19 Desolation, prosperity

Chongquan to Zheng, county, is a horse Pingchuan. An official road more than 70 miles long drew an artificial straight line on the most fertile land of the Qin State. On both sides of this straight line, there are not farmlands and cottages, but wild forests composed of barren weeds and dense wild trees. Among the weeds, in the wild woods, from time to time a hare sprang out, a wild bird flew out, and the sound of stabbing scared single pedestrians in shock, so there are few single pedestrians on this official road. After Wei Ying left Chongquan, he embarked on this official road, from Chongquan to Zheng, the first county in the eastern part of the Qin State.

Wei Yang, who walked on the official road, was affected by the initial impression of entering Qin for the first thirty miles, and the whole person was immersed in the idea of how to face Qin Guogong and what strategy to show Qin Gong after arriving in Liyang.

Qin Tong Rong customs, when reading on the classics, who cares? It's just that when Wei Ying saw this sentence, he didn't even reflect it, just like looking at many information about the Qin State, he passed by at a glance. But when he set foot on the Qin realm and experienced this Qin Tongrong custom firsthand, these four words were like a sharp sword piercing his heart. Can a country that uses these four words to evaluate still be called a country? Can the citizens of a country have normal citizens without distinguishing between blood relatives and inbreeding with blood relatives?

What can a citizen who is near the water, who is troublesome to get water to wash himself, do?

Can a state official who treats agriculture as a subordinate work ensure the proper functioning of a country?

The most, the most, the most important thing is that in this country, you are still accustomed to this, and it is justified? In such a country, can his lord still be called a national prince? Therefore, the six kingdoms all called the Qin State a tribe and a marquis. This is not a contemptuous name for Qin by the Six Kingdoms, but a true evaluation of Qin by the Six Kingdoms. This is not to blame for the Six Kingdoms, but for the fact of the Qin State. If you don't get rid of these four words, what else is powerful? What other merit-seeking orders are issued? Also restore the ancestral business of life? If you want to restore your ancestral business, you must have a strong national strength. Without strong national strength, why did you recapture the ancestral land of Hexi from the hands of Wei, the head of the Six Kingdoms? You must know that Wei will not give up the land west of the river. Qin Guogong! A strong country depends on strength. Strength is manifested by a strong army. And the strength of the army depends on abundant material support. With a well field in the Qin State, only one-sixth of the Wei State, and a strong man's income in a year, only one-tenth of the Wei State, can it feed an army that exceeds that of the Wei State?

If you want to strengthen the army, you must first strengthen the country. Only when Qin's grain output surpasses that of Wei can you have the conditions to recapture the ancestral land of Hexi. But how can we quickly catch up with Wei? This made Wei Qin fall into bitter thinking.

Porphyry! Squeaky ...... A bird suddenly flew up from the grass, pressed against the martingale's denomination, and swept over his head. The sudden flying birds, the frightened meditative martingale, the pores exploded! dragged him back from Qiang Qin's thoughts to this quiet official road. Only then did he see the desolation of this official road and the horror brought by this desolation, which he felt behind him, as if someone was chasing him, and forced him to hurry towards a high hill in the distance. When he hurried up to the high post, he dared to stop, and sat on the ground breathlessly, panting for breath. This high hill may have been a former military camp. There was not a single tree on the whole hill, but it was all weeds; and the ground is one foot higher than the official road. When Wei Ying calmed down and stood up and looked at this official plain, all he saw was the boundless desolation of the wild forest. The boundless desolation reminded him of his fellow countryman, Wu Qi. When Wu Qi was in Chu at that time, the state of Chu was even poorer and more backward than the current state of Qin. No matter what Qin said, after all, when King Ping moved eastward, it was still the economic, political, and cultural center of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was the place where the national capital was located. And when Wu Qi left the civilized and rich Wei State and set foot on Yichu, the most barbaric and impoverished at that time, I don't know what kind of mood he was in at that time? It's a pity that there is only a record of Wu Qi's feat of letting Chu and winning the Zhou room in the classics. I, Wu Qi's fellow countryman. A person who has the same purpose as Wu Qi and embarks on the same path, will the historical records record my hesitation at this time? No. The historical books will not remember. The annals will only record my vigorous victories and defeats, not such banal hesitations. Of course, if I can't be vigorous, there will be no trace of my defense in the history books. I! Martingale. It is a generation of good ministers and strange ministers who are preparing for Qin, how can it not be vigorous? I can't have this kind of hesitant mentality. If I wanted to be mediocre and reluctant, I would not leave the Wei State, but would linger in the Wei State and be despised. Since I don't want to be despised and want to leave a mark on the history books, let's be vigorous! Even a tragic death. Because a vigorous death is better than a hundred years of life. Thinking of this, Wei Ying raised his head suddenly, and after struggling to look into the distance, he suddenly laughed loudly. After laughing, he shouted loudly into the vast forest: "Wild grass-wild forest-you will no longer be a desolate and useless land." In my hands, you will become the fertile land of Qin. The fertile fields are busy with Qin farmers who have learned Wei agricultural techniques. Chestnuts and soybeans in the fertile fields. In the fertile fields, the farmhouse seats and the smoke is fragrant. Ha ha! Although Qin is poor, Qin's soil is fertile and wide. Ha ha! Although Qin was backward, as long as it encouraged the cultivation of wasteland and the increase of male strength in separate households, it would be possible to bring grain production to the Wei State, and the Qin State would be a rich treasure trove. And I, and I alone, am the one who has come to open this treasure trove. Qin Stateโ€”โ€”! Are you welcome me? The tree answers, the grass answers, the bird answers, the wind answersใ€ใ€ใ€ใ€ใ€ใ€ Zheng, county. It really deserves to be the first city of Qinzhi Dongguan. The walls are high and thick. The Arrow Tower is towering. Water flows around the city. Inside the city. Four cross-shaped avenues connect the four city gates to the east, south, west and north. The Eastern Merchants, the Southern Gui, the Western Officials, and the Northern People, the strict etiquette system is clearly demarcated by the four cross-shaped streets. Western District Government Office, Barracks. Four brightly clad sergeants stood at the gate of the district, and the stone pillars at the entrance of the road made Wei Ying shocked! I finally came to the real Qin City, saw the real Qin army, and was about to meet the real Qin officials. Wei Ying straightened his crown and walked to the crossing where Huabiao stood with his degree, ready to be inspected by the sergeant at the border gate. The four sergeants standing under the two Huabiao did not look at him, as if there was no one on the road, so that Wei Yan, who was holding the degree, did not know what to do. As soon as his heart was crossed, he put it away, and like other passers-by, he casually walked into the West District.

The West District, like Chongquan Town, greeted him with no one's desertion. The official houses and barracks built along the street were all closed. The walls of the houses on the street have not been repaired, and the mottled ones suspect that the place has long been abandoned. Especially in the county office, a fluffy artemisia grass grew on the que. If it weren't for the tall stele standing in front of the office and the three big characters of Zheng and the county office, there would be no one in Haizhen who would have recognized this as the county office. No wonder the four sergeants standing at the crossing ignored the pedestrians. Wei Ying lost interest in going through the customs formalities at the county office. He turned away and walked towards the North End. Zheng, the northern district of the county, is more like a commercial market than a residential area. As soon as I entered the district gate, I saw that on both sides of the street were the banners of fish, cattle, sheep, and wine shops, and I heard the noise of all kinds of hawking. Wei Ying, who walked into the North City, suddenly gave birth to a familiar cordiality, and actually touched the yellow banner of the wine shop with his hand. As he walked, he looked at the sheep's head, ox head, and carp hanging on the door, and suddenly remembered a passage from Yan Zi: The king's envoy is obeyed inside, and the ox's head is hung at the door and horse meat is sold inside. Zheng, will the cattle shop in the county sell horse meat with cow heads? He wanted to go inside and have a look. But as soon as he saw the stammering smile of the tyrant at him, and saw the fluttering flies on the head of the ox, he couldn't bear to move forward. As he walked forward, the boss behind him let out a vague low sigh, which reminded him of the poem: "Hinder my virtue, Jia is not sold". This time, Qin shouldn't be rejected like this boss? There is also hope for the arrival of the next guest. What about me? Just as he was thinking about his future from the sigh of the owner, a clear sound of flute came and pulled him back to his childhood. He was suddenly only five or six years old, and he was fascinated by the sound of the flute with a group of playboys. In the sound of the flute, he couldn't help but take out a change that he finally asked for from his mother, stretched out to the candy seller, and exchanged it for a piece of maltose. The yellow maltose is sweet and attractive! When the candy seller saw it, the candy buyer's official uniform waved his hand again and again, knocked down a large piece of malt candy, held it with both hands, and handed it to Wei Ying, who was wearing an official uniform. Wei Ying saw Qin Min's fear of officials from the frightened eyes of the candy seller, and hurriedly dropped the money and turned to leave. When he left, the bustling North Market could no longer give him that familiar and intimate feeling. The wilderness and poverty of Chongquan are like the tribes of Xijon. Chongquan and Zheng, the official road between the county for seventy miles is desolate and uninhabited. And Zheng, except for the official office area, the county is as prosperous as the Wei State, and it actually gives himself a familiar and natural feeling of returning to the Wei State. What is the reason for such a disparity between the rich and the poor in the Qin State? Did the Duke of Qin intend to set aside a wild and unopened land at the border between Qin and Wei to serve as a buffer and to protect himself by cutting off Wei's westward advance? It may or may not be. Wei Ying walked blankly in the lively North City, thinking lonely. When he raised his head from his reverie and returned to reality, he had already entered the eastern district of Zheng, the county, Shangjia District. Zheng, although the county's Shangjia District is not large, it is richer than Anyi because of the new construction. There are more than 100 beautiful Arab-style tower houses on two streets. The black dragon table in front of the door is solemn. This is the residential area of Qin Shang?

As soon as Wei Yang saw the commercial and residential areas, he thought of the houses of the peasants who produced wealth for the Qin State. The simplicity of the peasant dwellings and the extravagance of the merchants' dwellings reminded him that the Shennong clan made and listed the factories in the country, and the mouth was the city, so that the people of the world and the things of the world prospered, and the trade and retreated, and each got its place. Hum! Unexpectedly, Shennong's move to benefit the people was used by these businessmen to destroy the country. Shang died. Zhou will be the remnants of Luoyang. In order to vent the hatred of the country, Luoyang merchants initially made a living by buying and selling, and then specialized in this industry to damage future generations. Therefore, the princes and nobles shamefully call them recalcitrant people! The common people of the Seven Kingdoms viciously called it "Shang Beetle". Qin's poverty and wealth are so uneven, this merchant beetle must be a big harm. Wei Yang was angrily angry with the "merchant beetle". "Good! Okay! Flip-flip ......" bursts of applause and cheers suddenly came, which suddenly disturbed Wei Ying's train of thought. When he looked up, he found that he had reached the end of the avenue where the merchants of the eastern district lived, and at the end of the avenue, there was a large field, and a large group of people were shouting and watching something there. He was curious about everything in Qin State, so he walked into the field lightly in an official uniform. At first glance, it was a few servants performing juggling in the field, and the juggling in the field was dazzling. The leader of the team who is kicking the ball and rolling over, his eyes are very sharp. At a glance, he saw a high-crowned foreign official walking in from among the onlookers, and his heart was overjoyed -- a god of wealth had arrived. Foreign officials are more generous than Qin officials and Qin merchants.

Thinking of this, he took advantage of the situation to show his life's skills, used an upside-down golden hook, kicked the ball into the air, and used a beautiful backflip to catch the ball in the air, and then took advantage of the situation to gently float in front of this foreign official, holding the copper plate with both hands, and putting a red ball in the plate; Half-kneeling on the ground, he raised his head to greet the foreign official: "Xiaoban is very grateful to Lord Meng today!" The series of actions of the team leader were completed in the blink of an eye, which made Wei Yingleng startled. He looked to both sides, and the audience in brown robes, (the clothes of the common people, the Qin State was still black, so the people liked to wear black) did not know when they all left him a few steps, and stood alone in place. He has always been disgusted with the servants, and has always thought that the servants are harmful to the society and useless, and they consume food and cloth in vain. Even in the Wei State, the Lingren were only allowed to be kept by nobles at home for private entertainment. Unexpectedly, the poor and barbaric Qin State was even worse than the Wei State in this regard, and the Lingren could openly scrape the people's wealth and eliminate the people's will. He blamed himself for walking in and watching the jugglers in a daze. In the face of this flattering move by the leader of the servant team, he was naturally disgusted and disgusted. He glared coldly, pursed his mouth, and asked sharply, "Whose team is it?" Who gave you the go-ahead to confuse the people here? โ€