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In fact, Luo Yong's letter to the emperor was not just a random nonsense. In fact, in their Changle County, there are several women who have shown outstanding ability to handle affairs. Luo Yong also hopes that their county government can There are several attentive and capable female employees.

Luo used this county magistrate without any airs, getting quite close to the people in the city, and often entrusting some small things to the people he knew well.

For example, they help to plant new seeds and so on, and there are other miscellaneous things. Most of the people in the city are proud of being entrusted by the county magistrate. During this process, Luo Yong discovered some talents, including several woman.

With the continuous development of Changle County, the number of migrants continued to increase, and the workload of the county government also increased, and the officials were too busy.

So County Magistrate Luo decided to add some more staff. This time he intends to add a few female employees. Party members, then they will quit immediately.

In the next two or three days, Luo Yong even listened to what was going on in his head, and he moved it with emotion and reason, and in the end he had no choice but to wave his sleeves and let it go:

"It's just a few women, but they taught the kings to fear them like tigers."

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

If those women are really allowed to enter the government, it means that there is no one in Changle County, so they need women to make up the number, or it means that their yin is prosperous and yang is weak, and it will be a joke if it is spread.

"You really just leave it like this, kid?" Tang Jian couldn't believe that this coffin board was really so easy to pass away.

"That's where it is. This time, I will loosen the soil for them first." Luo Yong said with a smile after drinking a glass of turbid wine.

Although the harm to women in this era is not as serious as that in the late feudal society, the concept of men being superior to women is also deeply rooted, and it is not easy to change.

He didn't want to do it overnight, so if there is anything to do now, he should loosen the soil first, so that it will be easier to pull it up in the future, although whether he can pull it up in his lifetime is still a matter of discussion.

"What are you going to do to bump into the south wall if you have nothing to do? Why don't you draw a few more maps with me if you have time." Master Tang thought that he was just hitting the wall with nothing to do.

"Instruct me to work all day, and don't pay me a salary." This Changle Academy is now being supported by the Changle County government.

Doctor Tang stared at him: "How much did you sell for the book of Songs of Bai Die? Have you ever given me a penny?"

Luo Yong was not to be outdone: "Do you think that these teas and wines you drink every day don't cost money?"

These two, one old and one young, you talk to me, eat wine and quarrel without doing business. In the cold weather, it is rare for Luo Yong to hide here for a while.

As for Tang Jian, since the Changle Academy got on the track, he has been relatively leisurely. He eats and drinks all day long, and goes outside when he gets tired of the academy. Recently, he often takes a wooden carriage to Jin Changcheng made a lot of new friends there, and got closer to the governor of Guazhou, Chen Jiao.

So now their relationship is more interesting to talk about. Luo Yong is in charge of Chen Jiao, and Chen Jiao is respectful in front of Tang Jian, and then Tang Jian's Changle Academy has to ask Luo Yong for money and food.

So now Chen Jiao can't stand up in front of Luo Yong. In the final analysis, the rich is the uncle.

At this time, Uncle Luo asked Tang Jian for advice, asking whether the way he wrote the letter earlier would trigger any bad chain reactions.

"I've told you several times, nothing is wrong, why come to ask again today." Tang Jian said impatiently.

"Chang'an City is so far away from my Changle County, and my siblings are young, and there are no elders in the family..." When talking about the children in Chang'an City, Luo Yong was very worried.

A while ago, Xing Er entrusted an acquaintance to send a letter to the cashmere workshop in Liangzhou City, and the manager of the cashmere workshop over there entrusted the Zhao family's relationship to help them bring the letter to Changle County.

So, in fact, Luo Yong already knew about the situation in Chang'an City before Luo Siniang's letter arrived.

Xing Er told Luo Yong a lot of news in the letter, one of which was about Luo Siniang, saying that the sage had called Siniang into the palace several times recently, in his opinion there was something wrong, I don't know What is Luo's intention?

Of course Luo Yong also felt that something was wrong, after all, it was a place of right and wrong like the imperial palace, and an old fox like Tang Jian almost lost his head there because he played chess with the emperor.

Luo Yong felt that the emperor was a little unkind in this matter, and he didn't really want to give her any benefits, and pushed her, a little lady, to the cusp of the storm, so when he wrote those letters, Luo Yong is actually a little angry, his own baby knows to protect it tightly, and other people's baby can be pushed out to play, right?

"Aren't you afraid that he will really give Luo Siniang an official position?" Master Tang joked.

"If he can get this official, do you think my fourth mother can't afford it?" Luo Yong smacked his lips, saying why he feels that the more he drinks the wine, the better it tastes. Could it be that he is addicted to alcohol?

"Tsk, one or two, I'm not afraid of big things." Mr. Tang said in his mouth, but in fact, he didn't want to make a big deal in his heart.

After staying in Changle County for so long, no matter how Master Tang thinks about it, he feels that the management of the Western Regions should be achieved through economic and cultural means supplemented by some political means, rather than just relying on war.

Tang Jian felt that it would be very good if Changle County was the center and slowly spread to the surrounding areas. In time, if a strong cohesive force could be formed, Changle County would be like a place in the Western Regions. Chang'an City is as different as other parts of the Central Plains...

However, the emperor seemed to be impatient and sent Guo Xiaoke to Longxi. Guo Xiaoke was a militant who just took office a while ago. Now he heard that he had already set up a battle line in the Yiwu area of ​​Gaochang, and he was waiting to challenge the Turkic army. .

As a result, when these times passed, the Turkic army waited for a few spies before they arrived, and after capturing those spies, not even a single ghost was seen.

Now everyone is saying that this battle may not be fought. Whether it is merchants, wealthy households or poor people, everyone is very happy.

Guo Xiaoke was not very happy. He came back to Longxi to take up the post, and he was ready to do a lot of work. He even brought his eldest son here, and planned to lead him to make military exploits together. Goods, I still didn't dare to come over.

There was no battle to fight, Guo Xiaoke left garrison on the border, so he had no choice but to go back to Gaochang City. Right now, the Protectorate of the Western Regions is located in Gaochang City, where the Guo family and his son usually live and work.

Seeing that this year's battle seemed impossible, the Qu family hurriedly urged Guo Xiaoke to build roads.

Although Gaochang is not under the leadership of their Qu clan, this does not prevent them from seeking development for their hometown. After all, their Qu clan is still the most prominent family in the area. Besides, what if the national power of the Tang Dynasty weakens again someday? Well, ahem...

Earlier, when Guo Xiaoke passed by Jinchang Changle on his way to his post, he once took a wooden carriage and knew its convenience.

Considering that such a wooden track can play a huge role in transporting grain and soldiers, Guo Xiaoke also agreed to build the road.So the two sides hit it off, and the wooden track in Gaochang soon started construction.

Guo Xiaoke originally planned to lay two wooden tracks, one leading to Dunhuang and the other leading to Yiwu, but these Gaochang people refused to do it.

"I, Gaochang, have a small population and a poor land. I just experienced a war two years ago, and my vitality was severely damaged. Now, even if I just lay one wooden track, I have to do my best. Where can I have the financial and material resources to lay another one?"

The local officials and gentry in Gaochang agreed that they were only willing to lay one wooden track, and they would not pay for the other track.

Guo Xiaoke himself has no money, he has just become the governor of Anxi, and he has become the leader of this area. Gaochang City, where the governor's mansion is located, used to be the capital of Gaochang Kingdom, and the Qu clan can obediently give up the royal power Even if it is very good, can we still expect them to give up the treasury?

Although Guo Xiaoke and his son brought a lot of gold and silver artifacts and luxury goods from the Central Plains, showing off all the way, they were full of nouveau riche style, but it is definitely not enough to ask them to spend money to do big things like road construction.

At the beginning, Guo and his son really believed the statement that Gaochang didn't have enough money and food to build two roads. Although the place didn't look very poor, paving roads was a big deal after all.

Until a few days later, his father and son were sitting in a wine shop, and overheard a few drunk businessmen discussing this matter loudly.

"Then what does the new guard think, how can he tell us to build a road to Yiwu?"

"Yiwu used to have enmity with me, Gaochang."

"Even if there is no such hatred, there is no need to build that road."

"Fixing that road will only make Yiwu more convenient for them. What good will it do for me, Gaochang?"

"Anyway, there is no way, the merchants over there will come to our Gaochang."

"If you don't repair it or don't repair it, if you repair Yiwu, it will prosper."

"It's just to make it difficult for the merchants on their side to come, which is inconvenient."

"We have to fix them themselves."

"..."

Guo Xiaoke has forgotten that the Western Regions were originally small countries, and there will inevitably be friction between countries.

Gaochang and Yiwu had old grudges before, and now they are both counties of Datang, but the local people still can't forget the old grudges, but no matter what, they can't fight now.