Although the crown prince has grown up and become the prince of Qin, he is still the former prince and has not changed in the slightest.

It's just wonderful.

After listening to Wang Jian share the experience of the cavalry in frontal combat, Zhu Xiang continued to flow down the Han River.

When he was in Wuhan, he met Meng Wu and Zhang Ruo again.

The two of them actually sat on a big boat to play on the river, looking very comfortable, and were laughed at by Zhu Xiang, saying that it seemed that the work of the county guard was very easy.

"I met your other son, Meng Yi, who served Xunzi with another Xianyang Academy student, Zhang Cang." Zhu Xiang said, "I heard that he can speak well in the Xianyang Academy and treat people very thoughtfully. Why, when I looked, he seemed too shy. ”

Meng Wu was almost so frightened that the chicken leg in his hand fell: "Shy? ”

Zhu Xiang nodded: "Shy." ”

The chicken leg in Meng Wu's hand fell: "Shy?!" ”

Ying Xiaozheng said: "It's really shy, I can't even understand what I say in front of my uncle." ”

Zhang Ruo smiled and said, "Maybe he was too nervous when he saw Changping Jun and the crown prince." ”

Zhu Xiang waved his hand: "I am good friends with Meng Wu, and I am also his elder, what is he nervous about?" Zheng'er arrested the son of the former Han Xiang and put him in prison, I scolded them in prison, and when I invited the two brothers to dinner on the first day, the Zhang brothers were not nervous when they saw me. How could Meng Yi be nervous? ”

Meng Wu said: "I'll write to ask. ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Okay." Don't scare him, to be tactful. ”

Meng Wu picked up the chicken leg that had accidentally dropped: "It's not good to spoil my son too much." He wasn't that weak. ”

Zhu Xiang pointed at Ying Xiaozheng and said: "Look at Zheng'er, it's not good to spoil again?" ”

Ying Xiaozheng: "? ”

Meng Wu and Zhang Ruo looked at each other, and then they both burst into laughter.

Ying Xiaozheng's eyelids trembled, and he wanted to say that he had not been spoiled at all. But in order to save face for his uncle, he still didn't refute.

After getting off the cruise ship, Zhu Xiang went to the surrounding rice fields and saw many ragged Chu refugees.

Zhang Ruodao: "Now there are more and more displaced people from Chu State, but fortunately, I have a lot of empty land here." ”

Zhang Ruo is the county guard of Qianzhong County, and the Yunmengze Plain, that is, the Dongting Lake Plain, is in his Qianzhong County.

In later generations, the Dongting Lake Plain was a productive farming land, and now it is a jungle full of miasma to make up for it, and it is still a schistosomiasis disaster area, and it was a place where the aborigines of the small countries exiled and conquered by the Chu State before, and it is basically a semi-tribal system.

Zhu Xiang led his troops to fight here for the first time.

When Zhu Xiang settled the Chu people in the Dongting Lake Plain, most of the area was still very barren, and only large areas of farmland were located near the towns.

Listening to Zhang Ruo, the newly reclaimed land in the Dongting Lake Plain is now thirty percent of the previous one.

"I didn't expect there to be so many displaced people from the Chu Kingdom." Zhu Xiang's heart was faintly pinched by an invisible hand.

He knows very well that although most of the current displaced people fled because of the war in Chu State, the fuse of this war was ignited by himself.

Give him another chance, and he'll do it again. But seeing the miserable looks of those homeless people, the things that pressed on his heart will not be alleviated by his decisiveness.

Meng Wudao: "From the perspective of the displaced people, in this war in Chu State, both sides are angry. It is said that this is because of Xiang Yan. ”

Zhu Xiang was puzzled: "Xiang Yan? I heard Wang Jian say that Xiang Yan is not bad, and he is a qualified general. ”

Meng Wu smiled: "Qualified, just too qualified." He beat the generals of the Jingzhao clan to the point that they lost their armor and beheaded thousands of soldiers. ”

Zhu Xiang thought for a while and understood what Meng Wu meant.

Originally, the internal strife of the Jingzhao clan was an internal dispute with the surname Mi, not to mention that there was also the Qin State watching from the sidelines, so the two sides were more restrained in the war, just waiting for peace talks.

But after Xiang Yan made a move, he was much stronger than Jing Zhao's family, and he collapsed the opponent's army at once.

In ancient times, the vast majority of armies had no military discipline at all, and the basic soldiers were like grates, not to mention that the Chu State also had a military merit system of beheading and rewarding.

When the enemy was dispersed, the soldiers of the Chu State didn't know what the people above were fighting, and Xiang Yan couldn't tell his subordinates in advance not to be ruthless, so the battle losses of the Jingzhao clan became beyond expectations.

Seeing that Xiang Yan was so fierce, Jing Zhao's group was worried that the King of Chu would not negotiate peace as he expected, but wanted to annihilate himself directly, so they no longer stopped and became very fierce.

In this way, the battle losses of both sides increased, and the intensity of the civil war increased.

If it weren't for Wang Jian and Li Mu appearing on the battlefield of Chu State, alerting the five countries and sending troops to help Chu State mediate, I am afraid they would really have to fight a victory.

Not to mention the Qin State, even the other five countries, they definitely don't want the real victory or defeat to be divided in the chaos in Chu.

Meng Wudao: "I originally thought that after the civil strife in Chu, something might happen to Chun Shenjun, but I didn't expect the newly established Prince Chu to protect Chun Shenjun, although Chun Shenjun has experienced several assassinations, but there is nothing to do at present, and Chu General Xiang Yan may have an accident." ”

When Ying Xiaozheng heard the name of "Xiang Yan", he became a little interested: "Oh? Could it be that the Jingzhao clan wants the King of Chu to hand over Xiang Yan to take the blame? The king of Chu should not treat the heroes like this. ”

Meng Wu nodded: "It is true that the King of Chu is unwilling to hand over Xiang Yan, so the Jingzhao clan will not let go, saying that they have to kill Xiang Yan to take revenge." Now they are only a temporary truce, and the peace talks are not over. ”

The corners of Zhu Xiang's mouth twitched slightly.

Xia Tong and Zheng'er have finished their filial piety, Zheng'er and I have returned to Southern Qin, and the peace talks of Chu have not ended.

It is also that the expansion of the Qin State will cause indigestion if it is too fast, and Xia Tong is trying his best to restrain it in order to make fewer waves after the Qin State unifies the world. Otherwise, the state of Chu may probably be swallowed up by the state of Qin by now.

However, the more displaced people of the Chu State in Southern Qin, the less difficult it was for the Qin State to govern the homeland of the Chu State.

Let's keep them messing around.

Zhu Xiang took a sip of wine and found that his heart hardened a lot.

Perhaps he is getting used to this era.

"It's time for me to go back to Wu County." Zhu Xiang said, "Release the news to the Chu State that I have returned to Southern Qin, and send troops to bring more displaced people from the Chu State to Southern Qin." ”

Zhang Ruo and Meng Wu smiled: "Okay." ”

Chapter 180: Fresh Whole Fish Feast

Prince Zheng and Changping Jun returned to Wu, and the dock was crowded with people who came to greet him.

Many commoners temporarily lost their work and crowded on both sides of the river to welcome the prince and Changpingjun.

The common people didn't know how to welcome them, so they waved the "ritual vessels" made of branches, leaves, and flowers as if they had worshiped the gods in the past, and roared the ballad of Chu that Zhu Xiang couldn't hear clearly.

At that moment, Zhu Xiang visioned the dragon and lion dance during the dragon boat race in the later world.

Ying Xiaozheng stood at the bow of the boat with his head held high, greeting the welcoming people on both sides of the strait.

Zhu Xiang stood behind Ying Xiaozheng, knowing that this scene should not be laughed, but he felt that he wanted to laugh.

Zhu Xiang asked: "Zheng'er, how does it feel to be truly loved by the people?" ”

Ying Xiaozheng was puzzled: "The people? They are not the people, but the people. ”

"The Book of Songs, Ya Tianbao" says: "The people of Qunli are all over Erde." The "common people" during the Warring States period referred to the aristocracy. "Qunli" is the people. The so-called "Li people" was originally a combination of two words.

Zhu Xiang blinked his eyes and said, "Now many nobles have become commoners, and many commoners have earned their surnames for their military merits. Even Shiqing and nobles have one surname, and it will be a matter for Qunli to become a common people. Why won't Zheng'er give the world a surname in the future? ”

Ying Xiaozheng pondered: "This is a good idea to win the hearts of the people. But will it arouse the opposition of the scholars? ”

Zhu Xiang said: "You just gave the world a surname, but you didn't give the world a specific surname." ”

Ying Xiaozheng's face was strange: "Uncle, this seems to be empty talk." ”

Zhu Xiang smiled: "No." Think again. ”

Ying Xiaozheng glanced at his uncle who had entered the teaching mode again with dissatisfaction, frowning and thinking about it.

Zhu Xiang raised his hand and gently rubbed the eyebrows of Ying Xiaozheng with the calloused and thick knuckles of a military general who often held weapons.

Ying Xiaozheng's brows loosened: "There is nothing wrong with long wrinkles, it is more mature." ”

Zhu Xiang said with a smile: "Only young people want to mature, and when they really grow up, they can't wait to be a teenager forever." ”

Ying Xiaozheng remembered the fear of death that Da Ying Zheng had in his dream, and wanted to frown again, and then his uncle's calloused fingers rubbed his brows and wrinkled.

It's ticklish, a little annoying.

Ying Xiaozheng had to try to stretch his brows.

"I thought about it." Ying Xiaozheng said, "To give the people of the world a surname as a king is to recognize that all the people of the world can become the nobles of the Qin State, that is, the people of the Six Kingdoms are also the people of Qin." ”

After Ying Xiaozheng thought of this, he said with a bright face: "To give the people of the world a surname is to give the people of the world a name; To give the people of the world a field is to give the people of the world a benefit. Give the world fame and fortune, and the people will return to themselves! ”

Zhu Xiang applauded Ying Xiaozheng twice and said, "Zheng'er can be a teacher." ”

Ying Xiaozheng said angrily: "I have already left the school...... See! Warship! The teacher came to pick us up on a warship! Teacher! ”

Ying Xiaozheng stretched out his arms and waved at the huge warship.

Looking at Ying Xiaozheng's childish posture, Zhu Xiang shook his head with a smile, and also learned from his nephew to wave his hand at Li Mu.

Li Mu stood at the bow of the boat, looking at his friends and students who were still as lively as ever, and sighed with a smile, his heart was settled.

After Zichu succeeded to the throne, the personality change was not particularly big, and Zhu Xiang and Zheng'er would remain so lively.

"When we get to the docks, why bother to drive the warship out." Zhu Xiang complained after boarding the deck of the warship, "It costs a lot to drive a ship, right?" ”

Li Mu said lightly: "I just had a fight with Chu Guozhoushi. ”

Zhu Xiang: "......"

Zhu Xiangdong looked around, and the soldiers with the smell of gunpowder on his body still grinned at Changping Jun with teeth and smirk.

"Just got into a fight?" Zhu Xiang was shocked, "There is still a boat master in the Chu State?" ”

Li Mu said: "Naturally, there is. The Chu Guozhou Division and the Wu Yue Zhou Division both fought, but after Wu Yue was destroyed, the Chu Guozhou Division was also abandoned and was mostly used to transport materials. After I built the boat division of the Qin State, the State of Chu also began to rebuild the boat division. ”

Ying Xiaozheng hadn't come to the warship for a long time, and while touching east and west, he looked idle, and asked, "Isn't the Chu State in civil strife?" What did the king of Chu send the boat master for? ”

Li Mu said calmly: "I probably know that the two of you are coming, and I want to scare you." They have this idleness, and the peace talks should be about to succeed. ”

Scare us? Zhu Xiang and Ying Xiaozheng glanced at each other, and then smiled dumbly.

Could it be that the State of Chu still wants to plunder them on the Yangtze River?

Maybe it's not looting, it's really just scaring them, and it's better to scare them.

"Is it Xiang Yan, or is it Chun Shenjun?" Zhu Xiang asked, "This idea is bad, maybe Zheng'er and I are timid, and we are really scared." ”

Li Mu shook his head: "I don't know, and there is no need to know." Do you want to walk around the warship more, or do you want to go back to Wucheng early? The people of the city have been waiting for you at the docks for a long time. ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Of course, go back quickly." ”