The Great Qin Empire---Qin Li

"According to the Master, at that time the thief Jing Ke took the map and presented it to the king, pointing out the location of Du Kang. Who would have thought that when the map was finished, the dagger appeared!"

"Ah!"

Although Hei Fu had known this story from two years ago, he still pretended to be very surprised and listened to Chen Wujiu's boasting without blinking, thinking that he might be able to hear some inside stories that were different from the historical records.

But Chen Wujiu said: "According to the Qin law, ministers are not allowed to carry any weapons when serving in the palace. The guards with weapons are arranged outside the palace and are not allowed to enter the palace without an imperial decree. The incident happened suddenly and in the chaos, the guards could not get there in time. The palace was in chaos. The ministers were eager to protect the king and could only stop Jing Ke with their bare hands. But Jing Ke was so agile that they could not stop him."

"The king had a sword on his back at that time, but the sword was too long and he could not pull it out while running. Seeing Jing Ke catching up again, he was about to stab the king with a dagger!"

Chen Wujiu paused here deliberately, and after whetting the appetite, he continued: "It happened that at this time, my teacher Xia Gong Wuqi, who happened to be the king's doctor, was standing aside with a medicine bag on his back. Seeing this, he immediately raised the medicine bag and threw it at Jing Ke to stop him! The king then went around the pillar and drew his sword. The ministers on both sides also came over and held Jing Ke. The king hit Jing Ke with a sword and chopped his left leg. Blood gushed out like a spring..." Hearing this, Hei Fu pretended to be relieved and said: "Fortunately, the king has the blessing of Haotian and the medicine bag of Xia Gong, which prevented the thief Jing Ke from succeeding." "That's right." Chen Wujiu touched his short beard. This was his teacher's proud work. Every time Chen Wujiu told outsiders, it could be regarded as a gift and a sharing. What happened that day was the secret of the Qin Palace known only to the parties involved. Chen Wujiu didn't want to tell ordinary people! "After this incident, the king rewarded his officials according to their merits and gave my master two hundred taels of gold!"

"Two hundred taels!" Heifu was surprised from the bottom of his heart.

In the Qin State, gold was a currency and there were two units of measurement. The smaller unit was liang. Heifu and his men usually rewarded thieves according to liang when they captured them. Ten taels at a time was enough to make the guards smile.

Yi was a larger unit than "liang", and one tael was equal to 24 taels. Usually, when a person is said to be rich enough to rival a country, he would be praised as "rich as a thousand gold", which means he has a thousand taels of gold.

Heifu calculated in his mind that one tael of gold was 576 coins, and one tael of gold was 13,824 coins.

200 taels of gold... Tsk, more than two million and seven hundred thousand coins!

Poverty limited Heifu's imagination. He had no idea about the prices in Xianyang City, but he knew that with these two million yuan, he could basically buy all the shops in Anlu County, and then buy the houses in Yunmeng Township, and still have a lot of money left.

This is really a huge windfall. With this reward, Xia Wuqi can completely transform from a not-so-rich doctor to a wealthy man in Qin!

No wonder Xia Wuqi can match the top-grade golden wound medicine that is famous in Qin. This is all made with money...

The meaning of the King of Qin rewarding Xia Wuqi is also very clear. The life of the king is supreme and precious. A medicine bag thrown in time is worth so much money!

Seeing that Heifu was "shocked" again, Chen Wujiu said with some pride: "Money is secondary. The most important thing is that when discussing merits, the king commented on the master. Captain Heifu, do you know what the king said?"

"What did he say?" Heifu really didn't know these details.

"The king said: Wuqie loves me, so he carried Jing Ke with a medicine bag!"

Chen Wujiu smacked his lips, as if savoring the profound meaning of this sentence, which was the king of Qin's affirmation of Xia Wuqie's loyalty. After this incident, Xia Wuqie also jumped from a low-ranking attendant physician to the Qin State's chief physician...

"Now the master is trusted by the king. If he writes to the king about the battlefield medical care strategy discussed by Heifu Tunzhang and me, the chance of passing it is very high!"

Just now, Chen Wujiu boasted to Heifu about Xia Wuqie's deeds for so long, just to prove how much his master was trusted by the king of Qin and that he was one of the closest people to the king.

However, in Heifu's view, Xia Wuqie was indeed trusted by the king of Qin, but as one of his many disciples, how high was Chen Wujiu's status in the master's school? Not entirely.

"If he was really Xia Wuqi's favorite disciple, he would have risen to the top and served in the Qin Palace. He wouldn't have come to Wei to join the army and become a small doctor in a group of a thousand men after just getting the title of a doctor..."

Heifu didn't show this idea, he had no choice, there was only one way in front of him, Chen Wujiu. He just kept a hand when he offered advice, and didn't hand over all the medical knowledge he knew about the later generations.

Heifu guessed correctly that Chen Wujiu's status among the many disciples of the master's sect was really not high, and he couldn't be compared with the son-in-law who was regarded as the successor by Xia Wuqi, and he didn't even give him a secret recipe.

So Chen Wujiu was as eager for fame as Heifu. After a detailed discussion with Heifu, he began to think that the idea of a battlefield medical soldier might make him valued by his master Xia Wuqi.

So Chen Wujiu did what he said. After learning the bandaging technique of battlefield rescue from Heifu for two days, he wrote the cause and effect on the wooden tablet. He also asked Heifu to look at it to prove that he had indeed written Heifu's name on it. Qin State did not have a special "medical book". Medical books, like divination, were circulated among the people. Therefore, Heifu, as a village chief, cared about the treatment of wounds and rescued the wounded, which was not beyond his duty.

However, although Chen Wujiu patted his chest and promised again and again, Heifu still had some doubts about whether this bamboo slip could attract Xia Wuqi's attention and whether it could be submitted to the King of Qin.

Chen Wujiu's title was just a doctor, but he did not have the privilege of expedited post, and the public post of Qin State did not help people deliver private letters. Therefore, this letter could only be sent back slowly by the injured Xianyang officer who returned to Guanzhong.

From Waihuang to Xianyang, there are more than 1,400 miles, and the mountains and rivers are blocked. It may take more than a month for this letter to reach Xia Wuqi.

Accompanying the king is like accompanying a tiger, let alone a heroic lord like Qin King Ying Zheng. Those who can get close to him are not reckless people. Seeing is believing, hearing is not. If Xia Wuqie is really interested in what is in the letter, out of caution, he will even wait until the end of the war, call Chen Wujiu back, and witness it with his own eyes before making the next plan.

Even if everything goes well, Xia Wuqie really writes to the King of Qin and asks the ministers to discuss it, it may not be adopted.

Battlefield rescue is different from treading the pestle. The benefits are not so immediate, and some people may even think it is troublesome.

Not every king and general will care about the survival of soldiers. There are millions of young men in Qin, all of whom have been included in the system of Fu Ji. If one dies to fill the ditch, there will be countless people in the rear to follow up. Even if they are rescued, they will mostly become disabled. According to the system of Qin, such disabled veterans should be placed in "hidden officials" for care. Why bother to save more useless people and let them waste resources and food?

Therefore, after watching the Guanzhong military officer who carried the letter go away, unlike Chen Wujiu who was impatient, Heifu seemed much more indifferent.

"Whether this matter succeeds or fails, whether there will be rewards or not, are all a matter of a few months. Now, I will just pretend that it never happened!"

...

The carriage to Xianyang was slow, but Heifu's new title came quite quickly!

Since he became the head of the garrison, Heifu's title upgrade is no longer linked to his personal beheadings. Only by making collective merits can he be promoted.

In the Battle of Waihuang, Heifu and his garrison beheaded 17 levels, completing the "Yinglun" indicator, which is equivalent to a collective merit.

The military rank law stipulates: "Yinglun, 100 generals and garrison chiefs are given one level of rank."

After the military judge verified that all the heads were fine, the rewards and punishments for everyone were written into documents and submitted to Wang Ben's camp under Daliang City, and the legal officer in charge of military merits and rewards and punishments there confirmed that they were correct.

So on the sixth day after the Qin army occupied Waihuang, Hei Fu's new title was given.

After receiving the wooden crown symbolizing the title of "Bu Geng", Hei Fu smiled.

"Bu Geng, good! I like this title!"