Molested Zulong at the beginning

The envoy's face was complicated for a while, and when he was about to speak to persuade his king, there was a loud roar outside.

This... What's the matter, is it thundering?

This is outside of Fahrenheit.

One after another, rocks weighing hundreds of kilograms were thrown away by the return guns, and smashed hard on the city wall, causing cracks to appear.

boom!

With the bombardment of another rock, the city wall finally failed to hold up and collapsed.

With a wave of Bai Su's hand, Xiang Yu rushed into Huashi City with his cavalry.

The streets in the city were desolate, and all the rich nobles and monks hid in their homes and did not dare to go out. Those who stayed on the street were a group of ragged, dull and dazed untouchables.

Not only did these people not have the slightest fear of Xia Jun who invaded the city, they resisted, and some even took the initiative to approach, saying that as long as they were given a meal, they would take the initiative to help Xia Jun lead the horse and pedal, and welcome Wang Shi into the city.

This made Xiang Yu, Han Xin and the others dumbfounded. These people have no backbone at all.

Bai Su shook his head slightly, but didn't find it strange at all.

After all, the Maurya Dynasty was a slavery country from beginning to end. The local Brahmins and Kshatriyas were all outsiders. After conquering the local aborigines, they became nobles.

The local aborigines, who have been conquered for thousands of years and brainwashed by religious reincarnation, have long been deeply aware of their status as pariahs and will not resist at all.

After all, in their view, as long as one endures suffering in this life, after reincarnation in the future, one's birth can be upgraded to a higher level.

And once you resist, not only will you not change your origin in the next life, you will not even be able to be a human being, and you will be reborn as a livestock or a mosquito.

Therefore, after the defeat of a group of nobles led by Brahmins, they did not know how to form an army by themselves to resist.

Now that Great Xia has defeated a group of nobles headed by Brahmins and entered the capital, in the eyes of the local untouchables, the Xia army headed by Bai Su will become the new master of the country.

Naturally, they came over one by one and stepped forward to greet them.

Bai Su didn't make things difficult for these untouchables, and directly ordered Han Xin, Mao Dun and others to open a warehouse to release food, first to win the hearts of the people, so that it will be more convenient when they go to the local Brahmin nobles' homes to search the house and reward the soldiers of the three armies.

And he himself and Xiang Yu took some guards and headed towards the palace of the Maurya Dynasty.

The palace of the Mauryan Dynasty has strong Buddhist elements. On the walls made of white marble, there are various stone statues of Buddha and Arhat carved, which look very lively.

However, the formerly prosperous imperial palace seemed particularly desolate at this time. The guards and officials all fled away, leaving only scattered maids, hiding behind the pillars with pale faces, not daring to look at Xia Jun.

Seeing this, Bai Su said with a smile: "You don't have to be nervous, I won't do anything to you, I just want to ask where your big car king is and let her come out to see me."

At this time, a voice came.

"No need, I'm already here."

Bai Su looked back, only to see a slender girl walking out.

She has an exquisite appearance, a delicate bridge of nose, white skin, and a painted line on her forehead. Her exotic appearance makes people's eyes shine.

At this time, she was dressed in white, holding a gold medal in both hands, stepping on the ground barefoot, biting her red lips with her white teeth, and said nervously: "The sinner Naga is the king of chariots in the Maurya Dynasty after King Ashoka. , I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Chapter 420 One Fish, Two Eats

"I didn't expect you to have such courage at such a young age. All the officials and ministers have fled, but you are still sticking to this palace."

Xiang Yu's slender black eyebrows frowned slightly, looking at the girl who was only thirteen or fourteen years old in front of him, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

After all, since the Xia army captured Huashi City, local officials, generals, and nobles fled and hid for a while.

Apart from a bunch of castaway pariahs, there was hardly a nobleman in sight.

But now, the girl who is the king of chariots, even though there are only seven or eight maids around, still sticks to the Baizhang Palace, guarding the last bit of face of the king on the last inch of territory.

This made Xiang Yu, who was born in a noble family, feel a little higher in his evaluation.

Bai Su couldn't help chuckling: "General Xiang, I'm afraid you have misunderstood. The reason why she sticks to this place is probably not because of her backbone, but because she has nowhere else to go."

Xiang Yu was taken aback for a moment, he couldn't understand Bai Su's meaning.

The cart king Naga beside him had a wry smile on his fair and pretty face: "Sure enough, have you been spotted by your lord? Everyone in this court can escape, but I have nowhere to go."

The Peacock Dynasty was similar to the enfeoffment system of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The king was just a leader, and it was the city lords of the city-states who really controlled the real power in the area.

The civil and military officials in the court are all Brahmins and Kshatriyas from various city-states.

These people fled the capital and returned to their hometowns, and they were still local aristocratic families.

But she is different.

As the emperor in the palm elected by the Brahmins, she has the right to command all parties as a banner only if she stays in the capital.

Once she leaves the capital, she is basically worthless.

Those city lords will not accept a subjugated king who is worthless.

Facing Xia Jun, who is coming like a broken bamboo, these thieves are likely to choose to betray her and use her head as a gift to Xia Jun, so as to guarantee their family and continue to control the local area.

Therefore, no matter which city-state she fled to, she might not end well in the future.

Rather than being betrayed by others in the future, it would be better for her to stand up and welcome Xia Jun into the city, at least to ensure her personal safety.

Seeing her weak face, Bai Su couldn't help laughing and said, "You're very smart..."

The chariot king Naga smiled bitterly, and said in a low voice, "I'm just timid and have no great ambitions. I just want to get rid of the throne and take a look at the scenery outside."

Bai Su asked curiously, "Don't you have any memories of the throne?"

Naga hesitated for a while, then said: "I grew up in the palace, and I have been manipulated like a marionette. I grew up so big, I never even went out of the palace."

"Rather than being a king who is always in fear, I would rather be a girl of the people. At least I can walk among the fields and take a look at the thousands of rivers and mountains that can only be seen from the paintings."

It seemed that Bai Su's tone was kind. After talking for a while, she couldn't help but relax slowly, forgetting the fear in her heart, and talking about her distress from time to time.

Bai Su said with a smile: "Since you want to see the scenery, why not come back to the Central Plains with me."

The chariot king Naga's pretty face suddenly turned pale, and he asked tentatively: "My lord, you...you won't take me back, ask me to kill you?"

Bai Su couldn't help asking, "Why do you think so?"

The chariot king Naga bit his red lips lightly with his teeth, and said in a low voice: "I heard that all the monarchs captured by the enemy were either severely tortured or treated as slaves for fun, and most of them will not end well."

Bai Su sneered, and said: "I am a country of etiquette, how can I do such barbaric things, take you back, just let you experience the culture of my Central Plains."

"During the banquet, I occasionally played the piano for His Majesty the First Emperor, performed a dance, and exchanged cultures between the two countries."

In a sense, he was right.

After all, compared to simply killing people, it is more beneficial to directly bring the monarch of the Maurya Dynasty back to Xianyang and slowly feed him.

For example, at the time of the annual tribute from various states, let the former emperor of the Maurya Dynasty come out and perform a dance for the political sister.

Not only to win the favor of the political sister, but also came to a place to kill chickens for monkeys, which shocked those foreign countries.

Let them see what will happen if they offend Da Xia Wei Zhe.

After realizing that Bai Su would not kill her, the cart king Naga breathed a long sigh of relief.

Performing dances for the first emperor may be a very humiliating thing in the eyes of other monarchs, but in her eyes, it is nothing at all.

After all, compared to being the emperor in the palm of his hand, being called around by Xiangguo every day, without a trace of security, going to the Central Plains with Bai Su is already much happier.

After pondering for a long time, she looked at Bai Su with her jet-black eyes, and couldn't help but ask, "How does your lord plan to speak to our Maurya Dynasty?"

Bai Su smiled slightly, and then said slowly, "Establish the Tianzhu Protectorate."

The big chariot king Naga's expression changed. She is a smart person, so she naturally knew what Bai Su's words meant.

Since it is said that the Tianzhu Protectorate is to be established, the country of the Mauryan Dynasty, even Buddhism, as well as Brahmins, Kshatriyas and other nobles, may all cease to exist.

These simple words probably mean that an unknown number of people will fall to the ground in the future.

She bit her red lips tightly with her white teeth, and couldn't help asking: "My... my lord, didn't you say counterattack back then, why are you annexing our Maurya Dynasty now?"

Bai Su coughed lightly, and said righteously, "Our Great Xia sent envoys to establish diplomatic relations with you, but you robbed and killed our envoys. This is one of them."

"Afterwards, we sent envoys to send the letter of credence, asking you to make compensation to us, but you still turned a blind eye and formed an army of 40 to fight us."

"Which is tolerable and which is unbearable, we were forced to have no choice but to pull out the long sword at our waist unwillingly and fight to the end with you."

"As for the reason why the Tianzhu Protectorate is established now, it is naturally to conform to the will of the people and rescue the oppressed people from the hands of the Brahmin nobles."

"Let them no longer have to kneel in front of the Buddha statue to pray every day, and finally save money for a lifetime, but use it to offer incense to the temple."

"Afterwards, our Daxia officials will distribute farm tools to them, formulate farming methods for reclaiming the land, and ensure that everyone has food..."

"After a good harvest in the future, you can use the surplus grain to exchange for exquisite silk, delicious cane sugar, popular tea, gorgeous porcelain..."

After hearing Bai Su's words, the chariot king Naga Zhu opened his lips slightly, and couldn't help sighing: "I didn't expect that my lord has a heart of benevolence and justice for the world. Although my lord is not a Buddha who saves suffering, he is better than a Buddha."

Bai Su sighed slightly: "I can't help it, I can't see anyone suffering the most in my life."

Xiang Yu's eyelids twitched at the side, and she gave Bai Su a strange look.

Others don't know this, so she still doesn't know.

Any benevolence and righteousness in order to save the local people are all deceitful.

To put it bluntly, Bai Su just wanted to turn the Mauryan Dynasty into a big granary. In the past, the local untouchables saved all the money they worked so hard to donate to the temple to maintain the life of the Brahmin nobles.

Now Bai Su wants the local people to work hard all year round to grow food, and then sell it to Daxia at a low price of three Wen, or four Wen per catty, in exchange for those valuable commodities such as porcelain and tea.

In this way, it means that the more than 2000 million people of the Maurya Dynasty will all become farmers and farm for the Central Plains.

The Central Plains only needs to trade silk, tea, porcelain and other commodities every year to obtain a large amount of food cultivated by the Mauryan Dynasty so hard that the Central Plains will never have to worry about food, and there will never be any fear of famine in the future.

However, the money earned by the Maurya Dynasty from the sale of grain will hardly stay in the country for a long time, and will soon be exchanged for tea, porcelain and other Central Plains merchants, as well as a large amount of gold, silver, and copper coins in the country.

It will flow into the Central Plains from far away along with the trade route.

It is equivalent to saying that the Central Plains can exploit the people of the Maurya Dynasty twice through this trade policy.

Not only have they obtained local food, but also earned local money. It can be said that they eat both fish and fish.

The more the people of the Maurya Dynasty worked hard to farm, the lower the price of grain in the Central Plains would be, and the higher the living standard of the people in the Central Plains would be.

Xiang Yu looked at Bai Su with a gentle smile on his face, and the girl next to him who was full of admiration, and felt a chill down his back.

What a country with all nations to feed the people of Zhongyuan.

Compared to her ruthless methods on the battlefield, Bai Su's methods are called ruthless.

After all, she can defeat at most one army on the battlefield.

But Bai Su seemed to have just a few words in the treaty, but it completely made the people of a country, a nation, unable to stand up.

What she killed was a person, what Bai Su killed was a country.

Chapter 420 Third Sister Zheng’s Gift

Summer.

Xianyang City

In just half a year, earth-shaking changes have taken place here.

There were originally more than 100 neighborhoods, but now they have expanded to more than 300.

This number is still increasing.

In addition to the increase of neighbors, as the world's trade caravans gather in Xianyang, the scale of trade is getting bigger and bigger. The scale of Xianyang City today has also undergone several expansions.

The original city walls were demolished and rebuilt.

Xiao He and others couldn't rest for a day, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry were also exhausted every day.

Although these people complained about how hard they worked every day, none of them gave up their picks.

the reason is simple……

With the trade between foreign countries and the Central Plains, the Central Plains has also carried out comprehensive innovations in order to produce enough trade goods.

For example, the textile industry has begun to use it in large quantities, forming local textile workers, building textile factories and starting large-scale production of cloth, silk, and cotton.

The mining industry also uses steam engines to transport coal and iron ore excavated in caves.

Even, through the canal, a large amount of sucrose is shipped every year from all over the South.

Naturally, they would not easily miss out on so many opportunities to get promoted, get rich, and mess up their political achievements.

After all, the military exploits of the generals require bloody battles on the battlefield, and as civil servants, the battlefield is an endless stream of internal affairs and people's livelihood.