Many important officials in the hall prostrated themselves on the ground and shouted in unison.
Hu Hai, who straightened up, rolled his eyes helplessly when he heard this sentence. Damn, why is it this sentence again? Is this sentence a buzzword in the officialdom of the Qin Empire? When so many people are happy and excited,
This is the same sentence over and over again.
Rolling eyes is rolling eyes, things still have to be done, whether it is true loyalty or fake loyalty, as long as the army is in their own hands, then no one can turn upside down in this three-acre area of Xianyang.
"Dear ladies, please rise."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
After many ministers sat down again one by one, the atmosphere in the hall was different again.
Those who had plans in mind before will naturally have new plans now that they see the changes in Hu Hai. Those who did not understand Hu Hai's changes in the past will naturally understand now. To describe it in one word, every senior official is very motivated.
Hu Hai glanced around and felt extremely satisfied. He said to Meng Tian,
"Meng Tian loves you, who is the general stationed and leading the army in Jiuyuan now?"
"Your Majesty, General Xin Sheng of Jiuyuan should be in command of the armies now."
"Oh, Xin Sheng. According to Aiqing, if the Xiongnu goes south to attack Daqin to take the Hetao area, how many troops should be sent?"
"Your Majesty, during the reign of the First Emperor, the Xiongnu repeatedly went south to attack our Jiuyuan. They tried to take over the Hetao land, but they were all driven away by the officials. The most recent time was in the autumn of the thirty-second year of the First Emperor, when Touman Shanyu, the Xiongnu, invaded our Jiuyuan with an army of 500,000 people.
, was defeated south of Henan by His Highness Fusu and Lord Zhang Han.
More than 500,000 people from Touman Chanyu's tribe were killed by the ministers and more than 300,000, and the rest fled."
When the other ministers heard Meng Tian talking about Fusu's destruction of the Huns, their faces changed. They were worried about Meng Tian's recklessness. Meng Tian himself had been secretly observing Hu Hai's face.
"Okay! Big brother is really smart and brave! What a pity..."
Hu Hai praised loudly at first with a normal look on his face, and then expressed regret on his face. Unfortunately, he didn't say anything because he knew that what he regretted was definitely different from what everyone in the hall thought.
He didn't say it out loud, but many ministers in the hall were thinking about it. Hu Hai told Meng Tian that Fusu's expression had not changed, and even said it was a pity with a sad face. He obviously had a clear conscience, and he did not blame Meng Tian for it.
This can only explain one problem: His Majesty the First Emperor really issued the imperial edict to pass the throne to Hu Hai, not Fusu. Then Fusu could only be killed by the First Emperor's decree. All he did was to eliminate hidden dangers for Hu Hai.
"Your Majesty, my condolences!"
Thinking of the many ministers here, including the Meng brothers, seeing Hu Hai's sad face and admonishing at the same time, especially Meng Tian and Meng Yi, whose faces were full of guilt, obviously regretting that they had always doubted Hu Hai before.
Why can Hu Hai look normal? Because Fusu was not killed by himself, but by his predecessor. This has nothing to do with the current Hu Hai. It is based on this that Hu Hai can look normal and feel sorry for Fusu.
Of course, if Hu Hai knew that just because Meng Tian said the name Fusu, it would have such an effect among the officials, he would definitely let Meng Tian say it twice more.
Hu Hai heard the consolation words of the ministers, waved his hands and said: "You don't have to be like this. Qing Meng Ai continues."
"That's Your Majesty. It has been more than seven years since the Huns last marched south. If the Huns were to march south to Henan again at this moment, I think the invading troops would number more than 300,000 horsemen, and there would never be 400,000 horses."
Meng Tian said firmly.
"Hmm. How many soldiers does Ai Qing think Jiuyuan will need to withstand the more than 300,000 Xiongnu troops heading south?"
"If I lead the army in Jiuyuan, and there is the Great Wall and the natural moat, we will need 200,000 troops." Meng Tian thought for a while and replied.
"Meng Yi, my beloved, if you were in charge of the army, how many troops would be needed just to stop the Xiongnu from going south?"
After hearing Meng Tian's words, Hu Hai suddenly turned to ask about Meng Yi, who had been silent.
All the ministers in the hall were obviously not used to Hu Hai's leaping thinking. They were all stunned when they heard his words. Then they thought, does His Majesty want to transfer Lord Meng Yi to lead the army in Jiuyuan?
From the time Meng Yi met Hu Hai until now, except for shouting a few words with many ministers in the hall when he saluted to show his loyalty, Meng Yi has never spoken. He just sat quietly, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
.
At this moment, Hu Hai suddenly asked Meng Yi. Meng Yi was stunned for a while, then he quickly reacted and said: "Your Majesty, I have no experience in leading an army. I really can't answer this."
Meng Tian said at this time: "Your Majesty, Brother Yi is a civil servant, I'm afraid..." He didn't write out the rest of the words, but everyone knew what they were.
"Zhang Aiqing is also a civil servant, but he has also led troops in battles. Your Meng family and Wang family are both members of our Qin martial arts family. I think Meng Yi Aiqing will not let me down."
After hearing Hu Hai's words, everyone was convinced that Hu Hai really wanted Meng Yi to go to Jiuyuan to lead the army to resist the upcoming Xiongnu march south. Does your Majesty really want to get rid of the Meng clan?
Meng Tian was silent after hearing Hu Hai's words. Meng Yi's expression also changed. After a long time, Meng Yi stood up and saluted and said,
"I am willing to lead an army of 200,000 troops to guard the nine plains on the border of Your Majesty, so that the Huns and barbarians will not be able to move an inch southward."
"Okay! As expected, they are indeed the Meng clan who are loyal to our great Qin. Li Aiqing immediately drafted an order to mobilize an army of 100,000 soldiers from the Nine Plains to enter the pass and put them under the command of General Meng Tian. Meng Yi Aiqing led 200,000 soldiers from the Nine Plains to defend the Xiongnu.
In the evening, I will send a message to the Jiuyuan army as soon as possible."
"Here!"
"You two beloved ministers, don't worry. I will discuss the matter of Jiuyuan with your beloved ministers tomorrow. No matter what, I will not let my great Qin Zhushi go to Jiuyuan to die. Being indifferent is not only for my beloved minister Meng Yi.
, the same goes for all of you dear ones here."
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
All the ministers in the hall obviously became much calmer after hearing Hu Hai's words.
"Wei Aiqing, how are the statistics of the children of prisoners and slaves in Xianyang and other places?"
"Back to Your Majesty, this matter is under the jurisdiction of Lord Yao Jia, the court lieutenant. I have informed Lord Yao of your Majesty's will this morning. Please also ask Lord Yao to explain this matter to Your Majesty."
Wei Liao cupped his hands and said to Yao Jia, who was sitting opposite him.
"Sir Guo Wei, this is serious. It should be so, it should be so." Yao Jia hurriedly returned the greeting to Wei Liao.
It seems that Tingwei is the one who manages these criminals and investigates the cases. Then Yao Jia will be equivalent to the Minister of Public Security in later generations. Hu Hai thought to himself.
"Your Majesty, there are 236,777 people in custody in various hells in Xianyang who have committed pending crimes, and 68,800 sentenced prisoners will be executed in the autumn moon.
According to statistics from various places in Xianyang, there are 187,654 slave-born children. These are the slave-born children who have been registered in the register, and the slave-born children who have not been registered in the register... Please forgive me, I do not know the number of slaves."
Punishment in the Autumn Moon is one of the oldest traditions in China. "Lu's Spring and Autumn" says: "The moon of Mengqiu is the beginning of autumn... It is also the month when legal systems are revised, prisons and lawsuits are decided, guilty are killed, and punishments are severely punished. The beginning of heaven and earth
"Sure, don't let it be empty." Therefore, in ancient times, prisoners on death row were generally executed in autumn.
Slave children are children born from intermarriage between slaves.
Yao Jia was sweating on his forehead when he said this. This was the first time His Majesty had formally ordered something to be done, but he did not find out clearly.
In fact, this is not to blame Yao Jia. There are many important ministers in the hall and high-ranking officials who are not in the hall. There is no one in the house who does not have dozens or hundreds of domestic slaves. There are also many prominent and wealthy households with countless domestic slaves.
But these people are either high-ranking people in the court, or they are inextricably related to a high-ranking official in the court. Without the emperor's clear will, is he going to rush directly into these people's homes and go to them one by one?
Cha? If this is true, he will probably step down tomorrow.
Hu Hai is also aware of these issues, but he has decided not to ask them now. Just the people reported by Yao Jia are enough for now.
"Yao Aiqing, thank you for your hard work. Very good. How many boys and how many girls do these prisoners and slaves have?"
Hearing Hu Hai's words, Yao Jia breathed a sigh of relief and quickly replied,
"Your Majesty, among all the prisoners, there are only less than a thousand women, and among the slaves' children, there are more than 80,000 women."
In this way, there are nearly 400,000 people. Wei Liao is indeed right. With these people, he will have many soldiers.
History has gone through a twisting journey and has returned to an intersection. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Zhang Han led an army composed of Xianyang prisoners and slave sons to annihilate Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's rebel army.
Now that he needed soldiers, after going around in circles, he still turned to these prisoners and slave sons. He had to say, one drink and one peck will make his destiny. Hu Hai sighed in his heart.
"Zhang Aiqing, please immediately accept my order and mobilize one hundred thousand imperial troops for my eastward patrol. Aiqing will command you. Tomorrow, you will cooperate with Yao Aiqing to bring all the prisoners and slave children just reported to the Bashang Camp for resettlement. Men and women will be detained separately. Ten thousand men will be detained separately.
You are not allowed to be detained in one place. You two dear friends, remember this. One hundred thousand forbidden troops are responsible for the custody of the people. They must be fully prepared for eating, drinking and poisoning. However, those who disobey orders and cause trouble will not be killed. I will go to Bashang in person after receiving the whipping tomorrow.
Camp arrangements.”
"Your Majesty, no!"
"No, Your Majesty!"
…
As soon as Hu Hai finished speaking, he heard a chorus of "no" from everyone in the hall, including Li Si, Feng Quji, Wei Liao and several other people who were discussing strategies with Hu Hai. This made Hu Hai puzzled. He had already told you in advance.
Okay, I can understand other people’s objections. What do you object to?
Hu Hai's face darkened and he asked with interest,
"My dear friends, what's wrong with you? Li Aiqing, you say it first."
After hearing Hu Hai's words, all the ministers in the hall immediately fell silent, and everyone could see the sullenness under Hu Hai's smiling face.
"Your Majesty, I only agree with Lord Wei's proposal to use prisoners as soldiers, but there is no suggestion that Your Majesty will go to the camp in person."
After hearing Li Si's words, the other people all had such expressions on their faces. Hu Hai thought about it and it seems that he did not say that he was going at the beginning, but if he doesn't go, do you know how I want to train the soldiers? Can you put on armor and take it?
Is equipping a weapon a weapon?
"Then why did the other beloved ladies say no?"
Hu Hai ignored Li Si and others, and turned to look at the other ministers whom he did not know. These ministers looked at each other, but no one spoke. After a while, an old man with white hair and chrysanthemum patterns on his face appeared.
road,
"Your Majesty, old minister Ying Teng, since the Qin Dynasty established its own country, there has never been any talk of a king being punished. Besides, Your Majesty is the emperor, who dares to whip Your Majesty? Your Majesty is connected to the world, for the world, and for the sake of all people. I hope your Majesty will think twice.