The tenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the first year of the Second Qin Dynasty.
Xianyang, the capital of the Qin Dynasty.
The Weishui River starts from Xianyang, goes west along the north bank of the Weishui Gorge, and reaches Lintao, the county seat of Longxi.
The hometown of Lao Qin was divided into eight counties from north to south: Jiuyuan County, Shang County, Beidi County, Longxi County, Neishi County, Hanzhong County, Ba County, and Shu County. However, in terms of road construction, Neishi County
Because it is the location of the imperial capital Gyeonggi, it is also the starting point and destination of all avenues.
Therefore, the Neishi County Official Road is the main road that connects Guanzhong and the local counties of Lao Qin, and also connects the world, but it does not include Chi Road and Zhi Road, the two highest levels, totaling twelve, and the Wei River Road is
One of these twelve official ways.
As early as ten days ago, news of the pacification of South Vietnam had begun to spread in Xianyang, and spread at an unexpected speed. As of today, not only all the counties in Guanzhong have known about Zhao Tuo's suicide and Ziying's escape from Daqin at sea.
, even Shandong and other places have spread throughout the country.
The fast communication channel between Longwei Mansion and Black Ice Platform has begun to show its powerful power.
Needless to say, the excitement of the old Qin people in Guanzhong. With large-scale reductions in taxes and labor and pensions for Qin soldiers killed in battle, the atmosphere and appearance of the people in Guanzhong have become completely new today. Everyone is looking forward to a better future.
Life.
Several months have passed since Shangfang began to enforce gold and copper coins. Money made in the Qin Dynasty began to be widely circulated in all counties in Guanzhong, and it has become the mainstream currency in the hands of the people in the eight counties of Guanzhong.
The cloth coins and other coins made by the Six Kingdoms have disappeared from the market. In Shandong and other places far away from Guanzhong, coins made by the Great Qin have also begun to circulate, replacing the chaotic coins originally circulating in the market.
The true unification of currency has greatly promoted the commercial activities of the counties in Guanzhong. The Wei River is an official road connecting the border counties of Longxi in the Qin Dynasty. There are as many traveling merchants as crucian carp crossing the river, and there is an endless stream.
But today, the merchants who were walking in a hurry on the Wei River were obviously a little excited.
A long carriage drove from the west direction of the Weishui River towards Xianyang. Behind the carriage were people tied together one by one with ropes. They were led by the carriage and staggered forward as they followed the carriage.
These people who were tied behind the carriage included men, women, as well as old and weak children. However, most of them, both men and women, were tall and tall. At a glance, you could tell that they were very different from the Qin people.
Many traveling merchants who often travel between Longxi, Jiuyuan, and Xianyang can tell at a glance that those tied to the back of the carriage include Qiang people and Yuezhi people. There are even some Huns who are obviously dressed as Xiongnu barbarians.
However, now these barbarian tribes who used to harass the borders of Daqin across the grassland are now tied together and become lambs to be slaughtered. There are nearly 40,000 to 50,000 people.
A group of Qin knights wearing leather armor, although their faces were all covered with traces of wind and sand, and many of them were even injured, but everyone had an uncontrollable smile on their face, and they were moving happily.
The horses were running back and forth in the long queue.
What is really eye-catching are the numerous horses behind this long line of people, guarded by a large group of knights. These horses are different from the horses in the many horse farms in Daqin, and it is obvious that they cannot be horses produced in Daqin's horse farms.
Looking at the merchants of Da Qin who were following him more and more but never dared to come forward to talk, Long Shiba urged his horse to catch up with Jing Yun who was in front and said in a low voice: "Brother Jing, the five masters of Ying are here, right now.
Stay in the inn ahead."
These people and horses were the harvest of Jing Yun and others who had left the customs and crossed the border of Longxi three months ago and entered the territory of the Qiang and Yuezhi people to plunder.
Nearly four months later, Jing Yun led the first batch of Da Qin rangers who came out to plunder and finally returned to Da Qin and back to Xianyang.
It’s just that of the nearly 4,000-strong raiding team that left Xianyang, less than half of them were able to come back with them at this time. The gains were huge, and the losses were equally huge. But it is conceivable that both the dead and the living have lost everything.
Unimaginable wealth could be obtained from this robbery.
Because what the Qin raiders like Jing Yun obtained from the Qiang and Yuezhi tribes was not only the tens of thousands of people and countless horses, but also countless cattle and sheep fur, pearls, gems and gold.
Of course, these gold gems and cattle and sheep furs are not something that these traveling merchants can see.
It is obviously impossible for two thousand people to guard tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of horses to travel thousands of miles.
Robbery is a high-risk job, whether it is in the pre-Qin Dynasty or later generations. Especially when robbing deep into the enemy's territory, it is a job with one's head hanging on the waistband. Therefore, before leaving Xianyang, Hu Hai had already ordered
The Longwei Mansion had communicated with the Longxi Army that once Jing Yun and others returned from robbery and suffered too much loss, the Longxi Army could help and escort the wealth that nominally belonged to the nobles of Guanzhong families to Xianyang.
Of course, the Longxi Army cannot wear the Qin Army's standard armor.
The Longxi Army helped the first batch of plundering aristocratic families in Guanzhong to transport the looted wealth. Naturally, it could not be free. Food and war horses were supplied by the aristocratic families in Guanzhong. After all, the horses specially used by the Qin Army were marked with special marks.
A discerning person can tell at a glance
It can be seen. After the transportation is completed, the nobles of the Guanzhong family will also give the Longxi Army a considerable reward. As for the horses ridden by the Longxi Army soldiers, after arriving in Xianyang, they will naturally return with the Longxi Army soldiers returning to Longxi.
Longxi.
The rewards received by the Longxi Army were naturally put into the national treasury and used to improve the equipment and life of the Longxi Frontier Army.
Hu Hai is like a white wolf with nothing, but there is nothing he can do about it. Who makes him the biggest in the entire Great Qin?
Even so, the aristocratic families in Guanzhong were still grateful to the emperor for such considerate service. After all, if these tens of thousands of people stayed in Longxi for one more day, they would spend countless amounts of food and grass to support them. This has nothing to do with the imperial court, and it is none of the business of the imperial court.
It has nothing to do with Hu Hai.
And if there are people on the road or the horse runs away, they will also suffer heavy losses. After all, for every ranger who dies outside the customs, they must provide a pension that is enough for the ranger's family to survive the rest of their lives.
Three of the eight dead men of the Longwei Mansion who followed Jing Yun out of the pass to plunder were also killed in the battle. And the relatives of these three men will also receive double pensions from the imperial court and the nobles of Guanzhong.
Hearing Long Shiba's words, Jing Yun, who was slightly distracted, trembled, then slowly relaxed, smiled and cupped his fists at Long Shiba: "Brother Long, please go ahead and tell Commander Ying that everything is ready.
"
Looking at Jing Yun's unusual look, Long Shiba didn't think anything of it. He just thought that Jing Yun heard that the leader of the Longwei Mansion was a little nervous. He cupped his fists and saluted Jing Yun, then galloped away.
Looking at Long Shiba riding away, Jing Yun breathed a long sigh of relief, looking a little lonely.
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The Weishui Road Posthouse belongs to the Weishui Road, and it is also the last post house where the Weishui Road reaches Xianyang. At this moment, there is a lot of traffic outside the post house. Dozens of important figures from the Guanzhong Lao Qin family's nobles, including Fan, Su, and Fang, gathered together.
, looking forward to it.
The looting process of the looting team will be transmitted to each family through the channels of Longwei Mansion every day. Naturally, the emperor agreed to this use for the sake of the Su family after careful consideration. However, using the communication channels of Longwei Mansion,
Naturally, it is inevitable to give Longwei Mansion another reward.
Everyone knows that this robbery is going to happen to their aristocratic families, but they don’t know how exactly it will be carried out. Tens of thousands of slaves, tens of thousands of horses, and countless jewels, cattle and sheep furs, what will this be?
A huge fortune?
The old Qin family in Guanzhong is now full of gratitude to the second emperor of Qin who is still in South Vietnam. Once upon a time, could they be as proud as they are today in front of countless emerging noble families around them?
This time to welcome Jing Yun and others back, except for the three heads of Fan, Su, and Fang who did not come in person, all the heads of dozens of other old Qin families in Guanzhong gathered together. But even the heads of the three families of Fan, Su, and Fang
The head of the family did not come in person, but the people who came were all the second-ranking figures in the family, which showed that they attached great importance to this matter.
Tens of thousands of people gathered around the post house. Basically, there were people from every noble family in Guanzhong. Even nobles from noble families who did not have the chance to participate in the first robbery also wanted to see how much they could plunder, right?
?
Of course, the largest number of them are the guards brought by the old Qin family, because when they arrive in Xianyang, the Longxi Army will go back home, so naturally it is impossible to help them look after these trophies all the time. And the army stationed in Xianyang will definitely not be able to help them anymore
.
In front of the post house, there is a special place.
That place is considered the least crowded place in front of the post house now. Because there is only one carriage and four knights there, with the carriage as their loyal partner, there is no one in the five-foot-wide area, or in other words, no one dares to stand.
When they get to the open space, they would rather be crowded with many people.
That’s a carriage that wins five!
Jing Yun's motorcade slowly appeared. There was a commotion among the aristocratic families who had been waiting for it for a long time.
The carriage at the front of the team slowly stopped on the roadside. The drivers were kicked off one after another.
As soon as those motorists got off the road, more than a hundred dead soldiers of the Longwei Mansion dressed in black suddenly appeared from nowhere on the roadside. They jumped on the carriage and started walking along the other side of the avenue.
As the carriage was driven away, the Yingwu carriage that was originally parked in front of the post house also slowly turned around and left. Long Shiba, who was standing beside the carriage, held his hands far away to Jing Yun, and then followed behind the Yingwu carriage and left.
From beginning to end, Yingwu never showed up in front of anyone, let alone spoke.
However, the nobles from the aristocratic families around the post didn't seem to be surprised at all. What's more, their eyes were all focused on the long and endless crowd and the horses neighing in the distance.
No one cared what was in the carriage that Jing Yun brought back, because the Longwei Mansion represented only one person, and that was the emperor. So many people took it for granted that this must be the filial piety of the Su, Fan, and Fang families to the emperor.
Only Jing Yun knew that there were no jewelry or leather goods in that carriage at all.