"The stain of the country is the master of the society; The country is ominous, and it is the king of the world. ”

"Zheng'er, at the critical juncture of the Qin State, who can let the King of Qin rest?"

"I can't, and neither can you."

"Xia is the king with him."

The crown prince was silent for a long time, whimpering and nodding.

"Well, the monarch is the king. Uncle...... Walking. ”

Chapter 236: Changping County Death Battle

After Zhu Xiang left Xianyang, he had just arrived at the first place of residence, Zi Chu, who had gone out to cruise in advance, did not say hello, Zhu Xiang slept at the post station last night, and he squatted in Zhu Xiang's carriage, startling Zhu Xiang.

Qin Guogang suffered a locust plague, although the grain was enough, but Zichu learned simple economics from Zhu Xiang, knowing that "if the government does not control it, the grain gap is 10%, not the price of grain will rise by 10%, but the price of grain will rise unlimitedly, until 10% of the people starve to death".

When Zhu Xiang was supervising and teaching spring ploughing in various places, Zichu also traveled around the country to supervise grain prices in various places.

In the pre-Qin period, industrious kings toured the country every year or two, supervising local officials and feudal lords.

Zichu traveled this time, and saw those who raised the price of grain, regardless of their status, the size of their backers, and they were killed on the spot.

Only King Qin can do this, and Xiangguo Cai Ze can't. So this time, Cai Ze can only sit in Xianyang, and Prince Chu of Qin can travel.

Fortunately, there is now a prince under house arrest in Xianyang who can supervise the country.

Zhu Xiang was speechless: "Are you very idle?" ”

Zichu smiled: "I wasn't idle, but Zheng'er actually came out over the wall to find you, so I can only find time to ask you about the situation." ”

The crown prince had an independent mansion.

Zichu sent people to clean up the mansion where the prince did not live before, and prepared to "lock" the prince for a month, so that the prince could do less and create more people.

Who knew that the prince actually came out of the wall. The people who were watching didn't dare to stop it, so they had to immediately inform Prince Chu of Qin.

Zhu Xiang sighed deeply: "I'll just say how did you change your mind and release Zheng'er, it turned out to be over the wall." This kid ...... Alas. ”

Zi Chu said: "He just has no fear. ”

Zhu Xiang glanced at Zichu: "It's not that you're too outrageous?" Even if I wanted to hold my grandson as soon as possible, I hadn't heard of putting the prince under house arrest. ”

Zichu laughed and couldn't stop coughing.

He took a porcelain bottle out of his sleeve, poured honey-like medicine into his mouth, and swallowed it, suppressing the cough.

Zhu Xiang's eyelids trembled.

This medicine was developed by him together with the imperial physician of the Qin Kingdom, and it used the formula of the powerful loquat ointment, a Chinese patent medicine that had been proven in later generations.

Honey, loquat leaves, mint, and ...... Fleur's shell.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin died violently with pills. However, after careful research, historians found that Li Shimin was not poisoned by heavy metals for the sake of longevity, but fought too hard in his early years, and the hidden diseases on his body were painful when his body decayed in his later years, so he took a large amount of pills containing A Hibiscus to relieve pain and died violently.

This thing is the sedative for the terminally ill hospice of later generations.

Zi Chu relied on this, and his body briefly "recovered" to normal, and he was able to be a hard-working King of Qin as before.

Zi Chu looked at Zhu Xiang's eyes, silently retracted the porcelain vase into the cuff, and after taking a sip of warm water, he changed the topic and said, "What is Zheng'er looking for you?" I didn't say that after he was placed under house arrest, he couldn't come to see you off when you left Xianyang. He wants to see you privately over the wall, there must be something very important. ”

Zhu Xiang half-jokingly said: "Zheng'er lobbied me and asked me to conspire against the palace with him and make you the emperor." ”

Zichu was stunned for a moment, then laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his waist, and almost couldn't help coughing again: "Okay, okay, what a filial child." ”

Zhu Xiang sighed: "What do you think?" ”

Zi Chu wiped the tears from his laughter and said, "The widow doesn't think it's good. ”

Zhu Xiang said: "He just cares about your body. ”

Zi Chu said with a smile: "Zhu Xiang, if I abdicate when the Qin State has not yet recovered, won't all the hard work of the past few years be in vain, and let Zheng'er pick up the fruits of my efforts?" I even gave up the position of Qin Shi Huang to Zheng'er, and I can't let him grab this credit anymore. ”

Zhu Xiang sighed: "Hmm." ”

The smile on Zi Chu's face faded, and his voice had a hint of majesty: "The burden of the Qin State, whether good or bad, can only be borne by the King of Qin. If the widow does not die for a day, it will not be the turn of the prince to replace me. The dirt of the country is called the ...... of the society."

"The country is ominous, it is for the king of the world." Zhu Xiang said calmly, "That's how I answered Zheng'er. ”

Zi Chu's eyes flashed, his hands clenched at the cuffs, and a stream of heat surged in his chest.

He was a little uncomfortable and said, "It's good that you know." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "This winter has been very snowy, and I will definitely make a good harvest in Guanzhong and Kanto this year." You don't want Zheng'er to pick up your credit, so let me live until the harvest. ”

Zichu promised: "I definitely can." ”

Zhu Xiang also took a sip of warm water, and said: "Zheng'er is in good health, I will definitely let you hold your grandson this year." You think of your grandson's name in advance. ”

Zi Chu said: "I have prepared several names. ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Don't forget to eat on the way to the cruise." I wrote you the recipe and eat it on time for three meals a day. ”

Zichu said helplessly: "You wrote a three-day meal arrangement that is not the same for a month, it's really not too troublesome." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Yes, I don't dislike you. ”

Zi Chu pointed to himself: "Are you saying I'm in trouble?" ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Isn't this what you said yourself?" ”

So, Zi Chu and Zhu Xiang quarreled again.

The guard outside yawned.

In the past, they would tremble when they heard King Qin and Changping Jun quarreling, but now they are used to it.

Zichu separated from Zhu Xiang on the second day and rushed to other counties.

Before leaving, Zhu Xiang asked Zichu for an edict. If Zhu Xiang encountered someone who hoarded Juqi on the way, he could also carry out the edict of the King of Qin to kill people and raid his home.

Zichu was originally unwilling. But after Zhu Xiang glared at him for a while, he wrote an edict to Zhu Xiang and lent Zhu Xiang the ancestral sword of King Qin.

Prince Chu of Qin can kill the Haoqiang of Qin at will, and so can Zhu Xiang.

There are three people in Zhu Xiang's family, one of whom is still the prince. He is the "lonely minister" among the "lonely ministers" that everyone in later generations feared, and the barefoot ones are not afraid of wearing shoes and not afraid of any unspoken rules. The cool officials raised by the emperors of all dynasties did not have his hands.

Zhu Xiang and Qin Prince Chu inspected the hinterland of Qin separately, and Haoqiang received letters from the backers of the court and China in advance, most of whom pretended to be philanthropists.

A few Haoqiang who couldn't resist the temptation of hoarding the high wealth brought by Juqi were all uprooted one by one by Prince Chu of Qin and Zhu Xiang of Changping.

Most of these heroes with a fluke mentality are backed by the Qin clan. Some of the Haoqiang themselves were the clans of the Qin State that had scattered to various places.

Zhu Xiang's reputation in the Qin clan instantly deteriorated.

But no matter how much they hate Zhu Xiang, they have nothing to do with Zhu Xiang.

The so-called unspoken rule is that if you can't be taken down, you can take advantage of your relatives and friends.

Zhu Xiang had few friends, all of whom held great power in the Qin State; Zhu Xiang's relatives are only Mrs. Wu Jun and the crown prince, and there is really no one to threaten.

Only then did the Qin State realize how terrible Changping Jun Zhu Xiang was.

Zhu Xiang is just mild. But if he doesn't want to be gentle, as long as the King of Qin supports him, no one in the Qin State can shake the sword in his hand.

Under the strong suppression of the Qin prince Chu and the Changping monarch Zhu Xiang, the grain price fluctuations in the Qin state quickly subsided.

Zhu Xiang continued to inspect the world and supervise spring ploughing. Prince Chu of Qin turned the head of the car, paraded the labor army along the long border of Qin, and urged epidemic prevention.

The plague of locusts will be followed by a great plague. Zhu Xiang is most worried about bacterial diseases caused by mosquitoes and rats after too many people die.

Garlic, wormwood, ginger and other herbs with antibacterial effects were transported to the border city in large quantities, and the officials and city sergeants preached and urged the civilians to practice hygiene, drink hot water and eat cooked food every day in the city, and the soldiers guarding the city strictly examined everyone who entered the city...... The Qin people made every effort to stop the epidemic outside the city.

The Warring States period is vast and sparsely populated, and it is easy for displaced people from other countries to smuggle in. Many outbreaks have been transmitted from displaced people to villages and from villages to cities.

Regardless of his old age, Xunzi personally took the students of Xianyang Academy to travel to various border villages to teach Li Zheng how to prevent the epidemic in the village.

At this time, the behavior of the sons of the Xianyang School Palace and the Confucian factions was the same, and they all walked out of the school palace and went down to the countryside.

With early prevention, although there were still sporadic epidemics in the Qin State, they were cut off as soon as they appeared.

Although the atmosphere on the border of Qin is tense and a major war is about to break out, the spring ploughing within Qin is in full swing. Fighting and farming are not wrong.

This time, the allied forces of the five countries did not come together as before to fight a decisive battle with Qin.

They found that when the two sides set up a battle against each other, it was easy for the Qin state to win more with less.

Now that Qin's land area has become larger and its borders have become longer, they have scattered everywhere to attack and harass Qin, forcing Qin to divide its troops.

Anyway, now their strategic goal is not to take away the land of Qin, but to rob Qin's grain and kill Qin's people.

The tactics of the Five Nations Allied Forces, like those of the Northern Hu, were mainly based on harassment, looting, and sabotage.

It's easier to break than to defend. As long as they could sabotage Qin's spring ploughing, rob Qin's grain, and spread the epidemic to Qin, they would have achieved the strategic goal of weakening Qin and delaying Qin's eastward crusade.

The strategic objective of the five-nation alliance is extremely correct.

Now the Qin State is busy with spring ploughing and can't muster too many elite soldiers.

The five countries are basically in chaos, the epidemic is rampant, and this year's spring ploughing is not expected, but can make up more soldiers.

The soldiers of the five countries are still people who have almost no hope of life. If they could not get food from Qin, they would have to starve to death and die of disease.

Therefore, their soldiers may not be as good as Qin in terms of training, but the fierceness is terrifying, and almost all of them are members of the death squad.

As long as the battle was dispersed, the fierce hungry people of the Five Kingdoms could inflict huge losses on the Qin State.

When the generals of the Qin State saw the division of the Five Nations Alliance, they immediately understood the intentions of the Five Nations Alliance.

They understand, but they only have a headache.

This is a conspiracy, which just hit the soft underbelly of the Qin State. They saw it clearly and had no choice but to disperse their forces and fight with the group of bandits of the five countries.

After dragging on the spring ploughing, the King of Qin was able to recruit more troops to support the border.

And because the northern Hu also suffered a disaster, the Hu people went south to plunder. The situation of Jiuyuan, Linzhong, and Yanmen also seems to be precarious, and they need support.

Zhao Guo raised his eyebrows.

The Qin State was greedy and took away the three counties of Jiuyuan, Linzhong, and Yanmen, but it was a big burden on its back.

"According to the news from Zhao Guo, they seem to say that we are a burden. It seems that if we still belong to Zhao Guo, it will probably be difficult after this epidemic. ”