Chapter 676: Famous Officials and Good Breeds
Xixiang, a camel breeding commune nearby.

The Yuanshi battleship was anchored at the nearby Jingshui River, while Black Bear was deep in thought while holding a cup of camel milk.

The concubine, Queen Guo, knelt beside him, fanning him with a feather fan.

Generally speaking, when Black Bear came to Xixiang before, he naturally would not bring his concubines and female relatives from Dongxiang.

But after Ma Teng entered the court, Black Bear also took the initiative to come to Xixiang, but Ma Yunlu was still angry and seemed reluctant.

Black Bear really didn’t want to say anything polite and just let the other party get angry.

He simply summoned several concubines from Dongxiang to continue to flatter Ma Yunlu.

He was in a dilemma at the moment, as Zhang Xiu had been the governor of Hexi for a long time and it was time for him to be transferred.

Zhang Xiu also took the initiative to submit a petition, describing the many inconveniences he and Cai Zhaoji were facing as they were separated, and hoped that Black Bear could preserve their relationship.

How much affection can there be between these two people?

Black Bear was very skeptical about this and was not sure about Zhang Xiu’s real motive.

It is possible that the request for transfer was prompted by the incident of Ma Teng entering the court. In order to dispel suspicion, he also took the initiative to give himself the reason for the transfer.

Another possibility is that Zhang Xiu really wanted to take advantage of the military merit in Hebei.

Zhang Xiu can be settled in Guanzhong and Youyan, but who can replace Zhang Yan?
Thinking of Ma Yunlu’s recent stubborn attitude, Black Bear turned his head to look at the secretary Lang Xunwei who was on duty nearby.

This person is not from the Xun family of Yingchuan, but from Henei.

Xun Wei noticed the black bear’s gaze: “Your Majesty?”

“Send Wei Kang here.”

“Here.”

Soon Wei Kang came quickly with a pen, ink and a wooden box in hand: “Your Majesty?”

“Remove Zhang Xiu from his post as the governor of Hexi and appoint him as the General of Zhenbei, stationed in Datong City. Then you will be the Chief of Zhenbei and learn military strategies from Zhang Xiu.”

“Here.”

Wei Kang just agreed, then he came back to look at Black Bear: “Your Majesty? I’m going to Datong now?”

“No hurry, wait until Zhang Xiu arrives, and then you can set off in early August. Staying with me won’t last long, and you need to be assigned to various positions so that you can gain insight into government affairs and become a pillar of the country.”

Black Bear pondered and smiled: “Yan Xing, the governor of Xiping County, is also the governor of Hexi, and Zhang Meng is also the chief secretary.”

Wei Kang wrote that Zhang Meng was the youngest son of Zhang Huan and the younger brother of Zhang Chang, the former shogunate official. He was a close friend of Fu Gan and had jumped ship from Zhong Yao very early on and was selected by Fu Gan to join the shogunate.

Sima Zhi did not use Zhang Meng much, and later he was appointed as the magistrate of Wuwei County during the performance evaluation.

Only Ma Teng was a little special before. He recruited his old subordinates on his own and formed the Zhenbei General’s Shogunate.

In addition, the chief secretaries and generals of other generals were all specially appointed by the Grand General’s office; people like Zhang Liao could only select people to serve as chief clerks and supervisors under the account, and even the various Caos in the army had to have meritorious service before they could be appointed, and no one could be recruited.

Now the main commander of the garrison group in the east is Zhang Xiu, and in the west is Yan Xing. Ma Chao must be very uncomfortable being caught in the middle.

After Black Bear finished drinking the camel milk in his cup, he asked Wei Kang, “Go back and recommend a few people for me to select.”

Wei Kang hesitated a little, a little reluctant, but still bowed: “Yes.”

Black Bear nodded, and after Wei Kang left, he asked Yang Jun, who was writing on the other side, “Guess who General Yuan will recommend?”

Yang Jun put down his pen, took a sip of tea, and thought with a frown.

Since the establishment of the Grand Marshal’s Office, the first Lingshi was Zhang Chang, and the chief clerk of the Huangge was Yang Fu.

Yang Fu participated in the campaigns to Yuzhong, Hanzhong and Shuzhong and won great victories, so he was sent to be the governor of Ba County, which was the most populous county under his jurisdiction.

When Yang Fu was sent out, he recommended Wei Kang to join the government. At that time, Zhang Chang was short of energy, so the two of them basically took turns on duty. After Zhang Chang was sent out to serve as the governor of Shangjun, Wei Kang was the one who drafted the key documents, and he did not select a deputy.

Both of them were from Guanzhong, which is obviously a bit too much.

Yang Jun thought for a moment: “Zhang Song, Zhang Ziqiao?”

“No, General Yuan will not choose him. I think General Yuan will choose the young talent from Xizhou.”

Hei Xiong denied it. He didn’t even want to look at Wang Can, his friend in need, let alone let Zhang Song live with him day and night.

The position of Lingshi was very low, but if one participated in the rebellion, the harm would be extremely great.

There is also playing with words, the same is true for dictating, and letting the historian write it down… An experienced person can change a synonym, and the attitude of the text will become vague.

This is also the key factor in getting Zhang Chang out. Young people don’t have so many ideas.

If you choose young people with great prospects to do this, you can avoid a lot of trouble.

Yang Jun thought about the young talents from Xizhou again, then shook his head and smiled.

There are only so many people coming to Xixiang, and whatever is said here can be heard by Wei Kang right away.

Given the relationship between Wei Kang and the Grand Marshal, they would naturally make every effort to select a suitable successor from among the young talents of Xizhou.

That is to say, the position of Lingshi is not recommended by the East Cao or dispatched by the West Cao.

After dealing with the official documents, Black Bear led everyone aboard the Yuanshi battleship, and sailed away down the Jing River.

Being in the current position, spending the night near Xixiang or deliberately irritating Ma Yunlu would be a kind of injustice to myself.

The free Yuanshi battleship will head straight for Chencang, and various wild vines collected and purchased from Nanzhong have arrived at the Chencang Shipyard.

Black Bear has to go and see what these vines are made of, and then go find Zhuge Liang for some tea.

Zhuge Liang must be trained well. Recently, several Taoist soldiers have been trained. Their original bodies were capable officials who died of illness.

It is discovered that these people’s qualifications can break through to level five, so reputation… or more accurately, influence on the world, is the key factor that affects the ultimate limit of Dao Soldiers.

Lu Bu was dead, and level seven was the limit; but under the influence of the alias ‘Tai Shi Wen Gong’, he broke through to level eight.

And at the ninth level, one has to be deified.

Based on these inferences, the dead Zhuge Liang is the most terrifying Zhuge Liang.

If you train them well, they can be directly strengthened to level nine after death… If they have the ability to think and handle government affairs as they did in life, and are tireless and work day and night, that would be simply amazing.

Black Bear does not plan to strengthen Lu Bu to level nine before other reliable soldiers reach level nine.

If he really regains consciousness and attacks me in public, the resulting public opinion storm would be devastating.

The most reliable candidate at the moment is Gan Ning, followed by Dian Wei… Dian Wei is easy to win over, but you can’t gamble on him.

The most feared thing is being promoted to level nine, where part of the consciousness is revived, and one can even absorb the memories and cognitive fragments of the same entities in the higher-dimensional world. This is the real trouble.

Therefore, in order to control the national artifacts, it is necessary to select talented scholars from the grassroots and focus on training them.

Only a ninth-level Taoist soldier with this kind of background and experience will not be assimilated or polluted by higher dimensions.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang was just the beginning, and we also had to devote our efforts to training other officials like Zhuge Liang.

I am worried that the number of ‘level nine’ places is limited, but if I don’t strengthen the first level nine, I can’t make further inferences.

In comparison, Zhuge Liang and Gan Ning are relatively reliable; the others are relatively dangerous.

Even Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were as dangerous as Lu Bu.

(End of this chapter)