Daqin: From abandoned baby to emperor of the ages

Li Xin looked at the First Emperor at the door, and a moment of panic flashed in his eyes.

Even at this moment, he forgot that he should salute.

“Aye…” Zhao Che saw the First Emperor, as if he saw a savior.

Zhao Che is very self-aware, with his three-hang level to talk to Li Xin about life is too exaggerated, this world can persuade, or can order Li Xin, there is only one person.

That is the First Emperor!

The First Emperor walked into the courtyard and rubbed Zhao Che’s head.

Even if Zhao Che had grown up, the First Emperor could not quit this habit.

The First Emperor motioned for Zhao Che to stand behind him and calmly looked at Li Xin and Qin Jian next to the Gongtai.

“Your Majesty… Your Majesty…” Li Xin was silent for a long time before he spoke.

Then bowed to the First Emperor.

“How did the little slave learn?” The First Emperor’s face was still ancient, and it seemed that he was just asking casually.

“Very good… His future achievements will be above mine. Li Xin was determined, as if he was full of confidence in Zhao Che.

The First Emperor was silent about this.

This was not the first time that the First Emperor had heard someone praise Zhao Che.

In fact, Zhao Che was originally someone else’s child.

Born with early wisdom and divine power, Wang Chong praised Zhao Che’s talent to be visible to the naked eye, and even did not hesitate to offend himself to let Zhao Che learn from Li Xin.

People who read goods can always see Zhao Che’s talent better than ordinary people.

Li Xin’s attainments needn’t be said, even if the record is not much worse than Wang Chui, he can naturally see Zhao Che’s talent.

“Minister… Thank you, Your Majesty! Li Xin sighed with emotion and bowed again to salute.

Zhao Che was able to follow his own learning, which must have the tacit approval of the First Emperor.

Li Xin was really ashamed of the First Emperor, he looked away from everything, but the person who still owed was the First Emperor.

He cannot be faithful to his courtiers, and emotionally, he cannot reciprocate.

In the last period of your life, finding someone who can inherit your mantle is a very valuable thing.

“Are you very optimistic about the little slave?” The First Emperor smiled.

“In time, he will definitely be able to grow!” Li Xin nodded resolutely.

Of course, he believes in his vision and in his talent.

“Hmm…” the First Emperor nodded.

Then fell into a deep silence.

Li Xin did not speak, and the atmosphere became quiet for a while.

“Go to Longxi to be Meng Tian’s adjutant!” The First Emperor suddenly spoke.

Li Xin was stunned for a moment, and his face was embarrassed.

This was not the first time that the First Emperor had appointed him to war after a setback.

In fact, after the defeat of Chu, Li Xin also followed the army to fight twice, and the first emperor had already given Li Xin many opportunities, and it was Li Xin himself who failed the first emperor.

And Li Xin did not want to fail the First Emperor again.

He can’t afford this heavy gift!

“This is Xuan’s order!” The First Emperor did not care about Li Xin’s refusal, or he had expected that Li Xin would choose to shirk.

Li Xin was silent for a long time, and then he nodded silently.

Yes, even if he had the will to die, he still could not disobey the order of the First Emperor.

“The minister knows!” Li Xin nodded.

The First Emperor nodded, did not say anything more, just waved his hand, signaling to drive back to the palace.

Arriving at the door, the First Emperor’s footsteps suddenly stopped, and then he spoke.

“The little slave is still young, he is only nine years old!”

Li Xin’s body, which was collecting the sacrifices, paused for a moment before returning to normal.

He understood what the First Emperor meant…

The First Emperor had always known the situation in Longxi.

Meng Tian had just sent a message not long ago that the Dayue clan had lost to the Xiongnu and had already been defeated.

The Xiongnu, led by Touman, swept through the two most powerful tribes in the steppe.

It was only a matter of time before the Eastern Huyue clan was annexed by the Xiongnu, and the remaining large and small tribes were integrated by the Xiongnu.

It won’t be long before the grasslands that once fought separately for three parts of the world will fall into great unification.

The First Emperor unified the Central Plains, and the Xiongnu, the old enemy of the Central Plains for hundreds of years, also followed in the footsteps of the First Emperor to unify the grasslands.

And every unification of the steppe brings only one result!

War!

Definitely not peaceful communication!

Because the productivity of the grasslands is seriously insufficient, they simply do not have enough food to eat.

The biggest misunderstanding of modern people about the grassland is that nomads do not lack cattle and mutton to eat, they are tall and strong, and they have meat.

As a matter of fact…… Cows and sheep are only aristocratic.

The civilians in the steppe lived more miserably than the civilians in the Central Plains.

From this point of view, in fact, there is no essential difference between the wealth clusters of the nobles in the grasslands and the Central Plains.

Cattle and sheep are food, and grain is food.

The great nobles of the steppe raised cattle and sheep, and the great nobles of the Central Plains hoarded grain.

But there is a fundamental difference!

i.e. stability!

As the saying goes, the family is rich, but the hairy one does not count!

In feudal times, whether it was a cold snap, a flu, or a hailstorm, the savings of nomads would be destroyed.

And grain, too, can be stored for a long, long time …

Stability leads to the fact that nomads must go to war and must also invade, because not war is death, war is death.

It is better to let your people wait for death than to plunder with them.

Therefore, even in the era when Wei Huo was born and the Xiongnu who fought could not find the north, the Xiongnu still never stopped offending the border.

This is determined by the unstable economic base of nomads.

They do not have stable arable land and no means to combat natural and man-made disasters, and they have only one way to go if they cannot survive.

In fact, why is this not the case in the Central Plains?

When the survival needs of the people at the bottom cannot be met, war will also break out in the Central Plains.

But when the steppes were torn apart, they would attack and annex nearby tribes.

But now that the grasslands are unified, the Xiongnu only have one goal if they want to transfer the pressure, that is, to attack Daqin.

Unless Touman was willing to move west with all his tribes to the Middle East.

It is foreseeable that with the unification of the Huns, the deterrence once shaped by the frontier will cease to exist.

Because the Xiongnu must attack Daqin!

Either hit the Xiongnu themselves to pieces, or eat meat from Daqin, hoping that the nomads will not invade, it is better to expect the tigers not to eat meat.

With the advent of the Maxim heavy machine gun, it was actually unreasonable for nomads to become able to sing and dance.

In a fundamental sense, most of them can survive by non-war means, so the careerists naturally have no room to exert their strengths.

The Xiongnu, on the other hand, was the most important test left by the first emperor to Zhao Che on the road to the throne.

Of course, this is his own grandson after all.

The First Emperor did not mind opening the back door for Zhao Che.

Meng Tian wrote to tell the First Emperor that he really didn’t know much about cavalry, and it was not an overnight thing to understand this thing from the beginning, but if Li Xin could be allowed to come to Longxi, it might reduce the pressure on Longxi a lot.

Of course……

Nor can it be lightened too much… At the very least, he must leave a life for the Xiongnu to wait for his good grandson to mend the knife.

The First Emperor believed that Li Xin would understand what he meant.

(My neck hurts, I’ll shoot a film tomorrow, and if there is no problem next week, six changes a day.) ）