Chapter 280 A steady stream of water
Chapter 280 A steady stream of water
Outside the government office, the crowd was in an uproar.
Who is Liang Qu?
A famous person in Hebo!
Not to mention his previous deeds of killing bandits and destroying the Whale Gang, the day when he competed with Wei Shao in duck water and won the battle with him despite being at a different realm, it was truly a sensation.
I got to know everyone in the entire river community, whether they knew him or not, whether they wanted to join the group or not.
The eighth-rank He Bo, a horse-running martial artist, learned from the tiger-hunting martial artist of Pingyang County, the head of the Hebo Station, Yang Dongxiong...
Miao Ling was famous and indeed extraordinary. He could become a seventh-rank Du Shui Lang. Many people were impressed by him and regarded him as a role model for the rise of people from the lower class.
But... not everyone.
Especially Wei Lin's side, which had been divided to begin with, had some complaints after hearing the content of the reward.
How old is Liang Qu? Is he an adult?
Not to mention the great achievements, he even jumped two levels to the seventh rank, and got a fourth-rank dragon-blood horse. It was too generous!
The Hebo Office is not a purely military office. Whoever is stronger will be promoted faster and to a higher position.
It is of a clerical nature.
Why did Dashun take the imperial examination?
The reason is very simple: a powerful person may not necessarily know how to govern a place.
Even if you are in a military camp, if you want to be a general you have to understand the art of war. If you just rush forward with your head down you can only be a vanguard at best!
In addition to the martial arts aspect of dealing with water beasts and the Ghost Mother Sect, the Hebo Office also has civil administration duties such as water conservancy construction, river management, water control and drainage.
Those two river-opening oxen are still helping to open irrigation channels for summer crops in the fields today.
In addition, some people were dissatisfied, not because Liang Qu was young and unwilling to accept the crowd, but because they felt it was unfair.
There are eighteen branches of the Ghost Mother Sect in total. How can you jump two levels by strangling a branch of the Ghost Mother Sect?
When the entire Ghost Mother Cult is wiped out in the future, will the nine-rank and eighteen-level official system be enough for him to be promoted?
Besides, Liang Qu's main action on the battlefield was just to shoot arrows to support, which cannot be said to be insignificant, but he had never fought hand-to-hand, risked his life, or experienced the real danger. What would other martial artists with broken hands and feet think?
In short, some people are convinced and some are not.
There were many reasons for dissatisfaction and various manifestations, so much so that even when the envoy from Nanzhili was still reading out the report, there was already some discussion below.
The foolish man in the countryside is truly fearless!
The terrifying murderous aura burst out and spread like a torrent, thick and sticky as substance.
The few people who had spoken among them felt as if they had fallen into an icy cave, and their legs trembled as they collapsed.
The line was so tight that they were blocked by the people in front and behind them, half squatting and half paralyzed. Some of them were unlucky and stood on both sides of the line and fell out to the ground.
No one dared to help.
The sound of the tide.
The surroundings were quiet again.
"Just for fun."
Wei Lin bowed his hands with a blank expression.
The middle-aged man had heard about Wei Lin's style. Even in the court, there were a lot of noise and arguments, not to mention the "wild people" present. He didn't care and continued reading.
In the queue, Liang Qu's eyes flickered.
"A man's reputation is like the shadow of a tree..."
Needless to say, no one turned around to look at him in front of him, but from behind, he could feel many eyes were cast at him.
There were clearly two people before him, and their rewards were almost the same, except that they didn't have the Dragon Blood Horse, but no one talked about it.
It’s nothing, it’s just that he’s not very famous, so naturally there’s not much attention.
Not to mention that Liang Qu himself was somewhat surprised.
I thought I would be promoted to the first rank at most this time, but I unexpectedly jumped two levels and got a fourth-rank dragon blood horse promotion pill. It was really unexpected.
The dragon blood horse is a symbol of glory, and many people would rather give up a great achievement just to own one.
Nanzhili is really generous.
How did Xu Yuelong write his application for merit?
Learn it some other day. No matter how much others say, it is better to have one more mouthful of rice in the bowl.
After the middle-aged man finished reading, Xu Yuelong stepped forward and invited him to go into the government office to rest.
"The weather is hot. Lord Pei has come from afar. Why don't you stop for a while and drink some ice yogurt to cool off?" The middle-aged man shook another memorial and politely declined the offer of thanks.
"I have arrived at the Hebo Station first. The Demon Hunting Division has not yet received the credit, so it is inconvenient for me to stay for long."
"I see. It is not appropriate to keep my colleagues from the Monster Hunting Division waiting for too long. I respectfully send you off, my Lord."
Xu Yuelong bowed.
"Congratulations, my lord."
Everyone bowed together.
The middle-aged man nodded, jumped on his horse, took away most of the team, and left a small number of accompanying officials to distribute rewards.
Several bookkeepers were flipping through the roster and calling out the names.
Liang Qu was at the front of the line and heard his name among the first few. He came forward and received a small sandalwood box, an identity document, a token, a seal, an official uniform, and so on.
The official who distributed the rewards asked Liang Qu to check whether there were any omissions or mistakes.
The token and seal were both fine. Liang Qu opened the small sandalwood box containing the Dragon Blood Horse Shengpin Pill, his eyes filled with surprise.
"What a big Dan!"
He originally thought that the Qilin Pill he swallowed, which was the size of a human eye, was big enough and his throat felt uncomfortable after swallowing it. He didn't expect that the Dragon Blood Horse's upgraded pill was the size of a fist!
A horse's throat isn't that thick, is it?
Won’t you choke to death?
Liang Qu looked up at the clerk who gave him the box.
"How do you feed it? Swallow it whole?"
Upon hearing this, the chief clerk bowed and said, "Sir Liang, the Shengpin Pill is not meant to be swallowed whole. It can be crushed and mixed with grass or made into mud, and then let the dragon blood horse swallow it all. But don't worry, this should be done by us. Wait a moment."
"Trouble."
"Mr. Liang is too polite."
The chief clerk bowed, made simple arrangements for the matters at hand, and while other colleagues were still distributing items, he took another clerk to the stables at Hebo.
Liang Qu rode Chishan when he came. During the few hours of waiting, he naturally let it stay in the stable of Hebo Station and be looked after by the horse servants of Hebo Station.
On the way, the chief clerk congratulated him, "Sir Liang is a young hero. He has been promoted to the seventh rank before he was even twenty. He is truly the envy of others."
"Why should others envy me? I'm sure you've seen that there are many people who are dissatisfied."
“He who knows others is wise, he who knows himself is enlightened, and you, Sir Liang, do not need to pay attention to those who are unwise and unclear.
Moreover, when I observe the people below me, there are many who are dissatisfied, but there are also many who are convinced. The fact that there are people who can comment now is simply because Lord Liang’s official position is not high enough and he cannot manage them. If he is promoted two levels and becomes the Hengshui Envoy, who would dare to say anything?
You are just a frog in the well, and you don't know the achievements of Lord Liang. You should know that in Nanzhili, Lord Liang is much more famous than in Pingyang County."
Liang Qu was puzzled: "What do you mean?"
Naturally, he was well-known in Yixing Town. After all, he had done a lot of practical things. What was the situation in Nanzhili?
I've never been there myself.
The chief clerk was surprised: "Did Lord Liang forget the phonetic system? After the summer solstice this year, almost all the academies in Nanzhili began to implement this system.
Everyone who has learned to read uses it. Even my kid knows that it is extremely easy to learn to read using pinyin.
This is how you got your fourth-grade upgrade pill, don't you know?"
Liang Qu was confused.
He really didn't know, and even thought that the upgraded pills were given to him by his superiors in recognition of his good work in Hebo.
Is this the third time?
The first time he gave it to Chishan, he was made the River Lord of Hebo.
The second time I made up for it with a great title, even if it was low, it was still a title after all.
Now it's a fourth-grade dragon-blood horse, there won't be any lingering effects later, right?
Liang Qu made a bold guess.
No matter how fast the pinyin method is, it still takes an average child a year to learn to read.
He had a good foundation and had received systematic education in his previous life, so he was able to learn all of them in just two or three months.
This reward is truly a long-lasting one.
(End of this chapter)