In the study room in Qufu City, Xiao He, who was kneeling behind the desk, lowered his head and held a brush, looking at the bamboo slips, the whole person couldn't help frowning, and then looked up at the outside of the study.

"Grain and ten thousand stones! What is the general? The disaster of the country is also ~! ”

Xiao He said to himself full of doubts.

Since the arrival of the grain corn recruited by the Qin State, Xiao He was keenly aware that at this time, all parts of the Qin State had also been exhausted, the treasury was empty, and the county had no grain.

But what made Xiao He even more puzzled was why Bai Yan was so eager to start this war, so that Qin Guo took such a big risk.

The faster the territory expands, the easier it is to retaliate.

"No way!"

Xiao He thought of something, quickly got up, and then ignored the bamboo slips piled up all over the ground around him, and walked towards the outside of the study.

On the head of Qufu City.

Bai Yan stood in the middle of the city road, looking at the Qin army camp outside the city, even if it was far away, Bai Yan could hear the shouts in the mouths of those practicing soldiers.

"General!"

Bai Yan heard Xiao He's voice, turned his head over, and saw Xiao He coming in a hurry.

Seeing Xiao He, Bai Yan was a little surprised, since letting Xiao He take charge of logistics, Xiao He devoted himself wholeheartedly, if he didn't go to the mansion during this time, Bai Yan rarely saw Xiao He.

Why did Xiao He show such a anxious appearance today.

"General!"

Xiao He came to Bai Yan, took the bamboo slip and bowed to Bai Yan, and then handed the bamboo slip in his hand to Bai Yan under Bai Yan's return salute.

"General, look, it's just more than a thousand grains, but it's the existence of a county, Xiao He is worried, now there is a shortage of grain in the four parts of the Qin State."

Xiao He watched Bai Yan staring at the bamboo slips, then came to Bai Yan's side, looked at Bai Yan, pointed to the contents on the bamboo slips, and said to Bai Yan.

Although he has achieved nothing in half his life, Xiao He did not eat dry food at home, he studied books from various countries, specialized in the laws and regulations of various countries, and by the way, behind the deeds, Xiao He has seen the formation of famines in various places, as well as the troubled times that occurred, and the way to deal with them.

These Xiao He have observed the rules, and the performance of the Qin State in front of him made Xiao He keenly aware of the changes, which was the precursor of the fatigue of the Qin State.

"General, once the Qin State and the Chu State are at war and the battle will not last for a long time, I am afraid that the Qin State will not be able to send grain millet to the country stably, and when the time comes, the soldiers will be short of food, which will inevitably cause a big disaster, and even be used by the Chu army!"

Xiao He said with a serious face, looking at Bai Yan's eyes, full of worry.

"I already know about it!"

After Bai Yan finished reading the bamboo slips, he returned them to Xiao He, and then looked at the Qin army camp outside the city.

Xiao He took the bamboo slip and glanced at Bai Yan.

At this time, HP also walked up the city road from the stairs in the city and walked towards Bai Yan.

"General, according to the general's orders, all the elderly and weak in the army have been transferred to Qi, Pingyang, Yishan Pass, and Xiaoyi."

HP said to Bai Yan.

After taking Qufu, with the inventory bounty in the city, the reward has been rewarded, and the other people who have no reward are very red-eyed, and now the morale is available, and now there is time for those military chiefs and even chiefs to practice.

Looking at Bai Yan, HP felt that after following Bai Yan for a long time, he found that Bai Yan and Li Mu had many similarities.

For example, at the moment, Qi, Pingyang, Yishan Pass, and Xiaoyi are the fastest roads from Chu to Qufu, if Chu wants to recapture Qufu, these are the cities that the Chu army most wants to capture, but the general specially sent the old and weak in the army and a small number of middle-aged men to garrison.

Thinking of Bai Yan's original remark that 'all news is far less deceptive than eyes, especially the smarter the person', HP couldn't help but think of General Li Mu more than ten years ago, who also used a similar method to deceive the Hun army and lure the enemy into depth, so as to surround the Hun army.

"Okay, during this time, train these soldiers well, and tell them that attacking Chu is the best chance for them to gain titles, servants, fields, and money."

Bai Yan said to HP.

"No!"

HP nodded,

Xiao He on the side saw that Bai Yan had everything arranged, although he was worried, he could only suppress his worries in his heart, since Bai Yan knew, it would be fine.

Xiao He, who had never participated in the war before, was now entrusted with a heavy task by Bai Yan after following Bai Yan, and only then did he understand why people said that there were 100,000 soldiers and horses, and thousands of gold were consumed every day.

This war of more than 100,000 people is really not something that ordinary people can fight if they want to.

In this regard, the state of Chu is different from the state of Qin, in addition to the army of the state of Chu, the state of Chu also implements the clan military system, that is, in addition to the royal court, those famous families of the state of Chu are in their respective fiefdoms, and there are private soldiers in captivity, with a few thousand people and more than more than 100,000 people.

Not to mention the three clans of Qu Jingzhao, such as the Xiang clan and the Huang clan, they are all in their respective territories, using the taxes of the territories to raise private soldiers in their respective clans, and the number of private soldiers depends entirely on the size of the territory and the degree of prosperity.

This is also why when the successive kings of Chu wanted to send troops to other countries, they often had to rely on other scholars, and give benefits to those scholars, and even when they competed for the new king of Chu, they also needed to rely on the support of other scholars.

Although Xiao He is just an ordinary scholar and belongs to the declining side branch of the Xiao family, Xiao He still has heard of Xiong Wei seizing the throne in the past, and it seems that Xiong Wei was able to win Xiong Wei at the beginning, that is, Xiong Wei and Li Yuan gave up a lot of fiefs, so that some scholars betrayed Xiong Cheng at the most critical time.

Although Xiong Wei and Li Yuan were killed later, this incident was still very sensational.

"General, it's not good, Lord Yao Jia of Qi State, I ordered someone to send news!!"

Xiao He was about to say goodbye to Bai Yan and leave, when suddenly a soldier hurriedly ran over and handed a roll of bamboo slips to Bai Yan.

Hearing the news that it was Qin Shangqing Yao Jia, Xiao He was a little puzzled.

"General, what's going on?"

HP looked at Bai Yan's frowning brows, and couldn't help but be curious, and asked softly.

After Bai Yan finished reading the bamboo slips, he handed them to HP and Xiao He.

"What, someone actually dares to assassinate Qin Xiang in the Qi Kingdom!"

Hewlett-Packard and Xiao He, who saw the bamboo slips, looked at the bamboo slips with shocked expressions, and then looked at each other.

Bai Yan turned his head and looked busy.

", go and call Ban Ding!"

Bai Yan whispered to the man who had followed him all day.

Qufu is not far from the State of Qi, and the assassination of Qin Xiang can undoubtedly affect the decision of the King of Qi and even the entire State of Qi, Bai Yan knows this truth, and Yao Jia also knows this truth, so Yao Jia ordered someone to send this matter to him at the border as soon as possible.

"No!"

He gave Bai Yan the order, and then turned to leave.

"General, do you want to send troops to guard against Yangguan?"

HP looked at Bai Yan and asked.

"No, let's hold our hands first......"

Bai Yan's face was solemn, and he pondered for a few breaths, but he still shook his head, let HP train the soldiers first, and the Qi army in Yangguan didn't need to worry too much.

Half an hour later.

With the departure of HP and Xiao He, Ban Ding followed him and came to Bai Yan.

After seeing Ban Ding, Bai Yan didn't go around the pass, and directly showed the news sent by Yao Jia to Ban Ding.

"Chu State?"

Ban Ding's first reaction when he saw the news was that he was taken aback, the prime minister of Qin was actually assassinated, and then after the shock, Ban Ding immediately thought of Chu State, and now only Chu State, as well as those scholars in Qi who advocate anti-Qin, are most likely to do these things.

"But there are guards and accompanying Qin soldiers, and the State of Qi is also wary of this matter, even if the State of Chu does it, there is no chance!"

After Ban Ding Fang said the state of Chu, he immediately shook his head and softly denied his speculation.

It's not the State of Chu, if it was so easy for Qin Xiang to kill, and the State of Chu would have done it a long time ago, then the only possibility would be that the State of Qi would ......

Thinking of this, Ban Ding looked at Bai Yan.

"I want to see Nong Yue immediately!"

Bai Yan also understood what Ban Ding thought, so he did not hesitate to say that the purpose of letting Ban Ding come over was that he wanted to go to the border to meet the Chu general in person.

Kui was assassinated, whether it was the hand of those anti-Qin people of Qi State or not, the result would force those Qi forces to oppose Qin, and then the King of Qi would also be implicated for fear of being implicated, so he would ally with Chu State to oppose Qin.

Before these things happen, Bai Yan must take advantage of the gap to prevent these things from happening.

"The general rest assured, Ban Ding immediately set off to Yangguan to arrange a meeting for the general!"

Ban Ding heard Bai Yan's words and agreed without the slightest hesitation.

Ban Ding also knew at this time how dangerous this change was for the Qin army between Qi and Chu.

………………

The two carriages drove slowly on the official road, looking at Qufu City, which was far in front of him, and the middle-aged man in front of the first carriage was full of nervousness.

"Who are you? Where to go? ”

Several iron cavalry soldiers guarding the city gate were checking the people entering and leaving the city gate, when they saw the carriage coming, they looked over, and saw the nervous appearance of the middle-aged man, and immediately noticed that something was wrong and became vigilant.

"I am a Korean, and this trip is to go to the country of Qi! The carriage is full of women in the clan, and I hope that all of you will be accommodating! ”

The middle-aged man is the tyrant of the tyrant clan, the tyrant and the tyrant clan were almost killed in the past, fortunately Bai Yan secretly rescued him, and then under the arrangement of the tyrant Yu, he has been hiding in the Chu country.

And now, if you let Tyrant Yu be here, I'm afraid Tyrant Yu can't even think of why Tyrant will come to Qufu at this time.

"Ladies and daughters?"

When the twenty-year-old iron cavalry soldier heard the words of the violent decision, he walked to the carriage with the Qin sword in his hand, and then lifted the curtain.

When he saw that in the first carriage, in addition to a white-haired old man, there was also a woman, a young woman, who immediately showed a surprised gaze.

"Get down!"

The soldier spoke, and then walked to the second carriage.

In the second carriage, there were also three women, one of whom was still holding a child.

The knight saw the two carriages, and saw that the men seemed to be ready to move, so he let all the women down.

"General, we are indeed going to the Qi country, and I hope that the general will be accommodating."

Worried about the safety of his wife and concubine and daughter, he hurriedly took out seven or eight coins from his arms and handed them to the iron cavalry soldiers quietly.

Seeing this, the soldier took the money and did not refuse, but seeing that the carriage was full of items, the soldier also had to carefully search the things on the car to avoid mistakes.

Because it must be a move, there are a lot of things, and there are two carriages, which is quite time-consuming, which also leads to many people and scholars' carriages waiting inside and outside the city.

The Qin State attacked the Chu State, and Qufu was occupied by the Qin army, which was enough to break the comfort of Qufu in the past, as well as the number of people and scholars who came and went.

"That woman is really a beauty, in Qufu, there are few beauties like this!"

"No, I just don't know where these people come from, but it seems that it shouldn't be much better, maybe with a little means, you can get it."

"Brother Tu, if you fall in love with that woman, we will naturally not rob it, but if there is a chance, the other two beautiful women will be given to us, although they are older, but their appearance is quite attractive!"

In addition to the people who came and went, they looked curiously at the female dependents who were in the tyranny, and beside the three carriages in the city, several children of the scholar clan in silk clothes looked at the tyranny and couldn't help but talk softly.

If Bai Yan was here, he would definitely see that the women who were talked about by the children of the Shi clan were all women who laughed at him for eating idle meals when he was in the mansion of the Tyrant clan.

When Bai Yan followed Tyrant Yu and went to the Tyrant Mansion under the pseudonym Jing Mo, on the second day, these women were still in the pavilion, in front of the Tyrant, laughing at Bai Yan for going to the Tyrant Mansion to have a leisurely meal, and they didn't have the ability to dare to have delusions about the Tyrant, saying that Bai Yan was not worthy of the Tyrant at all.

Compared with the last time Bai Yan saw these women coming out of prison in the Tyranny Mansion, although these women are not so depressed now, they are not much better.

In troubled times, there is no status, and many times things are not decided by themselves.

"Let's go inside!"

When the soldier saw that there was no abnormality, he nodded and let the tyrant and the others enter the city, but his eyes couldn't help but look at the tyranny.

Even in Qufu City, it is rare to see such a beautiful young woman as Tyrant, among them are either the daughters of those high-ranking scholars, or the wives and concubines of those they can't afford to provoke.

"Thank you! Thanks a lot! ”

Feeling the ill-intentioned appearance of those clan children, he felt a chill all over, and what he had been most worried about was that his wife and daughter were being targeted by those scholars not far away.

Suddenly, there was the sound of an iron horseman.

Several iron cavalry soldiers who were originally guarding the city gate turned their heads to look, and when they saw that it was General Hewlett-Packard who was leaving the city with his cronies, the soldiers knew that General Hewlett-Packard was going to the Qin army camp, so they gave way one after another.

"General!"

"General!!"

Not only the soldiers guarding the city gate, but also all the people around them, as well as the arrogant and domineering children of the Shi clan, all lowered their heads when they saw HP coming, and cautiously retreated to make way.

Seeing this, he thought that he would need to rely on his daughter's beauty in the future, so as to have wealth and status again, so in the Chu State, he resigned from so many people's proposals, in order to marry the most beautiful daughter to the Qi State.

Right now, here in Qufu, the daughter must not afford to lose.

Thinking about it, thinking back to the conversation of those clan disciples just now, he suddenly turned his heart sideways, and walked forward quickly, knelt on the ground, and blocked the way of those horsemen and the general of the Qin State.

The violent action not only frightened everyone, but the violent old man who was supported by the violent man looked at Zhongzi in confusion.

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