Chapter 1215: Carrying on the Past and Opening up the Future (One Hundred and Five) Appeasement and Provocation

The snow was dripping with blood. The bodies of dozens of masked assassins were arranged in a row on the side of the road, while the crossbows and other objects prepared for assassination were gathered into a pile. Looking at such a miserable scene, Fan Sui's face changed color slightly, "It seems that they really don't want me to return to Xianyang, even doing such taboo things."

Fan Sui was referring to the possession of crossbows, knives and guns, which were not prohibited, but weapons such as crossbows, which were more difficult to guard against than bows and arrows, were quietly brought out, showing that those people wanted to kill themselves. Determination.

"Have you found out the origins of these people?" Zhuo Buqun looked at one of his subordinates and asked.

"Returning to the general, these people do not belong to the army or any yamen. They look like pigs, pigs, islands, novels w.uu dead soldiers raised by some people, but nothing was found from them. Something valuable that can prove their identity." After a pause, he added: "These people don't seem to be attentive. In fact, they hide very well. We didn't find it before. They were actually hiding underground, but later someone came. It was so easy to climb out of the hiding place that we could see the clues. "

Zhuo Buqun nodded, "Now that the operation has been exposed, I'm afraid there will be an endless series of assassinations in the future. You must not relax, maybe this is just the first wave."

"Understood, General."

"Go!" Zhuo Buqun waved his hand, and a group of Black Ice Platform members disappeared in front of them like ghosts.

Fan Sui's motorcade continued to start, but Fan Sui became a little silent. Zhuo Buqun thought that the bloody scene had stimulated the first assistant who was a scholar, and comforted him: "Sir, the front is still not peaceful. If this happens again, you don't have to get out of the car to check. In fact, the person who did it is , you can guess who they are without looking up.”

Fan Sui shook his head. "Did you say General Lu took action?"

Zhuo Buqun smiled and said: "It's unlikely. If General Lu sent people, we're afraid we wouldn't be able to find and kill them so easily. You know, General Lu's military discipline has always been strict, and his subordinates There’s no way this kind of leak could happen.”

"I hope he didn't get involved, Hangu Pass still needs him to guard it!"

Zhuo Buqun said with some surprise: "Master Chief Assistant, once the Li family is gone, if those people want to find another banner. I am afraid it will be General Lu, and this is what the king is worried about. Do you think The biggest obstacle to what we need to do comes from General Lu. Why do you still admire General Lu so much?"

"Lu Chao and Cui Yuan are different." Fan Sui smiled and said: "People like Cui Yuan are all the tycoons of our Qin country. They are the biggest beneficiaries of the current policy. Those who are naturally unwilling to change,

They don't care about the rise and fall of the country. To put it bluntly, even if our Great Qin dies. When the time comes, they can lie down in front of their new master and still be able to live happily. That's why they desperately want to kill me, Lu Chao. This person doesn't value wealth very much, otherwise it would be based on his power, position and ability. Over the years, he has become the richest man in our Great Qin. Don’t forget, his father-in-law was once the richest man in Korea. But it seems that Lu Chao is very strict with himself. His thoughts are still on the prosperity of Great Qin. As long as he still has this point in his mind, we will have a basis for cooperation. If Lu Chao did not participate in their assassination of me this time, I would like to have a good talk with him. If we can reach an agreement with him, If you are consistent, you will get twice the result with half the effort. "

Zhuo Buqun shook his head: "If we don't agree with each other, it will be difficult."

“Always give it a try.”

"Fan Shoufu, you said before that if your reforms cause violent shocks in the country and the Han army takes the opportunity to attack, how will we, Great Qin, face it?" Zhuo Buqun thought for a while and finally asked.

"I'm afraid it's not if, but definitely." Fan Sui said: "They will not let this opportunity go."

Zhuo Buqun looked slightly nervous: "When the time comes, there will be internal and external troubles, what will Da Qin do? If we do two things, I'm afraid we will get nothing in the end."

"This is why I want to cooperate with General Lu." Fan Sui said: "If internal troubles are not eliminated, external wars will be difficult to win. Therefore, in the next few years, our focus will be on domestic. Externally, we can only take defensive measures, or even Do something that you think is disgraceful to the state, such as surrendering to the Han Dynasty and paying tribute. "

"How is this possible?" Zhuo Buqun suddenly changed his color.

"There is nothing wrong with it. A small impatience will ruin a big plan. Even if Gao Yuan asks us to endure the humiliation, I will bear it with gritted teeth, endure hardships, and work hard. In order to make a comeback in the future, I can bear these infamy. You deserve it. Zhuo Buqun, you have forgotten how the great kings of the past generations endured the humiliation and step by step to get to where we are today when Da Qin was just a small country in the west. If the great achievements of the previous kings had not been consolidated step by step, Now that the king wants to regain the glory of his ancestors, why can't he learn from the perseverance of his ancestors? "

"It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from luxury to frugality!" Zhuo Buqun sighed: "Not to mention the king, even I find it unbearable."

"This is our responsibility as courtiers." Fan Sui lowered his eyelids and said. "As the saying goes, thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river!"

Listening to Fan Sui's words, Zhuo Bujun lowered his head sadly. It was really hard to accept that the once extremely proud Qin people bowed their heads to the Han people. If someone chose to support him, Zhuo Buqun would be willing to go to the battlefield. Fight to the death with them.

Fan Sui, who is about to return to the court and take power, has a strategy of "walking on the light and nurturing the people". No matter how the Han State provokes, the Qin State can only be obedient and humble at this stage until the domestic reform is completed and the economy is initially restored, so that it can regain its ambition to dominate the world. Now, the best way is to constantly provoke the relationship between Han and Chu and direct the Han people's goal to Chu.

As for how to provoke disputes between Han and Chu, he and Tan Feng have repeatedly discussed it when they were in Yingchuan. They think that the Han Dynasty's great parliament system is something worth using. They only need to create some trouble on the border between Han and Chu, and the parliaments in various places will explode. Don't underestimate the parliament, which seems to have no power. They control public opinion and public opinion. As long as the parliaments in various places make trouble, the Han government cannot show it lightly. This thing was made by Gao Yuan himself. If it can be used to make Gao Yuan suffer, it will also be a gratifying thing.

Looking at Zhuo Buqun, such things will have to be done by Heibingtai in the future. They are good at doing such things.

While Fan Sui was thinking about making peace with the Han State, at Hangu Pass, Lu Chao's tens of thousands of troops were divided into several routes and were rushing towards Jinyang. The war was about to break out.

Gou Xin was Gou Yi's younger brother. His elder brother was a general of the Qin Army. Gou Xin, the youngest in the family, was only in his early twenties this year, but he was also a general in the Qin cavalry. Originally, he didn't need a general to lead the team to explore the way, but his brother's life and death were unknown. He was anxious and wanted to rush to Jinyang County immediately. After the army was dispatched, he took the initiative to ask Ying to take more than a hundred scouts to explore the way for the army.

Scouting is a very risky job. They are the elite in the army and the strongest part of an army, but they are also the part with the highest casualties, because they often encounter opponents who are also scouts like them, and sometimes they will step into the enemy's trap instead of the large army.

But now Gou Xin didn't think about it at all. He was young and energetic. What he was thinking about now was revenge for his brother. There were many rumors in the army that his brother Gou Yi must have been captured. This made Gou Yi happy and uncomfortable. He was happy that his brother might still be alive, but uncomfortable that being a prisoner was not a glorious thing. Maybe deep in his heart, he would rather his brother died gloriously in battle, and then he would avenge his brother and chop off the enemy's head to commemorate his brother's heroic spirit.

"General Gou, look!" A scout suddenly shouted. Gou Xin, who was thinking with his head down, looked up and saw a group of Han cavalrymen looking at them on the snowy plain about two miles away from them. At a glance, there were about twenty riders.

"Han scouts, go and kill them!" Gou Xin didn't think about it. He clamped his legs together, and the warhorse neighed loudly, and then ran forward. While running, Gou Xin had already drawn the saber at his waist.

As the elites in the army, these scouts are good at using sabers and can also shoot on war horses.

The Han cavalry on the opposite side did not want to fight. Seeing the Qin cavalry that was several times larger than themselves rushing towards them, they turned their horses and fled without hesitation.

"A bunch of cowards without courage." Gou Xin chased them relentlessly. At this moment, he was full of murderous intent and was thinking about revenge for his brother, even if it was to kill a Han person.

The two sides chased and fled, and in an instant they went out for dozens of miles. Looking at the situation in front, Gou Xin was shocked. The dozens of Han cavalry they were chasing had stopped, but not far behind them, a large camp of the Han army appeared in front of them. At this moment, the drums were rumbling, the gates were wide open, and hundreds of cavalry rushed out like the wind. The Han scouts who had been chased by them like rabbits all the way turned the tables and shouted and rushed towards them.

"Retreat!" Gou Xin gritted his teeth and said fiercely. Feng Shui turned around, and now it was his turn to escape.

However, it seemed that the enemy had no intention of pursuing them relentlessly. After chasing them for a while, they withdrew their troops and returned to the camp.

After getting rid of the opponent, Gou Xin took out a map from his body and marked the location of the army and its approximate size. Then he led his scouts to run in another direction. After all, his most important task was to find out the enemy's situation, not to kill the enemy. (To be continued...)