In mid-July, in the north of the capital of Dai County, in front of an ancestral temple that was under construction, the local county guards and county lieutenants gathered local officials and people to read out the edict of Qin Shi Huang aloud.

"Fu Zhen brushes the slightest, sweeps the wind and dust, respects the Son of Heaven and Rong Di, holds the Zhu flag and flattens the Rong Court, and the strategy of meritocracy. There is a sense of going, there is no hesitation, going to a foreign land is like home, the three tribes are pitting without regrets, and the courage of the countrymen is also. ”

"Since the king of Ping moved eastward, the south Yi and the north Di Jiao, China is endless, can respect the king of Yi, Yu Rong Di invasion, for the Xia to open up the territory of the people, the merit is greater than five people: said Guan Yiwu, said by Yu, said Sima Cuo, said Qin Kai, said Li Mu."

"If the microtubule is in the middle, the people of mid-summer are afraid of being sent to the left; Due to the slight reason, there is no Mu Gong to dominate Xirong, and open up thousands of miles; If the micro Sima is wrong, then Bashu is still the domain of Diqiang, and the Kaiming clan is still violent; Wei Qin opens, Donghu is still longitudinal Ma Yan Mountain, and Liaodong is still the smell of Hu; Wei Li Mu, the Huns are still tyrannical to the north, killing the people! ”

"Although the five sons are ministers, they are the merits of Jingbian in China, and they will be left to future generations, and they will strengthen their ambitions, and they will set up 'Jingbian Temple' in the border counties to sacrifice them. Taiyuan, Yanmen, Daijun, Yunzhong four ancestral temples chief priest Li Mu, the rest of the four sons to accompany the worship. The four o'clock sacrifice sweeps, so that they can eat blood, and also make them see that the border is peaceful now, and there will be no more ...... of the previous mourning."

After reading the words of Guanzhong, the local officials repeated loudly again in the northern dialect.

After hearing this, the people of Daijun were stunned for a moment, thinking that they had heard it wrong!

Make no mistake, a few days ago, the Qin officials of Daibei County also destroyed many Li Mu Temples, and fined Li Zheng and Wu Lao in the place where the crime occurred! Now, why did he suddenly change his sex, Qin Shi Huang actually set up a public ancestral hall to worship Li Mu?

Most generations only know Li Mu, Qin Kai has heard a little, and the other three people don't know, but listening to his deeds, they all have the merit of Jingbian pioneering?

However, Guan Zhong is a Qi person, Yu counts the doctor of Qin, Sima Cuo is a Qin general, Qin Kai is a Yan general, Li Mu is a Zhao general, and the five people who couldn't be beaten by eight poles were put together to worship because of the "Jingbian" work, which is fresh.

In addition to rejoicing, the words "Zhongxia", "Zhuxia" and "Huaxia" repeatedly mentioned in the edict also left a slight impression on the Qiantou leaders.

In the hearts of the Northern Zhao people, Qin and Zhao are by no means all the way, but if there is a Donghu person or Huns on the opposite side, in contrast, although the Qin people are greedy and vicious, they also wear buns, wear deep clothes, eat grains, and can talk and discuss. The Hu people, on the other hand, have different customs, different diets, and language barriers, and the same generation of Northern Zhao people have a hatred of killing and plundering for generations!

Therefore, in the edict, Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Yan were all counted as one type of people, and they all had no objections to Rong Di.

Whatever you do! As long as you can let the Daibei people worship and save them with dignity, or their father's generation is in the fire and water General Li Mu, then it will work!

"After the ancestral temple is built, can we really come here to worship General Li Mu?" Some people still didn't believe it, and they boldly asked.

The official said with a straight face: "There will be a ceremony in the ancestral hall, and you can also worship and worship outside the ancestral hall, but you can't set up a strange shrine in the people!" Violators are still heavily fined! ”

The generation is still very satisfied with this kind of disposal, and they are all looking forward to the autumn festival.

In the crowd, a young woodcutter with an axe in hand and a brown coat had mixed feelings in his heart.

"Father, Father, you have been loyal to Zhao all your life, but in the end, you were tricked by Wang Jian Lao'er, and were forced to death by Zhao Qian and Guo Kai, the two faint traitors. I don't miss your 20 years of travel, nor do I miss your contributions to the civil war and the Huns. I never thought that in the end, it was Emperor Qin, who was your lifelong enemy, who set up an ancestral temple for you......"

This person's name is Li Zuoche, who is the youngest grandson of Li Mu, and the "three clans pit without regret" in the edict refers to their family.

After Li Mu was killed ten years ago, all three of his clans were connected by Guo Kaizhu, but Li Zuoche was the only one who hid in Daijun and survived.

The following year, Handan was breached, Zhao died, Gongzi Jia fled to Daijun, in order to win over the Zhao army in Daibei, especially for Li Mu to rehabilitate, Li Mu Temple everywhere in Daibei was built at that time. But it was too late to make amends, and within a few years, the generation also died.

At that time, Li Zuoche was not yet an adult, so with the help of Li Mu's old department, he hid incognito and hid in the reckless place, and now he calls himself Li Zuo and makes a living by chopping wood.

But no one knew that this seemingly ordinary woodcutter, wielding an axe in one hand, was quite murderous, and he actually had a martial art. And in his spare time, he will also take out the art of war strategy left by his father, study secretly, and after a few years, he has a small experience, but unfortunately he was born at the wrong time, his identity is limited, and he has no opportunity to practice......

After Li Zuoche sighed, he did not receive Qin Shihuang's love, and what happened to his eldest father made him have no good impression of Qin, but he was not interested in recovering the country for Zhao, so he left silently.

It wasn't until a few months later that Li Zuoche learned what was going on through Li Mu's old ministry staff, who was an official in the Qin State Government......

"...... Hef"

Li Zuoche nodded, firmly remembering the name.

"It seems that among the greedy and cruel Qin officials, there is also a good official who remembers the exploits of the eldest father!"

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In late July of the 28th year, after leaving the will of Yanmen and Daijun to set up Jingbian Temple, Qin Shi Huang continued his northern tour, and arrived in Yunzhong County......

Only then did they step into the realm of Yunzhong, and the neat cavalry in the clouds roared in, with wings on both sides of Qin Shi Huang's convoy, most of them were from Guanzhong, and they were the old soldiers who followed Meng Tian to destroy the Dai Qi, all of them straightened their waists and accepted the emperor's review.

After passing through Wuzhou, the scenery in front of Qin Shi Huang was very different.

If Yanmen and Daijun are still areas with mixed agriculture and animal husbandry, and they can often be seen in the farmland, then Yunzhong County is completely a grassland scene......

This land is the area of Hohhot in later generations, the sky is like a dome, covering the four wilderness.

The wide, empty plain stretched out beneath the convoy, flat and vast to the end of the arc, like an ocean. The hills and mountains are gone, and even the woods, the alleys, and the roads are gone, only the endless grasslands, the wind and clouds, the yellow and green blades of grass swaying like waves, and the whole world has turned bronze.

A falcon hovers high above the deep sky, and below it are herds of cattle and sheep, munching on the grass before winter and trying to make themselves fat......

After driving two hundred miles on the grassland, in front of the group, a white city finally appeared, it was like a white jewel dotted on the green grassland, surrounded by a jade belt and river, and it was beautiful.

This city also has a beautiful name: ...... in the clouds

Seeing Qin Shi Huang looking at the clouds, Meng Tian reported to him the origin of this city.

"It is said that when Zhao's father, after subduing Lou Fu and Lin Hu, he went west to the grassland, slightly Hudi, and planned to build a city on the west bank of the river, but just built part of the city wall and collapsed, I am afraid that this place is unlucky, so I chose a new site on the east side of the river."

"The local legend says that Lord Zhao's father rode his horse here, and saw a flock of geese (swans) flying in the clouds during the day, circling back and forth, and there seemed to be light under the flock of birds. When Zhao's father saw this, he thought it was an auspicious omen, so he built a city here. Led by the wild goose, and built in the clouds, so it is called in the clouds! ”

Qin Shi Huang was a mysticist and convinced of this, and then observed the geographical location in the clouds, the terrain is flat, the water and grass are abundant, suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry, and it is a good place to train cavalry and graze war horses.

"This grassland, relying on Cloud City, can the people of Zhongxia firmly occupy it? Xinjiang to Hetao, born in the city in the clouds, Master Zhao's father is indeed a person who does not stick to ordinary customs, so he can lay this meritorious career, but it is ridiculous that he starved to death in the sand dunes. ”

Qin Shi Huang didn't know that he was also inseparable from the place of sand dunes in history, but he only felt that King Zhao Wuling was smart and confused for a while, as an emperor, authority is like a flood beast, it can turn flesh and blood into enemies, how can it be delegated to others?

If he has the opportunity, he will sit in the position of emperor for 10,000 years, and he will never play any abdication!

This is also one of the reasons why Qin Shi Huang has not appointed a crown prince so far.

After entering the palace of Yunzhong City, Qin Shi Huang was not busy resting, but asked Meng Tian to find a map of Yunzhong and asked him: "The city built by Zhao's master in Hudi is not only in the clouds, I heard that the Great Wall of Zhao starts from the east of the Dynasty, passes through the clouds and Jiuyuan, and turns into the Yin Mountain in the northwest. What is the situation on Jiuyuan and Gaoque? ”

Jiuyuan is located in Baotou in later generations, Gaoque is far to the north of the Hetao, Yinshan Pass, this land, at this time is called "North Fake", and Henan land opposite.

Meng Tian replied truthfully: "Your Majesty, when Zhao was the master of Zhao, the territory of Zhao was extremely prosperous, but after Changping, Gaoque, Jiuyuan, and Yunzhong were lost to the hands of the Xiongnu one after another. More than 20 years ago, after Li Mu defeated the Xiongnu, he recovered Yunzhong and Jiuyuan. When our army occupied Taiyuan and Yunzhong, taking advantage of Qin and Zhao's troops, Jiuyuan was once again lost to the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu destroyed the Jiuyuan City in Touman, with its bricks and tiles, at the foot of the Yin Mountain in the north, built a new city, called Touman City, that is the Xiongnu's Shan Yu Wang Court ......"

"Hmph, stupid thief!" Qin Shi Huang snorted coldly:

"In this way, the northern frontier of Qin is not as good as Lord Zhao's father?"

"Yui."

Qin Shi Huang frowned, this is absolutely intolerable to him, he thinks that Qin swept the six countries, and should also inherit the territory of the six countries, such as Yanzhi Liaodong, Chu Zhiyuzhang, Cangwu, he sent people to fight down, which is also the reason why he did not agree to Yan and ask for the princes of the fence.

As a collector, in Qin Shi Huang's mind, his empire was not yet complete, and several puzzle pieces were missing.

Jiuyuan and Hetao, which is known as the "Northern Fake", is one of the most important pieces!

He was immediately unhappy, let Meng Tian accompany him, climbed to Cloudsdale City, looked in the direction of Touman City, looked at the looming Yin Mountain, let the wind on the grassland blow his beard, and said after a long time:

"I heard that Beijiao and Henan were called Shuofang in ancient times, Tingwei, what does that poem say?"

Li Si immediately responded: "The name of the poem "Out of the Car", the king ordered Nanzhong to go to the city. Out of the car Peng Peng, 旂旐 (qízhào) Yangyang. The Son of Heaven ordered me to be the other side of the city. Hehe Nanzhong, 玁狁 (xiǎnyǔn) Yu Xiang! ”

This poem is about the early years of King Xuan of Zhou, ordered the minister Nanzhong to crusade against the victory of the Xuan, the Shuo Fang inside, the world only knows in the north of Zhou, but since the Warring States Period, because the world thinks that the "Xuanli" is the ancestor of the Xiongnu, so Shuo is convenient for the north and Henan.

After Li Si finished reciting, Qin Shi Huang said in high spirits:

"Shuofang is the land of the Zhou Dynasty, which has been opened up by Zhongxia since ancient times, and the father of Zhao can recover half of it, and build Jiuyuan City and Gaoque Fortress in the north, how can I be inferior to him, and I will restore its entire territory!"

"Meng Tian!"

"The minister is here!" Meng Tian is a spirit, and he bows down at the time.

Qin Shi Huang waved his hand and pointed in the direction of Yin Mountain in the distance and said:

"After the straight road is repaired in the next year, I will send troops to defeat the Huns, seize Beijiao and Henan, and then bulldoze Toumancheng, use the bricks and tiles of Toumancheng, find the best location, and establish a new city, which is called Shuofang!"

"If you can make this special achievement, Meng Tian, you are the Nanzhong of Great Qin! Maybe a hundred years later, you can also enter the Jingbian Temple to accompany you! ”