On behalf of the land, thick smoke and rumbling horseshoes filled the land in the distance. The Qin army cavalry holding high the black dragon flag of Qin State ran rampant, bypassing the steep mountain roads of Yanmen Mountain and Xiawu Mountain, all the way After conquering the Xianyu and Huo people, they marched all the way north and captured the three cities of Pingyin, Pingyi and Anyang, which was unstoppable.
Then, instead of marching west to Yanmen County, this cavalry army chose to go south to Dai City. The county seat of Dai County was captured by this lightly-armed and simple cavalry army.
It's not that the Qin army is so strong that even dismounted cavalry can easily capture Zhao's city, but it's because there is really no one left in Dai.
Li Mu transferred almost all the troops and horses from the three counties of Dai to the south. There were only 20,000 Dai frontier troops left in the entire Yunzhong County, Yanmen County and Dai County.
If it were not for the fierceness of the people of Dai, under the defense system built by Li Mu, the people would spontaneously form rural warriors to maintain public order, and the Xiongnu, Linhu and Loufan were severely injured by Li Mu and would not dare to go south to herd horses. Otherwise, the three counties of Dai would have been in chaos.
And even the 20,000 generations of border troops that Li Mu left in Dai were not elite, and most of them were concentrated in the passes, fortresses and cities bordering Linhu, Xiongnu and Loufan. For those cities in the hinterland, There were no border troops stationed in Daidi at all. Even in Daicheng, which had the strongest resistance, there were only a few hundred village warriors resisting.
However, it is easy to capture Daijun, but it is difficult to govern Daijun, especially when the current county is facing a food shortage.
In Dai City, Zhang Ji entered the office of the governor of Dai County and read the bamboo slips that recorded the treasury of Dai County. The more he looked at Zhang Ji, the uglier he became.
The expressions on the faces of the commander of the army, Shi Yangzhen, and the chief of the army, Cheng Miao, were also ugly. They thought that in Li Mu's absence, the governor of Daijun would take the opportunity to embezzle grain. However, after checking the account books, the three of them found that Daijun really had no grain in stock!
Most of the corn harvested last time was sent to the military camp and replenished to the frontiers of the three counties of Daidi and the Daidi border troops who followed Li Mu southward.
Originally, this situation was nothing and would not affect the people's livelihood in the three counties of Daidi. However, the population of Daidi was sparse, but the land was extremely vast. Almost all the young and strong people of Daidi who were vast and sparsely populated were recruited into the army. They could have settled half of the army. Half an army of Daidi border troops were unable to work, which caused the people of Daidi to delay sowing and were unable to plant all the fields. As a result, the corn harvest just harvested in September was only one-third of that in the first half of the year.
Daijun is the main producer of Daidi, but even the people of Daijun may not be able to sustain themselves with this small amount of food. One can imagine what the situation will be like in the wild Yunzhong and Yanmen counties.
Zhang Ji paced back and forth, while Yang Huan and Cheng Miao also lowered their heads and thought about countermeasures.
Qin's food is absolutely sufficient, but transportation is too difficult.
Just 60,000 infantry and 40,000 cavalry are an astronomical figure. It is already very difficult for Lu Buwei to provide food for this northern Qin army. If Li Si, Wei Zhuang, Wang Wan and others were replaced, it would be difficult. He couldn't reach Lu Buwei's level.
Although Lu Buwei was nominally demoted by half a rank, from a powerful prime minister to a right-wing prime minister, his prestige remained unchanged. From the choice of logistics and transportation routes to the selection of escorts, Lu Buwei made the decision alone, and no one could question it. Change.
And all this was because someone saw Lu Buwei being demoted by half a level, and then left Xianyang to go to Tunliu to take charge of army logistics. He didn't look like a prime minister at all, and they actually thought it was a political signal that Ying Zheng wanted to take action against Lu Buwei.
And those people were almost all people who had a grudge with Lu Buwei in the past, so they unanimously and recklessly chose to take the initiative to provoke.
As for the result, Lu Buwei not only didn't take action, he didn't even write to anyone. He didn't even know about it and was focused on arranging supplies for the three-way Qin army before the case.
It was Sikong Ma and other former ministers who had been born in the Prime Minister's Mansion or Li Si and other people who had received favors from Lu Buwei. They were directly punished by Li Si, the court captain, who sentenced them to exile, beheading, beheading and other serious crimes. The whole family was deprived of their citizenship and became slaves. There are many others.
It wasn't until Li Si and others crushed the grasshoppers to death that Lu Buwei, as if he was an afterthought, asked his family members to go back to Xianyang, and erected a wooden plank more than two feet high on the most prosperous and lively street in Xianyang City. The wall extends from the street to the end of the street, two arrows long.
There are pieces of silk sewn together hanging on the wooden board. From the top of the big board, which is more than two feet high, to three feet above the ground, they hang vertically in the air, which is so spectacular.
On the first piece of silk in the east, there are four large copper characters nailed on it - "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals". Under the copper characters stands a large wooden board with red characters: Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals seek rectification from the world, and anyone who corrects one character will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins!
Pieces of silk were lined up in sequence toward the west, filled with neat and clear fist-sized characters. Under the vast white wall, there is a large book table every three feet, with pens, ink, paper and inkstones neatly arranged on the table. In front of each table, two elegantly dressed scholars stood, shouting loudly.
"I am a disciple of the Marquis of Yangzhai, and I am dedicated to supervising the work of correcting and correcting mistakes! I seek mistakes in my great work, just like the Lord Shang moved his tree to establish a letter! If anyone can add or delete a word in this book, I will give you a thousand pieces of gold!"
There are also people in Xianyang who try to get thousands of gold or even tens of thousands of gold through this. However, most people either understand the sophistication of the world, or they are so impressed by Lu Buwei's majesty that they dare not propose any revisions.
Of course, some people proposed revisions, but they were rejected by a group of scholars. Any revision was not as good as the original text, and was rejected by hundreds of scholars and thousands of disciples.
From that day on, Lu Buwei's reputation once again resounded throughout the world, and "Lu's Spring and Autumn" became known as "a word of gold". Even Master Xun highly praised this book, calling it "Lu's Spring and Autumn". The Eight Readings, Six Treatises, Twelve Chronicles, and more than 200,000 words, prepare the history of the world and all things in ancient and modern times, and bring together the essence of hundreds of schools of thought. It is a wonderful book that has never been seen in ancient times." He also praised Lu Buwei as "a combination of Confucianism and Mohism, Together with the name, it can become a family of its own."
Although some people in the world have different ideas from Master Xun, they all retain respect for Master Xun. Moreover, Lu Buwei has indeed integrated some of the best of various schools of thought into a book. To deny this book and Lu Buwei's talent would be to deny it. The hundreds of schools of thought themselves, therefore the hundreds of schools of thought also recognized Lu Buwei's identity as a family of his own, calling it a "miscellaneous family".
Of course, no matter how much Lu Buwei jumps around, he is the only one in the Zajia family, and the Zajia theory cannot continue. He is not a threat to the various schools of thought at all. He is not as beautiful as an adult, but also has a good relationship.
And no one dared to disobey the various political orders issued by Lu Buwei, whose prestige had once again reached its peak. After all, Lu Buwei was now one of the "philosophers" and could not afford to offend him.
In the past, Lu Buwei could at most end his opponent's political career in the temple or physically and physiologically end his opponent's survival career. Now, with his unique status, he can completely block a person's reputation in the world, even if he has an old relationship with Lu Buwei. The resentful officials could not afford to delay Lu Buwei's orders at all, as if every order given by Lu Buwei was a hot potato, and they could not wait to execute it quickly and throw it to the next-level officials.
It is also true that this time when the Qin army attacked Zhao, no one dared to embezzle or deduct food and wages. It was as if the ideal country that the Legalist disciples had in mind appeared in the world, making Lu Buwei's reputation reach a new level again. peak.
However, Lu Buwei also decisively blamed all the reasons on Ying Zheng.
A sage king should be assisted by virtuous ministers. The reason for having virtuous ministers is first of all because of the existence of a sage king. Therefore, King Qin is the real sage king, and Qin is the country that should unify the world.
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