Chapter 575

Several more months passed, and Bashu had now been completely reorganized by Qin Mu.

A total of five cities—one large city and four small cities. The large city occupied the highest ground, and the four small cities were in front.

In other words, even if someone attacked, they would have to destroy the four small cities first before they could attack the large city.

And the four small cities were closely connected, with the support of the large city behind them. It could be said that they were easy to defend and difficult to attack.

As long as there was enough grain, it would take at least a thirty-fold difference in troops to take it down!

But, if the defenders were elite troops, then without a huge difference in numbers, it would probably be impossible to take down even one city.

As for methods Wu Li Ke fire attacks or smoke, Qin Mu had already made corresponding preparations; various ventilation systems were built quite well.

In these few months, Qin Mu was also frantically expanding the army. Great General Pan Feng might not have great combat power himself, but he was still quite capable of leading and training troops.

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Qin Mu specifically gave him five hundred people and the method for making refined salt, letting him take people to the coastal areas to make sea salt and bring salt back to Bashu every month.

Then he carried out major reforms in the five cities, with all official positions having both primary and deputy roles.

They assisted each other in work and played a role in supervising each other. As long as the other party did something they shouldn't, one could be promoted by one rank directly after reporting it!

And all official positions were based on strength, not recommended by other officials!

All five major cities implemented the imperial examination system, once every half year. Various perfect systems completely eliminated the possibility of cheating.

This made even the genius Guo Jia marvel.

And this was only a part of the development in these few months. Qin Mu also created the curved-shaft plow, which directly made everyone marvel.

It directly increased the number of draft oxen, which had originally been scarce.

However, even so, Bashu's own grain production was still relatively low. There was no helping it; in this geographical location, ordinary wheat was difficult to grow.

They could only use terraced fields to grow rice. There were potatoes in this century, but they were still overseas.

For this reason, Qin Mu specifically let Lu Bu take some elite troops to Xianyang to block Xu Fu.

However, in military matters, one still had to look to Guo Jia and the others.

After discussion, Qin Mu decided to implement a three-year plan to build Bashu into the most solid place before Qin Shi Huang passed away!

At least there had to be five hundred thousand elite troops!

In just a few short months, Yu Ji also married Qin Mu.

Xiang Yu, far away in the land of Western Chu, couldn't eat for three days after receiving the news!

Usually, he had to eat the meat of a whole cow in a day, but now he hadn't eaten for three days.

Whenever he thought of Yu Ji in Bashu, Xiang Yu couldn't help but feel a heartache. What a good beauty, but why wasn't she his! It wasn't that he hadn't thought about raising an army to attack Bashu, but he had kept a record of all those soldiers who had spat at him.

A total of twenty thousand and two!

Among them, one Lu Bu was countless times stronger than himself, and one Pan Feng was much weaker than himself.

And those twenty thousand soldiers—he could feel that his own troops were no match for them at all!

It was the kind where he wouldn't dare to go over without one hundred thousand troops. Even if he had one hundred thousand troops now, it would only result in mutual destruction, so what would happen to the Qin State? Xiang Yu was still somewhat rational; he wasn't blinded by beauty, or rather, the hatred of his country being destroyed made Xiang Yu hate them far more than the humiliation he had received! And recently, he had contacted another anti-Qin figure named Zhang Liang!

Zhang Liang was said to be a genius in the Little Sage and Virtuous Manor. He came out also preparing to win over Jianghu assassins, wanting to assassinate the Qin King!

He had already contacted the Mohists and two great masters of the Vertical and Horizontal schools!

Now all that was missing was for the Xiang clan to send troops to hold back Qin Shi Huang's army!

And they received news that three months later, Qin Shi Huang would hide his identity and go on an inspection tour!

On the other side, Qin Mu stayed in the pigsty all day, studying little piglets.

Although Yu Ji didn't understand, she still accompanied Qin Mu very virtuously.

"I say, Mu, why do you stay in the pigsty every day these days? Could it be that you want to become a pig knight?"

Yu Ji covered her little mouth and laughed. In this era, pigs were hard to eat and had a rank smell.

Even the poor rarely ate them, and raising pigs was purely for traveling!

That's right, the foot power of these pigs was usually quite good. Over years of traveling, they were not even inferior to oxen.

Plus, they ate a wide variety of things and ate almost anything, so they were countless times easier to raise than horses. The poor traveled by riding pigs!

Everyone became a pig knight.

When Qin Mu learned that there was such a saying, his face turned black. They probably didn't know that pigs were edible.

"Ji, it's smelly here. You go back first. In a few days, I'll let you taste roast suckling pig; I guarantee you'll want to eat it again after you try it," Qin Mu said with a slight smile.

After hearing this, Yu Ji broke out in cold sweat. Eat a pig?

Spare her; was that thing something a human could eat? Yu Ji was directly scared away by Qin Mu's words...

Master Zhuge Liang came to find Qin Mu to report work every day, and he also didn't quite understand why his Lord stayed in the pigsty all day.

Several days later, Qin Mu finally succeeded. It turned out that if you wanted to remove the rank smell from pigs, it wasn't just a simple matter of castration.

After the first castration, there was still a smell, which almost choked Qin Mu to death. He thought to himself, no wonder the poor didn't eat pork.

This wasn't meat; this was simply poison.

And this time, he finally succeeded!

Qin Mu directly skewered a little suckling pig and roasted it over the fire.

Fortunately, pigs came with their own fat. What he didn't expect was that there was no oil yet!

Don't talk about peanut oil; even lard hadn't been seen used by anyone!

Qin Mu decided to find an opportunity to promote everyone raising pigs, removing the rank smell, and developing lard!

Qin Mu felt some heartache for Qin Shi Huang, who was far away in Xianyang. His daily food was probably tasteless.

At most, there was some salt, some saltiness; there were probably no other seasonings.

After Yu Ji returned home, she smelled the scent of roast meat, and her whole person felt bad. She thought to herself, it must not, it must not be...