In the twelfth year of Zhao Hou Wuxian (477 B.C.), in July and August, the western land was when the wheat was ripe and the autumn was high and the horses were fattening. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info near the Xitui Palace, built by Qin Xianggong, and the incense of Xichou to worship the White Emperor Shaohao is flourishing.

People came from all directions, and the frightened Qin people obviously used this place as a place of assembly, and the old Qin people from Xichen, Inuqiu, Hebei, and Shangtai went up the mountain one after another, while the Chinese men could only form a semicircle at the bottom of the hill, looking reverently at the White Emperor Temple on the top of the mountain, behind them was a procession of children, women and slaves, and tens of thousands of people gathered here.

They came here because they received an edict: the king of Qin has returned!

This is also the first time that Zi Thorn came to the west, to the place where the Qin people first arose.

He stood outside the western region and looked out over the hills occupied by woods and shrubs, and beyond that there were lonely and cold stones, with almost no place to put his feet, and the acres were only a few hundred acres in the mountain basin, and in the distance were the cruel dark mountains. Before coming here, Zijian never thought that there would be such a barren land in the world, no wonder the ancestors of the Qin State had to leave here with their clansmen to occupy the fertile plains east of Qishan......

But now, the former eight hundred miles of Qinchuan has been occupied by the Zhao State, and the Qin people can only return to their hometown in disgrace, whether it is the princes of the Qin State or the commoners, they are all full of confusion, the reason why they can accept Zhao Thorn, a monarch who took the lead in descending Zhao, to come back and give orders, is not to expect him to show them a clear way.

"You are here, do you want to take us back to Qiyang and recapture Yongdu!?"

After half a ring, an old man took the lead in asking questions, and Zijian saw that he was still carrying a sword and halberd, wearing armor, and rubbing his hands, as if he was a little indignant about the unknown defeat, and wanted to fight back to the east.

Zijian knew that he was the least qualified to say this, but he still stubbornly said: "The second and third sons think that Qin can beat Zhao?" ”

"If it weren't for the surrender of the emperor and the commander that day, the chief of the palace would have returned in despair, and the outcome would not have been known." Sure enough, there was a sour voice that said that there were not a few people in this group of Qin people who were worried about Zi Thorn, if it weren't for him being the orthodox monarch of the Qin State, I was afraid that he would have been killed as a spy who had thrown Zhao at this moment.

Zijian explained bitterly: "The Qin country is my country, and the Qin people are also my people, how can you not feel distressed? But the battle of Zheng County, the battle of Lantian, the elite of the great chief painstakingly built could not shake the Zhao army array, if it was the Zhao army ten years ago, Qin might still have a chance to win, but now the Zhao army is several times stronger, the armor soldiers are more advantageous, the soldiers are more, and step by step, the Qin State has no way to defeat at all, and I am forced to surrender to Zhao......"

However, the princes are not so easy to convince, they still said: "The king has surrendered Zhao, and the Zhao people can't tolerate you, if you can take us eastward today, one life for another, and kill thousands of Zhao people, we will die without regrets, otherwise, the king will not be the king of Qin!" There are no cowardly monarchs in the Qin State! ”

This remark won a burst of response: "Yes, even if the old Qin people are bloody, they would rather die than give in!" ”

If you die, you will know that death, and you will know that it is not easy to survive with humiliation than death!?

A nameless fire rose from Zi Thorn's chest, he slapped the case, and said loudly: "I have brought all the Qin people who don't want to be Zhao Min, but five thousand people, and the rest of the millions of Qin people, have all become the people of Zhao State. ”

"Yongdu and Longguan have been occupied by the Zhao army, they are strong and strong, you are afraid that if you can't cross the pass, you will be wiped out. When the time comes, the men of the Qin people will die in Longdong, and only women and children will be left in the west, and Xirong and Qiang will be able to take advantage of the weakness to enter, and their generation will be more vicious enemies than the Zhao people, they will occupy Longxi, burn the Xichen Palace and Xichou, destroy my temple, ** your wife and daughter, and stab the baby to death on the wooden spear...... From now on, Qin's name will disappear from heaven and earth, and this is the only result of your insistence on advancing eastward! ”

It was like a scoop of cold water poured down, shattering all the illusions of the main battle faction. The heads of the Qin people drooped, although they were not convinced, but the monarch was right, now going east, there is indeed only the end of the extinction of the clan and the destruction of the society......

"How's that to be? Are I, the Qin people, going to be trapped in this barren western land? Someone cried out in despair, the old husband of Yongdu lived a good life for two hundred years, and suddenly returned to the west, cultivating and grazing on the stone ground, which was really hard. This western land is not comparable to the future generations, the environment is harsh, the terrain is rugged, there is neither a comfortable life nor a future.

Seeing that the opportunity had come, Zijian appealed loudly: "Don't despair, the second and third sons, I came to the west this time to inherit the will of the eldest concubine and take the Qin people to break out of the way!" ”

"What's the way out?"

He pointed to the direction in which the sun was gradually setting in the west and said, "Since going east is a dead end, then we might as well go west!" ”

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"To the west?"

The Qin people looked at each other, stayed in Yongdu for a long time, and only looked at the east for a long time, so that in their impression, the west and the west were barren and blank.

"The west is occupied by the Rong people and the Qiang, and it is poorer than Longxi in the west." Someone muttered quietly.

"Otherwise, the most fertile pasture on the north bank of Weishui is now occupied by Mianzhurong, and further west, near the West Dog Hill, is? The land there is no worse than that of the west, and there are more horses, cattle and sheep to take, and there are Rong people to use as slaves. Further west, there is the land of the Qiang, the Qiang people are divided and even more vulnerable. Although our Qin army cannot be the enemy of the Zhao army, it is easy to attack Rongqiang! ”

"A hundred miles of Rong Mountain is not as good as a mile of Jingwei." The Qin people were still hesitant, Zhengrong, Qin Mugong also did it, Yiguo Twelve, opened thousands of miles, and dominated Xirong, but after all, they felt that there was no oil and water, and the later Qin monarchs lost their interest in going west.

"This time it's different."

Zi Thorn asked people to unfold the map that Zhao Wuxian gave him, in the past, the Qin people's understanding was only Xiqiang, but on the map, the west of Xiqiang, also extended thousands of miles away, and the states that the Qin people had never heard of before were dotted on it, connecting them, it was a looming road.

This road is the Jade Road, and it is also the later Silk Road, which leads to Hexi and the Western Regions......

"I got this map from the envoy of the Zhao people to the extreme west, in the west of the meander, there is a land that is extremely rich and fertile, under the Qilian Mountain, there are herds of cattle and sheep. As long as the Qin people sweep away Qiangrong and capture it again, they will be able to build another strong country! Zi Jian pointed to the location of the Hexi Corridor, his eyes blazing.

"Come with me to the West, and I will bring you fertile land that is not available here, as well as countless subordinate concubines, so that you can avoid the edge of Zhao and try to make a comeback! There are two roads in front of them, to the east, the Qin people are destroyed; To the west, the Qin State rises again! ”

After that, Zi Thorn only waited for the cheers of the Qin people, but there was no sound for a long time, he could see that they were still hesitating, and because of the matter of surrendering without a fight, they had no trust in Zi Thorn.

Seeing this, Zi Thorn took a step back and moved out of the killer weapon that Zhao Wuxian had prepared for him when he came to the west this time.

An old man with a cane stepped out from behind Zithorn.

"Great Witch, it's the Great Witch of the White Emperor Temple in Yongcheng!"

The Qin people are superstitious about ghosts and gods, especially the mysterious Wuxian, and it is said that this great witch of Yongcheng is the descendant of Wuxian and is regarded as a god. Only Zi Jian knew that this old witch was not so sacred, and in the past few months, he had been captured by Zhao Wuxian's Qian Silk Treasure, and he was willing to arrange sacrifices for him to complete the ceremony of Zhao annexing Qin and Zhao Qin as a family......

Today, it was also Zhao Wuxian who arranged for the Great Witch to help Zi Thorn.

The great witch's voice among the Qin people is obviously much higher than that of Zijian, who has stayed in the Zhao State for more than ten years and surrendered as soon as he returns, and after he glanced down a few times, the princes of the Qin State and the commoners all stopped complaining and worshiped him one after another.

Da Wu waved his hand at everyone, smiled with a shriveled mouth, and opened his mouth, which was a sentence that shocked everyone: "Second and third sons, there is no need to doubt it, going to the West is the decision of the monarch, and it is also the destiny of the Qin people!" ”

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"Destiny?" The Qin people were dumbfounded, how could one be more evil than the other?

"Do you believe it?"

Seeing that the Qin people were very surprised, the great witch said like a few treasures: "When Qin Wengong was in the past, there was a flying stone outside the sky, flying from the southeast, going to the west, shining brightly, the night was like day, and finally fell in Chencang, the rooster in Chencang was crowing, Qin Wengong took people to take a look the next day, and got a piece of Chen Gem, which was enshrined in Chencang Chen Bao Temple. At that time, there was Wu Zhu divination, and the meaning of this flying stone was measured, that the Qin people should have the West, and the people did not know at the time, and thought that the Qin Mu Gongba Xirong had been fulfilled later, but in fact, today, the Qin people went to the west with the king, which was the providence of Haotian to descend Chen Baobao......"

The Qin people were still skeptical, after all, there was actually no connection between these two things, and when Da Wu saw this, he had to say another thing.

"If you still don't believe it, hundreds of years before Chen Baobao's arrival, Qin Zhong was a vassal of Zhou, and Xirong betrayed the Zhou family and wiped out the entire clan of Inuqiu Daluo, but Qin Zhong was the only one who preserved. When King Xuan of Zhou, he took Qin Zhong as his doctor and crusaded against Xirong. Qin Zhong was killed by Xirong, and his five sons marched west with 7,000 soldiers, defeating Xirong, and Qin Zhuang Gong was named the doctor of Xirong. The next generation of Zhuang Gong is still fighting hard with Xirong, so it can be seen that the war is the destiny of the Qin people from the time of the entitlement......"

Under the flickering of the Great Witch, Qin Ren's mind moved, but he was still one step away.

Zi Thorn looked at Dawu and nodded at him.

Dawu understood, took a deep breath, and said with all his strength: "If you still don't believe it, there is another thing that goes back thousands of years. ”

"My Qin people are called Dongfang Shepherd Calf, yes, we are after the surname Dongyi Ying, and one of the ancestors of Qin is the Kuafu family. Legend has it that Kuafu ran with the sun and wanted to go to the place where the sun set, but on the way, Kuafu felt thirsty and wanted to drink water, so he ran to the Yellow River and Weishui to drink; The water of the Yellow River and Weishui is not enough, and he went to Daze in the north to drink water, who expected that he would die of thirst after only half of the walk, his head became Huashan, his body became Qinling, his arms became Cuihan, his feet became Longshan, and even the peach wood cane turned into a peach forest, which is the origin of the peach forest stopper...... The so-called eight hundred miles of Qinchuan is just Kuafu's spacious back. ”

Everyone listened to the story in silence and was shocked.

"Kuafu's day-by-day road is the migration route of our ancestors surnamed Ying, Kuafu's body turned into Qinchuan, sheltering the Qin State for hundreds of years, and today we have finally been driven out, not because the Zhao State is strong, nor because the prince and marquis do not fight, but because of the ...... Because this is the destiny of the Qin people! ”

The more Da Wu spoke, the faster and more fluent he became: "The Mandate of Heaven compels us to continue in the direction of Kuafu, to the west, to the west, and then to the valley where the sun sets, which is the coast of the West Sea on this map......"

There was silence under the Xichou, and what the Great Witch said was mysterious, but the Qin people believed it this time, and no one spoke for a long time. Even Zi Thorn, who knew the facts, was made delirious by his passionate declaration.

"To the west!"

Without losing any time, the shriveled hand of the Great Witch pointed to the west, where the direction of the sun set, and there was the route of Kuafu's day-to-day journey.

"To the west!"

Zi Thorn's long sword, pointing to the west, his eyes flashed with tears, on the day Zhao Wuxian gave him this map, Zi Thorn had the same dream: the inky banner of the Qin State flew in the air again, and the Qin people's sharp soldiers and chariot riders descended to the west, like a whip held in the hands of the Haotian God, sweeping away all the city-states and tribes along the way, he wanted to wash away his surrender without a fight, turn his back on the shame of the state clan, open up a new heaven and a new land with blood, flames and the songs of the Qin people, and re-establish a huge Great Qin State that was not inferior to the past!

The last group of Qin recalcitrant people who followed Zijian to the west opened the cart they brought, and presented the life-saving food that Zhao had given to the Qin people inside, as well as the confiscated Qin weapons. In the cheers, up and down in the western region, all the Qin people picked up their weapons, and their eyes turned to the west.

They believe in the words of Dawu, there is the "Mandate of Heaven" of the Qin people for thousands of years, and they believe in the words of Zijian, where is the future and hope of the Qin State, somewhere, there will be a fertile grassland or land, waiting for their children and grandchildren......

"To the west! To the west! To the west! ”

The shouts continued to spread, intensified, and finally turned into a roar, like thunder, shaking the western region, shaking Longxi, as if a huge storm was brewing and brewing, ready to sweep the clouds to the west!

In September, Qin cut down Mianzhu Rong, destroyed it, and all Mian people were reduced to subordinate concubines. The Qin people's westward expedition began from this, and a domino-like national migration that affected the entire world island also began......

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PS: Shu sent five dings to welcome the stone cow. It is not convenient to pay the money, and it is sent back angrily. He mocked the Qin people and said: "Oriental herding calves." ——"Huayang National Chronicles. Shu Zhi. Volume 3