In the following days, the emperor convened the royal family and the main officials of the three provinces and six ministries in Zichen Hall to discuss, and even summoned a large number of generals with the military ranks of Wuhou.

Therefore, although no more details about disarmament were heard from the court, the public was even more talked about, because from these situations, although the emperor refused the memorial for disarmament in the court that day, he was not unhappy.

A few days later, in the Northwest Military Camp, General Meng Tian, ​​wearing brocade robes and majestic faces, was looking up under a beautiful peach tree outside the tent to enjoy the flowers, and several bees were buzzing and flying back and forth among the branches.

The sky is high and the clouds are light, and I look at the flying geese in the south.

Through the sparse branches, Meng Tian sighed slightly when he saw the clear blue sky and white clouds.

The northwest has calmed down, and he has a bad premonition. Judging from many signs, he may have left this border area that has been guarding for several years.

A home will come hurried from outside.

"Report to the general, the second master sent a letter from the capital!" The family took out a tightly sealed bamboo tube from his arms and handed it to Meng Yi.

Meng Tian took the bamboo tube and looked carefully at the mud seal and stamp, then nodded slightly: "You retreat first and tell anyone not to enter the tent!"

"Here~" the general clasped his fists and waved his hand. Dozens of guards with tiger backs and bear waists around him immediately surrounded the camp.

Meng Tian walked into the big tent and sat down. After staring at the bamboo tube for a long time, he pinched the mud seal and poured out a piece of hemp pulp and paper rolled out from the bamboo tube. He unfolded it. After watching it word by word, he showed an extremely strange expression on his face.

"The Northwest Army is abolished... It's a pity that I have nothing to do with you!"

"Report to the General, Marquis of Wucheng is here!" The guard's report came from outside the account.

Meng Yi put the letter in his hand into the stove, and watched the hemp pulp and paper turn into ashes in the charcoal fire. Then he sorted out his clothes and picked up a military book on the desk and said, "Please hurry up!"

"Here~"

"Haha, spring is coming today, and I specially invited the general to go out for a horse outside the pass!"

Amid the cheerful laughter, the young general wearing a black brocade robe walked in with great strides, burly and strong, about twenty years old, walking with a smug and domineering spirit. It was Wang Li, the Marquis of Wucheng who had made meritorious contributions to the King of Donghu.

Looking at the youngest Marquis of Che, who was more than half smaller than himself, Meng Yi showed an equally happy smile on his face and stood up to greet him and said, "I am just thinking about this. I wanted to go to find Marquis of Wucheng, but I didn't expect that Marquis actually came early!"

"That's right. Today's weather is clear and the spring cold has subsided. Flowers and plants are already flourishing outside the pass. I hunted a few yellow sheep and barbecue later. I also prepared some grape wine, which was just right to drink with the general!" Wang Li smiled and pulled Meng Tian's arm and walked out.

Soon hundreds of majestic Hu Hu horses rushed out of the military camp, leading two brocade-robed generals. All of them were guards wearing leather armor, sabers, and arched on their backs. The horse's hooves flew like thunder and brought a stream of dust and grass, and they went straight from the open gate under the towering city wall. On both sides of the gate were endless mountains and valleys. A group of people continued to rush forward and back and forth along the canyon for twenty or thirty miles, the mountain gradually calmed down, and the eyes gradually opened up. At the sight, there were endless grasslands outside the gate with lush green flowers.

It is already mid-spring and the end of February. Although the flowers in the Central Plains have already begun to wither, outside the Northwest Pass, the grassland has just woken up from the cold winter, and the grassland that has been silent for several months has begun to bloom and bloom and dew vitality.

Green grass is green and flowers are blooming. A thawing stream winds out from the canyon and flows into the distance along the shallow slopes of the grassland.

A herd of cattle, sheep and horses scattered on the vast grassland to graz.

A large number of dilapidated yurts were built along both sides of the stream. Countless Xiongnu prisoners were raising livestock, including many Qin soldiers with swords and whips on their waists and swords, and from time to time there were a few whips and loud beatings and scoldings.

After entering the grassland, a group of people shouted happily like wolves, and rode their horses along the stream to the farther grassland.

“Haha, how happy~”

Feeling the cool spring breeze passing by, and looking at the panicked Huns, the young and old, who were hiding along the way, Wang Li laughed excitedly on the horse.

Meng Tian also rode his horse and gathered with Wang Li for only a few feet away. The cattle and sheep scattered on the grassland, the yurt tents like mushrooms, and the sky is high and the earth is wide and the view is clear. This unrestrained free-mercedes also calmed down his mood.

It seems that the disarmament is just at the right time. The Central Plains have now conquered this vast grassland and world. For decades or even hundreds of years, the threats of the Hu people have been completely eliminated.

Although she didn't know where she would go, Meng Tian had already clearly felt that it was a far-reaching person who proposed a disarmament strategy.

Jiang Bu, the chief of the Great Sect, was a standard warrior. Meng Tian was not familiar with this newly rising general. He only knew that he was a subordinate of Jiang Hu. He was just a commander who was commanding troops before, and was not famous because there were dozens of gates in the northwest of the Qin Dynasty, and more than 300,000 troops were stationed. I don’t know how many commanders were. Even if Meng Tian had seen them, he didn’t know them. Jiang Bu was not famous. It can be seen that he was not a person with literary talent and martial arts. He could only be regarded as a standard intermediate general. He could not be favored by him.

Therefore, Meng Yi wrote a letter saying that the plan for disarmament was Jiang Bu, the leader of the Great Guardian, who was deeply suspicious of that, and there must be other people behind him.

Jiang Hu and Li Xin supported Jiang Bu's strategy of disarmament.

Meng Tian can be said to be very familiar with these two people.

Jiang Hu has always been his subordinate. He used to be just a captain, but he was able to lead thousands of people to guard the pass alone. He was very brave and proficient in strategy and military tactics. He was a middle-level general he liked very much. In addition, the business dealings between the Meng family and the Jiang family, so when they conquer Henan last spring, Meng Tian specially promoted Jiang Hu as the deputy general of the new-style pawn army. As expected, Jiang Hu did not disappoint him. He used a strange plan to raid Hebei and entered the Xiongnu royal court to kill Shanyu Touman. A perfect raid caused severe damage to the Xiongnu and also allowed Jiang Hu to be granted the title of Marquis of Yinshan, leading the Jiang family to the ranks of top nobles in the Qin Dynasty.

Nobles have privileges.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that if the punishment is not given to the doctor, and the etiquette will not be as good as the common people.

The Lord is above the doctor and is not within the scope of the trial of the criminal law. The crimes committed by aristocrats can only be judged by princes or emperors, and cannot be dealt with with regular punishment.

When it comes to the Qing and Hou class, unless they are pursuing rebellion, they will not be punished too severely even if they kill people. This privilege can almost make the nobles do whatever they want.

Although the Qin Dynasty had strict laws, it was almost always targeted at civilians. Those who killed people, those who injured people were punished, and those who robbed people were all serious crimes, but these were not suitable for nobles.

Even in the Shang Yang era, when the criminal law was most severe, it was treated equally except for the king, but in fact it was just a technique to fool the people.

Gongzi Qian was bewitched and killed many people. Shang Yang, a disciple of the Legal family, just cut off his nose. It was this small injury that directly ruined Shang Yang's life.

The son of the Mo family was killed by a son. King Huiwen wanted to release his crime, but he said: The rules of the Mo family are that those who kill people die, and those who hurt others are punished. This is the righteousness of the world. If I favor my son, then who else in the world would believe in our Mo family, so he killed his son with his own hands.

But it was precisely the Mohist rule that treated everyone equally that led to the Legal disciples who advocated magic to govern the country, and all excluding and suppressing the Mohist family, and finally completely vanished the Mohist family.

Therefore, the fundamental reason for governing the country by magic is not equality, but rule, and using the law to safeguard the interests of the royal power and the ruling class. Among them, the disciples of the Legalists were the greatest beneficiaries. They themselves became ruling classes and nobles, and after breaking the law, they could escape the sanctions of the law.

But the way of heaven is natural, and there is a supernatural power of the law of cause and effect. Those who kill people will always kill them. Therefore, Shang Yang, Han Fei, and Li Si will not die well.

The so-called nobles will eventually be erased by the rising emerging ruling class. One by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, only ordinary people survived tenaciously like a small strongman. The humblest people often live the longest because they have very little desires, so they bear the least cause and effect.

As a top noble in the Qin Dynasty, Mengshi has escaped from the punishment of law.

The same is true for the Jiang family now. As long as they do not rebel, no one in this world can threaten their existence, and the emperor will not punish them easily. After all, the interests of the Qin Dynasty are tied to these top nobles, and they will prosper and lose.

Therefore, with the support of the Jiang clan, the emperor was not allowed to treat the disarmament seriously.

Not only Jiang Hu, but also Didao Hou Li Xin, who supported the disarmament.

Li Xin's identity is completely different from Jiang Hu.

Jiang Hu is a newly rising top noble, representing a force of the new nobles, but Li Xin is a genuine old Qin nobleman. The title of Di Daohou was passed down, and the title is more stable, even more noble than Meng Tian and Meng Yi's title. He has an unparalleled appeal among the generals of the Qin Dynasty, because Li Xin and Meng Wu were considered military generals of the same era. Although Li Xin failed in the first battle against Chu, it did not mean that he could not do it. It was just that he was not as cautious and conservative as veterans like Wang Jian.

Now that Wang Jian and Wang Ben have been lifted out of the army and returned to the field, Li Xin is one of the emperor's most valued generals, no less than the Meng family. They are in charge of Xianyang to stabilize the morale of the army. Once there is any disturbance, Li Xin will inevitably be appointed to command the army.

Moreover, Li Xin was the chief general when he conquered the Hungarians and Hu twice last year.

From this we can see that Li Xin's position in the emperor's mind is very stable.

A total of 40,000 new-style pawns were formed, but although these 40,000 people were nominally under the jurisdiction of Meng Tian, ​​they were actually separate branches of the military, led by Li Xin, Jiang Hu, Wang Li and Su Jiao, and each obeyed the orders of the Emperor Hu Fu to mobilize separately. In the situation of the Northwest Army, Meng Tian's subordinates were actually rapidly marginalizing except for the 300,000 soldiers who are no longer the main combat force now.

Especially Wang Li's rise, he was awarded the title of Chehou and was then appointed by the emperor as the deputy general of the Northwest Army.

Meng Tian is very sensitive to this change, that is, he is likely to be transferred from the northwest soon, and Wang Li will take over the rule of the northwest army.

Once he is transferred from the Northwest Military Camp, whether he is dismissed or not has nothing to do with him.

If this change was not the case, Meng Tian would have written to the emperor as soon as he received the news of disarmament, stating the need to maintain such a large army. But at present, his vision suddenly became broader. Disarmament may be the best strategy, because there is no need for the northwest to maintain these hundreds of thousands of generals who only eat but do not work.

As a qualified commander who is proficient in military tactics, he is still very clear about the principle that soldiers and generals are not expensive.

With the support of Jiang Hu, a newcomer in the army and Li Xin, the veteran general, the disarmament will definitely be put on the agenda for discussion in the court soon.

This is what Meng Yi wrote to tell his brother.

Even at the end of the letter, the Qinghe Hou was mentioned obscurely.

Meng Tian naturally understood that the biggest driver behind the disarmament should be Chen Xu, the Marquis of Qinghe.

Looking at the entire Qin world, perhaps only the Qinghe Hou has the courage and vision to propose a disarmament strategy.

Because the army is the emperor's forbidden body, no one will touch it.

"Qinghe Hou... I am really curious about you..." Meng Tian couldn't help but mutter softly.
Chapter completed!