In the palace, Ying Yin convened ministers to discuss how to deal with Yi Canal disturbing the border.
Bai Jiayi said: "Your Majesty, the Yiqu State is trying to find out the reality of our Qin State. Once it is determined that we are unable to defend, their army will march into the Qin State! In my opinion, we need to send sergeants to the border to defend as soon as possible.
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When facing foreign enemies, the old clans are still united in facing foreign enemies.
Taishi Meng Yuan is still closing his eyes and concentrating in the palace. He is now pretending to be dead and rarely speaks. He even frequently claims to be sick and asks for leave to go to court. If he hadn't simulated it several times, everyone in Ying Yin might have been deceived by him.
His health is really bad.
"That's right." Jing Ping said, "How can we have so many troops to defend Yiqu now? Unless we recruit troops again!"
"Then recruit troops!" Bai Jiayi said.
"No conscription!" Zhang Beichen directly objected, saying: "We just issued the decree to rest with the people. If we conscript troops now, we will not only waste farming, but also break the trust of the people! The gain is not worth the loss!"
"Then the Prime Minister means to just let the Yiqu people come in?" Bai Jiayi said sarcastically.
"Of course not." Zhang Beichen looked at him and said: "I know that there are many private soldiers and slaves in your family! In the new "Qin Law", there are strict requirements on the number of private soldiers, and the requirements
Abolition of slavery, the number of private soldiers and slaves is probably not legal, right?"
"Prime Minister Zhang, what do you mean?" Xi Qiming asked, "We are facing a formidable enemy, and you still want to argue with us about whether the reform can be carried out?"
"No!" Zhang Beichen shook his head and said: "As for the private soldiers and slaves of each family, I don't want to investigate strictly for the time being. Now that foreign enemies are invading, you all want to make contributions. For the sake of Qin, I hope that each family can separate themselves.
private soldiers and slaves to support the frontier. If they can perform meritorious service, they will have legal status in the Qin State and will no longer be wanted and liquidated by the government."
Hearing Zhang Beichen's words, the old clan members sneered in their hearts. Zhang Beichen didn't want to investigate, he clearly didn't have the ability to investigate!
It has been nearly two months since the national policy was decided, and the new law has not yet been fully popularized in the Qin State. How can Zhang Beichen have the strength to conduct a population census within his old clan?
He clearly took this opportunity to weaken the old clan!
"What the Prime Minister said is absolutely true!" Before Bai Jiayi and others could refute Zhang Beichen, Ying Yin immediately made the decision and said: "The Qin State fights every year, and not even a tenth of the people are young and middle-aged! It is not appropriate to recruit troops within two years!"
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"If we recruit troops, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the people. If the old, weak, sick and disabled go to the battlefield, it will only make the Yiqu people think that our Qin State's strength has declined, which will increase their ambitions!"
"I saw it, so according to the Prime Minister's words, each family sent private soldiers and slaves to the border to support them. I gave them the status of Qin nationals, and all their military exploits belong to each family."
"I will set an example and send two thousand people to my office."
Ying Yin's words immediately silenced everyone. What she meant was that you are hiding people secretly. It's not that you don't know, but you are turning a blind eye.
Now that foreign enemies are invading, you should show your support quickly, and I will let you go! If you don't show your support, we can't deal with you now, and we will slowly liquidate you in the future!
The old clan members could only sigh in their hearts, this Ying Yin man was completely led astray by Zhang Beichen! I really miss the innocent Ying Yin man back then!
"Your Majesty is wise!" Meng Yuan, who had been closing his eyes to rest his mind, spoke, "I am old and can no longer use so many servants at home. I am willing to send a thousand servants to the border to guard Qin!"
Seeing Meng Yuandu express his position, Bai Jiayi had no choice but to say: "I have eight hundred servants, and I am willing to guard the border for the country."
"I have eight hundred servants." Xiqi Ming followed suit.
"I have five hundred servants."
"I would like to send you four hundred servants!"
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The ministers expressed their stance one after another, and soon nearly 10,000 people were gathered to form a reinforcement army to support the border.
Zhang Beichen secretly smiled in his heart. He knew that the old clan must have more than this hidden population. But this wave made them bleed at least once!
Ying Yin then ordered: "Cheyang, I order you to immediately form reinforcements to support the border and resist the invasion of the Yiqu people. Remember, you must strengthen your momentum and don't let the Yiqu people think that our Qin country has no troops!"
"General, I will obey your orders!" Che Yang set off immediately.
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A reinforcement army of 10,000 people quickly marched to the border between Qin and Yiqu.
This time the Yiqu Kingdom was just testing, so the two sides were only engaged in a small-scale war on the border, and there were no major problems for the time being.
The Qin State currently does not have the strength to suppress the Yiqu State. What the Qin State needs is time. The reform has begun. In three years, the Qin State can recover its strength. In five years, the Qin State can become stronger. In ten years, the Qin State can be strong and train.
Send out a strong army!
Three months passed quickly.
Yiqu seemed unsure of Qin's strength, so it never sent a large army to attack. After Ying Meng quelled the rebellion in some Longxi areas, he also sent 10,000 troops to support Cheyang, who stabilized the border situation.
However, Ying Yin was still busy with official duties. After the last horse riding trip with Zhang Beichen, the two of them had hardly been alone together because of their busy schedules.
As for Zhang Beichen, he is still busy implementing the new law. He has already begun to divide counties and counties in the Qin State, try to recover the land of the old clans, and set up counties and counties. In this way, the power to manage local areas will be returned to the monarch.
Instead of letting the old clans become local emperors.
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At night, in the mansion.
Zhang Beichen was resting in bed after finishing his official duties.
"Zhang Beichen, are you asleep?" No need to guess, this is a message from Wei Yao.
Since the last time he discovered that the simulator could chat, Wei Yao would send him messages from time to time.
Zhang Beichen was busy with things during the day and had no time to reply, so she chose to "harass" him at night.
Zhang Beichen: "I was just about to go to bed, there are too many things going on."
Wei Yao: "Is it about Yiqu?"
Yiqu State and Qin State were on the border of Wei State, so she naturally knew about the friction.
"King Yiqu's attitude is unclear, he may want to attack Qin." Zhang Beichen said helplessly.
Wei Yao: "Then why don't you hurry up and come to the Kingdom of Wei! That guy, King Yiqu, is not good enough in front of me! He often pays tribute to me!"
She was a little proud that Yiqu was once a vassal state of Qin in name. But now that Qin is weak, Yiqu wants to annex it.
As for the powerful Wei State, King Yiqu did not dare to provoke him at all. Instead, he expressed his surrender and paid tribute and gave gifts.
Zhang Beichen: "King Wei, don't say anything like this to sow discord between me and the King of Qin!"
Wei Yao didn't care at all and sent a picture backhand: "(Picture, JPG)"
In the picture, Wei Yao is wearing a cook's clothes and making tofu. I don't know who made this cook's clothes for her. The neckline is very loose. From the angle of the picture, you can see a lot of scenery that needs to be mosaic.
Wei Yao: "I finally made tofu according to the method you told me! How is my tofu?"
Zhang Beichen immediately replied: "Big, white and round!"
Wei Yao: "??The tofu is all cubed!"
After she replied the message, she realized something was wrong and her face turned red: "Zhang Beichen, fortunately you are facing me. If you dare to say this to Ying Yin, she will be so angry that she will kill you!"
Zhang Beichen secretly smiled in his heart, Ying Yin was not so stingy.
Wei Yao continued to seduce him: "Hurry up and come to the Kingdom of Wei. I have tofu for you to eat! I heard that the poor people in the Qin Kingdom eat duckweed and weeds. It's so miserable!"
I have to say that this proposal was very tempting. Zhang Beichen looked at the picture and was excited for a few seconds before he declined.
The two were about to continue chatting when suddenly a prompt appeared.
[The simulator cooling has ended and can be turned on.]
"The simulator is about to start!" Wei Yao sat up suddenly and quickly sent a message to Zhang Beichen: "Zhang Beichen, you must come to me for this simulation. I love you!"
After saying that, she couldn't wait to start the simulation.