Twenty years later, the smoke of that battle had long since dissipated.

On the lonely hill stands a stone monument with a line of short words engraved on it.

Those who sacrifice to benefit the world will be immortal.

Several moving carriages stopped here for a while, and the people inside the carriage were wearing wide-sleeved uniforms that the nobles often wore twenty years ago.

Someone on the carriage pointed to the hill where the monument was towering, saying, "At that time, the Mo family pulled the cannons to the hill, which led to the collapse of the coalition army. When the Zhou emperor fled, he was hacked to death by the cavalry who had no identity. The Duke of Qi surrendered and the Duke of Han committed suicide."

"In the end, more than 600 nobles and gentlemen surrounded by Sanliu Society, they faced persuasion and turned against each other. The Mo family pulled the bronze cannon over and bombed them at close range, and more than 600 people were all killed. They are real heroes."

The person who spoke was very strong and the Qin dialect tasted, and it was as thick as the fertile soil of Guanzhong, Qin.

A group of Mo family soldiers escorted by the vehicle listened to these words and showed a look of dissatisfaction on their faces, thinking that if those nobles were heroes, their fathers participated in the battle and killed the emperor, and finally killed the six hundred nobles with artillery?

The executioner who slaughtered heroes?

But these soldiers of the inner guard forces all had good education and did not refute, but just pretended that they could not understand.

The middle-aged man in a generous uniform heard this and looked at a stone pillar that stood further away with the words "The Death of Emperor Zhou", where the fleeing Emperor Zhou was hacked to death by the Mo family cavalry who did not know his identity.

Twenty years in the blink of an eye, the middle-aged man in the car watched all this, recalled his experiences along the way, and sighed: "After twelve years of not walking in the Middle Earth, the Central Plains is still full of beauty and prosperity, and it is beyond the reach of the Western Regions."

Speaking of not walking in Middle Earth for twelve years, many middle-aged people who were in the same car as him couldn't help but burst into tears.

After that battle, Qi surrendered and South Korea was destroyed. The Mohist army gathered a large army to compete for Luoyi, and later the country was named Xinghan Han.

When Qin Jun knew that he could not stop him, he followed Wu Qi's plan and made every effort to fight westward, and his family moved.

It is precisely: Qin lost his hometown because of the Han Dynasty and traveled thousands of miles to the west. After ten years of business, he finally worked in agriculture and sericulture outside the region.

Those who had gone far away from other countries also had many guest officials from other countries, or old nobles from other countries who did not agree with the Mohist system.

I will return to the Central Plains today and feel a different feeling in my heart.

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

A young man, about fifteen or sixteen, saluted to the middle-aged man who had just sighed in the car and asked, "Mr. Shule, I heard that my great-grandfather was also a Mohist at the time. When he was young, he became a retainer in Qi to make achievements. Later, he was expelled from the Mohist family. But he didn't know how far is Qi?"

The middle-aged man, known as Shulejun, looked east and sighed, "This place is the world. I heard that the Han Dynasty was going to move its capital to Daliang, and it was precisely because this place was the world. This place is hundreds of miles northeast, which is the place where your great-grandfather became famous in the past; if you go directly east, it will be the land of Lu where Wu Qijun fought against your great-grandfather in the past."

Speaking of this, the middle-aged man called Shulejun looked northeast and sighed: "Further northeast, it is Weidi, my hometown. At that time, my name was Wei Yang, and now I was granted the title of Shule City under Xu. According to the rules at that time, I should call me Shuleyang now."

The rules have been changed, and many of the rules of Si in the past also affected the Qin State, which had moved west for twelve years. Wei Yang, who was once still Wei Yang, is not called Shule Yang because of his imprisonment.

The son of the Zhongsha who was once around Wu Qi has now become a great master after the Qin State moved westward. Twelve years ago, he led 8,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry to advance westward. With the advantage of firearms, he fought three battles to determine the Western Regions.

After occupying the fertile river valley area to the west, the advanced farming technology and craftsmanship technology of the Central Plains quickly took root there, which was suitable for growing cotton and wheat. With the good weaving level and transportation costs, the cotton textiles of the Central Plains were no longer able to enter the Western Regions.

The Qin people used mutated political means of the country and the country in accordance with local conditions in the Western Regions. The farming areas adopted direct management, and the nomadic areas adopted nomadic jurisdiction. With advanced culture and formed texts, the customs changed over the years and the atmosphere was as they were when Qi and Lu were first enfeoffed.

However, there is a fashionable and huge empire in the west. Wei Yang came here to solve the diplomatic problems.

After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the focus of rule was the eastern part. The control of the border areas was only controlled by some farming areas. The existence of weapon generation gap and the arrival of the post-black gunpowder era made the border areas not have much border problems.

The development of Jiangnan, overseas trade in the South China Sea, and the development of maritime transportation have strengthened control over the coastal areas to the Liaodong region.

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

Qin Jun’s move to the west was also a result of the monastic consent of the Mohist family. The trade and technical exchanges between the two sides have never ended. Now they just hope to reach a result.

The gap between the national strength between the two sides was too big, and Wei Yang knew that it could be seen from the soldiers of the inner guard troops who escorted them.

These escorted internal security forces have been replaced with thunder mercury guns with higher fire rates. Although they are loaded in front and still require leaf springs to accumulate, the delivery rate has been greatly improved.

However, the Qin State was still using the heavy flint rifle from twenty years ago.

This is just a glimpse of the inner guard forces. In fact, after passing the old Qin Guanzhong and the Song Dynasty in the Central Plains, the obvious gap has completely destroyed the bottom line of negotiations between Wei Yang and others.

Large textile mills that use coal and steam with thick smoke; iron smelting workshops that use coal and steam as blowing equipment... All kinds of new machines that have appeared in Sishang since ten years ago have announced the arrival of a new era.

The past years seem to have no past, and everything is a cycle of reincarnation.

And the years now, everything visible to the naked eye has declared that something called "the future" has become a kind of hope that can be seen by the naked eye.

It also brought despair visible to all old forces.

The conditions given by Zhongyuan this time are not very harsh with the strength of both sides.

After the Central Plains was pacified, Han established the country and became emperor, Qin gave up his original title because it was enfeoffed by the Zhou emperor and became king.

Now the Central Plains asks Qin to take the title of King, renamed Anxi Protector, and admits that he is part of the concept of Jiuzhou World.

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

Regardless of the remaining ones, because input and output are not proportional, the emerging classes in the Central Plains need markets and dumping places, and the development of sea transportation has a lower cost than land, and its center of gravity is also towards the south rather than northwest.

Both parties can have free exchanges and common currency.

In return, some new muskets can be supported to deal with the threat of the empire in the west, allowing the export of some new steam machinery.

For the real ruling class of the Central Plains today, the bitter and cold northwest is perhaps not as good as an island in the vast sea where spices and sugarcane can be grown.

Besides, the journey is long and the trade is difficult. Apart from luxury goods such as silk, arms and some porcelain glass, this trade route cannot support too much goods.

On the contrary, because of the development of the South China Sea trade route, 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 also in Jiangnan alone, there are large areas of undeveloped land and primitive ethnic groups that have not yet been conquered.

The Western Regions are remote and rich, and the distance is too far from the Central Plains. From the old capital of Qin to the current Qin Xindu, the distance is actually about the same as from the extreme west to the Qin Xindu.

This remoteness leads 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 not exist.

Fur merchants north of Yandi would rather organize people to explore the huge frozen wasteland in the north, because the frozen wasteland in the north also has rivers crisscrossing in summer.

Relying on the simple and light birch bark boat and musket, an adventure team of more than a hundred people may be able to walk westward along the river on the vast tundra in the north in summer to a very far place, and acquire the fur there to do huge profits.

No gain can get up early, and no one is willing to bleed for a place that seems neither threat nor profitable for the time being.

All these Central Plains factors led to this negotiation.

For Qin, which is now in the Western Regions, its rule is still unstable on the one hand and it urgently needs support from the Central Plains. As for the fact that the principles of the country are justified, it is not important at this time.

At the same time, the Western Regions were the four battles. Qin was facing the threat of the old empire in the west, and was also considering whether to go south to the richer India and become the ruler there. After all, it was a place with a truly rich population.

The Central Plains are certainly good, rich and have the same writings, but if there is no possibility of counterattacking the Central Plains at all, then we can only settle for the second best.

Wei Yang knew this very clearly. When he led the army to the west twelve years ago, eight thousand infantry and ten thousand cavalry had exhausted the Qin Dynasty's logistics capabilities. This was the result of Wu Qi's previous operation west for more than ten years.

With the expedition logistics capabilities at this time, it is possible that both sides can gather 30,000 troops to cross the desolate area and do their best.

The 30,000 troops, whether they go from the Central Plains to the Western Regions or come from the Western Regions to the Central Plains, nothing is considered and there will be no threat.

This is the reason why Qin State can trust the Central Plains and hope to negotiate with the Central Plains after it moved westward.

There were many difficulties and many things to do. Wei Yang and others came to the Central Plains again after twelve years, for this reason.

Wei Yang stood here at this time not to pay tribute to everything in the past, because he was not a real noble family, and everything in the old era was not that beautiful.

He was just thinking, why wasn’t the Qin State that he had helped to kill the Zhou emperor?

In his opinion, the Emperor of Zhou was not virtuous and incompetent, and should have gone on. In the great struggle, if one day the nine states were peaceful, they would inevitably return to unity.
Chapter completed!