The Qin army entered Chengdu.

The surrender of Li Shang marked the end of the Han army's resistance in Shujun Zuihou, and after nearly three months of arduous fighting, the Qin army's southern expedition to Bashu came to an end. The Qin army moved south to drink the Yangtze River, and the territory of the Qin state also expanded from the Weishui Valley all the way south, entering the Han River, and then into the Tuoshui, Yushui, and Yangtze River.

After many rounds of negotiations with Lu Jia, Li Shang, who was disheartened and disappointed in Liu Bang, chose to live in seclusion, he now neither wants to serve the Qin State, nor does he want to serve the Han State.

Li Yuan led his army into the city.

Chengdu in this era, is not as vast as later generations, the main scope of the city is in the area of Huanshui Xijinli, for this place, Li Yuan is also regarded as a revisit to the old land, but the grass and trees, a house and a street seen in the eyes are completely different from the imagination in memory.

"I heard that Li Shang found a house to live in seclusion on the bank of Huanhua Creek, go and have a look!" After inspecting the county government of Shu County, Li Yuan said to Lu Jia.

"Li Hou, his subordinates have just returned from Li Xiang's mansion, and the servant said that Li Xiang is now concentrating on only being a fisherman, and he doesn't see any guests behind closed doors?" Lu Jia was embarrassed. Hearing Li Yuan say that he was going to see Li Shang, thinking that Li Yuan was going to take advantage of Li Shang's old friend, Lu Jia hurriedly defended.

"Haha, what is Lang Zhong anxious about, Ben Hou just went to see an old acquaintance, under Xingyang City, General Li and I can also be regarded as having a one-sided acquaintance, although we are far apart." Li Yuan smiled disapprerovingly and said.

Li Shang is a heavy general of the Han army, and now he just has to surrender, and his psychology has not changed, which is normal, I think Lu Jia's attitude was much more resolute than Li Shang's, and he didn't give in to Zuihou.

Qingyang view (palace).

According to legend, "Taiqing Immortal Bo is the child of Emperor Qing." Turning sheep into Shu Kingdom. Hence the name. This Taoist temple was built in the Western Zhou Dynasty, located on the bank of the Huanhua River, a tributary of Jinshui, is the first Taoist temple in western Sichuan, and is also one of the three Qing Tianzun, Taiqing Daode Tianzun, that is, the place where Taishang Laojun preached and cultivated immortals.

The Qingyang Temple in the Qin period, there is only one heavy hall, plus a few partial rooms, and the scale of the three major halls in later generations is not comparable to the possibility at all, however, the incense is also vigorous, and the Taoist priests of Qingyang Palace are still very dedicated to preaching. In the main hall, in addition to the statue of Taishang Laojun, there are several golden immortal figures, namely: Guangchengzi, Taiyi Zhenren, Cihang Daoren and Daoxing Tianzun. According to the legend, there are four of the twelve golden immortals of Taoism in this main hall, and according to Li Yuan's imagination, the others should not have been excavated and shaped.

The place where Li Shang lived in seclusion is Qingyang Guanli. Knowing that Li Yuan was coming to visit, Li Shang was taken aback. In his impression, he had no friendship with Li Yuan, the famous Shenwu Marquis of the Qin State, except for a few battles on the battlefield.

In this interview with Qin Jun, Li Shang put forward three conditions. He didn't expect Li Yuan to agree. To be honest, this was a surprise to him, originally in his mind, among three conditions. It's good to be able to agree to one. Li Yuan's open-mindedness made Li Shang feel extremely admired.

"People outside the square have seen the Great Qin Shenwu Marquis." On the main hall of Qingyang Temple, Li Shang unexpectedly wore a green cloth robe. Holding a dust brush in his hand, he said to Li Yuanyi, who entered the hall.

Li Yuan's eyes froze, Li Shang was dressed as a monk and a Taoist priest, mixed with a group of real Taoist monks, which seemed very abrupt, not only because his posture of holding the dust whisk was wrong, but also because his aura was incompatible with this indisputable environment.

Since you have entered the Tao, you should treat money as nothing.

How could Li Shang do it, not to mention anything else, he couldn't let go of the future development of the Li family alone, let alone money and other things.

"The land of Sanqing, Laojun Dojo. Ben Hou has also heard of it for a long time, and when he saw it today, it was really extraordinary, Li Xiang, can you introduce the gods in the hall one by one. Li Yuan's expression was solemn, and he solemnly shook the ground and saluted at the statue of Taishang Laojun in the main hall.

"Tao begets one, life gives birth to two, two begets three, and three begets all things." As a latecomer, Li Yuan still admired Taishang Laojun, the ancestor of Chinese Taoism, although in the battle between Tao and Buddha, Taoism only cultivated immortality, which gave people the feeling that it was too real to compete with the Buddhist theory of the six reincarnations of the Buddha and the cultivation of good fortune in this life and the blessings in the next life, so that Taoism in China later became more and more declining and was gradually replaced by Western Mahayana Buddhism.

But Taishang Laojun's Taoist doctrine has at least allowed China to retain some of its ancestors' things. From Li Yuan's personal feelings, the Tao Te Ching is not much worse than the Western Buddhist scriptures.

"The Divine Marquis also believes in Taoism?" Li Shang asked dumbly.

Among the hundreds of schools, the national policy of the Qin State believed in the Legalist doctrine of killing decisively, and did not believe in the doctrine of gods and ghosts such as Taoism. Li Yuan's worship not only made Li Shang feel sudden, but also made the eyes of the old monarch disciples in the hall eager.

"Believe or not believe, it depends on the heart. What do you think? Li Yuan stood up, smiled and replied.

"Heart?" Li Shang was stunned for a moment and whispered, he didn't expect that Li Yuan would say something with infinite truth like "care about the heart".

The interaction and communication between people is sometimes just a piece of paper.

Li Yuan said with indignation that his understanding of the Tao Te Ching, a famous Taoist work, is mainly that he likes to recite when he reads, "Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are used as dogs; The sage is unkind, and the people are the dogs", as well as some of the explanations, these understandings were nothing in later generations, but in the Qin period, they were a blockbuster.

"Shenhou is a person who is destined for my Dao?" Hearing Li Yuan say this, the inheritance Taoist priest in the palace looked at Li Yuan with even more enthusiastic eyes. If you can enter the eyes of the Great Qin Shenhou, it is expected that this avenue will spread, and at that time, not only this Shu County, but also the whole world, every place occupied by the Qin State, there will be Taoist temples.

After bridging the estrangement, Li Shang finally let go of the shackles, and in the in-depth conversation that followed, he also answered the internal problems of the Han Kingdom raised by Li Yuan from his point of view.

From Li Shang's answers, Li Yuan learned of some recent changes in the Han army, such as Liu Bang had begun to order a batch of iron swords and armor from Xiping in the Korean region and equip them with the closest ranks.

However, Li Shang did not agree to Li Yuan's suggestion to persuade him to defect to the Qin State, he was still in the midst of contradictions, it was one thing to defeat the Qin State to lay down his arms and not fight, and it was another thing to put on the armor of the Qin army.

Seeing Li Shang's attitude, Li Yuan did not insist, and only mentioned in Zuihou: If the Qin army can defeat the Kwantung princes within five years and unify the Central Plains, Li Shang will no longer be able to live in seclusion at that time, and he will serve as the general of the Qin army.

The war in Ba and Shu counties came to an end.

At the same time, he appointed Feng Xuan, the lieutenant of Ba County, to garrison Jiangzhou, and at the same time, he appointed Feng Xuan, the captain of the school, as the commander of the county of Ba County, and stationed troops in Jiangzhou.

Luo Xian was very excited that he could serve as the county guard of Ba County, and after Li Yuan hinted that the territory of Qin was vast and a large number of brave men would be needed for future conquests, Luo Xian immediately asked for an order to select and transfer a team of 2,000 people from the Ba people to join the Qin army within three months.

Luo Xian's overture, Li Yuan gladly accepted. The Ba people have obvious advantages in mountain warfare, and in future battles, the Qin army will need to deal with a variety of challenges, in addition to cavalry, crossbowmen and foot soldiers, the addition of mountain soldiers can also make the Qin army more flexible in battle.

In the third year of the Qin New Calendar, June 27.

Li Yuan led the army north back to Guanzhong, this time he took the road from Chengdu, take the Jiange, Yangping Pass of the Shiniu Road, this road is also the later Baocheng Railway choice of the channel, compared to the Daba Mountain deep Micang Road, the Shiniu Road connects Hanzhong and Shu County The distance is shorter, and the road is easier to walk.

After Li Yuan announced a series of tax reduction policies for Shu County, the fathers and elders of Shu County were grateful, and the farewell team was connected from Jinli to the Pixian area in the north.

There are four seasons throughout the year.

The summer in Shu County is rainy and humid, and the people who live here like to use spicy ingredients to eliminate the moisture in their bodies.

After leaving Chengdu, after the army passed through the depressed water, Li Yuan fell ill, this illness was menacing, and there was almost no warning, not only Li Yuan, relaxed in the Guanzhong children after leaving the hot and humid south of Shu County, into the relatively dry noise and humidity of the northern slope of the Qinling Mountains, one by one showed signs of unadaptation.

"Is this a symptom of the successive invasions of plague and miasma?" Lang Zhong, who was in charge of medical treatment in the army, gave the answer after carefully examining the condition.

This reply immediately made the Qin State nervous, Li Yuan is now like a needle in the sea for the emerging Qin State regime, if there are three long and two short, don't say anything else, the Qin State is full of people, and no one can take over Li Yuan to pick up this burden?

Although Chen Ping is wise, he has offended too many people.

Although Ying Yushu is of imperial blood, she is a weak woman.

The next Wang Shang, Luo Jia, Han Xin and others, or raised troops in Weimo, had no prestige; Or the Kanto clan, who recently defected to the trust of the Guanzhong fathers.

In a hurry, the eldest princess Ying Yushu led a group of civil and military officers to set off urgently from Xianyang, and followed the gallop road to Chencang to meet the Qin army team waiting for the south. In this welcoming team, Ying Yushu was worried about almost all the famous doctors and monks in Guanzhong. (To be continued......)

PS: Note: Yesterday in the mountains.,There's no network where I live.,Khan.,It's really sad this week.,Now this chapter runs to the ten-mile mountain road to the town to find an Internet café to upload.,I don't know if I can find it tomorrow.,It's bitter.。 Fortunately, I will be back in the city next week.