Ying Zheng has been thinking about the battle between Qin and Chu recently, but he has not stopped anything else. He still handles a lot of government affairs diligently every day.

Because of Fusu's reminder, Ying Zheng sent someone to stare at Xiang Yan early. Recently, the person in charge of catching up really caught up with the big news: Xiang Yan and Changpingjun were in secret communication.

Since a fierce discussion on the matter of "whether to destroy the Chu State", Ying Zheng has marginalized the Chu-gen officials headed by Changpingjun, and Changpingjun has also been under house arrest.

However, since it was under house arrest, Ying Zheng actually gave Changpingjun the right to move freely. After all, when the Lao Ai Rebellion was suppressed, Changpingjun stood firmly on Ying Zheng's side and made considerable contributions. Moreover, Changpingjun was raised by the Empress Dowager Huayang Taigong. Even for the sake of the Empress Dowager Huayang Taigong, Ying Zheng did not really do anything to Changpingjun.

As a result, Xiang Yan and Changpingjun actually contacted each other.

The connection between the two is very secretive. If the people sent to keep an eye on this time, Ying Zheng might not have discovered it yet.

If these two people hook up, the problem will be a bit big.

Due to the relationship between the Empress Dowager of Huayang, there were many Chu officials in the Qin State, and Changping Jun was also a smart figure among the Chu State officials. He had the highest official position and the highest background. He had also led troops and had a strong appeal. If he turned around and fought back, Changping Jun could completely instigate a group of people to directly rebel against Qin State and cooperate with Xiang Yan inside and outside!

At that time, the army sent by the Qin Dynasty to attack Chu will be attacked on both sides, and they may suffer a great loss.

Things on the battlefield often require only one information to deduce many possibilities. As an ambitious man who can engage in open wars and play secret schemes, Ying Zheng is not afraid to speculate on the choices that everyone will make with the greatest malicious intention.

Ying Zheng stared at the map for a long time and asked someone not to cut off the connection between Xiang Yan and Changpingjun. He wanted to see how many people relied on Qin's salary to make a living, but their hearts were not in Qin's state!

The court was busy with the attack on Chu, so Fusu could do less and could only concentrate on completing various affairs of the Shaofu Office, trying not to let the rear supply fail.

Even though the national strength of Chu was declining, there were still many brave and capable generals in the court. After the fight between the two sides started, the progress did not attack Zhao, Han, Yan and Wei smoothly.

Li Xin and Meng Tian attacked in two groups, and it took a long time from the start to the start of the battle. By the time they really entered Chu, it was already autumn. The Chu generals probably realized Qin's determination this time and fought hard, and the battle situation was always stalemate!

Xiang Yan had already made a round of mobilization earlier. They had retreated again and again. If they retreated, their descendants would have no place to stand! Even if they died, they would be blocked at the gate of the city, and they would never allow the Qin people to step into any city in Chu easily!

Look at South Korea, Zhao, Wei, and Yan, that is the lesson of the past!

As long as you don’t fight to the end, you have to be a slave to the destruction of the country!

It is precisely because everyone has a consensus that there is no way out for retreat that all the Chu people are united in unprecedented capacity, and there is basically no situation like the previous countries that surrender before they fight.

Both Li Xin and Meng Tian found that the battle was particularly difficult.

Perhaps it was because it was too easy to take down Zhao and Han countries before, which made them a little anxious. However, in the situation where the whole nation was full of fighting spirit, they did not dare to advance at all, and could only steadily go to Chu countries to fight steadily.

Ying Zheng follows up on the news sent back every day.

The 200,000 army eats a lot every day. Even though the Qin State's grain output has increased slightly in recent years, it is still a bit unbearable to continue to complete the supply of the 200,000 army.

Ying Zheng was also very anxious at the beginning. When the weather gradually turned colder, he felt much calmer. As soon as the autumn harvest ended, the new grain from all over the country was paid up, and they could continue to fight!

Fusu is very busy at this time. After the autumn harvest, he has to urge the local government to pay taxes, which is the new grain and new cloth this year.

It is gratifying that Handan County began to pay taxes again this year. Before that, two years of taxes were exempted due to famine, and at the same time, it dug a canal and built a road, which gradually stabilized the people of Handan County.

At first, some people thought that Ying Zheng was using the money from the court to make a face for Fusu. However, after statistics on the grain and cloth paid by Handan County this year, the questioners were completely silent. Handan County, which had been recuperating for two years, was full of vitality. Not only did it pay a lot of grain and cloth paid, but even commercial tax was a big investment!

There is no way, Fusu built a road in Handan County and built a celadon kiln. Celadon is as beautiful as jade and is easier to buy than jade. Although it is a little expensive, it can be used all day long after buying it. It won’t feel too distressed to buy a set of celadons, so celadons are very popular everywhere.

As an official kiln, the transaction of celadons is basically operated by the official business. Every month, someone is responsible for escorting celadons to various counties for sale. Before Yan and Wei were destroyed by Qin, they even exported them.

There is also another important exporter now: Qi State.

This kind of clean and beautiful celadon is too suitable for the appetite of scholars in Qiguo, okay? Especially the celadon study suit, when placed in the study, it feels like the whole room is different!

The official porcelain caravan regularly transports porcelain from all over the country every month. Other small vendors did not dare to go out, for fear of encountering bandits robbers on the road. Now they can follow the official porcelain caravan. They feel at ease and actively travel around the country to engage in various large and small business deals.

This gradually prospered the commercial trade in Handan County, and brought a large amount of commercial tax to the court.

As we all know, in order to suppress excessively frequent commercial activities, commercial taxes are collected very heavily. In terms of proportion, the imperial court basically took the big head and merchants took the small head. In the past two years, it was not felt that the taxes were not paid by Handan County. This year, when the taxes in Handan County were collected, many people were a little surprised. The eyes of those merchants seemed to be looking at fat sheep.

Of course, at present, agriculture is still more important, and merchants must be running away. It is too difficult to manage if there are too many. If they evade taxes, wouldn’t it be awesome for merchants and damage to the treasury?

Fusu is quite satisfied with the tax revenue that will be put into the warehouse this year. After the autumn harvest, he took the report to Ying Zheng to show it.

Ying Zheng had long been accustomed to Fusu's specific and intuitive statistical table. He took it and took a few glances. He soon found that the trade tax in Handan County was far higher than the other ends. He didn't say anything about this, but just finished reading the report silently, thinking in his mind how long it would take to get these new grains and whether he could increase troops to Li Xin and the others.

Fusu didn't interrupt, and waited for Ying Zheng to finish his thoughts.

Ying Zheng said: "Can this celadon be able to open a new kiln?"

Judging from the development model of Handan County, road construction alone is not enough to drive local development. There is still a little trouble for that place to go. Otherwise, if the road is built, no one will be in vain?

At present, the business of Shaofu Office, bamboo paper, ash wax and stone mills, etc. have been opened in various places according to the original plan to meet local needs, but celadon is only unique to Handan County.

The celadon produced in Handan County was depleted to Xianyang, and the celadon on the market has been in short supply. Ying Zheng thought that it was possible to consider opening a few more porcelain kilns. Anyway, judging from the current coal mine reserves, it is enough to burn a few kilns.

Ying Zheng’s purpose is very simple. To concentrate the wealth of the world in the hands of the court as much as possible. First, collect all the parts that the court can collect normally, and then cheat out those that cannot be collected. In this way, the remaining wealth among the people will naturally be reduced, and the court can concentrate its efforts to do big things!

It would be easier for merchants to be brave enough to deal with it. If they are disobedient, they will slaughter them. After slaughtering, will the treasures they hoarded belong to the court differently from the money and grain?

Therefore, Ying Zheng was happy to see that building three or five more porcelain kilns to drive the local economy.

Fusu nodded and wrote down Ying Zheng's instructions, and quickly dispatched a group of professionals to visit places suitable for the development of the porcelain industry. If you want to build a porcelain kiln, you must have raw materials suitable for making porcelain blanks and coal mines suitable for mining. You have to send porcelain masters to visit each county in person before you can determine the location.

Fusu couldn't get involved in the war, so he focused on what Ying Zheng told him. As a result, not long after winter, Fusu heard that Ying Zheng sent someone to take Changping Junguan to Yunyang prison!

A group of Chu officials were also imprisoned with Changpingjun.

The court was silent and did not understand why Ying Zheng suddenly broke out.

Fusu guessed a little bit and ran to ask Ying Zheng if he had found something.

Ying Zheng did not answer him immediately, but asked him to pass the note first, lying on the couch and closed his eyes to rest. He should be a little tired after handling the round of government affairs.

Fusu sat aside and read the news from various places for Ying Zheng. After reading most of the time, he also figured out the matter of Changpingjun. It turned out that Changpingjun had secretly contacted the Chu general Xiang Yan, and conveyed a lot of plans for Qin's attack on Chu. He was also planning to contact some Chu officials to cause trouble.

This is not the fault of Ying Zheng for imprisoning him.

However, Changpingjun was originally from the royal family of Chu, and it was normal for him to care about his homeland. When Qin and Chu were fighting, Changpingjun once urged his father not to go to war with Chu, obviously in order to protect Chu.

Fusu remembers that Changpingjun also rebelled in his previous life, and was supported by Xiang Yan as King of Chu to continue to fight against Qin. However, he did not expect that Qin's pace of unifying the world has accelerated a lot, but Changpingjun still made the same choice!

This Changpingjun was once a person who stood firmly on his father's side in the past.

Fusu couldn't help looking at Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng probably had enough rest, or maybe he had noticed Fusu's gaze that came over, opened his eyes and looked at Fusu sitting in the pile of memorials. He sat upright and said, "Have you finished reading?"

"It's almost done." Fusu replied obediently, and pushed a stack of more important remarks to Ying Zheng for Ying Zheng to give instructions.

Ying Zheng picked up a copy casually and flipped it over, took the pen handed over and approved a few words. He saw that Fusu did not move anymore, and sat quietly aside for some thoughts, and couldn't help but ask, "So what's wrong?"

Fusu looked up at Ying Zheng: "Will your father be sad when he knew that Changping Jun was going to rebel?"

Ying Zheng met Fusu's concerned eyes.

The child is still young and looks childish on his face. He has obviously got the opportunity to "give a dream to teach an immortal", but his temperament is still very naive.

Ying Zheng was once a little dissatisfied with the choice of Fusu by passing by himself. Later, he thought that he would cheat the things that the "Immortal" taught Fusu. As for what he would do after he cheated in the future, Ying Zheng had no idea.

But this child is too soft-hearted, so soft that Ying Zheng wonders if he is his own species.

When Ying Zheng heard Fusu ask such a question, he knew he was stupid again.

Not to mention that Changpingjun is just a foreign minister, even if Changpingjun was once a person he trusted, even if Changpingjun helped him to eliminate the rebellion, these are all trivial matters compared to unifying the world.

I may have had anger, but I will definitely not have sadness or something.

Ying Zheng said lightly: "Stop talking stupid things, go ahead and go."

Fusu didn't say anything, and went back to work obediently.

When the porcelain making experts returned from visiting kaolin resources in various places, the weather suddenly turned sharply, which was many times colder than in previous years. A few days later, heavy snow fell and many places in the Qin State were blocked by heavy snow.

The heavy snow has been going on for days, and the snow in some places is almost over the knees!

In such bad weather, many people can't even leave the door, and the hut is in danger of being crushed. In such bad weather, the military rations raised have been stagnant for several days and have not been transported smoothly. If the food and grass brought in front of them were not sufficient, they could have replenished them in the captured city, the food and grass in the army would probably have been cut off!

What’s more fatal is that the battle has been fought for more than half a year, and only won a few games and won more than ten cities. There was no truly exciting victory. Morale has begun to decline. Now the road is blocked by heavy snow, and the food cannot be transported. It is difficult to march in rain and snow. God is simply stopping them from continuing to fight!

Li Xin looked at the sky with clouds and deep clouds, couldn't help but curse Ju Niang, and returned to the tent to report the situation in the army to Ying Zheng, asking whether to make a temporary truce. He and Meng Tian were both preparing to reconcile the city they had captured, and then continue fighting after the road was unblocked.

If you have to fight in such a cold day, the soldiers may have frozen to death and frostbite. Now the military doctors accompanying the army are busy studying the treatment methods for frostbite. It is said that if your hands and feet are really frozen, they can only cut them off even if they look back!

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