Chapter 158: A Hasty Finish

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March of the first year of Jian'an

Xu Gong wrote: Sun Ce is brave, not weak Xiang Yu (Xiang Yu), it is advisable to add noble pets and recall Jingyi. If you let it out, it will be a curse.

Soon the matter was known to Sun Ce, and Xu Gong was killed by Sun Ce.

Xu Gong's property was confiscated, and all his servants were dismissed.

Among them, there are three people, who were originally Xu Gong's disciples and were favored by Xu Gong. Now that Xu Gong was killed by Sun Ce, the three of them are determined to avenge Xu Gong.

It's a pity that because Qin Hua is powerful, Sun Ce is busy with political and military affairs, and rarely travels, and the three of them have never had a chance.

Early April

Sun Ce returned to his home from the barracks, and when he passed by the market, he suddenly had three sharp arrows.

With Sun Ce's bravery, he could only block one arrow, and the other two arrows all hit.

One of the arrows hit the head directly, and Sun Ce was killed on the spot.

Later, the soldiers found three men with weapons in the crowd, and the three of them claimed to be Xu Gong's disciples, this time to ambush Sun Ce and avenge Xu Gong.

So the three of them were taken back to Sun's mansion as assassins, but strangely enough, there were no bows and arrows beside them.

May

There was a severe drought in Liangzhou, but fortunately, there was a water conservancy project implemented by the Ministry of Industry, and the harvest in Liangzhou was not greatly affected.

It may be that God didn't want to see Qin Hua like this, and in the following months, disasters continued to break out in the world.

June

A large-scale epidemic broke out in Yanzhou again, and Qin Hua sent most of the staff in the Tai Hospital to Yanzhou, and finally controlled the epidemic to a minimum.

July

Yuan Shang allied with Gongsun Du and invaded Yizhou.

Qin Hua sent Zhang Liao with an army of 200,000 to meet the attack, and Yuan Tan returned to Shun to jointly resist the army of Yuan Shang and Gongsun Du.

August

The epidemic broke out in Yizhou and Youzhou at the same time

With the cooperation of local chambers of commerce, the medicinal materials were quickly transported to the disaster area, and there were no large-scale deaths.

Therefore, Yuan Shang and Gongsun Du retreated and returned to Liaodong.

At Guo Jia's suggestion, Qin Hua did not pursue, and sure enough, only a month later, the two broke out into infighting over power issues.

October

Gongsun Du sent Yuan Shang's head to Chang'an, and expressed his submission, asking for Youzhou Mu, and Qin Hua allowed it.

In the same month

Qin Hua's envoy arrived in Hanzhong, and after Qin Hua allowed Zhang Lu's Wudou Mi Sect to preach throughout the country, Zhang Lu surrendered, but Qin Hua always refused Zhang Lu's request to establish the Wudou Mi Sect as the state religion.

Qin Hua's officials quickly went to Hanzhong to take over Hanzhong politics.

Hanzhong was lost, Liu Zhang was greatly frightened, and asked Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao for help.

At this time, Liu Biao was already seriously ill in bed, and the battle between Liu Qi and Liu Cong for the throne was also opened up in Jingzhou.

Liu Qi was older and should have succeeded to the throne, but Liu Cong had the Jingzhou Cai family as his backing.

Coupled with Cai's constant blowing of the pillow wind, Liu Qi was sent by Liu Biao to Jiangxia to garrison.

Liu Biao knew that Liu Bei and Liu Qi were on good terms, and took advantage of Liu Zhang's request for help, and allocated Liu Bei 3,000 soldiers to help Liu Zhang.

At this time, Liu Bei felt that he was powerless to support the Han family, and when he was disheartened, he suddenly got help from a person, this person was named Xu Shu.

Xu Shu thought that Jingzhou was no longer able to compete with Qin Hua, and also suggested that Liu Bei go to Yizhou, so Liu Bei's three brothers and Xu Shu went to Chengdu with 3,000 soldiers.

Because Liu Bei admired Xu Shu's talent very much, he did not continue to be talented, and therefore missed the two talents who were still studying in the grass house.

November

After Sun Quan succeeded to the throne, although he made every effort to rectify internal affairs, because Sun Quan was young, the ministers and generals under his command were all panicked.

Yuan Shu of Yangzhou no longer cared about political affairs after Yuan Shao's defeat, and drank and had fun in the "palace" he built every day, and gained a lot of weight again.

January of the second year of Jian'an

Yuan Shu resolutely proclaimed himself emperor despite the dissuasion of his subordinates, and succeeded him to Shouchun with the jade seal of the country, and established the name Zhongshi.

Since then, he has become more and more arrogant and lascivious, and has been expropriating and expropriating. The people were miserable, and corpses were strewn all over the field. The people are detached.

Qin Hua ordered Zhang Liao to command 300,000 troops to go to the crusade.

Only in March, Shouchun was broken, Yuan Shu vomited blood and died, but fortunately, the jade seal of the country was preserved and was presented to Qin Hua by Zhang Liaojin.

May

Qin Hua took the heirloom jade seal to Wuwei, holding this heirloom jade seal of Qin Shi Huang, Qin Huang cried with joy, and then died of laughter three times.

Qin Hua moved his father's body to Luoyang and built a tomb outside Luoyang City.

After completing his father's funeral, Qin Hua returned to Chang'an again.

At this time, Liu Xie, who had been looking forward to it in Chang'an, finally did not wait for Qin Hua to present the jade seal of the country, and at this time he already understood that Qin Hua's ambition was not only to be a regent.

June

Luoyang City has been mostly completed, residents and families have moved in, but Liu Xie is still in Chang'an, and he has no chance to enter the magnificent palace in Luoyang, which has just been built.

July

Qin Hua carried out reforms again, and Zhongshu Province was changed to a cabinet, and the cabinet set up eleven eleven ministers, who decided all important national affairs.

Qin Hua only needs to approve it after the cabinet makes a resolution.

This is mainly because Qin Hua knows that he is not the material for governing the country, and only in this way can he have long-term peace and stability.

And even if one's own children and grandchildren appear to be unconscious, under this system similar to a constitutional monarchy, the country can be maintained permanently.

The cabinet could decide all matters of state, but they could not do so without the emperor's permission, and they were not able to depose the emperor.

After three or four years of Jian'an, the world was peaceful.

After several years of cultivation, Qin Hua's strength increased greatly.

Also because of the relationship between the imperial examination system, talents from all over the world have come to participate in the imperial examination.

Even Zhuge Liang, who had no one to visit the thatched cottage, came to the imperial examination to test his strength at the instigation of his teacher Pang Degong.

The biggest thing in the four years of Jian'an should be that there were three champions in the imperial examination at the same time.

Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, and Sima Yi came to participate in the imperial examination at the same time, and the three of them had their own strengths, and the examiner could not decide, and finally after Qin Hua saw the names of the three, he announced that there was no role model and tanhua this year, and the three of them were all champions.

The three of them were all interested, and the three young people originally just wanted to test their talents, and they didn't mean to be officials, but how could Qin Hua let them leave, these three people were all candidates for the cabinet.

In the end, under Qin Hua's semi-forced invitation, all three of them entered Menxia Province to serve.

The reason why he didn't give real power was that Qin Hua wanted to pull in the relationship first, and then he could meet often in Menxia Province, which would help cultivate feelings.

Jian'an for five years

March

Liu Biao died of illness, and with the support of Huang Zu and the Jingzhou Kuai family, he was eventually succeeded by Liu Qi, the eldest son.

Cai Mao was unwilling, and then he remembered that his genealogy recorded that the Cai family in Jingzhou was related to Cai Yong.

So Cai Mao secretly contacted Qin Hua, asked Qin Hua for help as a member of Cai Yan's tribe, and said that as long as Liu Cong could take on the post of Jingzhou pastor, Jingzhou was willing to surrender.

Qin Hua once again appointed Liu Cong as the pastor of Jingzhou in the name of Liu Xie, and Liu Qi and others naturally did not agree to this.

Therefore, Qin Hua could only order Zhang Liao to send troops again, and sent Jingzhou with 200,000 elite soldiers.

Under Cai Mao's internal response, Zhang Liaojun quickly took most of Jingzhou.

Liu Qi had no choice but to ask Cao Cao and Sun Quan for help.

At this time, Cao Cao was no longer away from politics because of the problem of head wind, and Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang was actually in charge of Qingzhou.

Cao Ang had been by Qin Hua's side for two years, and he knew that Qin Hua was not a brutal person, and he was also dedicated to the people, and he had already had the heart to persuade Cao Cao to surrender.

After gaining real power in Qingzhou, Cao Ang has been imitating Qin Hua's system to govern Qingzhou, and he naturally will not agree to Liu Qi's request.

Only Sun Quan was willing to send troops to help, but even with Sun Quan's army, it was still not Zhang Liao's opponent, so Liu Qi could only abandon Jiangxia and go to Jiangdong with Sun Quan.

However, Sun Quan's environment is not good.

Thinking that Sun Quan had always been reluctant to surrender and that there was a gradual trend of stabilizing Jiangdong, Qin Hua imposed economic sanctions on Jiangdong.

All chambers of commerce were not allowed to sell materials to Jiangdong, and at the same time, they continued to transport copper coins to Jiangdong, resulting in the people of Jiangdong being unable to buy materials although they had money, and the economy once seemed to collapse.

Coupled with the continuous harassment of Shanyue, Sun Quan at this time was much weaker than in history.

There were constant voices from the cabinet and the general's palace asking Qin Hua to directly order the troops to attack Jiangdong by force, but Qin Hua was always worried that the Battle of Chibi would be staged again and refused to listen.

As early as the time of Liu Biao's death, Zhang Xiu had already surrendered to Qin Hua, so now Qin Hua has almost unified the other Kyushu except Jiaozhou, Yizhou, Youzhou and Qingzhou.

July

Yuan Tan said on the table: Gongsun Du colluded with foreign races, and in order to bring disaster to the people, he asked the imperial court to send troops to fight.

Qin Hua allowed Gao Shun to lead an army of 150,000 to the crusade, and at the end of the year, he broke through Youzhou and killed Gongsun Du.

Since then, the north has been pacified.

September

After the news of Gongsun Du's murder came, Cao Cao of Qingzhou officially resigned from the post of Qingzhou pastor, retired at home, and recommended his eldest son Cao Ang to succeed him.

Qin Hua approved and formally established the Eastern Military Region, commanded by Yan.

Most of Cao Cao's generals joined the Eastern Military Region to defend against Jiangdong.

April of the sixth year of Jian'an

Qin Hua received a letter of surrender from Liu Zhang.

It turned out that after Liu Bei entered Yizhou, he divided Liu Zhang's subordinates with the help of Xu Shu and took them for his own use.

Fortunately, Liu Bei only had 3,000 soldiers into Shu, and Liu Zhang could deal with it in a short time, but as time went by, Liu Bei's power became stronger and stronger, and Liu Zhang knew that he was powerless to resist, so he had to surrender to Qin Hua.

After Qin Hua's army entered Shu, the situation immediately underwent a 180-degree turn.

Originally, most of the families who defected to Liu Bei defected in a short period of time, and even Liu Bei's sergeants had many defectors.

Liu Bei, who was thinking of committing suicide and martyrdom, received a handwritten letter from Liu Xie, hoping that he would give up resistance, take refuge in the imperial court, and benefit the people.

In the end, Liu Bei led his two brothers to surrender to Qin Hua.

Qin Hua got Liu Bei to Chang'an and found an errand for him in the Ministry of Rites.

As for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two continued to stay in Yizhou.

Qin Hua once again established a military region in Yizhou, which was the last Southern Military Region.

The commander of the Southern Military Region was Xu Huang, and Guan Yu and others all stayed in the Southern Military Region.

At this time, Qin Hua had unified all places except Jiangdong, and only Jiangdong Sun Quan was struggling to support him.

Seven years of Jian'an

Because there has been no major disaster for several years and the treasury is abundant, Qin Hua has successively launched several welfare policies.

These include tax cuts, incentives for production, encouragement of childbirth, and increased benefits for soldiers.

At the same time, large-scale infrastructure construction is being carried out in all places.

Including new office schools, hospitals, construction of water conservancy projects, construction of roads, etc.

For a time, Qin Hua's prestige reached its peak, and the people only knew the regent, but did not know that there was a Yellow Emperor.

At the end of the seventh year of Jian'an

After so many years of economic blockade, Jiangdong has lost a lot of talents, both talents and people, and Sun Quan finally couldn't support it anymore and surrendered to Qin Hua.

January of the eighth year of Jian'an

Liu Xie issued an edict in the name of his own lack of virtue and the world should be handed over to virtuous people, and Zen was located in Qinhua.

Because of "the land of Middle Earth, the treasure of things", Qin Hua named the new dynasty "China" and called it the "Chinese Empire" to the outside world.

At the same time, the era name was changed to "Book of Heaven".

March

The original Han coins were abolished and the Chinese currency was used as the currency.

There are three types of Chinese coins, namely copper, silver and gold.

Among them, copper coins are divided into three denominations, namely one wen, five wen and ten wen. Ten copper coins are equal to one silver coin, and ten silver coins are equal to one gold coin.

This is only an official exchange rate, and the actual rate is determined by the market.

The second year of the Book of Heaven

Boyu of the North Palace, King of Qiang, wrote to Qin Hua to request Qin Hua to canonize Qin Tie as the crown prince, but Qin Hua refused.

For this reason, Beigong Boyu raised 200,000 troops to attack the Chinese Empire, but was quickly repelled by Ma Teng.

Beigong Boyu was seriously ill and had to return to the royal court, but when he returned to the royal court, he found that this place had been controlled by Beigong Tiexin.

Beigong Tiexin established Qin Tie as the king of Qiang and imprisoned Beigong Boyu.

"In the end, I still didn't win against you once."

With these last words, Beigong Boyu died of illness and was imprisoned.

The three mothers and sons of Beigong Tiexin, who had been separated for nearly ten years, finally returned to Qin Hua's side.

Qin Hua established the territory of the former King of Qiang as the fourteenth state of the Chinese Empire, named Qiangzhou, and Ma Wan, the former lord of Qingyangcheng, served as the state pastor.

Qin Tie's title of King Qiang remains unchanged.

Seven years of the Book of Heaven

Qin Hua canonized Qin Luo, the son born to Empress Cai Yan, as the crown prince.

In the same year, two huge fleets set off from Qingzhou.

One of them was to go south, passing through Yizhou and Zhuyazhou to the Roman Empire in the west.

The other was Beishan, which passed through the Wa Kingdom and headed north in search of what Qin Hua called America.

Ten years of heaven

The Maritime Silk Road has been largely formed, and with the Maritime Silk Road and the Silk Road on the Road, the national strength of the Chinese Empire has increased greatly.

At the same time, the fleet that had gone to explore the Americas also returned, and although dozens of large ships eventually returned only three ships, the location of the American continent was generally known, and there was a rough navigation route.

Qin Hua was very happy to get the news, and immediately prepared a large fleet of more than 100 ships to open up new routes, and established bases along the way to prepare for future colonization.

Eleven years of the Book of Heaven

The fleet set off again, and in order to commemorate this event, Qin Hua changed the year name to "Daxing".

Daxing for five years

The Chinese Empire had already established its own colonies in the Americas and had completed the colonization of nearly 20,000 people.

At this time, Qin Hua was suddenly in high spirits and wanted to complete the unification of the Eurasian continent.

In the fifth year of Daxing, the national strength of the Chinese Empire was already the highest in the world, and Qin Hua began to launch foreign conquests, and at the same time changed the name of the era to Jianwu.

The first to suffer were the nomads in the vicinity of the Chinese Empire.

After an assassin named Han Long assassinated Xianbei Dashan Yu Kebineng, Xianbei was already in a mess.

In addition, the Chinese army was equipped with artillery, flintlock pistols and other firearms, and the Xianbei army was defeated and retreated.

Qin Hua threw all the state affairs to the crown prince Qin Luo, and he himself led a million troops to fight abroad.

In five years, Qin Hua fought from the northeast to the southwest, almost completely unifying the Asian continent.

The crown prince Qin Luo also gradually adapted to his identity, and it seemed that this was a good prince.

In the sixth year of the founding of the army, Qin Hua personally led the army to conquer the Frost Moon Empire, but suddenly disappeared in a surprise attack of the enemy army, and has not been seen since.

The news was transmitted back to Luoyang, and the crown prince Qin Luo immediately inherited the throne, which was the will left by Qin Hua before he set out on the expedition.

The first thing Qin Luo did after succeeding to the throne was to find Qin Hua's traces, for which he even almost wiped out the Frost Moon Empire, but unfortunately after ten years of searching, he still couldn't see anyone alive or dead.

(End of book)