The Jagged Empire of Daqin

[Prime Minister You's Mansion; the government subsidizes medical expenses with a budget of 8000 million taels of silver; the budget for nursing homes and pensions is 6000 million taels of silver]

[The 29th annual financial budget of the Great Qin Dynasty Shengqin: 330 million taels of silver, 250 million shi of grain]

After reading the contents of the budget memorial, Yang Xiao put together the memorial, looked at Zhang Feizi calmly and said, "This year's budget is probably the highest since the founding of the Qin Dynasty, right?"

"Yes, empress, it is indeed the highest one, but there are reasons for the highness. Since Daqin launched an all-out war, the number of troops invested by Daqin has reached 220. This does not include the people who escorted the food. If Counting the grain guards, the number of people involved has reached 700 million!"

"There is also the Chinese Academy to build schools in Qi, Xia, Zhao, and Zhongshan, which will cost a lot of money." Zhang Feizi leaned over and explained.

Yang Xiao nodded, expressing his understanding, and then handed over the memorial to Xi Yang, who returned it to Zhang Feizi, and after Zhang Feizi took over the budget memorial, Yang Xiao said, "Then allocate money and food according to the budget memorial proposed by Prime Minister You." !"

"The minister waits to obey the order!" All the ministers responded in unison.

Yang Xiao felt a little tired at the court meeting, and finally realized Ying Chang's hard work.

It's not easy.

Yang Xiao rubbed his temples, and asked the ministers while rubbing, "How long will it take for the 50 reinforcements to conquer Shu to arrive?"

At the beginning of November in the 28th year of the Holy Qin Dynasty, the imperial court mobilized 50 reinforcements to attack Shu in the south. It has been two months now, and it is not known when they will arrive in Shu.

Yang Xiao hoped that the sooner the better, so that the three Yang brothers could quickly end the Qin-Shu war, and the class teacher would return to the court, so they could take a good rest, and Yingchang would also reduce some of the pressure.

This all-out war seems to be ending soon, but it is impossible to calculate when it will end.

"It is expected to arrive at the Moon Realm in March this year!" Yang Ze, Minister of the Ministry of War, wrote back.

"Didn't Your Majesty send a 30 supply battalion back to Daqin? Has it arrived in Daqin now?" Yang Xiao continued to ask.

"Haven't arrived in Daqin yet, it's expected to arrive in a month, and the imperial court has already prepared food in Nanyang County, as soon as the supply battalion returns, they can bring them back to Korea!" Yang Ze quickly replied.

"Well, that's good. I'm afraid that His Majesty will be dragged back. Now I feel relieved. If you love Qings, if you have no other important matters, then you can retreat!" Yang Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief, carrying the My heart also dropped.

"I respectfully send off the empress, the empress is a thousand years old!" Zhang Feizi bowed and saluted and sent him respectfully.

Seeing this, the rest of the officials also bent down and shouted: "I will send you off to the Empress Empress, and the Empress Empress will be a thousand years old!"

Yang Xiao got up from the phoenix chair, walked down the high platform step by step, and left the main hall of the Qilin Hall through the back hall. When Yang Xiao's figure disappeared from the eyes of the ministers, the ministers also walked together and left the solemn and sacred Qilin Hall one after another.

Four days in a flash!

The 29th year of Shengqin, the fifth day of the first lunar month!

Great Shu Dynasty, Shuzhong County, Badi Capital!

Imperial Palace, Tianming Palace!

"Bastard, bastard, are they trying to piss me off!"

"To actually plunder the resources of my Great Shu for the Qin Dynasty, it is extremely hateful, it should be killed!"

In Tianming Hall, Du Xiao, the emperor of Shu, sat on a high platform dragon chair and uttered endless fury at the ministers of civil and martial arts. The ministers of civil and martial arts did not dare to speak at all, and they all lowered their heads and were dumb.

"Goddamn Zheng's father and son!" Du Xiao said viciously, gnashing his teeth!

The reason that made him angry was the Zheng father and son. Even if he was killed, he couldn't believe it. The Zheng father and son were sitting on an army of 50, occupying a vast terrain, and they were defeated. The army of 50 was either dead or captured.

What made him even more furious was that Zheng Zheng's father and son led the defeated army to plunder the granaries of Shu merchants and aristocratic families from all over the country.

God, are the Zhengs and his sons doing human affairs?As soon as I have soldiers and horses, I rush to help too many people, and when I have food and grass, I rush to help too many people. I put a lot of hope on their father and son, but in the end they lost the battle.

What a beast!

If it weren't for my good health, I'm afraid I'd be pissed off to death. I really wish I could eat his flesh and drink his blood raw!

"You all talk to me. You don't usually talk about it. Why don't you say a word when it comes to the critical point. What's the use of raising you!" Du Xiao glared at the ministers in the audience and scolded.

There is no way, the Zhengs and his sons are not here, so they can only vent their anger on these ministers, otherwise they may be suffocated to death.

The civil and military ministers in the hall were speechless when they heard Du Xiao's words, and they all slandered in their hearts: You are so angry, how dare we speak, now you are talking about us.

Li Cha, who was at the head of all the officials, stepped out of the queue, bent over and saluted with awe-filled expression, and comforted him: "Your Majesty, calm down, Your Majesty, calm down, now is not the time to be angry, and we need to formulate the next step to resist Qin!"

"That's what Ai Qing said!" Du Xiao shouted anxiously.

"Your Majesty, the Qin army can conquer too much, and they can drive straight into and kill Badu. The minister believes that the most urgent task at present is to send people to strengthen the city wall of Badu as soon as possible, and to use all the soldiers, food and grass that can be mobilized now. Cut down trees, make rolling stones, and prepare everything for defending the city!" Li Cha reported with a serious expression.

Du Xiao couldn't help but said angrily: "Aren't you talking nonsense? If you want to say this, don't you know how to strengthen the city wall and prepare to defend the city! I want you, and even the entire imperial court, to come up with a plan to withdraw from the Qin Dynasty. What's the use of defending the city, and how long can it last!"

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Chapter 1020 School Du got angry and wiped out the whole Zheng family

Du Xiao’s words are rough and reasonable. There is indeed not much food and grass in the city of Batu. It can last for three months at most. Now it is too late to go to various places to collect food. Maybe the Qin army will attack the city of Batu.

Li Cha was stunned by Du Xiaoxiao's yelling, and he didn't know what to say at the moment, feeling that he would be scolded for anything he said.

tread... tread...

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the hall. All the ministers and Du Xiao raised their eyes and saw a captain of the Imperial Guard walking into the Tianming Hall with striding strides. When they reached the center of the hall, they knelt down on one knee and wrote a salute to report:

"Reporting to Your Majesty, just now the city captain sent someone to report. There is a person outside the city who claims to be Zheng Leduo's messenger. He has something urgent to report to His Majesty. I wonder if His Majesty has seen the messenger sent by Zheng Leduo!"

Li Cha heard the words, and immediately wrote a report: "Your Majesty, Zheng Le Duo is now plundering our Dashu wealth for the Qin army, and now he has sent messengers here. Most likely, he is here to disgust Your Majesty!"

"Yeah yeah!"

"Is there another hidden story?"

"Is there any hidden secrets? He has helped the Qin army to grab food, which means that he has completely served Qin. Sending a messenger here at this time must be to disgust His Majesty, so it is better not to see him, out of sight and pure in heart!"

"It shouldn't be, Zheng Leduo's relatives are all in Batu, how dare he be so presumptuous?"

"This kind of person is treasonous, and his relatives have long since disowned him!"

The ministers discussed a lot, some ministers had the same concept as Li Cha, and believed that Zheng Le sent envoys to Batu to persuade him to surrender, while the other ministers remained silent and did not comment on the matter.

In fact, many ministers wanted to say good things for Zheng Leduo, because Zheng Leduo did not seem like a traitor after serving as an official in the same dynasty for many years. It is also easy to explain why Duo treasoned, and surrendered in fear of crime.

What crime are you afraid of?Naturally, too many defeats!

This defeat has already wiped out most of Dashu's family fortune.

The matter is complicated out of self-preservation, and the ministers who want to say good things for Zheng Leduo dare not say it, for fear that Zheng Leduo will really send people to persuade him to surrender, disgusting the kings and ministers of Shu, when the time comes, those who speak good things for Zheng Leduo will be afraid It's over.

"It just so happened that I was worried that I had no place to get angry. I passed on my order to arrest the entire Zheng family in Batu City immediately, push them to the tower and behead them in front of the messenger, and then send the heads of the entire Zheng family to the messenger to send them back. Where is Zheng Leduo?"

"I want the world to know that traitors will punish the whole clan!" Du Xiao ordered with a murderous look!

Wu Qiqi of the Manchu Dynasty knelt down on the ground and kowtowed and said: "Long live your Majesty, my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

Venting this anger, Du Xiao was in a good mood and immediately raised his hand and said: "Everyone loves you!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Man Chaowu kowtowed again to thank him, then slowly got up from the ground.

After all the ministers got up, Du Xiao looked at the Wu under the stage and said: "Now I have 20 soldiers in Badu, plus the forbidden army in the city's people's palace, I believe there are about 30 people. I believe that Badu has a high wall. The superior terrain will surely repel the Qin army!"

"But the premise is that I, Batu, must have sufficient food reserves for the prime minister. You take my will and go to various places to collect food and grass, and recruit soldiers. I swear to the death that I will live with Batu and fight to the death without retreating!"

"I accept the decree!" Li Cha replied with a solemn expression.

"From now on, I will personally inspect the city defense. Well, today's court meeting is over, retreat!" Du Xiao waved his big hand, hurriedly walked down the high platform, and left the main hall from the back hall.

The ministers of Wu kowtowed and saluted and sent them off one after another, and then left Tianming Hall one after another.

Not long after retiring from the court, Batu County Guard sent out a hundred officers and soldiers, and the Ministry of Punishment dispatched a hundred officers and soldiers.

The news of Zheng's father and son's rebellion has spread throughout the city, so before the county guard and the secretary of the Ministry of punishment arrived at Zheng's mansion, the people in Zheng's mansion had already left for tea, and they all ran away. .

Forget about treason, and still have the face to run away. I really have no shame at all.

Du Xiao gave an order to directly mobilize the army to search for the Zheng clan members. Since the city gates had been closed long ago, and the Zheng clan members could not fly out of the city like birds, all 130 Zheng clan members were captured under the search and arrest of the army.

The 130 members of the Zheng clan were all old Confucian women and children. After the army captured all the members of the Zheng clan, they were transferred to the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

Outside the North Tower, the envoy sent by Zheng Leduo was waiting anxiously outside the city. When the envoy saw the members of the Zheng clan pushed out one by one, he was immediately puzzled, because he didn't know any members of the Zheng clan at all, but the voice from the tower , let the messenger panic!

"Zheng Le Duo treacherous, according to the laws of my Great Shu, punish the whole family!"

Hearing this sentence, the messenger knew that these people were members of the Zheng clan and relatives of General Zheng. Regarding this, the messenger hurriedly shouted: "Wait a minute, there is a misunderstanding here, you must not kill them!"

"call out!"

An off-string arrow roared with a sharp piercing sound, and shot off the wooden crown on the courier's head, scaring the courier and falling off his horse.

"If you dare to make any noise, I will kill you together!" A general on the tower yelled coldly!

The messenger hesitated to speak, and dared not speak.

"kill!!"

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

When a cold voice came out, the heads of the Zheng clan members were chopped off one by one by the axe. The heads fell from the tower to the bottom of the city, and the brains fell out. The messenger was just an ordinary scout. After seeing such a scene, His face was pale with fright, and he trembled all over.

Not long after, all 130 human heads fell to the bottom of the city, and the densely packed heads made the messenger feel cold. At this moment, a long rope and a dozen sacks were thrown from the tower, and at the same time, there was a cold and merciless voice. .

"Put the head in a sack and tie it with a rope, so that it is easy to carry. In addition, I am telling Zheng Leduo to come back early and put him to death. His Majesty's wrath will never be dispelled for a day if he does not die!"

The messenger staggered to the bottom of the city, picked up the bloody heads with his trembling and white hands, and put them into sacks while weeping. The Shu army and officers and soldiers on the tower saw this scene , I was very happy.

This is what happens to traitors!

Quiet!

After the courier put 130 heads into a dozen sacks and sealed the mouth of the sacks with a long rope, he rode on a horse, pulled one end of the rope, and dragged a dozen sacks away. The sacks kept rubbing against the ground, causing the sacks to overflow The blood that came was printed on the ground, dragging out more than a dozen bloodstains.

"Come back early and punish!"

"Ha ha!"

"This is what happens to traitors, damn it!"

Chapter 1021 Preparing to bombard the Yangzhai Imperial Capital

"It's really fun!"

Looking at the back of the messenger leaving, the officers and soldiers on the tower and the soldiers of the Shu army all laughed excitedly. The messenger who had not gone far felt the ear-piercing laughter and couldn't help speeding up his horse to leave this place early. right and wrong.

At the same time, the capital of the Han Dynasty and Yangzhai Emperor!

Five miles away from the west gate of the Yangzhai Imperial Capital, the black-armored army lined up neatly and faced the west city wall of the Yangzhai Imperial Capital. Countless black-faced Qin character army flags fluttered in the wind, making whistling sounds.

Since Wang Kaijin, Minister of War of the Han Dynasty, took over the power of the Han army, the Qin army perfectly avoided all the ambush points of the Han army. The six Qin armies successfully joined forces outside the west gate of the Yangzhai imperial capital, while the Han dynasty shrank its forces to the Yangzhai imperial capital.

Now there are 19 Great Qin Capital Divisions outside the west gate of the Yangzhai Imperial Capital. There were originally 20 Great Qin Capital Divisions, of which 17 were stationed at the Green Mountain Camp, and 20 were stationed at the Ghost Gate Gate. There were [-] Korean troops in the Yangzhai Imperial Capital, plus the God Capital Guards There are almost [-] imperial guards, officers and soldiers in the palace.

Fifteen hundred steps in front of the Qin army's array, that is, a thousand steps away from the west city wall of the imperial capital of Yangdi, there are rows of ferocious black iron cannons. If you count them carefully, there are a total of one hundred cannons. An artillery position composed of the five artillery battalions directly under the Beijing Normal University.

Although the capital had twenty artillery battalions directly under it, Ying Chang felt that there were too many artillery pieces and it was inconvenient to carry them, so he only brought five directly under artillery battalions, and the other fifteen directly under artillery battalions were placed at Lushan Pass and Guimen Pass respectively.

Ying Chang, Bai Qi and other generals are located in the formation of the Qin Army's middle army. There is also a nine-pointed dragon flag beside Ying Chang, which symbolizes the presence of the Great Qin Emperor. It is very conspicuous and attracts attention. The Dragon Emperor on Ying Chang's body The armor and the gold-tasseled dragon helmet are also very conspicuous, and they are the most handsome men in the army.

Bai Qi is also very eye-catching, and everyone is frightened.

"Where is Ying Jiang!" Ying Chang called softly.

"My son is here!" Ying Jiang, who was sitting on the horse beside him, immediately responded.

"Go, be an envoy of the Qin Army and persuade Emperor Han to surrender!" Ying Chang said calmly.

Emperor Yangzhai is a big city with a long history, he doesn't want such a big city to be destroyed under artillery fire, otherwise it would be a pity.

"Obey!" Ying Jiang responded immediately, and drove the bloody BMW out of the ranks of the Chinese army to run wildly all the way, and finally stopped a hundred steps away from the west gate of Yangzhai's imperial capital.

As soon as Yingjiang came over, the Han army on the tower was at war with swords, and Emperor Han and some Han courtiers also became nervous. It has to be said that Wang Kaijin was also among them. punishment.

He found the culprit in advance. Before the Dongchuang incident happened, he deliberately let the culprit show his feet and was caught by Han Shen himself. He cleared up his suspicions, and at the same time let the culprit say that Han Ping was the mastermind. .

Once again, Han Ping was charged with treason against Qin.

The plan is perfect and Wang Kaijin admires himself.

"Where is Emperor Han, why don't you come out quickly!" Ying Jiang under the city raised his head and shouted towards the tower.

Han Shen couldn't help being a little stunned when he heard the shouts from the city. When did someone dare to talk to him, the Emperor of Han, like this? Last time Zhao Dan called him His Majesty Han Emperor politely in the city.

Han Shen, who cherished his face, didn't want to be shot by the prime minister and knew what Han Shen meant, and immediately shouted at Yingjiang under the city: "Who is so presumptuous under the city!"

The corner of Ying Jiang's mouth curled up into an arc, showing a sarcasm and a sneer: "I am Ying Jiang, the great prince of the Qin Dynasty!"