Wu Guang's actual official lord is actually not as exaggerated as hearsay from those Chen County fellows.

He just has to be the right watchman and the captain, and his position is similar to Chen Sheng's, and he has no "partner" at all.

The only difference is that he has real power, and there are 10,000 soldiers and gallopers of the Northern Expedition under his command, guarding the Jindu from Guanzhong to Hedong: Fenglingjin (Fenglingdu).

One day in early September, Wu Guang and others waited anxiously for a long time in front of the camp, and finally ushered in the team they had been waiting for for a long time.

It was a group of ox carts, pulling heavy carts, or wheelbarrows pushed by the people, "wooden oxen and horses", coming from the direction of Ning Qin, escorting this batch of grain, in addition to Ning Qinwei Yang Xi, there were also Anlu people who had recently been appointed by Wu Zhonghou as the "Hedong County Guard".

"It can be regarded as Xin Jun's anticipation!"

Wu Guang stepped forward to give a salute to the disease - he was originally a little prince of the Wu clan, followed the southern expedition of Heifu, as a military official, he once recommended Han Xin, and as a military judge of the whole army, he was responsible for the order of the army, and he became an important clerk in the Heifu group.

After entering Xianyang, the heroes of the Northern Expedition from low backgrounds have entered the court, and if they are weak and have no clan, it is not convenient to call them, so Heifu asked his subordinates to take their own clans, and specially suggested that they should take "Xin" as their clan......

As for why, I don't know, and I don't dare to ask.

In this way, Xin Qujian was freshly baked in the Qin Dynasty......

"Uncle Wu is not looking forward to me, but this batch of grain."

Go to laugh and pat the bulging sack on the car: "The newly harvested millet from the autumn harvest in Weinan counties has been transported before it can be cooked." This is only the first batch, and there are still 60,000 stones behind, and the ox cart is running back and forth, sending 20,000 stones every month! ”

Sixty thousand stones, enough for 10,000 people to survive the winter, Wu Guang breathed a sigh of relief, and after counting the grain, he went to the camp and said in a low voice:

"Since they arrived here, the army has been a little uneasy, and the soldiers have said that the Marquis of Wuzhong has asked the people of Guanzhong to pay only 20% of the grain as land rent like Nanjun, and the military food may not ......be enough."

Go to the disease to explain Wu Guangdao: "Hu Hai and Zhao Gao went against the grain, and the people were conscripted and sent to the Northern Expeditionary Army as enemies. This year, the harvest in Guanzhong is not good, and the Xihe River is almost no harvest, if the rent of fifty percent of the fields is collected as in the past, the people of Guanzhong are only afraid of starvation. ”

"Marquis Wuzhong wants to go east and rule the world again in the future, and he has to get the help of the old Qin people. Moreover, the Marquis of Wuzhong dismissed the redundant officials, cut and merged the orders of the Shaofu, and saved the source. He also let Shu County, which was not affected by the war, transport grain out of the river to supply Nanjun and Nanyang, and Guanzhong grain did not have to be transferred. Our army was stationed nearby and ate on the spot, which was much more economical than Huhai sending the prisoner Wanfu to take grain to Wuguan and Nanyang. ”

This account, Heifu and Zhang Cang, Xiao He naturally summed it up, and finally decided that reducing the land rent would certainly make the government tighten its belt, but it could win the hearts of the people and benefit immensely.

"We have to re-establish the credibility of the government when the Shang monarch moved to the woods!"

Wu Guang scratched his head: "I don't know what's wrong, in the past, when Chen Jun was the head of Qian, I only hoped that the government could reduce the land rent, but now I don't farm, but I feel that I can't reduce it, because there are too many officials and soldiers under my command who are counting on the land rent to eat......"

He laughed loudly, pointed to the head under the crown and said: "Marquis Wu Zhong has a good saying, what we think in this head depends on where we sit, whether it is a high couch in the court or a straw mat on the edge of the field. ”

"When I sent an anonymous letter to report that I was arrested and fined money, I was full of complaints, thinking that the sentence was too heavy, but now when I encounter the same case, I will be merciless. Because at that time, I was thinking about my own gains and losses, but now, I have to think about it more. ”

"Now I'm not a little princess, but the head of a county."

He spread his hands helplessly and said: "Although it is a landless county guard, Hedong is still in the hands of Wei, I have no land to defend, and no people to govern." ”

"Who says there are no people to govern?"

Wu Guang showed a calculated smile, and now that the illness came, those "burdens" who ate his military rations could finally be thrown out.

"Xin Jun, please come with me!"

Wu Guang took him to the south of the camp, another camp fenced off by a fence, where the huts and tents were even more rudimentary, and they were full of people, both unkempt and well-dressed.

These people, without exception, all speak with a Hedong accent.

"It's ......"

"It's in the past half a month, I escaped from Hedong County." Wu Guang introduced it, and asked people to come out who claimed to be the three elders and the husbands, and told them what happened and what went wrong.

These local officials, with a handful of snot and tears, wept about what had happened to Hedong since the fall of the Six Nations in June......

Hedong returned to Qin, in the twenty-first year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Zuo Geng Sima Coo attacked Wei Hanoi, Wei offered Anyi, Qin's practice was to expel the Wei people in the city, recruit Qin people to move to Hedong, give them titles, and at the same time pardon sinners and move here.

Therefore, the general situation in Hedong is that the immigrants from Qin land live in the city, and the aborigines from Hedong live outside the city.

Even those natives, after seventy or eighty years, three or four generations of rule, bound by the law, joined the army and fought in battle, and won military merits, gradually regarded themselves as "new Qin people" rather than Wei people.

Therefore, the people of Hedong do not have any sense of identity with the Six Kingdoms.

"Zhao Cheng let the six groups of thieves enter Hedong, Wei thieves Zhao thieves enter from Yi, Chu thieves enter from Maojin, everywhere, all county magistrates are roped, and the Qin people are slaughtered."

This is the old routine of the Six Kingdoms, they started in the name of violence and revenge, and the driving force to maintain the advance of the soldiers was to take revenge on the Qin officials and the Qin people, and the spoils of war that they continued to plunder.

In this process, the officials of the counties in Hedong surrendered directly, but once they resisted, they would be brutally killed, and their family property would be robbed.

During the period of the Six-Nation Alliance, the grain and straw were provided by Hedong, and the originally rich Hedong was severely squeezed, and Wei Xiang Zhang Er sent his own disciples to serve as officials in various places to fully restore the old system of Wei.

Economically, in order to provide enough food for the armies of the six countries that withdrew to Hedong, Wei continued to impose heavy rents on the people of Hedong, which was still the same as fifty percent of the old Qin period......

Politically, the attack gradually expanded, and the Qin people, who had lived in Hedong for several generations, went from being rulers to being ruled.

The natives of Hedong were also not happy, because they were afraid that Heifu would cross the river and attack Hedong, and the locals were recruited by Zhang Er's disciples to guard the opposite bank of Fenglingjin and Pusaka, and watch out day and night.

As the Hedong Law Decree turned into waste paper, many soldiers of the Six-Nation Alliance Army stayed in Hedong, doing evil, and the chaos was rampant, and Hedong was in chaos.

There is no harm if there is no comparison, and in this total, the people of Hedong feel that it seems that life is still more stable and better when the Qin Dynasty ruled.

As a result, many Qin people in Hedong, whose homes were destroyed, began to flee their homeland.

Feng Lingjin naturally became the only choice for them to smuggle out.

Wu Guang said to him: "At first, there were a few sporadic people, but recently, the entire Li and the whole township have fled......

The two who complained to the bitterness told about the hardships along the way.

In the cold weather of late autumn, it is not easy to swim smoothly across the wide river, in addition to finding a good place to enter the water and bypassing the patrols of the Wei people, more skills are required.

For example, they inflate and tie the Buni bubble to their body to provide some buoyancy, and they have to drink a large bowl of boiled ginger soup before entering the water, although it is extremely spicy, it can ward off the cold and not freeze to death on the way. Men swim in the water, while women and children sit on makeshift rafts, closing their eyes and praying for the blessing of Hebo.

Even so, 23 out of 10 people who risk their lives to smuggle in the country are unsuccessful.

"In order to stop us, the Wei people sent more people to keep an eye on the river defense, and they could fire arrows on the spot, and many neighbors died on the tidal flats and banks."

Several people wiped tears and ended the narrative, hoping to be moved to the dry rear.

"How many people are there?" Go and ask Wu Guang.

"Four thousand, maybe more in the future."

Wu Guang said to the disease:

"I don't know if there are any Wei spies among them, so I don't dare to let them go easily, but keeping them and consuming military food is not a long-term method."

"Leave these people to me."

Go sighed and said: "I know, why did Marquis Wu Zhonghou let me guard Hedong, presumably to prepare for my future march to Hedong, although there is no land to defend, but at least, there are people to govern." ”

These Hedong people can place the old and weak women and children in Guanzhong, and the men will serve as guides and pioneers, enlisting in the army for training, thinking that they should be able to actively fight in order to return to their hometowns, and they can also lead the Northern Expeditionary Army.

That night, Wu Guang set up a banquet to entertain the disease, the food was not rich, Wu Guang asked people to serve wine, but he refused to go to the disease.

"Marquis Wu Zhong asked Shaofu to increase taxes on wine, sugar, silk, iron, and lacquer, and it is strictly forbidden for the people to brew wine privately, so we should not take the lead in violating the order."

Wu Guang had no choice but to give up, and after taking a bite, he asked:

"Xin Jun, since the Wei thief is so unpopular in Hedong, now that the autumn harvest is over, why don't Marquis Wu Zhong attack it? It's going to be like a stone! ”

Wu Guang's seniority in the Northern Expeditionary Army is not old, but looking at Dongmen Leopard, Han Xin and others as marquises, it is impossible not to be hot.

"The prince has the consideration of the prince."

Only when you go to the disease comes from the middle of the court, you can understand the reason.

"Although the Xiongnu withdrew from Henan, they still occupied the northern holiday, and they could invade the south at any time in the autumn and winter, and the prince had to arrange for Zhang and Han Erqing to defend against the enemy in the north and Shangjun."

"The people of Guanzhong have suffered from forced labor and need to rest."

"After the reward is given, the treasury is empty, and it is necessary to save up, otherwise the prince will not add taxes on extravagant things."

He lowered his voice: "The most important thing is that the new deal has not yet been completed, and there are many voices of doubt in the Xianyang court. ”

"Who is it?"

Wu Guang was very surprised: "To this day, who dares to oppose Marquis Wu Zhong?" Against the New Deal? ”

He shook his head: "When Zhao Gao died, they clapped their hands and applauded, but last month, when the prince released the prisoners, opened the garden, married the palace maid, and revoked the extravagant government, there was no shortage of people who stood up to refute it, saying that this was digging the corner of the Great Qin Emperor and digging the royal wool ......."

"Emperor, now there is only a regent, where is the emperor?"

Wu Guang only felt ridiculous, his ass was now firmly sitting on the side of the heroes of the Northern Expedition, and this military merit group was undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary of Heifu's entry into the Guan. Wu Guang himself not only received a lot of gold silk, but Marquis Wu Zhong promised him that he would have a large land mansion in Chen County in the future, and also let him take a former "seventh son" of Hu Hai as a concubine......

Go to the head of the jaw: "That's right, for the Northern Expeditionary Army, we only follow the orders of Marquis Wu Zhong, eat it, be loyal to it, in our eyes, Marquis Wu Zhong is the sky, but it is even bigger than the 'Son of Heaven'!" ”

Let Wu Guang come forward again and whisper to him:

"But the remnants of the court don't think so, there have been rumors recently, saying that Fusu rose back in Liaodong, and now he has been called the king, and everyone in the court has also heard about it, and it is inevitable that they will start to make up their minds, shouting every day that Sheji cannot be left without an owner for a day, or saying that he should send someone to welcome back Fusu to succeed to the unification, or that he should quickly establish the son of Fusu as the emperor......"

Speaking of this, he laughed: "Uncle Wu, didn't you still play the banner of 'the one who is the son of the son of the Su' when you raised things in Chen County back then?" ”

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PS: Chapter 2 strives to be before 0 o'clock.