Qin Official

"Brother, brother, I thought that your old bones were buried in a small place and fed to the wolves."

When he saw that the old man in front of him was really his brother, with good arms and legs, and even his habit of coughing and spitting had not changed, Li Shang breathed a sigh of relief, but he still couldn't help complaining.

Who told Li Shiqi to follow Zhang Er to the west to attack Qin five months ago, and then there was no news at all?

Li Shiqi sneered: "Who taught you those light knight skills? How many jackals can you be afraid of with your old swordsmanship?"

"Then what big thing has brother done?"

Li Shang lowered his voice. As early as when his elder brother persuaded him to surrender to the Chu Kingdom, he had said that both Chu and Wei would be defeated in the future. Only Heifu could rule the world, and Li Shiqi wanted to get acquainted with the Six Kingdoms. , when the time comes to sell yourself, you can sell it at a high price...

Li Shiqi didn't answer at first, but asked him if everything was well at home. How many people did you bring?

Li Shang said: "Not many, only two thousand. The remaining two thousand will be taken by Li Xi and left behind at Chen Liu."

Li Xi is the son of Li Shiqi, but Li Shiqi has great distrust in him and said disdainfully: "Li Xi? Can this son convince those knights? It's just because of your reputation."

Li Shang was helpless: "Brother, Li Xi is also over thirty years old. I often take him to practice martial arts..."

Li Shiqi shook his head and said: "This kid is not like me, and he can't learn your three skills. It's sad. I'm afraid he won't be able to keep the merit he earned at the risk of his own life. Otherwise..."

He smiled and said, "I'll pass it on to you!"

"Gongjue? My brother is now..."

Li Shiqi said: "I am now the Zuo Geng personally appointed by the Regent of Great Qin."

"I was in Hedong, and I said that it took two counties to surrender one Sima."

This achievement is not an exaggeration. What is amazing is that because Li Shiqi planned carefully and the "Wing Camp" established by Heifu was very secret, no one except a few people was able to take refuge with Heifu and persuade several counties to surrender. People can know.

Li Shiqi was able to blend in with the defeated Wei soldiers in Hedong and easily ran to Hanoi County...

"I met Sima Mao, the Zhao general who was ordered to assist the Wei people in the defense in Hanoi. He looked at the Qin troops in Mengjin and Heyin, but he was frightened and uneasy."

Now Heidong and Henan have been taken by Heifu. The three rivers are one and the most densely populated and wealthy place in the world. The people of Hanoi submitted to Qin earlier and even helped King Zhao of Qin win the Battle of Changping. They began to join the army early. The Duke's interests and mentality are different from those of other Guandong counties. They are happy to serve the people of Qin. Hanoi County faces enemies from the west and south. It would be difficult for anyone to guard it.

Li Shang said: "Brother convinced him?"

"Almost."

Li Shiqi sighed sadly: "Sima Mao's grandfather, Sima Shang, was a colleague of Li Mu. The two commanded the army together to repel the Qin army. After Li Mu was killed by Zhao Wangqian, Sima Shang was also deposed from his title. His family had no influence on Zhao." The country is not that stupid and loyal, but Sima Mao and Li Zuoche are close friends. Li Zuoche is now fighting against Han Xin in Taiyuan, and the war is about to begin. Sima Mao cannot bear to abandon him."

"The Qin army's advantage in the Central Plains is still not big enough. Sima Mao will give up his last illusion only when he sees that the south bank of the river has become a sweeping force."

"So I crossed the river and went south to Daliang to spy on the military situation."

Li Shiqi smiled and said: "This time Xiang Liang, as the Zuo Sima of the Chu Kingdom, gathered eighteen county officials to guard against the Qin army's eastward advance in the spring. This place is a mixed bag, but this is my opportunity!"

Zuo Sima, this is the new official position that Xiang Liang got after he returned to Chu State, except for the title of County Duke. Xiang Yu was the Great Sima of Shangzhu State, the supreme military commander of Chu State, and Zuo Sima was his deputy. , Xiang Yu crossed the Huaihe River to repel Jiangdong's army, and then attacked the nearby Hengshan area to the west. Huainan was handed over to Ji Bu, and all military affairs in the north of Huaibei were handled by Xiang Liang.

At present, the division of power within the Chu State is a bit subtle, but it is also a helpless move during wartime. Li Shiqi is curious about how far Xiang Liang can go in the face of this terrible situation. Can he be stronger than Xiang Ji?

"Did he seriously summon the eighteenth county magistrate?"

Speaking of which, the so-called Eighteenth Route County Duke is actually a specialty of Chu State, which is equivalent to a title of king.

Because the seven heroes of the Warring States Period basically completed the centralization of power and prefectures and counties, only Chu State still stayed in the feudal dream of the Spring and Autumn Period.

There is no way, the country is too big, almost the same as the other six combined, and there are many old states and Puyue foreign races, direct rule is simply impossible, so we have to let the public clans continue to be placed in local places.

As a result, more and more people were granted more titles. Zhao Jingqu and Ruo Ao were all old nobles with a long history. Chu State was not like Yan State and Qin State. After being beaten, they learned from the experience and made drastic reforms.

When Wu Qi came to the Kingdom of Chu, the illness he sought for the King of Chu was: "There are too many ministers and too many lords. If this is the case, the Lord will come down to abuse the people. This is the way of a poor country and weak soldiers."

But Wu Qi's reform also failed. In the third year, he was directly killed by a nobleman at the funeral of King Chu. A civil war broke out in Chu State. The army of the King of Chu and the feudal armed forces of the noblemen fought fiercely.

In the end, the nobles with bad intentions were killed, but the King of Chu also saw the power of the nobles and compromised. It was so tepid and difficult to return until the Qin State occupied Jianghan. After the migration, the Chu State not only did not change, but also intensified its enfeoffment.

Who could have imagined that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the state of Chu, which shouted "I am a barbarian and will not take the posthumous title of the Central Plains" because he refused to obey the Zhou Dynasty and established himself as king, became the country that most abided by the Zhou system and was most obsessed with rituals and music.

As a result, when the Qin army came again, the King of Chu still had no appeal at all. The noble Xiang Yan had to come forward and summon the county officials to fight Qin to the death. He won the first time, but failed the second time.

After the fall of the country, the county officials, their retainers, and descendants who were deprived of their privileges became the most active group of anti-Qin people, hiding in the world and fighting to the death...

The sharpest rebel at that time has finally become the most conservative tomb-keeper withered bones. Even though he has turned into bones, the smooth skull still has an exaggerated high crown on it, and the white body is covered with a bright-colored robe with wide cuffs. Wear deep clothes.

Now that the Chu State has been reborn, it is still being manipulated by the old aristocrats, not Lu Zuosi. Naturally, we must highlight the orthodoxy. Since we keep saying that we want to restore the Chu system, we must not just add "Yin" after the official name.

The Chu system without enfeoffment has no soul!

In addition, the real power factions in various places have their own armed forces. In order to unite with the outside world, the new Chu State also readily recognized their power. In the vast Chu land, there were suddenly dozens more "county officials", and the small ones had the number of soldiers. Hundreds, some thousands, and the largest one is Xiang Ji, who covers the entire Donghai County. As long as the descendants of the Xiang family are adults, they all become county officials.

It’s not like no one saw the shortcomings of this system, but they did it anyway in the end, perhaps because they had no choice but to compromise with reality, or perhaps because they believed...

The heroes who have obtained the fief can fight for themselves and the Chu State, right?

"If Duke Xia knows about this, he will definitely kill every one of these county princes. Although the name is the same but the meaning is different, otherwise, it will not be able to show the nobleness of the Duke."

So today, Xiang Liang has to fight against the Qin army advancing eastward, and he also has to learn from his old father's tactics. After some convening, lords from all over the country, big and small, can bring their own men to join...

For a time, the script of heroes seeking evil has been completed.

"We are now on the 17th route."

Li Shang was Chen Liugong, he was relatively close to here, and he came early, so he told his brother one by one. When Li Shiqi heard his name, he could usually report his deeds. This was the "intelligence" he sold to Hei Fu. ".

"Gong Ling Zhou Wen."

Li Shiqi said: "Xiang Yan's army was in charge of the sun. He participated in the battle fifteen years ago. This man is one of the very few who has fought in a big battle. Is he also Xiang Liang's right-hand man?"

"Exactly, Zhou Wenjin is appointed General Pi."

"There is also Yu Fanjun, father of Xiacheng. He was the first group of people to surrender to Xiang Ji, including Mo Aolongqi, and Chen Sheng who ran away to Zhao State..."

"Fu Kuan, Duke of Hengyang, is from Wei and is extremely brave."

"Those who take advantage of Duke Zheng Bu to raise troops to meet Xiang Ji and besiege Tandi."

"Xiapi Gong Xiangmao, Xiang Liang's younger brother."

"Yongqiu Gongxiangshe, this is the son of Xiangxiang, Gongxiang of Xiangxian County, Huangkou Ruzi."

Li Shang disliked this neighbor very much. At first Xiang She was Chen Liugong, but he felt that Chen Liu was a young man who was difficult to control, so he reported it to Xiang Yu, so he exchanged it with Li Shang, which suited him, but he despised Xiang She more and more.

"Feng Gong Yong Chi and Xia Yi Gong Wang Ling are all figures from Fengfei area. They are all county heroes. They have no outstanding achievements, but they all responded to Xiang Liang's call."

Li Shiqi commented: "If I don't come, I'm afraid I will be attacked. Although the situation has been determined, the county officials are all vulgar people and may not understand. Moreover..."

"Every county official has hostages detained in Pengcheng! This is Fan Zeng's plan!"

Li Shang gritted his teeth. His son Li Ji was the hostage, otherwise he wouldn't be so timid.

"We're only seventeen, and there's still one more person to come..."

Li Shiqi smiled: "Pei Gong Lu Ze."

"My brother, you bet with me, Lu Ze, do you still dare to come here to pay homage to Xiang Liang?"

Li Shang shook his head: "I don't dare to come. There are rumors outside that Lu Ze is secretly communicating with Hei Fu. If he comes and can't explain clearly, won't he be taken down the sacrificial flag? All the Manchus will be executed?"

Since the day Li Shang called, he had heard from people from Hedong that Heifu was at the Hongmen Banquet. No one else asked, but he asked Lu Ze by name and one of his subordinates named Fan Kuai...

But if they don't come, Lu Ze's two brothers may be in trouble as hostages in Pengcheng.

"Brother, is this true or false? Did Lu Ze really defect to Qin? How could he do it after all this distance? Could it be that Xiao He and Cao Shen from Pei recommended him? I heard that both of them are in high positions."

"How could I know..."

Li Shiqi muttered that some of the regent's actions seemed to come easily, but also seemed to be far-sighted. Even though he was as smart as he was, he couldn't understand them at all.

He only knew that Heifu had dug a hole at the Hongmen Banquet, but he didn't understand what the regent was doing with a little-known little county official. Even if it exploded, it would have little impact. Li Shiqi could only act according to the situation... …

Of course, the premise is that Lu Ze has the courage to come here.

At this moment, there was a commotion outside. Li Shang went out to ask, and when he came back, he said angrily:

"I lost..."

"Pei Gong Lu Ze has arrived in Daliang!"

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ps: Chapter 2 is in the afternoon.