"Wei Ying, but he follows the local customs." Qin Feng looked at him happily, he was in the courtyard at this time, but ordinary guards couldn't find him.

Wei Ying sighed lightly and exclaimed, "This is Qin wine?" How cold is it? ”

"Yes, yes. It is Qin Guofeng's wine, and its wine power is better than Zhao's wine. ”

"It turned out to be Fengjiu." Qin Feng was a little ashamed, to be honest, before he came to the Qin State, he rarely drank Xifeng wine in his time. After all, he is a special soldier, and he doesn't dare to drink alcohol at ordinary times, so if there is an urgent mission, it will be a mistake.

"Wei Ying is just a strong wine, and it usually uses Zhao wine as the top grade, I don't want Qin to have such good wine!" Wei Martingale returned.

"People and clouds, wine is the expression of people's nature. The Qin State has such a strong liquor, which shows the awe-inspiring spirit of the Qin people. ”

Wei Ying smiled, "Looking at Brother Hou's appearance, you like Qin Guo very much?" ”

Hou Ying smiled and pointed to the big clay pot and said: "Brother martingale, come to a piece of stewed fat sheep, mix rice vinegar and egg garlic paste, dip it and chew it, it is extremely delicious." Try? Get started, chopsticks don't help. ”

Wei Ying followed the instructions, concocted it as he did, tore a large piece of bone-in fat meat with both hands, and swallowed a hot mouthful, which was actually fat and fragrant! I couldn't help but have a great appetite, and I tore for a while, and I ate my cheeks full of soup, and my forehead was sweating. Hou Huan handed over a sweat towel, Wei Ying wiped it, and praised leisurely, "The true color and flavor are extremely happy!" If you don't cut it properly and don't eat, Confucius will be angry when he encounters such a true color. ”

Hou Ying saw that Wei Ying was not pretentious, and he felt right, and couldn't help laughing, "How can Confucius have such a mouthful? Brother Marting, you see, these four plates of vegetarian dishes are all made by the Qin people, made in boiling water, mixed with oil, salt, vinegar and garlic, and it is even more true and flavorful. This plate of wild vegetables, called bitter vegetables by the Qin people, is a wild grass and vegetable that grows in the wheat field. The Qin people are poor, which is a common dish for ordinary households. Try? ”

Wei martingale is very familiar with the three common vegetables of sunflower, leek and weed. was thinking about the name of this wild vegetable, and when he heard Hou Ying's guidance, he immediately took a chopstick into his mouth.

But he felt that the crisp and fragrant weeds were bitter and bitter in the earthy smell, chewed and swallowed, his tongue was still bitter, and he sighed: "The rich family can accompany the meal, which can be delicious." If you cook a regular dish, it is really a bitter dish. ”

Bitter herbs, in the era of Qin Feng, were also eaten by the people of Qin Land as a side to the meal.

Hou Yingda was in good spirits and said with a smile: "Brother Marting, come, drink." You just asked me if I fell in love with the Qin Kingdom? To tell you the truth, I do like Qin. The country is poor, but it is very poor. The folk customs are simple and heavy, and the price of buying things is not the same. Although I don't know poetry and books, I don't have a good atmosphere, but I have an ancient style. Living in the Qin State, the poor and the rich are very calm. I opened a shop in the Qin State, and I am still a foreigner, but I have never encountered the extortion and extortion of soldiers and strongmen, and I don't have to bribe the government, as long as you pay taxes every year, there is nothing. Fighting doesn't bother me. You say, comfortable or uncomfortable? You are from Anyi, what is the taste of Wei? Come, drink! You see, I also spoke with Qin Yin. The Qin people are amazing, but unfortunately they are too poor. The Qin people have an old saying, do you know? ”

"Old Qin, go to the national disaster together." Wei Ying read it word by word.

"Go!" Hou Ying patted the wooden case, "That's it." Come, drink! Brother Marting, why do you say that the Qin State is so poor, and it still holds on here after decades of fighting? Isn't it just the old Qin people's bull temper? You say, is it good for such a country to have the wealth of Wei? Come, drink! ”

Wei Ying followed Hou Ying and drank again and again, his face was already red and sweaty, but his heart was happy and comfortable, and he said with a smile: "Brother Hou thinks that what is wrong with the Qin State?" ”

Hou Ying patted his head and smiled thoughtfully: "I really can't think of it." It's still one word, poor, too poor. ”

"Don't you think there is a shortage of talent?"

"Look! It's a lack of talent. How could I even forget such a big thing? There is no shortage of talents, what to do when issuing a talent order? ”

"Brother Hou, do you know how many scholars came after the order was issued?"

"I heard that it is more than a hundred, and I have lived in this inn twenty or thirty. The day before yesterday, the government opened a recruitment hall, and they all moved over. In my opinion, these people can't do it first. The people who live here in my place shout every day to cook Wei and Qi dishes for them, and privately scold Qin for being too poor, and they don't even have a place for drinking, singing and dancing. Only thirteen of them moved to the Zhaoxian Hall the day before yesterday, and most of the rest ran away. Come, drink! Brother Marting, don't underestimate this poor word, the poor soil doesn't take root. How easy is it to stay in the poor oak sun that is full of darkness as soon as it gets dark? ”

The strong and long Qin wine accompanied by the night talk made Wei Ying deeply drunk on the first night of Liyang. He saw the teacher, the white snow, Gongzi Wei and Pang Juan, the white dust and white fog on both sides of the Weishui, the desolate alkali beach with grass but no food, and the naked farmers surging everywhere......

Qin Feng also left and went to find his long-lost old friend, Jing Jian. As for Wei Ying, the people have already arrived in the Qin State, and Hou Huan is also very friendly, so naturally there will be no more mistakes.

Soon, Qin Feng, who had performed light skills, arrived in front of Jing Jian's mansion, and without informing, he directly jumped into the wall with his breath up, and laughed loudly: "Brother Jing Jian, I'm here." ”

The room opened, and a dark-skinned man came out and shouted in surprise, "Brother Qin Feng, you're here." Haha, that's great. ”

Qin Feng was also very happy, and followed Jing Jian into the house.

"These days, you've been there, and I can't find you, and your majesty won't say anything." Jing Jian asked.

"I went to the Wei Kingdom and found an earth-shattering talent." Qin Feng smiled and said to Jing Jian in a low voice.

"Oh?" Jing Jian was stunned for a moment, and then rejoiced.

"Where?" Jing Jian hurriedly asked.

"Heaven must not be divulged." Qin Feng smiled mysteriously, he naturally couldn't say it at this time.

"Hmph, when he becomes an official, I'll know sooner or later." Jing Jian didn't ask either.

"You'll stay with me tonight, and we'll have a good talk. I'll take you to the Seeking Hall tomorrow. Jing Jian said.

"Okay."

Jing Jian woke up early. After the five watches at the head of the city were finished, he began to practice his sword in the hazy dawn.

Having fought in the army for a long time, he has never had the bad habit of sleeping lazy.

Although he has made an internal history, he is still diligent and cautious.

After freshening up, he sat in the small study and read a booklet, sometimes marking it with a knife with an engraving knife.

This is the roster of scholars who have entered the Qin State, and he must have a general understanding of the basic situation of each person, so that the monarch can ask at any time.

After the issuance of the talent search order, he has always been in charge of this matter. According to the Qin tradition, the day-to-day placement of officials was under the jurisdiction of the upper doctor Gan Long.

This large-scale recruitment of talents was unprecedented in the history of the Qin State, and Duke Xiao sent Jing Jian as Ganlong's deputy to govern all kinds of affairs of seeking talents. Gan Long was originally very indifferent to seeking talents from other countries, and he was even more critical of letting Jing Jian intervene in personnel, and he rarely asked about seeking talents.

There were several times when Jing Jian came to discuss the location of the Zhaoxian Pavilion and the payment of Qin Shizi, but Gan Long diverted the topic, or he said, "The young man in the history of the house is rui, just cut off the camera." ”

Jing Jian touched the soft nail, but he never reported to the monarch, but only conscientiously resolved one problem after another, and finally did not give up halfway to the plan to seek talents.

Under his cautious and thoughtful management, more than 200 Shandong scholars who came to Qin one after another finally left more than 100 people. The rest of the small half couldn't bear the poverty of the Qin State and turned back.

The rest of these people are not stable, which is the most headache for Jing Jian. Scholars study and study in the army, in order to be rich and prosperous. In terms of being an official, when he arrived in the Qin State, he became a doctor, and he was not as rich and prosperous as a small official in the Wei State.

In terms of learning, the treatment given to scholars by Qi Guoji's school palace was more than a hundred times better than that of Qin. In this situation of poverty and weakness, it is already unprecedented for a scholar to enter Qin. As for coming and leaving, it is also a helpless matter, only to do your best to leave a few counted.

Jing Jian looked at the name book twice, but he didn't find the name in his heart.

It's really strange, the old man of Baili brought a book, clearly saying that this person has entered Qin, but why hasn't he arrived yet?

When he thought of the white-clothed scholar playing against Xiangchun in Anyi Cave, he had a spontaneous impulse and admiration.

If this person can enter Qin, he will definitely be able to do a lot. But why didn't he see him? Could it be that he also came and went?

Thinking of this, Jing Jian suddenly felt empty in his heart. Think about it, let's do the current thing first, it's useless to think about that kind of unattainable thing.

He got up and left his seat, packed up the brochure, and prepared to wait for Qin Xiaogong at the Zhaoxian Pavilion. Today, the monarch wants to go to the Zhaoxian Hall to visit the scholars of Qin, and he has to announce the method of appointing the scholars, which is the most important day. Qin Feng just arrived, and the two of them were able to go together.

The Qin State Zhaoxian Hall is on a small street by the city wall inside the south gate.

It was originally an old armory. There was really no ready-made courtyard house, so Jing Jian asked Liyang Lingzi'an to discuss with Weiwei Che Ying, and took out the old weapon and vacated this treasury with a courtyard.

In front of the gate, a stone archway was temporarily rushed up, and in the middle of the door was the four big characters carved by the old masonry white camel - Zhengguo seeking talent.

The four rows of blue brick houses surrounded by a square frame in the courtyard are divided into more than 100 huts, one for each of the Qin scholars.

Jing Jian personally supervised the diet of the scholars of the Zhaoxian Pavilion, and ensured that the scholars of the Zhaoxian Pavilion had meat and white flour scones for three meals a day.

This was already a super luxurious life in Liyang at that time.

Because in the Qin State, even a seventy-year-old man can't have one meat a day, even if the monarch Qin Xiaogong is at most, he eats meat every three days, but when he enters the Qin Shizi, he has meat for his meal, how easy is it?

This alone has been a big sensation in Liyang City. The people smell the smell of meat wafting from the Zhaoxian Hall every day, and everyone says something like this to their son: "See? If you want to eat meat every day, you have to have the ability to enter the recruitment hall. ”

Hearing that some scholars had fled, the people of Liyang were so angry that the roots of their teeth itched, and they scolded: "Birds! Forget it all! "I have no conscience when I eat a round belly and still run!" "What's the matter with them gone? The old Qin State still won the battle! ”

Scolding and scolding, anger and anger, the old Qin people of Liyang still respect these scholars very much after all. Whenever he met the long-shirted scholar of the Zhaoxian Pavilion in the city, the honest Qin people would not hesitate to give way and buy sundries in the store, and the shopkeeper would even press the price to give it away. The scholars of the Zhaoxian Pavilion were all emotional, and they talked about the simplicity and kindness of the Qin people during the daily dinner.