Hearing Lu Pheasant's grand ambitions, no matter how deep Liu Jicheng's mansion was, he was so shocked that he couldn't sit still.
"It's easy for Ying'er to go to the northwest. He is a prince, so training in the army is a good thing. It just tempers his indecisive and slow temperament.
But you want to go to South Vietnam? What to do? On a mission? Absolutely ridiculous! "
"I'm not on a mission to South Vietnam. I'm going to Changsha. I'll see what happens when I get there." Lu Pheasant patiently corrected the emperor,
"Let me ask you, how many governors are you going to send out in the next year? Will they be able to patrol the prefectures and states as far as Changsha?"
Liu Ji looked up at the golden hibiscus caisson on the roof and thought for a long time.
"Most of them won't be able to patrol. Changsha is a small and weak country. There are only two counties, Changsha and Yuzhang. The number of households is no more than 20,000. We have to wait for a while."
Lu Fei chuckled and thought:
It turns out that you yourself know that the Changsha Kingdom claims to span five counties, but in fact there are only two actual counties. The remaining three counties of Xiangjun, Guilin and Nanhai are all the territory of Zhao Tuo of South Vietnam and have nothing to do with you.
At the beginning, Liu Ji falsely granted all three counties of South Vietnam to Changsha, which borders Han Dynasty. It was called encouragement and promise, but in reality it was alienation and war. He pushed the Wu family of Changsha out to serve as a buffer target. It was ridiculous. The intentions below are not without poison.
"Your Majesty has never been to Changsha, aren't you curious about the local customs and people?
I'm very curious. How about I serve as governor for the imperial court and go on a tour of Changsha's two counties.
Anyway, Changsha Wang Wuchen is cautious and will make careful arrangements so nothing will happen. "
***
Although the Queen's tour had never happened before, it was not completely unacceptable and deviant.
After the Qin Dynasty unified the country, the First Emperor visited the country five times, conquered the country, and laid stones to offer sacrifices to heaven in many places.
Among these five tours, only the first one pointed to the northwest, patrolling Longxi and Beidi before returning to Jitou Mountain. In the following four tours, the emperor's huge motorcade rushed straight to the southeast. .
"Although Chu has three households, Chu will definitely destroy Qin." This widely circulated prophecy always hung over the head of the First Emperor, making him panic and uneasy. Only he knew that the mysterious rumors that were difficult to penetrate bloody revealed Qin Ting's fragile control over the vast southeastern region.
The Yin-Yang family alchemist's unequivocal statement that "there is the emperor's spirit in the southeast" accurately guessed his inner problem. The so-called emperor's spirit was clearly the strong anti-Qin sentiment of the people in the southeast.
To this end, he made great efforts to dig out veins of land, change place names, and pollute the soil surface in the southeast area. He did his best to do everything he could, and even visited frequently in person to intimidate the people.
Therefore, the common people of Li have long been accustomed to the emperor's grand tour every two or three years.
In the last life, the Li and Tang clan took the blood of the barbarians outside the Great Wall to save the decadent Central Plains, restarted the new machine, and expanded their glory.
Under the great impact and integration of the cultures of the north and the south, it was common for women to travel, remarry, run a family, and participate in political affairs. Therefore, for Lu Pheasant at this time, proposing to visit Changsha was tantamount to traveling from the north of Luoyang. Gong walked to Nangong.
What's more, she had defied the Chu camp and went with Zhang Liang to Lu County, Xiang Yu's fiefdom, to persuade him to surrender. Before anyone noticed, she had already quietly entered the political stage.
As the first queen in history, holding the only queen's jade seal in the world, no one can tell clearly at this moment the extent of the queen's power and what she can do.
There are no ready-made rules, so it would be perfect to try them step by step and re-establish the rules.
She looked at Liu Ji's face quietly, waiting for his reaction to the proposal.
***
For Liu Ji, this was not a big deal. He just frowned and muttered,
"It's not impossible to go on patrol, but it's just that the heat and humidity in the south make diseases more frequent, plus the stinging vipers, aren't there still rat infestations?
At that time, many of the armies sent by the First Emperor to conquer the south were not acclimatized to the local conditions. Changsha is adjacent to South Vietnam, and the atmosphere is similar. If you go there rashly, be careful that you will never come back.
Moreover, it wastes people and money. "
At this time, people had not yet been restrained by ethics, so Liu Ji did not stop her from a secular perspective. She only reminded her of how difficult the road ahead was based on her inherent impression of the smoky land in the south.
"The Changsha Palace in Linxiang has its own medical officer. I drove lightly and simply along the way. I didn't make any fuss, but I walked faster." Lu Pheasant replied without thinking.
"Then how will you stay after you arrive in Changsha?
Changsha is a small country with few people and only so many soldiers. It would be difficult for Wu Chen and his family to scare Zhao Tuo based on their abilities alone. "
Precisely because the Wu family of Changsha king could not engulf South Vietnam, and South Vietnam could not engulf Changsha country, the two sides had been in a stalemate for many years. Liu Ji was able to reap the benefits of being a fisherman, and he did not even go on patrol with peace of mind.
Lu Pheasant asked confidently,
"This is exactly what I want to ask your Majesty for advice. Your Majesty, think about it again, is there anyone else Zhao Tuo is afraid of?"
The so-called coercion and inducement are a two-pronged approach. She guessed that there were still soldiers in Changsha, and they were a surprise force.
***
"Oh, by the way, after you mentioned it, I remembered that Zhao Tuo really has a nemesis named Mei Yuan (xuān)."
Liu Ji patted his thigh and tried to remember,
"Mei Yuan is an old general of Wu Chen's father Wu Rui. I met this man when I joined Wu Rui's army in Nanyang.
Mei Yuan is quite old and is from Baiyue. When he speaks Chinese, he has a strong accent from his hometown. When he speaks Chinese too fast, he cannot understand anything. However, he is a good fighter. "
As he was about to come out, Lu Zhi suppressed the boiling excitement in his chest and asked,
"Is the one named Mei Rong very powerful?"
"Not only is he powerful, he is Zhao Tuo's nemesis.
Zhao Tuo was so ambitious that he originally wanted to take advantage of the chaos. Unexpectedly, he sent troops northward once, but was repulsed once by Mei Yi and blocked back four or five times. Not to mention fighting in the Central Plains, South Vietnam's troops and horses were completely gone. I can't even get out of Wuling.
So he gave up now and guarded the three counties of South Vietnam obediently, not daring to act rashly, thinking that he was frightened by Mei Ao and went wrong. "
Recalling those passionate years, Liu Ji spoke in a high-pitched tone, full of emotion, and it was not without nostalgia.
"If that's the case, why don't you ever hear anyone mention this person?"
"Hey, you don't know something. That Mei Yuan is both a military commander and a semi-immortal.
I don't know where he is right now, he's just like a ghost. "
Being asked by Lu Pheasant and getting excited, Liu Jizhi said,
"Come on, let's talk about Mei Yi, why don't you just ask Wu Chen?
While he is in Luoyang, call him in tomorrow and ask him. "
***
"Mei Rong? He went back to the mountains a long time ago!"
The court meeting broke up the next day, and Wu Chen was ordered to go to the imperial palace to discuss matters. Unexpectedly, Liu Ji asked him about Mei Yi's whereabouts.
Luoyang was much colder than Linxiang, the capital of the Changsha Kingdom. Wu Chen caught wind and cold as soon as he arrived in Luoyang and had to lie down for six days before he recovered. He was recovering from a serious illness and was wearing extra thick clothes. He walked quickly, wiping sweat and answering urgent questions.
Hearing this, all the ministers looked at each other, and Liu Ji was also stunned.
"What do you mean by going back to the mountains? Is this hiding?
Tell me slowly, it's not that important at all, it just suddenly occurred to me. "
Wu Chen bowed his head, composed himself and said,
"Reporting to Your Majesty, after the prefectures and counties in Changsha were stabilized, no matter what official position his father gave him, he refused. Later, he said that he could not get used to living in the capital, but he was more comfortable in the mountains.
Your Majesty also knows about his temper, and he is a generation older than me. He cannot be stopped or forced. "
"Well, after Mei Rong bragged to me and called himself Chi You,"
Xiao He couldn't help laughing when he thought of everyone's rhetoric in the army. He looked at Wu Chen again and said curiously,
"Central Hunan is full of high mountains, vast and mysterious, and he loves to live in the mountains and forests. Could it be that he is really related to the Chiyou tribe?"
