When the sun came out, Zhao Kang, the commander of Yixian County, led a group of county officials to rush to the main canal of Mengxiang. Looking at this shocking scene, his face was pale, and without saying a word, he flew to Liyang.

"Zhao County Order!" Qin Feng hurriedly shouted. Zhao Kang saw Qin Feng at this time, and hurriedly dismounted and saluted: "Zhao Kang has seen Lord Shangqing." ”

"Brother Zhao doesn't have to be polite, you go to Liyang to find Zuo Shu first. I'm looking at it here. Qin Feng pondered for a moment and said to Zhao Kang. Someone has to watch here. Qin Feng is naturally the one who will not give in.

Zhao Kang is the only Qin scholar who responded to the call in the recruitment of talents in the Qin State, he is a square person, full of poetry and books, and his brother Zhao Liang is as famous as his brother Zhao Liang, and he is a famous person in Yunyang, known as Yunyang Shuangxian.

Although the brothers are both Confucian celebrities who have never entered the Confucian Sect, their lives are very different. Zhao Liangzhi was studying and cultivating scriptures, and went to the Qi Guoji School Palace to study.

Zhao Kang is struggling to enter the WTO and want to make a career for the strength of Qin.

Qin Xiaogong recruited talents, and he came happily.

When he was appointed to the official position, Qin Xiaogong sent him to make the key county order of Yixian County.

After serving for half a year, there was no major event, but he was familiar with the county situation and waited for the new decree to be promulgated. He could not have imagined that at the beginning of the promulgation of the new law, some people would defy the law and cause a big incident. The three tribes of Mengxi, the Bai clan and the Rong Di immigrants, on that side are all related to the safety of the Qin State, how can he deal with it without authorization?

At noon, Wei Ying was having dinner in the study, and when he heard that Zhao Kang urgently asked to see him, he didn't say a word, and came to the political hall as soon as he pushed the plate. After listening to Zhao Kang's urgent report, he thought for a moment and resolutely ordered, "Che Ying, take two hundred ironclad knights and rush to Yixian immediately." Qin Feng is also there, you rush to meet him. ”

Cha Ying received the order and went to assemble the knights.

Wei Ying then instructed Zhao Kang. After eating, I went to the study to make some preparations. When Wei Ying came out, Zhao Kang had already gotten up, and the neighing of the horse team was already heard outside the gate of the mansion.

Wei Ying waved his hand: "Go." "Strode out the door.

Zhao Kang asked in surprise: "Zuo Shuchang?" This is going to Yixian? Wei Ying said coldly: "Is it late?" Zhao Kang snorted: "No, don't you report to the king?" ”

Wei Ying's fierce gaze swept over, "Everything will be reported to the king, what is the use of me as the chief of the left?" After saying that, he strode out of the door, flew on his horse, and galloped first. Che Ying's horse team followed closely behind and rolled out of the west gate. Zhao Kang thought for a moment, got on the horse and whipped him, and chased after him.

When the sun reached the top of the mountain to the west, the horse team rushed to the main trunk canal of Mengxiang. Wei Ying's embankment was immediately wrecked, and as far as the eye could see, the twilight was vast, the four fields were vast, the corpses of black pressure were floating on the water, the eagle vultures were pecking and pecking, and the smell of rancid smell filled the countryside. The highlands where the nine villages of Mengxiang are located have all turned into small islands.

Wei Ying's face turned pale, and he resolutely ordered, "Yixian order, immediately send someone to close the main trunk canal." ”

Zhao Kang agreed, and Pegasus galloped away.

When the sun set, the mouth of the Weishui main canal was finally blocked.

In the evening, Wei Ying issued three orders in succession in the county government of Yixian County.

First, Zhao Kang was ordered to lead the county garrison with 200 foot soldiers and the people along the coast to immediately repair the canal embankment.

Second, he ordered Che Ying and Qin Feng to lead the ironclad knights to the Rongdi settlement area in the starry night to arrest all the criminals, and no one was allowed to escape.

Third, the counties were ordered to escort all the criminals who openly gathered to fight during the three months of the promulgation of the new law to Yixian. After Zhao Kang, Che Ying, Qin Feng and the messengers set off, Wei Ying's heart was unsettled, and he wrote two letters under the lamp, and ordered the fast horse messenger to send them to the Zuoshu Governor's Mansion in Liyang immediately.

At this moment, Qin Xiaocheng was practicing swords in the courtyard, and after sweating a little, he returned to the study to bury his head in the case. Three months after the promulgation of the new law, the number of brochures on his desk suddenly increased, all of which were secret reports of the people's situation directly sent to him by the government and the opposition through various channels.

He carefully read and pondered these secret reports, and felt an unusual atmosphere permeating the air. The fact that these secret reports could be sent directly to the monarch and not to the chief regent, who presided over the change of the law, meant that he was dismissive and dissatisfied with the new decree.

The intention behind the informant is obvious, the monarch is an uninformed person who has been deceived by the ministers, and the responsibility is for the foreign ministers, and the monarch should come out to abolish the evil law to appease the people.

Qin Xiaogong was vigilantly aware that whether the law change could succeed or not was the key now.

Although the "public opinion and popular will" conveyed by the secret newspaper is a kind of Ye Gonghaolong-style panic, it is also a dangerous signal -- the first wave of the reform of the law encountered the wave of commotion of the tired people and the public opinion, and how to deal with it is related to the success or failure of the reform, and it is quite difficult to grasp the proportion.

Qin Xiaogong did not tell Wei Ying about these secret reports and his own judgment. He believed that with Wei Ying's insight, it was impossible not to know these rumors that permeated the government and the opposition.

He wants to see how Wei Ying judges the current general trend and how he deals with this crisis of public opinion.

If Wei Ying did not have the ability to deal with such a general crisis, Qin Xiaogong would have been willing to prove it as soon as possible, so as not to be ruined by a loss of trust when an even greater crisis comes. After all, Wei Ying did not have the actual experience of holding great power, and whether he could still be as clear and clear as when he was in power still needs to be verified. Because of this, Qin Xiaogong lived in a simple house and did not care about the process of changing the law at all.

Right now, Qin Xiaogong is buried in the study, just in case, to devise a prognostic strategy, just in case.

"Your Majesty, Lord Shi, the head of the Zuo Governor's Mansion, asks to see you." Heibo whispered at the door of the study.

"Jing Jian? Let him in. Qin Xiaogong was a little surprised, Jing Jian came to see him in the middle of the night, could it be that there was something important?

Jing Jian walked in quickly and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the three clans of Yixian County and the Rong Di people are fighting with each other, and the casualties are not counted, and the chief Zuo has rushed to deal with it." This is an urgent letter from the chief of Zuo to the king. ”

"Why fight?" Qin Xiaogong asked.

"The three tribes of Mengxibai blocked the main canal, and the Rongdi people fought for water, so they fought hard."

"What are you going to do?"

"Chief Zuo's decision is not yet clear. Presumably, there is a report in the letter to the king. ”

Qin Xiaogong opened the copper pipe in his hand, took out a roll of parchment and unfolded it, but saw a hearty piece of handwriting:

Wei Ying visited the king: Meixian's private fight was caused by the chaos of the people and the chronic illness of the Qin State.

According to the investigation, there were also more than 30 cases of illegal and private fights in other counties. The way to govern the country is one punishment, one reward, and one teaching. If the punishment and reward are not raised, the law is not authoritative. If the people are not removed, the country will have no peace.

The minister intends to deal with the crime according to the law, and there is no count. I didn't want to repay the king, but the government and the opposition had a bad reputation, and the ministers were responsible for it. However, when the decree is first implemented, the king should know, and if the minister does not notice it, please show it quickly. The ministers and guards shook their heads.

Qin Xiaogong pondered for a moment and asked, "According to the new law, what crime should be committed in such a private fight?" ”

"Return to the king, rectify private fights, the first evil and the main culprit will be decided, and the accomplice will be punished and confiscated according to his severity and hard labor."

"How many first evils and main culprits are there?"

"It's hard to know the details of the Jing Supervisors, and it is speculated that there should be more than 300."

"What about accomplices?"

Jing Jian hesitated and said: "The minister has roughly calculated, and there are more than 3,000 accomplices on both sides of Yixian alone. Including the rest of the counties, there are about 5,000 people. ”

Qin Xiaogong was silent.

If this were a war, with tens of thousands of dead and wounded, no one would have said anything.

Nor will anyone be frustrated. But this is a torture killing, it is a killing under the law of the country, and thirty or fifty is just a killing, killing hundreds of criminals at a time, which is really unheard of.

Before the three families were divided, the three clans of Han, Zhao and Wei jointly captured and killed Zhibo, killing more than 200 members of the Zhibo family at one time, and the world was shocked!

However, it was a war between family groups like the war of the princes, and it was not seen as torture.

If you want to talk about changing the law and killing them, Li Kui of Wei, Wu Qi of Chu, and Shen Bu of South Korea did not have hundreds of criminals killed. What will be the consequences of Qin's actions?

For the first time, Qin Xiaogong felt uncertain. However, if you don't do this, there will be only one consequence, which is equivalent to actually declaring the abortion of the law, and the Qin State will return to the old path and perish step by step in poverty.

This is a path that Qin Xiaogong is absolutely unwilling to take. The lesser of two evils is the precept of the ancients. The former has the potential to bring about a lot of movement. Compared with the catastrophe of the destruction of the country, it is natural to take the former risk and avoid the latter. Wei Ying dared to do this, and he must have thought of this. For now, what he needs to know is the king's thoughts.

"Jing Jian, what do you think?" Qin Xiaogong asked suddenly.

Jing Jian has also been silent, and when he saw that the monarch asked him, he replied without hesitation: "The minister thinks that there must be risks in changing the law." The risk is worth the risk compared to the loss of the country. ”

"Good. You can say that again. We coincide. Qin Xiaogong smiled and nodded, walked to the bookcase, picked up the wild pheasant Ling's large pen and wrote on the parchment for a while, stamped it with a copper seal, rolled it up and sealed it with a copper pipe, and handed it to Jing Jian and said, "Jing Jian, send someone to Zuo Shu Chang as soon as possible." If you can leave, it is best for you to go to Yixian, and you need an assistant under the head of Zuo Shu. ”

"Your Ministers obey." Jing Jian took the brass pipe, turned and walked away.

At three o'clock in the morning, Jing Jian had already rushed to Yixian. Wei Ying was flipping through the household registration brochure in a large room temporarily vacated in the backyard of the county government, and when he saw Jing Jian walking in, he smiled in surprise: "I was trying to summon you, and you came." Sit first. Then he turned and ordered his servant to serve tea and dinner. Before Jing Jian had time to wipe his sweat, he took out the copper pipe from the leather bag in his arms, "Zuo Shuchang, this is the gentleman's book." Wei Ying took it and opened it, and two lines of big words rushed into his eyes:

Zuo Shu Chang Wuqing: Diao the people and mess with the law, which is very hateful. The new law is in force for the first time, and we must not show weakness. But to judge the sin by law, and not to worry about anything else.

Yingquliang in May of the third year.

Wei Ying let out a long sigh of relief and handed the parchment to Jing Jian. Jing Jian looked at it and said excitedly: "The king is clear, Zuo Shu has no worries." Wei Ying smiled faintly: "Why don't you have any worries?" However, it has never been a king. ”

At this time, the servant brought in the tea and rice and set it up, and the Jing Jian hurriedly ate the meal. Wei Ying said: "Changshi will stay in Yixian for a few days for the time being, this is a major event, and it needs to be thorough. Dispose of it, leaving no future troubles. ”

Jing Jian said: "I have already arranged the affairs in Liyang Mansion, Zuo Shu can rest assured, I will take care of the chores." Wei Ying said: "The most important thing today is to work with Zhao Kang to sort out the list of criminals." While speaking, Jing Jian had already eaten, and the two discussed secretly for half an hour, and then went their separate ways.

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