Li Zhi sat cross-legged on the ridge of the field, holding a long bamboo tobacco in his hand. He smoked leaves and streams of blue smoke spurted out from his nostrils. He wore a coarse coat, a pair of straw sandals on his feet, and his face was full of deep wrinkles. No matter how you look at it, they are all a classic image of an old farmer. In fact, no one can recognize this person as Li Zhi, the world-famous Li Zhi, the military marshal of the Qin State.

He smiled and looked at the Qin border troops who were carefully caring for the green seedlings that had just grown into a ruler in the farmland. After the Kaiping War, a large number of Yue people fled, causing countless land to be abandoned. This was simply intolerable to the Qin people. At the order, some of the Qin border troops put down their swords and guns and picked up their hoes.

He reached out and grabbed a handful of soil from the ground. With a gentle grasp, the black soil fell down little by little from the gap between his fingers. What a fertile land, this is the place that the Qin people have always dreamed of.

In the Qin State, which is remote in the West, daily life is more about the yellow sand and boundless Gobi. There are only a few places suitable for planting and production. Poverty is synonymous with the Qin people.

The Qin people are not inherently tough and good at fighting, but when you have been living in a place where you want to get everything you need to rely on your strength to grab. Even a docile lamb will sharply polish one of his objects during the process of growing up.

National strength restricted the expansion of the Qin people. Most of the wars of the Qin people were short-term, fast-track, and quick-decision was their favorite. Over the years, other countries have also figured out this point. They just need to put on a stance that will last for a long time with Qin, and Qin will immediately become soft.

Long-term wars will exhaust Qin's national strength and make the contradictions in other countries irreconcilable, which has become one of the most deadly soft threats of Qin and is also the pain for Li Zhi in his life.

Finding more fertile land, supporting more people, and receiving more taxes is Li Zhi’s lifelong thought. But in the world, there is a master in every piece of land. You can grab one, but if you want to have it for a long time, he will be sorry, and everyone will fight you to death.

Because whether it is Qi or Chu or Yue, everyone knows that Qin must not have the opportunity to make their treasury rich. A Qin State that has reserved enough food and money will become a nightmare for everyone.

In Anyang, this is true. Qin State wiped out the western border troops of Yue State. Anyang County was already under control, but the Qin people just drooled and looked at the land, leaving unwillingly. They could only look forward to grab another one next year. But as An Ruhai took over Anyang, reorganized the Western Army and robbed, the risks became increasingly greater. Every time they obtained, they were exchanged for blood.

Kaiping County is now a Qin native. Li Zhi is very happy. It has been so many years since he has tried his best to finally grab a fertile land without any consequences. Because Yue Kingdom is a clay Buddha crossing the river, and it is difficult to protect itself. By the time they recover, the Qin border army has already taken root in Kaiping County. As long as Kaiping County can support Deng Zhong's border army, let alone the Yue people, even if Qi people come, they will not want to drive them away.

Sometimes, what the Qin people lacked was enough time.

And now, they have enough time to run Kaiping County, and then stretch their necks to look further away, and maybe they still have a chance to gain some benefits.

He took a deep breath of smoke and slowly spit it out. Seeing the green smoke floating left and right, changing the pattern with the wind, Li Zhi felt relieved.

I am too old, in my early seventies. Even though I have the cultivation level of a master, time is always the biggest enemy of people. Or after the state affairs of Yue, I should have been relaxed. I no longer think about these business tasks, but go out for a walk. Especially when I go to Chang'an to take a look, Cao Chong and Weizhuang, have they studied what they have learned in the past few years?

What is the master after? For people like them, they have to think about it and have to think about it. Two days ago, Deng Fang sent a message saying that the Wenhuizhang of Chu had already been released in Shangjing, but the target was Chang'an of Qi. It seemed that he couldn't stand it anymore. After hiding the three-year agreement with Min Ruoying, he set off immediately.

Cao Chong, Wei Zhuang, Wen Huizhang, and himself, the only four remaining people in their generation would be great if they could really get together to study something.

I hope I can have a successful day! I reached out and grabbed a handful of soil and grind it carefully in my hand. Looking at the black soil, it was like looking at my biological son, no, it was more friendly than my son, because these black soils can grow grain, hope, and the future of the Qin Dynasty.

He took a long breath again, and the tobacco leaves in the tobacco pot burned forever, then turned into ashes. He reached out to knock the ashes on the straw sandals. Li Zhi stood up and prepared to go back. During this period, he would come to this field to look at it every day, and look at the green seedlings growing very well, and he felt happy.

He pinned his pipe behind his waist, clapped his hands, turned around, and then he was stunned. A man wearing a hat appeared in his sight.

Last moment, he was still far away, in Li Zhi's eyes, probably the size of a puppy. He blinked his eyes and the man became much closer, becoming a human-sized person. After blinking twice, the man wearing a hat had already arrived in front of him.

Looking at the person in front of him, Li Zhi was still blinking his eyes constantly. After a while, he suddenly started to laugh, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and the wrinkles on his face squeezed into a pile.

"I really didn't expect you to come to me." He reached out and took out his cigarette pipe from his waist, took out handfuls of tobacco from his pocket, and filled it into his pipe.

The visitor stretched out his hand, rubbed his big fingers and index fingers, and a flame suddenly rose between his fingers, reaching under the pipe. Li Zhi looked at the other person thoughtfully. After a while, he stuffed the cigarette mouth into his mouth, and sucked it deeply, and the tobacco immediately lit up.

In one breath, the blue smoke flew forward straight. At this moment, the flame in the person's hand suddenly became straight upward, and the flame became extremely thin, entangled with the blue smoke.

After a while, the smoke dissipated and the fire was extinguished.

The man wearing a hat put his hands on his back, looked at Li Zhi and said lightly: "You have regressed, you are not much better than me now. If it were the past, I would try to kill you."

"This is my territory." Li Zhi smiled.

"This is the land of Dayue." The visitor raised his head.

"It was!" Li Zhi's smile remained unchanged, as if he was not worried that the other party would take action. He actually lifted his robe and sat back on the ridge of the field. He pointed to his side and said, "Sit down!"

Looking at Li Zhi's appearance, the person who came frowned and did not sit down, but squatted beside Li Zhi.

"Sometimes I'm really strange. Your martial arts cultivation is rare in the world. The only ones who can compete with you are the older generation are Cao Chong, Wei Zhuang, Wen Hui Zhang, and the ones who are a little behind the back are probably Bi Wanjian. In Qin State, you are the most powerful person besides the emperor. Even your emperor is polite to you. But you have always looked like this, wearing the most torn clothes, eating rough rice, drinking bitter tea, and smoking like this. Even ordinary people think they are rinsing with grass cigarettes. What are you doing?"

Li Zhi laughed and said, "My life is no different from you. The sun is no less than yours. If it is a little harder than you. It can remind me. My martial arts skills are far inferior to the three of them. If I hadn't lived such a hard life for so many years, how could I compete with them?"

"I'll talk to you about a deal!" Lai Ren said.

"It seems that you don't have much capital now!" Li Zhi smiled happily.

"Li Zhi, do you Qin State want to swallow our entire Yue State?" The visitor snorted coldly.

"Can't swallow it." Li Zhi shook his head, "And if we really swallow it, we will be indigestion. The Chu people will come to cause trouble for us, and the Qi people will also be unable to get along with us. I dare say that if I swallow your Yue Kingdom at this time, those two guys who are fighting to death may be stopped and deal with me first."

"It seems you still have self-knowledge."

"Of course, Qin is remote in the West and has the weakest national strength, but over the years, we have only bullied you, but you have not bullied us. It is because we have a clear positioning. I will take the initiative to take what should be wanted, and I will not extend my hand to what should not be wanted." Li Zhi said with a smile.

"This time you got Kaiping County from Luo Yishui. You must be very happy, right?"

"Of course, I come to this field every day. Seeing that the crops grow so well, I can't stop smiling. Do you know what this means? It means that our soldiers will no longer be hungry, and our children will grow stronger." Li Zhi said with a smile.

"Since that's the case, why are you still unwilling to leave here? What else do you want to get?"

"Of course, people's hearts are always insufficient. I always wonder if I can get more. We are poor and have a rare opportunity. Maybe we will pick up something without any effort!"

"Now there is a chance, do you want it?" said the visitor lightly.

“Where is the opportunity?”

"Qin Feng's Taiping Army is in Yongping County." The visitor looked at Li Zhi, "Now, Luo Yishui has sent Chen Ci to rob Yongping County. I guess Luo Yishui still doesn't know that Qin Feng's army has secretly entered Yongping County. Where, Qin Feng will hit Chen Ci with a headache."

"You actually hooked up with Qin Feng?" Li Zhi said in surprise: "It seems that you have really taken a lot of thoughts this time."

"It's not that I colluded with him, but that he came to me." The man said, "I think you may be interested in Yongping County."
Chapter completed!