Qin Official

"My beloved said that he wanted to have a manor by the sea, but when I came all the way east, I saw only hilly fields and not even a shadow of the sea."

The busy farming month of February passed by in a hurry, and in mid-March, when spring plowing was coming to an end, the county governor's house also welcomed its hostess.

When Heifu took office, it was freezing cold. He felt sorry for his wife and children, so he asked them to come back in the spring.

As soon as he entered the county governor's house, Ye Zijin frowned. Heifu arrived in a hurry and was busy with government affairs. Many places in the old house revealed the simplicity and slovenliness of a man living alone. She had to let the servants and maids clean up and arrange everything. He looks pleasing to the eye.

After settling the accompanying guests and coaxing their son Ponu, who had been yelling all day since he could talk, to sleep, the couple had a chance to be alone.

Ye Zijin slapped Heifuhou's hand that was reaching for her belt, and said with a smile: "After I entered Jiaodong, when I was resting in the pavilion, I heard the shepherd boy riding the bull singing. The farmers in the field also sang in harmony. Junior officials, they said that what they sang was what a good man asked a farmer to do..."

"Flowers bloom at the beginning of spring, rain comes, spring thunder stings, frogs croak at the spring equinox"... Following the format, the twenty-four solar terms and their characteristics were written into slang with the cooperation of Heifu and the farmer. Heifu also ordered the disciples of the public school to copy it and teach it to the junior officials. He also sent the junior officials to the mountains and countryside, and traveled all over Jimo.

These days, agriculture needs to be carried out strictly according to the calendar, but there are many types of calendars in the world, such as the Xia calendar, the Yin calendar, the Zhou calendar, the Chu calendar, the Lu calendar, and the Zhuanxu calendar. Most of the calendars are lunar and solar, which cannot completely reflect the solar cycle. Farmers can only rely on word of mouth to determine the nodes of farming.

The Qin Dynasty used the Zhuanxu calendar, which was not in line with the habits of Jiaodong people, but it is illegal to change it without authorization. But the twenty-four solar terms solved this problem very well, so the farmers welcomed the song very much. Within a few months, it spread throughout Jiaodong. And because it was written by farmers, its reputation among the people was much better than that of the government, so the people Believe it or not.

Officials from various counties along the way thought this was good governance and praised Governor Heifu profusely. They also handed Ye the "worth twenty thousand gold" article that Heifu had written when he invited the farmers to see. After reading it, Ye Zijin was surprised. I couldn't help laughing.

She knew that her husband had many ideas and would come up with something new every time, but she did not believe that this was written by Heifu...

After spending several years together, Ye Zijin is the person who knows Hei Fu best in the world. No matter how much others praise him, she doesn't believe it. When they first met in Jiangling, the man who didn't want to be with the son of an official in Nanjun and recited poems was shocked. Heifu, who slapped the table and ran away, had only been reading for a few years and suddenly became a well-spoken poet.

"Who knew that every meal on the plate is a hard work? Oh, my beloved, although in public he shares the same food and clothing as the soldiers and civilians, but at home, he is not a frugal person. He especially likes delicious food. There is no meal at home that is not delicious on a lacquered plate. In order to satisfy his appetite, he almost forced the chef to death."

"This poem must have been ghostwritten by the scribes who are close to my husband!"

Although she didn't know who it was, she was so sure in her heart that she cleverly didn't tell the truth to save Heifu's face.

Heifu didn't know that his wife was complaining about him. After enjoying his belated spring, he talked about his next plan and asked his smart wife to help him think about whether there was anything he had overlooked.

"Spring plowing has come to an end. Although the farmers have stayed, the farming work has taken a long time. If it doesn't take more than a year and a half, I'm afraid there won't be any results."

Heifu left all spring plowing matters to Chen Ping. Chen Ping was born in a poor family and knew the hardships of farming. He had managed fields when he was a clerk in Yangwu County. During those years in Beidi County, I also worked for the black husband to set up a military camp in Luo Helan Mountain, which gave me quite a lot of experience. Farming is obviously more important than education, which is why Heifu trusts Chen Ping, hinting to him: You are still my first staff member!

But as Chen Ping's feedback continued to reach the county government, Heifu also discovered that if he wanted to win over Jiaodong farmers, it was obviously not enough to rely on farmers and twenty-four solar terms songs. The method of composting and retting would have to wait until next year to be fully promoted. .

If we want to achieve results quickly, we still need to start by changing the land pattern.

Heifu said: "The ownership of fields is very different between Qin and Qi. Guanzhong and Nanjun implement a land grant system. The land is state-owned and cannot be bought or sold. Most of the fields belong to small farmers' families of five to eight people."

"The land in Qi is privately owned, mostly in the hands of princes and nobles, and annexation is not prohibited. Qi surrendered without a fight, and this situation has not changed in any way. So at the beginning of the year, His Majesty listened to the advice of the prime minister and issued a decree to make the head of Guizhou From Shitian.”

Making the head of Guizhou come from Shitian means asking the people of Guandong to report the amount of land they occupy to the government, and the land officials will review it and determine the taxes.

In this way, the Qin Dynasty recognized the current situation of the land in Guandong in disguise. Li Si probably wanted to use this method to reassure the nobles of Guandong.

But Heifu felt that this was of no use. The nobles of Kanto would only care about what they lost. Instead of counting on them, it would be better to win over those farm laborers who "the poor have no place to stand on".

Although Jiaodong is large, it has many hills and tidal flats, and there are not many places suitable for reclamation. However, it has a population of 700,000 to 800,000. The excess population can only be developed into industry and commerce.

Heifu wants to break the land pattern, but the premise is that the Jimo Tian family, which occupies a large amount of local land, must get out!

But he has more than enough ambition, but not enough strength.

Heifu said: "There are only a few dozen officials in the Qin Dynasty in Jiaodong, and most of the county soldiers are locals. Taken together, they are not as many guests and disciples as the Jimo Tian family, let alone the Yeyi Tian family as reinforcements."

The Yeyi Tian family is a descendant of Tian Dan, Lord of Anping. Yeyi, which has a population of ten thousand households, used to be their family's private territory. So this is the reason why the "Guizhou leader from Shitian" cannot win over the nobles: He was once the lord of ten thousand households and a vassal, but now he has become the legal leader of Guizhou. The whole family must be full of resentment. If you don't oppose it, who will you oppose?

"There has been no chaos in Qi in the past five years. It is all thanks to General Wang Ben's guarding in Linzi. Now that he has returned to Xianyang, if I rashly move the fields without a stable footing, I am afraid that chaos will occur. By then, There are no reinforcements far away, no brave soldiers nearby, and all the counties and villages are rebelling. I am afraid I will be trapped in the isolated city."

So Heifu's plan is to wait until Qin Shihuang visits the east coast this year as planned, and then use the accompanying army to uproot the fields in Jiaodong! Move them all to Kansai!

After hearing this, Ye Zijin realized that the water in Jiaodong was actually so deep, and said softly: "I'm afraid my dear friend's plan will come to nothing. Your Majesty's eastward tour this year may be postponed!"

It turns out that in the few months since Heifu came to Jiaodong, a lot of things have happened in the west.

On the Bashu side, Wei Chang from Shu County and Jia Bazhong, a great merchant from Ba County who had an irreversible friendship with Heifu, proposed to build a five-foot road to connect the southwestern barbarians when Qin Shihuang inspected Bashu last year. At present, the Wuchi Road has only been built for a period, and it encountered the obstruction of the largest local force "Qiongdu". A conflict broke out between the government and Qiongdu. The Shu County Lieutenant was aggressively proposing to send troops to destroy it first, and then continue to advance south.

This is nothing, Qiongdu is just a small country, and the military strength of Bashu and Shu counties is completely sufficient. But the Yueshi in the west would require one hundred thousand soldiers to capture.

Ye Zijin told Heifu that although the Yuezhi was forced by the Qin army and sent his eldest son to the court the year before last, the king of the Yuezhi was very repetitive. He saw Qin merchants having close contacts with Wusun, the enemy to the west. He was afraid, so he sent his eldest son across the desert. He secretly communicated with Maodun in Mobei and was discovered by the Qin Army's Juyan Post.

At the same time, Prince Yuezhi, who was working as a hostage in Xianyang, killed a commoner while drunk and was imprisoned by Tingwei. The relationship between Qin and Yuezhi suddenly became tense!

"When people from other countries break the law in Qin, they will be punished with the same crime regardless of their status."

Heifu pondered, similar examples have happened in history. During the reign of King Qin Zhao, Xiong Heng, the prince of Chu who was serving as a hostage in Xianyang, had a private fight with a senior official in the state of Qin. After Xiong Heng killed him, he knew that he might be punished. Qin Fa sanctioned him, so he fled back to Chu in fear.

The peace treaty between Qin and Chu broke down, and two years later the Qin army used this as an excuse to attack Chu.

Hei Fu's father-in-law, Ye Teng, is a Tingwei. Hei Fu knows with his eyes closed what the old man Ye will do. Hei Fu knows that Prince Yuezhi is in trouble this time. When the news of his death reaches Yuezhi, Prince Yuezhi will definitely fight with Qin. break!

A big battle is imminent, and maybe Li Xin has already crossed the Yellow River by now.

"His Majesty has never been satisfied with the Yuezhi being a tributary vassal, but wants to wipe it out directly so that the road to seek immortality in the Western Regions will be unimpeded in the future..."

Heifu was helpless: "Based on what I know about His Majesty, he will definitely wait until the dust of this battle has settled, and then with the power of victory, he will patrol east to Fengchan."

So Heifu has only two choices now, either to maintain the status quo and wait, or to find a way on his own!

Tomorrow will worry about tomorrow, Heifu has bigger things to do now, which is the long-delayed plan to create humans.

"I've even thought of a name for our second child!" After he was done, he whispered in his wife's ear.

"Huh?" Ms. Ye was exhausted after a long night of tossing, but now she was completely sleepless. She opened her eyes and looked at her husband, and suddenly became nervous. Not only did she not believe that Heihu could compose poems, she was also dissatisfied with the name he had given to the baby. Unable to complain...

But Heifu got excited and said proudly:

"Jiaodong Binhai, if he is still a boy, call him 'Wei Fubo'!"

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ps: I would like to take a look at the book written by my roommate when I was a graduate student. It is also a story about the Qin Dynasty. He is the apprentice who taught me step by step in July. If possible, I hope everyone can collect it and support it. Thank you!

Introduction: A small farmer was reborn in the Qin Dynasty, facing the loess and turning his back to the sky. Zhang Peng was unwilling to do so. We also know that at this time, the First Emperor was in his prime, Liu and Xiang had not yet made a fortune, and they had great potential in the future. He was about to make a grand speech, but unexpectedly, the farmhand who was plowing the field threw away his hoe and said to him: "We want to be rich and noble, so don't forget each other!"