Great Qin Shi Empress

In the letter, he wrote down all the details he had heard from Datie, and then handed it to Datie, who took all the letters and sent them to a big stone on a small hillside not far from the valley where the tribe was located. under--

That is a communication method that only Datie and his brother know. Whenever they have something that is not good for others to know, they will write a letter and put it under the stone.

After being arrested in Qin State, he was strictly controlled in the first period, and he was living in Qin State during that time every day, so he had no chance to contact him.

But after arriving in the hinterland of Xiqiang, it may be that they, the captured Xiqiang people, performed well before, so as long as they don't run too far, they can leave the city every day and go horse racing outside to relax for a while.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Da Tie put the letter in the place he had agreed with his brother.

The first time he put the letter in the agreed place, it took more than half a month before the letter was taken away.

This time he took a stack of letters and put them under the stone, but they were taken away the next day.

After Datie discovered this fact, he immediately went to find Baihu.

In Da Tie's heart, the white fox has always been smarter than himself——

Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to be thin and small, unable to ride a horse and fight in battle, but he won the favor of the young patriarch and became his right-hand man.

After Baihu learned about this, he didn't react too much: "I think your brother will definitely come, but the others..."

Although he wrote letters to almost everyone he knew, even the young patriarch Xiongying, Baihu himself knew that even though most of the clansmen were moved after reading the letter, under the obstruction of the patriarch, the young patriarch and others , It would be nice to have one or two people who surrendered.

He didn't know that Xiongying was moved after reading the letter.

Not only the eagle, but even their patriarch has moved their minds.

In the end, it was Xiong Ying who managed to keep his sanity: "Although the white fox letter mentioned that our captured clansmen lived a good life in the Qin city, this is just his one-sided statement. What is the specific situation, son I think we still need to send someone to look at it.”

The patriarch paused and nodded: "Since that's the case, who do you think is better to send?"

Xiongying subconsciously wanted to talk about Baihu, but soon realized that Baihu had already run away.

He was angry again.

The patriarch also knew that Xiongying and Baihu had a good relationship before, so he couldn't help but laugh when he saw this: "If there are no suitable candidates around you, there are a few good candidates around Weifu."

Xiongying came back to his senses: "No father, son will go there in person."

The patriarch frowned instantly: "How can you be in danger as a young patriarch? The white fox is just an ordinary member of the tribe. It is normal that you have not been interrogated after surrendering. If you are arrested as a young patriarch, once Qin is not like the white fox The friendliness shown by the two of you and Da Tie will inevitably take you as a hostage..."

It's just fine as a hostage, but it would be bad if he was tortured after knowing his identity.

As the head of the young patriarch, Xiongying often attends the gatherings of the various tribes of the Western Qiang, and many people know him.

Xiongying gritted his teeth: "Son will be careful."

The patriarch had a bad expression on his face.

But Xiongying insisted, and said that he was worried about letting other people go to the city of Qin, and the patriarch had no choice—

Even if he doesn't allow it, the eagle can escape by itself?

So not long after, the eagle dressed up in disguise, took some luggage and appeared outside the city, and also proposed to surrender.

He made such a mess of himself and dusted his face that no one recognized him at first.

but……

Xiao He saw at a glance that Xiong Ying's status in the tribe was either rich or noble——

After all, he is not a professional actor. The demeanor that has been carefully cultivated after being established as an heir since childhood is not common in Xiqiang people.

Then look at the nondescript clothes on the other party, and the slightly suspicious eyes of the white fox...

Xiao He almost guessed the other party's identity.

But he, Lu Zhi and others did not say anything, but chose to be blind, and directly put them into the city as ordinary captives.

It doesn't do much other than make people pay more attention.

Xiongying has been busy in Qin State City for about half a month, and after confirming that the life in Qin State City is really good, after Baihu and Datie have not lied to others, they find the two to recognize each other, and then under the cover of the two He ran directly back to where the tribe was.

The next day, the eagle showed up outside the city wall with everyone in his tribe.

……

Xiao He and the others were still looking for the eagle one after another. When they saw a group of Xiqiang cavalry outside the city wall, they immediately put people on emergency alert.

Unexpectedly, Xiongying and his father got off the horse directly and saluted in the direction of Xiao He and others.

The gift of surrender.

After a pause, Xiao He led his soldiers out of the city to meet the Eagle Tribe.

The news of the Eagle Tribe's surrender quickly spread throughout Xiqiang, but surprisingly, no one found it strange.On the contrary, after the news spread, the major tribes of Xiqiang, who had some concerns at first, seemed to be encouraged, and led people to appear around the two cities of Qin State one after another, and voluntarily chose to surrender.

At the beginning, the number of tribes who came to surrender was still small, only two or three tribes every month, and except for the tribe where the eagle was, which was relatively large and had enough people, the other tribes were small.

But when winter came, the climate on the plateau instantly became extremely cold...

The situation changed drastically in an instant.

Almost immediately after the New Year in Qin State, the temperature on the plateau instantly dropped below zero.

Although not many people were killed in the previous confrontation between Xiqiang and Qin, and Xiqiang did not seem to have suffered much loss in this war, but the fact that most of the land lost by the Xiqiang tribes was a certainty, and after they were driven out In the process of leaving the land they lived on in previous years, they were also forced to throw away many belongings and livestock bought in previous years.

Therefore, this winter, the Western Qiang tribes are really having a hard time.

It’s not that it’s really the end of the mountain——

The tribes of the Western Qiang are still united with each other. If a tribe is really unable to survive, other tribes will not hesitate to lend a helping hand.

But the question is, don't they have two crazy neighbors?

In order to live through this winter, the herdsmen of the Western Qiang tribes who escaped the pursuit of the soldiers of the Qin State not only need to save food and money, but even sleep at night in the same tent as much as possible, otherwise the fuel will burn too fast. Something will happen in the second half of winter.

But how did the people in the two cities of Qin survive the winter?

In order not to delay the construction period of the city, they did not reduce the use of fuel at all. Not only did the workers live in dormitories that burned kangs or floor heating at night, but even the place where they worked also lit several large braziers.

Even though these Xiqiang people have not personally experienced it in the surrounding area, they know how warm it is to sit nearby just by looking at the flames that are burning and even the surrounding walls are glowing red.

What's more, many of the workers who helped around were so hot that they took off their coats and were sweating all over their bodies.

Besides that there is food.

In those two cities, almost every meal time, they would burn fires and cook near where the workers were busy. Even on the hillside several miles away from the cities, they could smell the fragrant food.

There are also the thick and warm clothes they wear, the strange equipment they use when traveling, and the various treatments they receive when they get sick...

The Xiqiang warriors who were in charge of observing the two cities saw that the life of the Qin people was so good, but they didn’t feel much about it. After all, they already knew that the lives of the people of Qin State were getting better and better, but the problem was that living this kind of life was obviously not enough. Not only Qin people!

Not only did they see the Huns, Yuezhi people, Wusun people and other northern nomads who had fought before, they even saw their own captured tribesmen.

And all of their lives were the same.

are better off than them.

Several Xiqiang cavalry who were in charge of observing the city of Qin State looked at it, and their mood suddenly broke down——

Take a look at what life a prisoner lives, and then look at yourself!

This gap is really too big. If they were not still thinking about their relatives and friends in the tribe, these soldiers could run down the hillside to the city of Qin to surrender on the spot.

But such injustice obviously cannot be easily erased.

After they went back, they couldn't help talking about how good the lives of the Qin people, the Huns, etc., and the Xiqiang captives living in the cities of the Qin State were. Difference.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the tribe is getting worse and worse, the patriarch can only come forward to comfort him: "There are so many people living in the city of Qin, and many Xiqiang tribes have come to seek refuge one after another. Go down, and when the food and fuel stored in the city are exhausted, they will have a hard time."

When everyone heard this, they felt that it made sense, and the shaken military spirit was barely appeased.

but……

Not long after these words were spoken, someone hurriedly returned to the tribe to report——

Qin Guo sent a lot of food and fuel over again!

At this moment, the herdsmen in the tribe clamoring to surrender could not be suppressed instantly.

Just at this time, the patriarch of the Eagle tribe wrote them a letter, mentioning their life in the city of Qin, and how they would be treated if they surrendered at this time, and if they missed this opportunity, they might If there is no way to get such good treatment in the future...

The tribal patriarch sighed: "Okay, let's go to the city of Qin!"

Everyone cheered instantly, immediately packed up all their belongings, and headed for the Qin State city closest to their tribe.

On the way, they also met many people from other tribes.

When they finally arrived at the nearby city, they heard the statistics from Xiao He and the others: Well, it was only a mere winter, and their Western Qiang army was almost wiped out.

It took only one or two months for the imperial court to get this good news after the Chinese New Year.

Chaozhong and up and down instantly rejoiced.

She never expected that this would be the result. Even Lin Qian, in her expectation, the city of Qin State would be full of cities in the place where the Xiqiang people lived, and the scope of power would directly cover the entire area. It was the Xiqiang people who were dissatisfied with this and could only be forced to become one of the ethnic groups under the Qin State.

After the death of the current generation of Xiqiang people, the Qin State can take all the remaining places without bloodshed.

She never thought that it would be so easy to take down Xiqiang.

But if you think about it carefully, you feel that this is actually a very easy thing to understand——

First of all, it is because the products on the plateau are not as rich as the geographical environment such as plains or even hills, so among the large areas occupied by the Xiqiang tribe, in fact, most of them are the closer to the Qin State, the more abundant the water and grass, and the strength of the tribe. bigger.

And when this part of the land was occupied by the Qin State, the originally not very rich supplies of Xiqiang were greatly reduced in an instant, and the life of the Xiqiang people naturally became more and more sad.

At this time, he met the Qin State who was hanging up again.

It is not easy to build roads on the plateau, but with the full support of the modern state, the railway and cement road leading to the two cities have been successfully built.

With the help of these two roads, Qin State can continuously send domestic grain and coal mines to those two cities, so that everyone living in the cities can live exactly the same as the people in the hinterland of the Central Plains, or even better. life.

Stimulated by the extremely unbalanced living standards on both sides, it is not surprising that the Xiqiang people make any decisions.

After all, in the previous life, in order to make my life better, I secretly moved the boundary markers of the two countries to the other direction of my home, directly turning myself into a person of another country.

After thinking it over clearly, only pure joy remained on Lin Qian's face.

Although it was a mistake, it is a great thing for Qin and the Xiqiang people to achieve the current result.

The ministers of the DPRK and China were overjoyed and praised Ying Zheng's wisdom and the wisdom of Lin Qian who proposed the idea of ​​building the city.

Ying Zheng was overjoyed, and immediately decided to hold a banquet to reward all those who have made meritorious deeds.

Who would have thought that before a banquet was over, a piece of great news came from Lin Mo far away in the Western Regions——

It turned out that after all the tribes of the Western Qiang surrendered, a considerable number of small countries didn't know what they were thinking wildly after learning about the incident. Bow down.

It’s not just a self-proclaimed vassal state like the Kucha state, and it also needs to pay tribute to the Qin state every year, but in fact it can maintain the integrity of its own country’s territory and sovereignty, but...

It was directly merged into the Qin State, and even the royal family and nobles of the country moved into Xianyang to live.

Ying Zheng was very happy after taking the Xiqiang, and he was even more excited when he heard the good news. He immediately sent Zhang Liang to the Western Regions to accept the surrender of those small countries.

Zhang Liang originally thought that his trip to the Western Regions was just to show the sincerity of the Qin State. After arriving in the Western Regions, he would directly bring the local princes and nobles back to Xianyang, and there was no need to delay too much on the way.

But he didn't want to wait until he arrived in the Western Regions to find that dozens of countries, large and small, in the Western Regions basically all chose to become part of Qin's territory——

Zhang Liang looked at the king's seal presented by the countries in the Western Regions, with a rare expression on his face.

Fortunately, Lin Mo was the only person in charge in the Western Regions, so after accepting all the king's seals in a muddleheaded manner and appeasing all the princes and nobles, he went directly to Lin Mo.

Lin Mo's explanation for this is: "You ask why so many countries in the Western Regions surrendered? Some of them came to me on their own initiative and proposed that they wanted to become part of Qin, and the rest were persuaded by me to surrender."

Zhang Liang was stunned: "To persuade you to surrender?"

Lin Mo's expression was a bit strange: "Isn't this after the surrender of the Western Qiang tribes, a small country appeared in the Western Regions where some people took the initiative to join Qin? Some of the larger countries in the area were a little panicked. After I wrote to Gu Feng Hou Hou came to me one after another to inquire about the news."

"The main thing is to find out if Qin is interested in the Western Regions."

"You know," Lin Mo said with a smile on his face, "I'm actually not very good at lying, but this is a very important matter in the court. How dare I, a dispatched official, talk about it at will? So when they asked, I just Can respond vaguely."

"But they may have misunderstood. After returning, they became more and more worried, and soon after, they found their subordinates, saying that they also wanted to be a part of my Daqin. Those royal nobles also expressed their willingness to go to Xianyang to live together."

Zhang Liang looked up at Lin Mo with a slightly speechless expression.

Lin Mo didn't take it seriously, but said with a distressed face: "But this kind of thing, I haven't dealt with it, so I can only wait for the imperial court to send people to discuss with me how to solve it. "

Zhang Liang looked at her suspiciously: "Didn't these countries all choose to fall into Qin's arms, what else needs to be resolved?"

Lin Mo sighed: "Isn't it true that although most countries have voluntarily expressed that they can become a part of Qin, one or two are still wary of Da Qin and haven't spoken yet?"

After a glance, Zhang Liang found that although almost all countries had given up their resistance in advance, there were still two countries that were "turning a deaf ear" to what happened outside.

One of them is the Loulan country. This country has always had a tough attitude, and it is not surprising that it would choose such a country; but the other country surprised Zhang Liang, because that country was the first to become one of the vassal states of Qin. Kucha country.

He looked at Lin Mo: "Kucha Kingdom?"

Lin Mo smiled: "It's not a big deal, it's just that some countries feel that their wings are hardened, and they will be honest after a lesson. The key is Loulan."