Lord: Start with a book of Water Margin

Chapter 667: Visitors from Gao State
Zhao Zhen said, "There's no need to rush into sworn brotherhood. Since you, Li Gui, have posted the call for talents, and you have some martial arts skills, why don't you go to the army of [Black Whirlwind] Li Kui and be a captain? The two of you are close, and you can learn some of General Li's martial arts in the army, how about that?"

After hearing this, Li Gui hurriedly thanked him.

Without mentioning what happened to Black Whirlwind Li Kui and White Whirlwind Li Gui after they left the court, it is said that two days later, strange things happened again in the foggy passage that had been silent for many days.

After hearing this, Zhao Zhen went to the foggy passage, invested a little luck, and a letter was sent over.

After reading it, Zhao Zhen was overjoyed.

However, it was my uncle Gao Bo who found the instructor Hu Peide from the [Floating Continent] and sent several people from Gao State to take up the position.

Immediately, Zhao Zhen invested in the luck point, and many men, women, old and young walked out of the foggy passage again, each carrying something on their shoulders or in their hands.

The leaders were still Gao Bo, Gao Kang and Gao Yong, followed by the instructor Hu Peide. More than 120 people came out one after another, and more than ten carriages came out. Only then did the foggy passage return to calm.

All the people were temporarily settled in the Protocol Court in the west of the city. This place was originally called the Honglu Pavilion, and now it was renamed the Protocol Court. It was under the Honglu Pavilion and was responsible for the mutual trade affairs with Gao, Cao, Lu and other states.

In response to the petition submitted by Chai Jin, who had just returned from Qizhou, Chai Jin was transferred from the position of Langzhong of the Ministry of Revenue to the position of Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple. The position of Langzhong of the Ministry of Revenue was transferred to Cheng Wanli from Qizhou by imperial decree.

After settling everyone, Zhao Zhen first invited four relatives, Gao Bo, Gao Kang, Gao Yong, and instructor Hu Peide, into the palace.

After the greetings, he was given a seat.

Zhao Zhen spoke first: "But I met Master Hu again. If it weren't for Master Hu's suggestion, I wouldn't be where I am today."

Hu Peide quickly said: "Without my reminder, it won't have much impact on the king."

Zhao Zhen said, "If the teacher hadn't reminded me, how could I have married into the Gao family? It's hard to say what would happen in the future."

Ji Qingwan listened and asked, "Your Majesty, is there any story behind this?"

Zhao Zhen smiled and told him about how Hu Peide had asked him to seize the opportunity and become the head of Bailiu Village. Ji Qingwan asked, "It was at that time that Brother Gao Hu met the king and acted as a matchmaker to marry the four of us to the king?"

Zhao Zhen nodded and said, "We will host a banquet tonight. You four should offer another glass of good wine to the teacher."

After hearing this, Hu Peide said he didn't dare.

"Teacher, this place is just starting out and we are short of capable people. I want to make you the Supervisor of the Imperial Academy and concurrently the Doctor of the Imperial Academy, teaching the students of the Imperial Academy the meaning of the classics."

As soon as Zhao Zhen finished speaking, Hu Peide replied: "I came from Gao State, so I naturally intend to take up the post here."

Gao Bo said, "My dear son-in-law, apart from Teacher Hu, the three of us have also made up our minds to settle down in Liang State. In addition, a few people from Qingwan and the other two's maternal uncle's house have also come."

After hearing this, Zhao Zhen also nodded.

At night, Zhao Zhen held a banquet to entertain all the people who came to Liang State to serve as officials.

Gao Yong, Duan Cheng and Song Chengyu were considered military generals, while Gao Bo, Gao Kang and his wife, Gao Lingfei, Duan Yu and Jia Ran were all from a literary background.

On the second day, Zhao Zhen, Wu Yong and others assigned tasks to everyone who came according to their resumes.

Except for Hu Peide, they all have some relatives with Zhao Zhen. Gao Bo and others are considered as foreign relatives in Gao State. Duan, Jia, Song and others are also relatives of Ji Qingwan and others' maternal uncles. In addition to those who are interested in being officials, the rest of the people who come are either relatives of these people or merchants engaged in the sale of goods. Zhao Zhen does not take care of these people much, and they have to rely on themselves to run the business.

Perhaps the only reason that attracted so many people to come was that Liang State had just been established and there were still many opportunities.

Gao Bo was the chief clerk of a county in Gao State, and was considered the highest-ranking official among the people who came. Zhao Zhen appointed Gao Bo to Linyi, Qizhou, as the magistrate of the county.

Gao Kang was just a low-ranking clerk in Wenxiuyuan of the Ministry of Finance in Gao State. After arriving in Liang State, he served as the special officer of Wenxiuyuan of the Ministry of Finance, and Jia Shi also served as a ninth-rank official in Wenxiuyuan.

As for Gao Yong, he was just a low-ranking captain in Gao State, but now he has become the county lieutenant of Yanggu County. Duan and Song followed Gao Bo and Gao Yong to take up their posts. They became minor officials in this county.

Except for Gao Bo, Wu Yong and others were also very uncomfortable with the placement of the other people.

Even if he couldn't be assigned a high position, he should at least be assigned a noble position. Ji Qingwan rejected all these. The world now was different from before.

Sure enough, after the edict was issued, everyone was very happy and there was no sign of dissatisfaction.

The others included Gao Lingfei, Duan Yu, Duan Cheng, Jia Ran and Song Chengyu. Gao Lingfei, Duan Yu and Jia Ran became county chief clerks, while Duan Cheng and Song Chengyu became military governors.

After the welcoming banquet, the rest of the people either followed the leading few people to take up their posts in various counties, or scattered to various prefectures and counties to make a living on their own.

Gao Bo brought the most books with him this time. These books were sent to the Imperial College, and after Hu Peide had them sorted out, he would select the most useful ones, print them and sell them.

A man named Bi Shaohua who came with Hu Peide was a teacher at Gao State Private School. He had beautiful handwriting and was entrusted by Zhao Zhen with the position of librarian in the Imperial College to manage the books in the College.

The current task is to organize the books and take over the [Printing Workshop]. From now on, the Liang State's official printing workshop will be under the management of the Imperial College.

Zhao Zhen had no objection to these people from Gao State.

Now the military and political power of Liang State is still in the hands of Zhao Zhen. Especially the military power, which Zhao Zhen will never give up. As long as the military power is in hand, there is no need to worry about other things. In the future, more talents will be recruited. Relying on these people brought by Zhao Zhen from the fantasy world, it may be okay to fight a war. But when it comes to being an official and governing a place, Cheng Wanli is the highest-ranking official.

As for the positions of councillor, secretary, and general manager held by Tian Hu and Fang La, they were just fake positions. In terms of talent and learning, none of them had ever passed the imperial examination.

In addition, Gao Bo also brought letters from the states of Cao and Lu.

Zhao Zhen naturally also replied to the letter, which was then sent back to Gao State, asking Gao State to pass it on.

Firstly, Zhao Zhen only had 42 World Spirits in his hand, and building a fog passage required 36. Zhao Zhen was reluctant to give them up. He only hoped to find a few more after clearing the five prefectures and counties of Qizhou, Zibo, Jizhou, Shanzhou, and Xuzhou.

Secondly, Zhao Zhen had no need for trade now. Although Zhao Zhen was busy dealing with evidence every day, the army had not stopped either. In addition to the Military Equipment Supervisor, who was still working day and night to forge weapons and armor, and deliver them to the garrisons in various places to increase the armor rate,

Even in such severe cold weather, soldiers from all over the country would train for an hour every day at noon when it was the warmest. Fortunately, Zhao Zhen knew that it was cold here, and he had purchased a large amount of cotton in the main world in advance, and had already prepared winter clothes for distribution.

Unfortunately, the cultivation of fire silkworms and fire cotton had just begun this year, and the harvested fire silk and fire cotton, as well as the fire silk satin and fire cotton cloth woven from them, were not enough for the officers and generals under Zhao Zhen to share a single bolt. Fortunately, all of them were kept, and in addition to making two sets of clothes for the ladies in the palaces, the officers and generals who had frail elderly people at home were rewarded with a bolt.

There were many different types of warm stone beds given as rewards. After using the warm stone beds, Zhao Zhen asked Ji Qingwan to buy a lot of them. Although the warm stone beds were not as comfortable as the heated kangs, they could keep people from feeling cold.

Ordinary people naturally couldn't afford it, but fortunately, Liangshan was located in Jingdong Road, where there was already a heated kang. Zhao Zhen also made sufficient preparations, and ordered all places to cut down enough wood, coal and other materials in advance.

(End of this chapter)