The group quickly approached.
In fact, Mao Dun counted them clearly before they got close. There were one hundred and ten people there.
One hundred of them were slaves and ten were soldiers.
Mao Dun sneered in his heart: "A mere ten people are guarding a hundred slaves? What a bunch of waste."
After the group of people approached, Modun waved his hand.
Then, the Hun cavalry behind them rushed out howling.
Bass also shouted in a strange language: "These are the monarchs from the East, specially come to rescue us."
After hearing this, the slaves immediately took courage.
They may not have the courage to resist the soldiers, but they can still create some chaos.
These slaves were running around like wild boars.
The ten soldiers were immediately knocked around.
Later, they were swarmed by the Huns and cut into several sections.
This little fight ended after only a few breaths.
The Huns suffered no casualties.
Modun rode on his horse, looked at the slaves, and said coldly: "Are you willing to follow me and save your relatives?"
Bass translated the words.
The slaves all knelt down devoutly.
Later, Mao Dun selected a few strong and courageous people and gave them some weapons.
The remaining old, weak, sick and disabled are responsible for inquiring about information and boiling water for cooking. All they do are handymen.
Those slaves who were given weapons became soldiers, superior to the servants. This made them feel very proud, so they worked extra hard during the battle for fear of being dissatisfied.
Bass was amazed and thought: Is this the wisdom of the East? So clever.
In the process of robbing families and homes, Maodun kept changing his policies.
In the past, when he met local civilians, he would often kill them all.
But later he discovered that these civilians may not have much favorable impressions of the government. In particular, some poor people who were down and out envied Maodun's group and wanted to follow them to rob wealthy households.
So Mao Dun ordered that in the future, when robbing, only rich households would be robbed, and the poor would not be touched.
Since then, local civilians and slaves have joined Moton's team.
In a short time, Modu had thousands of people.
Thousands of people, coupled with Mao Dun's military talents, are enough to run rampant here.
Later, Mao Dun captured a small city.
Only then did he find out that the country he was in was called Seleucid, and the king here was called Antiochus the Great.
Mao Dun sneered when he heard this: There are so many people who don't even know who their king is. You have to wait until you conquer a city before you can figure it out. This shows how weak the local monarch's ruling power is. This may be a gift of revenge given by God to him.
In this city, Maodun proclaimed himself the Chanyu of the Xiongnu. Shatilie proclaimed himself Emperor of Qin.
Anyway, it’s just a false name. If you scream behind closed doors, you can’t shout too much.
Now the two brothers have no intention of competing for position. After all, we are all eunuchs, and if we get this position, we cannot pass it on to future generations.
The goal of living now is to take revenge on Great Qin, and everything else... is just passing by.
In the common capital of the Xiongnu and Qin Dynasty, Maodun and Shati Lie were full of wine and food, and began to discuss the plan to conquer the world.
Shatilik said: "Honorable Xiongnu Great Chanyu, what should we do now?"
Mao Dun said: "Honorable Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, our top priority is to destroy the Seleucid Kingdom. Then we will collect taxes, hoard food, recruit soldiers, and then go back to attack the Qin Dynasty."
"Now that the Qin Dynasty has occupied the territory of our Huns, the Huns have no choice but to become slaves of the Qin people. But they will definitely be full of resentment and waiting for opportunities to resist. As long as we go back and raise our arms in the future, they will definitely respond to us."
"At that time, haha, we don't have to invade the Central Plains, because we Huns are already in the Central Plains."
Shatilie was overjoyed: "My noble Xiongnu Great Chanyu, this plan is very clever. So, by destroying me, the Xiongnu, the Qin people are actually inviting wolves into the house?"
Mao Dun nodded and said: "The noble Emperor of Qin, that's exactly what happened."
Shatilie asked again: "Honorable Xiongnu Great Chanyu, now we only have one city, how can we destroy this Seleucid country?"
Maodun laughed loudly: "Your Majesty, you are worrying too much. With my Huns' wisdom, isn't it easy to defeat a small barbaric country in a barbaric land?"
"Starting today, we will collect food from the entire city. All people in the city, regardless of age or sex, will be organized into military camps."
"Strong men will charge into battle, while old, weak, women and children will serve as handymen. Although this small town only has more than 10,000 people, if you select carefully, you can also select 3,000 people."
"Three thousand people are enough for our great Huns to run rampant across the world."
Shatilie nodded with deep understanding, and then said to Mao Dun: "However, isn't the Great Chanyu afraid of their rebellion?"
Modun smiled and said: "That's easy. We need to select some people who were originally poor, originally humble, and originally weak and bullied. Let them manage other people."
"These people will definitely be doubly loyal to us. Otherwise, if we lose, they will continue to be poor, humble, and bullied."
"With these loyal people, it will be much easier to rule others."
Shatilie nodded with deep approval, and then said to Mao Dun: "I...well, I heard that in the Central Plains, military merit is awarded for knighthood, and there is something called the imperial examination. Anyone can become an official as long as they work hard. In this way, the number of rebels will be greatly reduced.”
"How about we follow suit and pretend to give them a channel to become officials. In this way, there will be far fewer people who want to take risks. After all, you can live a good life with a little hard work. Who is willing to risk their lives with their heads high? Even if We Huns, in years when water and grass are plentiful, are too lazy to go south to fight with the Central Plains.”
Modun nodded: "It makes sense, it makes sense."
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"Check, although Li Si has no intention of rebellion, he does have the intention to form a party. This is the behavior of a treacherous person. According to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, he should be tied to a senior official and imprisoned in prison, where his crime will be discussed and the punishment can be prescribed... However, Your Majesty is benevolent and harmonious. I am generous, thinking of Li Si’s meager achievements in the past, and can’t bear to take heavy responsibility.”
"Today, the net is wide open, and Li Si will only be fined with half of his family property confiscated, demoted one level, and given a three hundred stick. I hope that from now on, he will take this as a warning and clean himself up..."
The young eunuch brought Ying Zheng's decree.
Li Si accepted it with fear, and then watched helplessly as his belongings were moved away.
Half of the family property, so much money, was suddenly lost.
This is not only damaging the muscles and bones, it is simply damaging the foundation.
It may be difficult to repay the money lent to the courtiers.
But isn’t the money still enough?
His Majesty's decree did not even mention the repayment of the money, but Li Si must return it, otherwise His Majesty would remain suspicious.
Not only must it be returned, but we must distance ourselves from the courtiers in the future. Otherwise, it would be suspected of forming a clique for personal gain.
Li Si knew that he barely managed to save his life this time, but from now on, he might have to be alone in the court.
All the courtiers knew that they were being targeted by His Majesty. In this case, who would dare to associate with me? In that case, wouldn't he be implicated?
Li Si sighed and thought: This is fine, no desires or demands, but he felt a lot more relaxed.
At this time, the young eunuch secretly said: "Master Li, our rod punishment..."
Li Si lay on a small table and said to the young eunuch: "Come on."
The young eunuch responded, and then said to Li Si with great concern: "My lord is not young anymore. I'm afraid you won't be able to bear these three hundred sticks."
Li Si understood the meaning of this sentence without any teacher, then touched in his arms and took out a jade pendant.
The young eunuch happily took it and began to call for execution.
Before the execution, the young eunuch added: "Your Majesty still wants to reuse Lord Tingwei, so don't mess around."
The executioner responded, and then began to beat Li Si as gently as possible.
Half an hour later, the three hundred sticks were finally finished.
Although the executioners tried their best to take care of him, Li Si was still beaten until he was weak.
The little eunuch said goodbye to Li Si with a smile, and then walked away with the others.
The house became deserted.
Li Si lay on the low couch, feeling drowsy.
At this time, the housekeeper came in and whispered: "Master, what should I do with the debt I owe you?"
Li Si closed his eyes slightly, sighed and said, "This money should be returned as soon as possible. As time goes by, Your Majesty will think that I am deliberately slacking off, which is even more inappropriate."
The steward said: "Yes, the villain thinks so too. However... half of the family wealth has been lost, and we are unable to return it."
Li Si thought for a while and whispered: "Sell the male and female servants in the family who should be sold, and only keep the necessary few."
"The houses, properties, and shops are also sold. No matter whether the money raised is enough or not, it must be returned to the courtiers."
"What matters is not whether the money is returned or not, but whether the attitude is sincere or not."
The housekeeper responded sadly, and then went to make arrangements.
After the decision to sell the servants was announced, the servants screamed and begged the housekeeper to show mercy.
Being a servant in Tingwei's mansion is almost the pinnacle of life in the servant world. Suddenly being sold, who knows where it will end up?
Of course they don't want to leave.
The housekeeper looked at these people and felt a little unbearable. Although he has a special status and is half a master in Tingwei Mansion, the housekeeper still regards these servants as his own.
Who would sell them unless absolutely necessary?
But the housekeeper also knows that if these servants are not sold today, the Tingwei Mansion will not be able to pass this test. When the time comes, even I will be in bad luck.
If that's the case, then it's better to be cruel.
The steward selected a few of the most loyal servants and asked them to stay. The rest were all ready to be sold.
There was a sudden burst of crying in Tingwei's mansion.
At this time, two people came in from outside.
One of them said: "Why is there so much crying here? Could it be that someone died?"
Another person said: "Maybe Lord Tingwei didn't survive and was beaten to death."
As soon as the housekeeper looked at these two people, he felt furious in his heart.
These two people are Li Shui and Li Xin.
It can be said that Li Si's situation today is inseparable from these two guys.
However, although he hated Li Shui, he would never dare to show it on the surface.
The housekeeper even walked up to Li Shui flatteringly and said with a dry smile: "I have seen the immortals be banished, and I have seen the generals."
Li Xin said lightly, then ate a wheat flower, as if he wanted to watch the fun.
Li Shui asked: "Is Lord Tingwei still there?"
The housekeeper smiled reluctantly: "He's still there, safe and sound."
Li Shui snorted: "Then why is there so much crying here?"
The housekeeper said: "Because they don't want to leave Tingwei Mansion."
Li Shui snorted: "I heard from Niu Dao that you want to sell people?"
The housekeeper then remembered that in Xianyang City, whether it was the sale of slaves, houses, or business, all were monopolized by Shangjun Courtyard.
They have a large number of brokers under their name who specialize in introducing people to business.
Exiled Immortal must have known about the fact that Tingwei Mansion was going to sell slaves today.
Thinking of this, the housekeeper became even more angry: This guy obviously already knew, and he still asked questions knowingly. It was really unreasonable.
Li Shui said to the housekeeper: "Okay, why does the Tingwei Mansion want to sell slaves? Could it be that they want to imitate Chunyu Yue and gain fame just for the sake of fame?"
Li Xin glanced at Li Shui and thought: Ever since Chunyu Yue and Brother Huai have become close friends. Brother Huai began to ridicule him unscrupulously.
The steward said: "My house owes money and I can't repay it, so I can only sell some slaves."
Li Shui snorted and said to the steward: "How shameful is it to sell slaves? What's more, I have been advising courtiers not to buy and sell slaves in the future. Slaves are human beings like us, how can they be bought and sold like animals?"
"Now that the Tingwei Mansion is short of money, why don't we just borrow some from here and there and scrape together some money?"
The housekeeper didn't say anything, thinking: Isn't this taking off his pants and farting? Borrow money and pay it back? Enough support?
The housekeeper complained fiercely in his heart, and then said to Li Shui: "Nowadays, Mr. Tingwei is studying knowledge at home and rarely interacts with the courtiers. Therefore, borrowing money seems a bit abrupt."
Li Shui sighed: "What kind of knowledge is so important? It has to be sold off. Now I have some money that I have nowhere to use. If Lord Tingwei doesn't dislike it, you can lend it to him."
The butler was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Wait a moment, everyone."
Then, he hurriedly went to report to Li Si.
After Li Si lay on the low couch and listened, he suddenly felt that this was a good idea.
Your Majesty certainly doesn't feel that borrowing money from Huaiguzi is forming a clique for personal gain.
Moreover, Huaiguzi is cunning, cunning and shameless. If you borrow money from him, you don't have to be in a hurry to pay it back. Even if this debt falls through, what can he do?
The more Li Si thought about it, the more he thought this was a solution, so he said to the housekeeper: "Quick, help me up."
With the help of the housekeeper, Li Si walked outside with difficulty and saw Li Shui.
Li Shui smiled and said, "Master Tingwei, you are fine."
Li Si endured the severe pain in his body and said with difficulty: "It's okay."
Li Shui asked again: "How much money does Lord Tingwei have in debt? I am willing to lend it to you."
Li Si thought to himself: I’m not going to pay back the money anyway, so why not borrow more.
So he said: "Fifty million dollars."
