Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

On the ninth day of March in the seventh year of Tongguang, the sage held an additional palace examination in Hanyuan Hall, and hand-picked four champions.

Han Zhaoyin was lucky and won the first prize in Jinshi.

Shao Shude appointed his secretary Lang, and the former secretary Lang Chen Ti served as Jurong Ling.

Jurong is Ji County, and the county magistrate is on the sixth rank, which means he has been promoted to two ranks in a row.

Because Xu Yin participated in the fiscal and taxation reform, which made Shao Shude quite satisfied, and he was born in agriculture, he was awarded the post of Wannian Ling.

The four capitals of the Great Xia include Luoyang, Henan, Chang'an, Wannian, Youdu, Ji, Jinling, and Shangyuan eight Fuguo counties.

Zhao Ying, the number one scholar in agriculture and a native of Huazhou, also became a secretary.

This kind of Kansai native with good roots has a career prospect that Chen Ti and Xu Yin, two Fujianese, can hardly match, even though they both started as secretary lang.

After the palace examination, it is natural to have some fun and outing.

This kind of exam itself doesn't involve anyone being dismissed, it's just a matter of setting a ranking. Unless you make a fuss too much and people can't stand it, you can end the exam peacefully and wait for the award.

Of course, in the Tang Dynasty, there were actually deposed ones, and the number was relatively small.

During the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Yuan was angry and defected to Xixia because he was dismissed from the palace examination. Li Yuanhao was reused as a military adviser.The most outrageous thing is that his family was detained in Suizhou by Song Ting, but they were infiltrated by Xixia spies, released under the imperial edict, and returned to Xixia.

This was a very successful "rescue behind enemy lines".The Xixia spies first passed on the imperial decree, and then took the family from Hubei to northern Shaanxi, passing through many checkpoints, more than thousands of miles away!When entering the border of Xixia, he played music wantonly and severely humiliated the people of Song Dynasty.

After the Battle of Haoshuichuan, Zhang Yuan, who had been an official in Xixia Taishi, Zhongshuling, and Shangshuling, wrote a poem on the wall of Jieshang Temple. strange."

The Northern Song Dynasty responded to these repeated humiliations by saying that no one would be deposed in the imperial examination...

After You Yan waited for a whole set of procedures, the rest was naturally waiting for the appointment.

The official position was determined by Shao Shude himself.He is very concerned about scholars of miscellaneous subjects. Among the 32 people who performed well in the fourth year of Tongguang, a group of them have been promoted to be the chief book or county magistrate, and those who were awarded the county magistrate at the beginning have even been transferred to the state. I will make a transition as the second official, and I will look at it in a few years.

There are a full 82 miscellaneous reserve officers this year.

Most of the Ming Suan Ke went to the sea and land customs to serve as customs orders (ranging from the eighth rank to the ninth rank), or as the Dazhoufang City Order (from the ninth rank), and a few outstanding ones entered the tax supervisor and served as positions at all levels.

This arrangement is basically the best of the best.

It is also difficult for these people to be transferred to local administrative officials if they are below the fourth rank.They are in a vertical management system, because they are too professional, and only after reaching a high position can they be officials of the Tao or the six departments and nine temples.

However, for scholars who study mathematics, this is still the first time that they have encountered such a privilege.The existence of the tax supervisor gave them hope, and at the same time, they had a strong backer to protect them. After all, the head of the tax supervisor was one of the members of the political affairs hall.

The whereabouts of the agricultural science and Mingfa science are similar to those of the Jinshi science, and they serve as second-level county officials at the grassroots level.

Shao Shude patiently read the last name on the list and was very satisfied.

He knew that the situation had changed subtly.Continue to persist for a few sessions, and the power will gradually emerge. After all, this is a process in which quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.

The Jinshi department, which was once the only one I respected, will inevitably be impacted in a bad way as time goes by.

Three years later, construction and medical sciences will also start to obtain quotas according to the course, with 24 and 22 students admitted respectively.

Shao Shude once planned to reduce the number of Jinshi, but after careful calculation with the prime ministers, he found that the admission quota of more than 200 people for each subject (three years) can be arranged without causing redundant officials, so he gave up.Anyway, by then the proportion of the Jinshi department has fallen below 50%, and it is moving towards 40%. The dominant position has been severely weakened, and it is unnecessary.

After dealing with these matters, Shao Shude was ready to go east.

On the tenth day of March, he worshiped the heavens in the southern suburbs, and at the same time inspected the horse soldiers of the imperial army and distributed rewards.

On March [-]th, Wang Pu, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, died and stopped court for three days.The servant Yang Zhu succeeded him, but he was not qualified to enter the Zhengshitang.

On March 5000th, Zhong Yanyou, commander of Yin'anzhi, led [-] people to the west to the Western Regions.

More than 1 people were successively dispatched from various departments of the Imperial Army to go to Anxi Road together to take over from Long Xiang and other soldiers.

The successful peace negotiation with Persia does not mean that the war is completely over, let alone that it can be taken lightly.

Shao Shude was not so naive.For the third time, he reduced the number of troops transferred to the west, but did not completely stop the garrison.There are more than 1 people in Yin'anzhi and Tielin's five armies in total, and they are the Dinghaishenzhen he sent to the Western Regions.

This garrison behavior may continue for several years, during which the number of personnel will be further reduced to reduce expenses.

This is not only just in case, but also a way to maintain the fighting power of the Forbidden Army.

At the same time, he ordered to transfer more than [-] elite soldiers from the four armies of Hengye, Pinglu, Luoyan, and Guangjie to the Forbidden Army, and together with thousands of recruits from the Fifth Court, they made up for the vacancies.

There are still about 6 people left in the miscellaneous troops, and they are getting closer and closer to being completely "eliminated".

The number of people in the five major recruiting schools has basically been reduced to less than 10, and the average family is less than 5000.In a few years, it will be further compressed to around [-] people.

The sergeants in training have been vigorously rectified by the Privy Council, especially the Shanzhou Academy, which has been repeatedly criticized in recent years because the quality of the soldiers sent cannot meet expectations.If there is no improvement after the rectification, this Xinbingyuan, which is located between the east and the west, will face the bad luck of being abolished.

After finishing all this work, on March [-]th, Shao Shude left the crown prince to supervise the country, personally led tens of thousands of officials, palace people, concubines, bodyguards and accompanying sergeants to the east to Huaihai Road.

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In April, the Yellow River has become a major transportation road again.

On the way to the east, Shao Shude sometimes climbed up hillsides and towers to look into the distance.

The Yellow River at this time is gentle, quiet and distant.

It tamely provides people with various conveniences, such as irrigation, transportation, fishing and even drinking water, and has nurtured countless people on both sides of the river. It can be called the mother river of Henan and Hebei.

Since the late Tang Dynasty, the Yellow River has only breached its embankment once, and the site is located in Huazhou, which was excavated by Zhu Quanzhong.

The raging river flooded the land and wreaked havoc.Although he denied it in every possible way, after time passed and the situation changed, this account was still firmly held on Lao Zhu's head.

There is retribution for digging the Yellow River.

After Zhu Quanzhong dug it once, his son also dug it once, and then he suffered retribution.

When Li Cunxu brought together less than [-] cavalry and made a desperate gamble, and rushed from Yunzhou to Bianzhou, the main force of the [-] Bianliang Forbidden Army led by Duan Ning was blocked in Heyang by the flooding Yellow River. , unable to return to aid, in the end he could only watch Li Cunxu lead [-] pioneers into Bianzhou and destroy the Houliang.

Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, local vassals and towns have been governing the Yellow River.

The main work is to strengthen the embankments on both sides of the bank to prevent the embankment from breaking when the flood breaks out.At the same time, water gates were built to vigorously dredge the tributary water systems connected to the Yellow River and the Pichi Reservoir. When the water level of the Yellow River rose and reached the warning line, the water gates were opened to channel the water from the Yellow River into the Bianhe River and Yongji Canal.

The river governance in the Xia Dynasty was similar with minor differences.

Every year, the Ministry of Industry allocates money and grain, and collects labor to go to the river.The silt accumulated inside and outside the water gate has been cleaned up over and over again, and the water system connected to the Yellow River has been given special attention. For example, the Putianze, Shahai, Fuyuanchi and other reservoirs have to be dredged and deepened every winter to avoid flooding in summer. When it comes, there can be ample flood discharge areas.

As for the Yellow River itself, there is not much need for governance.To be more precise, the amount of work is really too big. If there is no obvious disaster situation, don’t move it first, so as not to cause trouble. To be fair, in the 300 years of the Tang Dynasty, the Yellow River was relatively respectable, and there were no problems. In other words, there is nothing wrong with the Yellow River for the time being, as long as you don't play with it.

Shao Shude stayed for two days while passing through Putianze.

In this important commercial town where people come and go, there are many masts, and the river is almost filled with ships of all sizes.

While talking with the prime ministers, Shao Shude flipped through the business data from the market over the years.

"I don't want to do the matter of enshrining Mount Tai, it's unnecessary." Shao Shude flipped through the account book in his hand, and said, "My name has been engraved on the highest peak of Mount Alai. Who can compare to the kings of ancient times?" ?”

His words are not exaggerating.On the highest peak of Mount Alai (Samanni Peak), there are indeed several stone tablets engraved with his oracle, and the name of the mountain is directly called "Supreme Emperor Peak".

With such a card, why bother to enshrine Zen Taishan again?A little petty.

"Your Majesty is holy." When the prime ministers heard this, they knew that the holy will had been decided, so they stopped entangled in this matter.

"Isn't the Lord of Tanluo the Deputy Captain of the Companion Army in the Tang Dynasty?" Shao Shude continued to look through it, and said at the same time: "Since the envoy has been sent to the court, he can be canonized as the Captain of the Companion Army."

Lieutenant and Deputy Lieutenant of the Accompanying Army, one is from the ninth rank, and the other is from the ninth rank, the ranks of Wusan officials are so low that they cannot be lowered, and it makes people laugh when they say it.

But the chief of Tamna Island is worthy of this.

If the countries on the Korean peninsula are civilized, then the residents of Tamna Island are half-civilized and half-ignorant people.Silla called them "savages" in private, and the Xia Dynasty looked down on them even more.

I really think highly of you for being given the official position of accompaniment captain.

The Ping Navy built a temporary port here as a sheltered anchorage and ship maintenance dock.Bohai Trading Company's ships sometimes call here, and even rented land on the island to build a warehouse for drying and storing goods.

It is a small place, not many people care about it, it has basically been divided up by Pinghai Navy and Bohai Trading Company, all the islanders work for them, and even provide a source of some bottom-level sailors.

"Is there any news from Silla?" Shao Shude put the account books aside and asked, "Which port are they planning to donate?"

"Your Majesty, after hearing that the Privy Council wanted to send [-] cavalry, the people of Silla seemed to be suspicious. The envoy from Honglu Temple just returned from Silla, but he said that the monarch and his ministers hesitated and talked about him." Zhongshu Minister Zhao Guangfeng Said.

"It's so courageous." Shao Shude said with a smile: "Send someone to remind you again, and say that I have seen Dongdonglai County, and let them find a way to allocate land and build a military camp."

"Observe the order." Zhao Guangfeng responded.

Dongnae County is the future Busan.For Silla, it is actually a wild land, and because of the threat of pirates, it is sparsely populated, not even a small fishing village.

It is not difficult for the people of Silla to accept Daxia's request for such a piece of wasteland.The problem now is that they are afraid, worried that Xia Jun will have some unfavorable intentions against them, so they are in a dilemma.

But is fear useful?What should come still has to come, there is no escape.

"Let the courier rush to Dengzhou, send an order to the Ping Navy, and dispatch the warship to patrol the sea outside Donglai County. I'm going to settle this land." Shao Shude looked at the map and said.

The courier set off soon, five hundred miles to Dengzhou in a hurry.