The two met outside the city gate, and the king of Qin took Li Yan's hand and burst into tears. Li Yan was also very excited, after all, he knew that Qin Shi Huang was not a person who liked to be emotional. [Full text reading. 】

The group entered the palace of King Qin, and the king of Qin ordered a banquet to celebrate Li Yan's escape.

Everyone drank happily and went home drunk.

King Qin asked Li Yan to recuperate for a few days, in fact, Li Yan's injury had already healed, but he was tired on the road, and after a day of sleep, he recovered his energy.

Early in the morning of the third day, Li Yan took a bath and cleaned his face, his face was radiant, and after eating breakfast, he came to see the King of Qin.

When the King of Qin heard that Li Yan was asking to see him, he hurriedly summoned him. He was happy to see Li Yan's spirits, and he happened to have something to ask Li Yan, so he ordered someone to invite Zhang Yi, Wang Jian and others to come.

After a while, everyone arrived, in addition to Zhang Yi and Wang Qian, as well as Li Kang and the Red Lady.

The king of Qin invited them to sit down, and then served tea, and everyone drank tea while discussing military affairs. King Qin first asked Li Yan: "Li Gongzi, you have been in the peasant army for a long time, and you have seen them fighting with the official army, according to what you said, the peasant army is by no means the opponent of the official army, according to this, how long will it take for the official army to eliminate the peasant army?" ”

Li Yan groaned: "King, this is not easy to say, the peasant army is indeed not the opponent of the official army, but it must also be seen that there are many peasant soldiers and horses, and there are several fierce generals among them, since the burning of the imperial tomb, their appeal is also very large, as long as these people are not caught and killed by the official army, it is still easy to pull up a team of thousands of people." For this reason, the officers and soldiers also regard them as a serious danger to their henchmen, and they must be eliminated as soon as possible. ”

King Qin said: "In the peasant army, who do you think is the most undeniable? ”

Li Yan did not hesitate at all: "This person is none other than Li Zicheng." ”

Zhang Yi also agreed: "I saw this person a few years ago, and I thought that Li Zicheng was a terrible person. I gave him a face, and Bai Qi was also there at the time. ”

Li dared to say: "I'm also here, Mr. said that although Li Zicheng is dominant, there is no result." ”

Zhang Yi said: "Whether there is a result or not, I don't dare to conclude." In short, the peasant army is not small, and the famine in various places has given the peasant army the best opportunity for development. ”

Li Yan said: "Yes, when we passed through Henan, we found that as long as there was a force, whether it was a peasant army or an official army, as long as they said that they would have food to eat if they followed me, hundreds or thousands of people would immediately follow you." In the eyes of these hungry people, there is no royal law, no morality, nothing, only one thought, which is to eat. ”

King Qin said: "Li Gongzi has implemented new policies in Meixian and other places, what is the effect?" ”

Li Yan said: "It should be said that it is good, it is almost the wheat ripening season, but it is still dry, and it is estimated that this year's harvest will not be good." But the peasants were still happy. Because there is no court to pay for food. In order to believe that in the past two years, it is not possible to levy taxes and grain from the people of Shaanxi. ”

King Qin nodded: "I have issued a decree that in three years, the Qin army will never ask the people for a penny or a grain of grain." As soon as this decree went, I heard that all the people were happy. ”

Li Yan said: "I think this news can also be spread to other provinces. In this way, the whole world knows that the people of Shaanxi can not pay taxes and food, and the people who have been seriously affected by the disaster will not drag their children and daughters to come to defect? ”

King Qin laughed: "That's exactly the truth. I, the Qin people, have always been tolerant of all rivers, and I will also issue an order to seek talents, recruit talented people from all over the world, and govern Shaanxi together. ”

When Li Yan and the others heard this, they all admired King Qin's foresight. In fact, this kind of thing was done by the Qin State a long time ago, and when Qin Xiaogong was the emperor, he issued a decree to the world to seek talents, and at that time, it also attracted a large number of talents to enter the Qin State. This began the road of hegemony of the Qin State after Qin Mugong.

The King of Qin sent Zhang Yi to preside over the selection of talents, and everyone was talking lively, waiting for the guard to send today's Tang newspaper.

Since the Qin army occupied Xi'an, Wang Jian sent a lot of scouts to infiltrate the northern provinces to find out the news. Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Shandong, Zhili, the capital have, these people every few days, to send back a Tang newspaper, the above are the recent days of the events, the King of Qin attaches great importance to this, whenever the Tang newspaper comes, he has to personally see, once there is a big event, then invite everyone to come to discuss.

At this time, the Tang newspaper came again, and there was also a six-hundred-mile urgent newspaper from Gansu.

As soon as King Qin saw the feathers glued to the newspaper, he knew that it was an urgent report, so he immediately opened it and frowned slightly. Then he handed the newspaper to Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi unfolded and read it, and everyone frowned secretly.

This six-hundred-mile expedited was sent from Meixian in vain. According to the spy newspaper, when Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou entered Henan to pursue and suppress the peasant army, they jointly submitted a table to the imperial court, explaining the situation in Shaanxi to the emperor, and advocating that the Qin army should not be allowed to develop so happily and must be attacked. At present, the two of them are chasing and suppressing the peasant army, and they have no time to divide the troops, and the men and horses in Shanxi have to guard against the peasant army, and they cannot be mobilized, so the only people and horses that can be mobilized are Gansu.

The two advocated that the general army of Gansu should be as fierce as a tiger and lead the troops to attack the Qin army.

After Chongzhen read the seal, he immediately approved it, so the will went down to the Gansu fierce tiger department.

Fierce as a tiger since he was defeated by Bai Qi in a battle and lost three counties, he has been holding back the fire in his belly, and now he is guilty of meritorious service, and he has long wanted to use a victory to reinstate the official. When he received the decree, he was overjoyed.

At this time, most of the troops in Gansu were in his hands. Fierce as a tiger selected elite warriors and formed an army of seven thousand men. Of these 7,000 men, 4,000 were cavalry, and their attacks were fierce.

Gansu has always been rich in cavalry, more than a thousand years ago Zhuge Liang, in the northern expedition to Cao Wei, also repeatedly attacked Gansu, the purpose of one is to attack Chang'an, the other is to seize Gansu, because Shu is located in Sichuan, do not produce war horses, seize Gansu, there is a rich war horse base, for the expansion of strength is very good.

Fierce as a tiger carefully prepared, felt that the soldiers were well prepared, so he led the army to rush to Meixian with great momentum.

Last time he was defenseless, he was attacked by Bai Qi for a while, and he was not convinced, this time the soldiers were strong and strong, the army was sufficient, the equipment was well-equipped, and he was as fierce as a tiger and was full of confidence that he could recover the three counties, and then approached Xi'an.

As soon as Bai Qi heard that there were Gansu officials and troops coming to attack, he immediately reorganized his army for battle, and at the same time he wrote a letter, which was urgent for 600 li, sent to Xi'an, and handed over to the King of Qin.

The letter did not mention that Xi'an should send reinforcements, but only reported the situation to the king of Qin, and at the same time proposed two people, one is Li Yan and the other is Yizhimei.

Bai Qi's request is very strange, no one can guess what Bai Qi wants these two people to do!

From Bai Qi's book, King Qin found that Bai Qi was still very calm, it could be said that he was not in a hurry, and he was obviously very sure of this battle, so he asked Li Yan what he meant.

Li Yan smiled: "The general invited me to go, and I naturally wanted to go." As for Yizhimei, follow me too, I will protect her and prevent her from charging into battle, after all, she is still a child. ”

Everyone laughed for a while, then opened the other Tang newspapers and read them one by one.

There is news about the peasant army in these Tang newspapers, it is written that Gao Yingxiang was defeated by Lu Xiangsheng and escaped for hundreds of miles, Lu Xiangsheng is still in hot pursuit, and has been chasing into Henan, several other peasant armies have been defeated by Hong Chengchou, many thieves have been killed, or surrendered, Henan is fighting on the ground, and Li Zicheng's troops have entered Shanxi, Hong Chengchou sent the general soldier Ai Wannian and Cao Wenzhao, in close pursuit.

In addition, there is also news from the capital, saying that Chongzhen has increased his salary in order to step up the killing of the peasant army, and these salaries can only be apportioned to the common people, and the people's lives are becoming more and more difficult. The officials who demanded wages used all kinds of methods to brutally extort money from the people, and when they had no money, they forced them to sell their sons and daughters, and sell their fields and houses, so that the people were displaced and complained.

Zhu Mingxia was in chaos.

After seeing this, King Qin sneered repeatedly: "This is God helping my Qin army succeed." The more harsh the decrees of the Ming Dynasty, the more lenient the laws and regulations of our Qin people became, and soon after, the people's hearts should be all owned by our Qin people. ”

At that moment, he sent Li Yan with a plum branch to help Bai Qi, and Zhang Yi made every effort to select talents and enrich official positions at all levels to protect the territory and the people. In addition, he issued an order to Huayin's Zijiu and Tongguan's involvement, so that they could hold the city pass tightly and not slack off.

At the same time, he ordered Wang Jian to step up military training and enrich armaments to cope with future wars.

Let's talk about Li Yan, when he returned to his residence, he found Yizhimei and told him about Bai Qi's invitation to the two of them, and Yizhimei was very happy when she heard that Li Yan went with her.

was happy, the red lady came with Xiaoqing, it turned out that she was not worried about Li Yan, afraid that he would make another mistake, and insisted on following.

Li Yan knew that although the two of them were in the Qin army, there were few people who could talk about it except for himself. Li Dang is busy with military affairs, not to mention Qianniang, Li Dang can't always accompany the Red Lady, so it's good to take them along.

Xiaoqing glanced at Yizhimei, full of pride. I thought, you want to get along with Li Gongzi alone, but there is no door. With me Xiaoqing here, you will never get what you want.

In fact, Xiaoqing's feelings are very keen, she has seen a lot of things from Yizhimei's eyes when she looks at Li Yan, it is not just guilt, remorse, but also admiration, admiration, and even like.

Although Xiaoqing believes that Li Yan and the Red Lady are a natural pair, a match made in heaven, but Li Yan is too fond of women, and the status of the Red Lady may be threatened, and she wants to strangle all these threats.

Yizhimei didn't think so, as long as she could work with Li Yan and do things for Qin Jun, she would be very happy.

That afternoon, Li Yan and the others packed up and prepared to go out of the city to Meixian. King Qin personally saw him off, and when he left the city, King Qin and they went back, Li Dang did not leave, but continued to send them off.

The two talked while walking, and Li Yan asked Li Kang jokingly: "Big brother, when can I drink your wedding wine?" ”

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