Proton is a common thing in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the earliest proton is Zhou Zheng mutual hostage, its original intention is to seek mutual trust, and later wars are frequent, big countries coerce small countries, and small countries have to condemn the prince to the big country.

Chu is also a big country, King Huai did not condemn the prince to other countries before the king, after the king is different, the prince Xiong Heng is not only confined to Qin, but also to Qi, after King Huai detained Qin, Xiong Hengfang returned to China and became the king, which was the king of Chu Qingxiang. Xiong Yuan, the son of King Qingxiang, that is, the current King of Chu, also lived in Qin for more than ten years, and gave birth to two sons after Qin married the princess of Qin: Changping Jun and Chang Wenjun. Four years ago, the account of the head of the Chu State has not been settled, and now it is normal to ask the prince of the Chu State to enter Qin as a hostage. In the Xianyang City Palace, there are already the princes of Yan, Qi, Han, and Wei, so why not have one more prince of Chu.

"What Xiangbang said, is it to cut down Jing?" Qin Wangzheng was still thinking about Lu Buwei's strategy, and Guowei Huan Qi had already opened his mouth to inquire.

"If the Jing people don't condemn the protons, they will work with Han and Wei to cut down the Jing." Lu Buwei said. "The heaviest Jing people are none other than Xia and Hubei, and their southeast copper mines produce more copper than our Qin Shaofu. If you take it, the copper in the world will probably belong to me. ”

"No." Huan Qi hurriedly shook his head, "The Zhao State is not destroyed, and you can't open the Qin and Chu wars without permission." Zhao Ruo has to breathe, and it will be even more difficult to deal with in the future. The king, the strategy of attacking Zhao is immutable, and the changer is afraid that Zhao will regain strength, and if the three kingdoms of Han, Wei and Qi get Jing Land again, it will be very disadvantageous to me. ”

Xiangbang only thinks about the state of Chu, but Guowei thinks about the world, and it is natural to distinguish which is more important than the Qin Wangzheng. When he was about to agree with Huan Qi's opinion, Lü Buwei got another idea: "If you don't cut down Jing, you can also make a move." Huang Xie wants to establish a son, and when he hears that my Qin State asks for quality, he will be happy to see it. The eldest son Jing entered Qin, King Jing was not allowed to return, and Huang Xie was a fierce son. At this time, if Jing Hua is in trouble, kills Huang Xie, and stands up, Jing people are in chaos, and Zhao can no longer be saved. ”

"Good!" Qin Wangzheng stroked his palms and smiled, and his face suddenly became a little hideous: "If this plan is successful, if Jing does not save Zhao, Zhao will be destroyed." ”

"Wait for my king." The courtiers Qi He, but in his heart he knew that the king hated Zhao State very much, and Zhao State had to be destroyed.

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From Shouying to the border county, trace Huaishui to Chengyang, there are more than 600 miles; It is more than 1,300 miles to enter the Qin border of Vietnam, cross the Wuguan Pass and reach Xianyang. From Yingdu to transmit the message, although there are fast horses in the Qin realm to transmit the message day and night, it still takes more than 20 days to Xianyang; And from Xianyang to Shouying, because the ordinary business travel in Chu realm is only sixty miles a day, and the time is nearly a month.

Xianyang, the secret report about the marquis, has been decided, and the document naturally came out quickly, after entering the Chu realm in the north of Tongbai Mountain, it happened to be handed over to the Qin merchant Xia Yang, who entered Chu as a businessman, and he will bring this secret letter to Yingdu.

Xia Yang's entry into Chu as a merchant was Juzi's order, but this matter still needed the assistance of Shaofu and Xiangbangfu, in addition, before leaving, he also went to a place that no one knew about, and stayed for more than ten days. However, he kept this matter secretive, even if he didn't say a word about the evil who had to go into Chu with him.

"Chengyang is ahead." Dressed as the leader of the caravan guards, the evil way comes. The remaining veins of Tongbai Mountain are undulating, and the forest is deep and dense. Walking on this tree-lined official road, the journey is not only not hard, but has a bit of an outing taste. It's just that the concubine who entered Chu with Xia Yang went back to the border city of Chu when she passed the customs, and bought a lot of corn, silk cloth, and salt sauce with all she had, and the team had to hire three other cars. The state of Chu lacked horses, and the ox-drawn cart slowed down everyone's journey, so that the evil came to complain and asked Xia Yang to sell it at a discount after he arrived in Chengyang.

"Oh, Chengyang in front of you, so fast?" Xia Yang has never left the Qin State in his life, and after entering the Chu realm, he feels fresh everywhere. He pointed to a giant pine nearby and said: "This pine can't be wrapped by four people, why don't you cut down this pillar?" ”

"Fell? Bird! "There are standing and sitting in the car, and the evil is used to standing and riding, he holds the sword in both hands around his chest, and bites a plum in his mouth. Probably because the bird was not too loud just now, he spat out the plum and scolded: "Cut down a bird!" The mountains, rivers, ponds and seas of Chu are all owned by princes and nobles, and the common people only have fields, and logging into the mountains is stealing, and they must take off their skins if they don't die. It's just that it is owned by the princes and nobles, but those princes and nobles are just rich in clothes and food, and they don't care about the things in the mountains at all, and would rather let them rot in the mountains. ”

"That's exactly what happened." When he was in the Qin State, Xia Yang heard that the Chu State was rich in land and resources, rice, rice, and fish soup, but the government was not powerful, and there were huge treasures but abandoned the mountains and wilderness. I see, it is.

"The Chu people are mediocre and lazy, and they are afraid of being infected for a long time, junior brother, you have to be very careful, don't forget that you are a ...... You're an inkman. After complaining, the evil came to seem to think of something, and persuaded Xia Yang gently. It's a pity that when he spoke, the royal hands of the cars in front of him suddenly stopped, and only bowed to a wooden pillar in the distance.

"Senior brother, the Chu people still believe in ghosts and gods, you must also be careful." Evil comes and goes. The Mo family is a 'bright ghost', but Qin Mo doesn't believe in ghosts and gods.

"Senior Brother Xie." When he first entered the Chu realm, Xia Yang listened to evil and arranged everything, but he was still puzzled by the wooden pillar that the Chu people worshipped. Look carefully at the past, only to see the wooden pillar standing on the house of the post station, more than five zhang high, the upper end of the horizontal also a long wooden pole, the two ends of the long wooden pole and two small poles hanging, how to look, like a no-show 'scarf' word. The word 'towel' is weird, and what's even weirder is that the word can move. The small rod is up or down, and the crossbar is left and right, forming different figures.

"This is His Royal Highness the eldest son praying for the blessing of the king." He vaguely heard someone say that.

"Senior brother, look." The word 'scarf' is changing again, and Xia Yang hurriedly let the evil see.

The word 'towel' is really moving, and every change in it has some regularity: each posture will be fixed for four or five breaths, and then change to another posture, and the direction is facing the front of the official road.

Xia Yang could only see these clues, and he did not know that this was the latest communication pole set up by the Chu people, copied from the visual telegraph system invented by the Frenchman Cha Pei in the 18th century. Although there are only three movable wooden poles on the wooden pillar, they can form more than 190 configurations. The most important thing is to be fast, from the border of Qinchu to Yingdu, if the weather is good, the time to transmit information will not exceed three minutes.

"1, 4, 9, 9, 2, 1, 7......" When Xia Yang let the evil look, the little official in the high room of the military fort under the wooden pillar was leaning together in a fixed simple telescope with one eye, reading the numbers jerkyly. The literacy rate of Chu is not high, but it is not difficult to recognize the ten numbers and ten visual compositions from 0 to 9.

"1, 4, 9, 9, 2, 1, 7......" One officer reads and records, and the other clerk repeats the reading while skillfully pulling the rope at the bottom of the wooden post, so that the wooden pole on the head forms the shape corresponding to the number, and transmits the same information to the rear station. The information was transmitted station by station, and after arriving at Shouying Sima Mansion, these numbers were converted into words according to the code book and sent to the cunning hands of the great Sima Nao. He was one of the judges for this test.

"Wrong. Ben Sima originally wrote: The Qin people attacked me in a big way, with 50,000 soldiers, 10,000 chariots and horses, and I lost one person in the first battle,...... "Since it is a test, there is a manuscript, and after comparison, it is found that many places do not match the manuscript sent."

"Subordinates should be the ones who should check." Each station has a record of information transmission, and it is easy to find out which station went wrong against the original.

"One of the ten mistakes, Da Sima doesn't have to be demanding, I think this station should be widely set up, one post at a time." Huang Xie is also there. He was also a supporter of this thing, although it was better to erect a giant log, four people, and a pair of expensive crystal binoculars for each stand, but it was better than a fast horse. Military affairs can use this subterraen, and government affairs can also use this subpoena.

"Ling Yin is ridiculous. Military affairs are not government affairs, so as to ensure that nothing goes wrong. "Nao cunning learned to speak in Xiongjing's tone." And military affairs should have a station for military affairs, which should not be confused with the war of government affairs. ”

"The war of military affairs should indeed be separated from the war of government affairs." Deng Sui was also there, Cai Bao was injured and not healed, and he temporarily received the armor of the East Palace.

"It's okay to be separated. It's just that the post station has always been under the jurisdiction of the Ling Yin Mansion, and it is inevitable for Da Sima to order the military affairs of the war. Huang Xie smiled, handed back the news in his hand to Deng Sui, and then went out.

"You ......" He walked away and understood what he meant: It is okay to build a station for military affairs, but the Yin Mansion will not pay for it. Where is Your Highness? ”

"His Royal Highness is building a mansion, and it is said that something happened to the workshop." Deng replied. This month, the king could barely get up to deal with official business, and the prince soaked in the mansion all day, only returning to the East Palace in the afternoon to attend classes.

"I'm going to build a house." Nao cunning didn't even think about it, and he was going to find someone.

Xiong Jing has always wanted to build ships, but what is actually produced has little to do with shipbuilding. Now the largest output is the waterwheel, there are more than 200 units produced in a day, but it is also the waterwheel with the most problems, and from time to time there is a lack of salt to ask for help. Some time ago, it was estimated that he asked too much, and he didn't dare to come again, Xiong Jing thought that the production was stable, but he didn't expect that there was a big problem this time: the runner axle at one end of the waterwheel was actually 0.5 cm shorter than the drawing.

After Xiong Jing's enlightenment and education last time, the cow-pulled production line that can not be named is still used, the waterwheel is very fast, there is a 'cow called the car' said, when the king of Chu was on the first day of official business, Gong Yin Dao nagged about the benefits of the cow-pulled production line for a long time, and praised the eldest son's intelligence. Now, the production line, which produces more than 200 water wheels, has been completely shut down.

"Why wasn't it detected earlier?" Looking at the slats and leaves piled up in a workshop, Xiong Jing's expression was normal.

"Your Highness, your subordinates are derelict in their duties, please punish Your Highness." Shaoyan is the person in charge, and if there is a problem, he is naturally the only one who asks.

"There will be punishments, but now we need to know why the tests are useless. What about your eyes? "If you have mistakes, you can understand them, but if you don't face them up, it's hard to accept them and just punish Xiong Jing.

"Your Highness......" As soon as Xiong Jing said the person who was kneeling in his eyes trembled, thinking that he wanted to order someone to gouge out his eyes.

"Your Highness, there are 1,367 unscrupulous waterwheels, and if the short shaft is at the front end, it does not need to be strengthened, and it does not hinder the water; The public loser on the side of the ...... of the back-end hurriedly played a round.

"The bad ones are burned; Dereliction of duty......" Xiong Jing exhaled, "Flog." ”