In front of the county governor's mansion, Heifu got out of Yin Tong's car and said goodbye to him, and Gong Ao hurriedly came over with a cloth umbrella to shield him from the snowflakes falling from the sky.

Heifu and his staff entered the mansion, but they didn't go to see his wife immediately, but asked Chen Ping, who was staying in Yiqu City, to come over and ask him about the establishment of a county in Yuzhang, and Gong Ao also pricked up his ears.

Chen Ping knew that Heifu had always been concerned about the old ministry in Yuzhang, and he had already inquired about it these days, so he reported to him: "This matter was proposed by the Prime Minister, the Imperial Historian, and the Tingwei, and the three counties of Yinan County, Jiujiang, and Huiji are vast, and one county is difficult to control, so it is better to add a new county to control the ......."

Chen Ping said that the biggest active promoter of this matter is the Taishou of Jiujiang County. The Qin Dynasty stipulated that the county guards must go to the county every year to persuade farmers, and within three years, they should go to each county under their jurisdiction to inspect them.

This is a bitter Jiujiang county guard, his jurisdiction, the county capital Shouchun is by the Huaishui, but the southernmost Shanggan County is north of Wuling, just a round trip takes three or four months, and he is still infected in the south of the Yangtze River, and almost died of illness on the road. After returning to Shouchun, the county guard learned from the pain and used his true experience to explain to Qin Shi Huang, saying that Jiujiang County must be divided into two, otherwise it will not be able to control it at all!

So there is this year's sub-county, in addition to the separation of Yuzhang County from Jiujiang County, the administration of Nanchang City, and the jurisdiction of seven counties, but also from Nan County Hengshan County, from Huiji County out of Yan County.

"Where is Hengshan County located, and which counties are under its jurisdiction?"

Heifu has no interests in Yan County and Huiji, and he is very familiar with Yuzhang County, and he has long expected a separate county, so his only concern is that his hometown Anlu has not been carved out of Nanjun, right?

"Hengshan County is governed by Yi County."

Chen Pingdao: "The area under its jurisdiction is the Edi and other places that the county lieutenant and General Li You seized a few years ago, and Anlu still belongs to Nanjun. ”

Heifu now knew that Yixian was the place where he had witnessed Qin Chuzhou's division fighting on the Yangtze River, and Hubei was Wuhan in later generations. The area was first administered by the South Gun, and has only now been re-established.

It's funny to think about it, when Qin was unified, the reason why he set up thirty-six counties was not because of anything else, but because Qin Shi Huang wanted to make up the "number of six six" at the instigation of the Yan Qi Yin and Yang family, after all, he had stipulated: "The number is six for the discipline, the Fu and the law crown are all six inches, and the public opinion is six feet, six feet is the step, and the ...... is six horses", and it is not surprising that another thirty-six counties come out.

This kind of number of counties is of course inconvenient to govern in some places, so there are today's counties.

Heifu maliciously speculated: "Your Majesty probably saw that the territory was about to be expanded, and the thirty-six counties could not be put together, so he simply divided a few counties, and waited for Shuofang and Hexi, and even after a while to include Lingnan Baiyue, make up forty-two counties and forty-eight counties?" ”

Anyway, for Qin Shi Huang's superstitious obsessive-compulsive disorder, Qin's final number of counties must be a multiple of six.

He no longer cared about this matter, but just asked Chen Ping to inquire about the origins and origins of the magistrates of Hengshan and Yuzhang, and he might have to deal with them in the future.

In this way, the reason why Yin Tong suddenly became close to Heifu was found, and most of the county lieutenants in Yuzhang were Heifu's old department. In Yin Tong's view, he has a closer relationship with Heifu, and when he arrives at the local level, there will be less resistance to governance.

"Of course Yin Tong has to please the county lieutenant!"

Gongao heard that Yin Tong was going to Yuzhang to be an official, so he said straightforwardly: "Which county in Yuzhang does not have a subordinate township party of the county lieutenant?" To put it mildly, this newly established Yuzhang County is just like the backyard of the county lieutenant's house! When you go to the backyard of the master's house, how can you not say hello first? ”

As soon as these words came out, Chen Ping immediately glanced at Heifu.

But seeing that Heifu frowned, he looked at the servants around him, all of whom were his own family, so he waved them away, leaving only Chen Ping and Gong Ao, and reprimanded Gong Ao in a low voice under the porch:

"What nonsense! If something like that, Hugh will have to mention it again! ”

After saying that, he threw away the bewildered Gongao and went to the inner courtyard to see his wife.

Gong Ao knew that he was speechless, but when he saw Chen Ping smiling on the side, he thought that he was gloating, so he was angry and was about to wave his sleeves away, but Chen Ping stopped him and said in a low voice:

"Brother Gong's words, Ping Shen thinks so, Yu Zhang, it is indeed the backyard of the county lieutenant!"

……

Gong Ao looked at Chen Ping strangely, the two of them, as the head of Heifu's civil and military staff, have not been very harmonious, this is the first time Chen Ping has recognized Gong Ao's words, today is the sun hitting the west and coming out?

But Chen Ping is a smart person, so he didn't talk about it anymore, but he was thinking about it in his heart......

"I am a poor soldier of Yang Wu, but fortunately I was appreciated by the county lieutenant and asked me to be a guest, so that I can have the opportunity to show my talents and learning, and I have the grace of a confidant."

He silently walked into the house separated by a wall, and watched his wife dressed thickly, holding her son in the warm kang house, humming the Wei Di ballad softly, Chen Ping showed a smile, did not disturb her, but went to the study.

"The lieutenant gave me two hundred stones of rice, meat to eat, and a chariot. His wife eats Jiarou and lives in a large building, with ice in summer and kang in winter, which is not thick. ”

"Therefore, those who are personal ministers must not help but seek for the lord!"

Chen Ping, as a Wei person, has become a popular guest in Wei, with Xinlingjun from afar and Zhang Er nearby. Therefore, the Wei people are more aware of the relationship between the lord and the monarch and the guest, and the idea of loyalty and patriotism is rare.

He is now the chief of staff of Heifu, not a formal Qin official, so who he is working for, Chen Ping is very clear.

"Feng Tan once said to Meng Weijun that the cunning rabbit has three holes, so he can lie down, how many caves does the county captain have?"

Although Heifu asked the officials to learn to use the abacus, Chen Ping would still leave some calculation chips at home, and at the moment they were placed on the table one by one.

"Jane is in the emperor's heart, and this cave is also."

"Married to the Ye family, all counties in Nanjun are Shi Teng's former officials, and these two caves are also."

"The children of the three thousand township parties, now they are listed in the seven counties of Yuzhang, or for the captain, the cheng, or the small officials, the roots are intertwined, the voice is connected, and these three caves are also!"

With these three caves, it is possible to ensure that Heifu can mix in the court and the locality, and with them as a guarantee, the sugarcane and brown sugar industries of the Heifu family can earn millions a year, but no one dares to covet them, and they can afford to support them.

Therefore, Chen Ping thinks that it is really a good thing for Yin Tong to go to Yuzhang to be a county lieutenant, this person is not very good at military affairs, it is okay to be a county guard, and he is afraid that he will have to rely heavily on Wei Shi and the county lieutenants. During his tenure, it was enough to ensure the smooth preservation of this "hole" of Heifu.

"Is this step by step unintentional by the county lieutenant, or is it deliberate?"

Seeing that the three caves of Heifu were complete, Chen Ping was a little surprised, he, a staff member, could only do things to check and fill in the gaps, and he couldn't even learn Feng Tan and open a new cave for the lord?

After a long time, Chen Ping put down the fourth calculation chip on the desk and smiled.

"Who said that a cunning rabbit can only have three holes?"

"The emperor wants to open the border fortress, it is the time when the husband uses force, Beidi County, it is not impossible to serve as the fourth cave of the county lieutenant!"

……

Heifu didn't know what Xiao Jiujiu Chen Ping was playing, and when he walked into the warm living room, he found that Ye Zijin was doing something he had seen countless times in his previous life:

Knit a sweater!

Ye Zijin was naturally happy to learn that her husband had returned, but she was eight months pregnant, and her mobility was very inconvenient, so she could not go to the door to greet her.

After waiting for a while, seeing that he had not returned for a long time, she couldn't sit idle in her hands, and couldn't sit in front of the machine, so she picked up a ball of velvet thread on the desk and two slender copper needles, and sat under the window and knitted them.

Outside was the falling snow, the warm candlelight shining on her shoulders, the comfortable and quiet beauty of motherhood, which could not be described in words......

Heifu looked at it for a long time, and then walked in with a light cough, the husband and wife are far better than the newlyweds, and after some warmth, Heifu pointed to the sweater and asked, "Why did you suddenly weave this thing?" ”

Ye said something that seemed unrelated: "When did the lover first see a concubine?" ”

This is a proposition, and of course Heifu will not forget: "Twenty-three years of Shangsi Festival, riverside flowing water pavilion." ”

"That's not right."

Ye Zijin's eyes revealed a hint of cunning: "Before this, the lover had seen the concubine once!" ”

Heifu thought for a while, and then remembered that before the two officially met, he and the doctor Chen Wuyi went to look for bandage materials, and in the weaving room of Jiangling City, they happened to meet a group of wives and daughters of county officials who came to "persuade silkworms", and Ye Zijin was also among them.

If I remember correctly, she was wearing a dark blue coat that matched the color of March, with thin shoulders and a slender physique.

Who would have thought that the girl would later become his wife, and now she will soon become a mother again?

Ye Zijin said: "According to the usual practice, from the queen and concubine to the county and county to the wife and daughter, they must go to the local weaving room silkworm room to personally pick mulberry, raise silkworms, and decorate silk, which is a gift to persuade silkworms." ”

In the Qin Dynasty, in order to show the importance of agricultural affairs, the emperor, the county guard, and the county commander had to personally go to the field to touch the plow, which was called "persuading farmers". Their female dependents cannot be idle, and at the critical moment of raising silkworms in March, they must also come out to do these "women's skills" in person, showing their attitude of encouraging sericulture.

"But the north is bitterly cold, there are very few silkworms, and there are not many hemp, so the gift of persuading silkworms is just a gathering game for the noblewomen, and it has no effect on the local people."

Hefu understood: "So you want to change the rules?" ”

Ye's chin headed: "However, the year before last, when the court was debating whether to implement sweaters, didn't Ting Wei say it?" Look at the time and make the law, make the ceremony according to the matter, make the law and order, go with the flow, clothes and instruments, each for its own use, so it should be made according to the custom. In Northland County, silkworms can be retained, just replace the silkworms with wool, and the effect is the same! ”

"Didn't the lover say that in the future, Beidi County will raise more Qiang sheep, cut more wool spinning threads, and weave cloth, so that their clothes will be covered by the world? This matter is not enough for the weaving room of the official government, and the people also need to be persuaded to start with the women. ”

Even at home, these women who have no worries about food and clothing are encouraged to learn to weave and sew clothes, which are part of the "women's skills", and the woven clothes and silk cloth will be sent to the local lady to compare the level.

"The county warden's wife is old, so she entrusts this matter to me, and I will take advantage of this winter to study, and in the summer of the next year, I can take the county official's wife and daughter to the newly built weaving room to spin woollen cloth......"

She took Heifu's hand, put it on her belly, and said with a smile: "You can also knit a warm garment for our children to keep out the cold." ”

The same is to weave sweaters, and the leaves are made of cashmere, which is ten times more valuable than ordinary wool, and the woven clothes are delicate and soft, small and cute, but they are not comparable to the fat and bulky sweaters on the soldiers.

"Madame really has a heart, if it can be so, wool spinning will be able to flourish in Beidi County!"

Heifu sighed, although she was reluctant to leave when she left, and wrote a poem of resentment to express her lovesickness, but she did not cry all the time, but played the role of the county lieutenant's wife, this is the woman she chose......

But thinking about the not-too-distant future, in the streets and alleys of Yiqu City, after dinner, a group of women chattering and knitting sweaters by the well, Heifu couldn't help but laugh.

"Why is the lover laughing?"

Heifu hurriedly changed the topic: "I remembered that when I was outside the Saiwai, I sent it to the barracks with food, as well as the first batch of sweaters knitted by Wu Shi this year, and distributed them to the soldiers in the army to keep out the cold. Afterwards, I told Wu Shiyan that I could give a special name to the sweaters in Beidi County, such as Lu Zhimin and Shu Zhijin, and distinguish them from those produced in Longxi, Shangjun, and Daibei......"

Everywhere has used local idiomatic names to refer to silk fabrics of different origins, a bit like the brands of later generations, although people in this era have not yet had brand awareness.

"Wu Shiyan thought it was true when he heard this, so he asked me to give it his name."

"What did the lover name Wu's sweater?" Ye Zijin asked.

"I wrote it to him right then."

Heifu couldn't hold back a laugh, leaned closer to his wife's ear, and said the three words word by word:

"Heng, Yuan, Xiang!"