After Spring and Autumn

Chapter 28 Fiefdom
Where did Su Zhi go?Both Gou Jian and Fan Li had doubts, but tacitly stopped mentioning it.

Only Monty and his first song know the truth.

What Han Zhan said that day was: "There is a secret passage in the mountain behind King Yu's Mausoleum."

Back then, the Han clan used to guard the tomb of King Yu, but for some unknown reason, they secretly dug a secret passage.It's been a long time, and Han Zhan heard it mentioned by the elders of the clan by chance, but he didn't know the exact location of the secret passageway, only that there was a secret mark unique to the Han clan.

So Meng Di asked the first song to go up the mountain to look for it. It was not until the sacrifice began that he received a signal from Han Zhan, and he was relieved.Originally, I just wanted to see if I could take the opportunity to get rid of the stubbornness, but I didn't expect such a perfect ending.

As for what happened to Su Zhi, Han Zhan didn't say anything, and Meng Di didn't ask, the secret passage has been blocked, so let the truth be lost in history forever.

"How should I reward Brother Meng?" Sitting in the deep palace, Gou Jian lightly brushed the sword that Meng Di handed over with his fingers.

After several days of chaos, because of the strong backing recognized by King Yu, the court of Yue State soon stabilized.

Fan Li became the greatest hero, and he is kneeling in front of Goujian at this moment.He also knows about the Han people, after all, they have always been regarded as mountains by the court.Even though Yun Chang later ordered not to destroy her because of Concubine Tang, but in any case, it is not appropriate to make it public for the time being.

Gou Jian has no objection to this, and it is naturally difficult for these relatives who have never met to feel close.What's more, the name Shanyue made him a little embarrassed. The ideas instilled in him since childhood made him always proud of having the blood of Dayu, even when he was fleeing.

"The widow wants to give Brother Meng a fief, what do you think?"

"Your Majesty, Lord Meng is the envoy of Chu State, how can he enfeoff a land in Yue State?"

"Little Wu Xiaoliu said, Brother Meng can't go back to Chu."

Fan Li got up and bowed solemnly, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, you are no longer that disciple named Li, nor the second prince Goujian, you are the great king of the Yue Kingdom. No matter what happened in the past, now you are the great king, and they are the courtiers."

"So, the widow can no longer call Brother Meng?" Gou Jian sighed sadly.

In fact, since ascending the throne, this sense of distance has become more and more obvious. Gou Jian knew it in his heart, but he couldn't let go of it for a while.

Seeing that Goujian insisted on enfeoffing the land, Fan Li changed his mind and came up with a plan, which was to entrust Mengdi with the mountains and forests where the Han people lived. Firstly, it would fulfill Goujian's wish, and secondly, he could also take care of the Han people.

There is a third point that Fan Li didn't mention, that land is in the west of Yue State, close to Chu State.With high mountains and dense forests, and inconvenient transportation, it is no better than the fertile land along the coast. For the Yue Kingdom, it was originally ruled in name only, and it happened to be a good time to get rid of this burden.

When the news came out, it caused an uproar in the court, and fiefdom meant adding a title, at least a title of a doctor.

Why, just because this Chu man stood upright at the ceremony and expressed his attitude without any pain, can he gain something that the ministers can't get in their entire lives?
No one was optimistic about this barbarian land, fearing that they would not even be able to support the soldiers with them, let alone be looted by Shanyue at any time, but this did not prevent them from uniting to put pressure on Goujian.

Goujian hadn't learned how to get along with the ministers. A prince who had been on the run for many years suddenly couldn't make a decision, but was extremely stubborn in this matter.

During the stalemate, Fan Li still proposed a compromise idea, only enfeoffing land and not granting titles. This unconventional approach was unanimously agreed by the ministers.

Goujian, who had a rebellious mentality, waved his hand on the map of mountains and rivers, enclosing all the land more than a hundred miles west of Gumi City.

Meng Di was very satisfied. At the beginning, he just wanted to show his brotherhood, and didn't think so much.Now that Goujian accidentally became the king of Yue, he doesn't have to be twitchy, just accept this wish.

Finally, there is a place to settle down. As for whether it is barren or not, is this a question?In the previous life, the Han army went out to attack the Gobi and desert?
The fief was named Han. No one knew how much Meng Di had put into this name, but it was simply strange because the Han River did not pass through here.

Brother Meng, that's all I can do for you, Gou Jian thought silently as he looked at Meng Di and his party leaving from the city gate.

Along the way, Meng Di was also reflecting.

Fan Li was appointed as a general and led tens of thousands of soldiers to the front line of Wuyue.At this point, Meng Di's mission to the country of Yue has been successfully completed, and it is time to consider the future.

In the previous life, the Han army was used to facing all enemies, just push them flat with strong force.However, after coming to this world, he was always forced to take a slanted sword, and even passed the test by pretending to be a ghost, which made him very uncomfortable.

In the final analysis, strength is too weak. In this troubled world, everything still depends on strength.

Gumie is a mountain city, and when the city guard heard that Mengdi was coming, he packed up his belongings as quickly as possible, and returned directly to Kuaiji with his servants.

I can finally go back, the city guard really wants to look up to the sky and laugh. After staying here for a few years, when I came here, I had several carts full of them. When I went back, I couldn’t fill one cart.

The Han clan got the news early and greeted them outside the city.Gu Mie's guards withdrew together with the city guards, and the Han clan regarded themselves as the lord's subordinates, and finally they were able to move around the city swaggeringly.

"My lord!" Lei led his clansmen to kneel in front of his naked body, choked up and unable to speak. In just over a month, Mengdi brought a great surprise to the Han clan.

"Patriarch Han Lei, you are now relatives of King Yue's natal family, do you want to seek a position in the court?"

"Your Excellency made fun of it. Since the Han Clan has already attached itself, everything is subject to your orders." Lei Nian was old and mature, so he naturally knew that this relative was not easy to recognize.

Mengdi has learned along the way that there are dense forests and many canyons here, and there are large and small Yue tribes living here, which is quite a headache for the Yue Kingdom.What can be completely controlled is the surrounding areas of Gu Mie.

These Yue tribes, like the Han people, usually lived by hunting and picking, and when they couldn't survive, they would go down the mountain in groups to plunder.Once the Vietnamese army came to suppress them, they fled into the mountains and disappeared without a trace.As time went by, the Yue court didn't bother to pay attention, and only sent people to guard Gumi Mountain City firmly.

But in Mengdi's eyes, these tribes are excellent population resources.

If you want to subdue these indigenous tribes, you must beat them to their heart's content, supplemented by lures.Now that there are young and strong Han people who are familiar with mountains and forests and are good at climbing, it is not a problem to find their places one by one and call them.

This time the first song made great achievements in Kuaiji City, which made Mengdi very satisfied, but the strength and equipment were still insufficient.In order to develop the military, the most important problem before us is to solve the problem of food first. If there is sufficient food, there will be enough soldiers.

After repeated thinking, Meng Di decided to vigorously develop agriculture in the first step.In his own fiefdom, he already had a very high prestige, so he didn't need to use the name of witchcraft anymore.

The agricultural development of Vietnam is actually very good, but the focus is on the east and north coasts.I heard from Fan Li that the villages there are full of men farming and women weaving. There is plenty of fish and rice, and there is so much food that they can't finish eating. Otherwise, they would not be able to support the Yue State to compete with the mighty Wu State.

But here is a mountainous place, there is no place to cultivate, and occasionally there are suitable places, and the aborigines are still at the stage of adopting the method of bird field to depend on the sky for food.This is also the reason why the Yue court has been reluctant to spend great efforts on governance, and it is not worthwhile.

Well, the first thing to do is to find arable land.After walking around Gumi City, Meng Di came to a conclusion.

(End of this chapter)