When Bai Yan returned to Gaonu, it was already the end of February.

With the carriage driving slowly, when he heard the groom report that he had arrived at Gaonu, Bai Yan opened the small window beside him and looked outside.

It's not bad to look at, and when I saw it, I was immediately attracted by a scene in the distance.

Looking at the place in the distance that should have been a plain, Bai Yan clearly remembered that when he left, hundreds of people were busy casting houses, and there were very few people who built them, and now it was only less than a month, and when he returned here again, at a glance, there were dense houses erected on the plain.

Although you can still see the figures of people casting houses everywhere, it can be said that it is completely upside down compared to the beginning.

At first glance, it is already a new city.

Inside the carriage, even Xu Shi, who was beside Bai Yan, looked at the scene in the distance, his eyes were full of amazement.

It was also the first time she had seen with her own eyes that the power of the people was so strong that they could turn the plains, which had nothing, into a vibrant scene in such a short period of time.

A moment later.

As the carriage slowly drove through the street, Bai Yan saw that the street had returned to the same dense flow of people as before, and at a glance, it was full of hawkers and merchants.

Seeing this, Bai Yan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and sighed even more, now that spring ploughing is imminent, and he will be at war with Zhao State in two months, Gao Nu's return to this appearance is unexpected.

It seems that Chai is definitely a good hand in dealing with this.

Come to think of it.

Bai Yan couldn't help but laugh.

Thinking that Chai was a capable minister who was delayed by leading the troops, Bai Yan couldn't help but sigh.

A talent like Chai is completely in line with the orientation of the Qin State in selecting ministers, the prime minister must start from the state and county, and the general must be sent from the army.

If a talent like Chai who can be civil and martial arts is given some more time, in one or two decades, Chai may not be able to defend one side like General Teng.

Return to the castle guard.

More than 20 days ago, the city guard mansion was still a simple wooden shed, Bai Yan worked in the wooden shed, and now the carriage stopped, and when Bai Yan got out of the carriage, he saw the prototype of a mansion in front of him.

At this moment, up and down the houses, hundreds of men of all sizes are still building mansions and constantly busy.

Bai Yan knew that these people should be laborers from other places.

The castle guard was not a private person, and like the city walls and official roads, after the damage was made, the guards or servants were responsible.

Labor labor, a large number of people, is in violation of Qin law.

In the end, they will either be punished, or they will be arrested to do coolies, or they will be punished first and then they will be forced to do coolies.

Bai Yan looked at these people, in fact, he had more or less guessed in his heart that most of these people should be from Yingchuan County.

For these people, Bai Yan has been able to be indifferent, in this world, Bai Yan can't control so many things, Bai Yan has seen too many men and women who have been seated together because of violating Qin law, once they violate Qin law, men are slaves, ministers, or coolies, and if wives and daughters are seated together, they are concubines, maidservants, maids, coolies.

Even in Bai Yan's own mansion, some maids became maidservants because they were seated together.

What Bai Yan can do is to give dignity to those servants, punishment is impossible to avoid, there are two sides to everything, once punishment is avoided, it is not a good thing.

People with hearts in the world say that Qin Law is brutal, but even if the Qin State is destroyed in later generations, Qin Law still exists.

So really, Qin Law is rigorous, but never brutal, Qin Law's original intention is not to punish criminals today, and more people will commit crimes in the future, harming innocent people, and then punishing evil and promoting good will become empty talk.

For women, although Qin Law is strict, compared to later generations, Qin Law is the best law for women, and there is no one.

Qin Lu will not say that if a woman is violently beaten by her husband, she cannot report to the official, and once she reports to the official, the woman will be punished.

On the contrary, Qin officials supported women to report to the official and also gave women enough status.

And it is precisely because of the strictness of Qin's laws and the continuous sitting system in it that on the street, if there are assailants who hurt the people, other people, as long as they see it, no matter where they are, will not hesitate to stop the rioters.

This is a kind of safety for women.

These are two sides of the coin, if the Qin State does not have a continuous sitting system, the women of the Qin State will definitely not be as safe as they are now.

Therefore, Bai Yandi will definitely not use kindness in this kind of thing, and if he is not careful, the consequences will be difficult to bear.

"General!"

"General!!"

A famous iron cavalry soldier saw Bai Yan get out of the carriage and gave up his hands one after another.

When the soldiers saw the knight on Bai Yan's head, all the soldiers were shocked, the general was already the head of the left!

And the voices of these iron cavalry soldiers suddenly made a servant who built a mansion look over, and after seeing Bai Yan, the eyes of all the men were full of curiosity.

That young man is the Qin general Bai Yan, who is deeply loved by the Gaonu people?

Thinking of this, when these men in labor looked at the boy again, there was not only curiosity in their eyes, but also a trace of fear from the heart.

They are not the people of the high slaves.

They had all seen with their own eyes the endless ashes that filled the city, and the city was full of ruins.

They have also seen that under the mountain range in the distance, in addition to more than 4,000 graves, there are thousands of skulls and white bones piled up, like a small mountain bag, and the rotten heads of the Huns are eaten by crows, which is particularly hideous and terrifying.

And behind these scenes, they all come from a name.

Bai Yan!

"Look, keep working!"

As an iron cavalry soldier spoke, these men came back to their senses one after another and hurriedly worked seriously.

Inside the mansion.

Peck has been supervising the work of those servant men, and when he saw Bai Yan coming back, he hurriedly looked excited, and then took Bai Yan to the brand-new temporary study.

"General!"

Chai saw Bai Yan coming back and hurriedly got up.

During this time, Bai Yan was not there, Chai was alone, and he was really tired, and he didn't even rest well.

At this time, Chai Ye finally understood why Bai Yan had to look at it with a bamboo slip in one hand even when he was eating, because if he didn't look at it, he couldn't be busy at all.

Chai also saw Jue Ben on Bai Yan's head, and couldn't help but show a smile.

As a person who followed Bai Yu from birth to death after enlisting in the army, and followed Bai Yan in the bloody battlefield, it can be said that Chai's loyalty to the Bai family and Bai Yan is no less than anyone.

For Bai Yan,

In Chai's heart, he is more like a young master.

"You've worked hard all this time!"

Bai Yan looked at Chai's appearance, held back a smile, and said softly.

Chai shook his head.

"General, this is Yuzhong City, General Hu Jin ordered someone to send the news!"

Chai thought of something and said to Bai Yan, then turned around and went to a bookshelf, took out two bamboo slips and handed them to Bai Yan.

Because he knew that it was General Hu Jin, the county lieutenant, and ordered someone to give it to General Bai Yan, Chai didn't read the content inside.

"Huh?"

Bai Yan was a little puzzled, and after taking the bamboo slips, he took the lead in opening a roll of bamboo slips.

It was only at this time that Bai Yan learned a 'good news'.

Because of the words of Prince Yue, the imperial historian Wang Juan had ordered someone to send the bamboo slips to the hands of Li Pingyan, the imperial historian of Shangjun.

Feng Quji and Hu Jin already knew that someone wanted to kill Bai Yan, and when they were investigating Shangjun, they also ordered someone to go to the Xiongnu to find clues, and at this time, they heard the news that Zhao Ji had escaped.

Zhao Ji, the city captain of Ping Zhou City.

A city lieutenant, why is there a border defense map?

Inside the second volume of bamboo slips.

It is written in detail, along with the investigation of Hu Jin and Feng Quji, I soon learned from some scholars and Qin officials in Pingzhou City that a few months ago, Zhao Ji went to Gao Nu several times to meet Lu Lou.

And after some people close to Zhao Ji were caught, they also confessed that it was Zhao Ji who got the defense map from Lu Lou.

And Zhao Ji's favorite concubine also confessed, Zhao Ji unintentionally said after being drunk that the people of the Bai family deserve to die.

Put away the bamboo slips.

"General, what's wrong?"

Chai saw Bai Yan's frowning appearance and asked with some confusion.

"It's fine!"

Bai Yan shook his head and didn't tell Chai what happened.

If Bai Yan hadn't learned the truth of the matter, based on the testimony, witnesses, and even evidence in the bamboo slip, Bai Yan would have believed that this was the truth of the matter.

Bai Yan couldn't help but sigh, no wonder Qi Qi would get rid of Lu Lou without fear, it turned out that everything had been arranged a long time ago.

Just as everyone thinks, Lu Lou's death is that Zhao Ji united with the Xiongnu and used Lu Lou's trust to murder Lu Lou's family.

Although no one knows why Zhao Ji wants to get rid of Lu Lou, the fact that Zhao Ji cooperated with the Xiongnu to get rid of Bai Yan and vent his personal anger is already a certainty, and the mastermind of all this is Zhao Ji.

"By the way, General, there is an old man who has come to you many times in a row during this time, saying that he is your old acquaintance."

Chai suddenly thought that there was an old man who came to the mansion every once in a while, and asked the general if he had returned to Gaonu, and said that he was the general's old acquaintance.

"Old man?"

Bai Yan raised his eyebrows and looked at Chai with doubt.

In the Qin State, except for General Kai Teng, General Yu and others, he doesn't seem to know any old people, or old acquaintances?

"Where is he?"

The relationship between Bai Yan and Chai is compared with Xiang Yu and Xiang Jiajun.

(End of chapter)