Chapter 324 The Great Rebellion in Wu County lasted for half a month, and even affected the city, with more than eighty percent of the villages and towns participating in it, and several cities also participating in it.

Fortunately, the Dark Guard and the Running Wolf Light Cavalry cooperated with Huang Yue to quell the chaos with minimal casualties, and it did not spread outside Wu County.

However, in the past half a month, the number of military and civilian casualties has exceeded 10,000, which is definitely a shocking figure.

The chaos subsided, and Qin Xi also ordered a purge of the Wen family and a round-up of Wen Qi. Wen Qi was seriously injured by Fan Lin and has not recovered until now, and Qin Xi ordered the entire Huiji City to be blocked, which made Wen Qi have no way to escape from Huiji City.

Qin Xi personally took action, and after subduing Wen Qi with a sword and a sword, he found that Wen Qi's injury was even more serious than he thought, and now at most, there is only the strength left to enter the country, and without the hand holding the sword, the strength is greatly reduced.

After capturing Wen Qi, the Wen family fell into despair completely, and the problem of Wu Jun's family was basically solved.

Including the Wen family, more than a dozen families, large and small, were arrested, and even the Fan family was stripped of a layer of skin, and it was no longer as strong as it was back then.

Originally, the people involved in the case this time were supposed to overwhelm the Xianyang trial, but Qin Xi waved his hand and handed them all over to the county guard, so after the Wu County guard interrogated day and night for five days and five nights, the trial was finally completed.

All the descendants and collaterals of the Wen family were sentenced to death, and a total of 123 people from other families were sentenced to death, 356 were sent into slavery, and 62 were innocent.

After Qin Xi handed over these to the county guard, he no longer cared, but discussed with Xiao He how to open up the 10,000 acres of fertile land in Wu County.

In this era, the Taihu Lake area was only an alluvial plain, and Taihu Lake was only a small lake, so most of the fertile land was concentrated in the Yangtze River, that is, on both sides of the Yangtze River.

The most important thing to do to exploit the region's food potential is to solve the problem.

In this area, when the rainy season arrives in summer, the amount of precipitation will increase greatly, and it is easy to form floods, resulting in heavy losses in the areas on both sides of the river.

Faced with this problem, Xiao He's opinion is to build a canal to divert the water of the Yangtze River, which is the way to learn from Jiangyan.

Qin Xi shook his head and denied it, the Changhe River is not the Du Min River, and the water volume of the Long River is not comparable to the Min River, and doing so is likely to expand the disaster.

Qin Xi looked at the map, picked up the pen and drew two circles directly on the two small lakes on the map, which were the locations of Poyang Lake and Dongting Lake in later generations.

"What does Childe mean?" Xiao He looked at Qin Xi suspiciously. Qin Xi said: "Expand these two lakes as reservoirs for the long river. When there is a lot of water in the long river, put it in these two lakes, and when there is little water, these two lakes can also refute the Yangtze River. Not only that, but fish farming can be developed in both lakes. ”

"And the surrounding food can also be improved, but the problem is how much land to need, and the relocation and land resettlement of the people is not easy to do, after all, the two places are far apart, and they are not in Wu County, so I am afraid it will be very difficult to deploy." Xiao He frowned and said.

Qin Xi nodded and said, "So this requires the help of the imperial court." ”

"Then I'll go write the recital." Xiao He said.

"No need, I wrote it ten days ago and sent it to it, and now I'm waiting for the meaning of the imperial court." Qin Xi said.

"It seems that Childe has already thought about it." Xiao He smiled. ······ As for Qin Xi's plan, after the First Emperor knew about it, he immediately found Li Simengyi and Yao Jia and other confidants.

"Your Majesty, there are a lot of people in the fields involved in this, so don't act rashly."

"Master Li Si is right, not only that, but the financial and material resources spent are also huge, and they should not be acted lightly." Yao Jia arched his hand and said.

The First Emperor looked at the two circles on the map and said, "If it can be done, my Great Qin will inevitably have a large number of hundreds of thousands of acres for two days, and it is not impossible to become the second land of Tianfu, is it really impossible to do it?" Li Si said: "Your Majesty, there is one more thing that has to be guarded against. ”

"Say." Li Si said: "This place is the land of the old Chu, and the remnants of the Chu State are very active, if my Great Qin invests too much, I am afraid that it will only enhance the strength of the remnants of the Chu State, and it will not be beneficial to my Great Qin." ”

"The minister believes that it is possible to develop agriculture and mulberry in the long river, but not too much, and even suppress the commerce in the south to weaken the strength of the remnants of the Chu State."

"The minister agrees with the Prime Minister's proposal." Yao Jia said. The emperor turned to look at Meng Yi and said, "Meng Yi, tell me what you think." Meng Yi arched his hand and said: "The minister thinks that this matter is feasible, but it should not be too fast, but it should be delayed." Let the South develop, but also let the South be deeply involved in this matter. Meng Yi's words suddenly made everyone's eyes light up, because this was a solution.

After all, the south cannot but develop in the future, and it is best to lay the foundation for the development of the south with procrastination now, and it will not enhance the strength of the remnants of the Chu State.

Li Si thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, this matter was raised by His Highness, and the minister thinks that His Highness can be summoned back for discussion, maybe His Highness will have different ideas." After pondering for a long time, the first emperor said: "Spread the edict, this matter is the sole responsibility of the prince Xi, and the officials from all over the country must fully cooperate!" Don't let me see the remnants of the Chu State take advantage of the situation! "The last decision of the First Emperor threw this matter back to Qin Xi, Qin Xi can do whatever he wants, and officials from all over the country will fully cooperate, but they must not see the remnants of Chu become stronger, and if they can't do it, don't do it.

Although Li Si and the others were still worried in their hearts, they didn't speak again. This matter could not be more obvious, it was a test for the first emperor to the prince Qin Xi.

Perhaps, in a few years, the position of the crown prince will be clear. After this matter was dealt with, the First Emperor threw another problem to everyone, that is, the envoy of the Western Regions was about to arrive in Xianyang.

I don't know why, maybe it was Qin Xi who caused problems in history, but Loulan, who was founded in 176 BC, was founded at this time and took the initiative to send people to the Central Plains.

Although it is said that Daqin has been dealing with the Western Regions for a long time, he has only done some business with the people of the Western Regions on the edge of the Western Regions, and has not had an in-depth understanding of the people of the Western Regions.

If it was just ordinary diplomatic relations, things would be much simpler, but this time the people from the Western Regions sent a princess to marry, which was a headache.

Since the other party sent the princess, it is natural to marry the prince of Daqin. Now except for Hu Hai, several other princes can marry, especially the prince Qin Xi, who has the most women around him.

What the First Emperor couldn't decide now was who to marry the princess of the Western Regions, so he asked Li Si and them to come up with an idea.

Li Si and the others were also not easy to decide, and finally proposed to wait for the envoy from the Western Regions to come, and let the princes take turns to see the princess of the Western Regions, and whoever has a crush on him will marry.