Chapter XXIV Costs

After knowing that the county was so arranged, Zhu Yin no longer had any timidity, and when he was happy, he looked at Xiong Jing with some gratitude and flattery. But there were also a few people with different looks, they found Cheng Jie, Cai Wen and others to whisper a few words, and Cai Wen and the others came over again: "The king, the minister has a reluctant request for the king's grace." ”

"Say." Xiong Jing was sitting on the throne, and every move of the Yin below was in his eyes.

"The ministers ask the king to pardon Yang Wenjun's capital crime." Cai Wen spoke very clearly at this time, and when he heard the words 'Yang Wenjun', the Zhongting court immediately quieted down. For Yin Gong, Yang Wenjun is not a crime that cannot be punished, and from today's result, Yang Wenjun is kind to everyone. If he hadn't instigated the county officials to complain about his illness and let him not send pawns or give food, the king might have killed himself just now.

"At that time, the king was trapped in Chen Ying, and the Qin people showed people with a false head, telling the world that the king had died. When Yang Wenjun and Shouling Jun heard the news, they wanted to make Prince Qiang king. This ......" Cai Wen said and looked at the others, and waited for the others to nod their heads one by one before turning his head and saying: "Although there is a transgression here, it is common sense. The minister also heard that this matter was all done by Shoulingjun, not by Yang Wenjun. Since October, Zuo Yin's Mansion has not searched for evidence of Yang Wenjun's connection to Qin, and the minister thinks ......"

"Cai Qing doesn't think about it." Xiong Jing interrupted him, "If the evidence is useful, why do mortals have to have heads?" If Zuo Yin is useful, why should Zuo Yin be ordered not to be the king? Like sweeping a house, the law is but a broom, and a broom alone is not enough to clean it. It cannot be said that a house is clean when a broom is swept away. ”

"The king thinks that the law is useless?" There is no murder, and there is a contract system, and the Yin people are very confident in speaking.

"The big punishment is with armor, followed by the axe." Xiong Jing smiled, "I have an axe and a soldier, so why should I care about the law?" When the Qin people came over, what law was there? Besides," he said before the other party could refute, "In the future, the state of Chu will implement the contract system, only the agreement between you and me, and only the agreement between you and me and the honorable scholars, the first soldiers, and the common people. Within the county, you are the law, and within the Chu country, as long as you do not violate the covenants, you are the law. Whatever is the law that you made when you were in the system of officials, and who is right and who is wrong? ”

"This ......" A group of people were stunned, they were still thinking about it, and even more shocking finally happened. The person in charge of cutting the meat fished out in the middle of the copper tripod under the signal of Xiong Jing, and the soup in the ding 'bang', a boiled white human skull was fished out, and everyone in Zhu Yin was shocked.

"It's late." Xiong Jing looked at the human head, and his tone was a little melancholy. "Yang Qing has been shouting before entering the Ding: 'The king can't kill me, the king can't kill me, ...... the king', and said how the Empress Dowager of Qin Guohua Yangzu was, thrown into the Ding, he actually crawled out by himself, but he had to order someone to throw him back again, and then cover the Dinglid, and it took a quarter of an hour before there was no sound in the Ding."

The description of Xiong Jing ...... "The Great King" is creepy, especially, especially since everyone may have drunk the soup of the Ding in the middle and eaten the meat of Yang Wenjun. Wow——! Someone couldn't help but throw up.

"Buyu has always trusted Yangqing, but Yangqing has always wanted to be Ling Yin, so he did not hesitate to conspire with the Qin people in a vain attempt to defeat our Chu army at Chen Ying. You were so bewitched by it that you didn't send county guards or send grain and straw, and you should have all been executed! However, I don't think about the love of the same surname, and I know that you and others don't know the truth of the conspiracy, so they are pardoned. Yang Qing is an ungrateful person, and his meat is only worthy of being cooked and fed to dogs. You're waiting to vomit venison. "Talking about the killing in an innocent child's voice, the Zhongting seemed to sink into the Yellow Spring in an instant, and everyone was worried and cold all over. Xiong Jing said again: "Four days later will be an auspicious day, and I will wait for you to tell the ancestors of the temple and fulfill the covenant that Shicai said." Stand down. ”

Yang Wenjun has been boiled badly, and he has obtained a good result. The Yin dukes sighed or were silent, and walked to the middle court together, and said 'the ministers retreated' together, and finally walked out of the court together. The sun was shining outside the main bed, and they couldn't help but shiver until they went out of the road, and their eyes were full of luck.

"I can write to the general." After Zhu Yin left, Xiong Jing immediately ordered Yi Su.

"The king is wise." Yi Su bowed, and after resuming, he also tended to leave, and only Zhao Huang, Qu Sui and Song Yu were left in the middle court.

Now that the matter has come to this, Zhao Huang understands very well why the king wants to deal with his husband like this. If you don't respect the king internally, there is no way to conquer the outside. No one can determine what happened on the battlefield, the real elite soldiers of the Chu army are only 200,000 at most, once they lose the elite of the king, and then punish the old man, it will be a different situation.

Another feasible option is to make a truce with the Qin State, not to attack Aocang or Hangu Pass, to spend a year to clean up the old clan by force, and then attack the Qin state next summer, but whether to fight or not to fight is not something that the Chu State can unilaterally decide, the Qin State has no faith and the world knows it, in case the Qin people attack Chu on a large scale when the old clan is cleaned up, then what should be done?

The reason why Zhao Huang would explain this way is that he doesn't understand what an organization is. The reason why Xiong Jing disposed of it this way was only because he believed that cost first was the essence of feudal organization. Suppose that a certain robber led a group of people to drive Yin Chen Jian out of Chen County, and at the same time sent someone to Yingdu to say: Chen Jian can bear the agreed obligations shouldered, so why should he send a large army to help Chen Jian recapture Chen County? What good will it do to you by retaking Chen County? Instead of working so hard and destroying the people and money, it is better to directly appoint the robber as the new county governor of Chen County, and let him fulfill the previous agreements between Chen Jian and Yingdu to save costs.

Of course, the feudalism of the Zhou people is a feudalism that integrates the blood patriarchy, and does not clarify the rights and obligations between each other based on property, and it is better to say that it is a feudal system, but it is a patriarchal system. But even if it is a patriarchal system, hundreds of years of erosion, the love of blood is very indifferent. Instead of reviving the patriarchal law, it is better to implement the county system, which cannot be implemented based on national conditions, so the second resort is to implement the feudal system, clarify the property rights of each county, and divide each other's rights and obligations.

As long as someone fulfills the previous agreement, it doesn't matter whether it is Chen Jian or a thief. Since it doesn't matter whether it's Chen Jian or a thief, instead of killing the old man and replacing the immature newcomer, it is better to pardon the old man once and clearly determine their rights and obligations, which is the most cost-effective.

In the middle court, he discussed the affairs of the Jiangdong fiefdom with Zhao Huang, Qu Sui, and Song Yu, and Xiong Jing went out of the city to the Shaobi military camp. Above the water, the military tent is continuous. Most of these tents were empty, and the Chu army, including the Jiangdong division that arrived later, and the stone tool troops sent by the southern tribes for King Qin, had been sent to the front line of the Chen Ying Gap, and now only the selected honorable people lived here.

"Stand-up!" Zhuang Qujian shouted to the more than 500 honorary soldiers who formed a phalanx. The entire queue vibrated for a moment, then reverted back to a reprimanding posture in his 'take a break' command.

"The minister has seen the king." More than 500 people saluted Xiong Jing, and their movements were uniform.

"No courtesy." Xiong Jing shouted. The sun is a little dazzling, but the wind blowing on the water is extremely comfortable. "Bu Yu has pardoned the princes of the king of Buqin, and has contracted them their hereditary counties, as long as they keep their promises. They don't dare to have any more opinions about you and other seals. In the future, you will compare you with them only in the size of the land under your jurisdiction, in a little difference in etiquette, and there will be no real difference in any other way.

The land is still not good, but because of your bravery and faithfulness, you are willing to tell me that the ancestors of the Chu State will allocate that land to you. This land may be passed on to your sons after you die, and your sons may pass it on to your grandsons after they die, and your children and grandchildren shall belong to you, as long as you keep your promises. ”

Whether the clan is pardoned or not has little to do with the honorable soldiers, and if they are not pardoned, they are conquests, and the honorable warriors who are happy and warlike are not afraid of war. It's just that the king wants to give himself a land of Lu, and this land can also be passed on to his children and grandchildren, and everyone was immediately suppressed. In the red-hot May sun, they felt their bodies suddenly burn.

"Except for the agreement, the traitor must be cleared out." Xiong Jing's eyes became cold, "If an official does not have the protection of the big clan, then he is a traitor and must be eliminated!" Those who have committed adultery in the county government and Zuo Yin's mansion, if they do not have a blood feud with each other, must also be eliminated. What is not to be said is that there is only one voice in a Lu, and that is your voice, and then you elect your new leader according to the new selection method, and he will enter the Yingdu on your behalf and be listed in the outer court to discuss the affairs of the Chu State.

Tomorrow, you will rush to the counties and towns with the armor and scribes, and your retinue to imprison the officials, take over the government affairs, and ensure that the grain is delivered to the Chen Ying military camp. After the war, you and others will go back to Yingdu and Buyu Temple to establish an agreement with you. ”

Out of the more than 17,000 honorees, only about 500 were selected who were more literate. In the past 20 days, they have conducted a simple training on county government affairs, learned about the responsibilities of each county town, understood how the county government operated, and how agricultural taxes were collected. In addition, there is also targeted training, that is, the basic understanding of the county where you go.

Despite these preparations, Yingdu's support for them was still very limited. They only had the local scholars selected by Feixun and the teacher school, the selected party members from several counties, and six armor soldiers, and finally the spears and blades in their hands, as well as the huge armor on their bodies. Xiong Jing looked at each of them as he spoke, and some of them would surely die in the county below.

"You are all humerus, and you don't want you to have any casualties on this trip, so ......" Xiong Jing looked at Chang Jiang at this point. After Chang Jiang beckoned, six four-wheeled carriages rushed over. The puller of the cart whirled with a strong breath, and the ruts left two deep marks on the dirt. After the car stopped, a temple man held a ball of things, and when it was unfolded, it turned out to be a piece of iron clothes, the clothes had no clothes, and there were only visible holes on it.