Chapter 331 Who cares who you are
"You're quite strong, kid."
The iron chain is as thick as his arm and weighs at least dozens of kilograms. He can run so fast with such heavy shackles. If I take off the shackles, I may not be able to catch him.
"Let me go, let me go! I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you!"
The guards dragged him back and said, "You're so young, but you still have such a bad temper. You're lucky you met our Queen Mother this time. If you had met our Emperor, you would have been dragged out and chopped to death based on what you said."
"If she has the guts, just kill me!" Xiang Yu's eyes were bloodshot and he was filled with anger.
"Even if you want to die, you have to wait until the Queen Mother returns to Langya."
"What are you doing?" Xiang Yu's eyes were bloodshot. This damn Qin man actually stripped him of his clothes!
"Why are you shouting? The Queen Mother ordered me to come and apply medicine on you, otherwise who would be willing to come and serve you?" If he hadn't lost the bet, this job would never have fallen to him.
He was merciless and rubbed Xiang Yu roughly. He then wiped the remaining ointment on his hands with Xiang Yu's clothes with a bit of disgust and threw the bottle in front of him. "Here, the rest is for you. You have to carry these heavy shackles on the road. Your hands and feet will definitely be swollen. Use this to reduce the swelling."
"I don't care."
"You are shameless, kid. Who cares if you want it or not? Anyway, I have delivered the things. If it weren't for you being a child, the Queen Mother would not have asked anyone to give you the medicine! Your uncle doesn't have any."
The guard cursed a few more times, but when he heard the urging voices of his brothers outside, he stopped and warned, "Humph, you'd better behave yourself, or you'll suffer."
The surroundings became quiet again. Xiang Yu's teeth were bleeding from biting them. His eyes fell on the medicine bottle next to him. He wanted to grab it and smash it, but when he thought of his uncle, he could only put it down angrily.
The next day, the group set out again.
Zhao Yuanxi had no intention of humiliating them, so he arranged a carriage to follow them.
Xiang Yu finally saw his uncle just before his departure. Seeing that his uncle was fine, he felt relieved.
Xiang Liang saw that his eyes were red and knew that he had not slept all night. "Rest for a while. Your energy is for fighting the enemy, not for you to waste it."
Xiang Yu nodded, his face showing shame, "It's my fault that I have implicated my uncle."
If he hadn't said at the post station that he wanted to take action against these people, Queen Dowager Qin wouldn't have noticed them at all. The hateful thing was that almost all the people at the post station were her minions.
"I didn't remind you."
They were really unlucky this time.
It was bad luck for them, but good luck for Zhao Yuanxi. Although it was a bit troublesome to deal with the Xiang family, it was much better than looking for a needle in a haystack in the future.
Seeing that his mother had really taken them with her, Fusu said, "Why don't you send them to the Donghai County seat and let the governor of Donghai County deal with them?"
"The governor of Donghai County was originally from Chu. The Xiang family has great influence in Chu. It's possible that they are colluding with each other. If we let them escape, it will be difficult to find them again."
Zhao Yuanxi didn't want to take these two burdens with him, but now they were in the former territory of Chu State, and there might be old nobles of Chu State everywhere who wanted to rescue them. If he let them follow the team, he could still keep an eye on them. If he sent them away, accidents were inevitable on the way. Even if he successfully sent them away, they might just end up in their hands.
This exposed the problem of lack of local governance in Qin State at that time.
Because it suddenly possessed too much land, the original team of officials could not fill such a huge gap. Many grassroots officials were still the old officials of the old six kingdoms. These old forces were so intertwined that Qin was currently unable to completely control the local area.
Fusu obviously thought of this as well. "Can't we replace those people with people we can trust?"
“Yes, but this will take time and require sufficient talent.”
"You can let Father select the talents."
Zhao Yuanxi smiled and nodded, "Then you can go back and advise your father. Think of a specific solution first, and then tell him together."
In fact, Ying Zheng was already selecting talents, but he was still in charge of everything and had not formed a nationwide system for selecting talents.
"I will!"
Zhao Yuanxi rubbed his head with relief.
Huaiyin is located south of the Huai River. It has a flat terrain and is surrounded by dense river networks. Water transportation is very developed, connecting the Central Plains with Wu Yue, Jianghuai and other places. In the past, King Fuchai of Wu built the Hang Canal here, which, together with the lakes along the way, flowed into the Huai River in Huaiyin. It is an extremely important water transportation hub.
The weather was getting colder and it was raining heavily, so everyone rushed home.
The rain was so heavy that they could not move forward even though it was not dark yet. They could only stay near the nearest village.
This is just an ordinary village with only dozens of households. Seeing such a mighty Qin army coming towards their village, those people were terrified and all hid in their houses and dared not come out.
Zhao Yuanxi asked the soldiers to set up camp on the spot. The rain wet the firewood, so she could only ask someone to go to the village head's house to buy some firewood, but she had to be sure not to scare them.
The accompanying soldiers were all elite troops of the Qin State. Naturally, they obeyed orders and acted accordingly. Soon someone brought back firewood and started a fire in the tent.
It was already winter, and the rain was really cold, but the soldiers were still lining up to wait for their clothes to dry.
The uncle and nephew of the Xiang family, who were thrown into the corner, were shocked when they saw this group of Qin soldiers. They were from a family of generals and naturally had seen soldiers from Chu, but compared with these Qin soldiers, they were no different from bandits.
Xiang Yu understood why his father was defeated.
The soldier who came to deliver medicine to Xiang Yu that day saw the child shivering with cold and called out to him, "Would you like to come over and roast him?"
Xiang Yu was a tough guy, but Xiang Liang was obviously much smarter. He understood that one has to bow his head under someone's roof, so he pushed him forward.
The warmth from the fire restored feeling to Xiang Yu's stiff fingers. He then raised his eyes to look at the soldier seriously. "From your accent, are you from Chu?"
The soldier was stunned and said with a smile, "I was originally from Chu, and now I can be considered an old Qin person. My family lives in Nanjun. Later, when His Majesty the Emperor recruited soldiers, I came here to serve as a soldier."
"Traitor." Xiang Yu snorted coldly and didn't give him a good look.
"Hey, I don't like what you're saying. It was the King of Chu who gave up Nanjun first. Why don't you say it was the King of Chu who betrayed us? That's right, weren't you the nobles who fled with the King of Chu? No wonder you're protecting him."
Xiang Yu was furious. "What do you mean?"
"It literally means, if you want me to work, then you have to feed me and my family too! I don't care who you are!"
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