After the Wei envoy left, the King of Qin asked Bai Hui: "Is Xiqihe really sick?" ”

Bai Hui replied truthfully: "If you go back to the king, you are really sick. And it is three times in a row, and there is no need for worry-free life, but it will take some time to recuperate. ”

"What disease?"

"Your Majesty, at first he was overworked and tired. After a few days of recuperation, he improved, and then at the junction of Nanjuan City (now Luochuan) in Dingyang County, he was relieved that the new canal was filled with water, and he went to see it in person, but he was drenched in a heavy rain and fell ill again. ”

Hearing this, King Qin nodded slightly: "If you are sick for the public, you should be rewarded." ”

"Xie Wangshang, it's not too late to reward after the autumn harvest, this time the autumn harvest is begging and repaying with great expectations. But this third illness is the fault of the minister. ”

King Qin smiled and asked, "Are you going to instruct him to do something that can be embarrassing?" ”

"The minister is purely concerned, the king knows that the minister is in Qi Guotianwen to give me hundreds of beauties, I arranged for four people to take care of him, but the four beauties seem to have misunderstood the meaning of the minister, this ......" Bai Hui's face was embarrassed, King Qin pointed at Bai Hui and laughed: "No need to talk about it, the widow understands, the widow understands." ”

At this time, King Qin waved his hand to signal the people in the house to retreat.

After the door was closed, King Qin asked Bai Hui: "Bai Qi personally went to various places to survey the terrain on the spot, and the widow is relieved to have this matter. ”

Bai Hui turned to face the King of Qin and sat down, and then said: "Your Majesty, this is our brother's duty, as a Qin person, since he is a Qin minister, he should serve Qin. What's more, if this battle is lost, I don't know how many families have lost their sons, brothers, and fathers. The minister dared to ask the king how General Xiang Shou arranged. ”

"Since it is in front of the army, it is naturally arranged by the commander-in-chief." King Qin is delegating power.

But Bai Hui couldn't help but talk about it, so Bai Hui said: "Your Majesty, there will be a fierce battle in Guyi. ”

"Widows." King Qin stopped, and he was also thinking about whether Xiang Shou could take on this heavy responsibility, not everyone can be the commander in the vicious war, not only to win, but also to control the battle damage, not stupidly fight to the death with the enemy, you can become a commander by going to the battlefield in person, which requires enough ability.

King Qin didn't answer, but asked rhetorically: "Where is Xiang Shou now?" ”

"I went with my brother to survey the terrain, and then directly reorganized the army at Hangu Pass and stood by, first solved the fake battle of Han Qin, and then stationed on the spot. waited for the order to storm Guyi, and then nailed to Guyi. ”

After Bai Hui finished speaking, King Qin thought for a while before he spoke: "Please ask General Sima to temporarily inspect military affairs at Hangu Pass, whether Xiang Shou can take on this important task, and finally let General Sima have an idea, or if it is not suitable, there are still people to choose from the fierce generals in the army." According to your brother's plan, Guyi is an important place. ”

"The king is wise!"

What else can Bai Hui say, King Qin is already very supportive of their brothers, whether Xiang Shou is suitable King Qin did not appoint cronyism, so Bai Hui can only support.

In the afternoon, Bai Hui and Wei Envoy went to Xi Qihe's residence together.

Xi Qihe has lost weight twice, his eye sockets are deep, and his face is yellow. Half of this is a real illness, half is pretended, and a small part is Qin Yue who gave him a little special medicine to make people feel that he is very sick.

After Doctor Wei saw it, he looked regretful and claimed to be incompetent outside the door. This turned his face and said to Wei Envoy that this Xiqihe can prepare a coffin, so he will not live for many days, and he will not live until the end of the year.

The Wei envoy presented Bai Hui with a box of precious medicinal materials and left with the so-called good doctor from Wei Guolai.

In front of the main gate, Bai Hui watched Wei envoy leave, and a person walked out from behind the tree, Bai Hui raised his hand and gave a thumbs up: "Well done, the civil officials in the five cities of Hedong are seriously ill, which is a good thing for Wei State." ”

Qin Yue bowed to the side and saluted: "This is all a matter of the door." ”

"Well, Sir continues to be busy with our important business, and when the great thing is accomplished, the name of Mr. will be on the list of meritorious persons."

"Chief Xie Zuo." Qin Yue saluted again and left.

In Xi Qihe's bedroom, Bai Hui sat on the edge of the bed and watched Xi Qihe just keep laughing.

Xi Qihe was also laughing dryly.

After a while, Bai Hui and Xi Qihe spoke at the same time: "What are you laughing at?" The two of them burst into laughter again.

Bai Hui said first: "You can't do it, four beauties of Qi can make you seriously ill, and you are really empty." There is a chance to send troops into the mountains to fight a tiger to make up for you. ”

Xi Qihe did not show weakness at all, and immediately counterattacked: "Just those four beauties of the Qi country, you guarded more than a hundred beauties of the Qi country but never entered her courtyard, and it was the same when you were in the Qi country. Your brother is going to inherit the Bai family, if it really doesn't work, we have a good doctor. ”

"Fart!" Bai Hui was furious, a man must not be said that he can't do it.

Xi Qihe dug into his ears very calmly, didn't care about Bai Hui's roar at all, and said slowly: "Okay, there will be an answer tomorrow morning." ”

A perfect general, Bai Hui will stop.

Xi Qihe sat up abruptly, staring at Bai Hui very seriously: "Could it be that you were injured in the last battle?" ”

Bai Hui glared at Xi Qihe and shook his head, but he didn't know how to answer, this matter is a dead knot, he can't say that he doesn't look down on those beauties, you must know that Tian Wen's status is very high, and some of them are still from the Qi Palace.

Bai Hui thought for a while before he said, "These are not my trophies. ”

"Good!" Xi Qi and heavy on the collapse of the slap: "It is worthy of my big Qin man, the one sent is not as good as the robbery, this battle to conquer Hedong, I told you that there are two branches of the Wei clan in Xinjiang City, I will personally bring someone to grab it for you." ”

"Yes."

Speaking of which, what else can Bai Hui say.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Hui changed the subject: "How about the new canal over there?" ”

"Two more waterways are needed, and for now we have only solved the problem of draft water in dozens of villages. When we were digging the canal, we had a big problem, there were patches of coal under the floating soil, so the canal had to be suspended. How to bypass that coal mine still requires a large number of people to conduct on-site surveys. At present, only about 20,000 acres of paddy fields, coal mines and fertile fields have been added, and I choose coal mines. ”

Xi Qihe added: "Not many people know about this, and they only dig there as the first step of the canal." ”

Bai Hui asked, "What about the original plan?" ”

"The water of the Yujin River enters the canal, so that the amount of water is enough to go all the way to the east, and then flows into the Xiangong River water canal to turn south, and confluence with the Pushui and Shichuan rivers, and increases the branch canal for 200 miles, which can protect 300,000 acres of paddy fields and 500,000 acres of terraced water. According to the calculations of the hydraulic engineers, it takes 80,000 strong laborers and 50,000 light laborers to dig it out in a year, but if you encounter a coal mine, it will waste some manpower and time to make a detour. ”

After listening to this, Bai Hui asked again: "Then can the canal go by boat?" Transporting coal to Dingyang. ”