Over the years, he has distinguished right from wrong in the court, knows good and evil, and is loyal to treacherous officials.

Before the Xijing Incident, it was this person who discovered Deng Ziwen's abnormality, and then made a lot of efforts with Gu Daoyuan to bring down Deng Ziwen, for which the two almost lost the lives of their entire family.

But today, Zhang Ziyu, who has always only stood on the axioms, rarely helped Lihua to speak, which made Gu Daoyuan a little surprised.

But Gu Dao saw Zhang Ziyu speak, although he had doubts in his heart, he also knew that this best friend would never be without a purpose, so he agreed to Lu Lihua's invitation after a moment of silence.

However, since he agreed to Lihua, Gu Daoyuan immediately restored his demeanor as the head of the hundred officials.

In the following period, he immediately got to know the important officials who controlled the civil affairs of various places under the rule of Zhu Lihua and the civil affairs system of Hexi County, so as to take over the civil affairs under the rule of Zhu Lihua more quickly.

But it didn't matter if Gu Daoyuan didn't understand, he thought that there was no essential difference between Lihua and other places in Great Qin, and he was just the "housekeeper" of a country in Great Qin to the housekeeper of a county in Hexi.

But as soon as he began to understand the civil administration system under the rule of Zhu Lihua, he was immediately fascinated by the strange scenery in front of him.

Gu Daoyuan found that the civil affairs system of the counties under the rule of Zhu Lihua was completely different from the system in various parts of Daqin. Including the existing Longmen and the counties that have just fallen, there are some officials from the cold gate who are doing some things to manage civil affairs.

When Gu Daoyuan gathered these people together to listen to their reports on the situation in various counties, he found that these people were all talking about the political affairs they were in charge of. Moreover, they are able to put forward their own opinions and opinions on some of the many problems that have accumulated on the basis of the patriarchal system. Therefore, the post-war reconstruction and recovery of counties can be carried out at a speed that Gu Daoyuan cannot understand.

This made Gu Daoyuan, the former No. 1 tinker of Great Qin, sigh in his heart.

But at the same time, he also understood that the reason why the Shu people were in charge was the inevitable result of the counties under the rule of Lihua because of the Meng Chun Rebellion and the massacre of local nobles by the Rong people.

It's just that he really didn't expect that these Shu rulers would produce such a high level of control efficiency.

But unlike Xi Zihui, Gu Daoyuan did not feel that this matter was contrary to the patriarchal ancestral system and wanted to change it, because he had decided after careful consideration over these days to continue to implement the mature civil affairs system of Hanmen in Hedong County.

Gu Daoyuan deeply understands the many drawbacks of the patriarchal system in the management of civil affairs, so when a system that can greatly improve the efficiency of management under governance emerges, Gu Daoyuan naturally chooses the latter.

Unlike the aristocracy, they do not have a prominent family background, so they naturally do not have intertwined conflicts of interest and protection. It will be more pure to be an official, and the efficiency of the execution center will also be greatly improved.

Moreover, the problems that are difficult to return under the patriarchal system, such as lazy government and lazy government, will also disappear under the system of being ruled by officials from the poor door.

After all, when the official position of a country is only a forbidden relationship between the families, the official will only focus on how to use the official position to bring benefits to the family, and will not consider the things to be done by the official position itself.

But these poor officials are different, they are officials just to do things, one

If they can't meet the requirements of Zhu Lihua, they will be transferred to other places and send capable people to do it.

Such a system is simple and crude, but it works extremely efficiently, and the people who are transferred have no complaints, because no matter what they do, they only get a bowl of food.

Gu Daoyuan is a nobleman, but Gu Daoyuan is also the head of Daqin's hundred officials and the housekeeper of Daqin.

"Brother Gu, have you noticed anything different about this place in the past ten days?"

The Yellow Sky Fortress was on the head of the unique style of "city", Gu Daoyuan once again fell into this unparalleled fortification in the world and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time, he didn't hear Zhang Ziyu's question, but just muttered at the corner of his mouth:

"How did he come up with the idea of building such an unbelievable fortress? Every time I come here, I feel extremely strange and surprised. ”

Zhang Ziyu was not dissatisfied with Gu Daoyuan's failure to answer his question, but he also followed Gu Daoyuan's line of sight to look at the high ground in front of the fortress, and said at the same time: "My nephew once talked to General Hexi about this, and General Hexi just said that at that time, it was because he was too afraid of the soldiers of the Rong people, so he built the fortress according to the geographical conditions of this ferry, and he didn't have too many ideas, but he never really built such a fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

"General Hexi is really a strange person, no wonder the bigger people in the middle would look at a small five hundred lord differently and bring it out from the border of Xisai."

"Yes, Brother Gu. It is difficult for anyone in the world to match the ability of a larger person to recognize people, otherwise you and I would not have today's achievements and status as well as Wang Min and Zhong Xu, who took the first step. ”

Gu Daoyuan smiled when he heard this, and then turned his head to look at Zhang Ziyu, but saw that the old man who was not smiling was still with a dead fish face, and he did not hide it at all after making a joke. Gu Daoyuan couldn't help but be slightly stunned and said:

"You old man, at such an age, you really don't have to be ashamed. How can anyone boast about himself like that? ”

Unexpectedly, Zhang Ziyu immediately glared at Gu Daoyuan after hearing the words and said, "Brother Gu, do you think I'm joking?" ”

Gu Daoyuan stared at Zhang Ziyu and was stunned for a long time, and then turned his head with a smile. "If you talk about the ability of more people to know people, I'm afraid that you and I are not qualified to prove it in front of Lihua.

Gu now knows why you opened your mouth to persuade me to throw myself into the ship of Zhu Lihua that day. If it weren't for the fact that the middle school and the bigger people had already had a trust, I'm afraid you wouldn't have gotten on the ship of this junior so easily. ”

Hearing Gu Daoyuan's words, Zhang Ziyu was also slightly stunned, then smiled and waved his hand and said:

"Gu Zaizuka's words are different, Zhang Lihua's boat Zhang is voluntary, although the middle school has asked me to come to Hexi to help him more, but when I came here, I found that this Hexi is indeed different and extraordinary under his rule, so I want to help him willingly.

Brother Gu, Zhang persuaded you that day because Zhang believed that you would choose to board this boat like me.

Although you and I have different personalities, we have similar interests, and I know that you are a person who hopes that Daqin can really become strong even more than me.

And Lihua is the only chance you and I have at this time. ”

"But this kid seems to be a little different from other nobles, and you can see that the counties he governs seem to be quite similar to those Rong people."

"Brother Gu, you will care about this

Things?

You and I have been officials in one hall for more than ten years, and the Lihua you want to do has made a start for you, what are you afraid of.

In Zhang's view, the world should have changed a long time ago. ”

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The east of Hedong County and the Hexi County of Qin State are sandwiched by a moat and yellow water, and its north is an endless sea of sand, which has been uninhabited since ancient times.

If it weren't for the Rong people's eastward expedition to the Qi country through this sea of sand, people don't know how long it would take to know where that sea of sand is connected.

Hexi County starts from Lishi in the north and reaches Shangluo in the south, and from north to south there are many cities such as Lishi, Wolf Meng, Lishui, Qicheng, Moxian, Pucheng, Jiangcheng, Yicheng, Shaoliang, Yaoping, Hancheng, Huangyin, Shangluo, etc., and then count the five cities of Jiaocheng, Xinzheng, Shancheng, Muyang and Muyin in the east of Xieyu Guandong. This large county with Hualin in the east and Tianxing in the west, and the two mountains sandwiched between the two mountains of Xiaochuan is much larger than the Hexi County of Qin and Gyeonggi combined.

However, although Hexi County is vast, populous, and has far more cities than any other county in the Qin State, this county is almost all mountainous, and the counties are distributed in the mountains within the many large and small rivers that flow to the Yellow Water.

It is precisely because of the unique geomorphological characteristics of Hedong County that since ancient times, Hedong County's culture, economy and trade have become their own school, as if they are separated from Qi and Qin, and as if no one can be separated.

It was only after doing some careful research on Hedong County that he had such a great interest in Hedong County and wanted to exchange Gongzisi for this land. Then they did not hesitate to give up Hexi County, pinning all their hopes on Hedong, a land where they did not have deep roots.

The reason why Hedong County can be looked at differently is because after careful research, Zhu Lihua found that although this Hedong County is large, there are only a few routes that can be attacked from outside the county since ancient times.

Although from the map, Hedong is a place of four battles, but in fact it is a fierce place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

If you want to attack Hedong County from east to west, there are only two options, one is to take Xiaoshui City and thus attack the Xiaochuan Plain, and the other is to attack Yaoping and then Huangyin along the Yellow Water from the downstream upwards, and then attack Hedong County.

If it is attacked from west to east, there are three roads to go, one of which is to start from Shangdang and cross the Yellow Water through Moxian County and enter Hedong County. The second is to go out from Xieyu Kanto and attack downstream along the Yellow Water. The third is to cross Qianhua Mountain from the southwest of Jinggi of Qin State to enter the Shang County of Shu, and then cross Qianli Xiaoshan Mountain from south to north and enter Shangluo in the north.

Among these five routes, except for a smooth road along the Yellow River, the remaining three routes either have to cross mountains and mountains, or cross mountains and rivers are extremely difficult to walk.

That's why Lihua attaches great importance to this county.

In fact, when Lihua came to Mo County from Huangtian Ferry, he immediately appreciated the customs of Hedong County, which are different from Hexi.

The majestic Hualin Mountain Range, even in Moxian County, on the shore of the yellow water, can also glimpse his unusual spot. Even though he once guarded the Sumeru Mountains, which were known as the roof of the world, when he saw the Hualin Mountains, he was still overwhelmed by his magnificent and beautiful majesty.

I saw that this Hualin Mountain was different from the majestic of Mount Meru, and every mountain here seemed to be a sharp knife standing upside down, tightly together, and the blades were all facing the south.

The black mountains are like endless sword forests, pointing to the unknown distance.