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Di Yu didn't leave, she finally chose to stay and returned to Jiuyuan City with Xiang Ye.

Mao Dun alone has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, which is not at all something that the power in her hands can compete with, she must rely on a force that can be relied on, and although she is not very clear about Xiang Ye's strength, it is undoubtedly a force worth trying to rely on.

A few days later, Xiang Ye led an army of more than 5,000 people to Jiuyuan City. This army looked a little strange, the more than 2,000 people who walked in front were wearing the armor of the Jiuyuan Army, but the 3,000 people who followed behind were still wearing the armor of the Qin army.

These extra soldiers were the stragglers of the Qin army that Xiang Ye took in along the way, at first he just took in the stragglers he met along the way, but later, the news spread, and the stragglers of the Qin army in the entire Jiuyuan were moving in the direction of Xiang Ye's advance, and they all took the initiative to join his team, so there was such an army dressed strangely.

The palace of King Kuhara is located in the middle of the city, and it is more of a larger house than a royal palace.

All the rooms in the palace add up, there are only more than a hundred, and when Xiang Ye arrived at Jiuyuan City, Han Sheng was being assigned by Wu Wei to strengthen the walls of the palace.

Back in the palace, Xiang Ye first asked people to arrange Di Yao's residence, and then went to see 'Meng' Su and Xiang Qing, and after leaving from 'Meng' Su and Xiang Qing, he immediately ordered someone to summon hundreds of officials and prepare to come to the court.

This is the first time that Xiang Ye has been in the court since he was crowned king, and above the court, many officials he has never even seen, and after Wu Wei introduced him to him, he knew that these were all old officials who stayed in Jiuyuan in the past, and now they have been taken over by Wu Wei.

After Xiang Ye sat upright on the throne, he said to the officials kneeling in the court: "I went to Linhe a few days ago, and I saw a tragedy there that I had never seen before. I think I, Xiang Ye, followed the overlord's expedition to the west back then, and also participated in the slaughter of the city several times, but he was never so cruel as to even kill children! ”

The court was quiet, and almost all the officials lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at Xiang Ye's resentful, red eyes.

"I'm in a hurry to get to court in order to ask for everyone's opinions." Xiang Ye looked around at the ministers in the court, and said to them: "The Huns killed my subjects of Jiuyuan, since I am the king of Jiuyuan, I have the responsibility to protect my subjects, I want to ask what kind of strategy should we adopt to fight back against the Xiongnu?" ”

The ministers in the court all bowed their heads and did not say a word, and many of them still couldn't figure out what kind of temperament the new king was, and they didn't dare to make suggestions easily.

Wu Wei looked at everyone, frowned, and then arched his hand towards Xiang Ye and said, "Great King, according to what the ministers have seen, the Huns have committed a crime, and we should use the strength of the entire Nine Plains to counterattack." It's just that Jiuyuan has been disturbed by the Xiongnu for a long time, the people's livelihood is withering, and our army is not strong enough, the most important thing at the moment should be to develop the people's livelihood, as for the Xiongnu, if they promise not to disturb the border, pay tribute to them every year! ”

Xiang Ye frowned and nodded, he knew very well how big the difference in strength between the Jiuyuan Kingdom and the Xiongnu was at present. The total strength of the entire Jiuyuan Kingdom is less than 30,000, and the Xiongnu can easily launch an invasion of more than 100,000 people.

Seeing Xiang Ye nodded, the ministers who didn't dare to speak before were slightly bolder, a minister who was about forty years old and had a wisp of goatee on his chin sat up, and waved his hand towards Xiang Ye and said: "King, although my territory in Jiuyuan is not large, there are also quite a few towns, and now the Xiongnu have been disturbing the border for a long time, and the residents of the border cities are miserable. ”

"What's your name?" After hearing the minister's words, Xiang Ye frowned and asked him.

"The minister is Cao Qiushi, the new doctor of Jiuyuan State." The official who made the suggestion bowed down to Xiang Ye and said, "Before the king took the throne, the minister was a ......."

Before he could finish his words, Xiang Ye waved his hand at him to stop him from continuing.

"You want me to announce that the border city will be 'handed over' to the Xiongnu, and let the Xiongnu govern with us! Then I ask you, whose land is the border city? After stopping Cao Qiushi from continuing, Xiang Ye asked him: "After the Xiongnu get the border city, will they use this as a barrier to directly invade the hinterland of my Jiuyuan Kingdom?" ”

Xiang Ye's words immediately blocked Cao Qiushi's question, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

"The land is mine, and it belongs to our Nine Plains Country! It's our Central Plains! Xiang Ye slapped the table in front of him and scolded loudly: "Let my land and the Huns govern together, you Cao Qiu can really think of it!" If you go home and persuade your father to lend your mother to the Huns, so that they can also come and 'plug' together, will your father be willing? ”

His words made Cao Qiushi's face red and white for a while, but he didn't dare to answer. There are many ministers sitting in the main hall who fantasize about Cao Qiushi's wife being pressed in the bed by the Huns, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh, holding back their sadness and making a strange sound of "eating".

"Cao Qiushi, you don't want to be a doctor of Su anymore, I see your talent, so I can only be a small official below. Today, you will report to Dr. Han Sheng and make him a knife and pen! After sending a fire, Xiang Ye waved his hand at Cao Qiushi and said, "You go down, you won't be needed here for the time being!" ”

Cao Qiushi, who was scolded and dismissed again, withdrew from the hall in a gloomy manner, and the ministers sitting in the hall saw that Xiang Ye opposed the land to the Xiongnu, and they all straightened their waists one by one and tried their best to push Xiang Ye to start a war with the Xiongnu.

Looking at these red-faced ministers who were 'excited', Xiang Ye couldn't help but want to laugh. Before they 'figured' the direction of the wind, they were like gourds with sawed mouths, and they didn't dare to speak for a long time.

"Don't want such a courtier!" Xiang Ye sighed in his heart, waved his hand to stop the noise of the ministers in the palace, and said to Wu Wei: "Prime Minister, you stay, let's stop today's court discussion, and the specific matters will be discussed later!" ”

After the ministers withdrew, Xiang Ye said to Wu Wei: "There are a few things I hope the prime minister will help me do immediately. Nowadays, what we urgently need in Jiuyuan Country is not only grain, grass and money, but also a large number of 'medicine' materials and talents. The Xiongnu disturbed the border all year round, and although the appeasement policy could be effective in the short term, the robbers were robbers after all, and they could not give up greater interests because we had sent our property. Sooner or later, we will have a war with them, but there are few people in my Jiuyuan country, and now we need a large number of people to migrate over, so the prime minister helped me think about whether there is a good way to quickly recruit talents, and let more people in the mainland take the initiative to migrate to Jiuyuan. ”

Wu Wei nodded and said to Xiang Ye: "Don't worry, the king of the Nine Plains Kingdom is now in ruins, and there are many things that need to be dealt with. I think that these ministers above the court rarely have available talents, and it is indeed necessary to recruit some talents. As for the population, as long as we develop this place, more people will inevitably move here. ”

"Well, then the prime minister will do it immediately!" After listening to Wu Wei's words, Xiang Ye was a little relieved, Wu Wei had completely understood what he meant, what he urgently needed now was to quickly make Jiuyuan Kingdom strong, and he wanted to fight with the Huns, but it was not enough to rely on enthusiasm, he also needed money and grain and grass, a lot of money and grain and grass!

After Wu Wei began to deal with the matter of recruiting talents and developing the economy, Xiang Ye successively introduced several new policies.

He completely exempted the taxes that needed to be paid for cultivating the land, and proposed that all peasants who came to Jiuyuan from other places to cultivate the land be allotted land, and that the state should pay for the purchase of grain from the peasants during the harvest season.

At the same time, Xiang Ye also proposed another policy, merchants who enter Jiuyuan to sell goods are exempt from taxes, but on this basis, Xiang Ye has stipulated several lists of goods that are prohibited from entering Jiuyuan.

Silk, porcelain and other luxury goods were all banned from entering Jiuyuan, and Xiang Ye believed that those goods had no business value at all and could not bring any benefits to his country at all.

But something happened later that let Xiang Ye know that he had done something wrong in this matter, and it was very wrong, but fortunately, a person appeared to make up for this mistake for him, and eliminated some of the negative effects caused by this mistake in time.

While Xiang Ye carried out economic reforms in Jiuyuan, he was also actively expanding military warfare. Under his instruction, Jing Ao began to set up the Yulin Army, the special 'Gate' was responsible for protecting the safety of the royal city, Wei Feng built the Divine 'Shooting' battalion, and Bai Fu began to prepare the Tianji Battalion. At the same time, Li Xinpeng also vigorously expanded the army in Jiuyuan and built the Huben Battalion, Shi Lei was relatively lazy, so he simply 'extracted' some healthy and training potential from those people Li Xinpeng didn't want to form the Wuwei Battalion.

Since then, the five main forces of the Jiuyuan Army have taken shape, and although 'Meng' Su and Xiang Qing have been canonized as princesses, they are not idle. They gathered some 'women' who had lost their homes and organized them into the Women's Army, and in a short period of time, the number of the Women's Army quickly expanded from more than 1,000 to more than 10,000.

The sharp increase in the number of troops did not bring much trouble to Jiuyuan Kingdom, Xiang Ye adopted the method of raising the army by farming in order to feed the army, and all the troops allocated fields, and in addition to training on weekdays, the army also had to participate in farming, which greatly relieved the pressure on the peasants.

Soon after the implementation of the new policy, news came from Guanzhong that Liu Bang had also received Xiang Yu's promise to go to Hanzhong to go to the country. After getting this news, Xiang Ye sat in the hall and was silent for a long time, he knew that when he faced the strong enemy of the Huns, the Central Plains would also set off a bloody storm. ~