Chapter 49: The Theory of the Death of Qin

Tai**, Liu Che is reading the freshly baked "On the Death of Qin", the author is, of course, Hou Cao Shi of Pingyang.

"Qin Wang Zhengfen VI swept the world, in fact, exhausted the Great Qin's hundred years of accumulation to guide the decline of national strength, Jiuyuan Wang Li's ability is insufficient, leading 100,000 Qin troops to defend the border against the enemy of the Huns, Lingnan Zhao Tuo 500,000 Qin troops went south to Pingyue Love Stack is difficult to return, Guanzhong Treasury is empty and insufficient armaments, in order to deter the remnants of the six countries in the Kwantung region, collect the world's weapons and refine twelve gold people, repair the six countries gallop road, demolish the cities of the six countries, the day is spread all over the world Qin will die, under the rumor that the ancestral dragon will die, the king of Qin visited Xianshan to alchemy, killed Fang Shi pit chaos, and toured the hometown of the six countries in the east, Mount Tai sealed the Zen and prayed for eternal Yanrong soldiers. ”

The more Liu Che looked at it, the more surprised he became, this argument was unheard of, as the imperial prince received from a young age, only the tyrannical Qin lost the world and died, and Qin Shihuang praised the merits of the sky and fell to the second death, but he never heard of the tyrannical Qin being weak.

Han Yan was 'beaten into the cold palace' for more than ten days, and when she finally seized the opportunity to meet Cao, she couldn't wait to sarcastically say: "Doctor Taizhong, your article is unconventional and too sensational, right?" Tyrannical Qin has no troops available? ”

"If the tyrannical Qin has troops available, why not let Shaofu Zhang Han release the Lishan prisoners and lead the troops to quell the rebellion? Moreover, as soon as these convicts appeared, they were defeated Chen She, and Xiang Liang was defeated again and again, like a god of war, could it be that the convicts of the six countries of Kwantung repaired the mausoleum for a few years and were comparable to the Qin army's sharp soldiers, don't you know what kind of official position my Shaofu is? ”

Cao Shi sneered, and none of the prince's subordinates present dared to touch his words.

Han Cheng Qin system, the hundred officials and the court system are also copied from the Great Qin, Shaofu is one of the nine Qing, there is neither Lang Zhongling, the military power of the Wei Wei, nor Zongzheng, Taichang is in charge of the genealogy to worship the Qing nobles, and the status is equivalent to the court lieutenant, the great agricultural order, and the servant.

The main responsibility is to be in charge of the taxes of the mountains and seas and ponds, as well as the offerings to be added, which is equivalent to the great steward of the Son of Heaven, with the responsibility of a craftsman as the head of the house, and private matters such as the construction of the mausoleum by the Son of Heaven are fully managed by the Shaofu, which is an authentic civil official sequence.

Zhang Han himself is not a civilian official, according to the provisions of the Great Qin military merit system, most of the three princes and nine secretaries are generals who can fight well, but Zhang Han himself is only ranked in the lower ranking of the three princes and nine secretaries, the three kilometers of the Tai Lieutenant who controls the military power of the world, the guard captain who has military power in the Jiuqing, Lang Zhongling and not among the nine Qings, and the lieutenant who is in charge of the military power of the Beijing division is far more suitable for war than the Shaofu.

Under normal circumstances, these generals have at least two or three hundred thousand troops, but in fact, the Great Qin Empire has no soldiers available, and only Zhang Han can send troops in Xianyang, Guanzhong, and the soldiers used are not the Qin people in Guanzhong, but only prisoners who repair mausoleums in Lishan.

Liu Che's brows furrowed tightly: "As far as I know, Great Qin has one million elites, and Wang Jian sent 600,000 troops to destroy the Chu State, why do so many elites have no soldiers?" ”

"Your Highness, do you remember the allusion before Li Xin's defeat? Li Xin is a young general, neither prestige nor lack of military achievements, the king of Qin asked for a plan to attack Chu, Wang Jian said that 600,000 can destroy the Chu country, and Li Xinyan can destroy 200,000 alone, so the king of Qin ordered Li Xin to attack Chu Buke, the king of Qin was angry and came to the door to apologize to Wang Qian, and reused 600,000 Qin soldiers to fight Chu! With the wisdom of King Qin, how could he not know the adventure of Li Xin's plan, but he was still willing to give it a try, and the plan failed to use Wang Jian as a last resort, 600,000 broken Chu was the limit of Great Qin, and no matter how many troops there were, the national strength could not be maintained. ”

"I don't believe it, if I keep talking, there must be another reason." Liu Che shook his head again.

Cao Shi said unhurriedly: "King Qin Hui is the Qin State of Daomingjun, Zhu Shang Ying, attack Wei, destroy Bashu, cut down Yiqu, and lay the foundation of Qin Zhao King who was called the Western Emperor, but Bashu and Yiqu took Qin nearly 50 years to digest, until King Qin Zhao began to use troops to crusade against the land of the six countries in Kwantung on a large scale after the twenty-seventh year of King Qin Zhao, from this time Qin repeatedly exceeded 200,000 troops, 500,000 troops in the Battle of Changping, and increased to 400,000 troops in the Battle of Handan. The Qin Empire has always been a strong force in Guanzhong, and it does not recruit sharp soldiers to serve as the Qin army in Guandong.

At that time, at the end of Qin, Zhao Tuo led 500,000 Qin troops to invade South Vietnam and did not return, Wang Li led 100,000 Great Wall troops to the south to break the Zhao rebels, and then Wang Li and Zhang Han were not in harmony, and fell into a grain and grass crisis and lost to Xiang Yu, there was no available force in Guanzhong, unless Qin II pulled all the peasants who cultivated the fields away, but Qin II had no talent and no virtue to appoint the traitor Zhao Gao to gain power, kill heroes, bad laws, repeatedly violate the program, and make a scandal of pointing to the deer as a horse, Guan Zhongzhong has long been extremely disappointed in the King of Qin, and how can he be willing to abandon his family and business for the work of the King of Qin and the six ** What about the people fighting to the death? ”

The atmosphere was stagnant, the attendants tiptoed and did not dare to gasp, and the Taizhong doctor bluntly rebuked the cause of the fall of the Qin Empire, and the fresh and terrifying views deeply shocked everyone's hearts.

The collapse of the Great Qin Empire overnight is a boulder in the hearts of almost all Han people, similar to the theory of the destruction of the Qin Dynasty written by Jia Yi and others, such as the carp car that crosses the river, but Jia Yi is more fortunate and the writing is better, the analysis of these literati cannot be said to be unreasonable, but there is still a long way to go from the answer that the emperor of the Han Dynasty needs, after all, the scholar is just a scholar, and he does not understand politics and military affairs.

The young attendants standing in the middle hall listened attentively, even if there was a curtain to cover it, they could hear the loud voice in the inner hall, Sang Hongyang clenched his fists tightly, the sudden fall of the Qin Empire is a boulder across the Han family, from the era of the Chu-Han War to the present sixty-five years, generations of elites and celebrities are thinking hard about the reasons for the fall of the Great Qin Empire.

If you don't know the fall of the Great Qin, you can't prevent the Han Empire from repeating the disaster, and the prevention of micro and micro is gradually from the day Emperor Taizu Gao founded the country, all the Han royal nobles collectively reached a consensus, so the Han Taizu said that the emperor advocated Huang Lao to recuperate, and Han Taizong succeeded to the throne and persuaded the farmers to repair water conservancy tax exemption to protect the people's hearts.

In the 60 years of Han Xing, the population doubled and the Qin Empire was at its peak, and the economy was prosperous and all industries were recovering, so the contemporary Son of Heaven was very proud of the Han family's achievements in governing the country, and often boasted that the Han family was stable and the country would be eternal.

"Can my Han family really be the national general Yongxing?"

Even if he is as proud as Liu Che, he doesn't have the slightest confidence in his heart.

At the end of October, the biting cold wind from the north blew into the Guanzhong Plain, and the warm air currents entrenched above the Qinchuan River collided, so the first snowfall of the new year was ushered in in Chang'an, the capital division.

Weiyang Palace was dressed in thick silver, the temperature dropped sharply by more than ten degrees, and the guards of the southern army guarding the palace gate put on thick winter clothes and endured the invasion of wind and snow.

In the past, the fire outside the sentry box was replaced by a stove placed inside, a kettle was boiling white, and the Kanto guard was warm in his heart, and after an hour of handover, he could sit in the sentry box and scald his hands and feet with hot water, and then eat a few pieces of roasted sweet potatoes, and sleep beautifully.

In the greenhouse hall of Weiyang Palace, next to the blazing stove, a delicate flower blooms out of season, here has always been a place for the Son of Heaven to take refuge from the cold, even in the Han Dynasty, where science and technology are so backward, the greenhouse cultivation technology has become more and more mature.

Since the stove contributed by Cao Shi entered the palace, hundreds of iron stoves for roasting fire and water were added to Changle Weiyang6 before winter, and all the old ondols in the greenhouse hall were eliminated, and the time-consuming and labor-intensive charcoal was replaced by smokeless charcoal mined in Hedong, and the long pipes extended to the eaves behind the palace.

Although the winter of Chang'an is not cold, but the rain and snow are abundant, the cold and damp season is also very uncomfortable, when the son of heaven is seriously ill and sits inpatiently for a long time, the ordinary official affairs have been entrusted to the prime minister to deal with, the Son of Heaven once every five days of the dynasty has also been temporarily changed to once a month, most of the official affairs are stacked on the head of the three dukes, and the honest Wei Juan and Zhi Budo have to bear it with a bitter face.

The Son of Heaven pinched the paper scroll and reported that his face was very ugly: "The first fire in Dongquejia burned down so many official palaces, and many innocent soldiers died in the sea of fire, I can't be at ease!" The prime minister's pension should do his best, don't let the people of Beijing say that your prime minister is not handling it effectively, and you will lose the face of my Han family. ”

"Yes! The Ministers are urgently drafting the Articles of Association. Wei Wan replied sweating profusely.

"I am tired, so go down."

The courtiers retreated with interest, and it didn't take long for the queen to come in from the apse, and said with a worried face: "The doctor said that Your Majesty's body is not suitable for work, and you need to recuperate more to be strong and healthy. ”

"I also want to think less, how to cultivate the body and mind with a lot of social affairs?" The Son of Heaven closed the scroll tiredly, thinking of the fire in Dongque Jiadi, and felt inexplicably irritable in his heart.

Jingshi's nursery rhyme case was thoroughly investigated, and the main messenger behind the scenes, Shao Shangzao, set fire to Zhou Fu and burned down all over the door, and the fire burned for three days and three nights, and even the old lady of Changxin Palace was shocked, and what was more worrying than the fire was that the ballad spearhead was directed at the Son of Heaven of the Han Empire.

Although there is no direct remark about the Son of Heaven's meanness and unkindness in the ballad, the political meaning contained in it makes the Son of Heaven tremble every time he thinks about it, and the evil of his intentions is almost to overthrow the righteous name of the Son of Heaven with a poem, which is intolerable and unreasonable.

A series of means were used to investigate and secretly visit and arrest people and judge cases, and the criminal who was hiding in Beijing was quickly arrested, but the son of heaven was not happy after seeing the case file, Shao Shangzao Zhou Fu is the son of the late Marquis Zhou Shengzhi, representing the lineage of Marquis Zhou Bo, this vein was wiped out by two generations of the Son of Heaven, how should the world view him, how to view this ballad?

Thinking of this, I can't sleep at night.

Queen Wang smiled and said: "The concubine read Dr. Taizhong's "Treatise on the Death of Qin", and it was written very wonderfully, how does Your Majesty think this article?" ”

"The scenery of Daqin has been beautiful for hundreds of years, since the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin and Chu have not occupied its capital, the six countries have not broken its momentum, and the combined vertical and horizontal enemies are not but the danger of the four stoppers in the pass, why is the world unified for more than ten years before the country is wiped out?" The Son of Heaven closed the scroll and was puzzled, originally reciting Jia Yi's "On the Death of Qin" thinking that he would grasp the key to the destruction of Qin, but when he read "The Theory of the Death of Qin", he became even more restless.

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ps: The lessons of the death of Qin for the nascent Han Empire, just like modern people reflecting on the ** war, the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, or the untimely death of the Xinhai Revolution, is not only a crucial topic in the academic circles of the early Han Dynasty, but also the direction of the efforts of several generations of emperors of the Han Empire.

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