Daqin Engineering Corps

"Guest officer, are you staying in the hotel, or are you working as a top?"

As for cities outside the Great Wall like Jiuyuan and Yunzhong counties, there are basically no tourists passing by, so there is almost no demand for restaurants.

But it will be different if the industry develops.

The reason is that there are many workers in the process.

Workers spend a lot of time working in the workshop, and many people have no time to cook, so they need this kind of small shop with no accommodation but only food.

In addition, various daily necessities are needed...

If you are a farmer with these things, you have a lot of time to do it yourself during the off-season.

But workers don't have so much free time and it's not cost-effective.

Because everyone will do a calculation: use the time to make bamboo baskets or buckets to work, maybe you can make more money.

So why make your own instead of just buying it?

Then various daily necessities stores opened up one after another.

In short, there will be a series of demands when there are large quantities of factories and workshops.

At this time, Shen Bing just set up the bank, which led to a series of commodity economy.

At that time, bartering or commodity trading was very popular in the Northland, and everywhere was thriving.

This result was beyond the expectation of Yun Tian who directly handled it.

Yun Tian lamented from time to time that his life in business was not as good as the results of these few months of business, and he even said to his family:

"This can be called 'doing business'. Before I waited, it was just 'buying and selling'!"

On this day, when Shen Bing and Yun Tian were discussing to expand the bank from the North to the Central Plains... this is very necessary. Only by spreading the bank to more cities can the business be truly facilitated.

At this time, Ren rushed into the mansion with a piece of information and reported excitedly:

"General, King Qi has surrendered."

"Qi Kingdom has surrendered!"

The surrounding guards have been trained for a long time and have become calm at this time, but although they are not moving, their eyes are full of excitement and excitement.

It turned out that when the Qin and Qi armies were in a stalemate, Yingzheng sent an envoy to tell Qi Wangjian that as long as Qi Wangjian surrendered, he would be given a fief of five hundred miles.

Qi Wangjian was still hesitating.

But Qi Wangjian's uncle, who is also Qi's prime minister Hou Sheng, persuaded him from the side:

"Your Majesty, it is safe for Lord Changping to control Baiyue after he descended to Qin."

"With this precedent, I thought we could surrender."

After a pause, he added:

"If we don't surrender, how can our army defeat the Qin army? It will be a matter of time before the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed."

"When the time comes, the king will..."

I won't say much about the next words.

Qi Wangjian thought it was reasonable, so he ignored other people's opposition to Kaesong and surrendered.

How could Qi Wangjian have thought that this Housheng was actually a traitor who was bought by Yingzheng a long time ago with a lot of money. It was said that Qi State did not participate in the struggles of other countries before, but Qi Wangjian believed him until the last moment.

Qi Wangjian didn't even think about it, how could he be compared to Lord Changping?

Lord Changping has never betrayed Yingzheng, at least on the surface, and Baiyue does need Lord Changping and the Xiang family because of terrain and governance issues.

But Qi Wangjian is a useless person, why should Ying Zheng keep him?

As for the five-hundred-mile fiefdom, it's even more like a mirror image.

3Chapter 16 The Xiongnu ZTE

In fact, King Qi still had some fiefdoms, but Yingzheng gave him a barren hill and left no servants behind.

To be precise, it is not a barren mountain, but a mountain with pine and cypress trees.

Needless to say what the result is, Qi Wangjian, who has no ability to live, can't live at all, and finally starves to death.

So the poem "Wang Jian lost his country, the pines and cypresses are green" was left behind.

In fact, Qi State is not completely without opportunities. What Yingzheng is most afraid of is that Qi Wangjian marched south to the Huaihe River to form a response to Lord Changping.

The reason why Lord Changping is willing to surrender is because there is no chance to do it alone.

If there are hundreds of thousands of troops from Qi State back to back with them, it will be a big trouble to bring the Xiang family and even Baiyue into trouble.

At that time, the unification of the Central Plains may be in the foreseeable future.

But Qi Wangjian missed this opportunity to listen to the advice of treacherous ministers, and finally made Qi surrender with hundreds of thousands of troops even though he had rested for many years.

It is no wonder that the people of Qi State would angrily compose a ballad after Qi Wangjian's death: "Is it a pine tree? Or a cypress tree? Wasn't it the guests who caused Qi Wangjian to move to the common land?" (The guests refer to spies).

Shen Bing just nodded coldly and motioned for Ren to go down.

Ren then asked:

"General, don't you want to pass on the news?"

Shen Bing replied:

"Pass it on!"

As a result, bursts of cheers soon came from outside the mansion.

The soldiers and civilians shouted loudly:

"King Qi has surrendered!"

"Qi Kingdom is destroyed!"

……

There are even many people beating gongs and drums to celebrate.

The reason why other countries are destroyed without this scene is because Qi is the last of the Seven Kingdoms.

The people thought that there would be nothing left to fight after this battle, so they rushed to celebrate.

Shen Bing and Yun Tian looked at each other, and they both saw each other's helplessness.

They also want more time, but it seems increasingly urgent now.

While Shen Bing was developing in the Northland, the Huns Modu was also consolidating his power.

In fact, Mao Dun was already a little frightened by Shen Bing.

After the Battle of Jiuyuan, the terrifying combat effectiveness and thunderous firearms of the Qin army in the Central Plains made the Huns cavalry terrified.

So much so that almost no one objected when Modu said that he would move the strategic direction to the north.

As the saying goes, misfortunes never come singly, perhaps because they heard that the Xiongnu were defeated by the Qin army with heavy casualties, and the new leader was not stable, so Donghu sent envoys to ask for Chollima.

The envoy of Donghu looked very arrogant. He only slightly bowed to Maodun, then raised his head and said:

"My king has learned that Tou Manchanyu is dead, so the great horse under him must not be needed anymore."

"Give it to my king!"

Mao Dun couldn't help being furious when he heard the words.

It would be fine if he just came to ask for a horse, but he came to ask for Tou Manchanyu's former mount?

Does that imply that the territory and property of the Xiongnu belong to Donghu?

So they all stared angrily and held the handle of the knife, as long as Maodun Shanyu gave an order, they would immediately go forward and hack the messenger to death.

Mao Dun hesitated for a moment, then replied with a smile:

"It's just a horse. If the envoy wants it, he can take it!"

As he said that, he really gave the thousand-mile horse to the messenger.

Mao Dun also persuaded the left and right:

"Are we going to fight Donghu because we love a horse?"

"What good does that do us?"

Hearing left and right, he couldn't help but be speechless.

In fact, Mao Dun knew in his heart that Donghu had always wanted to annex the territory of the Huns.

At this time, seeing that the Huns were newly defeated and Touman Shanyu was dead, he wanted to take this opportunity to find an excuse to destroy the Huns.

Mao Dun knew that his strength was far from that of Donghu, and it was impossible for the Xiongnu to win when Donghu was prepared, so he chose to swallow his anger.

Mao Dun swallowed his breath, but Donghu still refused to give up.

A few days later, the Donghu envoy came again.

This time, the envoy actually came to Moton Shanyu's Yan family (Queen of the Huns):

"My king heard that Shan Yu's Yan family is as beautiful as a flower. My king wants to see it. Please allow me to escort the Yan family to Donghu!"

After listening to the left and right, he still couldn't hold back, and was so angry that he was about to step forward to beat someone up, but was stopped by Mao Dun:

"It's just a woman, don't hurt the peace of neighboring countries."

So he really handed over the Yan family to the envoy.

This happened once or twice, and Donghu thought that Maodun was weak and could be bullied, so he lost his vigilance.

Originally, there was a place about [-] miles long between Donghu and Xiongnu as a buffer zone, and neither Xiongnu nor Donghu could enter this area called "Outu" to graze. (Note: Ou Tuo means "abandoned land" in the Huns language)

With the sending of Chollima and Yanshi before, Donghu herdsmen did not take this agreement seriously at all, and went to "Outuo" to herd one after another.

Mao Dun also ignored it as if he didn't know, so Dong Hu thought that this time he was as responsive as before, and sent an envoy to say:

"This piece of 'Outuo' is useless anyway, let Donghu use it, and raise a few more cattle and sheep!"

Unexpectedly, Mao Dun suddenly became furious and cursed:

"It's fine if you want a Maxima, and it's fine if you want a woman."

"But the land is the foundation of the country, and even the land is wanted. Do you want to drive the Huns to a desperate situation?"

Apart from anything else, he beheaded the Donghu envoy, and then organized the Xiongnu army to attack Donghu as quickly as possible.

It has to be said that Mao Dun has just grasped the psychological state of the enemy and ourselves.

For the Xiongnu, it was Donghu who made unreasonable demands again and again, and finally even asked for land... This made the Huns unable to bear and retreat, so they took a deep breath and wanted to kill Donghu.

At the same time, Mouton also played a little trick:

Maxima I can ignore.

I can ignore women too.

But the land, every inch of land must be fought for!

This immediately gave everyone a feeling of being a wise man.

So all the subordinates dared to fight for the first place.

On the other hand, Donghu took it for granted that:

He can bear Qian Lima's humiliation to Mao Dun's father.

If you want Yan Shi to humiliate Mao Dun himself, he can bear it.

So what is it to want the land that is not used in the middle?

So there was no preparation at all.

As a result, the Xiongnu ran thousands of miles and killed all the way in...

This is actually related to the incomplete alarm facilities of the nomads.

In the Central Plains, when there is danger, a beacon tower is set up to report the news. Although the nomads can also use the whistle to prevent the alarm, the distance that the whistle can spread is very limited.

And the combat area is still a grassland area suitable for long-distance raids by war horses.