casually glanced at Li Si and continued: "Some people are afraid of virtue but not morality, and some people are afraid of virtue but not fear. If Beihu still chooses to fight against Great Qin despite the countless deaths and injuries of livestock, it means that they are fearless of both, and the heavens want to destroy them! If I can destroy them once, I can destroy them a second time! ”

Li Si was keenly aware that I glanced at him, and his sharp eyes couldn't help but make him feel a chill in his heart, and secretly said in his heart: "Did Your Majesty look at me inadvertently just now, or ......?"

No matter what Li Si thought in his heart, I waved my hand: "Go and prepare." The Great Pilgrimage has just ended, and there is this year's new grain in the treasury, which can be used for these things. Remember to find out the population of Beihu, just send them the food so that they don't starve to death, don't give them the opportunity to stock up on food. ”

The three of them retreated.

I wrote two edicts, one to Feng Youcheng, asking him to pay close attention to Zalut's movements; One was written to Zalut in person, telling him Daqin's plan, asking him to cooperate with Daqin Haosheng, and strive to fill Beihu's favorability.

Soon after, just when Beihu was about to starve to death countless herdsmen, Daqin's 500,000 stone corn was transported to the foot of the Great Wall.

Feng Youcheng issued my edict widely, in which he said that the war between Great Qin and Northern Hu and Eastern Hu was due to the joint attack of Eastern Hu and Northern Hu on the Qin army, and the Qin army had no choice but to fight. Now the Emperor of Great Qin is willing to make friends with Beihu, and specially sent 500,000 stone corn, and when the water and grass are abundant and cattle and sheep are everywhere next year, Beihu will return the livestock of the same value to Daqin according to the market price. If 500,000 stone corn is not enough, Daqin can continue to send it.

Although this statement is a little clumsy, but whether the Beihu people believe it or not, 500,000 stone of life-saving corn is in front of them, and after Zalut strongly suppressed a few thorns, Beihu nominally fell to Daqin, and after all, there are still many "traitors" who are grateful to Daqin.

There is a steady stream of grain to Beihu, and in Xianyang, this whole winter, Xianyang has become a big construction site.

The road construction was originally planned to be handed over to Bai Chong, who would be the Shaofu and recruit the people. Later, I thought about it, first, in winter, it is difficult to recruit so many people to Xianyang in a short time, and if there is a freeze to death on the road, it will greatly affect the image that the imperial court has finally established. Moreover, the fact that so many people were piled up in Xianyang City was an unstable factor, and the imperial court spent too much money and food.

I simply issued an edict, calling on all the people in Xianyang City to participate in the construction of the road, and those who participated in the construction of the road were exempted from a single forced labor.

At this time, the people of the entire Xianyang City moved, and the fired green bricks could not be used. After all, compared to serving in other counties, serving at home is a great benefit, there is nothing to do in winter, and you can go home to rest at night, where to find such a good thing.

During this period, I heard that the court officials, including Li Si, had sent people from the palace to participate in the construction of the road, and on a whim, I took the palace guards to the periphery of Xianyang Palace and moved a few bricks by myself. After that, he instructed them to continue to build roads after changing their guards and pay overtime allowances.

There are more old Qin people in Xianyang City, and when I see that our Great Qin Emperor has personally brought people out to build roads, where is there any stealing and trickery, without the urging of officials, they all work hard. Some even mobilized the children at home to help carry water, hug firewood or something, and they were in full swing!

This road repair not only re-rammed the road surface of Fangshi, paved with sand, gravel and bricks in three layers, but also repaired the potholes on the main road, dug deep drainage ditches, reserved soil pits for planting trees in the next spring, and improved the disposal of domestic garbage......

After the road was repaired, there were a lot of bricks and timber left, and I ordered that anyone who took the initiative to repair the house could buy the bricks and wood they needed at half price, and the imperial court could also subsidize three and a half taels per house after the repair.

So in the spring of the second year, the whole Xianyang City took on a new look, the houses on both sides of the street were lined up one after another, and there was no longer a muddy and slippery phenomenon in the Fang Market, which unconsciously improved the prosperity of the Fang City.

In May (February) of the fifth year of Qin II, after the spring ploughing ceremony, the Four Seas Palace.

I stared at Li Si, Feng Zheng and Yu He were silent beside me, and only the copper kettle in the hall was dripping and making a regular "tick, tick" sound.

After a long time, I said lightly: "Li Xianglao is seeking the country, I am very relieved!" ”

Li Si's stiff body visibly shook with the naked eye, and he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister should have reported this matter to His Majesty a long time ago, but the relationship is complicated, and it is not until today that the minister has investigated it all, please condemn Your Majesty!" ”

I waved my hand: "Sit down, I have already said that you have been in Xianyang for a long time, and some things are not clear. ”

Li Si thanked before he dared to sit down.

Everything was due to the fact that hundreds of people froze to death in the winter of the lower reaches of the German water.

When I saw Yu He's recital, I was shocked. For nine years, no one told Yingzheng or me about it.

At this moment, Bai Chong came in a hurry.

"See Your Majesty!"

I glanced at him: "Xianyang's transformation has been completed?" ”

Bai Chong bowed and said, "Back to Your Majesty, so far, it has been completed." "Bai Chong has been busy with the transformation of Xianyang recently, and I specially ordered him not to attend the court meeting and concentrate on repairing the road.

"Sit down. Yu He, you will briefly talk about the cause and effect of the matter. ”

Yu He arched his hand and said, "Yes." Yu Shi reported that more than 200 people froze to death in each of the three counties downstream of Dongde Water, all because there was no firewood to keep warm. Yushi secretly probed and found that not only the three counties downstream, but also the fourteen counties along the Deshui coast, the trees that were more than ten years old had been cut down to the point that there was not one in ten. ”

Yushi was shocked and continued to investigate. In the end, it was found that since the 33rd year of the First Emperor, in order to increase the number of households, the counties along the Deshui River have forcibly separated the unmarried men, and even required the underage women to be forcibly separated. In order to 'help' the head of the Qianqian to achieve the purpose of separating the family, the government office ordered people to cut down trees and build simple houses with trees. ”

"But not only do such houses require more than twice as much wood as normal houses, but it doesn't take long for the untreated wood to become moldy and rotten, so we have to continue cutting down and building new buildings. In addition, the timber for the construction of Lishan Mausoleum and Afang Palace mainly came from the coast of Nanshan and Deshui, and because Deshui was easy to transport, the felling was even worse. In addition, the new household registration has opened up a large number of fields. In this way, after nine years, the usable timber around Deshui was cut down to one out of ten. ”

"But the forests, trees and mountains are all owned by the imperial court, in order to prevent the imperial court from discovering the indiscriminate felling of the counties, the new county guard and the county order forcibly did not allow the people to cut down a single grass and tree, especially in the three counties downstream, causing the three counties to freeze to death in the winter of nearly 1,000 people."