My Taoist buddy has practiced surrogacy

Chapter 220 Kindness
This man was called Li Han, and although he came from a humble family in Shiping County, he was already a third-rank Zhupao monk in his cultivation.Back then, he was favored by many people, including Situ Wangrong.His official career has also been smooth. When King Qin Huangfu Jian was sitting in Chang'an, he hired him as his right-hand man.It was only after the death of King Qin Huangfu Jian that he was framed and involved in a dispute over funeral etiquette, and was finally judged to be stripped of his status as a third-rank monk and downgraded to a fifth-rank monk.

This made him feel ashamed and humiliated.

Originally, those people wanted to push him to the end and let him serve as the low-level governor of the Shoucheng Mansion, but Wang Rong finally came forward and said that Li Han was also a third-rank monk, and he was also a court minister back then. In the end, it still hurt the face of the court.In this way, the imperial court re-issued an edict to let Li Han serve as the order of Shiping.

It wasn't until King Zhao Huang Fulun abolished Empress Jia that Shen Xiu promoted Li Han again.According to Shen Xiu, he felt sympathy for what happened to Li Han, saying that it was the shameless suppression of Li Han from a poor family by those rich and powerful families.After Huangfu Yong came to Chang'an, he recruited Li Han as his Sima Zhengxi immediately.In less than three months, he was promoted to be his long history, and he was cited as a confidant.

"Li Changshi," seeing Li Han coming, Huangfu Yong seemed to have a backbone immediately, and greeted him from the bed, "Quickly teach Gu how to deal with it?"

"Your Majesty, there is no need to panic." Li Han already knew about this when he came, and said confidently at this time: "Since he is not benevolent, King Qi, don't blame us for being unrighteous."

"Oh, tell me quickly."

"Your Majesty, Liu Chen and Beizhi were both subordinates of the Wei Taibao, and they are very familiar with each other. This man has both civil and military skills and has thousands of volumes in his chest. The King of Qi appointed this man to unify the governor of Yizhou and Liangzhou to conquer the affairs of refugees. He is indeed an acquaintance." Good job." Li Han said a few words like this first, then changed the subject, and said: "Because of this, we can't let him go to Liangzhou as he wished. If the rebellion of Liangzhou and Yizhou refugees is put down, King Qi I have to free up my hands to deal with you, Your Majesty."

"But Liu Chen has already been appointed by the emperor." Huangfu asked puzzledly.

"Appointed by the emperor? Didn't he mean it?" Li Han said disdainfully: "It's not difficult. Tomorrow, Liu Chen and Xu Xiong will pass by Chang'an. Then, my lord, you will host a banquet for them. When the wine is full, I will send Someone stole the festival that Liu Chen was carrying. Then, my lord, you hand over the festival to Xi Wei and let him rush to Liangzhou overnight."

"How did this happen?" Huangfu Yong asked in shock when he heard Li Han's plan.

"How can this not be possible?" Li Han sneered, "Liu Chen has lost his integrity, and it is too late to catch up, so he has to cooperate with us. We can report to the court that Liu Chen has suddenly suffered a serious illness and needs to stay in Chang'an for treatment." Considering the urgency of the front-line refugee affairs, Xi Wei was asked to replace Liu Chen to Liangzhou. As for Xu Xiong, he was timid and fearful. As long as the king gave him some benefits, he would sign it together. , King Qi, what can he do?"

Seeing that Huangfu Yong was still pondering, he continued: "We can control the situation only if the front line is replaced by our people, and we even need refugees to continue to mess up Liangzhou and Yizhou. I will deal with you, Your Majesty..."

Zhou Xing, who is far away in Yizhou, naturally doesn't know anything about what happened in Shangluo Chang'an. These days, he has encountered new problems.

That day he had a battle with Huo Yan. Although he defeated the opponent, 67 people from the First Battalion of the Bodao Common People's Jingjia Army on his own side also died, and 230 people were injured, including 45 seriously injured. Ling Pu's treatment saved his life, but he was already missing arms and legs, and became a disabled person who could no longer serve in the military.

After the first battle, more than one-fifth of the troops were lost. This made Zhou Xing, who was watching the battle, realize the cruelty of the war, and also let him see the ferocious fighting power of the refugees.During the two days just after the battle, he couldn't sleep well every night, and the images of the wounded or the dead were always turning over and over in his mind.

Not only that, after this battle, although Zhou Xing expressed condolences one by one at the first time and gave out a lot of bonuses, he heard from Gongsun Shu that some people in the first battalion had already started to complain, saying that they should not fight this battle for the sake of Guanghan County. In the first battle, some people even regretted joining the army.

"Shouldn't we be fighting this battle?" Zhou Xing was secretly startled when he heard this.Before he set off, Gongsun Sheng was extremely opposed to his sending troops this time, and said that the reason why Du Chou did not object was because his hometown was always facing the invasion of refugees.

But Zhou Xing always felt that he was proceeding from the overall situation and occupying the moral high ground.Moreover, he has painted so many slogans, brainwashed so many times, paid a considerable monthly salary that is never available elsewhere, and ordered beautiful military uniforms for soldiers (of course, this is from his point of view. From the point of view of others, Although the suit designed by Zhou Xing looks more energetic, but the appearance is really outlandish).Even for this expedition, Zhou Xing specially added a wartime subsidy, and each soldier received ten copper baht per month in wartime subsidy alone.He still clearly remembers the loud cheers from below when he announced the benefit.

Why did the morale of this army, which was so high before the departure, drop after a victory?
"Gongsun Shu," Zhou Xing asked, staring at Gongsun Shu's eyes, "tell me what's on your mind, should I fight this battle? If it were you, would you fight or not? "

Seeing Zhou Xing asking him like this, Gongsun Shu's face obviously became unnatural, and his eyes dodged Zhou Xing's, "My lord, considering the overall situation, this battle should definitely be fought."

Hearing Gongsun Shu's words, Zhou Xing felt sad because he didn't understand what Gongsun Shu meant.I thought that such a righteous deed would win the hearts of the people, but I didn't want to reap such consequences.

"My lord, besides getting paid, the big guy joins the army. More importantly, um, he can win the title of Marquis." Gongsun Shu's last words completely made Zhou Xingfan wake up.

Without promotion, why do these people fight?
As soon as I thought of this, all kinds of confusion in the past suddenly became clear.

No wonder those people would rather be refugees than go to the states and counties to serve in the military. Naturally, no one wants to do things that are not beneficial.It would be no problem if the elite army of the common people of Bo Dao surrounded my hometown, but once they came out to fight, this problem would immediately arise.

After figuring this out, Zhou Xing became restless for a while.

What are these selfish people doing to help them by putting themselves on the pole?They love to resist refugees, they love to go to other places to be refugees, and they like to be refugees.

Moreover, I am not a person of this world, maybe one day I will travel back to my original world, so what does these shit have to do with me.

But in a blink of an eye, he thought of the situation he was facing again.

It suddenly occurred to him that the reason why he sent troops was not because his life in Bodao might be threatened by refugees.Although there is not yet, but if the refugees continue to develop like this, when the army hits Bodao, I am afraid that I will become a refugee too.

"It turns out that I am also a selfish person. It turns out that sending troops by myself has nothing to do with being noble." Zhou Xing figured this out, and couldn't help laughing at himself, but the smile was as bitter as it was bitter.

But no matter what, Zhou Xing knew in his heart that this battle could not continue like this.

The current self, apart from being able to give these people some military pay, he can't provide anything else.

Official positions, honors, and even the placement of the wounded after the war.

Without these things, Zhou Xing asked himself, and if he were himself, he would definitely not join the army unless he was forced with a knife behind his back.

With these understandings, the next day, Zhou Xing called Du Chou and Gongsun Sheng, and the content of the discussion was how to make himself an official.After Du Chou left for CD to give credit to Luo Shang, Zhou Xing had already made plans.If Luo Shang didn't give him an official position, he would immediately turn around and return to Bodao.

At this moment, Zhou Xing really had a deep understanding of what it meant to be a poor person must have something to hate.

At this moment, he really understood Luo Shang's difficulties.

With the system of the Great Jin Dynasty, when encountering a sudden rebellion like that of refugees, the state army was dilapidated, and they were recruited temporarily, no matter how many people there were, they would be mobs.

"Godsend:
See the word as the face.

Since entering Shu, what Yu has seen and experienced has been an eye-opener.The ancients said: It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books.

When I was in Shangluo, I only heard what you said about the disadvantages and improvements of the ninth-rank Zhongzheng system, and I also heard you talk about Shen Xiu's various unbearable situations. It's not just that the poor are desperate to climb up.

Officials in various places have no sense of identity with the local area, and people in various places do not have any sense of identity with the local area. This is what I don't understand the most.Everyone says that the homeland is hard to leave.As far as I can see, countless people would rather stay away from their homeland than take up arms to protect their land and property.

......"

Since Zhou Xing left Shangluo, he often corresponded with Wang Tianci, mostly talking about the customs and customs along the way.But he has never hoped so much to get the opinions and opinions of this good friend who he thinks is the only good friend he recognizes in this world.In the letter, he described in detail the various difficulties he encountered now, and also described in detail the hierarchy of the later generations of the army in his own tone.

In his view, those with his status, or even Luo Shang's status, can't reform such a fundamental thing. The only thing that can be reformed is the central government.

The recruitment system and the professional military system are imperative.

He still has a glimmer of hope, even if the hope is so slim.

"My lord, it's time to visit the Shangguan." Gongsun Sheng saw that Zhou Xing had no intention of going to visit the governor of Jiangyang County after receiving the seal and ribbon from Captain Jiangyang, so he had to remind him.

Under the guidance of Gongsun Sheng, Zhou Xing, who came to his senses, first asked Gongsun Sheng to take his famous post to Jiangyang County, where the sheriff of Jiangyang County is located. After the two parties set a time, three days later, Zhou Xing took Gongsun Sheng and Du Chou came to Jiangyang County on horseback.

Gongsun Sheng, who has traveled all over the world, is obviously well-informed, and Du Chou is a native of Jiangyang County.Along the way, the two of them talked endlessly about Jiangyang County to Zhou Xing.

The name of this Jiangyang County comes from the Jiangyang Marquis State, which was entrusted by Emperor Wu of the Shang Dynasty, and it was the fiefdom of a man named Su Jia.Although this Su Jia was not well-known, Zhou Xing was taken aback by what Su Jia's younger brother Gongsun Sheng said.It turned out that his younger brother was the famous Su Wu.Zhou Xing has been reading history books for a while, and he admires Su Wu in every way, but he doesn't think that even Jiangyang, which is not far from his Bo Road, can have a relationship with Su Wu.

Although Jiangyang County is a small county, according to Gongsun Sheng, its wealth is not inferior to that of Shu County.Jiangyang County is rich in salt and iron, especially salt, and its output accounts for more than half of the entire Yizhou.Not to mention his family, but Du Chou's Du family has several salt wells.This made Zhou Xing very interested, and even said that he would go to their house to see what the salt well looked like in his free time.

Since the establishment of the trading market in his territory, according to Guo Wen's report, more than 5 catties of Shu salt alone have been traded in the first month.This is only just opening, but also the number of public transactions.This salt and iron has always been a monopoly, and the imperial court has Siyan Xiaowei's Mansion and Sitie Xiaowei's Mansion in Shu, which are responsible for the management of salt and iron.If you want to sell table salt, you must get a salt guide issued by Siyan Xiaowei's mansion before you can sell salt.

According to Du Chou, there are no big households in Jiangyang County, especially Han'an County, who dig salt wells privately.The salt well is only one foot square, and when someone from Siyan Xiaowei's mansion comes to check it, just find something to cover it.The annual volume of private salt sales is far greater than the number of public sales.

Zhou Xing remembered that Guo Gui was the one who handled the matter on his own side at the beginning, and later he sent Guo Gui to the prison, and Guo Wen took over the matter.Hearing Gongsun Sheng talk about this at this time, he couldn't help but start to calculate in his heart.

There is no salt production in Zhuti County of Cang County and even Ningzhou. Even as far as Jingzhou, Jiangzhou and Jiaozhou, there are merchants traveling thousands of miles to sell Shu salt in Shu. Guo Gui's 70 catties of salt was enough to bring him Not only did Wang Tianyun repeatedly praise him for his foresight in opening this large trading market, but Yan Meiting and others who settled in it from the beginning also became a trumpet flower every day.

Zhou Xing is a majestic Marquis of Ting and the son-in-law of the Jinyang Wang family, so Guo Gui has no difficulty in going through the procedures.At this time, Zhou Xing, who was on the horseback, remembered the credits that Guo Gui had made for him, and couldn't help but regret that he had sent this person into prison mercilessly.

It is nearly four hundred miles from Deyang to Jiangyang County. The three of them set off from Deyang early in the morning on horseback. When they arrived in Jiangyang County, the sky had already darkened.When they entered the city, they came to a large courtyard. As soon as they entered the gate, the posture inside really surprised him.

"Marquis Zhou, why is it so late!" The yard is huge, but it is so, it is full of people, tables and chairs.The first person was dressed in the prefect's unique scarlet official robe, and looked to be in his 40s. He spoke loudly and had a gentle smile on his face, which made people look friendly.

(End of this chapter)