Lin Ze was not surprised at all after learning that Emperor Qin was furious and ordered an investigation to restore the National Assembly. With Emperor Qin's character, it would be strange if Emperor Qin didn't fight him back hard.
Lin Ze turned his head and looked in the direction of Dongshan Province, with a sneer on his face and thought: That's bullshit for the Restoration of the Nation. If Emperor Qin doesn't die, you are just ministers after all.
However, Zhao Gao became a court captain, which surprised Lin Ze. He did not expect that by chance, he would help Zhao Gao.
I just don't know if Zhao Gao will continue to support Hu Hai after becoming a court captain. Logically speaking, he should. After all, Hu Hai has always been close to him, so he must be more popular with him than Fusu, Lin Zeru thought.
In any case, only strong strength is the only guarantee. Lin Ze showed a determined look on his face and rushed towards Shu at a faster speed.
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In Shu, after Lin Ze left, Hu Hai had been playing outside for a long time. Chen Ping, as the highest official of Shu who was "on duty", could be said to be conscientious and did not dare to slack off in the slightest.
Although he was handling government affairs as before, with Lin Ze watching from behind, Chen Ping always had the idea that even if he couldn't solve it himself, his uncle Lin Ze would take action.
Just like the workplace in later generations, there is a leader who is responsible for it, and he does things without any scruples. When he becomes the leader, he is somewhat constrained.
Now that the autumn harvest is approaching, Chen Ping dare not slack off. He must not only arrange the corvee reasonably to ensure that the people have enough labor to collect grain, but also dispatch servants to various places to organize the collection of grain taxes.
And according to Lin Ze's previous strategy, the excess grain and grass in the hands of the people must be collected and used as food reserves for the Shu army.
Of course, Chen Ping also had to take care of Hu Hai's "private property", the hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land he had earlier obtained from the three aristocratic families.
Except for some of the original innocent tenant farmers from the three major aristocratic families, Linze relied on captured barbarians to cultivate these fertile fields.
As Hu Hai's subordinate, Chen Ping naturally has to arrange for people to keep an eye on his boss's harvest.
However, an accident still happened. The barbarian captives who had been cultivating their land peacefully for three years suddenly gathered to cause chaos.
Things went back a few days ago. In a field in Shu, the rice was gradually maturing. The barbarian captives responsible for planting, under the command of experienced tenant farmers, began to release the water in the rice fields so that they could better harvest the rice in a few days.
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There was a barbarian named Agumi, who was lucky among misfortunes. After the Shu army broke through his village, the leader was killed, and the wizard immediately led the others to surrender, so Agumi and his family were intact.
Surrendered, unlike other barbarians who had more or less relatives and friends, but died at the hands of the Shu army.
After becoming a prisoner, Agumi was smoothly arranged to farm, and naturally he didn't have much resistance to it. At least the family could live in peace and stability.
Until a pastoral steward fell in love with his daughter.
Agumi's daughter is very young, only six years old. She is very slim and beautiful at first glance.
Of course, the steward is not an animal. He does not want to have an animal mentality towards Agumi's daughter, but wants to adopt his daughter as a little singer, train her, and then send her out at the critical moment to obtain the maximum benefit.
When the steward proposed to take Agumi's daughter away, he encountered strong opposition from Agumi. After the steward left in anger, he naturally brought disaster to this barbarian family.
The steward tried his best to get Agumi's daughter into his hands. However, although Agumi's daughter was young, she had a strong temper. After leaving her parents at a young age, she actually chose to go on a hunger strike.
The manager tried his best to make Agumi's daughter obey, and finally sent the little girl, who had been hungry for four days, back to Agumi's house.
A six-year-old girl was so angry after being hungry for four days that she closed her eyes completely without even saying a word when she returned to her parents.
Agumi naturally refused to give up. He held his daughter's body and ran around asking for help, hoping to revive her.
The rest of the barbarians were naturally unable to revive the dead, but the grief and anger remained in their hearts.
There were originally some barbarians who were dissatisfied with being prisoners who farmed all day long. After some incitement, this group of barbarians immediately planned to unite to cause rebellion.
Unfortunately, the stewards in this area were getting together to drink and have fun, and they neglected to supervise, which gave this group of barbarians an opportunity. In one day, tens of thousands of barbarians made trouble together, and they took the opportunity to kill
He was in charge of affairs and caused harm to other places in Shu.
After Chen Ping received the letter, the barbarians gathered a hundred thousand people to attack Jiangyou City.
Chen Ping's face turned dark on the spot. He had fully promised his uncle to protect the land of thousands of miles for the young master, but in less than a month, the land of Shu was in chaos.
Preliminary estimates indicate that at least one-fifth of the Shu area has become a desolate land due to the ravages of barbarians.
People were killed, houses and villages were destroyed, and the land was deserted for dozens of miles.
Chen Ping immediately summoned officials from the Governor's Mansion of Shu to discuss how to quell the rebellion.
The first order issued by Chen Ping was that all counties and counties must guard their own territory and not attack the barbarians privately. If they were besieged, they must hold on and wait for reinforcements.
The second order was to mobilize 20,000 Shu troops, led by Sikong Ma, to rush to Jiangyou to relieve the siege.
Under Lin Ze's three years of management, there were a total of 80,000 troops in Shu. Thirty thousand were taken by Han Xin to conquer the barbarians in the south, and 20,000 were taken by Hu Hai and Yu Ziqi to encircle and suppress the remnants of the barbarians in the west. The remaining 30,000 troops were
, Chen Ping only left 10,000 men to garrison the capital of Shu, and the rest were sent out to quell the rebellion.
At the same time, Chen Ping personally visited the Ba family and asked Widow Qing for help in quelling the chaos.
Widow Qing was very generous. After knowing Chen Ping's intention, she immediately promised to arrange for six sixth-grade warriors to help. Within an hour, she recalled six sixth-grade warriors and set off with the army led by Sikong Ma.
The barbarian army that gathered together was not scary, it was just a mob, because all those brave warriors with commendable courage and strong force had basically died in the process of conquering the barbarians.
Even though there were a hundred thousand barbarians, with the sixth-grade warrior taking the lead in the attack, Sikong Ma led an army of 20,000 and quickly defeated the barbarians' makeshift army and captured them again.
However, the matter is not over yet, Chen Ping still faces several problems:
First, how will the recaptured and remaining barbarians be dealt with?
Kill? Not to mention the unknown number of prisoners killed, but to kill so many people at once. Even if Chen Ping had the intention, he did not have the courage. After all, he was only a young man in his thirties, so he might not be able to do it.
But if we don't kill, how can we explain to the dead stewards, and how can we explain to the people who died at the hands of the barbarians?
Also, if you don’t kill them, will you keep them alive?
If he doesn't support them and has rebelled once, can Chen Ping still let them go back to farming with peace of mind?
Chen Ping felt like his head was going to explode.
The second problem: due to barbarian rebellion, one-fifth of the fertile fields in Shu failed to harvest, and grain production was greatly reduced. The supply of grain and grass was already in short supply, and now it is even more scarce.
The grain taxes handed over to Chang'an were okay, since Hu Hai had obtained the approval of the Qin Emperor and could be replaced with gold and copper.
However, the food rations for the soldiers were an unavoidable problem. Chen Ping couldn't let the soldiers fighting abroad go hungry.
Not to mention that neither Hu Hai nor Lin Ze would agree with him doing this. If he really did it, the soldiers would be the ones to cause trouble next time.
Third: To deal with the counties where the barbarians were raging, Chen Ping had to first eliminate the remaining barbarian remnants in these counties, and then move the people there to restore production.
Otherwise, these counties will soon become ghosts with no value at all.
After the reason for the barbarian rebellion came out, Chen Ping couldn't help but sigh: "It was my negligence."
Chen Ping didn't think it was entirely a matter of management. If no one was secretly instigating it, how could such a big mess happen if a little girl died?
While Chen Ping organized manpower to count the losses and resume production, he sent someone to send a letter to Lin Ze, asking Lin Ze to come back as soon as possible to make up his mind.