Chapter 457 The Nineteenth Task Qin Shizhi Liu Bi's Ambition 30
Lu Renbing looked at the Confucian students who were carnivaling next to the flames, and he finally knew why Liu Bang and Xiang Yu looked down on Confucian students so much. The discipline of these Confucian scholars is really suspicious.
Lu Renbing himself couldn't quite understand that the First Emperor was digging the foundation of the world's scholars, how could he have been a Confucian student who was supposed to be rebelling against the main force, but he was the happiest. They may be the most powerful in later generations, perhaps to hide their ugliest side in this movement.
Xiao Shengxianzhuang's books are gone, which also burns Lu Renbing's enthusiasm for teaching and educating people. "Every righteous slaughter of dogs, ruthless is the most readable!" Counting on the reader to help you at a critical moment is tantamount to asking for a fish from a tree.
In peacetime, they are the best at ganging up each other and emptying their families and countries. When the critical moment comes, they will betray their friends to seek glory, and they will not be soft when they lead the way.
Originally, Lu Renbing thought that the Confucian scholars of the pre-Qin period might be a little better than their juniors in terms of discipline. Reality gave him a hard slap in the face, and human nature has not changed since ancient times. Nobility is always a matter for individuals.
Along with the book burning order, there was also an order banning private learning. Although Xiao Shengxian Zhuang is an official member, it is still a private school. In the past, the government did not send a supervisory officer. This time, the superintendent was also sent. Lu Renbing's sacrificial wine is no longer an existence that covers the sky with one hand.
Lu Renbing just didn't want to do it, so he asked him to get an official of the Surabaya County Lieutenant and prepared to return to Huaiyin.
Xunzi had passed away a year before the book burning order was issued, and Fu Nian also resigned and returned to his hometown. After Zhang Liang failed to assassinate Qin in Bolangsha, he died in the rivers and lakes. Yan Lu, who has a mysterious background, also followed the mirage overseas.
Lu Renbing collected the massive wealth he had accumulated over the years and returned to Huaiyin by sea.
Sacheon County is governed by Pei County, and Huaiyin and Xiang County are all under the rule of Surabaya County. It is considered Lu Renbing's basic plate. The qualifications he has accumulated over the years, as well as his knighthood, are more than enough to be a county lieutenant, with a rank of two thousand stones, and he is in charge of the military power of a county.
Thanks to the fact that there was no restriction on serving as an official in a different place in this era, Lu Renbing had the opportunity to serve as an official in Surabaya County. and entrusted Qin's expedition to Baiyue to cause the emptiness of Chu, and the soldiers who were able to conquer and fight in the eastern part of the country were all transferred to Lingnan. Therefore, it is possible for a parallel goods like Lu Renbing to become the lieutenant of a county.
The county guard of Surabaya is an old Qin man named Bai Ying, who is said to be the son of the Mengxi Bai Bai family of the three clans of the old Qin. The three families of Mengxi and Bai are the three major generals under the command of Qin Mugong, assisting Mu Gong to achieve hegemony, and these three clans are also one of the most important forces in the old Qin military.
Bai Ying is forty-five years old, and he is humble and looks harmless to people and animals. In the three years since he took office as the Taishou of Surabaya, he has not made any big moves except for completing the tasks of the imperial court. The whole of Surabaya County has a good impression of this untossed Taishou.
Surabaya County is a large county, with 37 counties, 500,000 households, and more than 2.6 million mouths. The guard, captain, and prison are fully equipped, and the three of them are at equal levels to fight each other. Lu Renbing returned to his hometown, packed up and went to Pei County to take up his post.
After meeting with a senior official in the county, Lu Renbing came to his county governor's mansion and began his journey of running a local snake. The Qin army implemented the county conscription system, which was also a common military law in all countries during the Warring States Period, but the Qin army implemented it more strictly. Men from Surabaya County are registered after the age of 17 and are ready to serve in the military until they are 60 years old.
After Lu Renbing took office, he took stock of his policies and found that the situation in Surabaya County was not optimistic. Because of the three expeditions to Baiyue, the first emperor sent many soldiers from Chu to Lingnan.
The history books record 500,000 people, but considering the people who transported the grain and grass, the final number of people used may be as high as one million.
I don't know other places, anyway, there are tens of thousands of young people in Surabaya County who are still in Lingnan and have not returned. Plus more and more military servitude, convicts of all names. Of the more than 2 million people in Surabaya County, there are less than 50,000 young people who can be pulled out to serve in the military.
This still has to leave enough people to cultivate the land, which is not as strong as Lu Renbing's private armed forces in Huaiyin. In order to support the Lingnan strategy, Surabaya County has to send husbands to Lingnan every year to transport grain, weapons and armor. I don't know how many people died on the road. The people were miserable.
In later generations, many people said that the First Emperor was a tyrant, and there were many who overturned the case for the First Emperor. Only the people at the bottom of this era will really understand what the great achievements of the emperor mean to them. It is suffering, it is endless labor, it is hunger, it is the whip on the body.
The people are bitter when they are prosperous, and the people who are dying are bitter. There are also those who sing praises for Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, saying how great the Grand Canal is. But who of these whitewashers is willing to be the people on both sides of the Grand Canal, willing to wield simple tools to dig the thousands of miles of canals?
The great cause of the emperor is accompanied by the blood and sweat of hundreds of millions of living beings. Later generations often bring themselves into the role of emperors and generals, but they don't know that they are just one of those anonymous people.
Looking at Fu Ce, Lu Renbing secretly sighed, who needs to go first after the expedition to Baiyue, prisoners, sons-in-law, and businessmen. Therefore, it is best not to travel to the Qin and Han dynasties, the status of sons-in-law in this era is too low. At every turn, they will be dragged to hard labor.
The status is not much higher than that of a prisoner, and he still wants to turn over and become an official? I can't even dream of it. Well, it's good that I'm not a son-in-law.
Lu Renbing's body is twenty-four years old, and he has given up his plan to find a historical celebrity as his wife. His cheap dad has already helped him find a wife, the daughter of the Xiang family. The men of the Xiang family fled, leaving behind some women and children, and the Liu family helped to hide.
After the world was settled, most of the Xiang family's family members were taken back. Only Lu Renbing's wife was left behind. She is Xiang Yu's cousin Xiang Ru, and his father is that Xiang Bo.
Xiang Ru's mother was Xiang Bo's original match, but unfortunately died early. Xiang Boren has a chivalrous temperament, he is away all the year round, and he has another wife, so he has no time to take care of Xiang Ru. Later, he caught up with Qin and destroyed Chu, and the Xiang family was in exile. No one cares about Xiang Ru anymore. One and two came and went, and the wedding date was delayed.
After the world settled down, the women and children of the other Xiang family were all taken away, and only Xiang Ru was left alone. It just so happened that Liu Zhi wanted to ask his son for a girl from a wealthy family. When the Chu State was not dead, their old Liu family could not climb the door of the Xiang family.
Now that the Xiang family is down, Liu Zhi feels that the opportunity has come, so he took the opportunity to propose a marriage contract to Uncle Xiang. Xiang Bo had no relationship with Xiang Ru, and his own concept of family was not particularly strong, so he simply agreed.
So Liu Zhi set up a family affair for Lu Renbing, and when Lu Renbing rushed back to Huaiyin and met with Xiang Ru, he found that this woman had a resolute personality and was a housewife. He agreed to the marriage.
The most important thing is that he is now Xiang Yu's brother-in-law, well, this name has a lot of benefits.