Qin Official

In the ceremony of King Wei's surrender to the Qin army, King Wei pretended to be a sad loser. He imitated the ancient etiquette of Wei Ziqi surrendering to King Wu of Zhou. , extremely humble, treating herself as a minister and concubine of Qin.

"Wei's relationship with Qin is like a prince within a pass, always asking for and asking for help... Even if the minister is not virtuous, if he makes the King of Qin angry and ruins the city, it is the crime of the minister..."

"But if the King of Qin can show favor to the former good, not waste the country of Wei, follow the old example of the Wei State, and entrust the ministers with a county to feed the blood of their ancestors, then the favor of the King of Qin will be the wish of the minister, but it is not what I dare to hope for, and I dare to spread it." I hope the general can tell the King of Qin..."

In the king of Wei's heart, he may have hoped that this attitude of non-resistance and surrender could be exchanged for the forgiveness of the king of Qin, and that like King Wu of Zhou Shi Wei Ziqi and King of Chuzhuang Shi Zheng Xianggong, they would retain Wei's blood-eating Sheji.

After all, he is different from King Xi of Yan who sent people to assassinate the King of Qin, Wang Qian of Zhao who appointed Li Mu to repeatedly defeat the Qin army, and Wang An of Han who let Zheng Guo enter Qin as a spy in an attempt to weaken Qin. The King of Wei had been pretending to take the throne for three years, but he had always followed the orders of Qin. Last year, there was a rebellion in Xinzheng, Yingchuan County, and Lord Hengyang, a Korean prince, asked Wei for help. King Wei hurriedly sold them and actually reported the matter to Qin. .

When Wang Ben attacked Chen Ying of the Chu State, the Wei State had tens of thousands of troops behind the Qin Army, but they did not dare to move. They even allowed the Qin Army to pass through. Unexpectedly, Wang Ben turned around and struck out with a ruthless sword. It pierced into Wei Guo's heart.

Therefore, King Wei felt a little aggrieved. Now he no longer dared to think about hoping that Qin would retain his throne. He only wanted to be moved to a certain county and become a king like his former vassal Weiguo. Imprisoned and killed, and Zhao Wangqian was exiled to the remote mountains of Hanzhong where he ended up unknown...

However, as the winner, Wang Ben remained expressionless. After King Wei finished telling his wish, he got out of the car and helped him up. He said with a smile: "Your wish can be stated to the king in person after arriving in Xianyang!"

King Wei's fake face turned pale in an instant. No matter how humble his posture was, he could not change his fate of becoming a Qin prisoner.

The King of Qin was not the King of Wu of Zhou, let alone the King of Chuzhuang. The tender and heartfelt act of destroying the country and preserving his country for blood and food is already an old story of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Yin and Zhou Dynasties. In the new era, Qin's strategy is very firm: "If you win the country, there will be no pardon!"

Not only is the king of Wei going to be taken to Xianyang, but even the concubines and beauties in the palaces of Wei are required to leave the city within today.

Life was not easy for them in the siege, but now they are still reluctant to leave the familiar palace. But King Wei was as resigned to his fate as an eggplant beaten by frost, so what could they do? Under the threat of weapons, these delicate and delicate bodies with rich clothes and fine food could only cry, get on the chariot that Wang Ben had prepared, and follow the king of Wei to the west.

Heifu, who was standing in the Qin army watching this scene, only thought of a sentence in the textbook.

"Concubines, concubines, princes and grandsons, resigned from the palace downstairs, came to Qin in their chariots, sang in the morning and played music at night, and became the people of the Qin Palace."

The rare monsters, treasures, and beauties that the Wei State greedily collected in the past dynasties were just used as wedding dresses for Qin.

After that, those ministers, princes, princes and grandsons who came with Wei sacrificial vessels learned that they were about to be taken to the customs, which caused a commotion and protest. However, under the threat of the Qin army's swords and spears, they quickly gave in and just walked westward. From time to time, some people looked back at Daliang City, sighing step by step, recalling the past, and couldn't help but feel sad and shed tears. Full shirt.

I don’t know who started it, but these former elegant and proud officials, now miserable prisoners, sang a song in unison.

"That millet is separated, that is the reality of the grain. The walking is slow and timid, and the center is like choking. Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who don't know me say that what do I want? The sky is long! Who is this?"

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"What did the princes, princes and grandsons of Wei sing when they went west?"

On the first day of May, which was the second day after King Wei pretended to surrender to the Qin army, Heifu and Chen Ping also left Daliang City, which had become a vast country, and began to return to Humo Township.

While resting on the road, Heifu recalled yesterday's situation and asked Chen Ping this way. He only knew, "Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who don't know me mean what do I want." As for the meaning of the whole poem, he has no idea. Too obvious.

"It's "Mi Li", an article from Wang Feng." Chen Ping had already recovered from the shock of witnessing the collapse of Daliang City, the fall of Wei State, and the royal family's westward migration.

Strange to say, although Chen Ping has always claimed to be a disciple of Huang Lao, Heifu feels that he is not like the pure and inactive disciple of Huang Lao at all. Instead, he is a pragmatist, whether it is Confucian poetry, etiquette, or political advice. I have learned more or less about their sophistry and conspiracy.

Chen Ping told Hei Fu that this "Millet Li" was about the story of Zong Zhou who was destroyed by the Dog Rong, and some officials of the Zhou family were captured and traveled northward. Seeing that the former ancestral temples and palaces were all filled with millet, he felt sad for the Zhou family. Subverted, hesitant and unable to bear to leave, so I wrote this poem.

"It is very consistent with the state of mind of the Duke of Wei." Heifu thought.

They were not part of the siege army, so they only watched the beginning of the surrender ceremony and could not watch the whole process. Even the city was not qualified to enter, so the Qin army could not be seen entering the Wei Palace to search for nobles hidden everywhere, and carrying carts and carts of ritual treasures out.

Heifu just heard the people who came out holding their noses and saying that except for the royal ministers who took refuge on the high platform of the palace and basically survived, the city's population suffered a lot of casualties, most of them died of epidemics, and a small number of them were killed when the walls collapsed. The floods that rushed into the city swept them away.

Because the flood caused food to become moldy, many civilians starved to death. Someone died in almost every household, and there was nowhere to bury the bodies. There were rotting corpses in every village, and the smell was extremely unpleasant.

"Fortunately, I didn't bring Gong Ao with me." Hei Fu thought to himself. Seeing this situation, the angry young man once again remembered the tragedy that Bai Qi's attack on Yan caused to his family.

As a result, for the Qin army, the plague-ridden beams lost their value. They asked those who were still alive and able to move out of the city on their own and dispersed to various places. As for those who are too ill to move, there is no need to spend energy on treating them. Let them disappear together with this dead city...

After the population leaves one after another, Daliang will be abandoned. Returning in a few years, the former Liangcheng Palace Tower will be deserted. The prosperity of the city will definitely be gone in the streets and streets. Only a lush landscape will remain after the floods recede. The millet seedlings absorbed the nutrients from the corpses and grew to their heart's content, perhaps occasionally hearing the cry of a wild pheasant.

The millet is separated, and the grain is real.

But the destruction of a city or the destruction of a country is not something that can be done easily. The Wei State did not simply die from external violence, but died from internal decay and the mistakes it constantly made.

This mistake has now forced more than 100,000 people in Daliang City to leave their homes in a hurry.

Therefore, on the road Heifu and the others were walking on, there were also crowds of people as far as the eye could see behind them. Most of them had just come out of Daliang City. There were oxen and carriages from rich families, and even more rickshaws from poor families, full of people. with valuables they could salvage from their homes. This caused a lot of shouting, cursing, and crying on the road.

The lost people were stumbling among the crowds looking for their relatives, and there were even gangsters who blatantly robbed property and insulted women. The Qin army who was guarding them only occasionally came to maintain order, causing this endless group of refugees to move. Extremely slow.

These people will be dispersed to Chenliu, Waihuang, Yangwu and other places for resettlement, but their future livelihood is unknown. The nobles become the heads of Guizhou, the princes and grandchildren have no food and clothing, and the peasants who have lost their land will become tenant farmers. The merchants have a slightly better job and can pick up their old business in various counties and villages, but without the prosperous beams, it is still unknown whether they can support themselves and their families. .

Heifu sat on the horse, turned around, looked at the refugees passing by slowly, with their numb faces and blank eyes, and sighed slightly...

Conquest and reunification are never sentimental, but mostly violent destruction, which only brings suffering to the people.

Fortunately, as early as the day when Liang City collapsed, Heifu had already asked Dongmen Bao and others to take the villagers from Hufu back home. Now only he, Chen Ping, Ji Ying and seven or eight others are left. At least they can make it in time. Before the refugee team, they arrived at Waihuang first.

When they arrived in Waihuang, they found that porridge shacks had been set up outside the city to feed the Wei people who had been resettled here. There were also several Qin people dressed as doctors standing outside the city. Many people coming out of Daliang were suffering from diseases. Doctors must check them one by one and keep them out of the city.

Qin's laws specifically stipulate that people with epidemic diseases, such as leprosy, must be quarantined. If they are confirmed to have leprosy, they must be immediately sent to a "disease relocation center" for isolation to prevent infection. But if the condition is serious, they may be "definitely killed." He heard that this is how Xiao Tao's mother died.

Hei Fu and others were not immune. After riding to the door, the doctor inevitably came to inquire.

However, the doctor in Waihuang was Chen Wujiu, an acquaintance of Hei Fu. He passed by Wai Huang a few days ago, but because Hei Fu was busy making plans with Yang Xiong to lure the enemy, he had no chance to meet him.

Now Chen Wujiu saw Hei Fu. After exchanging a few words, he winked and asked Hei Fu to follow him to the porridge shed. He said to him, "Hei Fu, I have something to talk to you about! It's about bandaging the wound to stop the bleeding. As well as suggestions for battlefield rescue, my husband Xia Gong has replied to his letter!"