Five hundred and seventieth chapters fat private and harm the public
The Doulu Army is one of the seven armies in Hexi and is responsible for the defense of the entire Shazhou area, similar to the current military division.
Today's Hexi Jiedushi is An Sishun. He is shrewd and cautious, possessing the cunningness of the Sogdians. Due to his relatively noble background, his father is the Youyu Lin general An Bozhu. He has accepted the comprehensive idea of loyalty to the emperor since he was a child.
Di An Lushan is still fundamentally different.
The military envoy of the Doulu Army was named Lu Jiong. He had a good relationship with the current Longyou Jiedushi Ge Shuhan, but there was a bit of a gap with the Hexi Jiedushi An Sishun. After Wang Zhongsi was kicked off by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty,
, leaving two legacies in Hexi and Longyou. They thought that Ge Shuhan would inherit Hexi, but the emperor refused to let them do so and gave Hexi to An Sishun and Longyou to Ge Shuhan.
Lu Jiong felt very unhappy. The boss who appreciated him was thousands of miles away, and the person who didn't appreciate him became his immediate boss. So he was confused all day long, worried that An Sishun would pick him off during the exam.
From now on, there are only two people in Longyou who can decide his fate. One of them is An Sishun, the governor of Hexi Province, and the second is Li Siye, the interviewer of Longyou Road. So even if he lies in bed with his head covered and sleeps at night,
I don't want to dream about these two bosses.
One day, Lu Jiong and several followers patrolled the Gobi Desert along Yangguan and Yumenguan, and returned to the military envoy's residence in Dunhuang City in the evening.
He sat in the partition in the back hall and ordered his family's cook to peel and wash the game he picked up casually, boil it into broth and steak, poke it with a silver knife and dip it in Shanxi's mature vinegar, and eat it with a pot of wine at hand.
Pour yourself a drink to relieve worries.
He didn't know what the test scores An Sishun gave him, and he didn't have much hope. The worst-case scenario was that his military career would end quietly and someone would find an excuse to get him down. An Sishun had just become a military officer.
The envoy may replace the senior military officers with fresh blood, replace them with trusted Sogdians, make him a deputy envoy and sit on the sidelines.
He had no choice but to live happily for the time being.
The housekeeper came in limping, crossed the threshold and stood still with his hands crossed: "Alang, there is a guest outside the door, claiming to be the staff and entourage of Beiting Jiedu Envoy."
Lu Jiong was drunk and refused subconsciously: "Why did the staff of the Beiting Jiedushi come to see me? They are gone! Although I am a military envoy of the Doulu Army, I am not someone that cats and dogs can see."
The lame steward could support half of Lu Jiong's family, and he was also very concerned about General Lu's personal future. He persuaded and corrected him very rationally: "Alang, you should have more good relationships in officialdom. Besides, this Beiting Jiedushi official is not good enough."
Small, it is said that the prime minister's family is a seventh-rank official, and the Jiedushi's staff should be at least an eighth-rank official. What if this staff has a good relationship with the Jiedushi, and what if the Beiting Jiedushi has good relations with the DPRK and China?
My dear, haven't your own problems been solved? Besides, you've already reached this level of difficulty, so why are you so picky about the people who come to visit? Contacting these people is like entering an antique shop yourself - just picking up the missing pieces.
.We won’t create opportunities ourselves, but we can’t let opportunities fly by, right?”
Lu Jiong might have been annoyed by the lame man's nonsense, so he had to agree angrily: "Okay, okay, okay, I've seen the boss, let him in!"
"Alang, wait a moment, I will send someone to you right now."
Commander Lu snorted heavily, picked up his silver knife, cut off a strip of meat on the wooden plate, and threw it into his mouth.
The lame butler hunched over to invite the distinguished guests to cross the threshold, then coughed and stood on one side of the door, worried that Alang would get into an awkward conversation with the visitor so that he could go in and save the situation.
"Dai Wang pays homage to the Lu Army envoy." Dai Liulang crossed his hands and saluted without adding any title before his name.
Lu Jiong raised his head to look, only to see the person wearing a black robe standing at the door to block the light. His face was purple and reflective, and he was so stiff that it was almost breathtaking. When he carefully identified it, he realized that it was a mask.
A person who claimed to be a staff member of the Beiting Jiedu Envoy came to see him wearing mysterious clothes and a mask. He felt very uncomfortable, as if the other person was pretending. This made him feel very unhappy.
If you want to come to see me, what's the point of covering your face?
"Why don't you show your true face to others? You still think that I am not qualified to see your face."
Dai Wang turned his head and looked at the two maids standing in the room serving him. Lu Jiong snorted dissatisfiedly: "You guys get out."
The two women walked around the sinister-looking man and walked out through the side door.
Dai Wang stretched out his hand to cover the mask, and gently took it off, revealing a face covered with scars. Even a person like Lu Jiong, who was accustomed to seeing the miserable conditions of hell on earth, felt panicked, and even the flesh on the knife was stabbed.
, can't even reach into the mouth.
full.
He felt very sorry for letting a stranger expose his ugly face in front of him. If he had to express sincerity, this would be the greatest sincerity.
Dai Wang's identity in front of him was even more confusing. Apart from himself, who would be willing to use a physically handicapped person, unless he was extraordinary, and it was not known whether the identity of this Beiting Jiedu envoy's staff was true or false.
"Well, you'd better put it on and please sit down."
Dai Wang put the mask on his face, knelt down opposite Lu Jiong and crossed his hands and said: "My Alang is the military envoy of Beiting and the interview envoy of Longyou Road, the pastoral envoy of Longyou Group, the envoy of recruiting soldiers of Longyou, and the imperial censor.
Li Siye."
Lu Jiong raised his eyebrows in surprise, quickly put the silver knife on the plate, sat upright with his hands on his knees and asked: "Sir, did you come to me on orders from your Alang?"
The lame butler who was hiding outside tugged at his beard and complained that the master couldn't speak, so how could he go straight in?
"Yes and no."
Lu Jiong leaned forward: "Oh, how can I say this?"
Dai Wang took out a letter from his arms, stood up, walked over and handed it to Lu Jiong with both hands, saying: "This is a letter written by Alang to the general. I would like the general to read it."
Lu Jiong glanced hesitantly, opened the envelope and read it carefully silently. The content of the letter was full of pleasantries, expressing his love for Lu Jiong's talent. If there is an opportunity in the future, he will reuse it without any requirements. It seems that he loves Lu Jiong's talent.
It seemed like empty words, but it felt like a kind of voucher to him, because the bottom of the letter was stamped with various seals, such as the seal and ribbon of the imperial censor.
"I came to the general to discuss a business with the general through his identity as A Lang. This business has nothing to do with A Lang, but it can help the general."
"Business?" Lu Jiong took a deep breath: "I am an official of the imperial court. I must abide by the imperial court's rules and regulations first, and everything else is secondary."
"Of course. How dare I discuss illegal business in front of the general?"
"Okay, why don't you come and listen?"
"I want to build a trading house in Yangguan, and I want the general to provide convenience and encircle a piece of land. Due to lack of money, I temporarily borrowed a few military tents from the army."
"Oh, this is simple, just borrow it." Lu Jiong felt that things were not that simple.
"Every year, our trading company will transport large quantities of goods from Khotan Road. We want to get through the customs quickly. If paying taxes one after another is a bit cumbersome, we would like to negotiate with the general and give him a quota of 5,000 guan every year. In the future, all the goods of our trading company will be imported into the customs."
No inspection required.”
"this……"
Lu Jiong had to think more carefully. This kind of behavior enriches private interests and harms the public. Although a business firm's tax deficiency will not cause much loss, in fact many wealthy businessmen in Hexi are doing this, so he, the Doulu Army envoy, can be regarded as
Fatty difference.
Lu Jiong still had a bottom line in his mind. He usually provided conveniences to these people once or twice, one time at a time. It was indeed a bit excessive to ask Dai Wang to provide conveniences on a yearly and monthly basis.