Qin Official

When the carriage of Governor Heifu left Gaomi County, what was left behind was only a paper manuscript of "Yanzi Chunqiu", but what was taken away were the "good children" of several county tycoons such as the Yan family of Gaomi. More than ten people.

This group of young people range in age from their teens to their twenties. They have some knowledge of Qin seal script, and several of them can also speak simple Guanzhong Yayan. Most of them left home for the first time, and with fear and uneasiness, they bid farewell to their worried-looking elders.

After the convoy disappeared in the wind and snow, the head of the Yan clan couldn't help but beat his chest and regretted it. He only blamed his juniors for being incited by the new county guard and responded to the booing. In the end, he had his way. The disciples who were taken away were sent to the Qin people's schools to practice law and order. They could become officials one day, but in fact, they were also hostages detained in Jimo!

In this way, the Yan family was forcibly labeled as "seduce Qin officials", and they could not wash it off.

"I can't explain it now. Zhutian wants to hate me, Yanshi..."

Seeing that his father was worried, Yan Bo, who worked as a farm miser in the county, said: "Now that Tian Qi is dead, the people in charge of Jiaodong County are Qin officials, and the various fields are no longer feudal lords, but ordinary magnates. Why bother?" Are you afraid? If, as the governor of Nawei County said, we use the Yan, Guo, Gao, and Lu clans, and their children enter the government and gain power, in a few years, the Yan clan may be able to regain its former glory. By then, it will be It is Zhutian who is afraid of me, not me who is afraid of Zhutian!"

"What do you know!?"

The head of the Yan family glared at his son fiercely: "The fields have been accumulated for more than two hundred years, just like a mountain of soil. It cannot be built by a single beard, nor can it be dug up overnight. Although I, the Yan family, are an old noble of Jiang Qi, I have nothing to do with my family. Compared with the Jimo and Yeyi Tian clans, who can carry hundreds of horses and have thousands of apprentices, they are still far inferior. His in-laws are all over Jiaodong, and his descendants are scattered in various counties. He is respected by light knights and Confucian scholars. In the past five years, Jiaodong County Sheriff and Lieutenant have to respect him. Let Zhuda be divided, and this place will be safe and sound."

"Now as soon as the new county governor takes office, he talks a lot about Tian Qi's unfair control of the country. This is to push the Yan family out and force us to join the government and compete with the various fields. A few kind words, a book, and praise You are so happy just because you are praising Yan's family background. You are a real child. Sooner or later, my family will be destroyed in your hands!"

Yan Bo really didn't expect this and said hurriedly: "Then what should we do now?"

The head of the Yan family rolled his eyes: "Yanzi also worshiped in the temple, and his words about supporting the old Jiangqi clan at the banquet were also spread, and all my children were taken away by him. In the eyes of Zhutian, the Yan family betrayed the Qi people. It is certain that he will surrender to the officials of Qin, what else can he do now? Let's swallow the bitter water first and see what else this governor will do!"

…

"Without the words you prepared for me, with so many quotations from scriptures, I really wouldn't be able to say them."

At the same time, in the car going east, Hei Fu summoned Chen Ping to discuss with him.

It was Chen Ping's idea to win over the Yan family and other old Jiang Qi clans. As early as when he was in Xianyang, after roughly understanding the distribution and strength of the nobles in Jiaodong counties, he said to Heifu: "In the past, King Wu defeated Yin and rebelled against business. After getting off the car, the emperor was granted the title of Ji after the Yellow Emperor, Zhu after the emperor Yao, Chen after the emperor Shun, and Qi after the Xia Yu. So the world was overjoyed, and they all abandoned Shang and served Zhou. Why? Although the Yin survivors plotted day and night The Shang Dynasty resumed, but the old tribes of Tang, Yu, and Xia, who were also merchants in the past, all received enfeoffments, so they were willing to support the Zhou Dynasty."

To put it bluntly, King Wu of Zhou also united most of the three-generation old tribes and gave them the promise of establishing a feudal state, thereby isolating the Yin and Shang remnants.

In Chen Ping's view, the Qi aristocrats in Jiaodong are not monolithic. The movement of the Tian family to replace the Qi people two hundred years ago drove all the losers to Jiaodong. The Lu family, the Yan family, the Guo family, and the Gao family have always been under the influence of the Tian Qi family. The princes and princes were jealous and refused to reuse him. Now there is a chance to turn around. As long as the Qin government extends a hand, someone will definitely be willing to use his strength to ascend to a high position again.

"Even if they are unwilling to surrender to the governor, they will be forced into the car and use their children as hostages to make the various fields resent them!"

Chen Ping's strategy can be said to have insight into people's hearts. As long as he throws two big stones into the water, "Tian Qi's victory in the country is unfair" and "the county governor wants to support the old clan of Jiang Qi", he can cause an uproar.

The originally harmonious Jiaodong nobles would become suspicious whether they wanted to or not: Zhutian suspected that the Yan family and others would defect to Qin and betray themselves, while the Yan family and other old Jiang Qi clans were worried about Zhutian's angry revenge because they were weak. , can only be forced to hug the government's lap.

“There is no need to create contradictions.”

"Small conflicts will turn into big conflicts."

Heifu was full of praise: "In this way, we will create a gap between the old and new powerful men in Jiaodong County, and we will no longer be afraid that they will join forces to fight against the government."

As he went deeper into the hinterland of Jiaodong, his understanding of how to govern the county became clearer.

…

After Chen Ping resigned, Heifu took out the chessboard in the swaying carriage, first placed 6 white stones on the right side, lined up in a row, and then placed a black stone on the left to confront the 6 white stones...

It was not that he was bored enough to play chess alone, but he wanted to analyze clearly the positions of all social strata in Jiaodong County.

"With one pair of six, we will definitely lose, so I have to try my best to bring these white stones to the side of the black stones." Heifu said to himself, stretched out his hand and fiddled with the chessboard.

"The first white stone represents the largest power in Jiaodong, the nobles headed by Zhutian!"

These acres of land, with hundreds of nobles and thousands of children, were the feudal lords and officials of the Tian Qi era. Represented by the Sumida clan, the descendants of Tian Chang, and the Yeyi Tian clan, the descendants of Tian Dan, they can also be called Zhutian.

Zhutian was a vested interest in the Tian Qi era. When Qin destroyed Qi, they had the hatred of destroying the country and the country. In the past, the superior people became "heads of Guizhou" in law. Their social status plummeted and they lost all kinds of privileges. , of course I feel unwilling to do so.

Economically, Zhuda also suffered a big blow. They had long been in charge of the interests of the mountains and seas: the Jimotian family owned the ownership of the nearby mountains, forests and swamps, and mined and minted coins on their own. As a feudal lord, the Yeyi Tian family was also the largest salt merchant in Jiaodong. One-third of the salt in Laizhou Bay was produced in Yeyi.

There are irreconcilable conflicts between Zhutian and Qin officials. Although they are dormant for the time being, if something happens, they will be the first to oppose Qin.

Unfortunately, Jiaodong was too far away and the court was unable to move the two families to Guanzhong. For these people, Heifu has no delusions about winning over them. First try to weaken them as much as possible, and then use the opportunity to completely eradicate them when the emperor patrols eastward, and move them all away!

But even if Zhutian is moved away and the local nobles are eliminated, Heifu still needs the help of local people to fill the big hole in Zhutian if he wants to govern Jiaodong.

His hand picked up the second white stone.

"This white piece is from a small noble headed by the Yan family..."

Chen Ping has analyzed this group thoroughly. They lost their status and interests when Tian Qi was established. Now, it is time to encourage them to revive and assist in governance as government collaborators and as Baishi Li and Shao Li. place.

Thinking like this, Heifu dropped the child to the left.

"The third white stone represents the business class."

Unlike Qin, which has a relatively single class, Qi State has a high degree of urbanization and a large number of craftsmen and merchants. Guan Zhong once said that "the four common people, the scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, are the stone people of the country." In Qi State, there was no discrimination against the industry and commerce, and they had certain economic strength and social status.

However, this group suffered a heavy blow after the Qin Dynasty ruled Jiaodong: craftsmen in the salt and iron industry were forcibly merged into government-run workshops. The policy of shutting down the city without collecting taxes was also replaced by heavy taxes. The status of merchants plummeted. They could not dress well and go out, and military service was given priority.

As long as Qin's policy does not change for one day, this group of people will be the opposite of the imperial court and will be impossible to win over for the time being. Once something happens, big industrial and commercial owners will either be the leaders of the uprising or secretly fund it, while small craftsmen and vendors will join the anti-Qin army.

"But I can use some means to make it neutral."

Hei Fu dropped the stone to the middle and looked at the two white stones behind him.

They were "scholars" in the Spring and Autumn Period, and now they have been divided into three types of people: knights, Confucian scholars, and alchemists.

You don't have to think about it, Qi Zhi is famous for his martial arts. This group of proletarians is the most unstable in life. They have secret organizations everywhere. They are prisoners hunted by the government day and night. They are also active on the front line of anti-Qin. diehard elements. The assassination in Chunyu County was probably organized by local rangers, and the bandits along the Jiaodong coast were also closely related to them.

Although Confucian scholars are also rejected by Qin Law, such people themselves are a complex of contradictions: they shout retro, but they are extremely tactful and fickle, and they will speak for whomever they eat, but they can also When you put down your job, you scold your mother. Many of the doctors in Xianyang were from Jiaodong, such as Chun Yuyue who was next to Fusu...

The local Confucian scholars in Jiaodong were extremely conflicted in the face of Qin's rule. On the one hand, it was difficult to abandon the idea that "Qin was unethical and abandoned etiquette to achieve first merit." On the other hand, they did not have Lu Zhonglian's backbone of "righteousness but not emperor Qin". They wanted to join the system, peddle their own set of benevolent governance, filial piety and righteousness to govern the country, and hold a part-time official position. After all, "learning and excellence will lead to excellence" The idea of ​​becoming an official is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

There are also alchemists, whose attitude towards Qin is similar to that of Confucian scholars. They are both repulsive and want to cooperate. What if they succeed in deceiving the people of Qin and make a fortune?

Their positions are very unstable and can be classified into one type of people: intellectuals and stinky old nine.

This group of people still have illusions about the Qin Dynasty, so they don't have to abandon it blindly. They can put it in a neutral position.

In this way, if businessmen and intellectuals were neutral, the scene would be two against two.

Heifu turned his attention to the sixth and heaviest white stone!

"Dimeizi is a farmer who accounts for 90% of Jiaodong's population..."

When Qin entered Jiaodong, the local farmers did not benefit. Heifu knew this very well.

Although he talked nonsense about "the Tian family won the country unfairly", in fact, the princes and princes of the Tian family were a hundred times stronger than Qi Jinggong, a king who only knew how to plunder the people and overhaul the palace!

The reason why the Tian family was able to replace Qi was because several generations had insisted on using the method of lending big buckets and recycling small buckets to win people's hearts, which greatly pleased the farmers. After that, Tian transported wood from the mountains and fish from the sea to the towns and sold them at low prices, thus pleasing the citizens.

In addition, the Tian family raised scholars and good scholars, and the scholars, farmers, industry and commerce all supported the Tian family to seize power. Overthrowing the Marquis of Qi surnamed Jiang and killing the decadent old aristocrats such as Yan, Guo, and Gao were not just about destroying the country, but the power of the people.

In the early Warring States period, King Wei of Qi and King Xuan of Qi used great talents and strategies, emphasized the virtuous and dismissed the mediocre, making Qi prosperous and strong. The people of Qi in Linzi still have pride written on their faces.

In the next two generations of monarchs, although the country's power declined, they governed the country with Huang-Lao's ideas. During the fifty years of peace, corvee was light and taxes were light, and the warehouses were full of corn. The people still remember Tian Qi's good deeds.

When the Qin people came, the taxes were increased several times, and the farmer's life changed from food and clothing to poverty. If he were a black man, he would definitely turn against his mother.

So in history, all the fields in Qi rebelled against Qin. From the common people to the citizens, there was almost a response. Within one month, the Qi region of two thousand miles changed color...

So, copying the routine of later generations, mobilizing farmers to fight against the powerful and divide the fields? The first person to be beaten away was probably Heifu himself.

Even if you get the dragon-slaying technique, you can't just copy the regulations. You have to analyze specific cases and learn and apply them in order to achieve immediate results...

Hei Fu took his hand back, feeling very sad. Farmers are not fools. The past was good, but the present is bad. He has a clear mind. This is the heaviest white stone. As long as the taxes are not reduced and the corvee is not relaxed, the black man will not be able to drop it to the left.

"I just hope that after moving Zhutian, I can use the large tracts of land that were taken away to resettle the landless farm laborers at the bottom, so that they can come to my side..."

The Dragon Slaying Technique in Volume 5 is indeed very useful. After some analysis, Heifu already knows who is his enemy, who is his friend, and what he is going to do.

He has made his positioning clearer.

A self-deprecating smile appeared on Heifu's face.

"I am a reactionary bureaucrat who is on the opposite side of the vast majority of the people!"

At this time, the carriage stopped and Chen Ping's voice came from outside.

"Sheriff, Jimo has arrived!"

Heifu stood up, opened the curtain, faced the local officials and powerful officials who nodded at him, looked at the snow-covered ancient city of Jimo in the distance, and said softly: "Let's begin!"