"Last time in the Chinese Medical Museum, Ben Hou asked about the folk customs and folk customs of Zhao Di County, but at that time his parents suddenly came to Xianyang, so he didn't ask in detail, today just had some leisure, so I still want to invite Lord Jiang to talk about it, Ben Hou heard that Lord Jiang had a good official reputation when he was the county guard in Taiyuan County, and he was quite supported by the local people...... "After drinking a cup of hot tea, Chen Xu personally poured Jiang Pu a full cup again.

"Thank you, thank you!" Jiang Pu excitedly picked up the teacup with both hands, and waited for the tea to be poured before he said with a bitter face: "Hou Ye praises falsely, the official reputation is good, Taiyuan County originally belonged to Zhao, and Qin and Zhao are almost generations of enemies, fighting each other for hundreds of years, when Wu Anjun Bai Qi killed more than 400,000 Zhao troops in Changping Pit in the south of Jinyang, the county seat, which caused Taiyuan County to be ten rooms and nine empty, and it could not be restored for decades, Pu was transferred to Taiyuan as the county guard in the eighteenth year of King Qin, and at that time it was nearly thirty years since the Battle of Changping, but the entire Taiyuan County was still miserable, There are countless orphans and widows, and the heavy labor and food taxes are all pressed on those women, men, women, and children, and even in some places, the whole township can not see a strong adult man, although Pu is a native of Qin, but Qin Zhao is a feud, but it is also a brotherly state, the border people have never been forbidden, Pu has believed in Confucianism since childhood, is still virtuous and courteous, and takes benevolence as his heart, and cannot bear to see the suffering of the people under his rule, so he is too lenient in government affairs such as conscription and collection of grain taxes, If it weren't for the fact that there were still some relatives and friends in the court to help him, Pu would have been removed from his post as a county guard, and Pu's official reputation in the court was not good......"

Jiang Pu's words were extremely sincere, and Chen Xu nodded with a sigh after hearing it: "The situation of Zhao Di Benhou has also heard a lot, Qin and Zhao have fought several times in a row, at the beginning of the Battle of Changping, Wu Anjun killed more than 400,000 Zhao soldiers, so that the strength of Zhao State was greatly damaged, and then the general attacked Zhao again, and General Li Mu held each other in Jingcheng for more than a year, and finally broke the Zhao army, the Zhao army suffered heavy casualties again, and the little civilian power that had just accumulated suffered heavy losses again, and the people of Zhao also suffered huge casualties, and the saying of ten rooms and nine emptiness is not groundless. Coupled with the heavy forced labor and grain taxes, the people of Zhao must live extremely miserable! ”

"Hou Ye said yes, Pu also can't bear to see the people under his rule too miserable, so he has to be lenient in conscription and taxes and grain, but also let Pu bear the huge pressure of the court, more than ten years down the merit book has no half of the credit, originally Pu also thought that one day he would be dismissed and go home, but I didn't expect that there would be a day to run, because the third brother Jiang Hu raided the Huns to build a great merit to seal the marquis, His Majesty actually transferred me back to Xianyang as an official deployment Cheng, to say that Pu can have today, but thanks to Hou Ye, if it were not for Hou Ye to invent a new type of horse pawn equipment, It is impossible for the third brother to successfully raid the court of the Huns......"

"Yinshan Hou has to build miraculous achievements, or because of himself, he has nothing to do with Benhou, even if he has new horse equipment, he will not succeed if he changes to others......"

Chen Xu shook his head and continued: "Now I vigorously promote reform, promote people's livelihood and commercial development, the Central Plains have improved a lot in the past few years, but Zhao is located in the northwest, coupled with the inconvenience of the big river to block the exchange, the commercial development is not balanced, Ben Hou has always wanted to find a person who is familiar with the former Zhao Zhudi to understand, and suddenly thought that Jiang Daren had served in Zhao Di for more than ten years, so today I specially invited Jiang Daren to drink tea. ”

Jiang Hu's anxious heart slowly calmed down, and while drinking tea, he carefully talked about the situation when he was serving in Taiyuan and remembered some of the things that he remembered.

"Hou Ye, these things Pu said are all things that he has witnessed, the misery of the people of Zhao Di is unbearable, but the people of Zhao Di are not weak, and many things are forced to be like this, in short, the land of the Six Kingdoms is not my Guanzhong, even if ten or twenty years have passed, this situation is still inevitable, but Pu believes that as Hou Ye continues to promote reform, the cohesion of Daqin will become stronger and stronger, and the hostility and resistance of the people in the land of the Six Kingdoms will become more and more subdued, and this miserable state of people's livelihood will gradually improve......"

"Listening to Lord Jiang's words, Ben Hou also has a lot of insights, the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, as the marquis of Qing is in charge of the center of the Great Qin, we should pay attention to the people's livelihood and suffering in the world, the land is not divided into north and south, people are not divided into old and young, now the people of the six countries are all the people of my Great Qin, so they all need to be treated equally and can no longer have a regional view of the country, the kings of the six countries have long been turned into dust, and the killing of the princes has long disappeared, and those soldiers of the former six countries who fought for the king should not be treated unfairly......"

Chen Xu looked at the hot air coming out of the teacup in his hand, and his face slowly became solemn, "Lord Jiang, when the general attacked Zhao, he couldn't win for more than a year, and almost dragged Daqin to the point of crumbling, and then the general had to use a counter-plot to let King Zhao kill Li Mu, and Zhao Junjun's heart was shaken before he broke through Handan, although Li Mu died, but I heard that the people of Zhao were very respectful of him, and temples were built in various places to worship incense, what does Lord Jiang think of this matter?" ”

Jiang Pu's hand shook slightly, feeling that he had not guessed the purpose of Chen Xu's invitation to him to drink tea today, so he slowly put down the teacup and nodded and said: "Hou Ye is right, Li Mu is the hero in the eyes of the people of Zhao, whether it is to conquer the Xiongnu or fight against the Six Kingdoms, he can afford to play the role of the mainstay, King Zhao moved to kill Li Mu, it is tantamount to self-destruction of the foundation, Pu has served in Taiyuan for more than ten years, and he feels this kind of worship and respect all the time, there are several temples and shrines dedicated to Li Mu's spiritual seat and statue inside and outside the county town of Jinyang, and the incense burns continuously every day!" ”

"There's one thing I don't know if Lord Jiang has heard?" Chen Xu asked.

"I don't know what Master Hou is asking?" Jiang Pu replied with anxiety in his heart.

"I heard that in March, the horsemen on the border destroyed a temple dedicated to Li Mu attached to Yanmen Pass, causing many casualties among the local people!"

Jiang Pu was slightly silent after listening to it, and then nodded: "I have indeed heard what Hou Ye said, but I heard my nephew Chutian say it a few days ago, and today Hou Ye asked, I don't know what to do?" ”

At this juncture, Jiang Pu can't lie or shirk, Chen Xu's identity and status are not something he can compete with, and today he specially invited him to tea, it must be for this matter, since Chen Xu has picked out the topic, Jiang Pu can only listen obediently and respectfully, see how Chen Xu plans to deal with this matter, and then further see how the Jiang family should stand.

"It's not to ask Lord Jiang how to do it, but Ben Hou wants to know all the details of this matter, now the six countries are one, there is no Qin and Zhao, the people of Zhao are also my Great Qin people, and they should be treated equally, Li Mu is brave and invincible as a former Zhao general, and he is also a famous person in the Seven Kingdoms, His Majesty has the mind to encompass the world, and has never let people destroy any palace and temple dedicated to the princes and generals of the previous six countries. Your Majesty's benevolence and virtue have never been seen in the ages, and Xu Shan assisted Your Majesty, and it was also inspired by Your Majesty's personality, so he never had half of his selfish thoughts, and he categorically did not allow anyone to smear His Majesty, so that His Majesty would be blamed and scolded by the people of the world......"

At the beginning, Li Si because of the disagreement with the concept of the hundred disciples, he asked His Majesty to order the burning of folk poems and books, which almost caused chaos in all lives. Although the matter of Yanmen Pass is small now, the consequences are even worse than the burning of books, and the slightest negligence may cause Zhao Dimin to change ......"

Xun Zi said: The monarch is also a boat, and the water is also water, and the water carries the boat, and the water overturns the boat. Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, the hearts of the people are the foundation of the country, Qin and Zhao have been fighting for hundreds of years, the corpses of the soldiers who died on both sides are piled up like mountains and rivers of blood, the battle of Changping Wu Anjun pit killed more than 400,000 Zhao troops, and the soldiers of Daqin also suffered more than 200,000 casualties, the general cut Zhao, the confrontation between Jing and Cheng for more than a year, the tragedy of the war is also rare in the world, although the Zhao army was wiped out, but the counties of my Great Qin Guanzhong were almost swept away as soldiers, and the children of fourteen or fifteen years old were forcibly conscripted and sent to the battlefield, and no less than 400,000 people were killed and wounded on both sides. And the families and descendants of these casualties, now they have all become the people of Great Qin, and if you want to extinguish such a sea of blood and hatred, it can't be done overnight, if you want to heal this pain, you need my Great Qin Dynasty to come up with enough sincerity and policies to appease ......"

"Ben Hou came to Xianyang to assist His Majesty, and has been constantly implementing various reforms, wanting to slowly eliminate this hatred from the people, and soothe the pain of destroying the family and destroying the country in the hearts of the people of the six countries, but the matter of Yanmen Pass made Ben Hou feel sad and helpless, and he was supposed to be a soldier who guarded my Great Qin, but he would go to target a dead general of Zhao State, destroy the ancestral temple, destroy his faith, and stimulate the hatred and fire that the people of Zhao finally slowly stopped, this matter is not only deliberately concealed by the officials of Yanmen counties, Moreover, the people who knew about the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty also shirked and did not want to be contaminated, and just wanted to clean themselves as if they did not know ......"

Chen Xu stood up when he said this, looked at the withered scenery outside the window, and said in a low voice: "It's easy to fight the country, it's difficult to defend the country, now Daqin seems to be stable, but can there be a real stability in these years?" Your Majesty's conquest of the Six Kingdoms and the unification of China is to make the world free of the scourge of swords and soldiers, if you know that there are people who have calamity to the country and chaos will arouse the hatred of the people of the Six Kingdoms, this Hou as the left minister of Great Qin does not care, how can he sit in the position of the left minister and lead the officials of the world to govern the country for His Majesty......"

"Civil and military officials can be afraid of offending the Marquis of Wucheng, but for the sake of the Great Qin, for the sake of His Majesty's Jiangshan Society, for the sake of the inheritance and stability of China, the prime minister must also stand up and find out this matter, if this matter is allowed to be covered up and delayed, once the people of Zhao are too angry and rebel, then what the Marquis has done over the years will be in vain, and the day of prosperity of Great Qin will ......be hopeless."

"Jiang people have lived in Zhao for many years, deeply know the suffering of the people of Zhao, but also know the temperament of the people of Zhao, the land of Yan and Zhao is more chivalrous, generous and righteous are heroic, Zhao Mu but the Huns, Qin attacked Donghu, built the Great Wall and garrisoned the border passes, countless warriors went forward to protect my Huaxia from foreign bullying, brothers outside the wall to resist its insult, this is the bottom line and tradition that the Chinese princes have always adhered to, now all the four are settled, do we want to start internal fighting like the princes dispute? Then what's the point of my Great Qin ruling the world? What's the point of His Majesty's efforts to conquer the Six Kingdoms? As the ministers who uphold the center of the Great Qin Dynasty, if we retreat when we encounter powerful forces, and if we want to stay out of the matter when we encounter difficult things, we can't uphold justice for the people of the world, and we can't share worries and solve problems for Your Majesty, so what use do the people want us? What use does Your Majesty want us? ”

"Today, Ben Hou invited Lord Jiang to drink tea, just to find out the causes and consequences of the incident at Yanmen Pass and the details of it, so I also ask Lord Jiang not to hide it, and to come to the details of what I know, but also please rest assured that Lord Jiang will take on this matter with all his might, and will definitely not involve Lord Jiang and the Jiang family!"

Chen Xu finally turned to look at Jiang Pu, who was sitting silently on the chair.