Fu Sheng, Peng Yan, Tang Bing and others who were assigned to the county magistrates each led their followers to leave to take up their posts.
There were more than a hundred people who had not been assigned to the county magistrate and felt that they were capable enough to be the elders of a county. Most of them followed them into the county magistrate's house.
In the open space of the governor's mansion, there are about a hundred small low tables placed. There are soft cushions in front of the tables. There are pens, inks, papers and inkstones on the tables. Ten pieces of paper are pressed under the inkstones.
Force everyone to sit down.
Everyone held the paper and looked at it. 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, when the drought subsides, locusts will come. What will happen if locusts cover the sky next year?
2. The rogue bandits are restrained but not stopped. They capture the caravans, attack the people, and leave after hearing the army. How to put an end to the rogue bandits?
3. 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. Anyone who violates 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, see 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 held the first examination. The answer is one hundred and thirty-three, and the winner is 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 support Lord Chang'an who promotes the Lu Chamber of Commerce.
But in Yewang County, there was a little order, and people's lives were going from disorder to the right track. Most people are 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 good fortune 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 an honest man and his iron tools have always been praised by his neighbors.
In the war with the nobles, many common people rushed forward with hoes, shovels, and rakes, 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 were among them.
Through the temporary power of the pot, when food is distributed, goodness is always the first to get it. When houses were rebuilt, good houses were among 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. It is really good.
After the situation stabilized, Guo no longer wanted to maintain order. He still liked to forge. Therefore, Shan inherited the position of the pot and became a virtuous person, the representative of the Yewang people, although most of the Yewang people did not know this.
Their lives are getting better and better day by day. The people of Yewang are immersed in joy and have no thoughts about external things.
And the few who care about this matter are mostly smart people. They gathered around Shan and formed a small group with Shan as the core.
As more and more people surround Shan, Shan is no longer satisfied with assisting the Lu Chamber of Commerce in maintaining order, and Shan begins to take the initiative to do things. The Lu Chamber of Commerce was asked to store all the captured grain elsewhere, and he would distribute it to the Yewang people.
The Korean people around Shan supported Shan and demanded that food be distributed by Shan. Relatives and friends of these Koreans were secretly bribed with an extra dou of grain for each meal, and they also offered to be kind in sending grain.
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 himself and was closer to him, so they also said:
"Is it good to be good?"
Shan was pleasantly surprised to find that he 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, pigs can fly into the sky.
Yewang's Lu Chamber of Commerce agreed to Shan's request and gave a supply of grain to Shan, who distributed it.
These chamber of commerce elites who were temporarily in charge of Korea were drawn from various places. Their forte was 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 the wild king'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 or five days later, Shan came to recruit workers with the food belonging to Yewang's people to build a mansion for himself.
Ten days later, Shan's mansion was completed.
Ground has been broken on a dozen more mansions, belonging to those who surround Shan.
Twenty days later, Shan Yu expelled Lu's Chamber of Commerce from the wild king. The wild king responded to the matter and used 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, with the book code in hand, was issued very early.
The Lu Chamber of Commerce set out from Korea to publicize the situation in Korea. Many knowledgeable people along the way 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. People who give good advice are one of them.
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. .”
On that day, Shan sent out twice the amount of food to the Ye King and his people, and promised that the Queen in charge would distribute food like this every day.
The next 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 have conflicts, they begin to seek justice. When you have a problem, start looking for kindness to solve it.
Shan is busy with more and more things every day, and he can't keep up. He asked the 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...
Lu's chamber of commerce used Qin law to resolve cases before, but Shanshan used Han law to resolve cases. Such a comparison shows that kindness is even more generous.
He was good at listening to advice, inciting 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, needs counselors to teach him calligraphy and reading every day. He wanted to understand the things he didn't understand, and he could only find the answers in the classics.
Yewang County is a microcosm of all counties in Korea.
Yiyang, Yangcheng, Shangdang, every county has one or more good things.
They were very uneasy and had been panicking. They didn't know when Qin would send officials here.
As time goes by, their mood gradually relaxes, and time can smooth everything.
"Informed people" also told them that Qin State would not send officials and Qin State did not have that many scholars. If it could be done, Korea would not have been allowed to take care of itself for the Korean nobles 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 edge 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 joyful 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.
Taoist Avenue Wu Shi saw such a scene when he entered Yewang County.
Right in front of Wu Shi's eyes, a woman with ash on her face was surrounded by a group of men, holding water and forcing her to cleanse her face.
"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, you cannot reason with others.
The bellyband of the rescued woman was 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 man 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 Qin Jian 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 happy 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 teacher to help the younger junior disciples solve their doubts.
"Governing by doing nothing means that everyone performs his or her own duties, and things run naturally. As a superior, he does not impose interference based on 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 have received military orders to cooperate with the Duke in responding to 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 Dao Dao who advocates inaction, nodded and stood up.
"General, please use all your armor and soldiers and go with the truth."
That day, Shan and everyone around him were arrested and imprisoned.
When the blacksmith Guo 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 rebellion of the Wild King is motivated by good intentions, originates from you, and goes against the law 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, which was the law of Han land itself and 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 told what to 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, and they had 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, with an excited look on his face.
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.
"Just 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 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, 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 becomes a citizen, 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 with less than capital crimes should be pardoned and returned to the fields.
Third, reduce land rent and implement a tax of one per fifteen.
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 rejuvenated in one day.
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(End of chapter)
