Great Qin Shi Empress

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At the beginning, the herdsmen of the various tribes of Xiqiang only regarded it as an accident, or that there was something wrong with the village they went to; direction to think about.

But when they found that no matter which village they went to, they would hear a loud noise and could only flee empty-handed hastily, this incident would inevitably be remembered in their hearts.

Then, tell or warn those who are close to you.

Even directly tell the patriarch of the tribe.

Of course, at the very beginning, the patriarchs of the Xiqiang tribes will inevitably feel that they are making a fuss, and they don’t believe it or think they think too much. Even if they believe it, they will only scold them and tell them not to talk nonsense to disturb people .

However, the Western Qiang tribes originally migrated from the Central Plains all the way to the west of the Qin State, and they also contributed troops to the Zhou Dynasty as a whole. Therefore, the relationship between the Western Qiang tribes and the Huns and other tribes competed with each other, and even hated each other. Not the same.

Even though the various tribes of the Western Qiang have conflicts over resources such as pastures and water sources on weekdays, they also communicate with each other on weekdays, and even meet at fixed times to bond with each other.

Therefore, when one of them took this incident as an anecdote and told others, but learned from the other party that they had encountered a similar situation more than once, these Xiqiang people felt a little nervous. numb.

After all, no matter which tribe they invaded, they would hear a loud bang, and people would be stunned by it, and many people even lost their lives because of it...

It doesn't allow them to think too much.

Due to the limited development of science and the low level of education of the ancients, when faced with various things and magical phenomena that they cannot understand, it is always easy for the common people to bring up their forgetfulness.

So it was no surprise that after confirming the news with each other and discovering that almost every tribe sent to the Qin border to harass had encountered the same situation, someone immediately raised——

"Did we offend the gods by repeatedly plundering the people of Qin when food and grass were abundant?"

Although the person who said this was immediately reprimanded by others, this statement still left a little impression in everyone's mind.

Maybe they don't have a deep impression, but whatever happens to them makes them connect the two...

……

Xiongying is the son of the patriarch of a tribe in the Western Qiang that lives very close to the state of Qin. Because of his extraordinary physical fitness and responsiveness since he was a child, he was established as the next successor by his patriarch's father early on.

He himself strives for strength, and has never slackened in his pursuit of ability. His strength is not only among the entire tribe, but even in the entire Western Qiang.

Because of this, Eagle has quite a few followers.

He himself is also very responsible, so when he heard that the clansmen went to plunder the people of the Qin people many times, they heard loud noises, and some of them fell to the ground because of the frightened horses, and were caught and killed by the Qin people. After that, he immediately decided to take people to the tribe where some people died.

One is for revenge, and the other is because of disbelief.

After all, no matter which tribe you go to, you will hear a loud noise or something, no matter how you think about it, it's a bit strange.

Godly babble.

There are quite a few people who are willing to follow Xiongying to the border of Qin State to find out. After telling the patriarch, a group of people immediately got ready to go and headed towards Qin State.

After galloping for a while, they soon saw the smoke from a certain village from a distance.

A group of people's eyes lit up immediately, and they hurried over immediately.

The eagle was still quite cautious, and when he was about to step into the village, he raised his hand to signal: "Don't go in when you get to the village entrance, and see if we will hear the sound when we are close to the village, or we must go in to hear the sound." to the sound."

As he spoke, he galloped towards the entrance of the village.

Seeing that they were about to reach the entrance of the village, the eagle was about to stop all the tribesmen, but it didn't want to make a loud "bang". They sat down and their horses immediately screamed, and they fled in all directions regardless of their screams.

Fortunately, the group had been prepared, so they barely restrained the horses, gathered the team again and appeared at the entrance of the village.

Xiongying forcibly suppressed the panic and anger in his heart, and was about to lead people directly into the village.

then……

Everyone heard a loud bang again.

By this time, Xiongying and the others felt a little nervous——

There seems to be no limit to the number of times this sound sounds, but it will sound whenever they want to go in, like a warning.

But it may be because he only heard the sound all the time and was not in danger, so Xiongying still decided to take people into the village to check the real situation after sorting out his mood.

He must find out what is going on!

The others were already timid, but after seeing the eagle's face full of fighting spirit, they all adjusted their mood and decided to rush in with the other party.

After all, no one was hurt by it.

But what everyone didn't expect was that when they assembled their team for the third time and were about to rush into the village, they rushed in from the entrance of the village without hearing a sound.

Xiongying's eyes lit up immediately, and he immediately asked people to look around for the situation.

but……

Just when everyone was ecstatic about this, there was another loud noise all around——

Yes, all around, not just in one direction.

The voice seemed to come from all directions, almost surrounding their team.

What was even more frightening was that this time it was not just a loud noise, the eagle even felt that the ground seemed to shake violently while riding on the horse.

The eagle's face was pale with fright, and when he was about to speak, he saw all the clansmen sitting down and their horses galloping towards the entrance of the village like crazy, and the speed was extremely fast, without giving their owners time and opportunity to react, many people were killed by the horses. His back was thrown to the ground, and he was stepped on by a horse that ran out from behind.

If it weren't for the elites of the clan who came here this time, who had personally tamed their own mounts in the wild, and knew how to protect themselves when the horses went crazy, how many people might die in this accident!

Even Eagle himself almost fell off his horse.

But this is not the end.

Just when Xiongying was terrified and flustered by what happened to his people, he found a sound of "copying guys" coming from the houses that seemed to be uninhabited before.

Even soon, someone rushed out with agricultural tools such as a hoe and sickle.

The eagle immediately shouted: "Get up, let's leave quickly—"

Almost all the horses ran away, and all the Xiqiang people got up from the ground and rushed towards the entrance of the village without caring about their injuries when they heard the order.

Behind the Eagle Palace, after everyone ran out of the village and called back their mounts by whistling, they gave up entanglement with the villagers and ran out of the village on horseback.

While running, he looked back reluctantly——

The eagle has grown so big, and has never suffered such a big loss!

But it was this parting glance that made Xiongying see a group of helpless villagers kneeling in unison in the direction of the village entrance, as if they were worshiping someone.

Xiongying stared wide-eyed, a sense of intense unease swept over his whole body——

Could it be that the gods were really angry because they repeatedly harassed the people of Qin for no reason?

== Lack of people ==

Wang Ben looked at the official document in his hand with a smile on his face.

Seeing this, the deputy general took a look and asked, "This is the No.30 fifth time that the people have reported the Qiang people's invasion this month, right? General, why are you still smiling so happily?"

Wang Ben squinted at him: "Although there have been 35 incidents of Xiqiang people's invasion, so far no civilian has been injured or killed. Shouldn't this general be happy?"

The deputy general reminded: "But this time is too many times."

Wang Ben didn't take it seriously: "The nomads with names and surnames in the north have been completely taken down by Li Xin and Meng Tian. The Western Qiang tribes are almost the only forces that can deter Qin. The two sides know each other well. Sooner or later there will be a war."

After a pause, he sneered and said, "They are in a hurry."

Because he was worried that the Qin State would send troops to the Western Qiang tribes, he simply acted first to show his strength to the Qin State, so that the Qin State could "weigh it".

I can't say it's true, but...

If you have the ability, you can directly send troops to call for battle. What kind of hero is it to harass the people?

Wang Ben was quite ashamed of the way the Western Qiang tribes showed their strength, and he didn't even have a good impression of the entire Western Qiang.

For this reason, he directly ordered to stop the qualifications of the Western Qiang tribes to come to the Qin border for trade.

This method actually has the taste of hurting the enemy by one thousand and self-defeating eight hundred, but compared to the intrusion of the people of Qin by the Western Qiang tribes during this period, this loss is not considered by Wang Ben.

However, after the order was issued and implemented, Xiqiang's harassment of the border people intensified.

Wang Ben knew that the deputy general was cryptically making comments on this matter.

but……

He looked at the lieutenant general: "After all, I'm just a general, and I can't interfere in the implementation of government orders in various counties and counties. Even if I have issued an order to stop mutual market trade, if the county guards in various places are unwilling, they can completely refuse to implement it."

The order can be carried out, it must be because the county guards in various places have the same idea.

The lieutenant paused for a moment, and realized that Wang Ben's words were justified, so he didn't bother with the topic anymore: "Then why did you ask those people to kneel down to worship His Majesty at the entrance of the village after driving them away? This is too strange. I feel a little naughty..."

The deputy general has a good family background. Although he never went to school, he also got textbooks from his nephew and nephew in the family and learned a lot of new knowledge.

And after learning those scientific knowledge, he also has a certain degree of understanding of those things and magical phenomena that he didn't understand before. Naturally, the lieutenant general felt a little uncertain about the legends about gods and ghosts.

He is no longer as in the past, full of trust in the fairy tales.

How did Wang Ben not know what the lieutenant was thinking?

He smiled and explained: "What you think now is what this general and the ministers in the court want to achieve."

The lieutenant paused and realized: "The general wants to misunderstand those Xiqiang people..."

Wang Ben just smiled and said nothing.

……

Xiongying led the tribe back to the tribal gathering place in disgrace, and then found the patriarch's father without stopping, and told everything he saw in that village.

The patriarch's eyes widened after hearing this: "Are you sure you really saw the people kneeling down?"

Xiongying licked his dry lips and nodded: "My son has seen it with his own eyes, and he is absolutely unmistakable."

The patriarch lost his mind for a moment, as if he had been hit by something.

Xiongying saw his reaction and asked bitterly: "Father, do you want to send priests to the border of Qin to investigate? If it is the gods who are angry, we will..."

The patriarch came back to his senses: "Yes, yes, indeed, the priest should be sent to the border of Qin State to have a look."

but……

Sacrifice people with this status, except for the various medicines and other knowledge in their minds, there is actually not much difference between them and the magic stick.

So when the priest just approached the village on the border of the Qin State, he was scared to death by the noise coming from inside, and even prostrated himself on the ground to pray to the gods for forgiveness... It's not surprising.

But for Xiong Ying and others who trusted the priest, this behavior of the priest was almost equivalent to declaring to everyone that the people of Qin State had indeed been blessed by the gods, or that their previous behavior had indeed angered the gods.

So although the tribes of the Western Qiang were unwilling, they finally became peaceful in the end.

The news quickly spread to Xianyang.

The courtiers couldn't help being overjoyed when they heard the news, and the smiles on their faces increased a little when they went to court.

After Ying Zheng learned of this, he was silent for a long time.

Lin Qian was a little puzzled: "This matter is not what you expected, why did you react like this after the news came?"

Ying Zheng came back to his senses, and said with a smile: "Probably because from the performance of the Qiang people, I have a glimpse of what might happen if I still believe in ghosts and gods as usual."

Lin Qian was stunned for a moment, and then realized the meaning of Ying Zheng's words.

She smiled: [You are not superstitious about ghosts and gods like you used to be, and you will definitely not be fooled by some alchemists like the history I know. 】

Ying Zheng let out a breath slowly, and gave Lin Qian a relieved smile.

Lin Qian was stunned, always feeling that there was something different about him from before.

Ying Zheng didn't say much.

Seeing this, Lin Qian smiled, but didn't ask any further questions.

After the Western Regions settle down, Qin State will begin to vigorously develop Qin State's economy.

It was also at this time that Xiao He and Xiao suddenly had news.

After the two successfully built the city together, they sent it to Xianyang together with the good news. In fact, there was a joint letter signed by the two to Yingzheng, saying that they hoped that they would be allowed to divide into two groups and each go to a city to choose a site to be responsible for the construction of a city. The official document came out.

The reasons mentioned by the two of them are also valid——

It's not that the two have conflicts or anything, but that they often work together during the cooperation process. Not only do they have a good understanding of each other's work content, but they even personally help each other when they are too busy.

After building a city from scratch, the two are completely capable of doing each other's work independently.

In this case, bundling the two together is actually actively reducing efficiency.

Both felt that it would be better to separate directly.

After reading the contents of the letter written by the two, Ying Zheng approved the matter with little hesitation.

Now, it was time for the two to report their results.

Because of their experience, the construction process of the city that Xiao He and Xiao are respectively responsible for is also smoother than in the past. Now they have entered the final finishing stage, and their respective progress is almost the same.

But it was also at this time that the Dinglings and the Huns who moved into the first city also lived in it for nearly half a year. Not only did the countries in the Western Regions come to trade with it after hearing the news, making this city truly alive. After coming over, they themselves have a certain feeling and understanding of life after moving into the city.

Of course, the vast majority of people are very fond of life today.

But it was this kind of liking that brought a little bit of trouble to the court——

After all, this is the first city built by the Qin State on the grassland. It has received a lot of attention from the nomads since it was completed;

Isn't this the local people's favorite life after settlement?

Since I like it, I can't help but praise the benefits of life now and the convenience of living in the city when I'm asked.

This actually had a very positive effect on the settlement of other nomadic peoples, but it also directly led to the birth of another problem——

Many people came to Xiao He and Xiao after knowing and even experiencing the benefits of living in the city, and wanted them to go to the place where they were and build the city first.