Qin Official

When Heifu arrived in Ye County, Nanyang, Qin Shihuang's huge team was also approaching Hangu Pass.

The white snow was falling one after another, accumulating on the top of the mountain in Weihan fortress, and also covering the bodies of Guizhou heads squatting and shivering by the road, making their heads covered with white.

On this road, prisoners wearing ocher clothes, black armor, sweaters, and dog-skin hats were everywhere urging and scolding the prisoners, asking the prisoners to lay hay on the road to allow the convoy to pass smoothly...

Qin Shi Huang's chariot did not stop for a moment. When he saw ants or bugs on the roadside, he would stop and gently push them away to avoid harm. It was the Buddha, the Holy Mother, and the great ancestral dragon who would not look at them. He had There are more important things to think about, which are related to the territorial integrity of the empire, the eternal lineage of the Qin Dynasty, and immortality...

But at the Fusu meeting, the carriage in front got stuck on the slippery road and could not move forward. Taking advantage of this gap, Master Fusu's chariot opened the curtain, looked at the prisoners on the roadside, and the serving Guizhou chief who was avoiding the side, and asked the people next to him. Visitor Shaoping:

"In this twelfth month of winter, why are there so many prisoners since Luoyang, and people who enter the customs and serve as corvees are constantly coming and going?"

Shaoping was the Duke of Zhao who served as the auxiliary of Zhou Dynasty in the Zhou Dynasty. Zhou was attacked by dog ​​soldiers and stayed in Qin. He also became one of the aristocratic families of Qin and his family was prominent. He was more than 20 years old this year and entered the palace as a visitor. This time he returned Cheng, was arranged by Qin Shihuang to stay with Fusu.

He replied: "Master, it has been like this since the master went out for the war more than a year ago. It seems that all the prisoners and corvees in the world have been conscripted to Kansai. We are no longer surprised..."

"More than a year without interruption?"

Fusu was a little surprised: "How many people did your father recruit to enter the customs?"

"I don't know how many more."

Shaoping shook his head: "Last year, His Majesty thought that there were many people in Xianyang and the palace of the previous king was small. He wanted to build a new palace to welcome the Queen Mother of the West to live in the future, so he issued an edict saying that King Wen of Zhou Dynasty was in Feng, and King Wu was in Hao. Between Feng and Hao, The capital of the emperor is located in the Shanglin Garden of the imperial palace, which is called Afang. There are more than 100,000 people working there. The palace has not been built yet, and the surrounding Acheng has been built first. It takes a whole day to walk around it. The circle encompasses half of Shanglin Garden."

"Queen Mother of the West..." Fusu was speechless. What on earth was his father thinking? Do you really want to learn from King Mu of Zhou?

The palace must be built while alive, and the residence after death must not be left behind. Its scale is even greater than that of Epang Palace. Qin Shihuang is obviously making preparations for both. The visitor also said:

"The mausoleum in Lishan was built by the Prime Minister. It has been built over the years and hundreds of thousands of people have been invested in it. I was once ordered to take a look. The young man ordered the craftsmen to follow the formation of the entire guard army, armor and weapons. They were all exactly as they were, fired into colorful pottery figurines, and guarded around the mausoleum. The men and horses were all life-size, with different shapes and shapes, and they had to be lifelike. Several skilled craftsmen were busy working with ten ministers. It only takes one day to make one, but there are tens of thousands of people in the Weiwei army, not to mention chariots and horses. It would take tens of thousands of people just to do this for several years..."

The Terracotta Warriors and Horses, this treasure that will amaze future generations, is just a drop in the bucket of the entire mausoleum. The hundreds of thousands of prisoners in Lishan are not exaggerated.

"As for these newly recruited prisoners and heads of Guizhou, they were ordered to go west to Zhangye County, which was captured by General Li Xin. It is said that Wushi's caravan has penetrated deep into the desert, traveled to all the countries in the Western Regions, and reached the Kunlun Mountains. Hearing rumors from the locals about the Queen Mother of the West, it seems that she is about to be found. His Majesty decided to build a city wall, pavilions, and a road in Zhangye County. Once the road is built, he will patrol the west to see the west..."

"enough!"

Fusu stopped Shaoping, and then Shaoping realized that the eldest son, who had become brave and resolute after experiencing an Eastern Campaign, now looked ashen.

Only then did Shaoping feel that he was talking too much and hurriedly knelt down in the mud and snow, but this was what was happening in front of him. When the young master entered Hangu Pass, sooner or later he would see the towering Lishan Mausoleum and the The rope, the prisoner looking at the road.

Fusu didn't mean to blame Shao Ping. He was shivering, not from cold, but from fear...

It’s no wonder that when Fusu returned to Guanzhong from Yandi, he felt that the counties and counties along the way were much poorer than when he went there. It’s no wonder that, thanks to the Qin Dynasty’s ability to reach deep into the grassroots, and thanks to the conscientious local Qin officials, Send a batch of corvees.

"Marquis Changnan, Marquis Changnan, your good intentions back then have finally turned into a nightmare for this world."

Lishan, Afang, Zhangye, the Western Regions, and Kansai have turned into a bottomless pit. The total number of immigrants, prisoners, and corvees gathered here is close to one million! In addition to the 300,000 people who built the Great Wall in the north and the 200,000 soldiers who marched south, one-twentieth of the world's population is actually running on the road and exhausted. How can the place not decline?

Heifu created a lot of wealth in Jiaodong's New Deal, and Haidong Trading Co., Ltd. made a lot of money. The twenty-four solar terms song that guides farmers in farming, and the method of making the land produce more food, is slowly spreading.

But it is so difficult to take care of food. All year round, spring plowing and summer hard work can lead to autumn harvest. Only a little bit of intensive farming can achieve a small increase in production.

But the imperial court's order came quickly and urgently. There was no idle land everywhere, but the farmers were all on their way to serve. Those who were working at home were the elderly, mothers, and thin half-grown children...

The king's affairs are very complicated, and he cannot do anything with millet and millet! The solemn bustard wings gather on the thorns!

He finally saw the scene in the poem.

Some people are working hard to let living water flow in, but compared with the speed of squandering, it is a drop in the bucket. The road is long and long. The toil of the people in this world has just begun.

"Young Master, do you want to give advice to Your Majesty?"

Shaoping raised his head from the muddy water and said with tears in his eyes: "I hope you don't do this, sir. That Youzhan, who is less than five feet tall, likes to laugh and curse, and often uses humorous words to advise His Majesty, he...he is just because of being a In front of His Majesty, he said that if the Queen Mother of the West could make people live forever, the person accompanying him now should be King Mu of Zhou. I hope that Your Majesty can give up the corvee in Hexi. This angered His Majesty, and his tongue was cut out, so he can no longer say witty words..."

Youzhan, it was ten years ago that Qin Shihuang cast twelve golden figures, and together with Fusu, he urged Qin Shihuang to be funny and promote excellence. He who made the emperor happy by telling jokes actually lost his most powerful weapon. This is really Fusu's fault. The most chilling joke I've ever heard.

The young master closed his eyes. What flashed before his eyes were Yang Duan and the generals who died in the old forests of Liaodong. They were the soldiers of Yan and Zhao who were killed and injured when the camp roared. They were the thousands of new graves outside the city of Han Dynasty in Haidong. …

Fusu kept telling himself repeatedly that this expedition was meaningful and that the sacrifices of those people were worth it. It was to punish the traitors and to end the war and hatred. When all this is over, it will be a new beginning, Li Shu There is no corvee, men enjoy their duties, and women cultivate their careers. How wonderful it is.

The closer he got to Guanzhong and the more truth he saw, the more Fusu felt that he was deceiving himself!

At present, his Eastern Expedition is over, but new major projects and conquests are being launched one after another. However, there is no peace in the world. The people of Qin and the Six Kingdoms are still sinking in the abyss of hatred and resentment.

Fusu's eyes were fixed on his father's huge Che Luan.

He should have discovered long ago that the flames that burn the world never start from the outside, but from the inside out!

Nails dug into palms, admonishment, is admonishment useful? Some of the people who liked to remonstrate most at that time either learned to shut up or had their tongues cut out.

Fusu somewhat understood how Yin Shang Sanren felt back then.

"No, I won't remonstrate."

After being silent for a long time, Fusu raised his head. He ignored the hard work of pulling the chariot outside and the prisoners looking at the road. He lowered the curtain of the chariot and his voice was firm, but it lost its former temperature and became the same as the ice and snow outside. cold.

"There are more important things waiting for Fusu to do!"

…

At the same time, in Ye County, Nanyang County, a funeral had just begun.

Ye Teng left on the third day after Hei Fu returned, and finally dictated a final memorial, asking Qin Shihuang to allow his grandson Fubo to succeed him. Then he seemed to have suddenly recovered, and asked to go outside to see, and asked Hei by name. The husband carries him.

The old man on Hei Fu's back was so thin and light that Hei Fu had to put his arms around him to prevent his father-in-law from being blown away by the wind.

Facts have proved that it was just a flashback. Ye Teng passed away shortly after he went out to shine in the sun. He was smiling.

But there was also scolding in the smile. He was scolding Hei Fu on his son-in-law's back, saying that he couldn't say anything nice to trick him. His voice became lower and lower, and he just muttered that he wanted to poop, but before Hei Fu could send him there. In the toilet, Ye Teng lost his breath...

In Confucianism, huge dark coffins are placed in the mourning hall. According to the custom, the princes were buried on the fifth day and buried in the fifth month. Ye Teng was named "Gaoliang Hou". Although Qin had no enfeoffment, at the level of etiquette, he was already a serious "prince" and could enjoy With this treatment, the coffin will remain in the mourning hall of Ye's old house for five days.

As an only daughter, Ye Zijin, together with her husband Heifu, sons Polu and Fubo, knelt down in the mourning hall for a long time. It was obviously a cold winter day, but she was wearing an unhemmed dark linen dress and thin Gelu shoes. , she herself had not eaten for a day and was so hungry that she was bone-destroying, but she ordered Fu Mu to secretly give the two children some food and put them on soft couches.

The two children stayed up all night and followed the adults in a daze while performing various worship rituals. Polu was older and knew what had happened. He knew that his grandfather, who had always loved him so much, would never wake up. He was so sad that he couldn't help sobbing. .

Fu Bo is a little younger and has no concept of life and death. He just obeys what the adults tell him. However, he is a little afraid of the dark coffin. When he sees his brother crying, he also cries. After a day, he is really tired. I knelt on the mat and dozed off until my head almost hit the ground.

Heifu couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked Fu Mu to take the two children away, came to his wife, took her cold little hand, and hesitated to speak.

When his wife was most vulnerable and needed him the most, he had to leave. Hei Fu felt very sad.

"I know the plight of a beloved man."

However, Ye Zijin wiped away the tears from the corner of his eyes and said with a forced smile: "The king's affairs are too long, and he will not leave his post. My beloved is now the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition. Now that the south has been newly defeated, two hundred thousand people have no one to lead them. They are fighting on their own. They hope Beloved, I look forward to the sweet rain..."

Heifu sighed: "I went to save others in the rain, but I can't take care of the family, you and the children anymore..."

His road to "self-rescue" started by abandoning his wife, which is really ironic.

"Not only are you saving them, my dear, you are also saving yourself and your family, aren't you?"

Having said that, Ye Zijin will observe mourning in Nanyang for five months. After five months, she will take her children and move to the Wei residence in Xianyang, living under the nose of Emperor Qin Shi Huang...

This is the custom for generals to go on an expedition. Once there is any abnormality, the family will be executed by the clan. Fan Yuqi, who was also trusted by Qin Shihuang, and dozens of members of his clan, ended up being beheaded in Nanshi!

Heifu is most worried about his family: "After I leave, you will be a hostage. In Xianyang City, I have many friends, including Zhang Han, Zhang Cang, and even the young master Fusu. But there are also many enemies, both overt and covert." , I don’t know how long it will take, everything is strange and strange, you..."

"I'm not afraid of this."

Ye Zijin looked at the coffin, his eyes full of tenderness, but there was also a hint of tenacity in that tenderness!

"Who do you think I am?"

Mrs. Ye patted Hei Fu's bearded face with both hands and put it close to his ear, as if she was smiling sweetly when the two first met:

"I am Ye Teng's daughter!"

"I am the wife of a black husband!"

…

The old house of the Ye family was left behind, Heifu took the lead, followed closely by Gong Ao and other entourage. Winter was late, and the road south was still long.

On the way to Nanyang, what Fusu saw when he returned to Xianyang was exactly the same. In Heifu's eyes, those criminals and corvettes who were always following the law were what he focused on when he implemented the New Deal in Jiaodong. What happened in the Western and Central Plains.

Heifu laughed, but there were tears in his smile.

These ten years are like a dream. The time traveler is very powerful. He has various plug-ins in his hands and is familiar with the historical trend. This allows him to control his own destiny and strive to climb up. At the beginning, I was ambitious, hoping to accumulate small things into big things and completely change the times!

Speaking of which, he also changed some people and things, gained Chen Ping's support, Liu Ji and Xiao He and Cao Shen were forcibly separated, Lao Liu was thrown into a corner where there was no place for people to poop, Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew were sent to the north, except for Heifu did almost everything that Chen Sheng had to do when he failed to find him.

But in the end, he discovered that there was one person he could never change.

That person who is aloof and sticks to his word.

"Like me, he would rather believe in his own choices than be influenced by others."

After all, it is difficult for one person to reverse the trend. He did some things in an attempt to prevent its collapse and destruction, but found that he was the one who pushed it into the abyss. In addition to the southern border, the Western Region also became a new bottomless pit.

It's like putting out a fire with firewood. If the firewood is not used up, the fire will never be extinguished!

But unlike Chen Ping who wished that the fire would be extinguished immediately, sometimes Heifu really hoped that the flames burning in the center of the empire would never go out. Those talents and strategies were the beacons that would shine through the ages, and they were the foresight to establish the territory of this country.

Others don’t understand, but he understands!

Unfortunately, those who look too far away often ignore the crisis at their feet.

So Heifu sometimes hopes that it will be extinguished quickly and stop burning the bones and blood of people in the world...

But no matter what, when the fire burns more and more fiercely and the cauldron becomes hotter and hotter, Hei Fu will not wait to die in the boiling sea and become a big cooked fish!

Change is not about paying lip service, it is not about following the crowd, it is not about standing still, and it is not about placing your hopes on others!

More than two thousand years later, a great man had already told Heifu through his practice.

"If we don't conserve our force, we won't be able to do anything about it when things happen in the future!"

“You must know that political power is obtained from the barrel of a gun!”

No matter what the future holds, Heifu decided that he must first hold the sword in his own hands!

He thought of his conversation with Ye Teng, those words that made the old man uneasy until his death.

"There is a fish in the North Ming Dynasty, and its name is Kun..."

"The Kun is so big, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is; when it turns into a bird, its name is Peng. The back of the Peng, I don't know how many thousands of miles it has!"

Heifu must turn the Kun into a Peng. He must grow wings and break away from the constraints of the sea. Only then can he be able to handle the situation when the mountains collapse and the world is in chaos in the future!

No one can force him to make a choice, not Qin Shi Huang, not Ye Teng, not Fu Su, not Chen Ping? just can not!

The choice has always been in Heifu's hands!

The angry horse rushes out of the wind and snow, the sun shines brightly in the south, and no one can restrain the black husband anymore!

"This journey is like a bird soaring into the sky, unfettered by a cage!"

In that wild land far away from the center, he could finally let go and do what he wanted to do!

Heifu roared loudly. At this moment, he wanted to recite a poem.

Why don't you just follow the wind... No, that's wrong, it's not this one.

"Be confident that if you live two hundred years, you will be like water hitting three thousand miles!"

Heifurema looked back. Behind him was the snowy Great Qin, and the Central Plains gradually receding...

On the hill, he left a message to his wife and children, to those who were looking forward to him, and to this era full of suffering.

"Wait!"

"When I return, my wings will be like clouds hanging from the sky!"

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Volume 4: "Big Fish in the Sea", finished!