Chapter Thirty-Three: South, South!
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The Chinese New Year's Eve of the first year of Great Qin II was still a matter of conversation among the people of Chen County and Dang County even decades later, or the glory of their lives.
Under the emperor's order, all the people gathered in the vicinity of Chen County that night, including those scattered throughout Chen County, received double rations distributed by the imperial court. Countless fires spread throughout Chenjun with Chen County as the center, illuminating the heavens and the earth.
Due to the limited conditions, it is certainly impossible to guarantee that everyone can eat meat, but the boiling hot broth can at least ensure that everyone can get a bowl.
The 300,000 Chu soldiers who were imprisoned in six large camps were also released on this day. Under the strict supervision of the Qin soldiers, they sat around the huge fires and enjoyed their own Chinese New Year's Eve.
When Emperor Daqin II appeared at the head of Chen County in the evening, the atmosphere of this different Chinese New Year's Eve instantly reached its peak.
Under Hu Hai's order, under the gaze of nearly a million soldiers and civilians, the elite of the White Tiger Army, the Xuanwu Army, the Blue Dragon Army, and even dozens of dragon guards around Hu Hai took turns to go into battle, and outside Chen County, they carried out horse formations, foot formations, sword dances, broken formations, attack and defense of the two armies, and other performances with strong deterrent meaning.
Well, it's performance, this is a new word given by His Majesty the Second Emperor of Great Qin.
Countless huge fires rose into the sky, shining on every face flushed with excitement and excitement, maybe the face was yellow and thin, maybe the clothes were a little ragged. But everyone's eyes are no longer blank.
In the shadow of the sword and sword, the cold wind no longer seems to be so cold.
On this night, Chen County became a boiling ocean, and countless people were still reluctant to disperse until dawn.
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On the first day of the first month of the year, that is, on the first day of the first month, as usual, the Emperor of Great Qin will lead hundreds of civil and military officials to hold one of the three major ceremonies of Great Qin on the shore of Weishui in the suburbs of Xianyang. And because the Great Qin Emperor Hu Hai was not in Xianyang, the Spring Festival Ceremony was held in Chen County.
This is the first time that Hu Hai has held a spring sacrifice ceremony after he ascended the throne as emperor, and it is also the first time that a spring sacrifice ceremony has been held in Xianyang, which is not the imperial capital, in the hundreds of years since Great Qin became a vassal state and even unified the world.
The Spring Festival Ceremony held in Chen County, coupled with the rush of time and the limitations of Chen County itself, the etiquette and specifications are naturally very different from the Spring Festival held in Xianyang. Now Hu Hai has only a few military generals such as Wei Mi, including the county guards and local officials of Chen County, Jiujiang County, and Dang County, and they are still on the way south to Chen County, and have not reached Chen County. Naturally, there are no hundred officials.
And Xiong Xin, Zhaotong and others, as ministers, were fortunate to participate in the Spring Festival Ceremony temporarily.
Although there is a world of difference in etiquette and specifications from the Spring Festival held in Xianyang, this time the Spring Festival is still more solemn than the Spring Festival held in Xianyang hundreds of years before the Great Qin.
The night's carnival did not make the people of Chen County tired. And when the news came out that the emperor would hold a spring ceremony on the outskirts of Chen County, it once again made the entire Chen County boil.
Under the watchful eyes of nearly one million soldiers and civilians, Hu Hai's first Spring Festival ceremony since he ascended the throne came to a perfect end.
Time is always moving forward without stopping, but I believe that whether it is the people of Chen County or the soldiers of the Chu army who surrendered, at least the experience of these two days will leave a heavy imprint on their lives.
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On the second day of October in the first year of Great Qin II, Emperor Hu Hai of Great Qin II left Chen County to cross the Huai River and prepare to go south along the Qin-Chu Yuechi Road from Shouchun to Nanhai County.
Everything in Chu also came to an end on this day.
After careful consideration, Hu Hai finally chose to leave Weng Zhong's 50,000 Xuanwu army in Shouchun, and Weng Zhong's 50,000 Xuanwu army remained in Chu with the 45,000 cavalry of the Qinglong Army. And these 45,000 cavalry, after Hu Hai left, will be unified under Weng Zhong, who will be in charge of command.
As for the surrender of the Chu State, they also have their own arrangements.
Xiong Xin was knighted as the Marquis of Chu, this Marquis of Chu is the title of the nineteenth level of the Marquis of Guannei of the Great Qin Title, which is already a great favor for Xiong Xin, Xiong Xin, who was named the Marquis of Chu, was escorted back to Xianyang by a thousand cavalry at the same time as Hu Hai left Chen County, and Hu Hai gave Xiong Xin a huge mansion in Xianyang.
Zhaotong, Jinggong, and Qu Ping were awarded the title of Shao Shangzao, which was the fifteenth level of the Great Qin title, and this great favor naturally made Zhaotong, Jinggong, and Qu Ping grateful. You must know that the three princes and nine kings of Daqin are now just the chiefs.
And the five major legions from the Bashang battalion, except for Wang Qian's attack on the Marquis of Jue Wucheng and Weng Zhong's attack on Jue Zuo Shuchang (the tenth level of the title), the rest such as Du Teng, Xu Chuang, Ying Yi and others are just official doctors (the sixth level of the title).
However, after Zhaotong, Qu Ping, and Jing Gong were knighted, all the clansmen of the three clans would also gather in Chen County within half a month, and then arrive in Xianyang. Zhaotong, Qu Ping, and Jing Gong stayed in Shouchun, and together with Weng Zhong, they would assist them in establishing the effective rule of Great Qin and the government offices at all levels in Chu after the arrival of the southbound officials, and rectify production.
Wu Rui was named the imperial history of Jiujiang by Hu Hai, and the official doctor. It can be said that he is the only one among the ministers of the Chu State who has been granted a position of real power. In the same way, Wu Rui's Wu clan will not continue to stay in Jiujiang, and will move to Xianyang with the Zhaoqujing clan.
Fan Zeng, the knighted doctor, the position of the shogunate senator, followed Hu Hai by his side, and followed Hu Hai south. The Shogunate Senate, that is, the diplomatic staff.
The only one who did not announce the title and arrangement was Xiang Liang. Similarly, Xiang Liang's Xiang clan, it seems that Hu Hai has no intention of moving out of Chu. And Xiang Liang didn't seem to care.
Xiang Liang also followed Hu Hai south. There are no titles, no rewards, and no status.
On the third day of October in the first year of Great Qin II, the general Feng Zheng pacified the county, and the general Han Xinbing was in Fujian. On the fifth day of October, Huhai's army arrived in Shouchun, and immediately transferred to Hengshan after Shouchun issued an edict that several counties, including Jiujiang, Huiji, Yanjun, Changsha, Lujiang, Hengshan, and Minzhong, were exempted from taxation and exempt from military service for one year.
Hu Hai's edict naturally made the people of Chu who were worried in their hearts greatly stabilized, and the people's hearts were stable. On the tenth day of the first month, Hu Hai drove to Hengshan County to govern Yi County (later Huangzhou, Hubei), and the whole county of Hengshan was attached.
On October 18, Feng Zheng's army came to Lujiang County to govern Luling (later Ji'an, Jiangxi), and Lujiang was annexed. On October 20, Han Xin's army arrived in Dongye, Minzhong County (later Fuzhou, Fujian), and Fujian was annexed.
The three-way army, after leaving thousands of soldiers to garrison in Hengshan, Huiji, Yanjun, Lujiang, and Minzhong counties, did not make any stops, took a short rest, and continued to move south.
Although the heart has been prepared, the complex terrain and harsh climate in Chudi, southern Fujian, Lingnan and other places still make the three-way army suffer. Fortunately, Hu Hai had already been prepared, and the three armies carried a large number of medicinal materials, otherwise it would take at least a month to rush to the South China Sea. But even so, according to the current speed of the advance of the three-way army, it will be in mid-November to reach the South China Sea.
At this time, there is a difference of more than half a month from the time when Hu Hai is expected to arrive in the South China Sea. Fortunately, after Zhang Han's 150,000 tiger army left Qianzhong County and entered Xiang County, its advance was also not smooth, and the time to catch up with the South China Sea was also greatly extended.
The environment faced by Zhang Hanhu's army was far more difficult and dangerous than that of Hu Hai, Feng Zheng, and Han Xin. Because Zhang Han not only has to fight with the sky, but also with others.
With the help of Ba Qing on the fifth day of the ninth month, the army crossed the Yangtze River and went south along the Wujiang River in two days, and it took almost a month for the 150,000 tiger commanders of Zhang Han to leave Qianzhong County and enter the intersection of Xiang County and Guilin County.
In the territory of Daqin, Xiangjun is in a U-shape, which happens to wrap the entire western part of Guilin County. Therefore, Guilin County does not border Qianzhong County, but the distant Xiang County borders Qianzhong County and Changsha County.
Entering Xiangjun is also entering the Guizhou of later generations. The climate of Guizhou is not too cold in winter and not too hot in summer, and the only characteristic is that it is rainy and sunshine is less. In the pre-Qin period, most of the vast primeval jungles in Guizhou existed, and often for several days or even more than ten days, the tiger army could not see any sun at all, and the continuous drizzle fell in a continuous manner.
Colds, fevers, and dysentery became the greatest dangers on the march of the Tiger Army, and groups of soldiers fell ill. The more than 20,000 people who transported grain and grass recruited from Ba County were much worse than the Tiger Ben Army in terms of physical fitness, but most of these people were very good, and few fell ill.
This is the symptom of soil and water adaptation. Fortunately, Hu Hai was not the first emperor, as a latecomer, he knew the climate of the south very well, dysentery and other diseases are clearly recorded in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing Su Wen", and under Hu Hai's special advice, the Tai Hospital of Bianyu is specially equipped with a large number of medicinal materials for all kinds of armies, many of which exist for the prevention and treatment of dysentery.
Therefore, when these diseases have just occurred and have not yet been contagious, the military doctors accompanying the army have already begun to control them. Zhang Han's army was able to reach Nanhai County without a single non-combat casualty, and Hu Hai's foresight played an absolute role.
Otherwise, it is just dysentery, and if it is not done well, Zhang Han's 150,000 army will be wiped out. As everyone knows, dysentery is contagious.
Having overcome severe hemorrhoids, lice have become an obstacle to the march of the army. Because the sun was not seen for a long time, the temperature was not too low and humid, and most of the long hair tied up by the tiger army was covered with lice, and the same was true in the bedding, and the speed of the army's advance dropped sharply.
Hu Hai issued an edict, and the Tiger Ben Army became a bald army.
The body is skinned, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it, and the beginning of filial piety is also. This famous sentence of Confucian filial piety, which has been passed down in later generations for thousands of years, is not much in today's Daqin market. Even less is known.
Of course, even if you know this, there won't be many people who want to resist the Tiger Benjun. What's more, all the senior generals of the Tiger Army, including Zhang Han, took the lead and shaved their hair first.
If the hair is shaved, there is no breeding environment for lice, and as for the lice in the bedding, if you burn the herb and smoke it, it cannot be said that all of them are dead, and it is enough to kill more than eighty percent.
The Mengkuo army in the direction of Yan Dao also set out from Yan Dao five days before Chinese New Year's Eve and went to Xiang County.