Mengzhou is located in the northwest corner of Jingxi Road, no matter how you go, Xu Ping still according to the practice of previous years, not to go there first, but after leaving the west of the capital along the Liangjing Post Road to Zhengzhou. After arriving in Zhengzhou, the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info then turned south, to Xuzhou, Cichenzhou and Yingzhou, and then to Ruzhou via Caizhou, and from Ruzhou back to Henan. It is the most convenient to turn around in this way, almost just to patrol the northern part of Jingxi Road. As for the Jingxi Road enclave Huazhou in the east of Kaifeng Mansion, I can't take care of it. It is much more remote than Mengzhou, and it is extremely inconvenient to cross Kaifeng Mansion, and many successive Jingxi Road transfer envoys have not been there. Sooner or later, Huazhou will be zoned to Kaifeng Mansion, and Xu Ping doesn't care about it, anyway, most of the affairs in Huazhou are now in charge of Kaifeng Mansion.

Xingqing Pass, the ancient name of Tiger Prison Pass, the eighteenth year of the opening of the Sui Dynasty because it was changed to Gao County for Bishui County, the pass was also renamed Bishui Pass, and the four years of Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu were renamed Xingqing Pass. Here is the Yellow River in the north, the remaining veins of the Bishan Mountain in the south, a small road between the mountains and rivers is rugged and winding, extremely steep, and it is the east gate of Luoyang City. After passing this pass, he left Henan Mansion and entered the territory of Mengzhou.

At this time, the Yellow River waterway rolled north, and the nearest waterway seen north in Xingqingguan was no longer the Yellow River, but the newly excavated Luoshui channel last year. While excavating the waterway, Xu Ping ordered the Qiaodao army to widen this section of the rugged and narrow road. At this time, this section of the Liangjing Post Road is no longer what it was back then, and has become wide and flat. Not many years ago, Emperor Zhenzong returned to Beijing from the west, and walked here because the road was narrow and gloomy, and he had to walk with fire during the day. At this time, such a wide avenue always made the officials who traveled between the two capitals sigh.

Below Xingqing Pass, the bridge crossing the Yellow River is about to go to Huazhou recently, and then down because of the old enemy Khitan in the north, there is basically no bridge. The bridge in Huazhou is seasonal, and it will be demolished when there is a lot of rain in the flood season, and the important materials of Hedong Road and even Hebei Road in the north will take the Yellow River Bridge in Mengzhou to cross the Yellow River, and then go along the Liangjingyi Road to Kaifeng Mansion. Therefore, the significance of this section of the road is not only to connect the two capitals, but also to connect the north-south traffic of the Yellow River. It is precisely because of this that when Chen Yaozuo was digging the river, he did not hesitate to transfer several people from the state to repair the road.

When Xu Ping and his entourage arrived at Xingqing Pass, it was already afternoon, so they stopped here and went to Bishui County overnight.

The personnel of Henan Prefecture from Xijing City with Xu Ping had completed the task, and the people from Mengzhou came the next day, and they returned after the handover. From here on, the personnel used by Xu Ping's subordinates were mainly sent by local states and counties.

The transfer envoys went out on patrol, and they all lived in post houses outside the city, and they were not allowed to enter the city, so naturally there was no banquet from local officials. You can only stay in a state for three days, and in the event of a particularly significant event, you can stay for up to five days. I went out on patrol for several months at a time, and I actually spent most of my time on the road. After staying for such a short time, the imperial court strictly limited the number of officials it bringed, so you can imagine how nervous and tired it was to deal with official business. In the final analysis, the transfer envoy is a chore, and when he reaches a certain status, no one will be this official anymore, only Xu Ping, who is still on the road to the official career, has to come to suffer this hardship.

The transfer of envoys and the dispatch of prisoners to patrol the places under the jurisdiction are all routine inspections and work according to the rules. If there is a major event, or if the imperial court wants to conduct a special review of a certain matter, it is natural that the imperial historian will send it down, and the two divisions of Caoxian are not used to deal with major emergencies.

When he arrived at the Xingqing Guan Post House, Xu Ping changed into official clothes after washing, sat down on the stone bench in the courtyard, and drank tea and rested. It is when he is young and strong, and Xu Ping can still stand this tiredness, and the key is to efficiently sort out local government affairs.

Since the beginning of the New Year, Xu Ping has launched a lot of new policies on Jingxi Road, although there are official exchanges in daily life, the local government can do it at the bottom of the heart. Conventional government affairs naturally have his public officials to investigate, and Xu Ping mainly looks at the new policy.

After drinking tea for a while, Tan Hu came in from outside and saluted: "Du Cao, I heard that the envoy is here, and the local elders ask to see him." ”

"Let them wait in the living room, and I'll be there later."

Tan Hu agreed, turned around and went out to arrange.

Xu Ping stood up, thumped his waist, and sighed. The first thing for the envoys to go on patrol is to understand the people's suffering. Who to learn from? The main thing is these elders, which is the practice of all Chinese dynasties. As an envoy who inspects the locality, the first is to meet the local officials, and the second is to meet the local elders, both of which must be done in the process.

The reason why local heroes can become powerful is that they can use this opportunity to cut off the contact between the government and the people, and if they can't even do this, they are not qualified to run rampant in the locality. Xu Ping knows this, but he knows it, but he can't violate the procedure. I can't even hear the opinions of the elderly, and it's a joke to understand the suffering of the people.

When they arrived in the living room, the six people who had been waiting there in the morning hurriedly got up and saluted.

Xu Ping ordered to sit down, and looked at it coldly, and sure enough, it was a standard configuration. In addition to the two rich and noble people, there are three elderly people, and the remaining one is dressed in a green shirt and is a scholar. The rich, the old, and the scholars are the controllers of the local discourse.

The old man, whose hair was white and his eyes were already a little unclear, stood up first and said some compliments to Xu Ping. Thanks to heaven and earth, thanks to the grace of the Emperor of Shengming, and thanks to an honest and honest official like Xu Ping for his attention to the place.

The old man sat down, and the green-shirted scholar stood up and saluted: "Student Tang Congli, read less poetry and books, and when he was young, he also responded to the move, and he was relieved by Mengzhou, but unfortunately he failed repeatedly. Ducao comes to the place, and the local town is really full of brilliance. ”

Xu Ping smiled and said, "Have you ever responded to the lift?" That's also a local talent. What do you do now? ”

"Back to the capital, after the year the county minister issued a notice, each township can voluntarily set up a school by the villagers, and the county subsidizes some wine and meat for daily food. The students are not talented, and they are enlightening more than a dozen schoolchildren in the school club in Hongxiang. ”

"Good, good, good. Teaching is mutually beneficial, and you should not fall behind in your studies. Sit down and talk. ”

Don thanked him and sat down.

Scholars and officials call themselves students, and this is generally the case. But Xu Ping is a transfer envoy of this road, and he can't call himself a student after reading a few days, and he must at least take the liberation test. After only a few days of village school, and he knew a few big words, he dared to call himself a student in front of a person of Xu Ping's status, and he was known to have at least been punished for the crime of rebellion. Tang Congli once passed the liberation test, and according to the current habit, he can be called a Mengzhou Jinshi.

Tang Congli sat down, and a tall fat man dressed in silk stood up and said in a loud voice: "I have seen officials, the small one is Hongxiang Zhou Zhenghai, there are some thin fields at home, and there is a mill. This one is Zheng Zhongpan, who has land and land, and the ferry on the Bishui River is also his family. The small one is now in the hometown, and the last term is Zheng Yuanwai. ”

Zheng Zhongpan originally wanted to wait for Zhou Zhenghai to stand up and say that he didn't want to be finished in one breath, his butt had just left his seat, and it was embarrassing to hang there. Xu Ping asked Zhou Zhenghai to sit down, and Zheng Zhongpan glared at him fiercely.

Zhou Zhenghai was triumphant, and after sitting down, he rolled his eyes and raised his chin to Zheng Zhongpan, demonstrating in general.