Chapter 497: Is There Any Heavenly Reason?

Because of Jiang Hu's return, and it is an unprecedented victory, marking the task of sending troops to Henan has been completely and successfully completed, the Great Qin Empire not only recovered Henan, but also broke into Hebei for 3,000 miles, within a month to raid the Xiongnu royal court, beheaded Touman Shan Yu, captured Touman's wife and second son, this victory can deter the entire Xiongnu and the surrounding Zhuhu.

At the same time, it is not only necessary to pass on the main generals who participated in the war such as Meng Tian, Li Xin, Jiang Hu, and Su Jiao to return to Xianyang to offer prisoners, but also a large number of middle and low-level generals and soldiers who have made great achievements to return to Xianyang to accept rewards, and Xianyang will also go to the northwest military camp to reward and reward the soldiers who have obtained military merits.

It seems to be chaotic but methodically busy, and the time is almost hour.

"Now Henan has been pacified, the Xiongnu royal court has been broken, Touman has been killed, the Xiongnu tribes have lost their heads, and the chaos will be, I think that at least for a few years, the Xiongnu will no longer have the strength and courage to mess with my border, but at present, my northwest counties have also garrisoned 300,000 soldiers along the border of the Great Wall and a million soldiers from the six countries ago, these soldiers consume a huge amount every day, which is really an extremely heavy burden for my Great Qin, do you have any good ideas to deal with these million soldiers?" Qin Shi Huang looked at the civil and military officials below the court with a calm face.

Many ministers looked at each other, and then looked at each other and pretended not to hear, everyone knew that this million soldiers were a burden, but no one wanted to touch them.

Because these are the soldiers of the former six countries, they are strong soldiers with swords, guns, bows and arrows, and no one can afford to deal with it badly, so it is best to treat this kind of thing as a turtle with a shrunken head, the emperor himself worries about it, and he can do what he loves, and the emperor pulls his beard when something happens.

Therefore, including Li Si, who likes to dictate and formulate rules on national policies, they are like deaf and blind people, turning a blind eye and hearing a deaf ear.

Looking at the drooping head above the court, Qin Shi Huang twitched a few times and said, "I want to release these soldiers......"

"Your Majesty, no!" Before Qin Shi Huang finished speaking, Li Sifeng stood up and stopped loudly almost at the same time.

"Why not?" Qin Shi Huang said with a majestic face.

"Your Majesty, these million soldiers are all soldiers of the former Six Kingdoms, not ordinary people's pawns, the land of the Six Kingdoms is still turbulent at the moment, and once released, it may cause disaster!" Li Si replied with an unusually serious expression.

"Your Majesty, what Li Xiang said is extremely true, these soldiers can't be released!" Feng went to the top sticker.

"The ministers seconded it!" A group of ministers all stood up and put it up.

"Do I want to let these million soldiers lie on my body like leeches to suck blood, my equipment of three million stone grain can sweep Henan, but I have to keep them for consumption day after day year year after year, I will never allow it, you Aiqing, who can come up with a way to satisfy me, I will reward hundreds of acres of grain fields and increase the food of thousands of households."

The so-called heavy reward must have a brave man, and soon a military general stood up and said: "Your Majesty, in fact, the best way is to adopt Wu Anjun's strategy to defeat Zhao in the first place......"

"Yes, dig a pit and bury it once and for all!"

"Xiong Shanhou is reasonable, now there is a new type of horse equipment, and this time Henan and Hebei two big victories, eradicating the danger of the Huns is close at hand, this million soldiers are indeed useless, keep the food in vain, it is better to kill the pit to prevent future troubles......"

For this barbaric era, in fact, killing people is not too much psychological burden for anyone, down to the peddlers and pawns, up to the princes and princesses, there has never been the concept of human rights, except for some great sages, almost no one has too much awe of life, and if it is not for the prohibition of fighting by Qin Law, it is estimated that there are people on the street all day long, and the reason why Qin Law prohibits brawls is not because of respect for life, but for social stability, and does not let people fight and disturb public order.

The civil and military officials exchanged in a low voice, and the hall was buzzing, and soon most of the people reached a unified opinion, and agreed that it was more appropriate to dig a pit and bury it, which would save trouble and effort, and also save food and brains, because once killed, no one would have a headache about this matter.

"Do you Aiqing have any other good ideas?" Qin Shi Huang's face did not move.

"Your Majesty, these million soldiers are useless, and it is useless to keep them and consume food in vain, so it is better to follow the policy of Xiong Shanhou and kill them to prevent future troubles!" Feng Qujian arched his hand.

"The ministers seconded it!" Almost all the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty stood up.

"That's good, Taishi Ling's intentions!" Qin Shi Huang nodded, and a middle-aged scholar next to him immediately picked up the brush.

Originally, drafting the decree has always been the work of the CRRC government order, but Jiang Heng was dismissed and imprisoned because of Zhao Zhe's affairs and is still under investigation, and as the closest minister who controls the seal handle for the emperor, this position is still vacant at the moment, and before Jiang Heng is Zhao Gao, Zhao Gao has been in the position of the CRRC government order for nearly 20 years, and the biggest reason is because Zhao Gao wrote a very beautiful calligraphy.

Qin Shi Huang is a very face-saving emperor, from his tour of the country everywhere to erect stone monuments to promote their merits can be seen, emulating the three emperors and five emperors to seal Mount Tai, but also he tried to elevate his status to the point of three emperors and five emperors side by side, and all these places are written by Li Si, because Li Si's words are also very good.

Qin Shi Huang himself never inscribed, it is estimated that the writing is very ordinary, which is completely different from the hobby of the leaders of later generations who write ugly words but like inscriptions, and it can be seen from here that Qin Shi Huang is indeed a true person.

Xiao Seal was improved by Li Si and Zhao Gao, so these two people can be regarded as the originators of Chinese calligraphy.

Therefore, the position of the CRRC decree was vacant, and Qin Shi Huang had to use another calligraphy master who participated in the improvement of the Qin seal at the beginning, Taishi Ling Hu Wujing to help temporarily, and many edicts were usually written by the emperor after the Taishi Order, and then passed down after the CRRC Mansion Decree was sealed.

Hu Wujing knelt in front of a small desk next to him, opened a blank silk book, and waited for the emperor's order.

And the civil and military ministers below also breathed a sigh of relief, with a relaxed look on their faces, as long as the emperor's pit killing order came out, the millions of soldiers would disappear in an instant, and there was no need to worry about this hidden danger anymore.

As for Tu Sui, the Marquis of Xiongshan, who made the suggestion, he was already a little excited and a little swaying, fifty tilts of good land, and thousands of households in the food area, this is the highest reward that can only be obtained after winning the war, and now he has obtained it so easily, he can't help but be excited.

"Appreciate 50 hectares of grain fields in Qinghehou, and increase the number of households in the city!"

"Huh?!"

Chao Wenwu suddenly staggered from side to side, and almost fell crookedly.

Hu Wujing, who wrote the holy decree, shook his hand, and the brush poked a dark ink pattern on the silk book, and then hurriedly crossed out the words Xiongshan Hou behind the reward word and changed it to Qinghe Hou.

Xiongshan Marquis Tu Sui was puzzled, staring at the emperor with a pair of big eyes, his heart was in chaos, obviously he came up with a plan, why was it the guy who rewarded Qinghe Hou, this ...... There is no reason for this.

Qin Shi Huang didn't care about the surprise of his courtiers at all, his eyes swept the hall coldly, and then said: "I am not a person who is easy to kill, not to mention that these million soldiers were their masters back then, although they fought with my Great Qin, they were also loyal to the master, not a rebellion, now the six countries are all peaceful, the land of the six countries are all the land of my Great Qin, the people of the six countries are all the people of my Great Qin, all the sun and the moon shine, all are Qin soil, where the rivers go, all are Qin ministers, if I kill these million soldiers, how can I win the hearts of the people of the world, these million soldiers are all strong adult men." For agriculture, it can be said that Daqin cultivates 100,000 hectares of grain fields, for pawns, it can be a million troops, and for slaves, it can replace millions of people's servants......"

Qin Shi Huang directly moved out a set of rhetoric about Chen Xu's differentiation and surrender of pawns almost unchanged, and after speaking, his face became more serious: "Although this million pawns are the source of chaos, if it is handled properly, it should be a huge force for the prosperity of my Great Qin, Qinghe Marquis once said to me: The center can be obtained by force, but it cannot be defended by force, and it is a long-term technique to take it against the grain and obey it, and I think so, so at the beginning of the improvement of the harness, the Marquis of Qinghe played a book and proposed a strategy to divide and reduce the number of soldiers......

Nima dropped a gourd scoop, so it was, Tu Sui was extremely depressed and pressed Chen Xu to the ground in his heart and rubbed it desperately, and then sat down dejectedly.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty also glanced at each other a few times, and sat down one by one with frowns.

Chen Xu's strategy of dividing millions of slaves was originally thought up in a hurry because he was forced by Qin Shi Huang, but after all, his pattern is thousands of years beyond the current civil and military officials of Great Qin, and he has already jumped from a slave society to a human rights society, and the first thing that comes to mind is naturally not killing, this is the difference between him and the current Great Qin civil and military officials and even everyone, so in terms of disposal, it is natural to find a way to keep them alive, and then find a way to use it.

For Chen Xu's several differentiation suggestions, Qin Shi Huang did not agree with them all, this is also because of the huge generation gap in the thinking of the times, and Qin Shi Huang is still an emperor, he is more concerned about the stability of the Great Qin River, if these soldiers really make trouble every day, even if he is not good at killing, he will eventually one day not be able to bear it, just like burning books and pit Confucianism.

And after a few months of thinking, Qin Shi Huang combined with Chen Xu's differentiation and disposal strategy after a detailed and in-depth careful analysis, put forward a set of his own methods.

After listening to these disposal methods, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were finally convinced, and they all slapped the horses of Qin Shi Huang wildly, all saying that His Majesty was sage, so after a short period of court discussions, the edict of dividing millions of soldiers was also freshly released, and the three provinces and six ministries closely cooperated to spread the word to Meng Tian and the northwest counties to properly dispose of millions of soldiers.

The elderly and infirm are amnesty and returned to their homes, and the local county, county and township offices will raise funds and distribute clothes and distribute land and property, and treat them the same as ordinary people.

Those who are honest and responsible are amnesty, those who have families are allowed to return to their homes, those who have no families are allowed to distribute money and food tools, and they are allowed to settle down in the northwestern counties, and they are allowed to marry wives and have children as civilians, and they are treated equally with the people of Daqin.

Those who are strong and tame are selected to build cities and garrisons in the newly conquered land of Henan, and can intermarry with border people or Xiongnu women, and serve for a period of three years, and after three years, if there is no ill intention, they are allowed to be a citizen.

Some of the skilled archers and horses were filled into the military camp as slave soldiers, if they obtained military merits, they would also abolish the slave status to obtain the military status of the Great Qin, and then they could earn military merits like the soldiers of the Great Qin, as long as they were brave enough, the marquis did not dare to say, but earning an intermediate title to ensure that the family had no problems at all.

Most of the remaining uncertain pawns were all reduced to slavery, sent to the border barren and bitter cold land to reclaim the wasteland or to build a gallop post road, and some were directly sold to merchants as slaves to mine and smelt iron, these people are close to 600,000 people, and once these people are dispersed into all walks of life in Daqin, they will definitely replace a large number of people to become a construction army.

As for those diehards of the Six Kingdoms who had always been dissatisfied with Great Qin, Qin Shi Huang was also unkind, and directly ordered Meng Yi to kill a group of people to deter the rest.