Chapter 3: The Lower People

After the double eagle pass, it is Guchengdu. Qishui divides into two tributaries here, one flows eastward through Xiancheng and joins the Wuju River, and the other is where Xu Le and them came. The fortified city is also a fief of the Zhonggong Shi who belongs to the historian. This public servant led his own troops and garrisoned the fortified city pass.

In Gucheng, the Yi'er army handed over the last batch of captured sheep and horses and the slave city sheep and horse merchants in Xiancheng. Just change boats and go upstream. Passing through Xuecheng, Liuqu and other places, traveling more than 200 miles, reaching Qiyin.

Along the way, they are the fiefs of two or three upper and lower princes of the historian family, and more middle and lower princes.

Along the way, Xu Le learned more about Qin's domestic situation. I also have a general understanding of this feudal system of the Qin State, the historian is a big noble, there are more small lords under it, and each lord has its own department, and bears certain obligations for the historian. Qiyin is the fief of the Shi family's direct leader, and the Yi'er Army is the tribe of the Shi family's direct leader.

The range within a radius of several hundred miles is basically the scope of historians. Shielding the Qin State from the threat to the northwest.

And Shi Sheng, the old head of the Shi family, is the doctor of the Qin State, and he is the officer of the lieutenant, and the lieutenant is basically the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Qin State. And Shi Sheng's old family is also in Qiyang, the capital of Qin State, and now Shi Wuju is in charge. Shi Wuju is more than thirty years old, and he also has the title of Zhongqing, the lieutenant, that is, the lieutenant's adjutant, but he rarely goes to work in the Qiyang official office.

And the armed forces of the Qin State are basically an empty shelf now. It turned out that the Tiger Guard Army directly led by the Qin Marquis of Qin State was undoubtedly the strongest army in the country. As a result, fifteen years ago, in the battle between the Western Wilderness Qianhaiyuan and the Rouran people, the Tiger Guard Army was annihilated, and the Marquis of Qin Xiang also died in the army. The Tiger Guards have not yet been rebuilt, and it is not known why.

After the Tiger Guard Army was gone, now the Qin State relies on Heyang Jun, the current Qin Hou's cousin Qin Zhong's Qu Rui Army, and the Shijia Army's Qu Yi'er Army is supporting. And the nobles and ministers of the Qin State were basically attached to these two families. Now the battle between the open and the dark is inextricable.

The inquiry into the inside affairs of the Qin State and the historian has come to this point at most. It's really the Righteous Army, these knights have more muscles in their brains than brain cells. is full of thoughts about killing the enemy, making meritorious contributions, getting rewards, and finally being able to get the lord of the duke, and standing up his own door to come out of the house in the name of righteousness, it is good to know the inside affairs of the Qin State.

However, in addition, it gave Xu Le a surprise, it is said that there is a martial arts club in Qiyang that is set up for people who are aspiring to the path of martial arts, and there are famous teachers to teach apprentices. Not only that, but Qiyang also has a calligraphy hall set up by the Yuntai Sect, and even a training center set up by selecting people with the talent of magicians! The calligraphy hall can learn from the history of Donghua's hundreds of years of rules and regulations, and the magicians are such figures as Nangong An! However, what is the origin of the Yuntai Sect, few of the Yi'er Army can say clearly. I only know that it is a very powerful group.

This news was like a guiding light on the road of cultivating strength, making Xu Le make up his mind to say that the next most priority goal was to go to Qiyang!

More than 200 miles of waterway, for boating, is just a day and a night's work. Along the way, you can see all the fields and manors and cities, which are quite densely populated, and I don't know where the excitement is compared to the reckless scene of thousands of miles on the western wilderness. And it's all unpolluted natural scenery. Xu Le sat on the boat with a few goods, chatted with Peng Ma and them, sneaked to the bow of the boat at night, lit a cigarette to look at the stars above his head, the indifferent Milky Way, and imagined the bright future of his few people in the Donghua Continent. This day and night on the water is a rare relaxing time since the crossing.

Thinking back to the several times that night and the fight for my life, it was really like a dream.

In the past few days, Xu Le has also paid attention to the changes in the air mass in his chest, and the air mass is still slowly rotating, pulling the heaven and earth vitality into the inner connotation. But it's not the original wisps of breath that flow in at any time. It took a long time for a drop of liquid to flow into the air mass like a pale golden breath. After a few days, it was only three or four drops. I don't know how long it will take to fill up the air mass.

On the one hand, Xu Le knew the usefulness of this vitality, not only the cost of protecting oneself, but also a weapon to hurt the enemy, as long as the vitality was inexhaustible, he could continue to fight. Suddenly refining into something like this liquid, the vitality will be exhausted if you can't put two ultimates, what good use can it be?

On the other hand, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the vitality in the last fierce battle inexplicably swelled up with air mass in his chest, and then the painful torture he endured, Xu Le still remembers it vividly. At this rate of energy inflow, I guess I don't have to worry about doing it again for the time being. There really is a next time, Xu Le himself is not confident that he will be able to survive!

What is the matter with the power he has, and how can he cultivate correctly, this answer seems to have been found by Qiyang.

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More than 20 boats, under the sound of the boatman's long horn, slowly approached the wooden trestle that jutted into the water.

The knights of the Righteous Army on these boats rushed to the bow of the boat and whistled loudly: "Finally home!"

Qiyin is in the west of Qishui, located in a large piece of fertile field in the bend of the river, here is the wharf, the wharf is crowded, come and go are Qin people wearing black clothes, people wearing crowns, that is, at least the identity of the people. In addition to the Qin people, there are also many ragged slaves, there are Rouran people, there are people from the Northern Barbarians with animal spots on their faces, and even people with Donghua faces, some of them have brown or red hair, and their skin is whiter than that of Donghua people, they look like foreigners on the earth, and they don't know which tribe they belong to in the Western Wilderness.

Under the whip of the overseer, these slaves carried goods, mostly bags of grain and rice, ready to be loaded onto ships and sold throughout the Qin State. The goods unloaded from other ships included iron farm tools, salt packets, porcelain and other utensils, which were sent to the storage houses on the docks one by one. All kinds of people gathered at the door of the storehouse, and it seemed that they were all local merchants, arguing loudly about the price of goods, and when they saw the return of the rebels, they all cheered loudly from afar. Only the slavers cowered and ducked aside.

A few miles to the west of this wharf on the Qishui River, you can see Qiyin City. The city is not very large, and the radius is only four or five miles. On the planet, it is a large residential area. The city wall is very high, towering in the fertile fields, there are battlements and arrow towers on the city wall, and there are strangely shaped city defense equipment, which seem to be large crossbow machines, but Xu Le can't say for sure.

In the four fields of Qiyin City, there is a large area of fertile land, full of fruit trees, and the scene of wheat waves rolling. There are many shadows of large and small estates in the fields. This is really a fertile place, but the Yi'er army keeps claiming that the Shi family is poor, such a vast and good direct fiefdom, how bad is this Shi Wuju's management ability?

At this moment, the dock has been emptied, and some black-robed people with square crowns are waiting on the dock, and some black-clad people dressed like the knights of the Righteous Army on the ship are also waiting with their swords. Presumably, they are all characters such as the generals of the Yi'er Army and the officials in the palace who are left behind by the Shi family, all of whom are welcoming Shi Wuju, the young family master, back to Qiyin. Seeing that their crowns are all square, all of them are at least the status of the lower princes.

Shi Wujuza's boat was the first to come ashore, and he saw the sound of the sheng flute on the pier, and the timbre was very ancient, and Xu Le was lazy. After the springboard was put on, Shi Wu was in front, Nangong settled behind, and then Shi Yao and Shi Bao followed closely. The people who greeted them danced and saluted, and Shi Wuju also pulled them up one by one, smiling and greeting something.

After the wolf was taken down, the people who greeted them mounted one after another. Surrounded by Shi Wuju, he galloped towards Qiyin City.

Xu Le's heart was also slightly uncomfortable, that day Shi Wuju semi-forced himself to serve the historian, and also sent Shi Bao to monitor from time to time, and Peng Ma was always by his side. Let yourself still be a little proud, brother is also a character you value, isn't it?

As a result, as soon as he arrived in Qiyin, from Shi Wuju to Shi Bao did not glance at him, and he was surrounded by others. And Shi Wuju shared weal and woe with the Yi'er Army all the way, he ate whatever his subordinates ate, and his subordinates slept in the open. But when he arrived in Qiyin, he and a few people with the noble status of the Yi'er Army went ashore proudly, and then returned to Qiyin, and the others could only watch from the boat, and they were not allowed to go beyond half a step.

All of this made Xu Le's understanding of Donghua and himself clearer.

This is a world where the strong and the weak are distinct from the inferior, and they are nothing!

It's just that it's nothing yet!

After Shi Wuju went, the Yi'er army ships docked for the first time, and groups of Yi'er army knights rushed ashore. After taking out each of their mounts, they said goodbye to each other, or went to their own farms outside the city, either in company or alone.

Finally it was Xu Le's turn to get off the boat, Xu Le stepped onto the dock with a few goods, staring at him with big eyes, what should I do now? Why didn't that Shi Wuju have any arrangements at all? I ate all the ready-made food, and now I started to eat myself? Someone cares about no one? No one cares, let's find a place to go back to Earth first!

Peng Ma saw Xu Le and the others at a loss, and the friendship between cigarettes and alcohol along the way was inseparable, so he stepped forward and said hello: "The lord may be busy, and he hasn't explained how to settle Brother Xu for a while, it doesn't matter, let's go to my brother's house and talk about it!" My brother's house is large, and it doesn't matter if there are a few more of you!"

Before Xu Le could say yes to Peng Ma, he saw a black-robed man wearing a dome squeeze forward - now Xu Le could finally tell the difference, his clothes were tattered, his face was vegetable, and it was a slave who wore a recognition card around his neck. Those who do not wear crowns are commoners, those who wear domed crowns are people, and those who wear square-crowned crowns are gongshi--the Qin people's uniforms are very monotonous, all of them are black-collared robes, and they can only be roughly distinguished by this.

This may be a person who is a minor official in the Shi family's mansion asking loudly: "Who is Xu Le? Who is Xu Le?"

Xu Le pulled a few goods, stepped forward and arched his hand: "I am." ”

The little official glanced at Xu Le, but Xu Le just smiled calmly.

Shi Zuoyi confessed that Xu Le took four private subordinates to serve the historian, and Xu Le was a subordinate of the people, giving 200 acres of land and one village. Two slaves are available. The private belongs to the common people, from Xu Le...... In that case, let me go!"

How is it a minor?

Peng Ma also helped Xu Le find out the news in the past few days, and it is said that Xu Le should have the identity of a civilian. After all, Xu Le has also embarked on the road of Donghua martial arts, and Peng Ma is not yet. In the Yi'er army, there are only fifty or sixty warriors, and at least they are all lower officials. Xu Le can't go to the people, so he can't say anything.

Along the way, everyone thought that this matter should be decided, and Wang Dengke was still yy what kind of slaves should buy all day long. How is this now?

Seriously, Xu Le really doesn't care about this now, as long as there is a place to settle down in Qin State, the others will come step by step. But as soon as I heard Shi Zuoyi's three words, I couldn't help but feel a little unhappy, and Shi Bao was looking for fault again! Lao Tzu has revenge and revenge, and he has kindness to repay kindness, you guy is waiting for me!

Peng Ma stepped forward to reason with this little official, but Xu Le grabbed him. Su Ming, Cai Hengwen, and Lai Wenzhen were also silent, only Wang Dengke muttered in disappointment: "There are only two, only two, six brothers, how can they be divided?"

Xu Le arched his hand towards the little official: "Where are we settled, please lead the way." We are from Zhao Liu, and we don't have any intentions, and we will definitely make up for it in the future. ”

The little official pursed his lips and turned around and beckoned: "Come with me!"

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