After three months of study, by the end of the autumn harvest, the five people finally passed the assessment and were officially registered in the Qin register. This time it is not just a name, a height, appearance, but also a place of origin: a farmer in Huaili, a wife, two concubines, and two guests. Zheng Anping became a Qin man in its entirety from then on. Family members remember it in such detail, which means that at the end of the year, Zheng Anping not only has to pay the rent of 300 acres of land, but also has to pay the poll tax for six people. It is good to say that Wuwang is a good farmer, and with oxen and iron tools, he should be able to plant 300 acres of land. The difficulty was the poll tax, which had to be paid in cloth, and the slaves knew no way to weave cloth at all; However, Qin Law did not stipulate what punishment should be imposed on women who could not weave, and did not formulate detailed operating procedures for women weaving. Interestingly, the Qin people made detailed regulations on the specifications of the cloth: a cloth is two feet five inches wide and eight feet long. The Qin law also stipulates that cloth and copper coins are also circulated as currency, and one cloth is treated as eleven coins, and everyone is treated equally; If a merchant or official dares to choose money or cloth, "they are all guilty." Zheng Anping looked at the little slave, wanting to cry without tears, he could only think that if he could earn money with Zhang Lu, it should not be a problem to pay a few hundred yuan a year.

At the same time as his citizenship was completed, his house was also completed. The rafters and various tools used for the construction were collected from the government, and the labor was arranged by the township. According to the specifications of the hairpin, the house is 30 steps wide and 90 steps long (three houses); The perimeter wall is three feet high, and the foundation of the house is no more than five inches above the ground. There are also granaries and storerooms in the back. Although the specifications are not high, they are also tightly rammed. There are no ornate painted carved beams, just plain logs and rammed earth, no color, no decoration, but absolutely strong and durable. Zheng Anping didn't know how to thank him, so he asked Zhang Lu, who said that building a house for a nobleman is a deduction for the service period, which is equivalent to serving the country, so there is no need to thank him; In the future, someone in the township will be promoted to a knight, and if he wants to expand his residence, Zheng Anping will also contribute to him.

In the last month of the Qin calendar, the Marquis completed the establishment of Beidi County and Longxi County and returned to Xianyang. The next day, he took over all the work of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Zhang Lu should go to prepare to visit the Shu Road project. Zheng Anping, Mang Wei and Chen Si were all ex-officio members of the delegation. After experiencing the hardships of the Qin New Year in the first year, Zhang Lu asked Zheng Anping and others to buy New Year's goods early to prepare for the closure of Xianyang City. Once Xianyang is closed, it will be a complete closure, all merchants and civil servants will go home, all public services will be suspended, if there is no preparation, it will be no food, no clothing, no housing. All the expenses required to purchase New Year's goods are naturally borne by Zhang Lu. - His belongings had arrived before the New Year, including millet, cloth, and money, and were routinely given wooden slips, pens, and ink. Zhang Lu let the capital be transported to Zheng Anping's residence in Huaili, Qiuqiu. The so-called purchase of New Year's goods is to buy some meat, seasonings and the like. The necessary daily necessities had already been bought, but Zhang Lu asked them to buy some additional Dading, Gui, dishes and other things.

Unlike the Great Liang, the Qin people forbade private transactions, and whenever there was a sale, they had to go through the bazaar and clearly mark the price, even in the township. Zheng Anping went to the market to do goods, and the kind of behavior of short-serving catties and two pounds, secretly raising prices, and bullying outsiders almost non-existent. This made Zheng Anping feel a little more good for Qin Guo.

After Zhang Lu became the guest of the King of Qin, he openly intersected with Huang Xie and the Prince of Chu. Mang Wei had already connected with Huang Xie and met with his younger brother Mangshen, Mr. Door Bus and Mr. Tiger; But the identity still can't be exposed, and can only be friends who know each other. In order to build the road, Zhang Lu also invited his senior brother Mr. Che You to accompany him.

In the joy of the autumn harvest, the New Year of the Qin calendar is coming in October. Zheng Anping's family was in the township, and the villagers sacrificed to Sheji together, and everyone gathered the year's harvest together and shared a piece of hot porridge.

Zhang Lu did not spend it with them, but spent the first palace New Year in his life with nobles and high-ranking officials in the palace. The Qin people completely broke the restrictions of the Zhou rites, and every high-ranking official who participated in it was all seven and eight, and only the Qin king had nine tripods and ten tripods, which could not be surpassed.

On the first day of October, Zhang Lu led Zheng Anping and others to visit the officials he had befriended, consolidate his connections, and introduce Zheng Anping and his party to these officials. In the second year of junior high school, Zhang Lu and others visited Prince Chu and Huang Xie and were hospitalized. From the third day of the junior high school, Zhang Lu successively held banquets in Zheng Anping's house to entertain some important officials until the fifth day of the junior high school.

On the sixth day of the first month, he resumed the previous dynasty. Zhang Lu submitted the draft inspection plan to Wei Ran for approval. Wei Ran solicited some opinions from the court and approved Zhang Lu's plan. Zhang Lu set off on October 15 and led a delegation of 100 people to the depths of the Qinling Mountains, where it took about half a year to complete the task of inspecting the Shu Road and propose a plan for reconstruction.

Another task to be completed on the 15th was to send 50,000 Qin soldiers east out of Taoyi to attack Gangyi and Shouyi. The work was done by another guest Qingzao.

During the time when Wei Ran was out of Beijing, Keqing Zhang Lu participated in the administrative work of the Prime Minister's Mansion, while Keqing Zao had been in the military camp, assisting Zuo Gengcuo in training Qin soldiers. Although these two people are both guests of King Qin, they usually don't see each other, and they don't even know what the other party is doing.

On the same day that Keqing Zhang Lu submitted his inspection plan, Keqingzao also submitted a confidential report, suggesting that Taoyi should be used as a base to attack Qidi. The Qin army was huge, with hundreds of thousands of prisoners every year, and if there was no place for this army, it would become a burden on the state. And Han, Zhao, Wei, and even Chu, which bordered Qin, have become Qin's allies, and they can't use troops against them, and now the only country that can still send troops is the Qi State that borders Tao! The Yan State is far away in the dark north, and the Qin State is out of reach.

This incident made Qin Ting a little embarrassed. Tao is the fief of the marquis, itself far away from the Qin State, although nominally it is also considered Qin, but it is a commercial city, located at the intersection of Jishui and Heze, usually Qin basically does not affect it, the city is not high, the terrain is not dangerous, easy to attack and difficult to defend, although the wealth is abundant, but it is really hard to say whether it can be used as a base for Qin's military attack.

Wei Ran, Qi Rong, Bai Qi, Hu Yang, Zuo Gengcuo and Ke Qingzao discussed it repeatedly, but they all felt uncertain. If you poke a hornet's nest, it will end badly. On the other hand, however, we did not send troops last year because of the problem of Yiqu, and if we do not send troops to fight this year, those who count on military merits to save themselves or their families will probably be greatly disappointed, and even the people's resentment will boil. Therefore, no matter what, we have to find a country to fight this year, and this country has no one else except Qi.

After the general direction is set, it is necessary to determine the strategy and the manager. In fact, the Qin people are not very clear about the geographical situation around Taoyi, and it is the Keqing stove from the Qi State who understands the details. His suggestion was that more than 200 miles northeast from Tao along Jishui was the border city of Gangheshou of Qi. Although the distance between Gang, Shou and Tao is a little far, it is connected by Jishui, and the transportation is convenient and you can support each other at any time; The developable land on both sides of the strait is vast, and if it is properly managed, it can accommodate tens of thousands of households to settle here, forming a strategic fulcrum that can fight independently. Moreover, from Tao to the north to expand more than 200 miles, to the east is Linzi, to the west is Handan, the next strategic choice is many.

After repeated discussions, everyone had no better opinions, so they could only agree to Keqingzao's suggestion. Since Xiang Tao had to send troops through Wei, everyone began to struggle about whether to inform Wei in advance. After listening to the opinions of all parties, Wei Ran clapped his hand and said: "Under Huayang City, I have told Wei Envoy, Tao, and my feudal city, if there is any freight, it is too late to report, I am willing to get through!" He has already answered. The army has passed, but along the avenue, if the Wei army blocks it, it will be questioned for the crime of betraying the alliance, and the army will be raised to cut it down! Han didn't tell him, so he couldn't tell Wei! ”

Considering that although Taoyi is rich, there are many businesses and not many people who grow grain, so they can't raise too many soldiers; Gang and Shou were not big cities, so they decided to take only 30,000 people to the expedition, of which 10,000 were recruited by Yiqu and 20,000 were prisoners; Then from each county to mobilize the lord to lead the ministry, each promoted to a higher level of appointment, that is, the public can be the chief, the Shangzao can be the chief, the hairpin can be the tun chief, not more for the hundred general doctors. Officers above the doctor level are appointed by the left and middle guards (the right is absent), and the officials above the five doctors are appointed by Daliangzao.

Obviously, the commander of the whole army is naturally Keqingzao, who not only understands the geographical environment of Tao and the surrounding area, but also is the main planner of this military operation. The assembly place of the army was selected in Shaanxi County, outside the Hangu Pass. If Han and Wei sent troops to block it, they would fight if they could fight, and if they could not win the battle, they would choose a place to defend and Qin would send another army to support.

The military talisman for the transfer of troops was passed from the envoys to the internal history and counties. After the soldiers were checked, the counties selected the prisoners according to the documents for the transfer of troops, distributed weapons, sent local officials as military officials, prepared fried millet, and marched to Shaanxi County according to the date and place on the documents. For a time, the prisoners from all counties and townships hurried to the assembly place on the 800-mile Qinchuan River under the leadership of local officials.

On the 15th of October, Keqing Zhang Lu also took his delegation and headed in the opposite direction towards Yixian, where the Golden Bull Road of the former king of Shu was located. Although it has fallen into disrepair and has been abandoned, traces of the ancient road should still be found, providing a reference for Irikawa.

Keqing Zao is a person of Qi Guoshou, and the elder of his clan was Qin Keqing, and then briefly visited the prime minister. Shouzao has followed the footsteps of his predecessors and has been in Qin for many years. When he entered Qin, Shou Zhu had been dead for many years. King Qin has been a guest for a long time, but he has not been reused. It was not until Hu Yang, the guest secretary, was appointed to lead the troops to the expedition that he was promoted to the guest secretary by the king of Qin. He was very envious of Hu Yang's outstanding military achievements, and he was determined to do something like Hu Yang in the Qin State, and not to insult the name of Shou Candle.

It was the first time he had led the army. Before sending out the troops, Bai Qi personally summoned the officers above the public seat and introduced them to Keqingzao. Most of these officers know the newly appointed Keqing, know that he is a Qi person, is very familiar with the geography of Qi country, and the training of the army is also decent. In particular, Zuo Gengjiao is getting older and has difficulty moving, and Keqingzao has undertaken a lot of administrative work.