Daqin Engineers

Yang Duanhe was surprised when he heard the news, but he took it for granted when he thought that Shen Bing was in charge.

Then he relaxed his whole body...

If Shen Bing's strategy can be implemented, Chu Min will move from Chu to Huaibei one after another.

So does he need to worry about Chu Jun coming to attack so anxiously and nervously?

It was Shen Bing who finally knew the news.

A guard rushed to the camp of Shen Bing reported:

"Vice-General, Chu Min...Chu Min has come to surrender, there are thousands of people!"

In fact, even Shen Bing did not expect that so many Chu Mins would come in the first batch.

Because he knows that people are born to be afraid of strange things.

The people of Chu didn't understand the Qin State, and they couldn't be sure whether the conditions that Qin State offered were a lie to them, and it would be too late to regret it when they arrived in Huaibei.

Therefore, Shen Bing thought that it would only be small batches at the beginning, tens or hundreds of them, not more than a thousand at most.

These are all dare to try, or there is no way to survive.

Only after they became the first group of people who dared to eat crabs, they brought more and more relocation to Huaibei.

Another difficulty is the blockade of Chu State... Chu State will not allow the people to migrate to Huaibei in this way, so some measures will definitely be taken.

So this requires a process.

But thousands of people came in the first batch, and there were 8,000 people in Shouchun alone. If the statistics are on the whole line, there will be more than 12,000 people... but Shen Bing did not expect it.

After Shen Bing asked, he realized that it was actually the Chu aristocrats who were in a mess.

Needless to say, the three tribes have a vast fief and almost occupy half of Huainan's rivers and mountains, so everyone is in danger and fears that Qin Jun will take them first.

Their countermeasure is to "accumulate grain and build walls high."

There is nothing wrong with this strategy, and it should be done.

The problem is that their food has been a large number of reinforcements for Xiangyan before, and now there is little left, and then the food outside the city has not yet reached the harvest time... How can they "gather food"?

The method is very simple, but the people grabbed it.

Of course, they will not rob them publicly, but will improvise and collect taxes temporarily.

Zhao's is "anti-Qin tax", Qu's is "war preparation tax", and "strong military tax" and so on.

In short, as long as you have a name, you can send troops to collect taxes per capita.

How can we "build a city high"?

It's just recruiting labor and pulling strong people everywhere... This is unreasonable in the territory of Chu.

If Qin is conscripted for remote service and military service, then there will be Qin Laws, how old is required for military service, when is required for remote service, how many years will he be fined for what he commits, etc.

Although the burden of the people is heavy, at least the legal provisions are there and everyone is mentally prepared to be the same, so they can still accept it.

However, the people of Chu are the private property of the nobles, and they are usually fine. They also know that they need people to farm and will not arbitrarily catch strong men.

But when it came to this nervous preparation for war... the whole clan was going to be wiped out, so I didn't care about farming in the coming year and so on, so when I saw a young man, I caught it, either doing coolies or serving as a soldier.

What's more serious is...what about the big crops outside the city to be cooked?

Wait for the food to be cooked?

Was it the Qin Jun who came to collect the grain at that time instead of them?

It is even possible that Qin Jun is already waiting for that moment!

When will the Chu army leave the city to protect food?

Just kidding, who doesn't know that the Qin army is number one in the world in field battles, and if a city does not defend and fights out of the city, it is not death?

The Zhao family and the Qu family decided to wait again because of their strength.

The weaker Jing Clan grabbed the unripe food outside the city as soon as he gritted his teeth.

The loss of the people has been great... They waited half a year to live on the food. Where can they survive this harvest?

Moreover, the tax was heavier and at the same time the crops in the fields were robbed. This is to drive the people to death.

But at this moment, the streets and alleys were covered with notices.

This was tantamount to pointing out a way out for these Chu people, so they looked for various opportunities to go out of the city and vote for Qin.

Fusu looked a little embarrassed when he saw Shen Bing again... He didn't want to come, but the duty of the supervising army is to participate in the command and decision-making of the army, otherwise how to "supervise the army"?

This was the father's order, and Fusu didn't dare to disobey, so at least he would visit Shen Bing's handsome camp every day.

Shen Bing didn't say anything, just said after the ceremony:

"My son, everything goes smoothly."

Shen Bing's words surprised Fu Su very much.

Originally Fusu thought that Shen Bing would show off a few words, even if he didn't dare to say it, he would be stabbed in the conversation. He didn't want Shen Bing's words without the slightest ridicule, and he didn't pay attention to Fusu's previous disdain.

Fusu didn't say much, but only said "um", then he knelt down before the case and flipped through the roster...

Then the more I watched, the more I was frightened.

It is because this register not only records the common information needed for Chumin’s name, name and other household registration, but also appends a valuable information book.

Such as mountains and rivers, hydrology, number of defenders, garrison situation and so on.

Looking at these, Fusu sighed:

"The lieutenant is so careful in his mind, Fu Su admires him."

Shen Bing replied:

"Every thought may cost hundreds or thousands of lives. Subordinates dare not neglect."

Fusu nodded, and then asked inexplicably:

"Since the lieutenant is so kind, why bother to be so obsessed with war?"

Shen Bing smiled and replied:

"If your subordinates can keep the world from fighting, they won't be obsessed with war."

"But if war is unavoidable, we can only seek to end the war with minimal losses."

Fusu was stunned, and then asked:

"What the lieutenant said, does it mean the unification of the Central Plains?"

Shen Bing secretly applauded.

This Fusu is at least not as pedantic as Chun Yuyue.

The benevolence in Chun Yuyue's opinion refers to "maintaining the status quo", that is, it is best to stop the war under the current circumstances... This is of course the situation with minimal losses and casualties, but it is basically impossible to achieve.

There is a saying: "Being behind is to be beaten." Qin is strong and Chu is weak. For example, even though Yan is weak, it still assassinates and even attacks Qin. Is this war possible?

If you keep "not annexing each other" for a long time in this state, the casualties will be the greatest.

Fusu had obviously thought about this too, so he asked this sentence.

Shen Bing replied:

"Exactly."

Fusu asked again:

"The lieutenant thought...after the Central Plains was unified, the war would end?"

Shen Bing answered simply:

"No."

Fusu was a little surprised, and then looked at Shen Bing angrily:

"If the war can't be stopped after the Central Plains is unified, then the vice general will fight for the merits of the people and soldiers."

"What is the difference between the deputy and others?"

Shen Bing did not answer the question:

"Have you ever heard of the catfish effect?"