A small yellow door came over and led Xu Ping to a desk at the edge of the hall. Another little yellow door trotted all the way, and brought Xu Ping a lot of pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, and piled up a lot of them on the desk, all of which were special materials for painting.

Others ate and drank there, Xu Ping reluctantly picked up the pen and worked alone.

Holding a special paintbrush dipped in paint, Xu Ping carefully drew a few strokes on the paper, straightened up and took a look. I haven't learned, I don't have talent, don't I want Xu Ping's face to draw with this soft pen? He simply put down his paintbrush and took out the fountain pen he had brought.

This pen has a large tip and thick strokes, and it can barely be used on paper.

asked Xiao Huangmen for a ruler, and Xu Ping lay down on the desk and drew intently.

Xu Ping has long been familiar with the geography of Yongzhou, where are the mountains, where are the rivers, where are the mountains, where are the plains, all of them are clear in his mind. In order to make it easier to calculate the distance, Xu Ping also drew a grid on the side and set the scale by himself.

It's been many years since I had this feeling of sitting on the desk, and when I was working in my previous life, the old stationmaster looked at it, and Xu Ping used to lie on the table like this and draw a lot of pictures. Slowly, Xu Ping seems to have returned to that era, although the pen is no longer a cold mechanical part, but a mountain, a river, Xu Ping is still immersed in it.

I don't know when, the ministers over there ate the tea soup, bored, chatted a few words, followed the little emperor Zhao Zhen to the side of the case where Xu Ping was drawing, and stood behind him and watched silently.

Except for Wang Deyong, these people are full of poetry and books, and they are well-read and miscellaneous. There are never a few geographical travelogues in China in the past dynasties, and there are many of them with pictures and paintings, which of these people has not seen them? But they have never seen anyone draw mountains and rivers like this.

To be able to think of such a painting is just a brilliant mind and a clever mind. But being able to draw it like Xu Ping only from memory made them really moved. Yongzhou is thousands of miles away, everyone knows the mountains and rivers, and they all remember those mountains and rivers in their hearts, and they can show them on the map at any time......

Xu Ping Yongzhou has been in Yongzhou for six years, and his political achievements are dazzling. The battle was outstanding, and at this time, everyone knew that there was no fluke in it. With this painting alone, one can imagine how much hard work he put into it.

Measuring the distance on the map with his fingers, drawing mountains, rivers, cities, counties and towns, Xu Ping marked the roads and some large settlements on the map. After all the drawings were finished, he lay down on the table and carefully marked the name of each place.

Wait until the label is finished. Xu Ping straightened up, tilted his head to look at the map on the case, thinking about what he had missed.

"It turns out that Taiping County is here."

Suddenly there was a voice behind him, Xu Ping was startled, and when he saw that the emperor and the minister were standing behind him, he hurriedly saluted.

Zhao Zhen stopped: "These false courtesies are enough." Xu Ping, are you done with this picture? ”

Xu Ping said: "The painting is finished, and the rest is just a small section." ”

Zhao Zhen nodded. Said to the minister: "All the prime ministers have come forward to see the geography of the mountains and rivers in Yongzhou. After understanding, we will discuss the affairs of Yongzhou. ”

Cheng Lin stood behind Wang Sui and watched the cane sugar on the map come out of Taiping County, like the roots of a big tree, entrenching the entire Yongzhou with Langzhou and Menzhou. Except for the Youjiang Road, in fact, the entire Yongzhou is a nutrient for the growth of cane sugar. I can't help but show color.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Cheng Lin pointed to the cane sugar on the picture and asked Xu Ping: "This is Yongzhou cane sugar?" ”

Xu Ping nodded yes.

Cheng Lin sighed: "Previously, I only knew from the books that the cane sugar business was given a lot by the imperial court every year, but looking at this picture today, I knew that the cane sugar business was Yongzhou, and the entire Yongzhou was the cane sugar business." ”

Wang Sui glanced at Cheng Lin with disdain. Shook his head and didn't speak. Cheng Lin has always been in the limelight, and as soon as the situation map of Yongzhou was taken out, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed. Climb carefully and flash your waist, don't forget who was the one who gave Empress Dowager Liu the "Picture of the Martial Empress Linchao" back then, and dared to stand in the stands and not scold you to death.

From the map, you can already see that Yongzhou chokes the waterway at the confluence of the left and right rivers, and the road is also centered here, and other places are stretched along the left and right rivers. It is extremely unreasonable to simply set up a few more state armies to run there, and this time it is obvious that the Privy Council has taken over the reason.

Zhao Zhen looked at Wang Deyong at the back of the crowd, and asked him in a deep voice: "Privy, what do you think of Yongzhou?" ”

Wang Deyong bowed and said: "The minister is a military general, and the national affairs are still subject to the opinions of several ministers." ”

Zhao Zhen's face sank: "Now that we are discussing state affairs, who are the ministers and generals?" You have been in the army for many years, if you simply use the garrison to deploy defenses and attack Cochin, how appropriate it is, you should naturally listen to you! ”

Wang Deyong was born in a family of generals, and his father Wang Chao was an old minister of Taizong's Fandi, and he was promoted because of his closeness. But Wang Chao is really not a general, on the one hand, he is promoted quickly, on the other hand, he is a sizeless merit, and he has led the troops to defeat many times, and he is a typical mediocre general of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was once reprimanded by Emperor Zhenzong.

But there is this kind of strange thing in the Great Song Dynasty, since Emperor Taizong, the generals who can command the army and fight are highly suspicious, and they are promoted to high positions because of their mediocrity and incompetence. Although Wang Chao lost his former glory in the Zhenzong Dynasty, he was also favored for life.

At the age of seventeen, Wang Deyong followed his father to ask Li Jiqian, repeatedly made military exploits, and emerged. Since he was young, he has basically never fought in the party, but he is extremely famous in the army, and even the Khitan knows his name and thinks that he is the first general of the Great Song Dynasty. The Khitan people's minds are generally incomprehensible, and they are very non-mainstream, Wang Deyong basically has never fought in a war, they are respectful and fearful, and the eight kings Zhao Yuanyan do not foresee national politics at all, but his reputation in the Khitan is no less than that of the emperor, and he can stop children from crying at night, and he has also caused a storm in the capital.

Wang Deyong once contradicted the Empress Dowager Liu back then, but was appreciated by the Empress Dowager because of this. Now because he dared to contradict Empress Dowager Liu back then, he was favored by Zhao Zhen and promoted to the Privy Council. A few months ago, he excused himself on the pretext that military generals should not participate in the privy council, but he was finally drawn into the privy council and became the banner of military generals in government.

Seeing that the emperor insisted, Wang Deyong knew that he couldn't hide, so he had to give up his hand and said: "According to the minister's opinion, according to the geography of the mountains and rivers of Yongzhou, it is still based on the discussion of the Privy Council, and Yong, Qin, and Lian have a separate road." ”

Zhao Zhen nodded, and asked Lu Yijian again: "What do you think of the book?" ”

Lu Yijian's mind turned sharply, and with his vision, he naturally saw that what he had thought before was no longer feasible, and it was imperative to set up a road in Yongzhou, and now he was thinking about how to arrange candidates.

"In the past, the controversy only started when he was not familiar with geography, but now Xu Ping has drawn it clearly, and it is better to set the road."

Lu Yijian said, and inadvertently glanced at Wang Sui, Song Shou and others who followed him.

As for Cheng Lin, Zhao Zhen didn't ask at all. Just kidding, now that Yongzhou is mostly a cane sugar territory, the two governments should not go to the side to cool down. After all, the three divisions are in charge of finance, and if this giant beast reaches out to local administration, the entire political structure will be out of balance.

In this way, the three prefectures of Yong, Qin, and Lian set up a separate road, and set up a recruitment envoy, all of which were deployed, and the candidates were discussed separately. By the way, which state should this road be named after? ”

Zhao Zhen finally made a decision, looked at Xu Ping when he said his name, and listened to his opinion. Among these people, only Xu Ping has really stayed there, so he can naturally get to the point.

Xu Ping bowed and said: "Weichen is foolish, and he should take Yongzhou Langzhou as the name and Yonglang Road." Yongzhou is located in the center and is in charge of all the way. Langzhou is located in the south of Shannan, the south can be in Jiaozhi, and the west can reject Dali, which is the second most important place. ”

The newly established road is the Military Road, which is under the transfer of Guangnan West Road, which is conducive to the coordination of the military and the government and the development of the southwest.

At this time, there are many military roads in the key border areas, such as Gaoyangguan Road is a military road, which is under the Hebei Road of the Transshipment Road. There is also a military road in the northwest, which is under the Shaanxi road. If we want to open up the southwest, we should do the same.

The military road commander is a marshal, or with a solicitation envoy, or with a strategic envoy, and is in charge of military and political affairs. The next are all deployed, and the general is in charge of the military all the way, and he is a military general. (To be continued.) )