Meng Kuo and Hu Hai have no intention of being indifferent to Meng Kuo. As expected, Meng Kuo and Meng Li brothers should be the real version of the two brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi in twenty years.
Meng Kuo was the son of Meng Yi. He was stationed in Bashu to prevent Zhao Tuo from South Vietnam from suddenly moving north. Now this threat obviously no longer exists. Hu Hai has not yet made a plan for where Meng Kuo will go in the future.
Logically speaking, the highway leading to Indochina was built by Meng Kuo and was not completed. If the construction was to continue, Meng Kuo, who was familiar with the terrain and environment, seemed to be the best choice.
It's just that brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi only have one son. If Meng Kuo has any shortcomings in the process of building roads, then Meng Yi's branch will be the last.
Meng Li is now stationed in Yueyang.
Hu Hai's previous dissatisfaction with Meng Kuo has actually disappeared by now. After such a long time, Hu Hai has already figured it out. This is the Great Qin in the pre-Qin era, not the later China.
Although this era has not yet reached the point where human life is as worthless as trivial matter, it is actually not that far away. In order to fulfill his orders, Meng Kuo ignored the fact that the army and people suffered huge casualties, and he himself does not blame him.
The people of Qin only know how to advance, not retreat. Casualties are sometimes just a number.
The second emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Hu Hai, presided over it. Meng Kuo traveled nearly thousands of miles and brought back to Xianyang more than 30,000 pottery jars containing the corpses of Huben army soldiers and dead people. Today, they can finally be included in the Great Qin Heroes Pagoda to be admired by future generations.
For the more than 30,000 casualties caused by road construction, whether they are soldiers of the Huben Army or civilians in Bashu, the Ministry of Revenue will provide compensation according to the highest standards of treatment. Tomorrow, various departments of the Ministry of Revenue will send personnel to the two counties of Bashu to deal with the aftermath.
matters.
The families of the deceased people were registered and registered, and the remaining more than 10,000 Bashu laborers who did not die but also performed meritorious services were registered and registered, and rewards and pensions were provided.
The public sacrifice this time was not very grand. The main reason was that Hu Hai had considered that the policy of going south was not yet clear. When the day comes when the army actually goes south and enters Central and South China, the court will naturally treat the more than 30,000 warriors who died as the pioneers of the Qin Dynasty.
The merits are edicted to the world.
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At the end of March, good news finally came to Xin Sheng and Ying Yi, who led their army south to pursue the Qiang barbarians. The victory memorial jointly signed by the two finally arrived in Xianyang on the last day of the month.
Xin Sheng led 50,000 Longxi troops, with the help of the Xianyang raiding teams that densely covered the entire Qiang territory in the southwest border of Longxi. Like locusts, they plowed the ground within a radius of more than a thousand miles.
The Qiang people who had no time to escape or did not receive any news were captured by Xin Sheng and the Xianyang raiding team.
In half a year, with Longxi as the logistics base and the regular army of Daqin as a solid backing, the raiding team's operations became countless times easier than the first time Jing Yun and others. And the situation has also improved.
How many.
All the Qiang people at the junction of the Yellow River and the Huangshui River became the spoils of the looting teams.
In the Jishi Mountains at the intersection of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau, with the source of the Yellow River's Jiuqu, Zhaling Lake, and near Eling Lake, Xin Sheng finally caught up with the largest of the many branches of the Qiang people, the White Horse Qiang.
At the junction of Zhaling Lake and Eling Lake, 30,000 Longxi Army cavalry caught up with the Baima Qiang tribe with nearly 60,000 Qiang barbarians. After the battle, to be precise, there was not even a battle. The Longxi Army had just
When they were about to charge, the leader of the White Horse Qiang, Fang Tuima Ge, had already chosen to surrender.
These 60,000 Baima Qiang, plus the nearly 80,000 Qiang people captured by the raiding teams of Xianyang noble families in other areas and the Hehuang area, Xin Sheng's Longxi Army went south and captured almost 150,000 Qiang people.
These 150,000 Qiang people belong to hundreds of tribes of various sizes. Together with their cattle, sheep, horses, women, property, furs, pearls and jade, and all other things, they became the spoils of war for the Qin Dynasty.
Of course, the Longxi army needs to discuss how to divide the loot with the looting team after returning to Longxi, but no matter what, the harvest this time is obviously much better than the first time.
But it's just a lot better.
The harvest was large because too many people were dispatched. If averaged, it is obvious that the second robbery was still much inferior to the first. More importantly, as the three-pronged army marched southward and westward this time,
The barbarians of various ethnic groups who originally occupied the northwest and southwestern borders of the Qin Dynasty basically either became the trophies of the Qin Dynasty or became vassals of the Qin Dynasty.
Within a radius of more than a thousand miles bounded by Longxi, Beidi, and Jiuyuan, there is basically no object that can be robbed. If you want to continue this lucrative robbery business, you need to go thousands of miles away.
Only then is it possible.
But what is there thousands of miles away? What is there? Is it no one or someone? No one knows. Therefore, on the one hand, many nobles from aristocratic families in Xianyang City are overjoyed with the harvest, and on the other hand, they are also worried about how to continue this in the future.
Worrying about business.
Wealth comes too easily and too quickly. It is very easy to become addicted.
Naturally, Xin Sheng and Ying Yi would not consider these things. What they considered was that they could finally submit a report to the emperor. However, there was a problem that they had to face in this report, that is, even if they captured hundreds of thousands of Qiang people,
Even after the large tribe of Baima Qiang was brought to justice, the person behind the attack on Longxi on the Night of the 52nd Day, who went deep into the territory of Daqin to plunder and massacre the people of Daqin, was still not found.
In other words, Xin Sheng still does not know who is the Qiang tribe and which tribe entered Longxi. Xin Sheng asked hundreds of captured Qiang tribal leaders, large and small, but did not get any useful information. It seems that
That group of Qiang people has never appeared or existed.
This cannot but be said to be a strange thing.
In early April, the cabinet's documents reached Zhaling Lake through Longwei Mansion. Xin Sheng led 30,000 cavalry to guard the more than 20,000 young men of the Baima Qiang tribe who built cities near Zhaling Lake and Eling Lake, and wanted to build a ferry at the source of the Yellow River.
The remaining 20,000 infantrymen, under the command of Ying Yi, took the raiding team and nearly 40,000 old, weak, women and children of the Baima Qiang and set off back to Longxi. The nearly 200,000 cattle, sheep and horses of the Baima Qiang left behind only 100,000 cattle and sheep.
In addition to the daily consumption of Xin Sheng and others, the rest was brought back to Longxi and handed over to the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs for unified distribution.
The first stronghold on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was finally established in the fifty-third year of the Qin Dynasty. With this stronghold, plus the two cities of Yumen and Yangguan that Meng Tian was supervising the construction of, the territory of the Qin Dynasty had actually expanded by nearly five years.
More than one percent.
In mid-April, the cabinet announced that the vast land that originally belonged to the Qiang people in the southwest and northwest of Longxi will be bounded by the Huangshui River, and two new counties will be established, Hexi County to the north of the Huangshui River, and Annan County to the south of the Huangshui River!