warring states careerist

Chapter 999 Ending ([-])

Twenty years later, the smoke of that war has long since dissipated.

On a solitary knoll stands a stone monument with a short inscription carved on it.

Those who sacrifice for the benefit of the world are immortal.

Several moving carriages stopped here for a while, and the people in the carriages were wearing the wide-sleeved Chinese clothes that nobles used to wear 20 years ago.

Someone in the carriage pointed to the hill where the monument stood and said: "Back then, the Mohists pulled their cannons onto that hill, which caused the collapse of the coalition's central army. When Emperor Zhou fled, he was hacked to death by unknown cavalrymen. The Marquis of Qi surrendered, and the Marquis of Han committed suicide."

"In the end, the more than [-] nobles and gentlemen who were besieged in the Sanliu Club faced the persuasion and turned their eyebrows coldly. The Mo family pulled the bronze cannon over and blasted them at close range. All the more than [-] people were martyred. True heroes."

The person who spoke had a very strong taste of the Qin dialect, which was as thick as the fertile soil in the pass of the Qin State.

The Mohist soldiers escorted by the side of the vehicle listened to these words with a rather dissatisfied look on their faces, thinking that if those nobles were heroes, their fathers had participated in this battle and hacked the emperor to death, and finally killed [-] people by shelling What is the nobility?

Executioner of heroes?

But these soldiers of the internal guards were all well-educated, and they didn't open their mouths to refute, but just pretended not to understand.

The middle-aged man in the car, wearing a luxurious suit, listened to these words, and looked at a stone pillar with the words "Zhou Tianzi died" standing farther away. There was the fled Zhou Tianzi whose identity was unknown. The place where the Mohist cavalry hacked to death.

In the blink of an eye for 20 years, the middle-aged man in the car looked at all this, recalled what he had seen and heard along the way, and sighed: "I haven't been in China for 12 years. After all, the Central Plains is still full of prosperity and resources, and outstanding people are outstanding, which is beyond the reach of the Western Regions."

Speaking of the 12 years that he has not set foot in Middle-earth, many middle-aged people who were in the same car with him couldn't help but burst into tears.

After that battle that year, Qi State surrendered, South Korea was destroyed, and the Mohists assembled a large army to aspire to Luoyi, and then changed the name of the country to Xinghan Zhihan.

Qin Jun knew that he couldn't stop it, so he followed Wu Qi's plan, went west with all his strength, and moved his family.

Exactly: Qin lost his hometown because of the Han Dynasty, and went west to Fanrong Wanlibang.After ten years of endless business operations, it finally went abroad to farm and mulberry.

Those who went far away at the beginning included many guests from other countries, or old nobles from other countries who did not agree with the Mohist system.

Returning to the Central Plains today, I feel a different feeling in my heart.

These people got out of the car and climbed the hill, not paying tribute, but sighing.

A young man about fifteen or sixteen years old saluted the middle-aged man who was sighing in the car just now and asked: "Mr. Shule, I heard that my great-grandfather was also a Mohist. Later, he was expelled by the Mo family. But I don’t know how far Qidi is from here?”

The middle-aged man named Lord Shule looked eastward and sighed: "This place is the middle of the world. I heard that the Han Dynasty will move the capital to Daliang, and it is precisely because this place is the middle of the world. This place is counted to the northeast. Baili is the place where your great-grandfather became famous in the past; if you go directly to the east, it is the land of Lu where Wu Qijun fought your great-grandfather in the past."

Speaking of this, the middle-aged man called Lord Shule looked to the northeast and sighed: "Further to the northeast, there is Weidi, my hometown. At that time, my name was Wei Yang, and now I am under the false title of Shule According to the rules at that time, I should be called Shule Yang now.”

The rules have changed, and many of the rules of Sishang have also affected the Qin State, which has moved westward for 12 years. The former Wei Yang is still Wei Yang, but it is not called Shule Yang because it was falsely named Shule.

The concubine who used to be by Wu Qi's side has now become Daliang Zao after the Qin State moved westward. It was he who led 12 infantry and [-] cavalry westward [-] years ago.

After occupying the fertile river valley area to the west, the advanced farming technology and craftsman technology of the Central Plains quickly took root there, which is suitable for growing cotton and wheat. With good weaving level and transportation cost, the cotton textiles of the Central Plains can no longer Enter the Western Regions.

In the Western Regions, the Qin people used a variety of political means of different countries according to local conditions. Farming areas were directly governed, and nomadic areas were governed by nomads. The weather when Qilu was enfeoffed at the beginning.

However, there is still a huge empire in the west at that time. Wei Yang came here this time to solve the diplomatic problem.

After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the center of rule was the east, and the control of the border areas only controlled some farming areas. The existence of weapons generation gap and the advent of the post-black powder era made the border areas not have much border troubles.

The development of the south of the Yangtze River, overseas trade in the South China Sea, and the development of shipping have strengthened the control of the coastal areas all the way to Liaodong.

The vast desert in the west makes the attacking side always at a great disadvantage.

Qin Jun's westward move can be regarded as the result of the Mohist's acquiescence, and the trade and technical exchanges between the two parties have never stopped, and now they just hope to negotiate a result.

The gap in national strength between the two sides is too great, Wei Yang knows it, and it can be seen from the soldiers of the internal guards who escorted them.

These escorted internal guards have been replaced with thunderbolt guns with a higher firing rate. Although the loading is still front-loaded and the leaf spring is still needed to store power, the delivery rate has increased a lot.

Qin State is still using the heavy flint guns of 20 years ago.

This is just a glimpse of the internal guards. In fact, after passing through the old land of Qin Guanzhong to the Song land of the Central Plains, the obvious gap has completely destroyed the bottom line of negotiation between Wei Yang and others.

Large textile mills with thick smoke, using coal and steam; iron smelting workshops using coal and steam as blast equipment... All these new machines that have appeared in Sishang since ten years ago have announced the advent of a new era .

In the past years, it seems that there is no past, present and future, and everything is a cycle of reincarnation.

But in the present years, with each passing day, everything visible to the naked eye declares that something called "the future" has become a hope visible to the naked eye.

It also brought despair visible to the naked eye to all the old forces.

The conditions given by the Central Plains this time are not very harsh in terms of the strength of both parties.

After the Central Plains were pacified that year, the Han Dynasty established the country, and after being called the emperor, Qin gave up the original title because it was entrusted by the emperor of Zhou, and changed his title to king.

Now the Central Plains ask Qin to remove the title of king and change his name to Anxi Duhu, acknowledging that he is part of the concept of Tianxia in Kyushu.

To change the flag, to change the flag, the Central Plains will symbolically station a small number of troops in the capital of Qin to declare its sovereignty.

Regardless of the rest, because input and output are not directly proportional, the emerging class in the Central Plains needs markets and dumping places, and the development of sea transportation makes it cheaper than land, and its center of gravity is also south rather than northwest.

People on both sides can come and go freely, common currency.

In return, Anxi can support some of the new muskets to deal with the threat of the empire in the west, and allow the export of some new steam machinery.

For the real ruling class in the Central Plains today, the bitter cold northwest may not be as good as an island in the vast sea where spices and sugar cane can be grown.

Moreover, the distance was long and trade was difficult. Except for luxury goods such as silk, arms, and some porcelain and glass, this trade route could not support too many goods.

On the contrary, it is because of the development of the South China Sea trade route that the importance of the Western Regions as a trade channel has been greatly reduced, and the Central Plains has devoted more energy to the south.

Not only in the South China Sea, but in Jiangnan alone, there are still large areas of undeveloped land and unconquered primitive ethnic groups.

The Western Regions are remote, and the rich places are too far away from the Central Plains. The distance from the old capital of Qin to the new capital of Qin is actually about the same distance as from the Far West to Qinxin.

This remoteness has led to the fact that as long as the Central Plains is large enough and the technology is advanced enough, the military threat to the west is equivalent to non-existent.

The fur traders north of Yandi would rather organize people to explore the huge frozen wasteland in the north, because at least in summer there are rivers running through the frozen wasteland in the north.

Relying on simple and light birch bark boats and muskets, an adventure team of more than a hundred people may be able to walk westward along the rivers on the vast northern tundra in summer to extremely far places, and buy the furs there to make huge profits. Business.

It's not too early to make money, and no one wants to shed blood for a place that seems to have neither threat nor benefit for the time being.

All these factors in the Central Plains contributed to this negotiation.

As far as the Qin State, which is now going to the Western Regions to establish a country, on the one hand, its rule is not stable, and it urgently needs the support of the Central Plains. As for the name of the country, it is not important at this time.

At the same time, the Western Regions are the land of the Four Wars. Qin will not only face the threat of the old empire in the west, but also consider whether to go south to those richer Indian lands and become the ruler there. After all, that is where the real rich population is. numerous places.

The Central Plains is certainly good, rich and homogeneous, but if there is no possibility of counterattacking the Central Plains, then they can only settle for the next best thing.

Wei Yang is very clear about this point. When he led the troops westward 12 years ago, 1 infantry and [-] cavalry had already exhausted Qin's logistics capabilities. This is because Wu Qi had been operating westward for more than ten years. the result of.

Based on the logistics capabilities of the expedition at this time, it may be considered that the two sides have tried their best to gather [-] troops to cross the desolate area.

The [-] troops, whether they went from the Central Plains to the Western Regions or came to the Central Plains from the Western Regions, are nothing and will not pose any threat.

This is the reason why Qin can trust the Central Plains after moving westward and hopes to negotiate with the Central Plains.

There are many difficulties and thousands of threads, Wei Yang and others came to the Central Plains again after 12 years, that is why.

Wei Yang stands here at this time, not to pay tribute to everything in the past, because he is not a real nobleman himself, and everything in the old era was not so beautiful.

He was just thinking, why didn't Qin, who he assisted wholeheartedly, kill Emperor Zhou?
In his opinion, the emperor of Zhou has no virtue and incompetence, and he should have rolled down long ago. In the world of great conflicts, if one day the Kyushu is peaceful, it will inevitably return to one.

He was not paying tribute to Emperor Zhou or the many nobles who died in that battle. He was not even opposed to the killing of Emperor Zhou, but it was the Mo family who opposed the killing of Emperor Zhou, not Qin.

(End of this chapter)