In the blink of an eye, the new year passed, and the New Year was spent in Wei Zhongxian's mansion in the capital, and Qin Duan himself did not expect that he would actually spend his first New Year in this world in the house of this notorious great eunuch.

"Miss Mom and Dad?"

After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Qin Twilight took Magnolia and Little Cherry back to his yard, and when he saw that Little Cherry was a little unhappy, he asked.

"Well, the slave misses her parents, I don't know if they will miss cherries."

Xiao Cherry leaned on Qin Du's body and said, now in Xiao Cherry's heart, in addition to his parents, he is the master who is closest to him.

"Yes, they'll miss you, too."

Qin Dui said, in fact, Qin Dui also misses his parents very much, but whether it is in the past life or in this life, Qin Dui is an orphan, and every Chinese New Year is his most unhappy day.

However, there is one thing that Qin Du is still relatively happy, now he has a lot of women, and there are also people who care about him, whether it is Mu Yunxi and Xiaocui who are far away in Kurihara County, Li Xiangjun and Liu Rushi who are still in Jinling City, or their personal maids Red Sleeves and Yingchun all wrote to themselves to express their feelings of missing them.

And today, on this Chinese New Year's Eve, I don't have to sleep alone, at least I have Little Cherry and Magnolia to spend with me.

"Or, after the New Year, someone will send you back to Jinling?"

Qin Dui said to Xiao Cherry, this trip to the northwest is really more auspicious, and Qin Dui doesn't want Xiao Cherry and Yulan to follow him to adventure.

"I don't, wherever the master goes, the slave and maid will follow him, and he will not leave the master when he dies." Little Cherry hugged Qin Du tightly and said, like a little daughter-in-law who was about to be abandoned.

"The northwest is very dangerous, you and Yulan go back to Jinling first, and then pick you up after the master settles down in the northwest."

Qin Dui said, no matter what, these two are his own women, and Qin Dui doesn't want them to go on an adventure in the northwest with him.

"No, we will die with you."

Yulan also hugged Qin Dui nervously and said, after getting along in the past few months, Yulan has completely regarded Qin Dui as her own man, the most important person in her life, Ling Ke died by herself, and she didn't want her master to be hurt.

"Yes, sir, even if we die, we will also die by your side." Little Cherry also hugged Qin Du tightly and said.

"Okay, for the New Year, don't say anything about death, how unlucky." Qin Du said helplessly, fortunately, it was not the first year of junior high school, otherwise it would be really unlucky.

"Anyway, sir, you don't want to throw down the cherries." Little Cherry said with red eyes and tears in her eyes.

"Okay, the master will take you to the northwest together." Qin Du said helplessly, it's not good to let a woman cry during the New Year.

"Really?"

Little Cherry and Magnolia asked happily. For the two of them, no matter how dangerous the northwest region is, as long as they can be with their beloved master, they are the happiest, even if they die, they are willing.

"Really."

Qin Duan smiled helplessly, what two stupid women deserve his love. Their emotions about their life and death made Qin Duan helpless and moved.

"Thank you, sir."

The two women happily kissed Qin Du's face, ancient women were very conservative outside, but in the house, as long as they were with their own men, they were still relatively open.

"Hehe, today is the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the lord will give you a big red envelope." Qin Duan took out two big red envelopes from his arms and handed them to Little Cherry and Magnolia.

"Master, didn't you already give us a red envelope just now?" Little Cherry has some strange questions.

"Everyone has the red envelope just now, this red envelope is different, as long as my woman has it."

Qin Duan said with a smile, this is the red envelope that Qin Duan specially wrapped for his two personal maids, and there were ten silver tickets for the Hundred Taels Empire in each bag.

"A thousand taels?"

Yulan opened the red envelope and shouted in surprise, for a maid like her, she can receive a red envelope of 1,000 taels, which is too much, so much that Yulan doesn't dare to accept it.

"What, too little?" Qin Du said with a smile.

"No, no, no, sir, you gave too much." Magnolia said nervously.

"Yes, sir, how much money, how can I spend it?"

Little Cherry also said with a little trembling, for a girl like her, but she has never seen so much money, and now with it in her hand, Little Cherry's heart is beating hard.

"You can buy clothes and food."

Qin Du said with a smile, in Qin Dui's opinion, this time he went to the northwest, it was more auspicious and less auspicious, since this is the case, he should be more willful, give more money to his maids, let them spend a happy time, no matter how life is gone, what is the use of more money.

"But......" Magnolia wanted to say something.

"Okay, it's late, you can sleep with the master."

Qin Duan didn't want to discuss the matter of pressing the New Year's money with his own woman, while he was still comfortable, he would relax and relax with his own woman, and in a few days, he would go to the northwest, and then he wouldn't be as relaxed as this, and he would be scared to sleep.

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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Qin Du followed Wei Zhongxian and them into the palace, paid New Year's greetings to the emperor, and did not come back until the evening, and fell asleep early under the service of the two maids.

At dawn the next day, Qin Duan followed Li Yongzhen on horseback to the west camp of the city guards located in the west of the city, which was one of the three major military camps of the city guards in the capital, with 30,000 soldiers stationed all year round, responsible for guarding the security of the west of the capital Yanjing.

Originally, Wei Zhongxian wanted to accompany Qin Dui to this western camp, but he was temporarily called by the emperor to work in the palace, so he had to let Li Yongzhen accompany Qin Dui to the western camp of the city guard army to select soldiers.

The "Great Qin Law" stipulates that all men between the ages of 16 and 45 can join the army, but once they do, they are not allowed to quit the army without the approval of the military department, otherwise they will be punished as deserters.

Due to the large population and abundant military resources of the Great Qin Empire, the recruitment system was adopted, and many middle and lower-class people also regarded joining the army as a means to change their fate, although there were not many opportunities.

Because the Great Qin Empire was a hierarchical state, the state divided the people into several classes, the first class being the imperial family, which referred to the emperor's immediate family and close relatives. The second class is the noble clan, that is, the upper nobility, which refers to the imperial meritorious heroes and their descendants who have been knighted by the emperor for their military merits or political achievements, or who have titles due to the inheritance of the titles of the previous generation.

The Great Qin Law stipulates that canonized nobles can only be inherited by one of their next generation, and cannot be extended to the third generation if there are no other military achievements.

In this way, there are not too many nobles with titles and titles in the empire, but the laws of the empire also stipulate that the descendants of canonized nobles can be given priority in all aspects of politics and military service within the empire. This kind of people are the gentry.

The third class is the Shu nationality, which refers to the ordinary officials of governments at all levels, merchants, landlords, workshop owners and other people who have made outstanding contributions to the central file of the Great Qin Empire after being approved by the local government, and their descendants, that is, the Shu people. The fourth category is free people, which refers to ordinary people engaged in all walks of life. The third and fourth classes are collectively referred to as civilians.

There is another group of people who are not recognized by the "Great Qin Law", but they are widely found in every corner of the Great Qin Empire, that is, slaves, and the number of this type of people is not small, living at the bottom of the empire. Many of these people were prisoners of war, or criminals, or slaves due to debt, as well as their descendants.

The Great Qin Law stipulates that in order for a slave to become a free citizen, the master must issue the original identity certificate of the slave, request to be released, and pay a certain identity filing fee to the local local government, and the local government will confirm the release of the slave's status before it can take effect. The Emperor could also be dismissed as a slave directly.

Of course, local officials also have the right to dismiss slaves from unlawful slave owners (or sell slaves from them), but they have no power to dismiss slaves from slaves from legitimate slave owners. Only the emperor has this right.

Since the Great Qin Empire divided the people into several classes, and the scholars could be given priority in both military and political affairs, the third and fourth class people often had to work several times harder to get ahead.

Many officials from the Shu and free people, no matter how talented and meritorious, are often inferior to those mediocre or even corrupt officials who are born in the noble clan due to the restrictions of their origins, so that many people of insight are buried in the lower classes. This is even the biggest problem with the existence of the Great Qin Empire.

Some people of insight in the court of the Great Qin State also recognized the disadvantages of this situation, and also reflected this problem to the emperors of the previous dynasties, but because this involved the interests of the scholars, whenever this issue was raised, it would be strongly opposed by the upper nobles of the Great Qin Empire, because most of the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the empire came from the scholar clan, so all such mentions ended in nothing.

If a country wants to be strong, the most important thing is talent, the system of the Great Qin Empire restricts the promotion of many capable people, and in the past hundred years, the Great Qin Empire's "rivalry between friends" has been fierce, resulting in some capable people being squeezed out of the court.

In the current year of the Apocalypse, the Donglin Party has controlled the court and excluded the personnel of other parties, and now it is happy to fight with the eunuch party, which has made the internal and external troubles of the Great Qin Empire even more severe.

However, these are not the problems that Qin Duan should consider now, for Qin Dui, the most important thing now is to select a hundred soldiers who are satisfied with him, and ten officers, to protect himself to go to the northwest.