Qin Official

"Your Majesty, the place where Yushui enters the sea has arrived!"

Heifu walked out of the cabin of the building ship and saw the gap between the green land and the blue sea.

After half a month of sailing, they finally crossed the "South China Sea" from Fujian to Guangdong.

The Pearl River Delta, the most prosperous region in China, where housing prices are sky-high in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, is now a wilderness. In Heifu's eyes, this estuary is like an Amazon, with rainforests and mangroves everywhere. Large crocodiles that look like driftwood float on the water. After taking a look at the fleet of ships that cover the sky, he dives back knowingly. in water.

Because land building has not yet been completed, it is not clear which is the river and which is the sea. Many areas in later generations are still in the sea. Zhongshan, Macao, and Zhuhai are one big island. The boatman passed by the right side of the island, walking between broken sandbars and small islands, avoiding dangerous reefs.

When the fleet arrives here, we can find that although this place is wild, it is not virgin land. Thousands of years ago, the Yue people thrived here and began to plant rice. South Vietnam has a vast land and sparsely populated areas. It is cultivated with slashes and water. Usually there are two fires, one in the spring and another in the autumn. When the trees turn into white ground, water is poured in and mixed with the plant ash. It is the best. fertilizer. You can sow seeds at will and get a harvest without intensive cultivation. Although the yield per mu is far less than that in the Central Plains, it can't stand the hot weather and has two crops a year.

Therefore, the further inland you go, the more you can see the rice fields on the coastal plain in the distance, as well as the stilt-style huts of the South Vietnamese people.

At this time, the Yue people, wearing kapok skirts and harvesting rice in the fields, saw the mountain-like building boats approaching. They stood in the fields and were dumbfounded. It was not until the Qin soldiers landed on the shore that they hurriedly fled...

"Have you seen the South Vietnamese warships?"

Heifu asked his nephew Wei Yang.

"It's also strange, I haven't seen one yet."

Wei Yang was a little surprised. He heard that the "Jiao tribe" living near the estuary was famous for its large number of ships, and its water power was no less than that of Minyue. But when the boatmen arrived here, why didn't they see them coming to fight?

But Heifu knew why: "I have ordered Gong Ao and others to take tens of thousands of troops from the Wuchang camp to arrive at Sihui via Beijiang Road, set up camp, and build ships, as if they were going to cross the river and sea to attack. This area is nearby All the ships and young men of the Yue tribes have gone to Sihui to hinder the Qin army. On this coastal area, only the old and weak, women and children are left busy harvesting rice..."

In the last war between Qin and Yue, the Yue people had two ways of avoiding the war. One was to bully the Qin people who were not good at fighting in the mountains and forests and fled into the deep mountains and old forests. The other was to bully the Qin people who were not used to water and rowed to the islands. They would probably do the same this time. Repeat the old trick. But no matter what kind, they all need enough food. The Yue people planned to wait until the late rice was harvested, beat it into millet, and then escape with it. Otherwise, they would not be able to feed the entire population just by fishing, picking fruits and hunting.

But they never expected that there would be two Qin armies, attacking openly and secretly, like magic soldiers descending from the sky, coming from the sea. Because of the lack of information, they didn't even know that their neighbor Minyue had been captured by Heifu.

Heifu ordered Weiyang to raise a flag and ask Ren Xiao, Dongmen Bao, Wu Rui and other generals to come over for a meeting.

"After Yushui passed through Sihui, it divided into three rivers and entered the sea. Therefore, the army was also divided into three, each taking one path. Whenever they encountered Yue villages or strongholds, they sent land troops to capture them and capture their old, weak, women and children. The boat master rushed directly to Sihui, and when the young and strong people on the boat gathered together, he wiped them out in one fell swoop! Their victory was completed in one battle!"

This is Heifu's plan. In this way, the most powerful Jiao tribe and Yang tribe in South Vietnam can be wiped out in one battle, saving them from having to go to the forest islands to fight guerrillas again!

After the generals left as promised, they were ordered to carry thousands of people to raid the Yue people's hometown. However, Wei Yang, who abducted the old, weak, women and children, came to find Hei Fu and hesitated to speak...

Heifu immediately guessed what his nephew, who had experienced battles but was too obedient to recognize the dangers of the world, was thinking.

"Are you disgusted with what you're about to do?"

"I don't dare. I just feel that I would rather fight the main force of the Yue people than...rather than attack the old, weak, women and children."

Wei Yang was indeed hesitant. He had been in the navy for several years and had only fought one battle to destroy Lord Canghai. It was an attack to punish traitors and did not involve too many killings.

Now Hei Fu was letting him do things similar to those of bandits and pirates without concealment. Wei Yang found it difficult to take over for a while, feeling that this was not what a "justice master" should do.

Hei Fu was a little more patient with his family. He asked Wei Yang to sit down and stopped Lu Jia who was about to leave:

"Sheng Lu, come here and tell us the story of Song Xianggong?"

Lu Jia had no choice but to stop and talk about the past events of the Spring and Autumn Period...

"Therefore, Song Xianggong refused to take advantage of the Chu army to cross the Hong River and attack halfway. He said, "We are known as the troops of benevolence and righteousness. How can we attack while others are crossing the river?" Then he allowed the Chu army to arrange their troops and the two sides fought head-on. , As a result, Song Xianggong was defeated and was shot in the leg by the Chu army, but he also said, I am a gentleman. I will not be seriously injured or capture two cents. This is the teacher of benevolence and righteousness. How can I do this to take advantage of danger? ?”

At this point, Lu Jia paused for a moment: "But Ziyu, the brother of Duke Xianggong of the Song Dynasty, said that victory is the merit of a war, and both sides will use all possible means. How can they pay attention to the way of a gentleman..."

Hei Fu looked at Wei Yang who was thoughtful: "Who do you think is right, Song Xianggong or Ziyu?"

"Ziyu is right. Soldiers are crafty and take victory as merit. As a general, you can't be unbearable..." Wei Yang was a little ashamed. He actually doubted Zhongfu's order.

Heifu said: "It's not that I don't want to be a gentleman and let the Qin army be an army of benevolence and righteousness, but because this is war. The Yue people do not have regular soldiers, but it can be said that all the people are soldiers. From the first time the Qin army went south, war has Not only are the soldiers on both sides young and strong, but the old, weak, women and children are also extremely fierce and brave, even half-grown children can use bows, arrows, swords, and wooden sticks to plot against the Qin army. If they are allowed to escape, there will be endless troubles."

He patted Weiyang, asking him to let go of his worries and get ready to set off, and said with a smile:

"Besides, I'm not asking you to kill them. As long as you lay down your weapons and stop resisting, I can spare their lives and drive them to finish harvesting the rice and take them with them to join me in Panyu."

What should I do after arriving in Panyu? Heifu didn't say anything.

After Wei Yang accepted the promise and left, Hei Fu stood on the boat with his hands behind his hands and suddenly asked Lu Jia:

"Lu Jia, Confucianism emphasizes 'education without distinction'?"

"Yes, this is what Confucius said. Nature is similar, but habits are far apart. Only the wise ones like kings and princes are the same as the fools who can't tell the difference between wheat and rice. As for ordinary people like us who live in the middle, the wise and foolish people are the same. , can all be changed through education." Lu Jia carefully agreed.

"Those Yue people."

Heifu pointed to the tattooed people on the shore who were tied to ropes by Qin soldiers: "Can they also be civilized?"

"this……"

Confucius did not say that it was possible, but only emphasized the defense of Huayi, but Mencius seemed to have similar remarks.

Although he didn't like Lao Meng, Lu Jia thought for a while and said, "Since there were people who transformed Xia from barbarians in ancient times, there were also some wise men among the barbarians, Rongdi, and Di, so they should be able to be enlightened."

Heifu said, "Oh? Can you transform the cannibal Yi Di into a Chinese person?"

Lu Jia hesitated: "It's called Hua because of its beauty, and it's called Xia because of its great etiquette... This is indeed a bit difficult."

Heifu looked at Lu Jia, who had an uncertain face, and said with a smile: "There is no requirement to have the beauty of uniforms. After all, after arriving in Vietnam, even I and the four thousand short soldiers under my command were all in uniform. It doesn't matter whether we understand etiquette or not." , Soldiers like us, who live in Guizhou Province, don’t know any etiquette?"

"But we do know for sure that we are Chinese. Qin, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qi. In the past, people from the seven kingdoms were hostile to each other, but they all regarded themselves as Zhuxia."

Although this understanding is still the preserve of intellectuals and nobles, this wonderful sense of identity is also the internal factor that promotes the unification of the seven kingdoms. After a long period of integration of the unified dynasty, a unified nation will be ready to emerge.

Heifu didn't want to discuss this issue in depth with Lu Jia here, so he directly stated his plan: "When we were in Fujian and Yue, didn't you suggest that we should carry out enlightenment in the local area? I rejected it there, but here, in South Vietnam, in Panyu , I really want you to try it!"

He stretched out his hand as if to take the land into his pocket.

"I will kidnap the old and weak women and children of Yue people, and take away their children and boys from the arms of those mothers..."

This is undoubtedly an extremely evil thing, but in Heifu's words, it seems like he is doing a great good thing.

"I want to tell the Vietnamese that I will not turn their children into slaves, nor will I eat the children of the enemy like the vendettas between various tribes in South Vietnam..."

Heifu smiled and said: "I will send people to educate them so that when they grow up, they will understand Xia's words. In ten or twenty years, one generation or two will eventually use Xia to transform Yi!"

It sounds noble, but in reality? Heifu knew very well that the so-called civilization was just a thin coat covering up the blood-stained barbarism.

Lu Xun once said that there are two kinds of eras in history: the era of being a slave but not being able to do so, and the era of being a slave temporarily.

Heifu doesn't know what kind of person he belongs to right now, and he can't be sure that in the future, with his own efforts, the world, at least the Central Plains, will be sublimated into an era where people can be human beings...

But at least he knew that there were two types of slaves.

"A disobedient slave."

After being pushed down on the bank, Heifu continued to resist. The South Vietnamese woman who tried to bite off Qin Zu's ear shook her head, then turned around and looked at Wu Rui's men from Yuzhang, Yang Yue and Qian who were helping the Qin people row the boat. The Yue people, this group of poor guys who were familiar with Xia Yan, had dull faces, and were rocking the oars, sighed:

"And an obedient slave!"