Xiao Zhang Liang saw that Qin Jun arranged his itinerary in an orderly manner, and when he thought of the chaos of the Han army, he was inevitably a little depressed in his heart.

When Xiao Zhang Liang entered Chu from Han and went south along the official road of Southern Chu, he saw a big difference in the environment and customs between the north and the south.

But Zhang Liang doesn't really care about these differences.

He did what he said when he left Xianyang. Even though he was still a child, with the help of the Zhang family, he stepped on the small land of South Korea with his immature feet, and saw with his own eyes the Korean people who had never entered his eyes - the foundation for providing food, clothing, housing, transportation, taxation and military resources for the country.

He finally understood what Zhu Xiang said, as long as he looked at the common people of South Korea, he knew that South Korea was on the verge of extinction.

There are very few yeoman farmers in South Korea. A large number of people were either bound to the estates of the nobility or fled Korea.

If you can't collect taxes and levy soldiers, what will South Korea use to make the country strong?

With those nobles who are still drunk and dreaming of death?

If governing the country is like cooking, the secretary is the chef, and the people are the grains.

How to cook without grains?

In Xiao Zhang Liang's not too wide field of vision, it was full of devastation.

After going south, the state of Chu and the country of southern Chu are almost the same as South Korea.

The Chu State and the Southern Chu State are more hot, rainy and vegetative, and the common people can have more food to eat, which looks slightly better than the Korean common people.

But the essence is the same.

Who can eat chaff is willing to eat bark grass roots, and who can eat grain is willing to eat chaff.

Xiao Zhang Liang saw that there were ragged Chu people walking through the mountains along the road, often clashing with the Chu soldiers who captured them.

Those should be the displaced people of Chu who can't survive.

After entering the land of Southern Qin, Xiao Zhang Liang still habitually looked out of the car window to see those people who could not be seen on weekdays.

It was the autumn harvest.

The rice paddies have turned into a sea of gold, and when the wind blows, it looks as if the waves made of gold are about to rush in the face.

In the undulating waves, there are many people who are buried in the harvest.

Many of them were dressed in such a way that they didn't look like ordinary peasants.

Xiao Zhang Liang remembered the reason why Chun Shenjun was given death - he was willing to be a scholar and went to harvest grain for the peasants.

Xiao Zhang Liang asked the Qin soldiers escorted on horseback beside the carriage: "Are those people who are busy in the fields the scholars of the Qin State?" ”

Qin Bing was puzzled at first: "Field? ”

He looked at the rice field, realized what the nobleman in the car was asking, and replied, "It's a soldier." When the farm is busy, the general will send us to help harvest the rice fields, and reward us with the harvested area. ”

He thought for a moment and added, "Every year. ”

When another Qin soldier heard this, he said: "It's not dangerous to help work in the fields, and you can get an extra piece of food, which is a fat difference." ”

The family member who was driving for Xiao Zhang Liang turned his head and glanced at Qin Bing in confusion.

Cultivated land is hard and tiring, why is it still poor?

Xiao Zhang Liang remembered the life of the Korean soldiers in the barracks, and nodded: "It is indeed fat." ”

Personally leading the scholars to help the farmers harvest was only a temporary solution. The Southern Qin Dynasty combined military service with assistance with farming, forming a sustainable system that could completely solve the problem of labor shortage.

This is also another kind of soldier Tuntian?

Xiao Zhang Liang thought about the uniforms of the Qin people, and a peasant carrying a sickle passed by his carriage.

When the farmer saw the frame of the nobleman's cart, he stopped and bowed his head and saluted. When the carriage had passed, he raised his head and left.

The peasants did not kneel in fear, did not bury their faces in the soil.

In any country, the nobles could use this to flog him.

But seeing the calm appearance of the peasants, Xiao Zhang Liang guessed that when he saw the nobleman's frame, he only needed to stop and salute, which was probably the rule of Southern Qin, not that the peasants did not understand the rules.

Xiao Zhang Liang asked: "When the people see the frame of Dr. Qing, they don't need to kneel and salute, is it Zhu Xianggong's request?" ”

Qin Bing said: "It's the prince's order." The prince issued a number of orders, if a farmer knelt down to the scholar to delay the cultivation and harvest when the farmer was busy, he would punish the farmer with forced labor and fine the scholar with money. ”

Xiao Zhang Liang's face froze.

He thought that this was Zhu Xianggong's benevolence to the concubines, but it turned out to be the future tyrant of the prince's government?

Well, this is indeed very much in line with the character of the prince.

During the busy farming, officials often came and went in the fields. If a peasant kneels and can't move when he sees an official, isn't that delaying farm work?

In the eyes of the tyrant of the prince, the scholars and the concubines are the people who he looks down on the prince of Qin, and those who delay the farm work should be punished.

Xiao Zhang Liang's cheeks twitched for a moment, and then he couldn't help laughing.

He said: "I went south from South Korea, passing through the three kingdoms of Hanchu and Southern Chu, and only the faces of the peasants of Southern Qin were less miserable. ”

Qin Bing couldn't understand when he heard this: "This year, our wind and rain are smooth, and the Chu State and the Southern Chu State should be similar. There has been no rebellion in the Chu State and the Southern Chu State this year, and the harvest is imminent, how can there be misery on the faces of the peasants? ”

Xiao Zhang Liang was stunned.

After a long time, he shook his head: "I don't know. ”

This year should also be a bumper harvest year in Chu and Southern Chu, and there should be joy on the faces of the farmers.

Why not? He really didn't know.

Does Zhu Xianggong know?

Xiao Zhang Liang looked at the golden field again.

A part of the golden waves had already been harvested in the field, and Qin soldiers and farmers were resting.

The peasant took out a bamboo tube from his waist and handed it to Qin Bing. When Qin Bing drank water, he took out a piece of bread from his arms, broke half of it, and shared it with the peasants.

The farmer took out a small clay pot and used the small wooden spoon tied to the side of the clay pot to dig out the swarthy food that he didn't know what it was.

The Qin soldiers broke open half of the cake, and the peasants stuffed the swarthy food from the spoon into the Qin soldiers' half of the cake, and then stuffed the swarthy food into their own half of the cake.

When Xiao Zhang Liang saw them stuffing the bread into his mouth, the car had already driven through the field, and he couldn't see their expressions eating the bread.

He withdrew his gaze and looked up at the roof of the carriage, his eyes empty.

What he was thinking at this time, he didn't know himself.

The mood is too complicated to describe in words.

Qin Bing reported to a higher-level general, and a general from Xianyang confirmed that this long sword was indeed the prince's belonging, and personally escorted Xiao Zhang Liang to find the prince of Qin.

Prince Qin was supervising the autumn harvest near Guangling City at this time.

Xiao Zhang Liang only brought a strong family member, and asked the other family members and the carriage with gifts to go to Guangling City to find a place to live temporarily, and he followed the young general to ride a horse to find the prince of Qin.

"So you're Zhang Liang?" The young man introduced himself, "Long Yang." ”

Xiao Zhang Liang didn't expect that someone would know his name, so he didn't dare to ask the name of the young general.

The young general who can recognize the prince's things, know where the prince is, and have heard Zhang Liang's name is, of course, Meng Tian.

Meng Tian only heard the prince talk about Zhang Liang a few days ago.

"Korea is going to perish, Zhang Liang doesn't know if he is rolling on the ground and crying."

Meng Tian finally managed to control the twitching corners of his mouth.

Prince, are you so gloating? That Zhang Liang should have been young when he met you, right? And I heard that he suffered from you. It sounds like you're holding a grudge against him.

Meng Tian didn't understand, and Meng Tian didn't dare to ask.

Now that he actually saw the person concerned, Meng Tian was very curious, so he deliberately left what he was doing and personally took Xiao Zhang Liang to find the prince.

He wanted to see with his own eyes what the prince's expression would be when he saw the person he had laughed at a few days ago.

Zhang Liang had heard of Meng Tian's reputation.

In the battle of Guangling City, Meng Tian captured the banners of Xiang Yan and Southern Chu Jun, and became famous in the first battle, and his reputation spread from the Chu people to the Han people.

Zhang Liang also knew that Meng Tian's father was a good friend of Zhu Xianggong, and the county guard of Nanjun was Meng Wu, and he was also the queen of the Gongqing.

Zhang Liang's deepest impression of Meng Tian was that Meng Tian's grandfather, Meng Wei, was leading troops to attack Zhao and prevent Zhao from rescuing South Korea.

Meng Tian thought that Zhang Liang would chat with him, but he didn't expect Zhang Liang to start in a daze when he heard his name, and he couldn't help but wonder.

Zhang Liang didn't talk to him, and he didn't bother to take the initiative to talk.

Anyway, he just came to see the excitement, not to make friends with this drooping kid.

In addition to being a young general, Meng Tian is also a close attendant of the prince. Naturally, he immediately found the place of the prince's office.

When he was about to reach the place, Meng Tian dismounted and walked.

Xiao Zhang Liang also dismounted and walked with him, and asked his entourage to stay where he was with the people brought by Meng Tian.

He knew that he could only go and see Prince Qin by himself.

When Xiao Zhang Liang was walking, he thought of many scenes of meeting Prince Qin again.

He was very embarrassed when he met Prince Qin for the first time, and he was so frightened that he cried out, and he was still embarrassed when he thought about it.

In his impression, Prince Qin was already quite tyrant when he was thirteen or fourteen years old, and even walked with the might of a dragon and tiger, and even every strand of hair was meticulous and very serious.

Now that I haven't seen it for a few years, Prince Qin's majesty must be even more terrifying.

Xiao Zhang Liang cheered himself up in his heart, so that he must not be frightened by Prince Qin's momentum.

In the future, he will be with his teacher Gongzi, and he will have a lot of time to meet with Prince Qin. If he was frightened this time, Prince Qin would definitely look down on him.

Meng Tian stopped.

Xiao Zhang Liang came back to his senses from his self-encouragement and wondered: "Arrived?" Where is Prince Qin? ”

He looked around, but did not see the banner of the prince's car.

Meng Tian said: "It's just ahead." ”

He lifted his chin to point the way, looking very disrespectful.

Xiao Zhang Liang looked along Meng Tian's jawline, but didn't see the rather majestic Prince Qin as he guessed.

"Where?" Xiao Zhang Liang was puzzled.