Shatilie held on for a whole day, and then he finally couldn't bear it any longer and exposed his body to the world.

His brother was more determined than him and lasted for two days, and then he was also seen through.

Subsequently, the Huns were completely divided.

This split took only half an hour to complete. A small group of people were divided into more than twenty forces. Each force claimed that it should inherit the mantle of Shan Yu.

Even Shatilie and Maodun shamelessly led a small group of people, claiming that although they had no heirs, it didn't matter, and they would imitate Yao and Shun when the time came and abdicate the position of Chanyu to a man with both talent and virtue.

These twenty forces, today you beat me, tomorrow I will beat you. Sometimes they are horizontal, and sometimes they are vertical. It sounds very lively, but in fact the scale of the battle is very small, not as good as the armed fighting in the countryside of the Central Plains.

Li Xin completely lost interest in such remnants of the Huns, and ordered a captain of thousands to lead people to pursue them. As for himself, he led a large army to station everywhere to ensure that the remaining Huns would not rebel.

Mao Dun, Sha Tilie and others were chased by the commander in great embarrassment. They felt sad when they thought about it. The Xiongnu athletes, who were galloping on the grassland and invincible, were actually afraid of a Qin captain.

But the facts are there. Now the Huns are not strong enough to defeat them, so they can only flee in all directions.

To the south is the base camp of the Central Plains people, and the Huns did not dare to go there. To the north is an extremely cold place, covered by wind and snow all year round, with no grass growing, and going there is a dead end.

To the east... the captain and his Qin soldiers were in hot pursuit. In the end, Maodun and Shatilie had no choice but to flee westward.

In the end, they succeeded in getting rid of the commander, but the remaining Huns still did not dare to stay, and continued westward...

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The remaining Huns on the grassland are mostly women and children, have little fighting ability, and are closely monitored by the Qin people.

They lost their tents, cattle and sheep, and were on the verge of starving to death. Later, they boldly entered the Qin army's camp, hoping to beg for a bite of food.

When the Qin army saw the Huns, their first reaction was to kill them. However, recently the banished immortals had just presided over the promulgation of the law of war. These women and children had no weapons and were obviously civilians.

It would be illegal to kill them. So the sergeants found Li Xin. Li Xin then found Li Shui.

After Li Shui heard Li Xin's confusion, he looked at Li Xin in confusion: "Brother Li, don't we, the Qin Dynasty, govern the country according to the law? Since there is a law of war, why don't we follow it?"

Li Xin snorted and said with some regret, "Can't we kill these Huns?"

Li Shui said: "Of course we can't kill them. If we kill them, what will the Donghu people think? What will the Baiyue people think? What will the Lingnan people think? It's really not worth the loss to delay world affairs for a few women and children."

Li Xin nodded and said, "What do you mean, we use military rations to help them?"

Li Shui shook his head: "These grains were grown by our Qin people with so much hard work during the noonday of the hoeing day. The Huns are enemies of us. If we don't kill them, it would be good. Why should we give them to them?"

Does food feed them? Are they refugees or ancestors?"

Li Xin was slightly startled: "If you don't kill them, you won't give them food. What does Brother Huai mean... to starve them to death? Hehehehe, you are really bad."

Li Shui was a little speechless and said to Li Xin: "Brother Li, where did you think you were? Am I that evil?"

Li Xin nodded seriously.

Li Shui coughed dryly: "What I mean is that we can hire these Huns at a low price and let them mine for us. Their wages are set at... one and a half taels per month."

Li Xin suspected that he heard it wrong: "Every month? One?"

Li Shui nodded.

Li Xin said: "Brother Huai, I'm afraid I won't be able to hire anyone for one and a half taels."

Li Shui said with a smile: "Tell them again that they are responsible for food and accommodation. I can guarantee that even without this one and a half taels, they will flock to it."

Li Xin suddenly realized: "This method is good, we have a group of mining slaves."

Li Shui said sternly: "Why are they slaves? Taking people as slaves is unethical and unethical. I will never do such a thing. We paid wages this time. These people are just strong men we hired."

Li Xin gave Li Shui a thumbs up: "High, really high."

Li Xin sent people to select some relatively strong ones among these women and children. These people accounted for about one-tenth.

Among the remaining people, some children under the age of ten who were not so ugly were selected. After a little training, they were sent to Xianyang to work as servants.

Regarding this method, Li Xin was a little embarrassed and asked Li Shui: "Brother Huai, are we trafficking in humans?"

Li Shui was a little speechless: "Why is this human trafficking? Look at these young children. Did they sign up voluntarily? Did they rush to sign up? Did they fight for a quota?"

"I've already said it, ours is not called human trafficking, it's called an employment agency. It's just that we only have one occupation, which is to do odd jobs for wealthy families in the Central Plains."

"These Huns are poor people on the grassland. In the past, when the Chanyu was here, they lived like slaves. Now that they can go to the Central Plains and work as servants for the Qin people, they don't feel bitter, but feel that they have picked up

A huge bargain.”

Li Xin observed the Huns carefully, and then nodded: "It seems...that's really the case."

After those children were sent away, only some women and old people were left among the Huns.

It was easy for women to arrange marriage, because Li Shui quickly opened a marriage agency to introduce Xiongnu women to the people of the Central Plains.

In ancient times, the ratio of men to women was unbalanced, and polygamy was practiced. Therefore, many bachelors in the Qin Dynasty were arrested.

Well now, a group of Huns women have arrived. They are strong and strong, and they can do farm work as a man. No betrothal gifts, no betrothal gifts, just one mouthful of food, and they are willing to live a down-to-earth life.

The bachelors among the people of Qin were all very happy. They did not expect that they would be so poor and would one day marry a wife. They thought that their own generation would have no descendants, but unexpectedly, a sudden turn of events took place and a wife fell from the sky.

The people of Qin are very happy, and so are the women of the Huns. The Central Plains is good, with beautiful scenery and a mild climate. The husbands of the Central Plains are hardworking and treat themselves like family members. They are better than those Huns men who drink all day long and beat their wives at every turn.

I don't know how much better it is. The most important thing is that they can eat enough.

As a result, a legend began to spread between the Qin Dynasty and the Xiongnu. It was said that the banished immortal was in heaven, and he was originally in charge of marriages. Now that he was in the human world, he was unwilling to be lonely, so he continued to bring everyone together.

This kind of legend spread quickly and widely. It also transformed through time and space, and finally developed a complete set of sacrificial rituals.

To offer sacrifices to an immortal, you must first find a piece of locust wood and write the word "immortal" on it. Then hold the locust wood in your hands and pray secretly in your heart. As long as you are pious enough, within three months, you will definitely have a good marriage.

If you don't have a good marriage, you can only blame yourself for being ungrateful.

Li Shui knew nothing about this and was worrying about how to settle the remaining Huns.

These Huns are all very old. They can't carry their shoulders, can't lift their hands, and are ill. They can't do the work if they are asked to do it, and they can't bear to leave them alone. They are all a bunch of dragsters.

Li Xin suggested that Li Shui give these old people some cattle and sheep, and let them fend for themselves on the grassland.

Li Shui looked at the old people and said, "Are these people capable of herding cattle and sheep? If you give them the cattle and sheep, I'm afraid you will never get your money back."

Finally, he finally made up his mind and called a pawn over and asked him to call the Gongsun City gang.

After these courtiers were sent to the grasslands, they became tanned and thin due to exposure to the weather and the sun. They no longer looked like nobles.

After they met Li Shui, they all had mixed emotions. When these people first came here, they hated Li Shui very much. But now, no one of them dared to say bad words, because they had seen the power and knowledge of those alchemists.

The greatness of those craftsmen.

There once was a courtier who cursed Huaiguzi all day long. Later, this man... disappeared, and his whereabouts are still unknown.

This man must have died. After his death, no bones were left, which can be described as extremely miserable.

Li Shui, the big devil in the eyes of the courtiers, was looking at them with a smile, and then said: "Everyone, I have a grand plan and I need your help."

None of the courtiers spoke. Many people were thinking: A grand plan? What grand plan? Looking for immortals, is this a grand enough plan? What are you doing? You tricked everyone into mining coal. Now you have a grand plan.

Planned? What else is going to happen?

Li Shui had no self-awareness and mistook everyone's silence as expectation. He pointed to the old Huns not far away with a smile: "These people are very old. Older people often know a lot of allusions. Just you guys."

According to their oral accounts, we will screen and organize them, and then compile a history of the Huns."

When the people in Gongsun City heard this, they immediately became furious: "How can those barbarians be so virtuous that they can ask us to help them write history books?"

Li Shui coughed dryly: "These old Xiongnu people are idle when they are idle. You courtiers are also idle when they are idle, so you should just relax."

Gongsun Cheng felt very distressed. He had read a lot of poems and books, so why did he become idle?

But thinking about it carefully, it seems that I have nothing to do since I arrived on the grassland. This place either has the mining technology or the power to mine. There is no need for poetry and etiquette.

Therefore, the people in Gongsun City have been completely marginalized in this place...

Later, Li Shui said that if the history books were compiled well, some preferential treatment would be given to those who worked the hardest and made the most merits. He suggested that His Majesty might send him back to the Central Plains.

As soon as these words were spoken, the alchemists became completely excited.

Returning to the Central Plains, isn’t this what everyone has been dreaming about?

When the alchemists took the old Xiongnu man to ask questions, Li Xin curiously asked Li Shui: "Why do you think of compiling a history book for the Huns?"

Li Shui sighed and said with compassion: "The Xiongnu race will probably disappear soon. All I can do is try to leave some information for them, otherwise they will disappear completely in the long river of history."

Li Xin was speechless: "What's going on?"

Li Shui coughed dryly: "Why don't you believe it? That's all, you will understand my purpose of doing this in the future. Hehe."

Li Xin always felt that Li Shui was smiling there with evil intentions.

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Li Shui and Li Xin were busy pacifying the grasslands, but the news that the Xiongnu had been destroyed had not yet reached Xianyang.

Ji Ming is like a husband's stone, looking at the west all day long.

He was waiting for the subsequent gold and silver shipments from the Huns. But after waiting for a long time, there was still no news. Seeing that Shangjun Courtyard came to collect debts again, the money was not yet available.

The more Ji Ming thought about it, the more unwilling he felt: Did the Huns break their promise? Was he deceived by those barbarians?

He found an excuse to leave the palace and came to the small courtyard where he was communicating with the Huns. As a result, the Huns in the small courtyard also looked confused. He had not received news from the grassland for a long time.

Ji Ming sighed, and had no choice but to squeeze out some money, hire a Guizhou leader, and ask him to go out and find out what was going on with the Huns.
To be continued...