Chapter 44: Grievances and Hatreds
Zi Mingdu waved his hand to signal Meng Tian not to get excited, let him sit down, and said: "It is true that the things of the year were done by King Yiqu that something was wrong, and the ordinary people of Yiqu may not know about this matter, but my second brother's father was a close confidant of King Yiqu back then, and he still knows something." King Yiqu returned to Qin and rebelled against Qin, just because the national strength of Qin was not as strong as it is today, so the Empress Dowager Xuan of Qin summoned King Yiqu into the palace, trying to resolve the rebellion in King Yiqu's heart, but it ended in failure, and in desperation, King Yiqu was killed when King Yiqu was drunk, and dozens of King Yiqu's cronies who followed King Yiqu to King Qin's palace with my second brother's father were all killed, so this is the main reason why my second brother hates you. ”
Meng Tian nodded, "I heard my grandfather talk about this, but my grandfather was not in Xianyang City at that time, and he was rebelling against the local tribes in Shu at that time. ”
Zi Mingdu continued: "But later, when your grandfather returned to Xianyang City, King Yingji of Qin ordered your grandfather to lead 50,000 soldiers and horses to exterminate the Yiqu people, and all the Yiqu people who dared to resist were all killed on the spot. ”
Meng Tian remembered that he had seen it in the recital to King Yingzheng of Qin in the palace, and he said tentatively: "Isn't the second uncle called Abra?"
"Oh, you know my name?" said the second uncle, Abra.
Meng Tian said: "I have seen it in the recital of the Great King, which says that there is a leader who rebelled against the Qin army in Yiqu, and his name is Abra, so I guess it may be you, Second Uncle." ”
Abraha laughed, "That's right, I'm that Abra, what's the matter, do you want to arrest me and present it to your Royal Highness King Qin?"
Meng Tian shook his head and said: "Second uncle, you misunderstood, I don't mean anything else, I just want to say that now that my Great Qin is strong, and His Royal Highness the King of Qin is now ambitious, I hope that Second Uncle can lead the people here to truly submit to my Great Qin, I guarantee that in the future, Yiqu will definitely not be today's Yiqu, I also hope that Yiqu people will live a good life, and I hope that Second Uncle Mingjian." ”
After listening to it, Zi Mingdu said: "The war between the Yiqu people and the Qin people is not a matter of one or two days, if you really want the Yiqu people to live a good life, I have a way." ”
Meng Tian and Zi Yanran asked, "What way?"
"Now Yiqu is in charge of the Qin people, he abolished the original rules and regulations of Yiqu, all in accordance with the laws of your Great Qin, and all Yiqu people are not allowed to have weapons or the like, even bows and arrows are not allowed, and the iron items left at home must not exceed one catty, that is to say, the current Yiqu people have nothing else except the iron pot used for eating at home, and even agricultural tools are not allowed to use iron plowshares. So I hope you can talk to those Qin people, so that the Yiqu people can have the same treatment as the Qin people. Zi Mingdu said.
Meng Tian thought about it for a while, he understood the meaning of Zimingdu's words, but the prohibition of Yiqu people from using iron tools was a rule set by the previous king, don't talk about him, even King Yingzheng of Qin did not dare to say that it was abolished, this matter has too much to do, but there is still hope.
Meng Tian did not directly agree to Zi Mingdu and Abra, but only said that he needed to think about it, so he said goodbye to Zi Mingdu's father and daughter and Abra, and went back to his residence to rest.
Meng Tian returned to his residence, took off his armor and lay on the bed, thinking about Zi Mingdu's words for a while. The official sent by the Qin State to Yiqu was a royal family with the surname Ying Mingguang, and was one of the brothers of Yingzheng's father. Because Ying Guang's last Qin official stationed in Yiqu died inexplicably, so Ying Zheng's father sent Ying Guang to lead heavy troops to Yiqu, the dead officials are small, but the significance behind this matter is very great, Ying Zheng's father Qin Prince Chu (after Yiren returned to Qin State, in order to please Mrs. Huayang, who was a Chu person, so he changed his name to Zi Chu) ordered Ying Guang to find out the murderer of the Qin people, nearly five years, and still did not find out the real murderer, so Ying Guang has been stationed in Yiqu. These things were still what Meng Tian had heard Meng Yi tell him in Xianyang City before, and he didn't expect that he would encounter them one day.
In fact, the Qin State has always advocated the strict rule of law, since the first Huiwen King period of the Daliang Shang Martingale opened the law to strengthen the country, each subsequent generation of Qin kings in the Qin State of the military, national politics, people's livelihood, are all based on the Qin law, it is precisely because of this, there are few people in the Qin army who dare to take the lead of the military merits, there are military camps that have died because of the military merits of the dead, as a result, the whole battalion, the chief, the chief, the chief, the captain, the captain to the barnyard general were all cleaned, since then no one dares to violate the Qin law. Therefore, since the death of the Qin officials in Yiqu, it was spread to Xianyang, and the king of Qin was furious, and Yingguang sent troops to Yiqu, and all adult men who could ride and shoot in Yiqu could not be arrested, and even Yiqu men who were less than thirteen years old were arrested and imprisoned. Seeing the ferocity of the Qin soldiers, the Yiqu people fled from their land one after another, wandering on the grassland desert in order to escape this catastrophe. It's just that these things are not like the new Qin Wang Yingzheng's report, but still only said that the murderer was secretly investigated in Yiqu, and Meng Tian heard and saw the living conditions of the Yiqu people today, otherwise he would not believe it.
On the morning of the second day, Meng Tian got up early, did not wear armor or carry weapons, went to see his sweaty horses, and after seeing that the forage eaten by the sweaty horses was good, he was relieved, and then walked to the living area of the Yiqu people living in the cottage.
At this time, the sky has just dawned, most of the Yiqu people have not yet gotten up, except for a few Yiqu people who were in charge of standing guard around the village last night, only a few families have women open the door, pick up the firewood at the door of the house and go back to the house to cook on the fire. When they saw the strangers who were sitting with the commander drinking last night, they all smiled at Meng Tian, and Meng Tian responded to them with a smile.
Meng Tian turned out of the place where the Yiqu people lived, returned to the square in front of his residence, washed his face with a bucket of water at the door, wiped it clean, walked back to the house, picked up his spear and walked out, and came to the square to prepare for the morning exercise every morning.
At the same time that Meng Tian began to exercise in the square, most of the Yiqu people also got up, opened the door of the house to prepare breakfast, and then went out hunting. However, everyone was gradually attracted by the men holding spears in the square, and some Yiqu men holding firewood put down the firewood in their hands and walked towards the square.
Meng Tian was not distracted by the crowd that surrounded him, his eyes were on the spear in his hand, and a set of marksmanship was practiced vigorously, stabbing, splitting, picking, and playing, cooperating with the footsteps, and applauding the Yiqu people watching around.
Abra was woken up by the cheers outside, and then got up and walked to the window to look out, only to see that there were many people gathered in the square, and did not understand what everyone was looking at, so he got dressed, opened the door and came to the square. When the people in the square saw the commander approaching, they made way for him. Abra walked through the crowd and saw Meng Tian inside practicing martial arts with a spear, and he practiced his marksmanship so well, and he couldn't help but secretly praise it in his heart. But thinking of Meng Tian's special identity, he could only choose not to be quiet.
Meng Tian finished practicing marksmanship, stood the spear on the ground, and then wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, he used to lead the Qin soldiers in the barracks to practice marksmanship every morning, and today I didn't want to be watched by so many people, and my heart was really refreshed once, and it was also the most enjoyable time for me to practice. After practicing marksmanship, he saw that the eyes of the Yiqu people around him looked at him with a look of awe than before. Meng Tian clasped his hands into fists and saluted the Yiqu people around him, then picked up his spear and prepared to return to his residence.
"Wait. A voice came from behind him.