In the thirty-seventh year of Qin Shi Huang, in the middle of the midwinter month (November), when the situation in Xianyang was turned upside down, because the news had to be spread for two months to arrive, everything was still business as usual in Lingnan.

The Beijiang River has come to an end, Panyu City in the dense forest is in sight, several passengers on the ship sighed, the wind and waves are a little strong, they have to try their best to maintain balance on the deck.

Gai Lu, a native of Nanjun, touched his bare chin and wrapped his brown clothes tightly, who told him that Lingnan is summer all year round? It's cold.

However, this slightest coolness is better than the diseases bred by the heat, and the people of Lingbei talk about all kinds of diseases in Lingnan.

Unlike in the past four years, the troops sent to Lingnan were mainly soldiers, guards, and prisoners. Among the people who were sent to Lingnan in the 37th year of Qin Shi Huang, there were many "prison officials who were not upright", that is, officials who had violated the law. They came from all over the Central Plains and were transported to Panyu, Nanhai County, where they were distributed to county governments set up in various parts of Lingnan to replenish the much-needed civil service in the region.

If nothing else, the rest of their lives as new immigrants will likely be spent in the primeval forests of Lingnan......

But Gai Lu, who was originally like ashes, never expected that when he first arrived in Panyu, he was received by the supreme commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, Changnanhou!

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Chang Nan Hou is the same as the legend, with a black face.

However, perhaps because of the hot weather in Lingnan, most people have been exposed to the sun for a few years here, and it is not dark in autumn, and Changnanhou's complexion is hidden among the crowds, but it is not so conspicuous.

This prince was not as serious as he imagined, so he sat down with his own care, looked Gai Lu up and down, and said, "Do you know why Ben Hou wants to meet you alone?" ”

Gai Lu cuffed his sleeves and said helplessly: "Maybe it's because the criminal is from Nanjun and is a fellow prince and marquis, or maybe among the people who moved south this time, my former official is the biggest ......."

Heifu said: "In terms of title, you are not the biggest, last year there was a Xianyang County Cheng named Cao Zhi who came here, he was a public passenger, and he committed corruption and bent the law, and was investigated by the 'Xi Qingtian'." ”

Heifu's voice was low, full of regret: "It's a pity that Cao Ji was in the camp, bowed his head to pick up soap horns while bathing in the robe, accidentally slipped and died, and died young. ”

"Now, you are indeed the most powerful among the living criminals who have been assigned to Lu Liangdi."

He smiled and said: "The county order of Nanjun Youxian County, six hundred stone chiefs, how many people envy it." Everyone came to Luliangdi for the same reason, to break the law. But the laws are different, Gailu, tell me your story, why was you thrown into this place? ”

Gailu's throat moved, and although he didn't want to say it, he still told his story again, considering that it might determine his future life.

"The criminal is indeed the county magistrate of Nanjun Youxian County, and the crime he committed is 'arson'......"

Gai Lu said that in the first month of the 37th year of Qin Shi Huang (October), a rebellion occurred in Li Township, Youxian County, which caused him to become a prisoner from his parents.

"General Wei's supervisor is the prince of Changwu Marquis, who sits in Jiangling, and all the baggage and grain that comes and goes from the south to the north must pass through his hands. The Marquis of Changwu conscripted the people of Nanjun to transport grain, but many people who had just finished serving the change were also being recruited, and the head of the Qianxiang was not satisfied, argued with the government, and was suppressed and imprisoned, which caused the head of the Qianshou of Lixiang to gather in the township and demand that the government release the people......"

Because of the improper handling of the county lieutenant and the county magistrate, the mass incident in Lixiang eventually turned into a rebellion. Gai Lu was planning in Jiangling at that time, and hurried back to the county when he heard the news, but found that the matter was getting bigger and bigger, and the government suppressed it unfavorably, and even many Guizhou capitals who had been requisitioned and transferred to quell the rebellion fled into the mountains.

"Thousands of people in a township were in chaos, and I thought that it would not be possible to blindly suppress them with severe punishment, so I ignored the opposition of the county and released the captured prisoners to quell the turmoil. As a result, the turmoil subsided a little, but I was arrested by the county government, thinking that I was a usurper and a prisoner, and although I appealed and begged, Gangneung upheld the original verdict and sentenced me to a ghost salary......"

On the other hand, Gai Lu also touched his chin full of scum, and the so-called torture is to forcibly shave his sideburns and beard and keep his hair, which is a humiliating punishment.

After being tortured in Nanjun, he only felt that everyone's eyes were hot, but fortunately, when he came to Lingnan, the people he saw were either shaved or tattooed on their faces, and even like the four thousand short guards of the Marquis of Changnan, everyone had hair, and they were called "Beard Army", in comparison, he was not conspicuous.

This is how Gailu was assigned.

As he listened, Hefu glanced at the file and knew that what he had said was true.

"Why do you want to release the 'rebellious' leader when you know you may violate the law?"

Gai Lu said: "Shi Qianshou can quell the turmoil and pursue it, but it is just the crime of 'arson', but once the head of Qiantou gathers and lays down the county, as the county commander, I will commit the mistake of losing the land, and the whole family will be killed by the plant, and the lesser of the two evils." What's more, in the situation at that time, blindly torture and suppress it was useless. ”

Heifu nodded and said secretly:

"Since the matter of Xijun, the officials no longer dare to say a word about the terms of the law, they are all happy to use torture as a threat, and the court is also good officials who are good at forcing the people to collect taxes, but they are assigned as prisoners, is this considered to be a violation of the law and harm to the people?"

It is conceivable that they are all blindly punished severely, and the world's big tripod is about to open again......

"Is there a similar rebellion in Nanjun?" Heifu asked Gai Lu, although the party in other towns has many eyeliners, but they have control and cannot cross the river.

"Not a few."

Gai Lu was worried: "Except for Anlu County and Jiangling County, which are still good, there have been incidents of resisting and fleeing in many places. The head of Qianshou fled into the mountains and forests and could not be caught, and the unfortunate ones were those of us who were in charge of affairs, and most of them were arrested and convicted. When I left, Yun Mengze's thieves increased again. And not only did there be an accident in Nanjun, but there were also two big incidents in Jiujiang County next door......"

"One is a prisoner named Yingbu who was subjected to Qin law, and was supposed to be sent to Xiuli Mountain Mausoleum, but he killed the officials who escorted him, and took more than 100 people with him, and he was a group of thieves in the river of death."

"The second is that there is a group of people operating in Chaohu Lake, under the banner of Xiang Yan, and it is said that Xiang Yan's grandson Xiang Ji ......"

Heifu frowned and said secretly: "Xiang Ji...... Xiang Yu? Didn't he go with Xiang Liang and send him to Northland County? ”

Whether it's true or not, he is now also a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, but he has no time to take care of Jianghuai's affairs.

"You can be the new immigrant in charge of me."

After reviewing Gailu himself, Hefu decided that he was a good official and gave him a decent job.

Hearing that he didn't have to do manual work, Gai Lu breathed a sigh of relief and bowed down to thank him, but Heifu got up and said, "Come with me to see the people you want to manage, and also take a look, the court has sent some goods to Lu Liangdi!" ”

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When he came to Panyu City and looked at the new immigrants who came to the city, Gai Lu knew that he had received special preferential treatment......

However, in the northwest of Panyu, outside the camp specially designed to accommodate immigrants, under the threat of the spears of the soldiers of the Southern Expedition, the immigrants lined up in a long line, among them were hunchbacked old men, some were immature young people, most of them were sour, greasy, lice and fleas were overgrown and their clothes were tattered, they were covered with patches and rarely washed, and many of them were not good-looking.

"A steady stream of immigrants from the Central Plains has been coming in droves since Benhou conquered Nanhai County last year and rebuilt Panyu City."

But who are the people who came?

Heifu smiled at those people and said, "Deserters with dead faces, concubines who don't listen to their masters, debtors and gamblers, poachers, rapists, thieves, and lowly sons-in-law, merchants, and even criminals like you, all stuff them here." ”

In the eyes of the imperial court, Lingnan is a garbage dump that specializes in accepting scum waste from all over the country.

"They are the outcasts of the Central Plains, the outcasts of Great Qin, Gailu, you have to help me take care of it, it is such a group of people."

Changnanhou seems to be talking and laughing, but Gai Lu always feels that his words are full of helplessness, cleaning up the mess for the defeated General Tu, and sweeping Baiyue in two years, thinking that Guilin and Xiangjun; The king of Baiyue, bowed his head and tied his neck, and entrusted his subordinates.

It looks majestic, but Chang Nanhou also has his own troubles.

"Do you know now why Lingnan is called Luliangdi?" Hefu asked Gailu, but answered the question himself.

"Lingnan Baiyue, many mountains and lands, its strong nature, so the land beam."

"The people who moved south, more than 100,000 people, most of them were outcasts, their sex was evil and difficult to change, and they were rampant, which can also be called Lu Liang."

He spread his hands and said: "Today, there are more than 200,000 immigrants and convicts in the entire Lingnan, and Benhou has to rely on the 100,000 troops scattered in the four new counties of Nanhai, Guilin, Xiangjun, and Fujian to suppress these new immigrants and the local barbarian tribes. ”

In addition to the 100,000 soldiers in Lingnan, there are still 50,000 people in the three battalions in Lingbei, which is all the strength under Heifu's command.

But are these armies really reliable?

It is not reliable at all, in Heifu's opinion, the army under his command is not only mixed, except for the 4,000 short guards, 30,000 Nanjun, Yuzhang army, and the 10,000 people that Han Xin is training, most of them are low in combat effectiveness, and they are still a powder keg that can explode at any time.

The question is, do you keep it in your own hands and blow it up, or use it to blow up someone else......

Sure enough, after finishing the inspection of the new immigrants, when he arrived at the barracks, Heifu found that there were many people gathered here, noisy and shouting, and they were talking to the newly appointed "head of the brigade" Chen Ying.

"What's wrong?"

As soon as Heifufu appeared, the soldiers immediately stopped making trouble, they all lowered their heads, wore their hair, erected monuments, and led them to win the war.

But some things have dragged on for too long.

Chen Ying came up to report: "Junhou, today is the winter solstice, and the soldiers are homesick, so they gather together to ......"

"General!"

Among the soldiers, finally someone couldn't bear it anymore and asked loudly in the Jianghuai Chu dialect:

"Dare to ask the general, we have been guarding Lingnan for four years! For four years, he failed to see his wife, son, and parents. ”

He asked all the officers and soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army, regardless of Qin Chu's thoughts:

"Today, Baiyue has been decided, the northbound households have been exhausted, when will we be able to return to our hometown?"

PS: The second chapter is in the evening

The matter of Gailu, refer to Zhangjiashan Han Jian's "Book of Songs" Case 18 "Nanjun Death History? and so on", the time and name have been modified.