As soon as Chen Ping came ashore, he heard the news that Tu Sui had died in battle in the south and that the southern expedition had been blocked. I heard that Heifu was summoned by Qin Shi Huang, and he was full of questions for a while, but he still held back, he came this time to shoulder a mission.

"In addition to sending Jiaodong Shangji, Ping came here to bring a letter to the lord at the behest of his wife."

Chen Ping held a letter in both hands and handed it to Heifu, the times are really advancing, ten years ago, Heifu wrote a letter for his subordinates, and had to use a wooden board, but now, the paper has spread in the Central Plains, the outer shell is rough jute paper, and the inside is delicate rattan paper, which is no different from the letters of later generations.

This was written two days after the previous letter, and the handwriting changed from Ye Teng's critical illness to neatness again, Heifu couldn't help but admire his wife, he was not around, knowing this bad news, she was able to stabilize it.

Ye Zijin begged Heifu in the letter to let her take the children back to Nanyang, because Ye Teng, who was seriously ill, had decided to resign from his position as a court lieutenant and return to his hometown Nanyang County to recuperate......

Although women are more free in these years, they also need the consent of their husbands to take the baby out of the house to return to their parents' home.

After reading it, Heifu sighed to Chen Ping: "The bird flies against his hometown, the fox must be the first hill when he dies, my woman is a Korean after all, and when she finds that her time is short, she still wants to be buried in the ancestral grave." It's okay, I can't get out for the time being, let Gongao escort the three of them, mother and son, and go to Nanyang immediately......"

Heifu smiled: "Maybe in a few days, I'll go and join him too!" ”

As soon as Chen Ping heard that something was wrong, and when he asked, Heifu told Qin Shi Huang that he intended to appoint him as the chief general of the southern expedition.

"The lord excused himself well, this kind of mess is extremely difficult to clean up, and it will definitely not be finished in a year and a half. And Lingnan is far away, even if it can win a big victory, at that time, the emperor will give an order, maybe he will be the lord of the land of Baiyue for a long time, and he will not be able to return to the Central Plains easily, and he will resign! ”

Chen Ping was very excited, he expected that Qin Shi Huang, I am afraid that he will not have a few years to live, and when the only husband dies, it will be a great opportunity to make a career. And to do great things, you can only do it in the north! Lingnan barbarians are everywhere, separated from the Central Plains by thousands of mountains and rivers, what happened in the court, the news arrived, it was almost half a year, even if there was a heart at that time, it was not possible to map the north, you did not see the king of Wu, the husband was poor, and the king of Yue Goujian, although it was known as the five hegemons, but because it was located in the south, its hegemony was only a partial hegemon, and it could not affect Zhongxia at all.

So this trip to the muddy water is absolutely unacceptable!

Heifu smiled and said something that didn't match the preface and the afterword, but Chen Ping could understand it.

"There are also my old troops in the south, the children of Nanjun, their 3,000 people have been guarding Yuzhang for more than ten years, and now the worst ones have done it for a long time, all of them are in the army of the Southern Expedition, and I don't know if it is preserved at the moment."

Chen Ping said: "Although the people in Nanjun are loyal to the sovereign, the terrain of Lingnan is extremely inferior, far inferior to Beidi and Jiaodong!" ”

In the eyes of the people of the Central Plains, Lingnan is, of course, poor mountains and bad waters, worthless. Seeing that the new policy in Jiaodong has a great complexion, the Shinong, industry and commerce have improved, and Heifu's cronies occupy an important position, if he leaves at this time, he will give up halfway!

Moreover, when he went to the south, Chen Ping had no place to use it, "Although Heifu started with the soldiers of his hometown, Chen Ping did not participate in those battles. He spent time and effort to run the "Cunning Rabbit Cave" for Heifu, which is Jiaodong and Beidi!

He suggested: "The lord must find a way to avoid the southern expedition, and it is best to continue to stay in Jiaodong, or return to the north to guard the county!" ”

In Chen Ping's view, although Beidi is a little poorer, it is better than Jiaodong, located in Guanzhong, where the border army gathers, and it is only half a month away from Xianyang......

Heifu laughed dumbly.

"Chen Ping, do you think this matter is up to me?"

Chen Ping was silent, what Heifu said was right, as a Qin official, especially a feudal official, where to become an official has never been decided by himself......

Heifu approached him and whispered: "If you are in the southern Xinjiang, on the front line, I dare to say to the emperor's envoy, 'The general will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected'!" Because the army is in my hands, hanging outside the territory, the Yue people are eyeing each other, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians must be grouped under my banner to survive, so I can say no to the court! ”

"But here."

Heifu pointed outside, where a team of heavily armed Lang guards was patrolling by: "I'm just a county guard, and there are no soldiers around me, and even if I do, I only recognize the tiger charm and not the person." In the face of His Majesty's chaotic life, I can put forward conditions, but if I refuse again and again, the emperor is furious, and at least let me go home to retire like Wang Qian, and if it is heavy, I will follow the mistakes of Wu'an Jun Du Ting and kill himself! ”

In the morning, Qin Shi Huang reprimanded Heifu: "Do you think you are Wang Jian or Bai Qi? ”

Do you really think that this is just the emperor's momentary anger?

Chen Ping was chilled for a while, yes, give and take, all decided on the top, Qin Shi Huang is as high as the sun, clearly determined from the apocalypse, and roughly drove the talents. Although Chen Ping was ambitious and dissatisfied with Qin Zheng, he understood that as long as the emperor was in one day, any calculation was meaningless.

So in this matter, no matter how much he wanted, it was useless, so he could only wait for the emperor to decide.

In the end, Chen Ping could only sigh: "Your Majesty, the older you get, the more confused you become!" He asked Gongzi Fusu to take a look in the ranks, but I thought that it was the emperor himself who really needed to come down and take a look! ”

Heifu poured him a glass of wine and said: "I guess, no matter whether His Majesty's performance of me is accurate or not, I have done it well, even if I am not the main general of the Southern Expedition, I will be transferred back to the Central Committee as an official, so that I can pass by Nanyang, just to see the last side of the woman." ”

What could Chen Ping say, so he had to comfort: "Ye Junshou should be more than that......"

But the black man toasted him a glass of wine, let him come to him, and said in a serious voice:

"Chen Ping, the friendship between you and me has been thirteen years since Humu Township. After more than ten years of friendship, others think that we are the host and guest, but in fact, I regard you as a friend and confidant! Even if you don't have the status of a monarch and minister, you are still the most trusted person by my black husband! “

"The lord is also a peaceful Bole and confidant."

The rare heart-to-heart words made Chen Ping a little moved, he had heard the story of Maxima, Maxima was old, and he climbed Taihang Mountain in a car loaded with salt. Its hooves were stiff, its knees were broken, its tail was soaked, its skin was festering, saliva was spilled on the ground, and sweat was dripping all over its body. He was whipped and climbed to the middle of the mountain road, and he couldn't go up again.

It wasn't until Bole met it, jumped out of the car, hugged it and cried bitterly, and took off his linen clothes to put it on, then everyone knew that this old man was a thousand miles away......

Chen Ping feels that his relationship with Heifu is like this, the former poor boy has been appreciated by Heifu, so he can show his talents, but he is in his thirties, and he has wealth, fame, and power.

Although Chen Ping spared his life and would not "die for his confidant", he would also follow the example of a thousand miles of horses, and the sound reached the sky, like the sound of gold and stone.

He's going to scream for Heifu! Use your own wits to plan the current situation in the world for the black man!

Not only for Heifu, but also for himself, Chen Ping is getting closer and closer to his ideal, but he finds that he has reached the top and can't go up anymore.

In front of it is a deep gully called "Junchen", opposite which is Qin Shi Huang, and perhaps Fusu.

Chen Ping's ultimate goal is to push him and step over!

While exchanging hearts, they each had their own ideas, and after the two drank a few glasses, Heifu patted Chen Ping and said:

"Chen Ping, at this very moment, I want to ask you to do something!"

Chen Ping solemnly: "Good birds choose trees to perch, the lord is the flat plane tree, no matter where the lord goes later, whether it is an official or a general, Ping must swear to death!" ”

"No, no, no."

Heifu got up and said with a smile: "What I want you to do is to immediately cut off the host-guest relationship with me and stay in Jiaodong as an official of the government!" ”

……

That night, when Qin Shi Huang woke up, he found that he had just fallen asleep on the desk, because the attendants had been driven away, and no one had come to put on his clothes for him, and his body was chilling for a while.

Hammered the back of the hammer, Qin Shi Huang could only sigh, it is not okay to refuse to accept the old.

Thirty years ago, when he had just ascended the throne, he was hungry and thirsty to read the Qin palace collection, and the great achievements of Qin Xiaogong, Shang Ying, Qin Zhaoxiang King, ancestors and famous ministers inspired him, and he secretly determined to establish greater feats than them.

Twenty years ago, when he had just taken office, he would stay up all night discussing with Li Si and Mao Jiao how to achieve unification and destroy which country to destroy first, and he would not be sleepy until dawn.

Ten years ago, the Six Kingdoms had been destroyed, but the Song Shu had also increased by seven times, the world was in ruins, the cars were on the same track, the books were the same, and there were too many things that needed to be decided by the emperor himself, so he could only mechanically review the heavy slips, and the waiter only moved out a box, and the Imperial History Mansion sent another box, endlessly.

But now, the bulky bamboo slips have been replaced by light paper, and Qin Shi Huang's daily review volume is less than half of what it used to be, and he often wanders, sleepless when he should sleep, and sleepy when he should be busy with government affairs.

The emperor, who was plagued by a mid-life crisis and a long illness, impatiently pushed the music on the case to the ground, and when he heard the sound, the disappeared attendants immediately ran over and knelt on the ground trembling.

"Send these notes to the Prime Minister and the Imperial Doctor."

Qin Shi Huang lost his patience, he knew what it was written on: there was a famine in a certain county, how many people starved to death, and a prisoner who was supposed to go to Lishan to serve killed the officials and fled into the mountains...... But he doesn't want to bother with the "little things" anymore.

He only cares about two things now, one is about Changsheng, when Li Xin's expeditionary force will find Kunlun and find the Western Queen Mother State! After pit the magician, that has become the only hope for Qin Shi Huang to die.

The second is Lingnan, the last piece of the puzzle of the empire's territory, when will it be filled? Qin Shi Huang's obsessive-compulsive disorder attacked, and he liked to be perfect.

Thinking like this, Qin Shi Huang looked at the only remaining piece of music on the case, it was such a thick stack, it was prohibitive, and Qin Shi Huang was annoyed for no reason when he thought that Heifu dared to bargain with him!

"This thousand-mile horse, when I needed it the most, began to disobey Bole's words and wanted to find its own way forward?"

This is not allowed by Qin Shi Huang, the direction and speed of this giant car can only be decided by the six reins in his hand, no matter how miraculous the horse is, it is just a dog and a horse, it is a livestock, just listen to the command of people, bury your head and move forward, if you are disobedient, you have to change to another horse!

But the trouble is that the old horse in the stable is dying of old age, and the one who can replace this dark horse can't be found......

No way, beans, whips, and swords, these are the three routines of Qin Shi Huang to deal with the fierce horse, this black man, it is time to put on the halter and pump hard!

scolded and scolded, but the emperor hesitated for a long time, and still stretched out his hand to the song.

Qin Shi Huang had a fire in his heart, so he turned over the nonsense of Heifu's analysis of the situation very quickly, and only saw words like "protracted war", and he was even more impatient.

Heifu summed up the gains and losses of the first southern expedition, refuted the theory of quick victory in the southern expedition that was widely believed by the courtiers, analyzed the basic characteristics of both the enemy and us, envisaged the situation that the second southern expedition would face, and put forward a set of specific strategic guidelines......

Well, that's what Qin Shi Huang wanted to see, he slowed down the speed of turning the page, and began to savor the words.

Under the flickering whale oil lamp, Qin Shi Huang read it out.

"The way of the southern expedition, attacking people is the top, and attacking the ground is the bottom. Psychological warfare is the top, and military warfare is the bottom? ”