"Da da da……"

Waves of smoke and dust were flying into the sky, and the sound of horse hooves was heard. The road from Hexi to Qindong ushered in a group of guests with special status.

Following the sound of wheels rolling across the ground that kept ringing in my ears, I saw a simple-looking carriage on the opposite side slowly moving forward.

Following this carriage were two majestic war horses, and the two well-dressed men riding on them showed a hint of fierceness.

"drive……"

Suddenly, a sound of urging horses, although slightly old but full of energy, sounded, and the horses in front of them subconsciously accelerated a little faster.

Feeling the movement from the carriage beneath him, the driver of the car withdrew his slightly smiling gaze from the two people on the left and right, and held the reins a little harder with his right hand.

"Cangbo."

A familiar voice rang in my ears, and next to the driver was a young man in white.

This young man is none other than Gongsun Yang, who is about to take office as the magistrate of Yueyang County.

After bidding farewell to Gongzi Yan on the bank of the river, Gongsun Yang continued his journey to Yueyang with the old man and two guards beside him.

Following the road all the way to the west, after crossing the Luoshui River where the Qin State once resisted the Wei State's offensive, Gongsun Yang and his party finally arrived at the eastern border of Qin.

Looking at the Western Zhou Dynasty from afar, Gongsun Yang's eyes fell on the old man next to him whom he called "Cang Bo" after taking in the vastness and desolation in his field of vision.

The seemingly ordinary old man next to Gongsun Yang at this moment is not a simple character. He has been following the prime minister, Gongshu Cuo, for these years.

On that day, when Gongsun Yang said goodbye to Gongshu Cuo and was about to leave the Prime Minister's Mansion and go to Qin Dong, Gongshu Cuo, a teacher, gave him a special gift.

The gifts that Gongsun Yang left to Gongsun Yang were not treasures or money, but volumes of classics that he had collected over the years, and the Cangbo who had been with him for many years.

Needless to say, the preciousness of volumes and volumes of classics is needless to say. No matter what era it is in, the carrier of knowledge can never be compared with money.

As for Cang Bo, who has followed Gongshu Cuo for many years, he represents another kind of precious wealth, and the name of this wealth is experience.

Although Gongsun Yang had never heard such words as "having an old man in a family is like having a treasure.", this did not prevent him from respecting the Cangbo next to him.

"Uncle Cang, thank you for your hard work along the way."

Hearing these words ringing in his ears, Cang Bo couldn't help but have a bright smile appear on his face.

Although he was happy in his heart, he responded nonchalantly: "Gongsun Yan is serious. It's not hard work."

"Since I followed the old master's orders to take care of Gongsun, then all this is what I should do, just like the two people beside us."

While saying these words, Cangbo's eyes quickly swept across the two figures following on both sides, and a loud sound of urging the horse sounded again.

"drive……"

The voice slowly fell in his ears, and his eyes returned to Gongsun Yang, but Cang Bo showed a somewhat mysterious expression on his face.

"Gongsun, I have seen those two people, and if they are talking about their skills, they are both top-notch masters."

"With these two people by my side, if others want to harm Gongsun, they may have to work hard."

Gongsun Yang had already learned a thing or two about the extraordinary nature of Cangbo next to him during his years in the prime minister's mansion.

Now when he heard the other party mentioning the two figures riding war horses next to him, Gongsun Yang's face once again appeared in Gongsun Yang's heart, and there was also a look of emotion on his face.

"Sir, how can you repay your kindness by calling Yang Yang?"

In Gongsun Yang's somewhat melancholy mood, the carriage under him moved westward at a not too fast speed, leaving only bursts of dust and smoke on the road.

As the carriage went deeper and deeper into the land of Qindong, the scene Gongsun Yang saw was also undergoing great changes.

In the Hexi area ruled by Wei State, even after a large-scale battle, Gongsun Yang could still see large tracts of farmland.

But when Gongsun Yang stepped onto the land of Qin Dong, some of the original farmland was now deserted, as if no one had cultivated it for many years;

At the same time, there are signs of reclamation in other places, as if someone had loosened the land in this place not long ago.

Since there was originally farmland in those places, why did the farmers living on this land not cultivate it, but instead chose to re-cultivate it in another place?

When the scenes he saw in the land of Qin Dong came into view, this question slowly arose in Gongsun Yang's mind.

With this puzzlement in his mind, Gongsun Yang's carriage continued to move forward until he met two old men digging soil on the side of the road.

"Meet the two elders."

When a young voice sounded in their ears, the two old men who were busy in their fields slowly raised their heads.

Seeing that the person in front of them was a young scholar in white, the two old men looked at each other, and doubts flashed in their eyes.

"Who are you?"

Doubts appeared on the faces of the two old men. Gongsun Yang immediately stepped forward and bowed solemnly to the two people in front of him.

"To be fair to you two elders, I am a scholar from the Wei Kingdom, but this time I came here to study on the order of my teacher."

After listening to Gongsun Yang's self-introduction, the two old men nodded lightly as they looked at his attire.

Over the years, they have also seen some scholars who came to study. They were also dressed similarly to Gongsun Yang in front of them, and they also looked so elegant and easy-going.

Although they knew almost nothing about writing, this did not prevent the two old people from showing kindness to the young man who seemed to be knowledgeable.

A passionate smile appeared on his face, and one of the old men asked: "What do you want us to do?"

"I have one thing to ask the two elders." As he spoke, Gongsun Yang pointed to a place in the distance, "If I'm not mistaken, that place should have been farmland. Why has it become so bad now?"

barren?"

"Why did the two old men leave their original farmland for cultivation instead of cultivating other land here?"

After hearing what Gongsun Yang asked, the two old men were a little stunned at first, and then as if they heard something funny, their eyes were filled with bright smiles.

After a while, the old man took a step forward again and said in a deep voice to Gongsun Yang: "So that the scholars will know that the land under our feet is private land reclaimed by us, and that land was originally cultivated by us.

The land is the government’s public land.”

The old man's answer was like an enlightenment to Gongsun Yang, and at the same time, the sentence appeared in his mind almost instantly.

Public fields are sluggish and private fields are common.

What Gongsun Yang didn't expect was that the words he had only seen in records were now so clearly displayed before his eyes.
Chapter completed!