Daily life in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 103 Touring Bashu
September nineteenth.

It is advisable to travel.

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

At the front and rear of the team, five hundred elite cavalry in full body armor cleared the way.

A line of armored guards stood on both sides.

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

Near the side of the six carriages, there were not many guards, only a stern young man in white clothes who wore a long sword and rode a fine horse.

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

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

Half a month ago.

Today, the 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.

Therefore, 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 King Qin's edict was issued in a little too hastily this time.

Since Zhou Tianzi began.

There are strict etiquette regulations for the king to travel, including guards, entourage, travel mode, which way to go, and even the speed of travel...all of these are written on the "Zhou Rituals".

Under normal conditions.

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 things simple. It only took ten days to take care of everything, and then led a group of officials to go straight 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 former Yingzheng. With the downfall of Lai Ai, Lu Buwei's house arrest, and the suppression of Chu foreign relatives, the powerful Yingzheng has almost turned the court into his own "one-word hall".

This one, as a proton, was born in HD, the capital city of Zhao. The 'young dragon' who returned to Qin to succeed to the throne at the age of 13, 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 remaining forces of Chu's foreign relatives, facing the powerful Yingzheng at the moment, all chose to avoid the front for the time being, preserve their strength, and wait for the day when they can recover again.

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After the carriage entered the land of Bashu.

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

See this scene.

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

The 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 another 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 had a missing left arm, 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 his respects to the king."

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

That's right.

At this time, the three people who appeared in front of Yingzheng and other dignitaries and nobles 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.

"Why are they here?"

It is naturally impossible for the officials who followed Ying Zheng to come to the land of Bashu this time and did not even know 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.

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

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

As for Mr. Mo.

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

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

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

Of course.

At least half of them, after learning about Mo Jun's deeds, had the idea of ​​'I wish I could kill him soon'.

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 incidents, there is almost always Mo Jun's figure appearing.

Under such circumstances, if the remaining power of these three forces in Xianyang can have a good impression of Mo Jun, then it is a ghost!
"Let's all three be flattened!"

After Ying Zheng got off the carriage, all the dignitaries and nobles behind him also got off the carriage one after another, followed 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, it's really not easy for me to see you now!"

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 internal historian who refused Yingzheng's allocation of food and disaster relief in Nanjun at the beginning.

Guan Yu's face at this time looked 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 historian who governs millet, 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.

That meaning is completely different.

Nothing else to say.

First of all, the label of 'incompetence' has already been put on him first.

Change to the past.

This kind of 'incompetence' is actually not a big deal. Guan Yu just needs to do a little bit to deal with it, 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 belongs to Lu Buwei's lineage, may make any small mistake, which may be infinitely magnified.

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.

King Qin seemed to have forgotten Guan Yu's disrespect back then, and had no intention of punishing 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, Mo Jun has made a lot of contributions, but how do you feel that the relationship between the king and this 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 Your Majesty, everything is going well." Meng Tian clasped his hands and saluted, with a resolute expression.

"color!"

Ying Zheng yelled, 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 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 with doubts in their hearts, it didn't take long for them to discover 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.

Suddenly, 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."

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

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(End of this chapter)