There were two letters from the old troops, and Heff opened Liham's letter first, which included a description of the recent situation in the south, in addition to congratulating him on his birthday.

Liham elaborated on Qin Shi Huang's inspection in Yuzhang, the words he left behind, the "southern expedition to Baiyue" proposed by Yuzhang Shou and Wei, and the attitude of Heifu's old ministry on this matter......

"I hope I can become the main general of the Southern Expedition, return to Yuzhang, take them across thousands of miles, and take them to make meritorious deeds?"

After reading the letter, Heifu shook his head helplessly, he had heard about this matter from other sources, and Heifu could understand the thoughts of the old ministers.

However, although Lixian has Xiaozhi, after all, it is only a strategic idea at the county level, he has never been in the court, and it is too simple to see things.

Objectively speaking, Liham's analysis in the letter is actually very correct, the coach of the "Southern Expedition to Baiyue", Heifu is the most suitable.

First of all, it is that Heifu's knighthood is very high. In the Qin Dynasty, when appointing the chief general, the title was also an important consideration, although in the early years, there were examples of Bai Qi and Wang Yi leading the army as the commander of the left, but the tide rose, the commander's title was a little higher, and the three armies were also easy to convince.

Secondly, Heifu has a solid resume in the army, step by step from the tun commander, as a Sima of other departments, as a county lieutenant, as a deputy general, and Li Xin to fight the Huns, the battle of Huamachi, the battle of Henan, and the strategy is quite Wang Jian style.

Not long ago, there was a rebellion in Qidi, and Heifu was named General Pi, who was actually the main general, although he did not lead many troops, but he completed the task quickly and well, and set the rebellion of Linzi, and broke the thieves of the Tang Dynasty, cleanly.

Of course, there are many people with titles and resumes higher than Heifu in the court, not to mention Wang Ben, a great god, such as Meng Tian, such as Li Xin, who is already the Marquis of Guannei, and Feng Wuxue, who guards Yandi, is also a general.

But there is one more thing that no one can compare with Heifu, and that is the familiarity with the South!

The generals of the Qin Dynasty were all northerners, but Heifu was a native of Nanjun and was familiar with the southern climate and rivers. He also led his troops to capture Yuzhang, stayed in the south of the Yangtze River for a whole year, and climbed the Limen Fortress to look out at the tropical rainforest south of the Five Mountains. At that time, in order to understand the situation in southern Xinjiang, the emperor could not find other documents in the library of the Imperial History Mansion, only Heifu's "Southern Expedition" can be read.

Wang Ben has the highest prestige, Feng Wuxue is the oldest, Li Xin is good at cavalry warfare, and Meng Tian is better than Tunshu, but it is still too difficult for them to come to the old forests in the south to fight.

As for Tu Sui, Ren Huan and others, although they were all born in General Lou Chuan and had also stayed in the south, on the other hand, in terms of qualifications and titles, they were not as good as Heifu.

Considering the three points comprehensively, the commander of the Southern Expedition, the most suitable candidate, seems to be none other than Heifu......

But......

"Liham didn't think about it, the most important thing."

Heifu put down the letter and sighed.

"Politics!"

Politics, this is a very delicate thing, because of its existence, the choice will not only consider Sun Tzu's "wisdom, benevolence, faith, courage, and strictness". In many cases, the general is often not the best candidate, such as the first time to attack Chu, it is clear that Wang Jian is the most suitable general, but Qin Shi Huang stubbornly chose Li Xin.

It's not that the emperor doesn't know that Li Xin is inferior to Wang Qian, but out of political considerations, Wang needs to be pressed, and Li Xin needs to be raised to fight against Wang.

Today's Heifu, although he is far from having the same prestige in the army as Wang Qian, does not have the reputation of his father and son to destroy the Five Kingdoms. But he suffered a young loss, a thirty-year-old feudal official, a long man, which is really unprecedented. Heifu has been flying too fast in recent years, and he has participated in important battles in the empire, such as Saibei, Jiaodong, and now Baiyue.

"The emperor needs to check and balance his courtiers, it's a good thing, how can I take the ...... alone"

For Qin Shi Huang, many times, war is a continuation of politics, and as a politician, he would not do anything to disrupt the political balance with war, which in the emperor's own eyes is sacrificing.

Therefore, the most suitable is the least likely to become a commander-in-chief.

Probably in the eyes of Qin Shi Huang, letting Heifu be in charge of an army of 100,000 and hundreds of thousands at this time is not trusting him, but harming him......

Heifu also understands that after the rebellion, he returned the tiger talisman as soon as possible, and after returning to Jiaodong, he managed the civil finances wholeheartedly, and strived to make the new policy in Jiaodong practical.

In short, contrary to Liham's optimism, Heff felt that if the emperor decided to march south, he would not be in the position of commander at all.

Moreover, although many years have passed, Heifu's attitude towards the southern expedition has not changed!

After reading Lixian's letter, he shook his head with some disappointment and said: "Changsha, Yuzhang, and Huiji's county guards and lieutenants don't say it, after all, they are big officials, and they are greedy for Li Xin's breakthrough in Hexi, and Bashu is eager to plunder the interests of the Yue people and his subordinates, so they are utilitarian and blindly seek war." ”

Of course, it is not good to keep oneself behind closed doors, but under the stimulation of military merit, the border counties are provoking at the border, which is also a big problem in the Qin Dynasty at present......

"But whether it is Lixian or Dongmen Leopard, they all went to Limensai with me on the southern expedition, but they only considered whether to fight or not, and they didn't even talk about it, what a price it would take to lay down that land and conquer Baiyue! Before the war started, they underestimated the enemy, and everyone felt that Baiyue was a local chicken and a dog, and it could be easily destroyed, but in fact, was it really that easy to fight? ”

Thinking so, Heifu also opened the second letter, which was written by Xiao Tao alone.

Xiao Tao's words were only learned in the past few years, crooked, not long, the words are also very simple, and there are even a lot of typos, but Heifu only took a few glances and applauded the case.

"Finally, there is someone who understands!"

In simple words, Xiao Tao recounted his experience of keeping guard in Shanggan County and dealing with South Vietnam during these years. There is no shortage of businessmen in Yuzhang who went to South Vietnam to buy rhino horn, ivory, and pearls, all of which entered and exited through Limensai, so Xiao Tao was the most familiar with the situation in the south.

The land of Baiyue is vast for thousands of miles, not a no-man's land as people imagine, the Yue people have taken root there for hundreds of thousands of years, rice is harvested twice a year, wild things and wild fruits are very numerous, slash-and-burn farming and hunting and gathering, can also feed many people. Therefore, Dongou , Minyue, Nanyue, Xiou and Luo Yue add up to more than one million people, and all these tribes are soldiers, not afraid of death, just like Amazon soldiers, playing guerrilla in the jungle, if there are few soldiers, it is really difficult to fight.

But if you want to send a large army, you have to face two serious problems, one is transportation.

Xiao Tao said that the junction of Baiyue and the Central Plains is limited by high mountains, inaccessible to people, and the road is impassable, which is a natural barrier. Sometimes, the straight lines on the map are only more than ten miles apart, but in fact, they have to trek through mountains and rivers, and the distance is stretched to hundreds of miles, and those dangerous jungles are only familiar to local people, and the maps drawn by Qin merchants and merchants cannot be recorded in detail. From Yuzhang to the south, you need to go over the mountains and mountains, walk hundreds of thousands of miles, walk through the deep forest and bamboo thickets, and the loss is too great.

In addition to transportation, there are also climate problems, Liangguang is still a tropical rainforest at this time, there are many pit vipers and beasts in the jungle, there are no four seasons, only rain and drought. The rainy season is hot and long, not to mention northerners, even people from the Jianghuai area are difficult to adapt to, and they often get sick. Diseases such as vomiting, diarrhea, and cholera continue to be prevalent, and if the army goes south, it will be even more infectious, and it will die before the army is fought......

These problems were encountered when Heifu led his troops to attack Yuzhang, and the above problems will be several times more prominent!

Therefore, Xiao Tao, as a defender of southern Xinjiang, thinks that starting a war against Baiyue is as easy as it is, but it is very difficult to do, and if he goes to attack, it will only lose more than he gains.

In the midst of optimism, it is rare to have a person who can analyze the pros and cons, and Heifu couldn't help sighing: "Only Xiaotao's words are deeply in line with my wishes!" ”

He also felt that this battle would not only not allow Yuzhang and other places to profit, but would abruptly interrupt the good development situation in the south in the past few years!

At this point, Heif's attitude towards this war is very clear.

But then a wry smile crossed his lips.

"But my attitude, whether it is for or against, is it really important to the emperor?"

……

When Heifu exchanged letters with his old ministers, Qin Shi Huang's long tour was also coming to an end......

After leaving Yuzhang, Qin Shi Huang took the Hengshan Mountain, Fujiang westward, to Changsha County, met with Changsha Shou Tu Sui, and Yu Zhangshou and Wei, Tu Sui also asked the emperor to fight, saying that "Xi'ou enters the Kou every year to disturb Cangwu", and its leader also harbors the old Chu nobles, and Daqin must be punished.

Qin Shi Huang was noncommittal, saying that after returning to Xianyang, he would let the ministers discuss it.

After leaving Changsha, the emperor passed the Xiangshan Temple, this time, the Xiangjiang River was clear, Qin Shi Huang did not encounter a strong wind, so Xiangshan luckily did not anger Qin Shi Huang, and avoided being cut down by 3,000 prisoners and trees all over the mountain, exposing the red soil, as if wearing ochre clothes......

In the first month (October), Qin Shi Huang arrived in Jiangling, Nanjun, inspected the Dajiang Boat Division, and finally returned to Guanzhong from Wuguan.

In the thirty-third year of Qin Shi Huang, in the midwinter month (November), when the first frost and snow fell, Qin Shi Huang finally arrived at Baqiao and returned to the capital......

The emperor inspected this time, as long as more than a year, during which he promulgated a number of decrees such as the "Decree of the Book of Letters" and the "Order of the Pit Warlock", and decided to implement the Jiaodong model to the world, standardize the management of 100 private schools, focus on the study of agriculture and industry, and tighten the policy of local chiefs, which led to the assassination of Langya County and the rebellion of Qidi.

Although the assassination was a false alarm and the rebellion was quickly put down, the ministers who remained in Xianyang could not help but sweat for the emperor and the empire.

Fortunately, when all this happened, the core area of the Qin Dynasty, Guanzhong was still as safe as a rock, even if the world was in chaos, Guanzhong would not be chaotic.

Now that the emperor has returned, the ministers are inevitably relieved, and when they greet them at Baqiao, they are overjoyed, and they finally don't have to be afraid.

In his eyes, during the year of his father's inspection, the governance of the empire began to move farther and farther away from his ideal "royal road", and began to return to the "domineering" and "military road" of the past.

Regarding the ban on poetry and books, the restraint of a hundred schools, the rough policies of the homeland of the Six Kingdoms, the harsh measures to counter the rebellion, and the recent rumors that the emperor wants to send troops to Baiyue, there are a lot of admonitions to talk about in Fusu's stomach!

And the ministers and officials, through various channels, also learned that the emperor recently wanted to send troops to Baiyue, according to His Majesty's habit, even if he had made up his mind about one thing, he would still make the hundred officials talk about it, so as to rebel against public opinion.

But no one knows that the war that Qin Shi Huang, who was sitting on the dragon chariot and closing his eyes to recuperate, was not a ......

It's two!