The sun was shining for two days in a row, but the melting snow brought even colder.

Most of the snow on the street had melted, leaving only half a foot thick on the roof, which shimmered white in the bright sunlight.

Under the eaves, the crystal clear ice hangs in the sunlight to refract colorful light, and the water after melting the ice and snow drip down the bluestone steps along the ice hanging, splashing crystal water droplets from one by one small pits and scattering.

On the muddy street outside the Qinghe Marquis' Mansion, seven or eight cauldrons are lined up for dozens of meters, dozens of cooks and helpers are boiling rice porridge, and the smell of hot steam and food fills most of the street.

Hordes of beggars came from all directions, all as thin as wood and ragged, many of them carrying underage children, all with blue lips from the cold, some holding a broken pottery bowl, some holding a broken gourd scoop, and some simply holding only a stone chip.

Most of these people are disabled, either lame or lack hands, some are deaf and blind, and there are hardly any normal people anyway, except for some children who are frozen and only have half their lives left.

Qin law stipulates that the stateless can be used as slaves, which means that those who do not have an ID card can be arrested and made slaves.

Of course, this was stipulated by Shang Ying, and Shang Yang was also the most cruel time of Qin's laws, and later Shang Yang died, although the monarch of Qin continued to implement the Legalist concept of governing the country, but in fact, many laws began to loosen slowly, whether it was heavy agriculture and suppressed business, encouraged farming and weaving, or land private military meritorious titles are still affecting the development of Great Qin, but it has been implemented is not as ferocious as Shang Ying's time, and then experienced the period of Lü Buwei's assistance to Qin Shi Huang, as a big businessman to control the country's politics, naturally business will be different, Therefore, the status of businessmen has also improved a lot, although the status is still not high, but in addition to the high taxes, they already have a relatively high degree of freedom.

Lü Buwei is not only a big businessman, but also a big politician, it can be seen through the preparation of the Lü Spring and Autumn Period, his governing ability is very powerful, so he also abolished many very harsh laws and regulations during the period when he controlled the government, especially for Shang Ying's policies such as eradicating benevolence and righteousness, telling each other, and only allowing farmers to work for the weak, etc., and did not particularly agree with them, which continued until the appearance of Han Feizi Li Si, these two people are different from the pure law disciple Shang Ying, they are still Confucian disciples, even if they did not learn Xunzi's etiquette and rule of law, but they were still deeply affected, In addition, Qin Shi Huang was not a tyrant, so industries such as industry and commerce have been greatly released, especially metal smelting has been greatly developed.

And now during the reign of Li Si, the most he did was to maintain the unity of the country with the same text, the same track, the same system, the same currency, etc., his purpose was to assist Qin Shi Huang to build Great Qin into a strong country, in order to realize his youthful ambitions and ambitions, so in the promotion of laws and regulations more focused on national policy, rather than restricting the details of people's livelihood, the criminal law is not very strict, heavy punishment is rarely used, more inclined to labor reform, Most of those who broke the law were arrested to build roads or sent to the frontier areas to preach fields.

As for the bad comments on Li Si in later generations, there are actually only two, but none of them have anything to do with the evil law, one is because of the different political position of Chun Yuyue, a Confucian disciple, so he believes that there are too many books in the hundred schools now, which leads to the disunity of national thought, so the first emperor of the book ordered the book to be burned; The other is to cooperate with Zhao Gao to tamper with the edict to support Hu Hai to come to power, and then personally bury the Great Qin Empire that he supported.

Because of the book burning, the disciples of the hundred schools of thought resisted violently, especially the Confucianism at the head of the Xianxue was the most intense, so Qin Shi Huang was very dissatisfied, and killed hundreds of people for the Fang family warlocks who were unwilling to carry out the order to burn the books, most of whom were Confucian disciples, so the black pot of book burning and Confucianism was all detained by later generations on Qin Shi Huang.

Li Si's purpose in burning books is very simple, that is, he hopes to unify the thoughts of Daqin like books and Wendu and the same system, but he ignores one of the biggest problems, that is, the current Daqin, is no longer the Great Qin of the Seven Kingdoms, the original Daqin is all Qin people, the place is small, and after five or six generations of Qin kings ruled the country by law, Legalist thought has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the thinking is relatively unified, but after the Great Qin unified the six countries, the thoughts of the six countries and the Great Qin could not be unified by coercion and decrees alone. The unity on the surface and the unity of thought are not at all, the Qing Dynasty ruled China for hundreds of years, but there are still not too many people who agree with the dominance of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and the Great Qin conquered six countries, the people's hearts and ideas are more difficult to unify, and the reason for the unification is the scholars, so dealing with the scholars is the most concerned problem of Li Si, so there is the emergence of book burning and Confucianism, one is that Li Si hopes so, and the other is that Qin Shi Huang can't stand these scholars jumping up and down all day to slander him.

And supporting Hu Hai to power is actually Li Si's most fatal mistake, and the bottoms that have been completely planted in his reputation are gone, and he has not turned over for thousands of years by later generations.

According to the laws of Great Qin, there will be no beggars on the streets.

But beggars, like the seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, are not transferred by human will and harsh laws, it is a natural product, and after ten years of unification wars, there are countless beggars in the world.

It is impossible for any dynasty of mankind to eliminate the existence of beggars.

Including the Great Qin Empire in today's semi-barbaric era.

There are many beggars on the streets, and most of them are physically disabled.

Because those who did not have disabilities were all arrested and went to prison labor reform.

The rest of these handicapped people could not work, and they had to feed on half a pound of coarse grain a day, so the lieutenant's office, which was in charge of public security in the capital, turned a blind eye, and these people lived in the streets and alleys of various cities begging for survival.

This heavy snow froze to death a lot, Chen Xu took pity on these beggars, and let the people of the Qinghe Hou Mansion cook porridge and give alms on the street outside the mansion every day, one meal in the morning and one meal in the evening, although they are all coarse grains, but this is a life-saving move, there are not many people on the first day, but on the second day, almost all the beggars in the city have come, today is the third day, hundreds of beggars and some dragged their families to more than two hundred meters away.

Chen Xu's act of soup porridge has already made the whole Xianyang sensation again.

Countless people are puzzled, countless people are disdainful, I don't know why Qinghe Hou suddenly had a nerve to give these beggars something to eat, this kind of nameless and stateless pariahs who are not even as good as slaves, they are all starving to death.

Of course, the Marquis of Qinghe is a freak in Daqin now, and no one dares to provoke him, so he can only silently watch the development of this matter.

In order to maintain law and order, Lieutenant Lu Huan even lined up a group of soldiers from the Lieutenant's Mansion to maintain order twice in the morning and evening, for fear that the emperor would click him after something happened to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion.

"When~" With the sound of a gong, the soup soup was cooked, and the hundreds of beggars who had been waiting for a long time all knelt on the ground, kowtowing to the courtyard wall of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, and then they stood up with each other, and lined up to get food with their own eating tools.

A beggar dressed in a dirty and tattered winter coat squeezed up from the crowd, wearing a torn hat covering his face, and walked directly to the gate of the Qinghe Marquis's Mansion.

The soldiers guarding the gate of the Hou Mansion stopped them with their halberds, "Stop, what kind of sneaky person dares to trespass into the Hou Mansion of Qinghe, take the porridge and go to the back to line up!" ”

"Help me get through, I have something important to see Qinghehou!" The visitor lifted his hat slightly, revealing a face with a somewhat blue nose and swollen face.

"Master Hou is not in the mansion!" The soldier shook his head angrily.

"Then let me wait in the Hou Mansion first!" The visitor turned his head and looked around a few times, and whispered.

"No way!" The guards at the door refused.

At this moment, there was a sound of horses' hooves outside, accompanied by the sound of squeaky axles, and a luxurious four-bridled carriage appeared at the street corner under the escort of more than a dozen soldiers.

"Master Hou is back!"

With a few shouts of surprise and excitement, all the beggars who lined up to receive porridge scattered and knelt down on both sides of the street, kowtowing to the young man sitting in the carriage.

"Don't kneel, don't kneel, it's cold on the ground, get up quickly!" Chen Xu sat in the car and waved his hand repeatedly.

"Master Hou~" The beggar who was about to enter the mansion strode towards Chen Xu's carriage with a little excitement.

"Choking~" One of the guards led by him drew his big sword to stop him, "Quickly retreat!" ”

"Master Hou is me!" The beggar jumped up and waved vigorously at Chen Xu in the carriage.

Chen Xu turned his head and glanced at it...... I took another look.

There are too many guards, too far apart, and I can't see it very clearly, but this product is a little familiar, but the nose is blue, the face is swollen, and the hair is scattered, and the clothes are so worn, does Lao Tzu have such a poor beggar friend in Xianyang?

"Engong, it's Ma Teng!" Yu Wuya, who was riding a horse and following beside him, whispered.

Chen Xu was overjoyed, so he said to the guards in front of him: "Take him with you and enter the mansion!" ”

"Huh~" The guard put the big sword back.

After entering the house and getting out of the car, the guards dispersed, and Chen Xu looked at the beggar who came in and said, "Ma Teng, how is the matter for you to inquire?" ”

"Back to Master Hou, I have inquired about the situation clearly, and sure enough, Shang Qi made a move, and he secretly asked the craftsmen of the Shaofu to redraw the drawings at the Academy of Sciences and modify the data of the iron-making furnace." Ma Teng quickly replied.

"Where did you hear that?" Chen Xu asked again.

"Yesterday, Shang Qi suddenly invited me to drink and feast, at the banquet, I pretended to be drunk and scolded Hou Ye, and I tried to find a way to find Hou Ye's bad luck, then Shang Qi told me that I could help me, I knocked on the side and asked a few words, Shang Qi got carried away and said that the iron-making furnace collapsed, saying that as long as I listened to him, I could not only help me enter the craftsman as a Shaofu official, but also continue to make trouble for Hou Ye's construction site through the craftsmen and helpers managed by the craftsman Shaofu, and when necessary, you can also pick up the slaves, helpers and craftsmen to strike and make trouble. Even secretly set fire to the construction site, etc., as long as the construction site continues to have accidents, many things of the Hou Ye will inevitably lose His Majesty's trust, and when the time comes, his father and the craftsman Shaofu Ling Ao will impeach the Hou Ye in the court, once the Hou Ye loses power, how to pinch me when the time comes? ”

"Holy!" Chen Xu jumped up directly, grabbed Ma Teng's collar and gritted his teeth: "Did he really say that?" ”

"Yes, Master Hou, that's what Shang Qi said!" Ma Teng nodded in fright.

"Okay, good, the tiger is not powerful when Lao Tzu is a sick cat, since you want to kill Lao Tzu, don't blame grandpa for my ruthless hands, hehe!" Chen Xu's face was pale, and he sneered a few times and let go of Ma Teng, "Wuya, go to Sun Shujiong to get 20,000 money and hand it over to Ma Teng!" ”

After Yu Wuya nodded and left, Chen Xu stared at Ma Teng with a cold face and said: "Don't make a public announcement of this matter, continue to contact Shang Qi, and strive to get the list of ghosts they placed in the Academy of Sciences and the construction site, and after I catch all these people, I will naturally give you a great future!" ”

"Don't worry, Master Hou, I promise to complete the task!" Ma Teng nodded excitedly.

After a while, Yu Wuya came over with a small bag and opened it, and inside was Huang Chengcheng's dozens of finger-sized golden cakes, which weighed several catties.

"You take this money and use it first, don't be afraid to spend money, start with the people around Shang Qi, help me dig these people out by the roots, if I get the handle this time, I will be pinched to death together with Zhao Gao Laozi!"

"Servant Zhao Gao?" Ma Teng's frightened face shook a few times.

"Hmph, you're afraid, you have to think clearly, because Zhao Gao had already hated your Ma family about Zhao Zhe's matter, not to mention that now that your uncle has been dismissed, I advise you to arrange for someone to go to Yanmen County to investigate, if nothing happens, your uncle's family may be in danger of life at any time."

"Huh!?" Ma Teng's face turned pale in an instant, the bruises and scars on his face became clearer, and his cheeks were distorted and deformed.

"Actually, all this should be secretly instructed by Zhao Gao, I don't believe you can find out if you inquire about it, go ahead, if Zhao Gao doesn't die, you will definitely die!"

"Okay, okay, I'll go!" Ma Teng hurriedly hid the money bag and left in despair.

"Engong, since Shang Qi did it, we will directly attack Shang Qi and force him to say that the manpower hidden in the Academy of Sciences and the construction site will be over!" Yu Wuya was puzzled.

"No, now is the critical period after the preparation of the Academy of Sciences, we must smelt the iron as soon as possible, and we must use the smelted iron to create a sharp blade, and take out something that makes the first emperor excited, just the samples we brought are not enough to explain too much of the situation, so the construction site and the Academy of Sciences can't be too chaotic for the time being, and Ao Ping is a craftsman Shaofu order, Zhao Gao is a servant, both of them are one of the Jiuqing, just relying on Shang Qi's confession, it is not enough to shake either of the two, And there is no point in bringing down only one Zuozhong Hou Shang Tu, my ultimate goal is to kill Zhao Gao! ”

"Engong is now the Marquis of Qinghe, and he has the emperor's trust, why do you have to do such a roundabout thing in this matter, just say that you know with the emperor, and replace all the people in the Academy of Sciences who feel that there is a problem, so as not to worry!" Yu Wuya said with some puzzlement.

"You think too simply, I'm alone in Xianyang now, where to find someone to settle me out, things have to be done, no one can do anything, and in the court, everything has to be solved by the emperor will create a kind of incapable but pampered and proud image, this kind of person is looked down upon, so many things are best solved by themselves, to convince everyone, otherwise it will be detrimental to my future reform, rest assured, this matter I will convince people with virtue!"