This wave of operation was too simple. Lu Sheng followed Ying Zheng's order to find Xianmenzi Gao, and returned to Xianyang for reporting in less than half a month:
"Your Majesty, by chance, Caomin met his family teacher."
"Caomin strongly urged his master to come to Xianyang to help the emperor, but his master only replied one sentence..."
Ying Zheng asked curiously:
"What's the matter?"
Lu Sheng hesitated for a while before answering:
"The master of the family said, 'The one who destroyed Qin is Hu!'!"
Ying Zheng repeated this sentence twice, then frowned.
I thought to myself, is my country still unstable?
If the country is unstable, what is the point of talking about immortality?
No wonder the immortals didn’t want to come to Xianyang, no wonder the Shen Bing worked hard in the north...
Ying Zheng’s idea is correct, at least in the right direction.
If there is still someone who can threaten the Qin Dynasty, then Ying Zheng's life may be threatened by others.
If so, what can Ying Zheng do if he gets the elixir of immortality?
The elixir of immortality can only keep Ying Zheng from old age, but it cannot guarantee that Ying Zheng is an indestructible body.
Even if Ying Zheng is not old, one day the Huns can defeat the Qin army and even catch Ying Zheng at the city and chop off his head... So what can I do if I can live forever?
From the perspective of an immortal, if it is known that "the Hu people will destroy Qin", then it will be a waste of effort to refine the elixir of immortality for Ying Zheng.
As soon as he thought of this, Ying Zheng was glad that he did not recklessly transfer Shen Bing back from the North.
He even thought to himself:
"This Shen Bing Fruit was sent by the immortal to help me!"
"Didn't he know early in the morning that the Qin Dynasty was a Hu people in the north?"
"At this moment, I am working hard to solve the problems of the Huns for the Qin Dynasty to protect my country, and I want to transfer it back..."
"It's so stupid, so stupid!"
So Ying Zheng didn't say anything, but ordered people to give Lu Sheng a lot of rewards, and let him stay in Xianyang and wait for the condemnation at any time.
On the other hand, of course, there will be no idea of transferring Shen Bing back to Xianyang.
Not only did he lose this idea, he also hoped that Shen Bing could stay in the north and destroy the Huns for him, so he issued two orders:
First, he appointed Shen soldiers as the general of the Northland, and led a hundred thousand troops to attack the Huns in the north... These hundred thousand troops were naturally a reinforcement from Ying Zheng to the Northland.
Another order is to build a straight road from Xianyang to Jiuyuan.
In this way, the subsequent reinforcements and materials of the Qin Dynasty could arrive in the north continuously and quickly to support the sinking soldiers to fight against the Huns... In this way, can you see that the Huns still turn to the sky to destroy Qin?
This is just what Ying Zheng thought at this time.
As we all know, in history, Ying Zheng asked Meng Tian to lead an army of 300,000 to attack the Huns in the north. Later, when he realized that it was difficult for the Huns to be completely defeated or even eliminated, he allowed Meng Tian to connect Qin, Yan and Zhao Great Walls to prevent the Huns from moving south.
When Zhao Gao heard Ying Zheng's orders, he was a little happy and sad.
What is happy is:
Ying Zheng finally gave up the idea of transferring Chen Bing and Fusu back to Xianyang, and from this point of view, he would not transfer them back for a long time in the future.
What is worried about is:
Ying Zheng’s series of measures are probably going to accelerate the development of the North again to make it stronger.
But there is nothing we can do about it.
There is a way of gain and loss. If you want to keep Fusu in the north, you must find some excuses, and if you make excuses, you can only make him bigger...
It is better to take the minority of both evils without taking it for granted.
After receiving these orders from Ying Zheng, Chen Bing was a little happy and sad.
First of all, the biggest and most direct benefit is the one hundred thousand reinforcements.
Moreover, these 100,000 reinforcements were the Hanoi soldiers led by Yang Duanhe, who were veterans who fought from Xianyang to Chu!
What else is more exciting in this world than getting a elite soldier of hundreds of battles?
The northern part of the army was short of troops, so Ying Zheng sent troops here without expecting it.
The second is what Ying Zheng said about the straight road from Xianyang to Jiuyuan.
Chen Bing was worried that Jiuyuan was inconvenient to build roads and open roads, so Ying Zheng came up with a "straight road plan".
This straight road crosses the Yellow River from Jiuyuan and goes straight to Xianyang directly. It is more than 700 kilometers long, with a widest place of 61 meters and a narrowest place of 12 meters.
In addition to military value, it also has huge commercial value. The things produced by Jiuyuan and Yunzhong County can go directly to the richest place in Qin... Xianyang.
Although Xianyang was not the richest place at this time, it was soon there.
Because Qin also implemented a policy after unifying the world, he moved all the rich people in the world to Xianyang.
That's what Ying Zheng thought:
Generally speaking, those who rebel and rebel are rich people. Only by having money can they have funds to buy equipment and only by buying food can they organize their army.
Therefore, if all the rich people in the world are concentrated in Xianyang and have only a few copper coins in their hands, wouldn’t they even be able to rebel?
Another relevant policy is to confiscate civil weapons and even metals other than the Qin army.
Because he felt that if the people had no metal in their hands, they could not make weapons, and they could not rebel without weapons.
From the current perspective, these are obviously unrealistic.
Even so, the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty was still full of wars. From this we can see that the ancients' ideas were sometimes very simple and direct.
If one day Xianyang becomes a gathering place for the rich in the world, while the North is a highly autonomous industrial area and there is a 700-kilometer-long "highway", what will happen to the North?
Is it easy to want any resources and any products to sell?
In addition, Jiuyuan is close to the border and the Western Regions, so it is definitely an "import and export company".
However, Chen Bing still had a deep brow.
Fusu even felt a little uncomfortable because he didn't understand why Ying Zheng suddenly attached so generously to the North, and he immediately increased his troops by 100,000 and sent Yang Duanhe's Hanoi soldiers.
Chen Bing understood why.
It is because of the saying "The devastated Qin is Hu."
This is obviously a lie, because Shen Bing knew that it was not the Xiongnu who destroyed Qin.
This was just that those alchemists had found an excuse for Ying Zheng... The Central Plains were destroyed one by one, and now the only ones who could become opponents of Qin were the Huns in the north.
So if we want to find an opponent who can "destroy Qin" to scare Ying Zheng, wouldn't it be the only Huns?
What Shen Bing was worried about was that Ying Zheng was trying to kill the Beidi Army to destroy the Huns...
When Meng Tian did this, he had 300,000 Qin troops in his hand.
Why did I have only 100,000 Qin troops and about 20,000 Beidi troops in my hands?
The 120,000 troops headed north to the grassland area to fight against the 200,000 Hun cavalry, is this going crazy?
Is this going to wipe out the Huns or to die?
On the other hand, Yang Duanhe's Hanoi army was in Handan at this time, and it would take about a month to go from Handan to Jiuyuan. At that time, the army would go north.
In other words, the preparation time for the Northland may only be one month.