All the way to the south through Longshan, through Qufu, then turn to the southwest past Rencheng (now Jining), Kangfu, bypass a huge water and then arrive at Huling County (now Yutai County).

When I got here, I was actually in Liu Bang's hometown.

Because in the history of later generations, Liu Bang revolted from Peixian, and after taking Peixian, he first attacked Huling and Fanghe County, and then attacked Kang's father in the north, starting the beginning of his thousand-year-old achievements of overthrowing the rule of Great Qin and creating the Han Empire.

There is a big lake in the east of Huling County, and there is a small hill at the north end, called Dushan, so this big lake is called Dushan Lake.

Dushan Lake is vast and blue, about 200 miles long, about 50 miles wide at the widest point, constituting a narrow long lake, but in fact, this is not the whole of this big lake, because after continuing to the south through a huge reed swing that stretches for dozens of miles, there is a big lake below, called Weishan Lake.

The two big lakes of Dushan and Weishan constitute a water town that stretches for more than 300 miles, as the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft the water, the lotus root, fish and shrimp growing in the huge water on this side provide sufficient food for the people along the coast, so riding horses and walking on the shore, through the lush reeds and thorns, you can see countless fishing boats fishing and shrimp picking lotus roots in the big lake.

Arrived in Huling County, rested a little in the county seat, and asked the shopkeeper who was resting to know some about Pei County and the surrounding situation, and after the situation was roughly clarified, Chen Xu wrote a letter and arranged for the guards to be sent to Pei County County to hand over to the county order Jiangbei Pavilion in person, and Chen Xu disguised himself as a rich brother, and the rest of the guards and accompanying teenagers also bought some ordinary clothes in Huling County to dress up as ordinary business travelers and entourage, and some went to Pei County in advance to find and arrange accommodation. The rest protected Chen Xu and slowly went to Pei County.

Huling to Pei County is not far away, the distance is not more than 100 miles, and because the lake is abundant, along the way through are a large area of neat farmland mulberry fields, villages are connected to each other, Qianmo vertical and horizontal chickens and dogs smell each other, very rich and prosperous, the complexion of the civilians who come and go is also very good, and even many fishermen carrying lotus roots and fish baskets are still standing on the side of the road and constantly peddling today's harvest in the lake.

"Let's take a look at the old men passing by, this is the fish and crab that my brother and I caught today, it's very cheap......"

Because the guards who reported the news had not left for a long time, Chen Xu was not in a hurry, and walked forward with a few guards and teenagers on horses, and when he was about to arrive in Pei County, a little girl selling fish and shrimp on the side of the road caught his attention.

The little girl was thin, her hair was messy and knotted, she was wearing a patched but still tattered coarse linen clothes, barefoot, her face and hands were full of mud and water, and in front of her was a broken clay pot and a blackened fish basket that had been used for I don't know how many years, and the little girl looked a little nervous and kept selling her fish and shrimp to passers-by.

"Yu~~"

Chen Xu grabbed the reins of the horse and stopped in front of the little girl, looked into the clay pot and then turned over and dismounted.

"Young master, these fish and shrimp are very small, there must be big fish for sale in Peixian County...... a guard dressed as an entourage also hurriedly dismounted and reminded.

"How do you sell this loach?" Chen Xu ignored the guard's words and squatted down in front of the clay pot, looking at the half pot of fat loaches in the clay pot with great surprise.

"Back to the master, two loaches...... A pound for a penny! The little girl hesitated for a moment, and replied a little timidly.

Although Chen Xu did not wear a brocade robe or an official uniform, he was still wearing a well-made fine linen coat, with a jade pendant hanging from his waist, his hair was neatly combed, his skin was fair, and his speech was unfamiliar.

"Don't be afraid, I just want to buy your fish!" Chen Xu smiled and opened the fish basket next to him, which turned out to be half a basket of crabs and lake shrimp, the crabs were the size of a fist, and after being frightened, they crawled around in it with their teeth and claws.

"Hey, this crab is not bad, how to sell shrimp and crabs?" Chen Xu became more interested.

"Back to the master, shrimp and crabs are also a pound!" The little girl was a little bolder.

Walking all the way from Huling County to here, there are many people selling lotus root, fish and shrimp on the road, Chen Xu sometimes just rides on a horse and casually asks the price, and the people on the side of the road probably know that people of his status will not buy it, so although the attitude is respectful, but also just casually answer a price, and all the way forward, the fishermen on the road sell big fish, black fish, carp and grass carp have seen a lot, but I didn't see anyone selling loaches and crabs.

Grass carp, black fish, silver carp, these so-called traditional aquatic products Chen Xu is not interested at all, these ordinary fish are not as delicious as the five-color fish in Zhongnan Mountain, but this big lake is rich in water and grass in all seasons, so there are many big fish and fish can not be fished, to sell a good price, it is inevitable to catch a big one, ordinary small fish and shrimp can not be sold even if they are fished, not to mention crab loach, which is not much of an aquatic product that is not a fish, people in this era basically do not eat crabs, and eating has only started in the last two years, The method of making from Xianyang is barbecue or fried, but whether it is barbecue or fried, it needs a lot of seasonings, especially fried, ordinary family oil is not available, and there are no meat fish a few times a year, so I am not interested in eating, so if these loach fish and shrimp are not met by Chen Xu, it is estimated that they will not be sold in a day, not to mention that such a wrinkled little girl is sold in front of them, and it is estimated that the family does not plan to sell it, maybe just waiting for luck to meet a fool.

Of course, there is a fool in front of him.

"One pound for one pound, the price is very cheap, how many pounds of fish and crabs do you have? I bought them all! Chen Xu stood up happily.

"I ...... I do not know! The little girl shook her head.

"It's a lot, even if you are ten catties, a total of ten yuan...... Chen Xu touched his body a few times, only to find a few brand-new fifty yuan Tai Chi Tongbao, and then a few finger-sized gold cakes.

"Do you have any change?" Chen Xu turned his head to look at a few guards.

"Young Master, I have it here!" One of the guards hurriedly took out a handful of change, but at the same time reminded, "Young master, how can we get these fish and shrimp back?" ”

Belch! Chen Xu was stunned for a moment when he counted the change and was about to pay, then looked at the little girl and said, "It's okay to sell me your clay pot and fish basket together, I'll pay for it separately!" ”

The little girl looked at Chen Xu a little timidly and said: "Although this clay pot is broken, it can still be used, and the fish basket is also very old, but you can't catch fish and shrimp without a fish basket......"

It was also the first time for the little girl to meet a customer like Chen Xu who sold fish and brought clay pots and baskets, and she hesitated for a long time and didn't know whether to refuse.

"What you said is very reasonable, but I can't take away your loaches and shrimps and crabs if I don't have any utensils, so let's do it, I'll give you fifty dollars, and you sell me the clay pot and fish basket together, so that you won't blame you when you go home, how about it?" Chen Xu returned a handful of change to the guard, and then took out a Tai Chi Tongbao and handed it to the little girl.

The little girl looked at the new fuchsia coin, hesitated for a long time, and then said, "Thank you, sir!" ”

"Well, isn't your home far from here?" Chen Xu instructed a few teenagers to carry the clay pots and fish baskets to the carriage and prepare to leave, but looked at the desolate scenery surrounded by reeds and asked.

"Not far away, in the reeds over there, my brother weaves reed mats and silkworm tools at home every day!" The little girl pointed to a short distance behind her.

"That's good, you hurry home, let's go!" Chen Xu turned over and got on his horse, and saw the little girl happily running down a reed path into the reeds, and then Chen Xu gave the order to go.

But more than ten minutes after they left, a swarbly linen man with a tall figure ran out of the reeds, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a dark skin and a firewood knife pinned to his waist, followed by the little girl from Fang Cai.

"Brother, this is the young man I met here just now, they should be going to the county seat!" The little girl was running, and the sweat was still rolling down her forehead.

The young man tiptoed and glanced in the direction of Peixian, but there were reeds and thorn trees on both sides of the post road, and Chen Xu and the others had long been out of sight.

The young man retracted his gaze, looked at the brand-new copper coin in his hand that shone purple in the sun, and then took the little girl's hand and walked back and said, "That clay pot and fish basket are worthless, tomorrow I will go to the county seat with my brother to find that son, and return the extra money to him!" ”

"But brother, you have to make a lot of silkworm plaques to earn fifty dollars, and that old man looks very rich......"

"If someone else has money, that's someone else's money, your brother and I have hands to earn money,"

"Brother, you have to help me find a sister-in-law quickly, you see that my clothes can't cover my ass......"

"Our family is so poor, which little lady is blind and marries me, the clothes are ...... I'll help you make a ...... for you on another day."

The conversation between the brother and sister was heard in the reeds, which was soon drowned out by the sound of wistling reeds.

……

In the lobby of the county government of Pei County, the county commander Jiangbei Pavilion was trying the case, several burly men with bare breasts were pressed and knelt on the ground by the police guards, and hundreds of people gathered outside the county office, and the noise was very lively.

Today, someone quarreled in the market, and finally caused two groups of people to fight, hundreds of people participated, and it was only after the use of lieutenants and pawns to suppress it, several leaders of the two sides of the fight were caught, and the rest were also arrested a lot, but after interrogation, some of them have been returned home, and the last few are thorns, and it is not the first time to make trouble.

The cause of the matter is not complicated, one group is a group of nearby fishermen, who fish in the lake all year round and sell it in the market, and the other party is a group of ruffians who roam the county on weekdays.

Because after the beginning of spring this year, the whole country implemented a new commercial law and law, allowing the common people to trade and buy freely in the market, and the merchants' commercial taxes were suddenly reduced a lot, so the county suddenly became lively and lively, and in just a few months, there were twenty or thirty foot houses and food houses in the county, and several living markets also became extremely lively, and the villagers of nearby towns and villages lined up outside the city gate every day before dawn, carrying goods on their backs to the market in the city to sell.

And the sudden boom in the market has also brought with it a number of security problems.

Pei County this place is close to the Shandong border of later generations, the original folk customs are relatively strong, plus Pei County is on the border of Qi and Chu, the two countries often fight, the people are not convinced by each other, the most important thing is that in this era of the Qin Dynasty, people are very barbaric, fights and brawls are simply commonplace, although private fights are illegal, but this can not stop the barbaric genes in everyone's blood, if no one fights on the street, it must be the death of the men in the county.

Because of the prosperity of commerce, many poor people who used to be bitter also had some opportunities to make money, especially the local fishermen, who took their catch to the market in the city every day to sell, and the market in the city, like later generations, was dominated by ruffians and hooligans, so they were naturally not happy that these people would earn money and not pay protection money.

So some fishermen banded together to fight against these rogue ruffians, fighting every few days, hurting each other, but again and again.

It's just an ordinary brawl, and if you are caught, you can't be sentenced, at most you will be fined, and these fishermen and ruffians have no money to fine, so they can only be locked in a cell and squatted for a few days, and eat food for a few days in vain.

Therefore, for this kind of thing, Jiang Beiting also has a headache.

And they appeared every now and then, and the guys kneeling in the lobby in front of them had long been used to it, and they all stared at each other calmly.

"Gather a crowd to fight, according to the criminal law, you should be fined 20 yuan and 1 stone......"

"County Zun, it's okay to be beaten, but I don't have any money!" Before Jiang Beiting's words were finished, several fishermen and hooligans answered almost in unison.

Jiangbei Pavilion: ......

A man about forty years old next to him wearing a blue official uniform said to Jiangbei Ting: "County Zun, these people are all thorns, let's each be given twenty lashes and let go!" ”

"It's okay, it can only be like this, Master Xiao will arrange it!" Jiang Beiting waved his hand and closed the file in his hand.

"Twenty lashes per person, expelled from the county office!" Master Xiao waved his hand calmly.

"喏~"

A group of police officers rushed up, pressed several people to the ground, crackled them with leather whips, and then dragged them out and threw them outside the county hall, and these people grinned and covered their buttocks and got up, and began to provoke each other again.

"What are you waiting for? Annoyed that the county is going to prison for ten years, don't leave quickly! Lord Xiao shouted loudly with his eyes glared.

"Don't worry, Master Xiao, we won't fight here, take the first step today and say goodbye!"

Several ruffians took the lead in leaving after bowing their hands, and several fishermen's leaders also limped to each other to leave, and one of them also glanced back at Lord Xiao, obviously a little indignant, although they were all spanked, but it was obvious that their group of fishermen would suffer more heavily, and the other hooligans were completely similar to not beaten.

The crowd of onlookers slowly dispersed, two fast horses kicked and trampled straight to the county office, and two burly men wearing sackcloth and carrying long swords at their waists jumped down from the horses, separated the crowd and only broke into the county government hall. (https:)

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