General Qin

When the army battle report from outside the Great Wall was rushed to Xianyang by Xinqi day and night, the capital of this mighty empire was immersed in joy.

In the palace of the eldest princess.

Ying Yinman was lying lazily on the bed, her soft hair hanging down, with a different kind of beauty in her casualness.

She held several pages of yellow paper full of words in her hand, which were letters home written by her beloved from outside the Great Wall.

"This Zhao Tuo can't change his glib habit. How can he write such shameful things on it? What if others see it?"

Ying Yinman blushed and spat.

She raised her eyes and saw that there was no one else in the room before looking at the letter in her hand again.

Ying Yinman held these pages of letter paper tightly with both hands, like the most precious treasure in the world, and looked at them again and again, with a smile on her face.

A moment later, a nurse walked to the door with a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, and said softly, "Princess, the baby is hungry."

"Well, come hug me."

Ying Yinman smiled.

She always remembers that Zhao Tuo once said that breastfed children will have a deeper relationship with their mothers and will be better for their growth and development.

So even though there were several wet nurses in the Princess Mansion, Ying Yinman still insisted on feeding her by herself.

She looked at the little baby in her arms, and at the little facial features that looked like Zhao Tuo, her eyes became extra gentle.

"When you grow up, you have to be like your father and be a great hero."

...

After the news of the Qin army's victory outside the Great Wall spread.

In Zuo Gengshejian's mansion, several nobles are holding a gathering of old friends.

"Ahh! The General has won another big victory, and my black butt really wants to follow the General to fight outside the Great Wall!"

Right Shu with long black buttocks, in front of all his friends, after drinking the wine in the glass, beat his chest and groaned.

Seeing this, She Jian, Zhong Limei, Lu Wan and others rolled their eyes.

Li Shang was still young, and he was a ranger, so he said with a joke: "I heard that Brother Black Butt just took a concubine a few days ago, and now he drinks good wine and eats delicious food all day long, and has a beautiful wife and beautiful concubine sitting in the mansion. Life is so enviable, why do you still want to go to fight in the bitter cold outside the Great Wall?"

Heibutt glared at him and said, "What do you know! Do you think that the days of hugging a beautiful woman, drinking and eating meat every day is what my blackbutt wants? Let me tell you, my blackbutt is the happiest in my life, It was the time when I was still at the end of my life and followed the general to attack the country of Yan!"

"At that time, although I was just an unknown soldier and didn't even have a title, I was able to live in the same camp as the general and listen to the general's teachings every day. Now that I think about it, that is really the best thing in the world!"

"Shejian, do you think so? I still remember when you were so poor that you didn't even have a bedding. The general took pity on you and let you into his bed."

Black Hip said, looking at Shema with taste.

Shejian's complexion was as usual, but his eyes turned red, and the vague voice of "Same Robe with Zi" seemed to be heard in his ears.

He said indifferently: "Okay, the Great General's victory in the Northern Expedition is something to be happy about. We gathered here to congratulate the General, why bother to say these words."

"We are all former generals, and now we are in the ranks of lieutenants in the capital, so we can't easily ask for war, so as not to fall into the truth. You see, this time, except for brother Zhao Guang who escorted soldiers to join the army as a county lieutenant, the West Qi, Bai Rong, Zhang He and others are all Sima and Bing Cao from other counties, and they have no chance to join the war, everyone is the same, there is nothing to complain about."

Black Butt curled his lips and said no more.

Instead, Zhong Limei asked Shejian a topic after drinking a cup of wine: "Brother She, I heard that after the successful construction of the Chi Road leading to Longxi, I intend to build another road leading to the north today, so as to make it easier for people to travel to the north." To transport food, fodder and soldiers to Beihu?"

Hearing this, everyone turned their gazes to Shejian.

The few of them mainly worked in the lieutenant and Weiwei systems, responsible for the guards of the capital and the Qin Palace. In terms of news, they were not as good as Shejian Lingtong who worked in the Taiwei's mansion.

Shejian thought for a while, and realized that this matter is not considered top secret, and many departments have already known about it, so he nodded and said: "There is such a thing, this year, the general sent out hundreds of thousands of troops to conquer the Hu people, and he needed a lot of food and supplies. , and the roads along the way are either in the Gobi desert or in the mountains and valleys, which are steep and difficult, resulting in a lot of transportation loss."

"Today, I intend to strengthen the defense line and immigrate to the real border after regaining the northern border, so I ordered the Taiwei and several ministers to discuss the construction of a road, cutting mountains and valleys, leading directly to the northern border, so as to facilitate subsequent military operations and immigration. plan. The route of this avenue is still under discussion and has not yet been determined.”

Lu Wan praised: "Cutting mountains and valleys, leading directly to the northern border, the emperor is going to do another big thing. Nowadays, apart from war, it is very difficult for us to achieve meritorious service and rank. To build this road, the person in charge It should be considered a great achievement, but I don’t know who the road builder is?”

Shejian shook his head and said, "It hasn't been decided yet, let's not talk about it, let's have a toast and congratulate the general!"

"Okay, let's congratulate the general!"

Everyone raised their wine cups and toasted each other to the general's great victory outside the Great Wall.

...

In the mansion of Ting Wei Li Si.

Li Si, who was in his sixties this year, was sitting in the room, and the table in front of him was covered with golden oranges.

It's the beginning of autumn and early September, and it's the season when his favorite oranges are ripe. There are also various dipping sauces and pasta next to the oranges, which look quite delicious.

It's just that Li Si at the moment doesn't have the slightest intention to feast on it.

He looked at Li Yu who had just returned from outside the mansion, and said with a serious expression: "Young Master, have you given up admonishing the emperor?"

Li Yu hurriedly nodded and said: "I have already told the eldest son what my father said, and he thinks what his father said is right, so he is not going to speak out."

Hearing this, Li Si breathed a sigh of relief.

The incident originated from the warlocks Yan and Qi from the East.

Yan and Qi are close to the sea, and there are legends such as fairy islands in the sea and immortal gods, which have always been believed by people.

Yan Wang, Qi Wang, etc. were all loyal fans of this group of magicians, and their influence can be seen.

Following Qin's annihilation of the six kingdoms, this group of alchemists were also recruited to Xianyang, among which Hou Sheng, Lu Sheng and others were well-known.

These people had their own means of pleasing the king, and they had seen that the first emperor had a desire for longevity and yearning for immortals and gods.

They often publicized mysterious things, and they used some strange and confusing tricks, which made it difficult for people to explain the truth, which made Emperor Shi Huang trust them.

With the general leading the army to go out, and the palace of Qi State in Weibei is coming to an end.

Lu Sheng and others seized this opportunity and stood up to give advice to the emperor, saying that building a palace in Weinan symbolizes the crape myrtle wall at the extreme of the sky, and that the Weishui corresponds to the Milky Way in the sky, and that Xianyang can be compared with the Tiangong, which should prove the destiny of Qin and show the emperor's supreme dignity. bit.

Qin Shihuang has always liked this, and he deeply agrees with it.

Before the construction of the palaces of the Six Kingdoms was completed, corvee workers were recruited again to overhaul the new palace in Guanzhong to symbolize the "emperor star" in the sky.

At the same time, because of the relationship between the Wei River and the Milky Way, he also expanded the complex road cross bridge built on the Wei River in the era of King Zhaoxiang to resemble the Tianji Pavilion Road.

This is another massive construction project.

Although Li Si knew that building these palaces was of no benefit to the country, he knew better that it was the will of the First Emperor.

Legalists have always respected the emperor.

After the unification of the Qin State, the imperial power reached its peak.

The Emperor's will is everything.

What the emperor said was what he said.

Not to mention that this matter is also related to the Tianji Emperor Star, corresponding to sensitive things such as destiny, Li Si dare not speak on this matter.

In the court of the Qin Dynasty, all the ministers were veterans who had experienced wind and rain. Under such circumstances, each of them kept silent and let the emperor build his new palace.

If the ministers don't say anything, the corvee will resume, construction will be carried out in Guanzhong, and the head of Guizhou will be recruited everywhere.

Such a scene made Fusu, the eldest son, feel uncomfortable.

Standing in the position of Prince Qin, he feels that now the empire is attacking the Hu people with hundreds of thousands of troops, and the counties in the country have gathered people to build roads, and at the same time, they are carrying out various unification projects, which has already made the people restless and the head of Guizhou is exhausted. , Died on the road, it can be described as miserable.

Moreover, the homeland of the Six Kingdoms was initially determined, and the people's hearts were unstable. Under such circumstances, the emperor had to do major civil engineering repairs. The construction of such a high-standard palace was not beneficial to the country, and it was completely harming the interests of Qin.

Fusu thought that as the eldest son of Qin, he had the responsibility to persuade his father when he made such a move.

But Fusu was mentioned by Zhao Tuo, and he was no longer so reckless. Zhao Tuo was not around, so he was not easy to discuss.

Li Yu, the brother-in-law who often plays with him, took another path.

Fusu told Li Yu about his intention to persuade the emperor, so as to get his wife's opinion.

Li Si was startled when he heard Li Yu's message.

His first daughter married the eldest son, they are Weng son-in-law, and the two are natural allies, Li Si is naturally very interested in Fusu.

Li Si quickly conveyed many of his words through Li Yu, and persuaded Fu Su to come down.

He reckoned that if Fu Su really had to harden his head to persuade the emperor, he would probably be reprimanded and his weight in the emperor's heart would be reduced.

"All the palaces of the six countries have been built, so it's no big deal to build another Xin Palace. As long as the emperor likes it, there's no need to offend some ordinary people."

Li Si thought to himself, he knew that Fusu had a heart of compassion, if he stayed in Xianyang, he might have another conflict with Emperor Shihuang in the future, it was really troublesome.

Seeing his father's appearance, Li Yu rolled his eyes and made a guess.

He chuckled and said, "Father, I heard that the emperor wants to build a road, cutting mountains and valleys all the way to the northern border. This is a huge project, and there will be meritorious service after it is completed."

"And my clan of the Qin State cannot be a member unless it has military merits. Although the eldest son has been crowned now, he still has no merits to speak of."

"It's better to persuade the eldest son to ask for orders and ask the emperor to preside over this road project. This will not only allow the eldest son to obtain meritorious service, but also make the eldest son far away from Xianyang, so as to avoid further admonitions."

Li Si was startled, then he realized, looked at his son, nodded and said with a smile: "Your idea is like shooting two birds with one arrow, it's really good."

"Let the eldest son leave Xianyang to preside over this great project of cultivation. Not only can he accumulate merit for him, but he can also see what the real world is like along the way.

"When he sees more scenes of violent corpses in the wilderness in Qianshou and the scenes where human lives are worthless, he will get used to it after thinking about it. It's just a chance to change his temper."

"The common people in the head of Guizhou are nothing but tools of the ruler."

"The emperor of the empire cannot have compassion."

Li Si said lightly, a ruthless light flashed in his eyes.

"Historical Records: The Benji of Qin Shihuang": In the twenty-seventh year... Yanzuo Xingong Weinan has been renamed the Xingong Temple, like Tianji.

"Sanfu Huangtu": The first emperor was poor and extravagant, and built the Xianyang Palace. Because of the Beiling Camp Hall, the end gates extend in all directions, so that the Purple Palace is like the emperor's residence. The Wei River runs through the capital to resemble the Han Dynasty. Cross the bridge to the south and lead the cows by law.