Qin Official

"I just said it casually, why do you have to be so serious."

On this day, Hei Fu had just returned from Xianyang Palace to discuss matters, and Zhang Ping came to visit again, still looking for someone.

A few days ago, Hei Fu returned to his mansion in the capital. The next day coincided with the winter solstice. It was Hei Fu's twenty-eighth birthday. Since his wife and brothers were not around, only old friends came to congratulate him.

Zhang Cang, Cheng Shang, and Zhang Han's younger brother Zhang Ping were all present. Heifu chatted after drinking, and casually mentioned that when he followed King Tongwu to conquer Wei, during the Battle of Waihuang, he saw a beautiful man at the top of the city. A handsome man with a beard.

"The young knight had just killed a Qin soldier. Looking at his posture, he seemed to be fighting me with a sword. Who would have thought that the next moment, he suddenly shouted "Protect Zhang Jun", rubbed oil on his feet and ran away. It’s really funny when you think about it.”

"Yesterday, on the way to Zhangtai Palace with Your Majesty, I saw a bearded man in Beimen Street, who was very similar to the local young man. Unfortunately, it was fleeting, and His Majesty was behind me. It was difficult to get out of the car and look for it, so I had to give up."

Heifu told it as a joke while drunk and didn't take it seriously. Unexpectedly, Zhang Ping, who was told by Zhang Han to "serve the general Wei as a brother", took it seriously. Afterwards, he made a special trip to Heifu's camp to help Heifu find the man.

But last year Qin Shihuang recruited 150,000 Shandong civilians, and now there were 100,000 in Xianyang, and an additional 30,000 to 40,000 were responsible for clearing snow that day. There were so many people that Zhang Ping couldn't find one, so he entrusted Xianyang Sikong to help. One day later, he handed over to him more than a hundred thick-bearded men. Zhang Ping happily showed it to Hei Fu...

There were more than a hundred thick-bearded men in the dark. Hei Fu was very speechless at the time. He looked around and saw that there was no one he saw at that time, so he simply invited them to have a meal and let everyone disperse.

He patted Zhang Han and told him that the matter was over: "Perhaps I was wrong that day. You don't need to be busy anymore. Focus on the important things and don't cause trouble in the city."

Heifu didn't expect that he would cause such a big farce with just one word. Zhang Ping's actions were enough to scare the snake. He really wanted to find someone, but it was hard to find him.

Hei Fu was also helpless. Not only Zhang Ping, but after he returned from serving in Beidi County for two years, everyone in Xianyang City, except for the emperor and his father-in-law Nei Shi Teng, who still had a bad face, seemed to have a different attitude towards him. Subtle changes.

In the past, he was at best a close minister of the emperor, who was valued for a while but had no authority. But now, he is like a high-ranking official in the border area. He has made great military exploits, and is also involved with the eldest son. He is running towards becoming a general and becoming a prime minister...

So there are quite a few people who want to curry favor with Hei Fu.

However, what caught Heifu's attention the most was the change in the two people's attitudes towards him.

One is Zhao Gao. Zhao Gao is always very honest in front of others. He has lost all the little tricks in the past. There is even a hint of flattery in his conversation with Hei Fu, but this makes Hei Fu wary.

Two years ago, Nei Shiteng guessed that there was a quarrel between Zhao Gao and Hei Fu. Zhao Gao was the official of Zhongche Mansion and he was the internal history officer. There was no direct relationship between the two. But Zhao Gao's son-in-law Yan Le is a subordinate of a subordinate of Nei Shi. In the past two years, Ye Teng has been secretly paying attention to Yan Le. However, what is disappointing is that although Yan Le is of low origin, he is very honest and has poor political performance. vulgar.

When Heifu visited Ye Teng on the first night after returning to Xianyang, Ye Teng threw the files about Yan Le and Zhao Gao's brother Zhao Cheng to Heifu and sneered: "Zhao Cheng is a Langguan in Linguang Palace. He has always been Behave yourself. And Yan Le is smart and capable, handles cases according to the law, and is also a capable official. He is much better than Sima Xin you recommended. No wonder Zhao Gao called him as his son-in-law."

Therefore, the only fault that Ye Teng could find about Zhao Gao was that the Queen Mother Zhao passed away eleven years ago and the court suffered a great loss. Zhao Gao, who was supposed to be on duty at Zhangtai Palace, disobeyed orders and rode his horse out of the palace because his mother was seriously ill and was about to die and could not report to the emperor. He was caught by Meng Yi.

But that matter has been pardoned by Qin Shihuang, and no one can pursue it.

That was also the last time Zhao Gao made a mistake, the last time he was bold. After that, he became more and more cautious.

"Can't you see that he is a filial son?"

At that time, Hei Fu spread his hands and said: "My dear, Zhao is in a high position and powerful but is not greedy. He also restrains his relatives and friends from doing evil. Such a person wants a lot!"

"It's as if everyone is an official just for money."

Neishiteng glared at his son-in-law, then pointed at himself: "Aren't you also in a high position and powerful and not greedy? Why do you restrain your relatives and friends from doing evil?"

Heifu spoke plausibly: "My family has its own property, and I have no worries about food and clothing, so why should I be corrupt? The friends I make are either trustworthy village party members, or people worth dealing with..."

"I see more than that."

Nei Shiteng seemed to be able to see through Heifu's heart: "Those who are not moved by wealth are probably for another thing, power! Thinking about this, it is not difficult to guess what Zhao Gao is thinking. The reason why he works so hard is to maintain his position with His Majesty. The weight in his heart. With His Majesty's favor, he has endless power. He also knows that as a close minister, if he loses His Majesty's favor, he will lose everything overnight! "

Ye Teng is the same, he tirelessly pursues the status of one person below ten thousand people!

"You want to fight back against Zhao Gao, but I advise you not to act rashly. If you act rashly, you will only hurt his skin, because all this does not depend on Zhao Gao, but on Your Majesty!"

Although what he said was correct, Hei Fu was unwilling to accept it. He did not believe that Zhao Gao and his gang were really invulnerable. One day, he would reveal his greedy fox tail.

Of course, there is another person, Li Si. When Hei Fu returned this time, Li Si treated him very politely and kept praising him. But the more he was like this, the more Hei Fu understood that he and the Li family had really parted ways...

Regarding Heifu, Li Si no longer worried about "forming a party", but regarded Heifu as an outsider who could not be used for his own purposes. After all, the old Prime Minister Wei Zhuang is just a seal stamp. He is about to retire, and the Prime Minister will be vacant.

Seeing that the imperial censor Feng Quji had disappointed the emperor with Feng Jie's defeat, Li Si became the most powerful competitor.

But Nei Shiteng also has a chance. In the past two years of the war in the northwest, Nei Shiteng was supporting the logistics. Nei Shiteng was responsible for the accumulation of supplies and was promoted to the first rank. Now he is the commander of the carriage. .

Therefore, the relationship between Li and Ye is very delicate. Even the black husband is in the middle and it is difficult to behave.

How to seize Zhao Gao's pigtails and bring him down in advance, and how to deal with the relationship with Li Si, these are the issues that Heifu needs to think about most after returning to Xianyang.

In comparison, the thick-bearded man with whom we only met once was not a big deal at all. Since we haven't found him, let him be.

Zhang Ping felt that he had done something wrong and was a little embarrassed. Unexpectedly, Heifu said to him again:

"You don't have to be depressed. Why worry about such a small thing? When spring comes, Helan and other places outside the Great Wall need to build cities and inns. I recommend you to your majesty. Beidi County will have two county commanders, one in Yi. In Qucheng, you major in Taoism. Once you are in Helan Mountain, you major in city building. You are the commander of the county who specializes in city building."

"Thank you, General Wei!"

Zhang Ping was overjoyed when he heard that he was the same age as Hei Fu. At the age of twenty-eight, he was sent from the Shaofu's two-hundred-ton petty official to serve as a four-hundred-ton county magistrate. It was really a happy event.

"Don't say thank you. Shaorong and I are close friends. You are like my biological brother. Just call me eldest brother."

Heifu keeps promoting Zhang Ping, but in fact, the real purpose is to win over Zhang Han. This brother Zhang Han is just an official contractor now and has been living in dust all year round in Saibei, but he will be a good person in the future...

Even if you don't have the opportunity to be a general like in history, it is still good to engage in infrastructure construction.

Immediately, Zhang Ping remembered something again.

"Brother Wei, will Beidi County send troops to attack the Huns in the coming spring?"

Since we were going to send a large number of troops to attack the Huns, where would we find the manpower to carry out large-scale construction?

"The march out of the fortress is over. Next year, the Qin soldiers will no longer cross Tangwenchi and Yinshan, and focus on establishing new counties and immigrating to farm."

Heifu sighed: "Today, my chief historian Chen Ping came to report and brought two pieces of news, one good and one bad. The good news is that the prince sent by the Yue clan to the dynasty has entered Longxi; but the bad news is that the Yue clan has entered Longxi. The king of the clan sent scouts to investigate in the wind and snow near Juyanze, but among the 30,000 Xiongnu there, not a single soldier or horse was found!"

"Modun deceived the Yuezhi King. Although he claimed to leave only in the spring, in fact, after killing Man Chanyu, he took a short rest and immediately took his tribe and ran back to Mobei before the heavy snow fell. It’s time to return to Lingcheng now…”

Lincheng is located deep in Mobei. The people of Qin only know its name and know that it is two thousand miles north of Hetao, but they do not know its specific location.

Heifu laughed at himself: "I seem to be having bad luck lately. I always fail to do what I want to do with someone."

What a cheating life you promised! Is this not fake?

But the person he is looking for next is famous and famous, and he can escape the monks but not the temples!

"Liu Bang in Sishui County, Pei County... No, he should still be called Liu Ji now."

Those who do not plan for the overall situation cannot plan for a region. The layout needs to be comprehensive. Since the matter in the north of Saibei is temporarily suspended, it is time to return to the Central Plains and focus on Shandong, which may be in chaos in the future...

Hei Fu thought to himself: "It hasn't been many years. Why don't you send someone to look for him casually and take a look to see if this guy has become the chief of the pavilion and has joined the ranks of Qin officials?"