Chapter 308: The Four Great Scholars
People's hearts return to Qin.
In this troubled world, the most convincing thing is strength, and other righteousness, feuds, feelings, etc., for most people, are the thin layer of pulp and paper pasted on the edge of the window.
The return of Li Shang to Qin, so that those hesitant former princes and subordinates feel hope, for more than a year, their life has been extraordinarily difficult, as the princes of all walks of life are either suppressed, or tear each other apart, the seventeenth and eighteenth princes who were anti-Qin at the beginning, and many small shili are silent.
The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period for hundreds of years, created a grand scene of a hundred schools of thought, different doctrines, different schools of thought, many people with lofty ideals drove a long car to lobby between countries, trying to sell their knowledge to the emperor's family, so as to win fame and fortune for themselves at the same time, let their ideas spread for thousands of years.
Among the hundred schools, the struggle between Legalism and Confucianism was the fiercest and most cruel, the Qin State ruled the country by law, and the Kwantung States were supplemented by Confucianism, in this context, the revival of the Qin State brought about the full prevalence of Legalism, and correspondingly, the overall decline of Confucianism.
Li Yuan's new systems in the Qin state, including the perfection of the military lord system, the system of compassionate pensions, the system of government support for orphans, and the system of tax collection, became the focus of discussion in the streets, and even the Confucian and Mencian disciples who believed in Confucianism began to waver in their own teachings.
Lu Jia, Sui He, Zhao Ping, and Kui Che -- these four tongue debaters who were active in the late Qin Dynasty were all children of Confucianism, but in the autumn of the sixth year of the Great Qin New Calendar, they all became officials of the Qin State.
Lu Jia sent Nanyue to Nanyue, saying that Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, had reconciled with Qin, and the envoys of Nanyue turned to Chang'an from Yelang in Qiandi via Bashu, and they not only brought a letter from Zhao Tuo hoping to establish an alliance with Qin, but also brought many maritime specialties from the South China Sea.
Sui He's credit mainly lies in the successful lobbying of Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, to reconcile with the Qin state. After Liu Bang occupied Nanjun, Wu Rui once sent Mei Juan to fight with the Qin army, however, after the British reoccupied Jiangdong, Wu Rui's attitude towards Qin had a 180-degree turn, and the split of Eastern Chu and Western Chu made Wu Rui feel deeply disappointed.
As for Zhaoping, he sent two envoys to Jiujiang County. After learning from the pain, Zhaoping decided to follow in the footsteps of Bai Guangji and prove his ability in the vast Western Regions Thirty-six countries.
zuihou, Kuaihou is the one of the four who belonged to Zuihou, he was originally an important minister of the Chu State, and he had an impressive performance in persuading the Qin State to send troops to aid Chu. Unfortunately, this credit was not enough to help Kuaicher become a powerful minister of the Chu State, and Xiang Tuo, after using Kuaicher, drove Kuaicher out of Pengcheng on a fabricated reason for stealing.
October 7th.
Kui Che left the west gate of Pengcheng in a bullock cart alone. At this moment, I'm afraid Xiang Tuo didn't know that this middle-aged man who was desperate to the east under the city, Zuihou would become the terminator of the Western Chu Kingdom.
Eleventh.
Li Yuan led a group of personal soldiers back to Chang'an. This is his second expedition back to Beijing this year, and the battles again and again have brought pride and pride to the people of Qin.
This time. The situation in Hexi is quite calm, Li Zhongxiang has married Princess Loulan An Qinglan, compared to this, Bai Guangji is still a bachelor, but he is not willing to be lonely, after he asked the imperial court, he led a delegation from Loulan to the west, he wanted to find the place of the legendary Tianma.
The north is stable.
In order to deal with the threat from Chu, especially Eastern Chu, Li Yuan quickly appointed Kuai Yue as Qin's special envoy to Huiji County in Jiangdong, and went to Qu'a to meet with Yingbu.
The border between Qin and Eastern Chu is mainly concentrated in the line between Jingnan and Jiujiang County, and Feng Xuan, the general of the Qin army in Nanjun, has been trying the possibility of attacking Jiujiang County from the waterway during this time.
In the west of Nanjun, is the vast and rarely populated Bashan Shushui, during this time, in addition to some small-scale tribal fights, there is no more to worry about, the general of Qin, Shu County Shouwang Shang in the plain to build water conservancy, gradually won the love of the local scholars, even his personal life has been solved in Shu, an active tribe between Shu and Yunnan has become the maiden home of Mrs. Wang Shang.
The woman with a different style, the young daughter of the tribal patriarch with incredible beauty, and the hot and straightforward courtship scene made Wang Shang, who had been longing for it in the haze, completely lost.
This year, the dredging project of the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project in the area of Qingcheng Mountain was successfully completed after three months of construction, and the irrigation area of this weir canal was several times wider than that of Li Bing's period.
In the southeast of Shu in the Jiangzhou area, among the seven surnames of the Ba people, the strength of the Luo surname is the most inflated, and the Shili of the Ba people gradually expanded to the south of the river with the support of the Qin State, among them, the construction of the most important post road made the Qin State in opening the South Silk Road, and made a breakthrough.
Generally speaking, the trade route from Chang'an to the Western Regions is the Silk Road we are talking about, but in fact, in the Sichuan-Yunnan area in the south, a road stepped out by the horse gang also brought the civilization of exchange.
Ancient Tea Horse Road.
This is what we have always called the Southern Silk Road, where tea and silk from the East were transported to South Asia through the steep mountain roads, and then brought back gorgeous jade, jewelry, ivory and other curiosities.
Five Feet Road.
This is Wang Shang's greatest contribution after ruling Shu County for a year, although this dangerous road through the mountains and mountains can only accommodate the simple passage of the horse gang, but as the only channel to communicate the north and south, as long as the Qin State can continue to maintain its stability for a year, Wang Shang can guarantee that his Shu County can evolve into the most stable and wealthy county of the Qin State after becoming the granary of the Qin State.
Bashu and Guanzhong, there are two galloping roads, one east and one west, across the north and south, in this autumn and winter, a team of convoys loaded with grain from the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains all the way to the north, your goal is only one place: Chang'an City.
At the same time that the status of Shu is becoming more and more important, as the earliest place occupied by the Qin State, Li Yuan is also facing the problem of weakness and poverty in the Hanzhong area, and the cultivation here is completely dependent on the sky to eat. (To be continued......)