"Everything is as usual in Chengdu!"

The city is particularly intimate, with its unbridled streets and alleys, the weeping willows of late autumn by the two rivers, and the smells of honey in the air, as well as the slow and very human touch and breath of life.

Li Ling's family has long been deeply rooted in Shu: his eldest father is Li Bing, and his father is Li Zhong, who is called Li Erlang in later generations, that is, the prototype of Erlang God......

The father and son successively guarded the county, built the mound, that is, Dujiangyan, diverted water for irrigation, eliminated floods, and was thousands of miles away, making Shu County rich.

Li Ling also grew up in Shu County since he was a child, a Shu sound, respected by the Shu people, inherited the business of his ancestors and fathers, continued to engage in water conservancy, took people up the mountain and down the river, crossed the Shixi River in the south of the Minjiang River, passed through the Wenjing River, passed through Linqiong and Mengxi to divide the Baimu River, and divided the Yangmo River from the embankment.

Because of this merit, eight years ago, Li Ling was selected by Qin Shi Huang, who inspected Shu County, and appointed him as the "Shanghe Agricultural Captain", with a rank of 600 stones, to report to Helan Mountain, and help Beidi County Lieutenant Heifu to irrigate the newly opened fields in the canal......

Needless to say, his exploits in the north are self-evident, but after Hu Hai succeeded to the throne, Li Ling was also imprisoned for the crime of "black", until Zhang Han raised troops, he was released, and later returned to Xianyang, and was appointed by the regent as a "young eunuch of Shaofu", as Zhang Cang's deputy, went to Ba County, and transferred the huge Ba assets - the inheritance of the widow Qing, which has been taken over by Ba's mother-in-law, Ye, and was generously confiscated.

However, some time ago, he was urgently dispatched to move west with Zhou Chang, the commander of Ba County.

"Kansai has been decided, and Shu is not settled, Shu County can't be chaotic, I hope Li Jun can take over Shu County!" This is a letter written by Heifu to Li Ling.

At present, Li Ling drove into Chengdu with Zhou Chang's basmen and joined Xiao Tao, all the way without hindrance.

Shu County is empty, and most of the county soldiers are in Longxi, even though some Chang Xiang staff claimed: "The order of Impermanence Jun does not dare to open the city." But after Li Ling's persuasion, a new county guard seal was displayed, indicating that Chang Qian had entered Xianyang as the prime minister, and finally succumbed.

The Li family has contributed too much to Shu County, and the identity of the grandson of Bing makes him revered by the Shu people, and the experience of Chang Qian's former officials allows Li Ling to persuade some recalcitrant old bureaucrats to be the most suitable person to take over Shu County.

At present, after pacifying the fathers and elders, Li Ling returned to the county mansion and entered the hall, but saw Lieutenant Xiao Tao, Ba County Shou Zhou Chang, the chief general and deputy general of the operation did not say a word, and they all buried their heads in writing things on paper.

The atmosphere was unusually silent, and the long history and staff next to him did not dare to come out.

"It's ......"

Li Ling chuckled in his heart, could it be that these two had a conflict?

He got along with Zhou Chang all the way to Ba County, this person was the person brought by Shi Xiao He from Fengpei in the governance of Su Nei, and he was a stubborn person who had made meritorious contributions in coordinating grain and straw in Nanjun.

And Xiao Tao has always only heard that he is the most trusted old department of Marquis Wu Zhong, with a gentle temperament and tenacity.

If these two people are in a gap, to the extent that they don't want to speak, it will be very unfavorable to settle Shu County.

Fortunately, in Xiao Tao's long history, an An Lu man said in Li Ling's ear:

"The lieutenant and the Bajun Shou both ate, and it was inconvenient to talk and communicate, so they talked about ...... words."

Li Ling suddenly realized that both of them had stuttering problems, and it was difficult to control speech, Xiao Tao gave orders in the army, and he was known for being concise and to the point, no more than four words in a sentence, and he didn't like to talk at length.

Zhou Chang is the same, in the original history, he will also work with Deng Ai to contribute to the idiom "period Ai Ai".

One person stutters like this, two stutters touch together, what kind of scene is that, I'm afraid that the two of them will blush together and have thick necks, and they can't finish a sentence for a long time, right?

This is a scene of writing and exchange, Xiao Tao is studious, listening to the black man to persuade them to "read often, think that they are very beneficial", ten years, from illiterate to write like flying.

It's just out of habit, Xiao Taolian's words written on paper are mostly based on broken sentences such as 3, 4, and 3......

Zhou Chang was a little slower, but after all, he had made a history of Surabaya County in his early years, and his words were not bad.

After writing one, the two exchanged, nodded, and continued to "talk" on the paper.

Li Ling couldn't laugh or cry, but saw that the two were communicating about the deployment of Chengdu, so for the sake of efficiency, he asked someone to bring the map and let him explain it.

"Two generals."

"The shape of Chengdu is no different from that of King Wu of Qin, divided into small cities and big cities. Shaocheng is in the west, which is where the official office is located, and Dacheng is in the east, where the head merchant lives in Qian. ”

"There are eight city gates, of which the gate is two, all of which are in the big city, the north is called Xianyang Gate, and the south is called Jiangqiao Gate......"

The reason why it is called Jiangqiao Gate is because out of the South Gate, in its west and south, are the two most important rivers in Chengdu, Pijiang River and Zhanjiang River (Fu River, South River), there are seven wooden bridges across the river on the river, which is convenient for businessmen and pedestrians to enter and exit the city.

"The eldest father was punctual for the county, crossed the middle of the two rivers and Chengdu, and built seven bridges for convenience, and because the city in the city was too small, it occupied Lilu, so he moved the market to the open space between the two rivers, which was a new city."

This new city is located in the suburbs of Chengdu at that time, with the "two rivers" as the boundary, the bridge as the door and throat, which is convenient for control and management, and also convenient for goods to come and go from the waterway. Press the drum every day to open and close the market on time

"Therefore, it is said that Liangjiang Erqi City."

This is the pattern of Chengdu in this era, the "city" is like the head of a person, and the "city" is like a decoration, placed between the "two rivers" in the south of the city.

When Li Ling was an official himself, he was ordered by Chang to dig the Shixi River across the two rivers to connect the two government-run workshops of Jinguancheng and Cheguancheng south of the Jianjiang River, making Xinshi the largest trade center in Liangzhou.

Local farmers sell large quantities of surplus grain through the market in exchange for iron tools, salt, etc. The merchants exchanged sugar, salt and other materials from the Diqiang tribe in western Shu for a large number of livestock and leather, horses, and cattle, and sold them to Chengdu. The commanders of the southwestern Yi in the south provided Chengdu with another kind of goods in the war and attack: slaves!

Merchants from all over the world also gather here, transport Shu specialties to the outside, the five fist products are Shu brocade, lacquerware, sugar, well salt, wolfberry sauce wine and slaves, in addition to ginger, dansha, bamboo, wood ware, the trade carried out here, every day can create tens of thousands of city taxes for Shu County!

Heifu made it very clear when appointing Li Ling as the Shu County Punctuary.

What he needs is not a dilapidated and withered Shu County, but a large rear that can continuously produce a lot of food and create wealth.

Therefore, Xiao Tao and Zhou Chang need to send troops to maintain order here, not only to defend the city and everyone, but also to maintain the market, so that the people of Shu can rest assured, recover from the turmoil of the transfer of power as soon as possible, and continue to transfuse blood for Guanzhong......

It's the same thing that Shu County has done in the past 100 years.

In addition to the city market, those important resource points of Shu County were also divided into troops to control.

Zhou Chang is still a written exchange:

"The soldiers of Ba County came from the floating river, Jiangyang (Luzhou County) to Zizhong (Ziyang County), and the sugar field workshops on both sides of the river were safe and sound."

This can ensure the continued operation of the sugar industry, as almost all the people in Nanjun are soldiers, at most to ensure that the grain production will not be extinct, the handicraft industry will inevitably be affected, and Shu County may take its place and become the center of sugar production in the country.

"I'm going south."

Xiao Tao pointed to the two counties on the map, which were the next targets that had to be controlled.

"Linqiong." (Qionglai County)

"Strict!" (Yingjing County)

These are all places where Li Ling fought in those years, and he once went to the local area to investigate, pass through the Wenjing River, and divide the Baimu River through Linqiong and Mengxi, all in order to facilitate the development of these two large mines.

……

"There is an iron mountain in Linqiong."

Li Lingyou remembered that in the year when Qin Shi Huang destroyed Zhao, Linqiong, Shu County, discovered a large iron ore.

And the first emperor also made the blacksmith family of Handan of Zhao State Zhuo moved to Shu, most of the relocated captives hoped not to go too far, competing to bribe Shu officials, and were able to settle in Jiameng Pass, but Zhuo thought that Jiameng was narrow, and the residents were numerous, and I am afraid that life would not be easy in the future, and although there were many people in Chengdu, they would be deceived by people in these relocation places, and they would be in the lower class for a long time, but asked to move away.

So Zhuo Shi was placed in Linqiong, using his own skills, and now he has become an iron official.

Those who were also placed in Linqiong were also related to the Cheng family of Dongye Iron Family, and with the technical support of these people, Linqiong Iron Officer also became the largest iron-smelting center in the southwest region. Not only to meet the needs of Bashu Hanzhong, but also to rely on Guanzhong.

Now Heifu will compete with the tigers of the six countries for the world, and there is no big iron mountain in Guanzhong, and the weapons are smelted and cast, I am afraid that it will depend on Shu County, Nanyang, and Hengshan.

As for Yan Dao, there is a large copper mountain, and no one knows how much mineral deposits it contains. I only know that since the beginning of the silkworm Cong clan of the ancient Shu Kingdom, the Shu people have had countless wars with the surrounding tribes for it, and the slag left over from mining and smelting is all over the mountains. Sanxingdui, Jinsha those brilliant cultural relics of the copper material, most of the source of this......

This is before the Qin Dynasty destroyed Chu, the main source of raw materials for the entire Qin Dynasty to cast weapons and half a tael of money, to the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty's favorite minister Deng Tong came here to mint money, there is still a proverb: "Deng's money, all over the world", it can be seen that its importance......

Heifu had already taken control of Tonglu Mountain in Hengshan County, and Jiangdong's continuous mining of lead ore, coupled with Yandao Copper Mountain, was enough to turn on the horsepower of the arsenal before the war, producing tens of thousands of blades and minting tens of thousands of coins......

"But Yan Dao is now controlled by the Yan family, and there are thousands of soldiers and servants under his command, so I'm afraid it will not be easy to deal with."

Yan is the younger brother of King Qin Huiwen, known as the wisdom tank, the descendants of the disease in Yan, his descendants are the most influential families in the government and the opposition, far away from the former Huiji County Shou Yan Qing, near the Yan Jin who wants to lobby Chang Qian to oppose the black.

As the Yan clan repeatedly rebelled against the new government, the family was also sentenced to death by the regent.

It's just that Li Ling feels a little pity: "Yan Junji has merit to Great Qin, and one or two people in the clan oppose the regency, which does not mean that the entire Yan clan wants to be chaotic." Rather than fighting each other, let me send my son to persuade him to submit, so that he can take over the copper mountain smoothly. ”

"Yes."

Xiao Tao said, but this always gentle black man was die-hard, and he said cruelly: "Don't obey." ”

"Bi clan!"

Ye Ye shook the lightning, and he was restless. Hundreds of rivers are boiling, and the mounds are collapsing. The high bank is the valley, and the deep valley is the mausoleum

In this era, the old princes were destroyed violently, and some people climbed from ordinary officials to the pinnacle of power.

This is not to say that the former must be extravagant and incompetent, but the latter must be frugal and capable.

It's just that the tide of the times is outdated, regardless of good and evil, right or wrong, just look at success or failure!

……

The pains of the handover of Shu County have just begun.

And the feast in Xianyang City is coming to an end.

"Li Ling has arrived in Shuzhong."

"And 10,000 troops to back it up."

"Chang Jun thinks, can he be competent?"

Chang Jun was silent, he knew that he had lost all the capital to talk about conditions.

Accept the facts, stay in Xianyang honestly, even if it is only a window-dressing powerless prime minister, this is his only choice.

So in the eyes of others, at this dinner, it can be said that Heifu was personally holding the lamp for Chang Xiang, which can be described as courteous. During the banquet, the two talked about each other, from food to governing the county, and even Southwest Yi, Chang Qi became happier the more he talked, and sighed on the spot that the regent's view of the current situation was very similar to his own.

He asked people to bring pen and paper on the spot, and sent a letter to Shu County, telling his old ministers: "I have a good conversation with the regent, but I hate to see each other too late." "Urge the old subordinates to respect the orders of the new county guards, and promote the unification of Shu County, Guanzhong and Nanjun as soon as possible.

"Today's Great Qin, only by communicating political principles can it be stable!"

also imagined: "Duke Wei is the regent, the governor of the state, and the commander of millions of troops; And I am the assistant of Jun Zaifu, taking care of everything, Daqin will rule the world again, and finally Zhongxing! ”

At the end of the feast, Chang Chen, who was already a little drunk, began to praise Heifu as "the first man in the world".

Heifu also eagerly sent Chang Xiang out of the house, although Chang Xiang was taken hostage, but some cronies still had to follow, they were sitting on pins and needles outside the mansion, and at this moment they saw Chang Xiang come out, and they all greeted him.

"Chang Jun!"

They were anxious to protect their master, but they were hindered by Heifu's own soldiers, so they shouted loudly, and they saw that there was about to clash.

"Let those strong men in Shu come over."

Heifu asked the soldiers to let go of their cronies a little earlier, and the leader was a big man, tall and bearded......

Heifu couldn't help but be stunned, as if he saw an old man he hadn't met for a long time, and thought he had drunk too much, and then looked at it, don't say it, the body shape and appearance are really similar, and it can almost be fake.

He pointed to the big man and brought him five steps closer, only to realize that it was not.

Heifu then looked surprised, pointed to the man and asked Chang Yan, "Dare to ask what this strong man is called?" ”

Chang Yu said: "The warrior of Shuzhong, Ji Xinye, is my personal guard, he has always been brave and brave, and I hope that the regent will forgive him for his offense." ”

Heifu shook his head: "This strong man, with his appearance and figure, is like an old man of mine. ”

He sighed and thought about it, but he just stuck a dogwood on the top of his head: "I just haven't seen it for many years." ”

Heifu sometimes wonders, is he too cruel to Lao Liu?

"Oh? Who could make Marquis Wu Zhong so concerned? ”

Heifu sighed: "His name is Liu Ji, he used to be just an unknown junior in Pei County, he was my guest when he was in Jiaodong, and then he was stationed in Haidong. ”

"But now, this man has done something bold!"

Heifu's voice changed: "I think Chang Jun also heard that there are rumors in Kanto, saying that Gongzi Fusu regained in Haidong, led the soldiers to Liaodong and Liaoxi, chased Donghu outside, attacked Yandi inside, and called the king ......"

"I've heard it, but I don't know if it's true or not." This is a sensitive matter, and the old man at the table did not even dare to ask.

"Fake!"

Heifu raised his hand and directly determined the matter.

"In the past year or so, there are many people in this world who have raised things under the banner of Fusu, for example, Wu Guang, the commander under my command, once falsely claimed to be Gongzi Fusu when he rebelled against Hu Hai in Chendi, just to use his name to ......."

"As for Liaodong's 'Fusu', the same is true, I have asked Chen Ping, a pawn in Jiaodong, to check, Chang Jun guessed, what is the truth?"

Irrelevant facts, this is just one of the many little stories that Heifu has to tell.

"How?"

Heifu smiled: "It turns out that it's just my old official Liu Ji, in order to win the support of Haidong's soldiers, I found a similar-looking person, pretending to be a fraudulent claim!" ”

Chang Ji didn't believe Heifu at all, but he was still surprised: "This Liu Ji is really bold." ”

"Not really."

Heifu said: "Liaodong's fake Fusu is just Liu Ji's puppet, as for the real eldest son......"

He threw his hand towards the drowsy sky, and there was no trace of sparkling in his eyes:

"As early as two years ago, on the way to the south to join me, he died of illness!"

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PS: Four thousand chapters, and one more chapter later.