Qin Official

ps: In the previous chapter, there is a song "Wuzhao Clan Funeral Song" from "Gu Jian Qi Tan" that I played a long time ago. Because it was also modified by Chu Ci, it felt very good in my memory, so I used it. I'm busy. I forgot to explain. I would like to apologize to the adapters and the majority of players. This is indeed due to my poor consideration and I have changed the previous article to "Ultimate Move".

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In the second year of the Regency, on the first day of the first lunar month (the first day of the tenth lunar month), Xiuwu County, Hanoi County.

Xiuwu County has a long history. There was a city as early as the Yin and Shang Dynasties, which was called "Ningyi". King Wu of the Later Zhou Dynasty raised an army to attack Zhou. When the army passed through Ningyi, it was hit by heavy rain for three days and could not move, so he stationed troops on the spot. Practicing martial arts, so it was changed to "Xiu Wu".

After eight hundred years, a large-scale army is once again stationed here. Its camps are spread all over the outskirts of Xiuwu County. The forts are enough to circle the city three times, and they are majestic.

This was the main force of the Qin army that had just wiped out the Chu regime in the south two months ago.

In August, Xiang Ji was defeated by Fuli and died in the battle in Daze Township. So Heifu had his body slaughtered and divided into five parts. He ordered the envoys to hold them, and with the surrender general Yingbu and others as the forerunners, he went to recruit the counties of Chu to surrender. The Chu people are still stubbornly resisting.

At that time, the Chu general Ji Bu insisted on defending Shouchun. Zhao Tuo besieged it for more than a month and used large weapons such as Xingxing crossbows to barely capture it. However, Ji Bu kept his promise and saw that the city was destroyed and that Xiang Ji was dead, so he committed suicide. Martyred to Chu.

After the Battle of Shouchun, Heifu conferred a great title on the meritorious officials in Sishang where all the armies were gathered. He killed Baima and ordered Changlu Jia to come to the east. Together with Taizhu Shusun Tong, he presided over the ceremony of awarding the meritorious officials. The edict said:

"In ancient times, there were five levels of merit for ministers. They established ancestral temples and established the country with virtue, which was called "honor"; words were called "labor", and exertion was called "merit"; clarifying the merits was called "cutting"; and accumulating days was called "reading". The oath of nobility said: 'Make the river flow like a river. With you, Mount Tai is as strong as the mountain, and the country is in eternal peace, and the love is as strong as the Miao descendants."

"However, when the world was first settled, all the names of the big cities were scattered, and the number of household registrations that could be obtained was sixteen or seventeen. Therefore, the big princes could only have ten thousand households, and the small ones could have five or six hundred households."

Both Chehou and Guanneihou are false titles. Just like the Qin system, they only eat their household taxes. The princes have no direct power to govern the country and the people.

So the fifteenth princes of Che were Han Xin, Dongmen Bao, Wu Rui, Zhao Tuo, Zhang Han, Gong Ao, Xiao Tao, Cao Shen, Wei Yang, Li Xian, Chen Ping, Xiao He, Zhang Cang, Li Shiqi, Peng Yue, these fifteen people are either the sole commander of the front army, or a scornful lobbyist who can drastically change the situation with his sharp tongue, or they are a surrendered general like Peng Yue who surrendered several counties, plus the previous Chang Yin, Li Yu (the successor of Li Si), who was already a Marquis of Che, and Zi Ying, who was still alive. The eighteen Che Marquis took the county as their town, and their household registrations ranged from tens of thousands to two or three thousand.

There are thirty marquises in Guan Nei, including Licang, Ji Ying, Guan Ying, Chen Ying, Lu Jia, Wu Guang, Dong Yi, Sima Xin, Zhou Chang, Zhou Ke, Luo Jia, Li Bi, An Pu, Wei Jing, Gongsun Xin, Mei Rong, Gongsun Bailu, Li Shang, Yong Chi, Yin Tong, Chen Hui, Lu Jue, Sui He, etc... The merits of this generation are slightly smaller than those of Chehou, so the township is regarded as a town. They are called Xianghou, and their household registration ranges from 2,000 to 5,600 households.

Heifu, the Xia Gong who imitated the old feudal Duke of Zhou, had a solemn face when he was "making orders for heaven", but afterwards he only complained: "In this way, the Chehous are really everywhere, and the pass is as crowded as dogs."

The princes group has been formed, and they will be the mainstay in the next twenty years. For their descendants to inherit, Heifu has a plan: "Replace the virtual cities with the vast land in the south." However, Qin Shihuang ordered the soldiers to Guarding the border is the first to trigger a huge rebound, so it is not suitable to throw it out at the beginning of the world.

After the reward was completed, Heifu ordered Zhao Tuo, the Marquis of Zhending, to guard Jiujiang and Chen Ying, the Marquis of Jinhu, to guard the East China Sea. He continued to capture Chu territory and pursue and suppress those who resisted.

He also ordered Gaomi Hou Cao Shen to be the governor of Linzi County, taking charge of the military and political affairs of the entire Qi region, supervising and controlling the Juye Marquis Peng Yue who still maintained his own military strength in Jibei, and restoring order in the Qi region. He also divided his troops to garrison Han and Wei, and he himself led the main force in Guanzhong back to Luoyang, crossed to Mengjin in the north, and arrived in Hanoi County in the first month.

While he was taking a break from practicing martial arts, Heifu encountered an incident. In addition to the fallen general Sima Yan, there was also a unique figure who came to pay his respects:

Wei Junjiao...

Heifu knew that the Wei State was originally a great vassal in the Zhou Dynasty, but it gradually weakened and became a vassal of the Wei State by the Warring States Period. the difference.

In the sixth year of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin army seized the eastern territory of Wei State, established Dongjun, and took back Puyang, the last territory of Wei State, for itself. Perhaps it was because he remembered Wei Yang's contribution to Qin and hoped to leave some incense for his people, or because the ruler at the time, Lu Buwei, was a member of the Wei Dynasty, Qin did not destroy the country of Wei, but just moved Wei Junjiao to Hanoi. King, let him be a happy king here.

After Qin Shihuang came to power, he didn't know whether he had forgotten Lord Wei or not, but he didn't care about him. As a relic of the previous era, the Kingdom of Wei existed unconventionally in the unified country of the Qin Dynasty.

However, in the chaotic situation, Wei Junjiao performed a simple operation: two years ago, when Heifu was about to conquer Wuguan, he saw that Hu Hai's regime was about to collapse, and Zhao and Wei were in the ascendant. , had threatened the security of Yewang County, so he mobilized his private servants and county people to kill the Yewang County magistrate and took refuge with Zhang Er.

But last year, when Han Xin defeated Zhao and Wei in succession and marched to Hanoi, Wei Junjiao immediately arrested the wild king's envoy from Zhao and Wei and announced his return to the Qin Dynasty!

It is a pity that Guan Ying, who entered Hanoi to accept Sima Xuan's surrender, did not take this trick. He detained Wei Junjiao in Xiuwu County and awaited his execution.

This wait lasted for more than half a year.

After half a year of house arrest, Wei Junjiao, a man in his fifties, looked as haggard as sixty, with withered white hair. This time Heifu went north to practice martial arts. This was his last chance, so he ignored his age and marched to the dark side. In front of her husband, he bowed and said:

"The sinner Wei Jiao has met Mr. Xia!"

At this time, Jiying, Hou Jiying of Jiushui, who was in charge of Heibingtai, whispered next to Heifu, and Heifu smiled and said: "Weijiao, I heard that you made a bold statement in front of Zhang Ao two years ago, saying that you Is it my father?"

This was Wei Jiao's unintentional joke at the time, but the one who won the world today was Hei Fu. He could only slap himself on the spot and said:

"It's unfair, this is the nonsense of Zhang Ao's traitor. What I said clearly at the time was that Xia Gong raised an army to resist the violence, and the country was in trouble and he went on the Northern Expedition. To us, he is like the father of rebirth!"

Hei Fu shook his head and said:

"It seems that Yu Ke is willing to accept Han Guang, who is older than him, as his son. After all, why are you begging for an audience today?"

Wei Jiao bowed and said: "The sinner only hopes that Duke Xia can succeed Qin Shi Huang's government and make Wei one of the three pillars of the new dynasty..."

"Sanke?"

Heifu looked at Shusun Tong, who was accompanying him here, and Shusun Tong immediately explained: "King Wu didn't get off the car, so he conferred the title of Huang Di on Ji, Yao on Zhu, Shun on Chen, and they called him Ke. After getting off the car, he was granted the title of Queen of the Xia Dynasty in Qi, and in the Song Dynasty after the Yin Dynasty. These two kings were the queen. So it was the system of 'Two Kings and Three Kes'."

In short, it is the ancient tradition of "preserving and destroying the country and continuing the peerless world". However, Qin founded the country based on Legalism and did not blindly imitate the Zhou system. It basically wiped out all the princes in the world, and there was no such thing as "two kings and three kings" in Fengcheng. "The code of conduct.

But Wei Jiao believed that the reason why their country of Wei was not destroyed was that Emperor Qin Shihuang regarded him as the "Three Kes" after the previous king, to inherit the incense of Ji's surname.

But he saw him paying homage again: "Three Kes and two kings, the most important thing from generation to generation, the succession of rise and fall, and the first of political principles. This summer, the Duke has conquered the world and inherited the changes, so he has won the rule of heaven. His benevolence and righteousness are far better than those of King Wu and King Wu." The etiquette system is far superior to that of Zhou Gong. I hope Xia Gong can retain the Wei state, with a hundred households, so that he can inherit the blood of Ji..."

Confucian scholars such as Shusun Tong were very interested in imitating the Zhou system, but the list of "Two Kings and Three Kes" they considered did not include Wei Guo at all.

Heifu was even more straightforward and rejected Wei Jiao's request.

"A dead person cannot be resurrected, and a mountain collapse cannot be restored. The Wei Kingdom should have been abolished when Dongjun was established. At that time, Lu Buwei was thinking about the old country and allowed Wei to continue to be the king. Therefore, you can survive, but you have lost Qin. Forgiveness, but there are two sides. Wei came to surrender to Wei, and Qin came to surrender to Qin. Now that the country has been unified again, marquises and kings must be awarded based on meritorious service. The guards have no merit, but are guilty and irrecoverable. live!"

Wei Jiao was demoted to a commoner and his family was only given a hundred acres of fertile land. They moved to the original fiefdom of Wei State and lived in Chaoge.

"My husband Wei Jiao is indifferent to the hardships of the common people and is difficult to tame over and over again. Now his descendants will work in Wei, the sacrifice of the ancestral temple, and the hard work of the family!"

High banks are valleys, and deep valleys are mausoleums. This is the turmoil this war has brought to this era.

Through this matter, Heifu wants to tell the world that even though the so-called queens of the royal family, officials of the Qing family, and sons of rich men retained their wealth and fame during the reign of Emperor Qin Shihuang, after this tragic civil war, these people, especially the rebels, I will also fall completely into the clouds, while the common men and ministers have already entered the court.

In addition, Heifu also had a small reason why he banned Wei Bang:

"I can't let future generations of truth-teller bbs say: 'Shocked, neither Qin Shihuang nor Heifu unified China'!"

Hei Fu doesn't even intend to stay in the small Wei State, let alone an enemy country that has divided several counties in the north...

Regarding this dispatch of troops, the soldiers were told: "We should patrol along the old route of the First Emperor, from Hebei to the county via Yanmen Road, and then return to Guanzhong."

But the real purpose, apart from Heifu going to the north in person to seize Han Xin's military power, there was also an alarming message...

"The puppet king Han Guang used the Xiongnu as reinforcements and conquered Guangyang County. He also collected the remnants of Zhao, Chen Yu, and others. He wanted to split Juzhu to the north of Hengshan Mountain!"

In other words, the five counties of the Yan Dynasty, that is, the territory of the sixteen states of Youyun in later generations, were all in the hands of Han Guang. What is even more intolerable is that he actually recognized Hu as his father and colluded with the Xiongnu Maodun!

Han Xin was trying to destroy the Zhao State and secure Taiyuan, Handan, Julu, and Hengshan. He also had to be wary of the "King Zhao" regime in western Liaoning whose enemies and friends were unknown. After dividing his troops and stationing them in various places, his troops were no longer enough to capture Daibei.

When Han Xin asked for instructions: "Should we suspend our troops for the winter, or should we increase our troops and march northward?" Heifu's response was to immediately stand up and issue the order to march northward, leaving behind a puzzling sentence:

"This is not the Song Dynasty."

"But Da Qin!"

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ps: Chapter 2 is at night.