When the wanderer returned home and took up the post of Lieutenant of Anlu County, Hei Fu had two feasts before he could do anything else.
The first meal was for the magistrate of Anlu County. The county magistrate hosted a banquet for him. It was a public banquet and was held in the magistrate's residence. Only the "three giants" of Anlu were present. The magistrate Yong He sat in the chair.
Hei Fu and the county magistrate were seated on the left and right respectively, with the upper seat on the right. After Hei Fu entered the door, he behaved like a junior and said that the county magistrate was older than him and had a higher position than him, so he invited him to sit on the right.
Speaking of which, the counties and counties of the Qin State are different in this regard. The county guard is the chief, followed by the county lieutenant. The county magistrate is only a six-hundred-stone official, which is far from the level of the governor and the lieutenant. But in the
In the county, the county magistrate is slightly higher than the county captain...
The officials and maidservants filed in with food boxes and provided food for the three of them. The female musicians from the county magistrate's family also played the piano and sheng, singing and dancing.
Heifu is no longer the ignorant wanderer he was just over a year ago. He works as an official in the county and has participated in many "upper class" occasions. He even had banquets at the county governor's house. Now he has
He was able to learn to behave politely and speak appropriately, which made the county magistrate and county magistrate change their inherent impression of him as a "warrior".
The Qin State is a typical example of "only state officials are allowed to set fires, and the common people are not allowed to light lamps." People are strictly prohibited from drinking in groups. But when your title level reaches a certain level, drinking is as common as drinking water. The premise is that you must be rich enough, because
The price of wine in Qin is still very expensive.
While eating and drinking, the three of them were chatting. It was nothing more than the county magistrate. The county magistrate praised Heifu for his promising youth. He was the youngest county magistrate they had seen in the more than ten years they had been officials, and said that they had already seen it.
He is a sharp awl, and he stands out as soon as he enters the captain's pocket!
When this routine banquet was about to end, the county magistrate Yong He brought Hei Fu and the county magistrate into the courtyard, clapped his hands, and someone drove a carriage and horse into the spacious courtyard...
"But all the commanders, chiefs, prime ministers, and lieutenants have their own special vehicles, which are provided by the stables. So I asked someone to pick out a new vehicle. Take a look at it, county lieutenant. Are you satisfied with it?"
"Thank you, magistrate!"
It's enough to let the stable official do such a small thing, why bother to arrange it personally? Hei Fu didn't know that this was the county magistrate's show of kindness to him? He quickly thanked him.
However, he found that this car was a little different. He had seen the Sheriff's car with four horses and a shaft, while his previous car had a two-horse horse and a shaft, but he had never seen a three-horse car, black, red and yellow.
Horses, packed together in this weird way...
Seeing the confusion on Mr. Hei's face, the county magistrate Yong He took the opportunity and stroked his beard and said with a smile: "There is a saying in "Xiao Rong" that the four males are in Kongfu and the six bridles are in the hand. Qiliu is the middle and Quanli is the 骖...these three
The carriage driven by the horses is like Anlu County! And the three of us are like these three horses!"
He pointed to the red horse in the middle: "The county magistrate, the big one is six hundred stones, the small one is four hundred stones. They are all responsible for governing the people, showing good deeds and admonishing righteousness, prohibiting rape and punishing evil, handling lawsuits and pacifying thieves, caring for the people's current affairs, autumn and winter."
Classes are gathered and the plans are assigned to the county to which they belong. The county magistrate is the head of all the officials in the county, so the subordinate in the middle is like me..."
Then he clicked on the two black and yellow horses on the left and right.
"The documents of the Prime Minister's office are in charge of the warehouse and the prison. Whenever there is a thief, and the name of the lord is not established, he will search for it, investigate the case, and find out the clues. In addition to the thief, he also has to command the army. This is
The two horses on the left and right are like the two kings!"
Yong He had some ink in his stomach. He borrowed a metaphor from "Qin Feng" to make a wonderful and unconventional description, which made Heifu have a deep impression on him. This county magistrate is not simple!
As he said, the power structure at the county level in the Qin State is indeed like a three-horse chariot, the county magistrate, the prime minister, and the lieutenant. The duties and powers seem to be separated, but there are also many overlaps.
Yong He said sincerely: "The chariot needs three horses to cooperate with each other to drive steadily. If one horse wants to go forward, one wants to go behind, and one wants to go left, the chariot will be unable to move forward and may even fall into a ravine."
Although Anlu's car is not big, it still carries hundreds of miles of land and tens of thousands of people. You two monarchs, we also need to cooperate sincerely!"
At this point, Yong He's intention became clear, he hoped that Heifu could keep pace with them.
Hei Fu's goal was to train troops, and he also needed an order. The Prime Minister helped him, so he immediately handed over his hand and said: "Hei Fu is from a humble background and is a junior. In the future, everything in the county will require more guidance from the County Magistrate and the County Prime Minister!"
Hei Fu expressed his attitude, and the county magistrate and county magistrate couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. They were afraid that Hei Fu was too young and liked to do random things. He relied on the county's backing to act independently in the county. Seeing that he was so calm and profound.
The way of officialdom was relieved, and the banquet became cheerful again.
But during the dinner, Heifu was also thinking about an interesting question.
"If county administration is like a chariot and county officials are like horses, then who is the one who holds the six bridles in his hands and controls its direction?"
The governor? The King of Qin? Or the Qin Law itself?
…
After taking care of his superiors and colleagues, he still had to reunite his subordinates who had been separated for half a year. So the next day, Heifu also held a banquet in his county captain's mansion, and all his old subordinates were invited.
In addition to his younger brother Jing, there were also Li Xian, Xiao Tao, Dongmen Bao and Ji Ying.
The people who came today were all our own people, so there was no need to be polite, so they just sat in a pile. They had not seen each other for a long time, and they happily talked about their old friends, and showed the official seal of Mr. Hei on the table...
Heifu is now "more than four hundred stones", so his seal has been changed from a hundred stones with a cyanotic ribbon to a yellow ribbon. Everyone is passing it on carefully as if holding a pearl, and they are full of envy.
This was awe and envy for power, but everyone also felt that their hard work was included in this official seal. So under the influence of alcohol, everyone began to show that they had done it in front of Hei Fu, intentionally or unintentionally.
Things are coming.
"It's been really hard these past six months."
Although Ji Ying was still skinny, he was newly married and was living a good life. His complexion gradually became plumper and rosy. He began to tell how in the past six months, he had taken advantage of the opportunity of being a rural postman to secretly open the folders of many Yun family members.
In the private messages in the official documents, a lot of dirty information about the Yun family's children was found.
Heifu smiled: "I remember when I was at Huyang Pavilion, I almost opened an anonymous letter."
Everyone laughed.
"I'm not the same person I was then."
Ji Ying likes to brag, so he quickly said: "Now I can open the letter and restore it again, and no one else can see the flaw!"
While he was talking, he put on a show and found an official document that Heifu had not had time to open. After observing the ink pad on it, he actually carved one on the spot with a radish, and then deftly opened the rope that bound the letter.
After checking the contents, he reconstructed it again. The newly made red-letter ink pad on the rope was actually fake, which made Heifu's brother shocked and dumbfounded...
"This is just a little trick of yours."
Dongmen Leopard looked disdainful: "Yunman has several manors in Beijiao Township, and there are dozens of guests there. After the pavilion chief arrested Yunman, those guests tried to cause trouble. It was I who led the pavilion soldiers, local people, and
The county soldiers led by Xiao Tao surrounded the manor, and the chaos was finally settled after a fight... Xiao Tao, please say something!"
Xiao Tao still spoke little, but finally stammered: "If you want... to contribute the most, you should also... be the one who benefits from it."
No one had any objection to this. When Heifu was away, Li Xian was responsible for coordinating them. They united to bring down Yun Man and did not become a piece of sand. In those few days, it was Li Xian who designed to deceive Yun Man.
Arriving at the official temple, he was captured.
So Heifu asked everyone present to toast Li Xian with a glass of wine!
Li Xian smiled bitterly and said: "In that case, I also deceived the leader of the Li clan. Now that I am not cast aside by the clan, I am very satisfied. How can I dare to take credit?"
He replied to Heifu: "If the county captain had not discovered Yun Man's major crimes in the county, our trivial crimes would not be able to bring him down. Now that the pavilion chief has returned and won the position of county captain, we
The planning of these six months has not been in vain.”
"good."
Dongmen Bao also said: "From now on, the county captain has the final say in the Anlu County Lieutenant's Office, and our good days are finally coming! I don't have to be as cautious as before, for fear of being caught by the Yun family.
Do you want to hold on to the handle?"
Ji Ying also encouraged: "When will the county captain go to the county? It's time to take us with him to show off his power!"
"I came to Anlu to serve as county captain, not just to rest and show off."
Heifu put down his cup and said seriously: "I am here to train more than a thousand disciples of Anlu into a powerful force! I'm afraid the second and third sons don't know it yet, but after the autumn harvest, Qin and Chu will go to war again.
Got it!"
Except for Li Xian, everyone else was a little surprised and looked at each other in confusion.
"Are we going to fight again?"
They then realized what they were doing, and said in unison, "We will try our best to assist the county captain in training his troops!"
In the midst of the response, Heifu was sensitive to something strange, that is, in everyone's speech and behavior, they seemed to have no enthusiasm for the war in the past, but instead revealed a sense of success and satisfaction...
"It's only been half a year since I left the army, and these guys are already slacking off?"
Heifu was a little hesitant, but then he came to his senses.
"It's normal to be content with the status quo!"
After all, they are just a group of people from the county and township. They have not received a good education and do not have much knowledge. Unlike when they left Anlu two years ago, everyone was poor and white, and most of them did not have titles. Everyone has been promoted and made a fortune during the war. Now Yun
After the old enemy Man was also killed, they fell into a state of losing their goals, and even felt that "this life is enough."
Everyone is not very enthusiastic about the upcoming war. That's right. Since we have everything, why should we risk our lives to fight? Even if they are not sparrows, they are at most the young leaders of the county and township.
Wild duck, Heifu cannot require everyone to have great ambitions!
If his close confidants are like this, how can he talk about building a strong army?
So after Heifu thought for a moment, he suddenly smiled and said: "It's been a long time since I had a good chat with my two and three sons. It's rare to get together here, so I want to say that I have a lot of fun today!"
He stood up and said: "Back then, we were from humble backgrounds and often suffered from cold and hunger. We were either busy working for a living or trying not to die in the ravines. Now we are all Qin officials and have received titles. Although our family wealth is not much, it is enough.
My wife is rich, and since I no longer have the trouble of making a living, I would like to hear about your next plans and ambitions, everyone is here to express their ambitions!"
