Chapter 3 The general trend of the world

He thought of Zhan He, the traveling warrior of the Chu State who appeared in front of him on the first day. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

For the Chu traveler Zhan He, he himself has some memory, that is he mentioned in an article "Zhan He fishing", saying that this Zhan He fishing skills are very superb, can be used silk fishing to fill a car full of fish and silk constantly, which attracted the King of Chu to be curious about his fishing skills, and finally the King of Chu asked him about the fishing skills, and he used the fishing skills to persuade the story of the King of Chu's way of governing the country.

Time and people seem to be right, could it be that Zhan He in history is him?

"Tang Ying, do you know who this Mr. Zhan He is?" Dai Yan asked the young scholar in front of him. This Tang Ying's memory in Ziyan is not an impressive character, he himself is a young ranger in Suiyang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, and he is the same age as Ziyan. Once Ziyan saw him fighting with other rangers on the street, and saw that he was good enough to accept him as his own taxi, and later the monarch's brother named him to Fengyi, and he himself did not have many of his own people, so he let Tang Ying be his own retainer and help deal with some chores. But seeing his fierce appearance yesterday, maybe Ziyan himself couldn't guess that he could do that, right? If the sovereign dies, he will apology for his own crimes.

"Childe, I have inquired, according to Wei Meng, this Mr. Zhan He is a person with a lot of background, and the king of Chu seems to have ordered him to be a guest secretary to consult on state affairs. However, later Mr. Zhan He left the Chu State and toured the world, but he did not expect to appear in our Song Kingdom. Tang Ying replied truthfully, and when he said Wei Meng's name, there seemed to be a hint of hatred.

"Then you go and invite Mr. Zhan He over." Dai Yan commanded.

"Zhanzi, the conditions of the disdainful city are poor, and I will treat Mr. slowly." After Tang Yan invited Zhan He, Dai Yan saluted him according to the etiquette in Ziyan's memory and asked him to sit down. Then he went on to ask: "Zhan Zi is from the big country of Chu, we are in the remote part of this small country, and we have not communicated with the outside world for a long time, I don't know what the situation between the countries is now?" ”

"The current situation in the world is indeed a rare change in the world in hundreds of years." Obviously, Zhan He is a little proud of answering such a question, he is famous for his good reasoning to explain the situation in the world to the deaf Song people, and the other party is not only obedient? "Since the division of the three Jin Dynasty, Wei took the lead in changing the law to become strong, and then united with Zhao and Korea, and in the three Jin Dynasty, Wei defeated Qi in the east and Qin in the west, and took the land west of the Qin River, defeated Chu in the south, and destroyed Zhongshan in the north, and achieved the hegemony of the world. Korea followed Wei and destroyed the once powerful Zheng State; Zhao State wantonly annexed Rongdi in Hebei Province and became a powerful country for a while. However, since the accession of Wei Jun to the throne, the Three Jin Dynasty was in turmoil, Wei first attacked Zhao, and Qi besieged Wei to save Zhao and defeated Qi in Guiling; Five years ago, Wei attacked Korea, Qi besieged Wei and defeated Qi in Maling, the Wei army suffered more than 100,000 casualties, and the hegemony of three generations of Wei was in decline. However, although Qi won two victories over Wei, Qi general Tian Ji was jealous of Qi Hou, so Tian Ji fled to my Chu State, and Qi State failed to inherit the hegemony of Wei. Before that, our Chu State had Wu Qi to change the law, rectify internal affairs, and the national strength was second only to Wei, but Wei Qi did not interfere at all in the war against our Chu State, and the hegemony of the Central Plains had nothing to do with our Chu State. Since the Duke of Qi Huan was the overlord, Jin and Chu have successively hegemonized, and there is a transcendent overlord in the world, but now the strength of the three kingdoms of Wei, Qi and Chu is comparable, and there is no hegemony in the world, isn't it the source of troubled times? ”

"Sir seems to have forgotten to talk about the Qin State?" For the famous Tiger and Wolf Qin in later generations, Dai Yan has been famous for a long time, and the most urgent thing for him to come to the Warring States is to know where the Qin State has come now?

"Qin State? More than ten years ago, the Gongsun of the Weiguo Kingdom entered Qin, and the Qin State strictly changed the law, and it is said that many people died. Later, the Qin State took advantage of the battle between Wei and Qi to attack the Wei State, and it seems that he had achieved a victory in Hexi, and Wei Ying also obtained Shang Land as his fief. However, two years ago, Qin Junxin ascended the throne, and immediately broke the Shang Dynasty, and Qin is now in chaos, where can he have the ability to influence the situation in the world? Zhan He looked disappreciative.

"Sir's views on the world can be described as profound, but the kid thinks that Mr. ignores the Qin State so much, which can be described as a fallacy." Dai Yan said with a mysterious expression.

"Oh? I would like to hear about it. Zhan He is a little interested, you must know that his teacher is the world-famous Yang Zhu, he followed the teacher to learn to think from the perspective of interests, and then he understood the skills of reasoning. He has a reputation of "not leaving home, knowing the world" in the state of Chu, and he has always been very accurate in predicting the situation in the kingdom of heaven, and the king of Chu has asked him for advice many times, but he has the tendency of a Taoist scholar, and he is not willing to be an official, but he is only willing to wander the world to look at the world with a detached vision. His heart was very high, and he was very curious that a young prince of Song Guo like today would say that his judgment was wrong.

"Qin Zhixian was a minister of Shang, and after my Song State was a Yin Shang, I naturally knew some inside stories. After Qin and Zhao were both the Win clan, the Win clan was famous for its good horses and good shepherds, and its people were proud of their death in battle. Therefore, Emperor Yu once said to the ancestors of the Ying clan: Ru Ying will be great in the world one day. Now the Qin State has strictly changed the law and rewarded farming and warfare, and its country will surely become rich quickly. In addition, the clansmen dare to fight to the death, the army of this country will be the army of the kingdom, and the winning clan will be out of the world at this time. Therefore, the kid believes that the Qin State will definitely have a great influence on the world in the future. Dai Yan said calmly.

"The Qin State was the strongest during the Mu Gong period, but it also failed to break through the blockade of the Jin State and expand its power to the Central Plains. From the point of view of the old decay, the country in the world that is still martial and good at war is not the Qin family. Wei is one of the three Jin Dynasty, the people of Hedong are also martial, and the Jin army is more brave and tidy. Although the Wei State is in decline, but the Wei State still has the good warriors trained by Wu Qi, and my Chu State also has this similar army, with the national strength of the Qin State with few people, it is not easy to break through the Wei State, not to mention that there is also my Chu State in the south, the Chu State is the largest country in the south, the place is five thousand miles, with a million armor, why should the people of the Chu State fight to the death? Once the Qin State is really strong and has the potential to be the hegemon of the world, how can my Chu State let the Qin State easily get its wish? How could the Qin State be able to fight against two powerful countries in the form of a small country? Zhan He calmly retorted to Dai Yan. As a prominent celebrity in the Chu State, he naturally knew that there were all kinds of prophecies among the major families among the nations, but obviously he did not think that the Qin State could defeat these traditional powers in the East just by relying on good warfare and the small territory of the Qin Land.

It seems that such views are common among the scholars of the nations, right? Who would have thought that the Tiger and Wolf Qin would be able to exert such tremendous pressure on the Heavenly Kingdom in the end, and finally the Qin State would be able to sweep Liuhe and dominate the world? Dai Yan thought silently in his heart. He extracted the most crucial information from Zhan He's words, it is now two years after the new monarch of Qin ascended the throne, according to later generations, it is almost 336 BC, and Qin unified the world in 221 BC. If you go out now, take out a random scholar among the nations and say to him, "Do you know that the Qin kingdom will unify the whole world in more than a hundred years?" I guess everyone will think of him as a madman, right? Dai Yan's thinking is normal, and of course he will not go around preaching this kind of "top-secret news" like a madman.

But the situation doesn't seem to be too rosy for him? In his memory, the Song State was finally destroyed by the Qi State. It was because of Qi that the Song Dynasty was destroyed, which triggered the invasion of the Five Kingdoms of Le Yi in history, which seemed to be 285 BC, so to speak, the Song State has been almost 700 years, but it is only a few decades away from the destruction of the country. Dai Yan has not personally experienced the fate of the people who died in the country, but he knew the fate of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and also learned the history of modern China being oppressed by neon from various educational materials, and knew the term slave of the dead country. Even if the pre-Qin era was an era of more tolerance for the aristocracy, as a nobleman, if he became a person who lost the country, it would be tantamount to his fate in the hands of others from now on, which he absolutely could not tolerate.

"Sir, what do you think of our Song Kingdom? Our Song people are tough and good at the righteousness of a gentleman, although our country is not warlike, but it should still be possible to keep the community, right? Dai Yan asked suddenly.

"Your country is in danger. Your country is located between the three great powers of Wei, Qi and Chu, and your country exists entirely because the three great powers contain each other, and neither of them can suppress the other two, and your country is completely a buffer place for the three great powers. The three great powers will certainly not be happy to see your country's strength too strong, and your country's strength will inevitably become weaker and weaker until it perishes. It is also impossible for your country to become a country that only preserves rituals and sacrifices, like the Lu and Wei countries. After your country is Yin Shang, since King Wu conquered, Yin Shang's mandate of heaven was replaced by Zhou, and the world gradually adapted to Zhou's etiquette system, the only exception is your country. I am afraid that all countries in the world will not see such an exceptional country, so your country will inevitably be completely assimilated, then your country will completely lose the etiquette system of Yin Shang, so what is the difference between your country and perdition? Zhan He didn't think about it, blurted out and made his debut, without giving the owner of this place, Dr. Fengyi, the son of Song Guo, a little face.

Dai Yan was silent, he really couldn't think of a good end for a country mixed with major powers. Later Poland, Germany, etc., perfectly illustrate this example. Poland was so powerful that it almost destroyed Russia, but it was soon destroyed by the partition of Prussia, Russia, and Austria. The strength of modern Germany does not need to be proven, the industry is developed, and the quality of the military is the first in the world; However, because it is at the crossroads of Europe, World War I was besieged by Britain, France and Russia from two directions, and World War II was besieged by the Soviet Union and the United States and Britain from both directions.

However, in the future, will you really want to be a slave who completely puts her fate in the hands of others? Dai Yan is not reconciled!