Chapter 227: History

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Shangguan Che touched her head and said, "In the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin Mugong of the Qin State ascended the throne and began to reuse a large number of virtuous ministers such as Uncle Jian (personal name) and Baili Xi (personal name), making the national strength of the Qin State prosperous and famous in the Central Plains. Seeing that the country was getting stronger and stronger, Qin Mugong had the intention of dominating the Central Plains. The Qin state was located to the west of the Central Plains, and if it wanted to dominate the Central Plains, it had to develop to the east, so Qin Mugong formed an alliance with the Jin state located in the east. During the friendship between the two countries, Qin Mugong successively supported Jin Huigong and Jin Wengong to ascend to the throne, among them, the enthronement of Jin Wengong was completed by Qin Mugong's help with troops, and since then, the two countries have maintained friendly relations for a long time. There is a word called 'Qin and Jin Zhihao', which refers to the meaning of harmonious relations between the two parties, and some people use it to indicate the joint marriage of two surnames. ā€

Shangguan Che drew a map of Qin, Jin and their neighboring countries on paper with a pen, and then pointed to the map and explained to Jiang Yuetang.

Jiang Yuetang looked at the picture and nodded with a smile.

Shangguan Che continued: "In 630 BC, the Jin State believed that Zheng State (a neighbor of the Jin State) had two hearts for the Jin State, and asked the Qin State to help destroy the Zheng State, and Qin Mugong agreed, so the Jin State besieged the Zheng State from the east and the north, and the Qin State besieged the Zheng State from the west. Seeing this situation, Zheng Wengong, the monarch of Zheng State, was very anxious, and in order to save Zheng Guo, he immediately sent Candle Zhiwu (personal name, patriotic righteous man) to Qin State to persuade Qin Mugong.

After arriving in the Qin State, Candle Zhiwu said to Qin Mugong: "Great King, the Qin and Jin countries are besieging Zheng State, and Zheng Guo also knows very well that he is about to end, but what good will destroying Zheng State do to your Qin State? It will only increase the national strength of Jin State." And once the Jin State becomes stronger, won't your Qin State have one more potential competitor? According to the villain's opinion, it is better to keep Zheng State and let it serve the Qin State, isn't this a good thing for the Qin State? Moreover, if the Jin State annexes the Zheng State and expands to the east, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not attack the Qin State located in the west one day, so Qin helping the Jin State to attack Zheng is actually to help the Jin State increase its national strength and reduce the national strength of the Qin State. ā€

Qin Mugong felt that Candle Zhiwu's words were reasonable, so he gave up helping Jin, and formed an alliance with Zheng Guo, and left three doctors (Qizi, Yangsun, and Fengsun) in Zheng to help Zheng Guo guard the border pass, and then led his troops back to Qin. ā€

"This is the story of Candle Wuzhi's retreat from the Qin Division. Shangguan Che smiled.

"This person is really wise and brave, and he is eloquent!" Jiang Yuetang also said sincerely.

Shangguan Che nodded and said, "Hearing the news of the retreat of the Qin army, Hu Yan, the doctor of the Jin State, immediately went to see the Duke of Jin Wen and said: "Great King, the Duke of Qin Mu is actually treacherous, if we don't pursue it, I'm afraid there will be endless troubles, why don't we take the opportunity to attack the Qin State?"

Jin Wengong and Qin Mugong were kind to Jin Guo and did not accept Hu Yan's suggestion. At the same time, Duke Wen of Jin also knew that the Jin State had now lost the support of the Qin State, an ally, and it might be difficult to maintain its hegemony in the future, so he also took the initiative to withdraw the troops attacking Zheng State and made peace with Zheng State in order to ease the relationship between the three parties.

In this way, calm has been temporarily restored to the three countries.

Two years later, Zheng Wengong of Zheng State and Jin Wengong of Jin State died successively, and Qin's doctor Qizi, who was guarding the border of Zheng State, immediately sent someone to report to Qin Mugong, saying that he was in charge of the key to the north gate of Zheng State's capital, and if the Qin army quietly attacked Zheng State at this time, it would definitely be able to take Zheng State quickly.

Qin Mugong consulted the virtuous minister Uncle Jian for his opinion.

Uncle Jian said: "The minister has never heard of anyone who has worked so hard to attack a distant country (Qin and Zheng are separated by the Jin State), not to mention marching thousands of miles, how can there be a reason that others do not know? ā€

And Qin Mugong has been accumulating to the east for all these years, and felt that taking Zheng State was a good opportunity to suppress the Jin State, so he did not follow Uncle Jian's advice, and immediately ordered Qin State doctor Meng Mingshi, Uncle Jian's son Xi Qishu, and Qin State's famous general Bai Yibing to lead troops eastward.

Qin State is more than 1,500 miles away from Zheng State, and on the way, it needs to pass through several Xiongguan dangerous fortresses such as Taolin, Yuhan, Yuyuan, and Tiger Prison, and the Qin soldiers' actions this time can be described as dangerous. ā€

As he spoke, Shangguan Che circled the specific addresses of dangerous passes such as Taolin, Yuhan, Yuyuan, and Tiger Prison and marked them with their names, so that Jiang Yuetang could see them at a glance.

Then, Shangguan Che said: "When the Qin State passed through the Slip Kingdom (a small country very close to the Zheng State, which was a vassal state of the Zheng State), the Zheng merchant Xiangao, who was doing business in the Slip Country, immediately sent four cowhides to the Qin army, and twelve oxen, and said respectfully: "When the king of our country learned that you were going to pass through my country, he specially sent me to comfort you, my country is not rich, but if you want to stay there for a long time, we will provide you with food for one day, and when you are leaving, we will also provide security work." ā€

While dealing with the Qin army, Xiangao secretly sent people to inform Zheng Guojun and Zheng Mugong. ā€

When he said this, Shangguan Che paused and asked Jiang Yuetang if he understood.

Jiang Yuetang, who was listening with relish, smiled and nodded.

Shangguan Che smiled with satisfaction and continued: "After Zheng Mugong received the secret report from Xiangao, he immediately sent someone to investigate the country, and when he saw that the Qin soldiers had already bundled their bags, fed their horses, sharpened their swords, and looked ready, he sent the doctor Huang Wuzi to give a speech.

When Huang Wuzi arrived in the country, he said to the generals of the Qin army: "You have been in our country for a long time, and our country has no way to continue to supply you with food, why don't you go back to your country, let us take a breath, how about it?"

The generals of the Qin army knew that the monarch of Zheng knew about this and was already prepared, so Qizi hastily fled to Qi, while Fengsun and Yangsun fled to Song.

Meng Ming saw that Qizi, who was the internal response, had fled, and Zheng Guo was on guard again, knowing that if he attacked hard, he would definitely be defeated, and if he encircled it, there would be no reinforcements, so he destroyed the slippery country, and then led his troops back to Qin.

This matter was soon known by the people of the Jin State, and the famous general of the Jin State, Yuan Zhen, admonished the Duke of Jin Xiangjin: "When the first monarch (referring to the deceased Duke Wen of Jin) died, Qin Mugong 'does not mourn my mourning, but cuts me with the same surname (referring to Zheng Guo)' This practice is rude, and now, the Qin soldiers led by Meng Mingshi are about to return to Qin through our country, this is an excellent opportunity to eliminate the Qin army, I hope that the king must not miss this opportunity, otherwise our descendants will leave infinite disasters." ā€

Jin Xianggong followed Yuan Zhen's advice, dyed his plain white filial piety clothes into plain black, and joined forces with Jiang Rong's army, personally supervised the army on April 13 of this year, and set up an ambush on the east and west sides of Kunshan Mountain.

When the Qin army entered the ambush area of the Jin army, the Jin army immediately attacked from the east and west, defeated the Qin army, and captured the three generals of the Qin army (Meng Mingshi, Xi Qishu and Bai Yibing) alive.

This was the battle of Qin and Jinkun, and Qin Mugong did not dare to expand to the east from then on. ā€

Jiang Yuetang immediately poured tea for Shangguan Che and handed it to him to drink in person.

After Shangguan Che finished drinking the tea in the cup, he said, "Come, let's analyze this war." ā€

"Good. Jiang Yuetang hurriedly straightened her sitting posture.

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