Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 240: Going to the national disaster together [Please subscribe]

At the handover of autumn and winter in the seventh year of Wu Lie, there was finally no more Chu Overlord in the world, and there was no longer the so-called Three Kingdoms, only the struggle between Qin and Han for hegemony.

After the defeat of the Chu State, the Qin State, which had been dormant, began to expand wantonly again.

The same is true for Han.

In the twelfth lunar month of the seventh year of Wu Lie, King Liu Bang of Han Dynasty took command in Pei County, while the rest of his subordinates began to patrol various places.

At first, the Qin State used Hangu Pass as a barrier and the Han State as the boundary to force the Han State to compete with the Chu State for hegemony and cultivation, and to let the Han State protect the Qin State. However, now Hangu Pass has become a barrier for the Qin State, trapping the Qin State. country.

But Qin Prince Ying had other plans.

He relied on the geographical advantage of the "old Chu Kingdom" that he had previously devoured, expanded in the south, and devoured the land.

In just half a year, in the eighth year of Wu Lie's reign, the world was completely divided.

The situation of Qin and Han's struggle for hegemony was completely formed.

"The friendship we are waiting for is in this wine."

Wang Ben didn't speak much. He and his father had always had different temperaments. He just lowered his head and drank glass after glass of the palace's fine wine.

A feast.

Ziying even raised the wine cup in his hand and laughed loudly and said: "In the past eight years since I came to the throne, the chaos in the world has finally settled down again. It does not mean that the plans of me and the ministers have failed."

Zhangtai Palace
Ziying, Meng Yi, Chen Haoying, Wang Bi, and Zhang Han were sitting in the main hall, but their expressions did not have the "unwillingness" and "anxiety" that people from the outside world had guessed.

"Besides, what's there to offend?"

"I hope the Qin Dynasty will last forever——"

Ziying smiled and comforted him and said, "It's a good thing that Meng Qing is walking in front of us. At least he doesn't have to go through such torture and waiting, right?"

He raised his head, and the wine in the glass fell down his neck into his clothes.

Chen Haoying was half lying and half sitting, looking very comfortable. He just yawned and said: "It's okay, it's okay -"

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Zhang Han finally spoke. He looked at Chen Hairao who was sitting there, picked up the wine cup, and said softly: "Mr. Chen, Zhang did not know your identity in the past. I have offended you so much. I hope you will forgive me."

He looked at the five people in the hall: "I won't say anything else to you. You are destined to go to this national war with Qin. If the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, you will never survive. ”

"You and I are just doing our jobs."

This is a real wealthy person.

This family background can be said to be unparalleled by anyone in the world, right?
Even today's Han King Liu Bang, can he surpass him in terms of family background?

He chuckled: "I didn't expect that in the end, the ones who rushed to the national disaster with me would be all of you."

Zhang Han sat in the main hall cautiously. He was different from the other people. The others, whether Meng Yi or Wang Bi, were all descendants of aristocratic families, not to mention Chen Haoying——

Of course, the real spiritual throne has already moved away with the migration of the "Zhao family" of Shangdang, and it is just another one engraved here to confuse the world.

Instead, it was all "calm".

He stood up unsteadily and walked to a certain hall in the palace.

"I just didn't expect that this would be even more exciting than I imagined -"

On the contrary, Meng Yi was already drunk. He sat there with a red face and an erratic look in his eyes: "Your Majesty, colleagues."

Meng Yi burped, with a look of nostalgia on his face: "It's just a pity that my brother can't be with us."

The best wine in the world is naturally found in the palace.

He raised his head and said, "I hope that the spirits of our ancestors in heaven will protect us and help us, Great Qin, prosper again and truly get through this crisis."

The ash falls and the smoke goes straight up.

"happy--"

"belch--"

He picked up a stick of incense from a nearby table and lit it.

Here the spiritual thrones of the ancestors of the Qin State are respected.

At the end of the moon, Meng Yi, Chen Haoying and others all went back, leaving Ziying alone in the hall.

Ziying hasn't been so happy for a long time since he became the emperor.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha."

No matter life or death, no matter the cost.

The stars in the sky stood tall and clear, and no one knew what Ziying had been through these years.

When he left Shangdang eight years ago and became the fifth emperor again, Ziying had already put his own life and death behind him.

Ziying stood in the haze of fireworks and whispered: "Ancestors, Ziying has done everything he can. The only thing left is to obey fate and do his best."

"We will meet again after all."

"He just has to wait for us on that bridge."

In the eighth year of Wu Lie, autumn.

Ziying also laughed out loud at this time. He looked at the people sitting next to him with a smile: "I didn't tell you this at the beginning, just to see what happened today."

Zhangtai Palace, front hall.

The great dynasty meeting of the State of Qin.

Ziying sat at the top, looking at the courtiers below. The expression on his face did not change. He just said indifferently: "Pass on my order to continue recruiting troops."

"In addition, do not restrict the exodus of Guizhou leaders."

“No forced conscription.”

He closed his eyes and gave his orders: "Everything is done voluntarily."

"Even you all are——"

"If you want to leave, just pack up your things after the court meeting and go to the King of Han."

Ziying doesn't care about this.

"If he stays, he has decided to go with Great Qin to face the national calamity."

After saying this, Ziying rolled up his sleeves and left. The remaining people in the hall looked at me and I looked at you.

Some people began to prepare to pack up and flee after going to court, while others were still concerned with the government affairs they should handle.

Be a monk for one day and ring the clock for one day.

This is what should be done.

The signs above the court and at the city gate were also seen by Xianyang City and all the Guizhou leaders within the jurisdiction of Qin State.

Of course, what followed was the order to recruit troops.

This time is very different from the previous times. All Qin people know that this battle will determine whether they can still call themselves "Qin people". This time, the survival and destruction of Great Qin will be determined.

So, people shouted their slogans loudly and decided to rush to the national disaster together.

Almost all the able-bodied men in every household volunteered to join the army, and some retired veterans began to return. This time, the soldiers in Da Qin's army were almost the same as those in Da Qin's peak period.

But now Da Qin's territory is half smaller than before.

Ziying stood in Zhangtai Palace, looking at the conscription situation reported below, with shock in his eyes.

"Is this the "heart of the head of Guizhou" that Mr. often talks about?"

"Mencius once wrote that people can carry a boat and capsize it, but now I can see it."

He held his forehead and sighed, "It's true that things in this world are impermanent."

Ziying touched the memorial in his hand that recorded the Qin people's enthusiastic participation in the war, but there was a little nostalgia in his eyes. He seemed to have seen the prosperous age of the Great Qin again, even if this time it was just the last ray of light that the Great Qin shone before its collapse. Same.

"Jiujiao Lao Qin——"

"Together we will face the national crisis——"

He murmured to himself the ballads of Qin Fengzhong, but looked far away into the distance.

Peijun
Liu Bang is sitting in the main hall. At this time, he is the undisputed King of Han. As long as he can pull down the one who is sitting in Zhangtai Palace, he can become the king of kings in the world, with the title of emperor. .

In fact, after he defeated Xiang Yu and divided the world equally with Prince Qin Ziying, his ministers suggested that he should no longer call himself the King of Han, but instead ascend the throne as "Emperor".

After all, the name of the King of Han was still canonized by Emperor Qin. With Liu Bang's current strength, he no longer needed to worry about Emperor Qin.

But Liu Bang did not agree with this suggestion, and even scolded the person who made the suggestion.

Later, in private, Xiao He, Zhang Liang and others asked Liu Bang why he was unwilling, and Liu Bang's answer was very simple: "Now I am the King of Han of Qin. If I can capture the throne of Emperor Qin in the future, Your Majesty will definitely give in to me, so above all etiquette, I will be a legitimate emperor."

"Even if the name of the country is changed, my position as emperor will be legitimately inherited from Emperor Qin."

When Liu Bang said this, he was still looking in the distance, with thoughts and sighs in his voice: "It's not that I think too much, but if I declare myself emperor in the name of King of Han at this time, and then overthrow Qin If the country inherits this position, will someone use the same method to overthrow my great man in the future?"

When Xiao He and Zhang Liang were about to say that even if your Majesty is like this, future generations can imitate it, when Liu Bang smiled lightly and spoke.

"I have the friendship of a monarch and a minister with Emperor Qin. If I ascend the throne and become emperor at this time, and later capture Xianyang City, I will definitely spare Emperor Qin's life."

"But what about future generations? Will the last emperor of our Han Dynasty definitely have a relationship with the hero of the next dynasty?"

"Abdication is different."

"There is a precedent for abdication, and there is no precedent for latecomers to kill the emperor who abdicated. No one can afford the infamy after killing the abdication emperor, or in other words, no one is willing to be the first to make an exception."

There was a smile on Liu Bang's lips: "What I have to do now is to continue to follow precedent."

"To make those who want to do something in future generations put a taboo on me, because of my reputation in the world, I spared my life at that time, the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, so that they can still live a good life."

Xiao He, Zhang Liang and others looked at each other and were shocked by Liu Bang's thoughts and ideas.

But what I have to say is that what Liu Bang thought does make sense.

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The last emperor of the Han Dynasty?
Is the King of Han already thinking about such distant things?

Liu Bang burst out laughing looking at the expressions of the three people, stroking his hands and smiling: "The Qin Kingdom conquered the world with its six generations of warriors, but it only inherited these five generations of emperors and merged for decades. How can I, the Han Dynasty, be able to last for hundreds or thousands of years?" "?"

He smiled and said: "Ying'er has a soft character, and my body has been very damaged during the past few years of fighting. I'm afraid that he will be the next Emperor Huai. If he is really Emperor Huai, wouldn't I be a big man? Have you had a good year?"

Liu Bang put his hands behind his back: "Okay, there's no need to say more."

"Your Majesty and I should have this tacit understanding."

"Wait, then."

"The news of the final battle is coming soon."

Winter of the eighth year of Wu Lie.

A long year has passed in a blur, and the situation in the world has become very clear.

The fifth emperor of Qin, Ziying, issued an edict stating that the King of Han had already gained half of the world, which was lost to Qin's destiny, so he was willing to fight the King of Han to gain his destiny.

In the country, all the nine tripods cast by King Wu in the past are in Xianyang City, and the twelve golden figures cast by the First Emperor and the jade seal passed down to the country are also in the country.

The two countries of Qin and Han fought on the frontier, and the one who won in one battle would gain control of the world.

The fifth emperor, His Majesty Zi Ying, ordered that if the King of Han conquers the world and Qin loses his destiny, and there is no one to return to, he will issue an abdication edict and pass the throne of emperor to Han King Liu Bang.

And if Liu Bang, the king of Han, fails in this battle, Qin will defeat the destiny with manpower, but he will not embarrass the king of Han, or even let the king of Han stay in Xianyang City, but will let Liu Bang go with those who are willing to follow him. Baiyue is further southwest.

Baiyue is the boundary, and the land beyond Baiyue, as long as Liu Bang can conquer it, can all belong to the Han Dynasty.

And he will change Liu Bang's title of King of Han to "King of the Southwest".

The one-character king is the top king except for the two-character kings of "Zhenguo" and "Anguo". The title of King of Southwest in addition to the position of King of Han also shows the attitude of Emperor Qin.

When he learned the news, Liu Bang, the king of Han, accepted it calmly and told the counselors around him in public that he was a minister of the Qin Dynasty, but he was favored by fate by chance, and thus achieved what he has today.

The Emperor of Qin did not regard him as a rebellious minister and traitor, but was willing to have a final battle with him at Hangu Pass. This was because His Majesty the Emperor of Qin loved the world and had boundless love, and did not want the leaders of Guizhou in the world to suffer because of their struggle for hegemony.

He expressed that he fully accepted Emperor Qin's will and that the two sides would fight a decisive battle at Hangu Pass in the ninth year of Wu Lie.

If he were lucky enough to win, he would also spare Emperor Qin's life, and he would also be willing to let Emperor Qin take his ministers, soldiers, and even some Guizhou leaders to the southwest with him.

If he fails, he will accept the change of title from Emperor Qin, go to the southwest of Baiyue, and defend Qin Huaxia from then on.

After Liu Bang said this, Zhang Liang stood beside him and asked.

"Is the king really willing to allow His Majesty to take his soldiers and ministers to the southwest?"

Zhang Liang did not doubt what Ziying said, but he had some doubts about what Liu Bang said. He did not believe that Liu Bang would let Ziying go, and even allowed him to leave with some of his ministers, soldiers, and Guizhou leaders.

Liu Bang smiled faintly, looked at Zhang Liang and asked, "Do you still remember the reign name of His Majesty Ziying?"

Year number?

Zhang Liang was stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses and muttered slightly: "Wu Lie. Wu Lie"

"I see."

With a bitter smile on his face: "You are not afraid of His Majesty Ziying at all, because His Majesty Ziying's reign has been revealed. If His Majesty Ziying loses, he will only die for his country and will not leave with anyone."

"What about you? If you lose, will you leave?"

Liu Bang said with some surprise: "Of course I will leave."

"In this world, what is more important than life?"

He blinked: "After all, His Majesty Ziying is a noble nobleman who has been here for generations, and my Liu is just a local ruffian, hahahahahahahahaha."

The wind is blowing, the clouds are flying, and we are returning to our hometown in the sea.

The day of war is coming.

(End of this chapter)