In a blink of an eye, the new year has passed. The New Year was spent in Wei Zhongxian's mansion in the capital. Qin Mu himself did not expect that he would have spent the first New Year of his world in this notorious eunuch's house. Dingdian Novel, 2+3wx

"Do you miss your parents?"

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Qin Mu brought Magnolia and Xiao Cherry back to his yard. Seeing that Xiao Cherry looked a little unhappy, he asked.

"Well, I miss my parents, I don't know if they will miss cherries."

Xiao Cherry leaned against Qin Mu and said, now in Xiao Cherry's heart, besides his parents, he is the master who is closest to him.

"Yes, they miss you, too."

Qin Mu said that in fact, Qin Mu also missed his parents very much, but whether in his previous life or this life, Qin Mu was an orphan. Every year, the Chinese New Year is his most unhappy day. Others are happy, but he is alone watching other people's family happy.

However, Qin Mu is still quite happy. Now he has many women and people who care about him. Whether it is Mu Yunxi and Xiaocui who are far away in Liyuan County, Li Xiangjun, Liu Rushi who are still in Jinling City, or his personal maids Hongxiu and Yingchun, they all wrote to him to express their longing for him.

And today's New Year's Eve, I don't have to sleep alone anymore. At least I have Xiao Cherry and Magnolia accompany me to spend it.

"Or what if you can send you back to Jinling after the New Year?"

Qin Mu told Xiao Yingtao that this trip to the northwest is really a bad situation. Qin Mu didn't want Xiao Yingtao and Yulan to take risks with him.

"I don't. Wherever the master goes, I will follow you, and never leave you until you die." Xiao Yingtao hugged Qin Mu tightly and said, as if she was about to be abandoned.

"The northwest is very dangerous. You and Yulan will go back to Jinling first. After the master settles down in the northwest, we will pick you up."

Qin Mu said, no matter what, these two are their own women, and Qin Mu doesn't want them to go to the northwest with him to take risks.

"No, we will die with you even if we die."

Yulan also hugged Qin Mu nervously and said, after getting along with each other over the past few months, Yulan has completely regarded Qin Mu as her man and the most important person in her life. Ling Ke died and she was unwilling to be hurt by her master.

"Yes, lord, even if we die, we will die by your side." Xiao Cherry also hugged Qin Mu tightly and said.

"Okay, it's very unlucky for the New Year, don't say anything that comes to death." Qin Mu said helplessly. Fortunately, it's not the first day of the New Year, otherwise it would be really unlucky.

"Anyway, lord, don't even think about throwing away the cherry." The little cherry said with red eyes and tears.

"Okay, I'll take you to the northwest." Qin Mu said helplessly. It's not good to make his women cry during the New Year.

"real?"

Xiao Cherry and Magnolia asked happily. For the two, no matter how dangerous the Northwest region is, as long as they can be with their beloved master, they are the happiest, even if they die, they are willing to do so.

"real."

Qin Mu smiled helplessly and said, "What are two silly women who deserve their love." Their feelings for their life and death made Qin Mu helpless and moved.

"Master, thank you."

The two women happily kissed Qin Mu on the face. In ancient times, women were very conservative outside, but in the house, they were still relatively open when they were with their own men.

"Haha, today is the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year. I will give you a big red envelope." Qin Mu took out two big red envelopes from his arms and handed them to Xiao Cherry and Magnolia.

"Master, have you given us a red envelope just now?" Xiao Cherry asked a little strangely.

"Everyone has the red envelope just now. This red envelope is different. Only my woman can have it."

Qin Mu said with a smile that this was a red envelope that Qin Mu specially gave to his two personal maids. Each bag contained ten 100 taels of imperial silver notes.

"One thousand taels?"

Yulan opened the red envelope and shouted in surprise. For maids like her, they could actually receive a red envelope of 1,000 taels. This was too much, so Malan didn't dare to accept it.

"What, do you think it's too little?" Qin Mu said with a smile.

"No, no, no, you have given too much, Master." Yulan said nervously.

"Yes, master, how much money, how can I spend it?"

Xiao Cherry also said with a trembling trembling. For a girl as young as her, she had never seen so much money. Now, holding her hand, Xiao Cherry's heartbeats very hard.

"You can buy clothes and food."

Qin Mu said with a smile, in Qin Mu's opinion, it would be a little bit unlucky to go to the northwest this time. Since this is the case, just be more willful and give your maids more money to make them happy. No matter how long they have no life, what's the use of more money?

"But..." What else did Malan want to say.

"Okay, it's very late, so you can sleep with the master."

Qin Mu didn't want to discuss New Year's money with his women. While he was still comfortable, he would relax with his women more. In a few days, he would go to the northwest. At that time, he would not be as relaxed as he did. I guess he would be worried about sleeping.

...

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Qin Mu followed Wei Zhongxian and the others into the palace to greet the emperor. He kept making trouble until he came back in the evening. He went to bed early under the two maids. After all, he had to go to the city guards tomorrow to select his own soldiers. These are the keys to whether he can survive by going to the northwest, but he is not careless.

As soon as the next day was dawn, Qin Mu followed Li Yongzhen to the Xidaying of the City Guards located in the west of the city. This Xidaying is one of the three major military camps of the City Guards in the capital. It has 30,000 soldiers stationed all year round, responsible for defending the safety of the west side of Yanjing, the capital.

Originally, Wei Zhongxian wanted to accompany Qin Mu to this Xidaying, but was temporarily called by the emperor to work in the palace, so he had to let Li Yongzhen accompany Qin Mu to this city guard Xidaying to select soldiers.

The "Da Qin Law" stipulates that all men over the age of sixteen or less than forty-five can join the army, but once they join, they are not allowed to withdraw from the army without the approval of the military headquarters, otherwise they will be treated as deserters.

Because the Qin Empire has a large population and sufficient military resources, it adopts a recruitment system. Many middle and lower-class people also regard joining the army as a means to change their destiny, although there are not many opportunities.

Because the Qin Empire was a country with a strict hierarchy, the state divided the people into several levels. The first class was the royal family, which refers to the emperor's immediate relatives and close relatives. The second class was the gentry, that is, the upper class aristocrats, which refer to the imperial heroes and their descendants who were given titles by the emperor for military merits or political achievements, or inherited the titles of the previous generation and gained titles.

The "Law of the Great Qin" stipulates that the canonized nobles can only be inherited by one of their next generation, and if there are no other military achievements, they cannot be extended to the third generation.

In this way, there will be no more nobles in the empire who have titles and titles. However, the imperial law also stipulates that the descendants of the canonized nobles can be given priority in all aspects such as political and military engagement within the empire. This type of person is the gentry.

The third-class is a commoner, which refers to ordinary officials, merchants, landlords, workshop owners and other types of people at all levels of governments and those who have made outstanding contributions to various types of people who have obtained approval from the local government and submitted them to the central government for filings, and their descendants are commoners. The fourth-class is a free citizen, which refers to ordinary people who are engaged in all walks of life. The third-class and fourth-class are commonly known as civilians.

There is another type of people who have not been recognized by the "Law of the Great Qin", but they are widely present in every corner of the Great Qin Empire, that is, slaves. This type of people is not small in number and lives at the bottom of the empire. Many of these people come from prisoners of war, criminals, or become slaves due to debts, and their descendants.

The "Da Qin Law" stipulates that if a slave wants to become a free citizen, the master must issue a certificate of the slave's original identity, request it to be terminated, and pay a certain amount of identity filing fee to the local local government, and the local government confirms the identity of the slave before it can take effect. The imperial emperor can also directly remove the slave's identity.

Of course, local officials also have the right to dismiss slaves from illegal slave owners (or sell slaves from them), but for slaves from legal slave owners, local officials do not have the right to dismiss their slave identities. Only the emperor has this right.

Since the Qin Empire divided the people into several levels, and the aristocrats could receive priority in military and political participation, the third and fourth grades often had to make several times more effort to make their debut.

Many officials from commoners and free people, no matter how talented they are and how great their contributions are, are often inferior to those of mediocre and even corrupt officials from gentry who are born in the gentry, so many knowledgeable people are buried in the lower class. This is even the biggest problem that the Qin Empire now exists.

Some knowledgeable people in the Great Qin Dynasty also realized the disadvantages of this situation and reflected this issue to the emperors of the imperial dynasties. However, since this involves the interests of the gentry, whenever this issue is raised, it will be strongly opposed by the upper nobles of the Great Qin Empire. Because most of the high-ranking officials and nobles in the imperial gentry came from the gentry, all such proposals ended without success.

What is the most important thing for a country to be strong? It is talent. The system of the Great Qin Empire has restricted the promotion of many capable people. In addition, over the past century, the Great Qin Empire has had a strong "climax dispute", which has led to some capable people being squeezed out of the court.

In the current year of Tianqi, the Donglin Party has also encountered the Donglin Party controlling the court and excluding personnel from other parties. Now they are fighting with the eunuch Party, which has made the Qin Empire's domestic and foreign troubles even worse.
Chapter completed!