Chapter 318 The Four Famous Men
The hearts of the people return to Qin.
What is most impressive in this troubled times is strength, other righteousness, feuds, feelings, etc. For most people, it is a thin layer of pulp and paper that is pasted on the window edge.
Li Shang's return to Qin made the hesitant subordinates of the former princes and kings feel hope. Over the past year, their lives have been extremely difficult. As the princes were either suppressed or fought against each other, the seventeen or eighteen princes who had resisted Qin and many small forces disappeared.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, hundreds of years have created a prosperous scene of various schools of thought. Different theories and schools of thought have united, and many strange patriots drove long chariots to lobby among countries, trying to sell their knowledge to the imperial family, so that while winning fame and fortune for themselves, their opinions were passed down for thousands of years.
Among the hundreds of schools of thought, the struggle between the Legalists and Confucians was the most intense and cruel. Qin State ruled the country by law, while Kanto countries were mostly supplemented by Confucianism. In this context, the revival of Qin State brought about the full prevalence of Legalism, and in contrast, the comprehensive decline of Confucianism.
The various systems that Li Yuan created in Qin, including the improvement of the military title system, the sympathy system, the orphan government support system and the tax collection system, all became the focus of discussion on the streets. Stimulated by the news of the Qin army's victory, even Confucius and Mencius disciples who believed in Confucianism began to shake their teachers' opinions.
Lu Jia, Sui He, Zhao Ping, and Kuai Che, these four verbal debaters who were active in the late Qin Dynasty were all children of Confucianism, but in the autumn of the sixth year of the New Year of the Great Qin Dynasty, they all became officials of the Qin State.
Lu Jia sent Nanyue to persuade Zhao Tuo, King of Nanyue, to repair the situation with Qin. The envoys of Nanyue turned to Chang'an from Yelang in Guizhou through Bashu. They not only brought letters from Zhao Tuo that he hoped to establish ally with Qin, but also brought many marine specialties in the South China Sea.
Suihe's contribution was mainly due to the successful lobbying of Changsha King Wu Rui to reconcile with Qin. After Liu Bang occupied Nanjun, Wu Rui once sent Mei Juan and his troops to fight with the Qin army. However, after Yingbu reoccupied Jiangdong, Wu Rui's attitude towards Qin took a 180-degree turn. The division of East Chu and West Chu made Wu Rui feel deeply disappointed. As a small country living in the cracks, Wu Rui was very afraid that the Qin army would send troops to Jingnan.
As for Zhao Ping, he did not achieve any effective results when he went to Jiujiang County on two missions, which made the marquis of melon-planting were particularly shameless. After learning from the pain, Zhao Ping decided to follow Bai Guangji's footsteps and prove his ability in the vast thirty-six countries of the Western Regions.
In the end, Kuai Che was the last one among the four. He was originally an important official of Chu. He was an impressive performance in persuading Qin to send troops to aid Chu. Unfortunately, such contributions were not enough to help Kuai Che become a powerful official of Chu. After Xiang Tuo took advantage of Kuai Che, he drove Kuai Che out of Pengcheng with a fabricated reason for stealing.
October 7th.
Kuai Che left the west gate of Pengcheng alone with a ox cart. At this moment, Xiang Tuo probably didn't know that the middle-aged man walking eastward in despair would eventually become the terminator of the Western Chu State.
The eleventh day.
Li Yuan led a group of personal soldiers to Chang'an. This was his second time to go back to Beijing this year, and his repeated battles. What he brought to the people of Qin was pride and pride.
During this period, the situation in Hexi was quite calm. Li Zhongxiang had already married Princess An Qinglan of Loulan. Compared with that, Bai Guangji was still a bachelor. However, after he was unwilling to be lonely, he asked the court for instructions and continued to go west from Loulan. He wanted to find the legendary Tianma place.
North is stable.
People were thinking about Qin, Kuai Che and others came to join, which made Li Yuan feel the satisfaction brought by the powerful power of Qin again. In order to deal with the threat from Chu State, especially Eastern Chu, Li Yuan quickly appointed Kuai Yue as the Qin State's special envoy to Kuaiji County, Jiangdong, and went to the Qua area to meet Ying Bu.
The border between Qin and Eastern Chu was mainly concentrated on the front lines of Jingnan and Jiujiang County. During this period, Feng Xuan, the general of Qin army in Nanjun, had been trying to attack Jiujiang County from water. If Li Yuanyan had not been able to start another battlefield before the Qin army's northern expedition had been achieved, Feng Xuan would have appeared near the six counties long ago.
To the west of Nanjun is the vast and rarely populated Bashan and Shu River. During this period, except for some small-scale tribal fighting in the Bashu area, there was no more to worry about. The Qin general and the governor of Shu County Wang Shang started water conservancy on the plains, which gradually won the love of local scholars. Even his personal lifelong affairs were resolved in Shu. A tribe active between Shu and Yunnan became Mrs. Wang Shang's mother's home.
The woman with a foreign style, the beautiful and beautiful tribal eldest and young daughter, and the hot and straightforward courtship scene completely lost Wang Shang, who had been longing for in the hazy state.
This year, the dredging project of Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project located in the Qingcheng Mountain area was successfully completed after three months of construction. The irrigation area of this weir canal was several times wider than that during Li Bing's period.
In the Jiangzhou area southeast of Shu, among the seven Ba people, the Luo family was the most inflated. With the support of Qin, the Ba people gradually expanded to the south of the river. Among them, the construction of the most important post road allowed Qin to make breakthrough progress in opening the Southern Silk Road.
Generally speaking, the trade route from Chang'an to the Western Regions is what we are talking about the Silk Road. In fact, in the Sichuan-Yunnan area in the south, a road led by a horse gang also brought about the civilization of exchange.
Ancient Tea-Horse Road.
This is what we have always called the Southern Silk Road. Tea and silk from the east are transported to South Asia through the steep mountain path, and then transported back gorgeous jade, jewelry, ivory and other rare things.
Five-foot road.
This is the greatest contribution Wang Shang made after he was in charge of Shu County for a year. Although this dangerous road that travels through the mountains and ridges can only accommodate simple passages of horse gangs, as the only channel to communicate north and south, as long as Qin can continue to maintain its stability for a year, Wang Shang can guarantee that after becoming the large granary of Qin, his Shu County can evolve into the most stable and richest county of Qin.
There are two storms in Bashu and Guanzhong, one east and one west, across the north and south. In this autumn and winter, a team of caravans carrying food and fodder heading north from the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains. Your target is only one place: Chang'an City.
While the status of Shu is becoming more and more important, as the earliest place occupied by Qin, Li Yuan also faces the problem of weakness and poverty in Hanzhong. The farming here is entirely a means of relying on the heavens to make a living. If Li Yuanyi let go of his mouth and took it in, he would probably have more than a hundred minors who had become victims of the first round of battlefields.
Chapter completed!