When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 647 Indulgence before departure
After Zhang Ji personally put on armor and threatened, all the Chu officials who had been clamoring before going to court and threatening to cause blood to splatter every five steps to firmly oppose the peace talks fell silent.

But there was one thing that particularly concerned Zhang Ji. Judging from the intelligence obtained by Luowang, the nobles and wealthy families of Chu State seemed to be beginning to lean towards the Chu government.

The nobles and wealthy families contributed their own private soldiers to make up for the huge losses suffered by the State of Chu this time. Qu Jingzhao and his three clans even emptied their family coffers. The three families took out 600,000 shi of grain and declared that they would be used to train new troops!
The place where the new army was trained was Anlu, where Qu Yuan and the great general of Chu State Jing Cui trained the new army in the past!

In order to train a truly elite force before the next Qin attack on Chu, the royal family nobles, mainly Qu Jingzhao's three clans, made an exception for the first time after Qu Yuan's reform failed and allowed the new army to recruit sons of serfs as knights. They also abolished the hereditary system of official positions in the Chu army. All soldiers were promoted based on their military merits, and the land rent of those who joined the army was exempted, and taxes were reduced by 20%.

After all, the nobles of Chu were not as unwise as the nobles of Han and Wei, who were awakened by Zhang Ji's great defeat.

Faced with the danger of national destruction, these nobles finally understood what they should do and put aside their pride and arrogance.

However, there are still many children of noble families who are unwilling to join this new army, but they cannot withstand the ruthless methods of their elders. Except for the disabled, those who dare to disobey orders and refuse to join the new army, and those who escape and return home after joining the army, will be kicked out of the family tree and no one will be allowed to take them in.

If anyone fails to meet the minimum standards of an ordinary soldier after three months of training, he will be demoted to a civilian laborer and cannot die at home.

In addition to these young soldiers who were forced into the army, there were also a large number of poor and able-bodied men scrambling to join the new army.

Although the Chu people had been miserably oppressed by the nobles over the years, only one in ten thousand Chu people actually had the idea of ​​resisting.

In times of chaos, the people are like straw dogs. As long as they have something to eat and are not starving to death, no one will rebel.

As for rebellion, even with the reference of the Chu people who were liberated from the nobles in Chen County, no one dared to resist the nobles.

Over the past eight hundred years, there have been resistance, but the result was even more harsh exploitation.

Even Zhuang Qiao, who led the children of serfs in an uprising, was eventually defeated by the King of Chu and the nobles. Why should these people rebel against their masters?

And when people kneel for a long time, they will be happy to accept the fairness given by the masters "generously", even if this fairness is only a small part, even if this fairness is plundered from them by the masters...

Of course, the nobles constantly instilled in these newly recruited serfs the impression of Qin's cruelty and tyranny, and even wrote a few poems that the common people could sing.

"I have no cattle or sheep to till the fields, but I hold a spear!"

"I have no fishing boat to cast my net, so I hold a Wu hook!"

"I have no official title or honor, so I join the new army!" "I have national hatred and family feud, so I go to the battlefield!"

By using this method, Qu Jingzhao and his three clans organized a new army of up to 200,000 people, of which 60,000 were private soldiers who had been on the battlefield. They were actively training, with the old leading the new and using the Baiyue and bandits as training methods.

At the same time, Xiang Yan also crossed the Yangtze River into Jiangdong, made friends with the Wu and Yue nobles, and together with the military nobles whose fiefs were in Jiangdong, rebuilt the three major legions of Chu, namely Tenglong, Yinghu and Leibao, and trained an additional new army of 100,000 people.

However, when Zhang Ji looked at the information, his expression couldn't help but look a little amused.

Whether it was the royal family nobles who were granted titles on both sides of the Xiang River or the nobles who were granted titles for military merit in Jiangdong, in name their private soldiers were confiscated and transferred to the imperial court, but in reality the middle and senior officers in the army were still mainly aristocratic officers who had experience in leading troops.

Giving serfs opportunities is fine, but how can a serf who has no command experience, has never read the art of war, and can't even read a single word possibly serve as a mid- or high-level military officer?
These nobles still firmly control this new army, which is nominally owned by the court, by firmly controlling the middle and senior military officers.

Moreover, the royal nobles, with Qu Jingzhao and his three clans as the core, might have really thought of taking action against Li Yuan this time.

I am afraid that once Li Yuan returns to Shouchun from Xianyang, the situation in the entire Chu State will undergo an almost drastic reversal.

I just don’t know how these nobles will ultimately choose between Li Yuan and Fu Chu, but no matter what choice they make, Li Yuan’s power will be weakened and restricted to the greatest extent.

Naturally, Zhang Ji gave all this information to Li Yanyan "for free". Since ancient times, it has been the most difficult to accept the favor of a beautiful woman, and the same applies to Zhang Ji.

Although Zhang Ji had severely humiliated Chu during the previous peace talks between Qin and Chu, it was a public matter after all. The fact that Zhang Ji could provide her with so much critical information in private showed how sincere and passionate Zhang Ji's feelings were for her, which really made her feel that she had no way to repay him.

In addition, the letter of armistice had already been stamped, so Zhang Ji naturally had to return to Qin.

Whether out of gratitude or in the face of the impending separation, Li Yanyan could only cooperate with Zhang Ji in performing more and more difficult sword moves, even including deep throat that made her nauseous repeatedly. Only with such indulgence could Li Yanyan fill the emptiness in her heart and be completely filled.

On the phoenix couch, Li Yanyan, with her red lips sparkling and her eyes lifeless, lay there. She was not naked, but it was still a question whether the phoenix robe that looked like rags could still be considered clothes.

The delicate body, as white as jade, was also covered with hand prints and bruises, and there was a little white dew hanging outside the cave, but not a single drop fell outside the cave.

(End of this chapter)