Indoors.

Ji Heng had already put on a thick velvet coat.

There was a fire burning in the house.

Fusu entered the room alone, bowed to Ji Heng, and placed the wine in his hand on the table.

It's just that without waiting for Fusu to speak, Ji Heng stretched out his hand.

Fusu was stunned.

"Money." Ji Heng went straight to the point.

Fusu's eyelids jumped.

Ji Heng didn't care about this, and said to himself: "When you entered the house just now, you should have seen that there was an extra thing in the courtyard, a stone mill. ”

"It's something made up in the north."

"After I heard about it some time ago, I had someone build one."

"It cost more than a hundred dollars."

"There is also the cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt during this time."

"A total of one hundred and ninety-two dollars."

Fusu smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "I went out in a hurry this time, and I didn't bring any money, Mr. Ji's more than 100 dollars, I have written it down, and when I return to the palace, I will send someone to send it immediately." ”

Ji Heng nodded and said, "Say, what are you doing this time?" ”

Fusu Zhengse said: "Fusu came this time, not to ask Mr. for advice, but to confide in Mr. some thoughts. ”

"Mr. proposed 're-taking the road of opening the country', and after going down this way, Fusu felt a lot, and he also had a practical experience of the disadvantages of Daqin."

"Mr. Fusu is grateful for his guidance."

Fusu saluted Ji Heng respectfully.

Ji Heng's face was as usual, and there was no superfluous reaction.

Fusu has long been accustomed to it.

He told Ji Heng all kinds of things he had seen and heard along the way.

In the mouth of Fusu, Daqin's consolidation of China has achieved initial results, the roads are smooth, the business travel is dense, the Sichuan defense is exhausted, and the boats and boats on the big river are also much denser, but under this seemingly vibrant scene, there is an undercurrent.

Fusu sighed: "Mr. mentioned it before, seeing things is expensive and lacking. ”

"Right now, Daqin is lacking in many aspects."

"The first thing missing is people!"

"Old Qin."

"If it weren't for the last time I left, Mr. deliberately reminded me, Fusu may not have paid attention to it, but it was precisely because he noticed it in advance, so when he went to Yongcheng, Jingyang, and Liyang counties, he deliberately went to inquire about it, but the result was shocking."

"When I first heard about it, I couldn't believe it."

"There's no one in Guanzhong."

"The current population of Guanzhong is about five million in total."

"Among them, the old Qin people only account for about 20%, which is only a million people."

"And most of them are old, weak, women and children."

"The remaining seventy or eighty percent are all Kanto people who have moved in."

"That's a heart-wrenching amount."

"The old Qin people, who relied on Great Qin to make a fortune, are only worth a million people in this land that has been cultivated for generations."

Hear the words.

Ji Heng frowned slightly.

He didn't say anything, just took a sip.

Fusu took a deep breath and continued, "I went out of my way to ask why. ”

"The main ones are the Lishan Mausoleum, the Great Wall and the Afang Palace."

"In the past, the levy was mainly for the nobles and commoners of the six countries of the Kanto region who moved into Guanzhong, but since the unification of the world, the Lishan Mausoleum began to be overhauled, and at first only more than 100,000 criminals from the six countries were accumulated, and 100,000 prisoners were also punished.

"If the nobles of the six countries take the opportunity to make trouble, it will be a problem for elbows and armpits."

"At the same time."

"A few years ago, there was a rebellion in Lishan."

"In order to prevent the recurrence of rebellion, the imperial court no longer levied the nobles of the six countries in the Kanto region, but instead levied the old Qin people in the Guanzhong."

"Right now, there are four or five hundred thousand old Qin people in Lishan."

"In addition to the construction of the Great Wall a few years ago, and the construction of Ah Fang only started last year, the government decided that in order to seek stability, it still chose to levy the old Qin people, which is the land of the old Guanzhong, and the old Qin people who still stay in the place are almost gone."

Fusu's eyes were full of melancholy.

Without in-depth understanding, you don't know the risks.

Fusu said with a solemn expression: "Since the accession of the father to the throne, the old Qin people have a total of about 10 million, including the population of Longxi, Hexi, Bashu, and Guanwai counties, accounting for about 60% of the Qin people, and the population of the hinterland of Guanzhong is about 40% of the Qin people. ”

"Based on the total number of all Qin people, it is roughly ten people and one soldier."

"If you count the population base of the army, it was nearly two or three men and one soldier at that time."

"This is also the confidence of Great Qin to calm the world!"

"And in the war that swept the six countries, the Great Qin soldiers died two or three hundred thousand, and the follow-up levy was made up, and after the pacification of the six countries, more than 300,000 people were requisitioned into the South China Sea, of which eighty percent were Qin men and women, and then began to levy the nobles and civilians of the six countries, and then requisitioned the old Qin people to go to Beihe to guard the border."

"There were several more interchange migrations with the Kanto population."

"Overall, the Qin people who moved out of Guanzhong were as high as one million, and there were more than 800,000 casualties before and after joining the army, and the total levy was almost 2 million."

"At present, the old Qin people in Guanzhong, except for the men in the army, eighty percent have been scattered to the border."

"The only ones left are basically in Lishan, Afang and the Great Wall."

"Mr. Ji."

"There are no old Qin people in Guanzhong!"

"If there is something in the world and there is a change, who can the court rely on?"

"Why did Daqin go to settle the world?!"

Fusu's face was full of unease.

He really felt the crisis.

In the past, even if he heard that there was something in the place, he didn't take it to heart, the prestige of the Qin army had already spread all over the world, but the foundation of the Qin army was in Guanzhong, and now Guanzhong was so vain, once there was turmoil, it would inevitably affect the army, and wouldn't Great Qin be dangerous at that time?

If the army is unstable, how can the world be safe?

And the more he learned about the situation in the world, the more he understood that the restoration tide of the nobles of the Six Kingdoms was bound to come, and there was bound to be a decisive battle between Guanzhong and Kanto.

If it really arrives on that day, Guanzhong will not even be able to pull out 100,000 soldiers.

How can this stabilize the world?

Fusu's thoughts were surging, and his heart was full of fear.

Ji Heng's face was calm, he raised his eyes and looked at Fusu, bowing slightly, Fusu can understand so much, it is very good, but he still has a 'craftsmanship', and he also believes too much in the information given by local officials, these data may be correct, but how can the old Qin people of the Kwantung region be so easily divided?

Ji Heng put down the wine jug and said slowly: "I don't know where these data come from, it must be from local officials, or directly from the Prime Minister's Mansion. ”

"But as far as I'm concerned, the numbers aren't objective."

"It's also not convincing."

"Maybe the dissipation of the old Qin people does exist."

"It's also very serious."

"But if you put too much emphasis on the old Qin people and the Kanto, you may not be without harboring evil intentions."

Hear the words.

Fusu was stunned.

He sat upright, listening in awe.

Ji Heng said: "It's true that numbers don't deceive people, but the people who record the data, or the people who tell you the numbers, may not be deceiving." ”

"Therefore, it is necessary to have its own ability to discriminate."

"It is true that the old Qin people have been very exaggerated in these years."

"But how do the old Qin people define it."

"How to divide it?"

"Who defines and who distinguishes?"

"The hinterland of Guanzhong and Longxi, where the Qin State first gained a foothold, are divided into the Yingqin tribe, and they should belong to the old Qin people, but what about the rest of Guanzhong? What about Bashu and Guanwai as you said? Are the Qin people in these places considered old Qin people? ”

"And by what is the difference, time? For the longevity of Qin's annexation? ”

"Or something else?"

Fusu was silent.

He thought about it in his heart, but he couldn't give a basis.

Ji Heng smiled and said, "If you can't make a distinction, the evaluation is arbitrary." ”

"For the Ying Qin tribe, except for the people with the surname Ying, they are actually 'New Qin people', and for the people in Xihe, Bashu and other counties, those who were annexed by Qin within them are all 'New Qin people', if you take the first emperor to the throne, the people in the Kanto are all 'New Qin people'."

"But the First Emperor reigned for nearly thirty-six years."

"Qin occupied Nanjun, Shangdang and other counties, far earlier than sweeping the world."

"What about these people?"

"The distinction between the old and new Qin people is actually a game of interests."

"Some people are using this to solicit power for themselves and fight for benefits, and this kind of situation has actually happened in Great Qin."

"Evict the order and admonish the expulsion!"

Hear the words.

Fusu's pupils shrank suddenly.

He actually listened in a daze, but after hearing the eviction order and the expulsion order, he instantly figured out the reason.

I reacted at once.

Ji Heng said: "When the first emperor was in power, he issued an expulsion order. ”

"Chase the Kanto officials."

"At that time, the eviction order, the Qin government was almost paralyzed, the reason is that 'Qin' and 'guest' are difficult to distinguish, at that time, Xianyang officials, three or four percent were Kwantung people, and five or six percent of the officials were Kwantung people, under the eviction order, all Kwantung people were expelled from Qin."

"That's why the official offices in Xianyang have become lame and blind."

"Official business is paralyzed, many things are directly chaotic and have no clue, and no one can straighten it out in time."

"The eviction order is for the Kanto people."

"But how the Kanto people distinguish is ambiguous."

"Those who live in the Kwantung region are counted as people who settle in Qin? There are also civilized and prosperous states that died in the past, such as Lu State, Song State, Yue State, Wu State, Xue State, etc., these people were born in the Kanto region, but they have long since died in the country, so they traveled thousands of miles to Qin Shiqin to find an errand, are these people considered Kwantung people? ”

"In a hundred years, because of the strength of the Qin State and the extensive absorption of the population of the Kanto region by the Qin State, the population of the Kanto region in Qin was as high as one million."

"Under the eviction order, they are all classified as Kanto people."

"You know the end result."

"Under the order to expel guests, the Qin court was in chaos, and the official office was completely paralyzed."

"Within a few days, the First Emperor abolished the expulsion order, and even ordered the army to block the population of officials who left Qin, and give preferential treatment to win the morale."

"It's the same thing right now."

"You can have the old and new Qin people in your heart, but you can't take the initiative to say it, let alone use this as a basis to do favoritism, because you can't control this degree, once you open the mouth of the old and new Qin people, the officials below will only selectively implement it according to whether it is beneficial to them or not, and the situation will only continue to deteriorate in the end."

"The old Qin people have indeed suffered a lot of injustices, as the eldest son of the Great Qin, even if there are fluctuations and worries in your heart, you can only think of the 'Qin people'."

"Change and solve from the perspective of 'Qin people', rather than one-sidedly delineating the old and new Qin people."

"Fusu, you need to remember."

"An open secret is not the same as a secret is made public!"

(End of chapter)