Chapter 163: Make Up Your Mind

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No matter what the purpose of the matter is to rush to power, the ruler will never allow his subordinate generals to manage his power, Lu Zhe is no longer sure how the Xianyang Central will react after knowing what happened in Daonan County, and he is in a dilemma for a while.

There are not many solutions that Lu Zhe can think of, he thinks that he should continue to operate strongly, so strong that even Xianyang will be jealous if he wants to dispose of it!

It is impossible to give up the business now, even if he is willing to give up...... Wrong, as long as he reveals the slightest idea of giving up, including the generals of the army and the patriarchs and gentry of Nanjun, they will definitely abandon him immediately and look for a new spokesperson.

It's hard to ride a tiger! It is precisely because of this that Lu Zhe fell into a difficult situation.

After the Yiling Rebellion, it spread to the entire Nanjun, which was too far away from Xianyang, and the communication was interrupted and no instructions were obtained, and the situation was inevitable. This was the case in the southern counties, and the reason why the other counties were unable to concentrate their efforts to sweep away the unrest was also because of this.

Whatever happens or not...... Suddenly, from a military marquis to the chief general of tens of thousands of people under his command, anyone will fall into a short period of excitement, Lu Zhe is quite good.

He did not become unpopular because he suddenly obtained a high position, and used the power in his hands to make himself live a luxurious life, but led the army to sweep away the rebellious army, first risking the danger to lead more than 20,000 people, first defeating Ouyue's 50,000, and then killing Jiangling in one go, defeating Guiyue and Minyue to recover the capital of Nanjun Jiangling. Seriously, it's already an "outlier" character, isn't it?

After successive battles and successive victories, the ferocious and barbaric Baiyue people were cleared out of Nanjun. Although there is still a small turmoil in the county. However, it has slowly regained its calm.

At this time, Nanjun gradually stabilized, but the surrounding counties were affected and fell into chaos.

The chaos in other counties became out of control because of some well-intentioned people, and the news was also fed back to Nanjun, compared with Lu Zhe's strong suppression of the commotion and sweeping away the enemy army, there was no strong figure in other counties who could suppress the chaos, so that the situation was even more unbearable than that of Zhinanjun.

The county with constant chaos around it is so contrasted with the peaceful southern county, who wants to live in such a dangerous place if they have a peaceful life? Unknowingly, Lu Zhe was accepted by Nanjun's father.

Maybe Lu Zhe himself doesn't know the way or doesn't realize that it is precisely because of the continuous victories that more and more people are willing to follow. At this stage, he also has a certain foundation of popular support, and the cash-for-work of the later projects is a work that can be eaten by those who have endured turmoil and have nothing to eat. That's the best way to stabilize people's hearts. This greatly made the beneficiaries love Lu Zhe.

Everything seems to fall into place, but the time it contains is not so good. It is often said that the times create heroes, and the current Lu Zhe is not promoted by the times.

Many people may scoff at it, but that's the case, Lu Zhe has always been too insecure, to put it mildly, because he is too insecure, although the behaviors he subconsciously did were for self-preservation, they were actually not in the interests of the Qin State.

The superior can allow his subordinates to expand and grow as much as they can control, but they will never allow their subordinates to behave in a disorderly manner. This is a fact that cannot be questioned.

After thinking that it was not in line with the interests of the Qin State, a suspicious mentality began to appear in Lu Zhe's heart, and he had already decided that he would inevitably be liquidated, and this was also an inevitable thing.

All Lu Zhe can do now is try his best to save it. In addition to Yan Bi's suggestion to create the false impression that someone was framed, before he received a reply or order from Xianyang, he wrote a lot of letters in a row and sent people to all parties in Xianyang.

"It seems...... I also want to learn from Wang Qian, but he is constantly seeking from the emperor. And I am my own occupation of fertile land, real estate, and beautiful women. ”

That's right, it's self-defilement, Lu Zhe feels that he has behaved too "magnificently" during this time. In addition to leading the army and planning the construction of the South County, the private life can be said to be completely absent.

"You also need to get the timing right, at least you shouldn't expose yourself too early. The implementation of the self-pollution plan is still rhythmic, first use a small rumor to reveal that I occupy the acres of land in Nanjun and other things to Xianyang, so that they can also be mentally prepared......"

In addition, what Lu Zhe wanted to know most was the extent of the turmoil in the south, and what happened to the old nobles of Zhao, Qi, and Wei.

Since other counties in the south sent spies in the early days, although Lu Zhe did not say that he knew those counties well, he had a clear understanding of the situation. Before, he didn't think about it or didn't care at all, but now that he thinks about it carefully, it seems that he really missed a lot of details.

"Strategist! There must be a strategist, even if you tie one up, you have to tie one back! Lu Zhe clenched his fists and thought to himself: "Without a strategist, everything depends on himself, not only does it seem too limited, but what can be taken care of is too incomplete!" ”

Lu Zhe has not paid much attention to the dynamics of the people in Nanjun, all his attention has been focused on the army, and he has always been too much involved by the threat from Baiyue. In the past, he just thought that he was strong and strong, and the rebel armies in other counties did not dare to invade at all, but when Yan Bi reminded him, he realized that those people in Daonan County had been in contact with the outside world, and even had any private transactions.

The news that there are more than 100,000 troops in Nanjun and the leaders of the rebellious army are very clear, they thought that Lu Zhe would not attack because of all kinds of rumors, but the fear in their hearts is not ordinary, and they are always worried that the army of Nanjun will drive over, even if they are expanding their territory, they are worried about dividing their troops to take precautions.

Although some people have been revealing that Lu Zhe will not attack them, and even rumors that Lu Zhe has broken away from the Qin State and established himself, it is just a rumor after all. Lu Zhe of Nanjun made a move, and they all raised their hearts, fearing that they would be the target of the attack.

After LΓΌ Zhe led his army into Qianzhong County, the armaments of other counties seemed to be relieved, among which Hengshan County, Lujiang County, and Changsha County were the most obvious. It was not until it was confirmed that the news that the army of Nanjun had entered Qianzhong County to fight was true, and the situation in these three counties changed again.

In Hengshan County, Deng Zong, who controlled Yi County, learned that the army of Nanjun had entered Qianzhong County to fight. He immediately retracted the troops on the border, and then concentrated more than 70,000 men into the battle with the Qin army of Anfeng.

From the spies' reports, it was revealed that Anfeng's Qin army did not receive any support, and Chen County, which was close to Qin and still in Qin's hands, not only did not send reinforcements, but even not a single grain was delivered. The Qin army in Anfeng, because it was besieged from all sides, had actually suffered heavy casualties, and it seemed that it would not be able to support it for too long.

Lu Zhe took a look at it and deduced it again, if nothing else, Anfeng's thousands of Qin troops were destroyed only in the near future.

Huan Chu of Lujiang County has eliminated the forces of Shang Su and De Jiang, and is now expanding rapidly.

Huan Chu occupied Fanyang, the capital of Lujiang County, and all the counties and townships in the south, and Zhou Wen in Lujiang County occupied the territory northeast of Peng Xinze. Both sides want to bring Lujiang County into their hands. Fighting is inevitable, but the strength of the two sides is completely disproportionate, because Zhou Wen has the self-knowledge to shrink his forces to Peng Xinze to resist, for a while the two sides are also in a tug-of-war, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner in a short time.

What is more special is Changsha County, Wu Rui has always been the biggest force in Changsha County, and he is also the only person in the armed forces of various places who have contact with Lu Zhe.

After Wu Rui led his army into Qianzhong County with Lu Zhe, he also began his own expansion, rather than compressing the scope of his power in Shazhou, Xiangshan, Dongting and other places.

Wu Rui, who shouted the slogan of protecting the territory and the people, has swelled to more than 200,000 troops in just two months. It seems that there are still nearly 800,000 Qianshou under his rule? He also led 150,000 troops to the expedition after Lu Zhe sent troops to Qianzhong, and it didn't take much effort to capture Luoxian, Linxiang, Leiyang, and Chenxian in succession within eight days, and the momentum was not insignificant.

At present, Wu Rui only needs to capture Lingling and Jiuning Mountain to control the entire Changsha County. It can be regarded as the largest force in the southern counties except for Lu Zhe to occupy territory.

Lu Zhe did not know the situation of Changsha County, and he could not know how many people in Changsha County really were. He asked many people, and they had different opinions, and they guessed that the population of Changsha County was about 1.5 million.

The area of Changsha County is the sum of Nanjun and Qianzhong County. Lu Zhe was actually a little surprised when he knew this, but he didn't regret that he didn't defeat Wu Rui early and let him become bigger, and even hoped that Wu Rui could be more inflated. It's best to get as loud as possible.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ No matter what Wu Rui did, his command was only armed with insufficient weapons and no training, and he knew this well, so he wrote a letter to invite the formation of a 'border protection' alliance after capturing most of Changsha. ”

Yes, after Wu Rui sent troops to capture most of Changsha County, he wrote to Jiangling as soon as possible, and after saying a lot of high-sounding words, he focused on the benefits of forming an alliance, and the general meaning was to hope to form an alliance.

Lu Zhe received this letter on the third day after returning to Nanjun, and he had already replied to the request for an alliance and made a request to purchase grain from Changsha County.

As long as there is a good heart, the shortage of food in Nanjun can be found out, maybe it is because of this that they believe that Lu Zhe will not attack them, right?

Lu Zhe asked Wu Rui to buy grain, and his intention was very simple, that is, to expose his weakness in the lack of grain, to show that he had no spare strength to attack Qianzhong and open up a new battlefield. In this way, the next purpose can be accomplished.

That's right, it was the purpose of using Changsha County to attract the attention of others, and Lu Zhe was already thinking about the possibility of instigating Wu Rui to expand into Lujiang County.

Now it is not a good thing to expand the territory without limit, and it is necessary to be able to develop and use the territory to occupy it!

You can't make a profit just by occupying it, but what's the use of just having a lot of land on paper? Lu Zhe believes that as long as Wu Rui is active enough, then his edge will be darker, and the rapidly expanding Wu Rui will always arrange garrisons to lay down his territory, right? Wu Rui, whose army is scattered, will also lose time to develop internal affairs due to continuous battles, and will fall into a state of indigestion, and the difficulty of Lu Zhe's capture will be greatly reduced at that time.

Yan Bi has been relieved of his official position, and Lu Zhe simply sent him to Changsha County.

Lu Zhezhi said that Yan Bi's civil affairs ability was good, but he didn't put his mind on business many times. In this era, being able to speak can be called a debater, and he saw a talent from Yan Bi's ability to successfully win over the patriarchs and gentry of Nanjun in a short period of time, that is, Yan Bi has a mouth that can speak well.

Yan Bi, who made his own opinion, felt that he was lucky not to be killed, and originally thought that he would be abandoned for a while, but he didn't expect Lu Zhe to quickly assign a new task. For a while, he felt that his previous guess was correct, Lu Zhe didn't say that he really wanted to stand on his own, and the temporary dismissal of his position was just to block the gossip of some people.

"How much authority do you have after you arrive in Changsha County?" Yan Bi had some expectations: "For example, if Wu Rui wants weapons. Does the office have the right to say yes? How many weapons are the upper limit if you promise? ”

Nanjun is a big county of governance, and now "Yuecheng" has resumed the manufacture of weapons, and Lu Zhe also thought that Wu Rui would definitely put forward a request to buy weapons, and there is a great possibility that he would exchange grain for weapons to agree to Nanjun's request to buy grain.

"There was an agreement to form an alliance, but it was a kind of non-aggression pact, not a military alliance or a strategic alliance." Lu Zhe nodded: "If Wu Rui proposes to exchange grain for weapons, you can agree to a limited part, and if the number exceeds three thousand weapons, you can directly refuse." ”

"Three thousand?" Yan Bi didn't know what the meaning of those alliances with different names was, he firmly remembered the number three thousand, and said with a smile: "Our army is currently fighting against the Baiyue people in Qianzhong County. I believe this is a good reason. ”

Lu Zhe bowed: "It's a suitable reason." After a pause, "I guess Wu Rui must also have ties with the leaders of other armed forces, so you can take the opportunity to test it." ”

Yan Bi's eyes flashed, and the moment he was extremely looking forward to finally appeared, Lu Zhe was no longer closed and trapped in his own development, and was finally willing to contact other forces! "This would be a good start," he thought, "and if it works right, it can form an alliance with other forces." In this way......"

Although he didn't know what Lu Dao Yan Bi was thinking, Lu Zhe really had this step in mind, after all, he really didn't know what Lu Dao Xianyang would do to him......

Who is not afraid of the First Emperor in this era? To be honest, Lu Zhe was also very afraid of this great emperor. Subconsciously feel like you can't fight it. He didn't know if it would be useful for him to defile himself, but it was better than doing nothing. In addition to self-defilement, we must always consider uniting other forces, and if we become the target of the Qin State at that time, we will not be isolated.

After Yan Bi left, Lu Zhe found Meng San again. said: "Wei Han has sent people to Surabaya, Donghai, Huiji and other places, and you have also arranged people to go to Guanzhong, Longxi and other places. ”

Mammoth is a little unclear.

"It's the same to find someone, but it's just to bring the families of Su Lie, Xu Zhi, Chen Xuan, Yi Jian, Diao Ding and others to Nanjun. Including you, the families of some mid-level officers have also managed to pick it up. Lu Zhe's expression gradually became firm: "Other than that." You are selecting some people who know how to draw maps of mountains and rivers, and let them go to Ba County, Shu County, and Hanzhong County to draw topographic maps there. ”

The face of the fierce man opened his mouth in shock, no matter how stupid he was, he felt that these things were unusual.

Lu Zhe sent people to pick up his subordinates' relatives, and it was not entirely private. After many temptations and hints, he was agreed by his subordinates. And those who disagreed and reacted more violently, Lu Zhe had already put his heart into imprisoning or killing.

This process of temptation was a bit cautious, but the performance of Su Lie, Mei Kai, Xu Zhi, Chen Xuan, Yi Jian, and Diao Ding was beyond Lu Zhe's expectations, and they all accepted the arrangement with a tacit attitude.

Lu Zhe, who had become a little suspicious recently, was a little worried because he felt too surprised, and later Su Lie and Mei Li spoke their hearts on behalf of those people.

According to their original words, they did not report to Xianyang in time or take drastic measures to kill Lu Zhe when they discovered the situation. Now that things are like this, if Xianyang wants to deal with Lu Zhe, they will also be regarded as accomplices, so in addition to going to the dark with Lu Zhe, they will be killed. And no one wants to die, or it doesn't matter if they die, but the people are innocent.

Hearing their explanation, Lu Zhe wanted to laugh in his heart, he had always protected himself tightly, even if they wanted to kill themselves, they had no chance. In fact, Lu Zhe's understanding is like this, what they expressed is that they can't get off the thief ship anymore, so they can only accept it.

There is no perfection, and there is no superfluous feeling, life is a myriad of multiple choice questions.

Seeing that he was stunned, Lu Zhe looked at Meng San fixedly: "This is planning for the worst." Do you understand? ”

Nodding involuntarily, Meng San hesitated for a moment and said, "San has also received a letter from home, and the taxes have become more recently, and the conscription is no longer just scheduled for the young. So ......"

So? There is nothing else, Lu Zhe has gradually received feedback from the old Qin land, because most of the newly occupied land is turbulent, and the Qin state has become unstable. First of all, the country's taxes have been greatly affected, such as the straight road, Lishan cemetery, and Afang Palace are also in urgent need of labor, and the first emperor does not know what Lu Dao thinks, but it is to increase the taxes and servitude of the old Qin lands such as Guanzhong and Longxi.

Lu Zhe didn't know the history of the late Qin Dynasty, and he wasn't sure if it was the same in history, but everything seemed too ridiculous, and there was intelligence that there was also a desert escape in Guanzhong, and there were even ethnic minorities in Ba County, which was adjacent to Nanjun, who rioted because they couldn't afford taxes and forced labor.

For the 20,000 Qin troops who were supposed to arrive in Nanjun, Lu Zhe was also the object of Lu Zhe's attention, and the spies he sent originally just wanted to pay close attention to the movements of the 20,000 Qin troops, but he didn't expect the information to be reported was that the 20,000 Qin troops were in a bitter battle near a county called Yandao and Moshui.

It was not only the Qiang people who fought against the 20,000 Qin army, but the Gui Yue of Baiyue also joined the battle against the Qin army of Shu County, and it seems that because of the disadvantage of the battle, the garrisons that were originally in Ba County and Hanzhong County also showed signs of support?

It's as if the turmoil in Yiling has caused countless storms and made everything chaotic!

"Is this still the historical Qin State?" Lu Zhe was extremely dazed. (To be continued......)

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PS: I have a high fever, thirty-nine degrees, I can only write so much.