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On June 13, when Zhao Jia arrived in Linqin (Dali), the first batch of grain promised by Qin was being transported downstream along Weishui. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

They watched from the shore, but saw that the ships that were pressed to the waterline by the weight kept coming towards the wharf, and after landing in Linqin, the officials who were good at calculation of the Zhao clan squinted and counted the corn, and the Qin people on the boat watched the bags of grain being carried down, and swallowed with envy.

In the next ten years, the Qin people will have to go hungry to transport grain to the east......

Zhao Jia sighed, they crossed Jing with hundreds of people, but when they returned, they were only less than fifty, but seeing all this in front of them, the sacrifice of Pao Ze was worth it. The war is over, the living people are secretly happy, and the war dead don't need to be too sad, their families can get a lot of comfort fields and grain - unlike the later Qin after the Shang Dynasty changed the law, after the Zhao military soldier died in battle, unless his family has become extinct, the military merit field will not be confiscated, but can be passed on to the next generation, and the government will also send some laborers and gangsters to help with farming.

Then Zhao Jia and his party arrived at the city gate of Linqin, which is the capital of the Great Lirong State, since the destruction of the Great Lirong eight years ago, the Great Li people have been ruled by Qin and Wei, and now they have been replaced by the Zhao family, which is no different for them.

Because Zhao Wuxian recently lived here, Linqin was selected as the capital of the new county, the newly arrived Zhao officials organized people to repair the city tower and city wall that were damaged in the war, and now it looks like a new look, the city tower is painted with new paint, the sun shines, bright and bright, although the smoke of gunpowder in Qin has not long subsided, but Linqin is already a good atmosphere of peace after the war.

Just beside the city gate, they were warmly welcomed by what they had not expected before, two rows of brightly armored Yulin guards stood here, like two rows of aspen, and when they saw Zhao Jia and others coming from a distance, they saluted in unison to the sound of drums and trumpets, and let Zhao Jia and others pass through it, and they felt that they had been treated like heroes......

Zhao Wuxian was also wearing court clothes, standing by the city gate and watching Zhao Jia come over with a smile.

Zhao Jia hurriedly took two steps and three steps over, and then bowed down from a distance and said: "Brother size, lucky to return, how dare you let my brother greet him?" ”

Ding Buwang of the Zhao family, and he is the only one of the four brothers of Zhao Wuxian, in addition to Zhao Yi and Zhao Guangde, who were entrusted with important tasks and released as puppet states, there are only five or six men in the whole clan, and they are all young. But these younger generations of the Zhao family have an obsessive worship of Zhao Wuxian, and Zhao Jia is no exception, in their eyes, this cousin of the head of the family is undoubtedly the British lord who has come out once in five hundred years in his clan, leading the Zhao family to defeat the old enemy, control the national politics of the Jin State, and even sweep the princes and dominate the Central Plains. In history, Zhao Chengzi, Zhao Xuanzi, Zhao Wenzi, and Zhao Wuzi were not as great as him in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

The self-confidence and pride of the Zhao family have reached the peak, so Zhao Jia will take more than 100 people to go deep into the Qin State, just to prove that the Zhao family is stronger than Jin Jun!

Now that Zhao Wuxian welcomes him in person, it is equivalent to acknowledging the value of his move, how can Zhao Jia not be excited? For a while, his mouth was full of sincere and fearful words.

"Crossing Jing into Qin, committing Qibei, shaking Yongdu, and prompting the surrender of Qin, you have made a great contribution this time, you are the hero of the Zhao family, and you have solved the trouble for me, how can I not be downgraded to meet you?"

Zhao Wuxian helped him up with a smile, patted the dust off his body, and then looked left and right and said: "Thousands of miles across Qindi, and returned safely, this is my family's thousands of miles away!" ”

The name of Qianli Ju has been with Zhao Jia for the rest of his life......

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After welcoming each other into the city and settling down the tired soldiers, Zhao Wuxian ignored the Rong people who were eager to come over and talk to him, but held a small banquet for Zhao Jia and asked him to talk about his experiences these days.

Although he had heard a little about Zhao Jia's adventures these days, he could guess a rough idea, but when he personally described that he crossed Jingshui, crossed Hou Li and other places where the Jin army had arrived, and marched towards Qishan, everyone at the banquet couldn't help but cheer for him. With more than 100 people going deep into the hinterland of the enemy country alone, it is really a very human act.

Then Zhao Jia said that he burned Du Yang, told the Qin people that Zhao Jun's vanguard was coming, and followed the style and format of the "Book of Absolute Qin", and left a book, which shocked Yongcheng, and when Qin Bo was panicked, Zhao Wuxian slapped his hands and praised, and asked him to repeat the written text again, and let the pen clerk write it down one by one.

"Today, the Zhao family, in accordance with the order of the emperor God, only respectfully carries out the punishment of the sky, unifies the power of the whole Jin, and crosses the river with his army to Linjingwei. Zhang Jinyi was angry, decorated with armor bottom soldiers, and the banner of 100,000 pointed directly at Yongcheng, we are the forerunner of Shangqing, burning Er Xiaoyi, in order to warn: If Qin's society is in danger, the seven temples are clay tiles, and the Zhao family dares to forget Boyi and Feilian, but Qin Xian will not be ......good for me."

After Zhao Jia finished reading this paragraph, Zhao Wuxian was already full of praise, and at the same time loved this son even more. Zhao Jia is far better than his brother Zhao Guangde, not only has courage, but also knowledge, it is really in vain to send him to Linzhang School Palace to study for three years, such a civil and military junior, if well cultivated, ten or twenty years later, will be just around the corner.

However, Zhao Jia's story is not over yet, and it is the most exciting after that.

"When the Qin people learned of Du Yang's incident, they were provoked by the inscription I left, so they dispatched more than 1,000 people from various towns in Qibei to hunt down and kill our ......"

Dozens of people rode horses to avoid pursuit in a strange country, and died in the world, speaking of thrills, even Zhao Wuxian sweated for him, and less than half of the people who followed Zhao Jia back, most of them were lost during this period.

"The Qin people seem to be determined to kill us all, and they realize that the way to the east has been cut off, and we can only go north. When we arrived near the land, the horses we rode were extremely tired and weak after ten days of running, and were gradually chased and outflanked by the Qin people's chariots, and they could only turn back and fight to the death, but at this critical juncture, a Rong people's chariots rode out and drove away the Qin people......"

Zhao Jia said to Zhao Wuxian: "These Rong people are the Yiqu people who came back with me this time......

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Although the Rong people have a close relationship with China, they have long been separated by the differentiation of different lifestyles. Yiqu is a branch of the Rong people, has existed since the Yin Zhou era, Zhao Wuxian summoned the accompanying historian Zuo Qiu Ming to ask, Zuo Shi told him very accurately: "In the thirtieth year of Wuyi, the Zhou master attacked Yiqu, and he was returned to the king......"

Yiqu has been neighboring with the Zhou people since ancient times, and after being defeated, it has been attached to the Western Zhou Dynasty for a long time, paying tribute such as tigers and leopards. Zhou declined, the dog Rong took advantage of the weakness to enter, and the Yiqu also went south. They took root in the "Great Plains" area of northern Jingbei, that is, the Guyuan and Pingliang areas at the junction of Gansu and Shaanxi in later generations, and were the most prosperous in the Northwest Rong Kingdom. However, because Qin Mugong "benefited the country twelve, opened up thousands of miles of land" and suppressed the space of Qunrong, so Yiqu could only develop to the north and west, and had no contact with the Central Plains.

It was also after the establishment of Shangjun that the Zhao clan learned through Bai Zhai that Shangjun was the sphere of influence of Yiqu two hundred miles to the west. The Pingjun Commander Yi Dun, who was in charge of the entire northern trade, tentatively sent a caravan to visit, and there were also people from the Yiqu side who came to Shangjun to sell sheepskins, but because of the difficulties in the mountains and the difficulty of traveling, there was no more communication beyond that.

However, with Zhao Wuxian's occupation of Jingyang, the Zhao family had direct contact with Yiqu.

He was a little interested in this new neighbor, because it was related to Feng Yi's border defense and stability, so he asked Zhao Jia to continue to talk about what he saw and heard in Yiqu......

"Although the land is the place where the Zhou people are prosperous, but after the difficulty of Lishan, this place was occupied by the Rong people, and it fell into the hands of Yiqu after several turns, and the Qin State has always wanted to recover, but it has not succeeded. As far as I can see, Yiqu absorbs the remnants of the Zhou people, who are engaged in farming, animal husbandry and hunting, and some of them speak the Qin language, and their rulers are called kings, and they also call themselves kings......"

"Errong Bang, dare to be the king?" During the banquet, some people were very disdainful and regarded Yiqu as a small point like the Barbarian clan.

Zhao Jia didn't answer yet, but Liu De, who was sitting with him, cautiously retorted: "Yiqu is not small, the northwest group of Qin State, there are Yiqu, Wushi, Yanyan, etc., among them, Yiqu is the largest, its territory is vast, there are hundreds of miles in radius, and the soldiers are brave and good at fighting, and when they encounter Rongdi, they will invade and loot, and occasionally a small group of Rong people run to the vicinity of Jingyang......"

Zhao Jia nodded and said: "Yes, Yiqu was defeated by Qin Mugong, and then for more than 100 years, he recuperated and built a city to defend himself. After we were rescued by him, we returned with them to Yiqujun's hunting tent by the Jingshui, although it was simple, but there were many soldiers. ”

Wuxian asked, "How many soldiers does Yiqu Jun have?" ”

"I don't know the exact number, but it is not difficult to dispatch twenty or thirty thousand people at a time, but there are also many tribes in Yiqu, and their rulers are elected from various ministries, and they are often enemies of each other, so there is not much threat to the Qin State in the past few hundred years......"

Later, Zhao Jia also talked about some customs seen in Yiqu, what "their relatives died, gathered firewood and burned it, smoked on it called Dengyao", this kind of cremation custom that the Central Plains people despise is commonplace in the Rong family. Moreover, the Yiqu people "regard death in battle as auspicious, and illness as ominous", and they are very brave in combat and private combat.

According to Zhao Jia, after they saw Yiqujun in the upper reaches of Jingshui, Yiqujun didn't care at first, but after learning that they were Zhao Jun who was an enemy of Qin, he didn't dare to slack off. No matter how closed the Yiqu is, he also knows that in recent years, a very strong "Zhao State" has emerged in the east, and even Shangdi Bai Zhai has surrendered to Zhao. So the Yiqu people entertained Zhao Jia and others with good food and accommodation, and gave them women......

After some internal discussions, Yiqu decided to send someone to send them back, but Yiqu's envoy also came, looking like he wanted to establish contact with the Zhao family.

Zhao Wuxian was not interested in the land of Yiqu Country at all...... Not to mention the current Zhao family, even if it was the Qin State in its heyday, it would rather be the enemy of the eastern princes, and would rather cross the Shu Road that is "difficult to go to the blue sky" to open up Bashu, rather than move a few steps north, until the time of King Qin Zhaoxiang, the Yiqu was destroyed and the Beidi County was established.

The reason is that the Yiqu Rongdi in the pre-Qin era was too poor, and the poor mountains and bad waters came out of the people, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Song Dynasty, this area has not been developed, and the Huanqing area in the Song and Liao periods is still the world of Qunfan, and even the Western Xia party dislikes their vulgarity and barbarism.

That's why Zhao Wuxian will fight this meatless bone when he is full......

"But after all, he saved my family's Qianli Pony, and he will be neighbors in the future, and he will inevitably have some dealings, so let's see you."

With this in mind, the next day, Zhao Wuxian summoned the envoy of Yiqu.

The envoy of Yiqu took a lot of thought for this visit, he found a deep robe out of nowhere, and his hair was tied into a bun, and he also knew how to bow down when he entered, which showed his rough etiquette.

It's just that the crappy Qin dialect makes people want to laugh.

"Yiqu Jun asked the villain to come to see Zhao Jun and ask Hou if Zhao Jun was okay."

The opening remarks were clear-cut, but when he spoke again, the envoy made a suggestion that stunned everyone in the room.

"Yiqu Jun also wants the villain to ask, is Zhao Jun willing to destroy the Qin State with Yiqu and share its land?" (To be continued.) )