For such a small trouble, Meng Tian didn't take it seriously, but immediately sent out a team of people to see what was going on in that city, and then he didn't pay attention to this matter, but focused on the finishing work of dealing with this epidemic.

But after a period of time, the news that came back made Meng Tian and Lu Jia pay a little attention.

According to the feedback of the people they sent, when they arrived there, they found that the people who had allegedly gathered in the city had left, and the whole city had become an empty city.

The man who was sent inquired all the way, but finally found that their group of forty or fifty thousand people had disappeared into the territory of the Huns.

After checking this, the person naturally couldn't continue to investigate, so he returned to Hua's City and told Lu Jia and Meng Tian about it.

"Entering the territory under the jurisdiction of the Huns, then I will send someone to ask the Huns to see if they have found anything, such a team of people and horses cannot be underestimated!"

Because at least forty or fifty thousand soldiers appeared in the territory of the Mauryan Empire, Lu Jia and Meng Tian were still very concerned, so they sent people again, and Lu Jia personally wrote a letter and sent it to the territory where the Xiongnu were located.

But Xiang Yu, who received the letter, was also confused, because he didn't know that there had been so many people in his territory, because it was a letter written by Lu Jia himself, so Xiang Yu still attached great importance to it, and sent people alone to check on those places that he had not had time to occupy, and finally came to the conclusion that he had not found such a large army at all.

"Could it be that Daqin wants to test my Huns?"

With such a question, Xiang Yu personally wrote a letter to Lu Jia, saying that he had not seen such a large group of men and horses in the territory.

In fact, Xiang Yu didn't see Hu Hai and the large group of people led by them is also understandable, although many Xiongnu tribes have already arrived in this land, but the management of the Xiongnu is very loose, this time a lot of cities have been obtained, many tribes have entered the city, for a while the freshness has not passed, so no one cares about the large open space outside the city.

Hu Hai they saw such an opportunity, so they sent people to the front station first, determined a road from the territory occupied by the Xiongnu to Seleuc, and then took advantage of the night to rush all the way over, after the past, they also ordered a team of men and horses to clean up the place where they passed, in order to prevent Xiang Yu from seeing any traces, it turned out that these actions played a very important role.

"The Huns didn't even know about it? Forty or fifty thousand men and horses entered the territory under the jurisdiction of the Xiongnu, how could the Xiongnu not know at all? In my opinion, they must be hiding something from us! ”

"Yes, I'm afraid that Xiang Yu is colluding with forces who don't know where? Their territory is connected with the Seleucid Dynasty that attacked the Mauryan Empire before, so what is the connection between them? ”

As soon as Xiang Yu's reply arrived in Hua's City, some officials of Great Qin didn't approve of this matter a little. There are all kinds of guesses for a while, anyway, basically they don't guess the Huns to a good place.

In fact, a discerning person can see at a glance that when they work together to do something that is beneficial to both sides, Daqin and Xiongnu will not find fault with each other, but once they enter the days of peace, when the common enemy of both sides is gone, the suspicion between them will definitely be shown.

But Meng Tian and Lu Jia, who are now in the game, obviously didn't realize this problem, and after listening to the suspicions of many officials, Lu Jia cleared his throat and said: "Although this matter may indeed appear in the territory controlled by the Xiongnu, but it is also because my Great Qin has not occupied those places, and now I plan to quickly send troops to occupy those places, if there are officials and soldiers of my Great Qin stationed in every city of the Peacock Dynasty, only in this way can this kind of thing be prevented!" ”

Although Lu Jia's attitude is not wrong, it is reflected in the hearts of the generals and officials under his command, that is, Lu Jia also thinks that this matter is related to the Xiongnu, but now Daqin should not pursue it.

The relationship between Daqin and the Xiongnu was detached little by little from the previous honeymoon period without both parties realizing it. Of course, there are also deliberate elements of Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng.

This time, under the consultation and planning of Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng, they completed this strategy of killing three birds with one stone in just a few months after reaching the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty, not only obtained the command of more than 30,000 mercenaries on the territory of the Peacock Dynasty, gathered many high-ranking caste families of the Mauryan Dynasty with resources and wealth, and obtained a place where they could temporarily take a breath and develop, but also laid a big trap in the relationship between Great Qin and the Xiongnu.

Of course, neither the Xiongnu nor Daqin knew about all this, according to the discussion between Lu Jia and Meng Tian, the search for Zhao Cheng and Hu Hai should be carried out after completing the impact of the epidemic, after all, Hu Hai and Zhao Chengcheng are those two people, even after arriving in the Peacock Dynasty, they don't even understand the language, so naturally they can't do anything.

But what they don't know is that it is their underestimation of Hu Hai again and again that has brought him step by step to this level.

When Daqin and Xiongnu were suspicious of each other, Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng had already arrived at the territory of the Seleuks with their team without danger, and after stationing the team outside the city, the two rode to the Seleucus capital to meet Antiochus III, because whether they could finally get what they talked about before would depend on Antiochus III.

"Your Majesty, now we have successfully brought the people and horses that we had gathered before, with a total of more than 30,000 sergeants, more than 20,000 people from high-ranking caste families, and nearly 1,000 carts of finances. I don't know how the king thought about the settlement of us? ”

By this time, they knew that they couldn't fight with Antiochus III, that you had already taken people and things to other people's borders, and if they wanted to swallow your little thing, it would be basically a matter of minutes.

Although according to the previous observations of the two of them, Antiochus III should not be such a short-sighted person, but before the matter was settled, they still did not have the slightest sloppiness.

"In this case, it is naturally according to what we have negotiated before, and the matter of guarding the city adjacent to the Peacock Dynasty will be handed over to you, but there is one point, once it is attacked by the Xiongnu or Great Qin, I will not directly send troops to support, and your 30,000 soldiers must at least play some of the roles they should play."

"Oh? What does the king mean that we can really make a covenant with Seleuc? ”

"That's natural, but don't forget what you promised. If you can't make the Xiongnu and Great Qin quarrel within a few years, you won't be able to control my Seleu land for a long time. ”

These warnings from Antiochus III were reasonable in the eyes of Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng, after all, if they regarded this city as a place for their own pleasure and retirement, the Seleuces would not even get anything, and although the wealth brought by those high-ranking castes of the Mauryan Empire was not a small amount now, it would not play a very big role in the long run.

"That's nature, that's nature."

Facts have proved that Antiochus III is still very faithful to his promises, or he simply feels that such a mere Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng plus the little people under them are not worth his attention at all.

On the same day, Antiochus III signed the covenant they had negotiated with Hu Hai on behalf of his dynasty, and with this covenant, Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng suddenly shook their spirits, and the two of them finally felt at this moment that their efforts over the years had not been in vain, and the days when they had been in the dark underground, or in the depths of the dense forest where they could not see a single figure at all were finally about to be gone forever.

When they hurried back to the city, they found that the soldiers and many of the people who had been stationed in the city had begun to evacuate, apparently to make room for them to do their proper job in the land.

Of course, when Hu Hai handed over to the guards in the previous city, they took away all the wealth brought by sixty or seventy percent of the high-ranking castes, which made these high-ranking castes feel a lot of pain.

But for appeasing them, Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng were from noble backgrounds, and they were still very good at it, they looked in the city and found that the scale of the city would be quite good, and some of the Seleucians who had previously had good status were all withdrawn with the defenders, leaving only some civilians.

Under such circumstances, Hu Hai divided all the large and small mansions according to the number of those families and the amount of wealth they brought, at least to ensure that each high-caste family still had its own courtyard and a considerable number of rooms.

After that, Hu Hai used a small part of his wealth to hire a lot of poor people who stayed in the city, and made them become attendants of those high-ranking caste families, which was an operation to stabilize the city under his jurisdiction.

In this way, although those people of the high-ranking caste are not as favorable as before, they still don't know how much stronger they are to be turned into ordinary people by Great Qin after staying in the Peacock Dynasty, so these people are still grateful to Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng.

The changes in this small city in Seleuc can not be seen by anyone outside, but as everyone knows, it has changed the court, and no one knows that the two people in charge here are the two people that Yinggao wants to catch the most.

After the plague this time, Lu Jia's letter was sent back to Xianyang City almost ten days later, and the purpose was naturally to let Yinggao know how far the plague had progressed this time.

Finally, after waiting for three or four months, Yinggao's last letter from Lu Jia finally showed that this time the incident had basically passed, although it basically caused the death of at least hundreds of thousands of people of the Mauryan Dynasty, but fortunately it did not cause more serious consequences.

"Hu Hai still hasn't been found?"

In almost every reply to Lu Jia, Ying Gao would ask if there was news of Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng in the back, but what made Ying Gao very puzzled was that since Lu Jia found the ship, Hu Hai and Zhao Chengcheng seemed to have lost traces from the Mauryan Empire.

Of course, it is basically certain that they did not die in this plague, because according to Lu Jia's order, almost all the corpses were found and burned by the army of Great Qin no matter where they were, and not far from the place where the ship was found, the bodies of twenty or thirty Nanyue people who died because of the plague were found, and these corpses showed that they were the people who went to the Peacock Dynasty with Hu Hai and Lu Jia, but they were only infected with the plague, if Hu Hai and Zhao Chenghe were infected with the plague, Their bodies must have been easily identified.

According to the assumption of Ying Plateau, because Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng were the faces of the Great Qin people who were relatively rare in the Peacock Dynasty, then the people in the places where they appeared must have a very deep impression of them, so as long as they were still in the territory of the Peacock Dynasty, it was very easy to find them.

But now that many months have passed, such an easy thing has still not been completed under the organization of Lu Jia and Meng Tian, two great talents, which can't help but make Yinggao think about it in a not very good place.

"Could it be that Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng fled to some place where Lu Jia and Meng Tian couldn't go?"

As soon as this idea came out of Yinggao's head, a person immediately appeared in Yinggao's head, and after thinking about it for a while, Yinggao stood up and walked around a few times, obviously making up his mind.

That night, Yinggao called Han Xin and Xiao He to him, and said something in front of his cronies that he had just decided in his heart.

"What? The king wants to go to the capital of the Mauryan Empire to go on a tour? Is this unacceptable? It's just in the territory of my Great Qin, but the Peacock Dynasty, my Great Qin hasn't been completely controlled yet! ”

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