It's already a little annoying to take two walled forts in a row, if you go all the way to hoe and shovel evil, when will you get to Huangzhou. This is a headache and foot pain, and it doesn't help the overall situation. As the saying goes, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and if you want to fundamentally solve the problem, you have also been comprehensively coordinated by Huangzhou.

Since Liu Song followed, he would take care of the negotiations with Anlongzhai and Tonghuangzhai. As for whether there is a problem with these two walled forts, we will talk about it later. After he takes office, there is a way to rectify them, and a piece of paper can call the guards to Huangzhou, so why bother to risk their lives.

Three days later, Huangzhou City arrived, and after more than a month of running, I finally saw the serious city. Hong Tao didn't choose to camp outside the city, this is a state office, just like a prefecture-level city in later generations, if you can still get rid of the mayor and the head of the armed forces, then the Great Song Dynasty should be finished as soon as possible.

But don't expect Huangzhou City to be as prosperous as Kaifeng City, and even Chang'an City is not comparable. The only thing it is higher than Chang'an City is a circle of stone city walls, which is not because you don't want to make rammed earth, but it is more difficult to get soil here than to chisel stones, and there are big stone mountains around, as long as there are people with stones.

It's not that there is no soil, in fact, since the Tonghuang Village has been beaten, the mountains have been much lower, and the river valley basins are one after another. Although it is still crisscrossed by ravines, it is relatively a plain in the mountains.

The geographical location is suitable, agriculture and animal husbandry are relatively developed, and it is the seat of the state government, and the population density near Huangzhou City has increased slightly, and the proportion of Han and Tibetan people is almost half.

However, as far as a single ethnic group is concerned, the Han nationality is still the most, because the Tibetan people are also divided into Tubo, Qiang, Tuhun and other large ethnic groups, and these large ethnic groups are also divided into a number of small ethnic groups, and the composition is very complex.

The Qiang people are also divided into Xia people, Xiqiang, Xiliangqiang or something, and Tuhun is a descendant of the ancient Tuyuhun country, which belongs to a branch of the Xianbei tribe. Their royal family has a surname that everyone is more familiar with, Murong! That's right, it is Gusu Murong in Lao Jinli, and they are in the same line.

Speaking of such a lively story, how much is the population of Huangzhou City? There were 1,103 households, less than 6,000 people including the old and the young, and 3,000 forbidden troops stationed there.

With a small population and poor infrastructure, Hong Tao could overcome it, but when he entered Huangzhou City and met the largest military and political chief here, he found that he was a bare-bones commander and had no subordinate officers.

If you want to do something, you have to count on the help of the local state soldiers and horses and the commander of the forbidden army, if they are naughty with themselves, although they will have to obey orders in the end, but the efficiency will be greatly reduced.

"Adults have their own subordinate officials, and the state capital should also be in charge of adults, and all counties in the state are subordinate officials." Fortunately, Liu Song was brought, otherwise Hong Tao would have lost his adult, and this commander of the military region who was slightly appeased and understood by him did not mean it at all.

In the past, Hong Tao thought that the pacification envoy was just a central commissioner who was mainly military and supplemented by civilians, and it seemed to mean the same thing from the official certificate and the central decree given by the emperor, but the bad thing was that it was like this word.

The ancients used words to form sentences, and each word has an accurate meaning, and the meaning is different in different contexts. In other words, the writing of the ancients was more accurate and complex than that of later generations, which is why the ancients were not enough to read and read to become officials, and they had to learn it for many years in a special specialty.

Literacy, writing, and reading are a kind of knowledge, and if you don't master this knowledge, you will be like Hong Tao, who knows a lot of words, but can't read government documents, and it is easy to misunderstand.

Why do so many great Confucians have to make special annotations on the classics of scripture and history? That's why too. They don't want to show off any more, but they want to tell everyone what the ancients mean by saying this sentence to avoid misunderstanding

In fact, if you change someone to get the official certificate and the central decree, you will definitely go to someone to ask for clarification. But when he arrived at Hong Tao, he didn't take it seriously at all, he just let Lian'er read it simply, and after he felt that he understood, he shifted his attention to how to fight, and pondered how to deal with the Xixia Iron Cavalry.

The black heart wants to suppress the enemy militarily, and the official certificate and the central decree clearly write 'know the affairs of Huangzhou', but he understands that he can ask about local political affairs, and he also thinks that this right is very good.

But these four short words are not what he thought he meant in the official documents of the Song Dynasty. Knowing the affairs of Huangzhou, the accurate meaning is: concurrently serving as the prefect of Huangzhou!

The prefect of the prefect, the governor of the state, the knowledge in front of it is the meaning of Ren. If there is a greater authority itself, it is a part-time job, and if there is no greater position, it is a full-time!

Of course, even if he understands everything wrong, it will not affect his appointment. In addition to the official certificates, the imperial court will also have official documents sent to the local area for filing. It's just that Hong Tao was a little caught off guard, and he wasn't going to be a parent official in a state.

"Don't rush to meet with the subordinate officials first, a few of you will tell the official what this Jingluo appeasement envoy needs to do?"

The ancients ate a trench and grew wise, this time Hong Tao didn't dare to be sloppy, and he was not afraid of being embarrassed, so he grabbed Liu Song, Miao Kui, plus Shi Tong and Jiang Erlang, and a few of them squatted at the door of the government office, let's sweep the illiteracy first, so as not to catch off guard in the future.

The position of pacification envoy existed in the Tang Dynasty, for example, Di Renjie once served as the pacification envoy of Hebei Province, which was called pacification ambassador at that time, which belonged to a temporary inspection official position, and the establishment was cancelled after the things that should be seen and done were completed.

The Song Dynasty's Jinglu pacification envoy was inherited from the Tang system, but there were some changes in function and a lot of expansion in authority. If you have to compare, it's a bit like the temperance envoy in the Tang system.

However, the Zhao family of the Northern Song Dynasty knew that Jiedu made the military and political power in their hands, and once something went wrong, it would bring endless suffering to the country. However, in border areas, especially in areas where war is needed, the state capitals in charge of local political affairs and the governors in charge of local military affairs are sometimes not in harmony, which greatly affects the unity within the theater.

Therefore, the authority of the Jiedu envoy was slightly changed, and it became a kind of official position that was temporarily appointed and immediately resigned afterwards, and was named the Jinglu pacification envoy.

There were many pacification envoys in the Northern Song Dynasty, but as long as the prefix of the word Jinglu was added, it must be an area facing the Western Xia army. There is also a kind called the pacification envoy along the border, whose function is exactly the same as that of the Jinglu pacification envoy, but the place where it goes is different, not on the border of Western Xia, but the border between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao State.

The pure pacification envoy can only be located in various parts of the interior, and its scope of authority is much smaller, and it has almost no power in the military aspect, and it is more like a central inspection group, which only asks about the people's livelihood and criminal law, and by the way, examines whether the local officials are competent and whether they have merit.

But when it comes to Hong Tao, it's a little different. Whether it is a pacification envoy or a strategic pacification envoy, it is usually based on the road as the jurisdiction, which means that the lowest official position is a high-ranking official.

Qin Fenglu itself has a pacification envoy by Jinglu, and another pacification envoy from Huangzhou is set up in Huangzhou, and it is not subordinate to each other, which is really special.

"Huangzhou Jingluo appeased a person, and filled it with the commander of the horse, Wang Xu, who was in charge of the affairs of the military and the people of a state, and all of them were in charge of their subordinates and listened to their lawsuits, issued their injunctions, set their rewards and punishments, and examined their money valleys, and the names of the cashiers of armor, and practiced their laws. If it is difficult to make a decision, whether it can be played or not; That is, the speed of the dryer, the border guards and the soldiers to resist the crime, listen to the cheap judgment. The marshal was appointed as Huangzhou, and his post was in Suiyu Rongyi, and his post was in the pacification envoy and the governor of a state to rule the army. In the end of a state, the envoy is only to pacify, it is a business, the supervisor is in charge of the appropriate writing, the preparation of generals, the preparation of the envoy, after their own selection, the performance of the record. ”

Compared with the official documents, the official documents issued by the imperial court seem to be more detailed. When Hong Tao got this letter of appointment from the head of the Huangzhou Mansion, he immediately studied it carefully with a few stinkers around him, and he didn't dare to miss a word.

"My lord, this scripture is slightly comparable to the envoys of the old Tang Dynasty, which is enough to prove Your Majesty's favor." It is estimated that these people under Hong Tao can't read the official documents, so they are all sullen and silent, and in the end, Huang Huai'an was the first to express his opinion, and the internal official is also an official, and he is more experienced in this area.