At the beginning of the night, the lanterns are shining.

The carriage was wheeling, with lanterns hanging on both sides, and stopped in front of a house.

"Lord, it has arrived."

Bai Lu carried a knife and was dressed in armor, riding on a horse and following the carriage.

"Got it!"

Zhao Shuang's voice came from the carriage, Bai Lu waved his hand, and the five hundred armor soldiers who followed the carriage were divided into five teams, surrounded the courtyard, and stationed them in various places to guard the key passes.

This is a mountain house, covering a vast area, located on the south bank of Weishui, six or seventy miles away from Xianyang, very close to the ion meridian road. The land near the house was given to Zhao Shuang by the Qin State to enter Beijing to rest.

It is not known who built the mansion when, but it is known that there is a hot spring in the house, and it was originally a palace where princes stayed and recuperated.

Later, according to successive generations, with the change of power, the ownership of this mansion changed, and it was also transformed, and its owner finally became Zhao Shuang.

Since the beginning of its construction, the mansion has been semi-military in nature, and many buildings and pavilions have been built. Some of them are recreational and recreational facilities, and some of them are completely defensive military facilities.

After all, this is a wilderness, infested with bandits.

Stables, granaries, armory, longhouses where soldiers rest, and even places where maids and servants live, all have all the necessary facilities.

In the center of the courtyard is the main house, and the backyard connected to it is a chaotic forest, and there is a hot spring in it, which is the hot spring courtyard.

Zhao Shuang walked into the main house, there was a musty smell inside, with the feeling that no one had come for a long time.

Under Bai Lu's command, the five hundred armor soldiers began to familiarize themselves with the terrain and arranged the positions where the patrol was stationed. A group of women entered the inner courtyard and began to clean the courtyard.

Zhao Shuang walked out of the house, and beyond the eaves of the porch, there was a pool of stagnant water, glowing with green algae and foul smell, without any life.

"Lord, the spies have returned. The water sources in the vicinity have been identified. In addition to the five wells in the courtyard, there are three mountain springs, two dark springs, and a small stream in the mountain. The courtyard could accommodate a thousand people, and the house was filled with grain and grass for a year. ”

Zhao Shuang nodded and sat down.

"I will give you three thousand gold to buy food, forage, and supplies. Then go find a hundred craftsmen to repair this yard inside and out. ”

"No!"

Bai Lu first responded, and then his face was very puzzled.

"Lord, since we have already met with the King of Qin, why don't we go back to our own territory? Everything in Xianyang is expensive, I have been shopping for the past few days, and we can't even buy a leg of mutton here for the money we paid to buy a sheep. ”

Zhao Shuang smiled, looked at the puzzled expression on the other party's face, and shook his head.

"We're going to have to stay here for a long time."

Lu Buwei is good at calculation, and putting Zhao Shuang here is tantamount to putting him under the noses of a lot of people.

Moreover, the land near this mansion, although it was given to Zhao Shuang, was all wild land and there was no income.

In other words, although there is military value here, it is a purely money-consuming thing to garrison soldiers here, and Zhao Shuang has to pay for it himself.

If you want to gain a foothold in the situation of Xianyang, in addition to military strength, the important thing is financial resources. Lu Buwei was born as a businessman, so he naturally understands this truth.

In the current situation, in addition to the comparison of the forces of all parties on the surface, the most important thing is the competition of financial resources. Figuring out the other side's financial strength, and even snuffing it out, is one of the most important conditions for defeating the other side.

Compared with the 100,000 households in Luoyi of the Marquis of Wenxin, the fiefs of the brothers Chang'anjun and Changpingjun are poor and weak, and their self-sufficiency is acceptable, but it is very difficult to go out to fight and carry out a long-term war of attrition.

This is also the reason why Lü Buwei did not regard Zhao Shuang as a great enemy at the beginning, and Cheng Cheng gave him 2,000 gold.

Although Lu Buwei temporarily reconciled with Zhao Shuang, it did not mean that he became friends, on the contrary, giving him such a seemingly luxurious mansion was actually consuming Zhao Shuang's financial resources.

"That's not cheap."

Bai Lu muttered, as if she was a little distressed.

........

The swallow land is bitterly cold, in the middle of winter, the snow falls, and the earth is white.

In the prince's mansion, Yan Dan closed his eyes.

The Qin army retreated, Yan Zhao repaired peace, and Yan Dan was busy with affairs, and he didn't rest until this moment.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

The six-fingered black man held the ink eyebrows in his hand and entered the palace of the prince of Yan Kingdom, without alarming a single guard, and went straight to Yan Dan.

"Giant!"

The two sat opposite each other, and the six-fingered black man placed the ink eyebrows in front of him.

There were only two people sitting in the hall, which seemed a little empty, and there was no one around.

"In the land of Qin and Chu, the power of the Mo family has grown rapidly, and now there are 5,000 Moxia on the register, only under the peasant family. It's just that what is the identity of this Mo family commander? ”

"Why does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince want to know his identity?"

The six-fingered black man's question did not make Yan Dan have any doubts.

"A few days ago, Zhao Shuang, the Hanyang Jun of the Qin State, was in the Xianyang Palace, and he did not shy away from saying that Qin destroyed the heart of the Six Kingdoms. The great commander is in the land of Qin and Chu, but his style of acting is very different from the Mo family's style of acting in the past, the giant is really not worried, will the Mo family be involved in the turmoil between the Qin State and the Six Kingdoms? ”

"The Mo family should abide by the way of both love and non-attack."

But the Great Commander did not do this, he helped Tianze to restore the country and set off a war between Dongyue and Chu. For this reason, the state of Chu regards our Mo family as an enemy. Let Li Kai return to the Korean court and get involved in South Korean politics. Once it fails, my Mo family will suffer the aftermath. And now under the command of the Great Commander, Moxia has his own faction, and he is the only one who sees the order, and almost does not obey the orders of the organ city. ”

Speaking of this, Yan Dan looked at the six-fingered black man and asked.

"Isn't the giant really worried?"

Yan Dan's problems are all very realistic problems, Zhao Shuang first kicked out the disciples of the Mo family who were born in the nobility at the beginning of taking charge of the Mo family's power in the land of Qin and Chu, and then wantonly installed his own people.

Now almost all of the ink heroes in the land of Qin and Chu are recruited and promoted by Zhao Shuang alone, and the rest of the commanders can't intervene at all. These five thousand ink heroes, he is the only one who obeys his life.

Hearing this, the six-fingered black man asked a question.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thinks the Mo family has a future ahead of the future?"

"Unite people with lofty ideals in the world to resist the tyranny of the Qin State."

Yan Dan did not shy away from saying it, and said it bluntly.

The six-fingered black man laughed and nodded. Yan Dan's eyes were full of doubts, and he didn't understand why there was a sense of happiness in the words of the six-fingered black man.

"Very good, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will do this!"

"What do you mean, Giant?"

Yan Dan sat up straight, as if encouraged, he raised his hand, and the six-fingered black man had already gotten up.

In the hundreds of years of the Warring States Period, all the sons and hundreds of schools of thought were looking for their own way out. For the Mo family, it is the same.

The six-fingered black man slowly walked away, and when he left, he left a sentence that Yan Dan didn't understand at all.

"In the last days, no matter how the world changes, the Mo family is already invincible."