"Heifu, is it still a Qin official?"

On the way out of Du Ting, Xi kept thinking about Heifu's answer to his question.

Xi takes these two words very seriously, which can be said to be his ability to adhere to the current belief in the turbid officialdom and turbulent times.

In the first year of the reign of King Qin, Fu served at the age of seventeen, and was beaten by Anlu County as a fighting official for three years, and began his career as a Qin official.

He worked at the grassroots level for many years: in November of the fourth year, he became a prison official, in April of the sixth year, he was the Lingshi of An Lu, and in the first month of the seventh year, Jiayin, he was transferred to the Lingshi of Yan County. In April of the twelfth year, he was promoted to Yan County Prison and became the chief judge of a county.

In the thirteenth year of the reign of King Qin, Xi began to join the army, and after several years, he has been fighting abroad. In the fourteenth year, he joined the team of the Qin general Huan Qi, served as a hundred generals, and attacked the Zhao army in Pingyang. In the fifteenth year, he joined Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe's army, the first army went to Ye, the first army went to Taiyuan, took the wolf Meng, returned to his hometown after the victory of the war, and began to serve as a prison in Anlu County.

He experienced 19 years of the Nanjun garrison incident, tried many cases, to 20 years, because of his mother's death home to prepare for the funeral, after the funeral period to the county seat, encountered a roadblock, named "Heifu" fellow villager offspring......

After more than ten years, Xi was also excited by the waves of the times, for Nanjun Prison Peng, Dongting County Cheng, after a serious illness luckily did not die, he was transferred to the court as the imperial history, and because of a letter criticizing Qin Shi Huang himself, he embarked on the road of westward depreciation......

Now, 40 years have passed, and from beginning to end, Xi has always believed in the creed taught to him by the law: to be in accordance with the law, to be loyal to the king, to be good and trustworthy, and to be just and love the people.

His loyalty to Daqin and his belief in the way of officials have been engraved in his bones.

He also taught Heifu with this, hoping that this young junior could become a loyal Qin official like himself......

So he faintly looked forward and heard "yes".

But Heif's answer was unexpected.

"It doesn't matter......"

Heifu said to Xi Ru at the time: "Xijun, you taught me a long time ago that when you say that Ling Shi decides a case, it never depends on what a person himself says. ”

"It's about what he does, so it's useless to justify myself with my mouth."

"On the way to the east, Xijun may have seen the current people's livelihood scene, but the changes near Xianyang are also very big, you might as well walk around more and see for yourself."

I was happy to remember this answer from Hef.

But he refused the person sent by Heifu to accompany him, wearing only a regular uniform, and the second son Hui, who was already an official in the court and took leave to pick up his father, and the father and son, together with the old servant who was driving the car, dangled on both sides of the Weishui River.

But as soon as they crossed the Benmen Bridge, they were stopped by the chief of the Abei Pavilion to verify the biography.

The chief of the pavilion wore a red veil on his head, a rope around his waist, and a wooden shackle, dressed as a standard junior official, with a rattan stick stuck behind his back—which was used to whip the evil boys who had nothing to do and scourge the village.

Thanks to the runes signed by Heifu Neishi, happiness can be unimpeded, and it will not be difficult to move an inch like Shang Jun did back then.

In the face of detailed inspection and interrogation, he was happy but not angry, because this meant that the rule of the Qin Dynasty at the grassroots level in the old days, at least in the vicinity of Xianyang, was completely restored, and the pavilion chief would no longer be like in the troubled times, sitting back and watching the thieves run rampant, and with the tight control, the thieves and fugitives would have nowhere to hide. And after the chaos, Guanzhong can also recover as soon as possible the situation of dogs barking at night and not leaving behind.

Also being inspected at the pavilion were two officials, who were said to have traveled from Hokuchi County to Jangtai Palace for intensive training......

Hui told Xi that unlike before, the imperial court now has a systematic selection of officials, and each county first passes the county examination, inspecting the law, mathematics, and documents of the county disciples and local young officials, and only those who pass can become chiefs.

If a disciple of the academy who has no previous experience as an official will be sent to the township for an internship first, and he will have to stay at the grassroots level for at least three years before he can continue to be promoted, even if he is the descendant of a meritorious servant.

Hui also told Xi that every official is now required to take an oath when he takes office:

"The Dharma is the program of the world."

"Officials, the people are hanging for their lives!"

These are exactly two of Xi's favorite sentences back then......

As an official, you have to promise loyalty to the state, to the law, and to the people, which is just a concise version of "The Way of Officials......

Although it seems to be formalism, if you can take this as a starting point, it is better than the feudal doctors, who are not even aware of these things.

In addition, locally, especially in the Kanto region, officials with outstanding performance will be selected every year to visit Guanzhong, learn the arduous process of Xia Gong's reunification in Zhangtai Palace, and comprehend the policy program of the imperial court......

Although the Qin officials in the new era are in the same vein as the old era, their composition and the situation they face have gradually changed.

After the inspection in the pavilion, the three masters and servants could continue on the road, and the first stop they went to was Afang Palace in Weinan......

……

Xianyang has no outer city wall, because in the imagination of Qin Shi Huangdi, Hangu, Wuguan, Xiaoguan, and Longguan are the four gates of Qindu! And within these four levels, it will be built into a heavenly palace on the earth, with buildings everywhere, and pavilions every step of the way.

Therefore, in addition to expanding the Zhangtai Palace, he also built a large number of buildings, built the Afang Palace, and used hundreds of thousands of people before and after, and spent money and food.

At that time, Xi criticized this matter in the book, and it also touched the mold of the first emperor.

When he returned to Guanzhong this time, he had also heard that there was a novel Fu circulating in the community, whose name was "A Fang Gong Fu", and Fu said: "Six kings, four seas and one; Shushan Wu, A Fang out. Covering more than 300 miles, isolating every day ......"

Fu Zhongji writes the magnificence of a house, but it is not envious of its luxury, but sighs arrogant and resentful, and the people are unbearable, just said the idea of the world's corporans, so although the style is slightly different from the article in the world, but it is well received, under the promotion of the government intentionally or unintentionally, it has been copied again and again, and for a time Xianyang paper is expensive.

Xi Ze just listened silently and commented that the author had good intentions.

"But many of these places are exaggerated, and the people of the world do not discern them, and they are easy to believe."

Then he asked, "Who made this endowment?" Its literary style has the style of Song Yu.

Hui sighed and said: "I don't know, the author is anonymous, or it is written by Shangshan Sihao, they lived in seclusion in Shangshan when Hu Hai usurped the throne, and later saw Xia Gong lightly dismissed the thin endowment, rested with the people, and was persuaded by Mr. Huang Shi, and now he is Dr. Huang Lao. “

However, Shangshan Sihao denied this, so this poem, which has been widely circulated among literate people recently, can only be composed by "anonymous", which has become a war song to criticize the governance of the old dynasty, and also set off a movement in Guanzhong to reflect on the maladministration of the first emperor and advocate frugality......

Of course, "the heart of a single husband is becoming more and more arrogant." The pawn called, Hangu Ju; Chu people are torched, poor scorched earth" These sentences must have been deleted by someone.

In fact, the "author" of this fu originally wanted to add a description of Ah Fang's current situation, but there was not much literary brilliance in that belly, and he scratched his hair short, and the words and sentences added were always suspected of being a dog's tail and a mink, and the royal literati were also unsatisfactory......

Unless Li Si is still alive, it is difficult for anyone to write a sequel that conforms to the "author's" mind and has such a skinny appearance.

So it was only half an article, but Shangshan Sihao, who was suspected of being the author of this endowment, is now working with Jiaoxi Gaigong in Afang to re-establish Huang Lao's school.

Before coming to the Afang Palace, surrounded by the Shanglinye Pond, the palace is still as magnificent as the last time it was overlooked, but what came out of it was no longer the orchestral vomiting, but the sound of Lang reading aloud......

After the women of Wei Qin Palace and the soldiers of the Northern Expedition held a collective wedding, Afang Palace was not idle, under the leadership of Zhang Cang and Lu Jia, the collection of the Imperial History Mansion, when Qin Shi Huang ordered Li Si to collect poems and books from the Six Kingdoms, the learning of the hundred schools of thought, successively copied from the bamboo slips to the paper by the sword and pen, and sent to the stone room of the Afang Palace for storage, which was built into a large library.

Hui said: "Xia Gong said that those who are qualified to live in this gorgeous palace built by spending the world's people are not emperors or officials, only the same. ”

"That's knowledge, it's been passed down from three generations to the present day!"

"Confucianism, Mo, Huang Lao, Taoism, Law, Names, Miscellaneous, Agriculture, Yin and Yang, and even the books of the Vertical and Horizontal Strategists who once brought disaster to the world, except for the study of the military family, which taught in the military academy that specialized in training military officials, the rest are hidden here."

Xi frowned and said: "Does the regent want to turn Afang Palace into Jixia School Palace and reproduce the contention of a hundred schools?" ”

As a fan of Shang Jun and Han Zi, Xi actually doesn't like words very much, after all, this group of public knowledge and knowledge is not very good, but they like to violate the ban with literature, and they have a bunch of theories, but there are very few that can really be used in practice, don't end up raising thousands of people like Qi State, but they have no achievements in enriching the country and strengthening the army.

Hui smiled: "Father is too worried, the regent said that in the house, there will no longer be a hundred families. ”

"Only by subject!"

"Disciplines?"

Hui said: "That's right, there is the study of law, the study of etiquette through the ages, the study of the debate between name and reality, the study of astronomy and geography that explores the mysteries of heaven and earth, the philology of sorting out ancient books, and even the study of industry, agriculture, commodity breeding, dialects, translation, and hundred operas, are also listed in the disciplines, there are a total of 19 subjects!" ”

As a result, the doctors recruited by the imperial court were not only Confucian scholars, but also included hundreds of schools of thought that had survived tenaciously in the tightening policy of Qin Shi Huangdi's public opinion and in the dust of troubled times.

"Xia Gong said that for the hundred schools of thought, we must remove the dross and take the essence. The law of workers and peasants is a prominent science, Xia Gong called it a key discipline, each has a separate palace, recruiting disciples from all over the world, and most of them are grassroots officials after completing their studies, or go to the county to teach disciples. ”

"As for other disciplines, there are only a few dozen doctors and elders who organize various scientific knowledge, and more than 100 intelligent scholars are enrolled every year, so that one person can study multiple subjects according to his ability, and does not have to be confined to one school and one school, so that a hundred flowers can bloom without causing sectarian disputes and mutual attacks."

Heif's goal is not only to bring all the schools of thought together, but also to ......

"To build Afang into the world's first comprehensive university!"

And it's a double-first-class ......

However, for the time being, we do not plan to accept international students from Fanbang's dependent countries.

In this way, whether it is metaphysical classical philosophy, or the naïve natural science that focuses on reality, or even the social science that studies the system of human beings themselves, will all develop and integrate in this temple of knowledge.

If the state power and the legal system are the superstructure, then these brilliant knowledge are based on them, the more dangerous towering buildings in the air, which are difficult to build and inherit, and they are also the easiest things to burn in wars and troubled times.

Xi may not be able to comprehend all this, but he also feels Heifu's ambition.

Ambition to build a civilized future!

Compared with the invention and creation of a hammer in the east and a hammer in the west, it is actually more difficult and time-consuming to build a scientific foundation, but it is the right way to teach people to fish rather than to teach them to fish.

After Ah Fang saw these "mansions in the sky" of civilization, he saw the substructure of a country in the Shanglin area of Weinan - the clothing, food, housing and transportation of ordinary people......

……

I remember that when I came to Xianyang as an official, Weinan was still a large area of gardens, elk herds, vast and fertile land as a royal garden, only for the first emperor and the nobles of the noble children to hunt and gallop, wanton amusement, civilians dare to trespass into the logging fishing and hunters cut off their feet, even in a disaster year, will not be opened.

But now, the fence of the garden has been torn down, and a large number of Lishan ministers and Northern Expeditionary heroes have moved in, and they have built Lilu inside, and most of the upper forest garden has been reclaimed into fertile land.

In the past, "The Way of Officials" taught Qin officials: you need to know the people's ability and be good at the people's strength. But the fact is that in the era of Qin Shi Huangdi, he never took into account the people's livelihood, and one-tenth of the world's laborers were always running on the road and the frontier.

The imperial court required officials and leaders to follow the law, but the imperial court itself often liked to take the lead in breaking the law: the one-year term of service was extended to three years, and the annual oral endowment was added more than ten times at most.

Xi was particularly impressed by the fact that when he entered Xianyang as an official, it was a busy season for spring ploughing and farming, but those who were busy in the fields were all old and weak women and children. After asking, they said that all the children in the family had gone to serve. There are all kinds of places to go, or the Great Wall of Saibei, or the Western Regions of Zhangye, or the land of Haidong, or the south of the Yangtze River and Lingnan, but more of them are still in Lishan and Afang.

But now, the civil war has stopped, the Xiongnu have fled north, and the Qin Dynasty no longer has a strong enemy, so the military spending has also been frantically reduced in the past few months, and the number of border guards is less than one-fifth of that of Qin Shi Huang, and a large number of people have returned to their own land.

It is now the summer and July of the second year of the regency, the millet is about to be harvested, the wheat has just been planted, and the fields are mostly Qin farmers, with white sweat towels wrapped around their heads and working, and their shoulders are particularly dark under the scorching sun.

But everyone worked very hard, the enthusiasm for labor was very high, there were chariots and horses crossing the border, and they did not panic, and even brought a bowl of water to the ridge to watch, asking where they came back, and their faces were calm and not afraid - this is impossible in troubled times, indicating that the order in Guanzhong has been settled.

Xiren stopped the carriage and asked for a bowl of water to drink, this farmer in Shanglin came to the ripe, and began to boast about his enlistment in the army to participate in the battle of Dingwei and Chu, and earned some more acres for his family.

"And Xia Gong counts when he speaks, how much should be rewarded, even if the ready-made fields are not enough, you can also open a new field in the Guanzhong Garden, and it will not be like the first emperor, who finally deceived us and sent our children to the side."

Joy of the head, by the way, asked about their rent.

The farmer stretched out a finger: "May Day!" I heard that it will drop again next year, as low as eleven! ”

"Eleven's Rent?"

Xi was a little surprised, he had heard that Heifu set the rent in Guanzhong as May 1st, which was extremely low compared to the rent of half of Tai when Qin Shi Huangdi, but he didn't expect that after regaining the domination of the world, it would really become 11......

What is this concept? When Confucianism touted the rule of three generations, there was a saying: "The king is eleven and taxed, and the ode is the same!" ”

Is Heifu on par with the three generations? He is really determined to be a saint.

Xi asked again how to collect Fu, and heard that the children's mouth money was halved compared with the past, and the government encouraged childbirth. Such low rents, and the fact that the officials taught them the best techniques of the peasants, is probably the reason why the peasants were so active in farming, and most of them supported the new government.

Xi nodded: "Light and thin, Qianshou is happy." ”

This is a dream that geniuses had been looking forward to, but Qin Shi Huang failed to fulfill.

It was done by Heifu.

When they crossed Chang'an Township and arrived at Baqiao, they found that a large number of craftsmen and officials had gathered here a mile beside the wooden bridge, where merchants and merchants were constantly coming, holding rulers and newly made surveying and mapping tools, standing by the water's edge to measure and argue about something......

Restored the mystery: "This is to build a stone bridge on the water." ”

Baqiao has always been a wooden bridge, which is easy to be washed out in summer and autumn, so at the suggestion of Shaofu, it was decided to build an unprecedented stone bridge across Bashui, so that it can be fixed for a long time, so that the traffic on both sides is unimpeded.

What the craftsmen want to use is naturally the latest achievement of the "engineering" doctor from the Afang Palace, which is mainly composed of disciples of the Mo family, about the three laws of Mozi mechanics, and the secret of maintaining balance and stability in architecture......

However, whether to build a flat bridge or a more daring arch bridge is still debatable.

As for the materials and money needed to build the stone bridge?

The craftsmen said as a matter of course: "With the leftovers of the Zhuli Mountain Mausoleum, there are mountains there, which are enough to build a stone bridge for all the rivers in Guanzhong!" ”

"It would be nice if the skilled craftsmen of the Qin Shi Huang Emperor could be used in this regard."

I can't help but regret this, a large number of craftsmen with excellent craftsmanship have been slaughtered by Hu Hai and died in the underground palace of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang built by their own hands......

"If only they could survive to the time when the Black Husband was in power."

As for what Heifu did, long before asking that sentence, by listening to it with his own ears and seeing it with his own eyes, Xi had already been clear.

And now, it's getting clearer.

But there is still a knot in his heart that has not been untied......

After crossing the Wei Bridge, you can already faintly see the tall figure of Dongfang Lishan, and then bypass the Lishan Mountain where the pines and cypresses are still around, and the most important stop of this trip, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, will arrive

"Your Majesty."

Looking at the mound of the first emperor's mausoleum as high as a golden pagoda, he bowed down to it, bowed to it three times, and said in a dumb voice:

"Minister, I'm back to see you......"

……

Xi's life fate is consistent with this era and the reign of the first emperor.

Although he was belittled, when he was in Qiuci City in the Western Regions, when a visitor from the east confirmed the death of the First Emperor, he wept bitterly.

He cried heartbreakingly, crying until he couldn't breathe, and then he began to vomit, first this meal, then the last meal, and finally yellow bile, and the soldiers were stunned.

It's really ironic to say that the first emperor trusted Hu Hai and Li Si, and left the country to them, but one did something wrong, and the other turned around and sold Sheji, and the people in the world who felt sad for his death, except for Fusu and Heifu, turned out to be the one who scolded him and was driven away by him.

Even when his parents died, Xi never cried so sadly.

It is not only a mourning for the monarch, but also a pity for the first emperor.

"Your Majesty, he has no chance to redeem those mistakes made in his later years......"

And Xi also has a premonition that with the death of the first emperor, the world has long been like a boiling without a lid, and it will be turbulent.

Fortunately, another strongman was born and brought the already divided country together again.

To this day, when the joy is placed at the foot of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, I can deeply feel that the First Emperor has indeed gone to Huangquan, and the emperor who has never been at peace is lying quietly in the underground palace at this moment, ignoring what happened on the ground.

After all, he failed to wait for the Queen Mother of the West, and he failed to live forever.

Emperors and generals, no matter how high their merits and how powerful they are, will also have a day of decay.

Who's in Artemisia? There is no virtuous or foolish soul to gather. Why is the ghost uncle urging? Human life must not be less hesitant.

I couldn't help but feel a little sentimental: "Life is less than a hundred, even if it is as great as the first emperor, it is impossible to escape this number." ”

Even Qin Shi Huang has fallen, so what in this world can survive forever?

Xi was at the foot of Qin Ling, and remembered the second half of the conversation with Heifu in Du Tingli.

"System!"

That's what Heff said at the time.

"Monarchs will grow old and die from generation to generation, and empires will decay and decay and change dynasties."

"But if a perfect system can bring forth the new, it can go beyond the limitations of one surname and one name, and it will not decay easily!"

In that pavilion, the most basic unit of the empire, they talked about an incomparably grand proposition.

"The political and cultural changes of the Central Plains are not in the Yin and Zhou periods. The Zhou Dynasty changed the system of Xia Shang, from brother to brother, to father and brother, from ghosts and witches, to the people to gods. All of this originated from the Zhou Dynasty's ritual and the use of patriarchy to maintain the world, and later although the Zhou Dynasty declined, the Zhou system continued among the twelve princes and then passed to the Seven Warring States. ”

"Although the world is saying that etiquette is broken, the influence of the Zhou system is still engraved in the bones, and to this day, there are still people who remember it......"

"And now, it's a big change! Zhou Qin's change! ”

"The Qin system was started by Shang Jun, and later generations spent a hundred years to explore, and finally completed by the first emperor, although there are such and such problems, but it is also the best system looking at ancient and modern times!"

"And the key to this system, there are emperors who can be stably inherited, the central court is centralized, and its cornerstone is perfect laws, and there are thousands of small officials who run at the grassroots level like you and me back then."

"So, Xijun asked me if I was still a Qin official?"

"To tell the truth, if there is no me in this world, I don't know how many people are called emperors, how many people are kings, and the person who kept Daqin is me. The heroes kept singing praises to me, calling me a saint who came out once in 500 years, hoping that I could replace Qin. ”

Heifu looked to the east: "But I won't take that step, I once swore to people, saying that in this life, I will start and finish well as a Qin official." ”

"But I can't guarantee what will happen after death, the new building has been built, the pillars have been replaced, and the successors of later generations, if they want to change the archway of this building, it is no longer something I can control, if they are forced, it will cause chaos again."

China is very special, the emperor above, the surname of the family can be changed.

But as long as there are three things that remain the same, the civilization is not dead.

The substructure, the livelihood of the people cannot be extinguished.

The superstructure, the transmission of the political system, can not have a big upheaval.

The pavilions in the air, the essence of those civilizations, and the afterglow of the hundreds of schools of thought, can be preserved from generation to generation!

If this can be done, this civilization will never die!

This is the treasure that Heifu has worked hard all his life to maintain......

"Therefore, even though I pride myself on being a Qin official, but the people of today, the people of future generations, I am afraid that they still say that the black man's name is Qin Xiang, and he is actually a Qin thief! The heart of the black man is known to passers-by! ”

He spread his hands and said: "I don't want to argue, I have to set up a memorial arch for myself, anyway, in the past 20 years, I have done a lot of violations of law and discipline, abuse of power for personal gain, chaos of ministers and thieves, murder of ministers, shameless seizure of power, and the following restraints, just as much." ”

"I failed to be as the Qin Shi Huang Emperor hoped to be a 'Marquis of Wuzhong' who died obediently."

"I also failed to be a pasteur who was finally returned to the government as many loyal people and nobles of the clan hoped for."

"I just think that in my life, although it is difficult to keep the word 'Qin' in the end, I can at least keep the word 'official'."

"Officials, the people's lives are also hanging, this sentence was told to me by Xijun."

"From the time he met Xijun to the present, Heifu dared to say that all his actions were worthy of the people!"

"So, it really doesn't matter if I'm still a Qin official or not."

"The important thing is that this person who may be said to be a Qin thief, secretly abused and criticized by the 'loyal ministers'."

"But he will improve the Qin system and establish a system that can make 'Qin officials', no, strictly speaking, a steady stream of legal officials!"

"There is no shortage of officials in this world, but Xijun still lacks the law."

"Dharma, the world's programs are also!"

It represents an ideal, an ideal that has been carried over from the Shang Dynasty era.

It can make those who have a sword in their hands dare not make mistakes.

It can make the powerful dare not wantonly bully the common people.

It allows the lowly taxi, also through the military duke, to have a channel for rising and not to solidify the class.

It makes it difficult for the thugs who vainly try to split the motherland to succeed.

"But it's been destroyed."

Heff did not hesitate to admit it.

"The First Emperor set an example, and I, as well as those so-called 'heroes and heroes', gave it the heaviest blow."

"Reconstruction, how easy is it to say? I had to start all over again, from the moment I started over. ”

"That's why I need Hee-kun! Need someone who can bring justice to the world like Shang Jun! ”

"Xijun, you and I will eventually die, and the bamboo slips and paper books with laws written will eventually decay. But I hope that after the improvement of the Qin system, the spirit behind this law can be passed on! Thousands of years to come! ”

"How long will it last?" Hi asked rhetorically.

At that time, Heifu pointed to the pine and cypress outside the pavilion and laughed at himself: "At least you can live, the life of a pine tree?" ”

Thinking of those conversations, the old Qin official stood in front of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, and the wind stirred the scarf on his head.

Even when he was depressed, Xi insisted on saying to the people who laughed at him: "In the forty counties of Daqin, hundreds of counties, there must still be people who abide by the way of officials, solemn and frugal, and respectful. Even if the world is temporarily turbid, as long as these real Qin officials are still there, it will eventually return, and there will be the day when it will become white in the bright sky! ”

Now, after years of waiting, that day may indeed come.

Although this so-called new Qin, there were still many shortcomings: there was a large gap in the ranks of officials, especially in the Kwantung region, and local forces were eyeing each other in the hope of usurping the fruits of victory. The law is also imperfect, too light in some places and too heavy in others. The seeds of corruption have sprouted in the heroes of reunification, the magistrates are incomplete, and the murderers with backgrounds are still at large......

"But aren't the laws, the lawyers, used to prevent evil?"

They are swift tanuki, catching the scurrying rats.

It is also a housekeeper dog, barking loudly at the groping thief.

It is the ruler who wipes away the evil and makes the sky white again.

That's right, it's a tool.

But never be absent!

For this interrogation, I am happy that there is already a trial result.

Ling Shi's judgment of the case has never been based on what a person himself says, but on what he does!

"Go to report to the regent, and I wish to be the imperial doctor."

"Before going to Huangquan to see the First Emperor and see many colleagues, I, an old bone, can still do the last thing for the world and the continuation of the Qin system!"

……

Xi's journey is not over, he bypassed the towering Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and came to the east of the mausoleum, where the underground is still known as a wonder even after 2,000 years.

Most of the terracotta warriors and horses, as early as when Hu Hai was in power, have been filled in the earth and closed, Xi can only imagine, imagine the underground terracotta warriors and horses in rows, columns, very neat, lined up into a huge rectangular military array, really like Qin Shi Huang led a southern expedition and northern war, invincible army.

However, there are two places, which can still be overlooked, it turns out that recently, Xia Gong asked those palace maids and craftsmen who were killed by Hu Hai to be buried separately, and in the empty burial pit, two figurine pits were opened, as a substitute, and it should be the celebration of the anniversary of the reunification of the world, the last gift to the first emperor......

With the charm given by Heifu, Xi was able to get close to visit.

The first pit is relatively small, and the figurines are very strange, but there are only more than ten figurines, and all the figurines in their hands are weapons that have never been heard of or seen for so many years.

But I saw a Qin figurine dressed in the top of the stone lying on the ground, with a crown of grass and trees wrapped around its forehead, covered with a camouflage skin, holding a long stick, with two brackets fixed to the ground, and the fingers buckled on a hanging knife similar to a crossbow machine, and the eyes were pressed in front of a cylinder on the stick, staring intently into the distance......

There was also a short-bearded Qin figurine, carrying a sharp weapon on his shoulder, kneeling on one knee, as if aiming at the enemy position in the distance.

There is also a thick-haired Qin figurine, looking at the size of an eight-foot man, carrying a huge multi-barreled weapon in his hand, looking like the "fireworks" that are often used in the army to transmit messages at night are tied together, just looking at the posture is very powerful.

The Qin figurines in the rear held a horn in their hands, holding their chests high, as if they were taking a deep breath and blowing a horn of a charge.

The tun figurine at the front is holding a crossbow machine in one hand, but there are no arrows, but a weapon with a thick pipe, and the other hand beckons the soldiers to attack forward, with a vivid expression......

I was inexplicable, and when I asked the Shaofu officials in charge of this place, I found out that these Qin figurines were all drawn by the regent Xia Gong himself and made people do it.

"Xia Gong said that this is what the army will look like in the next thousand years, and it will be buried in the ground."

Not only big snipers, RPGs, Gatlings, and AKs, but Heifu also plans to wait for the tenth anniversary to build a "chariot warriors" phalanx composed of tanks, motorcycles, and bicycles to open the eyes of Qin Shi Huang......

You can't make it in reality, and it's not easy to make figurines? If future generations dig it out and see it, Zhun Bao will be shocked to lose his eyeballs.

Of course, there are also some statues of goddesses from all walks of life that have been passed down from Tessie, such as Hera, Athena, Artemis, and even those strange-looking gods who are poisonous, and they have to burn a little for the First Emperor.

After all, the old man is so good.

Anyway, I couldn't understand it when I looked left and right, so I was dizzy and came to another figurine pit.

There are not so many tricks here, just figurines standing in rows, and the officials of the Shaofu said that most of them were before the fall of the Huhai regime, and they did not have time to seal the land, and the regent let people add hundreds of statues to it.

But I saw that the general figurine was burly, wearing a crane crown, wearing armor, holding a sword in his hand, and holding his head high. With that calm look, you can see at a glance that it is a battle-hardened battlefield and a heavy responsibility is on your shoulders.

The average height of the samurai figurines was eight feet, and they had a sturdy physique and a well-proportioned body. Dressed in battle robes and leather armor, they are ready to attack with their feet upturned in their boots and glittering spears in their hands.

The cavalry figurines were dressed in short armor and tight trousers, long boots, holding reins in their right hands and bows and crossbows in their left hands, as if they were ready to charge at any time.

The horse warriors are about the size of real horses, with strong bodies and full muscles. The eagerness to try, as if at the sound of an order, it will spread its four hooves, take off into the air, and embark on a journey.

They are the embodiment of the pinnacle of craftsmanship in this era, with bright colors and different expressions:

Some of them lowered their heads and eyebrows, thoughtfully, as if they were thinking about how to cooperate with each other to defeat their opponents; Some of them have blazing eyes and solemn expressions, as if they are secretly making up their minds and vowing to fight to the death for the unification of the world by the Qin State; Some clenched their fists, as if they were waiting for a trumpet, ready to go on the march; Some stared into the distance, as if they missed their relatives back home......

Walking on the top of the figurine pit, my eyes were a little moist for some reason.

He seemed to be able to feel the slight sound of breathing, and heard the mighty shouts of the Qin army in the great era......

"How can you say that you have no clothes, and you are with your son!"

At the back of the figurine pit, there are also civil figurines, some old, some young, with simulated pottery and rectangular bags hanging from their right armpits, which are used to place whetstones. There is a round hole between the left elbow and waist of the figurine, and the inside is a bamboo slip. They all put their hands in their sleeves and make a standing posture, looking respectful and ready to be called.

As if an order arrived, they would immediately take out a bamboo slip and write it down, and if they made a mistake, they would immediately scrape it off and rewrite it with "sharpening".

I like to see them, as if I see myself.

The Shaofu official knew that the person who came was a "big man" who was famous all over the world, and said in a low voice: "Don't hide it from Xijun, Xia Gong himself also made his life-size real figurine, and it is among them!" ”

"Where?"

Xi found it in the group of figurines, among the general figurines standing at the forefront, among the civil figurines in high-crowned robes, and even in the samurai figurines fighting with spears, but no Heifu was found.

"Here."

The Shaofu official led the joy to this figurine pit, the most marginal corner, and pointed to the figurine standing on the corner.

"Look at that, that's Xia Gong's figurine!"

When I looked at it, I couldn't help but look at it, and the figurine's face was painted with brown paint to show that it was black......

So among the hundreds of figurines, he was the blackest, and he really looked like Heifu when he was young.

When I looked closer, I saw that this "black figurine" was wearing a stiff neck, wearing a short robe with a collar on the right side, with sackcloth shoes on its feet, and its hair was on the right side, wearing a red curtain. Wrapped around the waist with a rope, holding a wooden slab, the standard grassroots official dress.

I like to recognize that this is Heifu's outfit when he first became a Qin official, became a public servant, and served as the pavilion chief in Huyang Pavilion......

He stood among the thousands of Qin officials, as if he was the most inconspicuous member of them.

But in addition to the black face, the biggest difference from other figurines is that when all the figurines are solemn, the face of this "black figurine" has a happy smile.

Perhaps, the days when he was a film policeman in Huyang Pavilion were his most carefree time?

Perhaps, rejoicing in the bright future of this country.

Or maybe it's smug over a little joke in another figurine pit.

Xi looked at this figurine silently for a long time, and finally raised his head and said with emotion:

"I know, Heff has the real answer to that question......"

Is that question really meaningless?

Is that answer really "not important"?

Xi can foresee that after more than a month, the day when this figurine pit will be completely sealed.

As the people shoveled and shoveled, the mud and sand fell.

It also covered up this "black figurine".

The sand would drown the hemp shoes beneath his feet.

And then there was no rough kudzu bottom.

The rope of the belt and the wooden slab in the hand also entered the soil one after another.

Then there is the right side of the collar on the chest, and the clump on the neck.

A chin that is still smooth when he is young.

And an upturned mouth, a flat nose, and those godly eyes.

In the end, I didn't pass the forehead, I didn't pass the red curtain, I didn't pass the right bun, I finished filling it, covered it with sand and stones, and stepped on it a few times......

He was sealed in the dust.

Together with the once-invincible legion, with thousands of Qin officials.

A turbulent era has come to an end, just like our life when we were young and frivolous, after being strong and intense, it will be dull.

But he didn't disappear.

He just waited quietly underground.

Wait, thousands of years later, the soil above your head will be cut open by some reckless farmer, or an excited archaeologist will gently shake away the sand and reveal his face......

The day we see the light of day again!

……

2019.7.22, at the No. 1 pit of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum.