Late Tang

"Li Jing hasn't asked Mr. Gao's name yet?" Li Jing asked, clasping his fists, he was a little curious about the identity of this man.

"Miangui's surname is Feng, Feng Liang, and the name is Mingguang." The man in the green shirt also cupped his fists and said casually, "It's the Bohai Feng family. Brother Ji Yu should have heard of it. Dengzhou Governor Shi is his family." uncle."

At this time, Li Jing couldn't see that the words added after Feng Liang were purely showing off on purpose, so he smiled and said: "The Cui family in Qinghe, the Feng family in Bohai, and the Han family in Changli, these are the largest in our Ziqingpinglu prefectures. There are three aristocratic families, with disciples all over the government and the public. They have been prime ministers for many generations. They are famous families in the world. Does Li Jing not know, he has heard of it for a long time, and he has heard of it for a long time. It turns out that brother Feng is actually the Feng family of Bohai. My brother was rude just now, please forgive me .”

"Hey, you don't need to be polite. Brother, don't think that brother is deliberately showing off his background. In fact, I don't want to tell ordinary people. Now that brother is under Cui Shijun's family, the two clans of Cui and Feng are family friends. From now on, we two brothers will be a family I'm old, I need to move around more to get closer." Feng Liang said very politely.

After a few words, Feng Liang's true nature has been fully exposed, and Li Jing can almost see this person clearly.This kind of person is the legendary dude, who must have seen Cui Yunqing accept him as a student, so he came to make friends with him.Of course, Feng Liang definitely didn't really want to make friends with him, his real intention was just to get closer to Cui Yunqing.

I suddenly felt contempt for Feng Liang, and didn't want to say a word to him.But now that he knew Feng Liang was Governor Shi's nephew, Li Jing couldn't offend him and neglect him, so he could only talk with Feng Liang without saying a word, while parading along the street.

Along the way in the past few days, Li Jing has heard Wang Zhong and Zhang Hong introduce some things in the prefecture and county.Among them were introductions to some major officials of the prefecture and county. Feng Liang's uncle, Li Jing, was naturally impressed.

Feng Liang's uncle, Feng Yanqing, is a descendant of the Bohai Feng family, who passed the imperial examination in his early years and became an official.He is just over forty now, but he has been in Dengzhou for five years.

There are many long histories of the Tang Dynasty, but in general there are four categories.They are the history of the chief of the palace, the history of the chief of the guard, the history of the chief of the march, and the history of the governors of the states.The long history of each position is very important, and the governor's history is also the same at the beginning. He belongs to one of the state's three superiors and has a lot of power.

However, in the late Tang Dynasty, not only the long history, but also the other two state officials gradually lost their real power.In particular, Biejia has long been a full-time job specially used by the imperial court to accommodate those remote and demoted clan members.And Sima also became a post specially used by the imperial court to place demoted officials in Beijing.During Tang Shunzong's reign, more than a dozen ministers who presided over the reform were all demoted after they were forced to take the Zen position by eunuchs less than 0 days after Shunzong became emperor. , known as the two kings and eight Sima in history.

The third is the assistant official, Biejia is specially arranged for the clan, and Sima is specially arranged to demote officials. The long history is slightly better, but it gradually loses real power.

However, there is a rather special place that if the governor is led by the prince or when the governor is seriously ill or absent, the state affairs will be temporarily replaced by the superior.However, due to the particularities of Bie Jia and Sima, Chang Shi often takes the place of state affairs temporarily.After taking office as governor, he became seriously ill, Feng Changshi acted in charge of Dengzhou all the time.Originally thought that the imperial court would arrange for him to take over as the governor, but unexpectedly the court transferred Cui Yunqing to take over as the governor.

It is precisely because of this that when Zhang Hong and others introduced the state affairs to Li Jing at the beginning, they emphasized that there have long been rumors that Cui Jieshi and Feng Changshi were at odds with each other. It is said that Feng Changshi once wanted to put his own The nephew introduced Cui Jieshi as a student, but Cui Jieshi refused after talking several times, which made Feng Changshi very angry.It is said that since then, relying on his five years of management in Dengzhou, Feng Changshi has been secretly wrestling with the newcomer Cui Shijun, intending to squeeze him out, or to put him aside.

When he heard that Feng Liang introduced himself just now, he was already on guard.It's obvious that Feng Changshi and Cui Jieshi are at odds, but Feng Liang came here so enthusiastically to get close to him, Cui Jieshi's new student. No matter how you look at it, this matter is not easy.

After the Wendeng Unite Soldiers swam along the long streets along the north-south trunk road, they swam again along the east-west trunk road.It was already dusk, and Cui Yunqing, the governor of Dengzhou and concurrently the trainer of the regiment, ordered the Wendeng Allied Forces to enter the southern barracks to give a banquet.

However, he did not follow Li Jing and others to follow the brigade. Instead, he specially gathered Li Jing and other 11 people, as well as the officers and men of the Unity Camp, and arranged a banquet at Wangxianlou, the best restaurant in the east of the city.

Wangxian Tower is very luxurious. It is actually a five-story pavilion. Sitting on the pavilion with a height of more than ten feet, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Penglai City, and even embrace the blue sea and sky in the north.

The entire Wangxian Tower was taken over at this time, and the hall on the bottom floor was a place for the small officers of the team to eat.Then every level up is also used by officers of a higher level.At the top level, there are only Cui Cishi and Feng Changshi, as well as the eight emperor uncles of the current emperor, Dengzhou Biejia, Zhaowang Li Rui, and Zhou Sima Yuguan, as well as Dengzhou Liucao officials. The recorders at the top rank participate in the military, and the recorders at the ninth rank, in addition to Si Gong, Sicang, Si Hu, Si Bing, Judiciary, and Si Shi, participate in the military. They are all grades below the seventh rank. Low-level officials such as Ling, Cheng, literature, and medical doctors.In addition, the officers of the Zhizhou Army, the suppressing envoys and envoys of the Longshan Camp and Dongmou Shouzhuo, etc., nearly a hundred people gathered on the top floor to exchange cups.

Among these people, Cui Jieshi was naturally the highest official, and as a teacher, he took Li Jing to meet various officials one by one.Among this large group of officials, Li Jing was most impressed by the three senior assistants in Dengzhou.

Don't drive Li Rui is the eighth son of Xuanzong and the eighth uncle of the current emperor.Li Rui, who had been in the middle of the capital, was transferred out of the capital to take up the post of Dengzhou when Yizong was seriously ill last year.When Li Jing visited him, he took a closer look at the Eighth Emperor Uncle. He was only in his early thirties, but he was well maintained and in good health. He was not half as old as the royal family who was obsessed with alchemy and cultivation after taking too much elixir since the late Tang Dynasty. Symptoms of chronic poisoning.And although he didn't talk much, Li Jing could see the sharpness in his eyes.This is a dormant king, but he is not willing to be mediocre.

Li Rui took off a piece of his jade pendant and gave it to Li Jing as a gift, which made Li Jing take a higher look at him.It is indeed not easy to treat a pawn like this while sitting on the throne.

Feng Yanqing was very different from Li Rui. Li Rui gave Li Jing the feeling that it was like a deep pool, but he could never see the bottom, he didn't know its depth, but he was very calm and gentle.However, what Feng Yanqing gave him was a rush of interest, full of aggression.Especially his eyes, looking at Li Jing's face, seemed to pierce into his mind to search for his thoughts.

Feng Yanqing also gave Li Jing a gift, but it was two silver collars of 50 taels each.These two ingots of silver collars are shaped like pig kidneys, and some people call them pig kidney silver.Gold and silver in the Tang Dynasty were not used for circulation, and silver collars were basically used as tribute or rewards.At this time, the exchange rate between gold and silver was one to five. One tael of gold was worth 10 bolts of silk, and 10 bolts of silk were worth 8000 cash. After conversion, one tael of silver could be exchanged for [-] cash, or two bolts of silk.

Feng Yanqing rewarded Li Jing with two silver collars, a total of 100 taels, equivalent to zero pieces of silk or 0 yuan.This is a heavy gift, and it can be called throwing money at someone.In fact, 16 taels of silver weighed nearly seven kilograms, more than enough to smash people with it.

Like his money, Feng Yanqing was a little condescending when he spoke, as if if two pig kidneys were given away, Li Jing would obey him from now on.To him, Li Jing agreed with a smile on the surface, but in his heart he had already drawn a boundary with him.Not to mention that Feng Yanqing was at odds with Cui Yunqing in the first place, even if there was no such relationship, Li Jing would definitely not want to work for such a person who looked down on him from the bottom of his heart.

Originally, Li Jing refused to accept the two pork loins, but Cui Yunqing smiled and asked him to accept it, and he finally accepted it. For 16 yuan, you can buy [-] acres of good land at home, why not take it if you can.