Fu Sheng, Peng Yan, Tang Bing and others who were assigned to the county magistrates each led their followers and left to take up their posts.
There were more than a hundred people who had not been assigned to a county magistrate, and most of them thought they were capable enough to be the elders of a county, and most of them followed them into the county magistrate's house.
On the open space in the courtyard of the county governor's mansion, there are about a hundred small low tables with soft cushions placed in front of them. There are pens, ink, paper and inkstones on the tables, and ten pieces of paper are pressed under the inkstones.
Force everyone to sit down.
Everyone was holding papers and looking at them. Each piece of paper had a question:
1. Korea has been experiencing a long drought without rain, and the food harvest is poor. As the old saying goes, locusts will come after the drought. If locusts cover the sky and the sun next year, what's the explanation?
Second, the rogue bandits are suppressed but not stopped. They capture caravans, attack people, and flee after hearing the army. How to put an end to the rogue bandits?
Third, please briefly describe the prosperous times and social structure in your mind.
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"The exam begins, and the timer is one hour. No whispering, no plagiarism, and peeping. Those who violate the rules will have their results invalidated and will be expelled from Korea."
In the inner room, Ying Chengyu, who was sitting alone and peacefully with his hands on his knees, took a deep breath while listening to the sound of the brush scratching the paper.
"A hundred schools of thought contend, it depends on where the road leads."
Half a day later.
"Seventeen of you can be county magistrates."
Qiang said to the scribe Ying Chengyu personally selected.
"History of Qin": In the second year of the emperor's reign, he received the order from the emperor of Chang'an. The county governor was stronger than Xinzheng and took the first examination. The number of candidates who answered was one hundred and thirty-three, and the number that won was seventeen.
Han Di, Yewang County.
After the peasant uprising, the aristocracy here was completely wiped out.
In the initial chaotic state of beating, smashing, looting, and plundering, it was the Lu Chamber of Commerce that selected local respected people to tie up the mess.
The people of Yewang are very grateful to the Lu Chamber of Commerce for allowing them to have full stomachs, and they are very supportive of the Chang'an Lord who is promoted by the Lu Chamber of Commerce.
But in Yewang County, there is a little order, and people's lives are going from disorder to normal. Most people are very satisfied with this, and have no objections to the leadership of the Lu Chamber of Commerce.
But a few people had other ideas.
Shan is an iron digger in the iron mine. He is a helper of the Zhou family, the largest family in Yewang County. He has a lot of strength.
In this sudden, life-and-death war, Shanxi was lucky enough to survive.
This luck has continued to his father's pot.
King Guo Zaiye has a nickname, called Blacksmith Guo, and he has been making iron all his life. He is honest and responsible, and his iron tools have always been praised by his neighbors.
During the war with the nobles, many common people rushed forward with hoes, shovels, and rakes for beating pots, crying, and swung them down with their eyes closed.
After the war, the virtuous people who were selected by the Lu Chamber of Commerce and recommended by Yewang people to restore order in Yewang County included Guo.
With the temporary power of the pot, when food is distributed, good people are always the first to get it. When houses are rebuilt, good people's houses are the first to be restored.
This is the first time I have experienced the taste of power, which is the first time I have inherited my father’s honest and kind temperament and only knew about mining. It’s really good.
After the situation stabilized, Guo no longer wanted to maintain order. He still liked to forge iron. So Shan inherited Guo's position and became a virtuous man, the representative of the Yewang people, although most of the Yewang people were unaware of this.
Their lives are getting better and better day by day. The Yewang people are immersed in joy and have no thoughts about external things.
The few who paid attention to this matter were mostly smart people. They gathered around Shan and formed a small group with Shan as the core.
With more and more people around Shan, Shan was no longer satisfied with assisting Lu's Chamber of Commerce in maintaining order. Shan began to take the initiative to do things. He asked Lu's Chamber of Commerce to store all the captured food elsewhere, and he would distribute it to Ye Wang.
common people.
The Koreans around Shan supported Shan and asked Shan to distribute food. These Korean relatives and friends were secretly bribed with an extra dou of food for each meal, and also asked Shan to distribute food.
When the other Koreans saw this, they thought of Shan's usual kind and loyal appearance, and thought that Shan was a wild king like themselves, and that he was closer to them, so they also said:
"Is it possible to be good at hair?"
Shan was pleasantly surprised to find that he had received support far beyond his expectations.
Shan, who doesn't even know how to write the word "big trend", has gained the big trend.
Standing on the wind outlet, pigs can fly into the sky.
Yewang's Lu Chamber of Commerce agreed to Shan's request and gave a quantity of grain to Shan, who distributed it.
These chamber of commerce elites who temporarily took charge of Korea and were drawn from various places were good at doing business, not governing. Most of them did not realize the consequences of doing so.
In other words, they didn't think deeply about it at all.
Their roots are not in Korea. Coming to Korea is equivalent to a business trip, and they will have to go back to work one day.
It is a routine for them to distribute food every day. They are not interested in the wild king, but they are very happy that someone can distribute food for them.
Shan easily mastered Ye Wang's food and mastered the most important things of this era.
The King of Good in the Wild is gaining momentum.
When I first took charge of food, I didn't dare to do more for the people around me. I distributed food as usual, just fighting with relatives and friends.
Three to five days later, Shan took the food belonging to Yewang's people and came to recruit workers to build a mansion for himself.
Ten days later, Shan's mansion was completed.
More than a dozen other mansions are under construction, and these belong to the people who surround Shan.
Twenty days later, Shan Yu expelled Lu's Chamber of Commerce from the wild king, and the wild king responded to the matter, using the same routine as last time - making a request, gathering people to second it, and gathering relatives and friends to second it.
Rare Ben thought that this time the Yewang people would stand by him just like last time, but in the end there were only a few who responded.
Shan didn't understand why, but someone around him gave an idea:
"You can promise that if you take charge of the wild king, you will distribute twice as much food every day as before."
The book-burning order and the book-burning order were issued very early.
The Lu Chamber of Commerce set out from Korea to publicize the situation in Korea. Along the way, many knowledgeable people came over knowing that Korea was willing to do anything.
These people are not powerful people. They are better at reading, literacy, and understanding of affairs. They are one of them who are good at giving advice.
Shan suddenly realized.
"This is the same as mining at night. Mining at night can't be seen clearly, and it's more difficult than working during the day. We didn't want to do it. But the Zhou family offered to pay double the money at night, so we rushed to do it.
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On that day, Shan sent out twice as much food to the Ye King and his people, and promised that the Queen in charge would distribute food like this every day.
On the second day, a group of wild kings and common people stood on the side of goodness.
But this time, the Lu Chamber of Commerce did not agree, and they had not received the order to leave.
But from this day on, Shan's control over the wild king became increasingly stronger. When people had conflicts, they began to look for Shan to seek justice. When there were problems, they began to look for Shan to solve them.
Shan was busy with more and more things every day, and he couldn't handle it anymore. He asked people around him to share the burden, and asked relatives and friends to share the burden. Some were responsible for judging cases, and some were responsible for distributing food...
The Lu Chamber of Commerce used the Qin code to resolve cases before, while Shan used the Han code to resolve cases. Such a comparison shows that goodness is more generous.
He listened well to advice, incited the people, and complained about the harsh laws of Qin, in order to drive the Lu Chamber of Commerce out of the wild king.
If it weren't for the less than a hundred elite soldiers of the Qin army stationed at Wild King, Shandu would have launched a mutiny.
Not only that, Shan also sealed the Daqin Academy in Yewang County, which was also the advice of the counselor.
Shan himself, however, asked counselors to teach him calligraphy and reading every day. He wanted to understand those things he didn't understand, and he could only find the answers from classics.
Yewang County is a microcosm of all counties in Korea.
Yiyang, Yangcheng, Shangdang, each county has one or more good things.
They were very uneasy and had been fearing, not knowing when Qin would send officials here.
As time goes by, their mood gradually relaxes, and time can smooth everything out.
"Informed people" also told them that the Qin State would not send officials and that the Qin State did not have that many scholars. If it could, the Korean nobles would not have been allowed to take care of themselves before.
Feeling relieved, they began to test Qin's bottom line, ranging from biased judgments to robbing women, from not being given food for a day to not being given food if they didn't work.
They found that except for big things like killing people in the street, everything was fine.
After testing Qin's bottom line, they wandered around the edges of the circle. The timid ones only built three houses, while the brave ones assassinated dozens of them.
They thought they could continue to be domineering and carefree, and they became the aristocrats they hated before.
At this time, Ying Chengxuan issued a recruitment order, and the Lu Chamber of Commerce withdrew.
They were even more happy and went overboard. They believed that the withdrawal of the Lu Chamber of Commerce symbolized their victory.
The banquet lasted for three days, and the beauties were doing it in the street.
When Wu Shi, Taoist Avenue, entered Yewang County, he saw such a scene.
Right in front of Wu Shi's eyes, a woman with ash on her face was surrounded by a group of men, who forced her to cleanse her face with water.
"spread!"
Wu Shi led a group of followers forward.
Several fat and strong men who blocked the road paid the price with their blood under the sharp Qin swords held by Taoist disciples.
In such troubled times as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, none of the hundreds of schools of thought that could be spread were soft persimmons. Without force, one could not reason with others.
The rescued woman's bellyband had been torn open, and her face, which had been washed by water, was full of pear blossoms and rain, and there was a certain beauty in it.
"My name is Qiong, and I am a disciple of Master Shan. Who are you?"
The leader who molested the woman had his chest half exposed and questioned Wu Shi with a fierce look on his face.
Wu Shi ignored Qiu, and like an ordinary old man, gently comforted the frightened woman who couldn't stop crying.
His disciple came forward with the Qin sword in hand, took half a step back in fear, and said in a deep voice:
"My master is the magistrate of Yewang County."
Qiong's face changed drastically, and he led a group of perpetrators to escape and went to find his master to report the crime.
Wu Shi put a piece of clothing on the woman, led his disciples to send the frightened woman home, and took the remaining disciples to the Yewang County Magistrate's Office.
Along the way, Wu Shi's face became worse and worse because he was overjoyed to be in power.
The Wild King was different from what he imagined.
"Get the county captain."
This was the first order Wu Shi gave to the officials after entering the county magistrate's house.
"only."
Wu Shi's youngest disciple said in confusion:
"Didn't the teacher say to govern by doing nothing and try not to interfere with the development of Yewang County?"
Wu Shi said nothing and began to read through the detailed records left by the Lu Chamber of Commerce.
The eldest disciple, Guan Shan, acted as his master to help the younger junior disciples clear up their doubts.
"Governing by inaction means that everyone performs his or her own duties, and people and things run naturally. As a superior, he does not impose interference because of his own likes and dislikes, but instead destroys the way of heaven.
"However, what we have seen along the way is that evil deeds are everywhere, but there is no one to stop the evil deeds. How can the teacher turn a blind eye?"
A quarter of an hour later, Yewang County Lieutenant arrived.
Wu Shi asked directly without any courtesy:
"Can we really mobilize the public's warriors?"
The county captain replied:
"I received the military order and cooperated with the Duke to respond to the affairs. There is only one thing. After the Duke has transferred the troops, I will record the reasons and results in detail afterwards and submit the memorial to Xinzheng."
"good."
Wu Shi, the great Dao Dao who advocates inaction, nodded and stood up.
"Please general, please use all your soldiers and go with the truth."
That day, Shan and everyone around him were arrested and imprisoned.
When the blacksmith Guo, who was forging iron in the blacksmith shop, heard the news, he hurried to the county magistrate's office and begged Wu Shi to spare his son for once.
"The chaos of the wild kings is caused by good intentions, originates from you, and is contrary to the way of heaven."
Blacksmith Guo, a truly virtuous man, was also sent to prison by Wu Shi and locked up with his son.
Wu Shi dealt with Shan and his vassals according to the laws of the land, that is, the laws of Han land itself, which were accepted by the general public.
Then, as quickly as possible, we will complete the personnel structure of Yewang County.
All government agencies in Yewang County were established and everyone was clearly informed of what they should do.
The eldest disciple Guan Shan ran around here and there, busy here and there, rushing around for his teacher for seven days.
The homes of Shanhe and his followers were confiscated, containing countless grains and property.
Wu Shi kept some of it for the government's running needs, and another part as reserve money and food, and then distributed all the remaining money and food.
"Teacher, what should we do next?"
It can be seen to the naked eye that Guan Shan, who has lost weight, is physically and mentally tired, and his face is full of excitement.
In the wild king, his teacher had unprecedented power. Even the county captains who were supposed to be at the same level were under the command of the teacher. This made Guan Shan, who could only listen to the teacher's lectures in the doctoral office in Xianyang, very excited.
"You should rest, your junior brother will do the next thing."
"I am not tired."
"If you keep doing this, I will shut you down as a teacher."
Wu Shi stopped writing and looked at the eldest disciple seriously.
Guan Shan was a little confused and looked at Wu Shi blankly.
"What you look like now is what those people who were imprisoned looked like at the beginning. We follow the way of heaven and follow the way of humanity, and govern things but not people. Do you understand?"
Guan Shan was sweating profusely, he hit his head hard and said regretfully:
"Disciple knows his mistake."
"Your junior brother doesn't understand what it means to rule by doing nothing. You understand the principle but don't use it. This is worse than not understanding the consequences."
The next day.
The county magistrate's office issues a government order.
1. If a property owner who has escaped returns to Yewang and acquires a citizenship, he can restore his land and house and be exempted from rent and taxes for six years.
Second, those who were reduced to slavery due to famine should regain their free status and work in the fields. At the same time, prisoners who have committed crimes under the death penalty should be pardoned and returned to the fields.
Third, reduce land rent and implement a tax of 10 per cent.
Fourth, merchants are not allowed to wear silk clothes or ride carriages and horses, and their taxes are doubled.
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Government orders followed by official announcements reached the ears of every wild king and common people.
The people looked at the extra food in their homes and heard that they would not need to pay so much tax in the future, and they all cheered.
The mood of working for yourself and working for others are completely different.
The desolate Yewang County was filled with vitality in one day.