Steel, railway. Looking at the endless stream of manpower chariots and the four-wheeled chariots that appear from time to time, Xiong Jing hopes that the Mala Railway will appear in the high mountains and dense forests of horse valley. This seems to have become his urgent hope, but it will not be realized when it will be realized.

"Meet the King!" There is a Chu army camp under the army, which is the sleeping army who made contributions to breaking the formation last time. General Shen Yinxi had known that the king was coming for a long time, especially waiting outside the camp. In addition to him, there are also a group of noble children with cavalry swords.

"No gift!" It would be fine to see Shen Yinxi, but Xiong Jing couldn't help but feel a headache when he saw the children of the princes and nobles who were listed in the front row after the disaster. "The great craftsman Ou Chou has been rescued by Zhao Envoy, and you can give it to him next year."

"I'm not in a hurry to wait." Everyone had been notified of this matter long ago, but he didn't expect that the king was still worried.

"Good." It's not just about chasing debts. Xiong Jing nodded slowly, and thought of another big thing in his heart: the reward of the Battle of Qingshui.

Those who died in battle, including the soldiers who died in Jiangyi before, were given a military flag to wrap the body; burial was also changed to the old customs - people at that time thought that people in war were evil spirits, so they could not be buried in the family tomb. At Xiong Jing's suggestion, the State of Chu would set up a place near the capital of Shanyang as a military tomb. In the future, all soldiers in the country who died were buried in the army tomb and would be sacrificed to the sacrifices.

For those who were not dead, Xiang Yan and other generals were rewarded. The children of honors, including the front row of the battle of the battle of the Yingdu, the palace Jia, and the sanitation war in the battle of Yingdu, should be treated with special treatment. The medal was already being trial-made before the medal was released from Yingdu, but in addition to medals, gold and silk, Xiong Jing has been thinking about how these honorary people (i.e., honorary people) who are qualified to give swords should be rewarded.

His idea was to give food households. That is, in addition to giving knives and medals, each honorary soldier was in the county and in the town gave food households several. The food households were farmers, and they had to pay land rent, tuition, household tax, military tax, etc. Every year, the food households were given food households to the honorary school. The farmers usually supported the honorary school, and the honorary school taught the farmers the art of fighting formation, and in wartime, the honorary school led the team to fight.

Normally, a farmer has a hundred acres of arable land (small acres), and a 100 mu of grain produces 15 s of 100 mu, and a 150 s of land rents 15 s. If the reward is more stingy, each honorary scholar will receive thirty-six s of stones (fighting during wartime) and the land rent of the three farmers can support one honorary scholar. However, if each household is not given all the land rent to the honorary scholar, but each household is offered one or two s of stones, and the rest will still be handed over to the county town, then there will be dozens of farmers who can be under the jurisdiction of the honorary scholar.

The smallest unit of the defense of the spear formation is 15x15, with a total of 225 people, including 200 barbarian spearmen and 25 short spearmen; the attack forms a large square array of 64 rows wide and fifty rows deep. The square array is not a square array, and the queue is not a horizontal line but a column. Usually, fifty people should be trained diligently, so the number of households in each honorary clerk is best between fifty and one hundred households.

The Chu army will definitely be different in a few years if it is enthroned in the local area and covers the side of the area. However, the Chu State was not only the Chu State of King Chu, but also the Chu State of many nobles, county magistrates, and the Chu State of the founding king. The farmers in the hands of the county magistrates and the Yiyin were rashly assigned to the jurisdiction of the Yushi, and after all the farmers in the county and the county magistrates can be abolished.

Xiong Jing, which involves political change, does not intend to mention this kind of reward. He must first repeatedly test the array of spears, and at the same time think about the pros and cons of this reward, and then finally decide what to deal with it. But if the approach is effective, even if the county magistrate and the Yiyin oppose it, it must be tried.

Xiong Jing and his party did not plan to camp at the entrance of the valley, so Gaobiyao turned into the valley. The Wuli River flowed in the valley, and the roads by the river were muddy, and the chariots carrying grain were struggling. Xiong Jing looked at it and suddenly asked, "Why do you need two wheels?"

The two-wheeled chariot was customized. The king suddenly asked why the two-wheeled chariot was, and the whole group really didn't know how to answer. The new Zuo Shi was the son of Zhuyuan. He was young and could not ride a horse, but he was not as hard as the right-handed chariot. He said, "Report to the king, the two-wheeled chariot cannot be feasible."

"Single-wheels are OK." Xiong Jing couldn't help but think of a wheelbarrow, which can also hold ten stones of food. "Remember the wheelbarrow and remind me when I return to Yingdu."

Only Xiong Jing can use the left and right historians as secretary. Other kings do not like historians. Because every time they pass the etiquette, the historians will record and sing loudly to persuade the king.

"I have recorded it." Zhu Yong replied immediately.

*

Xiong Jing and his party entered the valley. The other end of the valley was accompanied by Xin Wu, the county magistrate. Xiong Qizheng, the king of Changping, looked at the Chu army in the Magu. He was in Chu to negotiate peace with Chu and negotiate with Chu to stop the war. However, when he arrived in Wancheng, he heard that the Chu army was attacking a large scale, and he seemed to capture Biyang. He was curious and came over to see what was going on.

When the car was hanging, the sun shone directly into the valley from the west, with military flags standing in the valley and solid camps. It was only five hundred steps away, and Changpingjun couldn't see clearly what the Chu army was doing. He asked, "Does the Jing people want to get out of the valley?"

"Report to the Prime Minister, I don't know." Lu Buwei resigned. Although Changpingjun's position had not changed, he was already below one person and above ten thousand people. Xin Wu did not dare to be negligent at all and personally accompanied him to the entrance of Magugugu.

"What do you think of Bai Duwei?" Changpingjun asked Bai Lin again. Fortunately, his troops were outside the valley when the Chu army attacked, otherwise they would have been not the Duwei long ago.

"Report to the Prime Minister, I think the Chu people did not want to attack me, Biyang." Regardless of Xin Wu's gaze, Bai Lin tried his best to leave some impression in the Prime Minister's heart. In the Qin army, military merits are everything, and it may not be possible to make merits depends on opportunities and their relationship with powerful ministers.

"Why?" Changpingjun looked at him, and he also hoped that the Chu army would not attack again, otherwise it would be detrimental to peace talks.

"Magu is more than 200 miles away from Chengyang. This road is single-track, and transportation is difficult. The scout reported that Jing people were transported by chariots. There were only tens of thousands of soldiers in the Jing Kingdom, and tens of thousands of soldiers were so difficult. It was difficult for a hundred thousand troops to leave this valley. If we leave the valley, our cavalry could cut off the road to return. The Jing people would have to lose their food. "Bai Lin immediately said all his thoughts. "However, if Jing people went out of the valley regardless of transportation, our army would have to clear the fields in each county and the boats and oars of Biyang should be transported away and burned. If Jing people did not have my food, they would be difficult to sustain."

"Very good." Changpingjun nodded repeatedly when he heard this, but he asked again: "Since that is the case, why did the Jing people take this valley?"

"Jing general Xiang Yan attacked far away. Before this battle, there was Jiyi. The battle of Fuyi was taken to capture this valley for a long time. The last general thought that the entrance of the valley was less than 300 miles away from Wancheng, and he would lead tens of thousands of soldiers to travel to the enemy because of food, or he could pull out Wancheng." Bai Lin said again. Xin Wu's glaring eyes were like a thorn on his back, making his vest wet.

"Oh. Wancheng." Wancheng is the center of Nanyang County. If the Chu army attacks and pulls it out from afar, it will inevitably cause the entire Nanyang County to be paralyzed.

"Reported to the Prime Minister: What Bai Duwei said is a worry for the sky. Xiang Yan was good at attacking from afar, but his attacks were all covered by mountains and forests. When Biyang went to Wancheng, there were no mountains and forests, they were all plains. Our Qin Dynasty was also very strict. Ordinary people were unavailable if they were not quasi-passed, let alone tens of thousands of troops? The Jing people did not have cavalry troops, so it would take several days to hike to Wancheng. Before his army reached Wancheng, our army had already reached Wancheng. Attacking Wan was the way to die."

"Then General Xin thought why did the Jing people capture this valley?" Changpingjun felt that Xin Wu was saying something reasonable.

"The last general thought that the Jing people captured this valley, but they did not dare to attack our army. In terms of Jing Kingdom, they should attack Jiyi and grant me the way to enter Jing first. If they did not attack Jiyi and attack Magu, even though I was surprised, the gains were useless. This should be the intention of the new king of Jing people." The troops under his command were half-destroyed by the Chu army, and Xin Wu had already surrendered his title. He was even more unhappy with the quit, so his tone of speaking was choking.

"The people of Jing dare not attack me?" Changpingjun smiled, "General Xin doesn't know anything. Zhao, Wei and Chu have discussed the alliance again. Our country's chaos has not yet stabilized, and the king is worried, so it is not the time to fight again. I am telling your troops that if the people of Jing do not leave the valley, they should not provoke the war."

"The last general will receive the order!" Xin Wuhui appointed him to Nanyang County, a weak country, which borders no war, so he naturally had no strong relationships. This time he participated in the war, but instead of being promoted, he was very angry, but the overall situation was like this, and it was useless for him to be angry.

"The last general will receive the order!" Bai Lin's tone was completely different from Xin Wu. In this battle, he was promoted from a Quhou to a commander, and he would laugh out loud even if he dreamed.

"Go back." After roughly looking at Ma Gu, where the two armies were confronting each other, Changping Jun felt relieved when he learned that the Chu army had no intention of leaving the valley to attack again. Tomorrow he would rush to Jiyi camp, and then cross the Huai River from Jiyi and enter the Chu territory to negotiate with Chu.

Xiong Qi turned back to Biyang under the sunset. In the palace of Yingdu, Chu State, Wei Jia, the envoy of Zhao, visited the Empress Dowager Zhao in Ruoying Palace. This time, he went to Chu, and he had dozens of carts of gold, silver, pearls and jade, and many treasures of Zhao land and meat were presented to Zhao Concubine. In the past, Zhao conscripts also offered gifts to Chu, but they had never been so generous. Fortunately, Zhao Concubine was also a Zhao person, and he had known the custom of utilitarianism in his mother country.

"When I came, the king held the hand of his ministers. He said that he had left the royal city for more than 20 years ago and traveled privately by the queen. When he returned to the palace, he learned that he had been whipped and the queen was imprisoned on Qingyangtai for several days..." Wei Jia actually talked about the past, which was before the Battle of Changping. Handan was still Handan, where every family was filial.

"It's all for the past." Concubine Zhao raised her sleeves to pretend to drink, but in fact she wiped away her tears. Marrying to Chu State was like a fleeing. In the morning, Brother Wang said he had entered Chu, and in the afternoon he went out of Handan to board a ship, and then he moved from the water to Qi State to Chu. At that time, the Qin army had surrounded Handan, and as soon as he left the city, he could see the Qin army camp. He heard the two armies shouting to kill him. He went to Chu to seek help from a weak woman. Afterwards, he would wipe away tears whenever he thought of Concubine Zhao.

"What's the matter with the envoy Zhao coming to Chu?" Concubine Zhao regained her mentality and asked calmly.

"I told the Queen that I was ordered by the king to enter Chu and did the three things I did." Wei Jia replied.

"Please say." Concubine Zhao put down the wine.

"One of the things that the king wants to join forces with Wei and Zhao to form an alliance to resist Qin." Wei Jia said.

"This is natural. Qin is a country of tigers and wolves. If you attack Chu for no reason, your mother country should save it. "Concubine Zhao nodded and said.

"The second reason is that the king heard that Chu State could refine huge iron and cast huge soldiers, and specially ordered the envoy to find this technique." Wei Jia said again. "The Zhao and Chu countries are as affectionate as brothers and sisters. Since they have joined forces to resist Qin, they should work together to build spears and spears and share their hatreds."

"This is natural. The giant iron is like Jing'er who makes me train, and I'll tell him that." The second thing is also very simple, and Concubine Zhao agreed immediately.
Chapter completed!