In the Qin system, the county has more iron officials, and the main drum casts, and the counties do not produce iron, and the small iron officials are placed.

Originally, there were only small iron officials in Beidi County, and there was no iron ore mined by the government, but with the discovery of the Yiju iron mine in Niyang County, Heifu proposed to set up iron officials here, mine iron and smelt, and cast blades nearby.

This suggestion was approved by the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Shaofu, and Zhang Ping, a minor official of the Shaofu, was sent to assist Heifu with hundreds of craftsmen and thousands of prisoners.

In the late afternoon of the 28th year of Qin Shi Huang (the fifth month of the lunar calendar), Zhang Ping arrived in Yiqu County and met with Heifu.

Zhang Ping is Zhang Han's younger brother, the same age as Heifu, and the month is even older than him, but when he was in Xianyang, Zhang Han asked Zhang Ping's brother to be Heifu, and took him to Heifu's mansion for banquets several times, and the two were also familiar with each other.

After a greeting, Zhang Ping told Heifu two big news.

First, the palace located in Guanzhong was temporarily suspended, and Zhang Han was ordered to go to Shangjun to supervise the construction of a new big project: straight road!

This happened half a year ago, and Heifu already knew that Zhang Ping told him that the first phase of the straight road had been successfully completed.

Zhang Ping said: "From Xianyang to Fushi, there is a road, but from Fushi to Yunzhong, in the past belonged to Qin and Zhao, the road is not passable, more than ten years ago, Yunzhong belonged to Qinhou, and also went straight to the road, and it was very inconvenient for the carriages and horses to travel between the two places, so His Majesty let his brother go to Fushi, 100,000 soldiers and prisoners, and used the Great Wall of King Qin Zhao to go down the military road, widen the roadbed, cut the mountains and valleys, and build the road to the north. ”

"Your Majesty and the Shaofu are urging urgently, and my brother can only let people supervise the construction day and night, and it will be completed in half a year, from Fushi to Beihe, seven or eight hundred miles, and two thousand prisoners will die of exhaustion......"

This is only the beginning of the huge project of the straight road, and the road repaired by Zhang Han is only a narrow road that can accommodate two horses in parallel, which is far from the standard expected by Qin Shi Huang, and I am afraid that it will take more manpower and material resources to continue to widen it, so that it can be turned from a county-level road into a "highway", so that troops can be quickly dispatched in the future.

Heifu understood Qin Shi Huang's intention in doing this: "In any case, Shangjun and Yunzhong are the main battlefields for the Xiongnu, while the northern land of our main army and Longxi, where Li Xin is located, are only flanks......"

It can be said that the day when the straight road was opened to traffic was the time when the Qin Dynasty used force against the Xiongnu!

The four counties, the four guards and lieutenants are generally a cooperative relationship, but secretly, there is also competition, who doesn't want to show their ability in this war, in front of the emperor?

Therefore, while Heifu is urging the Northland to prepare for war, he is also paying attention to the movements of the other three counties.

Zhang Ping told Heifu the second big news:

"Your Majesty canceled the eastern tour this year and changed it to the northern tour, when I came to Beidi County, the imperial driver had already left the Baqiao in the east, and planned to cross the river from Pusaka to Hedong and Taiyuan!"

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Zhang Ping gushed about the beginning of spring, the Xianyang court for the emperor's next patrol where to go in the chaotic battle, Heifu also listened with interest, it seems that when he was not in Xianyang, he missed a lot of good plays, although Nei Shi Teng also wrote to mention, but after all, there is no detail that Zhang Ping said.

Zhang Ping said: "Doctor Zhou Qingchen said that he was only a thousand miles away from Qin, and he relied on His Majesty's gods and saints to pacify the sea. With the princes as the counties, everyone is at ease, there is no trouble of war, and it has been passed down for eternity, and it has not been as good as His Majesty's virtue since ancient times. Since ancient times, he has been appointed as an emperor, but can he not seal Zen? Your Majesty should patrol the counties and counties to the east, and seal Mount Tai and Zen Liang's father......"

Confucian thoughts, how can Heifu not know? This kind of thing is generally believed to originate from Shun and Yu, and it is also said that it originated from Fuxi, but after Shun and Yu, no one has ever sealed Zen, and Qi Huan Gong once had such an idea, but was dissuaded by Guan Zhong.

The most enthusiastic about Zen is Confucianism, because they are from the etiquette background, these ancient rituals are the most proficient, and Mount Tai and Liang's father are in the eastern part of the country, which is the base camp of Confucianism.

He persuaded Qin Shi Huang to enshrine Zen, which was equivalent to peddling the Confucian theory of "the emperor was ordered to enshrine Zen" in disguise, as long as the emperor accepted it, Confucianism would stand firm in the major event of "worship".

The doctors and Confucian scholars all supported Feng Chan, especially the uncle and grandson Tong, the "Doctor to be edicted" whom Heifu knew, was the most active.

If Qin Shi Huang in the past thought that he was the third emperor of virtue and the fifth emperor, he would definitely do this thing that greatly satisfied his vanity, but what Dr. Confucius did not expect was that Qin Shi Huang rejected this proposal......

"Although I am in the sea, I have not yet exiled the barbarians, and I have been in the wilderness to the wilderness, and I am in Zen at this time? It's too early. ”

"When the sun and the moon shine, it is all the land of Great Qin, and when the barbarians are not convinced, it will not be too late for me to seal the Zen again!"

So the matter of sealing Zen can only be done.

"Next are Yan and Qi Fangshi, who also strongly persuade His Majesty to tour the east."

Yan Qi Fangshi is a group of people who were recruited to Xianyang after the unification of Qin, including Lu Sheng, Han Zhong, Hou Sheng, etc., and the famous Xu Fu has not yet come.

They saw that Qin Shi Huang was obsessed with the art of immortality and believed in the number of lives, so they voted for him, what "Xianyang Palace is like a purple microstar, and Weishui is like a galaxy" is the ghost they made. The construction of large-scale construction, the cost of labor and money, and it is of little use to future generations, in history, Xiang Yu a fire, all this will be turned into ashes.

Heifu didn't jump out directly to quarrel with them, because he knew that although this group of people were strange and roundabout, they also had some inexplicable skills, similar to magic, it was easy to fool people, the key was that the emperor believed this......

His method was to instigate the traditional witchcraft of the Qin State, so that these local gods and Han who were in decline and almost extinct would stand up and lobby Qin Shi Huang with the matter of the Queen Mother and Kunlun Ruins.

These legends, with the detailed story of "The Biography of Mu Tianzi" to help endorse, compared with the East China Sea Immortal Mountain blown by the monks, it sounds more like the truth, although they say that King Yan Zhao has been, but King Yan Zhao is not as long as King Zhou Mu, not very convincing.

Therefore, Qin Shi Huang now prefers to open up the territory first, and by the way, he is looking for the Queen Mother of the West, and his interest in the East China Sea Immortal Mountain is much smaller.

Seeing that the emperor rewarded the old Wu Ya with a lot of gold and did not give it to them, how could the monks be willing? Together, they felt that this was because the emperor was touring the west and seeing the western scenery. They believed that if the emperor went to the east and saw the sea in Zhifu (fú) and Langya, he would definitely change his mind and have another idea about the overseas fairy islands.

So the monks had lotus tongues, and Han Zhong, who was good at "looking at qi", even said that the golden light in Surabaya had been shining recently, and it may be that the great tripod lost when King Song Yan destroyed the country has reappeared......

But even so, it did not shake the emperor's yearning for the Queen Mother of the West, and decided to postpone the eastern tour of the seashore.

Although the Eastern Tour was canceled, the emperor was an idle man, and it just so happened that the road from Yunzhong to Fushi was also opened. Since he planned to use troops against the Xiongnu after the straight road was repaired next year, out of concern for the national policy, the emperor of course wanted to take a trip to the north to see Taiyuan, Yanmen, Yunzhong, and Shangjun, which he had never set foot in.

This is what Heifu did not expect, in history, this year Qin Shi Huang did go to the east, eastward to the county, Mount Tai to engage in Zen, the sea to look at the overseas fairy island, in Surabaya to find the lost Zhou Ding, and then go to Nanjun Dongting to go crazy, cut down all the trees in Xiangshan...... By the way, it seems that he was assassinated by a returnee in Bolangsha? (In the twenty-ninth year, Hefu misremembered)

But now, the above historical events are all gone! Or postponed, because Qin Shi Huang changed his itinerary!

History came to a sharp brake in front of Heifu, and then turned a sharp corner, although the general direction has not changed, but the scenery on the side of the road, I am afraid will be very different from the original!

"Butterfly effect, in this case, will I, the traverser's foresight of historical events, be greatly reduced?"

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Just when Heifu was pondering the pros and cons of this matter for himself, Chen Ping and his party had already left the foothills of Helan Mountain, and trekked for more than a month, along the east side of the big river flowing north, passing through the land of Baiyang and Loufu.

In Chen Ping's eyes, within these hundreds of miles, the scenery has changed dramatically again, the green of the Helan grassland has gradually turned into a dry mire, artemisia grass full of rocky beaches, and finally, at the bend of the river, there is a rolling sand dune, with the wind blowing, the yellow sand flows slowly......

"Is this the 'quicksand' that the Central Plains people talk about?"

As a mainlander, Chen Ping had never seen a desert and couldn't help but be amazed.

As night approached, the travelers camped on the edge of the desert, digging stoves for cooking, lighting dried cow dung and poplar branches they carried, and lighting a lonely cooking smoke. And near the left, the rushing river is surging, the western afterglow is blood-red, slowly falling, and the whole world seems to have a broad and rough beauty.

Chen Ping couldn't help sighing: "If it weren't for me trying to get the county lieutenant to let me go along, Chen Ping would not have seen such a scene in this life?" ”

In this situation, Chen Ping only felt that he had something to say, but he couldn't find the right words.

If Heifu was here, he would definitely chant a sentence, "The desert is lonely, and the sun sets on the long river" to make Chen Ping praise the festival.

It's a pity he's not there.

Wu Shiyan was able to comprehend Chen Ping's mood, and when he saw the Saiwai Desert with his brother for the first time, he also stood in place and sighed at the wonder of heaven and earth.

He walked up to Chen Ping, pointed to the endless desert and said: "Kujie Sha, this quicksand, is called Kujie Sha by the Huns. It means 'string on the bow', because it is at the bend of the great river, the east and west are continuous, and the river is always in the water, like a string hanging on the bow of the long river! ”

"And the people of the Central Plains call this area: Shuofang!"

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