Qin Official

"Loujun Lieutenant had a bad start and failed to wipe out all the bandits?"

Hearing the news delivered by the messenger on Pegasus, Linzi County Governor Lu Jue (yi) was so anxious that he almost got angry. Regardless of his image as a two-thousand-stone official, he immediately stood up and asked:

"When Lieutenant Lou left, he patted his chest and said that he would be able to wipe out the bandits within ten days. Every time he sent someone to reply, he always said that the bandits were a ragtag group of people who were vulnerable to attack. If they didn't fight, they would be wiped out. If they fought, they would all be wiped out. What happened? "

The envoy then reported the details of the Battle of Jishui one by one. It turned out that the day before yesterday, the Qi people crossed the water to attack, but they were quickly defeated and returned.

The commander-in-chief Lou Kang then despised him and immediately ordered people to build a pontoon bridge and cross the water to pursue him. Unexpectedly, after only a thousand people had crossed over, the originally defeated group of bandits came back, as if they had been beaten to death, and more than ten thousand people rushed towards the river bank without any formation. The river bank was already narrow and wet, and the line of Qin soldiers was not thick enough. Although they set up their spears and fired crossbows continuously, they were caught off guard by such a rush and could only retreat slowly.

The Qin army has a strong formation and sufficient equipment. It could have withstood it as long as the follow-up troops continued to come, but it didn't want to do so at this time. Dozens of small boats came from upstream. It turned out that they were bandits from Jibei County who came to support the Tian brothers. Those boats directly hit the pontoon. The people on it jumped down to block the Qin army's support. Finally, the pontoon was cut off and the Qin army The two groups, north and south, could not respond, and more than a thousand people north of Jishui were lost among the bandits.

Seeing this, Lou Kang could only take the remaining 4,000 people back to Duchang County in order to fight again...

After hearing this, Linzi County Governor Lu Ye couldn't help but cursed loudly. How could this be that the Qin army was not completely wiped out? It was clearly the Qin army that was defeated!

Lu Ye knew what this small defeat meant: the possibility of quickly extinguishing the rebellion was gone, and the rebellion between Zhutian and Qingxia would probably get worse.

What's even worse is that according to the messenger, there are also bandits coming from Jibei County? Does this mean that the "group of thieves in Lixia" mentioned in the Jibei County Sheriff's letter a few days ago are beginning to become more powerful?

The rebellion in Linzi County was the result of pirate activities and the Tian family's plan in Di County, while the people in Jibei County who responded to Di County were hastily inspired by the governor of Jibei County.

When he heard that something had happened in Di County and that the Tian Dan brothers were trying to restore Qi, the Jibei County Sheriff's first reaction was to send county soldiers to arrest all the fields in the county. As a result, there was a greater backlash, and few people were captured. Almost all the areas in Jibei were forced to rebel overnight.

In particular, Gaotang County, the base camp of Tian's ancestor worship, also raised a banner. A Tian Qi noble named "Tian Jie" responded to Tian's attack, killed Qin officials and occupied the city to defend it. Therefore, Jibei County is also very busy at the moment, busy suppressing the Gaotang rebellion, and has no time to send troops to Linzi to support.

Lu Ye could only secretly rejoice. Fortunately, most of the Linzi fields had moved to Guanzhong with King Jian of Qi a few years ago. They were the first batch of powerful people to be forcibly relocated. Therefore, there was no chaos in Linzi City for the time being, and he could still hide in safety. area, thinking about ideas.

But the matter has come to a head. Qin's laws are not only strict on the head of Guizhou, but also on officials. Especially military law: generals who abandon their armies must be put to death, and officials who lose their cities must be punished.

As a county guard, if there is no order from the court, Lu Yan does not have to lead the troops in battle personally, but he has the responsibility to defend the territory. Now, four or five counties north of Jishui, Linzi, have been completely occupied, and Lu Ye has met the criteria for dismissal. If the rebellion is allowed to expand further and become a prairie fire, then what he said to the emperor, "It is not a rebellion, it is just a group of bandits" will definitely become The confession that caused his own death, even a few heads are not enough to chop off!

But now, it is impossible to quell the rebellion by Linzi County alone. Lou Kang has already reached his limit by stopping the rebels north of Jishui.

At this time, the Linzi County Magistrate came up with an idea and said: "The governor does not need to worry. There is chaos in Jibei and we cannot come to help. It will take some time for the imperial reinforcements to arrive, but there are still soldiers from Jiaodong! Jiaodong has expelled all the fields. There is no need to worry about the future. Commander Wei has already followed His Majesty’s orders to lead the land division to approach Linzi, and the boat division has also set sail. In just a few days, he will be able to join the Linzi troops, advance by land and water, and put down the rebellion!"

It seemed like a good idea, just leave everything to the black man in Jiaodong who could fight and govern the county, but Lu Yan only had a sullen face and said nothing. The county magistrate was trying to bully him!

As a veteran in his fifties, Lu Yan was sent to Linzi, a large county with a population of nearly two million, as the county governor. It was not because of his great merits, but mainly because of his sufficient qualifications. He had been an official for more than 30 years and accumulated performance evaluations to reach this point. One step, at most, during the Lao'ai rebellion, as the Prime Minister of Xianyang, he had some outstanding performance.

After arriving in Linzi, Lu Jue also managed the place well. Although the main reason for Linzi's stability was that Wang Ben was guarded by this big mountain and the people of Qi were in awe.

Last year, Wang Bi left Linzi and returned to Xianyang. Lu Yan suddenly felt tremendous pressure. This pressure was not only due to the difficulty in governing the people of Linzi, but also because of his neighbor, Heifu, the governor of Jiaodong County, who was too outstanding...

Standardizing private schools, attracting farmers, wiping out the Yeyitian family, and discovering gold mines, almost every few months, Heifu would instigate something that would shock the whole country. Compared with it, the peaceful Linzi seemed a bit bleak. .

When Emperor Qin Shihuang visited the east, the situation became even worse. After listening to Chang Shi's words, Lu Ye collected all kinds of auspicious signs and presented them to him, such as the giant footprints stepped on by giants. However, he was outdone by Hei Fu again. "Natural auspiciousness is not as good as human auspiciousness", it was a shame that he could say it, but it once again made the emperor very happy, and also had a hint of sarcasm towards Lu Ye and others for forging auspiciousness.

Next, the Confucian scholars in Linzi caused trouble, which was different from the past. Lü Yan was also blamed for poor management of the market and was reprimanded. As for Heifu, he intervened in the dispute between book repair and book burning, tried his best to block Li Si's proposal, and became the savior of hundreds of schools. For a time, he was unparalleled in the limelight.

In short, Qin Shihuang had a low opinion of Linzi's governance, but he was full of praise for Jiaodong's New Deal. When he left Jiaodong, he even gave the man the words: Jimo...

Although Lu Ye didn't say it, he still felt a little jealous in his heart. However, he and Hei Fu were not in conflict with each other, so there was no need for them to become enemies.

But the rebellion that took place in Linzi left Lu Yan with no control over it.

He felt that he was wronged: the forced relocation of the fields was initiated by Heifu, and the four thousand pirates were also entrenched on the Jiaodong islands. As a result, they did not dare to cause trouble in Jiaodong, but went to their own jurisdiction to cause trouble. Did they think that Linzi County was easy to bully? ?

Angry and angry, and wanting to shirk responsibility, Lu Yan put the blame for the rebellion on Jiaodong County when writing a letter to the emperor.

But now, relying on Linzi to quell the rebellion has come to nothing. Lu Rui still has to count on Jiaodong's help. Where can he put his old face...

Seeing that Jiaodong soldiers will arrive tomorrow, Lu Ye doesn't even know how to cooperate with that black husband...

Fortunately, soon he won't have to worry about it.

Just as Lu Ye was pacing and thinking, he heard a commotion and noisy sounds outside. Lu Ye was immediately frightened and sent someone to see what was going on.

After a moment, an official ran in with a pale face. He didn't even bother to take off his shoes, and he didn't have time to salute. He said in a hurry: "Prefect, the news of the Battle of Jishui has been leaked. Someone in Linzi City is taking the opportunity to cause chaos!"

Lu Ye was stunned for a moment, and then felt a chill. He was only worried about the fighting situation in Jishui, but he forgot that at this moment, he was also sitting on a pile of dry firewood that could be ignited at any time!

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At the same time, more than ten miles away, Heifu stood on the military chariot and saw several pillars of smoke burning in the big city.

They go straight into the sky, like the dark fingers of ghosts and gods stretching out from the clouds. Wherever they sweep, they are filled with blood and fire...

"I knew it……"

Heifu breathed a sigh of relief. He had passed through Linzi three times and knew that Qin's rule here was like a tree without roots and water without a source, floating on the surface.

There are three hundred villages in Linzi of Qi, but the officials don't know their people, and the people don't trust their officials. Although the fields in Linzi were moved along with King Jian of Qi as early as the fall of Qi, who knows if there are any fish that have slipped through the net lurking among the people? Hiding and waiting for the opportunity to rise again? And it would be too easy for those Lilu Qingxia to cause trouble in this city where they were born and raised.

Hei Fu will never forget what Wang Ben said to him: Qin had only forty officials in Linzi, and they were in charge of four hundred thousand Linzi Qi people with unpredictable attitudes and difficult to understand the language!

It is too difficult for the Qin army to maintain law and order in the city with only two thousand poorly trained garrison soldiers. This is just a dense pile of dry firewood. A single spark can ignite a huge fire!

Cao Shen also sent people back on flying horses to report: "Your Majesty, the governor of Linzi Lu County sent people to ask for help, saying that there was a rebellion in Linzi City. The light knights and unruly people took to the streets, burned down the official temples, and attacked the officials. If the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, if Linzi is lost, Jiaodong It’s no longer safe, I hope the county guard can save him quickly!”

After Gong Ao heard this, he burst out laughing: "This Linzi County Sheriff, he finally admitted that he was a rebel? But even without his broken lips, Jiaodong's iron teeth and bronze teeth can still bite the rebels to pieces and become a county governor. Great job, why rush to save him!"

After saying that, both of them looked at Hei Fu.

Hei Fu pointed at Linzi with a solemn face: "I only know that if Linzi City is in chaos, then this rebellion will not result in tens of thousands of deaths!"