Qin Dynasty: Sword Asks the Bright Moon

Qin State, Dangjun, Suiyang City.

As the former capital of the Chu State, Suiyang City has always been of good size. After falling into the hands of the Qin State, it became the frontline of the Qin State against the Chu State. Its importance has not been reduced because of the relocation of the capital of the Chu State. On the contrary, with the support of Qin's strong national power, the entire Suiyang City was turned into a military fortress, where Daliang's weapons, food and grass were stored.

It can be said that after the Qin army captured South Korea and Wei, not a single bit of the output of the two places was imported into Xianyang. Instead, all of it was transferred to Suiyang as resource support for Qin to destroy Chu.

Although Han and Wei were known as weak among the Seven Kingdoms, they were not barren. On the contrary, their resources were so rich that only Qin's Guanzhong region with Xianyang as its core could compete with each other. Over the past few years, they had accumulated resources in Suiyang. The amount of food, grass and ordnance is already astronomical.

There are more than one Qin State in places like Suiyang. For example, the output of Yanzhao is sent to Diqiucheng of Dongjun, and the output of Nanjun, Runan, Hanzhong, and even Shujun is sent to Nanjun. Gangneung City is average.

In Suiyang City, Xiong Qi, the Right Prime Minister of Qin State and Lord of Changping, met a man in his study.

In the large but not spacious study, Xiong Qi sent all his servants away because the identity of the person in front of him was sensitive and because he could probably guess what the other person wanted to say.

"Congratulations to Mr. Changping for your great achievements again." The speaker was a young man, dressed in a standard Confucian style, but between his eyebrows, he did not have the gentleness of a Confucian disciple. Instead, he had an indescribable fierceness. His surname was Zhang Mingliang. , his friends prefer to call him Zifang.

He was a former high-ranking official in South Korea, and his family was also a well-known family in South Korea. In addition to the royal family, the Zhang family was the leading family in South Korea. Five generations of Koreans have made the Zhang family's status in South Korea possible.

But now that Korea has been destroyed, the Zhang family has naturally lost its former glory, but Zhang Liang doesn't care about these. The rise and fall of the Zhang family in the world and the long history of Korea are nothing. Now he has to do more important things. A thing that seemed impossible to ordinary people, but he decided to do it.

He wants to go against the trend of the world, he wants to enter the world and write the legend that belongs to Zhang Liang.

"What great achievement?" Xiong Qi, who was not in a good mood recently, asked.

"Qin is about to raise an army to destroy Chu, and Lord Changping, you are sitting in Suiyang as the right prime minister of Qin. Soon, Suiyang will become the rear area for Qin's army to destroy Chu. With Lord Changping here, you are strategizing. Who else would you choose?" Zhang Liang said with a smile. He used to be very naive and believed that his friend Han Fei could save South Korea, but now, he is no longer so naive.

Zhang Liang now knows very well that ideals only exist in bamboo slips. The situation in reality is more cruel and complicated than what is recorded in the slips. In order to achieve the impossible, he must use means unimaginable by ordinary people, even if Some of these tactics may be despicable.

"You are right." Xiong Qi replied, but the gloom in his eyes became even deeper.

Xiong Qi actually had no idea about the Chu Kingdom. Although his father was the late king of the Chu Kingdom, he did not have much contact with his father. At that time, he had only just begun to remember, and his father was the king of Chu because of the Chu Kingdom. The throne changed and he fled from Qin. Since he was escaping, he naturally could not take his family with him, so he was left in Qin and Xianyang.

In the rest of his life, his father, who had become the King of Chu, never took him and his mother back.

Xiong Qi still remembers his mother's loneliness when she died.

In the past few decades of Xiong Qi's life, except for half of his Chu bloodline, he had no impression of Chu. On the contrary, it was Qin that gave him everything.

Xiong Qi has been in contact with people from Qin since he was a child. He speaks the Mandarin of Qin and learns Xiaozhuan of Qin. His relatives and friends are also from Qin, even though there is a powerful political force behind him. The power is called the Chu family, but the people in the Chu family are all Qin people.

Even the Empress Dowager Xuan, a princess who was born in the Chu Kingdom and grew up in the Chu Kingdom, never showed mercy in the use of troops against the Chu Kingdom after she became the most powerful woman in the Qin Kingdom.

Therefore, Xiong Qi has never felt burdened by the fact that he has half the blood of Chu State but works for Qin State, or even helps Qin State deal with Chu State.

Because Chu State is so far away from him that he has no concept at all, but Qin State is different. Qin State is where he lives, filled with every detail of his life.

However, all this has changed now. The Chu State was so far away that it barely existed in his concept, but now, the Chu State was really in front of him.

Especially after coming to Suiyang, the people he saw from the Chu country, the Chu language he heard, and the shadows belonging to the Chu country slowly appeared in front of his eyes.

Once upon a time, Xiong Qi had no doubts about Qin's great cause of unifying the world. After Emperor Zhou lost power, the world was in chaos for five hundred years, with constant wars and countless people dying in the flames of war. If a country could end the war in the world, In Xiong Qi's view, unifying the world is a good thing, a great achievement that can surpass the ancients and last for thousands of years.

It's just that Qin has become the most powerful country in the world, so it naturally took over this task. If Chu can become the most powerful country in the world and has enough power to take over this task, even if Chu wants to destroy Qin, , Xiong Qi would not have any objections.

But these are only illusory cognitions in Xiong Qi's mind, and they only exist in concepts.

But after coming to Suiyang, what Xiong Qi saw was the real Chu State. The reality was different from what he had imagined.

When an old man was shackled by Qin officials for singing Chu songs in a wine shop for missing his homeland and disrupting the order of Qin, Xiong Qi saw that the reality was different from what he had imagined.

After coming to the Chu State, Xiong Qi saw that the grown-up scholars of the Chu State needed to work hard again to learn the Xiaozhuan of the State of Qin. He saw that some of the former scholars of the Chu State simply resigned in order not to write the Xiaozhuan of the State of Qin. Due to his position, he even starved to death on the streets.

He saw a mother taking off her son's clothes and changing them into Qin clothes while her son was crying.

He saw some people who were drunk and did not dare to shout loudly in the street, but had to put their heads into the ditches on both sides of the street and burst into tears.

He saw the Chu people gathered at a Chu festival being dispersed and captured by the Qin army.

The Chu country that was once an illusion in his mind appeared in front of Xiong Qi in a way that Xiong Qi could not imagine, impacting his world and his cognition in an almost brutal way.

If the unification of the Qin State is to eliminate the language of the State of Chu, to eliminate the writing of the State of Chu, to eliminate the tradition of the State of Chu that has continued for thousands of years, and to turn people from human beings into puppets under Qin's laws and into slaves of the King of Qin, then Is such unification still worth it?

Xiong Qi has not yet truly seen the benefits of reunification in the future, but Xiong Qi has already seen the cruelty involved.

Xiong Qi knew that he was still a person after all, a person standing in the world. His wisdom and vision were not enough to allow him to see things farther away, but in what he could see, he saw Come to, what Qin wants is not the world, but to turn the world into Qin.

In the midst of contradictions and struggles, Zhang Liang appeared in front of him, and he appeared in front of him with an attitude that Xiong Qi least wanted to face.

Zhang Liang's words seemed to be congratulations, congratulations that he was about to make greater contributions to Qin, but they sounded so harsh to Lord Changping.

"It seems that catching you now is a great achievement. The legitimate son of the Zhang family in South Korea is still worth a lot." Although Xiong Qi was thinking a lot at this time, how could his cultivation and government allow him to be in Zhang Liang's heart? What timidity appeared in front of me.

"If Mr. Changping likes this head of mine, so what if I give it to you? I believe that when the time comes, the folks from Chu State will also give Mr. Changping more heads like this, and then Mr. Changping can point it out. Looking at the white bones in front of him, he said to Qin Wangzheng, "Your Majesty, these are traitors and traitors, I will kill them for your Majesty." Zhang Liang said with a slight smile.

"In troubled times, this is an inevitable price. For more than five hundred years, even King Zhou You, the former leader of the world, could not help but suffer the disaster of national ruin and death. Who can escape." Xiong Qi said coldly.

"Yes, when we look at the Emperor of Zhou now, we either laugh at his ignorance or complain about his indifference, but how many people will pity those Zhou people? Where are the Zhou people now? Their ancestors worked so hard All the operations have become nothing more than material for us and others to discuss." Zhang Liang's expression showed a bit of sadness.

"So, the return of the world to Qin is not only the power of humanity, but also the act of heaven." Xiong Qidao.

"Mr. Changping, the way of heaven is too high and the world is too far away. I am a layman and cannot see it yet. But Mr. Changping, please remember that when you look at the rolling corpses, those corpses are also looking at you. When you see Are you really indifferent to those corpses? They are people like you." Zhang Liangdao.

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When Zhang Liang met Xiong Qi in Suiyang City, Yang Ming also met someone in Xianyang who had a close relationship with Xiong Qi, Xiong Qi's daughter and Yang Ming's adopted daughter Mi Lian.

"Why is my foster father looking at me like this?" Mi Lian knelt down in front of Yang Ming, her bright and innocent eyes full of innocence and confusion.

"How did I look at you?" Yang Ming asked.

"My adoptive father looked at me just like I saw the stray cats and dogs on the street. I just felt that they were extremely pitiful." Mi Lian said, she was very considerate.

"But Lian'er is not pitiful." Mi Lian added.

"Yes, you are not pitiful at all, but rather cute." Yang Ming joked.

Is Mi Lian pitiful? It can be considered pitiable, but when it comes to true pitifulness, she doesn't seem to be considered one.