Chapter eight hundred and thirty seventh crisis emerges
The Wenbo Inn in Yonglefang is not bad. It is a large inn with complete facilities, considerate service, and cleanliness. Its room price is one hundred wen per day, but there is a discount for scholars, which is eighty wen per day.
Xiao Zhenye and Xie Changming each asked for an upper room, and the two attendants who accompanied the examination shared a lower room. The lower room for two people was thirty cents a day, including two meals. The conditions were much worse, but it was a big inn after all.
, there is no general shop like five cents a night.
It has to be said that Chang'an's regional arrangement is very humane. Soon they got to know five or six Jiangnan scholars, two Suzhou scholars, two Runzhou scholars, one Hangzhou scholar and one Yuezhou scholar
, everyone has similar accents, living habits and eating habits, and more importantly, they are similar in age. The six people quickly formed a small group and went to the world-famous Xi'anmen Street together.
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Early in the morning, before daybreak, breakfast started in Prince Jin's Mansion. Everyone yawned and came out of their respective rooms and sat down in their respective seats.
Liu Caichun was used to dining with everyone, and she also had a fixed seat, sitting opposite Min Qiu, with Guo Weiwei next to her and Xue Tao on the other.
The Jin Palace attaches great importance to breakfast and dinner, because most of Guo and Song are not in the palace at noon, and everyone eats relatively simply, and the variety of breakfast is relatively rich. The family eats in a buffet style, and they can take whatever they want, and the portions are relatively small to ensure that
Don't waste.
Liu Caichun was very restrained at first, eating the few things in front of her, a bowl of white porridge, a steamed cake, and a plate of side dishes. Now that she is familiar with it, she has begun to choose her favorite breakfast.
She likes to eat vegetarian wontons and cheese cakes, and drink a small bowl of buttermilk, that is, milk, and fruits. Chang'an's famous Aijia pears are her favorite. Xue Tao discovered this, so they have it on their dining table every day.
Aijia pear appears.
In fact, pears were also the most popular fruit in the Tang Dynasty. There are many famous pears from all over the world. Near Guanzhong, there are Tang pear, red pear, Zhang pear, mountain pear, red pear and more than ten kinds. The famous ones are Aijia pear, Shuimi pear and so on.
Pears, Zhanggong pear, etc.
The largest pears are the Fengqi pear in Luoyang and the river area, with one recorded weighing six kilograms.
At this time, Guo Song and Min Qiu came from the side aisle. The blush on Min Qiu's face was not gone, which made Xue Tao secretly annoyed. Why did they have to have sex so early in the morning?
Guo Song sat down, and Xue Tao took some pan-fried Hu cakes from his plate, poured him a glass of buttermilk, and asked with a smile: "Husband, are you going out today?"
"I'm going to Fengxian County today. I'll only stay for one day to inspect the salt fields there, and then I'll come back."
Xue Tao smiled again and said: "This year a cousin from Caichun will also take part in the imperial examination."
Liu Caichun blushed and said quickly: "I just said it casually to the princess. I have no other meaning. Your Highness must not misunderstand."
Guo Song smiled and said: "Today, there are nearly 10,000 candidates from Jiangnan. Since he is Miss Liu's cousin, it is not impossible to take care of her a little. If you fail the Jinshi and Mingjing exams, then Taixue and Guozixue can be admitted.
It’s not a big problem, I’ll just say hello later.”
Liu Caichun shook his head quickly, "It's better not to set this precedent and rely on his own talent to strive for it. It's his destiny to pass the exam. If he doesn't, he can't blame others."
"What are your cousin's interests?" Guo Songxiao asked.
"He likes to grow tea. His family has a tea garden in Suzhou."
Guo Song nodded, "Then let him go to Taixue to learn tea cultivation and tea making. Under the guidance of famous teachers, he might be able to do something in the future. He doesn't need to occupy the imperial examination quota. He can just pay for his studies. No one will
say what?"
Liu Caichun was overjoyed, "Thank you so much, Your Highness!"
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After breakfast, Guo Song set off for Fengxian County.
Before setting off, Guo Song also ordered Meng Jianchun, the supervisory envoy of Suzhengtai, to go to Hanzhong.
This was the first time after the capture of Hanzhong that Guo Song ordered an investigation into the officialdom of Hanzhong states. This time, he mainly inspected the four states except Liangzhou to understand the local situation. At the same time, the supervisory envoys and their entourage also sank to
Each county will investigate and unqualified officials will be replaced, and officials who are corrupt and bend the law will also be severely punished.
The Chang'an Internal Guard Office occupies an entire building on the east third floor of the Jin Palace. There are more than a hundred civil servants here to handle various intelligence and official documents. Their external sign is called the Security Bureau. Next to it is the official office of the Jin Palace.
The number of internal guard soldiers has increased to 15,000, mainly distributed in important cities such as Chang'an, Taiyuan, Shanxian, Zhangye, Dunhuang, Suiye, Lingwu, and Yunnan. Their main responsibility is to respond to intelligence of enemy troops lurking in the city.
Spies are exactly the opposite of Jin Wei Mansion.
There are 8,000 internal guard soldiers in Chang'an. The garrison camp is located in the former Qianniu Guards Barracks outside Chunming Gate, which is also very close to the Jin Palace.
In the morning, Commander Wang Yue was handling documents in the official room. A soldier reported at the door, "Commander Song of Jin Wei Mansion has something to ask for."
"Invite him in quickly!"
The person who came in was Song Tian, the deputy commander of the Jin Wei Mansion. He was responsible for collecting external intelligence. He often dealt with the internal guards. On the contrary, Guo Yuniang, the commander of the Jin Wei Mansion, seldom dealt with them. Guo Yuniang was mainly responsible for the personal security of high-ranking officials and their families. She had numerous subordinates.
Hundreds of female guards with high martial arts skills are scattered in various high-ranking official residences.
This is not surveillance. Surveillance means that officials do not know the existence of the monitor, while protection means that officials know her existence. The two are essentially different.
Song Tian walked into the room, Wang Yue stood up and said with a smile: "But we got news again?"
Song Tian nodded, "This time it's information about Li Wujun."
Wang Yue looked solemn and said quickly: "Please sit down and talk!"
Li Wujun is currently the top priority of the Jin Palace. After the Jin army captured Mingzhou last year, they continued to deliver grain and grass supplies to Mingzhou. How could Li Wujun sit still and wait for death? He would definitely use various means to counterattack.
At the same time, the Jin Palace also strengthened its intelligence collection on Xindu.
Song Tian sat down, took out a tube of red pigeon mail and handed it to Wang Yue, "I just received the urgent information from Xindu. Take a look for yourself!"
Wang Yue took the mailbox and poured out a small volume of information from it. He slowly unfolded the information and looked at it carefully. He was shocked. The information said that Li Wujun was getting the formula of Iron Fire Thunder at all costs and had made some progress.
"What does this mean that there has been progress?" Wang Yue asked anxiously.
"Our people can't find out. This is the other side's top secret. We only know that this progress was made in Chang'an."
Wang Yue pondered for a moment, he believed it couldn't be the formula. Apart from King Jin, only less than five people knew the formula. These five people were closely protected, or closely monitored. They all had extremely generous incomes to support their families. It was impossible.
Risk your life to betray top secrets.
There are two other secrets: saltpeter purification technology and iron shell forging technology. A little more people know about these two secrets, but they only know their own technical aspects. For example, saltpeter has to go through three purification links. Each purification link
They were all completed by different people and distributed in Zhangye, Taiyuan and Chang'an.
The iron shell forging technology is relatively simple and can be mastered with just a few trials. And if you master the iron shell technology, there will be little progress. Without powerful gunpowder, the iron shell is just a decoration.
Wang Yue couldn't imagine what progress the other party would get, and he had no time to think about it anymore. He must immediately find the spies that Li Wujun had planted in Chang'an.
In fact, Wang Yue had the spies of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhu Si's spies in Chang'an, Zhu Tao and Tian Yue's spies in Chang'an, but he didn't know about Li Wujun and Li Na's spies in Chang'an. He once thought that
Maybe not, but the facts told him that the other party couldn't have spies.
"Do Li Wujun's spies in Chang'an have any clues?" Wang Yue asked.
Song Tian shook his head, "The person who provided us with the information doesn't know either, but I don't think the power is very big."
Wang Yue was really a little confused. This incident happened so suddenly, and they didn't have much time to investigate. If Tie Huolei's important technology was leaked, they would be in big trouble.
Wang Yue paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his hands, thinking hard, but he had no clue at the moment, which made him extremely anxious.
At this time, Song Tian reminded: "Li Wujun and Tian Yue had a very close relationship, and they even exchanged information, maybe..."
This sentence was like a light that suddenly lit up in the dark night, giving Wang Yue a glimmer of hope.