Saint of the Confucian way

The empty building ship left the capital, crossed Yuyang pass, flew for a long time, and finally came to a county outside.

Ao Huang poked his head out of the side of the boat. Nu Nu stood on the faucet, his small claws firmly pressed on the inkstone turtle, while the little ink girl with high index finger stepped on the ink Jiao and suspended beside Nu nu.

Yang Yuhuan holds Fang Yun's hand and watches with Fang Yun.

The three characters of Ning'an county have appeared frequently recently, and Fang Yun is very familiar with it. So it is the first time to see Ning'an County, but there is an inexplicable sense of familiarity in his heart.

Ning'an county is the transportation hub in the north of Jingguo. Almost all grain and grass transported to the northwest, due north and northeast will pass through here, because there is an east-west river outside Ning'an County, which can be used to transport grain to the northeast or northwest.

That river is the famous Yishui River in the north, and the alias of Ning'an county is Yixian.

Ning'an county is hundreds of feet away from the Yishui River, from which water flows around the city, forming a wide moat.

It was almost noon at the moment, and I saw the smoke curling around Ning'an County, a peaceful color, which did not look like a city close to the front line.

Just north of Ning'an County, there are no real cities. They are fortresses or checkpoints. Because there is only war and life and death in those places, the demon man will not give the Terran any chance to grow food and livestock.

The walls were high and soldiers were patrolling on them.

Different from the spring scenery in Jiangnan, it seems that the spring breeze has not yet blown here. Even if the sky is sunny, there is still some residual snow in some places.

Fang Yun saw the spring in the south of the Yangtze river yesterday and the winter in the north of the Great Wall today. He felt strange, as if he were in two different worlds.

Flying closer, Fang Yun found that the city seemed to be separated by invisible forces.

Some are serious barracks. Countless soldiers are practicing. Most of the soldiers here are recruits. After basic training, they will be sent to various checkpoints on the three sides.

Some are busy businessmen. Many merchant ships from Wu state will enter Ning'an along the Yishui River, and the cost of transporting goods from Ning'an to nearby cities is far lower than that of transporting directly to the capital by land.

The last part is the residents of Ning'an county. Now they have no farm work. Thanks to the power of the holy temple, the county is not cold. Thanks to the prosperity of Ning'an County, they are hungry as long as they make a little effort, so they have become the group with the slowest pace of life.

Serious, lively, casual, obviously full of contradictions, but they appear in the same city.

Seeing all this with his own eyes, Fang Yun knew why he did his best in vain last year. The first section of people's livelihood in the imperial examination only got top C, not even bottom B.

There are many factors involved in people's livelihood, such as public security, the rich and the poor, folk customs and so on. Even if Ji knows that Bai is a student of Zuo Xiang, the officials here have no way to take those people.

Outside the Pavilion three miles outside the city of Ning'an County, many people stood.

Fang Yun glanced over there and thought of the major forces in Ning'an county.

Although there is an army of Yingyang army in Ning'an County, the biggest force is not the military, but the transportation department.

Although the Department controlling the transportation of the whole state of Michigan is only the fourth grade yamen, its real power is even greater than the three third grade yamen of Michigan, including the state yamen, the state literary academy and the State Army.

There are only four prefectures left in Michigan, and the other five prefectures either exist in name or have been occupied by barbarians.

If the place is small and there are few people, there will be few scholars, and the literary academy naturally has little power.

In Mizhou, the military is the most powerful, and the government power belonging to the civil service system is much inferior to that elsewhere.

Although the State Army is also a military, it is only the guardian force of Mizhou. It can't be compared with Yingyang army or Dingyuan army, so its power is also limited.

However, the armed forces of the three sides are particularly dependent on the transport department, which makes the actual status of the transport department in Mizhou higher than that of other bureaus. At least Hanlin is in charge and concurrently serves as the Transport Department of the three sides.

Two brands, one department.

Although the division of "Mizhou transshipment division" is the fourth grade, the division of "trilateral transshipment division" is the third grade.

The name of the Secretary of the transportation department is Geng Ge. His wife died of a violent illness more than ten years ago. Then he married Zuo xiangliushan's niece as his wife.

The transportation department not only governs hundreds of thousands of civilian men or auxiliary soldiers, but also has 6000 War soldiers in Ning'an County, which is a powerful military force.

Ning'an county is under the jurisdiction of Qingwu Prefecture. Before, the guard of Ning'an county was mainly in the charge of the government army of Qingwu Prefecture. Now, the "Beimang army" of the North character army of Yingyang army has completely taken over the urban defense of Ning'an county.

Beimang army is the second largest force besides the transportation department.

The third major force is Ning'an firm.

This is a huge business organization jointly established by local giants, and the founder of this business is a number of founding giants of Jingguo. Although they are not semi Saint aristocratic families, their ancestors are bleeding and sweating generals following Taizu of Jingguo, so even semi Saint aristocratic families will not intervene in Ningan's business.

Ning'an commercial firm has penetrated into all aspects of Ning'an county.

The fourth largest force is the officials of Ning'an county.

Most of these officials have intermarried with local famous families and have been operating in Ning'an County for decades or even hundreds of years. They seem to be of small grade, but they are directly responsible for all the details of Ning'an county. If the county magistrate loses them, it is almost the same as the blind.

The four forces almost completely fell to the left!

Fortunately, Fang Yun secretly got the help of Chen family and Zhang Heng family. With the powerful power of the family, he has been loyal to a very few officials, so that he won't be black in Ning'an county.

Not only that, the Empress Dowager handed over the information about Ning'an in the military intelligence department of Jingguo to Fang Yun.

Even so, it is just to make Fang Yun change from zero to one, which is still a long way from 100.

In the palace examination, although others would call Fang Yun a virtual saint, they could not exercise any power of the virtual saint. Fang Yun could only be regarded as an ordinary county magistrate without any privileges.

The only thing Fang Yun can rely on except himself is the private army.

There are more than 2000 private troops. Fang Yun believes that the four major forces will not mess around.

However, if the four major forces want to toss a county magistrate, they don't need to mess around.

Ning'an county is the den of dragons and tigers.

Fang Yun looked up at the sky. It was clear, but it was like a mountain rain coming, and the wind filled the building.

Fang Yun overlooks the Sanli Pavilion below.

Ning'an county is an important town in the north. There is no Shili Pavilion at all, and there is only Sanli Pavilion in the farthest distance.

Officials stood in front of the Sanli Pavilion, and the road from Sanli pavilion to Ning'an county was blocked by the State Army, with knives and guns on both sides. A large number of residents of Ning'an County crowded in the street behind the city gate. Fang Yun could even see their expressions of joy or curiosity.

The empty building ship landed and stopped steadily.

A young man in white stood on the ship ladder. His eyes and eyebrows were beautiful. He seemed to be no more than 20, but his eyes were deep and his expression was as stable as an old scholar. His eyes scanned like a king's patrol and a great Confucian came.

"Welcome Fang Xusheng!"

The people below, no matter the Sanpin Hanlin who has an in laws with Zuo, the Beimang general who is the fourth grade of the Beimang army, the son-in-law of the Cui Sheng family, or the famous officials who have been entrenched in Ning'an County for more than a hundred years, all bowed their heads respectfully and did not respond at all. Instead, they were afraid of poor etiquette.

Fang Yun looked at them.

None of them stopped and looked up, so they bowed and looked at Fang Yun above with their remaining light.

"You don't have to be polite. From now on, we will be a family."

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