The private room is very large, divided into two rooms inside and outside, the outside is the dining room, with a round table and high-backed chairs, the inside is a chess and card mahjong room, there are plant potted plants and tea sets on the table, as well as musical instruments such as Qin Zheng and Xiao Se, the wall and the top wall are hung with various glass lamps, under the bright lights, the whole private room is luxurious and very magnificent.

When Li Xin came in, Yuan Kun was already waiting inside, and after a few words of simple conversation, the two heard a burst of footsteps outside, and soon the supervisor brought in a middle-aged man wearing a gorgeous costume and a jade crown, who was Sun Shujiong, the secretary of the Academy of Sciences and the head of the experimental factory.

"Kun has seen the manager!" Yuan Kun hurriedly stood up to greet him.

"Brother Yuan doesn't need to be polite, Uncle Sun Jiong pays a visit to Di Daohou!" Sun Shujiong and Yuan Kun bowed to Li Xinshen after arching their hands.

"Uncle Sun tortures me!" Li Xin hurriedly helped Sun Shujiong up with both hands, and at the same time sighed in his heart, this gift was the highest courtesy he had received since returning to Xianyang today.

Although Sun Shujiong is not a big official, and his status as a lord is too far from Li Xin, the characters behind him can be said to be as majestic as the snow-capped mountains in the Western Regions, and no one can shake them in Daqin.

"Uncle Sun, please!" Under the warm greeting of Li Xin and Yuan Kun, Sun Shujiong took a seat, and a little tea lady knelt on the ground to pour tea and wait.

"Uncle Sun was able to take time out of his busy schedule to come to the banquet, which made the officials grateful!" Yuan Kun said respectfully.

"Eh, how can Brother Yuan talk like this, you and I are colleagues in the Academy of Sciences, why do you need to be so polite to get along every day, today I can be recommended by Brother Yuan to have a banquet with Di Daohou, it is really a blessing for three lives, and today I must not be drunk and homeless!" Sun Shujiong was very excited to stop Yuan Kun's words.

In terms of official position, Yuan Kun is higher than Sun Shujiong, but in terms of status, Sun Shujiong is much higher than him, this is the difference in status brought about by the difference in status, a five-grade petty official of the Great Qin Empire went to the Liao Dynasty Liangxi Regions and other vassal states, and the local kings and prime ministers had to be careful to serve, which mainly depends on who he represents, so for Sun Shujiong, Li Xin and Yuan Kun did not dare to trust him, not to mention that there are still people to ask for help today.

After a polite discussion, the three of them began to drink tea and chat, from the various changes in Xianyang to the smooth road plan with an investment of four billion yuan, when Sun Shujiong asked about the origin of this sacrifice of prisoners, Li Xin did not hide it, and told the story of the Western Army's theft and sale of enamel equipment to the conquest of the Dayue clan.

"I believe that today I asked my uncle to invite Uncle Sun to the banquet, just to get some support, the suffering of the Western Army, only I and other soldiers in the Western Regions can understand, stealing and selling equipment is really helpless, if Uncle Sun can help, I am grateful!" At this point, Li Xin's cragging posture no longer has many options.

Feng Quji's bystanding, Meng Tian's reprimand, Meng Yi's lukewarmness, and the emperor's avoidance all made Li Xin feel a kind of helpless desolation.

And Xianyang's ever-changing prosperity is so dazzling and dazed in his opinion.

This peaceful and prosperous scene was bought by these soldiers with their blood and lives, but today it felt like a great irony to him.

These princes, princes, wealthy businessmen, and even ordinary people are enjoying what they seem to deserve, but who cares about the life and death and survival conditions of these soldiers who are stationed at the border and fight for their lives against the enemy.

If the soldiers of the Western Army were really severely punished by the First Emperor this time, I am afraid that the hearts of the army from top to bottom will be shaken.

However, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, and the emperor really wants to punish him, so he can only endure it silently.

Those who offend my Great Qin will be punished even if they are far away!

Recalling the boulder and the words on it that still stood on the banks of the great river in the west, Li Xin was slightly confused, and then sighed.

At the beginning, after he learned that there were such a vast world and countries in the West, Li Xin was excited, and always wanted to expand the territory for His Majesty and Great Qin through his own efforts, and finally be able to raise his title to the level of a top-level marquis, but since he conquered the Western Regions, he knew how far away all this looked.

Blocked by the snow-capped mountains and plateaus and the bitter cold desert of the Western Regions, it is almost an impossible task to conquer the West, the logistics and supplies cannot keep up at all, the soldiers cannot be replenished in time, the consumption back and forth is too great for the imperial court to support, and after they are stationed in the Western Regions, the imperial court has no news of attacking the West, and it seems that they plan to stop at the countries of the Western Regions, and then they will leave their two armies there to eat sand, and this stay is three years.

Three years!

It was a kind of helplessness and even despair that made those soldiers in the wind and sand raging environment all year round unable to see their heads, and they didn't know when they would be heads.

Many middle- and low-level officers and soldiers were asking Li Xin at any time when he would be able to unload his armor and return to his hometown, or when he would be able to fight with Westerners, but Li Xin could only smile bitterly and shake his head blankly.

Since the passion for conquering the Xiongnu and the Yue clan has passed, Li Xin has discovered that the gap between hope and reality is so big that it makes people desperate.

The room was very quiet, the three big people spoke, and the two little tea ladies couldn't understand, kneeling respectfully on the ground and waiting for the tea, but they could see that Di Daohou, the most noble marquis of Great Qin, was confused and helpless at the moment, and was sad to the point of despair.

"Master Hou, please drink tea!" A little tea lady raised her hands above her head, and after Li Xin took the teacup, she couldn't help but whisper, "The newspapers all say that if it weren't for Hou Ye and many soldiers defending the country, our Daqin would not be so prosperous and peaceful, Hou Ye has worked hard and made great achievements, and His Majesty will definitely be able to see it, so don't worry too much!" ”

"Oh~ha......" Li Xin couldn't help laughing after being stunned, stretched out his hand to lift the chin of the little tea lady, looked at this handsome and immature and slightly shy and scared little face and said, "You are just a little tea lady, and you dare to take care of the affairs of Your Majesty and Benhou, it can be regarded as bold!" ”

"The slave doesn't dare, please forgive the Hou Ye!" The little tea lady was frightened and lay on the ground and quickly kowtowed.

"It's okay, Ben Hou won't punish you, let's all get out!" Li Xin waved his hand to let the two girls leave the room.

"Hehe, such a smart and bold little lady, what Jiong wants to say has been rushed by her!" Sun Shujiong said with a smile while drinking tea.

"Uncle Sun, what do you mean by this?" Li Xin's face calmed down and asked in surprise.

The same thing is said in the mouths of people of different statuses, and it is completely different.

Celebrities say aphorisms, and ordinary people say it as a joke.

"This matter Qinghe Marquis once talked to us privately, thinking that it can be big or small, although it is not clear how to do it to exempt Di Daohou and the soldiers of the Western Army from responsibility, but also said that the root of this matter has nothing to do with Jingwu Marquis Di Daohou and Yinshan Marquis and many other commanders and generals of the Western Army, but because there is a problem with my Daqin's military system, if we don't eradicate the defects in the military system, this kind of thing will not only happen now, but will be more and more in the future, Di Daohou has ever known about the Yanmen Pass incident?" Sun Shujiong put down the teacup.

"Naturally, I have already learned through family letters, newspapers, and messengers, what does this have to do with what happened in our Western Army," Li Xin nodded suspiciously.

"Han Feizi once said that the embankment of a thousand zhang collapsed with the nest of ants; A hundred-foot room, burned with the smoke of the crevice. Qinghe Marquis said that the situation faced by the two armies of the Northwest Army is actually similar, it seems that the military discipline is becoming more and more slack, but in fact it is because the system of the Great Qin Army does not conform to the current national conditions, and the Marquis of Wucheng instigated the soldiers to destroy the Li Mu Temple without authorization, which is the reason for lawlessness, and the Western Army resells enamel equipment, which is the anachronism of the military lord's evaluation, but whether it is military law or military discipline, or the military lord's evaluation, in the final analysis, the essence lies in the military system and structure, under the premise that it is impossible to continue to implement the rotation of the border. If there is a complete system and laws and regulations to ensure that the soldiers can have the opportunity to receive military meritorious rewards and promotions even if they do not kill the enemy in war, then all kinds of contradictions at present can be easily resolved...... The rebellion of the Western Army began with the impetuousness of the soldiers, I wonder if Di Daohou thinks so? Sun Shujiong looked at Li Xin.

"Yes!" Li Xin nodded, and then couldn't help asking, "According to my Great Qin Meritorious Lord Law, all merits can only be obtained through military merits, and military merits can only be obtained by killing the enemy's army, but if you don't fight or kill the enemy, you can also get merit, this is not in line with the law, right?" ”

"The law is not immutable, since the law was set by Shang Jun, more than 100 years have passed now, and in the eyes of the Hou Ye, it is also a law to be modified......"

Li Xin suddenly realized when he heard this, it seems that revising and promulgating new laws is Qinghehou's greatest hobby, and now many of Daqin's laws and regulations have already been changed by Qinghehou's mess, and there are dozens of new laws implemented, including commercial law, criminal law, civil law, industrial law, field law, agricultural law and other aspects.

Military discipline has not changed in any way.

Could it be that the purpose of the Marquis of Qinghe was to promote the revision of military law?

Li Xin, as a general with both civil and military skills and a marquis who has been in the court for more than ten years, naturally quickly read the meaning of Sun Shujiong's words.

"Please also ask Uncle Sun to make it clear, how likely is this matter? How is the left minister going to arrange? How do I need to be? Li Xin's excited heart was pounding, and his mouth was a little dry at the same time.

"I don't know a little bit, but Zuo Xiang has already planned about the theft and sale of enamel by the Western Army, not to mention ......" Sun Shujiong looked at Li Xin and Yuan Kun with a smile and said, "As the saying goes, the law does not blame the public, and this incident was not done by Di Daohou alone, I heard that the Marquis of Yinshan has to be responsible, and the commander of the Western Army, Jingwu Hou, can also not stand idly by, so the Jiang Mengshi will not turn a blind eye, and will definitely find a way to suppress this matter!" ”

"That's right, but how dare you guarantee that they won't rely on me alone for this!" Li Xin smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Rest assured, they can't rely on this matter, Your Majesty is a Ming Jun, how can you not distinguish between good and evil, the Marquis of Wucheng can't escape the fate of dismissal, the Marquis of Jingwu, so Di Daohou is relieved that he has worked hard for a few years, and returned to Beijing to offer prisoners, this is a great achievement, why are you still worried about living your life, if Your Majesty is so black and white, isn't it the heart of the soldiers in the cold world, so recently Di Daohou should eat, drink, listen to music and dance, don't worry, and the court will see it in a few days!"

"This is what Qinghe Hou said?" Li Xin's heart trembled with excitement.

"Exactly, if Di Daohou doesn't believe it, you can ask Doctor Meng in private, this is what Zuo Xiang told Jiong before leaving Jingshi, saying that if Di Daohou returns, he will inevitably ask people to inquire around, so he asked someone to go to the Hou Ye's mansion to persuade him, but I didn't expect that today Hou Ye just came back and couldn't wait to invite Jiong to the banquet, this meal is indeed taken advantage of, hahahaha......" Uncle Sun stroked his beard and laughed heartily.

"It turns out that Zuo Xiang has already made arrangements, and the victim is still worried at home, in this case, today Ben Hou must have a drink with Uncle Sun, the wine and food have been prepared, Uncle Sun, brother, please!" Li Xin's nervous and anxious mood instantly subsided for the most part, and he stood up and invited Sun Shujiong to sit down.

"Di Daohou, please~" Sun Shujiong stood up, and the two walked hand in hand to the restaurant outside, while Yuan Kun followed with a confused face, as if he hadn't understood too much from this conversation.