The Qin army won a great victory, but the domestic grain and grass were still insufficient after all, and they only occupied all the cities and lands that the Qin State had lost during this period of time and were unable to continue the march.

However, unexpectedly, Zhang Ji suddenly took out a full 200,000 stones of grain and grass to solve the problem of food shortage in the Qin army.

Half of these 200,000 stones were purchased and stored by Luo Wang when Zhang Ji first entered Xinzheng a year ago. (See chap. V)

At that time, he planned according to the plot of the original book, planning to buy 100,000 stones of grain and grass to relieve the victims when the Korean people were facing a food shortage, but he didn't expect that the Jade Tiger would become his subordinate.

And although the famine broke out, there was no food shortage.

Without the Jade Tiger's malicious hoarding of food and raising prices, although the people's lives were very difficult, they were still able to barely survive.

These grains and grass were handed over to the Jade Tiger and secretly sent to Guiling City, which was occupied by the Qin State.

After the defeat of South Korea, it fell into chaos, and all the birds were thrown into dealing with the officials who impeached and defeated Ji Wuye and Bai Yifei, and there was no time to monitor the movements of the Jade Tiger.

After all, the Jade Tiger is the four fierce generals of the night, and no one in South Korea dares to check the caravan of the Jade Tiger except Ji Wuye, so he travels smoothly all the way.

The other 100,000 stones were low-priced grain that Jade Tiger bought from the wealthy Qi State, and it didn't need to go through the territory of Korea at all, and was sent straight to Guiling City under the escort of the Qin army.

The 200,000 stone grain and grass plus the remaining grain and grass in the Qin army were enough to support the 100,000 Qin army for two months.

Two months of grain and grass is actually not much, but the goal of the Qin State is not Han and Wei, nor is it the Qi State bordering Qin in Dongjun, but the defense of the country!

Qin's attitude towards defending the country was extremely contradictory.

The Qin people have always been grateful for the contribution of Shang Ying, who was born in Weiren, to the Qin State, so even if he had the ability to annex the Wei Kingdom during the reign of King Zhaoxiang, he never annexed this small country, and not only that, but also put pressure on Han, Wei, and Qi to protect the Wei Kingdom from being annexed by these neighboring countries.

But this time, Wei Guo joined the Hezong Alliance and sent troops to attack Qin, and such an ungrateful behavior really made Qin feel angry, so Yingzheng ordered Meng Wei to lead 100,000 troops to attack Diqiu.

There is no suspense in the ending, although Gongsun Yu, the general of the patriotic country, as the descendant of Gongsun Yan, the rhinoceros of the year, has the inheritance of the art of war in Guigu at home, but the gap in strength between the two countries is too huge.

The 50,000 guards lost 6,000 troops when attacking Hangu Pass, and more than 20,000 people were beheaded on the way to retreat, which was also more than half of the losses.

It took the strength of the whole country to assemble this 50,000-strong army to defend the country, and now the total number of soldiers in the whole country does not exceed 40,000, and counting the young men who were temporarily conscripted into the army, it is less than 70,000.

The 100,000 Qin army led by Meng Yu soon broke through the city of Emperor Qiu and captured the general Gongsun Yu, who learned that Gongsun Yu had been captured and the countries were unwilling to help, so he surrendered to Meng Yu at the palace gate.

Meng Fu sent a fast horse to send the jade presented by Wei Jun to Xianyang, untied the ropes on Wei Jun's body, and did not embarrass Wei Jun and the officials and people in the city, but only sent people to post the Qin law, asking Emperor Qiu to use the Qin script and use the Qin weights and measures from now on, and withdrew the army after leaving the garrison soldiers and horses.

Qin's move was a bit surprising, as Qin did not even announce the annexation of Weiguo.

Logically speaking, to destroy a country, it is necessary to send envoys to other countries to announce that a certain country has been destroyed, which is a kind of declaration similar to the conclusion of a coffin.

But the countries of Shandong don't pay attention to this anymore, and it's normal for the barbarian state to have anything that doesn't follow etiquette, not to mention that they really don't have the heart to pay attention to a small patriotic country now.

Even if the current Wei Jun is the son-in-law of Wei Wangyu, all the countries including Wei can do now is to step up the recruitment of soldiers, and then pray that Qin will not send troops to attack them, and send envoys to beg for peace with Qin.

The state of Chu was rare and hard, and there was no begging for peace, but the capital was moved from Chenqiu, which was only one hundred and twenty miles away from the border of the Qin State, to Shouchun in Huainan, and deceived himself into changing Shouchun to Yingdu, as if the county of the southern county of the Qin State was not the former capital of the Chu State.

And Chun Shenjun also found an excuse for the king of Chu to move the capital, Huainan has the most lush orange groves in Chu, especially near Shouchun, orange groves are everywhere.

And oranges have an extraordinary meaning in the Chu State, Qu Yuan once wrote "Ode to Oranges", saying that the orange is noble, loyal and indomitable, so moving the capital to Shouchun is a symbol of the unyielding meaning of the Chu State.

This high-EQ rhetoric made Chun Shenjun, who was disgusted by King Wan of Chu after the defeat, regain some of his former favor and temporarily stabilize his position as Ling Yin.

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Qin State, Tingwei Prison

There are only two types of prisons in Tingwei Prison, which is used to hold serious offenders.

One is a dark, gloomy and damp prison, and the other is a neat and clean prison with beds and tables.

Unlike Xianyang Prison, which detains people who violate the law of public security, Tingwei Prison detains people who are not ordinary people, but basically civil and military officials who have violated Qin law.

And the reason why there are neat and clean prisons is for enemy generals like Gongsun Yu who are unwilling to surrender after being captured.

"Boy, you can't eat or drink like this." A gray-haired old man feasted on it, and kept picking up the food in his mouth, "The food in this court and prison is not bad, there is meat and wine, but although it is the food of the enemy country, but you waste the food so much, God knows that you will be punished by God." ”

The kid in the old man's mouth is actually an old man with white hair.

However, he, the commander of the Coalition Army, who is over 80 years old, is absolutely qualified to call a "boy" a patriotic general who is less than 60 years old.

"Pang Gong, if you don't dislike it, I can give you food." Gongsun Yu looked at Pang Xuan, who was unceremoniously pushing the dinner plate to the next cell through the cell door, and sighed.

is almost 90 years old, a meal of rice, ten catties of meat, plus a jar of wine, easy to eat, after a meal can still be boxed in the cell to maintain the body, is this still a normal person?

And he was captured after the defeat as the commander of the coalition forces, and he still had the heart to eat.

"You kid, you're thinking about defending the country again." Pang Xuan was not polite, took Gongsun Yu's dinner plate from the crack in the prison door, and continued to feast, "It's not that the old man said bad things about you defending the country, it's just that defending the country is a small country after all, and it will perish sooner or later." ”

"If it weren't for the blessing of the Qin State all these years, the Wei Kingdom would not have survived today."

Although Gongsun Yu has good attainments in the art of war, he can only be a general, not a handsome in Pang Xuan's eyes. The strategic vision is too narrow, and it cannot see the whole picture at all.

The demise of the Wei State is inevitable, even if the Qin State does not destroy the Wei State, the Wei State will annex the Wei State to feed itself.

Gongsun Yu sighed again, Pang Xuan has analyzed him these days, in fact, he has long understood the inevitability of the destruction of the country, but after all, it is a country that has been guarded for a lifetime, and it is inevitable that people will not get into the horns.

"Grandpa Pang, you're robbing my grandfather's food again."

While the two were talking, suddenly a woman walked lightly, wearing a long vermilion dress, her long lilac hair was pierced by a blue crystal hairpin, and her hair was tied up in a bun, revealing a luxurious and elegant temperament.

The woman's face is like a jade flaw, and there is a youthful atmosphere of a girl who does not know the world between her eyebrows and eyes, but she is quiet and elegant, and her light makeup and pink thin lips that have not been smeared with rouge show her innocence and elegance more and more.

"Li'er, why are you here to deliver food again!" Gongsun Yu looked at a black food box hanging from the woman's slender lotus root, and reprimanded sharply, "The old man has said, the food in the cell is very good, and you don't need to send food to the old man." ”

Gongsun Yu has only one son, but after giving birth to a daughter with his daughter-in-law, he died on the battlefield, and his daughter-in-law died of grief and illness.

Fortunately, Gongsun Li, who lost his parents since he was a child, is also very well-behaved, sensible, and filial, but now he would rather Gongsun Li not be so filial.

The reason why Gongsun Li was able to visit the prison so frequently was actually because of the Qin State's desire to solicit these captives.

Family members are often the ones who can soften this heart as hard as stone, and there have been many civil and military people who defended the country because they were visited by their wives and children who moved to Xianyang and chose to surrender to Qin.

But he wasn't worried that he wouldn't be able to hold on, he was just worried about his granddaughter's safety.

Over the years, if it weren't for the fact that he was a patriotic general, the beautiful and moving Gongsun Li would definitely not have lived so peacefully.

But now that he is a prisoner of the Qin State, and the country is also dead, Gongsun Li is walking alone in the powerful Xianyang City, which is really not sure which powerful person may be taken away by one day.

Gongsun Li silently opened the food box and placed the two meals in front of the prison door of Gongsun Yu and Pang Xuan respectively, her beautiful eyes were slightly red, and a pair of slender jade hands were clenched and trembling, and there was a faint mist shrouding her moist eyes.

"Li'er understands Grandpa's hard work, but Grandpa, you are Li'er's only relative in this world."

Gongsun Yu's right hand holding the chopsticks trembled slightly, and he turned around with the dinner plate and forcibly didn't look at Gongsun Li, who was crying.

He suddenly understood why so many unswerving patriots did not persist in the end and chose to surrender to Qin.

"Tomorrow, if you come again, I will kill myself on a hunger strike."

After hesitating, Gongsun Yu turned his back to Gongsun Li and said decisive words.

Cleaning up the dinner plate, Gongsun Li's delicate body trembled slightly, and she didn't speak, but her eyes became redder.

Pang Xuan on the side looked at the grandfather and grandson and couldn't help but shake his head.

I don't know if it's a bad taste or what, Pang Xuan's hand passed through the cell door and gently pulled Sun Li's sleeve, hooked his hand at Gongsun Li, and smiled evilly.

"The old man shows you a clear way, you go to meet Zhang Ji, the guard of the Qin State, maybe you can release your grandfather from prison, and then your grandfather will not have to worry that the Qin State wants to recruit him, and you don't have to worry that your grandfather will not let you meet him."

Pang Xuan's words made Gongsun Li's cheeks flush, and she glared at Pang Xuan, who was a little disrespectful.

Although she is not familiar with the world, she is from an aristocratic background after all, so she naturally understands the meaning of Pang Xuan's words.

ZHANG Ji...... The guard of the Qin State, the youngest Zuo Shu Commander in the history of the Qin State, the man who almost single-handedly calculated the countless heroes of the Hezong Alliance......

After the defeat of the Hezong Alliance, the name Zhang Ji almost became a household name in the world.

Gongsun Li admires this man who is obviously the same age as herself, but has gained many talents and celebrities in the world who may not be able to complete them in his life, but it is a pity that he is a courtier of the Qin State.

But I heard that Zhang Ji seems to be from Wei and the leader of the Mo family, maybe ...... Maybe he'll be kind enough to help him?

You don't necessarily need to pay the price in Pang Xuan's words, maybe you can save your grandfather.

Gongsun Li hesitated, but the idea of asking Zhang Ji for help became stronger and stronger in her heart.

At this time, Zhang Ji was completely ignorant of these things.

At this moment, he is in the Ganquan Palace, and Teacher Zhao Ji, who has not been seen for several months, is checking whether he has not gone to school during this time and whether he has left his homework behind.

Well, in order to increase the accuracy of the inspection, Teacher Zhao Ji also brought in Teacher Liwu to check Zhang Ji's schoolwork from all aspects of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art and labor.

If Zhao Ji, who has been hungry for several months, is a hungry wolf in his old age, biting on Zhang Ji's body with a big gulp, eager to squeeze Zhang Ji completely clean, then Liwu is like a hyena following the hungry wolf, reaching a joint hunting agreement with the hungry wolf, squeezing the juice that Zhao Ji leaked to her in small bites.

But fortunately, in a few months, Zhang Ji also played a sheng music with the startling salamander, and played three role-plays, one as a female criminal officer, one as a female court lieutenant, and once as a female killer in her true colors.

This was obviously far from enough for the energetic Zhang Ji to suppress the fire in his heart and body, so the experienced old hunter Zhang Ji took the initiative to plunge into the forest dedicated to his own hunting.

The experienced veteran hunter Zhang Ji used his body as bait to trap hungry wolves and hyenas roaming in the forest, and made the most perfect interpretation of the phrase "smart hunters often appear as prey" on the delicate bodies of Zhao Ji and Liwu.

"Two teachers, are you quite satisfied with my academic results?"

Zhang Ji hugged left and right with a wicked smile, hugged Zhao Ji and Liwu's slender waist, enjoyed the warm fragrant nephrite in his arms, and sniffed the intoxicating fragrance.

Liwu on the side curled up with a delicate body, like a kitten that had been abused, and could no longer withstand any toss from the owner, for fear that Zhang Ji, the animal, would continue.

Can she not be satisfied?

It's almost full!

Zhao Ji's slightly closed narrow phoenix eyes opened, her beautiful eyes were full of charm and laziness, and she glanced at Zhang Ji angrily, and her jade hand stroked her slightly bulging lower abdomen.

Zhao Ji and Liwu glanced at each other, she sensed the look of expectation in Liwu's beautiful eyes, hoping that she, the queen mother and stepmother, could be stronger, and said that she was not satisfied.

But Zhao Ji's phoenix eyes glanced at the many traces on the phoenix couch, and the last trace of toughness in the narrow phoenix eyes disappeared completely.

Can she say she's not satisfied?

She's really overflowing!

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(End of chapter)