Diqin Designer

Chapter 266 The purpose is to pry open the door of Baiyue

King Xiou and others looked at the leader who made the proposal: Brother, how could you come up with such a bad idea?

Didn't you hear the Qin envoy say that they were sent on a mission under the order of the Qin Emperor and represented the Qin Emperor? You proposed to arrest the Qin envoy, torture them severely and force them to hand over the secret recipe. Isn't that a slap in the face of the Qin Emperor?

Even if the Emperor Qin had a good temper, he couldn't stand it, right?

Moreover, it is said that the Qin Emperor has a very bad temper. Even if he knows that Xiou is difficult to attack, he will definitely send troops for the sake of face.

Seeing so many people looking at him, the leader gave his reasons.

He said confidently: "The Qin people are indeed strong, but we are not weak either. Qin and us are very far away, and the mountains are high and the forests are dense. It is difficult for the Qin army to transport food and grass. Moreover, in the mountains and forests, the Qin army is far inferior to the men of our tribe. If the Emperor of Qin dares to send troops, they will not return!"

Everyone understood what the leader meant: they would be difficult for Qin to attack. Even if they killed those Qin people and really slapped the Qin emperor in the face, the Qin emperor might not necessarily send troops.

Even if the Emperor of Qin sent troops in anger, given their strength, it would not necessarily be the Qin people who would have the last laugh.

This statement does make sense, and King Xiou and other leaders also have this idea:
They acknowledged that the Qin Dynasty was powerful, but they did not think that Qin was that scary, nor did they think that they could not defeat the Qin people.

Of course, this refers to fighting jungle battles with the Qin people on their own territory, and relying on their rich experience in living and hunting in the jungle to defeat the Qin people.

The historical facts were similar to what they thought. Although the Qin Dynasty eventually occupied this land, it paid a considerable price.

In order to conquer the Baiyue, Tu Sui died in battle, hundreds of thousands of corpses were shed, and a large amount of manpower and resources were consumed in digging the Lingqu Canal. Even after the occupation, the Qin army was still stuck in this quagmire and had to send Ren Xiong and Zhao Tuo to garrison here with hundreds of thousands of Qin troops.

This place has become a pile of stinking dog shit of the Qin Dynasty. It cost a huge price to snatch this pile of dog shit, so it is reluctant to throw it away. If it does not throw it away, it will have to continue to spend money to maintain it.

In the end, the First Emperor had no choice but to accept it.

After all, it was he who sent people to snatch back this sticky, smelly pile of dog shit, so what should he do?
He had no choice but to keep it, since it could be counted as his martial arts skill anyway.

As a result, the land of Baiyue became a quagmire of the Qin version of the Empire!
Although what the leader said made sense, it was quickly refuted.

Another Xiou tribe leader said: "What Husuo said makes sense, but why can't the Qin people think of something that we can think of?"

The leader who proposed it didn't understand it immediately, and frowned and asked, "What do you mean, old man?"

He Lao said: "Since the Qin envoy dared to let us know that they have a method to treat malaria, how could we not prepare in advance? So, even if we capture them, I am afraid we will not be able to get anything out of them by torture."

The Xiou leader named "Hu Suo" said: "As long as we act quickly and catch the Qin people by surprise, how can we not get the truth?"

Yes, wouldn’t it be enough to capture the Qin people before they take action and then torture them severely?

He Lao shook his head and asked a serious question: "If these Qin people don't know how to govern, what can we do if we capture them?"

Hearing this, Hu Suo laughed and said, "How could they not know? If none of them knew the method, how could the Qin envoy dare to swear so confidently? He also wanted us to see it with our own eyes!"

But he smiled, but King Xiou and some other leaders did not laugh. Instead, they seemed thoughtful, and the smile on Husuo's face gradually disappeared.

No way, the Qin people are so despicable that they actually sent a group of people who don’t know how to treat malaria?
This clearly meant that they did not want them to be governed, so as to force them to agree to the various conditions set by the Qin people.

Hu Suo exhaled twice heavily, he felt very depressed, but he couldn't vent it. The others were the same, the feeling of being strangled by the Qin people was really uncomfortable.

The hall fell silent again.

Now they finally understood the means that the Qin people were going to use this time: not sending troops, but using a more despicable means.

These northerners are really despicable and treacherous. If they have the guts, just send troops to fight. What kind of ability is it to use such means?
Using the method of treating malaria to restrict the Baiyue and force them to agree to some conditions of the Qin Dynasty was the diplomatic strategy that the Qin Dynasty formulated towards the Baiyue.

This was also the reason why Tu Sui and others went on a diplomatic mission to Baiyue later - it took time for the Qin doctors to verify the method of curing malaria mentioned by Li Nian.

The Baiyue are different from the Xiongnu.

The Xiongnu were frightened by Li Mu and had been bullied by the Donghu and Yuezhi for years, so the wolf nature of their top leaders had long been worn away.

Therefore, the Xiongnu could win over the Huns by showing them how powerful they are and using the fact that they are all Chinese. However, the Baiyue...

When Daqin told him that they were all brothers in China, he would look at Daqin sideways and ask, "Who are you? Who is your brother? Don't try to get close to me. Go play somewhere else. I don't want to be your elder brother, nor do I want to be your younger brother. Unless you recognize me as your father, you can consider it..."

Even if the Qin Dynasty used bribery to corrupt the Yue high-level officials, it would be difficult to do so.

Because these Baiyue upper echelons are quite introverted. We have abundant resources and can eat and dress warmly. Although your Qin people's things are good, we don't want them.

As for the Qin Dynasty's method of coercion, the Baiyue people would not care at all.

Others are afraid of you, Daqin, and think you are a tiger or wolf, but we are not afraid. We fight tigers and wolves in the mountains and forests. Baiyue is a big stage, come if you have the guts.

This little thing can neither be bribed nor threatened, nor can it be persuaded by the greater good.

But the Baiyue also had weaknesses, and malaria, which was common in the Baiyue land, was one of them.

This method is a bit despicable, but it works. As long as we can pry open the closed border of Baiyue, the next things will be much easier.

After a long while, the King of Xiou said, "It should be as what He Lao said. These Qin people should have brought anti-malarial drugs, but they don't know the secret recipe. Even if there are Qin doctors among them, I'm afraid they don't know how to make the drugs."

One of the leaders asked, "But if the Qin people do this, aren't they afraid that the medicine they bring won't be able to cure malaria? Can we learn the secret recipe through the medicine?"

Before the King of Xiou spoke, another leader answered on his behalf: "Of course they are not afraid. Malaria is an incurable disease. What if it can't be cured?"

"And the Qin people don't need to cure all the people with malaria. They only need to cure some of them and let us know that they have a secret method to cure malaria."

Yes, the Qin people did not come to help them treat malaria, but to prove to them that they had a secret recipe for curing malaria. Therefore, there was no need to cure all the patients, and it would be enough to cure one or two out of ten.

The leader who answered on his behalf added: "It is very difficult to know the secret recipe through medicine!"

"Not to mention that we have different diets and medicines from the Qin people, even the herbs grown in Qin are different from ours. Some herbs grown in Qin may not be found here, not to mention that the methods of making medicines are different, and the efficacy is also different."

(End of this chapter)