Eastward.

The Qin people are going eastward.

For the Qin people at this time, eastward expansion meant adventure, casualties, and many unexpected things. But they will never know how important this eastward advance of the Qin people was to Chinese history.

It can be said that it is a major decision in the history of China.

"Child, grandpa didn't expect you to think so comprehensively at such a young age. I also think this is a feasible solution, so in your opinion, when will we start moving east? Qin Zhongwen opened the way.

Ying Kai said: "Grandfather, without further ado, before Rong Di does not return to the south, we still have about a month, and we will use this time to build at least two or three beacon towers to the east, so that the territory of our Qin people will invisibly expand more than thirty miles to the east." ”

When a tiger occupies a territory, it must circle around its territory every day to show its hegemony over this territory; When a hound occupies a place, he must sprinkle a soak of urine on it and swear the sovereignty of the place with his own scent; When a monkey occupies a place, he will definitely take all the female monkeys there under his command, and swear to the other monkeys that he is the overlord of the place by mating.

Of course, this is just the way animals occupy it, and the country is different, and to occupy a place, you must occupy the most important and iconic things of that place.

For the grassland countries, the grassland is the most representative thing, so the conquest between the grassland countries is mostly marked by the occupation of the grassland. But the Central Plains countries are different, the city is their most important and most representative thing.

If the Qin people wanted to occupy a larger place in Longxi, of course, they had to occupy the city, but Rong Di in Longxi did not have the habit of building a city. The Qin people did not have the advantage of occupying grasslands, so they thought of building a city to deal with Rong Di.

Don't you have no cities?

Well, brother will build it, and in the future, we will build a city in the whole of Longxi, and our army and people will be stationed, and I will see where you steppe tribes go to graze.

Sure enough, Ying Kai's words immediately aroused the unanimous approval of the nobles of the Qin people.

"Well---, you're right, we must build a few beacon towers before Rong Di returns to the south." Qin Zhong said affirmatively.

To say that Yingkai is really a good child, although he is not very old, his mind is more flexible than others, and the way he came up with is to be a little smarter than others.

Of course, with such a big fortune as the Qin people, if there are not a few people with a little superior wisdom, they can do it, and they all know that if they rush forward with their heads stuffed and rush hard, they will be wiped out sooner or later.

After affirming Yingkai's suggestion, Qin Zhong divided the labor among the children, "Yingqi, for your father, I ordered you to take three hundred soldiers to build the first beacon tower ten miles east of the dog hill boundary. At the same time as building the beacon tower, a simple city should also be built to prevent the Rongdi from sneaking attack. ”

Yingqi got up and said, "Promise ---, child will definitely live up to expectations." ”

Subsequently, Qin Zhong instructed his three sons, including Ying Bushou, Ying Zhao, and Ying Hai, in turn, "Each of you three will take three hundred soldiers and advance eastward in turn, building beacon towers and simple cities, do you know?" ”

Due to his young age, the young son Yingkang did not have the ability to take charge of himself for the time being, so Qin Zhong did not arrange things for him.

Ying Bushou and the others replied together: "Father, please rest assured, we will definitely live up to expectations." ”

Seeing that the children answered so affirmatively, Qin Zhong smiled and said, "Children, this is the first step for our Qin people to migrate eastward, you must be cautious in everything, be careful, and don't make any mistakes!" ”

Of course, everyone knew the importance of this operation, so they all nodded heavily.

Then Qin Zhong said to Zhao Zhou and Wang Kun: "Inuqiu Order, Si Nong Order, you two must do a good job of grain and grass reserves, and prepare food and horse materials for the soldiers who build the city. ”

Zhao Zhou and Si Nong ordered Wang Kun to get up and said: "Doctor, rest assured, this matter is a hundred-year plan of the Qin people, and we will definitely do our best to do this well and live up to the doctor's high expectations." ”

"It's late ---,at night, everyone goes back to rest, and there are still a lot of things to do tomorrow." Qin Zhong said to everyone.

Time waits for no man.

The Qin people, who have been in the narrow dog mound for hundreds of years, know very well in their hearts that the things that have been decided must be implemented immediately, otherwise once the opportunity is missed, if the next step is to redeem, I don't know what year and month it will have to wait.

According to the situation at that time, whenever there is a major event, there is generally a ceremony, just like today's opening of the hotel to set off guns, flowers, and a series of guest speeches.

Due to the long time at that time, there were no salutes and flowers, and it was difficult to find guests to speak, so they had to engage in feudal superstitious activities.

Of course, the feudal superstitious activities in the Western Weekend were not the same as those in the later period, because at that time, there were no monks who wanted to recite scriptures, there were no Taoist priests who wanted to make a god, and there were no gods and goddesses who wanted to dance.

Since none of this is difficult, don't you start work?

Obviously not, the groundbreaking ceremony at that time was mainly based on divination and asking the sky. The form of divination is also very simple, that is, take a piece of tortoise shell and roast it on the fire, and after the tortoise shell is roasted, look at the cracks on the tortoise shell, so as to judge the smoothness of the start of work or the master.

Simple, simple.

But it's such a simple thing, and the Qin people can't do it, because the tortoise shell is not easy to find.

Tortoise shell, as the name suggests, is the shell of a tortoise. Turtles are creatures of the sea, and it is difficult to find them in the arid inland areas where the loess of Inuqiu can produce a layer of skin.

Do you use pangolins without tortoise shells? Obviously, no, because that would be blasphemous.

Hey--, kids, there's no way to divinate without tortoiseshells, so you can just get to work!

That's what it is. Early the next morning, Ying Qi, Ying Bushou, Ying Zhao, Ying Hai and others took the soldiers out of the city to build strongholds and beacon towers.

After everyone left, Yingkai, who had slept all night, opened his eyes lazily.

After all, he had just come back from Guanzhong, and it was quite hard to come all the way, so Qin Zhong didn't arrange other things for this little grandson, and asked him to find something for himself and help a few uncles.

In fact, there is nothing specific to do, it is a matter of great discretion, so Yingkai lay down for a while, and did not get up until the third pole of the day.

Ying Kai looked around at his living conditions, the mud house, low, rustic, ugly. The "kang" made of adobe is covered with thick sheepskin and thatch for heating. There was a brazier in the middle of the room for heating, and the brazier that had been burning all night was about to go out, and it smelled of smoke and fire.

Oh--, painful!

Why is the gap between here and Guanzhong so big?

As the saying goes: It's better than not knowing, and it's more frightening.

There is another sentence that is more satisfying, that is, there is no harm without contrast.

Ying Kai, who originally lived in the small mountain town of Inuqiu, was immediately hurt after a trip to Guanzhong, and his thinking also changed.