Chapter Ninety-Five: I'm Peaceful, I'm Proud
After hearing the seal, Han Xin's face was full of excitement.
In addition, the First Emperor did not favor one over the other, in addition to rewarding Su Mo and Han Xin, the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to this rebellion were also rewarded one by one, such as Xiao He and Cao Zhengchun and other evil guards, but those rewards were not awarded by the First Emperor himself, but handed over to the three provinces to jointly formulate.
After the reward was completed, the banquet of the hundred officials continued.
Songs are played, dances are danced.
Su Mo sat in the first position on the left, eating meat and drinking wine, thinking about nothing, leisurely.
After a while.
A figure stood up from its position, and then walked to the center of the Qilin Hall.
Doctor Chun Yuyue looked at the first emperor, and said slightly: "Your Majesty, now that the remnants of the six countries are gone, I can't have a prince in Daqin for a day, the prince has both virtue and talent, generosity and humility, and now there are often Xiongnu infestations on the border of the Great Wall, for the sake of the safety of the son, the minister also asked His Majesty to recall the prince of Fusu back to Xianyang." ”
Since Xiang Yu's rebellion, the First Emperor was furious.
relegated the prince of Fusu to the Great Wall to resist the Huns, and Chun Yuyue, as Fusu's teacher, naturally wanted his disciples to come back as soon as possible.
After the first emperor heard this, he originally drank alcohol.
He looked at Chun Yuyue, shook his head and said, "I handed over Fusu to you to teach, but you taught him to be a waste full of benevolence and morality, and he didn't even have the basic knowledge of people, so how can I rest assured that I will hand over the world to him to take care of?"
For example, today they are blaming me for building the Great Wall and immigrating to the border, but if they don't stick to the north, the disaster of the Xiongnu will spread to the interior, so I want him to go to Shangjun to supervise Meng Tian's army, go to the north to see the real people's suffering, and learn from Meng Tian the experience of leading soldiers, which will be good for him. ”
Seeing that the First Emperor rejected Chun Yuyue's suggestion, the officials were silent and booed.
Even the singers who had been dancing stopped moving.
Feeling that the atmosphere of the hall was a little strange, Su Mo looked left and right, and finally said to Chun Yuyue: "Lord Chun, since Your Majesty has decided, those of us who are courtiers should follow it, and let Prince Fusu learn the experience of leading troops in the north, isn't this a kind of training for him?" ”
Chun Yuyue saw Su Mo come out to play a round, although he was unwilling, he still gave him this face and slowly retreated, not caring about this matter.
Since Su Mo put the Confucian classics into compulsory education, the relationship between the two is quite harmonious, otherwise Chun Yuyue would definitely pick up his style as a keyboard warrior today, and teach the First Emperor how to be a qualified emperor and spray him to death.
Seeing that Chun Yuyue had retreated, Su Mo also breathed a sigh of relief.
He was afraid that Chun Yuyue would anger the First Emperor, and then make the book burning and Confucianism incident in history, then he would fuck up.
After Chun Yuyue retreated, the general Meng Tian also stood up.
As the leader of the Mengjia army, this guy was supposed to stay in the north to resist the Xiongnu, but he also held the position of the secretary of the military department, and now that the Xiongnu are in civil strife, there is no war in the north, so Meng Tian stays in Xianyang most of the time to deal with things.
"Your Majesty, since the Xiongnu civil strife, Mao Dun killed his father to stand on his own, and now the Xiongnu has gradually calmed down, I am afraid that there will be no peace on the border of my Daqin in the future, and the north is bitterly cold, and the transportation of grain and grass is quite difficult, the minister suggested that a straight road from Xianyang to Shangjun should be built, so that it only takes three days to transport grain to the border, saving unnecessary losses." Meng Tian stood up and said in a deep voice.
In ancient times, what was fought in the war was the ability of logistics and transportation.
Generally speaking, when a bag of grain is transported to the border, the middleman eats and chews the horse, and when it arrives at the destination, I am afraid that only a small part will remain.
Moreover, now Daqin is mostly mountain roads, and many places can only rely on manpower to transport, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so Meng Tian thought about building a straight road to the past.
However, before he finished speaking, Li Si on the side stood up and retorted: "If a straight road is built, it is true that the grain and grass can be transported to the Great Wall in three days, but if the Great Wall is lost, the army of the Xiongnu can also enter Xianyang in only three days, so for the safety of His Majesty and the safety of Great Qin, this matter is absolutely not advisable." ”
The First Emperor listened silently, watching Meng Tian and Li Si arguing.
He turned his gaze and looked at Su Mo: "Public toilet Hou, do you think this straight road should be built?" ”
"The minister thinks that this straight road can not be repaired."
When Su Mo heard this, he hurriedly stood up and replied: "If the Xiongnu are destroyed, from now on, there will be no calamity in the north of my Great Qin, and this straight road will naturally not need to be built." ”
"Destroying the Huns, this is easy to say, but how easy is it to do?"
When Meng Tian heard this, it was as if he was listening to a joke, if it weren't for the two of them knowing each other, I'm afraid he would have been unable to help but sneer.
If the Xiongnu were really so easy to destroy, the First Emperor would still use the nationwide conscription to build the Great Wall, and still need hundreds of thousands of Chen soldiers to resist the Xiongnu in the north?
Seeing that everyone didn't believe that they could destroy the Huns, Su Mo sensed that this was a good opportunity.
It just so happens that he still lacks a great achievement to be named the Marquis of Che, if he can prove to everyone that he can destroy the Huns, it will not be a great achievement.
"Your Majesty, the ministers have three strategies to calm the scourge of the Huns."
Su Mo was neither humble nor arrogant, and said slowly.
Hearing this, all eyes were on him.
Although everyone thought that Su Mo's words were a bit arrogant, what he had done every time in the past two years had never disappointed.
Everyone knows that our prime minister has a talent that has endured the heavens and the earth.
"Oh, Zhao Gao, can you tell me what are the three strategies?" The First Emperor and the others looked at him one after another, wanting to hear what kind of advice he could say.
"...... this strategy"
Su Mo smiled, and said confidently: "The next strategy is to stick to the Great Wall, and then strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness, the reason why the Huns keep offending my Daqin land is because they lack materials, so they have invaded the border many times, since this is the case, we will move all the people within dozens of miles of the border, and there will be no materials near the border, and the Huns will not be able to plunder the materials, so they will naturally not come in the future, unless they are willing to continue to go deep into the land of Daqin, but at that time, my Daqin's iron cavalry will teach them to be people." ”
This strategy is actually very simple, like what the First Emperor is doing now, it is very similar to this.
The First Emperor frowned when he heard this, although this method was good, but the cost was too great, and the problems caused by the relocation of the people were also difficult to solve.
"What about the middle policy?"
"This is the middle strategy is to open trade with the Huns, exchange with each other, the minister has heard that my Daqin merchant Wu Shilu has used gold, silver, jewelry and other items in exchange for ten times the cattle and sheep of the grassland, and I Daqin is vast and rich, rich in materials, like our grain, grass and food, tea and ironware are very popular in the grassland, we can use these things in exchange for the cattle, sheep and horses of the grassland, with the shrewdness of my Daqin merchants, from now on the grassland is completely a place for us to herd sheep and horses."
"At the same time, we can also educate the grassland people, and when the Huns wear my Daqin's clothes, eat my Daqin's food, and speak the language of my Daqin, will they still be willing to live that kind of life without a fixed place at that time?"