Who is Li Xin? He's actually a character with mixed reputations.

Li Xin's ancestor Li Zong was a doctor of the Wei State, and he was a minister or general for ten generations of Li Xinli. Grandfather Li Chong, who was the Taishou of Longxi of the Qin State and was the Duke of Zheng in the south; His father, Li Yao, was the Taishou of the Southern County of Qin State, and was named the Marquis of Di Dao.

Li Yao has been the Taishou of Nanjun, and Nanjun still has a reputation about Li Yao. Some of the infrastructure built by Li Yao when he was the Taishou of Nanjun is still in use today, and his reputation is a good reputation, which shows that Li Yao was quite effective in governing Nanjun, and some of the older generation of Nanjun people are still grateful to this day.

Li Guang in "Feng Tang is easy to be old, Li Guang is difficult to seal" is a descendant of Li Xin, but now it is 208 BC, and Li Guang will have to wait at least forty or fifty years to appear.

Lu Zhe knew one thing, at the beginning of Qin's attack on Chu, the first emperor did not immediately appoint anyone to be the general of Chu, the first emperor asked the generals under his command how many troops to use to attack Chu, Wang Jian said "need 600,000", when the Great Qin frequently used troops and divisions to be tired of food, the first emperor heard that the attack on Chu to use 600,000 people of course frowned, at that time Li Xin jumped out and said, "only 200,000 can destroy Chu", the first emperor heard the great joy, and the candidate for the main general of Chu was determined Li Xin to serve.

Li Xin is not an unknown person, he made great contributions in the battle to destroy the Yan Kingdom, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Longxi. Later, he led 200,000 troops to attack the Chu State, first triumphant all the way, and then was defeated by the Chu general Xiang Yan, and then disappeared in the court of the Qin State, and did not show up for a long time.

It is rumored that Li Xin failed to attack Chu, and then Wang Jian led the Qin army to successfully destroy Chu, one failed and one succeeded, and the two were embarrassed to meet. It can be seen that rumors are usually not very reliable.

After Li Xin's failure to attack Chu, the title of Marquis of Longxi has been revoked, and he has not held an official position for a long time, so he is a white identity.

"They are all people with a big family, how can you not think about the family as the head of the family?" Wang Jian said it more tactfully, but the meaning was still very clear.

Doesn't it mean that Wang Jian and Li Xin are really contradictory. However, for the sake of the future of the family, Li Xin wanted to find an official position in the empire, so he accepted Wang Qian's invitation and recommendation.

That's really what it looks like. In ancient times, whether someone in a family was an official was really important to the family, and the family wanted to develop and grow without a glamorous identity, and it may not necessarily be to use the convenience of the official position to seek personal interests for the family, but the family without an official is really not so easy to develop and grow.

Lu Zhe has not summoned Li Xin until now, Wang Jian thought that it was influenced by Li Xin's reputation of defeating Xiang Yan, and said something about the current situation of Qin and Chu at that time, to the effect that the Qin state at that time was proud and complacent after repeated victories, and the Qin army was not prepared for the attack on Chu in advance. The state of Chu was in a tight position, and Li Xin's defeat at the hands of Xiang Yan was not entirely due to personal fault.

Although he still looks energetic, Wang Jian is really quite old, after all, he is already in his seventies, and Li Xin is still in the age of knowing his fate.

Li Xin, who is in his fifties, is the most golden age for a general, he was once defeated by Xiang Yan, but he had an outstanding performance in any previous battle. An experienced general like Li Xin was exactly what the empire needed. Not to mention the westward expansion of the empire, and the terrain to the west is much the same as that of Longxi County. How could Lu Zhe not use it?

Lu Zhe will definitely use Li Xin, but how to use it remains to be considered, and the main reason is the relationship between national policies.

The emperor can appoint someone to an official position, but there is a related process, and that process is that the appointee must have a meritorious foundation, that is, accumulate enough merit. It's not that if you want to make a white body a general, then you can become a general.

Lu Zhe has been maintaining the national policy he has formulated, appointing Meng Tian, Zhang Han, Xu Yan, and Wang Ben...... Zang Di, Cao Qi, Zhou Yin, Sima Ang and others, that is because the empire recognized some official positions of the previous Warring States, but they needed to be demoted and retained. It's a kind of workaround. Such a policy is to appease the old officials, but also to quickly stabilize the country, so that the old officials will not despair and lead to turmoil, but Li Xin belongs to the opposition and is not among the adaptations.

The Qin State actually had a related national policy, that is, it was not allowed to be a marquis without military merits, but it was destroyed later, which is also considered to be one of the causes of the collapse of the Qin State. Saying that it is a similar national policy refers to a certain limitation, Lu Zheke has no intention of destroying the appointment standards he has set, and he is not sure whether Li Xin is willing to start from scratch and use actual merits to accept the assessment step by step, so naturally there are doubts.

It is estimated that Wang Ben did not introduce the appointment criteria of the empire to his father Wang Qian, Wang Jian mentioned it euphemistically a few times, and Lu Zhe himself was not easy to explain, so he had to let the co-lieutenant who came over explain on his behalf.

How did Wang Jian communicate with Li Xin, Lu Zhe didn't ask, but he was about to leave from Hangu Pass to enter Qindi, and Wang Jian came to find him again.

Wang Jian estimated that he was looking out the relevant national policies, first chatting politely for a while, and then asked Lu Zhe, "If you are not on the job, can you be included in the evaluation if you have meritorious service?" ”

There is such a thing, which means that as long as you are registered in the empire, contributing to the empire as a white person can also be regarded as a kind of meritorious service. The origin of this policy was that after the empire began to sail, Lü Zhe formulated a policy to encourage the people to go to sea to find islands or new continents. Private gains, once they are discovered, notify the Empire, and can be included in the meritorious system as non-serving officials.

Is Li Xin going to sea? No, no, no. Wang Jian asked for many details, and Lu Zhe understood what Li Xin was going to do.

The people of the empire were encouraged to go out to explore, and they could register with the government to form a pioneer group, which was to put it bluntly, an organization such as a mercenary group created under the prevalence of slave capture. The family background is innocent, there is no criminal record, and a certain deposit is paid to the government, and it is initially possible to form an armed force of less than twenty people, and then step out of the territory of the empire to take risks.

The mercenary group is a semi-official organization in the empire, not everyone can form a mercenary group, and the registrant must have a military service record in addition to his family background, Li Xin does not have a service record in the imperial army?

"Li Chao is now part of the Sixth (Mixed) Legion." Wang Ben explained embarrassedly.

Li Chao is the son of Li Xin, who seems to have entered the imperial military six years ago, and his current official position is that of a general.

"Li Chao wants to apply for retirement?" Lu Zhe is really incomprehensible, Li Chao is already a general. One step further is a partial general who can command 25,000 troops in a division, and he has a great future waiting to apply for retirement?

The establishment of the imperial army is that five people and one team have a captain, two teams and one team have a captain, five teams and one team have a team leader, and five teams and one tun have a commander. Situn and Yiqu set up Sima of other departments as auxiliaries and military marquis as the main, Wuqu and one school set up captains, five schools and one division set up generals as auxiliary and partial generals, and two divisions and one army set up Zhonglang general corps.

Li Chao has served for six years to prove that he is a capable soldier, and Lu Zhe also specially asked Zhang Liang to help check whether Li Chao is in the disarmament retirement list, and the answer after checking is that Li Chao is not a retired person.

Lu Zhe didn't understand a little, either Li Xin was confident enough to let Li Chao have a better development after retiring, or Li Xin was a little dizzy.

"Li Chao's cousin Li Ren also served in the Sixth (mixed) Legion, and it was Li Ren who wanted to apply for retirement. It was also Li Ren who registered the register. Wang Ben saw that Lu Zhe had misunderstood, so he quickly explained.

The development of the family often requires someone to make sacrifices, and I think Li Ren is the one who "self-dedicates"?

Lu Zhe said, "Hehehe!" "Laugh, that's all about clan society.

In many cases, they will receive tasks from the official, and the mercenary group also relies on completing the official mission to upgrade, but there is a cap on the armed personnel of the mercenary group.

Li Xin wanted Li Ren to form a mercenary group, and he probably guessed that the next focus of the empire would be to occupy the Western Regions, and decided to take twenty people, including Li Ren, to the Western Regions. I don't know how to get merit.

In fact, Li Xin doesn't need to know what Lu Zhe is going to do, but since he is doing this, he will definitely make some big moves. Some things after that also confirmed this, which really surprised Lu Zhe while crying and laughing.

Now Lu Zhe didn't know that Li Xin was going to use twenty people to do the great cause of destroying a country, and he couldn't have imagined that Li Xin would be on top of a country's palace and kill the king in front of so many civil and military officials in that country, forcing this Western Regions state to submit to the empire.

To enter Qindi from Hangu Pass, you have to take the Taolin Road. The so-called peach forest road is not a peach forest on both sides of the road, and it is said that there were peach blossoms everywhere here. In autumn, the mountains are covered with pink peach blossoms, hence the name.

It's winter now, not to mention that the peach forest road has long been free of peach trees all over the mountains after the changes of time, and even if there are peach trees all over the mountains, they should be covered with snow.

Taolin Road is a mountainous terrain, and further on is where Huashan Mountain is located. The current Huashan is not famous. Because Taoism has not yet prevailed, there is no Taoist hall on Huashan, and because Buddhism has not yet been introduced to China, there are naturally no temples.

Speaking of Gautama, the prince of the Buddhist kingdom of Kapila (in present-day Nepal)? Siddhartha has created Buddhism, but the Kapila Kingdom has disappeared into the dust of history, Buddhism was founded in India, but it is not the only sect ~ religion in India, there are many sects ~ religions within the Mauryan Empire, and Buddhism is only one of them.

The current king of the Mauryan Dynasty, that is, the sixth king of the Sarija, he is extremely partial to Jainism, and there is a very serious persecution of other sects~religions, because of the favoritism Jainism continues to purge other sects~religions, and he has won the title of tyrant.

The empire now knew of the existence of the Mauryan Empire, and even more so that behind the Western Plateau was the seat of the Mauryan Empire. The empire is currently trying to climb the plateau, but several attempts have not been satisfactory, it is not that there are any powerful countries or powerful tribes on the plateau, it is difficult to adapt to the plateau climate there, and there is a plan to send people to erect a monument to demarcate the border, but no action has been taken.

Lü Zhe naturally knew about the existence of the Mauryan Empire, but the rest of the people learned about it from the Kashmiri envoys.

The territory of the Mauryan Empire is very large, at least at present, it is larger than the empire, I heard that there is a man named Alexander in the West who led the army to the east, along the way the Macedonian army broke the city and destroyed the country without opponents, and then it was defeated in the hands of the Mauryan Empire, so the Central Asian countries generally recognize the Mauryan Empire as a powerful country.

The Mauryan Empire is naturally chattering, Lu Zhe is talking about the sea waterway, the Nanyang Fleet has initially discovered the existence of the strait, but it is impossible to find a safe channel in that complex terrain in the short term, if you find the channel in the past, you should find the Mauryan Dynasty from the sea.

In addition, some officials have learned that the Mauryan Empire is adjacent to the borders of several Central Asian countries, and those Central Asian countries are adjacent to the borders of the Western Regions, and they have heard that the strength of the Mauryan Empire is speculating whether the intervention of the Mauryan Empire will be provoked when the empire sends troops to the Western Regions.

The road on the side of Huashan is not easy to walk, and it has not been the main road out of Qinchuan for a long time, Lu Zhe has no interest in climbing high and looking far, and takes the route on the edge of Weishui.

The status of Weishui in Qinchuan is very high, and the water systems of each county are basically the diversion of Weishui, and the first emperor built the Afang Palace and the Lishan Tomb on the edge of Weishui.

In ancient times, there were poems and fu, but because of the prevalence of conquest culture, poetry was not very popular.

In Lu Zhe's memory, the Tang Dynasty poet Du Muyou wrote a poem "A Fang Gong Fu", which is about the six countries destroyed by Qin, the world is unified, the first emperor in order to build a Fang Palace The mountains and forests of Shu were cut down, and the area of A Fang Palace reached an astonishing area of more than 300 miles......

Afang Palace has not been completely repaired, and the area is not as terrifying as more than 300 miles, Lu Zhe didn't have the heart to go to Afang Palace to see it for the time being, so he ignored many civil and military recommendations and continued to hurry.

After walking along Weishui for a while, Lu Zhe heard that there was a place called Hongmen after walking dozens of miles, and he was interested in going over to see it.

Hongmen is not famous, if you really want to visit places of interest, Qinchuan has a more famous place than Hongmen.

This historical version is that there will be no more Hongmen banquets, and Lu Zhe's visit to Hongmen to "pay respects" is just a temporary bad taste, and he wants to see with his own eyes what kind of hiding it is.

In fact, when you get to the ground, Hongmen really has nothing to look at. The terrain here is flat, close to Lishan, and it is not too far from Bashang and Lantian, so Gongwei suggested that Lu Zhe go to Bashang and Lantian to have a look, and some generals, including Meng Tian and Xu Yan, also unanimously recommended.

Qin's Lantian was a large training base for the Qin army after the Shang Dynasty reform, which was first used to train the new army and later became a training base for officers. In fact, Bashang has also been the place where the Qin army has been stationed since ancient times, and it has long been used as a bridgehead for the Qin army to go east. Therefore, Lantian or Bashang is actually full of military facilities, which can be seen from gradually getting closer. (To be continued.) )