Chen Ke didn't have many friends. It seemed like there were only two or three people in the entire Da Qin.
It's not that Chen Ke doesn't want to make friends, but that he is really not suitable for making friends. Before, he just wanted to lazily stay in the mansion every day and didn't want to come out. He wanted to be a salted fish.
Some time ago, Chen Ke became a "model worker."
Known as the second Li Si and the first Chen Ke.
If you are either busy or lazy, how can you have many friends?
Chen Ke's friends are two old friends, one is Li Si, the other is Wang Jian, and maybe Fu Su and Ying Zheng.
Just these four people.
Fu Su is still young, and even Ying Zheng is actually considered young compared to the other two.
Ying Zheng was born in the first month of the forty-eighth year of King Zhaoxiang. He is now the fifth year of the First Emperor and has spent forty-three spring and autumn years.
Wang Jian was born in the fifth year of King Zhaoxiang, and was forty-three years older than the First Emperor. The forty-three Spring and Autumn Period was the current age of the First Emperor.
He is already eighty-six years old.
This is a terrible age. Even Confucius and Mencius did not live to this age.
There are very few people of this age in the world, and even if there are, most of them are already lying in bed unable to move.
And Wang Jian was still running on the battlefield.
Li Si was born in the 23rd year of King Zhaoxiang, and is now sixty-eight years old.
Both of them have reached an age where people start to worry about their health. Now Wang Guan's departure is probably a huge blow to both of them.
Especially Li Si.
After Chen Ke packed up his clothes, he immediately came to Li Si's home.
He came to visit Li Si.
The friendship between Chen Ke and Li Si, or the friendship between Chen Ke and his friends, is mostly a "gentleman's friendship."
What is the friendship between gentlemen?
The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water.
Others may not feel that their relationship is that good when they look at it, but in fact the two of them are already very good confidants.
At the beginning, the two plotted against each other. Chen Ke hooked up with Li Si by taking advantage of printing and papermaking. At that time, Li Si could even call Chen Ke "brother" shamelessly.
It was killing me.
An old man in his fifties called a young man in his twenties "brother". At that time, Li Si's own sons, Li Yang and Li You, felt a little helpless.
Later, as time went by, even if Li Si called Chen Ke "Brother", Chen Ke no longer called Li Si Brother Li, but became "Mr. Li".
As time passed, Chen Ke's friendship with his two friends became deeper and deeper. The deeper the friendship, the less able he was to do such things. He has always been a passionate person.
Therefore, Brother Wang became "Wang Weng" and "Old General Wang"; Li Si became "Gong Li" and "Prime Minister Li".
As soon as he entered the Li Mansion, Chen Ke saw Li Si, who looked a little sad. Beside him, Li You and Li Yang supported him and were slowly walking outside.
After meeting Chen Ke, Li Si said with some emotion: "Boy Chen, Brother Wang is gone."
There was sadness in his voice, and a little sadness appeared in the depths of his eyes. He patted the arms of Li Yang and Li You beside him, and then walked to Chen Ke: "Let's go and see it together." Let him go."
Li Si turned his head, looked at Li Yang and Li You, hesitated, and finally said: "You two go prepare the chariot and drive for me and Prime Minister Chen."
Li Yang and Li You nodded. After the chariot was ready, Li Si and Chen Ke got on the carriage.
The carriage is very comfortable. This was researched by people from previous research institutes and manufacturing plants. Some of them are like the carriages from the middle and late feudal dynasty. They are very comfortable and do not stagger when walking. They are like a small The same house.
Sitting in the carriage, Li Si looked around the carriage and said casually: "After this carriage was made, I originally thought it would be a good thing for us old people, but I didn't expect that the prince would leave without enjoying it. ”
He lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Actually, at the beginning, I was the prime minister on the left, and the prince was the prime minister on the right. Later, the prime minister on the right became that guy Feng Quji."
Li Si's eyes were full of nostalgia: "My methods were still very immature at the beginning, but Lu Buwei's incident has sounded the alarm for His Majesty, and he is unwilling to trust others too much."
"I led Great Qin to start a slow reform, just like you are doing now."
"At that time, the prince was checking and filling in the gaps for me. Some of the things I had missed and couldn't take care of, the prince would quietly help me solve."
"The prince is similar in age to me, but his personality is more stable and down-to-earth than mine, and he can do this kind of thing decently."
A smile left his lips.
"If there were no princes, I'm afraid there would be no Li Si today."
This was Li Si's emotion. He turned his head and stopped talking about Wang Guan. He just looked at Chen Ke and said, "Now that the prince is gone, I feel more and more weak."
He said with some self-deprecation: "When I was young, I always felt that my health was very good, so I stayed up all night to deal with government affairs."
"But now as I see my peers around me leaving one by one, extinguished like a candle in that cold winter day, I finally feel fear in my heart."
Li Si couldn't help but said: "To be disrespectful, in the past I always felt that His Majesty's pursuit of immortality was a bit unworthy, but now that I have experienced life and death, I always feel that immortality is indeed something that everyone hopes for. "
Chen Ke was a little silent when he heard this. He looked at Li Si and said, "Mr. Li, do you want to..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Si, with a smile on his face: "I don't want to get the so-called method of immortality from your hands."
"I know there is no such thing as immortality in this world."
"If there was, you would have given it to His Majesty long ago. Don't I know your temper?"
Li Si shook his head, pointed outside the carriage and said, "What I'm asking for today is just for my two unsatisfactory children."
Like an old man who felt that his time was running out, he held Chen Ke's hand and said, "I only have these two sons, and neither of them is worthy of success."
"It's okay for Li Yang. Thanks to his own merits, he is now by His Majesty's side. I can't see a way out for that kid Li Yu."
Li Si said sadly: "If I leave, what will happen to the two of them?"
"I just hope that you can take care of them for the sake of our friendship and don't let them starve to death on the streets."
Chen Ke looked at Li Si with a hint of silence in his tone: "Don't worry."
He was a little emotional.
In fact, Li Si didn't really feel the day of death, it was just that he saw the death of his old friend, so he felt sad and could not help but think of himself.
This is a normal behavior.
After Chen Ke comforted Li Si, the carriage continued to roll forward.
...........
Western Regions
Han Xin was wearing armor, and the soldiers around him were slowly building this city in the west of the Qin Dynasty.
A lot of lime was transported from Xianyang City, and many skilled craftsmen were also brought along. These people were responsible for building the westernmost city of Qin Dynasty. It would be a very grand city, even grander than the capitals of some small countries in the Western Regions.
Since he was stationed here, the Western Regions of Great Qin have been very peaceful. They trade with Great Qin every year, and the small countries in the Western Regions are very honest.
They just felt that as long as they were honest, Great Qin would not do anything to them.
This is of course a wrong impression, because even if they are honest, Da Qin will still take action against them when the time comes.
The construction of Anxi City was also put on the agenda under such a strategic environment. Because the soldiers knew what might happen in the future, they also invested great enthusiasm in building Anxi City at this time.
Han Xin looked in the distance with a solemn look on his eyebrows.
"The Western Region."
There was a slight sarcasm on his lips, because he had vaguely heard the recent rumors in the wind.
Some merchants who came from further west said they saw the Xiongnu there. Of course, when they were in the territory of Da Qin and talked to the people of Da Qin, they generally did not call them Xiongnu. They all said they were King Zhanxi of Da Qin.
This was a kind of flattery to Da Qin, and Han Xin could certainly see it.
But Han Xin didn't care.
If the Huns he can defeat flee once, he can naturally defeat them the second time.
The last time Han Xin relied on repeating crossbows and large repeating crossbows, this time Han Xin relied on two magic weapons.
One is naturally a firearm.
Since artillery was researched, it has been continuously manufactured in Xianyang City and then sent to every place in Daqin.
With Xianyang City and Zhongmu County as the center, Daqin's transportation system is gradually expanding. Because of the emergence of lime, Daqin's road construction process is also very comfortable, even smoother than before.
The second magic weapon is Han Xin's newly trained cavalry.
There was a burst of smoke and dust in the distance, and a cavalry was advancing rapidly towards Han Xin's place.
"Xuan Jia Qi".
After Han Xin came to the Western Regions, he did not sit idle. Instead, he quickly built a horse farm here in the Western Regions and then looked for good breeds.
In a "very reasonable" way, he purchased well-bred stallions and mares from certain countries in the Western Region and then bred them. In addition, he also used a reasonable way to get several small countries to hand over their master horse trainers.
Da Qin already had its own horse farm in the Western Region.
The first batch of good horses from these carriages were provided to the first batch of cavalry refined by Han Xin.
Xuan Jia Qi
This is a heavy cavalry, an invincible heavy cavalry, even more powerful than the wolf cavalry. Once the leader of a small country in the Western Regions saw this cavalry, he even felt weak in the legs on the spot, and later said that this was a powerful cavalry. Tear apart the cavalry of all nations.
"Hun, let me see what kind of energy you all have."
Han Xin whispered while drawing a wanton smile at the corner of his mouth.
...........
The land in the far west, near the Danube River and along the ocean coast.
Modun Shanyu was sitting on the grass, with a comfortable smile in his eyes. He stood up, patted his body, and looked at his uncle behind him.
"Uncle, do you think we have a chance?"
The middle-aged man next to him naturally knew what Mo Dun meant. What opportunity?
Of course it’s an opportunity to fight back to Qilian Mountain!
That was their destiny, how could they give up so easily?
Just now...
He hesitated: "Chanyu, although our strength is strong, we should not be the opponent of Great Qin today."
"What's more, at this time we have not completely solved the local indigenous people. Those people are still struggling to resist. Several countries have united and are preparing to declare war with us."
He looked at Moton and said, "So I feel that this is not a suitable opportunity at this time. We should wait a little longer."
"Wait for a suitable opportunity before attacking Da Qin."
Modun just smiled, with the blue sky in his eyes: "Uncle, you mean to solve those countries and not allow us to face hostility from both sides when we attack Da Qin, right?"
The man nodded, sighed helplessly and said, "Yes."
"If when we attack Da Qin, these countries unite to attack us from behind, we will be attacked from both sides."
"In this way, we may even lose the second piece of land given to us by the Eternal Life God."
Mao Dun nodded slightly, his eyes as sharp and fierce as a wolf: "It doesn't matter, let us get rid of these barbarians in the Western Region first!"
He laughed wantonly: "A mere barbarian dares to be an enemy of the people of Changshengtian?"
"Let them feel the anger from the Changsheng Heaven!"
"The eagle on the grassland must pay the price!"
The middle-aged man stood beside Modun, bowing slightly: "Follow your will."
............
South Vietnam.
As winter passed, the enthusiasm of people in South Vietnam and East Vietnam to cut down trees reached a peak and did not continue to spread.
but--
The forests in South Vietnam and East Vietnam have indeed been almost completely dealt with.
At this time, Wang Jian was directing the construction of the new Tianhai City. The steel bars transported from Xianyang City, the methods for forging steel, and cement have all been used by Wang Jian.
In fact, it cannot be said that it was Wang Jian who commanded. This disobedient old general was just in name, and others were training in Kuaiji County.
No matter how good Wang Jian's health is, he is still an old man in his eighties. Winter is a huge test for an old man of this age.
Originally he wanted to hold on, but with Yang Tianyi here, how could he watch him hold on?
Seeing Yang Tianyi who was eager to write a letter to Chen Ke, Wang Jian could only quietly cultivate in Kuaiji County.
Who told him that after he agreed to Chen Ke before, he had some minor health problems because of his stubbornness, and in the end it was Yang Tianyi who helped keep the secret?
...........
Penglaizhou
At this time, the development of Penglaizhou has reached a very strong stage. Huo Shi, the governor of Penglaizhou, and many senior officials of Penglaizhou are all excited.
Because they got the message.
The First Emperor wanted to tour east. The first stop was Zhongmu County, and the second stop was Penglaizhou.
What an honor.
