Chapter 143: The First Ending
Shang Ying's luxury convoy, carrying dozens of cartloads of goods and baggage, at the fastest speed they could do, after reaching Guanzhong in the north, they immediately turned east and marched non-stop.
At that time, an ordinary chariot was equipped with four horses, but the carriage of Shang Ying, all of which were pulled by eight batches of high-headed horses, and the horses neighed with their heads raised and neighed from time to time. The cars of the convoy were also taller and wider than ordinary carriages, the wheels were red, and the frame and curtains were black.
This luxury motorcade, like a modern version of the "Extended Lincoln" fleet, is only used not for happy occasions, but for escape. The convoy carried the wealth of Shang Ying's life, and also carried the taxes of the fifteen cities where Shang had lived for many years, and it was not light in terms of actual weight or psychological weight.
The first step of Shang Ying's escape was to go north from the land of Shang Yu to enter Guanzhong, but due to the suddenness of the arrival, King Qin Huiwen was unprepared on his side, and Shang Ying succeeded. Next is the second step, from Guanzhong to the "Cuihan Passage" of Wei.
Entering the Wei State from Guanzhong, Shang Ying would pass by an important city called Zhengcheng, and after this was not far from the territory of the Wei State.
Zhengcheng was the capital of Zheng in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and after Zheng moved eastward, Qin occupied Guanzhong in the Autumn Period and set up Zheng County here. Zheng County is near the junction line of Qin and Wei, not far from Jin, the military town of Wei, although the main force of Qin is deployed in Chongquan, but the strength of Zheng Cheng is not less than 5,000, Shang Ying must attach great importance to here.
There are two suspense now, one is whether the defenders of Zhengcheng, who are tasked with resisting the Wei army, will suddenly forget their main duties and meddle in their affairs to prevent Shang Ying from escaping from Qin? Second, if Zhengcheng's defenders went out of the city to stop it, how should Shang Ying respond?
The first suspense was quickly solved, Shang Ying's army arrived near Zhengcheng, according to Shang Ying's militaristic slavery, no one was allowed to leave their place of residence at will, Shang Yang did not have a transfer document issued by the King of Qin, and the defenders of Zhengcheng did not let Shang Ying's convoy cross the border.
Shang Ying was a smart man and a planned person, and when the negotiations were fruitless, he quickly activated Plan B and forcibly passed through Zhengdi.
Shang Ying judged that the guards of Zhengcheng would not dare to transfer all 5,000 troops outside the city at any time, making Zhengcheng an empty city and taking advantage of the Wei army not far away.
Shang Ying concluded that the Qin army that was able to stop his convoy might only be a few dozen people who carried out the inspection mission, and even if there were a few hundred people, it would not be a big problem. Shang Ying's purpose was not to defeat the Qin army, but to go east, so forcing it through here was both the only choice and the right choice.
The inspection sergeants outside Zheng Cheng were indeed only a few dozen at first, but when Shang Ying's convoy forced through, Zheng Cheng Shou immediately mobilized the defenders in the city to intercept them. Moreover, the army mobilized by the defenders of Zhengcheng was as many as more than 2,000 people, which was almost half of the defenders of the city, which showed the great determination to intercept.
To say that the defenders of Zhengcheng have always been known for their principles, Qin Xiangong returned from Wei a few decades ago, and wanted to enter Qin from here to compete for the position of king, but was rejected by the defenders here.
Now Shang Ying wants to go, although the guards of Zheng Cheng have long been replaced, but the tradition has not been lost, and without the documents of King Qin, flies don't want to fly away from here!
Shang Ying's militaristic slavery stipulated that the mobilization of Qin's army, more than 50 people, must require the tiger charm of the king of Qin. At this time, King Qin Huiwen may not have known that Shang Ying had fled, so naturally he had no time to mobilize the defenders of Zhengcheng to block Shang Ying.
The Zheng army that blocked Shang Ying also took a certain risk, and they anchored Shang Ying as a crime, so they were desperate to prevent Shang Ying from escaping. So the defenders of Zhengcheng were determined to intercept Shang Ying's convoy and confronted Shang Ying's army head-on.
Compared with the strength of the two sides, the Qin army went out of the city to intercept about 2,000 troops, and the total strength of Shang Ying was more than 2,000 people, including hundreds of mercenaries and more than 1,000 garrison troops in the land of Shang.
On the surface, it seems that the strength of the two sides is actually equal, and it is not a problem for the Qin army to prevent Shang Ying's convoy from breaking through, but it is difficult to stop Shang Yang personally.
The military merit title system in militaristic slavery stipulates that there is a huge reward for killing the enemy, so Zheng Jun is desperate to resist it with all his might, and will never let go of the fat of Shang Ying.
And the mercenaries on Shang Ying's side are doing things with money, and they can be fake tigers, but they are really far less active than the other party when they are desperate, and they don't want to be a victim of Shang Yang at the moment, so they scatter and slip away. The army that was defended in the land of Shang was the product of the elimination of the regular army, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled.
As a result of this skirmish, the army under militaristic slavery defeated the mercenaries! This result also seems to indicate that the Later Qin army was able to rely on the army of militaristic slavery to sweep the east.
Shang Ying is not in danger, he still has a sequel to Plan B, once he can't retreat with the whole team, then break through by himself and leave Qingshan here!
More than a dozen diehards of Shang Ying's diehards surrounded Shang Ying's war horses and retreated eastward. There is absolutely no shortage of admirers for characters like Shang Ying, and these die-hard loyalists would rather sacrifice themselves to ensure the safety of their idols.
However, at this point in the war, the two fists were no longer invincible to the four hands, and Shang Ying's diehards fell one by one. At this time, Shang Ying finally realized how much potential the military merit title system he founded could stimulate.
The defenders of Zhengcheng understood that seizing Shang Ying meant that the fame and fortune were about to be obtained, and they could fight for twenty years less.
At the moment when Shang Ying was caught, more than 2,000 troops who came with him fled by hundreds, and there was not a single one left who was killed by more than 1,000 people, and there were many Qin soldiers at the scene, cutting off their heads, so that they could be rewarded for their merits later.
A strange wry smile appeared on the corner of Shang Ying's mouth, and the military merit title system he designed finally gave himself in, and the energy inspired by this system made Shang Ying firmly believe that the Qin State would unify the world.
A few days later, Shang Ying was taken to Xianyang, where he was torn apart in front of tens of thousands of onlookers, which is also known as the five horses split their bodies. This kind of torture is expensive, time-consuming and laborious, and ordinary prisoners do not enjoy such treatment, and only those who are in a special position and are heinous are eligible for the punishment of car splitting.
Needless to say, the merits of Shang Ying's establishment are equally resolute in the determination and anger of the Qin people to kill Shang Ying. Shang Ying died, his family was slaughtered, and the hatred of the Qin people towards him was too deep to describe in words.
After Shang Ying was torn apart, the people of Qin fought for it, and Shang Ying's bones soon disappeared, and many of these people were the family members and friends of Shang Ying's execution of more than 700 people at one time.
After Shang Ying's death, the people of Qin sang and danced, relieved. When the six countries heard it, they all celebrated. Shang Ying's death seems to be a situation of universal celebration.
The death of Shang Ying was not an isolated phenomenon in the Qin State, and in the last hundred years of the Warring States Period, the Xiangguo group of the Qin State, even if they were not broken by the car in the end, the end was not much better.
Shang Ying was the Xiangguo of Qin Xiaogong, and after Shang Ying, Zhang Yi served as the Xiangguo of King Huiwen of Qin, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Wuxin and five cities. However, Zhang Yi was eventually forced to flee the Qin state, and of course the five fiefdoms were not taken with him.
The fate of Xiangguo Zhang Yi is not bad, and the Xiangguo of Qin State in the back has a worse ending than the other.
Wei Ran, the uncle of King Qin Zhaoxiang, made great achievements during his tenure as Xiangguo and cultivated a god of war like Bai Qi, but in the end, he was brutally suppressed by King Qin Zhaoxiang together with Empress Dowager Xuan, his fief was confiscated, and he died inexplicably.
The next Xiangguo is Fan Ju, Fan Ju contributed a lot to suppressing the previous Xiangguo Wei Ran, he may not have expected that his fate was not as good as Wei Ran, because he recommended a few unsatisfactory generals to King Qin Zhaoxiang, and buried his future.
Later, Lü Buwei, the prime minister of the Qin State, pointed out the country, captured a large territory of Wei and Han, stirred up the text, and wrote the masterpiece "Lü's Autumn", what a beautiful scenery, and the final fate was to be exiled to Sichuan.
As for Li Si, the last prime minister of the Qin State, he was beheaded in half, and the three tribes were razed, and his ending was comparable to that of Shang Ying.
The first Xiangguo Shang Yang of the Qin State, and the last Xiangguo Li Si, condensed the tragic fate of the group of Xiangguo of the Qin State. Shang Ying's death was not only the end of Shang Ying's personal life, but also a kind of destination for the group of Qin Xiangguo.
After Shang Ying's death, his fiefdom Shang Yu returned to the arms of the Qin State, and he was still exerting his own value. More than 20 years later, Zhang Yi, a longitudinal and horizontal family, used 600 miles of business to fool King Chu Huai.
King Huai of Chu coveted the land of Shang, triggering the battle of Danyang and Lantian between Qin and Chu. The army of Chu State attacked Guanzhong from the land of Shang Yu and fought the Battle of Lantian with Qin.
By the time of the Qin and Han dynasties, the strategic value of the land of Shang was enlarged again, and Liu Bang conquered Wuguan and took the lead in entering Guanzhong from here.
Shang Ying got such an important strategic land, from the time he got the land of Shang Yu to the time when his family was punished, in just three years, woohoo!
Due to the exclusive respect for Confucianism and strict punishment, the evaluation of Shang Ying, who used violent means to carry out rapid reforms, was not very good in history, so that thousands of years later, people recognized the Qin State as the country of tigers and wolves.
Sima Qian did not have a high opinion of Shang Ying in the "Historical Records, Volume 68: The Biography of Shang Jun", and he believed that Shang Ying's use of superficial imperial techniques to please Qin Xiaogong, through Qin Xiaogong's favored retainer Jing Jian and other dishonorable methods were reused, and in the Qin State he used almost "violent" means to carry out rapid reforms, punish Gongzi for piety, deceive Gongzi, and disobey Zhao Liang's advice, which is enough to prove that he was a mean and unkind person. Ban Gu believes that the Shang Dynasty reform caused the disparity between the rich and the poor among the common people and the annexation of vassal states, which seriously affected social stability. He also criticized Shang for encouraging war, which resulted in corpses and human suffering.
The Shang Dynasty's strict law enforcement and indiscriminate use of torture drew widespread resentment, and Confucian scholars in the Western Han Dynasty also believed that Shang's strict torture laws were an important reason for the rapid demise of the Qin Dynasty, and the Old Tang Book even rated Shang Yang as a cool official.
However, there are also people who affirm Shang Ying, such as Wang Anshi: "Since ancient times, the people have been driven in faithfulness, and a word is heavy and light." Today's people can not be Shang Ying, and Shang Yang can make the government must be done. This is an affirmation of Shang Ying's statecraft. And in the "Zizhi Tongjian", it is said: "In the past, Duke Huan of Qi did not betray Cao Mo's alliance, Duke Wen of Jin did not covet the profits of the original, Marquis of Wei did not abandon the period of the Yu people, and Duke Qin Xiaogong did not abolish the reward of migrating wood." These four monarchs, the way is not pure, and the Shang monarch is especially mean, and in the world of war and attack, the world tends to be deceitful, and still dare not forget to believe in the animal and its people, and the situation is the government of peace in the four seas! Although Shang Ying is mean, the so-called "Troubled Times" is understandable, but it shows Shang Ying's integrity and quality.
In modern times, despite a few dissenting voices, most people recognize Shang Yang as a hero who dared to touch the old forces and dare to reform.