As for the handling of Pamela, Qin Mu considered that he needed a typical example to deter those individuals and organizations serving foreign enemy forces, and that Pamela's identity had been completely exposed and had no practical value, so he publicly sentenced Pamela and sentenced to death. ↗

The two leaders captured in the two bandit suppression battles, one was Mao Jin, a man in the "Purple Scarf Thieves" organization, and the other was Helianbo, the leader of the "Black Tiger" organization. After education and ideological work, Qin Mu personally took the initiative to persuade him. In the end, both of them were convinced and joined Qin Mu's troops sincerely and served as an intermediate officer according to the situation.

At the same time, fifty admission notices from the Imperial College were also sent to Tokugawa County. Of course, this was the back door opened by Qin Mu's cheap father-in-law. Otherwise, how could a county have been allocated so many places?

These fifty notices also had a huge response within the army. Most of the officers believed that the withdrawal of forty people to study at this critical moment will definitely seriously affect the ongoing training work of the army, and thus affect the realization of the training intention to improve combat effectiveness.

People including Zhu Yongqing and Liu Dashan all have this view and recommend postponing the study time. However, Qin Mu and Zhuge Fang both believed that this learning opportunity was rare, and no matter how difficult it was, they would have to withdraw people to participate in the study. This would make the quality of military officers qualitatively leap, and they would never give up.

Finally, Qin Mu went against the opposition and drew twenty-five outstanding officers from each of the two legions, including Mao Jin and Helianbo, and went to the imperial capital for a year and a half to study.

June has entered, and the weather has become extremely hot, and the cicadas on the trees are screaming loudly, which makes people feel even more irritable. But Qin Mu's mood is very comfortable, watching the city under his feet prospering day by day and the population is increasing day by day. The combat effectiveness of the army is also increasing day by day. Qin Mu's mood is like a comparison, and the dog days and ice sour plum soup are incomparable.

Just as Qin Mu was immersed in the joy of harvest, a person who was ignorant of the times ignored Qin Mu's feelings and beat Qin Mu a gong. "Sir, I think all of us have been a little paralyzed and relaxed recently." Zhuge Fang stood in front of Qin Mu and solemnly expressed his own opinion.

Qin Mu was sitting relaxed on a big chair in the study and leisurely savoring the tea. He looked at Zhuge Fang with confusion and said, "Mr. Zhuge, why did you say this?"

"Sir, you may have forgotten that everything in front of you is like building a building on the sand, which may collapse at any time. If we don't find a way to solve the danger we are about to face, it will probably not take long. Our construction results will turn into ruins, which is by no means an exaggeration." Zhuge Fang was very dissatisfied with Qin Mu's casual appearance.

Qin Mu sighed softly in his heart. He didn't know the current situation, but he finally enjoyed the joy of a good harvest and was destroyed. It seems that people who are superior actually have many troubles. "Mr. Zhuge, I know what you mean, but we are currently actively taking various measures to strengthen our strength. In fact, it is also a means."

"But it takes too long for this method to take effect, and we may not be able to wait. If we don't make strange moves from other angles, sir, the positions of both sides of the team will be reversed in the ending of the great victory last year." Zhuge Fang's tone seemed a little heavy.

Qin Mu habitually rubbed his jaw. Whenever he encountered a difficult problem, he had this habit of movement. His expression began to become serious, "Why? What news is coming from Chi Di?"

Zhuge Fang shook his head, "There is no news yet, and that Casilon has not come yet. I don't know what the hell is going on. But I still insist that the war between the Chidi people and the Huns is inevitable. The question is how we take advantage of this opportunity and combine some other methods to postpone our war with the Huns, especially to avoid this war this year. I have sent people to contact the Mots, Tubus, Kuirs, and Numides as you request, but they don't want to break the Huns' faces, so they are unwilling to have too close relationships with us. The countries in the Western Regions have similar thoughts, fearing wolves in front, tigers, snakes and rats in the back, and dare not express any public situation."

"It's not that they don't want to, but that they can't or dare. After all, our strength is not enough to fight against the Huns. This is an unquestionable fact. But they forgot this sentence: Without risks, how can there be profits? Without efforts, how can you get them? When the big thing is settled, will you care about your hindsight?" Qin Mu said with deep emotion.

"Sir, I have an idea. I wonder if it will work for delaying or restraining the Huns' attack on us?" Zhuge Fang proposed his purpose today.

"Oh? Regardless of whether it works or not, let's discuss it first." Qin Mu felt that Zhuge Fang must have a good idea, so he would raise it so cautiously.

"If we can create an illusion that makes the Huns believe or suspect that we have some secret agreement with other nomadic peoples on the East Tenggeli grassland and the Western Regions countries, I think the Huns will not consider the issue of their own retreat after sending troops to Tokugawa County." Zhuge Fang was obviously very confident in this idea.

"Well, keep talking." Qin Mu nodded thoughtfully.

"My plan is like this. We can create some kind of accident or unintentional let the Huns discover a situation, that is, we are having frequent contact with several other nomadic peoples on the Dongtengri grassland and the countries in the Western Regions, and the issue we are studying and discussing may be to jointly deal with the Huns. Of course, the specific plots of this need to be planned in detail. I think there will definitely be many spies and spies arranged in Tokugawa Prefecture, which also requires their "cooperation". Zhuge's eyes showed a cunning light.

Qin Mu nodded softly again, but then put forward his own point of view: "Mr. Zhuge, I'm afraid this method won't be hidden for a long time, and it also has great risks."

"Yes, but at present we have no other better way, so we have to find a way to act as realistic as possible. As the adult said just now, there is no risk, how can there be profits? We only need to delay a little time. In addition, the military training needs to be stepped up. When these methods really cannot work, we still have to rely on our strength to speak." Zhuge Fang was still quite worried.

"Just follow this opinion and do your best. You and Liang Qiming and others plan well and must find ways to make the Husbands believe it."

In the next few months, Qin Mu invited representatives of the Mot and Tubu people to Tokugawa Prefecture to talk from time to time, and kept the conversation strictly confidential. In fact, there was no other content, but it was nothing more than routine content such as strengthening contacts and exchanges and promoting economic and trade exchanges between the two sides.

At the same time, envoys were sent to contact the Qiuer and Numidians many times, and invited envoys from the Er and Numidians to come to Tokugawa Prefecture for talks. Representatives from the Western Regions and even the Indian Kingdom of De'an went to the county magistrates' offices from time to time.

In mid-February, Chidi's special envoy Kathiron came to Tokugawa Prefecture for the second time. Qin Mu held a separate banquet for Kathiron. The two sides made further detailed discussions, but on the issue of forming an alliance, both sides were ulterior motives, so they finally expressed their desire to trust and support each other in various fields, and no substantive agreement was reached. Qin Mu diligently tried to keep Kathiron in Tokugawa Prefecture for nearly half a month before Kathiron returned to Chidi.

As March entered, Qin Mu made another decision that everyone was very surprised. Qin Mu decided to buy three million taels of food, cloth, tea, and medicinal materials from the empire to the Mot, Tubu people, Qiuer people, and Numidi people, which made these nomadic people overjoyed. At the same time, they were worried about Qin Mu's harsh conditions. However, Qin Mu privately told them that there was no need for any additional conditions, but asked them to give gifts to Tokugawa Prefecture without any circumstance and kept them as strictly as possible.

In addition, Qin Mu also presented a large amount of food, cloth, tea, medicinal materials and other materials to the countries in the Western Regions, and the conditions were the same.

At the same time, the training of all the troops in Tokugawa County has not been slackened, and they have been continuously conducting secret training exercises at night, and have strengthened the confidentiality of military training. The construction of city defense facilities has also entered a tense final stage. The bunkers and arrow towers are also covered around the city wall, and various types of trenchers are installed everywhere on the city wall.

All of this was learned by spies and spies arranged by the Huns in Tokugawa Prefecture and other places, and quickly returned to the Huns' old nest - the city of Barona.

On April 15, 14th year of the Apocalypse, Wadeagao, the Great Chief Palace in Barona, sat on the throne of the Great Chief, and almost all the noble officials of the lower heads were present. The atmosphere of the meeting seemed a bit dull.

"Sedi, tell me what we have at the moment."

Wadeya looked around the ministers present with a bright look, and finally turned his eyes to Seidi, who was in charge of intelligence affairs.

"According to what we have mastered, the current situation is somewhat unfavorable to us. The Chidi people in the west are sure to have a big war with us this year, and there are signs that they have begun to prepare for war, and the direction is clear, which is aimed at us."

"There are no abnormal movements between the south and the east countries. However, according to the intelligence, the countries in the Western Regions are frequently in contact with Qin Mu of Tokugawa County, the Great Qin Empire, the Great Qin Empire, in the east. However, their contacts are quite secret. It is impossible to know what the specific discussion is. Moreover, the information shows that Qin Mu also gave a large amount of supplies to the countries in the Western Regions, with unknown intentions."

After pausing, Seidi saw that everyone's attention was attracted by his next few words, and continued, "None of the above is nothing, what makes me even more worried is that the other neighbors on our Dongtengri Grassland seem to have colluded with that Qin Mu."
Chapter completed!