Ying Xiaozheng's sneering face collapsed. I don't want to give credit to Lü Buwei!

"Isn't it okay to let Li Si, Meng Tian or Han Fei?" Ying Xiaozheng muttered, "Why do you have to be cheap Lu Buwei?" ”

Zhu Xiang said: "There is a specialization in the art industry, and in this matter, Li Si, Meng Tian, and Han Fei are not as good as Lu Buwei. ”

Zhu Xiang sighed deeply and gently tapped Ying Xiaozheng's head, who had finally dried up: "You let Han Fei's little stammerer go to bargain with the Dongou King?" Do you want the Dongou King to raise troops to turn against the Qin State now? ”

"Poof...... Ying Xiaozheng smiled evilly, "That's not bad." ”

Zhu Xiang put away the cotton cloth that helped Ying Xiaozheng wipe his head: "If you don't want Lu Buwei to go, do you want to try it yourself?" ”

Ying Xiaozheng raised his chin: "King Dongou is not worthy of discussing with me!" ”

"What about Lu Buwei?" Zhu Xiang asked.

Ying Xiaozheng snorted coldly: "It's cheaper for him." ”

Although he hates Lü Buwei, when he needs to use Lü Buwei, Ying Xiaozheng is still very persuasive.

Zhu Xiang said: "Although you are not willing to negotiate directly with the king of Dongou City, you should also think about what benefits the Qin State will gain in this negotiation, so that Lu Buwei can realize it." ”

Ying Xiaozheng asked, "What benefits does my uncle think we should obtain?" ”

Zhu Xiang smiled: "Think together, and then we exchange notes." Do you want Li Mu to write a note too? ”

Ying Xiaozheng nodded: "Okay!" ”

The two uncles and nephews found Li Mu to play this "game" together.

Li Mu wrote on the note that he wanted to set up camp near the port and carry out regular supplies.

Ying Xiaozheng spread out the note, in addition to what Li Mu wrote, there was also a labor fee for Qin Jun's farming.

Zhu Xiang spread out the note, which read, "General Li Mu and Gongzizheng are right!" I think so too! ”。

Li Mu and Ying Xiaozheng: "......"

Li Mu said to Ying Xiaozheng: "Zheng'er, I'll help you restrain Zhu Xiang, and you beat him." ”

Ying Xiaozheng clenched his fists: "Okay! ”

Zhu Xiang immediately ran away: "Hey, are you going?" Ouch! You're still here for real! ”

Li Mu held Zhu Xiang down, Ying Xiaozheng gave Zhu Xiang a few punches on the back, and Zhu Xiang shouted that Ying Xiaozheng was not filial.

The three of them made a fuss for a while, and beads of sweat appeared on Ying Xiaozheng's freshly washed body, and Li Mu and Ying Xiaozheng let Zhu Xiang go.

After Zhu Xiang was beaten, he took out another note, on which in addition to the words written on the previous note, there was also a suggestion that the king of Dongou give the Qin army the slaves who had communicated with the Qin army when he cooperated with the Qin army in farming.

Ying Xiaozheng and Li Mu were very puzzled and didn't understand the intention of Zhu Xiang's move.

Zhu Xiang said: "When the king of Dongou sent the Qin army away from the field, these slaves who had communicated with the Qin army and had a floating mind would probably be killed. We asked the Dongou King for these slaves, and he most likely gave them to us as a favor. ”

Ying Xiaozheng sighed: "Uncle, you are indiscriminately kind. ”

Zhu Xiang smiled: "It's not an indiscriminate kindness. If you want to attack Donou, you have to use the people of Donou. ”

Ying Xiaozheng frowned and thought about it, Li Mu, a person who had experienced a hundred battles, had already reacted.

"When I was in Yanmen County, I recruited the Qingzhuang Hu people as cavalry. Hu people are good at riding and shooting, familiar with the terrain, and proficient in the grassland language, if they can be completely subdued, it will be of great use. Li Mu said, "Those slaves would have been executed, Zhu Xiang...... The Qin army rescued them, and they would definitely be loyal to the Qin state. ”

Ying Xiaozheng's brows stretched: "I heard that the Yue people are brave and ruthless, maybe they can train into a strong army." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "This group of slaves is flexible, if they can be cultivated well, they may be able to replace the old nobles of Dongou and become the new nobles in this area." ”

It is possible to subdue Dongou in a short period of time. It's like the existing toast system before the land was changed and returned to the stream. Now the vast majority of the people at the bottom of Baiyue are very ignorant, they have become accustomed to their exploited life, and under the double oppression of religion and customs, they regard the "patriarch" as the spokesman of the gods, and dare not and are unwilling to submit to the Qin state.

In this regard, Zhu Xiang had enough precedents when he eradicated serfdom in minority areas when he first founded the People's Republic of China in his previous life.

To change all this, we must first physically subdue the old aristocracy, and then let the people at the bottom accept the new ideas, and at the same time divide the land among the people at the bottom.

Now Zhu Xiang does not dare to get involved in the division of fields. I am afraid that the division of fields will have to wait for the Qin State to unify the world, and Qin Shi Huang, who has the great merit of "not seeing the ancients before and not seeing the comers", can be implemented.

If you change your mind, you can't use the same set as the later generations. Because the people at this time were more ignorant than they were then, and the scholars did not treat the people at the bottom as human beings, and did not teach them patiently.

The ideological unity of the "ignorant commoners" in the feudal era relied on immigration, economic exchanges, etc., and the subtle and forcible push of administrative decrees.

First cultivate a group of Dongou slaves, so that the slaves of Dongou can see that they may become nobles because of their military exploits when they arrive in Qin, and Qin opens the door to make Dongou Qin.

Ying Xiaozheng and Li Mu had a heated discussion on this matter, and then they found other officials and worked with them to fill in the gaps in this matter.

Zhu Xiang raised his head and did not follow up.

Taking advantage of the fact that this matter had not yet been negotiated, he continued to go down to the field with Qin Jun.

Most of the people in the coastal plains of Dongou beg for a living at sea, they often wear short-sleeved shorts in summer, and their hair is not always draped, sometimes they will comb a bun at the back of their heads, but they do not wear crowns.

In order to ward off the evil beasts in the water, they will tattoo the scales of snakes and fish on their bodies. If they are nobles, they often tattoo dragon patterns on their bodies.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and Qin Jun is hot, and he also changes into short-sleeved shorts.

Although Zhu Xiang changed the style of his clothes to make it easier to plow, he still wore long sleeves and trousers, and when he ploughed the land, he tied his sleeves and trouser legs tightly.

He does this to prevent mosquito bites and ...... Schistosome.

The entire area south of the Yangtze River is covered with a dense water network, and all of them are severely affected by schistosomiasis.

Zhu Xiang brought enough protective medicines, such as garlic and pumpkin seeds, and also prepared high alcohol, and rubbed allicin on his body every night when he rested, and then took raw pumpkin seeds.

Long sleeves and trousers can also play a role in some protection.

But the soldiers of the Qin State were not as extravagant as Zhu Xiang, and they didn't care about their clothes being damaged.

When they were in the fields themselves, they often used strips of cloth to wrap the lower half of their bodies, even their pants. If sometimes you can't even bear to wear a strip of cloth, you simply don't wear it.

A group of big men in the army were covered in mud, and they thought they didn't wear anything.

Fortunately, the pumpkin harvest lasted for several years, and Zhu Xiang accumulated a large number of pumpkin seeds and distributed them to the soldiers of the Qin State as medicine.

But even if there are more pumpkin seeds, it is impossible for the soldiers of the Qin State to take them every day. Zhu Xiang could only let them see if they had been bitten by schistosomes before taking it.

But sometimes when schistosomes enter the body, people don't feel it.

Even with the harm of schistosomiasis, Qin Jun was also very active in farming with Zhu Xiang.

They usually also work in the fields, who hasn't seen a few bugs? Is farming more dangerous than going to war? The last time they went to battle, they didn't necessarily get an extra reward. This time, they can count how much they have earned.

Zhu Xiang also knew that if Qin Jun was forbidden to help farming and earn extra money with schistosomiasis, it would be a waste of food for Qin Jun due to choking. He can only remind him to drink hot water as much as possible, take pumpkin seeds and garlic in time, and don't eat raw food, especially frogs and snakes, which are the most popular among the Yue people......

I don't know how useful these advice will be.

There is a high probability that the soldiers of the Qin State may be disgusted with the trouble and will not do it.

In particular, the prohibition of the soldiers of the Qin State from following the Yue people to eat frogs and snakes really broke Zhu Xiangcao's heart.

The eating habits of the Yue people are very different from those of the Central Plains, especially snakes.

Modern people know that snakes have a lump of parasites on their body, and even simmering in a pressure cooker may not kill all the parasites.

But Zhu Xiang can probably only control Ying Xiaozheng and not eat snakes, and he can't control Li Mu and Wang Qian. Because when these two generals were fighting, they would roast and eat any meat they caught.

Zhu Xiang could only tell them not to eat it raw.

In ancient times, it was so hard.

A few days later, Lü Buwei arrived majestically on a warship to negotiate with the king of Dongou on behalf of the Qin state about the Qin army's help in Tuntian.

Zhu Xiang took the Qin army to clean up the wreckage of the typhoon again, and now he is starting to sow autumn mushrooms.

Zhu Xiang originally wanted to replant rice, but now that the salinity of the soil is unknown, the rice seeds in his hands may not be suitable; It takes a lot of time to build a water conservancy that can reduce the salinity of the soil, and the Dongou King will not give the Qin army so much time; Rice requires intensive labor to harvest, and with the production enthusiasm of the slaves, I am afraid that as soon as the Qin army leaves, they will be extensively managed on the back foot......

After the above considerations, Zhu Xiang decided to replant soybeans, the life-saving food of all the low-level people from the south to the north in this era.

Soybeans are not very selective, have a good harvest if managed extensively, and are easy to store. Except for the bad taste of bean rice, it is almost impeccable.

Now half of the Qin army's military rations are soybeans.

In addition to autumn mushrooms, Zhu Xiang also planted some rice, wheat, millet and other crops in the plains near the interior.

He didn't leave the potatoes and pumpkins to the Dongou people. If these two crops were left to them, it would be easier for the Dongou nobles to hide in the mountains later.

Although it is easy for the Dongou people to sneak to Wu County to steal pumpkins and potatoes if they have the heart, they are used to fishing and hunting, and they do not dare to rashly try food they have not eaten. Zhu Xiang wasn't worried that they would come and steal.

The autumn mushroom planted by Zhu Xiang is a variety of autumn mushroom that is often planted by the locals.

Local varieties that are sure to be the most suitable for the local soil and climate. As long as it is managed a little more carefully than before, even if you are used to planting autumn mushrooms, the results will be much more than before.

When Zhu Xiang's system has not been activated, it can also double the yield per mu of the civilians of Zhao State.

When Zhu Xiang taught the serfs to grow soybeans, he also collected local rice and millet seeds.

Millet is not only the main food crop in the north, because it is easy to grow, but also in the rice-producing areas of the south, there are also many people who grow millet.

Dongou people also often eat millet.

As for rice, it can be said that it has been "since ancient times".

The primitive rice on the coastal plain of Wenzhou is a saline-alkali tolerant variety.

After the Southern Song Dynasty, when the south was greatly developed, water conservancy was developed, and manpower was sufficient, the acid-base balance of saline-alkali land was artificially adjusted, and the original saline-alkali tolerant rice varieties had low yield and poor taste, and were gradually eliminated, and high-yield rice cultivated by the Central Plains and the Yangtze River Delta was planted. These saline-tolerant rice varieties disappeared, and only decaying and even carbonized rice varieties excavated during archaeological excavations proved their existence.

Relying on the system to supply seeds is far from enough, and even with simple tools, Zhu Xiang is also starting to cultivate hybrid grain varieties.

Now that he is still young and can still walk around, Zhu Xiang has collected a lot of grain seeds.

Two thousand years of grain seeds are a treasure trove of natural hybrid seeds.

Zhu Xiang bought a lot of rice seeds that could grow on the coastal plains, and when he returned to Wu County, he crossed them with high-yielding rice seeds that he had drawn from the system.

He hopes that he will be able to obtain good seeds in his lifetime without relying on the system.

If he can produce results, he will be able to summarize his experience and knowledge into a book and pass it on to future generations, and there will always be descendants who will follow the path he has blazed.

There was also a small episode when Zhu Xiang bought rice seeds, and a nobleman sold him cooked rice seeds.

In the past, Yue Guo deceived Wu State like this, this nobleman may have read books about ancestors stupidly, and actually wanted to deceive Qin State.

Zhu Xiang personally selected the seeds, grabbed a handful and saw it.

Immediately, Zhu Xiang unceremoniously tied up this nobleman and sent it to the Dongou Palace, together with the boiled seeds, so that the Dongou King could decide. He did not follow him to the Dongou Palace, and continued to buy seeds.

Zhu Xiang chose rice seeds from different plots in the coastal plain, and planned to go to the coastal plain in Taizhou to buy a little more.

The king of Dongou was already at a disadvantage in the negotiation with Lü Buwei, Zhu Xiang tied people over, Lü Buwei immediately turned his face, lifted the table, and stopped talking.

"Changping Jun has done his best for your Dongou and even personally went to the field to cultivate for Dongou himself. That's how you treat Changping-kun? ”