The next morning, Yu Wuya went to Mengyi's mansion in person. Because of heavy snowfall, the papermaking workshop had not started construction. Meng Yun happened to rest at home, so he quickly took a carriage to Qinghe Hou Mansion.

After hearing Chen Xu say that, Meng Yun thought for a while and said, "I am not familiar with Shang Qi. Going forward rashly may arouse his alertness, but there is someone who can use Qinghe Hou well!"

"who?"

"This man is known to the Marquis, and there have been conflicts in Wancheng?"

"Could it be Ma Teng?" Chen Xu asked in surprise.

"That's right!" Meng Yun nodded, "Ma Teng is the nephew of Ma Boyuan, the former governor of Wancheng County. However, Ma Boyuan was dismissed from his post and exiled to Yanmen because of the last time the bandits attacked His Majesty's headquarters. Ma Teng was not implicated. He is still at home in Xianyang. His father passed away a few years ago. There is also an old lady and two sisters in the family. Ma Teng used to be very familiar with Shang Qi and Ao Jun. Although his status is not as good as before, because he is an old acquaintance, his family has a lot of property. These people often play together. If you want to secretly inquire about this, Ma Teng is a good candidate. Moreover, the Marquis is different from the past. As long as you speak, he will definitely not dare to resist at all!"

"Where is his family living?" Chen Xuyan followed the plan.

According to Chen Xu's current status, Ma Teng can slap several of them to death. You should know that there are not many marquis in the entire Qin Dynasty, and even Li Si, the left prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, did not have a title of marquis. The Qin Dynasty is honored by military merits. Basically, those who are granted marquis are military generals, and it is basically difficult for civil officials to be granted marquis. As for many titles lower than marquis, there should be distribution of land and salary according to military merits, but basically, except for land and real estate, salary is difficult to obtain unless you have an official position.

The current titles of Daqin are ordinary titles at level one to eight, which are basically the same as ordinary gentry. You can obtain land, real estate and servants of varying sizes, but you still need to serve. You can be a low-level general at the top of the doctor.

Level 9 to 18 are superior titles, and can be generals in the army, and doctors and ministers in the court. In addition to obtaining different land, real estate and servants, there is also the right to give fiefs and rewards and referrals.

The 19th level is the Marquis of Guannei. Nowadays, the few marquises of the Qin Dynasty are almost all Guannei. Chen Xu's Qinghe Marquis was the Marquis of Qinghe Town. Qin Shihuang granted him all the 600 households in Qinghe Town to him as fiefs. Therefore, the people in Qinghe Town basically became his private tenants, and they did not have to pay grain taxes to the court, but all had to be handed over to Chen Xu. Moreover, this marquis can be hereditary.

The twenty-level Chehou, also known as Tonghou, has only one of the Great Qin people, that is, Tongwu Hou Wang Ben, and this title was accumulated by his father and son who swept through the six kingdoms.

At present, all the military merits and rewards of the Qin Dynasty are only titles and have no real power. This was formed after Shang Yang's reforms.

Because the Great Qin emphasizes military power, the civil and military positions of the Great Qin are not particularly clear, and another important reason is that after experiencing the incidents of the Marquis of Wenxin, Lu Buwei and Changxin, Hou Lao, Qin Shihuang was unwilling to be a marquis because once he was granted a marquis, he would have a real fief, and the marquis who received the marquis were completely like a monarch in his fiefdom, and it was difficult to control the marquis and family slaves, which was extremely unsafe and unstable.

For example, Wang Ben, the Marquis of Tongwu, had a real fief, but they had always lived in the Marquis of Xianyang and stayed under Qin Shihuang's nose to show their innocence, because the father and son had too much military achievements and were actually marquises. They were very famous in the Qin army. Many middle and low-level officers were lords who followed them to fight, so they were extremely loyal to both. If they wanted to rebel, they would respond with their appeal in the army. Therefore, in order to avoid suspicion, they could only hide at home and play as turtles.

"As far as I know, Ma Teng is not at home on weekdays. If you look for him, it is best to go to Liuxiang Garden where the children of the ministers gather. They gather there to play in their daily lives!" Meng Yun said.

"Where is Liuxiang Garden?" Although Chen Xu has been in Xianyang for more than half a month, he still has dark eyes on many places in Xianyang.

"It's right in the east of the city!"

"Anyway, there is nothing wrong today. If Mr. Meng is going to accompany me, I also want to see what the scenery of Liuxiang Garden is!" Chen Xu stood up with a smile.

"Mr. Marquis invites you, Meng Yun is worse than respectful!" Meng Yun also stood up quickly.

Half an hour later, Chen Xu, Meng Yun and Yu Wuya appeared with a few guards near a huge courtyard covering an area of ​​100 acres in the east of the city. The high walls and thick tiles covered with snow looked very thick. Three ancient seal characters Liuxiangyuan hung on a tall gatehouse. You can hear the sound of shouting and roaring from inside through the high courtyard wall, and there are also bangs and thumps, and sometimes there will be a burst of cheers of men and women.

There were several big men wearing fur coats standing at the door. When they saw Chen Xu and his group of people riding horses, they quickly saluted Meng Yun respectfully, "Greetings to Mr. Meng!"

Meng Yun was too lazy to take a look. After getting off the horse, he threw the reins to a big man and said, "Help us take good care of the horse, is the horse coming today?"

"Go back to Mr. Meng, Mr. Ma is here and is playing with people in Cuju!" a big man said quickly.

"It seems that it's time to come, please come, Marquis of Qinghe!" Meng Yun smiled and led Chen Xu and Yu Wuya into the gate of Liuxiang Garden.

"Qinghe Marquis?" After Chen Xu and his friends walked into Liuxiang Garden, the big men at the door came back to their senses from the shock, and then their faces changed drastically.

Walking into Liuxiang Garden, what was revealed before me was an open space of about half a football field, with low walls around it, and the snow on the ground had not been shoveled away. More than a dozen young people were wearing thin jackets on the snow. There were seven or eight on both sides, wearing hats of different colors on their heads to indicate different camps. A ju ball sewn in sheepskin flew around in the air and on the snow. The people in Cuju were also running out of breath and passing back and forth. The scene looked very lively. There were hundreds of people gathered on the sidelines, including men, women, old and young. They applauded from time to time to cheer for the people in Cuju.

"It's quite lively!" Chen Xu was quite surprised. He never knew that there was such a football field in Xianyang that looked more formal, but the way of playing football was very different from later generations.

There were two football goals in later generations, and Cuju in front of him had six goals behind both teams. In fact, the goal was not considered a six-hole. The offensive side kicked Ju ball into one of the opponent's pits to score, and there were also boys who picked up the ball, scoring personnel and referees. What surprised Chen Xu the most was that the referee was actually holding a bamboo whistle in his mouth.

Looking at Chen Xu's face full of surprise, Meng Yun explained: "This is actually a change in the rules of Cuju in the army. Ordinary Cuju doesn't need such a large venue. One person, two or three can play. There are six methods of hanging, stopping, hooking and rushing. I heard from the people of Wuhou Mansion that there is also a new way of Cuju. Both sides have one, which is more intense and exciting than this. Unfortunately, I didn't get it."

Chen Xu naturally knew what Meng Yun was talking about. It was definitely the football rules he invented in Qinghe Town Primary School. Wang Jian must have learned it and organized his servants to play in the mansion. However, the football-like kicking method in later generations requires a ball with good elasticity. It is different from the popular balls that use grass in sheepskin bags. If the ball is not good, it will not be good.

The way of playing is quite intense now. The people in Cuju are also very skilled, running, jumping, and moving. The Ju ball rarely falls to the ground with the sound of banging. However, because the snow on the ground is thick, the running people often fall, and they are all tired and sweating.

Chen Xu stood beside him and watched for a few minutes, and also had some new understanding of these playboy disciples. At least these two guys are in good health. No one complained about being tired after such intense exercise, and they are very flexible in kicking their heads and feet.

If these guys were brought into the national team in later generations, it would be fine to sweep Asia and easily enter the World Cup.

It can be seen from this that the Chinese are worse than the other.

Not only are there fewer and fewer people like Yu Wuya who are very skilled in martial arts, but even playing football is far inferior to that of our ancestors.

The movement of Cuju was invented in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and was very mature in the Qin Dynasty. It was also gradually mature. Both the civilians and the army carried out vigorously. The army even regarded Cuju as a necessary daily training and training of confrontations between soldiers to improve the combat effectiveness of soldiers.

Legend has it that Liu Bang, the father of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, loved Cuju very much. After Liu Bang became the emperor of the Han Dynasty, he took his father to the capital Chang'an for retirement. He found that his father was depressed all day long. After asking, he found out that his father was lonely and depressed because no one accompanied him Cuju. Liu Bang moved all his neighbors to the capital and organized an elderly Cuju team to play with his father.

At this moment, Liu Bang is already 37 or 8 years old, and his father is over fifty years old. He probably like Liu Bang, both father and son are not doing their jobs. He is drinking and gambling in Cuju all day in the Qin Dynasty, and is so happy.

"Mr. Marquis, that's Ma Teng!" Meng Yun said with his eyes searching among a group of people and pointed at a guy who was playing football.

Chen Xu looked over and found that it was indeed Ma Teng, but he couldn't recognize him because he had a hair-fixing hat on his head.

"Harewell, I'll call him over!" Meng Yun walked to the edge of Cuju court and found the referee, whispered a few words, the referee quickly blew the bamboo flute, and a group of Cuju people stopped for no reason.

"Ma Teng, come here!" Meng Yun jumped to the low wall and shouted.

When Ma Teng saw that it was Meng Yun, his face turned quite ugly, but he still didn't dare to complain, so he could only come over and salute: "Young Master Meng, why do you suddenly look for me?"

"Someone wants to see you!" Meng Yun turned around and pointed at Chen Xu and said.
Chapter completed!