"The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow. Looking inside and outside the Great Wall, only reckless; Up and down the river, suddenly lost and surging. Mountain Dance Silver Snake, Original Chi Wax Elephant ......"

On the edge of the frozen Yellow River, banners were hunting, and an army of soldiers after soldiers stood in place, on a higher hill, where armor soldiers formed a circle, and from a distance you could see several tents that had been erected.

Lu Zhe was standing on top of the mountain bag and looking at the frozen Yellow River, looking farther away, where there was a relatively flat grassland, and a large area of green seemed to extend to the end of the earth. However, in fact, he knew that the flat land was not far to the end of the earth, and it was hazy in a very distant place, where there was a Yinshan Mountain Range.

The emperor had already arrived at the Hetao, had just passed through the Nine Plains some time ago, and now he had arrived at the newly established Yunzhong County.

Whether it is Jiuyuan County or Yunzhong County, it belongs to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in modern times, but Lu Zhe has never been to Inner Mongolia before he has traveled, and even if he has been there for so long, he can't remember so many place names.

In modern times, the place where the patrol team is stationed is about 100 miles southwest of ********, on the south bank of the Yellow River, less than 15 miles from the newly built section of the Great Wall of the Qin State.

The new section of the Great Wall of the Qin State was intended to connect the section of the Great Wall of the Qin State with the section of the Great Wall of the Zhao State. The section of the Great Wall in this year is not a brick and stone construction, but actually a rammed earth model. The Great Wall of modern brick and stone materials was vigorously built in the Ming Dynasty, and repaired in the "I Qing Dynasty" period, so modern people travel to the Great Wall to see the products of the Ming and Qing dynasties, not the buildings of the Warring States or the Qin Dynasty.

The empire unified China and expanded outward, not only recovering the lost Hetao region, but also occupying a large area of the grassland. Because the territory is constantly expanding to the north. The role of the Great Wall as a defense facility was infinitely reduced, and the Empire did not spend any more manpower and material resources to build the Great Wall, because it was simply not necessary.

The construction of the Great Wall was not continued, and there were actually suggestions for the demolition of various sections of the Great Wall during the Warring States period or the Qin Dynasty, arguing that since the territory was expanding outward, there was no need to leave behind the Great Wall that would obstruct traffic.

"Keep flying upwards. Flying into space, can you see the Great Wall from space? ”

"Huh? What did you say, Your Majesty? ”

"Forget it."

It seems, was, maybe...... Are there some things that make a lot of jokes? It is said that from the outer space orbit space station, you can see the Great Wall of the Earth with the naked eye, and it looks like a giant dragon coiled on the ground. Of course, this is to improve national morale, but it turns out that the Great Wall cannot be seen from the space station at all, some foreign devils first ridiculed on social forums, and the official institutions of some countries also clearly corrected the wrong statement, the slap was "crackling" in the faces of some people, and a certain department in the back no longer mentioned that the Great Wall could be seen from the space station.

"It can definitely be seen thousands of miles in the sky, but when you look at it, it's just a vague shadow. Where did the dragon come from? Lu Zhe thought to himself: "Furthermore, the dragon is not a totem since ancient times, at least in the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn Warring States...... The national totem of the Spring and Autumn Wu State is the dragon, but in the subsequent Han to the Ming Dynasty, the dragon is not the totem of the Yanhuang Miao descendants, and it was only when the dragon became the national totem of the 'My Great Qing Dynasty', and it was still the 'My Great Qing Dynasty' when I saw that other countries had national flags when I carried out the Westernization Movement, so the totem of the dragon was used as the national flag of 'my Great Qing Dynasty'. ”

What a fact! There are many totems of the Yanhuang Miao descendants in the historical changes. Birds have the most totems, although the image of the dragon has long appeared. But the fact is that as a vicious fantasy, it is used to ward off evil spirits and drive away evil, but it is by no means a national totem before "I am a Qing Dynasty".

Looking southeast from the location of the mountain bag, they can see the section of the Great Wall, but the view is vague.

According to some, the Great Wall served as a defense facility against the invasion of northern nomads. It did lose its role as a defense facility after the empire continued to expand outward, and in some ways even became an obstacle to the construction of transportation.

The empire attached great importance to the construction of transportation, because at present, industrial machinery is almost a blank stage, and road construction is actually completely dependent on manpower. When the government plans roads, it naturally chooses the easier construction site for the terrain. As a result, the existence of the Great Wall became an obstacle to the construction of traffic.

Lu Zhe is actually quite ambivalent about taking certain sections of the Great Wall, first, he comes from later generations, who have regarded the Great Wall as some spiritual symbols, and in his heart he is hesitant to dismantle the Great Wall of spiritual symbols; Second, the Great Wall is not easy to build, and it is not so simple to dismantle it; Third, the empire looks like a strong posture, and the expansion of the grassland is very smooth, but the risk is not impossible, if there is an accident in the expansion of the grassland, the nomads can at least resist the various sections of the Great Wall at that time.

The Imperial Army fought deep into the steppe, and the number of troops could never be nearly one million, and it was very likely that the scale of 200,000 would not last, after all, as the battle line lengthened, it would become more and more difficult to supply, so the reasonable number of troops became the key.

"Your Majesty, the wind is getting stronger, are you entering the tent?" Yan Bi bowed down and said, "King Qin, King Zhao, King Wei, several dukes, have arrived." ”

It was cold, and it was indeed a little cold to stand in an open place and blow the wind all the time, Lu Zhe nodded and turned around and walked towards the tent not far away.

"There is news from the Western Regions that General Meng Tian has entered the Western Regions." Yan Bi followed behind Lu Zhe and reported: "In about half a month, General Meng Tian's headquarters will enter the southern part of the Western Regions. ”

Lu Zhe has been paying attention to this matter, Meng Tian went to the southern part of the Western Regions under the pretext of revenge for those city-states or kingdoms to invade the empire with the Huns, and this time he went with the posture of destroying the family and destroying the country.

The empire has done its homework in the western south, where there are not a few city-states and kingdoms, but there are not too powerful countries, and the strongest ones there are not actually the city-states or kingdoms in the Western Regions, but all kinds of Qiang people.

"Li Xin killed the other in the Loulan Kingdom and supported a man named Yu Duli to become the new king of Loulan. Wei Duli later knew that Li Xin was a fake envoy and did not repeat it, he just alienated Li Xin and sent someone to get in touch with Zhong Liyi, who was in the middle of the Western Regions, hoping to get official recognition from the empire. ”

Lu Zhe knew that Li Xin didn't have much feeling when he killed the Loulan King in the Loulan Palace, and the warrior of a powerful country killed the king of a country by virtue of the country's prestige. Similar things are commonplace in the Han generation and the Tang generation, and the kings in the Western Regions are also like Filipino dishes, they were killed by the Han people in the Han generation, and they were not killed in the Tang generation.

There is the Han generation and the Tang generation, and it is precisely because the two countries are strong and prosperous that the small countries in the Western Regions and the widows look at the Central Plains Dynasty with a kind of fear and admiration. The king succumbed immediately after he was killed, and there was no revenge or anything at all. During the Han and Tang dynasties, the Central Plains Dynasty also successively set up capital protectorates in the Western Regions, becoming the "Taishang King" of various city-states or kingdoms, but after the weakening of the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Western Regions repeatedly became independent ~ standing.

Li Xin killed the King of Loulan and supported the new King of Loulan, these things Lu Zhe had already guessed before Li Xin went to the Western Regions, Lu Zhe didn't take it seriously, and the center actually had another opinion.

Liu Bang and Chen Yu of the envoys sent back a document and severely condemned Li Xin's behavior for causing them a lot of trouble. He asked the country to severely punish Li Xin. Yan Bi was laughing when he said this, and he also had a reason to laugh, Li Xin and his group had people planted by Yan Bi.

"Condemnation?" Lu Zhe felt strange when he heard this, only the weak side would condemn or protest, and the strong must have countermeasures if they were unhappy. He happily asked, "Did Loulan protest over there?" ”

Yan Bi didn't know what Lu Zhe meant, and replied, "How can the new king of Loulan protest? He is a person with vested interests, and it is too late to hug the lap of the empire, how dare he make demands on the empire? ”

"That's it." Lu Zhe said nonchalantly: "The people don't sue." The official doesn't care. Furthermore, are the vultures other subjects of the empire? ”

"Yes." Yan Bi actually didn't care. He said: "If you are not a subject of the empire, then you will not be protected by Your Majesty. It's just that what should be done with the envoys? ”

"Communicate with the country that should be notified, inform the Imperial envoy of what credentials he should have, and other necessary things." Of course, Lu Zhe couldn't ignore such a thing, he walked to the front of the tent curtain, and there was already a soldier who opened the curtain. He stopped, looked at Yan Bi and said, "The ruling government, the Taiwei Administration, the General's Mansion, and the prison country." What are the attitudes? ”

The expression on Yan Bi's face became a little exciting, and he glanced at the people in the tent who had stood up because of the emperor's arrival, and said in a low voice: "The military thinks it's not a big deal, but it's a little happy to look at it, thinking that the imperial warriors are brave enough to kill them; The attitude of the ruling government and the prison state is similar, believing that the prosecution may be exempted because there is no relevant legal provision, but the imperial warriors are not encouraged to kill the king of any country without the premise of being instructed or ordered. ”

Lu Zhe thought that the same was the case, and casually replied "I know", and walked into the tent with his feet raised.

When the emperor entered, a large group of people who had stood up early immediately greeted in unison: "See Your Majesty!" ”

Lu Zhe glanced at the people in the tent, King Fusu of Qin, Zhao Xie of Zhao, and Wei Qi, King of Wei, these three people were standing on the left side; Xiong Xin, Han Cheng, Ji Xia, and Ji Bu are on the right side; In addition to the first echelon on the left and right, some people belong to the second and third echelons according to their civil and military official positions and titles.

Lu Zhe, who didn't stop his pace, walked all the way to the right position, and only after sitting down did he wave his hand and say, "Sit down." ”

A group of people responded in unison, "Thank you, Your Majesty!" Before returning to their seats and taking their seats.

Yan Bi has his own seat, but he didn't get his own seat, did he choose to stand on the left side behind Lu Zhe, and the person standing on the right side was Morlius? Yadi, she was holding the cloak that Lu Zhe had just taken off.

Some of the people present were later summoned from the interior to the legations, and some were members of the patrol team, many generals of the surrounding garrisons or civil officials at the county level. After they sat down, they all turned sideways to Lu Zhe on the main seat, and everyone looked respectful.

Lu Zhe's eyes were scanning all the time, and after touring around, his gaze stopped on Wei Qi, and asked, "King Wei, how are you preparing to move south?" ”

Wei Ji propped up his waist, saluted with both hands, and replied with a smile: "Most of the personnel have arrived in Xiangjun, but the material preparation is not very good. ”

Wei Fengguo was arranged on the territory of modern Thailand, which is currently in a state of wilderness, and there is a group of indigenous people like monkeys, living in the status quo of primitive tribal civilization. Wei Qi has 30,000 feudal troops, another 110,000 civilians, and a total of 140,000 people will go to the fiefdom together, because there are really a lot of people, and the materials that need to be prepared are honestly a bit much.

"Your Majesty, prices have risen slightly recently, and some things are really hard to buy." Wei Yi considered his words and asked cautiously: "With the amount of assistance set before, the minister is worried about the lack of material preparation, can the center support some more money according to the price?" ”

Wei Ji is telling the truth, the Imperial Defense Forces have been going on all the time, and later Wei and Qin will prepare to move out, and the productivity of the people will rise, but they can't withstand the demand in many aspects, and it is inevitable that the demand will rise in demand. In addition, some time ago, there were many foreign merchants who came to the empire, and they were like a bunch of dirt buns, they would buy anything new and strange when they saw it, and they even bought things that they thought were valuable, which further caused the price of some goods to rise.

Lu Zhe asked, "The attitude of the ruling government?" ”

Wei Ji's face immediately turned bitter, and the ruling government did not refuse to increase auxiliary funds, but only put forward many conditions that seemed very harsh to Wei Ji.

The ruling government's requirement was that once Wei blamed the land to establish a feudal state, how much auxiliary funds the empire would come up with, and how much benefit Wei feudal would have to give. What are the benefits? It is nothing more than minerals or other resources, and even requires Wei Fengguo's troops to capture the local natives and transport them to the country as laborers.

"Hmm. These are reasonable. Lu Zhe listened to Wei Ji repeat Xiao He's attitude with a bitter face, nodded and said, "Isn't it? ”

The look on Wei Qi's face became a little bitter, and he looked at Fusu next to him for help.

Fusu lowered his head, and Qin Fengguo was also facing a similar situation to Wei Fengguo, and the rise in prices affected some migration preparations a lot. Qin Fengguo is even more difficult than Wei Fengguo in some aspects, for example, the location where Wei Fengguo is located is at least a high-yield grain area, and the price of grain has a very big advantage, but the fief that Qin Fengguo is about to go to is a grassland, so Fusu can be said to be very big.

"That'...... Can you get the Nanyang Fleet to do some coordination? Wei Ji used a pleading tone: "The Nanyang Fleet is currently known to be targeting the Sha Ying people, and it often lands and fights, can it help transport some troops and supplies over?" (To be continued.) )