Chapter 1416: Frightening Confusion and Keeping Your Heart
In Chen Xu's busy life, an incident that made the entire Xianyang people speculate and confuse was finally confirmed. Langmeng County, thousands of miles away from Xianyang, used more than ten large trucks to deliver thousands of kilograms of bats killed by poisonous smoke.
These bats are huge in size, with ordinary adult wings spreading for more than a foot, and the largest bat king is more than three feet long. These bat corpses are placed on the river beach outside the east gate of the city for all the people of Xianyang to watch. After counting by teachers and students from the Agricultural College and the Health Center, the number is more than 13,000, densely packed with four or five acres of area. The hideous and terrifying situation makes people's scalp numb, and the timid child is even scared to cry and run away.
When seeing these bat corpses, and the memorial sent by the Magistrate of Langmeng County, from the First Emperor to the ordinary people, they all agreed with Chen Xu's statement, that was, the ones that Wang Ben, the Marquis of Tongwu, met at the Heilongkou.
Moreover, senior professors from the Agricultural College and many famous doctors from the Health Center confirmed that this bat is indeed a very rare and bloodthirsty giant bat. Some people soon joined the ranks of certification. Many people have seen this bat attack wild animals and even animals all over the country. As a result, the rumors that Tongwu Hou was attacked by the demon dragon were self-defeating. Those who secretly suspected Chen Xu also stopped.
In response to this kind of blood-sucking bat, Chen Xu took the time to call on experts, professors and students from the Health Center of the Agricultural College and even the Academy of Sciences to teach hundreds of people to take an infectious disease class, pointing out that these bats contain a large number of infectious pathogens and must be properly disposed of. Remember to remind you not to eat skewers and drink wine. If you find that you are injured and bleeding by bats, you must clean the wound as soon as possible and bandage it. You must not be careless and cause the spread of the plague. For this reason, someone specially compiled a press release for the newspaper to be published in the Daqin Metropolis Daily.
This incident was also composed of magical stories by a large number of good novelists and storytellers. It began to spread among the people, which made Qinghe Hou return to the capital, which added a novel and lively topic of conversation and topic among the people.
The Bat Incident is just a small episode. Chen Xu was so busy that he didn't even have time to spank, so he naturally didn't bother to pay attention to the trends of the people.
In a blink of an eye, several days passed. Chen Xu finally reviewed and approved all the memorials accumulated by the Secretariat. At the same time, he used his spare time to eat, drink tea and sleep to continuously meet officials of all sizes and relatives and friends who came to visit. At the same time, he also took the time to go to the palace to discuss some things with the First Emperor, and then visited several important officials of the court, including Feng Quji and Meng Yi, and sorted out all the important things that happened in Xianyang and the court in the past six months.
The First Emperor also made arrangements for some of the urgent matters reported by Chen Xu. First, he transferred Jiang Heng, the magistrate of Kuaiji County, to Guangdong to serve. In this way, Guangdong was the first county magistrate officially appointed by the court among the four counties in Nanhai. The county government was located in Panyu. The military general responsible for guarding Guangdong was upgraded to county magistrates. The emperor also issued an order to cooperate with the military generals in the garrison to form a police station and subordinate police force from the soldiers guarding the border, and at the same time, let the Ministry of Personnel appoint more officials to assist in the governance of Guangdong as soon as possible.
Although the officials did not have much thoughts about this transfer order from the Ministry of Personnel, they were surprised that the transfer order itself was too strange. Jiang Heng had served as the CRRC Mansion before. After being transferred to Kuaiji, he heard the good news from the officials. Especially during the rebellion of Xiang, he was not afraid of being in charge of the Wuzhong and forced Xiang to retreat to Jiangxi. He was quickly suppressed. Although Jiang Heng made contributions, he had also had it. After a quarrel in the court, Jiang Heng continued to stay in Kuaiji. This totally
Even after staying for nearly eight years, according to the current law of serving as a county chief, it should have been transferred. According to the current governance of Kuaiji County, and the current status of Jiang's family and the relationship between Qinghe Hou, as long as some people plead, Jiang Heng would be transferred back to Xianyang to be the top leader of the office. Even the leisurely Ministry of Rites would be considered a perfect merit and could retire with a decent and glorious end. But what he never expected was that the emperor actually transferred Jiang Heng to the more remote and barbaric Guangdong.
No one knows the inside story of Jiang Heng's transfer to Guangdong. Emperor First Emperor did not explain, but immediately gave Jiang Heng's legitimate son Jiang Chuyun a sixth-rank official position, and instructed the Ministry of Personnel to make up for the actual position as soon as possible.
The sixth rank is already an intermediate official in the Qin Dynasty. He skipped the seventh rank, eighth rank, and the actual lack was at least one county magistrate. If he was in the capital, the three provinces and six ministries and the government offices of the level could have a good position of real power. He would have been able to survive for decades and finally be promoted to the third rank.
In other words, this order actually added another quota for the Jiang family, and the Jiang family will surely be more prosperous and prominent in the future.
The Jiang family is really not to be underestimated. The most prominent one is the Marquis of Yinshan, the commander of the Second Cavalry Division, Lieutenant General, and now stationed in Dayuan. This merit of destroying the country will inevitably be promoted when he returns to Beijing. The future is unlimited. Jiang Pu, the head of the Ministry of Personnel’s Merit Examination Officer, the third-rank official, is also a powerful official with a prominent status. Jiang Heng, the third-rank county magistrate of Jiang Beiting, is now the county magistrate of Sishui County and the fifth-rank. In addition, there is another person that cannot be ignored in the Jiang family, that is, he moved to the Marquis of Wucheng Wang Li with a letter, and now the guardian of Yanmen Pass Jiang Chutian, a military position in lieu of colonel, and will not have much problem with retiring to become a major general. If he can make great contributions, the lieutenant general will not be without a chance.
With the issuance of these two decrees, the civil and military officials in the court were trembling with their fingers. Before they knew it, the Jiang family had become a giant, and both military and political terms had taken deep roots.
Regarding the growth of Jiang's family over the years, people who are not confused can naturally see that all this is related to the Qinghe Hou, and also to the Jiang family's efforts to hold Qinghe Hou's thigh.
Some people can even feel that Chen Xu is using this method to make up for the guilt of Jiang Chuyue's death.
"Why don't there be a daughter in the old husband's family who died for him like this!"
After the incident came to understand, countless kings, princes, princes, and ministers were waving to the sky at home.
In addition to Jiang Heng's transfer, the First Emperor also issued several personnel appointments and dismissals and transfers for several consecutive days, without the intervention of the Ministry of Personnel. The most surprising thing is that Ling Fan Gui, a member of the Ministry of Revenue, was dismissed and demoted to the Central Committee of Fujian and became the county magistrate.
After learning the news, Fan Gui cried at home for a whole night, his eyes swollen from crying, but he just didn't understand what he did wrong.
But the emperor would not give him any explanation for this kind of thing, so naturally he had no way to know the reason inside. He took his wives, concubines and servants away from Xianyang, and went to the Fujian Central, where it was said that there were savages everywhere and birds were not shitty.
After this wave of collusion with the First Emperor was completed and everything in the court slowly stopped, one morning in the cold winter, Chen Xu appeared at the door of the court with a bulging briefcase waiting for court as usual.
Looking at Chen Xu's big leather bag, all the civil and military officials who came to court were extremely surprised and curious.
The bell rang at the end of the Yin hour, and the heavy gate of the Chaoyi Hall slowly opened. The civil and military officials standing in front of the Chaoyi Hall were discussing quietly took off their shoes together, heading Chen Xu and entering one after another. With the sound of the jade pendant colliding and moving the chairs, they soon found their own seats. Chen Xu also climbed the eighth floor imperial stairs step by step and sat down on his own special huge Grand Master Chair.
Looking at the hundreds of civil and military ministers with beards below, Chen Xu felt a different kind of relaxation. After processing the backlog of memorials and then putting the memorials he had sorted out this time, he would basically be more leisurely in the following time.
"Dangdangdang~"
The thick bell sounded at the beginning of the Mao hour, and Emperor Shi was punctual as always. Under the escort of the palace eunuchs and Xuanwu Guards, Longxing and Tiger Steps out of the back hall and strode to the front of the dragon throne.
"I welcome your Majesty!" The civil and military officials in the court saluted in unison.
"You are all good friends, please sit down, please sit down!" The First Emperor sat down with a big sleeve.
"Thank you Your Majesty!" After another tsunami of return, all the civil and military officials sat down in a panic.
"Your Majesty, I have a report!" As always, after the regular greetings were sat down, the officials of the various deployment yamen began to report without any hesitation. The first person to stand up was a white-haired old man wearing a fourth-rank official uniform, over 60 years old, and was Cao Ming, the Grand Historian of the Ministry of Rites.
"What is the matter with the Grand Historian?" Emperor Shi's calm face was a little surprised, but also slightly solemn.
"Report to Your Majesty, the old minister has carefully looked at the celestial phenomena in the past two months and found that the Yinghuo moved eastward, which is a sign of the Yinghuo guarding the heart. I am afraid that the country will have trouble. Therefore, the old minister asked Your Majesty to prepare three animals to pray in the Taimiao, praying to the gods to transfer their misfortune to protect Your Majesty's health and the stability of the country!"
As soon as Tai Shi Ming made this statement, the court was in an uproar, and all the civil and military officials in the court were frightened and turbulent. Even the First Emperor stood up suddenly, his face changed to an extremely hideous and distorted manner.
Chinese civilization has a long history, and stargazing is the most distinctive and important achievement for Chinese civilization.
The Stargazing School is also the most mysterious and respected sect among the hundreds of schools of thought.
Stargazing originated very early, and can be traced back to the legend of the Hetu Luoshu. It is an important way for Taoism to pursue the way of heaven to explore the mysteries of the universe. In addition to stargazing, Tai Chi, Bagua, Yijing, Liujia, Jiuxing, Qimen, Fengshui and other disciples all originated from this. Therefore, in this wilderness era, astrology has been closely related to fortune since ancient times, and life, death, misfortunes and good fortune can be seen from the changes of astrology.
According to the continuous development of astrological theory and the continuous deduction and summary of the disciples of the astrological family, by the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the Great Qin Period, the astrological study was very complete. The twenty-eight constellations were used as gods and generals, and the heavens were divided into four directions to guard the gods. Just one of the gods governed the seven major constellations, forming the sphere of influence of the gods, and the four great gods were the blue dragon, white tiger, vermilion bird, and black trunk.
In this era of extreme worship of ghosts and gods, once anything is involved with gods, it will inevitably cause great turmoil. For example, Chen Xu calls himself a disciple of the immortal family, and his various actions are extremely magical and mysterious. So from the emperor and civil and military officials to ordinary people, they all believe it without doubt, otherwise it will be impossible to explain the attributes of Chen Xu as a monster.
Observing the celestial phenomena and distinguishing the fortunes is also an important basis for the mortal world to understand the warning of the gods through the astrological signs. Since Ying Huo is Mars, the whereabouts of this star are strange and uncertain, and can appear in the southeast, southwest and northwest. It has always been considered by the star-gazing masters to be a disaster star. Every time there is a change, it will inevitably bring disaster to the human world.
The celestial phenomenon of shamanism with great disasters.
Either war or death.
At present, the Qin Dynasty is prosperous and the possibility of a war breaking out is zero. Then the most likely thing that Ying Huo Shouxin brings is death, and this death is not aimed at ordinary people, but mostly targets kings.
According to astrology, this kind of disaster is not inevitable, but can be transferred to a great minister by praying to the gods and using the method of framing the tragedy to resolve it.
This statement is also confirmed in the later history of China.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the celestial phenomenon of Ying Huo Shuxin occurred. Emperor Cheng of Han blamed the Prime Minister in fear and gave him poisoned wine. The Prime Minister could only poison himself to death in one mouthful and act as a scapegoat for this disaster. However, Emperor Cheng of Han died suddenly before he died. Therefore, the people's fear of the celestial phenomenon of Ying Huo Shuxin became even more intense. God wants you to die, but even if you can't escape the framing of the celestial phenomenon of Ying Huo Shuxin, he will not escape the blame.
The people of Daqin are currently convinced of this kind of bad luck.
So after a while of exclamation, the eyes of the civil and military officials in the court slowly fell on Chen Xu.
Damn, these shrimps are so shameless!
Chapter completed!