The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

Before the end of the first month, Zhao Xiangyi and Wang Hao followed the emperor's order to suppress the bandits and deal with the river gangs on the canal.

The matter of suppressing bandits was brought up by Li Wen. There will be several trade routes to be developed in the next year. There are many bandits along the way who specialize in robbing the goods of passing caravans. These bandits not only steal the goods, but sometimes even The people in the caravan were all killed together.Many of these bandits were fugitives who were on the run, and they all had human lives in their hands. If these people were not dealt with, it would be a disaster sooner or later.

These bandits can exist in the local area for such a long time, I am afraid that the protection of the local officials is indispensable. Maybe the officials of the government have stepped in, so this time the bandits were suppressed in secret.In order not to let the local officials know to report to the bandits, the bandits ran to hide before the imperial army arrived.

Another problem is the opening of water transport. Today, there are more than a dozen large and small river gangs on the canal. These river gangs are in charge of the canal and collect tolls from passing ships and people.A cargo ship has to pay a toll for every section of the river from the starting point to the end point. The heavy toll makes most of these merchants dare not go by water, but choose to go by land.

In fact, there is another important reason, that is, these river gangs even dare to rob passing official ships.

In fact, the waterway is the most convenient and cheap way to transport goods from the south to the north.It was only because of these river gangs on the canal that the water transport was not able to reopen for a while.If these river gangs are not dealt with for a day, the water transportation will not be restored, which will seriously affect the exchange and transportation of goods between the north and the south.

Since Emperor Wu was in power, the problems of the river gangs had always existed. Emperor Wu was still busy fighting around, so there was no time to deal with these river gangs.After Emperor Zhaozong came to the throne, the previous decades have been busy dealing with the problems left by Emperor Wuyi, stopping the wars, encouraging the people to open up wasteland, resume farming, appease the people, and stabilize the situation of Dacheng.

Therefore, in the previous two emperors, no one raised the issue of dealing with the River Gang, and this issue has been left to this day.This time when it comes to the development of commerce and trade, Li Wen proposed to re-open the water transport and take over the management right of the canal to the imperial court.Then this involves dealing with the handling of these large and small river banks. If these river banks are not dealt with for a day, the goods on the canal will not be able to be transported smoothly.

This is how today's problem of suppressing bandits and dealing with the river gang came about.

There were too many things going on in the capital, and Li Wen couldn't leave, so this time Zhao Xiangyi took people to deal with these river gangs, and he couldn't go with him.But he couldn't go with him, he felt more at ease with Xie Yunfei going with him.Before that, Li Wen had a talk with Xie Yunfei, and the two had a discussion on the issue of subduing the River Gang this time.

Before Zhao Xiangyi and Xie Yunfei set off, Li Wen had only one sentence, "If you can persuade these people from the He Gang to surrender, try your best to persuade them to surrender and use them for the court. If these people refuse to surrender to death, beat them until they are obedient." !" He didn't want to see the scene of bloodshed, but if he had to deal with these problems without bloodshed, then there was nothing to say, and he could only do it.

"Well, I understand, I know what to do." Zhao Xiangyi already had a charter in his heart, and he knew how to deal with this matter.Before leaving, he stretched out his arms and hugged his young man, but he was a bit reluctant to part with his young man, "I'm leaving, you are well here in the capital, don't run around if you have nothing to do."

"Where can I go? I'm fine here, you don't have to worry about me." Since the last assassination incident, he now takes people with him when he goes out. Ordinary people can't get close to him. not him.Li Wen is a person who cherishes his life. He finally lived again, and he is going to kill himself. I really don't know if he will have such good luck to live again next time.

Therefore, it is not easy for this person to live, and if he can live, he must live well.

Li Wen let the man hug him, stuck his head on the man's shoulder, and he was also reluctant to let Zhao Xiangyi go. This walk will take at least a month or two to come back, "You guys have to come back safely, try not to hurt yourself, I Waiting for you to come back here in the capital. If you encounter any problems, please write back to me, and I will hand over the affairs of the capital to me, and I will handle them for you.”

What he can do for them is to remove their future worries, give enough money when they need money, and prepare enough food when they want food.

This time, the weapons produced by the military factory in Xishan came in handy. The Xishan camp trained two crossbow teams in just one month, one was transferred by Zhao Xiangyi, and the other was transferred by Wang Hao. went to use.There is also the big steel knife they newly built. Although it is impossible for everyone to have one, the generals can get one in their hands.

"Okay." Zhao Xiangyi nodded, knowing that there is a young man here in the capital, and nothing will happen here, so he kissed the young man and said, "Wait for me to come back."

"Well, I'll wait for your return. You must return safely."

"good.,'

After the two said goodbye, Zhao Xiangyi got on the horse, glanced at his young man before leaving, turned the horse's head, and rode away with his men.

Li Wen stood at the back, looking at the man leaving on the horse, feeling a little sad in his heart, and sighed softly.In fact, he doesn't really want the man to be in danger. Every time he knows that a man is doing such a dangerous thing, he can't sleep at night, worrying that the man will be injured somewhere he can't see, or something wrong will happen. Good thing.

Hope they can return safely, Li Wen prayed silently in his heart.

On the same day, young general Wang led a team to secretly leave Beijing to suppress bandits. He was followed by counselors arranged by General Wang, and he brought many people with him.This time, for young generals like Wang Hao, it was an opportunity to make meritorious deeds and perform well.

The emperor's appointment of these young generals is to give these young generals a chance to practice.Compared with Zhao Xiangyi, who had been at the border for several years, Wang Hao, who was also from a family of generals, had been staying here in the capital. He was obviously deficient in many aspects. This is why the emperor sent Wang Hong, the son of General Wang Hong, to The reason why Hao went.

This time, the imperial court sent people to suppress the bandits and deal with the He Gang issue, but only a few officials in the imperial court knew about it.

The emperor sent someone to summon him into the palace, and Li Wen followed the visitor into the palace, "I see the emperor."

"Excuse me, sit down." Yang Shaomu asked people to sit down. He, the emperor, knew that Zhao Xiangyi and Wang Hao had left the capital today with their troops.After Li Wen thanked him, he sat down on the chair opposite the emperor, and heard the emperor ask him, "Are you worried about the danger of A Yi?"

"It's a little bit." Li Wen didn't expect the emperor to ask him this sentence, after thinking about it, he said, "I trust him." I believe that nothing will happen to him and he will return safely.

"Yes, that's how it should be. We have to trust him." Zhao Xiangyi was his companion, and the two grew up together. Yang Shaomu believed in his ability as a companion. If such a small problem cannot be handled well, Then there is really no need to go back to Beijing to see him.

He, the crown prince, can sit on the dragon chair smoothly, without the support from the Zhao family behind him, and Zhao Xiangyi has done many things for him over the years.That's why Yang Shaomu was willing to reuse Zhao Xiangyi and Li Wen even though he knew the relationship between them, and he was unwilling to give up any of them.

Since ancient times, emperors have separated civil servants and generals to prevent the combination of military power and political power, which would endanger the emperor's power and throne.But if it was Zhao Xiangyi and Li Wen, Yang Shaomu didn't think he had anything to worry about. He believed in these two people, and he also believed in his own vision.

"I asked you to come here today, because I want to tell you that I plan to go to Nanyang Mansion." Yang Shaomu wanted to go to Nanyang Mansion this time, and the purpose was to invite their teacher Master Yi Han to return to the court.

Since Dong Xian's resignation, the position of prime minister has been vacated, and many people in the court are staring at this position again. Today's morning officials in the court once again proposed the matter of selecting a suitable candidate.It's just that there is no official under him who can take the post of prime minister. If he tries to push people up, he may not be able to convince the public.

The best candidate for the post of prime minister should be his Taifu, who has the ability and qualifications to serve as prime minister.It's just that his grand tutor is far away in Nanyang Mansion, and he, the emperor, may not be able to invite people if he invites them in person. Yang Shaomu plans to take people to Nanyang Mansion to invite people in person.

"Now?" Li Wen's eyes widened, and he looked at His Majesty the Emperor with a look of "Are you kidding me?"

Now that Zhao Xiangyi has just left, the emperor will also leave Beijing with him?Li Wen was a little confused.

"Well, yes." Yang Shaomu looked serious, and it didn't look like he was joking at all, "When the time comes, I will leave a substitute in the palace.

, if there is anything in the court, you are in charge of dealing with it here. If you can handle it, you can handle it. If you can't handle it, you can wait for me to come back.

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"No, Your Majesty..." Li Wen didn't know what to say at the moment, "Do you want to stop thinking about it? Go later.

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Seeing the emperor's expression, Li Wen knew that he had made up his mind to leave the capital, and he shed two lines of tears in his heart, "Emperor, I don't take you to play like this. You, the emperor, leave the capital. What if you want to leave the capital?" Something happened, His Royal Highness is still so young, are you really relieved?

"It's not that you are here, Li Aiqing, I believe in you." It was rare to see such an expression on Xiao Liuyuan's face, the emperor said that he was actually in a good mood.As early as when he was the prince, every time he had something to leave the capital, he would leave a substitute in the capital, otherwise he, the prince, would stay here in the capital all the time, and he would never leave the capital.

Now that he is the emperor, the matter of leaving Beijing has become a little more complicated.But isn't there a junior brother?Yang Shaomu looked at his little junior brother, "Do you have anything to say to the teacher?"

"..." Li asked, "I'll write a letter, Your Majesty, please go to see the teacher and bring me a letter."

At the risk of being beaten to death by Dean Fu, he helped the emperor abduct Dean Fu to the capital to become an official. He hoped that Dean Fu would not drive him out of the master's school, but to sever the relationship.

"When do you plan to leave, my lord?"

"tonight."

Can't you give me time to slow down?Master Li roared in his heart!

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