Chapter 202: Your Excellency Underestimated Mu
Li Mu, who was soaking wet like a drowned rat, walked away angrily with a rage on his face.
Walk to the door and stop.
"Mu, go change your clothes."
Ying Chengjiao looked at Han Fei with a squint.
"Tell me the truth, are you two having an affair? I thought the drunkard was going to beat you up."
How could Zhao Wuan Jun, who had never been defeated in the battlefield, ever endure being poured cold water on his head?
[If what you are talking about later are all trivial matters, then you will be punished.]
"……What's the meaning?"
[It's not an appointment with a drunkard, just have a reason. 】
"Buddhism has not yet entered the Central Plains, what are you talking about with Nai Gong?"
Han Fei stopped writing.
Now it was his turn to not understand what was being said.
Just at that moment, Li Mu, who had just changed his clothes, walked into the house, wiping his wet hair with a towel.
He approached and glanced at what Han Fei had written, and he roughly knew what Ying Chengjiao and Han Fei had been talking about before.
With a sneer on his face, he said, "On the day when Jieba knew that the Lord wanted the two of us to accompany the Crown Prince on a trip, he gave me the words 'control your anger', saying that if I didn't control my temper, it might cause trouble for the Lord. So I made an agreement with him that if he provoked me, he would have to have a reason that Mu would accept."
"I think that when I poured the bucket of water on Mu just now, I was using the king's words as an excuse."
Ying Chengjiao understood what Li Mu said. He looked back and forth between Li Mu and Han Fei and said, "I don't have anything important to do."
Han Fei looked at Ying Chengjiao as if he were a child, his eyes seemed to be saying, "Why are you so childish?"
Li Mu sat on the ground with his legs apart, saying, "This is childish behavior."
You two are really boring and can't even watch the fun.
Ying Chengjiao complained secretly, put a fist to his mouth, and coughed twice to ease the embarrassment.
"This time you two went to Shangjun with Fusu, not to travel around..."
"It's a bitterly cold place outside the Great Wall. All you can see are the swords of the barbarians and the vast Gobi Desert. There are no mountains or rivers to enjoy. Your Majesty, please don't say useless words."
Li Mu said coldly, seeming to be angry about being poured with a bucket of water just now.
I didn't water it, so what can you do to me?
Ying Chengjiao thought to himself and got straight to the point.
"Drunkard, your mission is to prevent the nomadic tribes such as the Huns and the Xiongnu from getting within ten miles of the Great Wall and to keep the enemy out. I want the Huns not to dare to go south to herd their horses, and the soldiers not to dare to bend their bows and complain. Is that a problem?"
"have."
Ying Chengjiao frowned and looked much more serious. He didn't expect Li Mu to answer like this.
"What's the problem?"
Ten years ago, Qin and Zhao fought a great war.
As the State of Zhao was about to be destroyed, Li Mu's border defense troops were transferred back to Zhao to join the war. The border defense capability of the State of Zhao reached its lowest level in several years.
However, during the war between Qin and Zhao, there was no news that Zhao's border counties had been destroyed.
The reason was not that the Hu people did not take advantage of others' misfortune and behaved like gentlemen, but simply because Li Mu frightened the Huns.
The border troops led by Li Mu only fought one major battle with the Huns, in which they annihilated nearly 100,000 Hun soldiers and horses.
After the First World War, the Huns did not dare to approach Zhaobian County for nearly ten years, and they did not even dare to carry out small-scale cavalry harassment and investigation.
Li Mu led the elite border troops back to Zhao. The Huns were completely unaware of such a big event, which shows the deterrent effect of Li Mu on the Huns in the border counties.
Why can’t we do what we could do ten years ago ten years later?
Li Mu put down the towel, took a sip of wine from the wine gourd on the table, and said, "I don't have any soldiers."
"The troops from the seven counties of Jiuyuan, Yunzhong, Taiyuan, Longxi, Beidi, Yanmen, and Shangjun are all at your disposal."
Li Mu said nothing, just shook his head.
Ying Chengjiao stared at Li Mu, whose expression was obviously gloomy, and sighed, "You are still entangled in the words Qin and Zhao. This matter is indeed difficult for you."
Zhao and Qin had been enemies since the Battle of Changping, and the people of the two countries regarded each other as the enemy.
This was especially true for Li Mu, the Lord of Zhao Wu'an, who was extremely hostile towards the State of Qin.
The person Li Mu hated the most was not Guo Kai who killed him, but Emperor Qin Shi Huang who destroyed the State of Zhao.
It is both reasonable and legal to ask Li Mu to lead Qin's troops to defend Qin's border.
It was natural for Li Mu to refuse.
"Your Majesty underestimates Mu."
Li Mu shook the wine gourd, and a slight "rustling" sound came from inside the wine gourd.
"Although Mu often talks about restoring Zhao and destroying Qin, Mu can still see the general trend of the world clearly. From the day Mu followed the Lord into Qin, Mu knew that with the Lord around, the world would sooner or later be ruled by the Ying family."
"The world has been in chaos for two hundred years, but now it has shown signs of great order, which is a joy for all people. I like what the king said very much - the general trend of the world is that long-term unity will eventually lead to division, and long-term division will eventually lead to unity."
"Now is the time for China to unify. Mu has been by your side for nearly ten years and has long seen through the Qin and Zhao characters. Mu is not guarding the borders for Qin, but for China, and I have no complaints."
After saying this, Li Mu tilted his neck back, raised the wine gourd, and continued drinking.
Ying Chengjiao snatched the wine gourd from Li Mu's hand, and a little wine floated out of the gourd and fell to the ground.
Ying Chengjiao buckled the cork and said, "You sound good, but you should do it. Ten years ago, you were at Yanmen and beat the Xiongnu so hard that they dared not approach Yanmen. Now I give you seven counties and ask you to do what you did ten years ago. Is it difficult?"
Li Mu glanced at the wine gourd.
"It's difficult. The Qin army is not the Zhao army. If Your Majesty wants me to keep the enemy out in three years, I can."
Why did it take three years? My Great Qin elite soldiers are stronger than the Zhao border troops. The Zhao border troops can defend against the enemy, so there is no reason why my Great Qin elite soldiers cannot do the same.
"Three years? I'm just waiting to use the Seven Counties Incident to get my brother to support the reform. I can give you a month at most. Just tell me directly where the problem lies."
Li Mu reached out to take the wine gourd.
Ying Chengjiao held the wine gourd tightly in his hand and stared at Li Mu with a look that said, "You'd better hurry up, kid."
Li Mu withdrew his hand and smacked his lips.
"The problem is that they don't have cavalry. The overall strength of the Qin army is above that of the Zhao army. But in terms of cavalry, the Qin army is far inferior to Mu's flying soldiers . The Central Plains is based on cities and most of the battles are sieges."
"The Qin army obeyed orders, was brave and fearless, and everyone fought bravely, so they were able to unify the world. The desert and grassland were all in sight, and most of the battles were chase battles, which was a completely different battle method from that in the Central Plains."
“No matter how strong your infantry is, it is difficult to resist the cavalry’s charge in an open area. If the battlefield was in the desert, not to mention Wang Jian, even if Bai Qi was resurrected, Mu would be able to kill them all.”
Ying Chengjiao narrowed his eyes, he understood what Li Mu meant.
Li Mu needed three years to train the cavalry.
"What if I insist on less than a month?"
"Then we need horseshoes, saddles, and stirrups to quickly train cavalry."
"But if we fail to completely wipe out the Hu people within a year, it will give them a chance to imitate the three objects."
"When the Hu people sit on saddles, step on stirrups, and their war horses are nailed with horseshoes, the Central Plains will be in danger."
