When Bai Yan returned to Gaonu, it was already the end of February.
As the carriage drove slowly, when he heard the horseman reporting that he had arrived at Gaonu, Bai Yan opened the small window next to him and looked outside.
This is not a good thing to look at. Once you take a look at it, you are immediately attracted by the scene in the distance.
Looking at the place in the distance that should have been a plain, Bai Yan clearly remembered that when he left, countless people were busy casting houses, and only a few built them. Now, less than a month later, he returned here again. At a glance, there are densely packed houses standing on the plain.
Although you can still see people casting houses everywhere, it can be said that they are completely turned upside down compared to before.
At first glance, it looks like a new city.
In the carriage, even Master Xu, who was beside Bai Yan, looked at the scene in the distance with eyes filled with wonder.
It was also the first time that she witnessed with her own eyes that the power of the people was so powerful that they could turn a plain with nothing into a vibrant scene in such a short period of time.
After a while.
As the carriage drove slowly down the street, Bai Yan saw that the street had returned to its original density of people. At a glance, he could see that it was full of hawkers and merchants.
Seeing this, Bai Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and even sighed, now that spring plowing is around the corner, and there will be another war with Zhao in two months, it is unexpected that Gao Nu has recovered like this.
It seems that Chai is definitely a good hand at handling this.
Think of this.
Bai Yan couldn't help but laugh.
Bai Yan couldn't help but sigh when he thought that Chai was a capable minister who was delayed in leading the army.
Talents like Chai are completely in line with the Qin State's orientation in selecting ministers. Prime ministers must be from prefectures and counties, and generals must be from the ranks.
If a talented person like Chai is given more time, Chai may not be able to guard one side like General Teng in ten or twenty years.
Return to the castle guard's mansion.
More than twenty days ago, the city guard's mansion was still a simple wooden shed, and Bai Yan worked in the wooden shed. Now the carriage stopped, and when Bai Yan got out of the carriage, he saw the prototype of a mansion appearing in front of him.
At this moment, hundreds of men, big and small, are still building mansions and busy in the houses.
Bai Yan knew that these people should be laborers elsewhere.
The city guard's mansion is not private. Like the city walls and official roads, after damage, the watchmen or laborers will be responsible for it.
A large number of people violated Qin's laws when doing labor force.
In the end, they were either punished or arrested as coolies, or they were punished first and then worked as coolies.
Bai Yan looked at these people, and he had more or less guessed in his heart that most of these people should be from Yingchuan County.
For these people, Bai Yan has been able to be indifferent. In this world, Bai Yan can't control so many things. Bai Yan has seen too many men and women who were imprisoned for violating Qin's laws. Once they violated Qin's laws, men would be punished. Slaves, servants, or coolies. If the wife and daughter are sitting together, they are concubines, maids, maids, and coolies.
Even in Bai Yan's own mansion, some maids became maids because they were tied together.
All Bai Yan can do is to give dignity to those maids. Punishment cannot be avoided. Everything has two sides. Avoiding punishment is not a good thing.
All those who are interested in the world say that Qin's laws are cruel, but even if Qin is destroyed in future generations, Qin's laws will still exist.
So in real terms, Qin's laws are strict but never cruel. The original intention of Qin's laws is not to punish those who commit crimes today. In the future, more people will commit crimes and harm innocent people. By then, punishing evil and promoting good will become empty talk.
For women, although the Qin Law was strict, compared to later generations, the Qin Law was the best law for women, bar none.
Qin's law does not say that a woman who is beaten by her husband cannot report to the official. Once the woman reports to the official, she will be punished.
On the contrary, Qin officials supported women in reporting for official positions and gave women sufficient status.
And it is precisely because of the strictness of Qin's laws and the continuous sitting system in it that if an assailant harms the people on the street, other people who see him will not hesitate to stop the thugs no matter where they are.
This is even more safe for women.
These are two sides of the coin. If the Qin State did not have the continuous sitting system, the women of the Qin State would never be as safe as they are now.
Therefore, Bai Yan will never use his kindness in things like this. If he is not careful, the consequences will be unbearable.
"General!"
"General!!"
When the famous cavalry officers saw Bai Yan stepping out of the carriage, they all held their hands.
When the soldiers saw the Jue Bian on Bai Yan's head from the corner of their eyes, all the soldiers were shocked. The general was already Zuo Shuchang!
The sound of these cavalry soldiers immediately made a laborer from the famous Zhuzhu Mansion look over. When that man saw Bai Yan, all the men's eyes were full of curiosity.
Is that young man Bai Yan, the Qin general who is deeply loved by the Gaonu people?
Thinking of this, when these working men looked at the young man, in addition to curiosity, there was also a hint of fear from the bottom of their hearts.
They are not the people of Gaonu.
They had all seen with their own eyes that the city was filled with endless ashes and the city was completely in ruins.
They have also seen that under the mountains in the distance, in addition to more than 4,000 graves, there are thousands of skulls and bones piled there, like hills. The rotting heads of the Huns were eaten by crows, which made them particularly hideous and terrifying.
And behind these scenes, they all come from the same name.
Bai Yan!
"What are you looking at? Keep working!"
As a cavalry officer spoke, the men came back to their senses and started working seriously.
Inside the mansion.
Peck had been supervising the work of the laboring men. When he saw Bai Yan coming back, he immediately looked excited and took Bai Yan to the brand new temporary study.
"General!"
When Chai saw Bai Yan coming back, he stood up quickly.
During this time, Bai Yan was away and Chai was very tired. He didn't even get much rest.
At this time, Chai Ye finally understood why Bai Yan had to hold a bamboo slip in one hand and look at it when he was eating, because if he didn't look at it, he wouldn't be busy at all.
Chai Ye couldn't help but smile when he saw Jue Bian on Bai Yan's head.
As someone who followed Bai Yu through life and death after joining the army, and followed Bai Yan in bloody battles, it can be said that Chai was as loyal to Bai and Bai Yan as anyone.
For Bai Yan,
In Chai's heart, he is more like a young master.
"Thank you for your hard work during this time!"
Bai Yan looked at Chai's appearance, held back his smile, and said softly.
Chai shook his head.
"General, this is the news sent by General Hu Jin in Yuzhong City!"
Chai thought of something and said to Bai Yan, then turned around and went to a bookshelf, took out two volumes of bamboo slips and handed them to Bai Yan.
Because he knew that it was the commander-in-chief, General Hu Jin, who ordered it to be given to General Bai Yan, Chai did not read the contents.
"Um?"
Bai Yan was a little confused. After taking the bamboo slips, he opened a scroll and looked at it.
Only then did Bai Yan learn a piece of 'good news'.
Because of Prince Yuezhi's words, Wang Wan, the imperial censor, had ordered the bamboo slips to be delivered to Li Pingyan, the imperial censor of Shangjun.
Both Feng Quji and Hu Jin already knew that someone wanted to kill Bai Yan. When investigating Shangjun, they also ordered people to go to the Huns to find clues. At this time, they heard the news that Zhao Ji had escaped.
Zhao Ji, the city captain of Pingzhou City.
Why would a city captain have a border defense map?
Inside the second volume of bamboo slips.
It was written in detail that along with the investigation by Hu Jin and Feng Quji, they soon learned from some noble families and Qin officials in Pingzhou City that Zhao Ji went to Gao Nu several times to meet Lu Lou a few months ago.
Moreover, after some people close to Zhao Ji were caught, they also confessed that it was Zhao Ji who had obtained the defense plan from Lu Lou.
Zhao Ji's favorite concubine also confessed that Zhao Ji accidentally said when he was drunk that all the Bai family should die.
Put away the bamboo slips.
"General, what's wrong?"
Seeing Bai Yan's frown, Chai asked with some confusion.
"fine!"
Bai Yan shook his head and did not tell Chai what happened.
If Bai Yan had not known the truth of the matter, Bai Yan would have believed that this was the truth of the matter based on the testimonies, witnesses, and even evidence in the bamboo slips.
Bai Yan couldn't help but sigh, no wonder Mi Qiyou was so confident in getting rid of Lu Lou, it turned out that everything had been arranged long ago.
Just as everyone thought, Lu Lou's death was the result of Zhao Ji teaming up with the Huns and using Lu Lou's trust to murder Lu Lou's family.
Although no one knew why Zhao Ji wanted to get rid of Lu Lou, the fact that Zhao Ji cooperated with the Xiongnu to get rid of Bai Yan and vent his personal anger was already a certainty. The mastermind of all this was Zhao Ji.
"By the way, General, during this period there was an old man who came to see you many times and said he was an old acquaintance of yours."
Chai suddenly remembered that there was an old man who came to the mansion every now and then and asked the general if he had returned to Gaonu. He also said that he was an old acquaintance of the general.
"Old man?"
Bai Yan raised his eyebrows and looked at Chai with confusion.
In the Qin State, except for General Teng, General Yu and others, he didn't seem to know any old people, or was it an old acquaintance?
"He's there?"
The relationship between Bai Yan and Chai is compared to Xiang Yu and Xiang Jiajun.
(End of chapter)
