Mao Wei was sentenced to death without incident.

Zhou Yu got two audit tickets through the relationship of the Zhou family, and took Wang Ming to observe the trial, the former Great Qin Mao Houye looked withered, gray-haired, and it was hard to believe that he was only a middle-aged man who was less than forty years old. However, he wept bitterly on the judgment seat, begging for his life, which made Wang Ming lose his appetite.

"If he was destined to be killed a long time ago, why bother with such a trial?" Returning to Zhou Yu's home in Jicheng and sitting at the wine table that Zhou Yu practiced for him, Wang Ming was dissatisfied.

"In the Han Kingdom, no matter who you are or what kind of crime you have committed, you can defend yourself, in Jicheng, there is a profession called lawyers, in fact, what we called advocates before, but in the Han Kingdom, these people have more status, they are all people who are proficient in the laws of the Han Kingdom, and they are also a group of people who are well versed in the loopholes of the laws of the Han Dynasty." Zhou Yu smiled: "Every person accused of a crime can hire a lawyer to defend himself, the procuratorate initiates a public prosecution, and the Grand Court hears it publicly. Because the law is not perfect, there are many loopholes that are exploited by lawyers to exonerate criminals. ”

Wang Ming said in surprise: "Could it be that their court just let these lawyers do whatever they want, and they had to release them even if they knew that this person had committed a crime?" ”

"Of course." Zhou Yu nodded and said: "This is called procedural justice, every time a loophole is exploited, it will cause some changes in the law, modifications, in order to plug the loophole, in Jicheng, the appearance fee of the most famous lawyer is quite amazing, I'm afraid it is beyond your imagination." ”

"It's incomprehensible, let these people mess around, the law will be lawless." Wang Ming shook his head and said.

"No, I just think it's a good system, because if there are loopholes that are exploited by lawyers, it means that the law is problematic, this kind of procedural justice. It was proposed by the King of Han himself, and with his support, the judicial officials of the Han State had no choice but to desperately find loopholes in the law themselves so as not to let the criminals get away with it. The Han Dynasty was lofty, calling it the progress of civilization. "Zhou Yudao." In fact, people like me also like this kind of system, at least because of the existence of such a system, people like me who have an unclean foundation will not be embarrassed by this. ”

"There are so many things I don't understand, I can't understand, and I can't figure it out." Wang Ming shook his head. "Or I will spend a lifetime understanding how King Han built such a huge and powerful country in a dozen years, and how he consolidated the foundation of this country and made the national strength thrive."

"That's exactly what I want to know. This is also the reason why I decided to settle in Jicheng, because this is the royal capital of the Han Kingdom, and here, I can learn about and collect first-hand information. Zhou Yu laughed and said, "Wang Ming, don't think that you are far away from the Central Plains and have arrived in Xinqin. You can avoid the wind that swept through everything in the Han Dynasty, as far as I know, the new Qin is on top of many policies, and what you learn is the Han Kingdom. After you go, you will soon find out that the influence of the Han people is everywhere. The King of Han called Xinqin a country of brothers, and I think it has a great purpose. ”

"You mean to say. One day, the Han will still use troops against Xinqin? ”

"Not necessarily." Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "Maybe one day, Xin Qin will return without a fight." ”

Wang Ming gritted his teeth. "We're going to try to keep that from happening."

"Then I wish you all the best!" Zhou Yu smiled: "Or one day, I will send my newspaper to your new Qinlai." ”

On this day, Wang Ming was drunk and Zhou Yu was drunk.

On the day Wang Ming left Beijing, he encountered Mao Wei being executed, and the people all over the city rushed to tell each other, flocking to the place of execution to see the traitor being hanged.

Half a month later, in Mengchi, where the headquarters of the Third Military Region is located, Zhao Xilie led the officials of the Third Military Region to see off Wang Jian, Wang Ming and others.

After cooperating with He Xingxiong to eliminate Wang Changyong's tens of thousands of Qin army elites, Wang Jian's purpose of sending troops has been reached, and then the Han army will attack Qin, and the Han army that has freed up its hands no longer needs Wang Jian's help, and emotionally speaking, Wang Jian is never willing to go out in person to trample on his homeland.

This line is still very satisfying for Wang Jian, he not only got more weapons and ammunition from the Han State, but also unexpectedly obtained the 40,000 southern border troops led by Wang Ming, with the addition of these 40,000 elites, it will greatly alleviate the dilemma of the serious shortage of Qin people in the new Qin, and can also alleviate the problem of lack of familiar soldiers when fighting against the big cannibals. More importantly, he attracted the investment of several arsenals and smelters in the Han Dynasty, including Bao Fengfengrui, and these manufacturers will invest in the territory of Xinqin to set up factories and bring advanced military technology and smelting technology to Xinqin, which has always been Wang Jian's dream, although he paid the price of handing over the National Bank to Jishicheng Commercial Bank to preside over it.

Wang Jian thinks it's worth it.

Han Guo also felt that it was worth it. For the new Qin established by Wang Qian, the initial strategy of the Han State was to slowly infiltrate with soft power, that place, it was really not worth spending a lot of effort to fight, and in the past two years, because of the situation in the Central Plains, an alliance was formed with Wang Jian's regime, Wang Jian was very well-behaved, very honest, looking at this appearance, it would never let the Han State find any excuse, more importantly, the members of the Great Council felt that the war had been fought until now, and peace should be achieved, and the destruction of Qin would be the last battle of the Han at this stage, and then it was the season to bury themselves in construction. The two huge places of Chu and Qin are enough for the Han Kingdom to operate well for many years before they can reach the current level of the Han Kingdom. In this regard, there are too many business opportunities and too many opportunities to make a fortune, and it is really not in the interests of the vast majority of people to launch a foreign war again.

In the face of this attitude of the Great Council, the government affairs hall began to plan a multi-year plan from a very early stage, and after this plan was presented to Takato, he waved his pen and named it the Peace Reconciliation Plan, and immediately began to put it into practice. Next, the entry of a large number of Han merchants and workshops will bring a new concept to the new Qin, and the Han Dynasty will completely change the economy and ideology for the new Qin people.

Gao Yuan believes that as the Han Kingdom becomes stronger and stronger, and civilization becomes more and more progressive, the new Qin, sooner or later, will be in the bag of the Han Dynasty. The wheels of history are rolling forward, and they will never be diverted by human will, and everything that is out of place will eventually be eliminated. Takato regarded this passage he had learned in his previous school as a treasure and believed in it. The advanced will eventually eliminate the backward, even if there will be twists and turns in the middle, but history will never turn back.

Just when Wang Jian said goodbye to Zhao Xilie and led his team on the way home, Helanxiong's army was advancing towards Shannan County, and years ago, the Han army still had one last battle to fight, that is, to take Shannan County and completely open the northern passage to attack Qin. However, this time, the more than 30,000 troops of the Third Army did not advance lightly, a large number of carriages accompanied them, dragging artillery pieces one by one, and the accompanying caravans transporting logistics materials stretched endlessly, dozens of miles long.

And Helanjie's vanguard team has arrived outside Shannan County. The Han army once again appeared in Shannan County, the last time, they lost Shannan County, the general Feng Fayong died here, and after five years, the Han army finally sounded the horn of counterattack.

Fan Zhang, the garrison general of Shannan County of Qin, and Zhu Qiang, the deputy general, stood on the top of the Guan Tower, looking at the vanguard of the Han army outside the city with a frightened look like a ghost, shuttling quickly on the thick snow, running around the county city unscrupulously, ten days ago, they had learned that Wang Changyong's entire army was destroyed, and tens of thousands of troops had almost no survivors.

The request for reinforcements is like a stone sinking into the sea, and there is no news as soon as it goes, and the Han army has appeared outside the city at a very fast speed, and the original defenders of Shannan County are only more than 20,000 people, but this time Wang Changyong went out to fight and took away half of the defenders of Shannan County, and he didn't want to bury them all on the prairie, Fan Zhang felt that the grassland was a curse, and he didn't know how many lives of the Great Qin Nan'er were devoured.

In Fan Zhang's pins and needles, the Han army gathered more and more, with a forest of camp tents, one after another forts rising from the ground, and a black hole of artillery showing their bodies like a demonstration, showing their demeanor to the Qin army above the county town. The Han army was not in a hurry to attack, but this pressure made the morale of Shannan County lower and lower.

Tens of thousands of troops were wiped out, how could this little force in the city alone withstand the Han people's tiger and wolf army? Fan Zhang understood that after the appearance of artillery, it was already many times more difficult to hold the city than before.

Xianyang finally came to the news, there were no reinforcements, only a cold order, to defend the county town of Shannan, fight until one soldier and one soldier, and not allowed to take half a step back.

After the desperate Fan Zhang gave the last recital to Xianyang, he was draped all over his body, holding a roll of quilts, and walked up to the county tower.

At the end of December, with the rumbling of artillery bombardment, the last battle of the Han army finally kicked off. Hundreds of artillery shelled the city wall, the whole city trembled in the roar of artillery, this huge fortress lying on the Holan Pass, piece by piece, most of the buildings on the city wall were ruthlessly flattened by artillery.

Relying on the ultra-long range of artillery, the Han army fought a completely asymmetrical war, and in the early days of the war, any enemy in front of them could only shrink their necks and endure the unscrupulous bombardment of the Han army, and they were just looking forward to the moment when the opponent's foot soldiers attacked. (To be continued.) )