"Shaofu Cheng Heifu, you are the only one here who has been to Jiangnan and the extreme south of the Limen Five Mountains, what do you think?"

The emperor asked a question in the court, and Heifu was excited, and immediately got up and walked to the hall to make a move.

The elders of the Meng, Xi, and Bai clans didn't know this young upstart, and asked the people next to them one after another, and learned that he was the person who was the Southern Expedition Yuzhang, who had opened thousands of miles and made a "black man paper", and couldn't help but suddenly realize, and then worried.

"Jiangnan Zhishu started with this person, I am afraid that he strongly supports this move!"

The three patriarchs of Meng, Xi, and Bai guessed wrong, Heifu did not oppose the enrichment of Yuzhang and Changsha by immigration, but he opposed going further, crossing the Wuling Mountains, and conquering Baiyue in the south......

If you take too big a step, you'll get an egg.

Heifu vaguely remembers that in history, the Qin army marched south, and it seems that it launched an army of 500,000 troops, fought for several years, and suffered heavy losses before taking Liangguang. Even if he doesn't have this memory, after going to the Wuling area in person, Heifu can come to the conclusion that the southern expedition to Baiyue is a big pit!

It is not that the more powerful it is, Nanyue, Xiou, Minyue, at most enter the stage of city-state state, small towns are concentrated, mixed in the jungle, the population is not large, and the weapons and equipment are even more backward than the Central Plains.

The biggest obstacle to outsiders is the climate.

Although the imagination of northerners that the south is full of "miasma" and "poisonous insects" is a bit exaggerated, it is indeed not easy to survive in the Lingnan region in these years. Not only schistosomiasis, which was difficult to find a cure for in this era, but also many tropical diseases such as malaria awaited the Qin army. A thousand years later, in the Tang Dynasty, Liangguang was still a place of exile for the Central Plains people to talk about the tiger's color change, more than 200 years BC, in the case of insufficient transportation and logistics preparations, the loss of troops will be certain.

And the first to die must be the Yuzhang garrison that acted as the vanguard, the old subordinates of Heifu, Xiao Tao, Dongmen Leopard, Lixian, and the three thousand Nanjun soldiers......

Heifu did not want his relatives and friends to die, and he believed that the southern expedition was not yet time, at least not now.

But he can't tell the truth completely, because there are many indications that Qin Shi Huang has made the Lingnan region his next military target, and it is really as difficult as ascending to heaven to make His Majesty change his mind......

Moreover, Qin Shi Huang threw the ball to Heifu at this time, and the meaning was too obvious: just shout 666 according to my meaning!

So after thinking about it, Heifu said: "The minister thinks that the battle in Jiangnan cannot be stopped!" ”

Meng, Xi, and Bai blew their beards and glared, while Qin Shi Huang showed a hint of a smile.

Heifu explained the reason: "The minister was ordered by His Majesty to go to the Tibetan room to read the book, so when he knew that the first monarch Huiwen Wang, the general Sima Cuo and Zhang Yi, the prime minister of Zhang Cheng, argued whether to destroy Bashu or attack Han first. General Sima said that those who are rich in the country should work widely. I think so! ”

"When the minister asked to build Nanchang City, he said that the land of Chuyue in the south of the Yangtze River is rich in products, and the land is widely admired. The land of Sanjin and Huaihan is just the opposite, the land is small and the acres are insufficient. If you can move the land of Sanjin, Huaihan and Qianshou to fill in the land of Yuzhang and Changsha in the south of the Yangtze River, you can burn forests and open up wasteland, build cities, and build real acres and real acres. ”

"Make it compost with oxen ploughing, instead of slash-and-burn farming, in hot places, rice crops twice a year, after a few generations, Jiangnan will become a granary, as rich as Nanjun and Huainan. Not only can it make the local people free of cold and hungry people, but it can even feed back to China like the millet of Bashu sold in Xianyang! And the rhino horn, ivory, and fragrant wood in the south are also continuously transported into Guanzhong. ”

"Therefore, His Majesty sent soldiers to the south of the Yangtze River to fill Changsha and Yuzhang, which is the same as that of King Huiwen Kaibashu, and it is utilitarian!"

Qin Shi Huang was very satisfied with Heifu's answer: "Qing is very good, this is a utilitarian strategy." ”

He then looked at the patriarchs of the Meng, Xi, and Bai clans, and said meaningfully: "Military law is cloudy, in order to forget the family, forget the family, the three clans are four hundred years old, it is understandable to consider the safety of private children, but I am the lord of the world, I have to forget my family and relatives, for the overall situation and long-term consideration......"

The patriarchs of the Meng, Xi, and Bai clans were a little aggrieved, but they didn't dare to speak.

No one in the government and the opposition dared to openly oppose the national policy decided by Qin Shi Huang.

Of the people in the hall, only Zhao Gao keenly found that when Fang Cai Heifu talked about sending troops to emigrate to Jiangnan, he said the Central Plains and Huainan, but he did not mention the Kansai, which is closely related to Meng, Xi, and Bai.

"Hef, Hef, what the hell are you trying to say?" Zhao Gao felt that Heifu must have something to say.

As he expected, Heifu bowed again: "Your Majesty, the minister has not finished speaking!" ”

All eyes were on Heifu again, but they listened to him:

"Clearing the wasteland, cultivating and harvesting are things of the four seasons, not overnight. The relocation of the people, the construction of cities, and the widening of roads are a matter of a few years and a decade, not a year and a half. Therefore, the minister thought that Changda Southern Xinjiang could be used as a long-term strategy to move slowly. But now, there are some places that can be quickly profitable if they can be developed! ”

"Oh? What is it? ”

Heifu voted for Qin Shi Huang's favor, and said it with "quick profit", but the emperor really didn't dislike it and let him continue.

Heifu looked up and said, "Kansai! ”

The so-called Kansai, as opposed to the Kanto, is the area west of Hangu Pass, which is the center of Qin and the most densely populated area, where else can there be any place to explore?

Heifu's words made the ministers in the palace laugh dumbly, and Nei Shi Teng, who also accompanied Qin Shi Huang on his tour to Yong, coughed lightly, and came forward to reprimand his son-in-law:

"Shaofu Cheng, the internal history is also lacking in people, surrounded by forests and trees in the land of Weinan Wuyuan, in order to settle 120,000 immigrants in Shandong, has also opened up a lot, established more than ten cities. You say that you want to open up the Kansai region, do you want Your Majesty to open the only remaining royal forest garden? ”

"That's not what the Subordinate meant." Heifu had already been angry with his father-in-law, and he sang and harmonized at this moment.

"The land of Guanxi is not only the internal history, but also Longxi, Beidi, and Shangjun, which are also vast and sparsely populated, rather than making Meng, Xi, Bai and other Kansai children go thousands of miles to the south of the Yangtze River, which is not suitable for water and soil, why not make it nearby to guard the three counties?"

After he finished speaking, he looked at Meng, Xi, and Bai Sanshi and said with a smile: "The third prince also said that as long as the children stay in Kansai, right?" I don't know if the children of the three clans are willing to go to the three counties? ”

The three counties are all close to Rong Di, practice war preparation, noble strength, and take hunting as the first, so Qin Shi has many carts and horses to hunt, compared to the distant and terrible Jiangnan, Longxi, Beidi, and Shangjun are equivalent to only at the door of the house, Meng, Xi, and Bai nodded again and again:

"We people from Guanxi would rather go to the northwest of Longxi than go far to Jianghuai."

Heifu bowed to Qin Shi Huang again: "Minister, please speak for its benefit." ”

Although the emperor didn't expect that Heifu, who was born in the south and grew up in the south, would suddenly talk about the development of the three counties, he was a little surprised, but he still bowed his head and said: "Yes." ”

"There are two benefits to this move, one is long-term and the other is imminent."

"Although Yiqu and Bai Di have long perished, there are still many Rong Di and Qi people in the three counties, and their momentum has not been extinguished.

There is a basis for what Heifu said, Yiqu is the great enemy of Qin, two hundred years ago, the king of Yiqu sent a large army to attack Qin, from Jingbei to Weinan. Later, Yiqu also participated in the joint division of the Six Kingdoms and defeated the Qin army in the Battle of Li Bo. In the end, it was only by the Empress Dowager Xuan that she was seduced by a woman to kill Yiqu Jun in Ganquan Mountain, and Yiqu's hometown also became Beidi County.

After the destruction of the country, the Yiqu Rong people did not disappear, and their nobles either took "Gongsun" as their clan, or "Yiqu" as their clan, and enjoyed aristocratic power, called "Rong Zhai Jungong", and were active in Beidi, Shangjun, and Longxi. In the change of the Qi Nian Palace that year, Chang Yu colluded with some of the "Rong Zhai Jungong" to cause chaos.

Afterwards, Qin Shi Huang broke up some tribes and assimilated many Yiqu people through immigrants and marriages. However, the Rong people who were not organized into households in the three counties still accounted for one-third of the population, and they were half-cultivated and half-pastoral, using furs as taxes, and joined the Qin army as cavalry, which also contributed to the unification war.

After Heifu returned to Xianyang, he asked Zhang Cang, a school bully, to make up for the lessons, and with these cases as a basis, his proposal seemed logical.

"If we are unified today, the minister thinks that it can be filled in by Shandong immigrants and the children of the Zong family, so that Rong Di will gradually bask in the Chinese style, which is a long-term benefit."

Qin Shi Huang groaned slightly, and said: "What is the benefit of imminence?" ”

Heifu said: "When I was in Xianyang, I once heard Rong Shang Wushi Yan say that west of Longxi and Beidi, there is Hexi, Yueshi and Diqiang live there. To the north of Shangjun, there are Henan and Hetao, where Aries and Xiongnu live. These three places are vast and sparse, and the water and grass are suitable for animal husbandry, so the livestock of Hexi and Hetao are the world's rao, and a large number of livestock purchased by Wushi every year are obtained from various departments. ”

This is Qin Shi Huang let the Wu brothers do more than 10 years of business, Qin to promote cattle farming, and there are thousands of cars, tens of thousands, the demand for cattle and horses is very large, relying on the Central Plains alone is far from enough, must be replenished from outside the plug.

"I also heard that the people of all tribes are fierce, and children can ride sheep, shoot birds and mice with bows, and shoot foxes and rabbits when they grow up a little. Adult men can draw strong bows, put on armor, ride war horses, and come and go like the wind. Its customs, when there is no war, they are nomadic at will, shooting birds and animals as a profession, when the situation is urgent, everyone practices offensive skills, in order to invade and plunder, this is their nature, like a wolf. ”

Therefore, every autumn and winter, these Rongdi tribes crossed the line, invaded the border counties, burned and looted, and took away the population. When the first king Zhao was king, in order to prevent the Xiongnu and other troops from going south to plunder and harass, he concentrated on dominating the world in the east, so he built the Great Wall in the three counties to reject Hu. ”

The ministers in the palace nodded frequently, the northwest frontier of Qin was fine, and the two countries of Yan and Zhao were even more harassed. However, Yan defeated Donghu and expanded the land for thousands of miles, and Zhao also defeated the Xiongnu with Li Mu, and the two countries, like Qin, built the Great Wall in the border counties in order to focus on the Central Plains.

"Now that the four seas are one, in the eyes of the ministers, Your Majesty is not only the lord of the Central Plains, but also the lord of the barbarian Eight Desolations. It can not only repay the suffering of repeated plundering for a hundred years, but also directly seize the pastures of Hexi, Henan, and Hetao, and take more than 100,000 heads of livestock, which is an urgent advantage. If you can firmly occupy the three places, you will store cattle and horses in the north, and there will be millet rice in the south of the Yangtze River, which can also complement each other! ”

After saying this, seeing that the emperor still did not express his position, Heifu continued to say:

"The minister hears: Seek the elders of the wood, and they will consolidate their roots; Those who want to flow far will dredge their springs. The roots are not solid and seek the length of the wood, the source is not deep and the flow is far away, although the minister is stupid, he knows that he can't, and the situation is clear? Immigrants enrich the three counties of Kansai, which is the fundamental method of consolidating Guanzhong, and leaving the country to sweep away the ministries is an open source move. Those who are rich in the country are wide, the land of opening the five mountains in the south of the Yangtze River is wide, and the land of Hurong in the northwest is also wide, but one is far and one is near, one is slow and one is pressing, one is the root, and the other is the end of the branches. The ministers thought that they should first go northwest and then Lingnan. ”

"The subordinates are stupid for a while, and I hope Your Majesty will see it!"