Daily Life In Qin Dynasty Chapter 103

  Chapter 103 Touring Bashu

  September nineteenth.

  It is advisable to travel.

  On the official road from Xianyang to the land of Bashu, there is a long and mighty line, like a wandering dragon, stretching for hundreds of feet.

  At the front and rear of the team, there were 500 elite cavalry in full body armor clearing the way.

  A line of armored guards stood on both sides.

  In the center is a six-carriage carriage, slowly moving forward under the support of a guard of honor...

  Yi Li's "Wang Du Ji" said: "The emperor drives six, the princes drive five, the ministers drive four, the doctor three, the scholar two, and the common people one."

  In the entire state of Qin, there is only one person who is eligible to ride a six-passenger vehicle.

  There are not many guards near the six carriages, only a stern young man in white clothes wearing a long sword and riding a horse.

  After the six carriages, followed by five or six four carriages, and dozens of three and two carriages.

   Sitting in these carriages were many high-ranking officials and nobles of the Qin State, but at this moment, most of the people in the carriages still had a bit of doubt on their faces.

   More than half a month ago.

  The current king of Qin suddenly issued an edict to tour Bashu during the autumn harvest season.

  This edict does not seem to be anything special. After all, today's Bashu is the granary of the Great Qin, and the grain output of Bashu can be said to be related to the lifeline of the entire Qin State.

  So during the annual harvest or planting season, as a king, Yingzheng came to Bashu in person to pray for a good harvest of grain and good weather. This is a very common ritual nowadays.

   It's just that the edict issued by King Qin seems a little too anxious this time.

  Started from Zhou Tianzi.

  The king has strict etiquette regulations when traveling, including guards, entourage, travel mode, which way to go, and even the speed of travel...all of these are written in "Zhou Rituals".

Under normal circumstances.

  If the king wants to leave the palace and tour places, it will take at least a month of preparation time at the shortest.

  However, this time the King of Qin insisted on keeping everything simple. It only took ten days to take care of everything, and then led a group of officials to Bashu.

   Change to the past.

  The 'Fengchang' who is in charge of sacrificial etiquette will inevitably prevent the king of Qin from such impolite behavior.

  But today's Yingzheng is no longer the old Yingzheng. With the downfall of Lai Ai, Lu Buwei's house arrest, and the suppression of Chu's relatives, the powerful Yingzheng has almost turned the court into his own "one-word hall".

   This person, as a proton, was born in HD, the capital of Zhao. The 'Young Dragon' who returned to the Qin Kingdom to succeed the throne at the age of thirteen, and was suppressed by various forces in the court after that, had been lurking for more than ten years.

   Now he has finally emerged from the abyss, showing his domineering and powerful side.

  Lu Buwei and the remnants of Chu's foreign relatives, in the face of the powerful Yingzheng at the moment, all chose to avoid the edge, preserve their strength, and wait for the day when they can recover again.

  After the carriage entered the land of Bashu.

  The scene in front of me suddenly turned golden, and the golden rice was blowing by the autumn wind, and there were layers of golden waves.

  See this scene.

  Many people were already a little tired and sleepy, and they suddenly became energetic.

   High-ranking officials and nobles may not have to worry about food and drink, but at the moment when the currency system is not perfect, the tens of thousands of acres of mature rice in front of them can be equated with 'gold coins'.

  The convoy traveled a certain distance.

  An army also wearing Qin State Bingjia suddenly appeared in front of the team, and the three faces in front of that army surprised many high-ranking officials and nobles present.

  One of them was wearing silver-patterned Xuanjia, with bushy sideburns of elders on both sides of his cheeks, his appearance was heroic, iron-blooded and masculine.

   One person's left arm is missing, replaced by a bronze mechanical hand.

  A person with delicate features, wearing a cloud-patterned brocade, has a tall and straight figure, exuding a natural and carefree temperament.

Seeing these three people appearing in front, the six carriages also stopped slowly. The next moment, Ying Zheng, who was wearing a black dragon robe and looked more majestic, but with a faint smile on his lips, gradually walked out of the carriage. get out.

   "Chen Mo Jun (Meng Tian, ​​Gong Shuchou) pays homage to the king."

  Seeing Ying Zheng walking out, the three quickly bowed and saluted.

   That's right.

  The three people who appeared in front of Yingzheng and other dignitaries at this time were Mo Jun, Meng Tian, ​​and Gong Shuchou.

  Meet these three people.

  Many officials who already had doubts in their hearts looked at each other, and the doubt in their eyes suddenly deepened.

   "How are they here?"

   It is naturally impossible for the officials who came to Bashu to follow Ying Zheng this time without knowing the three people in front of them.

  Meng Tian, ​​grandson of Meng Ao, son of Meng Wu, a new generation general of the Meng family.

  Gongshuchou, the current head of the Gongshu family who just defected to Qin a few years ago.

  These two people and their backgrounds, one in the court and the other in the rivers and lakes, both enjoy great reputations, but anyone with a little bit of ears must have heard of their names.

   As for Mr. Mo.

  Two years ago, most of the aristocratic groups in Qin State probably had only heard of his name, but they didn't know much about it.

  But with the arrest of Lai Ai, the implicated Lu Buwei was placed under house arrest, and the rebellion of 27 noble families in Nanjun countered the rebellion... and so on. These news spread to Xianyang one after another.

  Mr. Mo's name has gradually become known in Xianyang, and everyone knows it.

Of course.

   Among them, at least half of them, after learning about Mo Jun's deeds, had the idea of ​​"I wish I could kill him sooner".

   After all, if you think about it carefully, you will find out.

  Lao Ai was killed.

  Lu Buwei was placed under house arrest.

  Chu foreign relatives were suppressed.

  Behind these three events, Mo Jun almost always appeared.

  Under such circumstances, if the remaining forces of these three forces in Xianyang can have a good impression of Mo Jun, then it is a ghost!

   "The three ministers are all dead!"

  After Ying Zheng got off the carriage, all the dignitaries and nobles behind him also got off the carriage one after another, followed behind Ying Zheng, and quickly walked to the front of the team.

   Ying Zheng first asked the three of them to excuse him, and then smiled at Mo Jun: "Mo Qing, I want to see you now, it's really not easy!"

Although he didn't know whether Yingzheng's words were hitting or just making fun of him, Mr. Mo saluted sincerely and said apologetically, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. It's not that I deliberately refuted the king's good intentions. It's just that the flood disaster in Nanjun has not yet ended. , I really can't let it go."

Hearing this, Ying Zheng laughed and said, "Hahaha~~~ I have already heard about what Mo Qing did in Nanjun. Before leaving, tens of thousands of people sent each other off, and the people of Nanjun spontaneously built a shrine. Glory, even the few are envious!"

  Hearing what Ying Zheng said, many Qin officials behind them subconsciously shifted their gazes to an old man with a goatee and gray hair in the second row.

   This person is none other than Guan Yu, the governor who refused Yingzheng's allocation of food and disaster relief in Nanjun at the beginning.

  Guan Yu's face at this time looks calm on the surface, but if you observe carefully, you will find the shadow hidden in the depths of his eyes.

Again.

  As an internal history of millet management, Guan Yu can not allocate food to Jinan County. Even King Qin Yingzheng couldn't punish him for this reason, after all, the flood in Nanjun was a natural disaster.

  But now this matter that Guan Yu thought was impossible was perfectly solved by another person.

  The meaning is completely different.

  Let's not talk about anything else.

  First of all, the label of 'incompetence' has already been attached to him.

   Change to the past.

   This kind of 'incompetence' is actually not a big deal. Guan Yu just needs to take care of it a little bit, and then ask Xiangguo Lu Buwei to come forward to intervene.

  But now that King Qin is powerful, Lu Buwei is under house arrest, and even Guan Yu, who is from Lu Buwei's lineage, may make any small mistake on his body, which may be magnified infinitely.

  So Guan Yu already had a bad feeling when he first learned that the Nanjun disaster had been resolved. At that time, he was even ready to be demoted from the position of 'Zhi Su Nei Shi'.

  However, nearly a year has passed.

  The king of Qin seemed to have forgotten Guan Yu's disrespect, and didn't intend to punish him at all.

   But this did not make Guan Yu feel at ease. On the contrary, as time passed, the bad premonition in Guan Yu's heart became more and more intense.

  Ying Zheng exchanged a few words with Mo Jun.

   Seeing Ying Zheng's attitude when talking with Mo Jun, the group of officials behind him felt a little weird.

  Although during this period of time, Mr. Mo has made a lot of contributions, but how do you feel that the relationship between the king and the Nanjun Sheriff is a bit too close.

   "Is everything going well with this year's harvest?" After exchanging greetings with Mo Jun, Ying Zheng asked Meng Tian again

   "Report to the king, everything is going well." Meng Tian clasped his hands and saluted, with a resolute expression.

   "Colorful!"

  Ying Zheng let out a cry, then turned around and said to the ministers behind him: "You must be tired after traveling all the way with the widow. If so, let's all go in with the widow to have a look!"

   Until this time, Ying Zheng still did not reveal the real purpose of this trip to Bashu.

  But just after a group of officials followed Ying Zheng into the blocked area ahead with doubts in their hearts, it didn't take long for everyone to discover that something was wrong with the surrounding farmland.

"This is······"

  Guan Yu was the first to notice something strange.

   As an internal historian of Zhisu, although Guan Yu and Ying Zheng have different positions, he is by no means a person with a vain name.

  So when he walked into this blocked area, he immediately noticed the difference between the rice planted in the fields in this area and the rice planted in those farmlands he had seen before.

  In an instant, Guan Yu's face changed suddenly.

   And the second he noticed the abnormality, other people soon noticed that something was wrong in the surrounding farmland.

   "It's so big and thick!"

   "The fruits of these rice are so plump, and the stalks are also thick."

   "Why? Why is the rice planted in the farmland in this area so different from the rice I saw outside just now?"

  (end of this chapter)

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