Yunyang Xiaoyingzheng [Da Qin]

Azheng seriously recalled Zhao Ji's complexion a few days ago, and compared it with Zhao Ji's complexion today, and found that A Niang's cheeks turned redder, but there seemed to be no difference in other areas. So he said seriously: "Aniang, I can't see it."

Zhao Ji looked at the 14-year-old boy Ah Zheng with a serious expression on his face, and sighed: "Forget it, maybe you will understand when Zheng'er grows up. Zheng'er came to A Niang's place today, what's the matter? "

Ah Zheng shook his head: "It's nothing serious, I just miss A Niang a little bit."

After hearing this, Zhao Ji's heart softened a little. She looked seriously at her half-adult son in front of her, and couldn't help stroking Ah Zheng's face with her hands: "Zheng'er has lost a lot of weight these days. The food cooked by the cook is not to your liking, or is it too busy during this time?"

She gently pulled Ah Zheng to her side: "Zheng'er, you are still a child, you should be happy as a child, those government affairs, A Niang and you Lu Aweng will help you manage them. "

Ah Zheng frowned, and wanted to say something, but the rare warmth between mother and child made him not want to quarrel with Zhao Ji, so he said softly: "Mother, I am the King of Qin."

Zhao Ji said: "Zheng'er, Auntie just doesn't want you to be too tired. King Zhou Cheng came to the throne at a young age like you. His uncle Zhou Gongdan was in charge of the government for seven years until King Zhou Cheng became an adult. You sat on the throne at the age of 13." The position of the king of Qin, the world said that it is easy to break, and the wisdom will be hurt. A Niang doesn't want you to work too hard, so she asks Lu Buwei to help you as much as possible. After all, he has been the prime minister for so many years and knows everything about the state of Qin like the palm of his hand. It's easier for you to be the King of Qin."

Ah Zheng didn't say anything more, because he knew that even if he continued to fight with Zhao Ji, it would be fruitless, and the power in Qin State still fell into the hands of A Niang and Lu Buwei.As for A Niang comparing him and Lu Buwei with Zhou Chengwang and Zhou Gongdan, he believes that he can be Zhou Chengwang, but can Lu Buwei really be Zhou Gongdan?

"By the way, Zheng'er, I heard that you recently received a bad face from a little maid?" Zhao Ji touched Ah Zheng's face and said with a smile, "You haven't grown up yet, so let's put these thoughts aside for now. Don't make any jokes, wait until you are an adult, okay?"

Ah Zheng pursed his lips, knowing in his heart that A Niang probably misheard some rumors, and mistook the stinky face sent by the Empress Dowager Huayang as a show of love from a little maid in the palace. He sighed in his heart: "I know, A Niang."

Zhao Ji gently stroked Ah Zheng's face: "Well, Madam believes in you."

After dinner with Zhao Ji, after returning to Zhangtai Palace, Ah Zheng unexpectedly met the eunuch sent by the Empress Dowager Huayang.

The man lowered his head, wearing the most common clothes of eunuchs in the palace, with an ordinary look, and handed a thin bamboo tube sealed with wax to Ah Zheng: "Your Majesty, this is the order of Master Xiong Fa. news."

Azheng took the bamboo tube and removed the sealing wax with a carving knife. Inside the bamboo tube was a thin roll of silk. Azheng opened it, and there were a few lines written on it: Lu Xiang issued an order, and the common people have a thousand stones. Lord level.

Ah Zheng squeezed the silk in his hand, and conveyed to the eunuch: "I know about this, you can go back."

The man responded and quietly backed away.

Azheng knocked on the short table next to him, with a thousand stones inside, a first-level noble title, as long as the common people hand in one thousand stones of grain, they can get a first-level title. Lu Buwei never told him about this.

When he asked whether the country's grain reserves could support the severe drought in Guanzhong, Lu Buwei clearly said that he could transfer grain from the middle of Shu to fill Guanzhong. Why did he issue a decree to collect so much grain?Why did Lu Buwei never tell him about this?

Since the reform of the Shang monarch, the Qin State has been implementing the [-]-level military title system, and the enemy's head is exchanged for titles, land, houses and servants.As long as you can cut off the head of a soldier on the other side, you can get the lowest rank of duke, and you will be rewarded with an acre of fertile land, a house, and a slave. The more heads you harvest on the battlefield, the higher the rank you will get.

It is precisely because of these continuous rewards and promotion opportunities that Qin Jun proudly ruled the roost among the six countries.

But now Lu Buwei actually allows the people to pay food to be promoted to the title. This is a kind of betrayal for those soldiers who desperately went to battle to kill the enemy and exchange their lives for the title.Besides, how could ordinary people who farm the land get a thousand shi of grain? Those who could get so much grain were nothing but those extravagant merchants and petty nobles.

What exactly is Lu Buwei trying to do by allowing these people to have titles!

Ah Zheng clenched his fists, the anger burning in his heart.Because he is not yet an adult, two seals need to be affixed to the promulgation of Qin's decree, one is the seal of King Qin, and the other is the seal of Queen Mother. The seal of King Qin is with him, and the seal of Queen Mother is with A Niang.

He was sure that he had never seen this decree of giving money to nobles before, and Lu Buwei and A Niang had never mentioned it to him. It is ridiculous that such a decree can be implemented directly bypassing him, the King of Qin.

Ah Zheng took a deep breath, that's all, call Lu Buwei into the palace tomorrow to inquire.

Ah Zheng was thinking this way, when the maid Ah Yan quietly led people into the palace room, took the washing utensils, carefully checked the lights in the palace, and reminded: "Your Majesty, it's getting late, you should rest."

Ah Zheng finished washing under the service of the palace servants, waved away the other people in the palace, and looked at Ah Yan: "Ah Yan, how long have you been by my side?"

Ayan was stunned for a moment, and replied: "It has been five or six years since Li Lang sent the slave to the king."

Ah Zheng carefully looked at Ah Yan's fairer face, which was different from that of the Qin people, and said: "You have worked hard for me all these years, thank you for your hard work."

Ayan hurriedly said: "I am loyal to the king, I dare not speak bitterly."

The young man's slender fingers tapped on the small wooden table, which was particularly loud in this empty palace: "If you want to go home, I can help you find your family."

Ayan quickly shook her head: "Since they have sold their slaves, I will treat them as dead, and I am willing to serve the king for life."

Ah Zheng sighed: "You really don't regret it?"

Ayan shook her head: "I don't regret it."

Ah Zheng said: "Then you will serve me faithfully."

"Yes." Ah Yan extinguished the uniquely shaped oil lamps in the palace one by one, leaving only a few lamps beside Ah Zheng's bed, and whispered, "Your Majesty, rest early."

When Lin Ju went online, she happened to see Ayan using a special iron hook to turn off a few lights in the house, and said strangely: "Boy, I think this Ayan looks familiar, he looks like someone we have seen before. Alone. Well, who's here?"

Ah Zheng reminded: "It's the two people we first met."

"The first two people we met?" Lin Ju recalled, "The first two we met were two teenagers. What are their names?"

Ah Zheng: "Qing Ke, Ah Li."

Lin Ju let out an "ah" and finally remembered, "I remember they asked you, Zai Zai, to help find A Li's sister. Could it be that, Zai Zai, you think A Yan is the sister they are looking for?"

Ah Zheng nodded in the dim light: "I didn't realize it a few years ago, but after seeing Ah Yan these few times, I feel more and more that Ah Yan looks a bit like the Ah Li we met before. It's just that After so many years, my memory has blurred a lot, and I dare not make a rash conclusion."

Lin Ju said: "But it's hard for us to meet Qing Ke and the others now. It's strange to say that Qing Ke and the others should look like you, a down-and-out aristocrat. How could their sister become a slave?"

Ah Zheng also couldn't answer this question: "Qingke and the others helped me a lot back then, no matter whether Ah Yan is the girl they are looking for, I will ask someone to treat her better."

"Well, come on, Zai Zai."

There is a court every five days, and there is no court meeting on the second day.

Azheng summoned Lu Buwei to Zhangtai Palace and asked him directly about the decree about paying grain and bestowing nobles.

Lu Buwei was not surprised that Ah Zheng was aware of this decree. The young Qin Wangzheng in front of him was extremely intelligent. Whether it was a doctor who was lecturing for him or his classmates, he could always hear news from the outside world from those people.

Lu Buwei did not rush, took out the document he had drafted, and asked Ah Zheng to have a look.

Ah Zheng looked carefully at the contents of the document, and found that it was not completely consistent with the news from Xiong Fa.Lu Buwei did draft the government decree of paying grain and bestowing titles, but although the people who pay grain can get titles, they can't get good land, houses and slaves. At most, they can be exempted from some labor and have no real power.

Lu Buwei explained: "Your Majesty, although the grain in Shuzhong can cope with the severe drought in Guanzhong, you can't always rely on the grain in Shuzhong to supply Guanzhong. What's more, the supply of grain in the Qin army cannot be interrupted. Only then did I come up with this method to supplement the military rations, and it has no intention of shaking the foundation of the Qin State. I wonder which villain the King listened to and slandered his loyalty to the Qin State like this?"

Ah Zheng didn't believe a word of Lu Buwei's words, he asked: "In this case, why didn't Prime Minister Lu discuss it with me before promulgating the decree?"

Lu Buwei looked surprised and said: "Your Majesty, I have already told the Queen Mother about this matter, did the Queen Mother not convey it to the King?"

The matter went around and turned around to Zhao Ji's head. Of course Ah Zheng couldn't say anything wrong about his mother in front of Lu Buwei. He pointed to the decree and added: "The highest title given by the grain can't exceed the first. Those of the fourth rank will not be changed." The fifth rank above the fourth rank is the doctor with real power.

Lu Buwei squeezed the bamboo slips tightly, and said in response: "I obey the order."

After all, Lu Buwei held the power of state affairs, and Ah Zheng didn't want to push him too hard, so he had some refreshments and set up a chess table: "I still remember that A Weng taught me how to play chess when I was young. Aunt, let's talk with me."

With the help of Ah Zheng, Lu Buwei also had a smile on his face. He started playing chess with Ah Zheng, and talked about Jinyang's suppression of the rebellion by the way. Will he recall it, or continue to fight abroad?"

Ah Zheng laughed and said, "I'm still waiting for General Meng Ao to take back the 27th city and take back his position as a minister. If Qin wants to continue sending troops, which country should Ah Weng think it should attack first?"

Lu Buwei followed with a smile and said: "Among the six countries, South Korea is the weakest, so naturally we should attack South Korea first."

The author has something to say:

South Korea: Why is it me again?

Zheng Guo: Build the canal, build the canal, build the canal, hey, why did it start?

Update owed to the 15th: 0/1, the author overestimated himself, trying to find time to make up

1. Twenty-level military title system, from the Internet

2. Su Qianshi within the common people, worshiped at the first level (see "Historical Records", but the historical records happened in the fourth year of Qin Wangzheng, please do not take it as real history)