Chapter Seventy-One: Complaining
This has to be said to be a kind of sadness.
Zhao was about to die, and it was by relying on the bones of hundreds of thousands of Zhao people that he led 100,000 Chu troops to attack Guanzhong and pull out Xianyang. At this moment, he and the entire Chu State are walking on the top of the mountain, at the crossroads of fate, but at this important moment that determines the fate of the Chu State, and even the fate of the whole world, he has lost his judgment and does not know how to choose.
History is like a one-way highway, once you miss that fork in the road, you will miss it forever. In other words, people can't step into the same river twice, there is always only one chance, many years later, when he led the Chu army to pull out Xianyang for the second time, Xianyang is no longer the current Xianyang, the Chu country is not the current Chu country, and the world is not the current world.
It was then that he understood: history never repeats, but rhymes. It is precisely because of the rhyme that he can stand directly below this moment, looking up at his past and looking up at today, with great regret. At that time, he finally completely sorted out the confusion that he couldn't sort out today, the confusion between intuition and reason, and the confusion between nobility and 'inferiority'.
At dusk, as the Chu army entered Xianyang, took over all the gates of the outer city and the royal city, and took over the palace, Xiangbang Mansion, Guowei Mansion, Tingwei Mansion, Shaofu, Qianku, ......, Xianyang gradually fell into calm. Only the ink master led by Yan Wuyi took advantage of the late night to go out of the city and hide into the Xianyang Plateau, and disappeared without a trace.
Xiong Jing, who entered the royal city, of course, could not embarrass his sister, he personally relieved Mi Qian's tricks and helped her smooth her shirt, but at this time, Mi Qian still bowed to the ground and did not dare to get up - Master Cai had already found firewood and grass, which were piled up outside the ancestral temple of Qin Guo on the left side of the court. The Chu army wanted to burn the Zongmiao of Qin, but she couldn't stop it, so she could only bow down to the Zongmiao.
The court was wide, and under the gaze of tens of thousands of Chu soldiers, Xiong Jing held a fire in his hand, and he shouted: "Qin State will kill the subjects of the Qin State, and if you don't kill the subjects of the Qin State!" The state of Qin occupies my Yan Ying, and he will pull out Xianyang without a chance. The Qin people burned the temple of the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, and the temple of the Emperor of the Qin State was burned if it was not the temple. Repay grievances with straightforwardness and repay virtue with virtue. Otherwise, the good are not good, and the wicked are always evil......"
Invade Guanzhong, pull out Xianyang, gather troops in the palace, and burn the temple of the Qin people. No matter how brave the warriors were, they were also in tears at this moment, and their whole bodies were excited. The king can be drunk and dream of death, but the hatred of the nobles, especially the nobles of the Western region, for the Qin people is unforgettable.
The Chu people burst into tears, and the Mi Qian, Qin Chen, and the temple people who were lying on the ground and bowed to the temple were also in tears. The Chu people burned down the Great Qin Temple, whether it was on strength or reason, it was unstoppable and blameless, they could only lie on the ground and weep bitterly. After Xiong Jing drank 'ignition', the fire in Chu Pawn's hand was thrown at the firewood and grass under the steps of the Zongmiao, and these people began to cry loudly, and some people wanted to rush up to put out the fire, but they were forced to retreat by Chu Pawn's spear.
Because of the splashing of coal tar and light oil, the entire Taimiao Temple quickly burned, and the flames jumped and rushed to the roof of the Si'a Heavy House, burning the painted beams and pillars with a crackling sound. At this time, a voice rushed out of the pheasant gate and shouted: "National thief! You are all national thieves! When Zheng'er returns to the city, he will kill you and other national thieves......"
"Meet the Queen Mother." When she heard this voice, her color changed, and she immediately got up and bowed to her.
"Adultery with Chang Yu, giving birth to a son and usurping the throne is not a national thief? Colluding with Zhao and betraying Qin is not a national thief? "It's the Queen Mother Zhao Ji who came. Why did she come back now, Xiong Jing knew very well in her heart. And this person is against the Chu people everywhere, and he has long understood it.
"I didn't usurp the throne, it's Chang Yu, it's Chang Yu's ......, it's the old poisonous woman, it's you and other Jing people who harm me......" Xiong Jing's accusation made Zhao Ji hurriedly argue and speak incoherently. Then no one paid attention to her, even the crying Li Si and the others just waved at her, and quickly turned around and defeated the Taimiao in the flames.
"Inform Zhao Zheng: If you commit the Chu State again, you will not swear to destroy the Qin State." Carrying the raging fire of the Taimiao on his back, looking at the ministers of the Qin State who were kneeling down at his feet, and looking at the Qin Palace that was also burning not far away, Xiong Jing told him. It's just that this phrase is not so much a warning as a hope. After saying this, he picked up Fusu, who didn't know anything by Mi Qian's side, and took his little hand and walked to the road gate.
Complain with value, not complain with grievances. Straight, value also. It means reciprocity, but also restraint. When the Chu army entered Xianyang, they only burned down the Taimiao, but did not burn the Taishe; It just burned the Zheng Dynasty, not the Yan Dynasty. The second is to search for the advisers of the National Governor's Mansion, and at the same time confiscate and destroy the confidential slips of the Royal Palace, Xiangbang Mansion, Guowei's Mansion, and Shaofu. The looting only took place in the treasury of the Great Court and the treasury of the Shaofu Mansion, and was not even involved in Dongcheng.
Such retaliation is reciprocal in nature, but unequal in quantity. Although the generals complained, everyone knew that the Qin State was not defeated, and the time for the Chu army to occupy Xianyang was extremely limited. And slaughtering the city and burning the city, even if it was Xiang Yu, who had a deep hatred in the sea of blood later, only burned the Qin palace room, the so-called Qin palace room only refers to the palace in the royal city, not the entire Xianyang City, and has nothing to do with the common people;
As for 'Xiang Yu led troops to the west to slaughter Xianyang', scholars have long recognized that the 'slaughter' in the twenty-four histories also means 'conquering', and whether to slaughter the city depends on the context, not that there is 'slaughter' is slaughter. 'Xiang Yu led troops to the west to slaughter Xianyang' was not to slaughter Xianyang, but to conquer Xianyang after the 'Pei Gong Army dominated'.
Burning and killing in war are often linked, since Xiang Yu slaughtered Xianyang, why did he just burn the Qin palace and not Xianyang City? The royal city is divided into nine parts of the country, and the Qin palace room is only a part of Xianyang City, about one-ninth, and it is the most efficient and natural to kill and burn at the same time.
Xiang Yu captured Xianyang, which was after the destruction of the Chu State. Now that the state of Chu is still there, the hatred of the old Ying cannot make the generals of the Chu army slaughter and burn the city. The proposal of the slaughtering craftsman of Ele was only impressive. The generals have always felt that he was afraid of the Qin people, and a person who was afraid of the Qin people suddenly put forward such a vicious idea, naturally he was impressed, and then they despised him even more.
During the discussion, the generals completely opposed the slaughter of Shaofu craftsmen, especially Dou Yu Pheasant, Cheng Tong, Pan Wuming, Fei Fang, Dou Chang and others, they were opposed, and Yingshi's Yang Yu and Fu Jing, Yiyang's Yi Drunken and Yi Tong were also all opposed. The reason for the former is that there is no such precedent, and after hundreds of years of conquest, the craftsman has never been the object of slaughter, but the object of protection;
The reason for the latter is another contradiction of the Chu people - Xiong Jing had previously warned the soldiers of Yingshi to observe honor at all times, but the slaughter of craftsmen was destroying honor, and raising people and concubines was ashamed of this behavior. And the Chu army is not afraid of Shaofu craftsmen to help the Qin army build armor and make strong crossbows, like Pan Wusheng, he has always hoped that the Chu army can give up artillery, face off with the Qin people, and kill happily, or a glorious victory, or a glorious death.
Xiong Jing finally understood why the Führer, who repeatedly emphasized that 'I came to Hebei Province' but finally committed suicide in a bunker, wanted to form the SS, and why he could so easily play with the Wehrmacht generals.
The generals under his command had a bullshit virtue with the Junker aristocratic officers: in order to maintain the purity of the army, the Junker nobles who were in charge of the army refused to expand the army until the First World War, citing the lack of noble officers, and they did not want to see civilian-born officers tarnish the purity of the army. On the contrary, the navy, where the bourgeoisie and the children of the little bourgeois are gathered, has been building ships and expanding its army. Before the war, they flaunted their might, but when they were asked to go out to fight and die, they declared an uprising.
Holding Fusu's little hand, he walked on the way to the road gate. Xiong Jing thought about his pedantic but brave generals, and thought about the fate of Germany in later generations as a warning. When he was thinking about the problem, he walked fast, and Fusu, who had small steps, couldn't keep up, if he hadn't pulled it, he almost fell, and he finally picked up Fusu with one hand.
"King ......" Changjiang, who followed behind him, had never seen Xiong Jing hugging a child.
"Is it indecent?" Fusu, who was held in his arms, was quite comfortable, pouting and pouting, and turned his head to look at the queen mother who was chasing behind him.
"No, no." Changjiang didn't know what to say.
"Don't you be hungry, why don't you order someone to set up a banquet?" The Mi Qian who caught up had already wiped away her sweat and tears, and when she heard the sound, she immediately ordered someone to kill her and set up a banquet.
The order to set up a banquet was passed down, and the concubines in the palace, the officials and magnates outside the palace, finally landed after hanging in the middle of the night. The Chu army occupied Xianyang and took what they considered to be the harshest revenge. But this kind of revenge is just not painful for the Qin people, as long as the next few days do not anger the Chu people, the king will lead the army back, and the Chu army will undoubtedly leave at that time.
"King, this, this is Jiuding......" The Xianyang Palace is facing the blazing fire, and the Jiuding of the Zhou people is placed. This was moved from the Changtai Palace in Weinan, which had no city walls, so it was transported to the Xianyang Palace in order not to be snatched away by the Chu army.
The first monarch Zhuang Wang once won the championship, and the first monarch Ling King also won the championship, but it did not work out. Jiuding represents the world, and it is said that Jiuding will be transported away, but Xiong Jing feels that Jiuding only represents Kyushu, which is too small. The world is not nine continents, only six continents, and the Chu people will cast six tripods in the future.
"King, if you don't take it, you will be blamed for it." Zhuang is not authentic. "Our army must transport Jiuding away and transport it back to Yingdu."
"How much does it weigh?" The nine tripods are round, and the golden copper light shines under the fire. Looking at Jiuding, Xiong Jing asked a question similar to that of King Zhuang of the First Monarch.
"This ......" Zhuang Wudi really doesn't know how heavy Jiuding is. He could only say in general terms: "When it is less than a ton." ”
"Since it's less than a ton, let's ship it." Xiong Jing said reluctantly, and the Kui shape behind him, Li Si shook his head when he heard it. They are also Chu people, they understand the urine nature of the nobles surnamed Mi, and the king of Chu does not worship Jiuding as a god, and it will be Daqin who will win the world in the future.
"Tell the king, when you need to choose an auspicious time to move Jiuding, you need to bathe and change clothes for five ......days," Li Si said urgently, "The tripod is extremely heavy, and the transportation is inconvenient." ”
"What's the inconvenience?" Xiong Jing looked at him, not knowing that he was Li Si.