When people were in Qin, they ruled the world

Chapter 419 The Western Expedition and the Western Regions

When Bai Xueyi was about to go to Xianyang on Yingzheng's [-]th birthday, Li Mu was also thinking about the same thing in a military fortress under Qilian Mountain in the far west.

"General, if it's time for you to return to Xianyang, then this year's attack on the Western Regions may be postponed." In a small courtyard in the fortress, a general said to Li Mu, the governor of Longxi County, Qin State.

"It should not be delayed, and even if it is delayed, it is not a problem." Li Mu said.

"General?"

"Zhao Huan, I know your worries. In the next conquest of the Western Regions, summer is the season we need to avoid." Li Mu said.

"Just, you have to understand that the Western Regions are not comparable to these uncivilized barbaric tribes in Qilian Mountains. In the Western Regions, there are cities and civilizations. Now with our strength, although we can be invincible in field battles, if What about attacking the city?" Li Mu asked back.

"Most of the Western Regions are small cities, and it is not difficult to capture those cities." General Qin, whom Li Mu called Zhao Huan, said.

"It's just not difficult, but there are still some difficulties, and behind the difficulty are the lives of our soldiers." Li Mu said.

"If what we can do can reduce the difficulty of siege, why don't we do it?" Li Mu continued.

"So, the general's return to Xianyang this time is also to seek help from the king?" Zhao Huan asked.

"Yes, we have been marching west for several years. In these few years, the domineering tricks of the public losers must have become more domineering. If we can have this sharp weapon in our hands, it will undoubtedly reduce the number of people who attack the city. Many casualties." Li Mu explained.

"Although that is the case, overbearing mechanisms are the country's most important weapon, will the king really hand them over to us?" Zhao Huan said suspiciously.

The power of the Overbearing Mechanism, these former Zhao Kingdom border riders have a deep experience, it is precisely because the Overbearing Mechanism is so powerful that the Overbearing Mechanism formed an army alone and was directly controlled by Ying Zheng.

Only in the event of a real war, the overbearing mechanism will join the army and appear on the battlefield as a killer.

But can the Western Expeditionary Corps under Li Mu really gain the complete trust from Xianyang?
"Zhao Huan, you have to understand that you are alive now because of the trust of the king." Li Mu warned.

"In this regard, I am naturally convinced, but it is precisely because of His Majesty's trust that we must do things that can earn His Majesty's trust." Zhao Huan said.

"These things are not something you should worry about, you just need to do your own thing well." Li Mu said.

"Yes." Zhao Huan replied, from Li Mu's words, he could tell that Li Mu didn't want to say anything more to him.

In the territory of the Western Regions where Li Mu and Zhao Huan were talking, in a small town whose origin is unknown and how long it has existed, a young girl appeared on the street in a daze.

"Where is this place? And who am I? Why am I here?" The girl looked at everything in front of her blankly, only feeling a little familiar, but she couldn't find any relevant memories for a while.

"Little Li, why are you still here? The sandstorm is coming soon, you have to go home quickly." A young man hurried past her in the girl's confusion, turned around and said to the girl.

"So I'm Xiao Li? But which Li is it? Jiu Li?" Amidst the girl's doubts, a name suddenly appeared in her mind.

Jiuli?

Loulan?

what else?
Will it be the beginning of another story?

Xianyang, with the passage of time, time has entered the first month of the fourteenth year of Qin Wangzheng.

In Xingle Palace, Zhao Ji, who was lazily leaning on her seat, looked at Ying Zheng with a sad face, and said, "When I was a child, I was looking forward to my birthday every day, because on my birthday, I could Get what you want, and when I grow up, I hate birthdays again, because every birthday means I'm a year older."

"What about now?" asked Ying Zheng, who was standing in front of the window admiring the picture of a strict mother training her daughter in the courtyard.

"Modern people are already afraid of birthdays, because every birthday means that people are one step closer to death." This time it was not Zhao Ji who answered Ying Zheng, but another person in the hall, who came to visit Zhao Ji Empress Dowager Huayang.

"Yeah, birthdays are what people of our age are most afraid of." Zhao Ji echoed the Queen Mother Huayang's words.

"Death is indeed the scariest thing," Ying Zheng said.

"I don't know who will be celebrating the birthday twenty years later?" Zhao Ji said inexplicably.

"Twenty years later." Ying Zheng mused.

In this world full of unknowns and mysteries, twenty years later, Ying Zheng will be a little bit of a shadow.

"By the way, I remember Zheng'er, you don't like birthdays anymore, why are you being so public this time?" Zhao Ji asked to change the subject.

Although her sadness came inexplicably, it will also go inexplicably, just like now.

"The queen mother doesn't know the reason, but the queen mother should know the reason?" Ying Zheng didn't answer Zhao Ji's question directly, but threw Zhao Ji's question to the queen mother Huayang.

"The birthday of the lord of a country is not just a personal matter." The Queen Mother Huayang was a little surprised when Ying Zheng asked her, but she didn't think too much about it, but directly answered the question.

"Can this even become a national issue?" Zhao Ji asked suspiciously.

"Naturally, my birthday can show the whole Qin country that I, the king of Qin, exist. At the same time, the people of Qin country will also look forward to my birthday." Ying Zheng said.

"Expectation?" Zhao Ji asked, obviously she still didn't understand.

"His Majesty's birthday is a universal celebration. At this time, tax relief and amnesty are inevitable. The people are of course looking forward to it." The Queen Mother Huayang explained to Zhao Ji.

"In that case, isn't Zheng'er losing money?" Zhao Ji said.

"This matter cannot be understood in this way." The Empress Dowager Huayang said, "Among this matter, the more important thing is the spread of royal power. Through this matter, the people of the world will clearly feel the existence of the king. For them, the Great King really exists, not just a special symbol far away in Xianyang."

"Moreover, in this matter, I did not lose money. Not only the property in the treasury belongs to the orphan, but also the people in the world. Since they all belong to me, such things as tax reduction and exemption are nothing more than a simple matter to me. Just put the belongings in the left hand into the right hand." Ying Zheng added.

"That's right." Zhao Ji suddenly said, she seemed to understand, but she didn't seem to understand.

(End of this chapter)