relics of Taizong in the local area, which is called "spiritual civilization construction"!

Fang Chongyong comprehended, shook his head with a smile and said, "I will naturally go if I have time." Having said that, is there really no one in Pizhou who uses charcoal? ”

"It's really not, at least not here in Xinping County."

The postman nodded with certainty.

"Understood."

Fang Chongyong nodded slightly, he waved his hand and motioned for the post guard to leave.

After inquiring just now, he actually wanted to confirm whether the coal mine cave had been stolen and dug by local villagers. As long as there is a shortage of fuel in the local area, then this kind of thing will definitely happen, and the coal dug up will definitely circulate and consume in the surrounding area.

The post guard's answer with such certainty made Fang Chongyong breathe a sigh of relief. It's good that no one is digging the mine, but I am afraid that the geological structure near the mine will be damaged, and it will take a lot of effort to repair it.

After eating breakfast with white Ji bun, minced mutton, cabbage and millet porridge, Fang Chongyong set off alone to Yingfu Temple, which is not far from here.

Finding coal is of course important, but in Datang, political correctness comes first!

When the Beijing official came to the prefecture and county near the shallow water source on business, he did not go to pay respects to the monument to the soldiers who died after the bloody battle led by Taizong, and he did not go to pay tribute to the "great achievements" of Emperor Taizong, which was a very bad move in politics!

When he came to this temple built on the mountain, Fang Chongyong was shocked by the majesty in front of him. The grottoes are carved according to the mountain, carved stone images, densely packed with more than 100 grottoes, scattered and distributed on the three-dimensional cliff face of about hundreds of meters long.

People with dense phobia are afraid that they will faint on the spot!

The architectural pattern of the Tang Dynasty, if you have to say that there are any characteristics, it can be summed up as "big"!

The palace is big, the houses are big, the streets are wide, the grottoes are even bigger, and everything is bigger!

According to the introduction of the abbot of Yingfu Temple, it is divided into five parts: the Big Buddha Cave, the Thousand Buddha Cave, the Luohan Cave, the Zhangba Buddha Cave, and the Monk's Cave.

Entering one of the largest caves, Fang Chongyong saw a giant seated statue of Amitabha Buddha carved in the cave. The backlight of the Big Buddha is engraved with the inscription of "made on November 13 of the second year of the Tang Dynasty Zhenguan".

On the surface, this is a Buddhist temple built by Emperor Taejong many years after the war to commemorate the fallen soldiers in the Battle of Asahuiwon.

But Fang Chongyong secretly speculated in his heart, with Li Erfeng's great joy, he was afraid that this expensive Buddhist temple was mostly built to highlight his own merits in establishing the Tang Dynasty.

In the first year of Wude, Li Erfeng may miss the soldiers who died in the shallow water source battle, but the time to establish the Buddhist temple was many years later, how many feelings did he still have in his heart at that time? How much guilt?

The first defeat and the first defeat killed 30,000 soldiers were far from invincible.

Tang Taizong also needs something like a fig leaf.

Besides, the crown prince in the Wude period was Li Jiancheng, and the battle of shallow water sources took place in the first year of Wude, and the establishment of the Buddhist temple was in the second year of Zhenguan. At that time, Li Erfeng had only been emperor for two years, and he urgently needed to "show his merits" to show that his succession was justified.

In the early years of Zhenguan, when the finances were extremely tight, Li Erfeng built such a large-scale Buddhist temple, and also bought the hearts of the army in the name of commemorating the fallen soldiers.

His political skills are so high that he is indeed worthy of the word "hero".

As for more, Fang Chongyong didn't think of anything else. Anyone who gets into that position will become a ruthless political machine, and he can't help himself.

"The things that pay tribute to the dead are actually for the living.

Gaozong expanded Yingfu Temple, Wuhou expanded Yingfu Temple, and Jige also expanded Yingfu Temple, focusing on a political correctness. ”

Looking at the tall and majestic stone Buddha, Fang Chongyong couldn't help but whisper when there was no one around.

The strict rules of Tang Dynasty politics were far more terrifying than the Tang Dynasty history that I had seen in my previous life, and I had to follow the laws of the operation of Tang Dynasty feudal politics in it.

Even Li Longji, a person who does not believe in Buddhism very much, has to expand Yingfu Temple in order to show his merits. It is enough to see that they are not doing this for the Buddha, but for the banner of the Taizong clan!

Although Fang Chongyong was very disgusted by such a large-scale construction project that disregarded the people's livelihood, he also understood the original intention of the feudal rulers in his heart. There are a lot of vulgar things, even in his previous life, they are not uncommon, and he really can't be too demanding of the ancients.

As soon as he walked to the door of the Buddhist temple, Fang Chongyong found that a group of monks looked at him with inexplicable eyes, and then looked at the "merit box" placed at the door from time to time.

That seems to say: You're just going to leave with nothing to chance?

After thinking about it again and again, Fang Chongyong took off the jade pendant that Brother Ji had rewarded him from his waist when he rescued him, handed it to the abbot of the temple and said, "The things given by the saint are dedicated to the Buddha." ”

"I can't do it! The donor can't help it! ”

The abbot of the temple was shocked, and hurriedly refused, asking the two monks to move the merit box to a place where Fang Chongyong could not see, so as not to be an eyesore.

"Why, does the abbot look down on today's saints?"

Fang Chongyong asked with a blank face.

"No, no, don't laugh, please leave quickly."

The abbot of Yingfu Temple said with a wry smile on his face, and sent Fang Chongyong, who was looking for fault, out of Yingfu Temple.

The Buddha is in the heavens and the temples are on the earth.

The Buddha is spiritual, and the temple is secular.

The Buddha can not eat, drink or sleep, but the temple monks still have to eat and drink Lasa.

Most of the money in the merit box will still be at the disposal of these monks. Fang Zhong bravely gave the gifts, but they didn't dare to take them, and they couldn't sell them to others, let alone give them away. Once the matter is revealed, it will be a big trouble!

Fang Chongyong threw out this hot potato, they really couldn't take it.

"By the way, are there any idle monks in the temple?"

When he walked out of Yingfu Temple, Fang Chongyong casually asked the abbot of Yingfu Temple beside him.

"If the donor says there is, then there is, if the donor thinks there is no, then there is no."

The abbot replied like a dumb riddle.

"Well, good, I remember that."

Fang Chongyong nodded slightly, folded his hands and bowed to the abbot of Yingfu Temple, then turned around and left.

He came to the Bizhou Mansion non-stop and showed the document of telling himself and the map provided by the Ministry of Industry. Li Qiwu, the assassin of Pizhou, received Fang Chongyong very warmly and set up a banquet to entertain him.

"Hurry up, toast Fang Yushi."

At the banquet, Li Qiwu, who had already drunk a lot, said to a young man beside him.

"Humble and noble, respect Fang Yushi, and wash the dust for Fang Yushi."

Gao Shang walked up to Fang Chongyong, respectfully picked up the wine glass, and drank all the wine in the cup.

"Noble?"

Fang Chongyong held up his chin thoughtfully, and always felt that this name was very bold!

People are not necessarily noble, but they can be noble first.

Thinking of this, Fang Chongyong smiled and said, "Li Yuanjun is from the clan, and he can't recommend you for a half-official position. A certain is just an eight-rank petty official, why are you so attentive to toast? ”

Fang Chongyong looked at the other party with a smile, and he didn't mean to pick up the wine glass at all.

Seeing that Gao Shang was being harassed, Li Qiwu was very arrogant and said:

"Eh, Fang Yushi's words are wrong. Now who doesn't know that Fang Yushi is a celebrity next to the saint, and he has a great future for saving the driver. It is not a problem for him to pay homage to the prime minister, and the supervision of the imperial history is just a springboard for the imperial history of Fang, where can you be a great god.

This senior soldier is now serving as the state capital Si Cao, he is a very capable person, and being a Si Cao is really buried. If Fang Yushi has a way, why not say a few kind words in front of the saint? ”

It turned out to be watching people cook and ask for officials!

Fang Chongyong instantly understood the difference between this place and Hexi, and he was still wondering why Li Qiwu wanted to make such a big show.

Unlike Shazhou, which is located in a remote area and is closed to information, Pizhou is a county around Chang'an, and the news is really well-informed. Once there is something in Chang'an City, you can feel it immediately, and you can go back and forth in one day!

Fang's father and son rescued him, Li Heng, the loyal king, rebelled, Zhang Shouqi dismissed the prime minister, and Li Heng, the king of Shou, was made the crown prince and so on. A series of recent major political events have exploded in effect, making those political animals who smell the smell excited.

If someone is in trouble, then naturally someone wants to benefit. Under the great reshuffle of the DPRK and China's forces, of course, there will be people who can take advantage of the situation.

Li Qiwu, as a sect that was released as a stabbing history, and he was also a doorman, of course he would recommend his own people to the center, so as to pave the way for his return to the center.

These are just "human feelings" in officialdom, and to put it bluntly, they are all basic exercises.

Finding that Gao Shang was winking at him, Fang Chongyong laughed and said:

"It's dinner now, let's just talk about Fengyue.

When the feast is over, you will come to me alone and bring your poems. ”

Fang Chongyong waved his hand and motioned for Gao Shang to return to his seat. This kind of thing is all "following the local customs".

Suddenly, Fang Chongyong remembered a joke in officialdom many years ago.

This incident is about an official named Ling Huchao, and his friend who lives in his house called noble, the two of them played with a concubine together, and also made the concubine's belly bigger, I don't know who the father is.

As a result, this matter was revealed by his father Fang Youde in the form of a twist, which caused the noble scholar to fall into bad luck and couldn't even take the imperial examination.

That noble, shouldn't it be the one in front of you?

Fang Chongyong was very curious for a while.

The bureaucrats of the Tang Dynasty are really good at playing!

There's another chapter tonight.,I checked a lot of information yesterday.,It's too late to update and it's delayed until today.。

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