Chapter 146 Unexpected Official

The political system of the Tang Dynasty was relatively loose, and there was no need to kneel unless it was a special period. Even if it was to accept the order, it only required a serious expression.

An Xing was a civil servant and was very familiar with the rules of imperial edicts. The imperial edict showed the power of the emperor and was the least tolerant. The texture of the shaft handle was strictly different according to the rank of the officials who were responsible for the imperial edict. First-rank officials were jade shafts, second-rank officials were black rhino horn shafts, and gold-mounted shafts were used for fourth-rank officials.

Let’s look at the imperial edicts unfolding, weaving cloth for Shu brocade, and flying golden dragons on both sides. This is indeed an imperial edict that only second-rank officials would use.

"The Emperor's System of the Tang Dynasty said: The Minister of the Shangtai of Shaanxi East Road, the Deputy Marshal of the Xingma and the Marshal of the Xingma and the Guest of the Eastern Palace, and the Champion General Chen Ying has made outstanding achievements since leading his troops to the east. He has made special achievements and promoted the Censor of the Secretary and the Censor of Henan to appease Henan, and to encourage him..."

This memorial is written very straightforwardly, without any rhetoric. However, Chen Ying was still confused. What's going on? Why did he have another senior official?

The Censor of the Book of the Censorate. Qin was established, also known as the Censor of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Censor, abbreviated as the Censor of the Censor of the Western Han Dynasty. Some people ordered the Censor of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Book of the Censors.

Although this was a small official from the fifth small in the Tang Dynasty, he was a low-ranking and powerful person. Chen Ying now served as the Shangshu of Xingtai, Xingtai, and the Censor of the Order of the Secretariat to appease Henan.

Many people think that the pacification envoy was an official position that was only invented by the Song Dynasty, but in fact this is wrong. In fact, in the early years of Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, the ambassador was established as the commander of the marching. In the early Tang Dynasty, ministers were sent to inspect the war or affected areas, called the pacification envoy. In the early Song Dynasty, they were special envoys who were in charge of various disasters and injuries and used troops. Later, they became the chief officers in charge of military affairs and public security, as the prefect and prefect. Generally, the most important prefecture chiefs of various ranks served as the pacification envoy, if they were second ranks or above, they were called the "pacification envoy". The pacification envoy was in charge of the affairs of the military and civilians, and had the right to "do things cheaply", and actually became the first chief officer of the whole line.

Chen Ying, the appeaser, naturally did not have the power to manage the appeaser all the way. However, it is undeniable that Chen Ying has been a legendary chief official since receiving this imperial edict. He is now the right magistrate of Shangtai, the Shangtai Shangtai of Dongdao, and the deputy commander of the military commander of the East Shaanxi Road, to appease Henan.

Of course, Henan is not the Henan Province of later generations, but refers to the Henan County of Gaoli of the Sui Dynasty, which is under the jurisdiction of 18 counties including Henan, Luoyang, Yanxiang, Taolin, Shaanxi, Xionger, Mianchi, Xin'an, Yanshi, Gong, Yiyang, Shou'an, Luhun, Yique, Xingtai, Liushi, Songyang, and Yangcheng.

There are 274,000 people in the 18 counties of Henan County, and they have become citizens under Chen Ying's rule.

Chen Ying thought about it and found something other than the imperial edict. Henan County is Henan County, but not Luoyang. In addition to Shan County, Taolin County and Fengxiang County, the other fifteen counties are still controlled by Wang Shichong. Chen Ying can fight or manage it. However, Chen Ying should not use his brain to do things outside these fifteen counties.

This piece of fat meat in Luoyang was left for Li Shimin. Chen Ying understood Li Yuan's approach. His son was his own good no matter what, and Li Shimin and Li Erlang were indeed good.

Chen Ying also knew that Li Jiancheng could get the best treatment for him at present.

However, this also shows that the direction of the court has really changed.

"So, has the direction of the stroke of the morning changed?" Chen Ying asked pretending to be ignorant.

An Xing said with a smile: "When we came out, Your Majesty praised General Chen very much. I hope you will lead the left four-way leader of the East Palace to fight a more beautiful battle in Henan..."

Chen Ying also understood at this time that a beautiful battle is not a victory. Sometimes, a defeat can also be a beautiful battle. What Li Yuan really hopes is that Chen Ying can be the same as when he fought against the North Plain of Hangu Road, and advance and retreat together, but it is just a battle of will. Now I will give you an official position as a censor of the Book Office, which means that Chen Ying can criticize anyone in the court in the future. Even Pei Ji, a great celebrity in the dynasty, can submit a memorial to impeach. As for whether Pei Ji is determined or not, the key is to look at Li Yuan's attitude.

Chen Ying was very happy. This official position was tailor-made for him. He spoke without complaining about back pain while standing and saying sarcastic words beside him. That was definitely his strength.

If Li Yuan knew that Chen Ying regarded the current Censor of the Tang Dynasty and the future Censor Central Committee as a mouth cannon standing and talking without complaining about back pain, Li Yuan would probably vomit blood in anger.

In fact, Li Yuan’s appointment is not as unbearable as Chen Ying imagined. As an emperor, although he has selfishness, the whole world belongs to him. How could he be too petty? Yu Yanzhang, the guard of the left supervisor, gave Li Yuan a very important news. Chen Ying founded the Eighteen Towns in Lingzhou, which was a place where birds do not shit, with more than 57,000 people. Of course, the number of people is not too large. The most important thing is that the Eighteen Towns of Lingwu are very rich.

Almost overnight, relying on opening salt plants, iron ore, and coal mining, it is hard to say other places in Lingzhou. However, Lingwu Eighteen Towns have become more than two oxen and every household has enough clothes and surplus grain. Guo Zhun adopts Chen Ying's assembly line method in the tinplate workshop in Lingzhou City, and the production capacity has increased by nearly five times. Currently, it can produce more than 500 coal ball stoves per day. Especially coal ball stoves as big as a bucket, which are convenient for carrying, heating, cooking, and boiling water.

As the production of this tinplate increases, coal ball stoves become more popular. A coal ball stove can serve the needs of a family of five. The key is that it is bitter and cold outside the frontier. In the cold winter, the tent is still as cold as an ice cellar. When a coal ball stove is put in, a smoke exhaust chimney is connected, and the entire tent immediately becomes warm as spring.

What’s even more rare is that coal balls make fire, and compared to cow dung, horse manure is too clean. The price of a coal ball stove and a sheep is absolutely cheap.

Chen Ying actually didn't know that such a broken thing that was in the streets of later generations would actually be replaced with a sheep. If later merchants dared to sell a coal ball stove to the price of a sheep, they would probably be scolded to death. However, relying on this coal ball stove, Lingwu Shiba Town completed the transformation from poverty to well-off in just winter.

Li Yuan discovered that the changes in Lingzhou were not only the same, but also had a large amount of steel output. Li Daozhen could distinguish the importance of these steels. He would rather sell them to the court at a cheap price than to the Turks. He sold them to the court at a price that was almost half of the market price. Li Yuan was also very happy.

When he learned that the changes in Lingzhou were caused by Chen Ying, and outside Chang'an City, Chen Ying was building a large-scale construction project, Li Yuan wanted to hand over the fertile land and relatively denser population of Henan County to Chen Ying for governance. As for the official position of the Censor of the Secretary, this was to give Chen Ying the power to the center of the direct report, and he could also manage the county magistrates and county magistrates who were not obedient to the commanders of the counties below.

Chen Ying actually never expected that he would get such an official position, which was a surprise.

Chen Ying believed it, that when the water was clear, there would be no fish. Taking this opportunity, Chen Ying asked someone to give Wen Zhengming and An Xing a hundred taels of gold each. Of course, no matter how much they had, they probably wouldn't dare to accept it. A thousand guan said that it was too much, and that it was too little, which was just right.

"Dr. Yang, I have worked hard for you in the distance, and I have a cup of tea to warm my body." Chen Ying smiled slightly and rushed to the tent and said, "Make two bowls of earth tea I brought from Taolin."

Drinking tea almost became Chen Ying’s secret code when giving gifts.

Especially An Xing, when he heard Chen Ying give him tea, his eyes immediately flashed with green light. He had heard from the Zhongchang Shi Chen Qi that Chen Ying was a very friendly person. As long as he treated him as a friend, he would never treat his friends badly. An Xing naturally understood that Chen Qi was telling him in a vague way that Chen Ying had a good relationship with him, and that he could get benefits if he knew him, but he didn't know him. Humph.

One pound in the Tang Dynasty was equivalent to eight hundred grams of later generations. One hundred taels were about five kilograms of later generations, and about ten kilograms. Don’t think that ten kilograms of gold have a volume. The density of gold is nineteen three times that of water. The volume of ten kilograms of yellow kilograms is about two hundred and fifty-nine milliliters of water.

It is roughly equivalent to a small box of milk in later generations.

Wen Zhengming didn't understand, and he thought it was really water, so he used one hand to get it off. Wen Zhengming opened the lid of the tea bowl and found an inch of gold inside. He looked at Chen Ying in confusion and said, "General Chen, what do you mean?"

An Xingze put the gold into his sleeve with a "swish" sound. As soon as he saw his actions, he knew that he was familiar with it.

Chen Ying laughed and said, "It's nothing, that's what I mean!"

Wen Zhengming said: "The lower-ranking officials don't understand what General Chen means!"

Chen Ying said: "A little bit of meaning, meaning!"

Wen Zhengming said: "How can you be so embarrassed!"

At this moment, Ashinasmo was completely convinced by the profoundness of Chinese. His Chinese was originally good, and he could at least understand the conversation effortlessly, and even a few idioms. However, as Chen Ying and Wen Zheng understood the meaning, he was stunned.

An Xing saw the two of them refusing to refuse, and couldn't help but touch his nose and said, "Doctor Wen, I think you should not refuse General Chen's kindness. Anyway, it's just a cup of tea, so you can't beat him tightly!"

If Wen Zhengming didn't accept it, then he wouldn't dare to accept it. But An Xing was different from Wen Zhengming. He finally got a chance to release it. This was originally an opportunity to make money, one hundred taels of gold and one thousand guan. This was his salary in the Yellow Palace for more than 20 years. If Wen Zhengming dared to mess with him, he vowed that Wen Zhengming must be good-looking.

Wen Zhengming wanted to refuse again, but when he saw An Xing's murderous gaze, he just followed the situation.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. If you offend An Xing, you will not have a good life without him.

Seeing the two accepting their bribes, Chen Ying was not happy. After all, China is a society of human relationships, and everything can be tight or loose. If you do it according to rules and regulations, you will not have to do anything. Chen Ying ordered the three armies to reward them and formally attack Hangu Pass the next day.
Chapter completed!