Chapter 62: Yongcheng

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There are two avenues from Xianyang to Longxi County, Weishui Road and Weishui Road, and to pass through Weishui Road, you must go west after passing Chencang Pass. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info is located in the upper reaches of Weishui, close to Chencang Pass, Yongcheng (later south of Fengxiang County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province), one of the 26 counties under the jurisdiction of Neishi County, on the edge of this avenue.

Yongcheng is one of the two cities in Guanzhong that is second only to Xianyang, the capital of the Great Qin State. When Xianyang was not built, Yongcheng was the largest city in Guanzhong for more than 300 years.

All this is because Yongcheng was the capital of Great Qin until the second year of Xiangong (383 BC).

Xianggong, the first monarch of Great Qin, set up the capital at Chencang Mountain, which was close to the birthplace of the Qin people, that is, the original Chencang Pass. The second monarch Wen Gong moved the capital more than 100 miles east and set it up in Yongcheng on the north bank of Weishui.

From 677 BC to the second year of Xiangong (383 BC), Daqin established its capital in Yongcheng for 294 years, and a total of 19 monarchs ruled Daqin here.

In Yongcheng Daqin, the Spring and Autumn Period was passed, and in the early years of the Warring States Period, the princes fought against each other. At that time, the Qin State was poor and weak, and in the war with the bordering Wei State, the Qin State was repeatedly attacked by the Wei State, and the most dangerous time was even once beaten by the Wei State to Yu County, which was only more than 100 miles away from the national capital Yongcheng. Most of the land west of Yuxian, including present-day Xianyang and other places, was occupied by the Wei state.

After Xiangong inherited the throne of Qin, in order to declare to the world that Daqin would not take a step back to the west and no longer lose the city and land, he resolutely moved the capital east to the small city of Liyang, which was more than 200 miles away from Xianyang today. Although it is called a city, in fact, Liyang was built exactly according to the function of a military fortress.

Xiatai, which is only 300 miles away from Liyang City, was occupied by the Wei State, and the Wei State could send troops from the Huashan camp in five days at most to be able to attack the Liyang City. It was under these circumstances that Xian Gong still resolutely moved the capital of the Great Qin State to Liyang.

In the years that followed, Xiangong slowly drove Wei out of Guanzhong. And finally occupied the Hangu Pass, the western gate of the Wei State. Since then, Hangu Pass has never been lost from the hands of Great Qin, until the First Emperor unified the Six Kingdoms.

It was after the capture of Hangu Pass. The successor Xiao Gong ordered Shang Ying to choose Xianyang to rebuild the new capital, and officially moved the capital to Xianyang in the following year.

After the Great Qin fixed the capital of Xianyang, Yongcheng became the former capital, although it had lost its status as the political center of the Great Qin. But the Qin people started from Yongcheng, walked out of Guanzhong step by step, and finally reached the first emperor to sweep and unify the world. The significance of Yongcheng to Daqin is no longer something that can be summed up by the old capital.

As the capital of Daqin, in more than 290 years, the old Qin people built the strongest city wall and the most gorgeous palace in Yongcheng at that time, even after moving the capital to Xianyang, the mausoleum of the nineteen monarchs of the Ying clan and the temple of the Qin people still remained in Yongcheng. For many important sacrifices and ceremonies, the monarch of Great Qin would return to Yongcheng from Xianyang to hold ceremonies.

Yongcheng has a very special status in the hearts of the Qin people, and it also has a special status in the Great Qin.

October 23 of the Great Qin calendar. That is, two days before the National Day, when the people of Neishi County were speculating about where the emperor would come to celebrate the first Great Qin National Day with the people, Hu Hai had secretly left Xianyang City under the escort of more than 100 guards from the Longwei Mansion.

Outside Xianyang City, on the side of the Weishui Road, 20,000 cavalry of the Suzaku Army for the exercise were already ready to go under the command of the Suzaku general Wang Gan. The 20,000 Suzaku Army, which was personally commanded by the Vermilion Bird General Wang Gan, naturally did not really want to conduct exercises. Their real identity is Hu Hai's escort army during his inspection of Yongcheng.

Hu Hai did not hide his identity, he believed in the loyalty of the Vermilion Bird Army to him for no reason, just as he believed in Meng Tian's loyalty to Great Qin. The difference between the two is that the Vermilion Bird Army will only be loyal to Hu Hai alone, while Meng Tian is also loyal to Hu Hai, but the object of his allegiance is the Great Qin Empire that his brother Shi Huang single-handedly defeated.

Hu Hai has known this for a long time. Meng Tian also knew that Hu Hai knew. But neither of them was entangled in this issue, the current Emperor of Great Qin is Hu Hai, and loyalty to Great Qin is also equivalent to loyalty to Hu Hai.

Of course, this premise is that Hu Hai can always firmly control all the power of Great Qin and not be overthrown by other Ying clansmen.

The 20,000 Suzaku soldiers seemed to know the reason why the emperor's light chariot Jian Cong chose to ride an ordinary bronze carriage without even riding a horse, so they just silently watched the emperor's humble convoy drive into the center of the army without any cheers.

However, from the moment he saw Huhai's carriage, his back suddenly straightened up, his arms that were holding the reins of the war horse and his exposed muscles, his blushing faces with excitement, and his hot eyes all showed the frenzy and excitement in the hearts of the Suzaku soldiers at this moment.

Even if Hu Hai was sitting in the carriage, he could feel the hot eyes of the 20,000 roads that gathered together and almost melted the bronze carriage, and after thinking about it, Hu Hai finally got out of the carriage.

He felt that he had to and must show up to these Great Qin warriors who would go up the sword mountain and the sea of fire with his whip for himself and for the sake of Daqin.

As Hu Hai, dressed in a black and gold robe, appeared outside the carriage, a group of Suzaku soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then bowed to Hu Hai on horseback and bowed their heads silently.

If you look closely, you will see that all the Suzaku soldiers are silently opening and closing their lips up and down while bowing their heads, and if anyone can read lips, it is easy to see that they are saying, "Long live Your Majesty!" ”

Escorted by 20,000 Vermilion Bird troops, Hu Hai arrived at Yongcheng, the ancient capital of Great Qin, along the Weishui Road on the night of the 24th.

Yongcheng is on the north bank of Weishui, north of the Yongshui River, and west of the Zhifang River. In the first two hundred years of the construction of the capital Yongcheng, Yongcheng, like today's Xianyang City, did not build any city wall, and was a "moat river" with the river as the natural city wall, and it was the "capital city on the water".

It was not until the early years of the Warring States period, when Yongcheng faced the advance of the Wei state, that it began to build tall and strong walls along the river. A long bluestone bridge stretches out from under the tall city walls of Yongcheng, crosses the Yongshui River, and connects both sides of the river.

This is the Yongshui Gate, which is the gate of the east city of Yongcheng, and it is also the largest city gate, facing the direction of Xianyang City. On the other three sides, in addition to the north gate is built by the mountain, the west gate has an artificial trench with a width of more than ten zhang, and the south gate is adjacent to the paper mill river and is also connected by a bluestone bridge.

When Hu Hai arrived, Yongcheng Ling Yingshan had already led a group of clan elders who stayed in Yongcheng to wait outside the Yongshui Gate for three full hours.

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