Hu Hai summoned Li Xin at the Zhuque Army camp in Brownstone.
Even after the cabinet issued a document announcing that the Holy Emperor of the World was on his way to the north and stationed in Handan City, Hu Hai did not live in the sand dune palace where the First Emperor died, as most people thought, nor did he enter the Handan County Sheriff.
The residence Luo Yi prepared for him was still stationed in the Zhuque Army camp in Brownstone.
At the same time, Hu Hai issued an edict to relocate all the villages within tens of miles of the Handan Iron Station to other places. After all the people around him were relocated, the Handan Iron Station and its surrounding area of dozens of miles were designated as "the
Military restricted area. Twenty thousand Suzaku Army and ten thousand Xuanwu Army were stationed around Handan Iron Field.
Li Xin came all the way south from Heilongjiang County to Handan to meet Hu Hai.
From the time he left Xianyang to lead the Pingyi army in the fifty-third year of the Qin Dynasty until now, Li Xin has stayed in Heilongjiang County for six full years. This is also the first time in the past six years that Li Xin has met with the Holy Emperor Hu Hai who gave him a second spring.
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Of course, it's not that Li Xin doesn't want to meet Hu Hai, nor is it because of inconvenient transportation. The five Chi Roads starting from Jicheng have now been built to Heilongjiang, and it is no longer as difficult as before. The key is that the distance between Heilongjiang County and Xianyang is too long.
It's a long way away. Even if the road is built, and even if there are horses to travel, it will be impossible to reach Xianyang City from Heilongjiang City without a few months of effort.
It took several months, back and forth, and more than half a year passed.
As the commander-in-chief of the Pingyi Army, it does not mean that the army cannot function without Li Xin, but that the Pingyi Army has basically never stopped exploring northward in the past six years. Although they have dispatched small scout teams one after another.
, and no large army advanced. However, as the commander-in-chief of the Pingyi Army, Li Xin can be said to be the busiest and hardest-working general among the fourteen armies of the Qin Dynasty.
In early June, the Guilin Army and the Nanhai Fleet marched westward and swept across the indigenous peoples of Indochina. At the same time, the Jiuyuan Army and the Yi Army also marched northward from Heilongjiang County in the east and Jiuyuan County in the west in the Northern Territory of the Qin Dynasty.
The mission of Feng Jie and Yu Ziqi was to clear the Indochina Peninsula. To be more precise, they were to explore the way and clean up the indigenous people on the Indochina Peninsula to facilitate the people of the Qin Dynasty to move in; while the mission of Shejian and Li Xin was to completely clear the Great Qin Dynasty.
The indigenous people on the Siberian Plain further north in Xinjiang were looking for places suitable for relocating people to establish settlements and even cities.
There is obviously a time limit for entering Siberia.
Hu Hai chose June. The time given to Shejian and Li Xin to advance north was only four months at most. No matter how deep into the Siberian Plain the Pingyi Army and the Jiuyuan Army entered the Siberian Plain before the end of August at the latest,
No matter how far you go, you have to go back.
The return time mainly depends on the temperature changes in the Siberian Plain. If winter comes early, then Shejian and Li Xin must leave the Siberian Plain and return to Jiuyuan and Heilongjiang before the heavy snow falls.
This was the edict that Hu Hai ordered Heibingtai to send to Shejian and Li Xin before they left Jiuyuan and Heilongjiang. It was also the most severely worded edict.
Hu Hai knew better than everyone else in Da Qin how terrible the winter in the Siberian Plain was, especially after it snowed. Hu Hai did not want his two legions of hundreds of thousands of soldiers to freeze to death on the Siberian Plain.
Naturally, Shejian and Li Xin did not dare to disobey Hu Hai's orders, so they led their troops back south when the snow just began to fall on the Siberian Plain.
Li Xin returned to Heilongjiang County a month and a half ago, and then rushed to Handan to attend the meeting in accordance with Hu Hai's edict. As for Shejian, he had led his army to Jiuyuan Fortress more than 20 days ago.
The brown stone tent has now become Hu Hai's temporary camp.
"Veteran Li Xin pays homage to His Majesty the Holy Emperor! Long live your Majesty! Long live your Majesty!"
Li Xin, whose face was full of dust and frost, walked into the big tent under the leadership of Long Yu. He saw Hu Hai, who was leaning towards the tent door and looking at the giant map of the Qin Dynasty, kneeling on one knee and shouting with a little trembling.
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Although it was just a figure from behind. Although the person with his back to him was only wearing an ordinary black robe, Li Xin seemed to suddenly see what he had seen many years ago when he was young when he entered the tent.
That majestic figure.
Then the two back figures merged perfectly in an instant. The gratitude and awe that Li Xinxin was originally filled with suddenly became a different feeling of familiarity and closeness.
Hu Hai, who was lying on the map, didn't even turn around when he heard Li Xin's shouting. He said with a slight smile: "Li Aiqing, come here, paste the map Aiqing drew on her trip north, and show it to me.
look."
There was a touch of easy-going closeness and affection in his words.
If there was anyone else in the big tent at this moment, they would definitely think that the monarch and his ministers met each other very often, so that they could be so casual. I am afraid no one would have thought that the monarch and his ministers had not seen each other for six years.
As for Li Xin, who was kneeling on one knee, he was obviously distracted for a moment after hearing Hu Hai's words.
He had been stationed in Heilongjiang County for six years, and he had not seen Hu Hai, the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty. If Li Xin was not worried at all, then it can only be said that Li Xin was too nervous and had a weak head.
Although Da Qin rules the country by law, as long as the Emperor of Da Qin exists, it will still be ruled by men. Rule by people. It also represents the emperor's personal preferences, likes and dislikes, and determines any minister in the court or anyone in Da Qin.
Is it going to be a smooth career or fall into hell?
As the commander-in-chief of an army with heavy troops. Among the more than ten armies of the Qin Dynasty, Li Xin was the only one who had not been recalled to Xianyang for six years. The rest, even the commander-in-chief of the White Tiger Army stationed in Shache City at the westernmost end of the Qin Dynasty, had not been summoned to Xianyang for six years.
In the battle for the title "Royal" years ago, Xianyang personally led the army. Only Li Xin's Pingyi Army was the deputy general who came to participate in the ranking battle with an army of 10,000 men.
As for Li Xin himself, he was personally leading the army to encircle and suppress the indigenous people near Lake Baikal.
It is impossible to say that Li Xin was not worried at all when he was suddenly summoned by Hu Hai this time. After all, Li Xin knew very well that it was Hu Hai's grace that he could lead an army. If Hu Hai had not given him the opportunity, then he would have
If you do more in this life, you can only be a Longxi general.
Because of this, Hu Hai was not pretentious at all at this moment, he was completely easy-going and approachable from the heart, which instantly put the anxious Li Xin at ease.
If Hu Hai was deliberately courteous or affectionate to him, then Li Xinxin would probably be even more uneasy.
"The general will obey the order!"
Li Xin put away the turbulent thoughts in his heart, took out the drawn map from his arms, and handed it to Long Hong who was standing aside, who pasted it on the giant map of Qin in front of Hu Hai.
After a while, the map of Daqin, which was originally blank from Heilongjiang County and above, became vivid.
Rivers, mountains, and lakes are clearly marked on it. In particular, Lake Baikal, which Hu Hai is most concerned about, and the Baikal Mountains, which originate from the western shore of Lake Baikal, have as many as three tributaries that eventually flow into the Lena River in the Arctic Ocean.
However, this newly posted small map is a little different, that is, there are dots in some key parts.
Hu Hai knew that the small spot was not a river, but a place marked by the Mohist craftsmen who followed Li Xin and thought it was suitable as a settlement or even a city building point.
"Li Aiqing, can you bring back all the natives?"
"Back to Your Majesty, because there have been scouts who have marked the places where indigenous people live in various places, so this time we went north to the Grand Army Palace and captured nearly 50,000 indigenous people of all ethnic groups, and they have all been brought back to Heilongjiang City."
"Very good. Since you have returned this time, Li Aiqing can accompany me. You haven't been back to Xianyang for several years. It's time to go back and see your relatives in the house."
"Your Majesty... veteran, I obey your order!"
Li Xin's heart suddenly sank when he heard Hu Hai's words. Is the Holy Emperor going to take away his position as the leader of the Pingyi Army? Although he was worried, Li Xin knew that there was basically no possibility of changing what the emperor decided.
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"Where are you thinking?" Hu Hai looked at the lost Li Xin and said with a smile, "I want you to go back to Xianyang to celebrate the New Year, and then I have important tasks for you to quell the Yi army."
"Ah!? I thank His Majesty the Emperor for his grace!"
When Li Xin heard Hu Hai's words, his face suddenly became hot and he quickly bowed.
"That guy Du Teng has stayed in the Western Regions long enough. After the year, your Pingyi Army will move west to take over the White Tiger Army's garrison in the Western Regions. As for the defense of Heilongjiang and other northeastern counties, leave it to Xu Chuang's Qinglong Army.
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Hu Hai's eyes followed the map, but he said that he had already solved Li Xin's doubts.
Of course, Hu Hai did not say it out loud. It was good for the 100,000-strong Pingyi Army to march westward, but it was definitely not to replace Du Teng's White Tiger Army stationed in the Western Region County.
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On November 20, the fifty-ninth year of the Great Qin calendar, Hu Hai, the second emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty, accompanied by the Pingyi general Li Xin, left Handan County in a light vehicle and entered Julu County. Hundreds of thousands of people lived in Julu County.
Spontaneously gathered on both sides of the avenue to welcome the Holy Emperor of Qin.
After Hu Hai stayed in Julu for two days, he turned to Taiyuan and planned to return to Shangdang from Taiyuan. Hedong finally returned to Xianyang from Hangu Pass. Because the people were so enthusiastic, every place Hu Hai went to was filled with empty streets. Countless scenes.
In order to catch a glimpse of the Holy Emperor, the people even traveled hundreds of miles to come from nearby counties that Hu Hai would not pass through.
In the end, for Hu Hai's safety, the 100,000 soldiers of the Construction Corps who were building the Yellow River embankment in Shangdang put down their tools and temporarily acted as an emperor's personal army.
This helpless move unexpectedly allowed Hu Hai to collect all the 100,000 soldiers from the construction corps. This was a gain that Hu Hai had never expected. After all, the construction corps without weapons was initially used to maintain order, just because
Hu Hai didn't want to mobilize the approaching Suzaku Army and Xuanwu Army.
On December 25, the fifty-ninth year of the Qin Dynasty, five days before New Year's Eve, when snowflakes were flying, Hu Hai returned from his northern tour and entered Xianyang City. He suddenly discovered that the people of Xianyang were crowded with people who did not know that they had already ventured into the city.
They waited spontaneously and quietly on both sides of the street in the biting cold wind, just to welcome him back.
Historical data says: What people want is nothing more than this!