But Xi Zihui was also keenly aware that the counties under the rule of Zhu Lihua seemed to have been freed from the shackles of the patriarchal system.

Without the clan, there would be no law, and there would be no nobles and no common people attached to the land of the nobility.

Everyone here is not worried about not having land, and those people seem to be leasing the land of Daqin to cultivate, but after careful observation, he found that this kind of rented land is more like the private property of the people.

And Zhu Lihua and his subordinates turned a blind eye to this situation, and didn't pay much attention to it at all, as if it should have been like this.

And Xi Zihui vaguely felt in his heart that this strange situation might be the original intention of Zhu Lihua.

Of course, this has something to do with the fact that the nobles of each county have almost disappeared, but Xi Zihui still suspects that when the nobles of each county return to their hometowns in the future, Lihua will return their land to those nobles who have disappeared.

If this incident just made Xi Zihui's heart feel a little inappropriate, then the fact that these eight counties were actually governed by ordinary officials made him feel that the world was spinning, like five thunderbolts.

Although Liang Qingshu, a young man who also made him feel very capable, was not an aristocrat, he was the person most closely related to Lu Lihua like Gao Yunce and Wei Yuanqi.

With him in charge of the civil affairs of the eight counties on behalf of Lihua, Xi Zihui naturally would not be too surprised. But every time he went to a county, he found that all the county officials were hard-working officials, and he was still surprised when the Shu people were untouchables.

Wouldn't this Lihua find one or two nobles to take charge of the county order, county lieutenant, and county magistrate to set the record straight, and let the Hanmen take charge of the affairs of a county in a grand manner?

In addition to being surprised, although Xi Zihui also admired the work of these officials, for the first time he had a different opinion of Zhu Lihua in his heart.

This view made him almost want to abandon and run away, is this Lihua going against the sky? Could it be that he, like those Rong people, wants to overthrow the ancestral system and let the untouchables turn the sky upside down?

In those days, Saiko Hui was in pain, but after some inner struggle, he still resisted the idea of escaping. Because he knew that Zhu Lihua was a complete nobleman, maybe these things were also done by Zhu Lihua as a last resort, or maybe they were instigated by the Shu clan who were born as poor officials as Gao, Liang, and Wei. So he had to do his best to help Lu Lihua.

In the years that followed, he gradually corrected his mentality, and also gained more trust from Lihua with his outstanding ability.

Those Iron Eagle swordsmen who returned anyway were recommended to Wenshui by Lihua and obtained military positions ranging from military marquis to thousands of people, which can be regarded as Lihua's promise to Xizihui. Moreover, Zhu Lihua ordered him to lead these Iron Eagle swordsmen to take charge of the Longmen military affairs.

It's just that Xi Zihui politely rejected Lihua's suggestion because of his acquaintance, but only hung the rank of captain and did not lead the troops, but just stayed by Lihua's side and played a role similar to that of a staff member.

And those Iron Eagle swordsmen have officially become middle-level generals in the Wooden Hedgehog Army since then, and they can be regarded as coming to the front of the stage from behind the scenes, from traitors who were hunted down to heroes who returned triumphantly from undercover in enemy countries. Therefore, they also have great respect for their benefactor Lihua.

In this way, half a year passed in a hurry, and just a month before the Shangdang fortress was completely completed, news of the end of the decisive battle between the two armies of Rongqi also came from the Gyeonggi side.

After besieging Xijing for nearly a year, the Rong soldiers finally conquered Xijing, which had never been attacked in history since it became the capital of the Qin State

A ruined city.

In this year, nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Qi State stationed in Xijing and the remaining 20,000 horses of the Yongluan of the Qin State were all wiped out, and the remaining soldiers and horses all escaped from Xieyu Pass after the Rong army conquered Xijing, and fled back to the mainland of Qi.

The Rong people followed and occupied Xieyu Pass in one fell swoop.

Xieyu Pass, since Yao Jun divided the seal is the frontier of the Qin State, this pass is surrounded by lofty mountains and mountains, only a width of no more than 100 steps, up to 100 miles deep Yellow Water Valley Road from east to west to connect the Qin State and the Eastern States of Xieyu Pass.

The terrain here is very similar to the Yinyan Gully to the east of Xiao Pass, except that the valley is narrower, and the mountains on both sides are many times larger than the mountains around the Yinyan Valley.

Therefore, the Qin State has rarely encountered other countries entering the Qin State from here in the past 500 years, and the land of several counties east of Xieyu Pass is often occupied by the Qin State.

To the east of Xieyu Pass, it was originally the land of the Zhou royal family, and when the countries encroached on Wangji, it was occupied by the Qin State. Its territory is also connected with the Qi State.

Since then, the two countries have been fighting over this land, and it seems that there is no certainty at all.

Therefore, people all over the world are accustomed to thinking that Xieyu Pass is the east gate of Qin.

After Gyeonggi and Dongdaemun were occupied by the Rong people one after another, the Qin state was completely cut off from other countries. In fact, everyone understands that relying on the remnants of the offices in Xia Zhong and Shubei, it is almost impossible for the Qin State to restore the country.

Moreover, the call of the Zhou royal family to call on the nations to unite against Rong suddenly stopped moving after the Rong people occupied Xieyu Pass.

Because all the countries have deceived themselves, the Rong people will not expand externally if they occupy the land of Qin. At least they won't loot the remnants until they digest the remnants.

After this idea of appeasement spread, the nations were indifferent to the complete occupation of Qin by the Rong people as if they were suddenly dumb, or as if the Qin State that had been fighting the Rong people alone for two years did not exist in the first place.

And the state of Qi is more like it has never clashed with the Rong people, and never mentions revenge again. Even in the past year, they have lost nearly 200,000 horses in that land. Even though, there are still 20,000 of their troops there, under the leadership of Wei Huan, who occupy the two cities of Xuchang and Binshui.

Everything has become the same as before, and there is still an ignorant and strong country east of Xieyu Pass, where the land nations have never dared to touch, and it was in the past, and it is even more so now.

However, the nations still quietly transferred all their soldiers and horses to the closest place to the Rong people, although they did not dare to take the initiative to attack for fear of annoying the Rong people, but they did understand the horror of that mysterious country.

When Lihua received the news that Xieyu Pass had been occupied by the Rong people, he had already gathered all his troops and horses at Quwo, Longmen, and Shangdang Huangtian Fortress.

In addition to Ji Lin, who still has 10,000 soldiers and horses, the rest of the counties have all been transported to the front line of Quwo Shangdang.

The reason why this was done was because Zhu Lihua also saw that the Rong people had no intention of going east out of Xieyu Pass.

Then what the Rong people will do next is naturally to digest the hard bones that exist in the land they occupy.

Every soldier who has been transferred to the front knows what important war awaits them in the future, and that war will completely change the fate of themselves and their country.

Moreover, what Lihua didn't expect was that Xu Chang took the initiative to contact the Qi people on the waterfront

They even begged the Qi people to send someone to take over the two counties, and they would help the Rong people to fight the Rong people, on the condition that they only ask Lihua to provide them with the food and grass needed for the army.

After unanimous discussion with his subordinates, he made a decision that the Qi people did not expect, he ordered 20,000 Qi captives to go to Xuchang with enough food for the 40,000 army to use in March, and sent a letter to Wei Huan saying that if he could repel the attack of the Rong people this time, then once the war was over, everyone under Wei Huan's command could return to Qi through the Huangtian Ferry, and he would return Gongzisi to Qi.

Faced with the temptation to go home and the Savior's great achievements, Wei Huan agreed to Lihua's request without thinking about it, because compared with helping the Rong people, Qin Jun of Lihua is the same Zhou people as he says, and he is more emotionally acceptable, not to mention that the eldest son is still in his hands, so he doesn't need to think about it at all.

Preparations for war are in full swing, and the scouts led by Wei Mu are constantly being sent out to explore the main movement of the Rong people in Gyeonggi.

However, Zhu Lihua did not wait for the news of the main army of the Rong people attacking, but waited for an urgent report from Wenshui.

A month ago, Shubei County was lost.

Although there are only 20,000 soldiers and horses who fled to the county, and the local soldiers and horses in Shubei County are only 30,000, everyone knows that the 30,000 local soldiers and horses are not of great use at all.

Although Wang Min also trained the county guards in the following year, they never experienced the baptism of the war, and how could their combat effectiveness be qualitatively improved in a short period of time.

However, Shubei County is full of mountains, and the Xiashui Basin, an economic powerhouse, is located in the southernmost part of the county, so the original hope of holding this county is far greater than that of Xiazhong County, which is attacked on three sides, but unexpectedly, before the Rong people occupied Xieyu Pass, the Yuanzhou army sent 80,000 troops south to raid Shubei County, and Wang Min was caught off guard.

Wang Min had no choice but to lead his troops to defend the pass by pass under the overstretched troops, but the Rong army did not fight with Wang Min at all.

Three of the four road armies besieged each pass, and the rest of the way picked up the cliff and went into battle lightly to detour through Cangdu County, an important town in Shubei County, these Rong troops were like divine soldiers descending from the sky, so that the defenders of Cangdu were frightened, and conquered the city in one day, and completely blocked the back roads of the passes in the north of Shubei County.

Subsequently, the army of this road went north to attack each pass from the back, and the rest of the three roads were attacked by the belly and back of the horses, and the forty-two passes in the north of Shu were less than two months, and eight counties. It is reported that Wang Min asked to lead the remnants of his 5,000 soldiers to escape into Shu at the Sword Pavilion Pass, and after being refused, he killed himself under the Sword Pavilion Pass.

After this battle, the remaining 60,000 troops of the Rong army had 20,000 soldiers outside the Jiange Pass bordering Shu, and the remaining 40,000 soldiers and horses quickly marched east along the northern foot of Xiashui and entered Xiazhong County to besiege the important town of Xiayang.

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"Lin Xu."

Zhu Lihua stared at the letter written by Zhao Zhihai in his hand with a solemn face, and whispered this unfamiliar name in his mouth.

According to the letter, Lin Xu was the commander of the Rong people's attack on Shubei County, and he personally led the strange army that crossed the moat to conquer Cangdu and disintegrate the garrison of Shubei County.

It is said that such a powerful Rong general should have been famous all over the world, but the name Lin Xu still made Yu Lihua feel confused, and he couldn't think of who this person was.

At this time, Xi Zihui, who was beside him, took two steps forward and came to his side, bent down and interjected: "General, Lin Xu is the leader of the Kunpeng Army. ”