"Huiji is a big county, and Ren Jun is the captain of Huiji, but now because of me, he has been transferred to Jiaodong, and I really don't want to go."

At the beginning of November, Qin Shi Huang and his entourage ended their trip to Chengshan and returned to Huanxian County to recuperate, and at the same time announced a new personnel transfer: Ren Huan, the lieutenant of Huiji County, who went north to escort the eastern tour with the Lou boat, was reappointed as the lieutenant of Jiaodong County, as Heifu's deputy, and was jointly responsible for clearing the Haikou within a year......

So, Hefu and this new colleague, who was nearly 20 years older than him, had a good business exchange of blows.

Ren Huan is also an old man in officialdom, and he doesn't even dare:

The county guard laughed, although the Huiji is large and the population is numerous, but after all, it is a wild place in Wuyue, how can it be compared with the Haidong County in the Central Plains of Jiaodong? Not to mention that His Majesty attaches so much importance to pacifying the Qidi Haikou, Ren Huan's transfer this time is really a high promotion, a high promotion......"

After the two blew each other for a while, Heifu also understood Ren Huan's past, this person is the same as Wei Tu Sui, he started as a general of Lou Chuan, and in the process of Wang Jian destroying Chu, he made a lot of meritorious deeds - the scope of the battle to destroy Chu was too large, Heifu probably only fought one-tenth of the battle, and missed the battle into Jiangdong, so there are not a few generals who have made meritorious contributions and promoted to knighthood like him.

This is the case with Ren Huan, after a series of battles such as the transition to Huai and crossing the river, he has become a general in the Qin Dynasty who plays water warfare, second only to Wei Tu Sui.

"After General Wang pacified Jiangdong, he ordered the boat division captured by my commander to cross Zhejiang and surrender to the Yue monarchs."

This is Ren Huan's most proud of the credit, it turned out that although the Yue State had long been destroyed by Chu, the Chu State could not effectively control the area south of the Qiantang River, so the descendants of the Yue King Goujian were allowed to continue to be "Yue Jun" there.

This is like Qin allowing the Ba people of Ba County and Nan County to keep the tribe, and the leader is called the king. However, those Yue monarchs had greater autonomy, and they were on the south of the Yangtze River and on the sea, and they were subordinate to Chu. In addition to the more civilized Yuyue, the more southward Dongou and Minyue are in a completely independent state.

"There are two county lieutenants in Huiji, one in charge of land and one in charge of boats. The Yue people are fierce and untamable, often entering the mountains, forests, rivers and lakes as thieves, and some even flee to the islands of the East China Sea. The two states of Dongou, Fujian and Vietnam have old feuds, often fight with weapons, and also fight on the water, which sometimes affects the people of Huijiyue. I've been in Huiji for a few years, and I'm pretty good at dealing with these thieves......"

Heifu smiled: "That's the case, what Jiaodong lacks is a general like Ren Jun, although I was born in the army, but it's okay to fight on the shore, it's too difficult for me to go into the sea to fight with people." ”

For Ren Huan's transfer to Jiaodong, Heifu still welcomes him, fighting a war is not a family, professional things have to be done by professional people, which has nothing to do with mastering the knowledge of later generations. Heifu didn't know anything about water warfare, and when he got on the boat, he was a fish belly that could be slaughtered by others, and besides, the county guard was not qualified to directly control the military power.

"Then Ren Jun thinks that where should you start to exterminate the Jiaodong Haikou?"

Ren Huan said: "It should be divided into three steps, one of which is to let Chu Yue's scholars familiarize themselves with hydrology and train them. Second, the combination of land and water annihilated the robbers in one fell swoop when they landed in search of food, weakening their power. Third, when the time is ripe, they will send a large number of soldiers to sail to their lair and completely sweep away! ”

Even if it is the first step, it has to be implemented from the spring, and now that the weather is freezing cold, Ren Huan said that he can only take the soldiers to hide in the port of Xuxian County, and use this as a base to let them adapt to the water and soil.

The people of Chu Yue in the south were not accustomed to the severe cold in the north, and Heifu had to transfer a batch of winter clothes, most of which were made of linen, and the function of keeping out the cold was limited.

Whenever this happens, Heifu misses the woolen clothes of Beidi County very much, but unfortunately the output is limited, and now he can only meet the needs of the Shuofang and Helan garrisons, and he doesn't know how the knights of the good family and the people of Tuntian who he has cultivated are doing?

"It takes a long time for livestock to multiply and grow, and even the needs of the army cannot be met by knitting sweaters alone, let alone clothing ...... the world."

Heifu also realized the limitations of the woolen industry, and hoped that the envoy caravan sent by Qin Shi Huang to the Western Regions could bring back cotton seeds as soon as possible and let them take root in the Central Plains. ”

After finishing his official duties, Heifu went to the palace to pay homage to Qin Shi Huang and explain his plan with Ren Huan, and when he returned to his own mansion, he found that a big fat man had been roasting here for a long time.

Closing the door, Zhang Cang's first question was: "What did you do to that Xu City?" ”

……

"It's nothing."

Heifu spoke lightly, but his eyes were fixed on the fragrant goat's milk boiled on the stove, and putting some sugar in it was a good product to keep out the cold. This is a habit he has formed after living in Saibei for more than three years, Heifu has no regional discrimination against food, everything in the world, the sea and the north, as long as it tastes good, whether he Rongdi or Zhuxia, can be thrown into his mouth.

He also poured a cup for Zhang Cang and said, "It's just that people intercepted Xu Shi halfway and invited him to come to Jiaodong as a guest." ”

"Guest?" Zhang Cang smiled: "There is no news of him, and others still think that he was a guest who was captured by Haikou." ”

"Aren't I doing this to frustrate the sorcerer's plan?"

Zhang Cang is a friend of Mo Rebellion, and he is Heifu's "fellow party", and he does not hide it: "Soldier, treacherous, since the warlock wants to play with the blossoms on the tree, I can only give them a trick to draw salary!" ”

What does it mean to bloom on the tree, Zhang Cang didn't understand it very well, but he understood at the bottom of the kettle: "Xu Shike is still alive, haven't you already killed him?" ”

"Kill but don't kill, this Xu City ......"

Heifu smiled, if the legend is true, this Xu City, well, that is, Xu Fu, or the ancestor of the Japanese? Although this legend is not very reliable, it does not prevent him from enjoying himself, leaving Xu Shi alive to prepare for future plans.

Well, maybe many years later, he can take Liu Ji, who ate and drank for nothing under Heifu, to the island of Japan and never have to come back......

"He's still useful to me."

"Still be careful."

Zhang Cang leaned closer and said, "If this matter is revealed, you will be guilty of defrauding the king!" It will even be said by the magicians to deliberately obstruct His Majesty's search for immortal immortality! ”

"The sorcerer won't be able to bounce for long."

Heifu said firmly: "Your Majesty is the most impatient, after this incident, Your Majesty has already felt in his heart that the warlock is unreliable, and he is a man of clever words. Do you see that after returning from Chengshanjiao to the west, did Your Majesty still summon An Qisheng or any of the magicians to talk deeply? ”

"It's not ......"

Zhang Cang nodded, and sighed again: "But you are like this, you are just raising the soup to stop the boiling, Your Majesty's desire to seek immortality and immortality is still unquenched, doesn't this still make General Ren transfer to Jiaodong and sweep away the robbers with you?" After the waves subsided, the boat went east to look for immortals, but I was afraid that it would still be unavoidable. ”

Heifu said: "Purging coastal bandits, not only for the sake of immortals, but also for Jiaodong, I am a delaying strategy, and drag it out, after a year and a half, Your Majesty may not be so keen on this matter." ”

Zhang Cang still didn't believe it: "How can you know? ”

Heifu didn't say it thoroughly, and said with a smile: "It's just a guess, but Brother Zig, that day in Chengshanjiao, you said that I was the same as you, just a minister, and now that you know my methods, how can you think?" ”

After thinking about it, Zhang Cang said solemnly: "You are not a minister, nor are you any of the things that the master said. ”

After thinking about it, he pointed at Heifu and said, "You are Zhichen!" Observe the secluded, see success or failure, prevent it early and save it, and lead it back; Stuff its idleness, cut off its source, turn the disaster into a blessing, so that the king will end up worry-free, so that the wise minister is also! The one who can really mix in the court to the end is none other than Zhichen! ”

……

"Fortunately, I stopped you and didn't let you get involved in this matter!"

At the same time, in the other corner of the palace, Zhao Gao and his younger brother, Lang Wei Zhao Cheng, were also having a secret conversation.

Zhao Cheng recalled that in Xia Mi, he put in the warlock who sued Heifu, and the grievances between Heifu and the warlock also started from there.

But who would have expected that Heifu, who had already been silent, would completely move the situation back in Chengshanjiao, and the magicians who had been re-affected were disgraced and lost the trust of the emperor.

"The sorcerer is not enough to conspire with him."

But Zhao Cheng was still a little puzzled: "My brother had a gap with Heifu earlier, why is Heifu and Prime Minister Li Cheng the enemy of Fang Warlock now, and they fight hard every time, but why didn't my brother take the opportunity to step on him a few times." ”

"Hefu is in the limelight, why should I come out?"

Zhao Gao is very clear: "This black man probably claims to be a wise minister, who sees the secluded, sees success or failure, and turns the tide." He is involved in everything, he wants to meddle in everything, and the dispute over book burning and repairing books is almost the opposite of Li Cheng's enmity, and this time in Chengshanjiao, he has a grudge with the warlock. Don't you realize that the more he controls, the more enemies he has in the government and the opposition? In the end, he will become a lonely minister, a lonely minister like Shang Ying and Wu Qi......"

If you don't find a way out, the lonely minister will die miserably in the end.

"In that case, why should I interfere again."

Zhao Gao was most happy to be like this, Heifu always had countless things to take care of, countless enemies to fight, but he didn't need to, just hide behind it, build a web like an eight-clawed spider, see the right time, and give him a heavy blow.

"If you fight with him, it will make Your Majesty unhappy, let's just watch him defeat himself......" Zhao Gao understated.

But Zhao Gao still underestimated the bad luck of the hanger, and while the brothers were talking, a messenger hurriedly came from Xianyang.

Zhao Gao, as the commander of the CRRC, was trusted by Qin Shi Huang and was also in charge of the seal, and whenever there was news and official documents, he and several confessors personally sent them over.

After entering the palace where Qin Shi Huang was resting, Zhao Gao was ordered to open the envelope, but he was stunned for a while and could not speak.

"What's wrong?" Qin Shi Huang asked.

"It's a good thing, Your Majesty."

Zhao Gao smiled reluctantly at the corner of his mouth, and scolded secretly in his heart: "It's good luck for the black man, the warlock is finished!" After this incident, Your Majesty's desire to seek immortals in the East China Sea will probably be reduced by half! ”

At this time, the confessor also replied loudly: "Your Majesty, it is the letter sent by General Wu Shiyan and Li Xin, the first batch of envoys to the Western Regions, back, and the group has gone to Loulan to visit the king of Loulan, Loulan is willing to pay tribute to Daqin, and offer tribute and protons. Blocked by the desert and sandstorms, the mission was unable to penetrate deep into the Western Regions. But at the edge of the desert, they saw something......"

"What do you see?" Qin Shi Huang raised his eyes curiously.

The confessor held the letter and said excitedly: "They have seen the Kunlun Wonderland, the Western Queen Mother State, cast on the desert!" Palaces and pavilions, everything is available! ”