Chapter 1030 Let the sedan chair roll as far as possible
Although Wang Shanxi was on the way to Jinling, he could already predict that he would receive various good things such as promotion and wealth, because he successfully found Australia!
However, he still did not expect that when he arrived at Jinling City, the treatment he enjoyed was much higher than expected.
Originally, he thought that only people from the Military Intelligence Department would come to pick up the ship. After waiting for a few days in Jinling City, he would meet the senior officials of the Military Intelligence Department, and then he would quietly wait for the reward from above.
But he didn't expect that in addition to senior officials from the Military Intelligence Department, there would also be people from the Hanlin Academy who came to pick him up!
The Hanlin Academy of the Tang Dynasty was different from the Hanlin Academy of previous dynasties. Its status was quite special. On the basis of maintaining the traditional Hanlin nobility and promising future, the Hanlin Academy also had some special rights.
The Imperial Academy of the Tang Dynasty was more important than the Imperial Academy of all previous dynasties!
In addition, the Hanlin Academy is so special that it cannot be regarded as an ordinary bureaucracy at all, because the Hanlin Academy of the Tang Dynasty is essentially the emperor's personal secretarial agency. However, this secretarial agency is somewhat large, even if the Hanlin Academy and the imperial family are excluded.
The Assets Department, these two are just in the name of the Hanlin Academy, but in fact they are institutions that have no actual relationship with the Hanlin Academy.
But the total number of people in other Hanlin Academy departments also reached nearly two hundred!
There is no way, there are nearly twenty departments in the Hanlin Academy, and each department only counts ten people, so that's two hundred.
In fact, many departments do not even have ten people, because the secretariat alone occupies more than thirty people.
The person who came to pick him up was a deputy section chief of the Immigration Department of the Hanlin Academy. His surname was Sun. He was young and very kind when he spoke. However, Wang Shanxi did not dare to be arrogant and really regarded himself as a distinguished guest.
Already.
But when we first met, he said very politely: "It's really embarrassing for Shanxi to welcome you from afar, Mr. Sun!"
Master Sun, who seemed to be young, was flawless in his words and deeds. He did not say that civil servants looked down on generals. He said with a smile: "Major Wang is your majesty and has been traveling overseas for the country for more than a year. Why can't he be regarded as such?"
I've been waiting for you sincerely. Come on, let's get in the carriage first. You must be tired from the bumpy journey!"
Mr. Sun is polite, but Wang Shanxi is even more polite!
He knew very well that the Hanlin who came to pick him up seemed to be just an ordinary deputy section chief, but when it came to political status, he, an Army Major in the Military Intelligence Department, was not as good as Deputy Section Chief Sun.
Because before he even got off the boat, the person accompanying him said that the person waiting to pick him up was the deputy section chief of the Immigration Department of the Hanlin Academy, whose surname was Sun. Although he looked like the deputy section chief, he was a bachelor's degree from the fifth rank.
A serious mid-level official, and one of the core mid-level officials in the Tang Dynasty.
And this person, who was previously the magistrate of a high-class county, was able to fight his way through countless competitions and was selected to enter the Hanlin Academy as a bachelor's lecturer. Moreover, he was not promoted to a regular position, but promoted to a higher level.
The transfer is enough to prove his ability and background.
After he leaves the Hanlin Academy, he will definitely be promoted if nothing unexpected happens!
Even if he is squeezed out after just one year of ordinary service, the worst he can do after leaving is to go to the local government to serve as a fifth-rank magistrate. The best is to stay in Gyeonggi and hold a fifth-rank official position.
It would be even worse if he was transferred to another place after serving for three years. In this case, if he was transferred to another place, he would have to start from a fourth-grade prefectural magistrate for a few years, and then he would become a first-level prefect.
If you stay in Gyeonggi, although it is unlikely that you will be promoted to two levels in a row, you will often be held in important fifth-level positions.
In other words, as long as Deputy Section Chief Sun doesn't act foolishly, he will be a sure shot at becoming a local prefect or a high-ranking official in the central government within three to five years.
In a few more years, if you continue to climb one or two steps up, you will basically be heading for senior official positions such as director-general of various ministries and chief envoy.
He, Wang Shanxi, is just an army major, and he is not a general in the field army. His rank of major, more strictly speaking, is a civilian rank, because although he, Wang Shanxi, was born in a martial arts school, he is not very hardworking.
, he has never been on the battlefield, and has always been engaged in espionage work.
And since the director of the Military Intelligence Department holds the rank of major general, even if he can be promoted in the future, he will basically end up as a colonel in this life.
The two of them were very polite to each other. Wang Shanxi was polite to Mr. Sun because he knew that this person would most likely become a high-ranking official in the ministry in the future. Even if he was not a senior official in the ministry, he would still be a high-ranking official such as chief envoy or director-general.
Lord Sun was polite to Wang Shanxi because he clearly knew how much His Majesty valued Wang Shanxi, or to be more precise, His Majesty valued the overseas colonies.
Although the officials who can squeeze into the Hanlin Academy are generally relatively young, they are all talented people. Mr. Sun can guess from the attitude of the Holy Emperor with his eyes closed that Wang Shanxi is going to have a great career!
As a civilian official, Lord Sun despised those military generals from the bottom of his heart, but Wang Shanxi was not a military general in the traditional sense. He was a civilian officer and a navigator.
This navigator was not said by Mr. Sun himself, but by His Majesty himself.
For such people, even if you are not friends with them, it is better to be polite and try not to offend them. After all, the official career is dangerous, and no one can guarantee what will happen to you in the future. If you are unlucky in the future, these people you have offended now, but
The difference is that the carriage the two of them rode was a high-end four-wheeled carriage, while the others rode an ordinary large four-wheeled carriage. There was naturally some gap in the comfort of the ride.
Wang Shanxi sat on the carriage and could hardly feel the bumps on the road, and then couldn't help but sigh: "This carriage is strange, it's not bumpy at all!"
He is away from home all year round and was sent overseas three years ago. Although he comes back several times every year, he still doesn't know much about some of the changes in the country.
At this time Master Sun said: "Oh, it's all thanks to the springs. The previous carriages were not so comfortable!"
Spring? Wang Shanxi knows this word. After all, he is an army major, so he naturally knows about springs. When they went to sea, they encountered the natives, who used flintlock guns to fight, and the flintlock guns contained
There is a spring.
But this was his first time riding a spring carriage!
Mr. Sun also continued at this time: "Look at the carriage we are riding in. It is much more comfortable after it is equipped with springs for shock absorption. Now all yamen have basically adopted new carriages as official vehicles on a large scale, and there are no people there."
Use a sedan chair!"
Officials of the Tang Dynasty used to use sedan chairs, but Li Xuan didn't like sedan chairs because as a means of transportation, they did not promote roads, industrial development or even animal husbandry.
For Li Xuan, who wanted to build the industrial age, such cheap and easy-to-use things were of no value. What he needed were horse-drawn carriages, which could stimulate the construction of roads, the development of animal husbandry, and the continuous improvement of horse-drawn carriages.
, will eventually evolve into internal combustion vehicles.
As for this crappy thing like a sedan, it can roll as far as it goes!
So Li Xuan took the lead and no longer used a thirty-six-carrying sedan chair, but instead used a horse-drawn carriage to travel!
The Holy Emperor no longer sits in the sedan chair, but those officials still dare to sit on it? Do you think you are more powerful than the Holy Emperor?
As a result, gradually, in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, officials rarely rode in sedan chairs. Military generals traveled on horseback, and some civil servants also rode horses for convenience. Of course, most still used carriages.
Officials generally have carriages for official purposes, but not sedans or bearers!
Officials used carriages, and the gentry naturally followed suit!
In recent years, the social atmosphere has changed to the point where a decent gentleman travels either by carriage, horseback riding, or sedan? That would be too outdated and would be ridiculed as a country bumpkin.
It is a pity that there were too few horses in the Tang Dynasty. Even if the requirements for the horses used to pull carts were not high, the total number of horses was so small that it was difficult to meet the demand. Therefore, nowadays you can often see people pulling carts that are not horses.
But all kinds of mules, donkeys and so on.
However, nowadays, due to the high demand for horses in the market, the price of horses has gradually increased, which has led to farmers' enthusiasm for raising horses.
People in the north directly raised Mongolian horses if they had the conditions, and directly found Central Asian horses from the military's horse farms for breeding if they had the connections, while people in the south began to raise Southwestern horses on a large scale.
Although the Southwest Horse is not suitable as a riding horse, it can still be used as a work horse, especially in the mountainous terrain of the South. It is very easy to use.
Li Xuan was naturally quite comforted by the spontaneous large-scale horse breeding among the people. Horses are extremely important to a country, especially for a farming country, maintaining a certain number of horses is even more important.
During peacetime, the military's horses are self-sufficient from the military's own horse farms, and occasionally purchase a batch from outside the country. However, when war breaks out, the demand for horses will increase sharply, and then all these horses from the civilian population can be recruited.
, used as military horses.
Judging from the current size of the Tang Dynasty, it needs to maintain at least one million horses. It would be better if there were more.
Right now, this goal is still a bit far away, but Li Xuan believes that on the premise of maintaining private horse breeding and the military breeding horses on their own, this level can be achieved in the future.
Well, it will be easier to achieve this goal when we capture the northern grassland in the future.
Riding a comfortable official carriage, Wang Shanxi went all the way into the city, and then checked into an inn within the Military Intelligence Department, where he would rest while waiting for the emperor's summons.