At night, the green lanterns are lit on all the main roads in Langxie City, and the rich people even use whale oil as fuel, illuminating the entire county town brighter than in the daytime, dignitaries, merchants from all over the world, students and wanderers, singers, and even the surrounding farmers have poured into the city to enjoy the prosperity of the city. Although the www.biquge.info is still slightly inferior to the imperial capital Xianyang and the royal cities of other old countries, but in the easternmost part of the empire, Lang Evil City is a well-deserved prosperous capital, and Lang Evil City is most famous for the night market, because it is located in the southeast, the climate is suitable, and there has been no war for a long time, the people here are accustomed to coming out late to enjoy life. If you come out at night in the imperial capital Xianyang, you will definitely have to freeze to death, or in Handan, Zhaodi, you may be lying in an alley in the morning.

Huixian Residence, located in the central street of the northern city of Langxie City, is only less than 100 steps away from the county office, is a three-story attic, standing at the highest place, the entire Langxie County can be seen at a glance. In front of the Huixianju wine shop is a garden of 50 zhang square, it is said that a certain master owes Huixianju wine money, and at the request of the boss according to the principle of gossip, if no one leads the way, it is difficult for outsiders to enter. Jiang Wu didn't know if this was true, anyway, he had never gotten lost, even if he closed his eyes, he could walk in. It is the design of Huixianju that has become the preferred place for dignitaries and business dignitaries to gather, but Huixianju does not pick customers, as long as you give the starting price, even the ragged beggars are still treated as guests.

At this time, the Huixian Residence was already crowded, and the guests who came here were all for the good dishes of Ku Ding, and of course, the fine wine and the beautiful women. However, "Ku Ding" Jiang Bai has not been cooking for a long time, after all, as a chef, who will cook by himself.

"Ku Ding, little stone, you're back," a bloated man in a gorgeous silk robe said with a sinister smile. If it weren't for the silk robe and the luxurious agate hand beads, you would definitely think that a fat pig was standing in front of you, Jiang Wu thought to himself. Jiang Wu doesn't like others to call him Xiaoshi, and he doesn't like this pig to call him that, "It's a little lion, boss", but it's not a good choice to get angry with the fat pig, he and his father's wages are calculated separately, except for the tuition fee for his study, Jiang Bai won't give him half a copper coin, alas, I don't know what my father uses the money for.

The fat pig didn't pay attention to him, and still said in a yin and yin, numb tone, "The guests of Hui Lanxuan should add charcoal fire, go outside and shovel a little, don't freeze the nobles inside, little stone." The fat pig thought to himself, I am polite to you, if it weren't for the face of your Lao Tzu Ding Ding, you kid would eat and drink in the store, and I would open ten copper coins at the end of the month, I would really lose a lot. Yesterday, this kid secretly took the little beggars in the City God Temple to the back kitchen for a big meal. Hmph, but the fat pig is shrewd, since the father and son of Ku Ding came to Huixianju eight years ago, the business in the store has improved a lot, many dignitaries and nobles are coming to the name of Ku Ding, he will not offend such a "cash cow" for this little money, and make some more money, I can add a few more concubines, thinking of this fat pig can't help laughing. He immediately looked at "Ku Ding" with a special look, and then used his fat mouth to make a strange tone that made people disgusting and a little womanly, "Ku Ding, the county magistrate is here, accompanied some distinguished guests who are said to be from Xianyang, and wants to eat your dishes by name." My chef doesn't want customers to wait long. ”

Xunxian Pavilion is the top floor of Huixianju, here is the most private place of Huixianju, if people stand here to look out of the window, as if the entire Langxie County is prostrate at his feet, and when the view is excellent, it is said that you can also see the Penglai Immortal Mountain on the other side of the sea, so it is named Xunxian Pavilion. At this time, the entire hall in the Xunxian Pavilion only received a group of guests, and Linghonglou of Langxi County was sitting on the table on the left side of the hall, frequently raising his glass and toasting to the guests around him. Every time he raised his glass, he had to start from the main seat in the center with his eyes, and slowly swiped over each guest before he drank it all, for fear of offending anyone. His official position was higher than that of all the guests present, but Hong Lou knew in his heart that he was just a flowing county order, and these Qin people were the uncrowned emperors. In the Battle of Qin-Chu Qicheng that year, he was a member of the Chu army, and before the battle was fought, he joined the Qin army. However, Hong Lou has no sense of guilt, for him, he goes everywhere to eat, and he can also lose his life, and he is not the only one who surrendered and fled back then. Worked hard for the noble lord, and then went home and continued to pick up a hoe and farm, so he didn't do such stupid things.

After the Battle of Qicheng, the Qin people inserted the heads of the dead Chu soldiers on both sides of the official road in and out of Qicheng with wooden tips, ten steps and one end, stretching for dozens of miles, and the head of Xiang Yan of Chu was carefully sealed and spread throughout the entire Chu realm. Hong Lou touched his neck and snorted coldly, what about the hero, I'm still alive, and I'm alive and well.

Later, it was also a coincidence, due to the stubborn character of the Chu people and their disobedience to the rule of outsiders, Hong Lou, a small official who had read Confucius and Mencius for several years and understood the written laws of the Qin State, further climbed to the position of the county order.

The Qin Dynasty implemented the county system, the country is divided into more than 30 counties, the county orders of each county are directly appointed and dismissed by the emperor, nominally responsible for the emperor, but here to Xianyang there are thousands of miles, countless poor mountains and bad waters, fast horses also walk for a few months, thousands of miles away the emperor, where is really in charge of so much, in other words, as long as the annual completion of the imperial court apportionment of various tasks, in the assessment of the officials to fool the officials, then his county order is really nourishing, and his main task is to pay food, taxes and levy labor every year, This is a university question. At the beginning of his tenure, relying on the 500 stone Fenglu issued by the imperial court every year, he looked a lot, but this was to bear the expenses of the entire county government, and the large and small personnel in the county government were all from his money. But gradually he figured out the doorway.

Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, all countries have implemented the feudal system, although Zhou Tianzi is the nominal ruler, but in fact, his power is limited to his own royal city, and other places are the princes have the final say, and there are doctors under the princes, and the doctors also divide the scholars. Therefore, if the Son of Heaven wants to make the princes obedient, in addition to relying on etiquette and regulations, the most important thing is that the fist of the Son of Heaven must be hard, and whoever is disobedient must be cleaned up. Therefore, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are also an era of war, but there is one point, since it is more than a fist, then you have to be hard enough for your fist, so up to the Son of Heaven and down to the scholars, the construction of their own fiefdom must be important, after all, the heavy labor and population here will migrate to other people's fiefdoms, and the taxes are too high, and the merchants will go elsewhere to do business, and after a long time, your fists will naturally not be as hard as others. Therefore, although there is a perennial war, ordinary people have a good life.

But when it comes to the empire, it's different, the old Qin family has the hardest fist, knocking down the other six countries, the world is your winner's family, everyone is the emperor's people, and the county order can't pass the position to his son when he leaves office, so for a county order like Hong Lou, the first task is to complete the apportionment task of the imperial court, keep the official position and head, and the people below don't care about his business, if he doesn't rebel well, that's also the emperor's business. Thinking about this, Hong Lou immediately became like a fish in water, he first relied on the garrison Qin army to receive all the franchises of salt, iron, and mines to the county, and those salt merchants and mine owners had borrowed many of their subordinates to disobey discipline on weekdays. After the revenue was returned to the county, these people were honest, and the security in the county was much better. Then he took advantage of the poor quality of farm tools in several blacksmith shops, and the opportunity of the people to sue the government, and received the production rights of farm tools and iron tools to the county, which was monopolized by the two designated iron shops. Two years ago, Xianyang's envoy came to inspect and gave his exploits to the emperor, if it weren't for the fact that he was a Chu person, he might have become Jiuqing. For this reason, the imperial court also gave him an extra 300 stone every year, of course, this is a drop in the bucket compared to Hong Lou's own fish, and the franchised iron shop opened by his concubine's younger brother has 5,000 gold every year, which is equivalent to 50,000 copper coins. Even the fat pig in this Huixianju gives him a lot of benefits every year, otherwise this Huixianju can be opened next to the county office.

Sometimes, knowledge is power, power is money, he is secretly proud, those Qin people can only fight, they are really stupid as pigs and dogs, thinking of this, Hong Lou became excited again, he raised his glass and said, "Come to the generals, this county will pay tribute to you again." ”

The young Qin general sitting in the middle of the first seat indifferently picked up the wine glass, he is Zhang Han, the general of the factory guard, the new rising general of the empire, the old Qin people, the ancestors are not nobles, and they have reached their current position by virtue of their military exploits. Factory guard is an agency subordinate to the Prime Minister's Mansion, mainly responsible for collecting intelligence, this time he came to Langxie nominally to raise food for the Empire's Northern Expedition and levy people, but he also has a task personally assigned by the emperor, to capture the imperial wanted criminal Zhang Liang, there is definite news, Zhang Liang has come to Langxie County. Zhang Han doesn't like this kind of scene, and he doesn't like this Honglou even more, but he knows that the empire needs this kind of people, the Chu country is thousands of miles, the population is nearly 10 million, and there are many places where there are uncivilized barbarians, and there is no way to maintain stability by relying on tens of thousands of Qin troops stationed here, and if the empire wants to rule here for a long time, it must rely on Chu people like Honglou. Zhang Han raised the bronze wine glass, ignored Hong Lou, and turned to Wang Meng, the commander of Langxie County, who was the first seat on the right, Wang Meng was a Qin native and the head of the five thousand Qin troops stationed in Langxie County. Zhang Hanlang said, "Brothers, hard work. After doing this, the empire will last forever. "Ten thousand years of empire," Wang Meng also raised his glass. 10,000 years of the empire, 10,000 years of the empire," the Qin generals present all shouted. Hong Lou also moved his fat belly and shouted, "Ten thousand years of the empire, long live Your Majesty." As soon as he spoke, the whole house suddenly quieted down, and all the Qin people looked at him coldly, but Hong Lou was not embarrassed, he laughed and said, "Dance ~ dance, serve, serve."

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