When Chen Ping lamented that the Huns were noble and strong, cheap and old, and weak, Heifu, who was far away in Beidi County, was doing the opposite: building the first "nursing home" in the Qin Dynasty.

This was a collaboration between Heifu and Zhao Hai, the county guard, Zhao Hai regarded this as a political achievement, and Heifu regarded it as a way to boost morale and motivate soldiers to fight bravely.

In the middle of the 28th year of Qin Shi Huang (the fourth month of the lunar calendar), the north has entered summer, the sun is warm, and the "nursing home" is officially opened in the west of Yiqu County. This is a small place, and it will house the lonely widows and widows who have been disabled and have no one to support them in the past few decades due to their military service, service, and military service.

In fact, the population of Beidi County is sparse, with no more than 30,000 households and less than 200,000 people, of which only half are Qin, so there are only about 20 people who meet this condition......

Even if they build a yard and hire cooks and servants to take care of it, it won't cost much money a year.

But Heifu still attaches great importance to this matter, and on the day of the opening of the nursing home, he personally brought the selected 300 good families to come, and asked them to make a gesture for these disabled old men who were found from various counties and did not believe that there was such a good thing in the world.

The old pawns finally believed it now, and they were moved to tears, because they were indeed a group struggling on the line of death. Although he was injured, he was not knighted, and in hindsight, it was better to die in battle. After returning to his hometown, he also lost Litian's ability, because he was disabled, and no one was willing to marry his daughter.

"It's like a tree that suddenly cuts off all its branches and leaves in one day, and even if it doesn't die, it can only survive."

An old soldier excitedly slapped his bare left foot and said that he had been wounded twenty years ago when the Six Nations were attacking Hangu Pass, and he had been wounded by the fast-rolling chariot hub, but he had miraculously survived.

But when he returned, he was often treated as a slave who had been tortured for running away, and he was wronged......

It is only today that he feels that the injury and disability of the year seem to have a little value.

Heifu listened carefully to the stories of each old man, patted their dry hands and said: "The old man is at ease, the nursing home will ensure food, clothing, medical care, housing, and burial, and the five guarantees will be complete until you wait for a good death!" ”

He has always felt that for soldiers, they should not be regarded as the stepping stones of meritorious service, let alone mules and horses that are sent and do not matter if they die, but a group of living people, since they want to encourage them to fight, they must do a good job in dealing with the aftermath.

Heifu also gave three hundred good family members, and even the county soldiers who were ordered to build walls and repair houses to promote the policy of Great Qin:

"The Way of Officials" has a saying, as a Qin official, you should eliminate harm and prosperity, love all people, and be innocent and guiltless. The lonely, widowed, and poor, the elderly, the weak, and the disabled are exempted from forced labor, and it is strictly forbidden for violent and wicked people to bully them, and the government takes care of their food, clothing, hunger and cold. Ordinary Qiantou is still like this, not to mention these soldiers who have contributed to the country and caused physical disabilities? “

Although Qin law is sometimes cruel, but sometimes it is also very gentle, these things that seem to be very "Confucian" are actually advocated by Legalism - there is no need to wait until the Han Dynasty, Legalism has long learned to wrap a layer of human skin in the outside of their cold heart, and Shang Ying's kind of truth about "etiquette, poetry, filial piety, honesty and honesty, benevolence and righteousness, and non-soldier shame war" are all six lice, Li Si and others will not say.

Contrary to the nomadic herders, the farming civilization has an old family like a treasure, and the mastery of the seasons, climate, seasons, seeds, soil, farming tools and even farming methods is far inferior to them, plus they do not have to migrate from time to time, the harvest is relatively stable, and it is not difficult to support their parents and save money.

As a result, respect for the elderly, filial piety, this has become a universal value recognized by Legalism, Confucianism, Huang Lao and other schools, even if it is the Mohist who likes to go off the rails, they only hope that the world "loves other people's parents as their own parents, and loves other people's brothers as their own brothers".

It is not difficult to understand why many dynasties in later generations liked to "rule the world with filial piety", because this is the universal value of Chinese farming culture, something that can never be wrong.

By the way, Heifu also announced that in the future, if there were corpses killed in a melee on the battlefield, which were difficult to identify and could not be transported back to their hometown, they would be buried in the "Loyal Cemetery".

After the two-pronged approach, three hundred good families, one thousand county soldiers, and soldiers followed Heifu, facing the direction of Xianyang, and said loudly:

"Thanks to the blessing of Your Majesty and the appearance of the law, those who are beheaded by Qin soldiers have knights, the injured and disabled are raised, and the dead are buried, how dare we not fight bravely to kill the enemy, and we are happy when we hear the war?"

After finishing his official duties, Heifu hurried home, the county lieutenant used to be a very diligent person, but today he pinched the time to get off work, and the officials of the county governor's mansion suddenly felt that it was a strange thing.

Because just yesterday, Ye Zijin told Heifu a good news: her menstrual period this month is in the future, and it is likely that she is pregnant under Heifu's hard work in the past two months......

What a joy! Heifu is a human being, but for the first time he has the opportunity to be a father, although the final result has not yet been determined, it has already made him inexplicably excited.

When Heifu's posture of the little man was seen by his wife and teased him, Heifu said with a straight face: "How can a father not hope for his eldest son and eldest daughter, like a rain?" “

Coincidentally, when Heifu said this, hundreds of miles away in the north, the eldest son of the Xiongnu Da Danyu, Prince Maodun, was not loved by his father, but through a wedding gift, everyone on the grassland was known......

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Chen Ping has been coming to Helan Mountain for several days, and he has finally waited for the happy event of Maodun. On the day of the wedding feast, Prince Maudun rode back on his red steed, which was eight feet high at the shoulder, and carried the "Yan Shi" in a feather suit.

Yan Shi is a transliteration of the Xiongnu language, because there are cheers all around, and the translator can only tell Chen Ping out loud, and this word can also be understood as "the wife of the main room".

"Shan Yu can have many clans, and the largest one is called the Zhuan Qu clan. But the rest of the people, including the prince, can only have one Yan, and before the death of the Yan, they are not allowed to marry another family, but can only take concubines. “

Chen Ping nodded, the Central Plains is about the same.

While observing the differences between the Xiongnu and the Central Plains, Chen Ping also found many things in common, for example, and the Huns worshipped the sky, and the full name of the Xiongnu Da Dan Yu was "Supporting the Plough and Tu Shan Yu".

"Support the plow", the "sky" in the Xiongnu language, "Gu Tu" means "son", and "Shan Yu" means "vast".

Therefore, "supporting the plough is lonely and alone", translated into Xia Yan, is "the great son of heaven......

Prince Maudun was born to Toumandanyu's "Zhuqu Clan", but she has been dead for several years. I heard that Tou Mandan recently got a beauty from the distant Western Regions, and he was very favored, and a few years ago, he also added a younger brother to Mao Dun......

But in any case, Mao Dun, as the eldest son of Touman, attracted much attention and was regarded as the future successor, and he was also sent to the best pasture in Henan, Helan Mountain.

When the eldest son got married, the Xiongnu tribes from far and near all sent people to participate, and all the tribes gathered together, and the young and strong people who were fully armed alone had four or five thousand horsemen, in addition to countless women and children, slaves. With a large number of livestock, they set up camp in the vast Helan Mountain grassland, and quickly set up tents with wicker felt roofs.

The wedding was held under the sky and was a feast for the whole people, both men and women, dressed in bearded robes with pleats and trousers, covered with painted leather waistcoats, tied with horsehair leggings, and the nobles wore gold on their heads, bronze sashes around their waists, and braided their hair black and shiny with animal fat.

Then they began to slaughter hundreds of cattle and sheep, the smell of barbecue permeated the grassland, and everyone munched on the roasted meat with green salt, drank fermented mare's milk wine, and sat around the campfire laughing with each other, so loud that the weasels in the ground also fled in a hurry.

It's a pity that Chen Ping's current identity is the official "planner" who follows the caravan, and he is not qualified to approach the big tent of Maudun, so he can only watch from afar, watching Wu Shiyan and other valuable guests visit the tall prince Maudun one by one and offer their gifts......

First of all, the prince of Maudun sat on the eight-foot-high steed on his shoulders, which was a gift from a Western merchant named "Kangguo", which gave Maudun enough face. It is said that this state is far west of Yueshi, and the desert mountains are further west, and its people have high noses and deep eyes, and Wushi Yan is also the first time to encounter it, but it can only communicate with it through the Xiongnu language.

Henan Baiyang Jun offered a lamb made of pure gold; Lou Fujun gave a long whip with a silver handle, as well as an eagle archer; Yan Yanjun gave a horse carved from blue salt and a gold-plated scimitar; Lin Hu gave a hundred large furs made of mink.

An xī marquis from the Yue clan sent ten camels; The adults from Donghu gave five leopard skins.

Among them, Wu Shiyan's gifts were particularly valuable: 300 catties of brown sugar, 10 horses of embroidered silk, 30 horses of brocade, and 40 horses of red silk and green silk......

In addition to the guests who came from afar, the Huns also had gifts for each of the Huns, thousands of horsemen, and thousands of people.

But looking at these gifts, Prince Maudun's face became more and more gloomy.

Because the most important gift he was waiting for had not arrived.

It wasn't until it was long in the evening that the horses were late, and all the Huns began to cheer, and what they brought was the wedding gift that Dadan Yu Touman gave to his son!

Maudun smiled, and personally stepped forward to greet several messengers, who carried a pine box decorated with gold and walked forward quickly, and after meeting Maudun, opened the box in public......

Maudun's smile disappeared, and his face became extremely ugly!

In the box, there was nothing he was looking for, just an ordinary leopard skin hat......

The Hun nobles stopped the noise and looked at each other, and the surroundings became surprisingly quiet.

Chen Ping noticed this strangeness, and the translator whispered to him: "According to the customs of the Xiongnu, when the eldest son gets married, Shan Yu will give him a silver-crowned eagle crown representing the 'eldest son', that is, the successor, second only to the golden-crowned eagle crown of the Xiongnu Shan Yu......"

"There is a gap between father and son, and you want to abolish the growth and young!?"

Chen Ping's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he immediately turned his head to look at Mao Dun, wondering how he would react.

Make somebody's blood boil? Or do you turn your face in public? At this juncture when Qin wants to use troops against the Huns, if the Huns are not compatible with father and son, it is really a great joy for Heifu!

However, after being silent for a long time, Maudon put his leopard skin hat on his head, knelt down in the direction of Manchester City, put his hands on his chest, paused three times, and thanked his father loudly! Then, shouting a few words, he went straight into the felt tent to fulfill the groom's obligations, and soon the undisguised shouts of the Yan clan came from inside—in the Huns, if the bride did not scream loudly on the wedding day, it meant that the groom was a waste.

The awkward atmosphere ceased, and the Huns began to make noise again, and resumed laughter as if nothing had happened......

"What did Prince Maudon just say?" Chen Ping is most concerned about this.

The translator says: "The prince said that his greatest love was the leather that his father had hunted with his own hands, better than the crown of gold and silver, and better than all the gifts of the day!" “

This response is decent, but Chen Ping nodded slightly, then shook his head slightly, and said secretly: "The matter of Jin Xiangong and Li Ji is probably going to be staged in the Huns!" ”

He looked at the figures in the felt tent, reflected by the candlelight, and cast on the tent with a huge and incomparably large appearance.

"I just don't know, this prince of Maoton, is he Shen Sheng, or Chong'er?"