Chapter 263: The Current Situation of the Six Kingdoms
Ma Fujun's departure from Zhao and his departure to Qin caused a huge sensation in all countries.
Needless to say, the country of Zhao was full of mourning and decadence, even though King Zhao promulgated a series of tax cuts and light labor systems, it did not allow the people to come out of this gloomy atmosphere. At this time, the new state minister Pang Gong played a huge role, he borrowed the content of the "Book of Mafu" and began to reform the law, from the official to the official Lulu, the election of officials, and the establishment of the school, and the implementation of the household registration system modeled after the Qin state.
The fake Li Mu fully assisted him, and the two of them referred to the book of Ma Fushu and formulated a strategy for changing the law, starting from the household registration, checking the situation of the people of Zhao State, making officials through detailed household registration information, and then setting up a school to cultivate talents, selecting talented people from the school to serve as officials, exempting the students from the school, and thoroughly implementing Dong Chengzi's new law. Increase the national power of Zhao through political changes.
Lian Po served as the secretary, this is probably the wisest thing King Zhao has done, Lian Po is different from Dong Chengzi, he is upright, temperamental, if he finds someone who violates the law, he directly takes the soldiers to arrest and kill the rebels, and even once took the soldiers to attack the courtyard of the resisters, and executed all his disciples. As a result, everyone in Zhao Kingdom was frightened, and no one dared to anger Lian Po anymore.
It's just that Lian Po also offended a lot of people, Gongzi Yan's companion Guo Kai, because he violated the curfew and went out at night, was arrested by Lian Po, and because of his bad attitude, he insulted the soldiers who held him, and Lian Po was whipped thirty. Gongzi Yan complained bitterly to King Zhao, and King Zhao repeatedly persuaded him, but Lian Po did not forgive him.
When Jiang Qu returned to Yan and told King Yan the news that Ma Fujun was forced to leave Zhao State, King Yan was actually very happy, and he said to Jiang Qu: "The reason why the widow wants to negotiate peace with Zhao State is only because he is afraid of Ma Fujun, and now that Ma Fujun is not in Zhao State, how can the widow not want to take revenge on Zhao State?" ”
When Jiang Qu heard this, he persuaded him: "My lord, I have heard: it is unlucky for a gentleman to send someone to attack him after agreeing to form an alliance with others. As a king, you can't be without faith, otherwise the world's virtuous people will not come to serve you. What's more, the national strength of the Yan State is not strong, there is not enough food, there is no ordnance to equip the soldiers, and there are no allies who can help us, how can you think of taking revenge on the Zhao State? ”
When King Yan heard this, he was also a little hesitant, so he called Ji Xing and asked him about the attack on Zhao State.
Ji Xing said to King Yan seriously: "If you want to attack Zhao State, I will personally lead the army to attack Yan State, and do my best to defeat Zhao State for you, and I am willing to die on the battlefield for you, but now is not a good time to send troops." The Zhao State is powerful, with 300,000 elite troops, and there are people like Lian Po and Li Mu to command them, but I am afraid that the Yan State is not the opponent of the Zhao State. ”
Hearing that the two ministers he trusted the most said this, King Yan didn't say anything.
Jiang Qu said: "I heard that Du, who made the fire kang at the beginning, was killed by Chang'an Jun for no reason, and Ma Fujun, who promoted the fire kang to Yan State, was also murdered by King Zhao and left Zhao State, so you can tell the people about it." ”
King Yan agreed to him.
After Jiangqu got the opportunity to live peacefully with Zhao, King Yan also handed over state affairs to Jiangqu. Focusing on stabilizing the newly acquired land, he formulated policies such as migrating people, promoting the Yan language, encouraging intermarriage, promoting farming techniques, and not allowing officials to discriminate against the Hu people in Liaodong. During the period of chestnut belly, the Yan Kingdom continued to expand and obtained the land of Liaodong, but the problem is that most of the people living here are Hu people, who have no sense of identity with the Yan State, do not understand the language of the Yan State, and do not know how to farm.
Jiangqu wants to transform them into Yan people, so that they can truly become part of the Yan Kingdom.
And in the same way, after the people of Qi heard about this incident, they were also quite angry, and the Jixia School Palace suddenly became irritable, and the major scholars began to write academic articles such as "The Book of Leaving Zhao on the Horse Fujun", "The Treatise on the King of the Faint", "The Monarch and the Minister", etc., and reprimanded the King of Zhao who was thousands of miles away, although there was an academic controversy between these people and Zhao Kuo, but on this kind of issue, they still fully supported Ma Fujun.
Probably, because everyone is the same kind of people.
Especially the Confucians, to the filial piety of Ma Fujun, to give great praise, for the mother can leave to serve their own king, what a filial piety, in the books written by the Confucians, the story seems to become Ma Fujun in order to save his mother from the virtuous king who values him, leaving his homeland. After the scholars of Qi were discussing this matter, the King of Qi also knew about it.
The queen's health is already very bad, because she has to deal with the affairs of the state every day, and the king of Qi is always very hesitant when dealing with big things, so he calls his mother to help him deal with it, and sometimes, he simply leaves things to his mother and goes out to play by himself. The queen is not young, and under such high-intensity work every day, her body is even worse day by day.
"Build... I can't always be with you, help you, you have to learn to deal with these things yourself..", said the queen to the king with some weariness.
King Qi sat beside her, he lowered his head a little aggrieved, and said, "The widow knows... Mother.. However, the widow really doesn't know what to do about these things, and the widow will never bother you again. ”
The queen sighed helplessly, and then said: "Ma Fujun is a great sage in the world, you naturally want to reprimand King Zhao's behavior in front of the ministers... And said that Ma Fujun was welcome to come to Qi State... In this way, the people of the world will be able to see the difference between you and King Zhao..."
"Okay, that's what the widow does, Mother, is there anything else to do?"
The queen looked melancholy into the distance, did not speak, and said with some concern: "If one day, I am gone... What can you do? ”
"The widow will not live."
"Nonsense!"
The queen's eyes gradually sharpened, and she said to the king seriously: "I have heard that there are three people who can serve as monarchs, and there are 100,000 people who can pay tribute to the Son of Heaven. Today, the territory of Qi is vast, with hundreds of cities. The people are multitude, and millions are serving you. Qi has 5,000 chariots, and each of them is elite! At this time, you can go and plot the world! ”
"Maintain friendly relations with the State of Chu, contain the war of the State of Qin, ally with the State of Zhao to annex the State of Yan, form an alliance with the State of Chu to annex the State of Wei, and then merge with the Three Jins! The world is divided into three, and the country of Qi will occupy its richest region. ”
"Now is a different world, and everyone who is unwilling to fight will die at the hands of others... Over the years, the Qi State has recuperated and has not participated in the conquest of the princes, this is to retain enough strength, I probably can't see the day when the army of the Qi State will crusade against the princes... Jian, you want to inherit your father's ambition, Qin State, Zhao State, all want to achieve a king of the world, why can't Qi State? ”
King Qi said to the queen seriously: "The widow knows. ”
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The king of Wei executed the prince of Zinan, and used his son-in-law to serve as the new Wei Jun, and the Wei State completely became a vassal of the Wei State, and the Wei King sent officials to help them govern the country, and sent soldiers to protect their safety, completely erecting the new Wei Jun. And the behavior of the king of Wei has been condemned in all countries, especially the king of Zhao, who has just listened to the persuasion of the Wei state and gave up attacking the Wei state, but in a blink of an eye, the Wei state directly swallowed the Wei state.
This made King Zhao very annoyed, but now Zhao Guo is still busy dealing with domestic affairs, and King Zhao can only swallow this evil breath temporarily.
However, this move of the king of Wei did not bring the results he expected, the guards were very angry, and they were extremely hostile to the Wei state that murdered their king, so the rangers of the guards assassinated the officials sent by the guards, and the people refused to obey their arrangements, and the Wei soldiers soon threw themselves into the battle to suppress the guards, and the guards continued to defect, burning the grain and grass of the Wei soldiers, and the Wei soldiers did not dare to travel alone.
In Wei, there are actually many people who oppose the king of Wei, Pingyuanjun is one of them, Pingyuanjun feels that Wei should find a way to resist Qin, instead of annexing the surrounding small states, these small countries can not bring much benefit to Wei, and may even cause fire and trouble. However, the King of Wei did not listen, and his relationship with Pingyuan Jun had already become very bad during the last battle against Qin.
After the king of Wei did not follow the advice of Pingyuanjun and directly asked Mao Sui to withdraw his troops and no longer obey Wei Wuji's orders, Pingyuanjun was furious and walked directly into the palace and asked to resign from the throne. King Wei was also very angry in his heart, since Zhao Sheng rushed to Wei, he supported Zhao Sheng with all his might, and did not hesitate to take all his wealth.
But what did Zhao Sheng bring to the Wei State?
When Wei faced Qin, it was still defeated.
He gave everything, but he didn't get anything, King Wei thought so, so his attitude towards Pingyuanjun gradually became indifferent, Pingyuanjun was angry, and he also hid in the mansion and no longer dealt with state affairs. When he learned that the king of Wei wanted to annex the kingdom of Wei, Zhao Sheng went to the king of Wei and told him: This matter is not good for the state of Wei, only bad, please don't act like this.
King Wei also hesitated, and at this moment, Duan Ganzi, who served as the imperial historian, told King Wei: This sentence is very similar to Xinlingjun's persuasion of King Zhao.
The king of Wei was furious, thinking that Zhao Sheng was because he cared about Zhao Guo, so he said this, no longer listened to him, and insisted on swallowing Wei.
When Long Yangjun came to Zhao Sheng's mansion, Zhao Sheng was lying on the bed and got up with difficulty. Zhao Sheng is no longer young, and his body is gradually getting a little worse, the news of Pingyang Jun's death, the news of Ma Fujun's departure from Zhao State, made Zhao Sheng worried, his relationship with Chang'an Jun is bad, but his relationship with Pingyang Jun is very good, that is the brother who has taken care of him since he was a child, and his brother died like this, which made Pingyuan Jun extremely painful.
And the news that Ma Fujun went to Qin made Zhao Sheng a little desperate.
He knows Ma Fujun's ability, and he also knows King Qin's ability... King Qin got Ma Fujun, which is the most terrible thing for the Six Kingdoms, however, the Six Kingdoms don't seem to realize this, but Zhao Sheng has already understood that Ma Fujun can definitely play a role comparable to Shang Yang in the Qin State, one Shang Ying has allowed the Qin State to suppress the Six Kingdoms for more than a hundred years, and if there is another one, what should the Six Kingdoms do?
Long Yangjun often came to visit Zhao Sheng, and he saw that Zhao Sheng was getting weaker and weaker day by day, and he was also very uncomfortable. He knew Zhao Sheng's ability, after Zhao Sheng rushed to Wei, he rectified the rule of officials and encouraged Nongsang, Wei's national strength was indeed rising, but unfortunately, King Wei was an impatient person, Long Yangjun was probably the person who was most familiar with King Wei in Wei, he knew the strengths and weaknesses of King Wei, and the strength of King Wei was that he could spend all his mind to do one thing.
And his weakness is that he is too eager, he needs to see the results immediately, otherwise, he can't stick to it.
Zhao Sheng looked weakly into the distance, "There's no way, there's no way, I.. I want to go home. ”
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Chu State is much more pitiful, Chu State had previously moved the capital to Shouchun, and vigorously built Shouchun, ready to set up a defense line around this to resist Qin State, when Chun Shenjun made all the preparations, suddenly heard the news that Ma Fujun joined Qin State, at this moment, Chun Shenjun's face was frightened, immediately, he proposed again, Shouchun and Qin State are still too close, there is no favorable terrain to defend, please move the capital quickly.
The king of Chu did not hesitate and immediately moved the capital to Juyang (present-day Taihe, Anhui), a place far enough away from the Qin state. From the King of Chu to the King of Chun Shenjun, he was scolding King Zhao every day, and his hatred for King Zhao was about to catch up with his resentment against King Qin.
At the same time, Chun Shenjun realized the great danger and hurriedly began to change the law in the territory of Chu: ban the aristocratic officials in various places, build schools, establish a detailed local system like the Qin state, and send officials to serve in the county and township pavilions by the king of Chu himself. It's a pity that as soon as his changes were about to be implemented, he encountered great opposition from the nobles, and there were still many nobles in the Chu State, and they still had their own army.
Fortunately, he fought with the Qin State before and quelled the rebellion, which reduced the aristocratic power in the Chu State to a minimum. The king of Chu immediately ordered Jingyang to help Chun Shenjun and complete the change, so the nobles who did not agree to the change were all killed by Jingyang. Chun Shenjun was able to complete his policy, but Chun Shenjun's behavior made the nobles hate him very much, because the king of Chu was still there, and their anger against Chun Shenjun could only be temporarily suppressed in their hearts.
However, all kinds of rumors against Chun Shenjun spread throughout the Chu State, saying that the son of the King of Chu was the illegitimate son of Chun Shenjun, and that Chun Shenjun wanted to achieve the idea of usurping the throne through his son.
Chun Shenjun ignored these rumors, and the King of Chu didn't care either.
It's just that some people care a lot.
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As for South Korea .... The king of Han sent an envoy to the state of Qin, wanting to invite Ma Fujun to come to Korea as the minister of state.
It's a pity that today's Korea is a subsidiary of the Qin State, and without the order of the King of Qin, the King of Han cannot send envoys to the Qin State.
Therefore, this envoy was driven away by a pavilion chief of the Qin State.
ps: The world of great controversy, the battle of reunification, is about to begin.