Zhao Cheng's men and horses only took three days to reach the Yellow River, and they were really first-class in terms of marching speed, but even so, some people were not satisfied.

That person is Sima Shi, the Wei general of the Great Wei, who was a man with his tail between his legs after leaving Chang'an, and was forced to watch a big drama of "Thunder and Deer Hunting" a few days ago, which can be described as physically and mentally exhausted.

The current Sima Shi didn't want anything, he just wanted to get rid of the Qin army and return to Wei as soon as possible, and continue to be the general of Wei above 10,000 people under the two of them.

However, Zhao Chengke is not so easy to speak, there is more than one bronze cannon to show Sima Shi in his plan, there are many good treasures that have not appeared, and there is really a thunder that Sima Shi "never forgets".

But before that, Zhao Cheng had a more important task, that is, to take over the defense of Hedong and rectify the governor's mansion.

So when the army was thinking about crossing the river to have extra food, and Sima Shi was thinking about crossing the river to be close to home, Zhao Cheng was studying the letter sent by the Hedong Governor's Office.

"The new Pingyang city wall is about to be completed, and a bunch of border fortresses are almost usable, and the construction team in Hedong is good.

But why is the restoration of this Korean settlement and the restoration of official roads so slow? The terrain is rugged... Funds? ”

Zhao Cheng frowned while watching, the Hedong Governor's Mansion hadn't actually done anything for a while, it was just renovating the infrastructure.

Among them, the most important is naturally the new Binh Duong City and the mountain fortress group around it, plus the supporting city walls, outposts, warehouses, roads, the entire defense system is very carefully planned.

However, the disadvantage of being meticulous is that it costs a lot of money and takes a long time, and almost all the craftsmen in the interior of Daqin are invested in it, so that they can complete a rough idea in a few months.

As a result, the construction of another project in Hedong, the construction of residential areas, had to be delayed, and many Koreans lived in tents provided by the Qin army all winter, and even went straight back to the ruins of the city.

Over the past few months, many people have contracted the wind cold, some have frozen their ears, and of course, there are no longer a few Koreans who have frozen to death in corners that everyone can't see.

In fact, this can't just be blamed on the Qin army, Qin Zheng has long ordered the Han people to live a warm winter, and has prepared a lot of materials for this, but what Qin Zheng didn't take into account is the hearts of the Han people.

In their opinion, it was the Qin State that invaded Korea for no reason, defeated the Han army, and captured Han Hou, which was naturally the enemy.

And Zhao Gao burned Pingyang and plundered the Koreans for the sake of temporary interests, which is to offend the Koreans to death, how can the Koreans not hold a grudge?

Later, Qin Zheng seized Han Hou Sheji, demoted Korea to the governor's office, supported the puppet governor, and blocked the road to wealth and prosperity of the Korean nobles and eunuchs.

In this way, the whole country of South Korea does not hate the Qin army to the core, and hates to immediately raise troops to overthrow the tyranny of the Qin State and rebuild the glory of Korea.

The only problem here is that the Qin state is too strong, and after the five thousand elite "Han warriors" in South Korea are defeated by the Qin army, which is far less than its own, it will be difficult for South Korea to organize a decent defense.

In addition, Zhao Gao deceived with the seal and entered the city without blood, and easily controlled a large number of cities in southern Korea, and most of the people were taken hostage, including many clans and nobles, who would dare to resist?

Subsequently, the leaders of the upper-level Qing clan were also swept away and brought back to the Qin State, and the Han people were leaderless and could only "temporarily" succumb to the obscene power of the Qin army with great anger.

Even the most backbone Korean scholars just fled to the countryside manor and kept their own doors, known as "not eating Qin Su".

However, the Qin army was busy building and defending the city, and did not spare time to clean them up for a while, but made them the most comfortable group of people in the entire Hedong.

In this way, the residents of the Korean cities seriously distrusted the Qin army, and the local sergeants surrounded the peasants on both sides, and it was more difficult to build a house and a road for them than to conquer them, so it is no wonder that the craftsmen made slow progress.

But Zhao Cheng came here to solve these problems, so that Hedong could truly become the back garden and experimental field of Daqin, rather than a subordinate territory of military management.

Therefore, Zhao Cheng inevitably had to fight with the Koreans, relying on various means to pull them to the side of Daqin, even if he couldn't be a good citizen, he had to be a harmless obedient citizen.

However, the difficulties in front of him are not limited to this, because no matter how many Koreans there are, they are just unarmed people, and there are other people in Hedong who are really in danger.

That is the scholar clan hiding in the countryside, these people are grassroots officials, and they should have huge rights before the destruction of Korea, if it is the Qin State to change the dynasty, the grassroots can not worry at all, and directly choose to join the new government.

But these Korean scholars are essentially the "remnants" of aristocratic politics, they are basically the concubines of the aristocracy, because they know the law, can read and write, and control the place for a long time, they can once unite and argue with the big nobles.

Moreover, Shen Bu harmed the law to strengthen the monarchy, and at the same time gave the scholars room to rise, after the inheritance of the great nobles was taken away by the clan because of the power scheme, the remaining residues fed countless scholars.

By the time Zhao Gao set the fire, the Korean scholars had become a new interest group, the main body of the implementation of the law and the double-edged sword of the monarch.

As a result, the arrival of the Qin army violently interrupted the situation, and the scholars without the support of the monarchy could only retract their tentacles back into the townships under their control, and they did not feel that the Qin state gave them the same rights as before.

Therefore, the scholars who "don't eat Qin Su" connected with each other, and even communicated with the Korean defeated army that had already fallen into the grass, forming a huge and loose alliance.

This alliance looks like a plate of scattered sand, but there are people who have money, food, a base, and a righteous reputation, and there are not a few Koreans who have attracted defectors.

Before Zhao Cheng's arrival, there were only 2,000 Qin regular troops, 1,000 auxiliaries, and more than 3,000 Hedong security troops, a total of less than 7,000 people.

It is also necessary to control more than a dozen important cities and dozens of key positions, and there are only one or two hundred people assigned to each place, and it is not enough to suppress bandits, let alone "land reform".

Moreover, these routed bandits can also get assistance and news from the villagers, resulting in the Qin army often rushing out even if it draws out troops, and it takes time and effort to get nothing.

The commanders of the Qin army in various places have been repeated many times and are also dead-hearted, anyway, this group of bandits is also frightened, and they only dare to harass the second-line troops of the Qin army, and the elite of the Qin army dare not touch it at all.

The really unlucky ones were the security forces that were regarded as Han traitors, so the Qin army first symbolically cleared the wall, and then began to honestly wait for the imperial court to come to support.

Fortunately, this time Zhao Cheng brought 3,000 elites, plus more than 6,000 recruits in the follow-up, a huge Qin army of 10,000 people will give these thorns a little color.