In short, the two hundred scholars reserved by the Taixue alone could definitely not solve all the problems. The Jiangdong gentry had long seen this. However, it would be absolutely impossible to let the forty-six counties under the control of the three counties continue to be disordered and chaotic. Now we can only think of other ways. Xiang Zhuang asked: "Everyone, do you have any good plans?"

Xiang Da, Xiang Tuo, Wu She and others were speechless, and Fan Zeng was helpless.

Bailixian shook the feather fan and suddenly said to Xiang Zhuang, Fan Zeng: "King, old military advisor, there are only two ways to go now. One is to compromise with them..."

"No, absolutely not!" Bailixian was interrupted by Xiang Zhuang before he finished speaking.

Fan Zeng nodded slightly and said, "That's right, I would rather hand over the forty-six counties to those county magistrates, and would rather have the big-headed soldiers to manage the local area in a mess than to compromise with these bastards!" After a pause, Fan Zeng said, "I have said long ago that resisting the law is to be an enemy of the Xiang family, and it must be suppressed!"

Bailixian sighed and said, "Then I can only borrow someone."

"Borrow someone?" Xiang Zhuang said with a slight expression and said, "Ziliang, how can you explain this?"

Fan Zeng's eyes lit up and said happily: "Ji'er, Ziliang means to borrow an official from Huainan Kingdom!"

Borrowing an official from Huainan Kingdom?! Xiang Zhuang, Xiang was moved when he heard this, but Xiang Tuo and Wu She were confused. Since ancient times, they have only heard of borrowing troops and grain, but they have never heard of borrowing an official from Huainan Kingdom? Moreover, although Huainan Kingdom formed an alliance with Chu, Ying Bu was not willing to lend Huainan officials to Da Chu. It should be noted that Chu State wanted to borrow not many, but hundreds of officials.

Xiang Zhuang touched the thick beard on the corner of his lips and said, "Ziliang, how likely are this successful?"

Bailixian smiled slightly and said, "I think I am at least 90% sure. There are three reasons: First of all, Huainan is also changing now. Although the general direction of its transformation is not consistent with our Great Chu, the purpose of helping the King of Huainan to control various counties is exactly the same as ours. Therefore, there are also conflicts between the King of Huainan and the Huainan gentry."

"Well, it's reasonable." Fan Zeng said happily. "Maybe Ying Bu hopes that we will borrow someone."

Bailixian paused and raised his second finger. He continued: "Secondly, Huainan was originally a land of Chu, and most of the Huainan gentry were old members of the old Chu. The new law of the prime minister of Huainan State Kuai Che caused the interests of many Huainan gentry to be damaged. The king only needed a single order to seek talents, and these Huainan gentry could move their families to Jiangdong for their use for my king."

"Yes." Xiang Zhuang nodded and said, "What else?"

Bailixian finally raised his third finger and continued: "The last and most important thing is that these Huainan gentry are all foreigners. They have no foundation in Jiangdong. If they want to gain a foothold in Jiangdong, they must rely on the strong support of the king. It is precisely because of this that these Huainan gentry will fully support the new law!"

Xiang was still a little worried after hearing this, and stood up and said to Xiang Zhuang: "However, there are not many Huainan gentry who are truly willing to move to Jiangdong. There are only a hundred tribes who can control counties and counties. I am worried that this mere glass of water will not be able to destroy the gentry of forty-six counties."

"Otherwise." Bailixian retorted with a smile, "What Ling Yin said is indeed reasonable. However, the Jiangdong gentry is not a monolithic. Once the Huainan gentry intervenes in Jiangdong and takes away some of their official positions and interests, the Jiangdong gentry will inevitably be divided. Some of the gentry who are not firm enough are afraid that they will change their course immediately."

Bailixian's words are true. There are as many gentry as there are in Jiangdong, basically one carrot and one pit.

The reason why the Jiangdong gentry dared to compete with the royal power was because of the confidence that there was a way out behind him. However, once the Huainan gentry intervened, the situation would be different immediately. At that time, there would be a lot more radishes, but the pit was still a little bit. In this situation, it would be difficult for the Jiangdong gentry to remain calm, because if they remain calm, the pit would have been snatched away.

"Okay!" Xiang Zhuang praised, "This is called an alien monk able to recite scriptures!"

"Foreign monks? Reciting scriptures?" Bailixian, Fan Zeng, Xiang He, Wu She and others immediately looked at each other when they heard this. It should be noted that Buddhism in this era has not been introduced to China, so the word monk has never appeared at all. Therefore, even if it is a peerless wise man like Fan Zeng and Bailixian, he is confused at this moment.

"Uh..." Xiang Zhuang quickly changed the subject and said, "That, let's discuss the envoys who will go to Huainan Kingdom first."

Bailixian shook the feather fan and said in surprise: "Master, I'm afraid there is no need to discuss this anymore, right? The doctor is of course the best candidate for the Huainan Kingdom."

Wu She also stood up and bowed, "Master, I am willing to go."

Xiang Zhuang said ashamedly: "Okay, go home to clean up, and leave today!" After saying this, Xiang Zhuang said again: "Oh by the way, don't go empty-handed, go to the military horse farm to pick 500 short horses and take them to Pengcheng. Even if it is a gift I gave to King Huainan, I will ask the King Huainan for you."

"Here." Wu She bowed and took the order.

Speaking of the ponies, Xiang Zhuang suddenly remembered something and asked Xiang him: "Ziyi, Ge Sheng's fleet has been away from Dantu for almost three months, right?"

The Chu ship supervised the last bus, which was supervised by the bus, performed excellently in the trial voyage. Even if it encountered strong winds and hurricanes, it could still travel safely. After that, the bus ship was ordered by Xiang Zhuang to mobilize a large amount of manpower and material resources to build ten Chu ships. Xiang Zhuang immediately appointed Ge Sheng as the Chu ship captain and led two thousand sharp men to take ten Chu ships to the South China Sea with the wind.

During this near-shore voyage, the task assigned by Xiang Zhuang to Ge Sheng was actually very simple. It was mainly to train a group of skilled sailors and train an excellent navy. If possible, it would bring back some local specialties from the South China Sea, especially cotton. This is a good thing, and then explore the details of the South Vietnamese Kingdom.

Historically, Zhao Tuo should have established the Nanyue Kingdom now, but his foundation should not be very stable.

If possible, Xiang Zhuang did not mind disturbing the Nanyue Kingdom. Even if he could not subvert the Nanyue Kingdom, he would at least get more than 100,000 people from Nanyue. You should know that there were 500,000 Qin troops trapped in Nanyue by Zhao Tuo, and at least 200,000 of them were strong men of Chu. God, these were 200,000!

More importantly, the Huaxia people have had a very important hometown complex since ancient times. The 500,000 Qin troops trapped by Zhao Tuo in the Nanyue Kingdom always want to go home. They are afraid of Zhao Tuo's prestige and high-pressure policies, so they dare not show it. But once external forces intervene in Nanyue, it is hard to say how these Qin soldiers will make choices.

In short, the Qin army in Nanyue was just a piece of fat meat, and Xiangzhuang never gave up on the opportunity to eat meat.

In the future, after the Jiangdong Navy is in power, Xiangzhuang's next goal is the Middle East Mesopotamia. Of course, Xiangzhuang did not think about occupying and ruling the Mesopotamia by sea. That was not realistic at all. Xiangzhuang turned his attention to the Mesopotamia. His only purpose was to obtain Arabian horses in the Mesopotamia and then improve Mongolian ponies.

As for the future, if the State of Chu really has the opportunity to unify the world, Xiangzhuang would not mind building a larger navy, and then cross the ocean to Latin America to find sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, etc. that can adapt to harsh environments and produce high yields, laying a solid foundation for the population explosion of the Chinese people in the future.

However, this is a very distant thing. It is impossible to accumulate without thirty or fifty years. Moreover, even if you have accumulated enough excellent sailors in thirty or fifty years, you may not be able to cross the Pacific Ocean. You need to know that the Pacific Ocean is the vastest ocean on the earth. In ancient times without a compass, crossing it would be like dreaming in the daytime.

Xiang He replied without hesitation: "King, it has been three months and ten days since Ge Sheng left Jiangdong."

"Um." Xiang Zhuang nodded and whispered to himself, "Three months and ten days, counting the time, it's almost time to come back from Nanyue. I just don't know if this kid Ge Sheng can bring back cotton seeds."

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Xianyang, Zuo Prime Minister's residence.

When Xiangzhuang faced the threat of "strike" from the Jiangdong gentry, Liu Bang's newly appointed left prime minister Bai Mo was also preparing for reforms in an effort.

Compared with the Chu State's instructor, the gentry and common people to accept the tuition together, Bai Mo's reforms were even more intense.

Bai Mo is about to launch a new tax law, which not only requires the Han Dynasty’s nobles, gentry and common people to pay food together, but also convert the tax (capital tax) and Yao’s servants into the land tax at a certain amount. According to Bai Mo’s new tax law, the Han Dynasty’s nobles, gentry not only have to pay taxes, but also pay more taxes because of the large amount of land!

There is no doubt that this will be an unprecedented and fierce change, and its intensity will even exceed Wei Yang's reform during the Qin Xiangong period. Wei Yang's reform only weakens the interests of the old clans of Qin, while Bai Mo's reform will greatly weaken the influence of the major families and gentry in Guanzhong, thereby maximizing the strengthening of the royal power.

Such a fierce change would definitely not be successful without strong force as a backing.

In order to support Bai Mo's reform, Liu Bang even planned to appoint Zhou Guanfu as the guardian general and cooperated with Bai Mo's reform. Since Fan Kuai was killed, Zhou Guanfu can be said to be the first brave general in the Han army. Liu Bang appointed Zhou Guanfu as the guardian general, which shows how firm his determination to reform was. Of course, Zhou Guanfu had to return to Xianyang before he could take office.

As for now, Zhou Guanfu is fighting against the Huns under the tent of General Cavalry.

Two days ago, the Northland Express reported that the 20,000 cavalrymen in Lu Tai had already gone west to the Great Wall built by the Emperor of the First Emperor and were about to penetrate into the heart of the Hexi Corridor. At the same time, the works that had already penetrated into Jiuyuan also sent back the news that the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun had already taken the Xiongnu army to leave the old camp of Jiuyuan, most of whom were attacking the Yuezhi people.
Chapter completed!