"There is one more important restriction." Ayan continued, "What they want is revenge and the destruction of the empire. Therefore, if Hall Master Chen Sheng eases relations with the empire after achieving certain results and deliberately slows down the offensive, they may
Cooperation will be terminated at any time."
"We don't even rule out the possibility of being involved in retaliation."
"Besides, there are some minor issues that I think are insignificant. I will give you a detailed set of rules later, Hall Master Zhu, so you can study them slowly."
After hearing these conditions, the Zhu family stroked their beards and nodded slightly.
These restrictions sound quite complicated, but in fact they are not too harsh. After being added, quicksand does not look like someone who has been taken advantage of.
The only condition worthy of careful consideration is the one that Tian Yan said was the most important.
For so many years, overthrowing the empire has been a slogan on the lips of major anti-Qin forces, but basically no one thinks that this slogan can be realized in the short term.
It took Ying Zheng ten years to sweep through the six countries and unify the world, but the anti-Qin forces did not have the confidence to overthrow the empire in ten years.
It is easy to fight for one day, it is okay for one month, and it is acceptable for one, two or even three to five years, but it is impossible to fight for more than ten years or even longer.
Unless Chen Sheng descends to earth like a god and directly overthrows the entire empire, or he is wiped out by the empire, the war between the two sides will one day be suspended and eased.
Liusha wanted to supervise the team and would not allow the farmer to rest for a moment. I am afraid that the two sides would inevitably diverge.
However, after the Zhu family thought about it for a while, they felt that this condition was acceptable.
If Chen Sheng can stabilize the situation and develop it to the point where they can reach a stalemate with the empire, they don't seem to have to worry about falling out with Liusha at all, nor do they need Liusha's support.
A falling out...a falling out.
There will be some losses, but not unacceptable.
As for the other conditions, they are all minor issues that are not painful or itchy. I don’t say whether they can be accepted directly, but at least they can be discussed.
If we can talk, we can at least reach a result acceptable to both parties.
The Zhu family's only concern now is whether Liusha can be trusted.
It sounds like it is back to the issue of trust, but in fact it has little to do with the concerns raised by the Zhu family at the beginning.
According to the conditions mentioned by 'Tian Yan' now, it is really difficult for Liusha to directly interfere with the farmers' affairs.
In other words, the Zhu family doesn't have to play tricks with people from Liusha. He still has to face only 'Tian Yan'.
That's enough for him.
What he needs to determine is whether Liusha really intends to support a large enough rebel army?
What if this matter is purely a trick of 'Tian Yan' to trick him and Chen Sheng into being the first to compete with the Empire?
Even if 'Tian Yan' didn't lie to him, it doesn't mean that what Liusha said was the truth.
Theoretically, it is reasonable for Han Fei and Zhang Liang to seek revenge from the empire for the destruction of their family, but who can say for sure?
The left minister of the empire, Li Si, was not yet Xunzi's direct disciple. Didn't he say nothing even after his teacher died? He was still working under Ying Zheng honestly and uncomplainingly?
In addition, what worries the Zhu family is Gu Xun.
The incident at Xiaoshengxian Manor basically attracted the attention of the whole world. Even the common people who did not pay much attention to Jianghu affairs have been discussing it for a long time. The subsequent turmoil caused by all parties has not completely subsided until now.
The hostility of Han Fei and Zhang Liang to the empire caused by this is also obvious at a glance. Didn't Gu Xun have any defense against this?
In the past twenty years, the leader of Liusha was Gu Xun in name, but Han Fei, who faked his own death and disappeared from the public eye, was actually responsible. However, no one has ever questioned the identity of Gu Xun, the leader of Liusha.
The biggest contributors to Liusha's development to its current scale are people like Han Fei.
But the biggest and only foundational pillar for Quicksand to have existed and developed steadily to this day is Guxun.
Han Fei and Zhang Liang really have the ability to go against Gu Xun's will and turn the quicksand into an enemy of the empire?
Or is it that Gu Xun acquiesced in all this development?
Or maybe Gu Xun had already taken precautions and even took the opportunity to dig a hole and wait for others to jump in?
The Zhu family couldn't guess the answer, so naturally they didn't dare to take risks at will.
But there is no need to worry about these concerns with 'Tian Yan' - it is impossible for her to make effective guarantees or promises for Liusha.
Asking her would only result in some worthless perfunctory prevarications.
The Zhu family has to find a way to find out and verify this matter themselves.
So the Zhu family left directly on the grounds that they needed to think about it.
Ayan didn't care about it either.
She had already guessed what the Zhu family would do, and there was nothing to say.
She is not afraid that the Zhu family will check the situation of quicksand - this matter is genuine.
Quicksand really wants to hide behind the scenes and support a large-scale rebel army against the empire to test the waters for its own rebellion. It does not expect to gain profits through this. It will be successful if it does not use too many resources and wastes it.
As for whether Han Fei and Zhang Liang really want to take this opportunity to take revenge, that is their business.
Ayan was only responsible for providing support to the farmer's family, leaving Chen Sheng to be the one who took advantage of him. As for the rest, she didn't care.
Even this matter was indeed hidden from Gu Xun, without his substantial consent.
The company commander, Mr. Fusu, kept it all a secret.
The Zhu family could only find information that was exactly the same as what Ayan said.
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While Liusha was infuriating the farmers and pushing them to be the first to rebel, he also suffered a wave of 'sanctions'.
After driving around for half a year with His Majesty the Emperor, the Eastern Patrol Team finally rushed back to Xianyang at the beginning of the Imperial New Year (October).
However, not even two months after the emperor returned to the imperial capital, and even winter had not passed, news spread within the imperial court that the emperor was going on a tour.
Of course, this time it is not an eastward tour - the mobile court is not such a mobile method.
This time the tour plan is more complicated.
First, we need to go west, inspect Longxi County, then go north around Beidi County, pass Jitou Mountain, then go south to Qishan area, and then return to Xianyang.
This journey to the west is not only to stabilize the northwest border, but also to re-travel the eastward march of the ancestors of the Ying Qin people for hundreds of years. During the period, they will also pass through Tianshui, Li County and other ancestral places.
After paying tribute to his ancestors, the emperor would set off from Xianyang and head north to the border areas.
First go east to Hedong County, Shangdang County, Handan County, then go north from Handan through Julu County and then arrive at Dongyuan County in Handan County (formerly Hengshan County, now Shijiazhuang, later Hengshan County was merged into Handan County).
Then it went west from Dongyuan to Jinyang in Taiyuan County, then north to Shanwu in Yanmen County, then west to Jiuyuan County in Yunzhong County, and finally from Jiuyuan County to Jiuyuan City (today's Baotou) along the eastern part of Henan Province in a straight line south to Shangjun and back to Xianyang.
This long list of places is very complicated to describe, but in short it can be summed up in six words - first patrol to the west, then to the north.
There's nothing much to say about the former, it's just that Ying Zheng wanted to pay homage to his ancestors, and show off his great achievements to his ancestors.
The latter has left many people wondering.
Ying Zheng's previous tour to the east was firstly for the purpose of Mirage going out to sea to find immortals, and secondly to suppress the turmoil in Qilu, Jingchu and other places and stabilize the empire's rule.
The latter is the key point. If only for the former, Ying Zheng would not have to go around in such a big circle and spend more than half a year.
But the empire's rule in the north is now very stable.
Meng Tian had just overturned hundreds of thousands of the main elite members of the Wolf Clan, and no one dared to go to the north to touch the empire general's troubles at this time - no matter they were people within the empire or the nomadic tribes in the north.
One is more honest than the other!
In fact, even without Meng Tian's incident, the Northland has always been the most stable area ruled by the empire. In a sense, it is more stable than Guanzhong.
The only source of unrest in this ghost place is the many nomadic tribes further north. Any area with a concentrated population belongs to Liusha's sphere of influence, so there are almost no anti-Qin forces developing here.
Although Liusha is the uncrowned king of the North, he has never interfered with the rule of the empire, and has even been cooperating with the official government to manage the "Great Northern Wilderness" with a sparse population and lack of resources.
Ying Zheng obviously cannot solve the threat posed by nomadic tribes through patrols, so his goal of patrolling the North seems to be very clear.
He went for the quicksand!
Therefore, as soon as word of the Northern Patrol spread, it immediately surpassed the ongoing Lingnan War and became the most watched event in the world.
However, this time is different from many previous hot topics. Most of the people paying attention to this matter are anti-Qin forces, and they basically have no intention of benefiting from this matter.
They have only one purpose - to watch the excitement!
They were all curious, if the emperor and Liusha really had a conflict, how would this chaos end?
Especially when the national master Gu Xun disappeared for several months.
In the past, they were chased, intercepted, and wiped out by the people of the empire. This time, we want to see what will happen if dogs and dogs fight within the empire!
The thought of watching the Empire's fun made them all feel excited, and the whole world was boiling.
Although winter is not over yet, people feel less cold in an instant!
Of course, the happiest thing is not these anti-Qin forces, but the people within the empire-Zhao Gao.
He is crazy happy!
If it wasn't really inconvenient, he would have given the entire Luowang a three-day amnesty and a three-day holiday, and then have a feast for the guests with running water for three days and three nights.
But no matter what other people think, the emperor has made up his mind on this matter.
After the rumors spread for half a month, the central court in Xianyang officially finalized the emperor's western and northern tours. The time is scheduled for the beginning of spring in the first month or February, depending on the temperature rise.
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Beidi, Shangjun County Skin Treatment Treatment, Chang Gongzi Mansion.
Meng Tian hurriedly walked into Fusu's study. He didn't even bother to say hello and went straight to report:
"Your Highness, Your Highness!"
"An official letter has been sent from Xianyang, informing the counties in the north that His Majesty the Emperor will tour the north after the spring begins, and requires all counties to prepare in advance!"
Meng Tian's tone of voice was not particularly urgent, because the news didn't come out of the blue, there had been rumors for a long time.
But after the matter was settled, he still cared about it, otherwise he would not have come to report to Fusu immediately.
Fusu was very calm. He first waved to Meng Tian to sit down, and then replied calmly:
"Since we have been told to prepare early, let's make preparations."
"The population in the North is sparse, and we have to take care of the two important projects of the Great Wall and the Straight Road. For a while, we will not be able to squeeze out more manpower to build a palace for His Majesty the Emperor, so I will renovate my mansion to welcome the Emperor."
In just one sentence, Fusu arranged all the preparation work they had to do - even though it was just one thing.
Generally speaking, the preparations to welcome the emperor are face-saving projects, including preparing a suitable residence, expelling the refugees in the city, cleaning the streets, exterminating the bandits, rectifying the administration (for face), etc...
Apart from preparing the mansion, everything else is not difficult. After all, it is not really necessary to make any fundamental changes. It is just a look that can fool you for a few days.
But these are completely unnecessary for the Northland, at least for the area that Fusu once governed - it has nothing to do with the difficulty, it is simply unnecessary.
There are few people in the North, and commerce is not developed. Most of the cities are "deserted" and there is nothing to clean up.
The bandits and bandits outside the city have all been wiped out eight hundred years ago. The latecomers who want to get into this industry have basically gone to other places to beg for food.
In terms of administration, not only were all honest and capable officials, but at least they were above average, and the emperor could not find any faults.
After counting it down, the only thing that needed to be prepared was the emperor's residence.
Theoretically, a dignified emperor would naturally live in a palace.
But reality simply doesn’t allow it.
Yingzheng had no shortage of palaces. Xianyang was full of palaces and palaces built by him. There were hundreds of them, not including the super-project Epang Palace that was under construction.
But this is only limited to the Guanzhong area.
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There are many reasons for this. For example, there are no relevant regulations in the system, or there was no demand before.
The empire's limited dominance outside Guanzhong is also one of the reasons.
In Xianyang, a palace of sufficient standard may take one, two or three years to be built, but in Qilu, Jingchu and other places, it may take ten years to complete.
For a major national project like the construction of Ling Canal, Ying Zheng could mobilize enough manpower and invest enough power to ensure the smooth progress of the project.
But he couldn't go through such trouble to build a palace.
Of course, it doesn't mean that it can't be built. The main reason is that it is troublesome, and there are many other reasons.
After comprehensive consideration, basically no palaces were built for Ying Zheng outside Guanzhong - he did erected many monuments along the way during his eastward tour.
Therefore, when Ying Zheng visited the east, various places tried their best to find a suitable place for him to stay.
Ying Zheng himself also knew that in many places he stayed on the carriage without entering the city.
This time the Northern Tour was similar.
It takes several months to prepare, let alone build a palace, or even a large house of decent size. What's more, the population and finances of many places do not allow the start of projects of this scale.
Fushi was relatively prosperous under Fusu's governance, but Fusu didn't intend to waste extra manpower and material resources, so he just used his own Young Master's Mansion to replace it.
At worst, I can find another place to deal with it casually for a few days.
If it weren't for the fact that he was a prince, Ying Zheng was not only an emperor but also a father to him, so he had to be more sincere. His Prince's Mansion wouldn't need to be renovated, and it would be fine to just use it as it is.
