i don't want to be emperor

After getting acquainted with Xu Liang at the beginning, Xu Liang went with Zhang Su who was going to Ningcheng because he had no purpose.The reason why Zhang Su came to Ningcheng was because he heard that the drought in Ningcheng was serious, so he came to visit his father's former friends in Ningcheng.

After entering Ningcheng, Zhang Su 'confessed' to Xu Liang that the reason why he came to Ningcheng was actually because his father received a letter from a friend, which vaguely revealed that he seemed to be in danger for some reason recently The situation, my father was very worried when he saw it, so he wanted to come and visit and see if he could be of any help.

It's just that his father's health has not been very good recently. As a son, Zhang Su should share his father's worries, so he offered to visit Ningcheng for his father.

Because it was his family business, he didn't want to tell his new friend at the beginning, but after entering Ningcheng, he found that although Ningcheng looked depressed on the surface, under careful observation, You can discover the undercurrent hidden under this depression.

Although Zhang Su is somewhat intelligent and has outstanding observation skills, he is a truly powerless scholar. In order not to involve himself, he told Xu Liang all these things, hoping that He can help him to find out what's going on at that friend's house.You don't need to investigate in detail, you just need to circle around to get a rough idea of ​​the situation.

Although Xu Liang was young, he could be regarded as an old man. Naturally, he would not be angry because of Zhang Su's concealment. Instead, he felt that it was a very wise move for him to tell the truth and seek help sincerely.Xu Liang, who felt that he was somewhat smart, appreciated Zhang Su's actions.

However, when Xu Liang walked around the place Zhang Su said, and found something and planned to go to the inn to tell him, he unexpectedly ran into the little emperor who was also in the room.At this time, Xu Liang thought about Zhang Su's previous words, and realized that his friend's words of visiting friends on behalf of his father were probably not the truth.

Jianghu is like this, power is not as good as people, it is normal to be robbed and killed, but wisdom is not as good as people, it is normal to be cheated and used, and Zhang Su is a member of the government, when walking on the rivers and lakes, naturally Be careful not to reveal your identity, of course Xu Liang will not be angry because of it.

However, as the saying goes, come and go is indecent, since Zhang Su took advantage of him, he will naturally have to pay it back once. Of course, he will pay attention to propriety, at least when the little emperor is still there, he will not give it to him. They make trouble.

At the beginning, the reason why he agreed to the second prince Qin Huan's entering the palace to assassinate the emperor was that apart from wanting to repay his kindness, he also wanted to get in touch with the current emperor at a close distance and know what kind of person he was.He has his own criteria for judging people, even if the second prince had saved him, if he felt that the emperor didn't deserve to die, he wouldn't do it, at most he would just scare him.

And what the little emperor said at the beginning really made him feel a little surprised, which is also the reason why he wanted to protect him when he accidentally met Qin Yi, who was visiting Qin Yi in Weifu privately.

The little emperor was a good emperor, it would be a pity for him to die so early.

Originally, when the three of them followed Qin Yi out of the inn, they thought he was going for a walk on the streets of Ningcheng, but seeing that the other party did not go to the shops on both sides of the street, but walked more and more sideways, a feeling suddenly arose in his heart. Very puzzled.The three guys who already knew Qin Yi's true identity but were afraid to reveal it for various reasons, after walking for a while with such doubts, finally someone couldn't help but speak.

"Brother, where are we going?" Zhang Su was the one who spoke.Theoretically speaking, he shouldn't have asked such a question, because he is a minister, and Qin Yi is the emperor, so Qin Yi should naturally be the main one between the emperor and his ministers.What Qin Yi wants to do is beyond his control.

However, among the people present, his identity was Qin Yi's junior, and other people obviously had doubts about Qin Yi's behavior. If he, the junior, didn't speak up and let others speak first, then his junior The performance is a bit strange.

Feel free, even though he knew that his current behavior was not right, in order to better hide Qin Yi's identity, Zhang Su still asked this question.

Qin Yi didn't care, he said as he walked, "I'm going to see those ancient wells."

The drought in Ningcheng was very serious, and the other wells in the city had dried up, but the few ancient wells before the city was built were still able to produce water, which made Qin Yi a little bit interested in those ancient wells.

When the city was first built, these ancient wells were deliberately surrounded. I don't know what the people who built the city thought. The four ancient wells in the city happened to be distributed in the four corners of Ningcheng.Perhaps because of this, after the city was built, several wells were drilled in some more convenient places in the city.

Compared with these relatively new wells, the four ancient wells in the city are naturally less used.When they came to the ancient well located in the south of the city, they could see many people in dusty clothes fetching water in front of the ancient well.

Judging from the clothes of those people, they are all relatively poor poor people, and among the people who fetch water, apart from the young boys who look a little thin, there are some women with thick hands and feet, and there are even one or two people who are stooped and carry water. An old man trembling with a bucket.

Pulling water from a well is undoubtedly a physical effort, even if a device for fetching water is installed at the head of the well.The people who came to fetch water were all teenagers and women. If it wasn't because these people didn't have a man in charge of the family, those men were all doing other more important things, for example, earning money to support their families and the like.

Ningcheng is located in the northwest, and walking about a hundred miles northwest from Ningcheng is the Northwest Wasteland.The environment in the Northwest Wasteland is harsh, and there is a small country composed of alien races: the Kingdom of Jin.After the Qin State overthrew the Song State's rule, it also expanded its territory.However, due to the harsh environment in the northwest wasteland, Daqin's iron cavalry did not conquer this small country.

Perhaps because they lived in the barren northwest wasteland, most people in the Kingdom of Jin made their living as merchants.They will sell some special products from the northwest wasteland to Daqin, and then buy a lot of cheap living materials back.The officials working in the cities at the border didn't think there was anything wrong with this, and those foreigners from the Jin Kingdom were also very sensible and paid the 'commercial tax' every time, so they didn't bother to care about the Jin Kingdom people.

The officials of Daqin never felt that the small country in the wasteland of Jin would pose any threat to them, but it happened that people from this small country, at some point, got acquainted with Daliao on the northern border of Daqin, and obtained a large number of excellent people. Horses, and in the long-term transaction, bought a lot of weapons from Daqin over time.In this way, the Kingdom of Jin launched an attack on the northwest frontier when Daqin was unprepared, and even captured a border town before Daqin reacted.

Daqin reacted quickly to Jin Guo's actions, and the imperial court issued an order for conscription. Zhang Wen, the eldest brother of the three brothers of the Zhang family, was conscripted because of this war and never came back.This time the war did not last long, and Daqin quickly regained the lost ground.

After all, the Kingdom of Jin underestimated the military strength of Daqin too much. Although Daqin had a relatively scattered army due to its vast territory, as long as the imperial court was determined to recruit troops, it could pull out an army of tens of thousands of people in an instant.Although the soldiers and horses of the Kingdom of Jin are relatively elite (after all, they have been preparing for so many years), they are not the grassland barbarians of Daliao after all. They were soon defeated by the attack of Daqin's sea of ​​​​people, and even the country was destroyed.

The forced conscription back then still made Ningcheng, a city close to the northwest border, a lot of depression. Coupled with this drought, if it is not dealt with properly, it may be difficult for Ningcheng to return to its original prosperous scene.

Qin Yi looked at the group of old and weak women and children who were fetching water, with all these thoughts turning in his mind, but his face didn't show the slightest bit, he just looked at the ancient well with a smile on his face, as if I think the scene of fetching water is very interesting.

In fact, the situation here is better than Qin Yi imagined. He originally thought that under such drought conditions, the only water source left in the city would be occupied by powerful people in the city to take advantage of the opportunity.Now it seems that those guys are not as brainless as he imagined.

Moreover, judging from what he discovered just now, it was the right time for him to come and see these ancient wells on a whim.This Ning Cheng is really getting more and more interesting.

Although it was very thin, there was indeed a thin layer of evil spirit floating on the mouth of the ancient well and the water surface of the well water that the group of people dug out.

The author has something to say: Ding Dong, congratulations to the protagonist for opening the supernatural dungeon

The setting of this article originally did not include supernatural powers, but things like whims are beyond the control of this work.

Monsters and ghosts will also appear in this article in the future. Of course, there are also Taoist priests who eliminate demons, but they are not the main line. They just pop out occasionally to refresh the sense of existence.