Molested Zulong at the beginning

In fact, the king of his own family only wants to live peacefully with her, and doesn't care about the great cause of the Chu Kingdom...

But now that I realize it, it seems to be too late.

After all, treason has been a heinous crime since ancient times, and it is a minor crime to divide a body by five horses and implicate the three clans.

They probably have no future.

Just as the two of them were meditating, there was a sound of footsteps outside.

They suddenly looked a little flustered, looked up, and saw a handsome young man in white walking in head-on.

That familiar face, if not Bai Su, who it is.

Thinking back to the time when they first met, Bai Su was still a Xiachen, and when he saw them, he had to bow his hands and salute.

Who would have thought that after only a few months, they would have been reduced to prisoners, and their life and death depended on each other's thoughts.

"Da Liang makes white soy sauce!"

"What are you doing here..."

"Could it be that you plan to kill us today..."

Bai Su looked like a female knight standing in front of him, clenching his silver teeth, staring at his green pearl, and the girl sitting behind the woman, looking at him timidly.

He couldn't help smiling, and sat cross-legged on the ground in front of the two of them: "You don't need to be afraid, I have no intention of killing you, I came here this time to discuss a business with you."

"Business?"

The two couldn't help but stare blankly, for a moment they didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in Bai Su's gourd.

Bai Su said with a smile: "If the king is willing to cooperate with me, not only can I guarantee that I won't kill you, but I can also enter the palace to face the emperor and find an official and a half-rank for the king..."

Mi Xiongxin blinked her black eyes, and gave Bai Su a weird look: "Bai...Master Bai, are you playing tricks on me?"

Bai Su was taken aback for a moment: "What does Your Majesty mean by this?"

Mi Xiong bit his red lips lightly with bright teeth, and said, "Chu country no longer exists, and I have become a prisoner of your lord. Life and death are just a thought of your lord. I who lost all my bargaining chips, I don't care about my lord. For me, what's the value?"

After pondering for a while, Bai Su said, "Of course it is valuable. What I want is not just a military fortress, but a Chu land where the people live and work in peace and contentment."

Mi Xiongxin seemed to realize something, and said tentatively, "Master Bai, you want me to help you stabilize the people's hearts in Chudi?"

The corner of Bai Su's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty is indeed a smart man."

For example, the Xiang family in Jiangdong and the Mi family in Shouchun area have considerable influence.

It is easy for the imperial army to go south to destroy the state of Chu, and it is easy to change the king's banner at the head of the city, but it is impossible to recruit a large number of Chu people to dig the Grand Canal together. possible things.

After all, it has only been a short time for Xianyang to win Chu, and effective grassroots control has not yet been established.

Forcibly recruiting corvee will only make the people who don't understand feel dissatisfied. Coupled with the secret spreading of rumors by some caring people, it will easily cause all kinds of troubles.

Even, it may cause violent conflicts.

Therefore, the best way is to bestow a title with no name but no real power. It is more appropriate to support Mi Xiongxin as a puppet and use her influence to govern Chu.

After all, seeing that their bosses have surrendered, the remaining Chudi families who still have different intentions will not dare to fight against the court because of their weak power, and can only behave with their tails between their legs.

In this way, there will naturally be no resistance for the imperial court to inspect the land in Chu, take the salt and iron as state-owned, dig the Grand Canal, and build large-scale projects.

On the day when the canal is completely connected, there will be no possibility of dividing the Chu land into one side.

There are no more six kingdoms in the world, divided into north and south, and there are only Chinese people.

Kyushu will be completely integrated in terms of geography, economy, writing, imperial examinations, and transportation. Sister Zheng's long-standing dream of unification will take the final step.

For a while, the prison fell into silence.

Mi Xiongxin and Lu Zhu looked at each other, they were both shocked by Bai Su's goal.

Rather than simply destroying Chu and looting Chu's land, what Bai Su wants is to completely assimilate the Chu people and turn them into a part of the flesh and blood of the behemoth Daxia?

Lu Zhu glanced at Bai Su suspiciously, and asked tentatively, "Then how does your lord plan to manage Chu land?"

Bai Su rubbed his chin, pondered for a while and said: "The reason why Chu, especially Jiangdong, is extremely hot, plagued by malaria, and the conditions are harsh, is mainly because it is far away from the core of the Central Plains, and the population is too small. The skills and the level of agriculture are too backward, and the development of the land is far from enough."

"Secondly, it is because of the inconvenient local transportation, the long rainy season, and the floods. The local people are too weak to resist natural disasters."

"If you want to manage it for a long time, you need to dig a canal to connect the north and the south. While connecting the traffic and sending a large amount of supplies to the south, you also need to let a large number of people in the north go south to develop those unowned lands."

"With a sufficient population, we can build rivers and canals, cast dams, reclaim wasteland, popularize medical skills, and agricultural irrigation techniques..."

"If this continues, after a few generations, Jiangdong will be like Guanzhong, and Bashu will become rich and become the third largest granary in the world. There may even be more in the future. Jiangdong is cooked, and the world has a good reputation..."

Listening to Bai Su's eloquent plan, the two of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief while admiring them.

After all, being able to formulate such a detailed plan shows that Bai Su really had a plan in mind long ago, and it was not just a lie to lie to them.

Mi Xiongxin bit her red lips lightly, looked at Bai Su with a pair of black eyes, and said, "Your Excellency is really a genius in this world. He can rule the world with a pen and ride a horse to determine the universe. Xianyang can have such a talented person as your lord. It is really Xianyang. Fortunately, fortunately in the world, I can help adults stabilize people's hearts."

"It's just that you know, my lord, that I'm just a banner. It's okay to use it to stabilize the hearts of the people in Shouchun. I really want to make those old Chu people let go of their prejudices."

"Xiang Yu still needs to come forward. She is a banner in the hearts of countless Chu people. If she doesn't come forward, it will be difficult for me alone to convince them."

"Especially in the Jiangdong area, the influence of the Xiang clan is unmatched. If you want to order Jiangdong, you have to let Xiang Yu open his mouth..."

Halfway through her speech, she stopped abruptly.

After all, they couldn't understand Xiang Yu's aloof character very well, and it was almost impossible to persuade him.

Bai Su couldn't help smiling: "You two don't need to worry at this time, I already have a countermeasure, since the king has agreed to this deal, then I will go back to the palace to report to your majesty, and I will give the king an official and a half title for you. Arrange accommodation and let you out."

Hearing what Bai Su said, the tense nerves of the two of them slowly relaxed.

Mi Xiongxin nodded lightly, and bowed to Bai Su: "Then please, my lord."

Chapter 370 Three Confused Xiang Yu

The night is getting darker.

above the attic.

Xiang Yu was wearing a white brocade robe, leaning against the window on the second floor, his black hair shawl falling down, fluttering with the wind, reflecting a fair and pretty face with a slightly heroic spirit.

Her almond eyes looked complicated, looking at the street in the distance.

The prosperity of Xianyang City is far from comparable to that of Jiangdong.

The population here is dense, and after years of development, both the residential buildings and the commercial market have undergone large-scale expansion.

The pillars of the pavilions, the window lattices of the tile houses, and the bright lights reveal the prosperous scene everywhere.

On the streets in the distance, you can still see many caravans and missions from foreign countries coming to Xianyang to worship.

Even during this time, she saw many caravans from Chudi, as well as scholars who came to take the imperial examination.

This made Xiang Yu feel a little complicated for a while.

After all, for so many years, she has always harbored national hatred and family hatred towards Da Xia, and she has always thought that the relationship between Chu people and Xia people is an endless relationship.

But seeing now that so many people from Chu started to join Daxia's camp on their own initiative, the belief she had built up over the years began to faintly shake.

First, the childhood sweetheart who grew up together, Yu Ji left her.

Afterwards, the defeat on the battlefield led to the subjugation of Da Chu again.

Now even the only people from Chu who supported her faith began to leave her gradually.

For a moment, Xiang Yu felt that he had lost everything, and his whole body fell into confusion, not knowing what to do in the future.

Therefore, it was clear that her injuries had healed, and the guards outside the door couldn't stop her at all, but she herself had no desire to escape at all.

"Da da da!"

At this time, a burst of crisp footsteps came from outside the door.

The sound of strong footsteps was obviously not a woman, but a man.

And there will only be one man in the world who can come to this heavily guarded attic.

"Bai Su, what are you doing here? Did you come here to laugh at me?"

Xiang Yu raised his slender eyebrows slightly, glanced at the direction of the door, and said in a deep voice.

As the footsteps approached, sure enough, a young man in a white robe walked towards him.

Under the moonlight, the handsome face of the visitor was reflected. Sure enough, it was the hateful person who took away her beloved, Bai Su.

Bai Su said with a smile on his face: "The general's bravery is the most brave in the world, and he is unparalleled through the ages. Who would dare to laugh at the general?"

Xiang Yu glanced at him coldly, and immediately said, "What's your purpose for coming here suddenly?"

Bai Su pondered and said, "Actually, I want to invite the general to the banquet."

Xiang Yu was taken aback for a moment, and couldn't help hesitating: "Banquet?"

Sitting side by side with Xiang Yu, Bai Su picked up her wine cup without any distaste, poured a glass of wine on her own, and took a sip.

After moistening his throat, he immediately opened his mouth and said: "To be precise, it is the annual tribute day. The Great Xia dominates the world. The missions and guardian envoys from all over the country will go to Xianyang to pay tribute one after another. The heroes of the world are all here." Gather together, I hope to invite the general to the banquet together."

Seeing Bai Su holding the wine cup he had drunk, Xiang Yu couldn't help raising his slender eyebrows slightly.

But compared to these trivial matters of etiquette, she still cares more about what Bai Su said just now.

After hesitating for a while, she couldn't help asking: "Such a grand banquet, why are you looking for me, a defeated general? Could it be that... you want to play tricks on me in front of a group of envoys from a small country, to achieve the goal of the party?" Is it the purpose of killing the chicken to show the monkey?"

Bai Su shook his head slightly: "A group of small states can be destroyed with a snap of the finger, why kill a chicken with a knife."

Xiang Yu glanced at Bai Su with a strange expression: "Then what do you mean?"

Bai Su put down the wine cup in his hand, and said with a smile: "General Xiang, the world is so big, there are more than six kingdoms, more than nine states..."

Xiang Yu is also a smart person, so he reacted instantly, and said, "Yes, there are other capitals outside the Central Plains. the land of miasma."

"There are a group of dark-skinned and barbarian people living there. You suddenly mentioned this. Could it be that you want to expand the territory?"

Bai Su smiled and said: "That's right, right now the Central Plains has returned to unity, the Eastern Hu and Xiongnu in the grasslands have all surrendered, and the 36 countries in the Western Regions have been grasped by me."

"Through years of trade precipitation, their national destiny has been in my hands. When needed, they don't need to do anything, just pass trade sanctions, and they can destroy the country in an instant."

"Under such a trend, the Great Xia tributary alliance system centered on the Central Plains has already taken shape."

"The next step is to use the opportunity of the banquet to pay tribute, beat the disobedient younger brother, promote available people, and stabilize the alliance relationship, then you can mobilize troops..."

Xiang Yu was taken aback for a moment: "Are you referring to the Baiyue people for sending troops abroad, but it is a barren land, so it shouldn't be worth getting tired of such a big fight?"

Bai Su laughed, and immediately picked up a pen, picked up a piece of white paper and began to outline on it.

While drawing, he explained: "Please look, general, this is the location of my Central Plains. This is the Western Region. Along this Western Region corridor, there is a wider world. There are other countries here."

Xiang Yu looked stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but said: "Isn't this land in the extreme west like the barbarians of Xi Rong? Could it be that there is another powerful country?"

Bai Su smiled mysteriously, and said, "Yes, not only are there powerful countries, but they are not inferior in size to those in the Central Plains, and there are three more."

"First, it is the Maurya Dynasty. This is a slavery state. The country has a population of more than 2000 million. Not only is the territory vast, but the land in the whole country is suitable for farming and mulberry. The area of ​​arable land is three times that of our current Central Plains. More than twice."

"Moreover, their local rice can be harvested three times a year..."

After Xiang Yu heard Bai Su's words, he couldn't help but widen his eyes for a moment, his vermilion lips couldn't help but parted, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time.

After all, the idea that the Central Plains is based on agriculture and regards the soil as life is deeply rooted in the bone marrow.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in order to compete for a piece of fertile land, the six countries fought countless wars with each other.

Even Zhao Guo and Daxia, the two former powerful countries, fought bloody battles in the land of Changping in order to compete for the land of Shangdang County. Zhao Guo lost 45 soldiers and horses, and Daxia also ended in a tragic victory.

Now when I heard that there is another foreign country besides the Western Regions, the arable land is three times that of the Central Plains, and the grain can be harvested three times a year.

Don't say what the first emperor thought, Xiang Yu only felt his heart beating violently, and his eyes were faintly green.

She couldn't help asking: "How is the national strength of this country called the Maurya Dynasty compared to the Central Plains?"

Bai Su stroked his chin and said: "Although there is some combat power, it is far inferior to my Central Plains, and far inferior to Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and others."

This is not his nonsense.

In the eyes of the political sister, the Xiongnu's combat power is just like that.

However, the Yuezhi people who were defeated by the Huns and fled all the way to the west took less than 18 years to go directly south to destroy the Maurya Dynasty and establish the Guishuang Empire there.

Even if an East Asian monster failed to roll in the room, the Yuezhi who was swept away could easily destroy the Maurya Dynasty.

As the monster house in East Asia, the owner of the Central Plains, after annexing the Yuezhi and the Huns, naturally would not take the Maurya Dynasty seriously.

After listening to Bai Su's words, Xiang Yu only felt sour in his heart.