Qin Official

"The Sheriff's Yintang..."

Shi Sheng had prepared a long speech, but after being bitten by Hei Fu, he immediately choked in his mouth.

He couldn't help but stare at Heifu's forehead. It was difficult to deal with it now. He was neither black nor black, so he could only cough lightly, skip this paragraph, and go straight to the topic.

"The grassroots people in Lu Township heard that the county governor had committed rebellion and rebellion. He brought Tian Gu to justice, drove him from Tiandu, and collected money and silk from his farm and house. He was really famous and the whole county was shocked!"

"But the county guard didn't see the crisis that was so close at hand!"

At this point, he started playing tricks again, hesitating to speak, hoping to let Heifu block him.

But Hei Fu said: "We are all my relatives here. If you have anything to say, sir, just say it directly."

Shi Sheng could only say: "Seeing the governor's behavior, the common people couldn't help but think of these two people!"

He paused again, and seeing that Hei Fu did not ask further questions, he had no choice but to continue on his own in embarrassment: "One is Wu Qi, and the other is Shang Yang!"

When Hei Fu heard this, he looked around and smiled and said: "It's strange. In my life, it is best to read "Wu Zi" when I am a soldier. When I govern a county, I also like to borrow "Shang Jun Shu". Now someone actually compares me with Wu and Shang and praises me. I don’t even know how to answer.”

Everyone laughed, but Shi Sheng shook his head and said: "The common people are not praising the county governor. Although the two monarchs have great achievements and fame in the world, they did not end well!"

His tone was in vain: "At that time, the king of Chu mourned Wu Qixian and made him the minister of Chu. Wu Qixian made the law and judged the order, donated the officials who were not in urgent need, and abolished those who were alienated from the princes. Although the Chu Dynasty became strong, the nobles and relatives of Chu His interests were damaged, so he tried his best to harm Wu Qi. When King Chu Mourning died, the clan ministers rebelled and attacked Wu Qi. Wu Qi was shot dead in the mourning hall! He was hit by dozens of arrows!"

"The same is true for Shang Yang. During his twenty years as a minister of Qin, he deposed the Duke of Qin and punished his son Qian. The nobles of Qin hated him to the core. When Duke Xiao died, they all said that Shang Yang was rebelling. He captured his chariot and broke it to pieces in the city of Xianyang!"

When Wei Yang and others saw that he actually used the death of Wu and Shang to curse Hei Fu, they were furious, but Hei Fu stopped them: "Let him continue."

Shi Sheng bowed again and said: "The reason why Wu and Shang fell was because they suddenly changed the laws of Chu and Qin and offended the nobles. As the proverb goes, those who govern the country well will not change the rules and regulations. Now the county governor is governing Jiaodong, but he follows the example of Wu and Shang, drastically changing the old system, and using harsh punishments to attack the fields."

Gong Ao was furious, pointed at Shi Sheng and cursed: "You alchemist, after all your talk, do you want to plead for Tian Gu and his son and die with them?"

Shi Sheng said hurriedly: "How dare you? I heard that Tian Gu conspired to rebel. Of course his family deserved to die. But after all, the Tian family in Yeyi was after Tian Dan, the lord of Anping, and was highly respected in Qi. Now that the county guard has captured Tian Gu, his family in Yeyi has taken over. His wealth will shock the land two thousand miles away. Tian Chengzi has more than seventy sons, spread over more than seventy cities, and all the fields in the land are one family. If one move affects the whole body, they will also be afraid, thinking that the governor is We must drive out all the fields and wipe them out..."

"In short, what the county governor is doing is accumulating resentment and accumulating disaster. "Poetry" says, those who win people will prosper, and those who lose people will perish. Now when the county governor travels, he is followed by dozens of military chariots. The chariots are filled with armored guards, strong men acting as personal guards, and men holding spears and halberds holding oars and shields, running close to the chariot. If these defenses are missing, you will not be able to travel!"

"As the proverb goes, prosperity depends on charity and destruction depends on force. Looking at it this way, the situation of the county governor is as dangerous as the dew in the morning, which will soon disappear. If this continues, all the fields on the land will be destroyed. The general will regard the governor as his enemy. If this continues, Wu Qi and Shang Yang may be in trouble. This is what I call a catastrophe!"

After the long speech, Shi Sheng bowed to Captain Hei Fu and said, "If there is anything wrong, I hope the governor will not blame you."

But Hei Fu applauded: "That's right. That Lu Shenxian really has a good disciple. If you hadn't said it, I would have thought you were a political scholar or a Confucian scholar, not an alchemist."

Shi Sheng smiled and said: "When I was young, I did recite the teachings of Confucius and read some short and long books. It was only when I was old that I followed the Master."

"I see."

Heifu looked at Shi Sheng again. At first he thought he was a magician who wanted to deceive him, but unexpectedly, he actually had some insight and could clearly explain the situation he was about to face in Qi.

"If it's not just pretentiousness, then what is his purpose?"

…

In fact, Shi Sheng has been paying attention to Heifu for a long time. Every time he implements policies, Shi Sheng carefully considers it. The reason was that a letter from his husband, Lu Ao, who was far away in Xianyang, asked Shi Sheng to find a way to get close to the Jiaodong County Sheriff and gain his trust...

Hei Fu still doesn't understand the Fang Warlocks well enough. Currently, the Fang Warlocks are divided into two factions, the Han School and the Yanqi School, also known as the "Ancestral Zao Fu Shi School" and the "Overseas Immortal Seeking School".

Among Korean alchemists, the representative figures are Han Zhong and Hou Sheng, who were recruited into the Shaofu by Qin Shihuang and treated as imperial doctors. What they admired was "taking food from the ancestral stove". The two believed that the reason why immortals lived forever was because they ate gold and drank pearls all the year round, and then lived as long as the heavens. So they tried to make pills in the cauldron and refined pills in the cauldron. After many years, the effect was that after eating From now on, let people be like gold and achieve immortality...

But Qin Shihuang was an extremely cautious person. He was assassinated many times, and he always used people to test the medicine. Han Zhong and Hou Sheng did not dare to guarantee that they had refined the elixir. They could only practice some aphrodisiac drugs to get through. They repeatedly exaggerated the difficulty of refining and asked the emperor to give them more money to let them find the rare elixir in the world. precious materials.

The other group is the Yan and Qifang warlocks headed by masters and apprentices Lu Sheng and Shi Sheng. These people are not as skilled as the Korean warlocks, but they rely on the sea to tell stories about the "Three God Mountains" that are widely spread in Jiaodong, Jieshi and other places. Qin Shihuang, they described that there were immortal elixirs in Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou, which did not need to be refined, and could be taken after being collected.

Of course, Lu Sheng's goal in boasting about the overseas fairyland was to get money.

In the original history, the two schools of alchemists won the favor of the emperor with their erudition, elegance, and good words, and they were constantly favored. However, in this dimension, the alchemists were very average.

All of this must be traced back to the time of the Western Tour in the 27th year. Under the instigation of Heifu, Wu Zhi of Chen Bao Temple told Qin Shihuang about the Queen Mother of the West, which led the emperor's interest astray.

After that, the Qin Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu and the Yuezhi again. The emperor sent waves of caravan envoys to Hexi, trying to open up the Western Regions and find the Kunlun Wonderland, the Queen Mother State of the West, which was as illusory as the fairy mountains on the sea.

Since there was a lot of investment in the west, there was naturally less attention paid to overseas affairs, so the alchemists in the court were doing well. However, Qin Shihuang did not put all his eggs in one basket and continued to support this group of people...

At least Han Zhong and Hou Sheng were able to make medicine with the cinnabar sent as tribute from Bajun, and the smoke from the furnace continued. The overseas immortal-seeking sect was dumbfounded. If the emperor did not give them money and silk to go overseas, they would have nothing to do for a day.

Lu Shengsi thought about it and believed that Heifu, who advocated westward expansion, was the initiator of all this. By chance, this man was working as an official in Jiaodong, the base camp of the Alchemists. If he could be won over and change his mind, there might be a chance for him to go to sea to seek immortality. !

Therefore, Shi Sheng, who received the mission, first assigned several disciples to help Hei Fu search for clues about the gold mine, and now he went out in person to make Hei Fu remember him through a warning.

Of course, he also has another purpose, which is to exert influence on the governor. After all, Moroda is also a big financial backer of Alchemist. If Heifu continues to do this, it will not do any good to Alchemist...

He has a lot of knowledge and is quite confident in himself. He is just waiting for Hei Fu to say "What can I do about it"!

After waiting for a long time, Hei Fu asked: "In your opinion, what should I do to get out of this 'critical situation'?"

Shi Sheng immediately replied: "Force and harsh laws are enough, and the next step is to rule with benevolence and morality. The county governor might as well reuse those talents who live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, respect the virtuous people, and then use the property and food collected from Tian Gu's family to support the elderly and the weak , take care of the orphans and widows, and then allocate the fields and houses to the local Tian clan to show that they have no intention of exterminating all the fields. Only in this way can we maintain a little peace..."

It sounds reasonable, but Heifu easily discovered the pitfalls.

It is fine to support the elderly and the weak, and to raise the orphans and widows, but the wise men who live in seclusion in the mountains and forests respect the virtuous? I'm afraid this talented scholar is someone from your circle of magicians.

As for allocating 100,000 acres of land to those small landowners named Tian?

Hei Fu shook his head and said: "Killing the big snake and feeding the little snake with its meat is like raising a hui into a snake..."

Heifu knew very well that his identity was the original sin. From the moment he entered Jiaodong, he was the public enemy of Zhutian. Someone assassinated him without doing anything, let alone now? Don't be merciful to potential enemies.

But we must also pay attention to splitting the attack. As early as yesterday, Heifu had sent people to Jimo and other counties to issue political orders. Tian Gu and his son plotted to assassinate the officials and gathered troops to rebel. The county guard had no choice but to execute them. As for other fields, As long as they do not cause trouble, the government will not touch them at all, and will recruit their children as officials. Those who wish can go to the public school to register.

Let's coax and drag for the time being. The opportunity to eliminate it in one fell swoop has not yet come.

As for the 100,000 acres of farmland? There was no need for Shi Sheng to come up with the idea, Hei Fu already had a plan in mind!

He stood up and said: "Two thousand soldiers from Linzi will be stationed in Yeyi, Pingdu, Huangxian and other places to protect the salt fields and gold mines. Huangxian County soldiers also contributed a lot to the rebellion of Pingtian and his son. I want to Allocate 30,000 acres of land for soldiers to work in the fields, exempting them from rent and taxes, and all the harvest will be used to provide food and clothing for them..."

Farming is Heifu's old profession in the North. Now that he has a lot of land in his hands, he can't let it go, so he should treat it as a benefit to these garrison troops.

"As for the remaining 70,000 acres of land..."

In Shi Sheng's eyes, these lands were hot potatoes snatched from Tian Gu's family, and they were a source of disaster that aroused fear in the fields, so they all hurriedly threw them out to prevent them from attacking in groups.

But for Heifu, this is the basis that changes everything.

Finally, he is no longer the empty-headed governor who came with nothing in his hands!

Looking at a large pile of wooden land deeds in front of him, Heifu showed a smile: "Yeyi County Magistrate, immediately drafted a decree for me, saying that in order to defend against the nuisance of pirates, Jiaodong needs a group of soldiers."

The Yeyi County Magistrate was stunned for a moment, then raised his head, thinking he had listened.

"You heard it right, paid recruitment, not free recruitment!"

In the astonished eyes of everyone, Heifu clasped his hands and said: "The leftovers, farm laborers, son-in-laws, merchants, craftsmen... In short, as long as they are landless people, they are above seventeen and below forty. Those who have passed the test will go to each county to sign up for the test."

"Let public school disciples go to the countryside to publicize and let everyone know that no matter who they are, as long as they can pass the simple examination of the government and are not sick or disabled, they can be recruited as field soldiers, and their families can move to Fude The oil-flowing Yeyi came and granted his family fifty acres of land! He will take all the harvest from the fields that will have a good harvest this year for free, and the land rent will be exempted next year!"

As soon as these words came out, Shi Sheng was dumbfounded. He now understood that Heifu didn't care at all about what he just said. Not only was he not gentle, but he wanted to do the opposite! Thinking of the possible terrible consequences of this matter, I couldn't help but feel weak in my legs and feet, and said:

"Junjun, you are repeating what Wu Qi and Shang Yang did! You are in a hornet's nest!"

"Really? It's a pity that I am not Wu Qi or Shang Yang, and your Majesty is not Qin Xiaogong or Chu Miao King!"

But there is one thing that Shi Sheng said is right. The crux of Jiaodong is very similar to that of Qin and Chu in the past. It does not lie in how to please the old nobles and maintain the status quo, but in...

"If you don't break, you won't stand!"

Heifu looked back at the alchemist. In Shi Sheng's eyes, he looked ferocious, resembling a greedy black bear!

"If there is a wasp that wants to sting me, I would like to taste their honey to see if it is sweet!"