At this time, the two Shangqing and the three Zhongqing in the massage room are all first, second and third grade of the court, and a group of people are enjoying the back while also discussing some court affairs or interesting topics in the world.

"Master Jiang, you used to be a county guard in Taiyuan County, so you want to be more familiar with the folk customs of Zhao Di?" During the chat, Chen Xu asked.

"Yes, Xia Guan has served as the county guard of Taiyuan County for more than ten years, although he has not made any achievements, but he does know a lot about the local folk customs. Jiang Pu hurriedly replied.

"Hehe, I do have this idea, I heard that Zhao Dimin is fierce, I don't know if it's true?"

"Indeed, the people of Yanzhao are indeed fierce, and it is commonplace to fight and fight in the streets......" Jiang Pu replied.

"What Master Jiang said is right, I have also been to Yanmen Yunzhong, the closer to the border pass, the more fierce the people's customs are, and they are all unruly!" Lu Huan also sat next to him and spoke.

"Yan Zhao is bordering the Huns Donghu, fighting and brawling is commonplace, if there is no such fierce folk customs, how to resist the Hun Hu barbarians, my Daqin is the same, hundreds of years of hard to open up the vast territory of the land of Guanzhong, relying on blood and bravery, the folk customs of the land of Yan Zhao are more than my Daqin, and it is reasonable to be unruly, Jiang has served in Taiyuan for many years, although there is not much achievement, but to be able to properly appease the local people, it is also a great credit, The county orders of the northwestern counties were changed like a marquee, and only Lord Jiang held on to it for more than ten years, which is actually a miracle...... Left...... A little bit more...... This is it...... A few more times...... Shu Tai ...... "Meng Yi was lying on the massage table while directing the maid who stepped on his back, and followed along.

"Uncle Yue is saying that the Northwest Counties are not easy to manage?" Chen Xu asked suspiciously.

"Master Jiang has a deep understanding, you can know if you ask him!" Meng Yi hummed.

"It's not just that it's not easy to manage, it's really too difficult...... Jiang Pu sighed, "Zuo Xiang doesn't know, the people of the northwest counties are fierce, but there are still laws and lieutenants, but they can't make big waves, but the collection of grain tax is a huge problem......

Just as Jiang Pu was speaking, the door was pushed open again, and everyone thought that it was an acquaintance who came in again, only to find that it was Chen Xu's head of the guard.

"Master Hou, just now the steward of the Hou Mansion came to report that the old man and the old lady have arrived in Xianyang, and they have gone to the Qinghe Courtyard at this time!"

Chen Xu was stunned for a moment, got up, and after putting on his clothes, he walked out while tidying up his clothes, "Uncle Yue and you enjoy it slowly, Ben Hou will take a step forward after saying goodbye!" ”

"Left, please!"

"Virtuous son-in-law go slowly, greet Brother Chen and Lingtang for me, and invite the old man to a banquet and wine another day!"

"Thank you, thank you, farewell!" Chen Xu strode out of the room.

"Great, come and step on this official!" Lu Huan excitedly took off his shirt and lay on the massage table, Fang Sheng had to ask another girl to go up and help step on his back.

"It's strange, how could Prime Minister Zuo suddenly ask about Zhao Di?" Jiang Pu muttered in his heart full of doubts, then closed his eyes and began to figure it out in his heart.

Indeed, just like he said himself, he has been a county guard in Taiyuan County since Wang Jian broke Zhao, and he has not made any achievements for more than ten years, not that he is inactive, but that he is very powerful, the county guards of the northwest counties will inevitably be replaced every three or five years at most, and some of them will be dismissed in less than a year after taking office, mainly because the folk customs of Zhao Di are too strong and difficult to manage, and Jiang Pu's deepest taste is that the hostility of the people of Zhao Di to Daqin is everywhere, and the local people are still very united, and the middle and low-level officials are also locals, As a result, a very complex whole was formed, and the county magistrates sent by the imperial court were constrained at every turn, and many government decrees could not be pushed away at all.

Jiang believes in Confucianism, so the local management is relatively lax, and the law is not particularly harsh, and the middle and low-level officials still agree with Jiang Pu's governing philosophy, so the cooperation is not bad, and there has been no big contradiction for so many years.

This is the reason why Jiang Pu was able to stay in the position of Taiyuan County Guard for more than ten years, and many officials who were transferred to the northwest counties to implement the strict management of the imperial court laws and regulations were basically transferred or replaced in the end, because many Zhao people did not eat this set at all, and gathered people to make trouble from time to time, and it was common to resist taxes and military service. Coupled with the intertwined relationship between the local heroes and officials, many chief officials can't do anything.

Just like when Jiang Heng was transferred to Huiji County as the county guard, if the county lieutenant and police did not cooperate, it would really be a decoration, and a local tycoon like Xiang could not bird him.

In fact, this is a microcosm of the entire Great Qin.

After the peace of blood and fire, the unification of the six kingdoms was not the desire of the people.

And this situation is known to the emperor and the civil and military officials of the court, so the emperor can only travel and inspect again and again, constantly proclaiming his merits to make the people of the six countries submit, but the process and results of the previous inspections are not very good.

With Chen Xu's continuous reforms in recent years, the implementation of many new decrees, the continuous relaxation of the harsh laws and regulations on merchants and commoners, and the continuous reduction of taxes, some conscripts in various places have also begun to be replaced by paid helpers, and all kinds of hostility and resistance among the people have subsided a lot.

He was transferred back to Beijing for several years, in charge of the evaluation of officials in various places, and he was able to clearly see the changes in the land of the Six Kingdoms, and now the chief officials of various places are transferred to other places once every five years, and the officials of the northwest counties have served much longer than when he was in charge of Taiyuan, which shows that the local people's sense of identity with Daqin is getting stronger and stronger, and the attitude of violent resistance is greatly weakening.

But today, why did the Marquis of Qinghe suddenly ask about Zhao Dimin's customs coldly?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was other information in Chen Xu's words, so he began to rummage through the cabinets in his mind to find some things about the Northwest Prefectures, and even some things about the Northwest Prefectures in the court, especially Zhao Di, after a long time, Jiang Pu suddenly remembered one thing, and then sat up from the massage table with a grunt, and the maid who was stepping on her back didn't have time to react at all, and a white and tender little foot stepped directly on Jiang Pu's face.

"Lord Jiang forgives the sins and forgives the slaves~" The little girl's frightened face turned pale and knelt on the side and kowtowed to beg for mercy.

Jiang Pu didn't care at all, jumped out of bed and put on his boots directly, put on his clothes after dividing them by two, and then said to a group of people in the room: "Everyone, Jiang Mou has taken a step in advance!" After finishing his clothes, he left the room in a hurry.

"Master Jiang, what's wrong?" Lu Huan looked up in surprise at Jiang Pu's departing back.

Meng Yi's eyelids trembled slightly, and he quickly buried his head again.

Jiang Pu hurriedly left the Jishantang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall, and after returning home, he rummaged through the cabinets in the study, and finally turned out a letter from a corner, opened it and read it again, and finally showed a look on his face, and then his face slowly became serious and cold, and he began to look at the desk in a daze with his beard.

At the end of April last year, Jiang Chutian, a nephew who was a captain in the northern military camp, asked the post guard to bring back a letter, which mentioned one thing, in mid-March, the Marquis of Wucheng inspected Yanmen Pass, and happened to meet many Zhao people who were going to sweep the tomb on the Shangsi Festival to worship Li Mu, the general of Zhao State, in a temple near Yanmen Pass, Wang Li instructed the guards and soldiers to destroy the temple, and there was a conflict with the local people, killing and injuring dozens of people on the spot!

This matter is not very clear in the letter, just casually mentioned it like a common saying, Jiang Pu naturally did not take it too seriously, Wucheng Marquis Wang Li is the grandson of the general Wang Qian, the son of Tongwu Marquis Wang Ben, the destruction of a temple has no impact on Wang Li at all, even if there are casualties among the people of Zhao Di, no one will care too much at all, because the three generations of the Wang family are all Great Qin Zhushi, controlling hundreds of thousands of troops for the emperor, destroying Donghu and sweeping Baiyue, not to mention the exploits of sweeping the Six Kingdoms before, This little thing is that the emperor will not even have the idea of reprimanding.

Jiang Pu thought about it repeatedly, and the only thing that the entire northwest counties could interest the Qinghe Marquis was this matter, and he also specifically asked about the local folk customs, which showed that he was referring to something.

As a qualified bureaucratic family, the Jiang family is also an old aristocrat in Daqin, so he is also very familiar with the many means of dealing with the court and officialdom, and the Marquis of Qinghe will not be bored to talk to himself about this issue suddenly, because of the relationship between Jiang Chuyue and Jiangbei Pavilion, the Marquis of Qinghe is certainly full of good feelings towards the Jiang family, and the two also discuss government affairs with the court, but the two do not interact much on weekdays, and the daily meeting is just to say hello to each other.

Maybe something new has happened in this matter, which has attracted the attention of Qinghe Hou.

After thinking for a long time, Jiang Pu picked up a pen and paper and quickly wrote a letter, packed it in a bamboo tube, sealed it with a clay seal, stamped it with his own seal, and then instructed the housekeeper to arrange for someone to send it to the post house and send it to the barracks as quickly as possible.

After the letter was sent away, Jiang Pu still felt a little apprehensive in his heart, and wrote three letters in succession, and asked people to send them to the post house again to send them to the eldest brother Jiang Heng, the third brother Jiang Hu and the fourth brother Jiang Beiting.

Now the four brothers of the Jiang family are all high-ranking officials of the Great Qin, but they are all scattered thousands of miles apart, Jiang Heng is still in Wuzhong, but Jiang Hu is in the Western Regions, just the exchange of letters will take several months, and now it is the deep winter, and the delivery of letters is even more inconvenient.

But if the Marquis of Qinghe wants to intervene in this matter, then it is very likely that there will be a great turmoil in the court and the army, and the Jiang family must have its own position, and the Marquis of Qinghe has always played cards according to common sense, and no one can guess his thoughts.

Wang Li's matter can be big or small, it depends on who will operate it.

In the eyes of the civil and military officials and the emperor, this matter is similar to mung bean sesame, and the deaths and injuries of dozens of civilians cannot be compared with the merits of the three generations of the Wang family.

But if the Marquis of Qinghe wants to intervene, then the problem is very complicated, in the whole world, in addition to the emperor who can control the Wang family, the only person who has the ability to fight against the Wang family is Chen Xu, a disciple of the immortal family and the left minister.

What does Qinghehou want to do?

Provoke a confrontation with the Wang family?

What's in it for him?

And the general had just died.

Usually he is not so aggressive, because this matter can be big or small, and the battle is lost, what is going on?

Jiang Pu locked himself in his study and thought about it repeatedly, constantly weighing the pros and cons and once Qinghe Hou really made a move, what should the Jiang family do?

Because this is not a win-win situation, and one side will definitely be greatly suppressed, and the final outcome will be to see who can get more support from the emperor.

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