When the beasts at the bottom of Yunmeng Mountain rushed all the way down, Yunmeng County, less than a mile away from Yunmeng Mountain, was already plunged into a gloomy mist.
Thousands of Chu people were sitting next to the barn in the county under the guard of a hundred Qin soldiers.
The main food crop in Da Qin is millet. If it is called He at this time, it refers to millet, or millet, not rice. However, Chu land is different. There are many paddy fields in Chu land, and rice is usually grown with higher yield and better taste.
However, rice has more water than millet, so it takes longer to dry and covers a larger area.
This is the location of Yunmeng County's grain drying field. Thousands of villagers crowded the huge grain drying field, while the surrounding Qin soldiers unsheathed their swords and cocked their crossbows, watching thousands of villagers eagerly.
As for the Chu people, everyone was frightened and trembling.
"General," a village elder suddenly stood up and bowed his hands, "Although we are from Chu, it has been eight years since the Qin Dynasty unified the world. We are also from Chu in Qin, so why should we regard it as such? Are we like bandits?"
"Don't talk nonsense, you are the scapegoat!" The one who spoke was an officer on horseback, who was the general who had been ordered to station in Chudi to wait for news.
"I wonder what crime we are guilty of?" the village elder continued to ask with lowered eyebrows.
"His Majesty the First Emperor's three-kill order, you have heard it personally from the general last time." The general said with a sneer: "Anyone who dares to call himself a fairy or magician will be killed!"
"However, the Qin general also called the white deer an auspicious spiritual beast in front of us last time!"
"That's right, he saluted the mountain-protecting spirit beast of the Chu people's ancestral gods, and someone saw it!"
Several voices of protest sounded, and the voices sounded very young, but I didn't know who they were.
The general was too lazy to tell the difference. He continued to sneer and said: "What about the general? That is the general's business!"
"However, if the First Emperor's order is not changed, it will not be violated!"
He glanced at the Chu people on the ground with squinting eyes: "What kind of ancestral gods and spiritual beasts are we talking about at this time? Are you Chu people going to bully my swordsmen?"
"I don't mean to offend the general," the village elder said again, "it's just that we Chu people have been worshiping our ancestors and gods for more than a thousand years..."
"Who is greater, the ancestral god of the Chu people, or the First Emperor?" General Bai leaned down from his horse and looked at the village elder condescendingly, his face full of malice.
The village elder looked at Baijiang with a dull expression on his face. The Chu people around him also had angry expressions on their faces, while Baijiang laughed.
There was a marriage between Qin and Chu in this generation. However, when King Zhaoxiang of Qin and King Huai of Chu met in the name of marriage, the nominal great-grandfather of the First Emperor, the father-in-law of Mrs. Huayang, suddenly detained each other and then returned to Chu without letting him go for the rest of his life. land.
This move naturally made the Chu people furious. Although the two countries did not completely break up due to the relationship between Mrs. Huayang, they had been at war with each other on the border for nearly a hundred years. The citizens of the two countries also regard each other as their great enemies.
Even after the Chu State was destroyed and the world returned to the Qin Dynasty, the hatred was still unresolved and even tended to intensify.
The reason is that Chu is a big country, and it is also a rich country. The wealthy Chu people are naturally not as good at fighting as the hungry and cold Qin people. However, if you want to win over the Chu people, you need to use force and law, and embrace them with gentleness, a two-pronged approach that lasts for decades.
Fusu saw this, so he only killed the alchemists in Chu and did not harass the Chu people. He even distributed the alchemists' wealth to the Chu people in the name of compensation.
But there were too few people like Fusu who acted with benevolence, and there were not many Qin officials like Lingwu who personally led the barbarians in Chu to farm and build houses, and to teach them how to read.
Most people in Qin are still wary of, and even full of hatred for, this great country that has not been conquered for hundreds of years.
In the eyes of many Qin people, the reason why the Chu people cherish their homeland is because they did not kill enough when they destroyed Chu.
If the people of Chu can be killed so that they dare not speak out about Chu from now on, the world will be settled!
That's what Baijiang thought. He didn't think much about the uncertainty of the world, he just simply hated the people of Chu.
Last time, General Meng Tian ordered him to take all the Chu people to Yunmeng Mountain and behead them into the military army, which was quite satisfactory to him. But for some reason, halfway through, the general suddenly changed his mind.
Perhaps it was because Chu was a barbaric and foggy land, and the general was bewildered by the fog at that time. Or maybe it was because the beasts in the valley were so powerful at that time that the general said this specifically to prevent the Chu people from fleeing. The generals thought silently.
He still remembered how proud the Chu people were at that time, so much so that many Chu people even worshiped on the spot. The person he worshiped was not the general who temporarily pardoned his life, nor His Majesty the First Emperor, but the so-called immortal in Yunmeng Mountain!
But all this is no longer important, because when the general returned yesterday, not only was he accompanied by Young Master Fusu, there were also five thousand troops coming all the way!
The captain of the five thousand army is still the son of the old general Wang Jian, Wang Ping!
Baijiang’s old boss!
And the posture he put up was to wipe out all the living creatures near Yunmeng Mountain!
Therefore, in the eyes of the generals, these Chu people were already dead.
Just wait for Wang Ping’s order!
Especially the old country man in front of me. When he was scolded by the general, he laughed the most heartily and even cried.
"Didn't you say that there are outstanding people in Chu, and there are immortals on Yunmeng Mountain?" A hundred generals looked at the village elders and the Chu people everywhere with murderous intent: "In this case, you, the immortals of the Chu people, can save you?"
The old man looked miserable, and he couldn't help but glance at the other Chu people.
The people of Chu truly believe that there are gods on Yunmeng Mountain, and they also believe that Yunmengze is the land of ancestral gods.
However, there is obviously a difference between faith and belief in reality. Chu people also know that things about gods are too elusive.
This is just like how later generations treat their ancestors. Everyone says that their ancestors will protect them. However, when encountering danger, the first thing everyone does is not to burn paper and ask their ancestors to show up for help, but to call the police in a hurry.
The villager was originally a wild man by the stone forest of Yunmeng Mountain. He had made a living in the mountains since he was a child and had never seen an immortal with his own eyes.
He used to think that the alchemists were gods before, but after the alchemists were all killed by the Qin people like chickens, he also came to a clear understanding.
Alchemists are all liars!
Are there really gods on Yunmeng Mountain?
"In this case, we Chu people are bound to die today." He said with a gloomy look.
He subconsciously looked at Yunmeng Mountain, and the next moment, his eyes suddenly condensed.
I saw a big, white-fronted insect with dazzling eyes coming from the Yunmeng Mountain Pass, charging towards this side with its teeth and claws.
"There is a tiger!" the village elder shouted subconsciously, but just after shouting these three words, he was stunned again.
A rumbling sound like rolling thunder came from the direction of Yunmeng Mountain, and the forest on the side of Yunmeng Mountain near Yunmeng County had completely exploded.
The old man's expression changed again. He stared dumbly at the billowing smoke and dust in the direction of Yunmeng Mountain, then looked at the big insect leading the way, and suddenly let out a loud roar.
"The beast tide is coming!"
