Chapter 25: Travel
The next day, Chen Sheng went to Yangcheng and went to Zhang's Mansion to find Zhou Wen to resign, and asked him to help tell Zhang Liang that he had something to do and that he could only excuse Zhang Liang. Zhou Wen felt very sorry for Chen Sheng's decision, such a good opportunity to cling to Zhang Liang's son, Chen Sheng gave up in vain. Zhou Wen persuaded Chen Sheng bitterly, and seeing that Chen Sheng's will was not shaken, he had no choice but to give up.
When leaving Zhang's Mansion, Chen Sheng found that Zhang's Mansion was busy, and the people were packing and tying up the goods in the mansion and loading them on the cart, as if the family had migrated far away, and he was very surprised. After inquiry, I learned that the emperor ordered the world to move 120,000 wealthy families from all over the world to Xianyang to expand the scale and prosperity of Xianyang City.
Hearing this, Chen Sheng smiled bitterly, knowing that this was a measure taken by the emperor to monitor the remnants of the Six Kingdoms. However, for this measure, Chen Sheng shook his head noncommittally. said goodbye to Zhou Wen, left Zhang's mansion, and went outside to look for the teacher.
Wei Yi followed Chen Sheng to Yangcheng early in the morning and said that there were some things to deal with. After asking Chen Sheng to go to Zhang's Mansion to deal with the matter, he went to the county government gate to wait for him.
Yangcheng was not much destroyed in the war-torn era, and with the proper policies and measures of the empire in the past few years, although it was not prosperous, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and they were full of vitality. The laws of the empire are strict, and although the county seat is small, it is also well-divided. "Shi" refers to the bazaar, which is a place where daily rice, grain, oil, and rape are bought and sold, and fang, which is a place where some handicraftsmen sell homemade equipment. In addition, there are also liquor shops and so on, all of which are lined up in the area. In general, the "Fang District" is far more prosperous than the "Urban Area".
The county government is adjacent to the Fang District. Chen Sheng speculated that this may be because of the convenience of the county government to collect taxes. In this era, people who engage in business do not have a high status and are not lightly taxed. You are not allowed to go out in fine clothes, nor are you allowed to ride horses. This kind of treatment is completely contrary to the mercantilist era in which Chen Sheng lived in later generations.
When he arrived at the gate of the county office, Chen Sheng had already seen the teacher come out of the side door of the county office. Behind him was a middle-aged man in official uniform and a group of officials, and the officials who followed behind were also pulling a carriage, which was immediately pulled by two tall horses, which looked like divine horses. Looking at the style of the official's official uniform, Chen Sheng, the person wearing the official uniform, is the county magistrate of Yangcheng County.
At this moment, the county magistrate's face was full of smiles, and his body bowed slightly, not daring to be in parallel with Wei Yi, but humbly saying something to Wei Yi on the side.
Wei Yi also looked like a spring breeze on his face, coping with the words of the county order.
When Chen Sheng saw the teacher like this, he knew that the teacher had come to the county to fight the autumn breeze. Chen Sheng's family is poor and white, and he really can't afford to support the three's travel plan. Chen Sheng was already worried about this matter along the way, and he was planning whether to sell the hut left by the old veterinarian in exchange for some money to pay for the journey. Unexpectedly, the teacher was so careful that even this had already been planned. I remember that the teacher once said that just as a national soldier, you can travel the world without being disturbed, and you can also withdraw the money in any county in the world, and the money is not low, there are as many as 100 gold per month, which is much higher than a county guard, you know, the county guard of the empire is only 150 gold a year. Countryman, in this empire, identity is a transcendent existence.
Seeing that the teacher walked out of the county office, Chen Sheng immediately greeted him. However, when the officials saw a ragged young man approaching, they hurriedly shouted. A few diligent officials even wanted to show themselves in front of the county magistrate and the old man who was respected by the emperor as a national soldier, rolled up his sleeves, and wanted to come over to subdue Chen Sheng.
Chen Sheng was a little crying and laughing, and was about to speak to clarify the misunderstanding. The county commander had some vision, and when he saw Chen Sheng coming from afar, he glanced at each other, and both of them showed new smiles, and they knew that the two knew each other. Thinking that Mr. Guoshi's dress was similar to Chen Sheng's. hurriedly spoke out to stop the actions of these officials.
Earlier, when Wei Yu came to the Yamen, he was also stopped by the Yamen, and Wei Yi was not angry, but just took off a jade pendant from his body, handed it to the Yamen, and asked him to take it back to the county commander to take a look. The official saw that this old man was extraordinary, and he didn't dare to look at his clothes and not people. How do you know that as soon as the county magistrate saw this jade pendant, he jumped up like a burning butt and ran out quickly. Since a few months ago, the county magistrate reported the meteorite auspicious rui, and he was rewarded by the peak one after another, and it seems that the official position is quite likely to move up a little, and he is naturally courteous to the national soldier who comes to visit rashly, and as an imperial official, he naturally understands the rarity of the national soldier's card. It is not an exaggeration to say that there are national soldiers descending on his small county office.
When Wei Yu arrived, he told his purpose straightforwardly, one was to send a letter to Xianyang and present it to His Majesty the Emperor, and the other was to need some money and horses.
After verifying the authenticity of the jade pendant, the county order found that the old man in front of him turned out to be the old national lieutenant Wei Wei Master whom His Majesty the Emperor called the emperor.
Don't look at Wei Yu, who has ignored national affairs, but has a transcendent status in the emperor's mind. If he mentions himself in a word when he writes to the emperor or directly faces the saint, then his future will be limitless! Although the official position of the county magistrate is small, he is still very motivated.
"This is my student." Wei Yi frowned slightly, looking at the movements of these officials, he knew how these guys treated the people who usually came to the door; Immediately lowered his face and said to the county order: "Treat the people of Qianshou with a cold face, don't be like a wolf or a tiger." As a parent official, you must benefit one party, not the other! ”
When the county magistrate heard this, he immediately wrinkled into a cold sweat behind his back, and said yes in a loud voice. Then he loudly reprimanded the yamen, and said that this was just an isolated phenomenon, and he would inevitably vigorously rectify it, so that the yamen would become the yamen of the people, the big yamen close to the people, and so on. Hearing such an official tone, Chen Sheng felt endless emotion in his heart for a while. He thought that this kind of tone could only be heard in his time, but he didn't expect it to be since ancient times. Faced with the words of this county order, Wei Yu had no choice but to accompany him to play haha, and then strongly refused the invitation of the county commander to set up a banquet and hospitality, and returned to Chenli with Chen Sheng.
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In the late autumn of the twenty-sixth year of the Great Qin Empire, two horses pulled a carriage carrying an old man and two young people, and set out on a long journey leisurely......
Outside the long pavilion, on the side of the ancient road, a line of geese went up to the sky. Chen Sheng held the horsewhip in his hand, looked at the geese flying towards the distance, was slightly stunned, and then "snapped", waved the horsewhip suddenly, and galloped away into the distance......