A generation of heroes has disappeared.

The era of Maudun has finally passed, and the Huns have briefly unified the grassland, and now, under the strong blow of the Qin State, the tribes of the grassland will start a new round of cruel competition.

When Han Xin swept the Han River, Mao Dun's son, Zuo Tu Qi Wang Ji Congee was retreating to the North Sea with the remnants, waiting for this Mao Dun lineage Shili, it will be the Xiongnu tribes who are ready to move to clean up and suppress, for the heroes of the tribes such as Hu Yanxi, Helian Bi, Qiu Lijin, and other tribes such as Ding Ling, Lou Fu, Donghu, etc., the time has come to turn over.

Sometimes, Helian Bi and the others couldn't help but secretly rejoice in their hearts, if it weren't for the strong enemy of the Qin State, they would probably only be able to snort in their lives.

Hexi Corridor.

The Huyan tribe is rapidly retreating from the Qilian Mountain, and in late November, the Huyan Evil who does not seek merit, but seeks no fault, under the urging of Sumeru Butong, reluctantly launched the Battle of Dunhuang. The result was very tragic, and the nearly 70,000 warriors of the Huyan tribe faced the Qin army that was waiting for the battle, and they ran into a bloody outlet.

The Qin army guarded the city with 20,000 heavy troops of Gan Yong's department, Ji Bu and Li Zhongxiang escaped from the depths of Lop Nur Daze, outflanked the back road of the Huns, and when Hu Yan saw that the situation was not good and ordered to retreat, he was chased and killed by the Luo Jia cavalry army who returned from the Western Regions on the way.

Like Hu Yanxie, Qiu Lijin, who did not contribute to the attack on Mayi, fled to the vast primeval jungle like a tide coming and going, and Su Jiao and Yang Wengzi pursued and killed together, but only intercepted Qiu Lijin.

The war between Qin and Hungary slowly fell.

The border county cities of Jiuyuan, Gaoque, and Yongquan were all destroyed after this war, and nearly 100,000 border residents of Jiuyuan County. Fortunately, the Qin army's counterattack momentum was rapid, and a considerable number of captured soldiers and civilians were rescued by the pursuing Qin army on the way north.

Early December.

The weather in the south and north of the desert was extremely cold, and the number of consecutive heavy snowstorms and snowstorms made the number of frostbite and freezing soldiers in various units of the Qin army rise sharply.

Li Yuan ordered the ministries to turn back to the station, and at the same time. In order to completely eliminate the threat of the northern steppe tribes to the Hetao area, Su Jiao, the general of the Qin army, was ordered to lead 5,000 elite soldiers to garrison Longcheng. At the same time, at the beginning of the spring of the next year, the Qin State will officially build a gallop road connecting Jiuyuan, Gaoque, and Longcheng.

With this galloping road, the deployment of the Qin army can be more calm, although the strength of Longcheng is only 5,000, but as long as Su Jiao can hold on for about three days, the reinforcements from Jiuyuan, Gaonu and other places will continue to go up.

In addition, after Wang Li died in battle. The border army system no longer exists, although there are still Su Jiao, Yang Wengzi, Meng Hu and other former border generals alive, but they have been integrated into the new Qin army system, especially after witnessing the tragedy of Wang Li's death because of selfishness. They don't want to be outside the group.

After thinking about it again, Li Yuan immediately took Li Zuoche as the county guard and Hu Yu as the county captain of the infantry army, and stationed them on the bank of the river. Together with the border people who have returned to their homeland, they will rebuild Jiuyuan, Gaoque and other cities.

December 9th.

The Qin army returned to Chang'an, all the way. For the people of Qin, there was too much thrilling news in the winter of this year, and now, they can finally relax and live a good year in peace.

Chang'an City.

The atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger day by day, and the Hu merchants, who were once reduced by the tense war in Hexi, have appeared out of nowhere.

Looking at their warm invitations, it seems as if nothing has happened, but in the hearts of many people of insight, these Hu businessmen who see the wind and steer are already villains who cannot be trusted.

On the Ba Bridge.

People come and go, the cold snap from the north does not affect the enthusiasm of the Qin people to go out, compared with the coldness of the Hu merchants, those merchants from the Kanto region are gradually recognized by the old Qin people in Guanzhong, and behind this recognition, is the excellent performance of the army composed of the new Qin people in the Kwantung on the battlefield against Hungary.

Descendants of Yan and Huang.

With the same root and the same species, after there is no connection between the descendants of the six countries and the interests of the scholars, whether it is the Kwantung people, or the Guanzhong, Bashu or Hexi people, they are all proud of the strength of the Qin State, and this pride rising from resisting foreign invasion is the endless driving force for the future development and continuation of a nation.

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The climax is followed by calm.

Along with Li Yuan's return, there were tens of thousands of soldiers who accompanied the expedition, these soldiers from various counties in Guannai, after a short rest in Chang'an City, will return to the place where they set off under the leadership of their respective generals.

Of course, for those soldiers who have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, the Qin State will also reward them generously according to the rank of the military lord system, and those who continue to serve in the army will be promoted to a certain extent, while those who are injured and cannot continue to serve will be placed in the counties, townships, and pavilions of each county to serve as county captains, fathers and other positions.

The foundation of the Qin State needs a large number of loyal people, and these retired soldiers are undoubtedly the most trustworthy group of people. In addition to the soldiers, the retired generals, the highest position is Yang Wengzi, the veteran general of the border army. In the Battle of Mayi, Yang Wengzi led the army to gallop to Sujiao, but he didn't want to fall off his horse in the battle with the Huns, and Yang Wengzi's chest was trampled heavily by the startled horse.

The weight of the horse, enough to be five or six hundred catties, if this step on the solid, Yang Wengzi is afraid that the bones will be broken, and the blood will be spilled on the battlefield immediately, but fortunately, the frightened horse jumped and ran, and the other three hooves were still stepping on the hard ground, but even so, Yang Wengzi was seriously injured, and after being treated by the doctor simply, he was sent back to Hedong County to recuperate.

After the Huns were expelled, Qin's national strength was unprecedentedly strong, especially in terms of military prestige, it reached the pinnacle, and even among the aliens in the north, Li Yuan's prestige was much louder than that of the first emperor, the main merit of the first emperor was to unify the six countries, in the war with the northern tribes, the real record was Meng Tian recaptured the Hetao area, and Li Yuan was the real sense of the territory to expand the territory.

On the eve of the New Year in 199 B.C.

The northern territory of the Qin State has expanded to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains to the west, and Gushi City is the westernmost border city of the Qin State, and Ji Xin and his more than 1,000 generals have become the symbol of the Qin State's entry into the Western Regions. In the area of Yanbei, Han Xin took advantage of the favorable opportunity of breaking the Xiongnu to integrate the primitive tribes located in the area of Youxiangping, and on the basis of Yanjun, he added two county towns of Liaodong and Goryeo, of which Goryeo City has penetrated deep into the edge of the Yalu River.

Compared with the beacon fire in the north, the southern border of Qin has not changed much, if there is anything eye-catching, it is the official passage of the five-foot road from Bashu to the Dian Kingdom.

Dian Kingdom.

Its geographical location, located in the hinterland of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, that is, the area of today's Fuxian Lake, the pearl of this plateau in the Qin period is no different from now, but there is one thing that is very different, that is, there was no lake in the Qin period, replaced by the prosperous ancient city of Dian Kingdom.

When the Hexi Corridor and the Northern Silk Road in the Western Regions were threatened by the Xiongnu and intermittent, in the south of Qin, another channel for the exchange of Eastern and Western civilizations with a long civilization gradually became the window of Qin's foreign trade.

To the south of the Dian Kingdom, there are endless mountains and jungles, and the deep mountains and valleys that have crossed this one after another are the exotic customs of Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Ceylon jewelry, Indian ivory, and pearl shells from the seabed of Southeast Asia were common in the south, but when they arrived in Qin, their value immediately soared several times.

However, the consumption of luxury goods in the Qin State is not strong at present, which mainly lies in Li Yuan's personal exemplary role, it is easy for a person to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, with the strength of the new Qin and the stability of the status of officials, Li Yuan also heard and saw from time to time the report on the internal corruption sent by Yu Shicheng, who was in charge of supervision.

In one of the reports, Prime Minister Chen Ping was prominently listed, and according to a confidant named Ji Dien in the DPRK, Prime Minister Chen Ping privately accepted a whole piece of coral from Lu Jia, the envoy of the South Vietnamese State.

Chen Ping has been the prime minister for eight years.

It can be said that if it were not for Chen Ping, it would be almost impossible for Li Yuan to unify the Kwantung and defeat the Xiongnu within a few years, and by the time Li Yuan returned to Chang'an, Ji Di's impeachment of Chen Ping had already caused a stir in Chang'an City.

What should I do?

Do you ignore Ji Di's impeachment and continue to trust Chen Ping?

Or do you want to thoroughly investigate the truth of this incident and let the facts come to light, or do you want to be a peacemaker, and each side will play fifty boards?

While Li Yuan secretly ordered Yan Le's Zhijing Division to investigate the truth, he also seriously examined for the first time how to balance the chain of interests of officials and generals.

Man lives a lifetime.

Selfish distractions are inevitable, and perfect people are the most unfindable in real life.

The generals in the army, each with their own factions.

The same is true among interior officials.

The Xiangguo faction headed by Chen Ping, the Yushi faction headed by Li Zheng, the neutral faction represented by Guan Yue, Hou Xi and others, as well as officials like Lou Jing, Lu Jia, and Zhaoping, who are free and unaligned, have mutual interests, sometimes cooperate, and sometimes divide. (To be continued......)