The Great Qin Empire---Qin Li

"How can a mere fake lieutenant be as important as attending the wedding of the Right Minister? It's just a salary of 400 shi per year, I don't want it!"

At the banquet, Gong Ao explained the reason for his resignation, which made Hei Fu laugh and cry. He didn't know whether he should be grateful to Gong Ao for his loyalty or scold him for handing over the post of Nanchang County Lieutenant that he had painstakingly arranged to an outsider?

Before Heifu could speak, Ji Ying, who was sitting opposite Gong Ao, could not sit still. He swallowed the lubricating soup cake that had slipped into his mouth, pointed at Gong Ao with chopsticks and cursed: "Ao, before you say this, can you think about me? I would like to be a county lieutenant, but unfortunately I didn't have enough title at that time, so I could only continue to manage the post office."

He then complained to Heifu: "Tingzhang... no, it's Youshuzhang. When this guy wanted to resign, Xu Shu, Le Ke and I tried to persuade him, but he insisted on his own way. He used the excuse that the old injury he suffered during the Battle of Yingyang relapsed and he could not serve as an official, so he wrote a letter of retirement. I didn't want to deliver it on his behalf, so he sent his clansmen to deliver it to Jiujiang County in person."

During the Battle of Yingyang, Heifu went out of the city to pretend to surrender. Gong Ao sacrificed himself to assassinate the generals who wanted to escape. He was hit by a spear on his calf, deep into the bone, and it still hurts in winter and autumn.

Heifu nodded. What he wanted to know was whether Li Xian, who was responsible for coordinating his old subordinates for him, stopped this?

"It was too late when Li Xian found out. He ran all the way from Fanyang to Nanchang to scold me."

Gong Ao touched his face, as if there were still spit from Li Xian when he scolded him for ignoring the overall situation.

"Li Xian said that Nanchang cannot do without me, but I think Xu Shu has already achieved the position of chief clerk, and Le is already a prison clerk. The officials' advancement and retreat, and the laws and lawsuits are all in order. Now there is no war in Nanchang, even if I come to Xianyang, nothing will happen. But the right minister is getting married, and only Ji Ying, an old subordinate, came. Isn't it embarrassing? Anyway, among the several fake lieutenants and chancellors in Jiangnan, I am the most useless, so I will come on behalf of everyone! Drive the deputy carriage for the right minister!"

Just like the later generations who cannot get married without a car, when meritorious nobles get married, they must have a gorgeous four-horse carriage as the wedding car, with several deputy carriages in front and behind to form a motorcade, and then pick up the bride from her mother's home to her husband's home. The difference is that the groom has to drive the car himself.

The deputy carriage is driven by the groom's relatives and friends, and the more the better, but the Nanchang County Lieutenant is the last guarantee arranged by Hei Fu in Nanchang to protect his own sugarcane and brown sugar industry and the interests of the children of Nanjun! Although Xu Shu, Le, and Ji Ying were still working as officials in Nanchang, without the support of Gong Ao, the county lieutenant with military power, they certainly couldn't speak as forcefully as before. This impulsive guy, why didn't he think before doing anything?

In fact, Gong Ao really thought about it, and thought a lot.

"In addition to coming to help the right minister, the reason I resigned was because I didn't get along with the new county magistrate, we didn't get along, and we always disagreed on governance..."

Ji Ying complained: "There aren't many people who are on good terms with you."

Zhao Tuo also laughed and said: "My subordinates who went to Nanchang to do business often said that Gong Jun had an unpleasant face and it was not easy to get along with him."

Jing was hesitant to speak, he was young, and he was embarrassed to expose Gong Ao's shortcomings.

Gong Ao ignored them and continued, "You Shuzhang knows my temper. He is afraid that if we have another dispute one day, he will tie up the county magistrate and whip him in anger. If that happens, it doesn't matter if I am arrested and imprisoned, but I am afraid that it will implicate You Shuzhang."

Chen Ping, who was also sitting at the table and was introduced to everyone by Heifu, suddenly realized that this was probably the main reason why Gong Ao resigned.

According to Qin law, if the person who was recommended committed a crime and he was still in his original position without being promoted, the recommender would also be implicated. Fan Ju, the prime minister during the reign of King Zhao of Qin, was killed by the two benefactors he recommended. If Gong Ao made a big news while in office, unless Your Majesty showed mercy, this year's efforts might really be wasted.

Among this group of cadres who went south, Xiao Tao and Dongmen Bao had enough titles and were directly appointed by Jiujiang County. In addition to Gong Ao, Heifu only recommended Li Xian, but Li Xian had been promoted from the initial Fanyang Fake Lieutenant to Fanyang County Magistrate. Even if he committed a crime, Heifu would not be implicated.

So if you think about it carefully, the weakest link in Heifu's career is Gong Ao!

Chen Ping is more sensitive to these things, so he asked Gong Ao: "What is the name of the Nanchang magistrate? Where is he from? Where did he serve before?"

After asking the name and place of origin of the Nanchang magistrate, Chen Ping looked at Heifu, and the meaning was very clear: it would be better to check the origin of this Nanchang magistrate afterwards, hoping that it was just a coincidence, not a conspiracy.

Heifu also reacted. Thinking about it this way, Gong Ao eliminated the hidden danger himself, which was not entirely a bad thing.

But he still scolded Gong Ao with a dark face.

"You said that the Nanchang magistrate often disagreed with you, made things difficult for you, and treated the soldiers of the Southern Expedition very harshly. He was like this when you were still here, and now that you have resigned in anger, he will definitely get worse. Xu Shu, Le, and Ji Ying are all subordinates of the county magistrate. Without you as the county lieutenant, who can fight for the interests of the soldiers with the Nanchang magistrate?"

More seriously, Hei Fu's interests in Nanchang are likely to be suppressed. He also hopes that Nanchang will become the second sugar production center after Anlu...

"Gong Ao was reckless and failed the recommendation of the Right Minister!"

Gong Ao looked ashamed: "Li Xian also advised me in this way, but at that time I had submitted my retirement documents and it was too late to catch up."

He valued feelings and cared most about the interests of the soldiers of the Southern Expedition. When Qin Shihuang wanted the soldiers to stay on the spot, Gong Ao expressed their dissatisfaction on their behalf.

He looked up and said, "But don't worry, You Shuzhang. Although I resign, I will not leave Nanchang and will make up for this!"

"How will you make up for it?" Ji Ying bit the meat in his hand and shook his head. Gong Ao's resignation weakened the voice of Heifu's cadres who went south in Nanchang.

Gong Ao said resolutely: "I will take the Gong family to Nanchang and manage the farmland and manor there!"

"What?" Zhao Tuo was slightly surprised, and Chen Ping, who was at the end of the banquet and didn't say much, was also stunned.

This Gong Ao is too straightforward!

Although there are thousands of immigrants and garrisons in Nanchang, it is still a remote and wild place, not to mention the "water poison" that makes people shudder, that is, schistosomiasis, which is the reason why husbands in Jiangnan died young. Others are thinking about how to move away, but Gong Ao wants to move his family from the rich Yan County to Nanchang. Is he crazy!

Although Gong Ao is not very old, after his uncle died, he became the head of the family with the title of "doctor", and the Qin government also welcomed this kind of immigration activity to fill the wild land.

"Have you thought it through?" Heifu asked Gong Ao.

"I have thought it through!"

Gong Ao gritted his teeth and said, "As the saying goes, the chieftains are permanent, but the county magistrates are transient! I, Gong Ao, will be the chieftain of Nanchang County and take root there! I don't believe that I can't get rid of this dog county magistrate!"

This is a fight, and everyone is amused and sad about Gong Ao's momentary impulse to decide his career and family's future, but this is what Gong Ao would do.

Chen Ping originally wanted to say, why do this, he actually has many ways to let Gong Ao turn against the Nanchang magistrate and drive him away, but after looking at Heifu, he swallowed the words in his mouth.

Smart people will never show their intelligence all the time, especially when the master is about to speak.

Hei Fu sighed, but did not stop him. He stood up and toasted Gong Ao with a glass of wine, then smiled faintly and said, "Gong Ao's ambition is encouraging, but this stupid method of resigning in anger and then moving the whole family over is not worth learning!"

"Ji Ying, when you go back, tell everyone who is still in Jiangnan that if you encounter similar things in the future, write to me first. Although Hei Fu's position is not high and he has no real power, he can make a mere county magistrate move!"

These words were very confident, and the morale of the crowd was greatly boosted! Chen Ping also nodded secretly. Sure enough, Hei Fu not only arranged his subordinates to important positions in the county, but also showed great protection for his shortcomings. It seems that he made the right choice to join him.

After talking about Gong Ao, Hei Fu talked about the transfer of his brother Zhao Tuo.

"You should also know that in June last year (the 26th year of Emperor Qin Shihuang), the Yue people in Qianling County of Dongting County were instigated by the Chu survivors who fled to Xiou and gathered to rebel. After being suppressed, although Dongting County used the method of appeasement and only punished the main evil, the Yue people in Dongting and Changsha counties were still restless and had close contacts with the rulers of Xiou and Nanyue outside the Five Ridges."

"Shanggan and Limensai are guarded by Xiao Tao, and the local areas are peaceful, but Dongting and Changsha need reinforcements. Jiangnan has a network of rivers and streams, and your majesty has decided to let General Zuo Gengtu move to Changsha and serve as the lieutenant of Changsha County. General Tu thought of your talent and requested to transfer you to Changsha Cangwu."

Although Zhao Tuo had followed Heifu for a period of time, he was still a subordinate of Wei Tu Sui's Louchuan Division, and Heifu could not interfere with his transfer.

Xunyang, on the Yangtze River, is definitely richer than Cangwu. Zhao Tuo is open-minded and said with a smile: "Although I am a northerner, I always want to soak in the southern lakes and water networks!"

Heifu thought to himself: "Brother, you may have to soak in it for decades in the future, and finally become a real southerner who travels through time and space and eats betel nuts..."

In addition, Zhao Tuo also expressed apologies on behalf of their other sworn brother Wu Rui. Wu Rui's father Wu Shengang had just passed away, and he could not come to Xianyang.

"Gan is hot all year round, with no winter snow. The Yue people don't even have the word snow. If he comes and sees the heavy snow, he will probably be scared."

Zhao Tuo laughed, not knowing that in history, he would not feel the coldness of snowflakes touching the back of his hand for the next sixty or seventy years of his life...

Heifu has always had a vague worry. Although the emperor has no intention of using troops against Nanyue and Xiou immediately, the transfer of Wei Tu Sui and Zhao Tuo to the south may be a foreshadowing.

"The people of Guizhou have just gathered, Shandong is not stable, Jiangxi and Hunan have not been developed. At this time, forcibly conquering Guangdong and Guangxi, which are covered with tropical rain forests, may be beneficial to future generations, but not to the present. Wait a few years, at least build the roads to Changsha and Yuzhang first."

Hei Fu plans to find an opportunity to advise the First Emperor after marriage. Although many of his suggestions were rejected by the emperor, as a person who once stood on Limen Pass and looked at the Guangdong Province of Wuling Mountains, he has a lot of say in the southern expedition!

That's all later. Hei Fu's most important task now is not to have a broad mind and pay attention to the current situation, but to make time to do something for himself.

Get married! **!

"It's rare to see a time traveler as self-disciplined as me, right? Generally speaking, in six or seven years, the women around you are enough to open a harem, and there will be countless ambiguous confidantes."

With such self-mockery, Hei Fu was also full of expectations for the wedding the day after tomorrow...