Qin Gong

Chapter 178 Busy!

Gao Nu.

Since the people migrated back to Gaonu from Yuzhong, house reconstruction has been in full swing.

Because everything has to start from scratch, not only the people of Gaonu are busy building houses from morning to night, but Bai Yan, who is the city guard, is also very busy.

At the very beginning, according to the bamboo slips brought by General Hu Jin, Bai Yan led the Qin officials to check the area of ​​the people's previous houses, and then confirmed that the bamboo slips brought by the people were correct, and then Bai Yan stamped the seal on the house. Bamboo pieces were handed over to the common people.

The common people took this piece of bamboo slips to build houses.

The role of bamboo slices is, first, to resolve disputes, and second, to facilitate inspection by Qin officials.

These two functions are to prevent the people from expanding their houses without permission.

After all, whether it is housing or farming, it is a reward from the Qin State to those who have made meritorious deeds, and private expansion is prohibited.

When Shang Yang wrote the Qin Law, he took the people to death. If after the separation, the people have less land in the city and want land, they can either pay the government to buy it, or go to the battlefield to make meritorious service.

Secondly, people who go to the mountains to cut wood also need to register.

According to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, between February and July in spring, it is not allowed to cut wood in the mountains and forests, and it is not allowed to block ditches. Young birds, only those who need to cut wood to make coffins due to death, are not subject to seasonal restrictions.

Right now, Gao Nu was burned down, and the people were homeless, so they naturally needed to build new houses.

But even though it was approved by the county magistrate, Bai Yan, as the city guard, still needs to personally lead the Qin officials and the people to plan a mountain forest, take as much as possible, and where to get it if it is not enough, and then register it.

After all, this is the wood needed for houses in a city. If there is no plan, people may not pay attention, and the people will flock to it if they want to save effort and cut down a place.

After finishing these, as well as other minor matters, Bai Yan needs to look them over or stamp them with his seal.

It can be said that during the eleven or twelve days after Hu Jin left, Bai Yan was so busy that even when he was eating, he was always looking at the bamboo slips with one hand.

Although Bai Yan always knew that the Qin State under the rule of Qin Law was very strict.

But it wasn't until he became the city guard himself that he realized that it was much more refined than he had imagined!
In normal times, you might not feel anything, but now Gaonu City has just been burned down, and there are so many things to deal with at once, it is impossible to be busy in a short time.

"General, everyone is here!"

Chai brought several soldiers and dragged a cart of wooden boxes over.

Hearing Chai's words, Bai Yan got up with the bamboo slips and came to the wooden cart, opened the wooden box, took out a roll of bamboo slips from inside, and nodded after confirming that it was the new recruits transferred from other places to register.

"A total of more than [-] people!"

Chai said to Bai Yan, these are general Hu Jin's soldiers who were good at fighting and were drawn from the soldiers in Shangjun.

Whether it is Qin State or other vassal states, there are requirements when selecting cavalry.

Because the cavalry is twice the annual salary of infantry, and there are war horses that are more valuable than human life, so it is the same in almost all vassal states.

"In the past few days, let the soldiers take these new cavalry to practice."

After Bai Yan put the bamboo slips back, he said to Chai.

There are too many things to do right now, and the new recruits can only be practiced by the soldiers first.

"General!"

Seeing that Bai Yan was about to continue working, Chai thought about it, and then spoke hastily.

Bai Yan looked at Chai suspiciously.

"what happened?"

Bai Yan was a little puzzled, looking at the shy Chai, couldn't help being curious.

Then Bai Yan saw that Chai finally took a scroll of bamboo slips from a soldier.

"General, these are the herbs that those soldiers need to buy!"

Chai handed the bamboo slips to Bai Yan, and when he spoke, his eyes were worried.

He was terrified when he heard that Bai Yan decided to pay the money for the medical treatment of those seriously injured soldiers.

Chai knew that it was an ordinary ailment, once it was contacted with herbal medicine, it would cost at least a few dollars, and it was said that seriously injured soldiers would need to take herbal medicine for half a month in mild cases, or several months in severe cases.

If this sum of money is all paid by the general, the accumulated amount of money needed is by no means an ordinary amount.

Chai has never seen that there is a general in the world who would make such a decision after the war.

It has never existed since ancient times.

"it is good!"

Bai Yan took the bamboo slip, opened it, and looked at it. When he saw the number on it, he didn't show any expression, but just nodded.

"Ye, go to my cloth bag and take out the money needed on it."

Bai Yan turned around and handed the bamboo slips to Ye, and instructed.

"promise!"

Ye nodded, then turned and left with the bamboo slips.

"Tell the soldiers that there is no need to worry about money matters. In addition, you must tell the soldiers that this matter must not be spoken out, and it will not be allowed in the future."

Bai Yan looked at Chai and said.

Bai Yan didn't intend to publicize the treatment of these seriously injured soldiers. Although he would get a good reputation if he said it, Bai Yan didn't want that reputation right now.

In the canyon battle, he had already seen that the soldiers were willing to follow him in bloody battles and fight to the death.

"Why? General?"

Bai Yan's words left Chai in a daze.

Chai didn't understand why the general treated the soldiers like this, but didn't let the other soldiers know. If the other soldiers knew, they would be more grateful and would give up their lives.

If it is true what the general said, and the soldiers are not allowed to know, only a small number of those seriously injured soldiers may return to the army after their injuries, and most of them will return home with disabilities.

The general spent so much money and got nothing.

"Just do what I say!"

Bai Yan looked at Chai and said with a smile without explaining too much.

"promise!"

Although Chai was still very puzzled, he still nodded when he heard Bai Yan's words.

After watching Chai leave, Bai Yan turned around and went back to the place where he was working just now, a wooden shed that couldn't be more shabby, with five iron cavalry soldiers standing beside it.

A straw mat, a wooden table, and countless bamboo slips are where Bai Yan works.

"General, this is Butu!"

Just as Bai Yan sat down on his knees, a soldier hurriedly brought two pieces of cloth.

"it is good!"

Bai Yan reached out to take the map from the soldier's hand, then put it on the table and opened it.

The process of building the city is cumbersome and needs to be reported to Xianyang. After Xianyang approves, Xianyang will then order the corvees from other places to come to Gaonu.

The whole process is very long.

Now that the common people have built houses, Bai Yan plans to draw the map of the city early, stamp it with a seal, and send it to Xianyang by Qin officials, or take it to Xianyang by himself when the edict of Xianyang arrives.

Although the Yuezhi and the Xiongnu have turned against each other, the threat to the border has been greatly reduced, but for border areas like Gaonu, the sooner the city wall is built, the safer it will be.

Hirano.

The people of Gaonu are busy. Just when some people stopped to breathe in some places to the south, they suddenly saw a carriage under the mountains in the south, followed by several servants, slowly heading towards Come here.

Seeing this scene, the people didn't take it seriously, and continued to build houses after taking a breath.

After a long time, the carriage came to a slow stop not far away.

The few people who were busy saw a young woman walking out of the carriage accompanied by a maid.

　In this chapter, giving money to the soldiers for medicine is a foreshadowing!A big foreshadowing, it's not water!
　　This foreshadowing is after the unification of the world.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)