Qin Official

"I heard that Zhang Zifang's family was born in Han Dynasty, and when Han Dynasty was destroyed, he did not love the wealth of ten thousand yuan. He avenged Han Dynasty and strengthened Qin Dynasty, and the world was shaken. Now he talks about the Xiang family with three-inch tongue, disrupts the world, seals tens of thousands of households, and becomes a false king. Considered a character.”

This was the first time that Heifu saw Zhang Liang. He neither walked over to greet Zhang Liang with joy nor trotted out with his socks on. Instead, he sat behind the case with a prickly look on his face.

Zhang Liang, wearing heavy wooden shackles, stood ten steps away from the hall - he was here as a prisoner, surrounded by vigilant guards.

After all, Mr. Xia is very afraid of death...

After looking at Zhang Liang, Mr. Hei smiled and said, "I thought she must be tall and tall, but I never expected that when I saw the real person, she actually looks like a good woman."

Zhang Liang is indeed a handsome man, and from Heifu's point of view, he is probably even more handsome than Chen Ping, but this opening statement is really rude.

Zhang Liang's answer was neither humble nor arrogant:

"Confucius once said that if you judge a person by his appearance, you will lose his talent. If an ordinary person suddenly saw Duke Xia, he would think he was an ordinary black-faced Guizhou head. How could he know that Duke Xia was an unparalleled hero?"

Hei Fu nodded: "You should be easy to identify with your appearance. Why have you been hiding for more than ten years without being discovered?"

Zhang Liang said: "Liang once learned a small skill, which can slightly change his appearance. It is also a skill of roosters and dogs stealing. Zhang Liang can be a husband with a thick beard."

He didn't hide it and smiled: "I can even put on a robe and pretend to be a good woman."

Heifu almost spit out a mouthful of tea. This is really a cross-dressing man. No wonder Qin Shi Huang couldn't catch him despite being wanted for so many years.

"Go five steps closer and offer a seat."

Of course, this was not because Hei Fu was suddenly excited and asked Zhang Liang to come closer, but because he wanted to speak without having to shout.

But the shackles on Zhang Liang's hands are still unresolved.

Heifu asked again: "Zhongli Mei once saw me and was very tight-lipped. He said that I was afraid of death and was not a hero. What do you think?"

Zhang Liang put the shackles on the desk a few times and sat upright, just like his noble upbringing in the past many years: "It is well known that the son of a rich man cannot sit down in the hall, the son of a hundred gold cannot ride on the balance, and the holy master does not take advantage of the danger."

"To this day, Duke Xia has indeed put the world's safety at risk. You must not be careful. Although Duke Xia is now the regent and has all the power, he still has an unfair reputation. Once he dies, his two sons will be young and weak, and all the tribes will be leaderless. I am afraid that It will be torn into pieces. Zhang Liang was an assassin who had killed Emperor Qin Shihuang before. He was interested in the fact that he was in danger of Qin's safety. Duke Xia took precautions very well."

Heifu sneered: "You still remember that assassinating Qin Shihuang is a major crime of treason known to everyone in the world. However, this is not the only crime you committed."

Hei Fu started to count one by one: "You were the mastermind behind the rebellion against Xiang Tang; when Korea was reestablished in Yingchuan, you were Han Shen's disciple; after Han Cheng died, the Xiang family took you as the false king..."

"You have been a die-hard rebel for more than 20 years since the fall of South Korea. Why are you suddenly surrendering today?"

Zhang Liangdao: "Mencius once said that only when the world is unified can it be stable, but the world is not necessarily stable. This is the case in the Qin Dynasty. With harsh punishments and heavy corvee, the Koreans have not been able to live a better life than when Korea was in the past. Naturally, To oppose this tyranny, didn’t Duke Xia also rebel against Hu Hai in the south of Yunmeng two years ago?”

"As of today, Duke Xia changed the government affairs and changed the name of the army to show the difference between the new Qin and the old Qin. If he can really govern with benevolence, the Koreans will naturally return like running water."

Heifu shook his head: "Is this the reason why you are messing up the world? There is one more thing. In the 32nd year, I rushed to Jiaodong to take office and was assassinated on the Weishui River. According to the confession of the Yeyitian family afterwards, this was between you and Zhu Tian conspired?"

Zhang Liang admitted openly: "Yes, at that time Liang felt that Duke Xia would destroy all the fields and ruin our anti-Qin activities, so he should take action to eliminate them first. However, Tian's actions were not secretive, and Liang thought that it was not enough to plan, so he left early. go."

Heifu said: "I killed all the assassins and the Yi and Qi tribes back then. As the mastermind, you should do the same."

"Zhang Liang is indeed guilty and deserves death." Although Li Shiqi had encouraged Zhang Liang, saying that Duke Xia loved talents and if he could serve him wholeheartedly, he might be able to save his life and even become the emperor's teacher, but Zhang Liang understood one thing. reason.

"Although Duke Xia has become a tyrant and rebuked the First Emperor for his faults, he still respects Qin's laws and respects Qin's laws. As long as he does not openly usurp Qin, there will be no chance of my survival! Otherwise, he will not be able to explain to the Qin people in Guanzhong !”

Therefore, from the beginning, Zhang Liang had no chance of survival.

He just wanted to see what kind of person Yingchuan was handed over this time, and whether his final decision was right or wrong?

"The Koreans are not guilty, they are all coerced by me."

Zhang Liang emphasized this point again: "I hope the blame will be attributed to Zhang Liang alone and the Koreans will be released. This is what Xia Gong promised..."

"I did promise." Heifu said, "However, I heard that you are a Korean. Zhang Liang, are you still obsessed with restoration now?"

"Restoration..."

Zhang Liang was silent, that original dream had long since deteriorated.

He couldn't tell when it was when Han Wangcheng died? Was it when we watched Yingchuan become a battlefield between Qin and Chu? Or after the conversation with the woman who had an old relationship with his brother?

"I'm afraid you, Mr. Zifang, don't know that after I returned to Xinzheng, I asked the people there. They said that from the twenty-fourth year to the thirty-seventh year, the Jishui Ladies' Meeting was able to last for thirteen consecutive years. It’s not interrupted, I’m really envious…”

Zhang Liang will never forget those words.

Korea was very good in the past. At least the nobles lived well. Although the common people had to deal with taxes and frequent harassment by the Qin army, they were not too bad. That was the era where Zhang Liang was raised.

But there's no going back.

During the years when Zhang Liang was in exile, Han lost its freedom, but gained stability. Although it had to face harsh rule, it was at least better than the current chaos.

The fact that Yingchuan became a battlefield between Qin and Chu also told Zhang Liang a truth: small countries must die!

"It is impossible for South Korea to recover again."

He raised his head and said: "Just like Zheng cannot be restored, the Marquis of Jin cannot regain power."

Heifu said: "So you use Han to surrender to Qin, do you think Yingchuan will be better than it is now?"

Zhang Liang stood up and bowed: "It depends on the regent, whether he is willing to temporarily annex Yingchuan like the First Emperor of Qin, or to consolidate it permanently."

Hei Fu nodded: "It is easy to annex, but it is difficult to consolidate... In the past, Qi could annex Song, but could not consolidate, so Wei seized it; Yan could annex Qi, but could not consolidate, so Tiandan seized it; The land above Han, hundreds of miles away, was completely rich and moved towards Zhao. Zhao could not condense it, so Qin took it. This is what Xunzi said."

Zhang Liang continued: "However, although Qin seemed to dominate the world, in fact it only annexed the six kingdoms instead of consolidating them. So in less than ten years, Qin Shihuang died, and the whole world rebelled!"

Heifu sighed: "This is a problem that Qin Shi Huang and the wise men of the Manchu Dynasty have spent more than ten years without solving."

"How do you think Han Di should be condensed?"

Zhang Liang thought deeply about this, and after thinking for a while he said: "If you want to make a place permanent, you can't just rely on soldiers to suppress it. You can only start from two sides."

"First, the people."

"What do the people care about? It's just food, clothing, and land."

"The land of Han has suffered from the troubles of the troubled times. The princes have risen together, Qin and Chu are fighting each other, the people have lost their jobs, and there is a great famine. In some places, people can eat each other, and nearly half of them die. Although I am a false king, I still have a great famine." It is too shabby to be a general or a captain riding an ox-cart if you cannot have a fine horse."

He has too deep feelings for his motherland and knows too much about this land.

"The regent can send 300,000 shi of food into Yingchuan to help the Korean people and solve Yingchuan's urgent needs. The people will be grateful."

"Furthermore, the mountain people of Han are secluded and have little knowledge. Some even don't know about Duke Xia and think that the Emperor of Qin is still here. We must let the officials publicize it more and distinguish Duke Xia from the First Emperor of Qin. In this way, Zedong will be attributed to Duke Xia, and the blame will be paid to him." Return it to Qin Shihuang, Hu Hai, the Xiang family, and Zhang Liang, so that the Korean people can have some peace."

"Then, we can implement Huang Lao's recuperation techniques, which include simple etiquette, recuperation, lenient punishments and simple administration, light corvee and low taxes, and encourage merchants. In this way, we can appease the people, recuperate, and gradually restore vitality to Yingchuan."

Heifu listened very carefully and said to the guard: "Move the table, within three steps!"

After Zhang Liang moved to the table, he got closer to Hei Fu. He was polite and did not look at his face. He continued to talk: "Second, he is a scholar."

"What do scholars care about? It's just career and clan."

"The reason why Han Shi rebelled against Qin was not only because people like Zhang Liang missed Korea, but more importantly, under the Qin government, his generation had few channels for advancement. Once his official career was blocked and the clan had no way out, they would naturally be indignant. "

"The regent can issue an edict to select wise men and officials from Yingchuan who have the ability to govern the county, so that they can assist the Qin officials in governing the counties and townships. In addition, the Qin law cannot be implemented unchanged in the local area, but should be slightly improved, otherwise it will be Just like the time of Emperor Qin Shihuang, the good aspects could not be implemented, but the bad aspects were magnified."

Qin did not have enough officials in Guandong and implemented a set of tightly coupled systems. As a result, the system changed its flavor and became difficult to restrain the nobles. It only became a harsh rule that abused the common people.

"Therefore, maybe Qin could achieve rule of law in Guanzhong, but in Yingchuan and Guandong, it could only use a mixture of etiquette and law, and use Huang Lao's recuperation techniques."

Heifu really recognized Zhang Liang's advice.

The combination of two countries with different ideologies, whether it is a violent annexation or a peaceful reunification, will produce violent conflicts in terms of system, ideology, economy, and culture. What the people of Qin take for granted, the people of Guandong may rather die than do it. accept.

A simple book with the same text or a government decree cannot change people's hearts. How many generations of education are needed to eliminate the gap?

It is precisely because of this that Heifu also started from different classes in the past, using all etiquette and law, adapting to local conditions, encouraging merchants, and integrating the distant Jiaodong with Qin, or in other words, with himself.

Although those methods can be extended to Guandong, governing a county is more than ten times more difficult than governing the world!

"Your views are similar to those of the ministers in the court."

Zhang Cang also once said to Heifu: "To unite scholars with etiquette, unite people with government; if etiquette is cultivated and scholars obey, the government will be peaceful and the people will be peaceful. When scholars obey the people and be peaceful, this is called great cohesion. To maintain solidity, to conquer. Be strong, enforce orders and prohibitions, and the king's business is over."

Lu Jia advocated using Confucian tenderness and tenderness to transform the rigid Qin laws and regulations.

Xiao He and Chen Ping were Huang Lao's disciples who were born halfway. Chen Ping even wrote to Hei Fu and recommended Huang Lao Gai Gong in Jiaoxi.

This is the consensus reached by outstanding talents who have experienced the pain of the times and learned the lessons of Qin Shihuang!

In other words, Zhang Liang is not indispensable in governing the country!

Heifu muttered: "Zhang Liang, I only heard that you are good at conspiracy. Where did you learn these strategies for governing the country?"

Even when a man was about to die, his words were kind, and Zhang Liang did not hide them. He answered truthfully: "I learned it from Taigong's Golden Chamber."

"It is rumored that the art of war, conspiracy, and speech written by Taigong are collectively called "Tai Gong" and are divided into three volumes, namely Bing, Plot, and Words. "Bing" is Taigong's Art of War, also known as "Six Tips"; "Yin" is the "Tai Gong Yin Talisman", which talks about conspiracy."

He had learned the first two in the past.

"The so-called "Words" are "Tai Gong's Golden Chamber". This book is about Tai Gong's talks, conspiracy, and military skills. It is not a military strategist or a strategist. Instead, it focuses on Taoist ways of governing the country. Only by reading the Golden Chamber can we understand the state of affairs. The yin talisman and the art of war are integrated..."

When Zhang Liang was in exile, he came across the Grand Duke's Golden Chamber. After reading it, he suddenly realized it.

"You can use conspiracy to plan against Qin, and use military skills to end Qin's rule, but in the final analysis, these things cannot be used to govern the country. Only the words of Jin Gui Huang Lao and resting with the people are the best ways to govern the country..."

At that time, Zhang Liang began to feel that his ultimate goal was not just to avenge Han and restore the motherland, nor was it just as simple as overthrowing the Qin Dynasty...

The golden words in "The Golden Chamber" made him see further.

He even thought about destroying this greedy, tyrannical, harsh, militaristic and destitute empire, and then assisting the truly virtuous king to build a better world on its ruins!

But it is a pity that when the burden is carried on his shoulders, all Zhang Liang's dreams are no longer important. He must be responsible for the restoration of Han by himself, and for the millions of Yingchuan people!

Intelligence is also framed within this eight hundred miles.

Yes, Zhang Liang lowered his head and saw the shackles on his hands. South Korea was like wooden shackles, tightly cuffing his hands.

"Is it this one?"

Heifu asked the attendant to bring the bamboo slips that had been turned out of thread. When Zhang Liang came to Chenliu, he didn't even bring a change of clothes, but he only brought this bamboo slips...

"I heard Li Shiqi tell an anecdote about Sishang, saying that this was given to you by a hermit named 'Huang Shigong' in Xiapi. Where is Huang Shigong now?"

Hearing this, Zhang Liang burst out laughing.

"There is no such thing as Huang Shigong."

After reading "The Golden Chamber", Zhang Liang felt like he had an enlightening dream, just like Zhao Yang changed his name to "Zhao Zhifu" after experiencing the ups and downs of life. Zhang Liang decided to also give himself Pick a new name.

In other words, the new identity hidden in the dark can be regarded as packaging for oneself. Didn't Confucius also say that you can't show off when you meet others?

So, he made up a story about a wise old man who taught the young knight Zhang Liang a lesson and made him realize himself and become a wise man...

They are actually one person.

The so-called teaching is nothing but self-examination.

Zhang Liang bowed to the black husband again and introduced himself:

"Huang Shigong is Zhang Liang!"

…

"I see."

After listening to the cause and effect, Heifu waved his hand after being silent for a long time:

"Take him down and lock him up first."

He said: "Zhang Zifang, you are indeed very talented. You also have a reason to avenge the Korean people and ask for life for the Korean people. Now you have found out that you have returned from the lost way. There is no great good."

"You surrendered at Yingchuan and pursued the Chu army with the Han division. You have done meritorious service. The crime of plotting to assassinate me can be forgiven."

"But the serious crime of assassinating the First Emperor cannot be washed away! At most, the five punishments and the car breaking can be avoided."

Heifu stood up and bowed to Zhang Liang in return, but his words were merciless and he gave Zhang Liang's sentence:

"Zhang Liang must die!"

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ps: It’s dark when you close your eyes, don’t worry about time, good night.