Although Qi County is a border city, but the city is not high, the rammed earth city wall circumference is four miles, two zhang five feet high, one zhang eight feet thick, digging a moat around the city, the pond is one zhang deep, it is such a small city, protecting more than 2,000 households in the wall. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Early in the morning of this day, the sky was bright, and the gate of Qixian County was opened, and more than 100 county soldiers hurriedly opened out, lined up on both sides of the road, driving away those sparse county citizens, and they were not allowed to enter or leave. After that, a large group of scholars, dressed in black official uniforms or fine garments, came out on horseback and stood outside the city gates.

These people are all well-known figures in Qi County, including Qi Ling and Qi County Captain, as well as the local chief Qi clan, from the eldest head of the family, Qi Weng, and his three sons, with more than a dozen grandchildren and nephews, but they are several times more than the few county officials in the county temple.

The one who can make these people get up early in the morning and go out of the city to greet them is naturally Chang'anjun, who is about to come and seal it recently.

Standing at the front is the county commander and the lieutenant of Qi County, they are the leaders of the county government and the army, the county commander holds the "wisdom" to greet the officials and nobles, that is, the broom, and the captain is constantly looking forward to it, and the two are waiting while whispering.

"I wonder where we're going to go?"

For these two officials, who have been in office for less than three years, Qi County was suddenly assigned to the fiefdom of Chang'anjun, which means that their term of office has come to an end.

There are two systems of local administration in the Zhao State, one is the county and the other is the actual feudal city of the feudal monarch. The feudal lords had relatively independent ruling power within the fief, and once a county became a private fief, it meant breaking away from the county system.

The feudal monarch can appoint the governor of the feudal lord to be the governor of the feudal district, and under the feudal ruler, there are also military attaches in charge of the garrison, and the personnel who collect food tax and tax for the feudal monarch are generally served by the feudal monarch's disciples. For example, when Meng Yanjun was in the middle of the day, in order to please him, Zhao Guo offered Wucheng as Meng Yanjun's Tang Muyi, and Meng Shanjun could choose to be a Wucheng official by himself, and Pingyuan Jun also set up a set of officials in his fief to be responsible for collecting taxes and managing land.

Therefore, after the handover of the city, the commander of Qi County and the county lieutenant must be ready to be transferred, which is a common thing for bureaucrats who are born in scholars, and both of them are very relaxed, after all, it is not easy to be a chief official in Qi County, and they have to worry about the invasion of Qin, and they have to beware of thieves, and they have to have a good relationship with the Qi family, so they don't feel sorry to leave.

After all, there are few people in the county who know them, but no one knows the Qi family, and whenever the tax is collected, the county officials go out in person, and none of the Qi family's words work.

On the other side, the Qi clan, which had dozens of people standing in the black press, was not so easy.

Among the group, the most advanced was Qi Weng, the patriarch of the Qi clan, who was old, with a sparse beard, and although he was old, he still stood straight, and refused the pleas of his children and grandchildren to sit down and wait.

"Kun'er has sent someone to report, saying that Chang'anjun has arrived a few miles away, and it will be in an instant, the old man will sit down at this time, so that Chang'anjun thinks that my Qi family is lazy, how is it good?"

When Qi Weng heard that Qi County was classified as a fief of Chang'anjun, his mood was very complicated.

Their Qi clan has a long history, but after the Jin Xiangong, the ancestor Qi Xi word yellow sheep, Jin Jing Gong sealed him Qi land, since then, Qi as the clan. Qi Xi once recommended his father-killing enemy Xie Hu to replace his position, and he was famous for "not avoiding revenge externally, and not avoiding relatives internally". Under his management, the Qi clan slowly grew, and the territory expanded to the ten cities on the bank of Zhaoyu Qi, and the strength was second only to Fan, Zhongxing, Zhi, Zhao, Wei, and Han.

I don't know if it's karma, the Qi family accepted the Zhao family's territory of Wen County when the Zhao family was in trouble in the lower palace and the Zhao family was destroyed. But after a few decades, it was the turn of the Qi clan to suffer: they offended the Liuqing, because the indecent behavior of the Qi family's retainers to hand over the ** son was exposed, and the main Qi family was also slandered and charged, and the family was exterminated, and the ten cities of the Qi family were divided by the Liuqing, and the descendants of the huge clan were scattered, and only one small sect survived and stayed in Qi County.

Just like many years ago, Shu Xiang and Yanzi sighed, "The office will be humble, and its clan branches and leaves will fall first", as the office doctor of the Qi family declined, the Jin State Office did not have many good days, the situation became more and more turbulent, followed by the civil war of Liuqing, and the three families were divided into Jin.

Fortunately, the Qi family finally stood in the right camp, and by taking refuge in the Zhao family and the Zhi family, they became the doctor of the Zhao State again, the temple was established again, the family prospered again, and two hundred years later, the Qi family's children were all over Qi County and became a local force that could not be ignored.

Qi Weng is the fifteenth generation of the Qi family, when he was born, the center of the Zhao State has moved from Taiyuan to Handan in the east, as the local chief of Taiyuan, the Qi family has gradually lost its right to speak. Qi Weng had only served as an adjutant to the local county magistrate, but this did not affect his authority in the county in the slightest.

The people are rumoring: "Qi has something to do, ask the three elders." For so many years, he has been careful to maintain a balance between the interests of the county officials and the family sent by Handan, and he has to deal with the two occupations of Qi County by the Qin State, as well as the increasingly serious problem of thieves and bandits.

Seeing that Qi County had finally recovered from the withering of the two wars, and that he was full of children and grandchildren, Qi Weng was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but suddenly learned that Qi County had been assigned to the Queen Mother's beloved son, Chang'anjun!

This shocking news almost killed him, Qi Weng is also a knowledgeable person, of course he knows that a real son is different from the county officials who come and go like flowing water.

The term of office of the county official is up to three or five years, but as long as the feudal monarch is not deprived of the territory, but if he stays for ten or twenty years, he can also pass it on to his descendants if he is not careful.

The arrival of Chang'an Jun had a great impact on the Qi family, and the first thing was that the feudal monarch had the right to collect taxes in the fiefdom, such as field taxes, which did not matter to large households like the Qi family, anyway, they could be apportioned to the tenants and concubines below. But if a greedy feudal monarch wants to attack their family's property in Qi County and levy heavy industrial and commercial taxes, it will be troublesome.

Qi Zhongping, the second son of Qi Weng, who had been to Handan and Hedong, said: "I heard that Pingyuan Jun raised taxes in the territory, and stipulated that the people could only borrow from him if the fief was borrowed. ”

Borrowing is a big source of wealth for the Qi family, and if it is gone, it will be a big blow to them.

In addition, the feudal monarch can also be free to levy the feudal household to do labor, such as building a city, defending the city, military service, etc., with the feudal sealing, there are bound to be a large number of doormen, people will enter Qi County, this calm pond, is about to rise in waves.

Qi Weng's eldest son, Qi Mengming, had other ideas, he said to Qi Weng: "When my son went to Jinyang, I also heard people talk about the deeds of Chang'anjun, saying that he went to trouble for the country, and seemed to be a son with a good name. If he has a long-term vision, in order to attract the surrounding people to invest, he may also reduce the staking and taxation of my Qi County. I heard that there was a feudal monarch in Pingyang, South Korea, who also lowered the tax on the fief, so the surrounding escapees and exiles went to take refuge one after another, and attached the gate of Weizhi to avoid the levy, and there were hundreds of people......"

Qi Zhongping was very pessimistic: "I think, these Zhao and Han Fengjun are all good all the way, aren't Pingyuan Jun also famous?" But he is generous to the doormen and scholars, but he is very stingy with the fiefdom and the people! If Chang'an Jun also learns to do it, how can it be good, he can't sue him if he goes to Handan to complain, does my family want to let him slaughter it? Ah Weng, let's think about the incident that my son mentioned earlier......"

Before he finished speaking, Qi Weng knocked on his cane and told his second son to shut up, as a local mayor, he had a good life, and suddenly he wanted one more feudal monarch to ride on his head, he naturally felt uncomfortable, but if that incident spread out, it would be a disaster of destruction, and it must not be mentioned!

Qi Weng finally leaned towards the attitude of the eldest son, so he sent his eldest grandson Qi Kun to take some people to the county border to greet first, and he took the whole family to the city gate this morning to wait, first make a low profile, after all, the arms are not more than the thighs, Chang'an Jun is no one, but it is not a small county town that they can fight, I only hope that he lives up to his reputation and is a good talker......

Just thinking about it, but saw the dust in front of him, a team of hundreds of people towards this side, the first is some wearing gorgeous armor, riding a tall horse, with dazzling armor to lead the horse, it should be Chang'an Jun's private army, the leading two warriors are Lu Goujian and Dog Tu, the two warriors carry swords to drive the horse, murderous, and the people who see Hui greet each other are shocked.

Fortunately, after they drove their horses to the nearest place, they let go of the two sides, followed by Qi Weng's eldest grandson Qi Kun, who was happily talking to a noble prince who was riding in a canopy cart next to him, pointing at the city gate!

The prince was wearing a robe, his face was like a crown of jade, and his crown was like a cloud, it was Chang'an Jun himself, Qi Weng knew that the lord was coming, and hurriedly greeted his children, grandchildren and nephews, followed the two county officials to bow to the ground, and shouted in unison: "Qi County officials, fathers, welcome Chang'an Jun to be sealed!" ”

Chang'an Jun got out of the car, first greeted the two county commanders and county lieutenants who handed over the city, and then walked to a large group of people who were on their knees under the black pressure of the Qi clan, and helped Qi Weng up, he smiled kindly: "Qi Weng, please, the queen mother only ordered the counties and counties to pity the elderly, and those over seventy years old will be given a cane, and they will be allowed to see officials without worshiping, I heard Qi Kun say that Qi Weng is over seventy years old, right?" It's so heavy, it really kills me. ”

Qi Weng got up tremblingly, and didn't dare to say anything, although Chang'an Jun was so generous, he still didn't dare to relax in his heart, and the children and grandchildren behind him were all nervous in the face of this feudal lord who decided whether their future life would be good or bad.

Cai Ze is worried about Qi's attitude towards Chang'anjun, why isn't Qi's worried about Chang'anjun's attitude towards his family?

Qi Zhongping, who had a deep prejudice against the feudal monarch, looked at Chang'anjun even more coldly, feeling that this little boy's smile was full of treachery, and the anxiety within the Qi clan about Chang'anjun's enthronement was mostly influenced by this person.

Unexpectedly, Chang'an Jun immediately asked Qi Weng: "There is a temple of Doctor Qi in Suwen County, and I have admired Doctor Qi's loyalty and virtue of not avoiding hatred and relatives in the outside and relatives for a long time, can you please ask Qi Weng to take me into the temple to pay respects?" ”