Li Zhi sat on the ridge, holding a long bamboo tobacco pouch in his hand, smoking a leaf cigarette, and puffs of green smoke erupted from his nostrils. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info is wearing a coarse cloth coat, a pair of straw sandals on his feet, and his face is full of deep wrinkles. In fact, no one can really recognize this is the world-famous Li Zhi, the generalissimo of the Qin State.

He smiled and looked at the Qin border soldiers who were carefully taking care of the green seedlings that had just grown a foot. After the Battle of Kaiping, a large number of Yue people fled, so that countless lands were deserted, which was simply intolerable for the Qin people, and a part of the Qin border army put down their swords and guns and picked up their hoes.

Stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful of soil from the ground, and with a light grip, the black soil fell from between his fingers little by little, what a fertile land, this is the place that the Qin people have always dreamed of.

In the Qin State, which lives in the west, daily life is more of the yellow sand in the sky, the boundless Gobi, and only a few places are suitable for planting and production, and poverty is synonymous with the Qin people.

The people of Qin are fierce and good at fighting, and they are not innate, but when you live in a place where you need to rely on strength to grab whatever you want from a young age, you are a docile lamb, and in the process of growing up, you will sharpen one of his objects.

The national strength restricts the expansion of the Qin people, most of the wars of the Qin people are short, flat and fast, and quick victory is their favorite, after so many years, other countries have also figured this out, and they only need to put on a posture that will be consumed for a long time with the Qin State, and the Qin State will immediately soften.

A long-term war will deplete Qin's national strength and make his domestic contradictions irreconcilable, which has become one of Qin's most deadly soft threats. It is also the pain of Li Zhi's life.

Finding more fertile land, feeding more people, and receiving more taxes are Li Zhi's thoughts in his life. But the world is divided into four parts, and every piece of land has an owner, you can grab a handful, but if you want to keep it for a long time, he will be sorry, and everyone will fight to the death with you.

Because whether it is the Qi State or the Chu people or the Yue people, they all know that the Qin State must not be allowed to have a chance to make their treasury rich, and a Qin State with enough food and silver money will become a nightmare for everyone.

In Anyang, this is the case, the Qin State has completely annihilated the western border army of the Yue State, and Anyang County is under control, but the Qin people just looked at the land with drool, and left unwillingly and reluctantly. I can only look forward to coming back next year. But with An Ruhai's entry into Anyang, the reorganization of the Western Army, and the robbery, it has become more and more risky, and every time he obtains it, he has exchanged it with blood.

Kaiping County is now a Qin person. Li Zhi is very happy, how many years have he been, how much effort he has put into it, and finally grabbed a piece of fertile land without any consequences. Because now the country of Yue is a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and it is difficult to protect itself. By the time they came to their senses, the border army of the Qin State had already taken root in Kaiping County, as long as Kaiping County could support Deng Zhong's border army, then not to mention the Yue people, it was the Qi people, and they didn't want to drive them away.

Sometimes, all the Qin people lacked was enough time.

And now, they have enough time. Running Kaiping County, if you stretch your neck and look farther away, you may have a chance to reap some benefits.

Taking a deep breath of smoke, he slowly exhaled it, watching the green smoke drift left and right, changing patterns with the wind, Li Zhi had a feeling of relief.

He is already too old, in his early seventies, even if he has the cultivation of a grandmaster, but time is always the biggest enemy of man, or after the completion of the affairs of the Yue State, he should also relax and no longer think about these official affairs, but go out for a walk. Especially if you want to go to Chang'an to take a look, Cao Chong and Wei Zhuang, in the past few years, have they researched anything?

What comes after the Grandmaster? For people like them, it's a question that has to be thought about and can't be thought about. Two days ago, Deng Fang sent a message that Wen Huizhang of Chu State had gone out of Beijing, but the target was Chang'an of Qi State, and it seemed that he couldn't bear it, so he set off immediately after hiding his three-year appointment with Min Ruoying.

Cao Chong, Wei Zhuang, Wen Huizhang plus himself, the only four people left in their lives, if they can really get together to study something, it would be good.

Let's hope I can make it one day! Stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful of soil, grinding it carefully in his hand, looking at this black soil, it was like looking at his own son, no, more kind than his son, because these black soils can grow food, can grow hope, and can grow the future of Daqin.

After taking a long breath again, the tobacco leaves in the smoke pot burned for a long time, and then turned into ashes, reaching out and knocking the ashes on the straw sandals, Li Zhi stood up and prepared to go back. During this period of time, he would come to this crop field every day to take a look, take a look, and look at the green seedlings that were growing very well, and his heart would be happy.

He pinned the cigarette pouch behind his waist, clapped his hands, turned around, and then he froze there, and a man wearing a hat appeared in his field of vision.

The last moment, he was still in the extreme distance, in Li Zhi's eyes, about the size of a puppy, he blinked his eyes, this person got much closer, became the size of a person, and blinked his eyes twice, and the person wearing the hat had already arrived in front of him.

Looking at the person in front of him, Li Zhi still kept blinking his eyes, and after a while, he suddenly laughed, his eyes narrowed into a slit with laughter, and the wrinkles on his face were squeezed into a pile with laughter.

"I didn't expect you, I didn't expect you to come to me." He reached out and pulled out his cigarette pouch from behind his waist, took handfuls of tobacco from his pocket, and filled it into his pipe.

The person who came stretched out his hand, rubbed his big finger and index finger, and a flame rose between his fingers, reaching out to the bottom of the pipe, Li Zhi looked at each other thoughtfully, and after a while, he stuffed the cigarette holder into his mouth, and when he took a deep breath, the tobacco immediately lit up.

Exhaled in one breath, the green smoke flew straight forward, and the flame in the hand of the person who came suddenly became straight upwards at this moment, and the flame became extremely thin, entangled with the green smoke.

In the middle of the night, the smoke cleared and the fire was extinguished.

The man wearing the hat put his hands behind his back, looked at Li Zhi, and said lightly: "You have regressed, now you are not much stronger than me, if it was in the past, I would try to kill you." ”

"This is my territory." Li Zhi smiled.

"This is the land of Da Yue." The visitor raised his head.

"It used to be!" Li Zhi's smile remained unchanged, as if he was not worried that the other party would make a move at all, so he took off his robe and sat back on the ridge, pointed to his side with a cigarette pouch, and said, "Sit!" ”

Looking at Li Zhi's appearance, the person who came frowned, and did not sit down, but squatted beside Li Zhi.

"Sometimes I'm really strange, your martial arts cultivation is rare in the world, and you can match it, the older generation is only Cao Chong, Wei Zhuang, Wen Huizhang, and a little later, probably only Bi Wanjian alone, in the Qin State, you are the most powerful person in addition to the emperor, even if it is your emperor, it is also polite to you, but you have always been like this, wearing the most torn clothes, eating brown rice, drinking bitter tea, smoking this kind of smoke that even ordinary people feel rushed, what are you for?"

Li Zhi smiled and said: "My life is no different from yours, the sun and the sunset, no less than you, a little bitter, you can remind me." My martial arts cultivation is far inferior to the three of them, if it weren't for the fact that I have been living this kind of hard life for so many years, how could I compete with them? ”

"I'll make a deal with you!" Come humanely.

"It doesn't look like you have a lot of money right now!" Li Zhi laughed happily.

"Li Zhi, do you Qin Kingdom want to swallow our entire Yue Kingdom?" The person snorted coldly.

"I can't swallow it." Li Zhi shook his head, "And if we really swallow it, we will have indigestion, the Chu people will come to us for trouble, and the Qi people will also have trouble with us, I dare to say, if I swallow your Yue Kingdom at this time, those two guys who are fighting for life and death may come to clean me up first." ”

"Looks like you're still self-aware."

"Of course, the Qin State lives in the west and has the weakest national strength, but for so many years, we have only bullied you, but we have not seen you bully us, just because our positioning is very clear, I will do what I should want, and I will not reach out if I don't want it." Li Zhi smiled and said.

"This time you got Kaiping County from Luo Yishui, you must be very happy, right?"

"Of course, every day I come to this field to have a look. Seeing how well the crop was growing, I couldn't stop smiling, do you know what that means? This means that our soldiers will no longer go hungry and our children will grow stronger. Li Zhi said with a smile.

"In that case, why are you still here and don't want to go, and what do you want to get?"

"Of course, people's hearts are always insufficient, always thinking about whether they can get more, we are poor, the opportunity is rare, maybe we will pick up something without effort!"

"Now there's a chance, do you want it?" The person who came said lightly.

"Where is the opportunity?"

"Qin Feng's Taiping army is in Yongping County." The person who came looked at Li Zhi, "And now, Luo Yishui has sent Chen Ci to rob Yongping County, I estimate that Luo Yishui still can't figure out that Qin Feng's army has secretly entered Yongping County, and where, Qin Feng will give Chen Ci a head-on blow." ”

"You actually hooked up with Qin Feng?" Li Zhi said in surprise: "It seems that this time, you really put a lot of thought into it. ”

"It's not that I colluded with him, it's that he found me." Laidao: "I think you may be interested in Yongping County." ”

Li Zhi looked at each other, and the smile on his face slowly faded. (To be continued.) )