The news of Yang Xi's return alarmed all of them, and the fathers and sons of Lizhong were all led by Lizheng and Tian Officials, and greeted each other outside the door.

A few of the old Qin soldiers who came back first saluted Yang Xi: "If it weren't for Uncle Yang to lead us to surrender, I'm afraid it would be difficult to return so far." ”

Not all the surrendered troops were repatriated, and the last batch of lieutenant troops who resisted the Northern Expeditionary Army in Du County were regarded as negative examples, and they had to be released after the autumn when they had to do hard labor in Xianyang.

However, the Ning Qin soldiers, who were the first to lay down their arms, were almost no different from the Northern Expeditionary Army in terms of treatment.

And they, in the Battle of the West River, faced the scouts of the bandits of the Six Kingdoms, showed their swords against each other, and proved their courage - not surrendering because of cowardice, but surrendering for the sake of righteousness!

The elders in the middle of the praise are endless, Ningqin to the north dozens of miles is the West River, to the northeast fifty miles is the Fengling crossing, in July the West River was tragically robbed by the six countries into the Kou, wanton killing and plundering, many Xihe people crossed the water and fled into Ningqin.

And a group of bandits from the Six Nations are also cruising at the Fengling Ferry, Ning Qin police, most of their children are serving outside, and only the old and weak women and children are afraid that it will be difficult to resist. Fortunately, the Leopard Department of the Eastern Gate of the Northern Expeditionary Army came in time to drive away the group of thieves, and there are still 2,000 soldiers stationed at Fenglingdu to prevent the Six Kingdoms from harassing Qinzhong.

The world is changing too fast, the former southern "rebels" have now become "righteous teachers", and they also help the Ning Qin people to protect their homeland, and fight side by side with the local people, the Ning Qin people scratched their heads, a little incredulous, but they still quickly accepted this fact.

At the inner gate, Yang Xi inevitably preached the policy of Marquis Wu Zhong, and agreed to invite Li Zheng to invite him to have a banquet tomorrow, and then drove home surrounded by his two younger brothers.

After the gossip of praise faded away, his second brother Yang Le took the time to tell Yang Xi:

"My mother has a sore foot and can't come to pick up my uncle."

"Sick again?"

Yang Xi felt sad for a while, his mother pulled the three brothers to grow up after his father's death, it was really not easy, there was no more lord in the family, it was a Chinese family, not poor or rich, but giving birth to three boys in a row, eating a lot, and it was also a little difficult.

In order to feed the three brothers, in addition to taking care of the fields and weaving clothes, my mother had to go down to the river to buy some shrimp and crabs.

It's only the Mid-Autumn Festival, and she can't move around, and it seems that she is more sick than in previous years.

"It's all my fault for not being by my mother's side."

Yang Xi's eyes were hot, but he immediately had confidence:

"My house is damp, now that I am a public car, I can rebuild a big house, it's time to move, and when I build a new house, I must build a big house for my mother in a high-pitched place, and prepare a fire kang."

Yang Le muttered: "But there is no money at home......"

Yang Xi threw a heavy blanket into his arms, and said with a smile: "I have a huge reward, don't worry, tomorrow I will immediately ask a doctor to treat my mother!" ”

The brothers and the family bumped all the way to a long-unrepaired house, a five-acre house, covered with mulberry trees, and a gray-haired, thin-looking mother, standing under the fence of a mulberry tree.

Although her legs and feet were swollen and painful, and she couldn't go to the inner door, she still wanted to see her eldest son as soon as possible, and waited for a long time with a wooden stick.

Yang Xi asked his two younger brothers and the servants who drove for him to unload the two wagons, but he saw that there was a cart of grain, either corn, or wheat flour, and more than a dozen horses of silk silk......

He said: "The reward was too much, so I exchanged it for chariots, horses, grain, and cloth in the Xianyang market, and the cloth spun at home was only enough for my three brothers to wear, and my mother had not made new clothes for herself for many years." ”

After that, he walked to the car that was still closed, and urged in a low voice: "My house has arrived, you come down quickly!" ”

The curtain moved slightly, but a young woman stumbled out of the car.

She was in her twenties, slender and beautiful, wearing a bright silk dress with piercings in her earlobes, but the gold and jade jewelry she used to have disappeared, and a pair of embroidered shoes stepped on the dirty dirt road.

Yang Xi's two younger brothers stared at this heavenly woman with wide eyes, and only felt that they were coarse and linen, ashamed of themselves, and restrained.

Looking at the rickety old woman and the dilapidated mansion in front of her, the woman's big eyes were a little uneasy and disappointed, but she still bowed down to Mother Yang and called her "mother".

Mother Yang hurriedly stepped out of the way: "This is ......"

Yang Xi was quite proud: "It's the bride of the child." ”

Although at the beginning, he just glanced at her when he was escorting these women, but unexpectedly he was discovered by Ji Ying, the captain of the escort army.

"As soon as Hu Hai died, his generation was lonely, and he was going to be sent to a distant place to leave the palace for resettlement, and the worship was no different from the common people, this appearance, this figure, since then he has withered and old, I have seen it and pity it......"

Under Ji Ying's instigation, Yang Xi actually proposed to Shaofu in a daze, wanting to accept her as a bride, and was surprisingly smoothly approved.

Mother Yang was a little surprised, there have been rumors in the recent past, saying that the children of other families have returned, but Yang Xi has not returned for a long time, I am afraid that she will be added to the official in Xianyang, and she will have to marry a palace man, she only believes in the former and does not believe in the latter, but she did not expect it to be so.

This woman is too beautiful, not like someone who can live a good life, Yang's mother was a little uneasy, pulled Yang Xi and whispered: "Wu'er, is this really the palace maid in the emperor's palace?" You brought it back like this, and it really didn't happen? ”

"Mother."

But Yang Xi's next words completely frightened the honest Yang mother.

"She's not an ordinary palace person."

"It's the concubine of the puppet emperor Hu Hai!"

……

"We claim to the outside world that there are as many as 2,000 beauties in the Qin Palace, but in fact, they are under the jurisdiction of the court order, but there are only more than 1,000 people."

At this moment, sitting in front of Heifu, Shaofu Zhang Cang is reporting on the achievements of Shaofu's reform in these days.

"Those beauties, half of them are the daughters of the nobles in Guanzhong, and those who can be sent home have all returned. The other half, about four or five hundred people, came from the counties of the eastern region, and there was no way to repatriate them from the chaos in the East, so they were divided among the meritorious generals, up to the generals, down to the five hundred lords......"

Even Luo Jia, Li Bi, Yang Xi and other generals each got a woman, either as a wife or as a concubine, which is like accepting a vote, and if you don't want to be counted by the counterattack, you can only die and support the regime of the black man.

Only Heifu himself, who did not take a daughter, is amazing.

For Zhang Cang, the biggest advantage of doing so is to save the expenses of the Shaofu.

He touched his beard and said: "Xianyang people often say that there are so many beauties in the palace, opening the mirror is like a twinkling star, combing the hair bun is like a green cloud, and the discarded rouge water can make Weishui rise a layer of greasy, which costs a lot every year." ”

"But after all the marriages are repatriated, more than 1,000 beauties and Wanbagong people are scattered, and those who remain are also engaged in weaving and pulping, and the servants under the Huangmen eunuchs, Taiguan Order, and Tang Guan's order are the same as the servants who are self-reliant, and the Shaofu can save at least tens of millions of money every year......"

"And from now on, if you don't have to repair the palaces, you can save tens of thousands of dollars and save tens of thousands of people from labor!"

After Zhang Cang finished speaking happily, he saw Heifu sitting there in a daze, as if he was wandering out of the world, and he was immediately dissatisfied, sat up straight, and said loudly:

"Dare to ask the regent, how do you feel about this?"

"I'm thinking."

Heifu came back to his senses and said with a smile: "A year ago, Hu Hai ordered that if the first emperor and the harem did not have children, it was not appropriate to go out, and they were all ordered to die, and there were many dead. ”

"Among them, could it be that it also means to save the expenses of the Shaofu?"

When the Lishan prisoners rioted, some of the prisoners were greedy and dug some burial pits of the imperial tombs, most of which were small tombs buried more shallowly.

"There are more than 100 burial tombs, all of them are young women, together with the clothes and jewelry on their bodies, which have not completely decayed, and it can be seen that their skulls have been severely damaged, or they have been stabbed to death with sharp weapons, and most of them are the concubines of the first emperor in the palace, who were lured to the mausoleum to kill, and some were simply buried in the tomb fill, not in the tomb......"

Hundreds of innocent women died on this, but I don't know, is this what Qin Shi Huang wants to see?

Compared with the concubines of the beginning emperor and the concubines of Hu Hai, although they cannot be considered perfect, they have a home, which can be regarded as lucky.

And Heifu also explained the reason why his women had no luck, no property, and no daughter.

"Of course it's not because of fear of guilt!" After being teased by Zhang Cang, Heifu defended himself:

"I act for the sake of politics, and I have to be the opposite of Hu Hai everywhere."

"Hu Hai is in a hurry, I am slow; Hu Hai is violent, I am benevolent; Hu Hai has repeatedly increased his endowment, but I have reduced his endowment; The female family in the palace, Hu Hai was martyred without coming out, and I came out to make him marry. ”

"Hu Hai has no faith in his words, but I believe in my words; Hu Hai is selfish, so that there are many women in the palace, and I am selfless and do not take anyone. ”

"I have to let the world see: I will live up to the hope of life without me......"

Zhang Cang was still snickering at first, but he became serious later: "In this way, if it is the opposite, can it show the difference of the new policy, so that the people of the world can refresh their eyes and minds and trust the government again?" Hefu is really well-intentioned! ”

But he immediately asked a new problem faced by Shaofu:

"Since everyone in the Beauty Palace is out, many palaces in Guanzhong are empty, except for Ah Fang as a place to collect books and study in the future, Xianyang Palace is issued by the office of the Zhuqing, and the rest of the palaces are idle and left to be barren, or are they used for other purposes?"

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PS: The second chapter is in the evening.