The Moon in the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 527: Evidence? I'll find it!

Guo Kai frowned, his expression stern: "Queen Dowager, this matter is of great importance, I dare not speak rashly, but I think Wu Anjun would not have such a rebellious idea. He is just an outsider, his father settled in Da Zhao, although he holds great power, but his foundation is not deep, how can he replace Da Zhao?"

"Outsider? His father's generation just came to Da Zhao? Who is his father?" Queen Zhao Daochang asked curiously.

As soon as the words "Wu'an Jun's father is..." came out, Guo Kai closed his mouth, his brows tightened, and his eyes were filled with worry.

Empress Zhao Daochang narrowed her beautiful eyes and asked, "Who is it?"

Guo Kai hesitated for a long time, then slowly spoke: "Wu'an Jun's father was named Li Ji, who was once the Grand Tutor of Qin State. He was dismissed for committing a crime and moved to Da Zhao. Li Ji's father was named Li Tan, who was once the Minister of Civil Affairs of Qin State."

"Wu'an Jun is from the Li clan, with the surname Ying."

Guo Kai hurriedly said: "However, Wu Anjun grew up in Da Zhao since he was a child. It is impossible for him to have any connection with Qin State, and it is even more impossible for him to replace Qin State in Da Zhao."

"Besides, Wu Anjun's family is all in Handan. How could he ignore the safety of his entire family?"

Queen Zhao Daochang snorted coldly, "Why not? Their family has such a deep relationship with the Qin State, and they hold a high position of power in the Great Zhao State. It would not be strange if they surrendered to the Qin State again."

"I sent Lord Anyang to Daidi just to make him stay there obediently. I thought it would be reassuring to have Li Mu watching over him, but he actually brought Lord Anyang with him. This doesn't make sense no matter how you look at it."

"As for his family, humph, such an ambitious villain may not care about his family. Doesn't he have a son by his side? It seems that he has made preparations in advance to bring his favorite son with him. I'm afraid his family members have become abandoned children."

Guo Kai advised: "Don't worry, Queen Mother. Maybe there is a misunderstanding. Maybe Wu'an Jun brought Anyang Jun to his side just to take better care of him. After all, the war has begun and the world is in chaos."

Empress Zhao Daochang sighed deeply: "Mr. Guo, you are not familiar with Li Mu, but you keep speaking for him. You are just too kind and don't know how vicious some people are. If it was just to protect Lord Anyang, why did you let Lord Anyang lead the troops?"

"All these unreasonable things combined make it hard for me to believe in Li Mu's loyalty."

"Now it seems that Li Mu is playing two-timing and has three minds in mind!"

Although Guo Kai frowned, he still insisted on persuading: "Queen Dowager, please don't be anxious. Give me some time. I will carefully investigate. When I find out the whole story, it will not be too late to deal with it then."

Empress Zhao Daochang nodded slightly and said, "With Lord Guo here, I am relieved. However, this matter is of great importance. Li Mu has a large army under his command, so it must not be leaked. We must investigate carefully and not make a big fuss."

Guo Kai nodded and said, "I know."

Just when Guo Kai was investigating (fabricating) Li Mu's evil intentions.

The rest of the countries, including Zhao itself, were also in a horrible state. No one could have predicted a natural disaster, and by the time they discovered any clues, it was already too late.

In the first half of this year, except for Qi State, all other countries went to war, and the cost was extremely high.

Only Qin was not afraid, after all, it had strong national strength. The Zhengguo Canal and Dujiangyan were not built in vain, and it also extorted a large amount of money and grain from Chu and Wei.

There were wars in the year of disaster, and the number of people who died of starvation was far greater than those who died in battle.

In recent years, all countries have been at war year after year, and there is not much food reserves. Even if they wanted to provide disaster relief, they did not have the ability to do so. In particular, the Wei and Chu states were taken advantage of and a large amount of food was extorted from them.

The worst hit was the State of Chu. To make matters worse, chaos broke out in the lands of Wu and Yue again.

When the State of Chu was preparing to attack Qin and rescue Zhao, Tianze was already preparing.

Although he didn't know what exactly happened, he knew that the State of Chu was going to go to war with other countries, and this was enough.

The army is out on the march, leaving the interior empty. This is my chance!
How could we not take advantage of the opportunity?

After the Chu army went out, Tianze resolutely attacked the Chu State. His timing was very good and his idea was correct. Given the current situation of the Chu State, sending 150,000 troops, although it could not be said to be an all-out effort, was already serious enough.

However, he still overestimated himself.

The main reason was that he was too arrogant. He actually attacked the cities in Jiangdong and Kuaiji of the Chu State, wanting to truly obtain a piece of city land as a real foothold instead of just staying in the mountains.

The place he chose was the former Wu Yue land, as he wanted to repeat the glory of his ancestors.

Then I ran into a huge problem. Attacking the city? It was impossible.

It was too naive to expect the Baiyue barbarians in the mountains to attack the city. It was possible to expect them to plunder or even some small cities. But he was targeting the big cities. He changed several targets in succession, but suffered heavy losses and failed to capture any city.

Tianze, who was furious, had to choose a few small towns as his targets. This time he was successful. After occupying the small towns, he carried out large-scale looting and killing, and then they were easily taken back. They didn't know how to defend the city at all, and besides, such small towns could not be defended at all, and there was no need to defend them.

The sweetness brought by looting stimulated Tianze's mind, and he really needed these sweetness to make up for the losses in the previous siege in order to maintain his prestige.

He finally sobered up now and stopped thinking about attacking big cities. The current strength of the Baiyue was not enough. Instead, he took advantage of the fact that the Chu army was weak and unable to launch a large-scale attack, and swept the small cities in Wu and Yue one by one. King You of Chu really didn't have time to care about him at the beginning. In the battle with Qin, the Chu army was defeated too quickly. Once the 150,000-man army was disbanded, the Qin army was about to kill him. He was so scared that he thought about moving the capital again. How could he care about the scabies of the Baiyue barbarians?

Fortunately, Ying Zheng did not intend to go to war with the State of Chu right now. He stopped the war after extorting money and food.

Then there was a severe drought across the country and the State of Chu could not escape the disaster. It was already in a desperate situation, and now Tianze was causing trouble in the rear.

King You of Chu, who had just calmed down after the truce with the Qin Dynasty, was instantly furious when he saw the devastated Jiangdong.

Asshole, if I can’t beat Qin, can I beat you?

When will it be your turn, barbarians, to challenge the Great Chu?
The furious King You of Chu finally found a vent for his anger. Since he ascended the throne, he had never done anything to bring honor to himself. He suffered a series of defeats, and now his throne was shaky. He was in urgent need of such an unlucky guy to make up for his prestige.

However, due to the disaster at this time, although the areas south of the Yangtze River and east of the Yangtze River were better, the improvement was still limited. After all, these places were not developed much at this time and were still wild.

It was really difficult to mobilize a large army. Besides, mobilizing a large army was useless and would only waste energy. As soon as the army arrived, these barbarians immediately ran away and hid in the ravines. There was no good way to deal with them.

The previous method was to gradually nibble away and assimilate. As the wild land was developed into a land of fish and rice, cities, towns, and villages were built, and naturally there was no room for the barbarians to survive. A direct large-scale attack was inappropriate.

But King You of Chu was King You of Chu after all.

King You of Chu issued an order: The barbarians who invaded our Great Chu, burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of atrocities. All the barbarians of the Baiyue will be reduced to slaves and anyone can capture them. For each person captured, a reward of 100 yuan will be given, and the slaves will belong to the capturer. In addition, the newly captured slaves of the Baiyue will be exempted from head tax for three years.

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Of course, this policy also has detailed requirements. Not everyone can apply. The identity of the Baiyue people needs to be confirmed, and new registrants will be branded with the mark of slaves.

The Baiyue people are easy to identify due to their custom of cutting their hair and tattooing. Combined with their living habits, language accents, etc., their identities are still easy to distinguish.

It is impossible to leave loopholes for people to exploit, otherwise no matter how much money is paid, it will not be affordable. However, ordinary people in this era are relatively simple and honest, and generally do not exploit loopholes.

Of course, there are reasons for this. Once you are caught exploiting loopholes, the punishment is often too harsh. It is not okay to play the game of exploiting loopholes with the government these days. You will know the iron fist of the masters in every minute.

King You of Chu was too cruel in this move.

Everyone was very happy. There was such a good thing in the world. If they captured a slave, they could go to the government to collect the reward. The slave would still be theirs, and the slave could be exempted from the head tax for three years. It was a huge profit!

You know, not everyone can afford to keep slaves. In order to encourage development and increase the population, countries are now cracking down on the slave trade.

The head tax for slaves was generally twice that of ordinary people. Of course, this money was paid by the slaves' owners. After all, everything the slave had belonged to his owner.

After King You of Chu introduced this policy, the living conditions of the Baiyue people suddenly became extremely bad.

Originally, ordinary people didn’t pay attention to them, but now it’s different; their value is different.

Win-win.

The winner, of course, is the slave catcher.

You can make money by capturing slaves and selling them. Before selling them, you can also get a reward from the government. It’s a huge profit.

Moreover, slaves who were exempt from the head tax for three years were easier to sell.

At one time, too many people flocked to the southeast to capture Yue slaves, and Tianze suddenly felt it was difficult to move forward.

This time he completely angered the State of Chu.

The Chu State was not weak, but it had no way to mobilize all its forces. But now it is different. Driven by interests, everyone flocked to it, and Tianze's brutality made him lose all sympathy.

Some people would have thought that this was a bad policy, not the policy of a benevolent monarch. But now it was a year of great disaster, and Chu was exhausted. If it launched a large-scale attack on Baiyue, it would not be worth the loss. Tianze was extremely cruel, and he used burning, killing and looting to give Chu the best reason.

In this era, people have always been tooth for tooth, blood for blood, and they don't care about hypocritical morality, but practical morality.

And generally speaking, we don’t talk about morality with barbarians because they are not worthy.

Besides, this time it was really the barbarian's own fault.

The world can also understand the King of Chu's helplessness.

It’s mainly about interests.

This time, King You of Chu did not say that only the people of Chu could enjoy this policy. People from all countries could enjoy it, although the vast majority of them were still people of Chu.

(End of this chapter)