Wei Yi's surprise made Zhao Zheng even more unhappy. As long as there are mulberry trees and silkworm seeds, silk can produce hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of horses every year, and the investment is just manpower. The Qin State has people, and the officials and slaves are not enough to work hard. But if Hu Shang didn't want silk and only gold and silver, it would not be something that could be solved by manpower.

The gold production area of this era was mainly in the Chu State, and the Qin State only obtained the Hanshui gold producing area after the Qin State seized the old Ying. It's just that the Qin State has had the idea of light gold, silver and heavy goods since the Shang Dynasty changed the law: 'Su Twelve Shi was born in the territory, and Jin Yi Liang died outside the country. If the country is good and the gold is in the territory, the gold millet will die twice, the warehouse will be empty, and the country will be weak. If the country is good and the millet is born in the territory, then the golden millet is born twice, the warehouse is two solid, and the country is strong. Even in the Han Dynasty, it was also believed that "the gold of Ru and Han is the subtle tribute, so it lures foreign countries to fish for Hu and Qiang treasures." ’

Gold and silver are only the smallest things, which are either exchanged for corn to enrich the cangfu, or used to lure foreign treasures (jade, glass). Now the Rong people and Hu merchants wanted gold and silver instead of silk, and Shaofu did not have much gold and silver, so this year Zhao Zheng had to order people to be sent to explore the new gold producing areas in the Qin state. At the same time, the imperial court will also expand the Tianshui Horse Farm to get rid of its dependence on the Rong people.

There is no shortage of horses, but horses that could be obtained by producing one-tenth of silk now cost ten times as much effort to raise. And the horses are all raised on their own, which requires a gradual process.

Zhao Zheng's displeasure Wei Yu saw it in his heart, and he hurriedly bowed to express his gaffe, but at this time Zhao Zheng's face was still gloomy, and he suddenly saluted Wei Yi and said: "Jing people's heart is not dead, but they sell silk silk to beg me not to profit." Today's dispute is the dispute between Qin and Jing, the world is not one in Qin, but one in Jing, Wei Qing must help the widow defeat the Jing people. ”

Since the Warring States period, it seems that every Qin king who has made a difference has a powerful minister who is extremely dependent on and expands the territory for Qin. Qin Xiaogong was Shang Ying, Qin Huiwen was Zhang Yi, Qin Zhaoxiang was Fan Ju, Qin Zhuang Xiang was Lü Buwei, Zhao Zheng gradually decided that the person he relied on was not Xiong Qi, not Li Si, but Wei Yi. Only Wei Yu can help him sweep away the Six Kingdoms and dominate the world.

"......Minister" Wei Yu was taken aback by Zhao Zheng's actions, he hurriedly avoided not daring to accept the salute, and solemnly bowed: "The minister respects the order, and my Great Qin will destroy the Jing Kingdom." ”

Zhao Zheng's courtesy allowed Wei Yi to expose his originally hidden heart. Through the tens of thousands of Hou spies in the Governor's Mansion, Wei Yu became more and more aware of the Kwantung States, and he did not think that the Qin State could not sweep away the Six Kingdoms, but was more sure that the Qin State would be able to sweep away the Six Kingdoms. The time for the rise of the Chu State is too short and too short, the number of the Chu army is too small and too small, as long as the plan drawn up is not wrong, the world will be unified by the Qin State.

Xianyang Shaofu arsenal, the trust between the monarch and the minister has deepened again, and the confidence in the great cause of reunification has increased by another point, and in the Zhao State Fanwu Shogunate, which is gradually autumn, Hu Shangfa called out and knelt in front of Li Mu with a handful of Zhao arrows picked up from the end of the white road.

"Why is the Great General here?" Fa Li asked with a call, he just came to see Li Mu to ask for an explanation.

"What is this?" Li Mu was inexplicable, his attention was all on Jing Cheng, and he didn't know what happened outside Gao Que a few months ago, and why Hu Shang in front of him was questioning.

"Three months ago, the caravan of troop armor was intercepted and killed by soldiers at the end of the White Road, and more than 20,000 sets ......of armor were seized," Fa Li said that he was ready to die, and if Li Mu admitted to taking the matter and killed him, the Sogdians would have to take revenge.

"More than 20,000 sets of armor have been seized?!" Li Mu jumped up, and his voice shook the entire shogunate. "Why don't you report it? Why didn't you report it? ”

The number of more than 20,000 sets of armor is huge, and there are only 100,000 sets of iron armor in the entire Zhao State. If the armor was taken away by the Qin people, the consequences would be unimaginable. Thinking of this, Li Mu couldn't care about it, he walked out of the big tent and said to the flying officer: "Tell Handan that more than 20,000 sets of armor from Hu Shang were seized by the Qin people three months ago. After speaking, he said: "There is also Shou Ying, tell Shou Ying, the Qin people took the armor of Hu Shang's soldiers." Where are the fox babies and fox babies? Summoning the fox baby. ”

Li Mu was a little flustered, although the war was over, he had been careful to guard the Qin people. Fa Li said that since he was a businessman, he was naturally good at observing words and feelings, and his intuition told him that Li Mu did not seem to be a fraud. But if this matter was really done by Li Mu, he must have been prepared for his arrival, so it is difficult to judge whether he is fake or not. He waited quietly for a while before Li Mu returned to the seat, and at this time Li Mu's heartfelt fox baby also came.

"The commander of Jiuyuan County once told me that he wanted to escort the caravan out of the fortress, but Bai Di was unwilling." Li Mu finally recalled the incident of three months ago. Naturally, this was not an official report, but a report from the guards he had inspected Gaoque two months ago. "This must be done by the Qin people, the four countries are united, and the four countries can buy the armor of the Chu State, if it is done by the Zhao army, what is its meaning? What is the use of more than 20,000 sets of armor for me? ”

"This is not my Zhao Jun's arrow." The fox baby took the arrow brought by the hair, which was the most commonly used two-winged arrow in the Zhao army, a copper and iron collar. "The arrows of the Zhao army were all exhausted in the previous year, and the most arrows used were the four-edged iron heavy arrows of the Chu State, followed by the three-edged bronze crossbow arrows of the Qi State and the Wei State.

The styles of weapons in each country are completely different, each with its own characteristics, the fox baby said that Zhao Jun had used up the two wings of arrows, and Nanito, who came with Fa Lihu, asked: "Dare to ask, how can it be proven?" ”

"Why?" The fox baby was a little unhappy when he heard this, and the Chu paper fan in his hand fanned a few times and looked at Li Mu.

Hu Shang has always been a friend of Zhao rather than an enemy of Zhao. Although silk could not be sold now, the Zhao State still welcomed Hu merchants. And Zhao Guo also wanted to buy a batch of horses - in terms of horses, Chu was stingy, Qi and Zhao both asked Chu to sell one or two male stallions purchased from overseas, and Chu was unwilling to live or die. Without selling stallions, the two countries want to send their female stallions to the state of Chu for breeding, but the state of Chu is also unwilling. In the absence of any choice, the two countries could only seek Hu Shang in the west.

For the sake of Maxima, Li Mu suppressed his unhappiness and said: "If you don't believe it, you can go to the army and the camp to have a look." ”

"Since the general has allowed it, the villain will enter the camp to take a look." Nanito was originally a merchant of the Yan Kingdom, and he was still in the Yan Land after the fall of the Yan Kingdom. Although the Sogdian merchants came from various families, they formed a network of business between the families.

"Are there no bodies in the ambush?" After Nanito left, the fanning fox remembered something.

"No bodies found." Fa Li called out the news that he had only gotten this month, and he searched the ambush place, where there was no trace, only some crossbow arrows shot by Zhao Jun who had fallen in the grass.

"It has to be." The fox baby's Chu paper fan is fanning faster and faster. "Everyone in the world knows that the Qin people were promoted to knighthood by beheading, but the Six Kingdoms are not like this. The Qin army intercepted and killed, although it had a military order, it did not change the nature of beasts, so everyone in the caravan was beheaded. Afterwards, the armor was seized, and the corpse should also be hidden, if it is not hidden, it will be known at a glance that it was done by the Qin army. ”

The fox baby nodded again and again. Except for a few people such as Babaka, Aristotle IV, and Zaras, who fled back to the city of Marakanda, the entire caravan seemed to have disappeared into thin air. This could not have been done by the Huns, Donghu, Yuzhi, and Wusun, first, they didn't have crossbows, and second, they couldn't have buried all the corpses so meticulously.

Either Zhao or Qin, this is Maracanda's judgment. The difference is that the resentful Aristotle IV is convincing King Diodortos II and the governor Eutidemus to launch a retaliatory attack on Zhao. The temple's chief priest, Kang Motian, demanded that the Sogdian merchants in East Asia first find out the truth of the matter, and then discuss how to demand compensation from the murderer.

"If I, Zhao Guo, do it, I must change the normal state and behead it, and there is no need to hide and bury the corpse." The fox baby didn't know the situation thousands of miles away, he just used common sense to infer what the Qin State would do, and what the Zhao State would do. He finally said: "This Qin State wants to destroy me. ”

The word Maxima suddenly woke up his hair, he was only thinking about the 20,000 sets of armor, and he didn't think of the more than 1,000 horses that the caravan brought when it came. In terms of motivation, there is no need for Zhao State, who can buy huge iron armor, to snatch the armor of the caravan at all, and the real suspicion is that the Qin State, intercepting and killing the caravan can not only snatch the armor, but also cut off the thousands of miles in the river to transport it into the four countries of Kwantung.

"See the arrows?" It took a long time for Nanito, who had been looking around the storehouses of the Zhao army's military camp, to return.

"There are no two-winged arrows." The two spoke in Sogdian, and Nanito specially brought back a few arrows from the Zhao army, which were not the four-edged iron heavy arrows of the Chu State, or the three-edged bronze crossbow arrows of Qi Wei, and there were no two-winged arrows like the ones in their hands.

"Great Shogun......" At this time, all the generals in the shogunate rushed over when they heard the news, and Ma Wei found something with a two-winged arrow.

"Although this arrow is my Zhao arrow style, its feather is wrong." Ma Wei pointed at Ling Yu and said. "This sparrowhawk feather!"

The feathers of the arrows are very important, and the eagle feathers, horned eagle feathers, sparrowhawk feathers, goose feathers, and goose feathers are from good to secondary. The Eagle Feather Arrow flies much faster than the Eagle Feather Arrow, and the arrow body will automatically correct after flying out of more than a dozen steps, and the wind resistance is also strong. The worst goose feathers and goose feathers were not careless when they shot arrows, and they were crooked to the side when the wind came. Located in the northern frontier, the annexation of the Yan State of Zhao has a unique advantage in the arrows, although I dare not say that the arrows are all carved feathers, but the worst is also the horned eagle feather, never used the sparrowhawk feather.

"Woohoo! This arrow can prove that this matter was done by the Qin people. The fox baby grabbed the arrow in Ma Wei's hand and shouted. Our army's arrow is not a eagle feather, that is, a horned eagle feather, but this arrow is a sparrowhawk feather, why?

Our army's arrows are extremely thin, and the arrows shot cannot be reused. Qin Jun used my Zhao Jian's body to glue Qin Guo's Ling, and wanted to accuse me. Horned eagle sparrowhawk, its feathers are similar, but after shooting out, it can be seen that it is different, and this Qin people are careless. ”