On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 114 Recruiting new staff

Author: He Tiantian from Lotus Picking

Chapter 114 Recruiting new staff

When the time came, with the order of the executioner, the executioner raised the knife and dropped it, blood splattered. Yan Rong's head was in a different place, and he did not suffer much pain, unlike Cui Che's cavalry Wang Qing, who always wanted to be killed.

A few more blows were needed on the prisoner's neck to cut off his head.

Cui Che squeezed out the cheering crowd and parted ways with Pei Xiu temporarily.

Yang Su took a break today and invited him to come over to his house for a get-together.

"When will Cui Lang leave to take office?"

In the pavilion, Yang Su fiddled with the charcoal fire and asked.

Cui Che poured the green plum wine into the small red clay stove on the charcoal fire and replied:

"I will enter the palace tomorrow to bid farewell to the Second Saint, and I will leave early the next morning."

"Cui Lang can solve the country's urgent needs, and the saints highly praise him. He often boasts to me in private, saying that he has found a good son-in-law for the eldest princess."

Yang Su retracted his hand and smiled.

"The marriage between my nephew and the eldest princess is also thanks to my uncle."

Cui Che finished pouring the wine, closed the lid and smiled.

To this day, he has long understood the whole story of his marriage. At first, Yang Jian wanted to marry Yang Awu for him, but it was Yang Su who witnessed the scene between Cui Che and Yang Lihua under the laurel tree, and then made the suggestion, which made Yang Jian change.

mind.

"I'm still worried that Cui Lang will blame me for meddling in my own business."

"The eldest princess is gentle and gentle, and manages the household well. If she can find such a good wife, why should Che complain?"

The two chatted for a long time, and then Yang Su got to the point:

"Li Gang is extremely pedantic. Although Su Gong and I have appointed him as Cui Lang's chief historian, we don't really want Cui Lang to get close to him."

Apparently Yang Su had heard about Cui Che and Li Gang leaving the city yesterday.

The wine had warmed up, and Cui Che was not in a hurry to answer. Instead, he poured a glass of green plum wine for himself and Yang Su. He raised the wine cup and said:

"My nephew was recommended by his uncle, so he went east to provide disaster relief, and he accidentally learned how to make salt.

"Now the official is worshiping the general manager of Qingzhou, and it is my uncle and Su Shangshu who are advising my nephew.

"Human beings are not grass and trees. How can I be ruthless? How could I forget my uncle's kindness?"

Yang Su laughed when he heard this, raised a cup to have a drink with Cui Che, and then said:

"Cui Lang and Xuangan are close, they are the old master's nephew. It's just a matter of effort, so you don't need to worry about it."

Forty-year-old Yang Su and fourteen-year-old Cui Che were having a drink in the backyard pavilion.

After drinking for three rounds, Cui Che saw Yang Su's wife Zheng from a distance walking towards the pavilion and hurriedly asked him to leave.

Yang Su also saw his wife, he sighed, and a trace of sadness appeared on his face.

After Cui Che left the banquet, he met Mrs. Zheng and wanted to leave the house in a hurry. But before he had gone far, he heard the quarrel between Mrs. Zheng and Yang Su.

Compared with Yang Su's fierce wife Zheng, Cui Che feels more and more that his own Yang Lihua is gentle and lovely.

On the third day of December in the third year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign (583), the morning light first appeared, and the drums that announced the dawn began to ripple as always.

The Wucheng palace was busy and noisy, and everyone was busy packing their bags. After breakfast, Cui Che was about to leave for Qingzhou to take up his post.

In the Sui Dynasty, local officials were allowed to bring their family members with them to take office, but it was a stipulation that the parents and heirs of frontier officials such as general managers and governors could not accompany them, so they naturally had to stay in the capital as hostages.

Cui Che's parents died young and he had no heirs, so naturally he wanted to move his family to Qingzhou with him.

Pei Xiu was recruited to join the army as the secretary of the General Manager's Office. This was his old profession in the General Manager's Office of Bingzhou. In fact, the position of chief historian was taken by Li Gang, leaving the post of Sima, and Pei Xiu had no military knowledge.

The parents of the general manager and the governor cannot accompany him, but his staff are not included in this list, so Cui Zhaorong can also accompany him.

Cui Che had already brought Yang Lihua into the palace yesterday to bid farewell to Yang Jian and his wife. Although Dugu Jialuo was reluctant to leave his beloved daughter, he also knew that Cui Che's trip was an important task and did not stop him.

And Yang Jian also gave Cui Che a lot of advice, asking him to focus on civil affairs and not neglect opening fields to make salt.

After breakfast, the family members went out and got on the carriage. Cui Che left some servants to guard the Wucheng palace and met with Li Gang first.

He also picked up Fang Yanqian and his family, who had joined the army in Qingzhou's general administration office yesterday, and then left Beijing for Guandong.

Fang Yanqian's ancestral home is Qinghe, Jizhou, Hebei Province. He is from the Fang family in Qinghe, but his ancestors moved to Qijun and took root in Qingqi. He is also a famous local family in Qingzhou.

During the Northern Qi Dynasty, Fang Yanqian was the second son of Gao Cheng and the chief official of Guangning King Gao Xiaoheng. After the fall of the Northern Qi Dynasty, he traveled with relatives and friends in an attempt to regain the Northern Qi Dynasty, but failed.

After Yang Jian usurped the Zhou Dynasty, Fang Yanqian became an official. He was first appointed as the Minister of Civil Affairs, and then moved to supervise the Censor.

Although the Supervisory Censor sounds illustrious, he is actually an official of the eighth rank. He is not qualified to enter and exit the main entrance of the court, and can only enter and exit through the side door. Unless there is something to do, he is not allowed to enter the palace.

However, it took a lot of effort for Cui Che to recruit Fang Yanqian into the government. He first visited and moved out his grandfather Cui Jishu, then persuaded Fang Yanqian, and then asked Yang Jian to transfer Fang Yanqian to join the army as a shogunate official.

Only then did it happen.

Cui Jishu and Fang Yanqian do have a connection. As we all know, Cui Jishu and Gao Cheng have a very close relationship, and Fang Yanqian is the staff of Gao Cheng's son. It is normal for the two parties to have a relationship.

After all, before Cui Jishu was unjustly killed, he promoted many scholars. In short, this time Cui Che took advantage of Cui Jishu and invited Fang Yanqian.

Yang Jian thought that Cui Che's request to recruit Fang Yanqian was because he valued his family's reputation in Qingzhou. During the Northern Qi Dynasty, Fang Yanqian was promoted to Princess Qi at the age of eighteen, and his family's strength was evident in the local area.

But Cui Che is not actually targeting Fang Yanqian.

It is true that Fang Yanqian has outstanding abilities. If Cui Che had not interfered, he would have been appointed as the magistrate of Changge County in the future, and he would have been rated the best in the world in the assessment of county magistrates across the country.

But Cui Che obviously cares more about Fang Yanqian's only son, Fang Xuanling, who is only five years old.

Before visiting Fang Yanqian yesterday, Cui Che felt that his son was destined to him. This time Fang Xuanling also returned home with his father and took up his post in Qingzhou.

This time, Cui Che did not mobilize his troops in Boling. The three thousand men and horses, said to be rural regiments, actually already have the mold of elite soldiers. Cui Che asked Zhang Wu to train them well. If there is trouble in Qingzhou in the future, he will mobilize them again.

These three thousand cavalrymen marched south.

Now it is better to let them spend more time with their families.

Of course, the main reason is that Cui Che wants to take advantage of the opportunity of opening fields to produce salt to develop a second direct force.

Before leaving Beijing, Cui Che asked Yang Jian to recruit salt workers and form a salt corps to guard the salt fields.

Yang Jian agreed immediately for the sake of tens of millions of salt a year, but he was also worried about the sabotage caused by private salt dealers.

Cui Che made up his mind to personally form this salt regiment of 3,000 people. He dared not say that he would turn them into private soldiers, but he had to imprint Cui Che's imprint on them.

Different from the six-year term of officials in the past, Yang Jian changed the term to three years in order to prevent local officials from colluding with the powerful. Naturally, Cui Che could not hold Qingzhou for a long time.

Thank you for reminding everyone. It is true that the two Li Gang were confused, but since it has been published, it is not easy to change it. In the future, we will be more detailed when checking the information, and we will downplay the relationship between Li Gang and Li Chong and will not mention it again.

(End of chapter)