"Forget it." Zhu Xiang sat on the ground and wiped the sweat that ran out, "What do you think, you actually took Zheng'er to Huaishui." ”

Li Mu followed Zhu Xiang to sit on the ground, cross-legged and said, "Since it's safe, why can't you go?" ”

Zhu Xiang reached out and picked up the wooden stick and knocked it on Li Mu's shoulder: "Shut up." ”

Li Mu sighed. It's hard to get me to answer and shut me up.

Autumn is getting cooler, even if the sun is empty. Zhu Xiang asked people to spread a cloth on the ground, brought pastries, fruits and tea, and sat on the ground and chatted.

Ying Xiaozheng wanted to drag a futon to chat together, but was urged by Zhu Xiang to work.

Now not only is the autumn ploughing busy, but the people of Guangling also demand a comprehensive transformation of the Qin law, and implement the Qin law's work of dividing the land and awarding knights to the common people and soldiers, and Zhu Xiang, the temporary Guangling County order, has too many things. Now everything is a small deal.

Ying Xiaozheng sighed, pulled Han Fei to work together, and let his uncle and teacher talk slowly.

Li Mu took a sip of warm tea, replenished his water, and said, "You look pretty good." ”

Li Mu said without beginning or end, but Zhu Xiang knew what Li Mu was talking about.

"On the first day I couldn't sleep at night, but on the second day I was numb." Zhu Xiang said calmly, "People are very adaptable. ”

Li Mu said: "You won't have another chance to defend the city." ”

Zhu Xiang listened to Li Mu's confident tone, and said with a wry smile: "In the future, it will be the Qin State that will fight others, and it will not be the turn of the Qin State to defend the city, right?" ”

Li Mu said: "Yes." ”

Zhu Xiang raised the teacup and said, "Wu Chengjun has said so, it must be so." ”

He didn't expect that there would be a day when he would go to defend the city.

Just as he didn't expect Xiang Yan and Nan Chujun to do such a desperate job.

However, the strong wall Qingye was the norm in the world, and even the norm of the subsequent two thousand years of war, but he didn't think about it himself.

Zhu Xiang said: "After the battle, I slept in the barn for one night, and the next day I was fine. ”

Li Mu smiled bitterly: "You really have your style." ”

Zhu Xiang said with a smile: "People have to look forward and move forward, there is no need to feel sorry for themselves anymore for things that have passed, except for tossing themselves and tossing the people around them, no one is of any use." ”

Even if you have an emotional breakdown at that moment, you should pack up your mood and move on in the next moment.

"So don't worry, I'll be fine." Zhu Xiang said, "I still have a lot of things to do now, and I don't have time to feel sorry for myself." Speaking of which, are you planning to build a boatmaster port here in Guangling City? ”

Li Mu said: "Yes." Sea vessels cannot enter the river, and it is difficult for river vessels to enter the sea. There is a river and a sea in this part of Guangling, so you can concentrate all the boats and warships here. ”

Zhu Xiang asked, "Aren't you afraid of being burned?" ”

Li Mu said with a smile: "What I want to build is not a wharf, but the military port you once said." The Qin army would be stationed near the port to train and tuntian, and if the Chu people could burn down the entire military port, it would be the annihilation of the Qin Guozhou division. Lend me your people. ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Jiao Yun them? Say anything about borrowing, they are all Qin people, and you can be mobilized. ”

Li Mu was noncommittal and said: "Now Guangling City is the only big city on the north bank of the river, and the Chu people who are unwilling to move north may come to look for you." ”

For ordinary people, it is much easier to go overland along the east of the Yangtze River than to cross the Yangtze River. Guangling City will be their only place to live.

Zhu Xiang half-jokingly said: "Come, come as much as you want." You don't know anything about the farming potential of the Yangtze River Delta. ”

Although the Yangtze River Delta is still very small, and most of the land in the international metropolis of Shanghai in later generations is still raising fish in the sea, there are not many people in this era, and the total of the seven countries is more than 20 million. The displaced people taken in by Guangling City were less than 100,000 dead, and Zhu Xiang was confident.

Li Mu was puzzled: "What Yangtze River Delta?" ”

Zhu Xiang remembered that at this time, the Yangtze River was only called "river water", and said: "You see that this river is so long, how about calling it the Yangtze River?" The Yangtze River Delta is a delta formed by sediment accumulation at the mouth of the Yangtze River. ”

Strange names often popped out of Zhu Xiang's mouth, but Li Mu didn't care, and continued: "After the military port of Guangling City is built, I will go west along the river and rebuild the original wharf city. ”

Zhu Xiang said with a smile: "Raise the north bank of the Yangtze River with Guangling City? You really have faith in me. Come, I'll give you something to eat. ”

As he spoke, the servant brought a plate of roasted sweet potatoes.

Li Mu saw that Zhu Xiang had come up with a brand-new crop after many years, and his face showed a look of nostalgia.

"What is this?" Li Mu learned from Zhu Xiang and broke the roasted sweet potato with his bare hands, and the sweet smell gushed out, making his throat move.

"Sweet potatoes. This sweet potato is sweet and suitable for roasting. Zhu Xiang said, "The yield is very high, and it is not picky, which is suitable for mountain planting and famine relief." ”

Li Mu blew the sweet potato, took a bite of the golden sweet potato meat, and his eyes lit up: "It's so sweet, it's delicious!" It's the same as potatoes? ”

Zhu Xiang said: "It's almost, but potatoes can be used as a staple food, this can't, it can only be used as a dish." ”

He talked about the pros and cons of sweet potatoes.

"Farmers are smart and they choose the right crops for themselves after planting. I just need to promote this crop. Zhu Xiang said, "Sweet potato-related dishes can be served in restaurants in Wucheng. ”

In the hinterland of the Qin State, the heavy agriculture and suppression of commerce were very serious, and the management of restaurants was very strict. But Wu County is different, the commercial atmosphere is very strong, there are many private restaurants, and some people buy alcohol.

Because Wu County had sufficient grain production, Zhu Xiang did not prohibit the sale of wine, but only imposed a high tax on the sale of wine in order to cut the wallets of wealthy merchants.

After Li Musan ate the roasted sweet potatoes twice, he washed his hands with water and said, "You explain the habits of sweet potatoes more clearly." ”

Zhu Xiang explained in detail the environment in which sweet potatoes are grown and what needs to be paid attention to.

Li Mu said: "It is just right for South Vietnam. ”

Zhu Xiang smiled: "Yes." ”

Nanyue is a mountainous area with good water and heat conditions, and it is also a large area for sweet potato cultivation in later generations.

Li Mu said: "With sweet potatoes, the land in South Vietnam is not completely useless. ”

Li Mu is just grabbing things now, and he doesn't really conquer the city, because he can't use it.

Except for a few small plains that can build cities, other places are of no use to the Qin State at all, and they cannot develop if they occupy them.

When Li Mu was training troops in South Vietnam, the main thing he did was to draw a map to see where he could build a city.

After that, if the King of Qin wants to attack Baiyue, he will basically only manage the city, and the other large areas of mountains will not be managed by the Qin State if he wants to.

In fact, the same is true more than a thousand years later.

At that time, although Guangdong was already a province, the basic government decree did not leave the city of Guangzhou.

This is true in large areas of the south, and even Sichuan only manages the Chengdu Plain, and most of the mountainous areas are vacuums.

If the Qin State wants to occupy Baiyue, it must first choose a place that can manage the city, and then "nail" its own forces in this city, so as to achieve the effect of domination.

If there were sweet potatoes, even the Baiyue land, which had little flat land, could rely on the cultivation of sweet potatoes to feed the population, so that the cities established by the Qin State on the flat land could continue to exist.

Zhu Xiang listened to Li Mu talk about his plan for Baiyue one by one, nodded in agreement, and poured water for Li Mu.

Li Mu is not only a general, but also a talent.

Zhu Xiang thought that if Cai Ze couldn't stand being too busy and had to go back to retire, he would push Li Mu up to be Qin Xiang.

As for Lin Li, well, he can only be a prime minister.

However, when Zheng'er becomes the queen of Qin, I am afraid that there will be no more Xiangguo.

They are a group of old things who still obediently take a back seat and give the future to young people like Han Fei and Li Si.

Zhu Xiang, who is obviously not much older than Li Si and Han Fei, has already considered retirement.

Even if he was still early in retirement.

……

Changpingjun led 20,000 defenders to defeat the 100,000 troops of the Southern Chu State led by Xiang Yan spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms more than ten days later.

The world was shocked.

Xiang Yan and the Southern Chu State sent 100,000 troops, known as 200,000 to the outside world; Half of the Qin army in Guangling City has been withdrawn, claiming that only 5,000 are left, and the rest are the strong men who are now captured in Guangling City.

Therefore, when it reached the ears of the people of the Seven Kingdoms, it was Xiang Yan, a famous general of the Chu State, who stormed Guangling City with ten times his troops, but was defeated by Changping Jun on the second day of the siege.

The first reaction of those who received the battle report was not to believe it.

If Changping Jun took 20,000 people to defend Guangling City, and waited for Li Mu's reinforcement, this would be understandable.

But this is a defeat! What a victory! The defenders of Guangling City rushed out directly from the city gate and drove the army of Chu to Huaishui!

Is this what a man can do?

Although they later learned that the defenders of Guangling had chased less than a hundred miles, the remaining long road was chased by the Qin prince and the Wu county reinforcements - the Qin prince was originally rushing to the aid of Guangling City, but after crossing the Yangtze River, Xiang Yan had been defeated, so the newborn calf was not afraid of the tiger, and chased all the way to Huaishui.

Prince Qin's face was dark, and he issued three edicts in a row, telling Prince Qin to go back to Xianyang and be scolded!

Chapter 195: Zhu Xiang scolds Youxin

Before Zhu Xiang's battle report came, the prince of Qin waited for the news of the defeat of the Chu general Xiang Yan.

The Chu army has been defeated to Huaishui, and the people on the other side of Huaishui have pointed their fingers, and it will not be a matter of a few days when it reaches the ears of King Qin?

When Prince Chu of Qin first learned the news, he was still laughing at Cai Ze and Lin Zhen for Li Mu being too indulgent to Zhu Xiang, this city must be Zhu Xiang wanted to defend, so Li Mu and Xiang Yan fought.

Cai Ze said solemnly: "Your Majesty, don't lie, Wu Chengjun is not such a person. If Guangling City could not be defended, he would definitely persuade Zhu Xiang. ”

Lin Zhen said with a smile: "I finally controlled the entire river and waterway, and now the Qin people are retreating north, it's me, and I don't want to." That Guangling City is on the opposite side of Wu County, and the Qin army boat division is strong, so it can be stationed in Guangling City. I will see if the people of Chu dare to fight. ”

Prince Chu of Qin insisted: "It must have been Zhu Xiang who heard the news of Xiang Yan's slaughter of the city, and couldn't bear to be slaughtered by the Guangling people, so he persuaded Li Mu." With Li Mu's character, he gave up other cities, and he would also give up Guangling City. We don't know Li Mu's personality yet? He is the most indulgent to Zhu Xiang. ”

Cai Ze said solemnly: "Your Majesty, Wu Chengjun is very old-fashioned and cautious, and he will not let Zhu Xiang mess around in major matters." ”

Lin Zhen continued to laugh and said: "Xiang Yan didn't just pull the generals in the Chu State and beat them, and they beat their own people, and they called themselves famous generals, which is really funny." No, as soon as he met Li Mu, he was defeated. ”

The three of them chattered crookedly there, completely forgetting that there was a Xunzi beside them.

Xunzi is also the prime minister, and he will also attend this meeting.

Xunzi glanced at the three who were not big, not small, not gentlemen and no ministers (Cai Ze: I was wronged!) The juniors closed their eyes.

Forget it, I'm too lazy to care, I can't take care of it, I don't bother if I don't look at it.

After Zhu Xiang left Xianyang, Prince Chu of Qin became much more serious.

Although he occasionally gets together with Cai Ze and Lin Zhen, he is still different from the monarch and the minister. All three are smart people and know where the boundaries are.

But now when it comes to Zhu Xiang, Prince Chu of Qin has reverted to his old ways, and he has completely lost the appearance of King Qin.

Cai Ze and Lin Zhen too!

Xunzi closed his eyes and dozed off.