Chapter Twenty-Four: Recovering the Land West of the River

Hu Weisega angrily glanced at Fusu, who was walking towards him, and then lowered his head and wiped the blood from his saber. At this time, Huwesega's heart was full of resentment towards Fusu. He sent 50,000 water bladders and ceded the land west of the river for thousands of miles, in exchange for such a result. Most of the 30,000 troops guarding the clan were killed and wounded, and thousands of Yue people died tragically under the Xiongnu sword. How could all this make Huwesega not resent Fusu?

"Now you're satisfied!" Hu Wei Sega said resentfully to Fusu, who was standing in front of him.

"King Yue, how can you blame me for this, you told me that your Yueshi has no confidence to fight the Huns again, I approve of it, this attack on the Hun camp didn't let you send a single soldier, right? You said that your Yueshi could only supply me with grain and grass for about ten days, and I sent troops to attack the Xiongnu camp on the ninth day, which was also done according to your requirements, right? Touman is no match for my Tiger Ben army, and it's not something I can control, right? How many years have you fought on the grassland, and the combat effectiveness is not as good as my Daqin Tiger Army, which has been in the army for less than a year, so that Tou Manshan Yu is a soft persimmon that is easy to pinch. What should this be said? I was stunned to become a soft persimmon in Touman's eyes, and I have to blame Daqin Tiger for having the teeth of the Huns. How can there be such a crooked reasoning," Fusu said confidently.

After listening to what Fusu said, the king of the Yue clan shook his head helplessly, obviously having anger in his stomach, but he could only suppress it. Who can't find a reason to refute it at all. He also knew that all this was deliberately caused by Fusu, but he couldn't say it when he came to himself. I had to turn around and leave angrily, ignoring Fusu no longer anymore.

Fusu looked at Hu Wei Sega's angry and speechless appearance, and suddenly felt extremely happy. After listening to Hu Wei Sejia's calculations in the Zhaowu camp that day, Fusu planned to let the little old man drink a good pot. When Hu Wei Sejia and his entourage left the Zhaowu camp, Fusu planned carefully with Han Xin and Peng Yue, and finally came up with this vicious plan. In order to make it impossible for the Xiongnu Tancai to get the news that Meng Tian's army was heading south to Zhaowu, Fusu also specially gave Meng Tian the idea of hunting the Xiongnu Tancai.

The next day, Fusu arranged for Han Xin to go to Huwei Sejia to ask for the land of thousands of miles to Hexi that he had agreed before. Hu Wei Sejia reluctantly agreed to Han Xin's request, and under Han Xin's persecution, he agreed on the boundary and land area of the land of Qianli. At this point, the land of thousands of miles west of the river was completely incorporated under the rule of Great Qin.

Five days later, under the instructions of Fusu, Meng Tian rushed back to Gaoque in the starry night, and then led a large army across the Great Wall defense line, recaptured a large area of land previously occupied by Toumandanyu, and included all the land and pastures south of the Yinshan Mountains into the territory of Daqin. The battle of Zhaowu completely solved the problem of the Xiongnu that had plagued several generations of Great Qin, and truly realized the century-old long-cherished wish of the Qin people not to let Hu Ma go to Yinshan.

Half a month after the end of the Battle of Zhaowu, Fusu led his people back to Xianyang. After consultation with the court, it was decided to set up four new counties in Hexi: Qinwei, Zhangye, Suzhou, and Dunhuang. And in addition to Jiuyuan County, Yanbei County was added.

When the people of Great Qin were still immersed in the joy of recovering a large area of land, a rare locust plague swept through all parts of Great Qin, resulting in the loss of grain particles that were about to be harvested in autumn. For a time, there were more than 100,000 displaced people from all over Daqin, and even Xianyang, the national capital, poured in.

On this day, Li Si summarized the disaster situation in various places and reported it to Fusu.

"Yu Gongzi, the current locust plague has caused three million people in Daqin to be affected, and the official warehouses in various places have been exhausted. The price of food in the market has tripled. According to reports from county government offices, more than 10 grain stores have been looted by displaced people, and these displaced people have gathered in various places, resulting in many thefts and robberies in various places. There are even many homeless people who have gone to the mountains to become bandits, and have engaged in the business of robbing homes and houses. Among them, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are the worst, these two thieves were originally in Yangcheng and Yangxia under Liu Ji's rule, and they didn't know how to hook up together, and they actually took advantage of the catastrophe to flow to my Sanchuan County, and entangled a group of homeless people fled into Qingyao Mountain to make trouble. ……”

After Fusu heard that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were in trouble, he was instantly stunned. Fusu thought that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had disappeared into history because of their own crossing, but they didn't expect that these two would appear on the stage of history again in this way. Obviously, these two have long had the intention of rebelling, but they have been waiting for an opportunity. Whether it was to raise troops under the pretext of "missing the deadline, the law will be killed" recorded in the "Historical Records" before Xu Yun's crossing, or taking advantage of the locust plague to make a rebellion, this is just an excuse for Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to rebel. How can a lord who dares to say such a bold statement as "the prince and the prince will have a kind of peace" lack the courage to rebel! All they lack is a chance to rebel, okay?

Fusu glanced at the civil and military officials below, and pulled his thoughts back from the rebellion of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. At present, millions of people have been affected by the disaster, and hundreds of thousands of displaced people are living in Xianyang City. It is imperative to solve the problem of feeding so many people.

"Prime Minister, I don't know how much grain I have in Taicang and Xingyang Aocang?"

"Yu Gongzi, there are still fifteen million stone grain left in Taicang in Guanzhong, and there are also eight million stone grain in Xingyang Aocang." Li Si reported the approximate amount of grain stored in the two official warehouses of Great Qin.

"First transfer 5 million stone of grain from Taicang to help the victims of the Guanzhong disaster, and then transfer 4 million stone of grain from Aocang to supplement the official warehouses in various places, so that the victims can fill their stomachs first." Fusu said with a firm gaze.

"Childe, isn't it a bit much, besides, this year is another disaster year, and the tax must not be counted on, what will be used to fill such a big hole at the end of the year?"

"Let these victims get through the storm first, and let's take the rest one step at a time. You can't watch the victims starve to death," Fusu said helplessly.

Faced with such a tight financial situation, Fusu did not know what to do. Millions of disaster victims need to eat, the salaries of the hundred officials of the Great Qin Dynasty will be distributed, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops' grain, grass and ordnance waiting to be allocated. In the final analysis, all this is linked to two things, that is, money and food.

After some gut-searching meditation, Fusu came up with the most effective solution.