Hearing that Meng Tian was going to insist on taking him to Xianyang and playing for Yingzheng, Gao Yuanli's first reaction was that he didn't want to go. But even if he didn't want to go, Meng Tian wouldn't let him go.

Gao Yanli remembered that after he learned the news of Jing Ke's death, when he rushed to Xianyang City, he saw the corpse hanging high above the city gate, which had been cut by a sword and couldn't recognize who it was. However, for Gao Yuanli, Jing Ke's figure he will never forget in his life, and he still recognized Jing Ke hanging on it at a glance.

During the years of incognito and seclusion, Gao Yuanli often dreamed of his friend Jing Ke, he, Jing Ke and Han Fei. Gao gradually left the conversation, Han Fei beat with his hands, and then Jing Ke was dancing the sword, and now only Gao gradually left the three people who are still alive in the world, and the other two people have turned their bones into dust.

"Okay, since General Meng insists on me going to Xianyang City, I will follow the general to this experience. Xianyang City, I haven't been to it for more than ten years. Gao Yanli said to Meng Tian.

Meng Tian put down the arm that was blocking Gao's way out, "Mr. Gao is a smart man, in fact, sitting here playing music for a group of wine bags and rice bags can't help but tarnish this elegant sound. Of course, the voice of Mr. Gao should be resounded in the most magnificent palace of this time. ”

Gao gradually left to take his seat again, he tasted the meal on the table that was about to cool, and continued to say to Meng Tian: "It's okay to go to Xianyang City, I still have a handful built in my home, I want to get it, does General Meng agree?"

"That's natural, and Sir is not a prisoner in my eyes, so of course it's okay. Before I leave tomorrow, I will let my son Tianci follow my husband to fetch it, what do you think?"

"General Shemon. ”

Early the next morning, Meng Tian asked the innkeeper to find a carriage for Gao to ride, and instructed Meng Tianci to take two Qin soldiers to follow Gao to his place and take Gao Jianli to build it.

The team set off, marched to the old land of Zhao and Wei, and then crossed Tongguan and approached Xianyang City. Along the way, Meng Tian found that all the places he passed through were not as he thought, the people lived a prosperous life, and the country and the people were safe. Along the way, in many places, there were only old people, women and children in the villages, and not even a young man was seen.

Gao Yanli looked at Meng Tian who was riding a horse in front, and he said behind his back: "Look, this is what I told you, how many people are needed to build the Great Wall, all the men over the age of fifteen in these villages have been requisitioned and transferred, so that the old and weak women and children are at home, and there is no one to harvest the grain in the fields, how can these people live?"

Meng Tian also didn't expect that because of one of his ideas, so many people would become impoverished, which was not his intention.

"Sir, I don't know if you've ever seen the Huns?" Meng Tian didn't look back, and asked Gao Yuanli.

Gao gradually sat back in the carriage and replied in a loud voice, "No." The land of Yan is a bitter cold land, there is only a few short months of grass in a year, and it is not suitable for the Huns to herd horses and sheep, so I have not seen the Huns, but I have dealt with them. ”

Meng Tian continued to ask, "So, what does Mr. think of the character of the Huns?"

Gao Yanli thought for a while, and he said: "The character of the Huns is actually not bad, but they are a group of outsiders after all, and they don't know how to be polite, righteous and shameful. I have heard that after the death of the leader of a tribe on the steppe, his son succeeds to the throne and still enjoys all that his father, including his father's woman, seems to me to be a direct rebellion. ”

After Gao gradually finished speaking, Meng Tian took the lead in laughing, and then, Meng Tianci and the five hundred Qin soldiers who followed them also laughed.

Meng Tian let his horse stop, and waited until Gao Yuanli's carriage came to his side, and he said to Gao Yuanli in the carriage: "What you said is indeed very common in the grassland, and Sir may not know that when I was as old as my son, I led less than 2,000 men to attack a tribe on the grassland, and finally hit their king's tent and captured their king. ”

Gao Yanli didn't speak, he just looked at Meng Tian who was riding on the horse. 2020

"The people on the grassland are arrogant, they are not like us who are bound by the rules of the saints, and they are not a group of people who drink blood. On the contrary, I think they are a little better at grilling the lamb than the chefs in the palace. ”

"What, General Meng thinks those Huns still have a good place?" Gao Yanli asked, with a slight playfulness in his words.

Meng Tian nodded in agreement, and he said to Gao Yuanli: "That's nature. However, no one is perfect, and the Huns are the same. They worship killing, they don't care if you're an old man, a woman, a child, or a sick person in bed. After the battle, they will divide the spoils according to the number of enemy heads they have chopped. That's why I'm keeping them out. ”

Gao gradually left to speak, but was stopped by Meng Tian. He continued: "You may not know it, but soon after I arrived at the border, I received news that a detachment of Huns had broken into the border, so I led the men in pursuit. Although I later killed all the thousand-strong troops of the Huns, I felt that they were all cheaper for the hundreds of Qin people who died under their swords. ”

"Have you ever seen two men ravage a pregnant woman with Rokka? Have you ever seen a girl who is naked, no taller than your thighs, covered in blood? And the man who died in the field at the door? These Mr. Gao may not have seen it, but I have seen it. I know that the existence of the Great Wall may not be too necessary, and there is no need for so many people to die on the frontier because of one Great Wall. If you were to ask, I can tell you that without the Great Wall, in the years to come, maybe hundreds, thousands of years, there would be more people than the people you see today. ”

Meng Tian said a lot of words, leaving Gao Yuanli a little speechless. He had not experienced the horrific scenes that Meng Tian had said, and he had only heard these similar scenes from other people's mouths as a listener as a listener today. For the construction of the Great Wall, Gao Yanli has nothing to refute, after all, in the Central Plains, the princes built cities to defend against enemy attacks, and the construction of the Great Wall is the same.

"General Meng, I have nothing to say about what you said, but please believe me, when you return to Xianyang, when you see the tall and luxurious palace on Lishan Mountain, you may have a deeper understanding of my words. ”

Meng Tian smiled, he was just a martial artist, the mission of a martial artist was to protect his family and defend the country, and he didn't understand political matters, but if there was really Gao Yanli saying such a thing, he could indeed put forward his opinions to Ying Zheng.

After Tongguan, there was only one day left to go to Xianyang City, and Meng Tian decided to rest in Tongguan for one night now and rush back to Xianyang tomorrow. However, he still sent Meng Tianci to rush back to Xianyang with 200 soldiers first, and went home to report the news.

The Qin army guards in Tongguan learned that Meng Tian had arrived, and they were in full swing to set up a residence for him, which was a relatively quiet courtyard. Meng Tian knew that this was the painstaking efforts of the generals below, so he did not refuse.

After dinner, Gao gradually left the pavilion in the courtyard, and the sound of the building attracted Meng Tian next door.

Meng Tian had long since stopped wearing the armor designed by Lao Zhou, he was wearing regular clothes, wearing a Zhengang sword that had not left his body for two years, and walked into the courtyard.

The sound that Gao Yanli played today was the song that Gao Yanli played at that time when he met a killer in the border city of South Korea, and Jing Ke came to rescue him. Different from the melodious sound of building in the post house on the bank of the Yishui River, this sound building has the sound of swords, which makes people like Meng Tian who practice martial arts seem to be holding a breath in their hearts and want to vent out.

The courtyard lit up with a white light, which was the white light that flashed from the unsheath of the Zhengang sword on Meng Tian's waist. Sticking the scabbard on the ground, Meng Tian began to dance the sword in the courtyard.

Gao Yuanli was still wearing his hair loose, and he knew what Meng Tian was doing, and the whistling sound of the sword cutting through the air and the passionate sound of building were mixed together, making people sound a little numb.

The white light in the courtyard kept flickering, and the sword was like Meng Tian holding a torch in his hand under the moonlight, illuminating the courtyard like a star falling to the ground, and the light flashed wildly.

As the last sound of building disappeared, Meng Tian also put away his sword and stopped, and after Meng Tian stopped dancing his sword, the courtyard returned to darkness.

"Boom", a rockery in the courtyard was hit by Meng Tian's sword qi, divided into several halves, and shattered on the ground.

"Mr. Gao, if you say now that you don't want to go to Xianyang, I can let you go. Meng Tian put the sword back into the sheath, walked to the pavilion and said to Gao Yanli.