"I heard Shi Yan come back and say that Aiqing's father has been missing for seven years and has returned home?"

After drinking tea and chatting a few words, Qin Shi Huang suddenly put down the teacup and asked a little seriously.

Chen Xu hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand and stood up and said: "Yes, Chen's father participated in the battle of Chu seven years ago, a vicious battle in Qichun, my father was hit by three arrows, his thighs and chest and back were severely injured and lost blood and fell unconscious, and was rescued by the fleeing woman Han Tian, because of the chaos at that time, Han Tian and a group of refugees took my father to Huaiyin to settle down and recuperate, and it took more than a year to slowly recover and improve, and then the general won the battle against Chu, and Chu returned to Daqin, because my father was taken away from the battlefield by refugees, and he was afraid that he would be treated as a deserter and affect his family, Originally, seven years ago, Pheasant County had issued an obituary informing my father that his father had died in battle, so my mother and I were also considered that he was no longer alive, last winter, the minister in the middle of the night thinking about the construction of the Oriental Road suddenly on a whim, and calculated that I realized that my father may still be alive, so I sent my entourage to the southeast to find and inquire, and sure enough, I learned my father's whereabouts from a group of people who were preparing to go to the construction site of the Oriental Road from Huaiyin, so they took it back to Pheasant County......"

Qin Shi Huang, who listened to Chen Xu's true and false words, sighed with emotion, stood up and held Chen Xu's hand and said: "This matter is not only said by Shi Yan when he came back, but the military department has also received the recital of Nanyang County Shou and County Lieutenant, after learning that Ling Zun returned home, they deliberately went to check the volume seven years ago, and found that several military officials registered the volume all have Aiqing's father's meritorious service records, and Ling Zun was rescued from a coma in a vicious battle, so there is no deserter to say, since Aiqing is back today, I will give Aiqing an answer, Tomorrow, the court will arrange for the military department to award Ling Zun a military knighthood according to the military merit record, and issue it to the grain field, and then arrange a suitable official position for Ling Zun in Xianyang! ”

"Thank you Your Majesty for forgiveness, your father's body has suffered a heavy injury, and now he is old, I asked my father for advice when I returned to Xianyang this time, he was unwilling to come to Xianyang, and the minister's mother was not used to living in Xianyang, so the minister let his parents and the Han Tian clan stay in Qinghe Town to live for a long time, His Majesty gave the minister three thousand food towns near Qinghe Town, and his parents ate and drank at home, so his father's military title can be awarded, but the grain field real estate does not need to be rewarded!"

"You can't be rewarded for your merits, and Aiqing doesn't need to shirk it, it's just some real estate!" Qin Shi Huang waved his sleeves.

"Then the minister will thank Your Majesty on behalf of my father!" Chen Xu had no choice but to quickly thank him.

Chen Hu returned home, since Qin Shi Huang knew, this matter must be properly handled and arranged to calm Chen Xu's heart, and at the same time, this is also to express the emperor's favor, Xianyang Princes and Princes don't know how much, Qin Shi Huang may not have cared so much about his father, but only for Chen Xu, he needs twelve points of care, because he feels that he is more and more inseparable from Chen Xu's assistance.

Just one Oriental Road has put him in a very anxious and excited state, although seeing that the construction of the entire Oriental Road is in full swing, and the progress is extremely fast, but all this is because Chen Xu is in command, if Chen Xu suddenly disappears or leaves it alone, it is estimated that all the businessmen who participated in the construction of the Oriental Road will instantly fall down and leave a mess, so Qin Shi Huang can only take over and arrange the repair of the road by himself, but it is not easy to gather enough money and food of tens of millions of stones.

Moreover, Chen Xu also painted a huge cooking cake for him, and in the future, the cement road will be built all over the country, and the money and grain required will be tens of thousands of stones, and the imperial court will not be able to come up with this money anyway, if it is forcibly built, it will only drag down Daqin, and cause a popular uprising, and the nobles of the six countries will inevitably take advantage of the situation to make chaos.

Therefore, Chen Xu is a giant pillar of Daqin at the moment, he is responsible for controlling the world, Chen Xu is responsible for helping him build the country, the harmony between the monarch and the minister is a perfect match, even Emperor Li Si began to feel a little dispensable.

In the two or three months after Chen Xu left, Qin Shi Huang often thought about Chen Xu's words repeatedly, now whether it is the court or the people, the most talked about every day is the various reforms of Dongfang Dao and Qinghe Hou, especially the changes in Xianyang are obvious to all, the city is prosperous and lively outside the city, but it is more stable, the people live and work in peace and contentment, all kinds of commercial houses on the street have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, the tax revenue of the Inner History Mansion is increasing every month, and the impact of opening up business on the economy is obvious.

The two of them drank tea and chatted, from the war against Hun Hu in the northwest to the construction of the Eastern Road, and then slowly talked about Baiyue in the south.

Qin Shi Huang was excited about Baiyue's current form.

Chen Xu's encroachment strategy last year has now achieved very good results, the original Wancheng County Guard Gao Yan and several pardoned criminal officials were appointed as generals, each leading a thousand soldiers and 3,000 prisoners to the land of Baiyue to slowly recover those wild places with high mountains and dense forests.

Although there is no logistical support and provisions, but for the fierce regular soldiers, the small group of Baiyue natives is not too threatening, and the robbery without food is enough, and for those prisoners who urgently need to obtain military merit and be exempted from punishment, this is a golden opportunity, as long as the killing of an adult man of the Yue tribe will reduce the sentence by one level, the main thing is brave enough, even the death row prisoner can get rid of the criminal status, and as long as the territory conquered is large enough, and the county is approved by the imperial court to set up the county, then all the people involved can also get the title and land and real estate.

Stimulated by this military title, all the prisoners burst out with unparalleled combat effectiveness.

Since the encroachment policy was launched in June last year, more than half a year has passed, and there is an endless stream of news coming back from the Wuling Pass, and several Qin troops that have entered the territory of the Yue people have occupied territories of various sizes.

In particular, Gao Yan, with the support of Shoujiang Heng of Huiji County, arranged for caravans to send back to the Central Plains the goods and goods looted by Gao Yan in Minyue through the Dayuling Pass, and also exchanged these materials for food, clothing and even bow and arrow weapons to Gao Yan's troops, so in the past half a year, Gao Yan has occupied a large area in the southeast of Wuyi Mountain, and has almost occupied half of the scope of Huiji County, because food and materials are sufficiently guaranteed, Gao Yan also recruited nearly 2,000 rangers and idlers in Huiji County, and now he is strong and strong. In the land of Minyue, it is like a hungry tiger on a rampage, which is completely incompatible with the silkworm raising that Chen Xu said at the beginning.

Minyue is close to Changsha and Huiji County, and because the terrain by the sea is relatively flat, the Yue people living here have been inextricably linked with the Wuyue Yang Yue people in Suzhou and Hangzhou since ancient times, and the Yue country has long belonged to Daqin, and Suzhou and Hangzhou have also begun to become a rich and prosperous place in the southeast.

It was precisely because of this close connection that the Gao Yan conquest strategy became relatively smooth, and many Yue people did not particularly reject the Central Plains, and when they heard of the arrival of the Qin army, many surrendered directly, and the rest of the groups that resisted violently were killed, and the rest were to migrate further south.

According to the letter of Jiang Heng, the Taishou of the Huiji, the imperial court had divided seven counties in the Minyue region occupied by Gao Yan, and the six departments of the three provinces had also arranged for officials to prepare the county government and various ancillary facilities, and at the same time, they also began to divide the houses and fields of the prisoners who participated in the war according to the size of their military achievements, and relocated some of the families of the prisoners to live and cultivate with the local surrendered Yue people, and began to vigorously promote all kinds of new agricultural tools, firing pottery, weaving and animal husbandry in the Central Plains.

Not only that, the imperial court was very excited about Gao Yan's conquest of Minyue, and had begun to divide a new county called Minzhong County, and Qin Shi Huang also personally wrote a letter to commend Gao Yan, telling him that if Minzhong County was established, Gao Yan could be appointed as the lieutenant of Minzhong County, and most of the soldiers who participated in the conquest of Minyue could be reused in Minzhong County.

After the news spread, stimulated by the military merit awards, several encroachment teams in the Baiyue region are now as crazy as chicken blood, and even began to fight against the Yue people regardless of casualties, and the results achieved are also very significant.

"I really didn't expect that Aiqing's simple encroachment strategy would be able to have such a big harvest in a short period of time, and now in addition to Minyue, all places in Lingnan have been harvested, and more than a dozen counties have been conquered in half a year, according to Aiqing's speculation that day, in three or five years, the land of Fujian and Vietnam will be owned by my Daqin......"

Sitting in the garden full of spring, when it came to the form of battle beyond the five mountains, Qin Shi Huang sighed with emotion.

"Although the encroachment strategy is slow, it is like boiling frogs in warm water, the Baiyue clan must think that His Majesty will not attack on a large scale, so they will not gather together to resist on a large scale, so the resistance will not be too violent!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"What is a boiled frog in warm water?" Qin Shi Huang became intrigued by this new term.

"Hehe, boiling frogs in warm water is to describe a thing that is not easy to deal with in a hurry and slowly, just like we catch a frog, if we suddenly throw it into a pot of hot water, the frog will inevitably jump violently and struggle, maybe the boiling water splash will also burn the person who boiled the frog, but if we put it into a pot of cold water, and then slowly add firewood to the bottom of the pot to heat, the water temperature in the pot will only slowly rise, and the frog will be cooked unconsciously!"

"I see, Aiqing's description is vivid and interesting!" Qin Shi Huang smiled and nodded.

"The land of Baiyue has a complex landscape and harsh climate, which is really like chicken ribs for my Daqin at the moment, but the climate in the south is hot and humid, suitable for large-scale planting of rice, and many melons and fruits are also unprecedented, so I must not give up, use this encroachment strategy to attack slowly, Baiyue will inevitably be slowly cooked like a frog in a pot, and when the Baiyue tribe has no power to resist, then I can incorporate it into the territory of my Daqin in one go, and from then on thousands of miles to the south, His Majesty's prestige will shine like the sun and the moon, and the prestige of the emperors through the ages will be passed on to future generations for thousands of years...... "Chen Xu put down the teacup and began to pat himself again.

"Okay, Aiqing is really my humerus, everything she says and thinks is the same as me!" Qin Shi Huang stood up happily and laughed.

"Your Majesty, now that the Northwest Hun Hu has been appeased, and the Southern Baiyue has also had a plan to conquer, so just wait for the Eastern Dao to be repaired, and the commercial law will be revised to lift the ban on craftsmen, farmers, and merchants, and my Daqin will soon usher in an opportunity for vigorous development, and the country will be rich and strong, and the people and the people will be safe and secure in the near future, and the minister will congratulate Your Majesty in advance on the way of the emperor to go further!" Chen Xu also stood up and smiled and arched his hand.

"The Way of the Emperor ......" Qin Shi Huang was stunned for a moment, then stroked his beard and nodded slightly, and his face became a little speechless. (https:)

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