Zhao Tuo, the former military general of Zhao State, Julu Zhendingren, Wang Jian and Li Xin returned to Qin after conquering Handan, although they participated in the war to sweep away the Six Kingdoms, but they are not very famous, and now they are just a few more than a few levels, and there are several levels away from the Hou of Guannei, but now Wang Jian and his son have retired, Wang Qian, Wang Ling, these generals have also died, Meng Tian can not get out of the northwest, so there are not many generals in the hands of Qin Shi Huang who can really fight, Li Xin Tu Sui, these second-line generals who swept the Six Kingdoms have begun to become the main force, Zhao Tuo is also one, But because of the problem of origin, it has not been reused.

In other words, by this time, in fact, there were very few generals available in the hands of Qin Shi Huang.

In history, when Qin Shi Huang conquered Lingnan, there was basically no nameless general available, so he had to use Tu Sui and Zhao Tuo, but the result was that he could not adapt to the terrain and climate of Lingnan, and the battle line was too large, the grain and grass could not be helped, the soldiers and the prisoners who transported the grain and grass and the people were seriously unadaptable, from 219 BC to 214 BC, not only lost hundreds of thousands of troops and logistics personnel after the five-year war, but Tu Sui was also killed by the Yue people at night, this battle seriously consumed the national strength of the Qin State, causing the foundation of the Qin State to begin to shake, Although Qin Shi Huang later learned from the experience of Tu Sui's failure, and at the same time forcibly recruited the dead (deserters), sons-in-law (sons-in-law, generally referring to untouchables), and Jia people (merchants) marched with the army, and after occupying a place, they lived together with the local Yue people, so that the captured Baiyue land was slowly stabilized, but until the year of Qin Shi Huang's death, Zhao Tuo was still leading the army to fight with the Yue people, that is to say, although the land of Lingnan conquered and set up three counties, but in fact, the internal situation was very unstable, and the Yue people have been constantly resisting. This also made hundreds of thousands of Qin troops trapped in the land of Lingnan for a long time and could not get out.

After the death of Qin Shi Huang, Hu Hai came to power, and then soon broke out in a peasant uprising, and the news spread to Lingnan, probably because of the horror and fear of Hu Hai and Zhao Gao's indiscriminate killing of ministers, Zhao Tuo and Ren Huan discussed and directly became independent, controlled hundreds of thousands of Qin army to establish the Nanyue State, and ascended the throne himself.

Because Zhao Tuo's failure to save him also accelerated the collapse of the Qin Dynasty's rule, and it soon collapsed completely.

Qin Shi Huang would never have thought that the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains he had worked so hard to fight would be completely defeated by Zhao Gao and his youngest son in just three years.

Chen Xu looked at Zhao Tuo, looked at Li Xin, looked at the surrounding ministers of civil and military affairs and the delighted and excited Qin Shi Huang, and looked at this ancient emperor who had influenced the whole of China for thousands of years, and his heart was silent.

He developed improved weapons for horse harnesses, hoping to change Qin Shi Huang's plan to attack Baiyue first.

If this plan can't be changed, let him know that in the end rely on the construction of the spiritual canal to solve the dilemma of transporting food, but he can never change the climate and topography of Lingnan, and the situation of unsuitable water and soil can never be solved, even if he invents muskets and cannons, if he wants to completely gnaw the territory of several provinces in the hot and humid south where the mountains and rivers are densely covered, he still has to rely on human lives to pile it out, and it is absolutely impossible to conquer it in two or three years, and even if he is conquered, the Baiyue people still do not accept the king. It needs to consume a large number of troops to defend, and this chicken rib land is not much use for Daqin at the moment, the Central Plains is the center of gravity of China's development, even in later generations, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other provinces are still poor and remote places, and the development is very slow.

"The Jiangfu order obeyed the order, and the Qinghe Marquis increased the number of households, with a reward of 200,000 yuan, 100 brocade horses, 5 fur cars, 10 pairs ......of jade, 100 horses, 200 slaves, and 20 concubines."

Listening to Qin Shi Huang's sudden series of rewards, the accompanying civil and military officials were all shaken, and countless people showed horror on their faces, but most of them were silent, of course, some of them were full of envy, jealousy and hatred.

"Marquis Qinghe, don't thank Your Majesty for the reward?" Li Xin, who was standing next to him, looked at Chen Xu, who was stunned, and couldn't help but gently pull Chen Xu's arm.

"Oh, thank you, Your Majesty!" Chen Xu woke up and hurriedly saluted, and at the same time couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, and said in his heart How comfortable I am alone, you reward me with so many horses and slaves, how should I be placed in a hundred horses and more than 200 people, and eating and drinking Lazar is also a lot of expenses, is it okay to waste money and food? This is obviously the rhythm of eating Lao Tzu poor.

However, as soon as the first emperor's mouth was opened, and he did not add officials to the knighthood, these things were not easy to shirk, and they could only be accepted.

"Yingbu, the manager of the Security Department of the Academy of Sciences, because he dealt with the fire and arrested the wrongdoers in time, did not cause a major disaster, and he was meritorious in training new horse harness and weapons, and he was rewarded with a sixth-level official doctor, promoted to Langzhong, and held the rank of lieutenant, with a reward of 50,000 yuan, and other seals and rewards should be the same as the old practice."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Yingbu knelt on one knee, his face flushed with excitement.

"The smelting craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences have won the battle of refining steel, rewarded 20,000 yuan, rewarded three horses, rewarded five slaves, and was promoted to the iron official of the Inner History Mansion, in charge of my Daqin iron and steel smelting, and other Fangtian grain products respected the old example!"

"The blacksmith of the Academy of Sciences has made a meritorious contribution to the creation of new weapons, a reward of 20,000 yuan, three horses, five slaves, and a promotion to a craftsman as a military officer of the Shaofu, and other rewards respect the old example!"

"The two craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences who participated in the manufacture of saddles will be rewarded as above, and all the craftsmen who participate in the smelting, making horse harness and weapons and participating in the drill will be rewarded with a first-class reward of five thousand, and other rewards will be rewarded with five hundred according to the regulations, and all the workers and slaves shall be doubled in their daily rations and shall not be deducted!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Several forbidden soldiers who participated in the drill all knelt on one knee in unison, and they were all inexplicably excited.

After the reward was completed, the drill of this new equipment could be regarded as a perfect end at this time, and Qin Shi Huang called the court captain Yin Wu, who was interrogating the wrongdoers, with a gloomy face.

"Captain Ting, how is the interrogation?" Qin Shi Huang's voice was not loud, but the entire training ground heard it clearly, and it was like ice in his ears, and the civil and military officials standing in the cold wind couldn't help but shiver collectively.

This voice has not been heard for a long time, and it is a prelude to the emperor's desire to kill.

"Your Majesty, after separate interrogations, several of them have already confessed that the last revision of the iron-making furnace drawings and today's arson were all instigated by Zhonglang Shangqi!"

"Zhonglang Shangqi, where are the people? Arrange for the forbidden army to be arrested quickly! Qin Shi Huang was furious.

"Poof~" An official in the crowd directly knelt on his knees and grabbed his head on the ground and shouted: "Your Majesty, the courtier Shang Qi is not a wrongdoer, and please ask your Majesty to find out the reason, don't be falsely accused!" ”

"Shang Zhong?" Qin Shi Huang was stunned for a moment, and his face instantly became cloudy.

"Your Majesty, if it is not a false accusation, the two waiters who participated in the conspiracy to set fire have already explained that they were indeed instructed by Shang Qi, and the time and place of the instructions are also clear!" Yin Wu said coldly.

"Tingwei, quickly send someone to arrest Shang Qi for interrogation, this matter must be investigated, tomorrow morning I must know all the causes and consequences, all the instigators and participants must not be missed, no one dares to conceal and cover, and I will destroy his three clans!"

"Oh~" Yin Wu hugged his fists and took his life.

"The matter of the factory Qinghe Marquis is properly arranged, tomorrow morning Chao I will definitely give you an explanation and return to the palace!"

Qin Shi Huang waved his sleeves, with a few horns blowing, the thousands of forbidden troops on guard around quickly converged, Lieutenant Lu Huan led three thousand lieutenants to open the way in front of the forbidden army, the long halberd stood and kicked out of the factory gate, and thousands of forbidden troops of the Weiwei Mansion also rode horses to escort the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, and soon the long procession followed along the way and returned to Xianyang City along the Wei River.

After the emperor's carriage and horses went away, Tingwei Yinwu arranged for the forbidden army to escort more than a dozen unscrupulous people and Zuozhong Hou Shang Tu away.

The huge factory was soon empty, and when Chen Xu spread the emperor's reward to the entire factory, whether it was Gong Sheng, Ma Pole, or all the craftsmen and slaves, they all cheered.

"Thank you, Master Hou!" Countless people knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Chen Xu.

"Get up, work hard in the future, maybe soon everyone will be able to get the land and slaves, the food that can't be eaten can be spent and the money is spent, the wife and the beautiful family change their sleep every day, and the soft and sweet steamed buns are eaten one and lost the other!" Chen Xu smiled and waved his hand.

"Hahahaha......" almost everyone laughed excitedly, and then one by one they rushed into the workshop and began to work hard.

Chen Xu walked around the factory next to each other, and asked Yingbu to arrange for people to rebuild the grass huts and logistics and grain warehouses where the workers and slaves lived, and when everything was arranged, he was ready to go home.

When I go back, I have to prepare for the news tomorrow morning.

The next thing to do is to start large-scale smelting of steel, recruit craftsmen throughout the country to build harnesses and weapons, and arm a cavalry corps of tens of thousands of people, which can not be done in a moment and a half, especially steelmaking and ironmaking, which is an extremely test of experience and technology, and it is best to compile a manual of steel smelting to facilitate large-scale promotion.

And once iron tools began to be used on a large scale, Daqin's productivity would be greatly improved.

Looking at Chen Xu who was sitting in the carriage, Yingbu stood next to him and stopped talking.

"Hehe, do a good job, the Academy of Sciences will bury your martial arts, and when you have the opportunity, I recommend you to go to the army to be a real captain, as long as you achieve combat achievements on the battlefield, it is a matter of course for him to become a marquis and worship the general, but now that the Academy of Sciences is just starting, you have to help me take a good look!" Chen Xu said to Yingbu with a smile.

"Master Hou, I'm ......" Ying Bu's face flushed.

"This is just the beginning, the title of Great Qin is honorable, and the reward is not obtained out of thin air, and the future title of wife and shadow son also depends on your own ability, but I remind you, remember to forget your previous vain thoughts, Great Qin has no king, even the Wang father and son who swept away the six kingdoms are just the honor of the marquis, if you have any two hearts in the future, you will definitely die!" When Chen Xu said the last sentence, his eyes became extremely cold.

"The subordinates don't dare!" Yingbu's frightened face changed drastically, and he quickly knelt on one knee.

"I don't know if you dare, but since you follow me, I will also be responsible for you, it is a good thing to have ideals, but don't get dizzy, manage the factory for the time being, notify me in time if there is anything, if you find that there are still unscrupulous people, take it immediately!"

"Yes!" Ying Bu wiped the sweat on his forehead and watched Chen Xu's carriage slowly move away under more than a dozen guards, Yu Wuya held an iron sword and glanced at him seemingly unintentionally, and then rode his horse to follow.