In the next few days, the emperor convened the main officials of the imperial family and the six departments of the three provinces to discuss in the Zichen Palace, and even convened a large number of generals who were in the body of the Marquis of Wu to consult.

Therefore, although there were no more details about disarmament coming out of the court, the voice of the people was even louder, because it can be seen from these circumstances that the emperor was not unmoved although he rejected the disarmament recital in the court that day.

A few days later, in the northwest military camp, Meng Tian, a general dressed in a brocade robe and with a majestic face, was looking up under a blooming peach tree outside the big tent, and several bees were buzzing back and forth among the flower branches.

The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the geese flying in the south are broken.

Seeing the clear blue sky and white clouds through the sparse flower branches, Meng Tian sighed slightly.

The northwest was settled, and he had a bad premonition, judging by many signs, that he might leave the border that he had guarded for several years.

A home will come in a hurry from outside.

"General Yu, the second master sent a letter from Jingshi!" Jia Jiang took out a tightly sealed small bamboo tube from his arms and handed it to Meng Yi.

Meng Yi took the bamboo tube and carefully looked at the mud seal and seal stamp, and then nodded slightly: "You step back first, and order no one to enter the tent!" ”

"Huh~" The general clenched his fists and waved his big hand, and dozens of guards around him immediately surrounded the camp.

Meng Tian walked into the big tent and sat down, stared at the bamboo tube for a long time, and then pinched open the mud seal, poured out a piece of hemp pulp paper rolled together from the bamboo tube, unfolded it, and showed an extremely strange look on his face after watching it word by word.

"Dismantle the Northwest Army...... It's a pity that I have nothing to do with it! ”

"Report to the general, the Marquis of Wucheng has visited!" Outside the ledger came the guard's report.

Meng Yi's heart moved, put the letter in his hand into the furnace, watched the hemp pulp paper curl into ashes in the charcoal fire, then tidied up his clothes, picked up a volume of military books on the desk and said, "Please!" ”

"喏~"

"Haha, today's spring is blooming, and my subordinates specially invited the general to go to the Guanwai to ride a horse!"

In the hearty laughter, the young general who was also dressed in a black brocade robe strode in, burly and strong, about twenty years old, walking with a proud domineering spirit, it was the Marquis of Wucheng who killed the king of Donghu and awarded the knighthood.

Looking at this Che Hou, the youngest Marquis of Daqin, who was more than half younger than himself, Meng Yi's face showed an equally cheerful smile and stood up to greet him and said, "Ben Jiang also had this intention, I wanted to go to the Marquis of Wucheng, but I didn't expect the Hou Ye to come ahead of schedule!" ”

"That's just right, today's weather is fine, the spring cold has subsided, the flowers and plants outside the gate are already flourishing, hunt a few yellow sheep for barbecue for a while, and I have prepared some grape wine, just drink with the general!" Wang Li smiled and took Meng Tian's arm and walked out.

Soon hundreds of majestic Hun horses galloped out of the barracks, led by two brocade-robed generals, all around were followed by guards wearing leather armor, waist straddle swords, and long bows and crossbows, the horses' hooves flew like thunder with a stream of dust and grass clippings, directly from the open pass under the towering city wall, and on both sides of the pass, there were endless mountains and ravines, a group of people continued to rush along the canyon for twenty or thirty miles, the mountain gradually flattened, and gradually opened up in front of the eyes. It is an endless verdant and verdant grassland full of flowers.

It is now the end of mid-spring and February, and although the flowers in the Central Plains have already begun to wither, outside the Northwest Pass, the grass has just woken up from the cold winter, and the grassland, which has been silent for several months, has begun to bloom and bloom.

The grass is green, the flowers are blooming, and a thawing stream winds out of the canyon and flows down the shallow slopes of the grassland into the distance.

Herds of cattle, sheep and horses are scattered across the vast grasslands.

There are a large number of dilapidated yurts built along both sides of the stream, countless Hun captives are raising livestock, and there are many Great Qin soldiers with swords and leather whips at their waists patrolling back and forth, and from time to time there will be a few leather whips and loud scolding.

After entering the grassland, the group shouted and roared like wolves, and galloped along the stream to the grassland farther away.

"Haha, hurry~"

Feeling the cool spring breeze passing by his ears, looking at the old and young Huns who were hiding all the way to the panic, Wang Li laughed excitedly on the horse.

Meng Tian also galloped on horseback, gathering at a distance of only a few zhang from the king, the cattle and sheep scattered on the grassland, the yurt tents dotted like mushrooms, the sky and the earth were wide and unobstructed, and this unrestrained free gallop also made his mood slowly calm down.

Disarmament, it seems that the time is right, the Central Plains has now conquered this vast grassland and heaven and earth, decades or even hundreds of years, the threat of the Hu people has been completely swept away.

Although he didn't know where he would go, Meng Tian had clearly felt that he must be a far-sighted person who proposed a disarmament strategy at this time.

The chief Jiang Bu, a standard martial artist, is not familiar with this newly rising general, Meng Tian is not familiar with him, he only knows that he is Jiang Hu's subordinate, he used to be just a commander of the army, and he is not famous, because there are dozens of passes in several large camps in the northwest of Daqin, and there are more than 300,000 soldiers, and the captain does not know how much, Meng Tian does not know even if he has seen them, and Jiang Bu is not famous, it can be seen that he is not a martial artist of Wen Tao, he can only be regarded as a standard intermediate general, and he cannot be favored by him.

Therefore, Meng Yi wrote to say that it was the chief Jiang Bu who proposed the disarmament policy, and Meng Tian deeply doubted that there must be other people behind it.

And those who supported Jiang Bu's disarmament strategy were Jiang Hu and Li Xin.

For these two people, Meng Tian can be said to be very familiar.

Jiang Hu has always been his subordinate, and he used to be just a captain, but he was able to lead thousands of men and horses to defend a pass, very brave and proficient in strategy and the art of war, he is a middle-level general he likes very much, plus Mengshi and Jiang's business dealings, so when he conquered Henan last spring, Meng Tian deliberately promoted Jiang Hu to serve as the deputy general of the new horse pawn army, and sure enough, Jiang Hu did not disappoint him, and the soldiers made a surprise raid on Hebei, and killed the Xiongnu court to kill Shan Yu Touman, a perfect raid made the Xiongnu suffer heavy losses, also made Jiang Hu the Marquis of Yin Mountain, and led the Jiang family into the ranks of the top nobles of Great Qin in one fell swoop.

Aristocrats are privileged.

Since ancient times, there have been punishments that cannot be punished by doctors, and courtesies cannot be inferior.

The lord is above the doctor, and is not within the scope of the criminal law, and the crime of the nobles can only be judged by the princes or the son of heaven, and cannot be dealt with with by regular punishment.

And when it comes to the class of Qing and Hou, unless it is a rebellion, even if it is a rebellion, even if it kills, it will not be punished too severely, and this privilege can almost let the nobles do whatever they want.

Although Great Qin had strict laws, they were almost all aimed at civilians, and the death of the murderer, the punishment of the wounded, and the rape and robbery were all serious crimes, but none of these were suitable for the aristocracy.

Even in the Shang Dynasty, when the criminal law was the most stringent, on the surface, everyone except the king was treated equally, but in fact it was only a trick to fool the people.

Gongzi Qian was bewitched and killed many people, and Shang Ying, a disciple of the Legalists, just cut off his nose, and it was this small injury that directly buried Shang Ying's life.

The son of the Mo family's son killed someone, and King Huiwen wanted to exonerate him, but the belly said: The rules of the Mo family are that the murderer dies, and the wounder is punished, which is the righteousness of the world, if I favor my son, then who else in the world will believe in our Mo family, so the belly killed his son with his own hands.

But it is precisely the rule of the Mo family that treats everyone equally, which causes the disciples of the Legalists who advocate the rule of magic to be afraid, crowd out and suppress the Mo family everywhere, and finally completely attack the Mo family and disappear.

Therefore, the fundamental rule of magic is not equality, but rule, using the law to safeguard the interests of the king and the ruling class, and among them, the disciples of the Legalists are the biggest beneficiaries, they themselves have become the ruling class, become nobles, and can escape the punishment of the law after breaking the law.

But the way of heaven is natural, there is a supernatural force called the law of cause and effect, and the murderer is always killed, so Shang Ying's death, Han Fei's death, and Li Si's death are all not allowed to die well.

And the so-called aristocracy will eventually be wiped out by the rising new ruling class, stubble after stubble is like cutting leeks, and in the end only ordinary people survive tenaciously like Xiaoqiang, and the most humble people often live the longest, because their desires are small, so they bear the least cause and effect.

As the top nobleman of Great Qin, Montessori has escaped the punishment of the law.

Now the Jiang clan is the same, as long as they do not rebel, there is no one in this world who can threaten their existence, and the emperor will not easily punish them, after all, the interests of the Great Qin world are tied to these top nobles, and they will be both prosperous and lossy.

Therefore, with the support of the Jiang family, the emperor must not be cautious about disarmament.

And it is not only Jiang Hu who supports disarmament, but also Di Daohou Li Xin.

Li Xin's identity is completely different from Jiang Hu's.

Jiang Hu is a newly rising top noble, representing a force of the new aristocracy, but Li Xin is an authentic old Qin noble, the title of Marquis Di Dao is passed down, the title is more stable, even more noble than Meng Tian Mengyi's title, and has unparalleled appeal among the generals of Great Qin, because Li Xin and Meng Wu are contemporaneous generals, although Li Xin failed in the first battle of Chu, it does not mean that he can't do it, but he is not as cautious and conservative as a veteran like Wang Qian.

Now that Wang Jian and Wang Ben have returned to the field, Li Xin is one of the emperor's most important generals, not far behind Mengshi, sitting in Xianyang to stabilize the army's heart, once there is any trouble, Li Xin will inevitably be used to command the army.

Moreover, last year's two expeditions to Huns, Li Xin was the main general.

It can be seen from this that Li Xin's position in the emperor's mind is very stable.

The new-style horse pawns were formed with a total of 40,000 people, but although these 40,000 people were nominally under the command of Meng Tian, they were actually a separate army, led by Li Xin, Jiang Hu, Wang Li and Su Jiao, each of whom obeyed the orders of the emperor Hu Fu to mobilize alone.

In particular, the rise of Wang Li, after beheading the queen of Donghu, he was awarded the title of Chehou, and then appointed by the emperor as the deputy general of the Northwest Army.

Meng Tian is very sensitive to this change, that is, he is likely to be transferred out of the northwest soon, and Wang Li will take over the rule of the northwest army.

And once he is transferred out of the Northwest Military Camp, he has nothing to do with whether he is disarmed or not.

If there was no such change, Meng Tian would inevitably write to the emperor as soon as he got the news of disarmament, stating the need to maintain such a large army, but now, his horizons suddenly broadened, and disarmament may be the best strategy, because there is no need to maintain these hundreds of thousands of generals who only eat and do not work.

As a qualified commander who is proficient in the art of war, he is still very clear about the truth that soldiers are not expensive.

With the support of Jiang Hu, a new upstart in the army, and Li Xin, a veteran general, the matter of disarmament will definitely be put on the agenda for discussion in the court soon.

This is what Meng Yi wrote to tell his brother.

Even at the end of the letter, there was a vague mention of the Marquis of Qinghe.

Meng Tian naturally understood that the biggest driving force behind this disarmament should be Chen Xu, the Marquis of Qinghe.

And looking at the entire Great Qin world, perhaps only the Marquis of Qinghe had the courage and vision to propose a disarmament strategy.

Because the army is the emperor's forbidden territory, no one will touch it.

"Qinghe Hou...... The old man is really curious about you......" Meng Tian muttered softly involuntarily.

This legend is that the young man who is a disciple of the immortal family, the top nobleman who suddenly rose in the sky like a round of the sun within a year, Meng Tian has never met him, and he doesn't even know what he looks like, but through various rumors, there is a heroic image of a young man, like a god statue, poking in Meng Tian's mind, exuding a scorching light reflecting his soul, and his cheeks are constantly twitching slightly.