The state of Qin was divided into six counties and two states.

The six counties are from north to south, from east to west are Shuofang County, Qinlan County, Hexi County, Shubei County, Xiazhong County, Gyeonggi, the capital city is located in Gyeonggi, the name is Xijing.

The two states are divided into Yuanzhou and Lingzhou.

Lingzhou is located in the north of the Qin State at the intersection of the Qinlan Mountains and the northern Daze, which was built to resist the invasion of the Di people in ancient times, but Lingzhou has been Daze in the north, and people and animals are not allowed to go, and there is only one small road that can lead to the northern Xinjiang.

The Di people rarely take this road to go south on a large scale, and the occasional Di people migrated once they passed by here and found that there were Qin people in the city, so they knew that they were invincible and consciously returned to the north.

Wonju is located east of Xiao Pass. The intersection of the two mountain ranges of Qinlan and Sumeru.

Therefore, as the place where the first Xiongguan in the world hinders the Rong people, for hundreds of years, the Qin State has continuously strengthened the Xiaoguan and Yuanzhou city defense projects, and the current Yuanzhou City has been divided into inner and outer double city walls after countless reinforcements, the inner city is surrounded by nine miles and three points, three feet high and five feet, and there are one thousand and forty-six battlements.

The outer city is thirteen miles and seven minutes around, three feet high and six feet high, and there are 1,573 battlements.

There are three East City Gates, called Anbian Gate, Baoning Gate, and Kill Hu Gate.

There are four south city gates, called Zhenrong, Dingrong, Anrong, and Porong Gate.

There are two north city gates, which are called Weiyuan and Zhenyuan gates.

The west city gate is called Chongyao Gate.

Yuanzhou City has a town-side general government, which is in charge of military affairs at Xiaoguan and Qisanguan in the Sumeru Mountains.

After coming out of the restaurant in the wind and snow, Zhu Lihua and Xiao Yi walked slowly in the direction of the chief mansion.

As the two were walking, they suddenly heard a desolate tune from the side of the road.

"The concubine of the husband and Xiao Guan is in Chu,

The west wind blows concubines and concubines.

A line of letters, a thousand lines of tears,

It's cold to the king's side, and the clothes are gone. ”

Lu Lihua knew that this was Aunt Wu, who was widowed on the street, singing Chu song to miss her husband who died in battle.

Aunt Wu lives next to the Lihua Restaurant, so Lihua can hear this bleak song every day.

"Xiao Yi, have you sent food to Aunt Wu today?"

Lu Lihua asked Xiao Yi.

"Mr. Hui, I sent it, Aunt Wu is also pitiful, she has been looking for her husband in Yuanzhou for seven years, and every household in Yuanzhou City has been visited by her.

It's clear that everyone is dead, but she just doesn't give up.

I can't even support myself by running a weaving workshop.

You said that his husband is too, and the people of Chu don't do it, and they run to my Qin State to fight against Rong Di, it's really ......"

"Xiao Yi, shut up!"

Hearing this, Zhu Lihua's face changed, and he immediately scolded.

Xiao Yi has been following Lihua for six years, and the first time he saw Lihua angry, he couldn't help but be a little scared, so he rubbed his hands and lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Lihua.

Lu Lihua also saw Xiao Yi's embarrassment, and thought that Fang Cai's tone was a little harsh, so he whispered to Xiao Yi:

"Xiao Yi, let me ask you, how did your parents leave?"

"Mr. Hui's words, he was injured in the battle with the Rong people, and died of illness two years after he came back, his mother became ill from overwork, and his father died after he left."

After that, Xiao Yi's face was full of loneliness.

"Xiao Yi, do you know what Aunt Wu's husband and Ling Zun are fighting for?" Lihua asked.

"There is a public order, all men who are over sixteen years old in the Qin State must go to the border to fight." Xiao Yi replied.

"Aunt Wu's husband must listen to Duke Qin's orders."

"Not necessarily." Xiao Yi replied.

"Xiao Yi, we only know that the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, and the king's order is irreversible.

But have you considered why it is irreversible?

Rong Di came to attack, different from the war with the countries, if the countries were defeated, the weak can be surrendered, and those who descend can live.

But if Rong Di breaks through the Xiao Pass, it will be difficult for the countries of Shenzhou to resist, at that time he is a sword and I am a fish and meat, will anyone be able to live?

Aunt Wu is a husband, a true gentleman, don't talk so nonsense anymore. Lu Lihua said softly.

"Sir, Xiao Yi knows that he is wrong."

After listening to what Li Hua said, Xiao Yi obviously realized his mistake, so he replied in a low voice with some embarrassment.

"Xiao Yi, you are also fourteen this year, and in a few years you will also follow me to the head of Xiaoguan City to fight, so that you can do it yourself.

Go back and ask the old lady for a futon and take it to Aunt Wu.

I'll just go to the general government by myself. ”

Xiao Yi said "no" and turned to leave.

Seeing Xiao Yi running towards the restaurant, Lu Lihua shook his head and smiled slightly, then turned around and walked towards the general government.

The ancestors are said to have been good generals who followed Yao Jun to stabilize the world, and stayed in Yuanzhou City to help Qin resist Rong Di after the partition.

But with the passage of time, the family has gradually declined in time, and although the hereditary title, almost no one has taken him as a doctor in his generation.

Yao Jun originally established the title system, and under the four feudal states of Qin, Qi, Chu, and Shu were seventeenth-level titles.

They are Gongshi, Shangzao, hairpin, not more, doctor, official doctor, public doctor, public passenger, five doctors, guest qing, Zhengqing, Dashu Chang, left more, middle more, right more, big change, big good, the title can be hereditary.

The doctor's Yulu is 250 stone of corn per year, with six tilts of land and 30 acres of real estate, but with more and more descendants of the younger generations, these fields and houses are getting less and less.

As a descendant, Zhu Lihua inherited the title of doctor, in addition to the annual salary, his father, as a nobleman, also went out many times to resist Rong Di when he was alive, beheaded very much, and the money and wealth he received were also quite rich.

Therefore, although Lihua was not born in a wealthy and noble family since he was a child, he can be regarded as worry-free about food and clothing, which is also the reason why Lihua was able to worship Mr. Qi since he was a child, although the gift money asked by his husband was not high.

At the age of eighteen, he entered the town's border general government as a case collector in accordance with the Qin regulations, mainly doing some scattered work such as sorting out civil lawsuits, farmland inventory, and supervising the construction of weapons and armaments.

This is also the practice of the Qin State for hundreds of years, so that the descendants of the nobles can get in touch with government affairs early, so that they can understand the lowest situation in some countries.

The second is also to cultivate their management skills.

The third is to find and cultivate some young nobles with outstanding abilities.

In reality, however, this system has long since failed to serve the purpose for which it was established.

The high-ranking officials at the secretary level are always controlled by those few ancient families, but today I am in charge and tomorrow you are in charge.

Most of the middle-level officials at the doctor's level are unusable, and the hereditary titles and official positions are also firmly controlled by the family.

However, these people simply did not have the means and ability to actually operate the operation of the state apparatus, so they had to hire some poor scholars to do these official tasks that should be done by the doctors themselves, and these poor men were collectively called officials.

Most of the officials were born in the families of wealthy farmers and merchants at the bottom, and were more familiar with the farming and commercial operations of the bottom.

So they can be regarded as handy in doing political affairs.

Although today's national politics is nominally governed by doctors, it is more appropriate to say that officials govern the country.

Unconsciously, Zhu Lihua has walked into the gate of the general mansion at the edge of the town, different from the shock when he first entered the general mansion when he was eighteen years old, Lu Lihua has spent almost five years here, and at this time, the towering door is like two swords in the hands of others, which makes him feel a little depressed.

As soon as he entered the hall door, he could see his colleagues who used to get along with him day and night, and the officials who were employed by the poor family.

They were still looking down at the mountains of files on the side of the case.

After suddenly finding that Zhu Lihua entered the door, several people got up and walked over, and a young man with a slightly rich body excitedly grabbed Zhu Lihua's hand and said:

"Brother Yuli, you're back, is there room for things to turn around?"

"Yes, Brother Li, how can there be no shortage of you in the house, who is the first person to solve the case." Another tall, thin, dark-faced young man also walked over and said with a smile.

"I'll just say, it must be that Lord Governor is reluctant to give up Brother Li, such a small matter, why ruin Brother Li's future."

"Yes." "Yes."

The people around Lihua all said word by word.

"Brother Gao, Brother Wei, Brother Liang, brothers, I'm afraid I won't be able to work with you anymore, thanks to the care of your brothers in the past five years, I have the knowledge of today.

As the old saying goes: There is no feast in the world.

Your brothers and my colleagues have a meeting, and I have come here today to say goodbye to you, so take care of your brothers. ”

Seeing that everyone cares about herself, she is also very moved.

But after thinking about it, he decided to inform everyone about leaving the General Mansion, so Zhu Lihua fell to the ground after speaking.

In fact, what Lihua said is not all polite words, Lihua is the youngest compared to these poor officials, and these years Lihua is not in the right chamber with the children of the nobles on business, part of the reason is that he is not used to the various actions of those gentlemen, and another important reason is to do things with these poor officials, that is, you can grasp the accurate livelihood of the people, and you can also handle some practices by yourself.

However, the right chamber is only talking on paper every day, and can only read some fish-scale civil cases, and has no contact with real grassroots state affairs at all.

Therefore, from the second year of entering the government, Zhu Lihua moved to the left council hall for business.

And in the past few years, when dealing with official affairs, talking to each other with the children of the poor family is also what Zhu Lihua likes to do.

Seeing Zhu Lihua slam to the ground, most of the officials in front of him were not surprised, as if they had known that this was the case, they all got up and saluted, but there was a little reluctance between their words and deeds.

But in the left council hall, there were also a few officials who were indifferent, as if they hadn't seen the arrival of Zhu Lihua at all, and only raised their heads and listened attentively when they were talking.

When they heard that Zhu Lihua was leaving the General Mansion, several people looked at each other, and another got up and left.

"Silence, speed up the work, and don't make noise."

At this moment, an old voice came from the stove in the hall.

The voice was not loud, but when everyone heard the voice, they all lowered their heads and stopped talking, and the people in front of Lihua also smiled at Lihua and walked back to their desk.