"The county guard summoned me to Fuzhong?"

Hearing that Nanjun County has a call, Heifu was a little unexpected.

The county guard is the chief official of a county, and the feudal official with a rank of 2,000 stones. And Heifu is a soldier Cao Zuoshi, who directly belongs to the county lieutenant. Although the county guard also has the right to inquire about military affairs, most of them will negotiate directly with the county lieutenant, at most they will ask the soldier Cao Peng, and they will not have a direct intersection with the subordinate officials below, but today they suddenly sent the assistant officials to summon them, but why?

Although it was unreasonable, the county guard had an order, and Heifu didn't dare to disobey, so he hurriedly went to Li You to take a leave of absence - this kind of unconventional overstepping summons should be known to the boss.

Li You didn't think much about it, and asked Heifu to go quickly, so Heifu followed the two subordinates of the county guard mansion and rode out of Yingxian County and walked to Jiangling, where the county guard was stationed.

Along the way, he also asked side-by-side, what might the county guard have called him to go for?

"We don't know the details, but the left soldier Cao Shi will know when he goes."

The two subordinate officials were very tight-mouthed, and they refused to reveal half a word, and it could be seen that the county guard was very strict.

Heifu could only guess by himself: "The call at this point in time, could it be related to the water mill?" ”

It's not impossible, in the past few days, Jishan Tongguan has created a machine that can pound ore by itself without people and animals, which has become a big news in the county. Many people ran to watch, and the streams where the water mills were installed were jammed, and when they really moved on their own under the water wheel, there would be a burst of exclamations.

In the end, in order to keep it secret, the county engineer had to block Jishan Tongguan, and except for Gongcao's people, even officials were not allowed to go in and snoop!

"If the county guard wants to understand the water mill, just look for the people who work Cao, why do you want to find me?"

Heifu muttered in his heart, for the matter of the water mill, he picked himself clean, and gave more credit to the whirlpool.

"Or, is it related to the advice I asked the imperial physician to order Xia Wu and write to the King of Qin?"

Counting up, two months have passed since Xia Wuhe wrote to King Qin. According to Li You, after the approval of the King of Qin, this policy was already in full swing in Xianyang and Guanzhong. Led by the Imperial Physician Ling, Chen Wuyi and other doctors who had learned the art of bandaging wounds were selected from the army to train ten people, and they would become the first batch of "medical soldiers" in the Qin State.

Following Guanzhong, the rest of the counties will also be implemented one after another, and it should be the turn of Nanjun? If this is the case, then along with this order there should be the title of the Duke-Doctor of Heifu......

But this matter is not called to the county lieutenant to discuss together, only called Heifu alone, is it really good?

Thinking like this, Heifu couldn't help but think about the rumors about the "Teng" of the southern county guard......

Teng's full name is Ye Teng, he is not a Qin, but a Korean, and his hometown Ye County belongs to the "Nanyang County" of South Korea, that is, the area north of Fangcheng and south of Yingshui. His family has been in Han for generations, and more than ten years ago, Ye Teng also became the acting county guard of Nanyang County, South Korea.

In the sixteenth year of the reign of King Qin, the Qin army attacked Han and came to Luyang, unlike the Shangdang Shoufeng Pavilion who "would rather die than be Qin Min" thirty years ago, Ye Teng made a choice that shocked everyone, he actually surrendered to Qin with the entire Han Nanyang County!

This move directly caused Korea, which was already very weak, to lose half of its territory and lose its ability to resist Qin overnight.

After Ye Teng surrendered to Qin, he personally went to Xianyang to meet Qin Wangzheng, and King Qin did not revoke his position because he was a minister, but let him continue to be the fake guard of Nanyang County of Qin and lead the army to attack Han!

This move caused many people to criticize in the court, after all, the reuse of subordinates to destroy their homeland was unheard of in the history of Qin.

However, the king of Qin insisted on this appointment despite public opinion.

Ye Teng did not disappoint the King of Qin, in the seventeenth year of the reign of King Qin, the Qin army broke through Xinzheng, the King of Han surrendered, and the Korean Sheji, which inherited the 22nd generation, fell, becoming the first country in the Six Kingdoms to be destroyed by Qin.

Ye Teng made great contributions to the destruction of the country, won the title of the right chief, and was promoted in the nineteenth year of the reign of King Qin, from the original Nanyang County "fake guard", promoted to the county guard of Nanjun, and guarded the southern Xinjiang for the Qin State......

Although the two subordinates refused to tell the county guard why he summoned him, in the casual conversation with the black man, they also began to talk about the past of the county guard's rule of the southern county.

"Zuo Bing Cao Shi was still in Anlu for a few years, and he was not yet an adult? No wonder I don't. ”

The little official riding a black horse on the left said: "In those years, the law and order in Nanjun was extremely poor, and the old Chu clan was rampant and lawless, raising hundreds of private soldiers, and the local officials were afraid of it, so they didn't dare to be angry. There are Yunmengze thieves raging below, and there are more and more murders on the road day by day, and pedestrians can only draw their bows and knives before they dare to walk on the road, and their chaos is to such a point. ”

"In the nineteenth year of the king, Ye Junshou arrived in Jiangling at the beginning, and just got off the bus, he immediately summoned his subordinates, but anyone who was absent and did not arrive was punished and dismissed, and a group of young officials in the school were promoted."

Then the county guard announced that the king's government, don't be in a hurry for thieves, and order the whole county of Nanjun to guard the police, and the county soldiers and county guards to arrest illegal thieves. Within a few months, thousands of thieves were caught and killed! More than 400 of them were killed at the entrance of the Gangneung market on the same day, bleeding for miles, and the whole county was shocked! ”

"The county guard is really a thunderbolt method."

Heifu praised and had an impression of Ye Teng's "vigorous and resolute" behavior.

"After the thieves are dealt with, it is the turn of the local chief."

The little official riding a colored mare on the right also said: "At that time, many thieves were actually guests of the old Chu clan in various counties and counties, and once this group of people was hunted down, they hid in the high walls of Haochang, and the local officials did not dare to chase after them. In addition, the county clans also had bad deeds such as stealing coins and manipulating election officials. ”

"At that time, Ye Jun Shou said that these clans are like sores growing on Nanjun's body, and they must be cut off with a hot knife."

So in the twentieth year of the king, taking advantage of the opportunity of Xingchun, the county guard was all over the more than ten counties in the county. Every time he went to a county, he had to personally check the case file and listen to the people's complaints, but whenever there was a grievance, he would order the county order and the county official to handle it in person. At the same time, he also secretly sent troops to accompany him, and in addition to the illegal heroes along the way, in two months, a total of more than ten families in the county were arrested, and the poor were traitors, and the sentences were pronounced according to law. So the county was terrified, and everyone looked up to the county to guard their noses, and no one dared to make a mistake. ”

After the two major troubles of thieves and the big clan were eliminated, Ye Teng began to rectify the rule of officials, regulate the customs of Nanjun, and promulgated two official documents in April of the twentieth year of the reign of King Qin.

One is the "Way of Being a Official" that every minor official in Nanjun should copy, which draws out the difference between "good officials" and "evil officials", the good ones are promoted, and the bad ones are severely punished, and this is the policy program, so that the 18 counties of the county will implement it.

The second article is called "Yushu", which mainly urges Nanjun to strengthen education, get rid of the old customs of Chu, destroy those obscene shrines that are not recognized by the government, and bring some demagogic folk wizards to justice. A few years later, Nanjun was ......

The next thing is the scene that Heifu saw after he first came to this era: in Nanjun, Qin law was strictly enforced, thieves began to hide, the big clan did not dare to act rashly, and the group officials did not dare to engage in favoritism.

"Although Qin Law is very complete, the executor is a human being after all, a good official and a bad official, and there is a big difference in the execution effect. Moreover, there is still a difference between the border county and the inner county, if there is no county guard, the southern county may still be a place where thieves are rampant and the heroes sit on the big erosion. ”

After chatting with the two officials, Heifu had a clear understanding of what kind of person the county Shouteng was.

Being able to choose to surrender when the Qin army is forced shows that this person understands current affairs. As a minister, he was able to gain the trust of Qin Wangzheng and order him to lead the army to destroy Korea, which shows that this person does have the ability to make King Qin fall into his eyes. After coming to Nanjun, his image became even more distinct, and he was not merciful at all when he destroyed Haoqiang, and his methods were resolute.

After eliminating the thief Haochang, he was able to teach the county officials and the people in "The Way of the Officials" and "The Book of Words", showing a soft side.

"He is also a cool officer, but also a follower...... He's not an easy person to deal with. ”

With this in mind, they had arrived at Gangneung City.

I'm ashamed to say that after Heifu came to the county, because he was busy with official business, he was only invited by a group of robes to come over and have a party with them, and the market happened to be closed that day, so he didn't see too much excitement.

Today is different, as far as the eye can see, it is all people, people, people!

Different from the militarized color of Yingxian County, where the county lieutenant was stationed, Gangneung showed a kind of prosperity of life. After entering the city gate, I saw a street straight and magnificent, enough to accommodate five or four carriages in parallel. Passers-by walked on both sides, and the car rode in the center, and several ruts had been pressed into the ground, and the distance between the two ruts was a standard six feet.

The roadside ditch stone barrier, so that the domestic sewage can flow to Yunmengze, outside the canal, the side of the city, the large and small Lu layers can not see the end, there are many restaurants with high flags, people are constantly in and out, under the bridge, several waterways in the city are also full of boats.

The streets were bustling, and from time to time cars and cyclists passed by them. Most of the cars are carryover, and they are luxuriously decorated. Among the pedestrians, there are not only brown-clothed people, but also nobles in gorgeous clothes.

"Chu Zhiyingdu, the hub of the car hits, the people's shoulders, the city and the road are abrupt, and the name is said to be fresh and the twilight clothes are ......"

Heifu remembered this praise of Gangneung, which meant how many people in this metropolis were, wearing new clothes in the morning and entering the city, and being crowded out at night...... Sure enough, it is worthy of its reputation, and it is a little more prosperous than Wancheng, where Heifu once went.

Heifu's clothes didn't crumple, but it took them two moments to cross the street and reach the gate of the county guard's house.

"Zuo soldier Cao Shi wait a minute, I'll go in and inform the county guard."

Heifu was invited by the small officials to the gate of the county guard's mansion, and sat at the "who" place where he queued up to enter the door, Heifu looked left and right, and found that the deep mansion in the courtyard of the county guard's mansion and the carved walls of Junyu were no less than the county governor's mansion, and the group of officials waiting outside were a lot more.

They were all waiting to go to the county guard mansion to handle official business, although the queue was very long, but no one was anxious, or whispered chatter, or flipped through the slips for the final inspection, and when it was their turn, they were naturally able to enter.

At this time, a black-clothed official came out of the mansion, and when the black man looked at him with a kind face, and then looked closely, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly got up and went over, and before the man got into the car and left, he shouted at him: "Xijun! ”

The official turned his head, but saw him dressed in a deep coat and two sagittal thick beards on his lips, which was the joy that Heifu had not seen for a long time!