Prime Minister of Great Qin

Chapter 119: Beacon Fire Opera Princes? (seeking subscription)

Zhai You said: "At the time of King Zhou Li, the Zhou royal family was already in turmoil. At this time, Xirong began to plunder on a large scale. However, because the people of Qin were located between the Zhou royal family and Xirong, they had to block the robbery for the Zhou royal family. Feizi's ancestor's elder brother, That is to say, Shenhou's grandson, Yingcheng, was in the same line, and in these few confrontations, the whole clan was wiped out."

"It was also from this time that the people of Qin and Xirong formed a deep blood feud."

"When King Zhou Xuan succeeded to the throne later, he made the leader of the Qin people, the ancestor of Qin Zhong, a doctor."

"Let the ancestors of Qin Zhong continue to lead the people to resist Rongdi."

"In the 20th year of Qin Zhong's ancestor, the ancestor was ordered by King Xuan of Zhou to crusade against Xirong. However, the Qin people were attacked by Rongdi several times at that time, and their strength was weak. Insist on fighting Xirong, just"

"In the 22nd year of Qin Zhong's ancestor, the ancestor was defeated and died in the battle of conquering the army."

"And after Qin Zhong's ancestor died in battle, King Xuan of Zhou launched the world-sensational Battle of Chengpu. In this battle, the Qin people finally regained the Quan Rong occupied by Xi Rong, and Qin Ye, the son of Qin Zhong's ancestor, also Therefore, he was granted the title of Doctor of the West Frontier."

"After Zhuanggong's ancestor passed away, my father's ancestor gave up his inheritance and gave up the position of king to Xianggong."

Speaking of which.

Zhai You was even more excited and said: "At the beginning, the father and ancestor gave up inheriting the Duke and led the people to continue fighting against Rongdi, and because of this, they swore a poisonous oath."

"Rong people, kill my father and grandfather."

"If I can't kill King Rong, I will avenge this sea of ​​blood, and I will never return to the capital for the rest of my life."

heard.

The corner of Ji Heng's mouth twitched.

He took a deep look at Zhai You, and he already understood why the Zhai family would stay in Qinting. I'm afraid that Qin Shifu's poisonous oath was not fulfilled. In Xichui, you can't go back to the capital, so you can only stay in Qinting.

Swearing indiscriminately to harm people!
But Ji Heng still underestimated Qin Shifu. '

Qin Shifu actually led the Qin people to fight Xirong for six or seven years. Not only did he fail to avenge his father and ancestor, he was eventually captured by Xirong and was imprisoned for more than a year. In the end, it was Qin Xianggong who negotiated with Xirong many times to be released.

Zhai You naturally knew this.

But after all, he is his direct ancestor, he will not say much, he said a few vague words, Qin Shifu fought bravely at that time, and then quickly skipped this paragraph, but why can't Fusu and others understand the meaning?As soon as I thought about it, I already guessed a lot.

Several people tacitly did not expose it.

Ji Heng didn't pay much attention to this episode.

He also heard something from Zhai You's words. During the time of King Zhou Li and King Zhou Xuan, the relationship between the people of Qin and the people of Zhou might not be good. After Qin Zhong died.

This is probably intended to weaken the Qin people.

After all, it was the people of Qin who ultimately benefited from the crusade against Rong and Di in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Because it is the people of Qin who border Rongdi.

Non-week people.

If the Qin people are not weakened, the Qin people may become bigger because of this.

Zhai You continued to talk, Qin Xianggong is obviously much smarter than his elder brother Qin Shifu.

He didn't want to block the knife for the Zhou people anymore, and he didn't want to consume Rong Di for the Zhou people anymore, so he didn't bite the bullet and fight against Rong Di anymore, but chose to hide his strength and bide his time, and even married his younger sister to King Feng of Xirong as his wife , to divide the Rong tribes and buy time for themselves to recharge their batteries.

otherwise.

In order to avoid fighting with Rongdi, Qin Xianggong also chose to move the capital.

Moved from Xichui to Qianyi, and began to expand its power to the east to open up a new living space.

Under the leadership of Qin Xianggong, the strength of the Qin people continued to improve.

It can even be compared with Qi at that time.

To know.

At that time, Qin was just a senior official.

In Zhai You's eyes, Qin Xianggong seemed to be working for the King of Zhou, and had been loyally fighting to the death against Rong Di.

Ji Heng didn't take Zhai You's cognition seriously.

If Qin Xianggong was really so loyal, he would not have become the founding king of Qin.

However, Ji Heng is not very interested in these things. He is more concerned about how Qin Xianggong became the founding king of the tiger and wolf Qin that swept the six kingdoms from a small Xichui doctor. There must be a reason for this. .

The Zhou Dynasty at that time was obviously wary of the Qin people on purpose.

Why is there such a big reward later.

Zhai You didn't know what Ji Heng was thinking, so he straightened his mind and said, "The subsequent situation is very familiar. King You of Zhou favored Baosi, abolished the then prince Yijiu, and the daughter of Marquis Shen who was originally a queen. This action aroused the dissatisfaction of the Marquis of Shen, the king of Xishen, the Marquis of Shen, joined forces with Rongdi to attack Haojing, the city of Haojing was destroyed, and King You of Zhou was defeated and killed, so the Zhou Dynasty had a situation where two kings were in the air."

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Zhai You continued to speak.

Ji Heng frowned slightly.

He flipped through the history books beside him.

I kept thinking about my memory of this period of history in my mind.

What impressed him the most was actually the feudal lords of Fenghuo Opera.

But Zhai You said nothing at all.

After thinking about it for a while, Ji Heng suddenly figured it out.

There is no Fenghuo drama princes at all.

The large-scale use of beacon smoke in military affairs was only in the Han Dynasty. Although the people of Qin began to use it in military affairs, the scope was actually very small. It's not the beacon fire, but the drumming.

But through drum relay, notifying the princes hundreds of miles away, this picture is really abstract.

But this may be the truth of history.

Looking at the bamboo slips under him, Ji Heng seemed to think of something, and flipped through dozens of bamboo slips.

finally.

He flipped to what he wanted.

"Tsinghua Bamboo Slips" and "Bamboo Book Chronicles".

"Tsinghua Bamboo Bamboo" is a history book recorded by the official historian of Chu State.

"Bamboo Book Chronicles" is a history book recorded by the historians of Jin State and the historians of Wei State after the Jin Dynasty.

Combining what Zhai You said and these two history books, he meditated for a while in his mind, and gradually sorted out a line.

A line from a relative!
Ji Heng said in a deep voice, "King Zhou You's father-in-law is Shen Hou, the monarch of Shen State, and in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the royal family was defended by Zheng State and Guo State, both of which were sealed near Zong Zhou."

"Judging from the chronology of the bamboo book, the State of Shen is an ancient country with the surname Jiang, which was first established in the Xia Dynasty."

"During the reign of King Xuan of Zhou, Shen State was divided into Xishen State and Nanshen State. This may be the result of the Zhou royal family's intentional division. The Zhou royal family was married, so within a few decades, Shen Guo formed a powerful force of foreign relatives in the Zhou royal family."

"It can even be strong enough to control the internal affairs of the Zhou royal family!"

"I have read the history of Qin in the past few days, and it is recorded that at that time, King Zhou Xiao wanted to change Li Feizi as the heir of Daluo, so as to replace Shenhou's grandson Yingcheng, but was blocked by Shenhou. So Zhou Xiaowang pushed the boat along the river and sealed off another piece of land for Feizi."

"Also let the concubine Feizi restore the ancestral temple sacrifice of the surname Ying."

"This is clearly a political game."

"King Xiao of Zhou divided the people of Qin who were close to Marquis Shen by rewarding Feizi."

"The fact that Qin Feizi, who was originally a concubine, has suddenly become the eldest son with the surname Ying, will definitely dissatisfy Ying Cheng, who was originally the eldest son. Ying Cheng's maternal grandfather was Marquis Shen. When Qin Feizi went to Qinting, Xirong You have shot many times, and Xi Rong has a close relationship with Shen Guo, so what you said earlier, Zhai You, is wrong."

"What's wrong?" Zhai You was taken aback.

Ji Heng stood up slowly, and said while thinking: "You said earlier that Ying Cheng's lineage was from the barbarians in the confrontation with Xi Rong, but Ying Cheng is Shen Hou's grandson, and he was close to Xi Rong. It is untenable, it is most likely that Qin Feizi cooperated with the royal family of Zhou to fight against Ying Cheng and Xi Rong, and in several fights, Ying Cheng's lineage was completely wiped out."

"Perhaps Qin Feizi showed his loyalty to the Zhou royal family by destroying the Yingcheng lineage."

"The enmity between Qin people and Xirong may start from here."

"All of this is actually a secret seizure of power by the Zhou royal family and successive Shenhous."

"However, Marquis Shen is not a vegetarian. After Yingcheng's lineage was wiped out, Marquis Shen immediately married his daughter to Feizi, so as to win over the power of the Qin people, and the Qin people were able to breathe, but this move was evil. Zhou royal family, so it has been targeted by the Zhou royal family."

"It is recorded in the Bamboo Book Chronicle."

"King Zhou You abolished Shenhou's grandson Yijiu as the crown prince, and replaced Baosi's son Bopan as the crown prince. Yijiu left for his grandfather's Xishen Kingdom. King Zhou You was furious and sent troops to besiege Xishen Kingdom. Marquis Shen plotted and fell into the trap of Marquis Shen and Xi Rong, and in the end he was defeated and killed along with his new crown prince Bopan."

"It seems that King Zhou You was killed by Quan Rong by accident."

"But that's not the case."

"In the seventh year of King Zhou You, Guo State destroyed Jiao State and moved Guo State to Sanmenxia. Sanmenxia has always been known as 'five mountains, four ridges and one Sichuan'. , and one man is in charge of the pass, and the Hangu Pass that Wan Fumo opened is located here."

"Judging from King Zhou You's various actions, he may have realized the threat of Shen Guo very early, and started to plan ahead very early."

"Once it is unfavorable to conquer Rong and Di in the west, you can also move east to avoid disaster."

"In the tenth year of King Zhou You, King Zhou You made an alliance with the princes of the world in Songshan. This alliance may be due to the war between Rong and Di. Therefore, it can be roughly concluded that the Zhou royal family at that time was invaded by Xi Rong many times, and the Zong Zhou area was already in danger. , the hereditary aristocratic bureaucrats have long been in trouble.”

"Combined with the paradox of the Chinese people when King Zhou Li was in power."

"King Zhou You may actually be a monarch who is trying his best to govern. During the few years since he succeeded to the throne, he has made a lot of political and military deployments. In order to get rid of the control of the court by the old man Shenhou who has a close relationship with Xirong, he finally chose to take risks. , to abolish Shenhou's daughter and grandson Yijiu, but unfortunately the success fell short in the end, and was stabbed in the back by the "big filial son" Zhou Ping Wang Yijiu secretly through Shenhou and Quan Rong."

"Finally defeated and killed."

"I ended up with a tragic end where I died and the country was destroyed, and I will be stigmatized for thousands of years."

"Because of killing his father and king, King Ping of Zhou seriously violated Zhou rituals, so he was not recognized by the princes of the world. In order to win the support of the princes, King Ping of Zhou made many promises to the princes of the world, among which he officially named Qin a prince. , and at the same time give the Qin people the promise of rewarding the old land of Zong Zhou where the Zhou people lived for generations."

"This is the real reason for the real rise of the Qin people."

"And it was precisely because of King Ping's failure to win the country that the prestige of the Zhou royal family was lost. Since then, the world has entered a turbulent era in which ritual and music conquests all come from the princes."

Ji Heng sighed lightly.

Shi Shiran sat back in his seat.

He used to be very vague about this period of history, and he always had doubts, but after "Bamboo Book Chronicles", "Tsinghua Bamboo Bamboo Slips" and Zhai You's dictation, he had a clear understanding of the events of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the last few decades, the Zhou royal family experienced a thrilling political struggle.

It's just that the Zhou royal family failed in the end.

King Zhou Li was paralyzed by the people of his country and fled the country for more than ten years. King Zhou Xuan, the king of Zhongxing, was shot and killed by nobles in the middle of a safari, and King Zhou You was stabbed in the back by a dutiful son.

After this catastrophe, the Zhou royal family was completely devastated!
(End of this chapter)