Chapter 18: The Lights
"Discord?!" When the meaning of Xiong Jing reached Xianyang, it was already more than ten days later. Ganluo, who was in the midst of peace talks, sent people back to Qin to inform Zhao Zheng of the situation of the alliance and peace, and the negotiations were still ongoing and had not yet been concluded.
"Definitely." Ganluo's news Zhao Zheng read it, and Wang Juan also read it. "The minister thinks that it is not that King Jing is not in harmony, but that the Zhao people and the Han people are forced to do so, and I have to withdraw from the land of Zhao and Han. If so......"
"Zhao Di is the result of the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of generals by my Great Qin, how can I quit!" Zhao Zheng's anger was irrepressible, and the news written on Chu paper was grabbed by him fiercely in his hands and torn to pieces.
"The king, King Jing did not say anything about discord, but he allowed the Zhao people and the Han people to talk to Ganluo, and he really wanted to fight." Just now, Li Si also read the news, as smart as him, and saw the strangeness at a glance. Even the Zhao people didn't care, even the humble Koreans came to power to ask Daqin for Han land, and the Chu State obviously didn't want peace talks.
"My lord, although the Jing people do not want peace, I will also talk about it, if the corn harvest can be postponed until October, it will be beneficial to me." Zuo Prime Minister Kui Lin generally didn't speak, but this time he still spoke, but Wei Yi stood on the side as if he didn't hear anything.
"Wei Qing?" Seeking peace was Zhao Zheng's will, and the reason why he sent an envoy to seek peace was because Shaofu also told him that the situation in the counties was too bad to be overcome, and the most fatal thing was that the plague began to break out in Taiyuan County, and the local fierce people killed the officials and fled to the north.
The people are strong and strong, and for the time being, it is still a small matter, but the plague is a big thing. Sixteen years ago, there was a plague in Jinyang, and the plague spread widely, even in the southernmost state of Chu, but fortunately, there were not many deaths from the plague. Now the plague has resurged, and four out of ten infected people have died, such a vicious plague has not been seen in a hundred years.
Sixteen years ago, the plague was able to be controlled, because the war was only a battle of Bayi, unlike now it is a war to destroy the country. Natural disasters, war disasters, no matter how many soldiers Xianyang sent and how many sacrifices were performed, they could not stop the spread of the plague.
Wei Yu only learned about the outbreak of the plague in Jinyang later, but he still insisted that the Qin state should not sue for peace. The only way out for Qin was to defeat the Chu army and capture Bashu.
"Wei Qing!" Wei Yu was distracted, but he didn't hear Zhao Zheng's voice, and Zhao Zheng couldn't help but stop drinking.
"The minister is here." A break from the drink made Zheng Yu faintly echo, and Wei Yi came back to his senses at this time.
"Jing people don't want peace, what do you think?" Zhao Zheng's voice lowered a lot, he was tired, but his eyes were very attentive.
"The minister thinks ......" The minister next to him looked at Wei Yi with some disdain, Wei Yi saw the disdain in their eyes, he simply laughed, and said, "In this case, the righteousness should be mine." The king can send someone to tell the world: 'Great Qin wants peace and the Jing people want to fight, and the Jing people want to fight for one day.' Today, the Jing people will destroy Qin, and the Jing people will destroy Qi, Wei, Yue, Ba, and ......Qiang in the future.'"
Putting one's own desires on the enemy, and then saying which role the enemy is in, can be regarded as revealing Wei Yi's nature. His suggestion surprised everyone and made people sigh at the same time, such a reversal of black and white is really unexpected.
"The words of the national lieutenant are also Miao." Wang Juan smiled and shook his head again and again. "It's not going to work."
"Why not?" Wei Yi asked disdainfully.
"The world says that the tiger and wolf Qin has been in the world for a long time, and the national lieutenant said so, the people of Kanto believe in it, what can I do?" Wang Juan did not shy away from Zhao Zheng on his side, and directly said that the Qin State was the Qin of tigers and wolves. The tiger wolf is talking about beasts, not about being powerful, and being scolded as a beast Zhao Zheng frowned.
"People from Kanto? Who are the people of Kanto? Wei Yu said loudly. The nobles of Kanto do not believe it, and the people under the nobles of Kanto naturally do not believe it. But the common people of Kanto, the craftsmen of Kanto, and the slaves of Kanto, do they believe it? War, the people suffered; And, the people are pleased. Now the king has the idea of benevolence and kindness, and wants to make up the soldiers, but the king of Jing does not want peace, but the king of Jing is not benevolent, do the people believe this? β
"This ......," Wang Wan said dumbly. Even if he is not a nobleman, he is a nobleman who demands his own soldiers, and he can't think of the common people, craftsmen, and slaves that Wei Yi said, and he doesn't know what effect these people can do if they believe or not.
"The king, the minister thinks that he should send more ink to Kanto, advocating the world's love and love." Wei Yu immediately said.
"If my Great Qin attacks the east again, what should I say?" Li Si was very sensitive to Wei Yu's proposal and refuted it.
"That is the fact that the countries of the Kanto region are not the same and do not love each other, and I will conquer it in the Great Qin Dynasty." Wei Yi smiled.
"May I ask the national captain, what should you say about beheading?" Han Fei and Li Si stood aside and asked.
"This is the old system of the Qin army, and it will definitely be changed in the future." Wei Yu replied with some difficulty. Among the countries in the world, only the Qin State beheaded the meritorious service, and the Qin State frequently attacked the Six Kingdoms, and the Mo family's love and non-attack could not be advocated at all.
"Retreat!" Wesley's advice is nonsense, it's all unthought out. Zhao Zheng knew that he was still seeking peace more seriously, so he shouted to retreat from the dynasty with a stroke of his sleeve.
The retreat of the Zheng Dynasty was that Zhao Zheng retreated from the dynasty first, and the retreat of the Yan Dynasty was that the courtiers went to bed one after another, and Zhao Zheng also had to review the documents. Everyone else left, but Wei Yu didn't. When everyone retreated, he ignored Zhao Zheng and turned a blind eye to him, and said, "The minister asks the king to move to Yongcheng." β
Zhao Zheng didn't hear Wei Yi's words, and it wasn't until he asked for the third time that Zhao Zheng looked up at him and said, "Why did you move Yongcheng?" β
"Your Great King, just because my Great Qin's survival is all in the battle of Sanguan." Wei Yi no longer talked nonsense like just now, and his expression was not only sincere, but also very serious. "If I fight again next year, I will have no food in Daqin. The epidemic in Taiyuan spread to Zhaodi County, and it may be introduced to Guanzhong in autumn. Even if peace can be achieved, next year, there will be nine epidemics in ten households in Guanzhong, how can the country survive? β
"If you can't win the battle, you will die." Zhao Zheng understood what Wei Yi meant, but he was still suffering from gains and losses.
"For the alliance and the withdrawal from the land of Zhao Han, he Rijing people took advantage of my epidemic to attack me, how can he survive?" Wei Yu asked rhetorically. "Great Qin has reached the autumn of life and death, if he can't rise to a blow, there will be no way to live. Please move the king to Yongcheng and comfort the soldiers, so that our army can win. β
"How's Ganro?" Yongcheng is the old capital of Qin, and Zhao Zheng is no stranger. To the south of Yongcheng is Chencang, and to the south of Chencang is Sanguan. Moving to Yongcheng is tantamount to admitting that the peace quest failed, and Qin Chu can only fight again.
"King Jing does not want peace, he will attack me from the scattered passes." Wei Yu said. "Xianyang can be abandoned, Li Xin enters Fangcheng, and King Jing must retreat. Only Sanguan can be worried all the way, if I can win, the army will go down the river, and I can pull out the frustration and Nanzheng. Denan Zheng is to get Shu land, Shu land is millions of hectares of fertile land, the county is all my Qin people, the king forgives his sins, but he can go down also. β
"The Lu clan is unforgivable!" LΓΌ Buwei's son, LΓΌ Li, was appointed by the State of Chu as the county guard of Shu. This person openly slandered himself as his younger brother, and Zhao Zheng was reluctant to mention this person's name. In his heart, everyone else can be forgiven, but the Lu family is unforgivable.
"Please move the king." Whether or not to pardon the LΓΌ clan was not in Wei Yu's consideration, he considered that the king agreed to prepare for the Battle of Sanguan, which would determine the survival of the Qin state.
"No." Willing or unwilling, Zhao Zheng looked at Wei Yu's face and staked himself and the entire Great Qin. Before he left Xianyang, the king who instructed Ganluo to negotiate peace arrived in Wancheng, and Ganluo, who had originally refused to withdraw from Zhao and Handi, promised the next day that the Qin army would withdraw from Zhao and Han to the east of Taihang Mountain this year.
Ganluo was originally only willing to talk to the state of Chu, but the state of Chu used the alliance of the Kwantung states as an excuse to pull the Zhao people, the Han people, the Qi people, the Wei people, and the Qiang people up, and put forward demands one after another, these demands really had to be agreed, and millions of people in the Qin state died in vain in the past ten years.
"Really?" Dazai Jinyi, who was presiding over the negotiations, felt that he had misheard.
"That's true." Ganro knew what the king's mandate stood for, a promise that could not be kept.
"Not credible." Pingyang Jun Zhao Heng smiled, there was no joy.
"Please tell the king that the king of Qin is willing to withdraw from the land of Qi, Zhao, and Han, and form an alliance with the soldiers of all countries." Ganro squeezed out some smiles. He sincerely hoped that Qin Chu would make peace, and the experience of two envoys to Great Xia made him gradually understand what Xiong Jing said before, 'the world is big'. The world is so big, why do nations fight for small cities?
With less than 100,000 troops, Alexander conquered a territory several times larger than the world, and established a large empire spanning Central, Western and Southern Continents.
Gan Luo's smile was inevitably bitter, and he had already understood what King Jing meant, that is, he was unwilling to make peace; Xianyang's meaning was understood the moment he saw the king's order, and he didn't want to make peace again. War is inevitable, and one of the two sides must perish.
"The Qin people are all allowed." In the county guard's mansion, looking at Jin Yi who came to tell him, Xiong Jing immediately understood what Zhao Zheng meant.
"Great King, it is rumored that the King of Qin wants to patrol Yongcheng." Don't let me know, this is the news I just received.
"Yongcheng?" Yongcheng's location is very sensitive, and Li Ji wondered.
"There are many reports of the epidemic in Qin." Don't let me say it again, it's something that's still being confirmed.
"The Great Plague?!" Xiong Jing was quite surprised. "Where is the pandemic?"
"Jinyang." Don't talk to me. "It is reported that nearly half of the infected people died, and the Jin people were terrified, and all of them fled north."
"Jinyang?!" Xiong Jing was still surprised, as if he had thought of something.
"The Qin people are seeking peace because of the pandemic." Don't let me guess. "The epidemic is together, and it can't be saved by medicine stones, and this day is absolutely Qin."
"Or the plague." Xiong Jing's expression was solemn after being surprised. Jinyang is Taiyuan, of course, the epidemic cannot appear in the city, but first appear outside the city and then into the city. The city was crowded and dirty, and the epidemic broke out.
Shanxi has been plagued since ancient times, and in the history of the world, East Asia and Northeast Asia are famous natural foci of plague. The Black Death that swept across Europe should have originated in the eastern and northern regions of Mongolia and was brought into Europe by the Mongol cavalry of the Western Expedition; The plague that destroyed the Ming Dynasty also originated in the eastern and northern regions of Mongolia, Li Zicheng came to Beijing, and under the rampant plague, the capital had no soldiers to defend. The Chongzhen Dynasty was like this, and in fact, in the eighth year of Wanli, Datong was sick because of the plague.
The result is an imbalance in the ecosystem, with rodents having nowhere to feed; Rodents have nowhere to feed, so they can only mingle with the house mice and rob them of their rations. Rats are plague-free, rodents carry the disease (such as the marmot that caused the plague in Northeast China in 1910), and once rodents enter the area where house rats are active, they will transmit the disease to humans, and the plague will run rampant.
This is true of the scientific interpretation of later generations, which is also consistent with the explanation of the dying dynasties of the climate rather than the dynastic of the periodic law. As soon as the climate gets colder, the steppe tribes will move south, plundering and destroying the farming nation. The climate is not suddenly colder, but there is a period of fluctuation between cold and warm, and finally it is completely cold. Xiong Jing remembered that the year before last was a cold winter, but last year was a warm winter, and the world was in a period of cold and warm fluctuations, which is what Yin Yin and others said.
"Dare to ask the king what is the plague?" He had never heard of the plague, and he knew about rats, but why did rats have plagues?
"This plague originated from rodents." Xiong Jing couldn't explain the reason in detail, he had Chu in mind. "Tell all counties, towns, and townships that they must drink hot water, go to public toilets, avoid raw food, and refrain from outsiders. All those who come from the north must be examined for the disease, and those who have the disease must not enter our Chu realm. β
"Yui." Since the sea boat of Chu State sailed to the West Continent of India, a strict quarantine system has been formulated, but this system is not suitable for the sea boats returning from Dongzhou, but the sailors who go to Dongzhou need to be quarantined. The application of the smallpox isolation system to the plague was a natural application.
"All divisions and brigades should also send additional doctors, and the food and drinking water must be clean." Xiong Jing ordered the army again.
"The Qin army is in the upper reaches, so beware of the Qin people spreading plague in the army." He reminded.
"The Qin people would be so vicious?" Xiong Jing looked at him and asked.
"I think I can't help it." There is poisoning of water in war, but the nature of spreading plague is different. Li He was stunned by Xiong Jing's question, and he said: "The king must not be careless. If this battle is lost, the Qin state will be destroyed. The state of Qin is about to fall, and it will do everything it can. β
"Pass on your life, beware of the Qin people spreading the plague." Xiong Jing gave an angry order, after all, he didn't dare to risk the safety of the whole army.
"When will the military funds be lost?" Xiong Jing asked, he didn't want to stay in Wancheng anymore.
"Fifteen days." Li said. "However, the king still needs to be in Wancheng and pretend to negotiate peace."
"Why bother?" The peace talks have long been meaningless, Xiong Jing turned his head to look at the confessor, "Summoning the Qin envoy." β
"Why should the king tell each other......" The summoning of the Qin envoy was of course to open the skylight and say bright words, although both sides knew that the peace talks were hopeless.
"To tell or not to tell, we all know each other. The widow just invited the Qin envoy to a banquet, and the two countries of Chu and Qin will eventually die and I will die. Xiong Jing is not without melancholy. He thought that he was about to end an era, an era of more than 800 years, and its splendor still needs to be looked up to after 2,000 years. He couldn't help but be reminded of the famous exclamation of British Foreign Secretary Gray before the First World War: 'The lights of the whole of Europe are being extinguished.' We will never see them rekindled again in our lifetimes. β
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