Chen Xu mentioned Huiji and Peixian, both of which indicated that the officials in these two places could be appointed by Xianyang, as for the transfer of officials back and forth from various places, Chen Xu did mention this matter in the court when he was restructuring the three provinces and six ministries, but this matter is not particularly important in the eyes of many court officials, why should he be transferred to other places when he did a good job?

But Chen Xu's words also mentioned that the purpose of the transfer is to cut off the collusion between the officials and the local gentry, so Feng Qu knew the benefits after a little thought, the biggest advantage of this kind of rotation and transfer is to strengthen the control of the officials over the county officials, as long as there is a rotation system, the county officials below will inevitably be more cautious, and will not slowly cultivate a force in the local area that is not subject to the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

"Is this really a good idea?" Feng Qu twisted his beard and nodded slightly.

"Hehe, Xu is just casually mentioned, if Feng Xiangru thinks it is useful, he can play His Majesty to implement, this policy is beneficial to the court or to the people, there is no harm, the county guard has served for four or five years, if there is no action, and the people are very resentful, then the two evaluations of the official department and merit examination are not up to standard, then they should be demoted and then appointed as a sage......"

Chen Xu said a few more words on this topic, then stood up and said with a smile: "Feng Xiang is rare to visit, it just so happened that Xu made a delicious side dish with wine today, it is already noon, why don't Xu accompany Feng Xiang for a few drinks?" ”

"Haha, the delicious food made by Qinghe Hou is famous in Daqin, and the old man will not postpone it!" Feng Qujian laughed heartily and stood up.

Soon the two came to the restaurant, after washing their hands, Chen Xu instructed the maid to bring a bottle of Qinghe wine, personally opened the cork and poured it for Feng Quji, after toasting a glass of wine, sat down and pointed to a pot of snails placed in the center of the table and said: "Feng Xiang, this is the thing that accompanies the wine, it tastes good, please taste it!" ”

"Poof~~"

Feng Qujian looked at the contents of the basin, and suddenly choked on a sip of red wine, "Ahem...... Ahem...... Qinghe Hou Mo wants to deliberately entertain the old man, this is a shell insect in the ditch, how can it be eaten? ”

"Feng Xiang, don't miss the delicious!" Chen Xu smiled and picked up a toothpick to poke a snail, brought it to his mouth and sucked it, and then used a toothpick to pick out the meat inside and put it in his mouth, chew it carefully, and feel the spicy and fragrant taste.

Chen Xu ate three in a row, and found that Feng Quji still had a frightened expression, so he persuaded again: "Feng Xiang, Xu has a sentence, I don't know if to say it?" ”

"Qinghe Hou, please speak?" Seeing that Chen Xu ate with relish, Feng Quji's face twitched slightly.

"People can't look good, the sea can't fight, people's good and evil can't look at their appearance, but listen to their words and watch their deeds, this food can never be judged by the eyes whether it's delicious or not, whether it's delicious or not can only be known after tasting it, does Feng Xiang think so?"

"Yes!" Feng Qujian nodded slightly.

"Come, Feng Xiang, don't be afraid, eat one!" Chen Xu handed over a toothpick.

Feng Quji: ......

Holding this toothpick, Feng Quji felt that it weighed 100,000 catties, and he hesitated for a long time when he held it on the clay pot, but he didn't have the courage to poke it.

"My Chinese diet has been inherited for thousands of years, and the old man knows that there are five grains of hemp, wheat, millet, rice, cattle, sheep, deer, dogs, rabbits, five animals, jujubes, plums, apricots, chestnuts, peaches, five fruits, and five flavors of green onions, ginger, garlic, peppers, mustard, even if it is fresh in the water, it is limited to fish, this shell worm...... Shellworm ......"

Feng Quji seemed to report the weekday food next to each other in order to cheer himself up, but after finishing speaking, he still felt creepy when he looked at a pot of thread-shaped pimples, and hesitated and hesitated, and the toothpick couldn't be poked up, but the few little maids next to him couldn't help it.

"Xiangye, this snail is very delicious, we have all eaten a lot?" A little maid seemed to be drooling as she spoke.

"Rude, spanking for a while!" Chen Xu said while eating.

"Slaves don't dare!" The little maid who spoke had crimson cheeks and quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Well, Feng Qujian felt despised to himself.

Such a delicate twelve or thirteen-year-old lady dares to eat, is it true that an old man still doesn't dare to eat?

Feng Quji finally mustered up the courage, closed his eyes and poked one with a toothpick and put it in his mouth.

"Feng Xiang, eat a snail, you have to suck it gently like this first......" Chen Xu picked up a snail again to demonstrate.

"Huh~" Feng Qujian was completely dead at this time, his cheeks shook a few times and he took a sharp sip, and suddenly a spicy and fragrant sauce exploded in his mouth, and the moment his tongue touched, he felt his soul tremble a few times.

"Well, it's delicious!" Feng Quji's eyes lit up and he couldn't help but praise loudly, his mouth chirped a few times and aftertasted for a while, and then followed Chen Xu's example to pick out the meat inside with a toothpick and put it in his mouth, chew it, it was strong and delicious, and instantly drove his worries and fears out of the clouds, so after eating the meat, he also learned from Chen Xu to suck the empty shell, and finally added a few fingers, and after Chen Xu finished eating the snail, Feng Qujian couldn't wait to poke a snail again.

Feng Quji is slightly younger than Li Si, but he is also nearly sixty years old now, and the men of this era have long hair and beards, so the beard is very long, and at this time, after he tasted the beauty of this snail, he ate them one after another, and each one had to be completely done in imitation of Chen Xu's movements, first sucking a mouthful, then eating meat, sucking the shell, and finally adding hands, so soon the soup was sticky and the beard placket was everywhere, but he didn't notice or didn't care.

Seeing Feng Qu eating snails, several little maids covered their mouths and couldn't stop laughing.

"Feng Xiang eat slowly, come, drink and drink~" Chen Xu didn't forget to toast when he ate.

"Qinghe Hou, please~" Feng Quji raised his wine glass while licking his fingers.

After eating and drinking for half an hour, a pot of snails was eaten cleanly, and two bottles of Qinghe wine were drunk, and the time was almost the time to go to court in the afternoon.

Chen Xu sent Feng Quji, who was already slightly drunk, to the door of the Hou Mansion, and watched the carriage go away before turning around and returning to the house.

Chen Xu is a special case in the last dynasty, he can go if he wants to, and if he doesn't want to go, he won't go, Qin Shihuang has already acquiesced, but Feng Qujian can't, he commands most of the officials of the six courts, and he must go without special circumstances, otherwise someone will take advantage of his absence to poke out the basket, and a prime minister will never allow this kind of uncontrolled situation to occur, not to mention eating people with soft mouths and short hands.

Today, Feng Qujian not only took a cage of bees from Chen Xu, but also ate the spicy snails and Qinghe wine he made, so Chen Xu had to help with the side knock, but his heart was full of doubts.

Where Jiang Heng and Jiangbei Pavilion's positions are arranged has no impact on Feng Quji, the reason why he is puzzled is that he doesn't understand why Chen Xu only went to these two places, Huiji County is good to say, it is close to the sea, it turned out to be the land of Wu Yue, and the border of Minyue, where the mountains and rivers are evil, many of the people who live are Yue people, very barbaric and disobedient to the king, and the living customs of the Central Plains people are very different, it is definitely a mountain and wild border county, and the county order of Pei County, Feng Qujian doesn't even know where Pei County is, because there has never been a great sage, There has never been a celebrity, and there is really no fame at all.

Therefore, he really couldn't understand why Chen Xu arranged Jiang Heng and Jiang Beiting in these two places, could it be that he was testing the old man's bottom line?

Or do you want to cultivate your own power?

Sitting in the carriage, Feng Quji kept thinking about the reason why Chen Xu did this.

Back in the Ziying Palace, Feng Qujian sat in the office and quickly brushed down the next notebook, and then took the car again to the court hall to go to court.

The first thing Feng Qujian did after the last dynasty was to judge Jiang Heng and Jiang Beiting that Jiang Heng and Jiang Beiting were not culpable according to the results of the investigation and interrogation of the Criminal Department, and then demoted the two to serve in Huiji County and Pei County, and Feng Quji also elaborated on the necessity of the transfer of officials in different places and the time limit of their tenure.

This matter is only a very small matter in the eyes of the civil and military officials above the court.

But only Meng Yi and Feng Quji, who lived in it, each knew some of Chen Xu's thoughts, and even Li Si and the emperor were kept in the dark during the whole process.

is approaching the Dragon Boat Festival, and it just happened to sweep Henan and raid Hebei two big victories, and what makes Chen Xu happiest is that this time he finally killed Zhao Gao, a bastard, although he is still in prison, but death is almost a certainty, even if the emperor does not kill him, Chen Xu estimates that Meng Yi will kill him this time to prevent future troubles, if Meng Yi still can't kill him, Chen Xu decided to kill him himself, anyway, this scourge can't continue to stay.

Therefore, Chen Xu decided to celebrate this Dragon Boat Festival, and there must be some special ways to celebrate, and this best and most special way is naturally fireworks.

With gunpowder, making a simple pyrotechnic is as simple as putting gunpowder in a long tube and lighting it out.

But this kind of simplest fireworks is not what Chen Xu wants, what he wants to make is a fireworks bomb, hit the sky with cannons, and then explode, explode in the dark night, the kind of colorful fireworks that cover the sky will inevitably make the primitive people of this era think that it is a kind of immortal art.

Chen Xu had long been in the development of two dumb slaves, because of the experience of making granular gunpowder, so Chen Xu made a lot of different metal salt minerals, ground them into powder, and then by throwing them in the coal furnace to burn to observe the flame color reaction, he obtained several different colors of materials, and then mixed these salt mineral powders and gunpowder together, plus egg white, tung oil and other binders, pounded and dried to make gunpowder balls the size of beans.

Chen Xu wanted to set off a fireworks to celebrate when he got married, but he tried several times in March, but it was unsuccessful, until he went back to Xianyang for a month, and the two dumb slaves were happy to let him see a good result, these gunpowder balls made by repeated trials and tests can be ignited together when the gunpowder explodes, and emit a variety of different colors in the night, so what Chen Xu wants to experiment now is to make fireworks bombs, and to ensure that these fireworks bombs can explode normally after being launched into the air.

Therefore, Chen Xu spent the afternoon in the gunpowder laboratory of the Academy of Sciences, until Shen Shi ate some food in the canteen of the Academy of Sciences, and then took a car to the newspaper hall and invited everyone in the newspaper hall to the Qinghe Theater to watch the play.