My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 381: A Wolf in the Front and a Tiger in the Back (2 more updates, please give me a monthly reward!)

Jang Liang, the exiled Korean aristocrat, is still on his way.

However, he is only a part of the world. What he experienced was experienced by the exiled nobles in the world, and the people of the world were also experiencing it; what the people of the world experienced, the exiled nobles of the world were experiencing it, and Zhang Liang was also experiencing it.

The destiny of the people of the world is also being carried forward by the torrent of history.

Why do we always use the metaphor of the surging Yellow River to describe history? That’s because history is like the Yellow River, its unstoppable momentum; and individual lives, the rise and fall of families, and the rise and fall of countries, everything seems powerless in this torrent of history. .

Everyone has a role to play in history.

In such a historical torrent.

Only one or two people stayed out of it.

These two people are people who live at the pinnacle of power.

Only they can avoid experiencing the pain of survival day after day, and can avoid the absurd and mediocre daily life.

What awaits them is to stand at the forefront of the times and change the situation of millions of people in the world.

The world is a chessboard, and as long as it falls on this chessboard in this world, no one can stay out of it.

This is the origin of obsession.

People who are awake have to move forward even if their feet are numb. Some people can't hold on until halfway and die; some people know that life is meaningless, so they dedicate themselves to the world. Such people, at the end of the Warring States Period, , already very few. More people want to make a name for themselves.

So the scholar studied hard and wanted to be the prime minister of the country; the warrior worked hard to kill the enemy and wanted to be a general.

Many people begin to become paranoid.

When a woman gives birth to a child, she regards the child as the meaning of life; when a man starts a family, he regards supporting the family as the meaning of life.

As a result, strange phenomena appeared in society.

People living in the world actually do one thing, to pursue the secrets of the universe and explore the meaning of life.

Men and women pursue supreme love, parents demand filial piety from their children, and children ask their parents why they didn't work hard when they were young.

Tragedies and jokes between human beings are the easiest to undermine a person's faith.

The originally natural responsibility, when life loses its faith, its source of faith, and life loses its meaning, the standards for judging right and wrong begin to shift, and the principles for conducting oneself in the world begin to change.

The common people who have been at the bottom of society in the six countries for a long time feel that their lives are too miserable to survive.

This is not the case for people who pretend to be asleep.

But in fact, there is no meaning in human life, because in the end it is just a pile of bones. Nothing is more convincing than a pile of bones after death.

Is it the unrest and unhappiness of every household that leads to the tragedy of the country's downfall, or is it that the country's destiny has come to an end, and it appears to the outside world that every household is going to stage a tragedy.

It’s not that birth really determines destiny. It's that fate has been predestined a long time ago, and things like origin and experience are just pre-arranged scripts.

Life has no meaning. People who pretend to be asleep dare not face this fact, let alone face themselves, so they deceive themselves.

Then the Qin State came down and overthrew the nobles who were originally on top of them. The air was fresher, and they were free again, but the way to get money was gone, and food became a big problem.

The common people feel that some kind of overwhelming pressure is falling on their shoulders. Living in such a troubled world, no one can stay out of it, and naturally no one can be called happy.

Even in the Qi State, there are still no common people on the territory occupied by the Qin State. While they endured the oppression of the old aristocrats, they felt inner resistance to a country like Qin that liked to enslave the people. In front is a wolf, behind is a tiger.

There is no better option in front of them.

A carriage loaded with beauties was escorted by Qi's army and headed for Qin's Julu.

Behind the carriage, a family in a small fishing village cried as they parted ways.

They have no choice but to survive. At that time, for such a family, dedicating their biological daughter to the country and sending it to a country thousands of miles away actually meant never seeing their daughter again.

But compared to marrying her daughter off to someone from a neighboring village and having her spend her whole life worrying about food, clothing, housing and transportation in a small place, dedicating her daughter to the prince of Qin was her best fate.

Soon the news that King Qi once again ceded territory to Qin spread to the ears of the people of the four countries around Julu. It was like a stone thrown in the river, which could only create circles of ripples, not even a wave.

People have no confidence in the future.

This incident only made everyone angry, but there was nothing they could do about it.

I have to say that Fusu won this game of chess.

Let me first talk about the fact that the Chu State was naturally very disappointed with the results of this diplomatic mediation. Because Qi finally chose to surrender to Qin, this directly shattered the last illusion in King Chu's heart - the Qi-Chu alliance.

Besides, Ying Zheng went back and forth from Xianyang to Pinyang to ask Wang Jian for advice. After he came back, he would recall Prince Fusu. However, before the edict was issued, Ying Zheng received a memorial from Julu, and many other matters about Fan Yuqi's participation, as well as prefectures and county lieutenants across the country, requested the King of Qin to send additional troops to the outside to prevent changes.

When Ying Zheng saw this, he was naturally very angry.

He immediately replied to Fusu, "With the territory of the three counties of Qi, you dare to betray your trust and add insult to injury. No matter what the means, you must force the King of Qi to surrender Liaocheng."

[Because the territory of Qi State was only as big as three counties in the eyes of the Qin people, it was called the land of three counties by the Qin people. 】

When Fusu received the edict sent back by Ying Zheng, Qi's envoys were already going through the procedures for transferring Liaocheng to Qin.

But after Fusu received the edict, he had to leave Julu immediately.

Because together with the edict issued by Ying Zheng, there was also an edict from Ying Zheng ordering him to return to Xianyang as soon as possible.

Fusu knew when he saw the edict that his opportunity had come.

But during this trip to Qi State, the most important thing could no longer be done, which was to appease the people of Qi and Zhao.

Because Li Xin lost the battle, the conflict between the entire Qin State and Chu State began to escalate. Because the Qin State has been conquering the world for many years, it has long been exhausted.

Under Qin's policy, humans are tools of the state, women are like machines for giving birth, and everything is for the benefit of the country.

But people are the end, not the means.

Now the people of Qin have forgotten why they pursued the establishment of a country in the first place.

Anyway, the people of the Qin State have suffered enough suffering and fatigue over the years. Carrying the name of the most powerful country in the world did not allow them to live a happy life.

But when the news of the defeat came, the men of Qin could no longer be proud.

(End of this chapter)