Shatilie held on for a whole day, and then he finally couldn't bear it any longer and exposed his body to the world.
His brother was more determined than him and lasted for two days, and then he was also seen through.
Subsequently, the Huns were completely divided.
This split took only half an hour to complete. A small group of people were divided into more than twenty forces. Each force claimed that it should inherit the mantle of Chanyu.
Even Shatilie and Maodun shamelessly led a small group of people, claiming that although they had no heirs, it didn't matter, and they would imitate Yao and Shun when the time came and cede the position of Chanyu to men with both talents and virtues.
These twenty forces, if you beat me today, I will beat you tomorrow. Sometimes they are horizontal and sometimes they are vertical. It sounds lively, but in fact the scale of the battle is very small, not as good as the armed fighting in the countryside of the Central Plains.
Li Xin completely lost interest in such remnants of the Huns, and ordered a captain to lead people to pursue them. As for himself, he led a large army to station everywhere to ensure that the remaining Huns would not rebel.
Mao Dun, Sha Tilie and others were chased by the captain in a panic. They felt sad when they thought about it. The Xiongnu athletes, who were so powerful and invincible on the grassland, were actually afraid of a Qin captain.
But the facts are there. Now the Huns are not strong enough to defeat them, so they can only flee in all directions.
To the south is the base camp of the Central Plains people, and the Huns dare not go there. To the north is an extremely cold place, covered by wind and snow all year round, with no grass growing. Going there is a dead end.
To the east... the commander of thousands led his Qin soldiers in hot pursuit. In the end, Mao Dun and Sha Tilie had no choice but to flee westward.
In the end, they succeeded in getting rid of the commander, but the remaining Huns still did not dare to stay and continued to go west, all the way west...
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The remaining Huns on the grassland are mostly women and children, have little fighting ability, and are closely monitored by the Qin people.
They lost their tents, their cattle and sheep, and were on the verge of starvation. Later, he boldly entered the Qin army's camp and wanted to beg for a meal.
When the Qin army saw the Huns, their first reaction was to kill them. But recently, Exiled Immortal just presided over the promulgation of the laws of war. These women and children were unarmed and were obviously civilians.
It would be illegal to kill them. So the sergeants found Li Xin. Li Xin found Li Shui again.
After hearing Li Xin's confusion, Li Shui looked at Li Xin in confusion: "Brother Li, don't we, the Qin Dynasty, govern the country according to the law? Since there is a law of war, why don't we follow it?"
Li Xin snorted and said with some regret, "Can't we kill these Huns?"
Li Shui said: "Of course we can't kill them. If we kill them, what will the Donghu people think? What will the Baiyue people think? What will the Lingnan people think? It's really not worth the loss to delay world affairs for a few women and children."
Li Xin nodded and said, "What do you mean, we use military rations to help them?"
Li Shui shook his head and said, "These grains were grown by our Qin people with so much hard work during the noonday of the hoeing day. The Huns are enemies of us. If we don't kill them, it would be good. Why should we give them to them?" Does food feed them? Are they refugees or ancestors?"
Li Xin was slightly startled: "If you don't kill them, you won't give them food. What does Brother Huai mean... to starve them to death? Hehehe, you are really bad."
Li Shui was a little speechless and said to Li Xin: "Brother Li, where did you think you were? Am I that evil?"
Li Xin nodded seriously.
Li Shui coughed dryly: "What I mean is that we can hire these Huns at a low price. Let them mine for us. Their wages are set at...one and a half taels per month."
Li Xin suspected that he heard it wrong: "Every month? One?"
Li Shui nodded.
Li Xin said: "Brother Huai, I'm afraid I won't be able to hire anyone for one and a half taels."
Li Shui said with a smile: "Tell them again that they are responsible for food and lodging. I can guarantee that even if they don't have this one and a half taels, they will flock to it."
Li Xin suddenly realized: "This method is good, we have a group of mining slaves."
Li Shui said sternly: "Why are they slaves? Taking people as slaves is unethical and unethical. I will never do such a thing. We paid wages this time. These people are just strong men we hired."
Li Xin gave Li Shui a thumbs up: "High, really high."
Li Xin sent people to select some relatively strong ones among these women and children. These people account for about one in ten.
Among the remaining people, some children under the age of ten who were not so ugly were selected. After a little training, he was sent to Xianyang to work as a servant.
Li Xin was a little embarrassed about this method and asked Li Shui: "Brother Huai, are we trafficking in humans?"
Li Shui was a little speechless: "Why is this human trafficking? Look at these young children. Did they sign up voluntarily? Are they scrambling to sign up? Are they fighting over a quota?"
"I have already said that ours is not called human trafficking, it is called an employment agency. It's just that we only have one occupation, which is to do odd jobs for wealthy families in the Central Plains."
"These Huns are poor people on the grassland. When the Chanyu was there, they lived like slaves. Now that they can go to the Central Plains and work as servants for the Qin people, they don't feel bitter, but feel that they have picked up A huge bargain."
Li Xin observed the Huns carefully, and then nodded: "It seems...that's true."
After the children were sent away, only some women and old people were left among the Huns.
It was easy for women to make arrangements because Li Shui quickly opened a marriage agency. Specially introduce Xiongnu women to the people of the Central Plains.
In ancient times, the ratio of men to women was imbalanced, and polygamy was practiced. So Da Qin captured a lot of bachelors.
Well now, a group of Hun women have arrived. They are strong and strong, and they can do farm work to support a man. No betrothal gifts, no betrothal gifts, just one mouthful of food, then you are willing to live a down-to-earth life.
The bachelors among the Qin people were all very happy. They did not expect that they would be so poor and would one day marry a wife. I thought that my generation would have no descendants, but unexpectedly, a sudden turn of events occurred, and my daughter-in-law fell from the sky.
The Qin people were very happy, and so were the Xiongnu women. The Central Plains is great, with beautiful scenery and a mild climate. Zhongyuan's husband is hardworking and treats her like a family member. I don’t know how many times better than those Hun men who drink all day long and beat their wives at every turn. The most important thing is that they can eat enough.
Ever since, a legend began to spread between the Qin Dynasty and the Xiongnu. It is said that the banished immortal is in heaven, and he was originally in charge of marriages. Now that he is in the human world, he is unwilling to be lonely, so he continues to bring everyone together.
This legend spread quickly and widely. Moreover, as time passed and transformed, a complete set of sacrificial rituals was finally developed.
To offer sacrifices to an immortal, one must first find a piece of locust wood and write the word "immortal" on it. Then he held the locust tree in his hands and prayed secretly in his heart. As long as you are pious enough, you will definitely have a good marriage within three months.
If you don't have a good marriage, you have only yourself to blame for being ungrateful.
Li Shui knew nothing about this. He was worried about how to arrange the remaining Huns.
These Huns are all very old. I can't carry it on my shoulders, I can't lift it with my hands, and I have a lot of illnesses. Let them work, but they can't do it, and I can't bear to leave them alone. The whole thing is a bunch of morons.
Li Xin suggested that Li Shui give these old people some cattle and sheep, and let them fend for themselves on the grassland.
Li Shui looked at the old people and said, "Are these people capable of herding cattle and sheep? If you give them the cattle and sheep, I'm afraid you will never get your money back."
Finally, he finally made up his mind and called a pawn over and asked him to call the Gongsun City gang.
After these courtiers were sent to the grasslands, they became tanned and lost weight due to exposure to wind and sun. He no longer looks like a powerful man.
After meeting Li Shui, they all had mixed emotions. When these people first came here, they hated Li Shui very much. But now, none of them dare to say bad words, because they have seen the power of those alchemists and the power of those craftsmen.
There once was a courtier who cursed Huaiguzi all day long. Later, this man... disappeared, and his whereabouts are still unknown.
This man must have died. After his death, no bones were left, which was extremely miserable.
Li Shui, the big devil in the eyes of the courtiers, was looking at them with a smile, and then said: "Everyone, I have a grand plan and I need your help."
None of the courtiers spoke. Many people are thinking: A grand plan? What grand plan? Looking for immortals, is this a grand enough plan? So what are you doing? Deceive everyone to come over to dig coal. Now you have big plans again? What else is going on?
Li Shui had no self-awareness and mistook everyone's silence as expectation. He pointed to the old Huns not far away with a smile: "These people are very old. Older people often know many allusions. You can screen and organize them according to their oral descriptions, and then compile a book The history of the Huns comes out."
When the people in Gongsun City heard this, they immediately became furious: "How can those barbarians be so virtuous that they can ask us to help them write history books?"
Li Shui coughed dryly and said: "These old Xiongnu people are idle when they are idle. You courtiers are also idle when they are idle, so just take it as a break."
Gongsun Cheng felt very distressed. He had read a lot of poems and books, so why did he become idle?
But thinking about it carefully, since arriving on the grassland, it seems that there is really nothing to do. This place either has mining technology or mining power. No poetry or etiquette is needed.
Therefore, the people in Gongsun City have been completely marginalized in this place...
Later, Li Shui said that if the history books were well compiled, some preferential treatment would be given to those who worked the hardest and made the most merit, and suggested that His Majesty might even send him back to the Central Plains.
As soon as these words were spoken, the alchemists became completely excited.
Returning to the Central Plains, isn’t this what everyone has been dreaming about?
When the alchemists took the old Xiongnu man to question him, Li Xin curiously asked Li Shui: "Why do you think of compiling a history book for the Huns?"
Li Shui sighed and said with compassion: "The Xiongnu race will probably die out soon. All I can do is try to leave some information for them, otherwise they will disappear completely in the long river of history."
Li Xin was speechless: "What's going on?"
Li Shui coughed dryly: "Why don't you believe it? Well, you will understand my purpose of doing this in the future. Hehe."
Li Xin always felt that Li Shui was smiling there with evil intentions.
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Li Shui and Li Xin were busy pacifying the grasslands, but the news that the Xiongnu had been destroyed had not yet reached Xianyang.
Ji Ming is like a husband's stone, looking at the west all day long.
He was waiting for the subsequent gold and silver shipments from the Huns. But after waiting for a long time, there was still no news. Seeing that Shangjun Courtyard came to collect debts again, the money was not yet available.
The more Ji Ming thought about it, the more he felt unwilling to do so: Did the Huns break their promise? Have you been deceived by those barbarians?
He found an excuse to leave the palace and came to the small courtyard where he was communicating with the Huns. As a result, the Huns in the small courtyard also looked confused. He had not received news from the grassland for a long time.
Ji Ming sighed, and had to squeeze out some money, hired a Guizhou leader, and asked him to go out and find out what was going on with the Huns.
The Guizhou leader left in a hurry. In Xianyang City, a rumor gradually began to appear.
Rumor has it that Li Xin surrounded the Huns but refused to attack them. Either they were unable to annihilate the Huns, or they did not want to annihilate the Huns.
Whatever the case may be, he should be replaced. Among Wang's children, Wang Heng, although younger, is familiar with the art of war and loyal to the Qin Dynasty. He is simply the best candidate to succeed Li Xin.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that these rumors were clearly spread by the Wang family.
Wang, who had been silent for too long, finally refused to give in. They selected Wang Heng among their disciples and wanted to use their last bit of connections to create momentum for Wang Heng.
As long as Wang Heng is recognized by Ying Zheng and makes military exploits on the battlefield, the Wang family will stand up again.
In fact, Wang Heng has almost succeeded. Because Li Xin and Li Shui were both absent, several important ministers in Xianyang were also intentionally or unintentionally trying to weaken Huaiguzi's influence in the court. Therefore, they all began to praise Wang Heng and actively recommended him to Ying Zheng. , thinking that this person is the pillar of the country.
Although Ying Zheng had great trust in Li Shui and Li Xin, he kept hearing Wang Heng's name over the past few days and couldn't help but feel curious, so he summoned Wang Heng in the study.
Wang Heng obviously came well prepared, and his analysis of the war in the north was clear and logical.
After Ying Zheng heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Wang Heng with some surprise. This man was too young and his views were too sophisticated. Could it be that Wang Jian taught him in advance?
Ying Zheng asked some more questions about Baiyue and Lingnan, and Wang Heng answered them appropriately.
Ying Zheng nodded with satisfaction, feeling that this young man was indeed a talent.
However, talents are talents, but I always feel that this person's speech and behavior are very ambitious. At a young age, there was always a feeling of wanting to control Chao Gang.
I was a magic stick in the Qin Dynasty 9
