Chapter 476 Hu Hai's Ambition
After saying this, the big man opened his mouth, and finally found nothing to refute him, so he could only lower his head dejectedly.
But Hu Hai's words were obviously not finished. He looked at the two people in front of him and found that they seemed to have a little recognition of what they said, and his face became even more rosy. He took a few more steps forward and then continued to open his mouth.
"When the location of the Mauryan Dynasty is no longer a secret, it is the opportunity for me to wait. I don't have to build such a huge warship. I just need to make a ship of the right size and pretend to be a merchant ship. With the convenience of not far from Nanhai County, I can send us to the Mauryan Dynasty!"
Going to the Mauryan Dynasty, this is the letter of fame that Hu Hai brought to Zhao Cheng. His idea gave Zhao Cheng a sense of imagination, but after Hu Hai finished speaking his entire idea, Zhao Cheng suddenly felt that it seemed much more efficient than the years he had been hiding in Xianyang City.
But Zhao Cheng is not the gangster in Xianyang City back then. He has learned a lot over the years, and his ability may be much worse than Zhao Gao back then. So after considering Hu Hai's statement, Zhao Cheng still raised some questions.
"Just three of us, with some Nanyue people, even if you have the identity of the Prince of Great Qin, it will be easier to reach the Mauryan Dynasty? Once the identity is exposed, I am afraid that someone will be killed instantly, right?"
Over the years, Zhao Cheng has almost put his survival problems first, so Hu Hai's slightly risky proposal is still a bit dangerous in his opinion.
After all, they are weak, and Ying Gao will send an army of tens of thousands to the Mauryan Dynasty. And I heard that there are also the Xiongnu Shanyu Xiang Yu. In Zhao Cheng's view, such a thing is very dangerous.
But after hearing this, Hu Hai had no expression of caring on his face. He looked at the man beside him. Through his conversation with Zhao Cheng, he learned that this man was a strong man who was rescued by Zhao Gao when he was young. He has always been the person Zhao Gao trusted the most in the depths. Almost no one knew his original name, but he was given the name Zhao Hu by Zhao Gao.
"Since we have this talent among the three of us, we must make good use of it. When we arrived at the Mauryan Dynasty, due to the war, there must be a chaotic situation, and heroes will come from troubled times. We three should be able to form a team in the Mauryan Dynasty. If we can settle down first and wait until the time is ripe, why is it impossible for the land of the Mauryan Dynasty to be included in our hands? The teacher's ideal is to destroy the Qin Dynasty, but the current situation is one time and another. Under the current emperor's governance, the Qin Dynasty has no flaws. If you still want to compete with the Qin Dynasty, you can only do this."
Speaking of this, Hu Hai's meaning was already very clear. He was telling Zhao Cheng that hiding in this dark place and dreaming about dreaming in the Qin Dynasty under Ying Gao's rule now would not work. Hu Hai observed Ying Gao in the Xianyang Palace for several years. He knew what kind of person Ying Gao was and what kind of ability Ying Gao had. So he wanted to grab a piece of meat from Ying Gao's mouth, and there was no other way except to go astray.
Zhao Cheng and Zhao Hu were speechless at this time. Zhao Cheng lowered his head and pondered for a long time. Finally, he seemed to have decided something. He said to Zhao Hu: "From today, he has always been paying attention to the war between the Great Qin and the Huns against the Mauryan Dynasty. Once there is any news we didn't know before, he will send it back immediately. In addition, whether it is the territory of the South Vietnam or the three counties of Lingnan, anyone who hates the Great Qin Emperor will be summoned into our team. The most important point is to see if you can find an unmanned bay and find a way to build a reliable ship in one year!"
After hearing Zhao Cheng's series of decisions, Hu Hai finally breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that he must have convinced Zhao Cheng that his ideal was that he had not been truly killed by Ying Gao, and that he was not shattered. He and Ying Gao were still young, so in Hu Hai's heart, he still had a chance.
Although Fusu really wanted to know about the matter between Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng and had been seriously investigating since Ying Gao left, Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng seemed to have disappeared from the land of the march and could not be found no matter what.
At this time, Fusu finally knew what Ying Gao told him before leaving that this would be a protracted battle. Fusu thought that after Sima Xin took the Qin navy from Nanhai County, he could live a leisurely life, but after Hu Hai made such a fuss, he knew that he could not calm down again.
After all, this kind of thing involves himself and Ying Gao's younger brother. At the critical moment, I must have to take action personally. Otherwise, if such a thing is done with others, the final spread will only bring shame to the Ying clan.
Ying Gao, who had already felt that Hu Hai's affairs could only be solved when he wanted to come out and show off, found Han Xin as soon as possible after returning to Xianyang City. Needless to say, what he wanted to know was the news about Lu Jia.
The result was just as he had expected before. Lu Jia sent back the news more than half a month ago. Fortunately, Lu Jia did not deviate from the route that Ying Gao had previously told him. In this case, Han Xin did not write a letter to help Lu Jia re-plan, but waited for Ying Gao to come back and then reply to Lu Jia.
Ying Gao still admires Han Xin's awareness very much. After all, once Han Xin rashly replied to Lu Jia and gave wrong news, when Ying Gao's next letter arrived at Lu Jia, it would probably take more than half a month to delay.
According to Lu Jia's letter, although they had not been intact after the past few months of travel, they had adapted because they were quite well prepared. The largest part of the article was like Ying Gao to determine whether their route was right, because according to the map given to them by Ying Gao, they were getting closer and closer to that place.
If nothing unexpected happens, according to Lu Jia's estimate, when Ying Gao's reply letter came to him, he should be about to arrive at that place. He also promised Ying Gao that he had established enough contact points on the way. As long as he found the contact points he set one by one, he would definitely be able to find his team as soon as possible. He would inform Ying Gao as soon as he arrived at that place, because according to Ying Gao's previous statement, it was very likely that it was blocked by the mountains and ridges. The more than a thousand people brought by Lu Jia might not be able to solve it.
In Ying Gao's opinion, the exploration of Tibetan areas in later generations must be quite difficult, but since Lu Jia set out, he raised very few difficulties, but every time he received good news, Ying Gao didn't know whether the result was that the current Tibetan terrain was not as terrifying as later generations, or whether Lu Jia and his others were quite appropriate in their methods.
If Ying Gao saw Lu Jia's words at this time, he might have known the answer in his heart.
When Lu Jia set out, there were Qin soldiers, Xiongnu soldiers and craftsmen under his command, with a number of about 1,300 people. Now, according to Ying Gao's instructions, Lu Jia and his group were approaching the destination, with only seven or eight hundred left.
Of course, there were still two or three hundred people left by Lu Jia in various contact points, but without suffering any enemy troops, they had lost more than three hundred lives just because of the weather in this place and the elusive beasts.
This seemed very terrifying to Lu Jia. The climate here is very different from that of almost all the Tita counties and counties in the Qin Dynasty that Lu Jia walked through. For some reason, sometimes they even had a very difficult time breathing, and the temperature difference between day and night here was so large that it was beyond their imagination.
The Jiangdong soldiers who had been struggling in the Huns for several years were still a little more adaptable, but many soldiers and craftsmen of the Qin Dynasty fell ill due to such weather. In such an era and such a territory, falling ill was almost equivalent to death.
Under such circumstances, Lu Jia did not want to waste any time. He tried to reach that position at the closest distance. In this way, the loss was naturally the smallest, and he did not explain the losses to Ying Gao in detail.
In his opinion, such difficulties were considered the smallest compared to his imagination before setting off. Even if he was the only one left, it would be considered a great achievement if he could find the entrance to the Mauryan Dynasty for the Qin Dynasty.
At this time, Lu Jia was walking forward on a thin layer of snow covered with a thin layer of snow. All of them had taken off their armor and put on a thick layer of cotton coat that Ying Gao asked them to prepare before.
When they came to this point, they all knew that the biggest enemy on this land was not a large group of people who might stand in front of you, but a cold current that would roll at any time, and large beasts would emerge from the darkness if they were not careful at night.
Such a place is indeed difficult, but it also has its corresponding benefits. Lu Jia knew that as long as you establish enough contact points along the way, and then take these territories into the territory of the Qin Dynasty in the future, and then some immigration will be carried out. When you know what the weather is like here, everything here is no longer mysterious, but you can just carry more food and supplies when passing by here.
These days are very important for Lu Jia, because he knew that if Ying Gao said nothing wrong, in the past few days, some mountains will appear in front of them, blocking their journey. If he really arrived at such a place, even if his first phase of the task was completed, it also marked that he had entered the more difficult second phase.
The so-called second stage is that they have found the mountains that block them and look for the possibility of opening up along these mountains.
According to Ying Gao, this possibility must exist, because he can be sure that the side of the mountain range is still a certain distance from the place where the real Mauryan people settled, and the Mauryan people must have never imagined such a thing.
Because in this era, the barriers of nature are insurmountable gaps, and no one has any ideas like Ying Gao. A rare person like Lu Jia who has such ideas will not be supported by a big boss like Ying Gao, it would be useless. Apart from making others think that water is in the head, there is no second possibility.
In this season, no one can tell what the climate here is. What makes Lu Jia the most trouble is the wind and snow they are facing now. Simply snow is actually not difficult for Lu Jia, and even more so for the soldiers of the Qin and the Xiongnu. However, there is basically no simple snow here, and all the snow comes with the strong wind.
In such weather, Lu Jia did not dare to let the team move too fast. From time to time, he would turn back to see the footprints they had just walked by, and see if he had deviated from the original direction before they were covered by the wind and snow.
Lu Jia is located in the middle of the team, and after traveling several miles, he is a small team of scouts composed of the most elite Qin and Xiongnu soldiers here. Once there is any danger ahead, they will come back to inform Lu Jia as soon as possible.
Now, while Lu Jia was thinking about how long this wind and snow might delay them, a scout in front of him rode back. When he reached Lu Jia's identity, Lu Jia looked up at his face that had turned red because he had been on such a plateau for a long time, and found that his face was full of excitement, which was something he had never seen before when he was nectar.
"The observer, we are blocked by a convenient distance of less than ten miles ahead. What blocks us is the mountains that the Lord often mentions in his letters. Although the wind and snow are now mixed, after observing, I am sure that this is the mountains we are looking for. The observer, we have arrived!"
For these soldiers, it is more difficult than fighting with the enemy. They don’t know where they are at the end, and their companions fall down from time to time, which makes them exhausted both physically and mentally, and they all hope to reach their destination as soon as possible.
After hearing this, a light finally erupted in Lu Jia's eyes. If he could really find the barrier at this point in time, his first phase of the task would not have been delayed.
Chapter completed!