Atai traveled day and night, and in less than half a month's work, the two letters were delivered to the capital of Xianyang.

In the past, Qin Shi Huang shook the eight famines, swept Liuhe, Xianyang City became the capital of the world in one fell swoop, and its prosperity was not much better than that of Chu State. Now, after more than 400 years, the current Xianyang City is no longer what it used to be.

When Atai, who is a Qin person, saw this capital of Qin, he was quite emotional. At present, Xianyang City is just a few zhang high earthen city, although there are many people, but the people's clothing, house arrangement and decoration and other aspects, Mo said that compared with Chu Guoyingdu, it is far inferior to Bianjing City of Song State.

After some emotion, Atai immediately rode his horse through the long street and went straight to the palace in the inner city of Xianyang.

Although the city houses in Xianyang City are dilapidated, it is also the capital of the Qin State hundreds of years ago, and the layout of the city is still quite grand.

The Qin State was restored, although the Qin people left behind in various countries rarely went, but the Qin people in the Longxi area were particularly excited, many Qin people came out of the high mountains and old forests, and cooperated with the household department to do a good job in population and household registration, and many people also stayed in Xianyang City.

With the 100,000 people brought back from the island, the ten cities were already overcrowded.

Not only did Win reduce the scope of the inner city, but even cut out most of his royal palace. However, these are not the root causes of the problem. Ying Ke naturally knew that the current Qin State must immediately expand its land and build cities.

However, less than three months after the founding of the Qin state, except for the salt and iron mines gradually developed by the official family, which had just begun to make a profit, the other income of the state treasury was basically zero.

Even after the tax is collected and paid next fall, the revenue from the treasury will not be able to support such huge expenses as building a city.

At present, Chen Guo is eyeing the ten cities of Qin State, and the army is about to kill him. Ying Ke sat in the Ziyang Hall and looked at the military reports sent every day, anxious.

At this time, Chen Yu, the chief administrator of the Qin Palace, came to the gate of the palace with steps, listened to the guards' proclamations, waved the guards away, and walked slowly towards Yingke.

"King, Prince Xuan sent someone to deliver a letter, and now he is outside the palace."

Hearing this, Ying Ke put down the fold, rubbed his somewhat swollen head, and said, "Call someone in!" ”

Atai has always been by Ying Xuan's side, and he has never held any official position in the Qin State, let alone a foreign envoy, so it is difficult to announce it. Chen Yu had to call two guards to bring him into the Ziyang Palace.

After a while, Ah Tai followed the two guards to the outside of the Ziyang Palace, searched behind him, and the two guards stood on both sides of the door, and motioned for Ah Tai to enter with their eyes.

"The minister wins and meets the king!"

Atai respectfully knelt in front of the temple and saluted and shouted. [Win is a surname, and it is the number of foreign clans of the non-winning bloodline, from one to Jiu]

"Get Up"

Ying Ke casually glanced at Atai and said.

"King Xie!"

When Atai got up, Ying Ke asked directly, "Song Di is thousands of miles away, Xuan'er sent you thousands of miles away, what is the so-called matter?" ”

Hearing this, Ah Tai took out a bamboo tube from his sleeve and said respectfully, "The second prince ordered his subordinates to hand over this letter to the king." ”

Ying Ke and Chen Yu glanced at each other, Chen Yu understood, and walked to present the bamboo tube to Ying Ke.

After wiping off the sealing mud, Ying Ke took out the silk book inside and looked at it carefully.

After a while, Yingke's face was still the same, and he looked down at Atai, "You go down first and rest for a day." ”

"King Xie!"

After Atai withdrew from the palace, Ying Ke's face finally smiled, and he looked at Chen Yu and said with a smile, "I didn't expect the two sons of the widow to have such business ability." After next year, the treasury will have a huge profit. ”

Chen Yu walked up inexplicably and took the silk book in Ying Ke's hand, glanced at it roughly at a glance and ten lines, and his eyebrows also showed a smile, and said: "The second prince of the Tang and Song dynasties can talk to the ministers, and he also has the ability to turn stone into gold in business, which is really my great Qin's luck!" ”

Ying Ke smiled and nodded, Chen Yu then looked at the two lines of words written on the back of the silk book, and asked, "Chen Guo's affairs, the second son's staff member recommended him to preside over diplomacy?" ”

"This person did not enter the Song Dynasty with Xuan'er, and is now in Xianyang. The widow had met this man several times, but he was a dignified scholar, but he had no chance to see him show what he had learned. "Win Kedao.

Ying Ke asked rhetorically, "What do you think of Xuan'er's proposal?" ”

Chen Yu pondered for a while, and said, "The king might as well pass him into the palace first, take a look at his talent and learning, and then make a conclusion." ”

After a while, Ying Ke summoned someone to the second prince's mansion to summon Zhang Yi into the palace.

"Zhang Yi meets the king!"

Facing the scrutiny of Ying Ke and Chen Yu, Zhang Yi walked to His Royal Highness without being shocked and bowed to Ying Ke.

"Sir, please!"

"King Xie!"

Zhang Yi stood up slowly, put her hands in front of her stomach, and stood indifferently, looking quite confident.

"Now that the situation is critical, the widow will not go around the bend with Mr. I don't know what Mr. thinks of Chen Guo raising troops. ”

Hearing Ying Ke ask this question that he had been thinking about for a long time, Zhang Yi replied, "Right now, the five countries of Wuyue, Fujian, Chen, Han, and Nanping in the west are attacking each other, or fighting each other. Chen Guo's vitality was greatly damaged in the battle against my Great Qin a few years ago, and since then he has been the weakest among the five kingdoms. The lord of Chen Guo married his beloved daughter to the prince of Wu Yue and formed a marriage alliance. ”

"However, more than ten years have passed, and Wu Yue has begun to get tired of this weak ally who has been repeatedly targeted by the Min and Han states, and he has become less and less helpful to the Chen state."

"Now that the Qin State has nearly one million Qin people, a county land, and there is no formed army, it is undoubtedly an opportunity for the rise of the Chen State."

Yingke asked, "Sir, do you have a good plan?" ”

When Zhang Yi heard this, he took two steps back, waved to Ying Ke, and said, "There are two strategies under it, I don't know if the king listens to it." ”

"Sir, but it doesn't hurt to say!"

"The minister heard that the five kingdoms of Xishu were either fighting or allied, as the minister said, Chen Guo is now gradually disagreeing with Wu Yue. Chen Guo marched into the army this time, but Wu Yue did not move, so it can be seen that Chen Guo did not inform Wu Yue. ”

"The minister thinks that he might as well go to Wu Yue to break up the relationship with Chen first, and then lobby the two kingdoms of Fujian and Han to attack Chen together with my Great Qin."

"Is it certain that Mr. will lobby Min Han?"

Zhang Yi replied, "Sure! ”

Hearing this, Ying Ke still had a calm face, although he intended to move, and asked, "Although there is a gap between Wu Yue and Chen Guo, Princess Chen Guo is already the queen of Wu Yue, and King Wu Yue may not be able to see Fujian and Han become bigger." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yi smiled slightly, looking at ease, "Chen Guo's move has made Wu Yue unhappy, although he will not watch Chen Guo be captured by the Three Kingdoms, he will not waste the treasury and rashly send troops." It can be said that the day of Wu Yue's troops was just the time when the Three Kingdoms stopped their troops. ”

As for what the king said, Wu Yue did not want to see the Chen State being swallowed by the Min and Han dynasties, so as to destroy the balance of the five kingdoms. Don't forget, among the five countries, there is still Nanping in the west. In recent years, there have been frequent exchanges between Wu Yue and Nanping, and the day of Chen's defeat is the time when Wu Yue and Nanping are allied. ”

After listening to Zhang Yi's first strategy, Ying Ke and Chen Yu both showed a trace of excitement on their faces, looked at each other and nodded secretly. Ying Ke asked again, "I don't know what is the second strategy of Mr.?" ”

Zhang Yi said, "The second policy is simpler and safer, which is to send an envoy to Chen Guo, and inform the lord of Chen Guo of the next first policy, and understand the reason." To retire Chen's 100,000 army! ”

Win Ke's eyes twitched slightly, and he shouted loudly, "Good! Good! Sir, would you like to be the envoy of Qin and run for Qin to the three kingdoms of Fujian, Han, Wu and Yue? ”

"The minister will not fail in his mission!"

Zhang Yi took two steps back and said solemnly.

After Zhang Yi left, the joy on Ying Ke's face gradually dissipated, and he looked at the door of the hall, and couldn't help but sigh, "The widow is really born with a pair of wise eyes here, with such a national warrior complementing each other, why worry about my Daqin!" ”

Chen Yu said on the side: "Great King, how can you be sure that Zhang Yi will definitely be able to persuade the two kings of Min and Han to crusade against Chen with me, Great Qin?" ”

When Ying Ke heard this, he smiled and said, "This person has a clever tongue, and he can persuade the widow to let a Gongzi's staff be a messenger." Why not let him give it a try. ”

"But is it not proper that the ministers have not been consulted on this matter?" Chen Yu asked worriedly.

"Humph! Minister? That's all they say! My Great Qin has only been established for less than two months, Chen Yu, take a look, what official positions have not fallen into the hands of these clans! ”

Seeing that Ying Ke was a little angry, Chen Yu hurriedly persuaded, "Right now, I am at the beginning of the Great Qin, and I can only rely on the Ten Old Clans and the Clans that follow us." Your Majesty, the coming days are long! ”

"Humph! Chen sent troops to beg them, if they were willing to pay money and people, in order to preserve the strength of their own family, they cried in front of the lonely and poor people. If it weren't for the fact that the three clans of the Ying clan and the Xu clan and the Liu clan poured out the financial resources of the whole clan, I am afraid that I would not even be able to pay for the military expenses of those 30,000 people! ”

At this moment, Chen Yu, who was standing next to Ying Ke, watched Ying Ke's shoulders rise and fall, faintly revealing a terrifying killing intent, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted, "The king is angry!" ”

"Get up, it's all right... You're right, the future is long! ”

Chen Yu stood up, looked at Ying Ke with trembling eyes, and saw that he had lowered his head at the moment to correct the recitals presented from all over the country, and there was no more violent murderous aura on his body. I couldn't help but sigh secretly in my heart, in just two months, the master who had served for decades was completely different from the past.

"Chen Yu, you go to draft the decree and inform the Ministry of Rites to handle diplomatic matters."

"No!"

After Chen Yu went to the Ministry of Rites with Ying Ke's message, within two hours, Meng Jue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, had already begun to prepare quickly.

Before evening, Ying Ke summoned Liu Honglin, Xu Xian, and Xi Ziyu to dine together in the Ziyang Palace.

It wasn't until the three of them arrived one after another that Win Ke began to inquire about the progress.

"Liu Aiqing, how is the conscription now?"

"Return to the king! At present, the 30,000-strong army is fully established, and the basic training will be completed five days ago, and it will be ready at any time! ”

Hearing this, Ying Ke nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Xu Xian, and asked, "How are the preparations for the grain and grass now?" ”

Xu Xian stood up and replied, "Return to the king!" Now all the 150,000 taels of gold in the treasury have been invested, and now the grain and grass camp tents and weapons are ready, which are armor and arrows......

Saying that, Xu Xian looked at Xi Ziyu on the side, Xi Ziyu understood, and immediately explained, "At present, there are less than 3,000 craftsmen in my Qin Kingdom, and the apprentices are still fifty percent. The Ministry of Industry rushed day and night, and it was difficult to complete the production after 10 days. ”