After the death of Qin Shi Huang, all parts of the country rose up, and they immediately opened the city gate to welcome the Qin alliance army of the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms, and continued to manage the local area.

At this moment, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River plains such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, just like Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places in later generations, are almost "Tusi" management.

Before the capital was moved, the territory of influence on the south bank of the Yangtze River was much larger than it is now, and the original land of Wuyue was the land of Chu, such as the entire territory of Jiangxi and Hunan.

However, after the Chu State moved south and the Qin State captured Qianzhong County, the land of Southern Chu became a point tightly on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and the territories of Wu and Vietnam became substantial independent.

did not choose an independent place, and the influence of its Chu State was much worse. So when the Qin people attacked, they hesitated a little and surrendered.

No matter how this group of Wuyue nobles look at the Chu State, they are all about to die, so it is better to take refuge in a new monarch.

"Tell us to wait for support, I don't think the people of Chu have thought about support at all."

"It may also be that they want us to come back after we and the Qin people have lost both."

"General Li Mu is so powerful, probably Wu Anjun is almost like this. What are we going to fight him with? ”

"I heard that Zhu Xianggong was also there, General Li Mu fought in one place, and Zhu Xianggong was in a tuntian, and the common people supported it one after another, and spontaneously blocked the Chu army from coming back."

"What? Zhu Xianggong is also there?! ”

Wu Yue's noble face was embarrassed.

It's nothing if Li Mu is here, but if Zhu Xianggong is also there, will their local prestige be reduced rapidly, and will they not have a good time in Chu in the future?

I heard that the Qin State basically did not give the power of the feudal monarchs, if the local common people did not support them, how could they ask the Qin State for the power of self-government?

"But the Qin State is all in Xianyang, so far away from us, they should be more difficult to manage us than the people of Chu."

"It's that far away, too."

"Moreover, I heard that as long as Zhu Xianggong does not disturb his farming, Zhu Xianggong will not interfere with local government affairs. How could we stop Zhu Xianggong? ”

"Extremely, extremely, extremely! We can't wait for Zhu Xianggong to guide farming. ”

"That'...... Dropped? ”

"Or else? Are you still fighting with the Qin people? Do you have any idea how to fight those monster-like ships? ”

"I heard that Zhu Xianggong also destroyed the gods of the Chu State and invited the gods to protect the body of the fleet, how could he fight with the Qin people!"

So, Li Mu traveled thousands of miles to the Yangtze River Delta, and the Wuyue nobles opened the city gate to welcome the Qin army.

What is the State of Chu? What is the King of Chu? We Wuyue people are not familiar with each other.

They even snorted and cried, talked about the hatred of destroying the country with the Chu State, and missed Wu Yue's good in front of Li Mu, saying that as long as they don't follow the people of Chu, they can follow anyone! We all have a feud with the Chu State!

Although Li Mu was young, he believed in them as a ghost.

However, no matter what they were thinking in their hearts, as long as they cooperated with Li Mu to raise troops in Tuntian and were willing to accept the edict of King Qin and the transformation of Qin Law, Li Mu pretended to believe them as ghosts.

However, Li Mu received them privately and emphasized to them: "Since you surrendered because you have long been dissatisfied with the State of Chu and your heart is towards the State of Qin and the King of Qin, please insist on telling others about this fact." ”

Li Mu raised his wine glass and looked around: "You surrendered because of the majesty of the King of Qin and the strength of the Qin State, as well as your dissatisfaction with the Chu State, and it has nothing to do with some rumors about Zhu Xiang in the city. ”

The crowd immediately understood.

General Li must have heard rumors in the city that they were afraid that Zhu Xiang would confuse the people and destroy the gods, so they lost their heart to resist.

Obviously, General Li did not want rumors about Zhu Xianggong to appear, lest Zhu Xianggong's prestige be too high and make the King of Qin wary. After all, Zhu Xianggong is not only a great sage of Qin, but also a relative of Qin, which is related to the competition for the throne of Qin.

They immediately assured that they would immediately make the rumors related to Zhu Xianggong disappear, and began to tout the King of Qin and the State of Qin.

We are indeed because the King of Qin is too heroic and the Qin State is too powerful, so we have our hearts to the Qin State early!

Li Mu saw that these people were very knowledgeable, so he reciprocated Li and gave them a lot of convenience.

Li Mu basically did not use the establishment of local officials who voluntarily surrendered, and only replaced them with officers in more important places; They were not taxed either, and only suitable offerings were accepted.

Li Mu also held a banquet, invited local famous nobles to exchange feelings, exchanged gifts with them, and promised to send their young and middle-aged talents to Xianyang School Palace.

"If all the talents are in Xianyang School Palace today, you are in a safe corner, although your life is stable, but you can't go further." Li Mu said kindly, "If you have the idea of making the younger children in your family go further, I can write a letter of recommendation for you and recommend you to go to Xianyang Academy Palace to enroll." ”

The local heroes have moved.

Although the young children of the family traveled thousands of miles to Xianyang, they were worried that the king of Qin would take them hostage. But if the Qin State has always been so powerful and really unified the world, then if his family wants to be more prominent, it is obviously impossible to stay in the local area.

Moreover, even if they hired teachers for the young children in their families, they were far inferior to the talents of the Xianyang Academy. Who wouldn't want a better teacher? It's just that because of the chaos in the world, I don't dare to go out easily. If there are Qin soldiers escorting them into Qin by water, they will not be afraid of encountering accidents on the way.

Li Mu tempted again: "After a while, when the Chu people are more settled, Zhu Xiang should also come here." He longed for Wu Cheng very much. If you choose the young talents in your family, you can first enroll in school under Zhu Xiang. If Zhu Xiang takes a fancy to them and takes them back to Xianyang in the future, I am afraid that the future will be better. ”

Haoqiang's eyes lit up like torches.

If you can throw yourself into Zhu Xianggong's door, what hostages are you worried about?!

It doesn't matter if it's dangerous to stand in the battle for the throne of King Qin in advance, but if they want to take risks now, they can't get the opportunity to go to the dragon, and they don't even have the qualifications to go to the gambling table!

"But Zhu Xiang is harsh, I'm afraid it's difficult." Li Mu turned the wine glass, put the bronze wine glass on the table, and made a muffled sound, "You also know that Zhu Xiang is benevolent, in his eyes, the nobles and the common people are all human lives, and they will not favor one over the other." If you want your children to follow Zhu Xiang, you must not only choose a person who is benevolent, but also be able to endure hardships and be able to put down your body and walk the fields with Zhu Xiang. ”

He shook his head: "Difficult. ”

After Li Mu built momentum for Zhu Xiang, he made it difficult for the local Haoqiang to go to him, and continued to train and expand the navy by himself.

Zhu Xiang, as Li Mu said, carried a hoe, took his disciples, led Zheng'er, and walked slowly to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

He walked all the way, guiding autumn planting all the way.

Winter wheat is grown in the Central Plains, and it can also be grown in the South. As for rice, it will be planted after the beginning of spring.

Whether planting winter wheat or rice, we should not be idle in winter, we should prepare the land, and we should repair water conservancy and water conservancy. Zhu Xiang also spread waterwheels, stone mills, and rice-making tools to the places he went, telling them how to eat wheat and rice to make it more delicious.

Zhu Xiang asked the village elders to manage the stone mill, and agreed with them how to let the villagers borrow the stone mill and collect a little grain or labor to make up for the cost of stone mill management.

"Don't be greedy. Your life will be better when the whole village is rich. Zhu Xiang admonished from village to village, "King Qin is now electing officials in Xianyang, and all the talents in the world can take the exam." In the future, academies will be built in various places to allow ordinary people from all over the country to take the official examination. Only when you feed most of the people in the village can more people study. If there is someone in the village who is an official, is it better than coveting a little stone mill income? ”

The local village elders were surprised: "Can we also take the exam?" ”

Zhu Xiang said: "You think, the Qin State will soon unify the Central Plains and occupy so many places, someone will always have to take care of it." If the old officials of the Six Kingdoms are left to take care of it, then those places are the territory of the Qin State, or the territory of the Six Kingdoms? King Qin is so wise, of course he will select new talents. ”

The village elder believed it.

Because when Li Mu conquered the new land, he appointed local scholars who did not become officials to become officials, instead of choosing the original officials.

In fact, in this way, the soup is not changed, because the local officials are basically local famous families. Li Mu changed back and forth, but he was actually still a member of their family.

But the meaning of Li Mu's move is to send a signal to the locals that this is already the territory of the Qin State, and the original set of the Chu State does not count.

And although they are both local wang clans, the hearts of the wang clans are not aligned. Even if they are brothers and blood relatives, they can be enemies. Naturally, they want to let others go down and become officials themselves.

Zhu Xiang's words made the locals more ambitious.

What Zhu Xiang means is that the current officials are also temporary, according to the provisions of the Qin law, and the officials need to be assessed again after that. And when it comes to the assessment, everyone, including the common people, is eligible to take the test.

Of course, in fact, it is impossible for ordinary people to take the test. Because the common people now are illiterate, and those who are literate are scholars.

But the wealthier people among the common people will also think, even if this generation is not good, what about the son? What about grandchildren? As long as you start teaching now, it may not be impossible in the future.

"Xie Zhu Xianggong instructed." The village elders kowtowed.

Zhu Xiang helped them up and continued with his disciples.

The disciples behind him whispered.

"Look, we Confucians are really powerful."

"Fart, Zhu Xianggong is the Xianyang School Palace, and he doesn't belong to any family."

"No, it's our Confucian sages!"

"Zhu Xianggong implements the law, why is it not our Legalist?"

"Wrong, Zhu Xianggong is our Mo family, and he is our son!"

"! Zhu Xianggong is good at farming, of course, we are farmers. ”

"Why don't you say that Zhu Xianggong wrote it, it's home?"

"Uh......"

Ying Xiaozheng was thinking about the "examiner" system mentioned by Zhu Xiang, but was interrupted by the students behind him, and glared back angrily.

The students were immediately silenced.

Although Gongzizheng is young, he is already quite majestic.

Well, in fact, Gongzi Zheng's glance was quite cute, but they didn't dare to say it, so they could only pretend that they were scared with a straight face.

Ying Xiaozheng turned back with satisfaction: "Uncle, where are you?" ”

Zhu Xiang didn't understand: "Huh? I'm from the Zheng'er family. ”

Ying Xiaozheng: "...... Oh. "Forget it, don't ask, my uncle is my family.

In winter, there was not much to guide Zhu Xiang, so Zhu Xiang only needed to hand over the tools needed for spring plowing to local officials and let them reclaim wasteland to build water conservancy.

When Ying Xiaozheng ushered in his seventh birthday, Zhu Xiang came to Wucheng, and by the way, he continued to the east to take a look at the sea.

Although Ying Xiaozheng is seven years old, if Zhu Xiangnu works hard, he can still carry his little nephew on his shoulders, but he can't go too far.

Ying Xiaozheng sat on Zhu Xiang's shoulder, looked at the turbulent sea, and felt a sense of pride filling his chest.

In his dream, he saw the sea when he was the first queen of Qin, and he saw it now!

"Zheng'er, shouting at the sea will be very comfortable." Zhu Xiang instigated.

Ying Xiaozheng asked, "Really? ”

Zhu Xiang said: "It is said that shouting out your dreams has a very high probability of coming true. ”

Although Ying Xiaozheng didn't believe it, he wanted to try.

For example, he wanted to call himself Qin Shi Huang and let his father abdicate early.

I don't want to be Qin II, hey!

Ying Xiaozheng imagined this picture in his mind, and then shook his head vigorously to shake this picture away.

It's stupid, forget it.

But Zhu Xiang began to be stupid. He looked at the sea and shouted, "Ah! Li Mu behind him was taken aback.

Li Mu said: "What are you crazy about? ”

Zhu Xiangyi said solemnly: "When you face the sea or climb to the top of the mountain, don't you have the urge to shout?" ”

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Yes." ”