Chen Xu mentioned that Kuaiji and Peixian were both pointed out that officials in these two places could be appointed by Xianyang. As for the relocation of officials from various places, Chen Xu did mention this matter in the court when he was reorganizing the three provinces and six ministries, but this matter was not particularly important to many court officials. Why should he be transferred to other departments if he did a good job?

However, Chen Xu mentioned just now that the purpose of transfer is to cut off the collusion between officials and local gentry. Therefore, Feng Quji learned the benefits after thinking about it. The biggest advantage of this rotational transfer is to strengthen the Ministry of Personnel's control over the officials of various counties. As long as there is a rotational adjustment system, the county officials below will inevitably be more cautious and will not slowly cultivate a force in the local area that is not subject to the jurisdiction of the court.

"Is this really a good way?" Feng Quji nodded gently while twisting his beard.

"Haha, Xu just mentioned it casually. If Feng Xiangru thinks it is useful, he can report to His Majesty to implement it. This strategy is beneficial to the court and the people, and he has served in the county for four or five years. If he has done nothing and has great public grievances, then if the evaluation of the Ministry of Personnel's Audition and Merit Examination does not meet the standards, he should be demoted and then a wise man..."

Chen Xu said a few more words about this topic, then stood up and smiled and said, "Feng Xiang is a rare trip. Today Xu made a delicious side dish with wine. It's already noon now. Why would Xu have a few drinks with Feng Xiang?"

"Haha, the delicious food produced by Qinghehou is famous in the Qin Dynasty, so I won't postpone it!" Feng Quji stood up with a happy laugh.

Soon the two of them came to the restaurant. After washing their hands, Chen Xu ordered the maid to get a bottle of Qinghe wine, and personally opened the bottle plug to fill it with Feng Quji. After toasting a glass of wine, she sat down and pointed to a basin of snails placed in the center of the dining table and said, "Feng Xiang, this is the thing to accompany the wine. It tastes good, please taste it!"

"Puff~~"

When Feng Quji saw the things in the basin, he immediately choked out a mouthful of red wine, "Cough cough... Cough cough... Qinghehou, don't deliberately spend time with me. This is a shell insect in the ditch, how can I eat it?"

"Feng Xiang, don't miss the delicious food!" Chen Xu smiled and picked up a toothpick and poked a snail, put it in his mouth and took a sip, then used the toothpick to pick out the meat inside and put it into his mouth, chew it carefully, and feel the spicy and fragrant smell.

Chen Xu ate three pills in a row, and found that Feng Quji still looked frightened, so he persuaded him again: "Feng Xiang, Xu has a saying, don't you know whether you should speak or not?"

"Marquis Qinghe?" Seeing Chen Xu eating with relish, Feng Quji twitched his face slightly.

"A person should not behave like a person, and the sea water should not be measured. A person's good or evil cannot be observed in appearance. Instead, he should listen to his words and actions. This food must not be judged by his eyes whether it is delicious or not. Only after tasting it, do Feng Xiang agree with it?"

"Of course!" Feng Quji nodded slightly.

"Come on, don't be afraid of Feng Xiang, eat one!" Chen Xu handed over a toothpick.

Feng Quji:...

Holding this toothpick, Feng Quji felt that it weighed 100,000 pounds. He hesitated on the pottery basin for a long time, but he didn't have the courage to poke it down. Not to mention eating this kind of shelled insect, he felt goosebumps all over his body even when he touched it.

"My Chinese diet has been passed down for thousands of years. What I know are: hemp, wheat, millet, beans, rice, grains, cattle, sheep, deer, dog, rabbit, animal, dates, plum, apricot, chestnut, peach, fruits, and five flavors of onions, ginger, garlic, pepper, mustard, and even the freshness in the water is limited to fish. This shell insect... shell insect..."

Feng Quji seemed to have reported his usual food one after another to cheer him up, but after saying that, he still felt creepy when he looked at a basin of thread-shaped bumps. He hesitated and couldn't poke the toothpick, but hesitated. As a result, the little maids next to him couldn't help it.

"Zhaoye, these snails are very delicious. We all ate a lot?" A little maid seemed to be drooling when she spoke.

"I rude, spank in a while!" Chen Xu said while eating.

"I don't dare!" The little maid who spoke was blushing and knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Well, Feng Quji feels that he is despised.

Such a delicate twelve or thirteen-year-old lady dares to eat it. Is it true that an old man dares to eat it?

Feng Quji finally plucked up the courage, closed his eyes and poked one with a toothpick and put it in his mouth.

"Feng Xiang, if you eat snails, you must suck it gently first..." Chen Xu once again picked up a snail to demonstrate.

"Shishe~" Feng Quji was completely dead at this time. His cheeks shook a few times and took a deep breath. Suddenly, a spicy and fresh sauce exploded in his mouth. The moment his tongue touched, he felt his soul tremble a few times.

"Well, it's really delicious!" Feng Quji's eyes lit up and couldn't help but exclaim loudly. He slurped his mouth for a few moments. Then he used a toothpick to pick out the meat inside and put it into his mouth. He chewed it for a while, and it was vigorous and delicious. Instantly, he drove his worry and fear just now to the sky. Therefore, after eating the meat, he also learned to Chen Xu to suck the empty shell and finally added a few fingers. After finishing the steps of Chen Xu's eating snails, Feng Quji couldn't wait to poke a snail again.

Feng Quji was a little younger than Li Si, but he was nearly sixty years old now. Moreover, men of this era had hair and beards, so his beard was very long. At this time, after he tasted the beauty of the snails, he ate one by one, and each one had to be completely done according to Chen Xu's movements. He took a sip, then ate the meat, sucked the shell, and finally added hands. Soon the soup was stuck everywhere on the beard, but he didn't notice or care at all.

Seeing Feng Quji eating snails, several little maids covered their mouths and couldn't stop laughing.

"Feng Xiang is eating slowly, come and drink~" Chen Xu did not forget to toast while eating.

"Please, Hou Qinghe~" Feng Quji licked his fingers while raising his wine glass.

After eating and drinking for half an hour, I ate a pot of snails cleanly. I also drank two bottles of Qinghe wine, and it was almost time for the afternoon courtship.

Chen Xu took Feng Quji, who was already slightly drunk, to the gate of the Marquis' Mansion, and then turned around and returned home as the carriage went away.

Chen Xu was an exception when he went to court. He went there whenever he wanted to go, and did not go if he didn't want to go. Qin Shihuang had already acquiesced, but Feng Quji was not good. He commanded most of the officials of the six ministries and had to go there without special circumstances. Otherwise, someone would be a big deal when he was not in trouble. A prime minister would definitely not allow such uncontrollable situations, let alone being soft-hearted and having short hands.

Today, Feng Quji not only took Chen Xu's cage of bees, but also ate the spicy snails and Qinghe wine he made. Therefore, Chen Xu had to help with the matter that he was indirectly attacking, but his heart was full of doubts.

Where Jiang Heng and Jiang Beiting's position arrangements had no effect on Feng Quji. The reason he was confused was that he did not understand why Chen Xu just clicked to these two places. Kuaiji County was not even aware of the fact that it was close to the sea. It turned out to be the land of Wu and Yue, and it was bounded by the evil Min and Yue. Many of them lived in Yue people. They were very barbaric and did not accept the royal transformation. They were very different from the living customs of the people in the Central Plains. They were definitely a mountain border county. Feng Quji, the magistrate of Pei County, didn't even know where Pei County was, because they had neither great sages nor famous scholars, and they were not famous at all.

Therefore, he really didn't understand why Chen Xu arranged Jiang Heng and Jiang Beiting in these two places. Could it be that he was testing my bottom line?

Or do you want to cultivate your own power?

Sitting in the carriage, Feng Quji kept thinking about the reason why Chen Xu did this.

Back at Ziying Hall, Feng Quji sat in the office and quickly wrote down a memorial and put it away, and then took the bus to the court hall again.

After attending court, Feng Quji's first thing was to judge Jiang Heng and Jiang Beiting to be less responsible based on the results of the investigation and interrogation of the Ministry of Justice, and then demoted the two to Kuaiji County and Pei County. Feng Quji also explained the necessity of the time limit for the transfer of officials from other places and the time limit for the time limit for the transfer of officials from other places. After hearing this, Qin Shihuang nodded and agreed, asking the Ministry of Personnel to formulate the rotation transfer and time limit for the main county officials as soon as possible, and then formulated relevant laws by the Secretariat.

This incident seemed to be a very small matter to the civil and military officials in the court.

But only Meng Yi and Feng Quji, who were alone, knew some of Chen Xu's thoughts, and even Li Si and the emperor were kept in the dark during the whole process.

As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, and it just happened to sweep Henan and Hebei two big victories. What made Chen Xu most happy was that he finally killed Zhao Gao, the bastard. Although he is still in prison, death is almost a foregone conclusion. Even if the emperor does not kill him, Chen Xu probably will kill him this time to prevent future troubles. If Meng Yi can't kill him, Chen Xu decided to kill him himself. Anyway, the disaster cannot be kept.

Therefore, Chen Xu decided to celebrate this Dragon Boat Festival well, and there must be some special ways to celebrate, and the best and most special way is naturally fireworks.

With gunpowder, it is very easy to make simple fireworks. Just put the gunpowder in a long tube and ignite it and spray it out.

But this simplest fireworks was not what Chen Xu wanted. What he wanted to make was a fireworks, which used a cannon to hit the sky, then exploded, and exploded in the dark. The colorful fireworks covered with the sky would inevitably make the primitive people of this era think of it as a magical art.

Chen Xu had two dumb slaves developed fireworks very early. Because he had experience in making granular gunpowder, Chen Xu made many different minerals of metal salts, ground them into powder, and then burned them in a coal stove to observe the flame color reaction, and obtained several materials of different colors. Then, the mineral powder of these salts and gunpowder were mixed together and mixed with binders such as egg white and tung oil to make a gunpowder ball the size of beans.

Chen Xu originally wanted to set off fireworks to celebrate when he got married, but he had tried several times in March, but he failed. Until he went back to Xianyang for a few months, the two mute slaves were delighted to see a good result. These gunpowder balls made from repeated trials can be lit together when the gunpowder explodes, and emit various colors in the dark. Therefore, what Chen Xu has to experiment now is to make fireworks, and to ensure that these fireworks can explode normally after being fired to a high altitude.
Chapter completed!