In the early spring of the fifteenth year of Qin Bopan (477 B.C.), the north wind swept the ground on the land of Yongzhou, it was warm and cold at first, and the young shoots that had just been squeezed out of the dead leaves, the dew of last night had not dried, and they were blown by the wind, and they couldn't help swaying and trembling. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

And on the north bank of the Weiping Plain, across the river, in a place called Xianyang, a tragic battle is coming to an end. In the twilight of early spring, the battlefield was littered with corpses, discarded chariots, and panicked horses that had lost their owners. The Qin people's black daqi had firmly occupied a small hill in the center of the battlefield, and the Qin army soldiers were in full array, looking at the enemy who was routing to the north like a tide, and cheered.

However, the sons and daughters of the princely clan of the Qin State were all gathered under the Great Guard, nervously looking at the injuries of their commander, the eldest son of the Great Concubine, Pu. When the battle was stalemate before, the commander of the army led his troops to charge, and rushed the enemy into two sections in one go, but the bronze cluster of the Yiqu Rong people also shot into his thigh at an extremely tricky angle, more than four inches deep, and in the face of such a serious injury, the wounded doctor was hesitant.

"Broken Arrow!" The gray-haired chief was not afraid, and after taking a sip of strong wine, he said loudly: "If the wounded doctor keeps arrows, the old man will cut off his head!" ”

"Yui!"

The wounded doctor gritted his teeth, dropped his knife, and cut off the shaft of the arrow, and then had to continue to treat his injuries.

Zipu also didn't care about his own safety, and when the wounded doctor bandaged him, he ordered again and again: "Rong people, it is the enemy of the twentieth generation of my Qin State, you have to wait for Hugh to watch here, our army won a big victory in this battle, Yiqu fled, and quickly went to pursue!" ”

The generals of the princely clans of the Qin State took the order and went away, chasing and beating the alien races in the north, Zipu breathed a sigh of relief, sat under the big curtain, looked at the bloody sunset, and let out a burst of laughter.

"After more than ten years of forbearance and shame, I finally got today's big victory, it's worth it!"

……

It turned out that in the second year of Qin Bopan, the Qin State experienced a defeat in Hedong, and was attacked by the Zhao family to Jingyang, and even had a partial division to go deep into the foot of Qishan Mountain, burning the small towns attached to Yongdu, and the Qin State had to cut the land and claim peace with the domain, so far, it has been a full thirteen years.

In the past thirteen years, the conservative and backward Qin State began a difficult turn, while delivering a large amount of grain to the Zhao State every year, while secretly beginning to re-accumulate strength, using the remnants of the Wei clan to reform the army, and cultivating battle formations in Lantian, hoping to one day be disgraced.

Who would have expected that the old shame had not disappeared, and the new shame had come, first the prince of Qin State was forced to enter Yecheng as a hostage, and then Qin Bopan went to participate in the meeting of Huangchi, and was forced to play music for Zhao Wuxian, and was recorded by the historian of Zhao State in court: "In the fifth year of the public, the prince and Qin Bo will drink, so that Qin Bo will ......"

After Qin Bopan returned, he was ashamed of this incident and said to Zipu sadly: "In the past, my ancestor Mu Gong cultivated virtue and martial arts, and Dongping and Jin were in turmoil, with the river as the boundary. Xiba Rong Zhai, a vast land of thousands of miles. The Son of Heaven to the Uncle, the princes Bihe, how strong the Qin State is! As for the widows, the country is poor and weak, the Zhao clan attacked my first monarch Hexi, the prince entered the pledge, humiliated Huangchi, the princes were inferior to Qin, and the ugliness was great! Thinking of the past, the widow often feels painful, wants to change the system, and wants to go eastward, return to the hometown of the Duke of Miao, and hope that the chief will conspire with me! ”

Since then, with the strong support of the monarch, the changes of the Qin State have begun to go deeper and deeper, and the eldest son of the eldest son, Pu, has full authority to preside over the matter. The national conditions of the Qin State are different from the Chu State, although the chief of the clan has always been powerful, but there has never been a large fief, and the Qin State is surrounded by Rong Di, and there is no condition to be as extravagant and desolate as the Chu State, so the nobles still maintain the spirit of hard work and martial arts, not as corrupt as the Chu nobles, and regard the change as a flood beast.

However, it is also not easy for Qin to reform, and the backward economy, production, and customs cannot be corrected in a year or two, not to mention that a large number of New Year's coins have to be given to Zhao every year, which makes the already bad domestic economy even worse.

In a closed society like the Qin State, the wealth of the country is almost constant, not to mention the constant outflow, and it is not surprising that it is becoming less and less. If you want to strengthen the army, but you can't make contributions to the outside world and seize resources in a short period of time, the only way is to squeeze it internally. With the sudden disintegration of the Jingtian system in the Qin state, the social divide between the rich and the poor intensified, and Zipu ordered that those who did not separate their families should pay four times the tax, so a large number of clans were divided.

Such decrees contribute to the development of the smallholder economy, but they are not friendly to the poor. In the more affluent families, as soon as the children reach the prime of life, they will split up and set up separate doors; Because the poor family could not afford the household endowment, they could only go bankrupt and give their children to the rich to become serfs and sons-in-law in the nature of domestic slaves.

The new law blocked the merchants and drove the people to focus only on agricultural warfare, so Qin's reforms, which were different from those of Zhao and Chu, took a unique path, that is, they turned sharply towards the road of serfdom.

"Only by making the people poor and making the people miserable can we drive them to behead and make meritorious service and strengthen the army and enrich the country!"

Adhering to this concept, three years ago, the Qin State began to attack the surrounding Rongdi state, the first to bear the brunt of the weak Mianzhurong, after spending half a year to destroy this small state in Longxi, which is the closest to Qin, the Qin State pointed the finger at Yiqu Rong......

Although Zhao faced Qin's oppression from the east, Qin's real henchmen were Yiqu. After the annexation of Zhurong in the north, Yiqu has been extremely powerful, they gave up the pure nomadic life, built cities to defend themselves, and continued to encroach on the land of Qin, ten years ago, they took advantage of Zhao to break Qin, invited Zhao Wuxian to destroy Qin and divide its land, after being refused, they still did not forgive Qin, and every summer and autumn they would definitely send a car to ride into Qin to harass and plunder.

In response to the dexterous maneuvers of the Yiqu people who came and went like the wind, Zipu set up a strategy of deliberately showing weakness and luring the Rong people deep into the Qin land, and released a large number of cattle, sheep and people on the border of Qin and Rong.

Sure enough, under the temptation of interests, Yiqu Jun couldn't hold back, and he personally commanded 30,000 Rong people from Jingbei to invade the Weinan area, capturing nearly 10,000 Qin people and 100,000 livestock.

However, the three armies of the Qin army, which had already been prepared, had been waiting for the rabbit in the Xianyang area of Weibei, and the two sides fought a big battle, and the victory and defeat were finally divided for a day and a night......

"In this battle, our Qin army suffered thousands of casualties, but the Yiqu people were also beheaded nearly 10,000, plus the generals were chasing, and the main force of Yiqu basically had to be explained here. This is a God-given opportunity, even if the old man is injured, he must lead the army north to chase the group, recapture Misu and Fengyi, and go straight to the lair of Yiqujun in the north! Defeat the enemy completely! No poison left behind! ”

The eldest son of the eldest son, Pu, was excited, and the wound in his chest suddenly burst into pain, and the pain made him sit down again.

The wounded doctor hurriedly persuaded: "Chief, the king is sick, and he can't leave Yongcheng this year, so the Qin State is counting on you, and I hope to cherish my body." ”

Thinking of Uncle Qin's body, Zipu couldn't help but sigh, he couldn't let go of the shame that he had made the Qin State fall into defeat and cede the land, so he was old and strong, but Uncle Qin, who was less than forty years old, was already terminally ill, and he was afraid that he would die soon.

"It's time to bring the prince back."

Zipu thought so, his brows soothed a lot, it seemed that he had advocated sending the young prince to Zhao as a hostage, which was a wise move.

……

The prince of Qin is still in Yecheng of Zhao State, but the prince can really be said to be humiliated, he pretended to be obedient in front of Zhao Hou, but he secretly contacted the Qin people and informed Zipu of some military information of Zhao State.

For example, last year, Zhao Hou claimed that he wanted to invade North Korea, and he made a big move to do this, mobilized a large number of troops, and asked the coastal ships to be repaired. However, when there was civil strife in Chu in July, the prince thorn came back with news that in fact, Zhao Hou's move was just to confuse the Chu State and plunge the Chu State into civil strife, so that he could go south to destroy Chu in one fell swoop!

The prince stabbed in the silk book and said: "How big is the state of Chu, if Zhao wants to destroy Chu, he will pour the power of the country to the south, and he will not get his full merit in three or five years. At that time, the kid will also wait for an opportunity to escape from Yecheng. ”

Zipu and Qin Bo hesitated for a long time for this suggestion of the prince's assassination, until in August and September last year, the state of Zhao suddenly destroyed the state of Zheng, and at the same time gathered a large number of troops on the border of Zhao and Chu, and began to encroach on the cities abandoned by the state of Chu.

Seeing this situation, Qin Cai did not doubt him, for the Chu State, Zipu could only hope that they would seek more blessings, and the Qin State began a great battle with Yiqu, from last autumn and winter to now, and finally won a big victory in the encounter in Xianyang......

But the Qin people were also extremely tired and scarred.

"It doesn't matter, as long as the righteous canal is destroyed, the Rong people are subdued, and they are rewarded as slaves to meritorious soldiers. In this way, like Zhao Guo, a virtuous cycle of military merit will be repeated, and the army will become stronger and stronger, and the territory will become bigger and bigger! ”

With such a longing, Zipu stroked the wound and lay down under the big coffin, just about to fall asleep......

However, a rush of footsteps disturbed his sweet dream, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a herald sweating profusely.

"What's the matter? Could it be that he has already caught up with Yiqu Jun and beheaded him? ”

The herald did not know how long he had been on horseback, his mouth was blistered, his throat was dry, and he could not speak for a while, but shook his head vigorously.

"Could it be the ...... of the king" Zipu's face changed greatly, if Qin Bopan leaves to Huangquan at this time, and the prince of Qin is outside, he will enter a vacant period!

The herald shook his head again, and just handed the urgent report in his hand to Zipu.

After Zipu glanced at it, his lips, which had lost their blood-colored color due to arrow wounds, became more and more pale as snow.

"Zhao Hou...... A handsome 100,000 division into Qin? These words were squeezed out of his teeth, and Zipu's hopeful eyes, which had been regained because of this great victory, also became confused, flustered, and angry about being deceived......

"The reason is that we want to find a place for Uncle Zheng, and ask for the eastern gateway of my Qin State, Xizheng, and even the entire Weinan!?"

Tearing up the silk book, Zipu vomited blood: "What is the Northern Expedition to Korea, what is the South to destroy Chu!" Zi Thorn (Prince Qin Thorn), Qin State, and even the people of the world have been played, Zhao Wuxian's real purpose is the Qin State! “

PS: The second chapter is in the evening