Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

  Chapter 108 Attacking Zhao

   Ying Zheng just finished speaking.

I saw Mr. Mo wearing a court uniform for governing millet internal history, slowly walking out of the front row of civil officials, and respectfully saluted Yingzheng above: "My lord, the spring planting is ready, and now the "new grain planting" "People have been sent to various counties and counties. It's just..."

  Ying Zheng asked: "Just what?"

  Mr. Mo clasped his hands and said, "It's just that a few teams transporting 'new grains' were stolen by thieves and lost more than a dozen stones of 'new grains'."

   "Who is so bold? Stealing my Daqin property."

   "I don't know, but when chasing those thieves, one of them dropped a longbow from Zhao Guo's 'Falling Star Gate'."

   "Zhao Guo?"

  Ying Zheng narrowed his eyes, and said, "Mo Qing, do you really mean this?"

  Mr. Mo said with a serious face: "I dare not deceive the king."

  Boom!

  Ying Zheng rose up against the case and said angrily, "It's really unreasonable. People from Zhao country dare to openly come to Qin country to do this robbery. Where is Meng Ao?"

   "The veteran is here!"

  As Ying Zheng spoke, he saw an old man with a gray beard, a burly figure, and piercing eyes, stepping out from the ranks of generals.

   This person is Meng Ao.

   "The widow will immediately order you to lead 200,000 troops, with Huan Yu as the deputy general, to go to the border of Zhao. If Zhao Guo can't give an explanation on this matter, I, Daqin, will never give up."

   "The old minister takes orders!"

  Meng Ao responded immediately with a trembling voice.

  The rest of the people in the court looked at the clumsy drama performed by the three in front of them, and their expressions gradually became weird.

   Want an explanation?

  Do you believe this?

  Which family directly commanded 200,000 troops to ask for an explanation, and pushed them to the border of other countries to ask for an explanation?

  Following his territory and resources, he just said it. After all, it’s not like Qin has never done this kind of thing before.

  Seeing the expressions on the faces of the other ministers, Ying Zheng suddenly let out a soft 'hmm' in his nasal cavity, and then said slowly.

   "Do you have any opinions?"

   "The king is wise!"

  Many ministers above the court did not even hesitate for a second, and decisively spoke in unison.

   "Since that's the case, Mo Qing will handle the transfer of the army's logistics and supplies, so let's all step down!"

   "The ministers and others will retire."

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   The meeting was dismissed.

  Jun Mo and Meng Ao did not have any communication in Xianyang Palace.

  After leaving the Xianyang Palace, Mr. Mo took a horse-drawn carriage and walked around Xianyang casually before entering the Meng Mansion.

  Now Mr. Mo’s status is not what it used to be, and some things are naturally impossible to be as casual as before, just like when he met Meng Ao, one of them is now at the top of the civil servants, and the other is at the top of the generals.

  If the two of them still met and talked casually as before, maybe Ying Zheng wouldn't care once or twice, but if there were too many times, it was hard to guarantee that Ying Zheng wouldn't think too much.

  After all, if the ministers among the civil and military officials really unite, it is possible to evade the royal power.

  So Mr. Mo wants to meet Meng Ao now, neither too openly nor too secretive.

  Mr. Mo must put himself in a situation where he is pretending to be concealed, but can just be seen by Ying Zheng's eyeliner. It is most suitable to enter the Meng Mansion.

   "Coming!"

   Seeing Mo Jun walk into the courtyard, Meng Ao immediately smiled and said, "How is it? Sometimes it doesn't feel good to be in a high position, right? Sit!"

  Mr. Mo shook his head helplessly, then came to sit down in front of Meng Ao, and said, "I really feel that I'm not as happy as when I was in Nanjun."

   "Hahaha~~ I didn't expect you to be able to do this just because I haven't seen you for a few years."

  Looking at the young man in front of him whose body was gradually maturing and whose face was becoming more and more handsome, Meng Ao couldn't help feeling a little emotional in his heart.

  Although when he first met Mo Jun, he already felt that this son was not in the pond, but now Mo Jun's achievements, even when he first got the news, he was still dumbfounded.

   "It's a pity that you have been married by the king now, otherwise the old man will marry you no matter what." Meng Ao said with some regret, holding his beard.

   "Senior Meng was joking."

  Mr. Mo smiled, but didn't take Meng Ao's words seriously.

  Qin currently implements the system of monogamy and multiple concubines.

   Jun Mo, who was bestowed marriage by Ying Zheng, is not unable to continue marrying other women, but the position of main wife can only be the Princess of Qin who bestowed the marriage.

  Dynasties and dynasties.

  It is very common for kings to win over ministers of great merit through marriage.

   Rather than saying that this is a marriage, it is more appropriate to say that it is a transaction.

  Although Mr. Mo does not like this kind of utilitarian marriage, in this era, there are some things that even he cannot avoid.

  But it is naturally impossible for the concubine daughter of the Meng family to be sent as a concubine, and the concubine daughter is not worthy of Lord Mo.

not to mention.

  Even if the Meng family really has a daughter who is willing to be a concubine for Mo Jun, it is impossible for the two families to form an marriage relationship.

Again.

  Because the two parties have too much power, once the two families get married, it will definitely attract the fear and suspicion of the king.

   But for now, Ying Zheng's gift of marriage is just a title, and it can be regarded as a pre-arranged wedding for both parties, but it is not known how long it will take to actually complete the ceremony process.

  After all, in this era, it is not a trivial matter for a princess to marry. The preparation in advance may take two or three years.

   Moreover, the princess who planned to marry Mo Jun is not yet ready to marry.

no way.

  The main reason is that Ying Zheng himself is still young.

  In his twenties, the eldest son Fu Sudu was born only a few years ago. He bestowed a marriage on Mo Jun this time purely for the sake of winning over Mo Jun.

   "What do you think, Senior Meng, about the king's attack on Zhao?"

   Just as the other ministers in the court had guessed, the reason why Yingzheng sent troops to attack Zhao this time was of course not because a dozen stones of "new grain" were robbed.

  Above the court, the dialogue between Mo Jun and Ying Zheng, the two sides had passed the gas long before the court.

  As for Meng Ao, it was completely improvised by an old drama.

Of course.

   It is also a fact that more than a dozen stones of the 'new grain seeds' distributed by Mo Jun were stolen.

   After all, with Lu Buwei's death, Mo Jun was named 'Sheng Ping Jun'. After such a big event happened, it is impossible for the other six countries not to send people to Qin to find out the inside story.

  Once the news of the "new rice species" is known, it is even more impossible for the other six countries to have no reaction to it.

   Actually.

  Not only the other six countries, but also all the sects that want to save the common people, after hearing the news of the "new grain", they have already heard the news.

  However, these people are not just drawing dozens of 'new rice seeds', they are drawing more of Mo Jun, the person who improved the 'new rice seeds'.

   "The result of this attack on Zhao is not important, what is important is the operation itself." Meng Ao took a sip of tea and said slowly.

  Jun Mo nodded, in fact, he also guessed part of Yingzheng's intention to send troops to attack Zhao this time.

  Now in the state of Qin, Lao Ai, Lu Buwei, and foreign relatives of Chu have fallen one after another, and the internal worries have been eliminated. The next problem that should be solved should be foreign aggression.

   But the opposite is true.

   Now that internal worries have been eliminated, the next problem that needs to be solved is still 'internal worries'.

   is just another internal worry.

the reason is simple.

  Because of the big cleansing this winter, although the hidden dangers within the Qin State were cleared away, it also caused the entire Qin State court to fall into another state of "people's panic".

  So what Yingzheng needs to do next is to stabilize the court.

  For this reason, the method Yingzheng chose is similar to the method Mo Jun used to appease the disaster victims in Nanjun before. They used another thing to divert the attention of Qin officials.

  But now that there is no suitable 'target' within Qin, Yingzheng can only shift his target outside Qin.

   Zhao Guo happened to be a suitable target.

   After all, in the past few years, there have been frictions between Qin State and Zhao State from time to time. Even in the past few years, Qin State also sent three generals, Huan Jue, Wang Jian, and Yang Duan, to join forces to attack Zhao State.

  Although it was not successful in the end, it took nine cities of Zhao State in a row.

  After that, Zhao Guo and Yan Guo clashed.

  During Zhao's attack on Yan, Qin State unilaterally dispatched Wang Jian and other generals to attack Zhao State in the name of saving Yan.

   Even the Zhangshui Basin was occupied by the Qin army.

   Wait until the second year.

  The Qin army attacked Zhao again and captured Pingyang.

   Not long after, Zhao Jun, led by Li Mu, fought back.

   This beam was settled in one fell swoop.

  So this year Yingzheng once again sent 200,000 troops to attack Zhao, which is completely reasonable.

"correct!"

  Mr. Mo and Meng Ao chatted for a while, suddenly, Meng Ao seemed to think of something, and said: "Since you are the governor of Su Nei Shi, the food and grass for the 200,000 army of the old man..."

   "Aiya~ It's getting late, Senior Meng, I'll take my leave first, don't send me far away."

  Before Meng Ao finished speaking, Mo Jun stood up suddenly, turned around and walked out the door.

  Looking at his back, he seemed to be running away.

   And actually.

  Mr. Mo is indeed running away, there is no other way, he really has to run away!

  Only after he became a real historian of Su, did Mr. Mo understand how bad Qin's taxation and finances were.

  If you use one word to describe the current Zhisu Neishi Mansion.

  That is—poor!

   If you use two words to describe it.

  That is—poor + rotten.

To know.

  More than a year ago, Mo Jun had just brought 200,000 gold coins and 600,000 shi of grain to Ying Zheng from Nanjun.

  This amount does not seem to be much, but don’t forget that these are all additional income from the Qin State treasury. And last year's situation was not bad, and the taxes collected were not bad.

   Logically speaking.

  The current national treasury should be quite ample.

  However, after checking the treasury not long ago, Mr. Mo found that there were only 50,000 gold coins left in the treasury.

   That's right.

  Only fifty thousand gold coins.

  If Meng Ao leads an army of 200,000 to go to war next, the 50,000 gold coins can barely support the battle.

   And this battle can't last too long.

  Jun Mo checked the account books, and for the first time he realized how much money was spent in turning Qin into the current war machine after Shang Yang's reform.

   The simplest example.

  Now the army raised by the Qin State, if the corvee is counted, the rations alone are enough to eat the entire grain tax of the Qin State for a year.

  Although the food and tax books are expensive, at least the amount is clear.

  But for other accounts, it is really a completely bad account.

  When he saw those accounts, Mo Jun even had the idea of ​​quitting the job.

  Afterwards, just to settle this bad debt, Mo Jun spent almost a month in the Mo Mansion before finally sorting it out.

   So next.

  The first thing he, the newly appointed Zhi Su Neishi, wants to do is not to collect taxes, but to collect debts.

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  (end of this chapter)