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Chapter 537 Happy and happy
Li Qingyuan naturally didn't know that a pair of funny people had come to the porridge distribution site at the border. After all, Liu Ji and Lu Wan might become big figures that cannot be avoided in history books in the future, but now they are just street wanderers who are ignorant of the world!

He is now staying in a warm palace and playing with his two pets, the Sun and the Moon. He can make the pets change into various forms just by flicking the red line. Is this a real-life version of the pet Pokémon?

Of course, his master didn't even need to stretch out his hands, because Zi Nu was performing for him a real puppet trick.

In terms of strength, Zi Nu can only be considered second-rate, but in terms of how to please people, Zi Nu said that these people are all losers!

As a world-renowned brothel owner, facing Yan Fei and Yue Shen who initially refused to cooperate, Zi Nu simply smiled and gave them a little strength, and immediately turned them into robots that could change their shapes at will by controlling a few silk threads!
Have you seen a puppet show?

Zi Nu is performing a puppet show now!

But this puppet is much more valuable than ordinary puppets. It looks lifelike, and even its facial expressions are lifelike!

"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister requests an audience!"

Nanyue walked in slowly, knelt down and bowed to someone and then said.

"Forehead?"

Li Qingyuan patted Honglian's head and stood up. Then, with the help of Yan Lingji, he put on his clothes and walked leisurely to the reception hall outside.

Li Si had already been sitting in a chair waiting, with a pile of documents on the table.

"Is the matter settled?"

Seeing Li Si's excited look, King Tang knew that the other party must have figured out the result, so he asked calmly.

"Great joy, my king!"

Li Si was so excited that he almost jumped up. He had always thought that he was a genius. He even thought that the King of Tang in front of him could act so recklessly only because of his great strength. If it came to governing a country or marching an army, he would definitely not be his opponent.

But everyone has long been accustomed to this kind of thing. After all, there are very few capable kings now. Even Qin Shihuang, who was praised by later generations, is now just an ignorant young man who is trying to seize power!
Only geniuses who return to normal can be called heroes, and those who die halfway are not considered heroes.

It's just like Zhang Liang who was killed instantly by Jingwei's sword half a year ago. That guy might have become a sage of strategy when he grew up, but now no one knows him at all. Not to mention history books, even local chronicles don't have any records of him.

But Li Si is now sincerely convinced of the King of Tang, because the ideas proposed by the other party are really admirable.

Originally, Li Qingyuan asked the soldiers to go to the border to distribute porridge. Li Si and Fan Yuqi both thought that it was a pure waste of food, but they had to obey the order because they were intimidated by the other party being the king.

When the porridge was first distributed, the refugees couldn't believe it. After all, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

It would be fine if these military masters didn't come to burn, kill and plunder them, but they actually distributed food for free? How is this possible?

But between starving to death and being hacked to death, many refugees eventually began to slowly gather towards the Tang army camp. Then?
Then the word started to spread from one person to ten people, and from ten to a hundred people!

Don't underestimate the appeal of food to the people, especially the so-called porridge provided by the Tang army. It was not the turbid soup made from various grass roots, water skins and floating soil to fool people, but the white porridge made from authentic corn and snow water, and sometimes even contained refined rice. Not to mention these refugees, even the troops stationed on the borders of Wei or Chu might not be able to eat so well on a normal day.

In just ten days, not only did all the refugees within dozens of miles of the border come to drink the porridge, but even the soldiers originally stationed on the border laid down their weapons and began to pretend to be refugees to eat and drink for free.

There was no way. Although the nobles of Chu and Wei lived a life of luxury, that was the luxury of the nobles. Soldiers like them who guarded the border were lucky to have two meals a day.

When it comes to the issue of food, all the talk of patriotism and moral ideals are nonsense. Not to mention the Warring States Period, even those great people who boast about themselves on the Internet in later generations, try starving them for half a month!
The first time, the soldiers came to eat secretly, but later they came to eat openly and in an organized manner.

After eating for more than ten days, a group of Chu soldiers hacked to death the captain who led the team, then replaced the Chu flag with the Tang flag, and beat drums and gongs to welcome the Tang army into the Chu army's position!

Things like this kept happening, and the report Li Si received now was a summary of this period of time.

In just two months, the Tang Dynasty expanded its territory by another 600 miles, and a number of cities from the Chu and Wei States were directly incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty. The soldiers and refugees spontaneously killed the original nobles, and the Tang army occupied a number of cities without even having a chance to draw their swords.

There was no other way. Due to years of war and reduced productivity, food in all countries was in a semi-starvation state. The reason why Zhao State insisted on replacing Lian Po with Zhao Kuo during the Battle of Changping against all odds was that Zhao State could not supply food and grass for an army of 400,000. If the situation continued, even the King of Zhao himself would have no money to hold a banquet!
"According to the current progress, our territory will reach 4,000 miles before the beginning of spring, which is enough to be compared with Qin and Chu! When we become the overlord of the world, Your Majesty will be able to restore the glory of the Three Jins, and we will surely achieve hegemony next year!"

Li Si danced with joy with excitement. He used to be just a retainer under Lu Buwei, but now he was going to be promoted to become the prime minister of the most powerful country in the world. This sudden class leap and the realization of his life goal made him calm enough despite his excitement.

"Calm down! Calm down! This is nothing!"

Li Qingyuan did not feel too surprised. After all, all major online platforms said that anyone could become emperor in minutes by providing unlimited porridge and pickled vegetables, so this kind of thing was within his expectations.

"By the way, you said that only the soldiers of Wei and Chu are in turmoil now, what about Qin?"

After Li Si's emotions stabilized, Li Qingyuan began to ask.

To the east of Tang was Wei, to the south was Chu, to the west was Qin, and to the north was the Yellow River. It was a country surrounded on all sides.

Because it was surrounded on all sides, South Korea had no strategic depth at all, so it became the first country to be eliminated.

But if the Tang Kingdom is strong enough, then it can attack from all directions and attack whoever it wants!

"There has been no movement from Qin State at the moment. Even at the porridge distribution site, almost no one came to collect the food!"

"Huh? Has the Qin State become this rich?"

Li Qingyuan was somewhat stunned. You know, even in the later era when people had no worries about food and drink, if a supermarket offered to give away eggs for free, people would line up for two miles. How could there be no refugees from Qin coming to drink porridge?

Was the Qin State really well-fed and well-clothed as boasted by later historians?
(End of this chapter)