When Lu Ao returned to Xianyang after his trip to Zhongnan Mountain, it was already three days later, and he did not go directly to his residence, but wandered around the lively market.

He has traveled to many places and knows that every city has its own "city grid". More than 100 years ago, when Xianyang City was first built, it was just an inconspicuous small city, and Shang Ying, who was deeply influenced by the culture of the Wei State, built Xianyang according to the style of Anyi, from the street to Jique, everywhere was an imitation of the East.

Even if it is imitated decently, in the eyes of the Orientals, Xianyang still exudes a rustic atmosphere, and the best things here are farming and fighting, but they have no civic spirit at all.

At that time, if a Xianyang person and a Daliang person and Linzi people meet together and talk about the city where they live, others boast about what "shoulder to shoulder, daily rent of a thousand gold", Xianyang people have nothing to say.

A hundred years have passed, Xianyang has undergone tremendous changes, not only the palace is increasing, the city is expanding, and even the mentality of Xianyang people has also made a huge leap.

They now live at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and their ambitions are high, and they even have a lot of mouths.

After all, Xianyang now has too many things to brag about, which city in the world has such a large population? Have you seen the majestic Xianyang Palace from afar? The streets are among the cleanest in the world, and those who don't go to the public toilet and defecate in the open are severely punished.

The emperor likes to do things, and the things that happen in various places converge in Xianyang, so new things are happening here every day, and they have become the talk of Xianyang people's market life.

This is exactly what Lu Ao needs, the market is the most convenient way to obtain information, Lu Ao hears the conversations of others without missing a bit, and they will become the knowledge he needs to build momentum for himself.

The reason why he became famous in Yanqi back then was precisely because he was often carried by the gods in his dreams and traveled to the ancient times.

He once feasted in the palace built by King Qi, and there was an old man in his nineties on the seat, Lu Ao asked the old man's name, and after the old man said his name, Lu Ao said:

"I was taken back decades ago by the immortals in a dream to play and feast with your father, when you were very young and beside you."

Then, he told the old man where he was decades ago and what his family was like at that time, as if he was really half of what he had seen with his own eyes.

But in reality, he was just prepared to do enough, and what he said was half-true.

Once, when Qin Shi Huang summoned him, Lu Ao saw a gold vessel placed in the court, so he pointed to it from a distance and said: "I know this gold artifact, King Qin Huiwen once put it on his desk." ”

As a result, when the inscription was checked, it was indeed a creation of King Qin Huiwen, so Qin Shi Huang also felt that Lu Ao probably had some ability. Although he was called a seventy-year-old, he looked to be in his fifties, with a ruddy complexion, smooth skin, and teeth as neat as a young man's.

After blessing himself with many mysteries, Lu Ao was able to make people believe that he had really seen immortals when he was a child, had been to Penglai, and could ask for immortal medicine for the emperor.

Of course, he could only wander around, but he could not touch any food, for that would ruin his image of being able to live a long and healthy life without eating grains, and there was nothing sadder than a sorcerer who coveted his appetite.

It is now the beginning of July of the 31st year of Qin Shi Huang, and the new policies implemented by Heifu in the Far East have not attracted much attention, and the people of Xianyang are talking about the two wars in the West and the South.

The battle of Bajun Shu County to conquer Qiongdu, and the battle of General Li Xin's Fayue clan......

Xianyang people have never heard of the name of Qiongdu, it is too far, too small, do not measure to prevent the Qin army from repairing the five-foot road, as a result of the Shu County Lieutenant beat all over the ground to find teeth, in several confrontations, after seeing the strength of the Qin army, the King of Qiongdu asked to surrender, and one of the conditions of the Shu County Lieutenant is that the King of Qiongdu wants to come to Xianyang to see the emperor.

It was in May, and yesterday, the surrender envoys of Qiongdu finally arrived after a long journey!

Near the south gate where Lu Ao passed, the residents of Xianyang were still enthusiastically discussing the strange costumes of the Qiongdu people: the Qiongdu civilians were almost naked, but the Hao chieftain was dressed in felt cloth, with a large black head wrapped around his head, and the corners were sewn near it, and both men and women, old and young, were barefoot and footed, stepping on the ground as if they were walking on the ground, and some people also wore rings on their lips and noses and fastened them with metal rings.

"Sure enough, it's a barbarian from the southwest." The people of Xianyang were disdainful, and even the height of this group of barbarians, as well as their dark brown skin that had been tanned by the sun, became the object of their ridicule.

Along with them, there were also weapons of the Qiongdu people: spears and arrows made of local bamboo, rough tiger skins, and dwarf horses, and when they learned that they were horses, the people of Xianyang laughed: "As small as a donkey, and less than five feet high at the shoulders, how can you call a horse?" ”

The freshness that this group of southern barbarians brought to the Xianyang people lasted only one day, and everything was planned in advance, as if it were an appetizer and immediately served a plate of exotic barbecue. On the next day, today, the captives of the Yue clan who Li Xin sent to escort back also entered from the west of Xianyang City.

"Here, the Yue Clan captives are here."

Unlike Qiongdu, the Qin people have heard a lot of news about the Yue clan in the past few years, including the case of the prince of the Yue clan being a hostage and drunken beating someone to death, which was also a hot topic at the beginning of the year.

And the army that Li Xin took to attack the Yue clan, there were many children of the good family of the Xianyang military landlords, so the Xianyang people were all concerned about the west, the surprise attack of crossing the river, the great victory of Wuwei, whenever the battle report came, all caused their bursts of cheers, and then imagined how many heads their children had cut off.

Now, General Li Xin has won another great victory: under the threat of tens of thousands of Qin troops and Wusun's attack on its west, the king of the Yue clan abandoned Zhaowu City and prepared to migrate to the Western Regions after defeating Wusun to the west. But unexpectedly, he was killed by his subordinate Marquis Xi, and his head was sacrificed to Li Xin.

At this point, the king of the Yue clan died, and his descendants were scattered, and fled south from the Qilian Pass into Qiangzhong. Among the five marquis of the Yue clan, one was wiped out by Li Xin in Wuwei, and two surrendered in Zhaowu City. The other two fled north with 20,000 troops, ran to Juyanze, and then fled to Mobei under the response of the Huns, and joined forces with Mao Dunshan.

The news came back, and for a while, Xianyang City was immersed in excitement, and tens of thousands of empty rooms came out to watch the ceremony of the captives entering the city.

Lu Ao was also among them, but he couldn't even squeeze into the front row, and he could listen to the heated discussion of the Xianyang people from a distance.

They said that those Yueshi people were tall and fair-skinned, and although their hair and eyes were black, their eye sockets were slightly sunken, and their noses were high, which was very different from the Guanzhong people with slender eyes and flat noses.

Although the men of the Yue clan are not highly evaluated, those exotic Yue women are quite interesting to the small landlords of military merit, and some people are already asking, can you buy a few from the government to be Hu maids?

In addition to people, Li Xin also looted a lot of booty in Zhaowu City, the capital of the Yue Clan, in addition to the tall horses that are special products of the Qilian Mountain grassland in Hexi, there are also metal utensils from the West, which are very different from the East, and all kinds of spices that the Central Plains people have never heard of.

After the above things were addicted to the Xianyang people, they were successively sent to the Xianyang Palace to show Qin Shi Huang.

The whole process was bustling, Lu Ao stood in an inconspicuous place on the corner of the street, silently watching all this, Xianyang people are the biggest beneficiary group of the famous field house system, and they support Qin Shi Huang from the bottom of his heart to use troops near Guanzhong, so that his children can continue to earn merit.

But Lu Ao believes that the biggest beneficiary of this war is not them, or even Li Xin, who is destined to be promoted two levels in a row.

"It's the black man who is far away in Jiaodong......"

Even though this person went to the far east, the "westward expansion" plan he initiated was still being promoted by the emperor, and every time he succeeded, the emperor would think of him once, and his favor was even greater.

In addition, Nahefu also pinched the time point and did a big thing in Jiaodong that completely offended Zhutian.

Lu Ao remembered the letter from his disciple Shi Sheng to himself, Shi Sheng said: "The Wei clan divides the fields of the night to Lu Zuo, Yongbao, and hired farmers, committing the taboo of the world, and everyone in the fields of Qi is in danger, and there are countless people who want to raise troops and kill the black master!" ”

Shi Sheng predicted that Heifu was playing with fire and immolating himself, and he would soon attract the hostility of Zhutian, and his position as the county guard would probably end in turmoil.

"My disciple is still too young, and my eyes are only on Jiaodong, a corner of Qidi......"

Lu Ao stroked his beard, put himself in Xianyang City, which was celebrating the victory, and said secretly: "Shi Sheng can't see it, at the same time, Xianyang is celebrating the great victory of the West, but Heifu must have guessed it, so he dared to do something big!" ”

"According to His Majesty's temperament, the West will inevitably pick up the long-delayed eastern tour, seal Zen, and watch the sea, but in January and February, you will be able to go to Jiaodong to hunt. At that time, thousands of tigers will accompany him, tens of thousands of county soldiers will shelter, and Zhutian will dare to make trouble during this time, that is, to find death! The world fears the first emperor of Qin, just like the fear of the tiger of a hundred beasts, the emperor is not dead, and no one dares to openly make trouble. And Heifu is the pioneer of the emperor, a hundred beasts in Jiaodong, dare not tremble? ”

He couldn't help sneering: "What a trick for the fox and the fake tiger!" I think this person is not only a black dog of Emperor Qin, but also a cunning black fox! ”

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Lu Ao's guess was right, and sure enough, the next day, after Qin Shi Huang held a ceremony to sacrifice prisoners, he announced the establishment of Qiongdu Dao, the two counties of Bashu continued to open up the Wuchi Road, and the west of the Yueshi River set up a new county: Zhangye County! It means that Zhang Guo's arm is tucked to pass through the Western Regions.

At the same time, Zuo Prime Minister Wang Xuan, Imperial Historian Feng Quji, Tongwu Marquis Wang Ben and other first emperors: "Since ancient times, the emperor has been ordained, do you want to seal Zen?" His Majesty set nine tripods in the sea, so that the tiger Ben stepped through the Helan Mountain, chased the Huns in the north, and established Shuofang County, which can be described as an ancient achievement. And the Yue's is Di, Qiongdu is Yi, and now Yi Di is all returned, and it is also ancient! Your Majesty should tour the east to seal Zen to praise Qin's achievements! ”

Qin Shi Huang said: "Yes." "Let the prime minister, the imperial historian and more than 70 doctors operate the ceremony of sealing Zen, that is, the east tour of Xue, Linzi, Jiaodong, Langya!

Immediately, the emperor ordered the envoy to ride eastward, and in early August, an edict was passed to the Heifu of Jimo City.

"Lingjiaodong County Guard, Shao Shangwei Heifu, on August 15, under Mount Tai, to see the Son of Heaven's Zen!"