Chapter 32: Persistence

A few years ago, when he came home from Jiyi, relying on the six gold given by Peng Zong, plus his family's savings, he did not enter the official mansion as a minister, but escaped. It's just that trouble also followed, three years ago a strange stranger came to the house, and he used a very simple question to convince Xi, and since then Xi has become a spy of the Chu State.

Chu Guo is interested in everything, and even An Lu's household registration they want to extract a copy, which is of course impossible. But the official documents of the county government and the affairs of the county are constantly being revealed through Xi. And the return, in addition to money, there is also promotion, last month, the county magistrate just introduced him in the report of the document to introduce him as "harmless (no one can win), incorruptible, and dignified", not surprisingly, he will go to Nanjun to serve in the next year.

In the county court, Sima Wuze was still talking about the ban on smuggling, and his happy heart had already flown to the medical hall outside the county office. At this time, in the medical hall, Gu Rongzheng, who was lightly humiliated and beaten by the pavilion chief, was carried in by Ji Hei and others.

"What hurt?" The doctor was a hunchbacked old man, and he hesitated when he saw the beating on Gu Rong's body. The healer is also under the control of the government, and if he fights in private, he will have to bear the responsibility of sitting together if he does not report to the official when he is healed.

"Doctor, he was beaten by Pavilion Changwu." Ji Hei shook his head at the doctor, and there was helplessness hidden in his smiling face.

"Water." The doctor didn't seem to see Ji Hei's smile, his eyes swept over Zi Chengsheng, and randomly asked his granddaughter to fill the water. Although the bronze sword of the afternoon was not unsheathed, it still beat Gu Rong to the point that his skin was open.

"Dare to ask the doctor, are you okay?" The blood stains on his face were finally washed away, and looking at Gu Rong, whose face was swollen, Ji Hei asked.

"It's okay......" The doctor was still wiping Gu Rong's wounds, and he suddenly said, "Close the door." ”

"What do you want?" The doctor's sentence of closing the door alerted Zi Chengsheng, and he felt that the doctor had seen something.

The doctor did see the problem. Gu Rong is dressed as a Qianshou, but the skin and flesh on Gu Rong's body don't look like Qianshou at all. He ignored Zi Chengsheng, and only waited until Gu Rong's injuries were cleaned up before turning around and asking, "But Chu people?" ”

Zi Chengsheng heard that Chu people's hearts were hot, but his mouth said: "No, the people of the villain Muzili, go to the city, go to the city, go to the city, go to the city, ......."

Zi Chengsheng couldn't wait to take out his talisman, and Ji Hei next to him also nodded vigorously, and the doctor Ding had a weird smile on his face, and didn't ask again. At this time, Zi Chengsheng saw that all the mud on Gu Rong's head and neck and hands had been washed away, revealing the original delicate skin, and his face suddenly became hot. He didn't dare to speak out again, and only waited for Gu Rong's injuries to be dealt with before he and Ji Hei carried him out of the hospital.

"The black dog in the family has been moving in recent months." They departed with their front feet, and they came in with their hind feet, and when they were in the house, they said in secret language.

"Where do you want to move?" The doctor squinted his eyes and cut his hand on Xi's vein.

"I don't know." Hi Dao. "Today, the young man Sima Tieguan came to the court to reprimand the matter of salt and iron smuggling, and the county ordered the soldiers of the old Qiantou to beg him, but he couldn't."

"Yes." The doctor is happy to go up, and under normal circumstances, he listens and listens quietly.

"Shao Nei salt officials are also on the way, the salt tax has been greatly reduced, and Shao Nei is angry." Hi continued. "And said that the king had already asked about the matter......

"What does the county know about the smugglers?" Of course, Yiding knew that salt and iron smugglers were rampant, and even the salt he ate was Chu State salt.

"The county lieutenant only said that the new Qianshou was not credible......" Before Xi finished speaking, the door was suddenly pushed open. The woman who brought water to the doctor and patient just now said urgently: "Father, the county order is also." ”

"County, county order?" Xi's face turned white instantly, and he reluctantly settled down and said, "I'll leave first." ”

"No." The doctor hurriedly stopped him, Nunu mouthed, and asked his granddaughter to take joy to the back room.

"Meet the prefectural order." After settling down, the doctor came out of the house to greet him, he was respectful, and the county magistrate was also an official, but as soon as he arrived in the house, he changed his expression.

"Please help me." The treatment is deep against the doctor. "Someone from Shaofu is coming, the king is angry, if I am ...... this year"

Just across a thin wall, I heard that the county order was asking for a doctor, and I was shocked and forgot to breathe. He thought that he was the only one who was the marquis of the Chu State, but he didn't expect that even the county order was also the marquis of the Chu State. In fact, it was his fragmented and seemingly meaningless information that dragged Zhibisi into the water.

'Receiving and therefore being a noble endowment, a loan, and a loan interest are the same as theft'. Under the influence of the practice of gift-giving in Chudi, how can the rule avoid the vulgar and not take the benefits of the new Qianshou. Accepted, according to Qin Law, it is the same crime as theft, and if you pay to atone for your sins, you will lose your official position, and naturally, he was caught by Zhibisi. Only those who have been officials know how bitter Qianshou is, and many people would rather die than lose their officials.

With such an expression, the doctor's granddaughter made a silent gesture to him, telling him not to alarm the county magistrate.

The county magistrate begged for a while, and soon left under the gift of the doctor, and when the doctor returned to the house, he said, "It turned out to be ......."

"If not, how can I recommend you?" The doctor remained silent, "Remember! Do not tell anyone what is happening today. ”

"Yui." Hi agreed. Seeing that the doctor had no other instructions, he waved and left from the back door of the medical hall.

Soon after he left, the pigeon flew up from the backyard of the infirmary, fluttering its wings and heading east. In the Anlu Post House, the official document written by Sima Wuze was also hurriedly transmitted to Nanjun by Feixun, the focus of which was to ask for the transfer of the former Qianshou soldiers to Anlu to arrest the smugglers, and it would not work to rely on the local soldiers to arrest them.

Anlu was in a hurry, and the counties bordering Dongting County of Chu State, Zuo Yunmeng, Right Yunmeng, Jingling, Shaxian, and even Hanshui counties were facing the same problem. In addition to Nanjun, the same is true of the counties bordering Han Wei, and they are even more unscrupulous - the private iron and salt of Dongjun are openly sold, and the smugglers on the boat are beaten so badly that they can't raise their heads for thieves. If there were any county guards, the smugglers fled immediately.

The salt of the Qin State was produced from the salt ponds of Anyi and the salt wells of Bashu, which was inherently expensive compared to the sea salt of the Qi State. But even the sea salt of Qi is sold for 100 yuan a stone and 10 yuan a bucket in China, but now it is good, the salt sold to the farmers' homes is only sold for 6 yuan a bucket, as if there is no freight.

"Your lord, if you don't send troops to arrest the smugglers, in the long run, the tax on salt and iron may not be collected." In the Qutai Palace in Xianyang, Lang Sheng, the secretary of the Shaofu who came in a hurry, told him that there were millions of Dingkou in the five counties, and the loss of salt and iron taxes was probably more than 20,000 gold.

"How much is the tax on salt and iron a year?" Zhao Zheng's face was grim, and he smuggled salt and iron, which was never allowed.

"The salt tax is more than 100,000 gold a year; The iron tax is no more than 10,000 gold. Lang Sheng couldn't understand why the king asked about this.

"There are only five counties of Sanchuan, Dongjun, Hanoi, Nanyang, and Nanjun, and more than a dozen counties under the rule of Daqin, so how can there be no salt and iron?" Zhao Zheng asked rhetorically. There was always a hurry, and it was true that the salt and iron smugglers were bad, but the main loss was the tax revenue, and not all counties in the country, which made him a little relieved.

"Minister......" Lang Sheng hurriedly confessed, not wanting Zhao Zhengdao: "Retreat." ”

"The minister retired." Lang Sheng shook his head and stepped back. After he left, Wei Yucai, the national lieutenant who was silent on one side, said: "Qi salt and Jing Tie, Han and Wei are very bitter, but then they are ......."

Wei Yi wanted to say that this was a good thing. Qin couldn't spend half a tael of Qin from selling salt and iron, and finally had to ask for Qin's head. But Zhao Zheng waved at him again and again, and continued to say what happened just now: "When will the Three Kingdoms meet?" ”

"Your lord, Hou Sheng said it was September." Wei Yi's expression was shocked, and he immediately became serious. "The Three Kingdoms will meet in the Gaotang Dynasty of Qi."

"Gao Tang?" Gaotang is one of the five capitals of Qi State, which is just south of Jinzhi in the Great River Plain.

"Yes, yes." Wei Yu said. "Zhao has always wanted to ally with Jing, and Jing has wanted to ally with Qi. The king of Qi ate immortal medicine in Yingdu, and he was very happy, so he was invited by King Jing to make an alliance with Jing and Zhao......"

"King Qi eats immortal medicine?!" Zhao Zheng had known about the immortal medicine for a long time, but he didn't expect that King Qi really took the immortal medicine.

"King, the doctrine of immortality, phantom." Wei Yu was very reluctant to divert the topic to the elixir of immortality, which was a topic that could not be finished for a few days and nights. "Qi is afraid of Zhao, so King Jing promised King Qi that if Zhao attacks Qi, he will save Qi. Soon after Zhao destroyed Yan, Yan was unstable, if I did not attack Zhao in Great Qin, Zhao Fuqiang would also.

Among the countries in the world, Han and Wei only have counties and counties, and only the three kingdoms of Jing, Zhao and Qi can still fight with Qin, and the Three Kingdoms Alliance is equal to the alliance. The minister asked the king to cut down Zhao first, and then cut down Jing after destroying Zhao. Cut down Jing, Qi or not, cut Qi, Jing will do its best to save it. ”

There is no war boat, the state of Chu has held the girder again, and then the attack on Chu will only be in vain, and the war Qi will be sandwiched between the north and south of Chu and Zhao, and the most realistic and urgent task is to cut down Zhao, and then cut down Chu after destroying Zhao.

This is the strategic idea conceived by Wei Wei, but in fact, it is also a roundabout way of thinking. It is necessary to destroy the Zhao State before the Chu State soldiers and the Zhao army innovate tactically, and after the death of the Zhao State, they can also use the resources of the Zhao State to attack the Chu State. As for Han and Wei, especially South Korea, they are already like ripe peaches that will fall into the bowl when touched.

Wei Yu's train of thought could not be said to be incorrect, but when King Zhao heard this, he was contemplating and thinking, he didn't dare to disturb, so he could only hold his breath and wait.

"Jing Guo really can't be cut down again?" There was still a kind of persistence in Zhao Zheng's eyes, he wanted to cut Chu.

"King, the Kingdom of Jing has taken possession of the Great Liang, and the Great Liang is the leader of the Huaishang Waters. If our army can't pull off the girders when the ice is frozen, there will be no way back. Wei Yu's voice was a little sad. Jing country also has concrete soil, this soil can become a high wall in a few days, and a big city in ten months. With this skill of building the city, the girder cannot be pulled. Ask the king to ......"

The concrete wall was built south of Aocang, and Zhao Zheng went to see it. Lux used a giant hammer to smash open the thin place, revealing the same cobweb-like tendons of different sizes, Zhao Zhengguan has been speechless, the next day, he ordered the front line to retreat.

Now that Wei Yi mentioned the Concrete Soil again, he sighed slightly, and only spoke after half a sound: "Fa Zhao, who can be the general?" ”

"The minister thinks that Li Xin, Wang Jian, and Meng Wu can all do it." Wei Yu did not forget Meng Wu when he recommended him. "The Zhao people only bought the Jing State Giant Armor, and they did not learn the art of the Jing people's spear array, and they will be defeated."