Chapter 26: The Son of Heaven in Distress (II)
King Yingji of Qin, but he didn't care if the princes arrived or not.
Since you, Zhou Tianzi, want to crusade against my "Violent Qin", you must first be prepared to be conquered by my Qin State.
At the beginning of July, after the training of the newly recruited army of the Qin State.
King Yingji of Qin summoned Fan Ju and said: "Xiangguo, since Ji Yan Lao'er has called on the princes of the world to attack my Qin State. Since he is unkind, don't blame me for being unjust. If the widow wants to raise an army to attack Zhou and destroy his Zhou room, what do you think? ”
Fan Ju lowered his head and thought for a long time, and already understood Qin Wang Yingji's thoughts.
Yingji is now nearly seventy years old, and it has become Yingji's biggest thought to take the Zhou Dynasty in her lifetime.
Fan Ju said to Yingji: "King, now that the six kingdoms of Kwantung are still there, the national policy of my Qin State should be to destroy the six kingdoms first, and then stand on behalf of Zhou." If you rashly send troops now and destroy its Zhou room, I am afraid that it will attract criticism from the world, which will be unfavorable to our Qin State. ”
Yingji's face was very ugly, and she said to Fan Ju: "Xiangguo, Ji Yan Lao'er is so blatant, calling on the princes of the world to attack my Qin State. Could it be that I, the Qin State, just let Ji Yan Lao'er go untreated and watched him behave recklessly? ”
"In this way, the princes of the world will follow the practice of the Chu State today in the future, and continue to use Ji Yan Lao'er, and will not be afraid of my Qin State, which is a great disaster for my Qin State! It is unacceptable to be outnumbered. ”
Fan Ju sighed secretly in his heart, knowing that King Qin was determined to destroy Zhou.
said to Yingji: "King, Weichen knows the heart of the king, but now he really can't directly capture and kill Ji Yan, the Son of Heaven." Weichen has a strategy, the Duke of the Western Zhou Dynasty is to blame for loving money, my army can attack Wangji, and after taking Wangji, you can bribe the Duke of the Western Zhou. ”
"You can give all the land of Wangji Luoyi to the Duke of Western Zhou. But let the Duke of the Western Zhou Dynasty persuade his Son of Heaven Ji Yan to "Zen and let the Son of Heaven be located in our king." In this way, our king will be right, and he will be able to command the world accordingly. ”
"Ahh Xiangguo, do you mean to let Ji Yan Lao'er "Zen" the position of the Son of Heaven to the widow? ”
"Yes, my lord. This is exactly Fan Ju's strategy. ”
After Qin Wang Yingji listened to Fan Ju's words, the joy in his heart was indescribable.
Yes! He was originally going to annex Zhao State, and then destroy other countries, and rule the world. However, after the Battle of Handan, the Qin army suffered heavy losses and its national strength was greatly weakened. Qin Wang Yingji also knew that this wish of hers would be difficult to achieve in her lifetime.
But Xiangguo Fan Ju's compromise plan can achieve his goal in this life.
I didn't destroy the Six Kingdoms, but I can still become the Son of Heaven, command the world, and fulfill my greatest wish in this life!
Yingji looked at Fan Ju and praised: "Good." Great goodness! Xiangguo's words are in line with the meaning of the widow. Just follow the policy of the prime minister and handle it! ”
Subsequently, the king of Qin issued an edict, appointing Zhao Yi as the main general, leading a new army of 100,000, together with the 100,000 Qin army of Hanguguan (now Sanmenxia City, Henan), a total of 200,000 troops, east of Hanguguan, to Korea.
When the Duke of the Western Zhou Dynasty learned that the Qin State had sent troops, he was very anxious in Yique (now Longmen, southwest of Luoyang, Henan), and sent people to urge Ji Yan, the son of Zhou Tianzi, every day, to urge the princes of all countries in the world to send troops as soon as possible.
Ji Yan immediately sent envoys to the six major vassal states of Kwantung, asking them to send troops to resist the "tyrannical Qin" as soon as possible.
What disappointed Zhou Tianzi Ji Yan was that in addition to Yan Guo personally sending an envoy Ju Wu, escorting grain and grass and other materials to aid the Son of Heaven.
Other envoys sent to various countries came back to report that all countries were actively preparing to send troops, but it was very difficult to raise food, grass, and military funds now, and they wanted the Son of Heaven to solve it.
At the end of July, when Yin Huangxie, the commander of the Chu State of Fengtianzi, passed through Lucheng, the capital of the Lu State (now Qufu, Shandong), he took advantage of the defenselessness of the Lu State and sent troops to occupy Lucheng, the capital of the Lu State, and captured Ji Yun, the monarch of the Lu State.
Subsequently, Huang Xie moved Ji Yun to Jucheng (the only remaining city in the Lu State, now Juxian County, Shandong Province), and the Lu State was destroyed.
Although the state of Lu is small, it is the country that most maintains the orthodoxy of the Zhou dynasty among the princes in the world. The world knows that "Zhou Li is all in Lu", and Sage Kong was born in Lu.
The demise of the Lu State marked the imminent fall of the Zhou Dynasty and had entered the final countdown.
At this time, Zhou Tianzi Ji Yan knew that he had fallen for the trick of Yin Huangxie, the commander of the Chu State. The State of Chu did not really want to support itself at all, but used its own name to encroach on the State of Lu.
Ji Yan is so angry! can only be in the Luoyi Palace, scolding the King of Chu and Ling Yin Huangxie, but there is no way to take the Chu State.
When all countries saw Chu like this, they all "suddenly realized".
Chu Guo is too shrewd! Could we do the same? Yes! Your Chu State has occupied the Lu State with the Son of Heaven, and we can also serve the Son of Heaven and occupy other places!
At this time, the army of Qin ignored Han Wangran's plea, and under the leadership of Zhao Yi, the troops were divided into two routes, and they were already attacking the two cities of Yangcheng (now southeast of Dengfeng, Henan) and Chenghuang (now southwest of Dengfeng) in South Korea.
However, this time, the Qin army was met with fierce resistance from the soldiers and civilians of Yangcheng and Yinghuang in South Korea.
The goal of the Qin army was very clear, that is, after taking the two cities in the south of Wangji, they would prepare to attack Yique and then attack Luoyi.
Han Wangran was really angry this time, Qin Guo deceived people too much!
Since you Qin State is like this, it must be the meaning of your Qin Xiang Fan Ju. In that case, don't blame me for being rude.
So, Han Wangran sent troops to rescue Yangcheng and Negative Millet on the one hand, and directly sent troops to attack Yingcheng, Fan Sui's fiefdom (now Pingdingshan City, Henan), which was close to South Korea.
At the end of July, after the Qin army occupied the two cities of Yangcheng and Yingxiao, 40,000 people were beheaded. But at the same time, the Han army also occupied Fan Ju's fiefdom Yingcheng, and Han Wangran was a little angry for himself.
After Zhao Yi led the Qin army to occupy the two cities of Yangcheng and Chengxiao, the Qin army itself suffered nearly 30,000 casualties. The main general, Zhao Yi, had no choice but to let the Qin army recuperate a little in the two cities of Yangcheng and Chengxiao, and prepare to attack Yique, which was garrisoned by the Duke Ji of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
After the Qin army occupied the two cities of Yangcheng and Chengxiao, the Duke of the Western Zhou Dynasty, who led the army to garrison Yique, was completely panicked.
None of the troops of the vassal states came, and the 5,000 troops led by himself were not the opponents of the 200,000 Qin army at all!
In this case, the 5,000-Zhou army was disheartened. Seeing this, the Duke of the Western Zhou Dynasty ignored Zhou Tianzi's order, led the 5,000 troops and fled back to Wangji Luoyi City.
At this point, Ji Yan, the son of heaven, called on the world to fight against Qin, in order to restore the glory of the Zhou Dynasty, and completely bankrupt.
Zhou Tianzi Ji Yan was completely desperate at this time.
Zhou Jun returned in vain, and the promise made by Ji Yan, the Son of Heaven, to the creditors before naturally could not be fulfilled. When the creditors learned that their investments were "wasted", they were angry and took the loan notes to collect debts from the royal family.
These people gathered outside the palace gate from morning to night, and the sound went straight into the inner palace, and there was inevitably ridicule and ridicule in the middle. As a dignified son of heaven, King Zhen has suffered such humiliation, which is really unprecedented.
"Wait and see, this is what the Son of Heaven did, he didn't repay his debts, and he hid."
"Son of bullshit, is there such a son?"
"Poor thing! My family's hard-earned money for decades was deceived by this unscrupulous genius. ”
"Dude, what are you? My parents' coffin money was cheated out of him! ”
"He lied to us and said that he would repay it twice, and I don't want to double it, just give me my capital."
"Woo, how can this make my family live!"
……
Ju Wu, who was the Yan envoy, couldn't believe his eyes when he watched all this outside the Heavenly Palace at this time.
The cost of five thousand troops, how much can this be? can actually make Ji Yan, the son of heaven, hide!
Ju Wu shook his head and said to the few entourages beside him: "Report this matter to the prince as soon as possible!" ”
"No."
Listening to the noise outside the palace, Ji Yan, the son of heaven in his early eighties, was ashamed and regretted his rash decision.
But with his poor "family background", he really couldn't afford to pay off these debts, so he had no choice but to be a "lai", hiding on a high platform in the palace to hide and relax, and came to a "deaf ear is clean".
These creditors saw that Ji Yan, the son of heaven, was hiding and was unwilling to repay the debt. Everyone was angry and hateful, so they called this high platform "debt evasion platform", and Zhou Tianzi Ji Yan also created a ridiculous idiom called "high debt platform".
At the beginning of August, Zhao Yi, the chief general of the Qin army stationed in Yangcheng and Yingxiao, received a report that he knew that the Western Zhou Dynasty Gongji had led his army to flee back to Wangji Luoyi without a fight.
After hearing the news, Zhao Yi's eyes were about to bulge, and he muttered two sentences in his mouth: "Joke, it's a joke!" ”
led the Qin army, did not waste a single soldier, and successfully occupied the city of Yique in the south of Wangji, and the city of Chen Bingluoyi.
However, the Qin army did not directly attack Luoyi and captured Zhou Tianzi Ji Yan.
Because at this time, Qin Wang Yingji and Qin Xiang Fan Ju came to Yique.