Chapter 154: Movements of the Parties
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PS: Actually, I know a little bit after reading the books written by Honor, the book of honor is definitely not a harem text, and some female characters are all foreshadowing and extending part of the plot for the sake of the plot.
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Is the gang of bigwigs led by the First Emperor really disimpressed by Lu Zhe's report? In fact, there is no trivial matter in the country, how can it be that it doesn't matter if you know that the south is turbulent. It's just that the First Emperor didn't express his position, and all the ministers, including Wang Xuan, didn't know what Lu Dao Yingzheng thought, and everyone was unwilling to say what they thought in their hearts.
A figure who was not present realized that this was "big" news. This person is none other than Zhao Gao, who also received Lu Zhe's letter!
The official position is the order of the CRRC government, in charge of all the carriages including the imperial city, Zhao Gao also kept the six seals of the Son of Heaven because of the trust of the first emperor, it can be said that the official position is not high, but it is a very key figure in Daqin.
The importance of the six seals of the Son of Heaven is actually much more important than the jade seal of the country in ordinary times, that is some important seals that issued government decrees, if the first emperor issued an order without a seal, the people below did not dare to act according to the order. Any order that does not have the seal of the Son of Heaven is overkill, and only when the seal is stamped can it be regarded as the emperor's order, so it can be seen how important six seals with different usages are.
When Lu Zhe's letter was delivered to Zhao Gao, his first reaction after reading the contents was that the south of Great Qin was about to turn against the sky.
The content of Lu Zhe's letters to everyone is different......
The letter of the National Governor's Office, which is more than 50,000 words, is basically a narrative introduction to what happened, and there is no added fuel and vinegar in it, although there is a story, there is no speculation.
It was originally going to be written to Meng Tian, but it was taken by Meng Yi, after all, Meng Tian was indeed not in Xianyang. Those letters were some small talk and storytelling, and Meng Yi only thought that Lu Zhe wanted to make friends or something, and he didn't take it seriously at all.
What was written to Xu Yan was greeting the elders with the juniors, and at the same time vaguely pointing out the news that the south was about to be in turmoil. Tip: If Xu wants to get something and do something, then prepare in advance.
The letter to Zhao Gao is more weird. not only wrote about the open and secret struggle between Tu Sui and Ren Huan, but also described the turmoil that broke out in Yiling as being detonated because of the battle between the chief and deputy commanders, which wrote out what some old nobles in the south, including the Xiang family, wanted to do, and added a lot of conjectures during the period.
Lu Zhe's conjecture seems to be very well-founded, especially the description of Fan Zeng's journey to bewitch the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, and the Xiang family hiding in Huiji County also relied on his own conjecture to describe what he was doing.
There are many things that will be omitted even if you see them before you get the "hint", but after you get the "hint", it is different. Zhao Gao consulted the classics of Huiji County and found many details, such as the fact that a certain county has a lot of taxes. There were also many labor-intensive workshops in that county.
Although it is impossible to find out what is sold, the county itself is a poor and remote place, and it is not a place where transactions are concentrated, so there must be more large transactions in grain to generate so many taxes. Moreover, what is the need for so many workshops in a county where there are no specialties? That's enough to say a lot about it, and it's an anomaly!
Coming to this conclusion, Zhao Gao believed most of the content of the letter sent by Lu Zhe. He also went to check the official letters sent by the southern counties in the past month, and saw a large number of contents that reflected the instability of the people's feelings. Combined with the previous information on the population flow of various counties and counties, including taxes, he fully believed Lu Zhe's judgment.
Judging from all kinds of clues. The turmoil in the southern counties has long been buried, and the old nobles who have been hiding are waiting for an opportunity every moment, and the chaos in the southern counties is only a trigger.
Seriously, if the First Emperor or the Lieutenant Wang Juan had the heart to check the classics of the southern counties. With their convenience, they may find out more traces than Zhao Gao, who secretly checked.
Realizing that the southern counties were really going to be in chaos, Zhao Gao's head was in a daze for a long time, and he was a little unsure of what to do.
Lu Zhe became the chief general of Nanjun. This was very unexpected by Zhao Gao. It was Tu Sui who transferred Lu Zhe to the Southern Expeditionary Army, but Zhao Gao consciously made a lot of efforts to facilitate it.
Later, the letters delivered by Lu Zhe were successively delivered to all parties in Xianyang, and Zhao Gao, who had received Lu Zhe's letters in a row, became more and more clear about what happened in Nanjun. The rest of the parties did not react on the surface because they did not pay attention to the relationship or because they were thinking about it, but the preparations were already underway.
Zhao Gao, who had received letters in a row, felt that Lu Zhe really lived up to his cultivation, and thought: "The arrangement of this chess piece is really the right arrangement." ”
That's right, Zhao Gao really wants to have a say in the military, he has arranged for many people to enter the army, but unfortunately because the Qin army emphasizes military merit in order to be promoted, the people who are arranged to enter may have limited ability or something, and under vigorous cultivation, there are only one captain and five military marquis.
Zhao Gao's younger brother Zhao Cheng relied on a lot of resources to become a military marquis, and his army was only 5,000, and his garrison was not far from Xianyang, in Mianchi, Sanchuan County.
Three of the five military marquis are in the Northern Xinjiang Army sequence, one is called Dong Peng, one is called Zhao Ping, and one is called Di Ying. The other two are on the Daijun side.
Lu Zhe was just one of the many people in Zhao Gao's circle, but he didn't expect that Lu Zhe would now become the chief general of Nanjun. According to Lu Zhe's own handwriting, he even has 50,000 troops under his command, which is great news for Zhao Gao.
Of course, it's not that Zhao Gao wants to rebel or anything, he doesn't have any extra thoughts, he just feels that the First Emperor is aging too fast and his body is getting worse and worse. As a close minister of the emperor, as soon as the first emperor who was close to him died, the next emperor would not necessarily be as favored as Yingzheng, and if he lost the emperor's favor, he would be nothing.
Moreover, Zhao Gao still has a thorn in his heart, that is, the eldest son Fusu's attitude towards him is getting worse and worse, and the first emperor loves this eldest son very much, so it can be seen that the next emperor of the first emperor Bintianhou Daqin should be Fusu.
The next emperor didn't like it, which was too bad for Zhao Gao.
Recently, because of the eldest son's advice to the First Emperor not to be obsessed with the elixir, Zhao Gao has already clashed with Fusu because of many obstructions, and it is only the order of the First Emperor to obstruct them. He just did what he was told.
Zhao Gaobu, who already had a conflict with the eldest son, took advantage of the fact that the first emperor was still alive, and he still had some power and convenience in his hands to speed up and create some momentum for himself, waiting for the death of the emperor, and after the eldest son Fusu ascended the throne, he might not even have the opportunity to enjoy his old age in peace.
"Creation makes people, Lu Shizhe, who originally thought that he would do something after a long time, has now become the chief general of Nanjun." Zhao Gao squinted his eyes: "He also wrote letters to the rest of the people, but the news that came from the spy was not as many as from my side, and it was not as detailed as from my side." Looks like this person is really leaning towards me? Since that's the case, let's help get started! ”
Zhao Gaozhi said that Lu Zhe had already alerted the National Governor's Office. And it seems that most of the current courtiers also know about the affairs of the south, but the First Emperor did not express his position, and everyone did not dare to mention it, for fear of angering the more and more capricious First Emperor.
I have to say that before the First Emperor got the real evidence, he really didn't think much of the remarks that the south would cause chaos that could not be controlled. This is the self-confidence of being the great emperor of the six countries, and it is also the confirmation that the Black Ice Observatory has not yet probed and reported.
Zhao Gao also mentioned it to the First Emperor a few times, and for Zhao Gao, a close minister who has accompanied him since childhood, the First Emperor said some plans in his heart. It turned out that the First Emperor had ordered a part of the garrisons from all over the country to assemble in Sanchuan County, and the corresponding supplies were also being raised.
No one knew that the First Emperor of the Dao was preparing. I don't know what this great emperor has in mind.
Zhao Gao knows a little bit, he is an extremely good guy, and he guesses that some people are going to be unlucky.
All the anti-Qin forces, including the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms, would the First Emperor not know that there was such a thing in Lu Dao? In his opinion, these people are nothing more than clowns. It's not at all.
What the First Emperor cared about was internally, since there were so many people who wanted to oppose Qin, what about the courtiers from the original Six Kingdoms who were already officials in the Qin State? He wanted to see what these courtiers would do.
For the Qin state, although the southern counties have been captured. However, the actual control has never been 100%, and the contribution of those counties to the country is honestly not very good, and sometimes they even have to use the resources of the old Qin land to help.
It's nothing to mess up in the southern counties. It is best to seduce all those with bad intentions, with such an idea, the First Emperor really doesn't care what happens to the southern counties. I have to say that this way of dealing with it has a lot of courage, and Ying Zheng's choice is worthy of being the first emperor who led the Qin State to annex the Six Kingdoms.
Sometimes inaction is the biggest act, at least a lot of the time.
Zhao Gao didn't dare to do anything after guessing the thoughts of the First Emperor. He originally wanted to see that Lu Zhe knew so well to ask for a legitimate official position, or create opportunities to facilitate logistics. Now that the First Emperor is doing that, he can only choose to be silent.
And it seems that the First Emperor didn't pay attention to Lu Zhe, who was still resisting in Nanjun, on the surface, but in fact, he was playing with the chessboard in his heart.
So far, only Lu Zhe has made a very detailed report to the Xianyang Center among the officials of the various counties and counties in the south, and the military information he reported to the center is not like the panic or random speculation of others.
It may be precisely because only Lu Zhe's intelligence is more useful that the First Emperor really remembers that there is such a person as Lu Zhe.
What's wrong with the riots in Yiling? Tu Sui and Ren Huan are overwhelmed? The process of Lu Zhe becoming the temporary commander is a bit bizarre? These first emperors all know in their hearts, but as an emperor has his own "visual scope", he will not care about these now, and focus on the overall situation. As for what is wrong in this matter, he can slowly find out afterwards and settle the account later.
"It won't work without aid at all." The First Emperor, who was planning something, smiled a little coldly, "He gave Zhao Gao more letters, so ......"
In the next few days, Zhao Gao was a little confused and frightened, and the First Emperor asked about Zhao Gao's daughter several times, intentionally or unintentionally, and even hinted that Zhao Gao could sponsor Lu Zhe with his own private wealth.
Stunned, Zhao Gao was really stunned, he realized that the First Emperor must have known about Lu Zhe's frequent letters, and he was shocked and acquiesced in the First Emperor's misunderstanding that his daughter belonged to Lu Zhe.
But in this way, things are easier to do, Zhao Gao is a person who does not achieve his goal and does not care about small things, since the first emperor misunderstood the relationship between his daughter and Lu Zhe, then he does something in line with "ethics".
It should be said that it is pushing the boat along the river, anyway, the First Emperor already has a hint, so Zhao Gao began his own actions.
Zhao Gao's family wealth is actually not much, but he has a pasture in Longxi. It has a very large herd of herds, such as cattle, horses, sheep and the like.
Longxi has always been a place that produces war horses, and Zhao Gao's large number of horses does not mean that there are many war horses. Horses need to be domesticated to become war horses.
The Zhao government began to look for buyers, sold livestock for cash, and sent people to Bashu to buy grain.
There are only about 3,000 domesticated war horses that were originally to be sold to the Northern Xinjiang Army, but the Northern Xinjiang Army's war horses are so many that it must be a big deal to lose 3,000 war horses, and Zhao Gao stayed after asking the First Emperor. He had already obtained the tacit consent of the First Emperor, and wanted to find a way to get these war horses to Nanjun and hand them over to Lu Zhe.
"It seems that it can only be done in a fake show?" Zhao Gao, who had no choice but to consciously pay a lot, summoned his daughter and said to her: "I have a husband for you." He is now leading the army to fight in Nanjun, and when the situation calms down, my father will let you get married. ”
It was a woman of about fifteen or sixteen years old, I saw her with a goose egg pink face, big rectangular eyes, a little tall, wearing a white silk dress, a red rope tied around her waist and a jade pendant pressed on the skirt, the whole person was not only concave and convex but also just like a white peony.
She was a little surprised to hear her father say that, and her eyes flashed with wide eyes. Activating Red Lips asked, "Please also ask Father to inform him of his name?" ”
Zhao Gaoyou knew it in his heart, but there was a smile on his expression: "Lu Shizhe, twenty years old, was born in Longxi. Good looking, familiar with military books, now commanding tens of thousands of troops are fighting with southern traitors and resisting Baiyue. ”
Since he has already made a start, Zhao Gao also let his daughter sit down. slowly talked about Lu Zhe, a person.
Zhao Gao's only daughter, named Zhao Wan, listened very carefully.
There were so many things happening in Nanjun, and there was only a small part of Lu Zhe's letter to Zhao Gao. The content is also not entirely true, and some embellishments and distortions of facts are inevitable. However, Lu Zhe was not stupid enough to add some exaggerated things into it, after all, what happened could still be found afterwards.
After listening to Zhao Gao's speech, Zhao Wan just nodded: "It's a husband who is good at fighting." ”
The "husband" of this year is not actually used by wives to call their husbands, in fact, it probably means a great man.
Zhao Gao felt a little relieved when he saw that his daughter didn't seem to reject it, and the smile on his face was no longer a disguise, but a little bit from his heart.
Lu Zhe, who was far away in Jiangling, Nanjun, was completely unaware, because the First Emperor had his own plans, and Zhao Gao had no choice but to acquiesce in the misunderstanding of the First Emperor, he never thought that he would become the son-in-law recognized by Zhao Gao......
Of the other people who received Lu Zhe's letters, Meng Yi had the least information, and he would not pay attention to the letters written by a small military marquis in the south.
If Meng Yi knew that because of the chaos in the south, the northern Xinjiang plan that Meng had been planning for several years would be stranded, then he would definitely be very nervous and suggest that the First Emperor should take advantage of the chaos to break out and suppress it quickly.
The Montessori has made a lot of efforts to plan the northern frontier, and now all the planning and dedication are finally about to reach the harvest season, and the southern chaos of the northern frontier plan of the Montessori will definitely be interrupted. Fortunately, Meng Yi didn't take the content of Lu Zhe's letter seriously at all, otherwise he didn't know what drastic things Lu Dao would do.
Xu Yan actually believed the content of Lu Zhe's letter, but he still didn't say anything before the first emperor took action. Recently, the most he has done is to check the map of the south, and he is also checking the clan and tribal relations of the southern counties, and he has also studied the living habits of the Baiyue people.
The reason why the head of the Xu family would do this is very simple, a large number of veterans who performed well in the battle of unification in the Qin State are old, and some new generals have not yet grown up, and now the Qin State can be said to be in a relatively awkward stage of "metabolism".
The First Emperor would definitely send his generals to the south to quell the rebellion, so choosing who would lead the army became a key point.
At present, many official positions in the Qin State are actually idle, such as the general of Zhengnan, the general of Zhengdong, and the general of Zhengxi, which have not yet been appointed.
Meng Tian is now the general of Zhengbei, and among the remaining three generals at the level of "Zheng" in the east, south, and west, in fact, the general of Zhengnan should be appointed to Tu Sui. But Tu Sui was a national lieutenant before, and he was considered one of the three dukes, how could he be demoted to the position of general of Zhengnan?
If an army is sent south to quell the rebellion, then who will serve as the general of the expedition to the south?
There are not many generals in the Qin State at present, and Meng Tian is the most famous and prominent person. Wang Ben of the Wang family has always been known as Jiangmen Huzi because of Wang Qian's relationship, and then Feng Zheng, who has already shown old age.
Xu Yan thought about it again and again, the old Feng Zheng is impossible, the First Emperor has only recently appointed Feng Zheng as one of the imperial historians of the Nine Qings, so the First Emperor can only be appointed from him and Wang Ben.
At present, there is no so-called gate valve or family, which is a social phenomenon that will only appear after the Han Dynasty, and now no matter how strong it is, it is only at the level of the clan.
The Wang family is a clan that is much stronger than the Xu family, Wang Jian has made many great achievements in the battle of unification, and Wang Ben has won the love and trust of the first emperor because of his father Wang Qian's old man's actions. It can be said that if Xu Yan wants to compete for the position of General Zhengnan, Wang Ben is a big competitor.
"Look at this child's letter. The undercurrents in the south are really turbulent. This time there will be a mess, so there must be more counties affected. Xu Yan rubbed his temples: "The greater the turbulence, the higher the chance, this is the opportunity for the Xu family to show their ambitions, and they can't be wrong." ”
Well, although Lu Zhe and Xu Yang bowed, Xu Yan never took Lu Zhe seriously, he used to be called "kid" and "that person", and now Xu Yan is estimated to use Lu Zhe again. The title was changed to an affectionate "child".
I have to say that as long as he is the head of the clan, there is really no unrealistic. And what about Zhao Gao? Even if Zhao Gao is the emperor's favorite minister, he is still not qualified to become the Zhao clan - that is, the clan.
So be it. Although Zhao Gao is sinister, compared with Xu Yan, it should be said that being a man is not so realistic.
An empty hall with no walls on three sides. The summer breeze blew Xu Yan's beard and loose hair, his eyes looked ahead without focus, and he muttered: "Seven counties." How many former Six Kingdoms nobles are hiding there? According to what the kid said, the threat of the Xiang clan in Huiji County would be very great. The kings and grandsons of Chu also lived among the people? At that time, if the Chu people launched a certain king and grandson, would it really be possible for the Chu State to succeed in recovering the country? Once the old Chu is restored, what about the rest of the places? ”
Perhaps like many ministers, Xu Yan didn't understand what the First Emperor was doing to know that he could still calm down after the chaos in the south, all of which was really not in line with the First Emperor's fiery temper.
"Could it be that His Majesty is addicted to the elixir and has no time to ......" Thinking of this, Xu Yan shook his head: "Your Majesty is not such a person. What's wrong? If it had been before, His Majesty would have been furious early and sent troops to wash thousands of miles of blood. What the hell is your majesty thinking? ”
Just thinking about it, the old man stepped on a small step to come to tell him, saying that it was a visit from the CRRC government.
"Zhao Gao?" Xu Yan was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes froze: "What is Zhao Gao doing?" ”
went out to greet him in person, Xu Yan and Zhao Gaoyou talked and laughed and returned to this hall.
Zhao Gao is actually not the first time to come to Xufu, at first sight, the breeze here is a cool place. He heard that Xu Yan likes to stay in this open place and think about problems?
Xu Yan usually does not meet guests here, but in a more formal guest hall, and the reason why Zhao Gao is invited here actually has meaning. He believed that with Zhao Gao's intelligence, he should understand that meaning, and after inviting him to sit down, he began to smile and prepare to chat.
Zhao Gao heard that this hall was a very private resting place for Xu Yan, and he never met guests here. Now, he naturally didn't come here for small talk, and since Xu Yan had that meaning, he didn't want to waste time.
"Presumably, the general already knows what Dao Gao is going to do?" Zhao Gao made the necessary temptation.
"Decree?" Xu Yan thought about it and decided not to hide it, "Yan naturally guessed it. It's just that I don't know ...... the Daoist government decree this? ”
"Lu Shizhe and Xu Shiyang are friends of each other. Isn't that correct? Zhao Gao chose to go straight to the point: "Now, the general is afraid that he has received a lot of letters from Lu Zhe, he should know what happened in the south of Lu Dao, and he can also speculate what this means to the 'people with hearts'?" ”
Xu Yan's eyelids jumped, he really didn't expect Zhao Gao to say so bluntly that the Xu family wanted to take advantage of this incident to seek benefits, and his smile became stiff for a while.
It seemed that finding that the expression on Xu Yan's face had become embarrassed and a little annoyed, Zhao Gao smiled: "It's normal for people, those people who pretend not to care about the south, they also have such and such plans, among them, Wang Ben went to Jun Shang more than once and talked to Jun Shang about General Wang Qian's great contribution to destroying Chu." ”
Xu Yan was extremely shocked and nervous in his heart, and tried his best to control the expression on his face, but no matter how much he controlled his face, his face would be a little stiff. He looked at Zhao Gao who was speaking, and he couldn't figure out what this meant. (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you for the "OK~" old book friend for the tip.
PS: Actually, I know a little bit after reading the books written by Honor, the book of honor is definitely not a harem text, and some female characters are all foreshadowing and extending part of the plot for the sake of the plot.