The Qin army won a great victory, but after all, the domestic food and grass were still insufficient. They only occupied all the city land that Qin had lost during this period and were unable to continue the march.
However, unexpectedly, Zhang Ji suddenly came up with a full 200,000 shi of grain and grass to solve the Qin army's food shortage problem.
Half of these 200,000 stones were purchased and stored by Zhang Ji with the help of Luo Wang when he first entered Xinzheng a year ago. (See Chapter 5)
At that time, he was planning according to the plot of the original work, planning to buy 100,000 stones of grain and grass to relieve the victims when the Korean people were facing a food shortage, but he did not expect that the Emerald Tiger would become his subordinate.
Although famine broke out, there was no food shortage.
Without Emerald Tiger's malicious hoarding of food and raising prices, the people would still be able to survive even though their lives were very difficult.
These provisions were handed over to the Jade Tiger and secretly sent to Guiling City occupied by the Qin State.
South Korea fell into chaos after its defeat. All the birds were involved in dealing with the officials who impeached the defeated Ji Wuye and Bai Yifei, and had no time to monitor the movements of the Emerald Tiger.
After all, the Emerald Tiger is one of the four evil generals in the night. No one in South Korea except Ji Wuye dared to check the Emerald Tiger's caravan, so they traveled smoothly.
The other 100,000 stones were used for the low-priced grain purchased by the Emerald Tiger from the prosperous Qi State. They did not need to pass through the territory of South Korea at all, and were sent directly to Guiling City under the escort of the Qin Army.
Two hundred thousand stones of grain and grass, plus the remaining grain and grass among the Qin army, are enough to support the 100,000 Qin army for two months.
Two months of food and grass is actually not much, but Qin’s goal is not Han and Wei, nor Qi, which borders Qin in Dongjun, but Wei!
Qin's attitude toward Wei was extremely contradictory.
The people of Qin have always been grateful for the contribution of Shang Yang, who was born in the Wei Dynasty, to the Qin State. Therefore, even though they had the ability to annex the Wei State during the period of King Zhaoxiang, they never annexed this small country. Not only that, they also went to Han and Wei for the sake of the Wei State. , Qi Qi exerted pressure to protect Weiguo from being annexed by these neighboring countries.
But this time, Wei State joined the Hezong Alliance and sent troops to attack Qin. Such ungrateful behavior really made Qin feel angry, so Ying Zheng ordered Meng Ao to lead 100,000 troops to attack Diqiu.
There is no suspense in the ending. Although General Gongsun Yu of the Wei Kingdom is a descendant of Gongsun Yan, the leader of the rhinoceros at that time, and his family has the inheritance of Guigu's art of war, the gap in strength between the two countries is too huge.
When the 50,000-strong Guards attacked Hangu Pass, they lost 6,000 soldiers. On the way back, more than 20,000 people were beheaded, which was also a loss of more than half.
It took the whole country to raise this 50,000-strong army to defend the country, but now the total number of soldiers in the country does not exceed 40,000, and including the young men temporarily recruited into the army, it is less than 70,000.
The 100,000 Qin troops led by Meng Ao quickly broke through the city of Diqiu and captured the general of Wei, Gongsun Yu. The king of Wei learned that Gongsun Yu had been captured and that the other countries were unwilling to rescue him, so he tied up his jade in front of him. , surrendered to Meng Ao at the palace gate.
Meng Ao sent a horse to deliver the jade presented by Lord Wei to Xianyang, and untied the rope from Lord Wei. He did not embarrass Lord Wei, the officials and people in the city, but sent someone to post the Qin Law, asking Emperor Qiu to use it from now on. Qin's writing system used Qin's weights and measures, and he withdrew his troops after leaving garrison troops and horses.
Qin's actions are somewhat surprising, because Qin did not announce the annexation of Wei.
Logically speaking, to attack and destroy a country, one needs to send envoys to other countries to declare in a high-profile manner that a certain country has been destroyed by it. This is a declaration similar to a coffin conclusion.
But the countries in Shandong don't pay attention to this anymore. In a barbarian country, it's normal for them to violate etiquette. What's more, they really have no intention of paying attention to a small Weiguo now.
Even if the current Wei Jun is the son-in-law of King Wei of Wei, all the countries including Wei can do now is to step up the recruitment of soldiers, and then pray that Qin will not send troops to attack them, and send envoys to Qin to beg for peace.
It was rare for the Chu State to be tough. It did not beg for peace. It just moved the capital from Chenqiu, which was only 120 miles away from the Qin border, to Shouchun in Huainan, and deceived itself and renamed Shouchun Yingdu, just like the Qin State's Nanjun. The county governs Yingcheng, which is not the capital of Chu State in the past.
Chun Shenjun also found an excuse for King Chu to move the capital. Huainan had the most lush orange groves in Chu State, especially near Shouchun, where orange groves were everywhere.
Oranges have an extraordinary meaning in Chu State. Qu Yuan once wrote "Ode to Oranges", saying that oranges are noble, loyal and unyielding, so moving the capital to Shouchun symbolizes the unyielding spirit of Chu State.
This kind of rhetoric with high emotional intelligence helped Chun Shenjun, a Ling Yin who was completely disgusted by the King of Chu after the defeat, to regain some of his former favor and temporarily stabilize his position as Ling Yin.
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Qin State, Tingwei Prison
As a prison for felons, Tingwei Prison has only two types of prisons.
One is a dark, gloomy and damp prison, and the other is a neat and clean prison with beds, tables, and desks.
Unlike Xianyang Prison, which imprisoned those who violated the public security law, Tingwei Prison imprisoned not ordinary people, but basically civil and military officials who violated Qin's laws.
The reason why there are clean and tidy prisons is that they are prepared for enemy generals like Gongsun Yu who are unwilling to surrender after being captured.
"Boy, you can't do this without eating or drinking." A gray-haired old man ate happily and kept putting rice in his mouth. "The food in Tingwei Prison is not bad, with meat and wine. But even though it is the food of the enemy country, if you waste the food like this, God will find out that you will be punished by God."
The boy the old man calls is actually an old man with white beard and hair.
However, he, the head coach of the Allied Forces who is over eighty years old, is definitely qualified to call a general who is less than sixty years old as "boy".
"Pang Gong, if you don't mind, I can give you my food." Gongsun Yu looked at Pang Nuan who was unceremoniously pushing the dinner plate to the next cell through the cell door, and sighed.
He is almost ninety years old. He can eat a dozen of rice, ten kilograms of meat, and a jar of wine for a meal, and he can still box in the cell to maintain his health after the meal. Is this still a normal person?
Moreover, as the leader of the coalition forces, he was captured after a great defeat, but he was still able to think about eating.
"You kid, you are thinking about Weiguo again." Pang Nuan was not polite, took Gongsun Yu's dinner plate through the gap in the cell door, and continued to eat happily, "It's not that I said bad things about you Weiguo, but Weiguo A country is a small country after all, and will perish sooner or later."
"If it weren't for Qin's continuous protection all these years, Wei State would not exist today."
Although Gongsun Yu had good military skills, in Pang Nuan's eyes he could only be a general, not a commander. The strategic vision is too narrow and cannot see the overall situation at all.
The demise of the Wei State is inevitable. Even if the Qin State does not destroy the Wei State, the Wei State will annex the Wei State to support itself.
Gongsun Yu sighed again. Pang Nuan had analyzed it for him over the past few days. In fact, he had long understood the inevitability of the demise of the Wei Kingdom, but after all, it was a country that had been protected for a lifetime, and it was inevitable that others would not take advantage of it.
"Grandpa Pang, you are robbing my grandpa of food again."
While the two were talking, suddenly a woman walked lightly, wearing a long vermillion dress, her long lavender hair was passed through by a blue crystal hairpin, and her hair was tied into a bun, exuding a luxurious and elegant temperament. .
The woman has a flawless face, and between her eyebrows and eyes there is a youthful atmosphere of a girl who is ignorant of the world, but she is still quiet and elegant. Her light makeup and thin pink lips without rouge only make her innocent and elegant.
"Li'er, why are you here to deliver food again!" Gongsun Yu looked at the black food box hanging on the woman's slender arm and scolded sternly, "I have said that the food in the cell is very good, there is no need You bring me food."
Gongsun Yu only had one son, but he died in the battlefield after giving birth to a daughter with his daughter-in-law. The daughter-in-law was too sad and died of illness. It was he who personally raised his only little granddaughter who was connected by blood in the world, and he was very happy from childhood to adulthood. Pampering, unwilling to beat or scold, not even a little louder reprimand.
Fortunately, Gongsun Li, who lost her parents since childhood, is also very well-behaved, sensible, and filial, but now he would rather Gongsun Li not be so filial.
The reason why Gongsun Li was able to visit the prison so frequently was actually because of the Qin State's desire to recruit prisoners like them.
Family members are often the ones who can soften a heart that is as solid as stone. Many civil and military officials from the Wei Kingdom have chosen to surrender to the Qin Dynasty because their wives and children were moved to their homes in Xianyang to visit them.
But he wasn't worried that he wouldn't be able to hold on, he was just worried about his granddaughter's safety.
In these years, if it weren't for the fact that he was a general of the Wei Kingdom, the beautiful Gongsun Li would never have lived in such peace.
But now he is a prisoner of the Qin State, and the Wei State has also died. Gongsun Li is walking alone in Xianyang City, where there are many powerful people. There is a possibility that one day he may be kidnapped by some powerful person.
Gongsun Li opened the food box silently and placed the two meals in front of Gongsun Yu and Pang Nuan's cell door respectively. Her beautiful eyes were reddish, and her slender hands were clenched and trembling, with a faint mist covering them. Those moist eyes.
"Li'er understands grandpa's painstaking efforts, but grandpa, you are Li'er's only relative in this world."
Gongsun Yu's right hand holding the chopsticks trembled slightly, and he turned around with the plate in hand, trying not to look at Gongsun Li who was crying.
He suddenly understood why so many steadfast ministers of the Wei Dynasty did not persist in the end and chose to surrender to Qin.
"From tomorrow onwards, if you come again, I will go on a hunger strike and commit suicide."
After hesitating again and again, Gongsun Yu turned his back to Gongsun Li and spoke decisively.
As she cleared away the plates, Gongsun Li's delicate body trembled slightly and she was speechless, but her eyes became increasingly red.
Pang Nuan on the side looked at the grandfather and grandson and couldn't help but shook his head.
I don't know if it was a bad taste or something, but Pang Nuan's hand passed through the cell door and gently tugged on Sun Li's sleeve, hooked his hand at Gongsun Li, and said with a bad smile.
"I'll show you a clear path. You go to see Qin's Weiwei Zhang Ji. Maybe your grandfather can be released from prison. Then your grandfather won't have to worry about Qin trying to recruit him, and you won't have to worry about your grandfather not letting him. You met him."
Pang Nuan's words made Gongsun Li's cheeks turn red, and she glared at Pang Nuan in shame and embarrassment.
Although she was not familiar with the world, she was from a noble family, so she naturally understood the meaning of Pang Nuan's words.
Zhang Ji... the guard of the Qin Kingdom, the youngest Zuo Shuchang in the history of the Qin Kingdom, the man who almost single-handedly plotted against countless heroes of the Hezong Alliance...
After the defeat of the Hezong Alliance, the name Zhang Ji almost became a household name in the world.
Gongsun Li admired this man who was obviously the same age as him, but had achieved achievements that many talented and famous people in the world might not be able to complete in their lifetimes. It was a pity that he was a minister of the Qin State.
But I heard that Zhang Ji seemed to be from Wei and the leader of the Mohist family. Maybe... maybe he would be kind and help me?
You may not have to pay the price Pang Nuan said to save grandpa.
Gongsun Li hesitated, but the idea of asking for help from Zhang Ji became stronger in her heart.
At this time, Zhang Ji was completely unaware of these things.
At this moment, he was in Ganquan Palace, and Teacher Zhao Ji, whom he hadn't seen for several months, was checking whether he had missed school during this period and whether he had missed any homework.
Well, in order to increase the accuracy of the inspection, Teacher Zhao Ji also invited Teacher Li Wu to check Zhang Ji's schoolwork from all aspects of moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor aspects.
If Zhao Ji, who has been hungry for several months, is like a hungry wolf in his prime, biting Zhang Ji's body with big mouthfuls, eager to squeeze Zhang Ji completely, then Li Wu is like a hungry wolf following him. The hyena reached an agreement with the hungry wolf to hunt together, squeezing the meat juice that Zhao Ji leaked to her in small mouthfuls.
Fortunately, in the past few months, Zhang Ji only played Sheng music once with Jing Salamander, and played three role-playing roles: once as a female criminal officer, once as a female court lieutenant, and once as a female killer in her true colors.
This was obviously not enough for the energetic Zhang Ji to suppress the anger in his heart and body, so Zhang Ji, an experienced hunter, took the initiative to dive into the forest specially designed for his hunting.
Zhang Ji, an experienced hunter, used his body as bait to trap the hungry wolves and hyenas wandering in the forest. He put the words "skilled hunters often appear as prey" on the delicate bodies of Zhao Ji and Li Wu. Made the most perfect interpretation.
"Teachers, are you satisfied with my academic performance?"
Zhang Ji hugged Zhao Ji and Li Wu's slender waists with a smirk on his face, enjoying the warm and fragrant nephrite in his arms and gently sniffing the intoxicating fragrance.
Next to her, Li Wu curled up like a kitten that had been abused. She could no longer withstand any torture from her master, for fear that Zhang Ji, the beast, would continue.
Can she be dissatisfied?
It’s almost full!
Zhao Ji's slightly closed narrow phoenix eyes opened, her beautiful eyes full of charm and laziness. She glanced at Zhang Ji angrily and caressed her slightly bulging belly with her jade hand.
Zhao Ji and Li Wu looked at each other. She noticed the hope in Li Wu's beautiful eyes. She hoped that she, the queen mother and stepmother, could be stronger and said she was not satisfied.
But Zhao Ji's phoenix eyes glanced at the many marks on the phoenix couch, and the last trace of toughness in her narrow phoenix eyes completely disappeared.
Can she say she is dissatisfied?
She is really full to the point of overflowing!
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