Hearing Zi lobbying the Huns, Ying Zheng was stunned at first, and the ministers in the court were also slightly stunned, the Huns, the Qin State has not heard this name for many years, the place where the Qin State and the grassland border is Beidi County, but the Xiongnu were beaten honestly by the defenders of Beidi County, not to mention going south, the defenders of Beidi County did not take the initiative to attack the Huns, and the Huns had to thank their wolf god.

Ziyou naturally knew what the ministers of the Qin State were thinking, and continued

"Before, Beidi County defeated the invasion of the Xiongnu, so that the Xiongnu knew that if they plundered Beidi County, the loss was too high, so they targeted Zhao State, Zhao State had experienced civil strife before, shook the foundation, and was plundered by the Xiongnu and Hu several times, so Beidi County rarely saw a trace of the Xiongnu. But before Li Mu beheaded more than 100,000 Xiongnu and Hu people in Yanmen Pass, exterminated the ragged, collected Donghu, and built a Beijing view, so that the grassland was cold, and he still did not dare to look south at Yanmen. This made the grassland know that neither the Zhao State nor the Qin State could continue to go south easily.

And this year's snow disaster in Xianyang is still like this, the severe cold of the grassland is even more indescribable, their cattle and sheep must have frozen to death countless times, in order to survive there is only one way to go south to plunder, let me ask the ministers, who is more afraid of the Huns by the defenders of the north and natural disasters? It's just winter, the road is not blocked, and no one knows when the second snow will come, so the Xiongnu may be heading south in the near future. ”

Hearing Ziyou's words, Yingzheng and the Manchu Dynasty were silent, compared to the defenders of the North, the Huns were more afraid of natural disasters, and the rabbits were anxious to know how to bite, not to mention the Huns, who were already predators. Although the Xiongnu raided southward even though they had a dangerous living environment and natural disasters, it was more their nature, and their plundering nature made them extraordinarily belligerent, and at the same time they could obtain huge wealth, population, etc., which would make their nature more belligerent.

"I'm not sure if the Xiongnu will continue to trouble Li Mu, or if they will go south to attack Beidi County, no matter which one it is, we must be prepared." Ziyou said.

"According to what the teacher said, let Beidi County prepare for the Xiongnu to go south, and at the same time let Wang Ben and Lishan battalions stationed in Shangdang County prepare for support." Ying Zheng ordered.

"No!" Wei Yu and Meng Wu walked out and said.

"As for the disaster relief, the middle father and Zhang Aiqing will prepare, and you Aiqing will cooperate." Ying Zheng said.

"No!"

The three princes and nine secretaries said to Yingzheng, and then after the order of the next dynasty was issued, the ministers went to the shoe changing place in front of the palace to put on shoes. When changing shoes, Zhao Gao came to Ziyou, Lü Buwei and Wei Yu with two hunched chamberlains.

"Sir, Master Hou, and King Taiwei are invited." Zhao Gao saluted and said.

"Well, Shang Shuling will lead the way." Lu Buwei said.

Shang Shuling is in charge of the position of issuing Chinese books in the palace and presenting them to the King of Qin, although it is only an official position under the Shaofu, but the real power is not small, which is equivalent to letting Zhao Gao participate in the government of the dynasty, the state of Qin has laws, and the chamberlain is not allowed to participate in the affairs of the previous dynasty, but Shang Shuling is an exception. In the Qin State, he talked about the government in private, in the Wei State, he said that the King of Wei had a habit of breaking his sleeves, and in the State of Chu, he said that Chu Feng did not enter the Book of Poetry, which can be said to be the three major deaths of the Warring States.

Shang Shuling is not only responsible for submitting documents, but also the responsibility of sorting out and archiving documents in the palace, which gives Zhao Gao the opportunity to see enough twists and turns and major events of the Qin State, which will be of great help to him in the future, so the people who can serve as Shang Shuling are all confidants of the Qin kings of the past dynasties without exception, and Zhao Gao's future is very bright.

"No!" Zhao Gao arched his hand and said.

Zhao Gao is flattered that he can now become Shang Shuling and obtain the qualifications to participate in the discussion of court politics, he is destined to be an internal servant and is not promoted in the Zhaoxian Pavilion to give things and the same as the standing servants, he is regarded as the accompanying adviser and staff officer of Yingzheng, if he wants to achieve from the inner servant to the secretary, in addition to passing the strict examination and getting good enough results, he also needs to be appreciated by Yingzheng before he can be directly appointed to important official positions, and there is only one channel left in the palace.

Although flattered, Zhao Gao was more grateful to Ziyou in his heart, if it weren't for the volume of "Shangshu" given to him by Ziyou, he directly went from an obscure palace attendant to become Yingzheng's personal attendant in one fell swoop, he would not be where he is today.

"At the court meeting just now, Wang Shi said that the Huns invaded, how sure are you about this matter?" Wei Yu asked in a low voice.

"If the Xiongnu go south, I am 100% sure, if it is said that the Xiongnu will choose which one of the two countries of Zhao and Qin, I don't know." Ziyou shook his head and said.

The southward movement of the Xiongnu has a great relationship with the climate, but it is generally because of the drought in summer, which leads to a lack of water and grass, and the grassland tribes lack enough winter materials to go south and loot the materials. Because the autumn weather is high and cool, even if there is a lack of aquatic grass, after all, the grassland has undergone half a year of cultivation and has enough strength to support the south.

The same is just after the beginning of winter is also the frequent time for the Xiongnu to go south, at this time the grassland has not been blocked by heavy snow, if it is in the experience of natural disasters, after the winter will be the best time for them to go south, if it is a little later, the cold and heavy snow will completely block the opportunity for the Xiongnu to go south.

Is Qin afraid of the current Xiongnu? Ziyou felt that it would not, the current grassland, like the Central Plains, was experiencing unification, and now the Qin State was gradually encroaching on other countries. The Xiongnu royal court headed by Touman is also constantly annexing other grassland tribes, although many tribes of the Xiongnu are subordinated to the wolf clan of Touman, but many tribes within the Xiongnu are not convinced, the current Xiongnu royal court has not forgotten the control of the Xiongnu tribe completely, and some large tribes vaguely want to replace Touman.

In the same steppe, in addition to the Xiongnu, there are also Hu people. The real unification of the grassland by the Xiongnu was the son of Touman - Mao Dun, after the Xiongnu civil strife, Donghu wanted to take the opportunity to destroy the Xiongnu, but Mao Dun seized the defect of the Donghu people's attack, and instead destroyed Donghu. Seeing that Donghu was destroyed by Maodun, the Xiongnu tribes who were still in civil strife directly voted for Maodun, and the Donghu people were also taken over by the Xiongnu, and the grassland was unified from then on.

"You have to be ready, whether it is attacking Qin or Zhao, Qin cannot sit idly by, if you attack Zhao and let the grassland be replenished enough, it will do no harm to Qin." Lu Buwei said.

The grassland and the Central Plains are a war between two races, the grassland went south to plunder the Zhao State, if the Qin State sat idly by and let the grassland survive this cold winter, it was inevitable that it would not invade the border and invade Beidi County in the coming year.

Ziyou and Wei Yu nodded, Zhao Gao listened to the conversation of the three in front, and did not interject, his identity still could not be interjected, and this is a major military and political matter, although he is Shang Shuling and has the power to discuss politics, but it is Yingzheng who asked him before he could speak.

After coming to the main hall where Ying Zheng was, the two chamberlains pushed open the door, and Zhao Gao entered the hall with Ziyou, Lu Buwei and Wei Yu, in addition to Ying Zheng, there was also an acquaintance of Ziyou, his disciple Chen Ping.

"Chen Ping is now serving as the king's standing attendant, responsible for commanding the affairs and assisting the king in handling government affairs." Lu Buwei whispered to the side.

Ziyou nodded, the middle standing attendant of the Qin State was not held by eunuchs like the Han Dynasty, but the political position of the Eight Classics, to put it simply, it was the secretary and accompanying staff officer of the King of Qin, and Chen Ping also held such a position by Liu Bang's side in history, but the Han Dynasty handed over the task of the middle attendant and the task of participating in politics and consulting to Lang Zhong. While the Langzhong of Qin only had the responsibility of the lodging position, the Langzhong of Han was not only responsible for the emperor's defense and participation in court affairs, but also had the task of helping the emperor deal with his needs.

After a courtesy of the monarch and the minister, Ying Zheng said the reason for inviting the three of them

"The widow asked Zhao Gao about the Xiongnu information collected by the net recently, Touman's situation is very poor, the last attack on Yanmen Pass led to the annihilation of the Xiongnu army, only Touman and dozens of guards escaped, so that the tribe that was originally dissatisfied with the Xiongnu royal court began to move, and wanted to take the opportunity to drive Touman down and become the new Shan Yu."

Ying Zheng glanced at Zhao Guo, Zhao Gao sent a piece of information to the three of them, Lu Buwei took the information and opened it after reading it, and gave the information to Wei Yu, who gave it to Ziyou after reading it, Ziyou looked at the content of the information and couldn't help but start thinking about it.

Now within the Xiongnu, King Zuo Xian is eyeing the position of Shan Yu, the Xiongnu's Zuo Xian King is the brother of Touman, when the wolf clan went around, the two of them took the army of the wolf clan to annex I don't know how many tribes, laid the foundation for the unification of the Xiongnu, when the old Shan Yu died, both of them were the heirs of Shan Yu, but the strength of Touman's army was stronger than Zuo Xianwang, and there were many subordinate tribes, so Zuo Xianwang could only watch Touman sit in Shan Yu's position. In order to stabilize his brother, Touman made him the king of Zuo Xian of the Xiongnu on the one hand, second only to Touman, and at the same time constantly weakened and encroached on the power of King Zuo Xian.

Before the battle of Yanmen Pass, let Touman be swept away, King Zuo Xian took the opportunity to continue to incite other tribes to rebel against the orders of the Xiongnu royal court, if it were not for the Xiongnu royal court and the 50,000 royal court guards and hundreds of thousands of troops, I am afraid that the king of Zuo Xian has already launched a rebellion

"The current head man is in desperate need of a win to stabilize his position." Wei Yu said. Whether it was to stabilize their position or to cope with the snow disaster, it was an indisputable fact that the Xiongnu went south.

"That's right, the Huns' southward movement is a certainty, whether the Huns choose Zhao Gao or my Qin State, the widow is ready to let the Yulin Army go to Beidi County." Ying Zheng said.

Wei Yi was stunned for a moment, thinking of the recent rumors about the Yulin Army, knowing that this was Ying Zheng's order to help the Yulin Army correct its name, and also to strengthen his majesty, Wei Yi had not yet spoken, and Lu Buwei took the lead in speaking

"Now the Lantian battalion is preparing to attack the Wei State, and the Lishan battalion still has the important task of defending Xianyang, so that the Yulin Army and the defenders of Beidi County can cooperate with each other, on the one hand, they can deal with the invasion of the Xiongnu, and on the other hand, if the Xiongnu choose the Zhao State, they can let the Yulin Army go deep into the Xiongnu and threaten the hinterland of the Xiongnu."

The corners of Wei Yu's mouth twitched, looking at Lu Buwei who grabbed his words, he naturally knew that Lu Buwei was afraid that he would not agree to block him in advance, but he did not disagree, the Yulin Army was a soldier trained by him, and it was also trained by Wang Qian, Meng Wu, Wang Ben, Li Xin, and other generals in the army, and they were eager to let the Yulin Army go to the battlefield to show their strength, so as to show their training ability.

"The edict is obeyed." Wei Yu arched his hand and said.

"Of course, there is one more thing this time, three of the sixteen teams sent out by the teacher have returned." Ying Zheng looked at Ziyou and said excitedly.

"What!? Where are they now? Ziyou also said with some excitement.

At the beginning, in order to find cotton and Champa rice, Ziyou and Yingzheng discussed, a total of 16 teams were sent, and now after three years, someone has finally returned, regardless of whether they brought back these cotton seeds and Champa rice seeds, as long as they come back, they will have the motivation to continue to send people to explore.

Looking at Ying Zheng and Ziyou's excited looks, Wei Yi and Lu Buwei were both confused, they didn't know about these sixteen teams.

"Zhao Gao, come on." Ying Zheng said.

"No!" Zhao Gao said to Ziyou, "Sir, three years ago, among the sixteen teams composed of Luo Wang and the subordinate officials of the pedestrian order, two teams came back from the south and one team came back from the west, they have returned to the territory of Qin, they contacted the branch of Luo Wang at the first time, and now they are coming towards Xianyang, according to the time estimate, they have now entered the range of Xianyang." ”

Ziyou's eyes were full of fine light, and so were Ying Zheng and Zhao Gao, they all knew that what these sixteen teams would bring back would be something to solve the food and clothing of the people of Qin. Seeing that Lü Buwei and Wei Yi were confused, and they wanted to wait for these three teams here, Ziyou began to explain the reason to Lü Buwei and Wei Mi.

After hearing Ziyou's words, the two of them suddenly became short of breath.

"Does this Champa rice really have such a yield?"

"Does this cotton really have such a miraculous effect?"

Lü Buwei and Wei Yi asked in unison, the focus of the two is different, naturally the direction of the question is different, Lü Buwei is considering the issue of people's livelihood, if Zhancheng rice has such a high yield, in the future, they will no longer divide the land to stabilize the people, as long as there is a stutter, who will risk turning around and rebelling?

The reason why the Central Plains repelled the invasion of the Xiongnu and Hu people every time and did not pursue it in depth was because the grassland was too big and there was no city, so it could not be effectively occupied and governed, and on the other hand, because of the climate, most of the wars between the Central Plains and the grassland were in autumn, when the weather was cold, and the soldiers could not go north, otherwise the cold alone would be enough for them to bear.

"Is the yield of Champa rice as budgeted, but cotton clothes made of cotton do have excellent warmth." Ziyou said that he didn't know what the current yield of Champa rice was, but as long as he brought back the seeds, he would have a way to breed high-yield Champa rice, and he had been staring at the farmer for a long time, although he couldn't swallow the farmer in one bite, but he could still pry a few peasant disciples who were proficient in farming. There is no need to pry, as long as you give titles and executives, there will be a lot of people to take refuge.

(End of chapter)