The news that the imperial court was going to use troops in the southwest had already spread all over Chang'an at night.
However, it is a pity that except for the military and the princes, the reaction of everyone else is very cold.
First, now the main force of the gossip party, the rangers and the ruffians, have gone a lot.
These guys ran fast, and they had even crossed the border wall of Liaodong and entered the Xinhua realm, even if they ran a little slower, they also rubbed into Luoyang.
Second, what can the poor mountains and remote areas in the southwest have?
Some of the old people in Guanzhong even remember the development of the southwest during the Qin Dynasty.
"When my father followed General Chang, developed the southwest, and built a five-foot road to the southwest, according to my father, among the southwestern countries, in addition to taro, it was a lofty mountain."
In that year, in order to develop the southwest, the Qin State requisitioned tens of thousands of Guanzhong people to build roads in the local area.
Today's roads in the southwest are basically built by the Qin State.
As the most typical representative of the classical Chinese era.
The Qin Dynasty is completely an infrastructure maniac.
Wherever his army goes, roads will be built.
If the mountains stop me, I will dig the mountains, and if the waters stop me, I will dig the canals.
For the Great Qin Empire, there is no place in this world where roads cannot be built and rivers cannot be dug.
In order to conquer Baiyue, the Qin army chiseled the Xiang and Li rivers, so that the water systems of Hunan and Guangxi could be merged into one.
In order to go north to the grassland, the Qin army established dense beacons and armories in the Hetao Plain, and extended the straight road to the past.
As for the Qin Zhidao, which still connects all the counties and major cities in the whole of China, making Zhuxia a whole, it is a miracle project that is almost impossible for human beings to complete.
However, such a powerful infrastructure madman has collapsed in the southwest.
Facing the complex terrain and changeable environment of the southwest.
Even a militaristic regime as strong as the Qin Dynasty had to choose to dig a road that was less than five feet long enough for people and horses, called the Five Feet Road.
Even so, this five-foot road actually reached the time of the fall of the Qin Dynasty.
It also only completed less than half of the design mileage.
Barely a five-foot road.
And in order to dig this five-foot road, the Qin Dynasty paid a heavy price.
Tens of thousands of people are forever sleeping in the mountains and mountains of the southwest, and a large number of resources are like being lost, and there is no return.
More importantly, Qin was in the southwest.
Nothing was paid off at all.
Guanzhong people have never been afraid of death or difficulties.
As long as there is benefit, death is nothing difficult and nothing In order to support Wu Anjun's battle of Changping in Baiqi, the entire Qin State.
From eighty-year-old men to eleven or twelve-year-old children, old and young women and children, all went into battle to deliver supplies to the army.
Gritting their teeth, the Qin people made the impossible possible.
In the Battle of Changping, the elite main force of Zhao was annihilated in one fell swoop, and the biggest obstacle to the unification of the world was swept away.
This level of national mobilization and overall warfare strategy implementation and planning would have been no more than that of the warring countries of World War I in the early 20th century.
However.
If there is no benefit Just like when Qin Shi Huang developed the southwest region, the Qin people did not receive any compensation in the southwest region except taro.
In this case, everyone is naturally not willing to go to the mountains and mountains in the southwest to play a game of hide and seek with the barbarians.
This memory is so profound in the people of Guanzhong.
So much so that today, decades later, when the imperial court once again expressed its desire to go to the southwest.
The people of Guanzhong did not express any enthusiasm for joining the army as before.
After all, no one wants to travel thousands of miles.
Expedition to a foreign land, risk your life, to dig taro Of course, it's not without brains.
In a remote residential area in Chang'an City.
A scholar from Wu was studying behind closed doors.
Suddenly, he heard the landlord's family talking about the fact that the imperial court was going to do something to the southwest.
The man immediately dropped the book in his hand, stood up, and said to himself, "This is a gift from heaven for me."
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This person's surname is Yang, and his name is Zheng.
Word strategy. was originally an auditor of the old Wu State, and his father was originally a county lieutenant of a county of Wu State, and he could be regarded as a son of the official family.
But unfortunately, King Wu rebelled three years ago, and it was quickly suppressed by the imperial court.
His identity as the son of an official eunuch was so lost, even when his father died, Liu Bi, the king of Wu, was still the uncle of the Han Dynasty and the pillar country of southern Xinjiang, but the Han army that came in didn't care about this, and beat him to the ranks of Wu Yiyu's party in one sentence.
Although he was not on the list of the family members of the criminal official, as a child of the old Wu Rebellion Yu Party, it was a dream to get a local appointment or even become an official.
There was no way, and the examination became his only way out.
It's just that After coming to Chang'an, Yang Zheng found that there were so many competitors, and all of them were scared to death by their family backgrounds.
Although the country selects scholars by examination, there are thousands of scholars per year.
However, this examination is becoming more and more difficult.
Of course, if you just want to be a local handyman, give people a handy, and provide people with guidance or something, it is very simple.
Basically, as long as you are literate, the handwriting is neat, and then the logic is clear and organized, you can do it.
However, as a former official eunuch's son, Yang Zheng was unwilling, and spent his whole life in the pavilion in the township, dealing with farmers, mud legs, and the rich landowners in the countryside, mixing a few stones of rice every month, and living a poor and tense life.
He would prefer to sit on the county office or the county hall and give orders.
"Big husband, fame but take it right away" Yang Zheng threw the book aside.
His father, who had been an envoy to King Wu, had been to the southwest, and was even listed as a guest in the palace of King Yelang.
He knew more or less about the state of the southwestern countries.
So, he sat down, picked up pen and paper, wrote hard, and began to write his name.
"The membership savage Yang Zheng respectfully worships the monarch and the marquis: I heard that the prince intends to collect the southwest for His Majesty, and the contemptible Yang Zheng and the prince have a heart, and he specially offers advice for the prince's consideration."
Half an hour later, Yang Zheng had already written a southwest strategy of 3,000 words.
Then, he copied several copies of these prayer posts, and while it was still early, he went out in the direction of Qili and Shang Guanli.
"Now.
There are probably only a few nobles who may lead the army to the battle" Yang Zheng thought as he walked, after excluding Prime Minister Zhou Yafu and several special elders, in fact.
Now there are only a few people who are qualified to lead an expedition.
It is nothing more than the guard captain Li Guang, the ruling Jin Wuzhi, and the generals Li Xi and Guo Wu, who were not born in the liehous, as well as the former emperors such as Jianping, Pingqu, and Jiangyang, and several veteran generals in the army.
But, maybe.
After all, who to send to command the troops.
The Son of Heaven has the final say.
Many times, the old Liu family often unexpectedly chooses those inconspicuous princes in this kind of thing that is the same no matter who they send.
With this in mind, now in Jingliehou, except for the world-famous Chang'an Sanyi, it seems that everyone else is likely to be the choice.
Thinking of this, Yang Zheng stopped, returned to his residence, and continued to transcribe the prayer post.
His idea is simple and straightforward, since I don't know who might be the commander of the army this time, then.
I'll just vote for all the people possible This was also the common choice of the literati in Chang'an City in the past before there was no examination system.
At the same time, in the mansion of Wei Qihou, the great general of Qili.
A young diner bowed to Dou Ying and said: "Lord, now Your Majesty wants to take the southwest, and on the occasion of this Lord's meritorious service, the Lord should make a decision on the spot, write to Your Majesty, Mao Sui recommended himself, please be the commander."
Dou Ying looked at the young diner and touched his beard. sighed: "I know myself, but the southwestern countries, I don't know anything, I'm afraid" The diner prayed, "Don't worry about the Lord's friends.
Named Tang Meng, is the son of Poyang Wei of the late Wu State, this son has traveled to the southwest, and the current Yelang, Yu, Yu and other kings and ministers, has always had a friendship, the Lord can send an envoy to invite him.
With his help, the Lord will naturally know all about the internal situation in the southwest."
Dou Ying was overjoyed, got up and prayed: "If this is the case, I will thank him again" Immediately he ordered someone to bring a hundred gold goods, and with the diner, he went to invite the man whose name was Tang Meng.
In the mansion of the Tiger Benwei Lieutenant in Shangguan, a similar scene is also being staged.
"Your Majesty wants to take the southwest, and on the occasion of the meritorious service of the commander, please make a decision immediately, enter the palace overnight to meet Your Majesty, please be the commander of the southwest" Several horses of the drama Meng clamored one after another.
Since the drama Meng became rich, he has been in this Shangguanli family house, learning from the princes and ministers of Chang'an, raising a large number of diners and staff, and planning for himself.
It's just that Ju Meng was born as a ranger, so among his diners and disciples, there are three sects and nine streams, and there are all kinds of people.
Among them, many were his friends and neighbors when he was poor.
These people are not so much serving as diners and doormen for the drama Meng, but rather coming to eat and wait for death.
Anyway, as long as the drama Meng doesn't fall, they can drink wine and eat meat every day, and when they are free, they will go to Huajie Willow Lane to do a big health care or something, and their lives will not be too happy.
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Therefore, in fact, there are only a dozen people that Ju Meng can really rely on.
And now, regardless of whether they are mixed and waiting for death, or those who are really talented, they all can't bear to instigate the drama Menglai.
For them, Ruo Ju Meng became the commander of this dispatch.
According to the system of the national dynasty, as the main general, you can recommend a few or a dozen middle and low-level officers who are lieutenants or Sima, and then everyone can follow Ju Meng to the southwest to get promoted and make a fortune.
Even if it doesn't work, even if he takes 10,000 steps back, the status of Ju Meng, who has made contributions, will be improved again.
Whether everyone is waiting for death, or if they want to make contributions, this future security will be on a higher level.
However, Ju Meng was very hesitant.
He remembered what his confidant, Cheng Buyi, the current real manager of Hu Benwei, had told him.
"Today, the Captain takes His Majesty's cronies as the car, and the foundation of the Captain lies in not leaving His Majesty's side day and night, if the Captain leads the army on an expedition, His Majesty's henchmen must be replaced by others, even if the Captain returns with meritorious service, the last general feels that it may be more reliable to stay in His Majesty, besides, the soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and the Captain has never had any experience in commanding troops, in case of any omission, will he not fall into the place of death" "And Du Wei is different from Dong Cheng Hou, Dong Cheng Hou is behind the favor of Mrs.
Yiyi, there is the eldest son of the emperor and the lord of Wanyi can be the Austrian aid, even if it is far away, in the heart of His Majesty, I am afraid that he has not been slightly reduced by half of the trust, and Du Wei is otherwise, the last general heard that His Majesty made the prince and the king conquer Du Wei, Du Wei had doubts and stopped" "If the current captain leaves Beijing for an expedition, the last general will be worried, and some villains will use this as a handle to accuse the captain" Cheng doesn't know what he said, of course it makes sense.
However, under the persuasion of relatives and friends at the moment, Ju Meng also had an undercurrent in his heart, and he couldn't help himself.
Ju Meng knows very well that if he stays in Chang'an and stays by His Majesty's side, he can naturally ensure that his current status and favor will not be damaged in the slightest.
But Since the founding of the Han family, there has never been a precedent for relying on attendants to become princes Even if he is a well-known literary master, a well-known local honest official and capable minister, he has no military merits, even if he has a great talent against the sky, he can only stop at 2,000 stones, and he can only die to be a left-handed chief.
Do you want to be this captain of the horse and the captain of the tiger and the guard for the rest of your life?
The drama Meng is really a little unwilling.
Although, four years ago, he never thought that one day, he would be able to enter and leave the palace, attendants left and right, let the court go up to the prime minister, down to the Jiuqing liehous, and when he saw himself, all of them had to bow down, saying: So-and-so has seen the captain.
As for the local officials and the fathers and elders in their hometowns, they even stuffed large bags into his house every year.
This made Ju Meng feel very satisfied.
But gradually, Ju Meng also began to feel empty.
In particular, when the righteous expedition is thousands of miles, and the handsome master destroys the country and the ruler asks His Majesty for the blame, it is even more difficult for Ju Meng to suppress the impulse in his heart.
With the contrast of righteousness, coupled with the desire for the position of the prince.
Ju Meng finally made a decision.
"What all the monarchs say is good" Ju Meng stood up and said: "Enter the palace here, please see Your Majesty" Military generals, after all, still have to rely on military merits to prove themselves. moreover Ju Meng felt that even if he was not afraid this time, then next time, he would probably have to lead the army.
How big His Majesty's heart is, Ju Meng knows very well.
This is a male lord who wants to swallow the universe and have the four seas and dominate the world Even the Xiongnu are just a signpost on the road to conquest.
In today's eyes, the world, everywhere his eyes have ever seen, must be conquered, and all must be occupied What he wants to accomplish is a great cause that has never been completed by three emperors and five emperors, and a hegemony that Qin Shi Huang can only look up to And Ju Meng is also very clear about today's thoughts.
This son of heaven has very high requirements for his courtiers "People who can't keep up with me" Drama Meng remembered what the Son of Heaven once told him: "I won't stop and wait for him" "I must try to keep up with His Majesty's footsteps" Drama Meng told himself in his heart: "I can't be eliminated" Those who are eliminated are losers and defective products.
And the drama Meng is dead and unwilling to return to his past life.
Therefore, even if he took a little risk, this time, he had to take a gamble S: Note: During the Qin and Han dynasties, a large and watery taro was produced in the southwest region, and at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the refugees of Shu County even fed on these taro for a time.
In Zhuo Wangsun's workshop, taro was used as food for workers at the beginning.
These are all recorded in the biography of the Southwest Yi and the biography of the value of goods in the historical records t1706231537: