Good Life in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 367 Lu's Spring and Autumn

Yang Feiying has no prejudice against businessmen, but his opinion is the same as that of people nowadays. He thinks that businessmen value profits and should not have close friendships. However, Li Jiyang has another explanation: "Business is an organized act of providing goods and services that customers need. Most of the business behavior is to make a profit by selling goods or services at a price above cost. Instead of pursuing profit all the time, it is putting the cart before the horse.”

"Doesn't Qin Anjun despise business?" Yao Jia was shocked——Zhai.

"Don't take it lightly. Without merchants, goods would not circulate." Li Jiyang said with a smile: "Similarly, without merchants, money and goods would not circulate."

The two chatted a lot about business, but Yang Feiying didn't talk about it. When they chatted, he was responsible for drinking some mung bean soup and eating some snacks unique to Qin Anjun's mansion.

Until the evening, Li Jiyang unexpectedly kept them for dinner.

The weather is too hot, and the home-cooked noodle soup, that is, cold noodles, uses mushroom meat stew, which Li Jiyang especially likes to eat.

Whenever the weather is hot at home, I make this for him.

But I can't just eat this one, there are two side dishes, hot green vegetables and braised beef.

Yang Feiying likes to eat cold marinated eggs, he ordered a plate, and he ate it all!

And Yao Jia actually had the same taste as Li Jiyang. After eating three bowls of noodles, it was obvious that he really liked them!

After eating, the three of them moved to the living room to chat: "Let's stay here tonight, sir, is there anyone else here this time?"

"There are also wives and daughters." Yao Jia talked about his wife and daughter with a happy face: "They all followed me to Qin."

There are not many people in their family. When there are old people in the family, of course there is no separation. The life is not good. The old man is gone. After the separation, the elder brother and the younger brother both went to the army. As a result... the military merits were not earned. , Instead, he took his life, the eldest brother got married, and had a sister-in-law. When she heard that the eldest brother was killed in battle, she beat the child in her stomach and remarried!

The younger brother had never been married, so he went as soon as he went. There was no family burden, and he took care of the funeral.

At present, there are only three members of the Yao family left in their family. As for the relatives of the father's generation, they have not seen each other for a long time, and they probably don't even know that their family left the country of Wei.

"Come and live in the mansion first, and then think about doing something after you get familiar with it." Li Jiyang said happily: "Mr. Yao is a great talent, and his future achievements will be limitless!"

"Thank you for your good words!" Even if Li Jiyang, such a powerful Qin Anjun, praised him, he was still neither arrogant nor impetuous, nor conceited.

A person who can withstand the temptation of fame, Li Jiyang is very satisfied.

They were picked up on the same day, because Qin Anjun's mansion had no female relatives, so Li Jiyang went to see her in person. Yao Jia's wife is a very handsome woman, and her youngest daughter is five years old, very cute.

When he saw someone, he called Li Jiyang in a milky voice: "Hi Shushu."

"Okay, okay!" Li Jiyang quickly pulled a gold-carved exquisite incense ball on his body as a meeting gift for the little girl: "Be good!"

"This is too expensive." The things that can be hung on Li Jiyang's body are all exquisite and expensive.

"It's not expensive, the little girl is so cute!" Li Jiyang stuffed the little thing to the little girl.

"Thank you, Mr. Qin An." Mrs. Yao had no choice but to thank her.

Being valued so highly by Qin Anjun, Yao Jia's anxiety disappeared when he came. Qin Anjun is a master who knows talents, but they just came here, so they can't recognize the master immediately, so they stay here first.

The prices in Xianyang City are higher than those in Handan, but the people with confident smiles are much better than the gloomy clouds in Handan.

After arranging for Yao Jia's family to stay, Li Jiyang went to court the next day.

The affairs of the DPRK are still the same. The army proposes to increase combat readiness, because now the vassal states are only hurt by the locust plague, and after they recover, it is time to start a war again.

The mobilization of the army was arranged by Ying Zheng himself. Lu Buwei and the others interrupted several times but failed. The 20 troops around Xianyang City and the fierce soldiers in northern Xinjiang lost each of them in turn.

Those fierce soldiers in northern Xinjiang are even more fierce than the original defenders!

On the northern side, there are towering city walls and the Great Wall stretching thousands of miles, which is enough to block the attack of the Huns.

Among the forbidden army, there were also dispatches, and some people panicked. After the beginning of autumn, the entire Xianyang city was under the control of Yingzheng, and the county guards outside also surrendered to the lord.

The key is that Qin Shihuang's means of winning the government are getting better and better. Li Jiyang feels that he has witnessed the growth of a great emperor!

It's just that Lu Buwei was forced to shrink his power again. Many people were assigned to the frontier by Ying Zheng because of their close contacts with Lu Buwei. There, people without certain force are cannon fodder!

This situation is very delicate.

But after the beginning of autumn, when the autumn harvest was packed and the taxes and rations were paid, Lu Buwei made a move!

Lu Buwei built a very tall wooden building at the four gates of Xianyang City, and hung a book on it!

This book takes Confucianism as the main body, Taoism as the basis, and Ming, Fa, Mohism, agriculture, military, and Yin-Yang as materials.

Lu Buwei wanted to use this as the ideology after the unification.

However, the ruling Yingzheng chose Legalism at the beginning, and his reuse of Han Fei was a signal, which frustrated all schools of thought, including Taoism, in Qin.

"Lushi Chunqiu" is a collection of pre-Qin Taoist achievements, and is a representative work of Qin Taoism. The book is divided into 26 volumes, 160 chapters, and more than [-] words.

In fact, Lu Buwei's book was not wrong, but he chose the wrong place to publish it, because Qin State has actually been ruled by Legalists since Shang Jun established the Qin Law.

Lu Buwei can't do anything about it now, he originally ordered everyone who can write articles to share what they have heard, seen and felt.

He was in a hurry, so he forced the conscripts. When the articles were handed in, there were all kinds of things to write about, from ancient times to the present, up and down, all things in the world, rise and fall, governance and chaos, scholars, farmers, businessmen, three religions and nine streams, all of which were discussed. Many articles And there is repetition.

I don't know if they copied each other.

Lu Buwei selected several masters of articles to screen, classify, and delete these articles, and put them together into a book, named "Lushi Chunqiu".

Lu Buwei attaches great importance to this book. He himself thinks this book called "Lu Shi Chunqiu" is a masterpiece, boasting that it is a wonderful book that covers "heaven and earth, everything, ancient and modern".

For example, in the "Preface" which is quite the general preface of the whole book, it is written like this: "Everyone who is in the twelve disciplines can survive and die in order to govern chaos, so he can know the good and bad luck of life and death. If this is the case, there is no escape.” In order to keep improving and expand his influence, Lu Buwei recruited someone to discuss how to make books known as soon as possible. He couldn’t afford to wait, and he didn’t want to wait. Time is running out!

The lord of the country has been targeting him more and more recently. Whether his power is old or new, he has been dealt with by Ying Zheng!

The pose of killing everything is too obvious!

Lu Buwei even sent away his eldest son, let him do business in Zhao State, and refused to let him return to Qin State. Lu Buwei's eldest son was very dissatisfied with this. , Putting all the things of the Lu family under his name, Lu Buwei was very angry when he found out, his son just didn't believe it!

He is far away in Zhao country, Lu Buwei really can't do anything to him!

Until "Lu Shi Chunqiu" came out, Lu Buwei hadn't figured out how to promote the book.

Some said to invite some great Confucian scholars to come and discuss this book; others said that it is better to give each school a set of this book so that all students can learn it?

But none of this could make Lu Buwei's reputation rise immediately.

It all takes time!

But what Lu Buwei lacks the most is time!

It was Yang Feiying who came up with a wonderful way to promote the book. He asked someone to copy the whole book neatly and hang it on the city gate of Xianyang, claiming that if anyone could change a word, he would be rewarded with a thousand gold.

Lu Buwei likes throwing money at people the most. This method can not only reflect the value of books, but also make him rich, so he immediately agreed!

This is the origin of "a word of gold" in later generations!

It's just that after Li Jiyang heard about it, he laughed like a beckoning cat!

It is impossible for Lu Buwei to hang things at the city gate, and the general who guards the righteousness dare not let him hang up. He is afraid that if he hangs up today, it will be his head hanging on the city gate tomorrow!

But they were allowed to build a wooden building near the city gate.

Lu Buwei really put in a lot of effort. He sent a lot of people to build the wooden building, and it was built in three days!

Ying Zheng originally wanted to send people to demolish it and build a wooden building in front of the city gate. What if someone climbed the building and climbed the city wall?

"Pull it down!" Li Jiyang said with black lines on his face, "That wooden building is ten feet away from the city wall!"

Unless you fly over with long wings!

"Really?" Ying Zheng thought for a while: "Then I'll go and have a look tomorrow!"

The next day, the imperial court rested, and the two were about to go out. Little Fusu found out, and the little guy ran over and insisted on following!

"What are you doing next?" Ying Zheng thought of a good two-person world, what's the matter with adding a little Fusu?

"It's better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books." Li Jiyang had the opposite opinion: "It's fine to take the child out. This child is so old, how many times have he gone out?"

Xiao Fusu immediately said: "Basically none!"

Except that he went to pay homage to the ancestor king when he was a child, he has never been out since he was so dazed!

"You will be Wang Taidi from now on, what are you going out for?" Ying Zheng's meaning was obvious: "Stay well in the palace, Brother Wang will find some teachers for you tomorrow!"

"How much more?" Little Fusu frowned: "Can you go to school with nephew Xin?"

The child thought it would be good to go to school like Li Xin, because he found that Li Xin knew a lot of things, which he learned in school, and he was very envious.

"We'll talk about this later, go back quickly!" Ying Zheng pushed back.

"Take it with you!" Li Jiyang picked up the little guy: "The pity has never been out of the Qin Palace. You can't let the child eat minced meat, right?"

"Why not what?" Ying Zheng frowned.

Li Jiyang choked, and changed "why not eat minced meat" to the last ruler of a small country that has disappeared.

Ying Zheng listened thoughtfully: "That's right!"

"Fusu won't be so stupid!" The little guy was still not convinced.

"Then do you know what you can buy with one cloth coin? Do you know how much you can buy with one won coin? What about one knife coin? How many won coins can one gold exchange? How many knife coins? How many cloth coins?" Little Fusu was taken aback by the question, "Fusu doesn't know." The little guy curled his lips: "Fusu has never spent money."

"See?" Li Jiyang educated Ying Zheng: "Children need to be educated since childhood. The palace is good and safe, but there are many things that cannot be learned in the palace. Children can't even buy things. I don’t even know if I’ve been lied to!”

So, the two adults, with a child, went to the street.

The hidden guards followed, and Ying Zheng only brought Jiang Neishi and ten imperial guards on the surface. Although there are many such people, many high-ranking officials in Xianyang City are equipped like this, especially when they have a child. He also brought two wet nurses and four nuns.

Because Li Jiyang took Chunya to go shopping, he knew that some beautiful maids were easy to catch people's eyes, so he didn't bring any young and beautiful maids!

A group of people went out of the palace and went to the street. There were many people on the street, because this season happened to be after the autumn harvest, when paying taxes and grain, and when people were selling grain. There were many people in the streets and alleys, and there were also many people doing business. .

Li Jiyang gave Xiao Fusu ten cloth coins: "Go and buy two vegetable buns for brother Yang and your elder brother!"

"What about Fusu?" The little guy looked at Li Jiyang with wide eyes, he didn't have one yet!

"If you want to buy it, um, I can buy one for you." Li Jiyang took Xiao Li Xin to eat the vegetable buns from this restaurant. Now people in Qin State are already very hygienic no matter what they do, so they eat food from outside. , It will not let the child have a bad stomach.