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Volume 2: The Competition for Deer in the World, Part 3

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    A round red sun at the end of the sky is about to set and rise on the other side of the earth.  Thousands of golden-red rays of light were printed on the large clouds, forming a large fiery red blood-like fire cloud on the western horizon.

    The sun sets little by little, the light converges little by little, and darkness begins to engulf the earth.

    "Young Master is a good man."

    Hu Hai, who was standing on the highest building of Lekang Palace with his hands behind his back, looked at the red lights swallowed up by the darkness. The woman who had woken up and used her body to protect the little slave girl knelt in front of Hu Hai and said something.  It still echoes in my ears.

    Are you a good person?

    She could tell that these seven Parthian women should all be well-educated, and they were most likely Parthian nobles whose homes had been confiscated.

    After nearly twenty years of rule, the six counties in Western Xinjiang are generally very peaceful.  But this peace is just an appearance.  Due to the powerful cultural invasion and bloody cleansing methods implemented by the Qin Dynasty in the occupied areas, the lower class people have generally gradually accepted the rule of the Qin Dynasty. After all, the six counties in the vast area of ????Xinjiang have lower taxes than  The Qin inland area is a little higher, but when it is with the Parthian Empire, it is still a bit lower.

    All the books and classics of the Parthian and Seleucid Empires were partially destroyed during the war, and the rest were packed up and shipped to Xianyang to become the collection of the Qin Royal Library.

    Regarding the dozens of languages ??that originally filled the Parthian and Seleucid empires, Hu Hai issued the most stringent order from the beginning of the occupation, making Da Qin language the national language, and all other non-Qin languages ????can only be regarded as dialects at best.  exist.  All the people of all ethnic groups in the six counties of Western Xinjiang who originally belonged to Parthia and Seleucus must and can only learn the Qin language.

    In order to accomplish this, the density of schools at all levels in the six counties of Western Xinjiang is also the highest in Great Qin.  After all, Qin language is actually the prototype of Chinese and one of the most difficult languages ??in the world to learn.

    The peace at the bottom does not mean that the Parthian nobles and Seleucid nobles who surrendered to Great Qin during the war were willing to lose their power and interests.

    Therefore, Black Ice Platform's center of gravity in the interior of Great Qin has basically been transferred to the six counties of Western Xinjiang. Every once in a while, under Black Ice Platform's strict monitoring, as long as some Parthian nobles who express dissatisfaction with Great Qin are found, usually these  Everyone will face an outcome, that is, their home will be confiscated and their clan will be exterminated.

    West of the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.  The emerging Roman Empire already dominated basically all the land around the Mediterranean.  It has even extended its tentacles to Africa.

    And if the emerging Roman Empire, which has expanded to its limit, wants to continue to expand its territory, then it has only one goal left, and that is the Qin Empire.

    The Parthian and Seleucid nobles in the counties of Western Xinjiang.  Naturally, they won't give up any possible hookup.  after all.  The reason why the Roman Empire has not had any major wars with the Qin Dynasty until now.  Mainly because they were afraid, they were intimidated by the military power of Qin.  Of course, if we can plant some nails in the counties of Western Xinjiang.  Even if you can't make too big a wave, as long as you can disgust Da Qin or even stab Da Qin at a critical moment, why not do it?

    Therefore, the seemingly peaceful counties in Western Xinjiang actually hide too much unrest inside.

    Hu Hai has long understood this.  Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of the new counties, Hu Hai divided the five armies of the Royal White Tiger Army, the Royal Qinglong Army, the Royal Xuanwu Army, the Royal Suzaku Army, and the Royal Nine Plains Army into the six counties.  One is to intimidate the vast newly occupied land, and on the other hand, it is actually preparing for a possible future collision with the Roman Empire.

    After all, even in later generations, too many undeclared wars have happened.  The pressure that Great Qin put on Rome was obviously not that great. If they were really determined to go to war with Great Qin, then the only possible choice would be to rely on undeclared war to gain an advantage in the early stages of the war.

    As long as they can defeat the Qin army even once on the frontal battlefield, it will be a huge encouragement to the rest of Anxi and the remaining nobles in the Seleucid Empire who want to restore their former glory.

    Because, whether it was a war with the Seleucid Empire or a war with the Parthian Empire and the Maurya Dynasty, although it was one against three, except for being on the defensive in the early stages of the war to deploy troops, Da Qin never lost.

    Of course Hu Hai didn¡¯t know that in fact, whether it was the Roman Empire or the seemingly respectful remaining nobles of Parthia and Seleucus, what they feared most was actually him.

    The legend is that the Great Qin Holy Emperor descended from the gods and never aged. He has long followed the rolling military fronts of the Great Qin and spread throughout hundreds of millions of miles.  Even though he has abdicated and no longer interferes in any political affairs, no one or any empire dares to ignore his existence.

    ?If she had known that she was the one who made them slaves and lived such an inhuman life, I am afraid she would never say such a thing.

    Thinking of this, Hu Hai laughed at himself.

    Everything he saw today made Hu Hai even more worried.

    The nobles of Da Qin today are really like the Roman Empire in its heyday, with countless slaves and vast lands.  Relying on slaves and enjoying a life of wine and meat, I am afraid that in less than a hundred years, or at least a few decades, the nobles of various aristocratic families in the Qin Dynasty will be like the declining Roman Empire, losing all their fighting spirit, decaying and rotting, and finally falling.  .

    With such a prosperous slave trade, how long can the iron-blooded, martial, and simple spirit of the people of Qin be maintained?

    When the people of Qin lose the iron-blooded martial arts, loyalty and simplicity imprinted in their blood, how long can the Great Qin survive?

    Hu Hai doesn¡¯t know.

    What worried him even more was the disdain and even contempt of the Qin people who had built their self-confidence towards the various foreign races that had joined the Qin Dynasty.  Although those people also have Daqin household registration.

    Look at the insults that the wealthy young master with some perverted hobbies hurled at the Parthian nobleman, look at the applause of the Qin people around him, look at the indifference and obviously biased treatment of the street patrol officers, it shows that such a trend or trend of thought does not exist.  Not just a random incident, not an isolated incident.

    Long Xuan was indifferent to the rich man's insults to the Parthian nobles.  It also shows that not only the common people and petty officials at the bottom, but also the high-level officials of Da Qin have also begun to breed arrogance and contempt in their hearts.

    The people of Qin, who have become more confident, have gradually become arrogant and even arrogant over the past few decades.

    This is more dangerous than the slaves eroding the blood of the Qin people.

    Some things inevitably deviate from one¡¯s expectations and slide towards the abyss that can be seen.

    Today¡¯s Great Qin seems to be the most powerful country in the world, but in fact, it suffers from both internal and external troubles.

    "Your Majesty!"

    Long Hong's voice sounded low behind him, interrupting Hu Hai's thoughts.

    "What's the matter?"

    "Back to Your Majesty, Marquis Zhou Yafu, the governor of Northwest County, is outside the palace gate, requesting an audience with Your Majesty."

    Zhou Yafu, son of Zhou Bo.  In the seventy-third year of the Qin Dynasty, he graduated from the Royal Academy of Qin with excellent evaluations.  And ranked among the top three in the imperial examination that year.  Later, he was transferred to Jiujiang County to serve as the magistrate of Anfeng County.

    The seventy-eighth year of the Great Qin calendar.  Zhou Yafu was promoted to Sicheng of Heilongjiang Administration Department for his outstanding political achievements, and was promoted to the fifth rank.  In the 82nd year, he was promoted to the governor of Dongying County by Hu Hai's decree.

    In Dongying County, Zhou Yafu served as the county governor for five full years.  In the 87th year of the Qin Dynasty, the third emperor Ying Jingxi was transferred to the Ministry of Household Affairs and promoted to Zuo Shilang.  The ninety-second year of the Qin Dynasty.  Lu Jia, the first governor of Northwest County and the former first governor of Xiyu County in Daqin, was promoted to Minister of Rites.  Immediately afterwards, Zhou Yafu moved to the post of governor of Northwest County, one of the nine major counties of Daqin, where he remains today.

    Calculating his age, Zhou Yafu, who is only thirty-nine years old this year, should be the leader of the Young Masters Faction in Da Qin.  Together with Li Tu, the son of the retired Prime Minister Li You, Feng Feng, the son of the deceased Feng Jie, Fan Ming, the grandson of Fan Jian, Su Wubing, the grandson of Su Mo, Fang Tang, the grandson of Fang Youcong, Wang Hao, the son of Wang Qian, and Meng Li, the son of  The sons of Meng Wuwei and Meng Kuo became these seven similar young people.  He is also known as one of the nine young heroes of the Qin Dynasty.

    Five people, Zhou Yafu, Li Tu, Fan Ming, Su Wubing, and Fang Tang, have entered politics, and now each has become a feudal official, each in charge of a county; while Wang Hao, Meng Wuwei, Meng Cheng, and Feng Feng have also become  He is the commander-in-chief of the four armies of Longxi Army, Guilin Army, Yulin Army and Qinglong Army.

    Of course, the nine of them can become the nine heroes known to everyone. Except for Zhou Yafu, the family background of the other eight people can be said to account for a large part.

    ??Outside of the nine of them, such as Weng Zhong's son Weng Jia, Yu Ziqi's son Yu Qing, Du Teng's son Du Hu, Xu Chuang's son Xu Feng, etc., are actually not much worse than the nine of them.  It's just because these young people are three, four, seven or eight years younger than Zhou Yafu and others, so they are not so eye-catching.

    Hu Hai was not surprised that Zhou Yafu knew that he had come to Lekang City. After all, he, Long Jiao, Long Mei and others lived in Lekang Palace.  On weekdays, the cleaning of Lekang Palace is also done by people from the Sheriff's Mansion.

    "It's enough to let him do his own thing without coming to see me. Tell him not to stay in the county governor's house every day, but to go down and see how the northwest county is doing."

    Hu Hai pondered for a while, looking at the sun that had completely sunk below the horizon and said calmly.

    He was not worried that Zhou Yafu would make a big fuss if he went down to take a look.  In a matter of decades, everything in Da Qin will become inevitable.With his imprint, although it is not ruled out that the lower-level officials may be showing off, officials at Zhou Yafu's level basically know their own preferences.  I especially dislike those officials who show off their authority everywhere.

    "Here!"

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    In front of Lekang Palace, Zhou Yafu stood respectfully and bowed.  He didn't know whether the Holy Emperor would summon him.  Although the Holy Emperor has long since stopped caring about political affairs and has really turned his back on things, Zhou Yafu knows better than anyone else that as long as the Holy Emperor is still alive, he is the only one in the Qin Dynasty who can really decide the world with just one sentence.

    Today¡¯s third emperor can be considered a wise monarch.  But this kind of wisdom seems a bit mediocre under the light of the Holy Emperor.

    What does the Holy Emperor mean to Da Qin? The further you go, the clearer it becomes.  For example, their younger generation, although each of them is either a feudal official or an army leader, holding a lot of power or a large number of soldiers, but it is precisely because they stand at a high enough position that they understand better that the Holy Emperor has great influence among the people of the Qin Dynasty.  What kind of existence is there in the military.

    Everything is actually just an appearance.  All it takes is a word from the Holy Emperor, not to mention them. Even the current emperor only needs a word to depose him.

    Hearing Long Hong's words, Zhou Yafu even lost his mind for a moment.

    Is the Holy Emperor dissatisfied with the northwest county under his rule?

    Watching the dejected Zhou Yafu leave.  Long Hong shook his head and turned back to Lekang Palace.

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    Deep in the prairie at the junction of Pingyi and Inner Mongolia counties, the dense green grass almost a foot deep blows by with a breeze carrying the fragrance of grass and trees, making an endless rustling sound.

    This is a grassland, but there are no herds of cattle, sheep, and horses in this vast grassland. Not even a single hare, wolf, or deer, which is the most common species on the prairie, can be seen.

    Except for the occasional butterflies flying out of the grass, which show that there is still life here, the vast grassland with no visible edges is like a deserted land.

    A gray leaf warbler suddenly rushed into this quiet and a bit quiet grassland, flapping its wings and flying quickly across the grassland.  Then suddenly there were several panicked sounds of birds chirping.

    It actually saw black in the depths of the grassland.  That's right, black.  With its small head, it seemed that it couldn't figure out how there could be such a heart-stopping black presence on this green grassland.

    Intuition told it that the black color seemed to threaten its life at any time, and it flapped its wings.  Suddenly he jumped towards the sky.  This time it saw clearly.

    The rugged grassland is not black.  Instead, it was a continuous piece of black that seemed to cover the entire grassland.  It was as if a black hole suddenly appeared on the grassland.

    That¡¯s it, man!

    The earth trembled slightly, and after a while, the rumble of horse hooves swept from the sky.  Quickly approaching this black hole area.

    At the end of the grassland, a line of the same black color suddenly covered with emerald green.  Swept in like a tidal wave.

    The black line is getting closer.  It was a cavalry force of more than a thousand people.

    A knight suddenly ran out of the black hole.  He rushed towards the cavalry that was running towards him.

    "Your Majesty, Long Tian, ??pays homage to your Majesty! Long live your Majesty! Long live your Majesty!"

    There were still at least fifty steps between the more than a thousand riders, and the knight on the single horse suddenly turned over and fell to the ground.  He kneeled on the ground and shouted with a trembling voice.

    "Long live your Majesty!"

    The black hole that was originally lifeless suddenly made a loud sound. They all knelt down on one knee, and the shouts like a mountain roar and a tsunami suddenly rushed into the sky.  The sound waves soaring into the sky caused the wings of Ye Yingzhen, who was still hovering in confusion in the sky, to suddenly freeze, and he fell straight down for several feet. Ye Ying seemed to have woken up, and he flapped his wings desperately and left quickly.

    Hu Hai looked at Long Tian, ??who was crawling on the ground with gray hair and armor, and suddenly said: "You and I don't have to be like this. Get up."

    Quietly stationed in Lekang City, and then quietly left Lekang City again, Hu Hai quietly arrived at the grassland bordering Inner Mongolia County and Pingyi County without alerting anyone.

    As the commander-in-chief of an army, he is still wearing armor. At most, he can only dismount his horse and kneel down to salute.  Long Tian did this obviously to express his loyalty to Hu Hai.

    Of course, Hu Hai deserves his loyalty.

    Long Tian, ??the commander-in-chief of the Huben Army.  He is also the only legion general among the more than ten legions of the Qin Dynasty who has been the commander-in-chief since the formation of the army.  The remaining generals of the more than ten legions rotate every five years, and the soldiers of the 100,000 Tiger and Ben Army have also changed for five consecutive generations. Only the leader of the Tiger and Ben Army has always been Long Tian.

      The Huben Army is the most mysterious army in the Qin Dynasty for decades.  Even when fighting against the three great empires of Seleucus, Parthia, and Peacock, Hu Hai would rather mobilize the Xuanwu Army from Surabaya County than directly use the Huben Army, which has been deep in the grassland but less than a thousand miles away from the battlefield.  Run to the battlefield.

    Of course, this was also because the railway from Xianyang to Jiuyuan had been completed and opened to traffic at that time.  One hundred thousand Xuanwu troops plus food, grass and baggage could all be sent to the front line hundreds of times.

    In the past forty years, the Huben Army has been deep in this grassland and has never appeared in front of people.  Even some officials in Da Qin sometimes even wondered whether the Huben Army had been secretly disbanded by the Holy Emperor.

    Only a few people know that not only has the Huben Army not been dismantled, but it is also the most secretive army among the dozens of armies in the Qin Dynasty.  So much so that the vast grassland bordering Pingyi County and Inner Mongolia County is already a forbidden land without any herdsmen.

    "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

    Long Tian¡¯s voice still had a slight vibrato.

    Ten years ago, he could see Hu Hai once every few years, but in the ten years since Hu Hai abdicated, this was the first time he saw Hu Hai.  No wonder he was so excited.

    "How are the preparations?" Hu Hai glanced at the densely packed countless armored soldiers kneeling on one knee, "My warriors. Stay flat."

    "Thank you, His Majesty the Holy Emperor!"

    The shouts of mountains and tsunami resounded throughout the grassland again.

    With a heart-wrenching sound, more than a hundred vehicles with dark steel objects that resembled boxcar wheels and had metallic luster on them were pushed out of the military formation by hundreds of soldiers.

    At this time, Long Hong and others saw clearly that none of the countless White Tiger troops standing on the grassland was wearing armor.  All of them were wearing standard military uniforms that looked weird but looked heroic, of course, if they were military uniforms.

    Around the waists of these soldiers was a belt that seemed to be made of leather, with all kinds of things hanging on it.  But with Long Hong's eyesight, he could only recognize the dagger.  In addition, these soldiers all carry something like a fire stick on their backs, and they don't even have the Qin crossbow standard of the Great Qin Dynasty.

    Seeing the more than a hundred ferocious steel monsters emitting fierce light, Hu Hai's face finally changed slightly.  After forty years, will the King of War finally officially form an army today?

    "Long Hong, go, within five miles, six miles, seven miles and eight miles, more than a hundred targets were immediately marked." Hu Hai glanced at Long Tian and said calmly.

    "Here!"

    Half an hour later!

    "Boom, boom, boom!"

    Balls of fire and deafening explosions echoed throughout the grassland.  The targets marked by the guards of Longwei Mansion disappeared one by one with the roar.

    In July of the ninety-fifth year of the Qin Dynasty, on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia.  The first artillery of the Qin Dynasty.  The Huben Army was officially formed.

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    August of the ninety-fifth year of the Qin Dynasty.  The situation in the western frontier of Great Qin suddenly changed.

    Eleven Jewish believers were killed in Xizhou City, the capital of Xizhou County, Daqin, including an elder of Judaism in Xizhou County.  This incident caused a large number of Jewish believers to gather.

    The governor of Xizhou County is Li Tu, the son of the retired Prime Minister Li You.  Li Tu found out that the matter was urgent and reported the incident to the court urgently. At the same time, he asked for help from the White Tiger Army stationed in Xizhou County. At the same time, he mobilized the army of guards in Xizhou County to maintain order and prepare to capture the murderer.

    In the process of maintaining order, as many as thirty more Jewish believers were secretly assassinated.  The weapon used by the murderer in the assassination was clearly the standard crossbow of the Qin army.

    Tens of thousands of Jewish believers gathered and began to attack the Xizhou County Sheriff's Office.  In desperation, Li You began to order the 10,000 guards stationed in Xizhou City to suppress the Jewish riots.

    Facing the 10,000 heavily armed guards, more than 30,000 Jews began to madly attack the Qin guards.  By nightfall, Xizhou City was already a river of blood and turned into a hell on earth.

    While the Jews were fighting with an army of thousands of guards, some people with ulterior motives began to loot, burn and kill in Xizhou City.  Countless civilians were massacred and countless shops were looted.

    That night, Meng Wuwei, the leader of the White Tiger Army, personally led 50,000 infantry and rushed to Xizhou City.  Facing 10,000 guards, the more than 30,000 crazy believers may still have a chance to maintain a stalemate, but facing the White Tiger Army infantry who were almost armed to the teeth, more than 30,000 Jewish believers were killed in just over an hour.  All.

    After quelling the riot of more than 30,000 Jews, Meng Wuwei accepted Li Tu's suggestion and ordered the White Tiger Army to begin martial law throughout Xizhou County, arrest the thugs who took advantage of the situation, and immediately reported to Xianyang, requestingThe imperial court gave countermeasures.

    Facing the White Tiger Army¡¯s thunderous tactics, Xizhou County, which was about to enter a state of disorder, returned to calm again.  Ten days later, hundreds of thousands of Jewish and Buddhist monk soldiers simultaneously launched riots in six counties in the western Xinjiang region of the Qin Dynasty. These coalition forces, composed of Jews and Buddhists, suddenly produced large quantities of ordnance from nowhere and even fired weapons.  Armed with armor and strong bows, they captured various prefectures and counties and massacred the Qin people.

    Various hidden anti-Qin forces that had been hiding in the dark have raised anti-Qin banners in the six counties of Western Xinjiang. For a time, the six counties of Western Xinjiang were bloody.

    While the five Great Qin legions stationed in the western border were preparing to send troops to suppress the invasion, five coalition forces composed of the Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Macedonia, the Kingdom of Greece, and the Ptolemaic Kingdom extended from the east European plains in the west to the Asian Peninsula and the Mediterranean Sea in the south.  Landed on the Syrian plains, and at the same time launched the so-called holy war against the Qin Dynasty.

    At the same time, the Mauryan Dynasty in the Indian Peninsula, which had been cautiously surviving under the attack of the Qin Dynasty, also began to prepare for action.

    When the news reached Xianyang City, the whole country was shocked.

    When Hu Hai received the news, he was still in the Huben Army, guiding the first Huben Army in the Qin Dynasty to rely on thermal weapons as its main weapons to study the tactics of infantry and artillery contract operations, and he was much better than Ying Jingxi and the Cabinet Office.  The news was received earlier.

    After thinking for a long time, although he was anxious, Hu Hai finally did not go past Ying Jingxi and directly issued combat orders to each legion.  He wanted to see how Ying Jingxi, who took over the throne from a peaceful state, would deal with this crisis, which was much more serious for the Qin Dynasty than when it faced the Seleucid and Parthian Empires at the same time twenty years ago.

    For this reason, he even ordered Heibingtai not to receive any other reports except military intelligence reports from various places to his desk.  This also includes official documents from the imperial court and reports from the third emperor Ying Jingxi.

    In today¡¯s world, Jesus, who founded Christianity, is still a genetic entity, and Islam will not appear until a thousand years later.  The only two existing religions are Judaism in West Asia and Buddhism in the Indian Peninsula.

    Compared with the Qin people¡¯s belief in the Holy Emperor, Hu Hai did not believe that these two sects from tens of thousands of miles away could affect the Qin people¡¯s beliefs, especially Judaism.

    In Hu Hai's opinion, he did not take any measures to resist these two religions and even gave them the freedom to preach, so there should be no problems. However, he did not expect that the first problem to arise was the religion he thought would be stable.  superior.

    After waiting for three days, Ying Jingxi never received any edict from Hu Hai, and finally understood that her father would not come forward to help her solve this problem.

    Ying Jingxi, who has always been shrouded in Hu Hai's light, knows that this should be a test given to her by her most respected father.  If he can handle this crisis and survive it safely, then it is conceivable that the throne of Great Qin will truly belong to him in the future.  And once he fails to handle it well, he knows exactly what will be waiting for him.

    Whether he loses the throne or not is not important to Ying Jingxi. What matters to him is whether his father will be disappointed in him.  Because he has been working hard to catch up with Hu Hai.

    On August 20, the ninety-fifth year of the Qin Dynasty, Ying Jingxi, the third emperor of the Qin Dynasty, issued an edict to the world, announcing that the Qin Dynasty had entered a state of war. On the same day, he ordered the Ministry of War to recruit retired soldiers to form ten regiments to prepare for the battlefield.

    After the destruction of the Seleucid and Parthian Empires in the 78th year, Hu Hai began to implement a reserve military system in Great Qin.  In fact, the guard system that Da Qin had implemented before this can also be regarded as a simplified version of the reserve military system.  The guards of each county rotate every three years, and the best ones are selected to enter each main battle standing army. What is it if it is not a reserve?

    At the same time that Ying Jingxi ordered the recruitment of retired soldiers to form ten regiments, Zuo Cheng, Han Xin of the General Staff of the Great Qin Dynasty, commanded the Royal Forbidden Army Corps, which had expanded to 100,000 people, to leave Xianyang on the same day and rushed to the counties in Western Xinjiang.

    As the emperor¡¯s special envoy, Han Xin will form the Western Xinjiang Theater to command this war of extraordinary significance to the Qin Dynasty.  Prior to this, the commanders of the five legions stationed in the six counties of Western Xinjiang were under tremendous pressure, because they not only needed to suppress the increasing chaos in Western Xinjiang and the rebellion of more and more Seleucid and Parthian nobles, but also  To deal with the five-way multi-national coalition force with a total of more than one million people.  (To be continued)
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