Qin Official

In early January of the 32nd year of Qin Shihuang, the spring breeze blew, and the frozen Jishui regained its former vitality.

On the north bank of Jishui in Linzi County, there is Di County. Like other counties in Qi State, the largest powerful family in Di County is Zhutian. Tian Dan and his younger brother Tian Rong's family were also descended from Tian Chengzi's more than seventy sons. They were separated during their father's generation, but they were on the same street. Both the east and west were rich, and their exchanges were not affected at all.

As local tycoons, the Tian brothers did not dare to compare with the Yeyi Tian family in fame or the Jimo Tian family's wealth.

However, Tian Dan and Tian Rong liked to play with light knights as early as when the Qi Kingdom still existed. They were highly respected by the knights and could win people. Although Di County returned to the Qin Dynasty, the county magistrate, lieutenants, and prime ministers still had to rely on Tian Dan to intervene. Otherwise, it would be difficult to implement the decree in the market.

In the past few days, Tian Rong went to Linzi and visited his brother Tian Dan as soon as he came back.

The servants brought him to a spacious field with fine sand on the ground and an archery target. Two orchids were placed on one side. There were various weapons on the orchids, the most numerous of which were swords - Tiangao Emperor Yuan , the Qin Dynasty's order to withdraw troops seemed to have no impact on the Tian family in Di County.

Tian Dan is good at martial arts and is dressed like a young man rather than a rich man. He gets up every morning to practice his sword skills and does not waste time now. Seeing Tian Rong coming over, he directly threw a wooden sword to him. The two bowed to each other, then raised the wooden sword and began to fight.

Tian Rong cooperated with Tian Dan's movements, but kept talking. After telling what he had seen and heard, he kept sighing: "It's so miserable, brother, the Jiaodong fields are so miserable!"

What Tian Rong was talking about was, of course, the fact that the fields in Jiaodong were uprooted and moved to the west!

After several rounds of competition between the two, when they were drinking water and resting, he told Tian Dan: "The First Emperor of Qin ranked the fields in Jiaodong from first to eighth according to the order of migration, and regarded them as base clans. I am still on the street." I saw Tian Jiao and Tian Jian, the heads of the Jimo Tian family."

Zhutian has his own social circle. The Tian family in Di County and the Tian family in Jimo still have some old grudges, but after all, everyone has the same surname. When foreign enemies are around, those hatreds will not be remembered deeply.

Tian Rong described: "That generation has long lost the majesty of the Jimo doctors. Although there were carriages and horses along the way, they were all covered in yellow and gray and were in a miserable state, not to mention the long team behind them. The Tian family's children walked on foot. Okay, behind them are the guests who are unwilling to abandon the fields and fields, supporting the old and the young, walking slowly. From Jiaodong to Linzi, they have just walked more than a hundred miles, and they are so miserable that they go to the northern part of Guanzhong County, I don’t know how many people will die..."

Listening to Tian Rong's narration, Tian Dan remained silent. He silently drew an arrow, took the bow from his son Tian Shi, touched his head, and then said: "You can toast brother Tian Jiao with a glass of wine for me." ?”

"Thank you, and I gave you 10,000 yuan as a gift."

Ten thousand dollars was just a drop in the bucket to Tian Rong. He came closer and said, "Brother, Tian Jiao asked me to send a message to you."

"What did he say?" Tian Dan put the arrow on his bow, closed one eye, and seemed to be aiming at the target.

Tian Rong said: "He said that Tian Qi is like a tree. Now most of the branches have died, and all the branches and leaves will wither and fall. It's just a matter of sequence. Jiaodong will fall first, and Di County will follow. It's better for us brothers to make plans early." …”

Tian Dan didn't shoot the arrow in his hand for a long time. After a while, he laughed and said: "What Tian Jiao said is interesting. When his family was in disaster, why didn't he resist and instead encouraged my family? Besides, look at all the fields in Qi Di." , Is there anyone who has a further plan than us? No one knows where Ah Heng, who was said to have died of an illness seven years ago, and the many guests in my house have gone!"

This is the secret of the Tian family in Di County. Tian Rong also has a younger brother named Tian Heng. Tian Heng makes friends better than the two of them. He is young and energetic and hates the Qin Dynasty the most. When the Qi Kingdom fell seven years ago, Tian Heng led a group of people and went to sea with Yongmen Sima, who would rather die than surrender. Later, he gradually contacted his two brothers.

Eggs cannot be put in one basket. Tian Dan and Tian Rong cooperated with the government in the name of an "obedient citizen" of the Qin Dynasty, but let Tian Heng stay among the pirates nearby, and told the outside world that he had died of illness, and even served as a deputy The empty coffins and coffins were buried in Tian's cemetery to hide their identity from others. Tian Heng also used a pseudonym overseas.

The Tian family in Di County secretly subsidizes Yongmen Sima and Tian Heng with grain and weapons every year. Their family has a way out. Perhaps Tian Jiao of the Jimo Tian family has already found out about this?

Tian Rong seemed to be a little relieved and advised: "Brother, the relocation of the Jiaodong fields is certainly related to the Jiaodong County Governor. Everyone in the fields said that this man was named Heifu, and he was given the name Jimo by Qin Shihuang. It is really black on top of black. But isn’t this the forerunner of the Qin Dynasty’s move to move away the rich and powerful? If the cold winter comes, more than one tree will wither. Perhaps soon, the fields in Linzi and other counties will also be forcibly relocated, and the children will become captives. , looking at each other..."

He said excitedly: "Now we are also dead, but we are also dead. Instead of surviving, it is better to take advantage of the Qin people before they attack my family and fight! Dozens of fields in the four counties of Qi are shocked by the incident in Jiaodong. Things harm their kind. If my brother holds high the banner of righteousness, then all the fields will take my family as the leader and kill the Qin officials in the counties and counties in response, and tens of thousands of people can be gained. In addition, A Heng will lead the overseas young knights back, then things can be done, and Qi It can be restored!"

Whoosh! The arrow in Tian Dan's hand came out of the string, but missed the target. Tian Dan, who used to hit the target with perfect accuracy, actually missed the target today? There was even a gaping hole in his hand, and he was bleeding.

This seemed to confirm the excitement in Tian Dan's heart, but he remained calm on his face. He allowed the servants to bandage him, but said one thing to his younger brother Tian Rong.

"My brother, do you know that that day when Qin Shihuang passed by Linzi and I watched his carriage, what did I think?"

That was three months ago, when Qin Shihuang completed the Zen ceremony at Mount Tai in Xue County and arrived in Linzi. Tian Rong still had fresh memories. He only remembered gnashing his teeth at that time. How could he know what Tian Dan was thinking?

Tian Dan smiled helplessly and announced his answer: "I saw that Qin Shihuang was so majestic and majestic. Wherever he went, everyone paid homage to him. Even I didn't dare to touch his edge. So, a sentence rang in my heart at that time."

"What words?" Tian Rong asked.

The bleeding from Tian Danhu's mouth still didn't stop, but he took off the white cloth that was pressing the wound and threw it to the ground.

"What I'm thinking is that before the sun sets, it's hard for the stars to appear. It's like if the First Emperor doesn't die, who in this huge world would dare to openly rebel against Qin?"

…

The nobles and nobles of other counties and counties in Qi were frightened by the Jiaodong Zhutian. Under the power of Qin Shihuang, they were all relocated and had no room for resistance. They suddenly felt sad that the rabbit was dead and the fox was dead.

In the Jiaodong government office, Sheriff Heifu and his staff were rejoicing over the large tracts of land and houses that had been vacated after the relocation of the fields.

The officials in the county governor's office all congratulated each other and said: "Half a year has passed since the Yeyi Tian family left, and Yeyi has been under great rule. Your Majesty praised it for its good deeds. Now that all the fields in Jiaodong have gone, we have a lot to do!"

Jiaodong is part of a country with a county system, and county magistrates are directly appointed and dismissed by the emperor. However, at the grassroots level below the county level, such as townships, pavilions, li, etc., because the airborne Qin officials did not understand the dialect, they could only be elected by the local nobles and clans as the three elders, pavilion chiefs, and li chiefs. The government's ruling foundation was very weak. Imperial power was limited to the county walls and could not be extended to the countryside.

With the arrival of Heifu, this situation slowly changed: Dozens of disciples from the Jiang Qi clan who cooperated with the government and graduated from public schools filled the gaps left by Qin officials to govern the place. This spring, the power of the government slowly spread to the grassroots with the "Song of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms" and the method of composting and retting that has been proven to be effective in public fields.

The only obstacle is Moroda, which owns a large amount of land and means of production...

Nowadays, these stubborn big families have been relocated with a few words from Heifu. It is like throwing away all the appliances in an old house so that they can be renovated and renovated.

But the first thing that troubled the officials was the division of land.

These days, most of the wealth is in the form of land and real estate. The wealthy people in the fields who were ordered to move had to sell their land and real estate at a low price. But who will buy the fields?

In the Qin Dynasty, land annexation was prohibited, so no one except the government was eligible to buy land!

This was a forced sale. Heifu asked Cao, who was in charge of the gold cloth, to pay a small sum of money to buy hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land in Zhutian at a low price, and then distributed it to the displaced landless people.

Just like what happened in Yeyi half a year ago, this time, the landless Lu Zuo in the county enthusiastically signed up, and soon, almost everyone owned land.

In this way, the poor people were able to live and work in peace and contentment, the population controlled by the government increased sharply, and the huge wealth of the wealthy families was forcibly "equalized" in the process of migration and selling.

"Those who have a country and a family are not worried about being few but about inequality; they are not worried about poverty but about insecurity."

Heifu secretly said: "I didn't expect that I, Jiaodong, would actually use this special method of 'beating local tyrants to divide their fields' to achieve temporary equalization of land..."

The land conflict in Jiaodong was instantly alleviated. The biggest problem now is that big landowners occupy too much land, leaving Luzuo Yongbao with no land to cultivate. But there are still a lot of acres left, but no landless person in Jiaodong can come to claim the land. It can only be classified as public land, but public land also needs people to cultivate it.

In addition, Jiaodong now wants to change the boiled salt in the off-farm period to the sun-dried salt in the busy farming period. Although it saves fuel and increases the production cost, it will virtually require more labor. In addition, the mines in Pingdu and other places need to be developed, and the labor gap is at least There are tens of thousands!

"Perhaps we can recruit from other counties?" Chen Ping came up with a sinister idea.

This is an old trick during the competition between the seven countries. King Hui of Wei once asked Mencius: The government of a few people is obviously so good, but the government of neighboring countries is not as good as that of a few people. If the people of neighboring countries do not increase or decrease, if the people of the poor do not increase, then why?

The situation at that time was that if the security measures were not strict, people from other countries would migrate to whichever country lived well and vote with their feet.

Although the Qin Dynasty did not allow easy migration, it was aimed at land-owning farmers. For the Luzuo farm laborers and merchants, prohibiting them from moving was equivalent to cutting off their livelihood. Therefore, it may be a good idea to go to neighboring counties to recruit poor people from the left, and it will definitely achieve results.

But Heifu knew that no matter how effective it was, he couldn't do it.

"It would be fine if I were the head of a country. At worst, I would be scolded by my neighboring countries and fight against each other, but nothing could be done to me. But now I am just a county guard, and the imperial court is still suppressing me. Without the emperor's permission, I openly take orders from neighboring counties or even Recruiting people from all over the world, what do you want to do?"

Heifu secretly complained in his heart, and at the same time rejected Chen Ping's plan, and turned his attention to a place on the map on the other side of Shaohai...

He pointed to the peninsula with a zigzag coastline and said: "I heard that there are some small Yi people in the south of Jizi Korea. They are not counties in Qin, but they are not far from Jiaodong. There are many people there. If If the navy masters and ships can find a way to get over, they may be able to bring the young men to Jiaodong as slaves to make up for the lack of labor!"