Qin Official

It is a pity that Heifu has an average history. Apart from hearing the name of Zhao Tuo, he does not know the deeds of the other two people and missed the opportunity to be complacent. .

He only regards Gong Ao as a subordinate who has a little bit of courage, looks bad to others, but obeys his orders.

Wu Rui is the commander-in-chief of Qianyue who is either an enemy or a friend.

"If you welcome Master Wang respectfully, you will become a friend. If you have any different intentions, you will become an enemy. You can kill him!"

This was the advice Li Xian gave to Hei Fu after he rushed back a few days ago. Hei Fu asked Li Xian to go with Xu Shu because he wanted his most intelligent and careful man to observe the Yu Gan Yue people carefully.

After walking around Yugan City, Li Xian found that this was not comparable to the small Yue tribes he saw along the way, which "have no city walls, are located between valleys, and among bamboos." Wu Shennai was a native of Jiangdong Chu who was cultured and knowledgeable. He was supported by the Yugan Yue people, built a city, and annexed several surrounding tribes. Now he has a population of nearly 10,000 and 2,000 young men, and almost controls the lower reaches of the Yugan River. An area of ​​hundreds of miles in radius.

Li Xian remained calm, but was a little surprised in his heart. He felt that he had underestimated Yu Qian, so when he returned to Heifu, he stated to him what he saw and said:

"I saw that Yu Qian was very skilled in copper and tin, and he forged many weapons. Almost every man owned a bronze sword. Although it was not as powerful as the Qin army, it was enough to arrogantly surpass the other countries."

"Although Wu Shen is old, his son Wu Rui is very young and well supported by the Yue people. When he heard that the Qin army was coming, he was quite arrogant and disdainful. Although he was forced by the situation and agreed to help Sima attack the Chu people, he will not be here in the future. Establishing counties and counties, it may be difficult for the new officials to tame them. The rest of the cadres may take advantage of the situation to unify the country, and it will be too late to deal with it by then..."

Li Xian disliked Wu Rui and felt that Yu Gan would become the dominant force in northern Yuzhang sooner or later, so he proposed a vicious plan to Heifu.

"It would be better to ambush and kill the dead soldiers when Wu Rui enters the camp, and then send out all the troops to annihilate these thousands of people. The more young and stronger they are! Build a Jingguan on the Gan River, so that the Qin army can establish a stronghold in Yuzhang." Prestige, and then encourage the tribes of Qianyue to attack Yugan. Whoever can kill Wu Shen can own the people in his city. In this way, the Wu family can be destroyed. At that time, Sima will support any ruler at will, and let the tribes of Ganyue work on their own and attack each other... "

But after Heifu thought about it again and again, he rejected this suggestion.

"This strategy may be able to solve the problem once and for all and eliminate ten years of trouble, but it will not help me to take all Yuzhang at the moment."

It's a good thing that Li Xian has a long-term view, but the top priority now is to eliminate the feudal lords of Chu State, rather than making enemies with the Yue people. If Wu Shen, the remaining cadre, turned against Fan Yangjun because of the loss of his son, even if these two forces were eliminated, the Nanjun soldiers The casualties are probably not small.

Besides, although Li Xian saw the hidden dangers of Yu Qian becoming powerful, he didn't know that in a few years, Qin Shihuang would launch a huge military operation, using 500,000 people to conquer Baiyue in the south. The scale would be comparable to the destruction of Baiyue. Chu, Tu Sui, and Zhao Tuo are all on the campaign trail. Although the main military target is the Fujian and Guangdong regions, Jiangxi will also become a place where food and fodder for large armies gather.

If the Yu Qianwu family has different intentions, it will only be a matter of a word or a letter to annihilate them when the time comes. Why bother to make enemies now?

All of Heifu's current actions are still based on "preserving the children in his hometown" as the starting point, rather than helping Qin Shihuang to eradicate local local snakes in advance.

If history is hard to change, in a dozen years the whole of Shandong will be in chaos, including this corner of the country...

Therefore, Li Xian's idea of ​​"setting up swords and axes behind the scenes" has now become a private soldier in front of the tent. Heifu wants to use the Qin army's military appearance and the advantages of its armored buildings and ships to give the unscrupulous Yue people a chance. Show off your power and let them know how valuable you are.

But Dongmen Bao and others outside are not just decorations. As long as Heifu throws the talisman in his hand to the ground, they can rush in at any time.

Fortunately, Wu Rui was shocked by the Qin army's ship array, and his disapproval was replaced by awe. He obediently bowed to Hei Fu. He didn't know that this attitude made him miss the bloody disaster.

Hei Fu laughed loudly, came over and helped Wu Rui up. He looked overjoyed and praised: "With such a strong man helping me, why worry about Fan Yang not being broken?"

His first impression was that Wu Rui was a simple-minded second-generation ruler, but in the later conversation, the young man showed the carefulness and cunning he inherited from his father...

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"In the past ten years, people from Chu have been coming here. Lord Fanyang has stolen a lot of land from Yugan. Those are the ancestral lands of the Yue people. If the Yue people help the Qin army to defeat Fanyang, I hope the general Can those places be returned to Yu Qian..."

Wu Shen changed his clothes and asked Wu Rui to dress up as a Yue, but he still taught him Chu Yan. Although there were few people to help Wu Rui practice on weekdays, he had some slurred speech and mixed in a lot of Yue vocabulary. , but Heifu still understood his bargain.

"I heard that the Yue people had cities and towns that were located between valleys and among the bamboos. I didn't expect that they also had the concept of ancestral land?" Heifu expressed doubts.

"Yu Gan is different. He has a city and has begun to settle in one place and no longer migrates."

Wu Rui has his own theory: "It is the custom of the Yue people that if a warrior or king of the clan dies, he or she will be buried in a coffin at a cave cliff along the river, and sacrifices will be made along the water every year. Most of the Yue people in Yugan come from Fanshui, They migrated from Daxi River (Le'an River), so their ancestral land is in that area. In previous years, many tribes under the rule asked my father to go to war with Lord Fanyang to regain their ancestral land."

He bowed to Hei Fu and said, "I also hope that the general can hand over the land south of Fanshui to Yu Gan, so that the Yue people in Yu Gan can burn wasteland, farm land, hunt and fish, and worship their ancestors' hanging coffins."

Heifu did not agree rashly, but first glanced at Xu Shu sitting next to him.

Among the people in the tent, Zhao Tuo was in charge of buildings and ships and was familiar with rivers, lakes and waterways. Dongmen Bao and Gong Ao were strong generals. Only Li Xian and Xu Shu could offer advice to Hei Fu. Among them, Li Xian likes to make quick plans, while Xu Shu prefers painting strategies. He is a local and is familiar with the mountains and rivers of Yuzhang.

Xu Shu stood up and whispered in Heifu's ear: "There are many mountains and forests to the south of Daxi River. It is difficult to open up land. You can give it. There are many fields between Fanshui and Daxi River, and hundreds of Chu people are there. There is also a gold mine for farming, which produces gold all year round. It is called gold mining. It is the most important wealth of Fan Yangjun. It must be controlled by Sima and must not be given away..."

Hearing the word gold, Hei Fu was greatly moved. He was on an expedition, and it was difficult to get timely rewards from Xianyang and Nanjun for his meritorious service. Whether it was food or money, he had to rely on himself for the time being. If he could control the gold mine during the war, , which is of great benefit to him.

In a vast and sparsely populated frontier like Jiangxi, the competition for land mainly focuses on important resources such as gold, silver, copper and tin. Therefore, in the bargaining with Wu Rui, Heifu adhered to this bottom line. Wu Rui saw Heifu Neither allowed nor persisted.

Finally, Wu Rui asked about the prefectures and counties established by the Qin State after the war, the treatment of their father and son, and the taxes Yu Gan had to pay.

The Qin State gave preferential tax treatment to ethnic minority areas that had difficulty in delivering food and copper coins.

For example, in the Yi Dao where Hei Fu visited, Qin law stipulated that the ruler of the Ba tribe should pay a rent of 2,160 yen every year and pay an oral tax of 1,800 yen every three years. Each household paid eight feet and two feet of rough textured cloth and thirty clusters of chicken feathers.

When the Ganyue people come here, what they charge should be specialties such as copper, tin, bamboo, wood, and leather, which will not be much more than what the Chu people charge.

At present, the premise of everything is that Xianyang's policy remains unchanged.

After consulting them one by one, Wu Rui breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "So that's it, I have no doubts anymore."

Although this young man has an impulsive face, he is extremely careful when it comes to specific matters. Heifu couldn't help but think of Li Xian's warning to him. With such a leader, Yu Gan will indeed have the opportunity to grow in the future and become a leader. A local hegemon...

Just when he was thinking about whether to lay some ground for Yu Qian, Wu Rui suddenly stood up and made a request to Heifu.

"Can I follow the custom of Qianyue and let the general and I form an alliance by drinking chicken blood and become brothers? Only in this way can Qin and Yue trust each other!"

This is a Yue custom, but as soon as Heifu heard about drinking chicken blood, he remembered a revolutionary story that later generations had heard.

"In later generations, Liu Bocheng, Xiao Ye, Dan and Yihai formed an alliance, but now there is an alliance between black husband Wu Rui and Ganshui?"

He hesitated: "I originally wanted to meet Liu Bang and Xiang Yu's plastic brothers in ten years' time and come to Taoyuan to become sworn brothers. However, if I don't agree now, people in Yue may think it is a humiliation..."

So Hei Fu weighed the pros and cons, agreed, and happily agreed, but at the same time he said: "However, I also want to invite someone to become brothers together."

"Oh?" Wu Rui was a little surprised, but also said: "If you are a warrior, you can do anything."

Everyone in the tent looked at each other in confusion, wondering what Heifu was going to do. At the same time, their hearts were throbbing, and they all thought that the person Heifu wanted to kill might be themselves.

Then, Heifu pointed to someone they had never thought of.

Heifu looked at Zhao Tuo, the future King of Nanyue, with a smile: "Master Zhao Wubai, although you and I have only known each other for two months, we have the same language. I admire your insight and want to have a close relationship with you, but I am so rashly cordial. I always feel that I am being rude. Would you like to take this opportunity to swear an alliance with me?"