In fact, Sun Siwen originally wanted to take Lu Yuan with him, and wanted to recommend his friend to the new prefect.

But Lu Yuan was used to being carefree, so he didn't want to see any bosses, so he whispered to others.

Second, he was also worried about the possible revenge of the Five Poisons Sect, and he was afraid that he would be ambushed on the way to Fucheng.

So he chose to stay at home and let Sun Siwen go to Fucheng by himself.

Of course, there must be indispensable on the road, just arrange a good guardian delivery.

Sun Siwen has been going for a long time, and originally thought that he would be able to come back and forth in three days, but he didn't expect that it would take seven days to come back.

During this period, Lu Yuan was a little suspicious that something was wrong with his friend, and he almost wanted to go to someone in person.

Fortunately, the people eventually returned.

"Brother Lu, let me tell you."

Sun Siwen, who had just come back, seemed very happy, and after seeing Lu Yuan, he pulled him and said happily: "The new Cui Zhifu is really a cadre, whether it is governing the country or writing and learning, he is first-class in the world." ”

Seeing his highly respected appearance, Lu Yuan couldn't help but arouse a little curiosity.

My friend has only been there for seven days, and he has been so impressed, which is really rare. No, I should say it's the first time I've seen you.

"Is this Governor Cui very powerful?" Lu Yuan couldn't help asking.

"It's more than amazing." Sun Siwen was still a little excited: "This Governor Cui was famous for his articles and poems when he was young......"

Sun Xianling is obviously a little fan of the tendency.

At this time, he enthusiastically gave Lu Yuan the deeds of the new prefect, such as several poems and articles he had done, and then he memorized them backwards and recited them.

When Lu Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but show a sudden expression.

These poems and articles, when he was in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion over the years, he listened to the girls and the scholars who came to find joy singing, and he listened to them a lot, and he would memorize some of them.

These poems are really well written, but I didn't expect the source to be the Cui prefect.

In addition to the poems, Sun Siwen also talked about some of the intellectual achievements of Governor Cui, such as commenting on a certain classic, and what classics were compiled, among Confucianism, he can be called a master of the first line.

And in addition to poetry and learning, well, this Cui Governor is also a capable official in government affairs.

When he was in the DPRK and China, he repeatedly admonished him, and he did not talk about the disadvantages of the times. At the local level, many achievements were also made.

At this time, although he had only arrived in Shaoyang Mansion for a short time, he was the new prefect. Cui Changqing dealt with the shortcomings left by his predecessor and reformed it very much.

He ordered a group of officials who did not do anything, arrested a group of corrupt officials who violated the law, and began to reform the government system, and even heard that they were preparing to build a new government army, and planned to sort out the public security problems in the government that had become more and more chaotic.

It can be said that the shortcomings left by his predecessor for several years have been sorted out by the new prefect almost in just one month.

is so capable, if you can't be called a capable official, then there will really be no good officials in the world.

"In this way, with this new prefect, the recent situation of Shaoyang Mansion will be much better in the future." After listening to his friend's story, Lu Yuan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and he was quite happy in his heart.

The more capable the new prefect is, the better he can organize Shaoyang Mansion, and the more beneficial it will be to him.

Although in the past year, the Five Poisons Sect has not come to seek trouble for him.

But for Lu Yuan, no matter whether the Five Poisons Sect came or not, it was a sword of Damocles hanging over his head, and he didn't know when it would fall.

And at this time, if this Cui Zhifu can be in the area of Shaoyang Mansion, the majesty of the imperial court will be restored.

Then as an official of the imperial court, he was naturally protected by this majesty, and he also had more confidence in the threat of the Five Poisons Sect.

"yes. The predecessor of the Liang Governor's Mansion, although he was an honest official and was also good at learning, his ability to govern was really ......"

Speaking of this, Sun Siwen remembered that Liang Xiwen funded him with 5,000 taels of military funds last year, and after all, he was embarrassed to say the blame, but changed his words: "But Master Cui is very optimistic about me."

In this debriefing, the adults praised me for my work in Wugang County. said that I could brave the danger when the court was in danger, and I was really a loyal and brave person.

Then he said that I was able to restore the prosperity of Wugang in just one year after the thieves were put down, and the place was peaceful, and my ability to govern was enough to be a model for officials.

I think the meaning of Master Cui's words seems to be that he is ready to promote me. ”

Sun Siwen turned his head to look at his friend, and said with a slight smile on his face: "Brother Lu, maybe it won't be long before I will be promoted again." ”

Sun Xianling still remembered a year ago, almost at this time, after his friend's strength was exposed, he looked proud of himself when he made a fool of himself.

But I didn't expect it.

It's only been a year since I was promoted again.

The county order is from the seven-rank official, and then it rises, and it is the prefect of the city.

That level, in the entire Dayue official mansion, also belongs to the local middle-level officials. A few steps further, that is the position of prefect.

The highest position that Sun Siwen's grandfather had ever sat in, his grandson, was about to reach it at this time.

"Then congratulations to Brother Sun."

Lu Yuan resisted the urge to tell the other party that he was actually first-class, and congratulated with a smile: "When you are just over the age of standing, you can be promoted to a position in the palace, and the speed of promotion can be called a steady progress." ”

Removing the factors that want to see his friend's embarrassment, Sun Siwen can be promoted, in fact, Lu Yuan is very happy.

"Whereever, where I can do it, it's nothing."

Sun Siwen's mouth was full of modesty, if it weren't for the smug smile on his face, just listening to this, maybe he would really be able to make people believe it.

But in addition to being complacent, he didn't forget his friend: "Brother Lu, aren't you also only twenty-seven years old, and you are already ranked among the second-rate masters in the rivers and lakes?" With your talents, it won't take you a few years to get into the top class.

At that time, your achievements will not be worse than those of the prefect of a prefecture.

And this time I went to meet Master Cui, he also attaches great importance to you, the county lieutenant who is personally in charge of the county soldiers to quell the rebellion.

I listened to the meaning of his mouth, and it seemed that he wanted to transfer you and me back to Fucheng and prepare for reuse.

The government soldiers are being prepared on the side of the city, and Lord Cui is at a time when there is a shortage of available people.

Brother Lu, if you go, maybe you can directly take the position of commander of the government soldiers, which is the official position of Zheng Liupin. It's even higher than after I was promoted. ”

When Sun Siwen said this, he also glanced at his friend with some envy.

The promotion system of the warriors is different from that of these civil officials.

Because military attachés have always been talking, and they pay attention to attributing great power to themselves, which is different from these civilian officials who rely on the power of the system to do things.

Because of a strong warrior, a single person can form an army, and he is an army in itself.

Therefore, when they take refuge in the imperial court, they often have preferential treatment.

Some bad habits of seniority and seniority are rare in the military attache system.

If you are a second-rate master, then be an official of a second-rate master. If it is first-class, then be a first-class official.

If you don't have enough strength, you have to force yourself to sit in that position, not only will you be unconvinced, but when you really need to go up to the top at the end, it will be self-defeating.

"It's just a little superficial."

Regarding the news that he might be promoted, Lu Yuan was very calm, waved his hand and said: "Even if I am promoted, it doesn't mean much to me, Brother Sun should know my ambitions." ”

Sun Siwen said with admiration: "Brother Lu's heart to practice martial arts and Taoism has long been known to everyone, but every time I see it, I can't help but be amazed. ”

In Sun Siwen's eyes, his friend is obviously surprisingly strong, and he is put in the rivers and lakes, which can also be called a master.

Ordinary Jianghu people have such strength as him, and they have long established gangs and factions and started their ancestors. Enjoy the glory and wealth every day, hug before and out, majestic and uncomfortable.

But Lu Yuan is not obsessed with these mundane things, even if he has the strength and the family is rich, but every day, he still lives a low-key and simple life, shrinking at home and concentrating on practice. As a county lieutenant, he is not greedy for power, but only concentrates on martial arts.

With all kinds of behaviors, anyone who came to see it had to give a thumbs up and call it a real master.

So sometimes when Sun Siwen faced Lu Yuan, he would feel ashamed of himself.

I feel that the laity, who is greedy for worldly fame, is with such a high-ranking person, and it is a little tarnished the character of my friend.

"Brother Sun praises me, I'm just a layman."

For these inner thoughts of his friends, Lu Yuan can naturally guess some of them. It's just that for this, he can only smile.

What can he say?

Should it be said that the reason why he is so reluctant and so diligent for ten years is because he is afraid of death, so he is desperately practicing martial arts?

It's not that he doesn't want to enjoy prosperity and fame and fortune, it's just that he doesn't dare to do it because he doesn't have enough strength.

A conversation between friends slowly came to an end.

……

After a period of time, Sun Siwen and Lu Yuan began to be busy again.

Lu Yuan was still the same, and continued to stay at home to practice martial arts.

It's just that in terms of alchemy, as expected, the progress is quite limited.

Although he had already scattered all his disciples and distributed them to various places to buy medicinal herbs, some of them were even sent to other counties.

But even so, the medicinal materials that Lu Yuan could buy were still limited.

From the beginning of August to the end of the year, he could only open eleven furnaces of pills and obtain one hundred and twelve pills.

However, even so, after being promoted to the first-class, after more than a year of cultivation, coupled with the assistance of these tonifying elixirs, Lu Yuan still practiced a strange scripture again and entered the eighth layer of the last layer of the Qi Replenishing Heart Sutra.

The exercises broke through, and his strength also improved greatly.

Now, according to the growth of his own strength, Lu Yuan feels that although he still does not have a first-class martial arts move, relying on his deep internal strength, he is already enough to match those who have just entered this realm.

It made him very happy.

Because according to this trend, after I have practiced the two meridians of the eighth layer, the internal force will be further deepened.

Then with internal strength, you may be able to mix a senior first-class strength.

At that time, if you can really become a master in the first-class, then even if you don't have first-class martial arts moves, you won't have many helpers.

Relying on his own strength alone, Lu Yuan might dare to directly break into the Iron Sword Gate and snatch their Iron Sword Technique.

Of course, this is a bit risky.

Therefore, in all probability, if he was not forced to do so, he would not have chosen to do so.

However, the increase in strength brought about by the breakthrough of internal force still brought Lu Yuan a great surprise and a sense of security.

So in order to improve his strength as quickly as possible, he even took out the second layer of the Liuyun Palm's exercises, and specially rewarded a registered disciple who bought the most medicinal materials this year as an incentive.

The effect is naturally remarkable.

Seeing that one of the fellow disciples had already obtained the second level of the heart method, the other senior brothers naturally began to be eager to become enthusiastic.

So it was simply not over for a long time, and at the end of the year, I took people out to buy medicinal materials.

Even the disciple who had received the reward for the exercises followed the same sect.

After all, although he has obtained the second layer of exercises, he has to Longwangshu, and with the second layer, he naturally thinks about the third layer.

For this grand goal, he also moved.

For his tool people, oh no, it is the enthusiasm of the disciples, Lu Yuan is naturally very satisfied.

A second-rate mental method that I can't look down on now, can be exchanged for breaking through to the realm of senior first-class in the early years, no matter how you look at it, it is a good deal.

Not to mention that these disciples, even if they have obtained the exercises, but in the end they have achieved success, aren't they their own apprentices?

In this world that pays attention to respecting teachers, when the time comes, the master of his own will speak, can these people obediently obey orders?

In the end, it's not his own coolie and thug.

As for the problem of disobedience and betrayal?

Lu Yuan, who is both an official of the imperial court and a first-class master, has no worries about this.

And if those disciples were interested, they wouldn't choose these paths of no return at all.

Isn't it good to practice martial arts with your own master, and get promoted?

You would be a traitor if you are stupid!

……

The flowers bloom at two ends, one on each branch.

When Lu Yuan's martial arts practice was hot, Sun Siwen also made great moves as an official.

Although Sun Siwen said that the prefect was optimistic about the two of them and planned to promote them to Fucheng to be officials.

But if you are optimistic, you are optimistic, that Governor Cui is only a new appointment after all, and it is not so easy to promote two officials when he is new to the situation.

However, although Sun Siwen is a little looking forward to whether he can be promoted quickly, he is still a person who cares about the people's livelihood. So after waiting for a while and seeing no reply, I was quickly overwhelmed by the complicated government affairs.

Wugang County was destroyed only a few times last year, and now it has begun to rebuild, and although it has been sorted out for a year, there are still many problems left.

And in addition to the reconstruction, Sun Siwen also wants to do more good things for the people, and is preparing to wait for the busy farming to pass, so he will gather the people to renovate some Pichi rivers in various parts of the county.

These are all things that require a lot of effort.

Sun Siwen now takes a group of people to run to the countryside and villages as long as he has free time, and he is ready to take this matter as his own political achievement.

According to the words of Sun County's order.

Now don't take advantage of the fact that the county government has just paid a large number of thieves and bandits, and has a large amount of cash in hand, to make political achievements and do something practical for the people.

Will I wait for me to leave, and leave the money behind and embezzle it for the successor who takes over me?

Well, as a fellow official, Sun Siwen really has some distrust of other bureaucrats in Dayue.

But the results of his efforts are outstanding.

After the autumn harvest, according to the plan formulated by Sun County's surveying and mapping in the past few months, thousands of people gathered in the county began to vigorously build water conservancy projects.

for the abundance of silver, and for the sake of the willingness to scatter money.

In just two or three months, the county repaired the Pichi River, and even dug a few small canals, and irrigated thousands of acres of farmland.

Other than that, wait for the idea of spending the money quickly.

After Sun Siwen finished the water conservancy construction, he began to clean up the official roads, repaired the roads that were now dilapidated, and also restored the post station system that had been destroyed by the war.

And two major projects in succession, thousands of people ate and drank Lazar, which naturally attracted countless merchants to supply the expenses of the people.

and because Sun Siwen paid people to work, rather than simply serving as a servant. After the people did two projects, their pockets also bulged.

With the financial resources, it is natural to want to buy things to improve life, which further attracts more foreign businessmen.

In just half a year, by the end of the year, when the project was completed, Wugang County was already full of business travelers, and a large number of outsiders came here to do business.

There are even some displaced people in other places who have heard of the prosperity here and migrated here. Wugang County, which had suffered serious population losses after the war, has recovered a lot of vitality.

And Sun Siwen also threw out more than 40,000 taels of silver for this.

As soon as he did this, the county's finances suddenly shrank innumerable, and there were only more than 10,000 taels of silver left on the books.

With such a small amount of money, if you don't want to get some income back, it won't be long before you go bankrupt due to excessive expenses.

But Sun Siwen doesn't care about this anymore.

Because at the end of the year, the county government's one-year merit evaluation also came out.

That Governor Cui didn't say anything big.

He said that he wanted to promote Sun Siwen and Lu Yuan, and he really took action and worked hard in this regard.

At the end of the year, Sun Siwen's political achievements ranked first among the hundreds of county orders in the county.

This is naturally due to his willingness to spend money.

After all, it is very difficult for small local counties with an annual income of only four or five thousand taels to spend half a year's political achievements with money equivalent to ten years' income at once.

With this achievement, and the Cui prefect didn't know what to do, and finally the county government ordered Sun Siwen to be promoted.

From the original Zhengqipin County Order, he was promoted to Sima of Zhenglipin, and assisted Cui Changqing, who was the prefect, to handle the affairs of the government.

Lu Yuan's promotion here is simple.

The county government had long heard of his strength as a second-rate master, and he was also a second-rate powerhouse. Such a tycoon can serve the imperial court, and in this situation of national decline, natural events are something that people should be happy about.

Therefore, for Cui Changqing's request, the county government happily agreed.

directly issued an order to transfer Lu Yuan to the commander of the Shaoyang Mansion Army, ranking in the sixth rank.

As a result, he and his friends were both promoted to several levels at the end of the new year and became government-level officials, which can be described as a success.

In officialdom, it can be called a good story.