Chapter Seventy-Five: Jiangdong Rebellion (1)
Just as Wang Li's army had just arrived in Chen County, there was also a chaotic unfolding in the southernmost part of Great Qin.
Huiji County, the hometown of Wu and Vietnam during the Warring States Period, was established after the division of counties in Daqin, with Wu County (Gusu District, Suzhou City) as the county, roughly under the jurisdiction of Nanjing City, the northwest corner of Zhejiang and the southeast of Anhui.
Therefore, the clansmen of the Xiang clan in the late Chu period are now hiding in the land of Wuzhong.
Now the patriarch of the Xiang family is Xiang Liang, the son of Xiang Yan, the late Chu general. Xiang Liang, as the son of Xiang Yan, the late general of Chu, was also a young general of Chu, and in the 30th year of the first emperor, Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew were arrested and imprisoned for murder.
Perhaps it was fate, Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew bribed the prison prison at the time to escape.
Since Xiang Liang fled back to his hometown in Jiangdong, he completely changed his strategy towards Daqin, no longer trying to plot eye-catching events such as assassination and revenge, but led the Xiang clan to buy land and property to live in Wuzhong incognito, and secretly gathered manpower in a down-to-earth manner.
As a great clan in the late Chu State, the Xiang clan had two fiefdoms, one in Huaibei Xiangdi and the other in Jiangdong Wuzhong. Xiang Liang thought that Huaibei's hometown was too close to the Central Plains and was not conducive to stealth, so he chose the stealth place of the Xiang clan in the old fief of Wuzhong in Huiji County.
Xiang Liang was once a young general of the Chu army, and he has been in the world for several years, and his understanding of the general trend of the world has been sober a lot: as long as the first emperor's generation of monarchs and ministers is there, no one can think of turning the world upside down and dreaming of restoration.
It can be said that Xiang Liang's cognition is still very correct. Of course, it is not so much that Xiang Liang's waiting patience is expected, but that his waiting patience is completely helpless and desperate.
During the years when Xiang Liang was on the run, the blow of the First Emperor against the actions of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms who secretly plotted to restore was like an overwhelming and powerful anomaly, and the virtuous and faithful emperor's eldest son Fusu was also recognized as the prince of the world, and no one could see the signs of the collapse of Great Qin.
The Six Kingdoms and their descendants who were engaged in the plot of the restoration were busy fleeing for their lives in panic, and the only thing they could do was to spread a few rumors or occasionally instigate an assassination, and that was it.
Xiang Liang is not Zhang Liang, the son of the Korean family, who is blindly obsessed with assassinating the first emperor and blindly spreading rumors.
Xiang Liang used to be a general in the army, and he still had a certain insight into the overall situation of the world, and once he hit a wall, he immediately understood the fundamentals: killing a few enemies and killing an emperor not only did not help, but forced him to wander all over the world and could die at any time, and the result could only be counterproductive; Waiting for the right time to accumulate strength is a more long-term strategy, and when the time comes, you can immediately make a big move.
Of course, if there is no time in my life, I can only admit it. This is the most sober understanding of Xiang Liang after the first emperor fled in the later period.
It's just that Xiang Liang never expected this dream opportunity to come so quickly.
In September last year, the news that the first emperor died in the sand dunes and the young prince Hu Hai ascended the throne suddenly came, and Xiang Liang was so excited that he almost jumped. God not only made the first emperor die violently, but also made the young prince Hu Hai the second emperor, isn't this the heavens clearly causing Great Qin to perish?
Xiang Liang had been secretly wandering in Guanzhong for two or three years, knowing both Fusu and Hu Hai, and as soon as he heard that the second emperor was that Hu Hai, he immediately rushed to shoot the case: "Heaven's will will kill Qin!" Now is not the time, but when! ”
Immediately afterwards, Fusu died, Hu Hai ascended the throne and began to favor Zhao Gao, and built palaces and mausoleums on a large scale, and then Meng Tian and Meng Yi were imprisoned by Hu Hai, and Feng Quji and Feng Zheng were confined at home by Hu Hai.
Almost without any hesitation, Xiang Liang immediately began a series of troop deployments.
First of all, Xiang Liang immediately asked his cronies to spread his true identity among the people of Wuzhong's fiefdom, so that those Jiangdong people who still miss Xiang Yan's father and son know that Xiang Yan's descendants are still there, and they are in Wuzhong!
Secondly, Xiang Liang arranged for his nephew Xiang Yu to immediately begin to secretly gather and gather the children of Jiangdong and secretly start training, so that when the army was launched, it could fight against the army that Great Qin had come to exterminate at any time.
While Xiang Liang asked Xiang Yu to train the children of Jiangdong, he also began to show up to conceal his identity and deliberately associate with the county commanders and county guards in Wuzhong, and within three or two months, he had a wordless exchange with the county commanders and county guards.
Xiang Liang was able to gain the trust of the officials so quickly, and there was something that had to be said. Since Hu Hai ascended the throne, the levy of conscription has been extremely frequent, making almost all the county guards and county orders in Daqin complain, and at this moment a quarter of the people of Daqin are basically serving conscription, how can so many people be requisitioned?
The county guard of Huiji was also struggling to figure out how to deal with the imperial court.
At this time, Xiang Liang came up with a good way to the Huiji County Shou and Wuzhong County Order, and whenever the imperial court ordered the levy of conscription, on the last day of the deadline, he would report to the upper authorities that the number was completed; Then, after waiting for half a month, he immediately reported to the police that he had fled on the way.
The desperate Huiji County Shou County Commander tried it once, and sure enough, except for being severely reprimanded, he was not dismissed and questioned. This made the Huiji County Shou and Wuzhong County Commander even more convincing to Xiang Liang.
As a result, the county guard ordered the food marrow to follow suit one after another, which not only kept the official title, but also won the hearts of the people. The county shou county order admired this Wu Zhongqian head, and wanted to recommend Xiang Liang to be the county leader several times, but Xiang Liang politely refused.
Soon, the county guard also knew from the rumors that this man in cloth was Xiang Liang, the son of Xiang Yan, a famous general in Chu.
But instead of arresting Xiang Liang, the county guard regarded Xiang Liang more and more as a guest, and from then on, whenever there was a major event, he would have to ask Xiang Liang before making a decision.
At this point, Xiang Liang has understood: the counties are centrifuged, the chaos in the world has been completed, and the time to oppose Qin is not far away.
From the news that Zhang Er and Chen Yu raised troops against Qin reached Jiangdong, Xiang Liang immediately realized that this was a great opportunity that he had been waiting for, and immediately sent Xizuo to Chenjun, Surabaya and other counties to investigate the news.
Therefore, not long after Wu Rui in Jiujiang got the news, Xiang Liang then received the news that Zhang Er Chen Yu, who was sent back in an urgent manner, was not only not exterminated by Great Qin, but had already captured Chen County and restored the Wei State.
Xiang Liang almost jumped up with excitement when he got the news, and Xiang Liang felt that he had to start an accident immediately.
If you want to start an incident, of course, the army is the first and foremost, and at this moment Xiang Yu is not in Jiangdong, but on a small island to train the children of Jiangdong who have secretly defected.
Just when Xiang Liang beckoned his subordinates to summon Xiang Yu back to discuss the important matter of raising troops, an old family member came to report to the county guard to invite him.
"You go and summon the major general to return home immediately. I also told the county guards that they could go back to their homes first, and I would be there later! Xiang Liang didn't know what the county guard invited him to do at this time, but he immediately realized that this was a good time for him to raise his army.