The reason why the Baili Canal was called the Golden Canal was because spring water was not only as precious as oil, but also as precious as gold.
Or was it because the national team had spent a lot of money and effort to build such a canal for the people? It was a rare and precious thing.
The Golden Aqua Channel that had nourished thousands of people on both sides of the river was actually built by Baili Xi, the respected official of the Five Families, during the golden years of Great Qin, which the people of Qin remembered.
As time passed, the memorable Bai Lixi had long passed away.
However, the 100-mile canal that he had built was still nourishing Great Qin's land and raising thousands of old Qin people.
After the Baili Canal was built, his son Meng Mingshi led his people and became the first group of natives in the upper reaches of the canal.
After that, the Meng family took root in the Hundred Miles Canal and continued to reproduce until today, more than 270 years later.
As for the Qin country, because it was located in the western border, it was at war all year round.
Therefore, it was a long-term national policy to absorb the barbarians from the western border and make them citizens of the country…
After all, farming needed people, and war needed people too.
In the western border of the poor barbarians like Qin Country, the number of people from the six states of Shandong who came to Qin Country was too little.
Scholars even had the words that all scholars in the world would not enter Qin, which spread throughout the Central Plains…
Therefore, Qin needed to take in the refugees of the Xirong barbarians to become its citizens.
These Xirong refugees, be it Yiqu, Xiongnu, Hu, or Xirong, were all called by the old Qin people as the enemy tribes.
As the saying goes, those who are not of the same race will definitely have different hearts. Therefore, for the Rong enemy tribes that came from the Qin Country, firstly, because of the differences in races, these fellows could not survive in the grasslands and ran to the Qin Country to snatch resources for them to survive.
Therefore, it was impossible for the Qin people to treat these enemy tribes nicely…
The national team was afraid that these enemy tribes would gather together and rebel. They had no choice but to mix these enemy tribes with the old Qin people.
The Qin people were used to supervise and restrict the enemy tribes.
It was precisely because of this that the Rongdi tribe and the old Qin people would often fight over some trivial matters.
These actions were known as 'private combats'.
Private fights started with individual punches and kicks, then killing, and eventually developing into gang fights.
Both sides had made an appointment, and then a large number of knives, machetes, hammers, hoes, pickaxes, and anything dared to attack. It was really a common thing for both sides to fight to the death.
If there wasn't a large-scale group fight every few years, both parties would feel uncomfortable…
He felt like he had not done anything…
His entire body was itchy…
They had been itching for more than 200 years and fighting for more than 200 years. The Meng family upstream of the Baili Canal and the Rong Di family of the Baili Canal had long become mortal enemies.
After a few lifetimes, everyone was an enemy with a blood debt…
For more than two hundred years, the national team knew that private fights were not a good idea.
However, the entire country was fighting against each other, and Great Qin had to go to war every year. It also had to ask these people to pay food and recruit soldiers.
What about you?
Kill them all?
This was unrealistic…
Therefore, the decree was issued symbolically…
Moreover, the rules are strict. You're not allowed to fight privately. It's not good to fight privately!
But rules were rules, and reality was reality.
Old Qin's people were valiant, and it wasn't only reflected in the fact that when a man and a woman saw each other, they would directly go into the forest.
This was the core of the true meaning of the people's bravery.
The people of Old Qin were valiant, and the enemy tribes on horseback that had come from the grassland tribes were not to be trifled with.
Motherf * cker!
Are you bullying us outsiders?
F * ck!
After hundreds of years, the valiant Old Qin and the valiant Rongdi tribesmen had proven with their strength that the so-called laws issued by the Qin national team were nothing but farts. They were the kind that were colorless, tasteless, and soundless...
He still had to kill!
He still had to fight!
He still had to fight!
This year, the decree was announced again…
It was more complicated than in previous years.
It was clearly stated that private fights were not allowed between nations.
Furthermore, it also stipulated in detail that during the spring ploughing period, the water used by each canal must be strictly in accordance with the law of irrigation downstream first and irrigation upstream later.
When the decree was passed from the county government to the old patriarch of the Meng family, Meng You Ci, the patriarch leisurely threw the bamboo slips into the kitchen pit…
It was really good to burn. When it burned, it made a popping sound, as pleasant as popping beans…
A pot of rice was cooked…
As the descendant of the famous Bai Lixi, Meng Youci was the head of the Meng family, which had more than 2,700 people.
Meng Youci had unparalleled prestige in the clan.
Moreover, Meng You Ci's name was a legend among his clansmen, and there was a very miraculous story behind it.
Back then, after Meng You Ci's father gave birth to Meng You Ci, he had a fierce appearance.
Meng You Ci's mother carried Meng You Ci to Mount Boyang and asked a reclusive Daoist with an extremely high reputation to read his fortune.
It was said that this Daoist was none other than Yi Xi, who asked Laozi to write the Tao Te Ching in calligraphy at Hangu Pass.
It was said that Yi Xi only glanced at Meng You Ci once before closing his eyes and calling Meng You Ci's mother to strangle him to death…
Because this child will bring disaster to your clan in the future…
There was no mother in the world who would personally strangle her own son. The mother cried and begged Yi Xi to save her and her son's lives.
Yi Xi had no choice but to tell Meng You Ci's mother,""Unless his son has a benevolent heart and accompanies him for life, he can avoid this disaster.
If your compassion is broken, disaster will surely come!"
Thus, Meng You Ci survived and named himself," Meng You Ci!
In the blink of an eye, Meng You Ci's life had come back to life.
Not only did he not bring disaster to the Meng family, he even became the patriarch of the Meng family.
Meng Youci had long forgotten about his mother's respectful teachings about having a benevolent heart when he was young…
In the past few years, Meng Youci had led his clansmen to fight against the enemy clans in the Lower Reaches for most of his life.
They had fought eighty times, if not a hundred times.
Among them, there were countless small and medium-sized private fights, and there were seven to eight large-scale private fights…
What made him proud was that the Meng family always won.
Meng You Ci was the pride of the clan, the hero in their hearts…
His prestige was so high that the entire clan of over 2,700 people admired him…
As long as the clan leader gave the order, the clansmen would be fearless and charge forward…
A decree from the national team?
Stop talking nonsense…
All these years, it was the old chief who had led the clansmen to survive.
And the national team's rules were like a whore on duty. They changed one day, and another tomorrow. They kept changing...
Why bother?
Only the old patriarch was eternal…
In Meng You Ci's room.
Meng You Ci was leisurely drinking tea…
The clansmen came over." Clan Leader, the county magistrate Zhao Shi has issued a decree ordering our Meng clan not to block the upstream of the Hundred Miles Canal.
We have to let the Rong Di tribes downstream irrigate the fields that have already been planted…"
Meng Youci took the decree and glanced at it before throwing it into the fire."Who does Zhao Shi think he is?
How dare you order my Meng clan?
Don't listen to their nonsense. Block the canal and let our Meng family's fields irrigate first.
It's already very kind of us to let those Rong bandits use our old Qin people's Baili Canal.
They still had to drink first?
They're rebelling…"
" Hey, Clan Leader, let's go block the canal and choke off the water downstream…"
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