The old man, who was called Tsunade Jun, hurriedly put the venison on Kuaizi into the pottery dish with intricate patterns in front of him, and hurriedly proved his innocence.

Zewan didn't think so! Ze and this shaft are not together! ”

The old man had a good attitude and a resolute tone, so he almost raised three fingers and swore to the ancestors of heaven and earth, ghosts, and gods.

But the middle-aged man who was the first to sit did not let the old man go, he smiled, picked up the wine bottle and first toasted the old man with a bottle of wine.

Without waiting for the old man to react, he drank it all and said: "Gang Chengjun is much more resourceful than me, this time I am the enemy of that sinister and treacherous erector, and we should be headed by Gang Chengjun."

When the words fell, the old man showed a wry smile on his face, and he raised the wine bottle in his hand and just wanted to say something in return.

At the right time, the two people sitting in the first seats on the left and right sides moved quickly, and when the old man's wine bottle was not raised to his chest, the wine bottle they held in both hands was already aimed at the old man.

"We should be headed by Gang Chengjun!"

"We should be headed by Gang Chengjun!"

The two have different timbres and uneven voices, but the similarity is that they speak very quickly, as if their mouths were borrowed.

Ordinary people are prone to pouting and slurring words as soon as they speak quickly, but the two of them not only speak clearly, but also have loud voices, which is enough for the entire hall to hear and understand clearly.

After speaking, the two of them drank the wine bottle like the first person.

The old man's face was not very good-looking all of a sudden, and the wry smile changed to the gloom, and his eyes were not good at the upper person, the first person on the left, and the first person on the right turned in a circle.

As soon as he finished his eyes, he saw that all the people on the left and right sides were holding wine bottles with both hands.

Among them were tall and thin, those who had not moved the spoon today, and those who had fat wrapped around their waists three times, and who had changed their eaters twice on the table.

There are people who are not old, who are cautious and silent, and there are also people who talk loudly and are full of righteous indignation, and now they are eager to take the palace full of people into Xianyang Prison and behead Yingcheng in order to take revenge.

All the people present will hold up the wine bottle with either pork belly or strong muscles and chest level at the old man.

"We should be headed by Gang Chengjun!"

"We should be headed by Gang Chengjun!"

"We should be headed by Gang Chengjun!"

“……”

Their voices shattered doors and windows.

After that, the wine was brought to the entrance with both hands, and the strong wind brought by the robe sleeves and fans trembled the flame of the thirty-six bright candles mixed with ambergris incense lit in the main hall.

As a result, the main hall flickered and dimmed, and the figures of the people present were also looming, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a person or a ghost.

When the candle flame burns steadily, the light in the hall is repeated, the wine of the king of Chu hanging on the wall in the wine bottle is crystal clear, and the texture of the slaughtered beef and mutton on the table is clearly visible.

Everyone's faces were eager, expectant, and the eyes of the old man were full of trust.

The old man looked unwilling, and his appearance was like that of an old hand with withered bark, and he put the "duang" bottle full of fine wine on the table with a heavy sound.

"Gang Chengjun, what do you mean?"

The middle-aged man looked puzzled, and there was a little anger between his eyebrows.

The people present were silent, still looking at the old man with earnest, expectant, and trusting expressions.

It's just that the brows are a little closer, and an unformed cloud gathers.

"Let's wait until you're done."

The old man explained.

"Hahahaha, Gang Chengjun should be strong and strong, and we are far from being ambitious!"

The middle-aged man laughed, slapped his thighs, and praised the old man repeatedly.

His name is Meng Jiakun, and he is the head of the Meng family.

The Meng family is deeply rooted in the Qin State, and the history is longer than that of the Gan family, the chief family that can be traced back to the time of Qin Xiangong.

The three families of the Meng family, the Xi family, and the Bai family are the three oldest families in the Qin State today.

The three families have a very high status in the Qin family, and they can be seen just by looking at the seats.

In addition to Meng Jiakun sitting on the top seat, Bai Fei, the head of the Bai family, sat first on the right seat, and Xishu, the head of the Xi family, sat first on the left seat.

This has something to do with the three ancestors Yu Yin, but it has little to do with it.

The real reason is that the economic resources of other families are mostly to follow the Gan family to eat and sell scrapped ironware.

The money from the sale of scrapped iron is a small part of the economic source of the three families, and the majority is that the three companies monopolize the prostitutes in the territory of the Qin State, and the supply of Youling.

Just by selling well-trained concubines, the three families can eat Zhong Mingding. This is also the reason why Gan Luo is not there, and the three families can lead this banquet.

Bai Fei praised the old man loudly as a person who can relieve the marquis, and Xishu said that if there is no leader of Gangcheng Jun today, we really don't dare to start a war with that erector.

After the heads of the three major families of Meng Xibai praised him, there was not a single person present who did not praise the old man.

The old man responded to everyone who praised him one by one, holding and complimenting, and his words could scratch the itch in the heart of every head of the family.

To describe a person who treats people and things in all aspects, he often uses the words "eight-sided exquisite".

The smile on the face of all the family heads that the old man could say became bigger and bigger, and the joy became stronger and stronger, and he really understood what each family head loved to listen to and what he had done.

As the old man spoke, the venison in the dishes was already cold.

Meng Jiakun saw that the field was getting hot, and sat down at the top to observe the situation below, eating meat and drinking wine calmly.

From time to time, he glanced at Bai Fei and Xishu, who were closest to him, and smiled at each other, laughing at each other.

The banquet was full of joy.

……

Two black-clothed masked men came to Xianyang Prison with the Holy Decree of the First Emperor.

After verifying the authenticity, the Xianyang prison guards removed the bronze Changge that crossed together and let the two of them in.

After the two entered, they were examined three more times along the way, and the three waves of jailers confirmed that the words "Ordered by Heaven and Longevity" on the holy decree were true.

The last wave of jailers sent one man and led them outside a cell.

He opened the cell door and let the two of them in, leaving the key in the hands of the masked man who walked behind him and kept his body upright.

The tall masked man took the key and stood in front of the cell door, as if guarding.

"You don't come to see me, but you want me to see you?!"

Walking towards Ying Cheng, who was lying on the bed, the masked man took off his veil, revealing a face that was not angry and self-assured, it was the founder of the Great Qin Empire, the first emperor Ying Zheng.

His face was full of unfriendliness to Ying Cheng.

"Brother Huang has never dressed up like this, how about it, tell me how you feel?"

The First Emperor has always acted in a big way, and he never disdains to play any tricks, even if he is a private interview, he shows his face - except for important members of the court, limited by the times, not many people in the world know the true face of the First Emperor.

"There won't be a next time." The First Emperor sat on the half of the bed vacated by Ying Chengcheng, and said with an unkind face: "I am very busy, you had better have something important."

The Great Qin Empire was built a year ago, after many heroic families went to the fiefdom to sit down. Some of the riots have improved slightly from the first year, but not much, and it takes time to digest.

The biggest advantage of these meritorious families going to the fiefdom is that for the First Emperor, he has to deal with fewer pieces than last year.

The First Emperor, who really felt the changes, sometimes thought that if he had sealed the land at that time, it would be the turn of the feudal monarch to approve it, and he would be able to go to sleep.

The sub-sealing system is actually not bad.

Although the feudal lords in various places shared a part of the recitals, the first emperor still had a large number of recitals to deal with, and the first emperor still did not have much spare time.

As a monarch who created an unprecedented unified empire, the First Emperor almost always wanted to do pioneering things, and there was not much experience to learn from previous dynasties.

So the First Emperor was really busy.

Or that whoever does this position, if they have the slightest ambition and wants to do something, will be busy.

"Brother Huang knows about witchcraft?" Ying Cheng said thoughtfully.

"That's what you want me to ask about?" The First Emperor's face was even more unsightly, and he suppressed his anger and said: "The Empress Dowager Huayang treats you very well, you should know this matter better than me."

"Is there really witchcraft? I knew that what Aunt Huayang said was true, so I learned it. Ying Chengcheng said very regretfully: "At that time, I was still teasing me when I was the eldest mother of Huayang, and so was the eldest mother of Huayang, I remember asking me once." Why don't you ask me a few more times, and I'll learn if you show it in front of me. ”

"What do you do with witchcraft?" The First Emperor saw that his brother was full of interest, and frowned: "If you are interested in witchcraft, you can ask Concubine Chu, there should be no one in Guanzhong who understands better than Concubine Chu."

"This dead girl knows witchcraft?" Ying Cheng's eyes widened and said, "She never told me."

The First Emperor was about to get up and said, "You go and ask her."

The First Emperor was very busy, and he didn't have time to talk to his brother here about witchcraft or not, and the First Emperor was not curious about witchcraft at all.

What is witchcraft used for? The witch wind prevailed in the Chu State, wasn't it still flattened by my Great Qin Ruishi?

"Something's going on." Ying Chengcheng hurriedly grabbed the First Emperor and said with a smile: "Brother Huang will announce a decree tomorrow, is it okay that Qin State has no subordinate concubines?"

"Not good." The First Emperor didn't even have to think about it, and flatly refused.

A subordinate concubine is a slave.

Although feudalism had gradually replaced slavery during the Warring States period, slavery remained widespread until the Qin Dynasty, even into the Qing Dynasty.

Subordinate concubines had two important meanings in the Qin Dynasty, which were also part of the Qin State's system of cultivation and warfare.

The first is ploughing.

The Qin Dynasty built a lot of construction, although the Qin Dynasty had many prisoners of war and many prisoners who were imprisoned.

However, there are a large number of projects that require manual labor, such as the Great Wall, Chidao, imperial tombs, palaces, ditches, etc., and the Qin Dynasty is in a state of shortage of manpower all year round.

If too many civilians were forcibly recruited to carry out the project, the reduction in the number of people cultivating the land would lead to a poor harvest, at least the Qin Dynasty would not be able to fight foreign wars, and at worst it would lead to famine.

Moreover, the compulsory expropriation of civilians to build the Great Wall, galloping roads, ditches, etc., is to start construction money, food and housing, and the civilians are protected by Qin law, which costs a lot.

The Qin State had too many civil engineering projects and could not afford to hire so many people, so the Qin State needed subordinate concubines.

If you don't pay the salary, you can beat and scold at will to urge you to rush to work, you can't farm, and the subordinate concubines who are not protected by Qin Law and have no one to care about them are very useful.

The second is war.