In the thirtieth year of Qin Shi Huangdi, the four seas were peaceful in this year, and there were no major events to be told throughout the year.

If you have to look carefully, there are two things worth talking about.

First, Qin Shi Huang once again made a different move from history, he did not go to Kanto impatiently under the persuasion of Confucian scholars, but chose the spring and summer to patrol the Bashu region.

The original intention of the patrol is that the Son of Heaven led the escort army to inspect the defense in the territory, meet the princes of the alliance, supervise political affairs, and worship the gods.

The second patrol was in the 28th year, and he went out to patrol the north and Shangjun, the purpose of which was to supervise the attack on the Xiongnu in the north.

In the twenty-ninth year, because the war against the Xiongnu was in full swing, the emperor did not patrol and hunted, and lived in Xianyang for a whole year.

Soon after the beginning of spring in the thirtieth year, the active emperor could no longer be idle, so he took a part of the civil and military officials, Lang Wei 1,000, and thousands of followers, crossed the Qinling Mountains, entered Hanzhong, crossed the plank road, passed through Shushan, and arrived in Chengdu.

Bashu used to be an ancient Fang country, but a hundred years ago in the period of King Qin Hui, it was destroyed by Sima Cuo, and then Ba County was directly countyized, but local tycoons such as Ba Shi had great influence in the local area. In Shu, two Shu marquis were first set up, and they were twice dismissed by the King of Qin in the name of "rebellion".

Qin Shi Huang inspected Bashu, naturally also has its clear purpose, Bashu was incorporated into Qin for a hundred years, but also belongs to the "Qin land" in a broad sense, and it is also the area where the old land gods and immortals of the Qin Dynasty are most prevalent.

One of the purposes for Qin Shi Huang to come here was because he heard that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which describes the Queen Mother of the West and the most bizarre, came from the hand of Bashu Wuzhu. And the Western Queen Mother State, which is in the snow-capped mountains west of Bashu, has a strong interest here.

But it was only interest, what really prompted him to set off was that after attacking the Xiongnu last year, most of the grain stocks in Guanzhong were consumed, and this year he will continue to supply more than 100,000 garrisons and civilians in the border areas with food. Since the grain in Guanzhong is constantly being transported to Saibei, it needs to be transported from other places, even if the officials are promoting the method of fertilizing fields, but the grain in Guandong and Nanjun is only enough for local use, so the imperial court can only hit the idea to Bashu.

This is the emperor's trip to Bashu, he is a person who likes to see is believing, he has heard that Bashu is Qin's second granary, he has to come and see for himself, in order to determine its potential.

When crossing Shu Mountain, Qin Shi Huang was shocked by the dangerous road connected by the ladder stone stack, and also understood why Qin couldn't destroy Bashu for hundreds of years, because the road was too difficult to walk. But when you enter the Chengdu Plain, you can see the wealth and health here, no less than Guanzhong, and more importantly, the ditches are everywhere, irrigating the corn fields, and the fertile fields are thousands of miles.

The emperor looked back at Shu Mountain and couldn't help sighing: "Wow, I know why General Sima Cuo said when he was cutting down Shu that it was enough to expand the country and take its wealth to enrich the people!" It is not surprising that General Sima entered the shrine of Jingbian, although the beheading was not as good as Wu Anjun, but the land was too much! Let it also enter the temple of honor! ”

This is the first time that a monarch has come since Bashu was merged into Qin, but the Qin people in Shu are not very excited......

For a long time, Bashu is the place where the exiles of the Qin State are most concentrated, and the rebellion of Chang Yu in that year, there are many other parties, and more than 4,000 families were moved to Shu by Qin Shi Huang, and so are Lü Buwei's family members and henchmen, and Shu is also the final place of their exile. This place is like the thirteen colonies of Britain and Australia in later generations, and most of the locals are the descendants of exiles, so naturally they will not have too deep a sense of belonging to Qin.

However, under the organization of officials, Chengdu City, which is no different from Xianyang, is still draped on the city wall with brocade to welcome the emperor's arrival, which makes the emperor's first impression of Chengdu good, that is, the local food taste of pepper and dogwood makes him not like it very much.

As he got older, Qin Shi Huang not only had a weakness in his left ear that became more and more serious, but his stomach was not very good.

After living in Chengdu for a few days, Qin Shi Huang, accompanied by the county guard, went to inspect the "湔堋" (jiān péng), or Dujiangyan.

At this time, it was the time of the year when the water of the Minjiang River was the largest, but I saw that the water was divided into two, and instead of causing a flood, countless acres of fields around it were irrigated by ditches, killing two birds with one stone.

Qin Shi Huang has always attached great importance to water conservancy, and when he tried his best to let Zheng Guo finish the Zheng Guo Canal, the big weir in front of him seems simple, but it makes the unruly Minjiang River from a great harm to Shu County, irrigating the fertile fields for thousands of miles. Since then, the Chengdu Plain has been flooded and drought, and the people do not know the hunger, and a steady stream of grain is sent along the river to Nanjun, and then sent to the Central Plains to serve as the military rations of the Qin army.

The emperor issued a new order: Li Bing, the guard of Shu County, although not qualified to enter the temple, can be included in the official sacrifice in Chengdu and Dujiangyan, so that the incense is endless.

He also met with Li Ling, the ditch official of Shu County and Li Bing's grandson.

The county guard reported to Qin Shi Huang: "Passing through the Shixi River in the south of the Minjiang River, passing through the Wenjing River, passing through Linqiong and Mengxi to divide the Baimu River, and dividing the Yangmo River from the embankment, etc., all the spiritual merits are also ......."

Qin Shi Huang bowed his head, looked at Li Lingdao, who was wearing a hat on the ground and stepping on straw sandals on his feet, and personally went into the water to inspect: "Now that the sea is unified, many places need to repair ditches, and what Great Qin lacks the most is such cadres as Li Bing's ancestors and grandchildren!" Everywhere you are useful! ”

He asked Li Ling a few words, if it weren't for Bashu, if it was other places, could the ditch be repaired according to local conditions?

Li Ling only agreed, and as soon as he was happy, Qin Shi Huang promoted Li Ling's official and appointed him as the "Shanghe Agricultural Commander", with a rank of 600 stones, so that he could report from Xianyang to Helan Mountain around the autumn to help Heifu, the lieutenant of Beidi County, build a canal in the local area to irrigate the newly opened fields......

Just before Qin Shi Huang was about to leave Chengdu and return to Guanzhong, Chang Cheng (è), the governor of Shu County, and Jia Bazhong, a great merchant of Ba County, met with the emperor and told him something.

"Your Majesty, Ba Zhong made people to explore the trade route to the south, a few years down, quite a gain, in the southwest of Bashu, there are dozens of southwest Yijun, its name Qiongdu, the name of Yelang, the name of Mo, the name of Yunnan, all vertebral knots, ploughing fields, there are Yi gathering, the population ranges from tens of thousands to 100,000. Among them, the Dian Kingdom is located 1,500 miles south of Chengdu, and was built by the general of the Chu State, Zhuang Ji (qiāo......"

"Oh?"

This is something that Qin Shi Huang never knew: "In the land of Southwest Yi, there are also remnants of the Chu State? ”

Chang Qian reported about the Dian Kingdom: "That Zhuang Ji was originally a descendant of the old Chu Zhuang King Miao, some people say that he was in Chu Wei Wang, Huai Wang, at the order of the King of Chu to attack the southwest Yi, through and Lan, to Dianchi Lake, Dianchi Lake is three hundred miles, there is flat land next to it, fertile thousands of miles!" ”

"After Zhuang Ji seized the land of Yunnan, he wanted to repay the king of Chu, when General Sima Co seized Chuba and Qianzhongdi, Zhuang Ji was blocked and could not return to Chu, so he took thousands of soldiers to stay in Dianchi, changed his clothes, and called himself the king of Dian, which has been more than 50 years......"

Chang Qian expressed his worries: "Although the Chu State is destroyed today, many remnants of sins have fled to the land of Barbarian Yue. The minister heard that the remnants of Chu in the Chu court of South Vietnam continued to incite the rebellion of the Yue people in Changsha and Yuzhang. The Dian State was originally built by the Chu people, and it was the most powerful in the southwest of Yi, if it wanted to restore Chu, it would be a problem for the elbow and armpit to harass the south of Shu County. According to the minister's opinion, it is better to send the merchant Jia Tong to the southwest, and then build roads directly to the states, recruit them to return to Qin, and attack the Dian State together! ”

Qin Shi Huang didn't speak, just glanced at Ba Zhong next to him, and suddenly said: "I heard from people, recently Ba Shi has been doing the business of zuó horses, servants, and fashionable cattle, and together with sugar cane fields and brown sugar, it has become a new source of wealth for Ba Shi?" ”

"Minister......" Ba Zhong fell to the ground, cold sweat broke out.

Qin Shi Huang looked at Chang Qian again: "Since the establishment of the Jingbian Temple, since the three generals Meng Tian, Li Xin, and Heifu broke the Huns and were rewarded for their meritorious work in Xianyang, my border generals have been very envious. They have no month to write into the opening of the border, the general of Yuyang or the words should attack Donghu, the generals of Liaodong or the words of Jizi North Korea, the generals of the will or the words of Ou Yue, Minyue, and the generals of Changsha or the land of Lingnan...... Chang Qian, if you want to open the Southwest Yi, don't you also want to be rewarded and enter the Jingbian Temple? ”

"Minister, minister dare not ......"

Chang Qian also knelt on the ground, speechless, it is true that the Dian State was established by the general of the Chu State, but what vain attempt to restore the Sheji of the Chu State is completely nonsense.

Ba Zhong was clearly in urgent need of seizing servants as slaves for the rapidly expanding Bashu sugarcane plantations, and war was the fastest way to obtain the population. The other wants to open up territory and get credit.

Although the intentions of the two were seen through, Qin Shi Huang still agreed to the matter after a little light.

"I once asked the music official to compose "Ode to Qin", which praised: Within the Liuhe, the land of the emperor. Wading quicksand in the west, and reaching the north in the south. There is the East China Sea in the east, and Bactria in the north. Wherever people go, there are no subordinates. ”

He looked at the vast south: "Not long ago, Li Xin and Heifu have sent people to establish the westernmost outpost post station of Great Qin in Juyanze, west of the Quicksand Desert, and planted the Xuan Banner of Great Qin. There is quicksand in the west, but what about the north and south? It still depends on the southern generals. ”

After sweeping away the Huns, the emperor's ambitions were even more inflated! Not to mention anything else, Haikou boasting to the whole world must be honored!

Qin Shi Huang said magnificently: "You don't need to find more excuses, just go, just like dealing with the Huns, the merchants will explore the way, the people will open the way, and the soldiers will follow!" I will put officials in the southwestern states. As long as there are traces of people, those cities and towns must be subordinated to Daqin! The sun and the moon shine, the wind and rain come, all obey! ”

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At the end of the summer, Qin Shi Huang ended his inspection of Bashu, and at the same time, Chang Cheng and Ba Zhong, the lieutenants of Shu County, also began to build a road called "Five Feet Road" in the mountains and forests south of Shu County......

This is one of the two things worth saying in the entire thirty years of Qin Shi Huang.

And the second thing, which has some connection with the first thing, is the tuntian in Saibei.

Li Ling, the grandson of Li Bing, who had just been appointed as the "Captain of Shanghe Nongdu", also began his long-distance journey after reporting to Xianyang, and after more than a month of trekking, in early August of the 30th year of the reign of Qin Shi Huang, he arrived at the newly established "Fuping County" of Beidi County on the east bank of the Great River.

Fuping County, which is located in the north of Qingshan Gorge, is a rich land, since the year before last Li Xin led his troops to burn a fire in the south of Qingshan Gorge, the Xiongnu migrated exhausted, and there was no one or a single animal.

By last year, Li Xin and Beidi County Lieutenant Heifu met here again, and now they have built a small town, because they hope that Helan Mountain will be rich and peaceful from then on, so it is called "Fuping".

With the beginning of spring this year, a large number of immigrants from Guanzhong Tuntian moved in, and the surrounding areas of the city were slowly built, and this land that was deserted by the migration of the Xiongnu became lively again......

When Li Lingchu arrived in Fuping, what he saw was a scene of corn harvesting in full swing.

What impressed him the most was not only the Tanned Beidi County Lieutenant who worked with soldiers and farmers in the field, but also a sign standing at the edge of the field, which read the slogan of all the soldiers and civilians of Tuntian in Fuping County and Helan Mountain:

"Do it yourself, have enough food and clothing!"

PS：

1. Thirty years, nothing. - "Qin Shi Huang Benji"

2. This chapter is more than half a year after the previous chapter.

3. Fuping County was originally located in today's Ningxia, please search for "Fuping Three Moves" for details.