"It's a misfortune that Zuo Shu is here, Xijun was just transferred to Dongting County last month."

Heifu did not have many acquaintances in Gangneung, and the day after visiting Li You, he went to the county prison Cao Jianxi to learn that he had been transferred.

Dongting County is a newly established county that merges the western part of Dongting County of the former Chu State with the central county of Qin and Qianzhong. The approximate scope is equivalent to part of Xiangxi, Guizhou and Chongqing in later generations, and the counties under its jurisdiction are concentrated along the Yuanshui, Lishui and Youshui, and the county is Yuanling County.

"I don't know what position Xijun will hold in Dongting County?" Heifu asked the prison officer.

"Ren Qianling County." The little official smiled: "The four hundred stone chief officials can be regarded as a high promotion." ”

Qianling County (now Liye) is on the edge of Youshui, and the transportation is quite convenient, Heifu is deeply unfortunate, but he is also happy for Xi's promotion.

However, the situation of Dongting County is not much better than that of Jiangxi, and there are fewer households in its territory, except for the Qingshuiba people who have dealt with Heifu, there are Wuxi barbarian settlements near Lishui and Youshui, and the upper reaches of Yuanshui are adjacent to Xiou, and there are also a large number of Yue tribes, and they are uncertain. And it is not as flat as the land of Nanchang, most of those places are deep mountains and old forests, and it is not a good errand to be an official there.

The prison official Cao said to Heifu: "Most of the officials in Dongting County were retained by the original Qianzhong County, and the rest were mostly transferred from Nan County, and there were also many who were transferred to Changsha County. ”

This is the same situation as what Heifu saw in Jiangxi, after the elimination of the Chu State, Qin's territory instantly increased by one-third, and the officials in Guanzhong and Shandong did not understand the Chu dialect, and it was easy to be deceived by the air. Therefore, the Qin officials of Nanjun, who also belong to the Jingchu dialect area and have been immersed in Qin law for many years, have become sought-after goods. The original fighting food officials were transferred to be ranked, and the original assistant officials were transferred to the past, and they also became long officials.

This practice is convenient for Qin Lu to implement in Xinjun County, and in this way, Heifu's previous accumulated contacts in Anlu and Nanjun have spread to Jiujiang, Dongting, and Changsha counties, which is not a good thing.

Since the visit was not happy, Heifu returned to his residence, and the next day he brought the most solemn gift to the county guard mansion to visit Ye Teng, who was about to be transferred......

……

Heifu used to be a frequent visitor to the county guard's mansion, but when he came again, he found that the mansion looked like he was about to move, and Ye Teng's staff, Chang Shi Ludang, was commanding the subordinates and slaves to pack up all kinds of things.

"Meng Chun is going to Xianyang before the month, and the northward journey in the winter is really a bit hasty."

Lu Dang complained in his mouth, but he was happy on his face, he was Ye Teng's personal staff, and he could enter Xianyang with him, and his status and identity would naturally rise.

He led Heifu to the study, and Ye Teng, who made Heifu grit his teeth, was picking up books here, as if he was hesitating about what to bring to keep, and after Heifu entered, he immediately said: "Heifu, I have seen the internal history!" ”

Ye Teng turned around and saw that he hadn't seen Heifu for two years, and he didn't scare him like he did when they first met, but smiled:

"The old man has not officially taken office, and now he is neither a county guard nor an internal history, just a disgusting old man."

It turned out that after the destruction of Chu, the King of Qin rewarded him for his meritorious deeds, and of course he did not leave behind the county Shouteng, who had paid an extra 2 million stone military rations in two years, plus Ye Teng's remarkable achievements in governing Nanjun for seven or eight years, and officially worshiped the lord as the Great Shangzao, and removed it as the "internal history", this matter has spread all over Nanjun.

At present, the Qin State has more than 30 counties, and the newly conquered border counties are the lowest, followed by the Shandong counties, but the internal history is the heaviest. This administrative region is in charge of the capital Xianyang and more than 40 counties in Gyeonggi, and governs the entire Guanzhong Plain and the land of Shangyu.

Therefore, in private, Neishi is also called the "Tenth Secretary", and he is a member of Gyeonggi who can compete with the Nine Emperors of the court.

Ye Teng asked Heifu to take a seat, and after the two sat opposite each other, Heifu looked at him as if he was a little older, with deeper wrinkles on his forehead and a few more gray hairs on his sideburns.

Ye Teng saw that Heifu had gone to the far south, and he seemed to be tanned, and after growing a beard on his lips, he looked a lot calmer.

"Led three thousand children of Nanjun, went deep into the barren land, opened up six new counties, and in a year, the money and grain taxes in these places were all in your hands, named the county order, Sima, and he was actually a feudal chief, how does it feel? Are you proud? ”

"There are times of pride," replied Heff, "but more often than not, standing on the edge of a cliff, as if stepping on a thin layer of ice." ”

"That's right."

Ye Teng took a little bit of guidance to take the school examination, and when he heard Heifu say this, he appreciated it very much, and laughed: "The bigger the official does, the greater the authority, and the more it must be like this!" ”

He nodded again: "I heard that the king also summoned you to the court, do you know any officials?" ”

Heifu said: "Li Junshou told me, or Ren Langguan, but I don't know if it is Lieutenant General Lang, Wailang General, or the lower middle car, middle horse, and middle household three generals." ”

"No matter what the general, he will serve in front of the king, after all, you have been an old man's subordinate, so I will send you a word, trembling, like walking on thin ice, like facing the abyss. The edge is too strong, and the violent tiger Feng He can indeed attract attention, but if he steps on the air, he will be like Li Xin, and he will never recover. ”

Heifu answered: "I heard that General Li was used by the king again, and he has a meritorious service in conquering Liaodong, and there is a tendency to be favored again." ”

Ye Teng scoffed: "Superficial, Li Xin will never return to his previous position, he has disappointed the king once, only this time is enough for him to never be able to enter the court." Do you remember the first time you came to see the old man? ”

How could Heifu forget, that time, Ye Teng exposed his old bottom, scared him into a cold sweat, and once regarded this old guy as his great enemy. It's just that slowly, I found that Ye Teng just likes to play with power and spy on people's hearts, but he didn't mean to embarrass himself, and the hostility slowly dissipated.

Of course, among them, there may also be Ye Teng's daughter's good impression of Heifu at work.

Now, both of them are going to Xianyang, both outsiders, when Heifu looks at the old leader again, he is a little more cordial, and there may be a place to rely on him in the future.

Ye Teng sneered: "Compared with the Zhuqing of Xianyang, what am I worth?" When they interact with you, it seems like a spring breeze, but in fact, they are thinking about everything about you all the time, in front of them, if you are not careful, you will be eaten with all the bones and meat! ”

"So when you arrive in Xianyang, remember to talk less, listen more, and watch more!"

"Boy, remember the teachings of internal history!"

Heifu said goodbye, and when he raised his head, he hesitated, but still talked about the incident that happened in Nanchang.

"The king was promoted to the rank of soldier, but he was ordered to reclaim the wasteland on the spot, stationed in the counties, and was not allowed to return to his hometown, and the soldiers did not think it was a reward, but regarded it as exile, and I finally suppressed their resentment, and promised to report the situation to the king after arriving in Xianyang, to see if there was a more appropriate way......"

After Heifu returned to Jiangling, he inquired that the matter of Nanchang was not an isolated case, Changsha and Dongting also had similar things, and the soldiers of Nanjun were reluctant to stay in the wilderness to be a production and construction corps. If this matter is not handled well, I am afraid that they will lose the motivation to fight for the king of Qin and the state of Qin forever.

Ye Teng knew King Qin's temperament very well, so Heifu wanted to ask him first, should he say it, and how should he say it?

"There's no better way."

Ye Teng sighed and said: "There is only so much land in the world, and the land in the Central Plains is no longer enough, can it still be taken from the mouths of the people and nobles of the five countries?" That's adding fuel to the fire! The king was right to do so, and in a few decades, these new counties could become anointed lands......"

"As for the soldier's mind? Don't worry too much about it. ”

Ye Teng didn't take the grievances of the thousands of soldiers to heart, and said with a smile: "Shang Jun once said that the people should not start with worry, but with happiness. Those who are virtuous are not in line with the customs, and those who have achieved great success are not in the public! Ten or twenty years later, they will know that the king's decision is right! ”

This sentence makes sense, but Heifu sees an infinite black hole: if Qin's unique military merit system wants to be maintained, it needs more and more land, and the most convenient thing is, of course, to continue to expand. But the more wars you fight, the more military merits you have, sooner or later you won't have enough land, and you will need new wars, which is a dead loop. When the Six Kingdoms were still alive, it was okay to say that they would just continue to merge, but if they were about to be unified today, the King of Qin would sooner or later move his knife against the Xiongnu and Baiyue.

Looking at this process from the perspective of a traverser, the expansion of territory and the spread of civilization are undoubtedly beneficial to the entire country and nation. But this is not very fair to the soldiers who are sent to the frontier to open up wasteland, and there will be more and more resentful people, and if this continues, sooner or later it will shake the credibility of the government and even endanger the foundation of the rule......

"Ye Teng said that the land of the noble people of Nei County is to add fuel to the fire, but King Qin's method, why not put out the fire with salary?"

Heifu thought secretly, but he didn't have a better way for a while, so he could only go to Xianyang and make plans.

At this time, a gentle voice sounded behind him.

"Mother asked me to ask, does my father want to keep a guest for dinner?"

Heifu turned around and saw a girl wearing a white fox fur and a green skirt, her figure was tall, her phoenix eyes were bright, but her appearance was like a finely carved white jade, with a smile at the corner of her mouth, and her demeanor was graceful, giving people a feeling of being a lady.

Heifu almost couldn't recognize her, and only reacted after watching it for a while, isn't this Ye Tengzhi's woman?

The cheeks, which were originally a little baby fat, are now sharpened fox faces, and the chest, which was once unproductive, is also full.

I haven't seen her for two years, and the girl's body has grown, as if bathed in the spring rain and summer wind, and the little bud has bloomed into a delicate flower......

What remains unchanged is just the wisdom in his eyes, with a hint of cunning inherited from Ye Teng.

If two years ago, she was just a sight to behold, now it is enough to make people salivate!

"Doesn't Zuo Shu know me?"

Seeing that the girl was stuttering and laughing, and Ye Teng'er behind him also coughed dissatisfiedly, Heifu knew that he was out of shape, and hurriedly lowered his eyes to greet her.

"The lady's encouragement at the Shangshi Festival, Heifu remembered it in his heart, how dare he forget it?"

He secretly praised in his heart: "Sure enough, it's the eighteenth change of a female college student, a female high school student, and she has finally grown into a female college student!" ”