Chapter 217 Believe Her
Of course, if she could accomplish this, she would be amazing! She would have to praise herself!
"I understand!" Quji's eyes became firm. He then looked behind Zhao Yuanxi with some surprise and called out, "General Li."
Zhao Yuanxi turned around and saw Li Mu standing not far away, looking at her with a complicated look in his eyes.
"When did General Li arrive?"
"I've been here for a while."
Zhao Yuanxi raised his eyebrows. Did he hear it?
She couldn't help but recall what she had just said. There shouldn't be anything strange, so why was he looking at her like that?
Seeing that the Queen Mother seemed to be about to leave, Li Mu had no choice but to chase her and ask, "The Queen Mother said before that there is a way to deal with the Xiongnu. What is that method?"
Even if there were a good horse that could travel a thousand miles a day to quickly convey the news to his superiors, Li Mu still couldn't figure out how to solve the problem of the Huns. As the Queen Mother said, as long as this grassland exists, the Huns will not disappear.
"Although General Li is good at fighting, he understands neither economics nor politics." Zhao Yuanxi said with a hint of joking in his tone.
But fortunately, he didn't understand economics and politics, otherwise she wouldn't be able to catch him, and King Zhao wouldn't be able to do anything to him.
Li Mu smiled helplessly, "I really don't understand these things."
Seeing his honesty, Zhao Yuanxi explained, "The Xiongnu are highly dependent on supplies from the Central Plains. When they can't feed themselves, they resort to plundering. However, if we feed them too much, it will only fuel their ambitions. The only way to control them is to send people to rule over them. And those people must obey orders from the government, otherwise we can just send them over to become the new king of the mountain."
"I said Qin couldn't do it because Qin couldn't even control the six kingdoms, so how could it control these Xiongnu tribes outside the Great Wall?"
The old nobles of the six countries were just a bunch of obstacles in front of the Qin State, so the issue of the Huns naturally had to be put aside.
Li Mu looked at her and couldn't help asking, "What if the King of Qin conquered the six kingdoms and stabilized them?"
"Then Qin will naturally be able to free up its energy to deal with the Xiongnu problem. But General Li, do you believe that the king can do it?"
If she remembered correctly, Li Mu was once a general of the State of Zhao. What kind of magic potion did Ying Zheng give him that made Li Mu trust him so much?
"I believe the Queen Mother."
Zhao Yuanxi's eyes widened as she met his sincere gaze, and she couldn't help but blush for a moment, "I'm not that powerful. Don't trust the wrong person."
Apart from farming, she doesn't have any other talents. If I have to say something, it's that she has a good character and may be more likable.
Li Mu looked into the distance and said, "Your Majesty, I admire you for everything you have done. If you can't do it, I can't think of anyone else in this world who can do it. Who will do it?"
The goal of the King of Qin was to unify the world, and the goal of his civil and military officials was to be granted titles of nobility and appointed as prime ministers. If there was anyone else who cared about the people of the world, it was only the Queen Mother Zhao in front of him.
Li Mu once thought that he could protect the people of Zhao, but in fact, not only was he unable to resist the Qin army, he could not even resist the King of Zhao. However, the Queen Mother of Zhao did many things that he could not do.
"Without me, there will naturally be someone else who will come after me."
"Really? Then when will he show up?"
Zhao Yuanxi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "That's beyond my comprehension! Okay, I understand what you mean! Then let's strive to take a few more steps forward! Strive to see world peace sooner rather than later."
The corners of Li Mu's lips rose slightly, and his weathered eyebrows seemed to melt.
Zhao Yuanxi suddenly stopped, looked him up and down, and asked curiously, "Isn't General Li training the women's Cuju team? Why did you come to this horse farm out of the blue?"
"Your Majesty, don't you know that my training place is near the horse farm?"
To play Cuju, one naturally has to choose a flat and open place. And where else could be flatter than the area around the horse farm?
Zhao Yuanxi immediately became interested. "General Li, do you mind if I go take a look?"
Apart from seeing the two little guys Fusu and Ziying playing football, she had never seen people here play Cuju seriously!
Zhao Yuanxi is good at sports and she joined the school football team in college. However, she retired later because she had too many experiments on her hands. But occasionally she would go to watch other people playing football on the field.
Although she is no longer at the best age to play football, her love for sports remains unabated. It would be nice to see how the ancients played football.
Li Mu saw how interested she was and smiled. "If you're willing to go over and take a look, they'll definitely be very happy to know!"
The Queen Mother Zhao had a very high reputation among the people of Zhao. Even though she had once said that she was not a princess of Zhao, it did not diminish the people of Zhao's admiration for her in the slightest.
When he was recruiting people for the Cuju team, not many people were willing to join when they heard that they wanted women to play Cuju.
"Men work outside the home, women work inside the home" is the life principle in the minds of many people.
But when they heard that it was the Queen Mother who wanted to form two women's Cuju teams, they recruited them all at once! Even Li Mu found this change hard to believe. He even doubted that if the Queen Mother ever asked them to take up arms and go to the battlefield, they would probably agree.
The instructors all agreed, so Zhao Yuanxi immediately turned around and followed Li Mu to the nearby Cuju field.
The distance was not too far, about a mile or so, and it took half an incense stick of time to walk along the fence of the horse farm to reach the destination.
Different from modern footballs, there were no inflatable balls in this era. The balls used were mainly solid balls made of leather and filled with hair and silk cotton. They had poor elasticity and could only be kicked out with brute force.
The stadium was called Jucheng, with Ju rooms at both ends, which were equivalent to modern goals. The game was also divided into two teams, each with twelve players.
Zhao Yuanxi looked at the group of people in the distance and suddenly laughed.
Their movements were not skillful, and could even be described as a little funny, but they just laughed and ran, seeming to live more freely than many people she had met here.
It was as if she saw her past self, or perhaps their future selves.
Zhao Yuanxi picked up a ball and patted it. It felt terrible, but that didn't stop them from having fun. "Maybe I should make them a new set of clothes that fit them."
Since it is the Cuju team, how can we not have their team uniforms?
What's more, the straight-hem robes that women wear nowadays are not suitable for sports. In ancient times, King Wuling of Zhao wore Hu clothing and rode and shot arrows, and now Queen Dowager Zhao has changed her clothes and plays football.
Li Mu once asked these people to change into men's clothes, but his proposal was rejected by many people. He wanted to know what they would choose if the Queen Mother asked them to change clothes?
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