Chapter 424: Lu Tai is in turmoil
There are always many accidents in life.
When the war in the north was in full swing, Zhao Tuo sat on the most elite soldiers of Great Qin, but like a bystander, he hid in a corner of Lingnan as a turtle with a shrunken head, which was a hero's doing, or just a manifestation of incompetence.
If he puts himself in his shoes and lets Li Yuan choose for Zhao Tuo, then he will definitely immediately swear to the Northern Expedition, and lead the soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army to return to the Kanto region with indomitable momentum and fight with the anti-Qin princes.
The hesitation of gaining and losing brings nothing to gain.
Ba County in June.
Heat and torrential rain began to hit.
On the five-foot road.
The summer rainstorm washed away the soft soil on the hillside, and the rolling stones blocked the road tightly, and a small group of heavy soldiers in charge of road repair were laboriously pushing the stones down to the bottom of the ditch, but looking at their manpower, they were afraid that they would not be able to make the road clear even when it was dark.
This newly opened passage to Lingnan, Yelang and Dian has gradually become an important part of the Southern Silk Road after its completion the year before last.
In the blockage, in less than two hours, several caravans had to stop, all of them were carrying goods purchased from Guanzhong to the Lingnan area to barter, and this one back and forth, the profits earned by these caravans were more than ten times higher than sitting on the ground to do business.
Of course, if there are huge profits, it is natural to take risks, for example, now, if the mudslide rolling down this road is coincidental, it may directly drown a caravan.
The merchants were in a very anxious mood, and one by one they complained about the damn weather and the difficult road, but they did not realize that if it were not for the limitations of natural conditions, where could they have the opportunity to make a fortune.
In the afternoon.
A team under the banner of the Qin army arrived at the blockage site, and at the front of the team, Captain Yang Yu's face was solemn. After carefully examining the situation of the road blockage, an order was given, and hundreds of soldiers of the Qin army, under the command of their respective generals, began to assist the baggage soldiers in carrying the rocks.
"You guys, get all the goods off the horses, don't block the road." Yang Yu had a cold face and shouted at the businessmen who were watching the play in a daze.
"Who are you, and why do you ask us, this is my goods, and I have paid taxes. With Daqin's decree, no one can move it. In the middle of the merchants, a fat-headed and big-eared guy snorted with a stalk on his neck.
"I can't move. There is another Great Qin decree, that is, when the military situation is critical, all materials can be requisitioned. Yang Yu smiled coldly, waved his hand, and the soldiers under his command immediately rushed up and threw the goods in the fat caravan off the cliff.
"Oops. My goods, my life, this is really killing me. The fat man cried wolf for a while, he never thought of it. He was so quick to talk about it, but he was treated so roughly.
Didn't you say that Xinqin was heavy on business?
Doesn't it mean that Li Yuan, the Shenwu King of the Qin State, attaches great importance to Shang Jia? In the court of Chang'an, officials such as Zhisu Neishi were also appointed to Hu Shang. Are these facts not credible? Jia Dun, a fat merchant from Qidi, hung his chest, if it wasn't for the sea route being too risky, or if the spiritual channel was blocked by the Barbarian people. He wouldn't have walked this extremely difficult five-foot road.
In the midst of constant remorse, Fat Shangjia's eyes suddenly widened a lot, and his gaze swept to the middle of the Qin army team that had just arrived, where the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and the person who appeared inside made Fat Shangjia almost scream.
"Lu Jia, Doctor Lu!"
Who is Lu Jia?
Almost everyone in the new Qin Dynasty knew that this lobbyist, who had repeatedly traveled to foreign countries and brought reliable allies to the Qin state, had become a positive example of propaganda.
And more importantly, Lu Jia is from Kanto, and his rise in status in the Qin State has made the new Qin people in the Kanto proud and honorable, and also made their sense of belonging to the Qin State stronger and stronger.
Lu Jia and Yang Yu sent an envoy to Lingnan.
Accompanied by 800 elite soldiers from Li Yuan's personal barracks, although the number is not much, but every Qin soldier is selected from all over the elite soldiers, I believe that when they arrive in Lingnan, they will show the different bearing and appearance of the new Qin to the Qin people in South Vietnam, and their arrival will also reawaken the nostalgia of the Qin people in the south for their homeland.
There are two passages from the Qin State to the Nanyue State.
One is the traditional galloping road from Nan County to Changsha County and then over the Five Mountains, and the other is the Wuchi Road south of Ba County, passing through Yelang Country and then following the Xijiang River to Guilin County in South Vietnam. Lu Jia went to Lingnan and walked the second way.
Inside the carriage.
Lu Jia, the doctor of the Qin State, was closing his eyes and recuperating, this way south, the soldiers who protected him consumed physical strength, and he, Lu Jia, needed to consume more mental power.
The last time he went to Lingnan, Zhao Tuo also agreed, and when the Qin army marched south, he led the soldiers of the Qin army stranded in Lingnan to send troops to echo, striving to attack from both sides, and breaking the blockade of Wuling Road by the Meiyue people in one fell swoop.
Now, the Qin army has moved, but the South Vietnamese army has not moved, why is this? This time, Lu Jia's task is not only to persuade Zhao Tuo to move closer to Qin again, but also to have a more important hidden task, that is, if Zhao Tuo wants to be a separatist prince, Qin will change its strategy towards Nanyue and look for a replacement within it.
Xiangguo Lu Jia, Cangwu Wang Zhao Guang, or others. In Lu Jia's heart, he rotated the important real power officials of South Vietnam one by one.
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South Vietnam.
Panyu.
Located on the edge of the Pearl River, this ancient city is located on the slopes of Yuexiu Mountain, and its area is much worse than that of the later Guangzhou city.
However, as far as the Qin period is concerned, Panyu is the largest among the cities in Lingnan, and in this city, there are also magnates and generals from the three counties of Nanyue.
Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, has been in a very irritable mood recently, he is close to fifty years old, his hair is gradually starting to gray, and even his energy is not as good as when he was the commander of Longchuan County a few years ago.
The news that the Qin army was met with stubborn resistance from the Baiyue tribe and the Chu army in Nanyi City, and finally had to choose to retreat to the banks of the Great River, had reached Panyu, which made Zhao Tuo feel both happy and regretful.
Fortunately, he listened to the advice of Xiangguo Lu Jia and chose to take a wait-and-see attitude in the battle of Qin and Yue, when Lu Jia was in Chang'an, he was implicated because of Chen Ping's bribery incident, although Qin did not propose substantive punishment measures for Lu Jia's bribery, but the officials' verbal and attitude of neglect and contempt, or made Lu Jia's heart have subtle changes.
This change is in a short period of time, and it is naturally impossible to shake the fundamentals, but the mistake is that Lu Jia's side is also surnamed Lu, but he hates Qin Guo to the core.
Lvtai.
This Liu Bang and Lu Pheasant Shili's fish that slipped through the net, after being rescued by Lu Jia, lurked in the mission of the South Vietnamese Kingdom, his identity is just a groom, and Lu Tai is very careful to protect himself, and never goes out when there is nothing to do, so it is not eye-catching.
When he was in Chang'an, Lu Tai originally intended to set a trap for Liu Ying to carry poison and wait for the opportunity to poison Zhao Tuo's son Zhao Zhongshi, but because of Liu Ying's cowardly personality, he repeatedly couldn't do it and gave up.
This change in identity made it more possible for Lรผ Tai to get closer to the core of the political life of South Vietnam, after all, Lรผ Jia's identity as Xiangguo was there.
"Prime Minister, do you want to be a loyal minister, or do you want to be a rebel minister; If you want to be a loyal minister, then please persuade King Zhao to stand on his own feet and not surrender to the Qin State, if you want to be a rebel minister and only want to enjoy yourself, then please ask the King of Zhao to surrender to the Qin State, and from then on, the three counties of Lingnan will be owned by the Great Qinโโ! โ
After Lu Tai gained Lu Jia's trust, he finally said something that had been planned for a long time one night.
After arriving in Nanyue, Lu Tai's true identity no longer has to be hidden, and after getting along with Lu Jia these days, he already regards Lu Tai as a junior, and he will not be escorted to Qin to surrender again.
As soon as Lu Tai said this, Lu Jia was wrong, and in the next answer, Lu Tai was even more in one sentence, bluntly saying that anyone can descend the Qin State, but Zhao Tuo can't descend, weishenme? The reason is that as long as Zhao Tuo returns to Qin, it is impossible to stay in Lingnan anymore, Li Yuan for the stability of the three counties of Lingnan, in order to let the southern Qin army return to his heart, he will inevitably force Zhao Tuo to go to Chang'an to recuperate, and once Zhao Tuo leaves, he will be under house arrest.
Lu Jia and Zhao Tuo have a very close personal relationship, otherwise they would not have been appointed as the minister of state at the beginning of the South Yue Kingdom, hearing Lu Tai's analysis, Lu Jia was immediately shocked into a cold sweat
To be a fictitious prince with no real power, Zhao Tuo naturally refused.
At the beginning, he decided to negotiate with the Qin State on the basis of an alliance, and the two sides would treat each other as equals, and if it was not good, they would also maintain a semi-independent state.
And once the Qin army successfully defeated the rebels such as Mei Yue and Min Yue, next, Zhao Tuo's soldiers who have nostalgia for the Qin State will still listen to their orders, Zhao Tuo has no confidence. Therefore, for the South Vietnamese country, the most good result is to maintain the current state of being in a state of imminence.
Lu Jia's trip to South Vietnam is destined to be an unquiet mission, and whether he can break through the many doubts of South Vietnam and help Qin find a new spokesperson in South Vietnam is still unknown. (To be continued......)