Chapter 149: The Great Change in Kanto
In fact, Ziying's injuries did not recover as quickly as the outside world guessed, he was shot through the lobe of his lung by Zhao Cheng in the Xianyang Rebellion, and it was a fluke that the medical conditions of the Qin Dynasty at that time could save him from death. Although there is no danger to his life now, the body of the child is still weak and abnormal, and the slightest wind may cause the wind to enter the body.
The reason why he insisted on meeting Han Xin and the others was nothing more than to use the big occasion to show his face in the army, you must know that he has been lying on his back for a long time since he ascended the throne, and almost no one in the ministers and soldiers of the Manchu Dynasty knew him. This is a very dangerous signal, and it is difficult to imagine how a Qin king, who is not recognized by his courtiers and army, will manage the country.
That's why Ziying dragged his sick body, regardless of the hard persuasion of the imperial doctors, insisted on going to Jingshui to meet the soldiers who came triumphantly.
The bumps along the way and the wind blowing by the river, Ziying had a high fever after returning to Xianyang Palace, thanks to the superb medical skills of the imperial doctor to stabilize the condition, but he was also repeatedly told not to blow the wind into the cold, otherwise he may not be so lucky next time. As a last resort, Ziying had to cancel the plan to go to the court, and still entrusted Ying Ke to act as the court, while he recuperated in the Wangyi Palace, and listened to the government reports from the eunuchs in the palace every day.
Ziying actually doesn't like Wangyi Palace, this palace has too many unpleasant pasts. His uncle, the previous emperor Hu Hai, was forced to commit suicide in this palace, which also made Ziying often restless, always feeling that there were a pair of eyes looking at him in seclusion.
However, in the Xianyang Rebellion, the palace of Xianyang Palace was extremely damaged, and only the palace was preserved because of its remote location. After the war, the Qin State was in ruins, and the palace was also a way to save money, not to mention recruiting people to overhaul the palace, so Ziying had to move to Wangyi Palace to recuperate.
In order to dispel the discomfort in his heart, Ziying ordered the palace lanterns to be lit everywhere in the Wangyi Palace at night, and the entire palace was illuminated as if it was day, and the palace people and eunuchs were required to stay with him every inch of the time, so that he could feel much more at ease.
At this moment, Ziying was resting her head in the soft arms of the palace man, slowly sucking the bitter decoction that the palace man carefully handed to her mouth. Although his face was a little pale, he still looked at Ying Ke who was sitting in front of him and talking with a smile.
Win Ke told Ziying in detail about today's affairs in the court, and after finishing speaking, he felt a little dry, so he took the tea handed by the palace and drank it all, and said in his mouth; "Ziying, you are in such a bad health now, so worry less about government affairs, anyway, with the general and the prime minister, the Qin State can't be messed up, you see that you have been in a coma for more than half a year, and the Qin State is not all right."
Win Ke just said it casually, but Ziying felt a little uncomfortable in his ears when he heard it, as if he meant to say that it was better to not have him, the king of Qin, and the Qin country, and couldn't help but smile bitterly; "The ancients are not in their position and do not seek their own politics, if I am still in the body of Bai Ding, why should I worry about these things. Little aunt, you also know me, I don't care much about fame and fortune, and my biggest wish is just to travel the world and cultivate my sentiments among the mountains and rivers. But since God forced me to become the king of Qin, then I have to worry about the Qin country, and I can't disgrace the prestige of the ancestors and the inheritance left behind. ”
Ying Ke sighed slightly and said; "If the eldest brother is still here, the Qin Kingdom will not be in chaos like it is now, and there is no need for the two of us to support this huge family business."
Speaking of Fusu, both of them were gloomy, and they were silent for a long time, and it took a while for Ziying to smile and smile; "Little aunt, you see that you are talking these words again, these are all the calamities of my Great Qin, and they are not something we can control, you and I just need to do our best. As for the outcome, it is not something that we ordinary people can control, it depends on the will of God. ”
Win Ke Zou frowned, and said with some displeasure; "You said you, what is not good to learn, but I like that set of pure desires and unhappy Huang Lao's techniques, if my father and your grandfather knew that the monarch of Qin was this kind of character, he would definitely jump out of the mausoleum angrily."
Ziying smiled dumbly; "Little aunt, you are serious, I just admire Huang Lao's skills, not to the realm of no desire and no desire. You see that I am sitting in this seat now, can I have no desires and no desires? ”
Sighing slightly, he said quietly; "When the Qin State is safe and happy, I want to resign from the burdensome burden of this body, return to the idyllic landscape, and be a carefree person who has no quarrel with the world, wouldn't it be happy!"
Ying Ke looked at the deep yearning in Ziying's eyes, and couldn't help but be silent. She and Ziying followed suit, but Ziying was a few years older than her, although she was an aunt and nephew, in fact, she was the same as her brother and sister. She knew that Ziying had no attachment to the throne, just like her, but she just wanted to live a quiet and peaceful life thanks to her father's shadow, but the choice of fate pushed them to the edge of the knife. There are only two people left in the bloodline of the entire Qin royal family, forcing them to step forward and take on the heavy responsibility.
This is the sorrow of the child, and it is not the sorrow of her win.
Ying Ke took a deep look at the baby on the sickbed, and suddenly spoke; "Ziying, I have something I want to ask of you."
Ziying glanced at Ying Ke a little strangely, and opened his mouth to say; "What do you have to tell your little aunt, do we still need to be so polite?"
Win Ke hesitated for a moment before saying; "In a few days, my father's imperial tomb will be completed, and I want to ask you to order that Hu Hai be buried in the side tomb, so that he can return to our Qin ancestry."
The mausoleum of the First Emperor was extremely large, and it was not completed until his death, so his coffin was only temporarily shelved in the underground palace, and then sealed and buried after the mausoleum was built. After Hu Hai ascended the throne, he intensified his efforts to rush the work, but it is a pity that he sat on the throne for less than a year before the world was in chaos, and the construction of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor had to be shelved. This was put on hold for more than two years, and it was not until the previous month that Ying Ke's father ordered the unfinished construction of the First Emperor's Mausoleum to be simply built, so that the First Emperor could be buried in peace.
After Hu Hai's death, the Zongzheng of the Ying clan once angrily denounced him as a faint monarch and a tyrant, and removed him from the Ying clan, and his body could not be buried in the ancestral mausoleum, but was buried in Dunan's Yichun Garden as a commoner. After all, Win Ke has had a good relationship with Hu Hai since he was a child, and he couldn't bear to be a lonely ghost in his heart, so he made a request to Ziying.
After listening to Ying Ke's words, Ziying nodded after a deep groan; "My little aunt is thinking about it very much, although my little uncle is ridiculous, he was bewitched by Zhao Gao and forced my father and many uncles and aunts to death. But anyway, he is also our flesh and blood relatives, I can't bear to end up like this, Zongzheng will send someone to say it, I think I, the king of Qin, still have some privileges. ”
Win can be heard; "That's very good, I've already greeted the prime minister and the general, as long as you agree, there will be no problem."
Ziying couldn't help but laugh; "It turns out that you have premeditated and determined to win, it seems that even if I don't want you, there is a way for me to agree."
The two talked again, but Ziying noticed that Ying Ke was a little uneasy, and kept looking up at the sky outside the hall, so he asked a little strangely; "Little aunt, do you have anything to do, look at you absent-mindedly."
Win Ke couldn't help but be suffocated by his question, turned his head away, and whispered; "Well, my personal maid told me that there is an old man in Xianyang City who is very skilled in traditional Chinese medicine, and I heard that he has a lot of experience in the root of the spleen, so I made an appointment with him to meet tonight."
Ziying looked at Ying Ke's face differently, and felt a little unbelieving, and when he saw Ying Ke under his gaze, two red clouds flew up on his cheeks, and then he suddenly realized, and couldn't help but make fun of it; "I'm afraid that the little aunt is not going to see the old man who doesn't understand Fengyue, but the general who knows and is interested."
Win Ke was broken by his words, and couldn't help but blush, annoyed and angry, glared at Ziying viciously, and said angrily; "Boy, you're too presumptuous, I'm your aunt, you dare to make fun of me, if my eldest brother is still here, I will let him beat your ass."
Ziying laughed; "The widow is the king, no one in the world dares to beat my ass and bloom, little aunt, you are trespassing, be careful that I will treat you for a big crime of disrespect."
Although his face was full of smiles, there was a burst of worry in Ziying's heart, Ying Ke naturally knew Han Xin's feelings, but he didn't know how to stop it. If he were an ordinary person, he would naturally be happy to see that winning could find a happy destination. But he is not an ordinary person, but the King of Qin, and he is still a King of Qin with an extremely embarrassing position, which has to make him reconsider these.
Ying Ke was a little ashamed by what he said, so he turned around and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Ziying shouting behind his back.
"Little aunt, don't hurry to leave, I still have something to tell you, something very important. I had been hesitating to say it just now, but now I think it's the right time. ”
"What's the matter?" Ying Ke stopped, turned around and asked in some surprise.
Ziying stretched out his hand and pointed to a roll of bamboo slips beside him, and said, "This is the concert of the generals just sent, take a look." The palace people around him understood, leaned down and raised the bamboo slip over his head to present it to Ying Ke.
Win can see the mystery of the child infant god, so he took the bamboo slip handed by the palace man with some suspicion, and when he opened it, he couldn't help but blush, and stood there at a loss with a lot of embarrassment. It turned out that this was a petition jointly signed by more than a dozen ministers and nearly 100 generals and generals in the Qin state, asking the king of Qin to marry Princess Huayang to the general, Wuxin Marquis Han Xin.
Ying Ke felt a burst of joy in his heart, but he didn't dare to show any happiness, but lowered his head and didn't dare to speak. Seeing that Ziying hadn't opened his mouth for a long time, he secretly glanced at Ziying, and saw that he was contemplating and couldn't see joy or anger on his face, so he mustered up the courage and whispered in a voice as thin as a mosquito's chirp; "How are you going to reply?"
Ziying smiled bitterly when she heard this, and said; "If, as a relative, I see that my aunt can find happiness, then of course I will be happy for her. The general's talent is not two, and he has made great contributions to my Qin State, from this point of view, he can be worthy of you, little aunt, so I think it is a match made in heaven for you to marry him. ”
Ying Ke's face was overjoyed, and he was about to speak when he heard Ziying say slowly; "But as the King of Qin, I don't want this kind of thing to happen."
The joyful expression on Ying Ke's face slowly faded, and he stared at Ziying and asked; "Ziying, what do you mean by that?"
Ziying pondered the words for a while, and then said, "Don't you think the general's credit is too great?" Is there too much authority? ”
"I don't understand the meaning of your words, if it weren't for his hard work to support the endgame of the Qin State, do you think we would still be able to sit here and have a chat?"
"Yes, Han Xin has the grace of reinventing my Qin country, I have never denied this, but we have also repaid him. He was just born in a cloth cloth, but now he has become the captain and general of my Qin country, and he is the marquis of ten thousand households, and his power is even more powerful to the government and the opposition, throughout the history of my Qin country, there has ever been someone who can be so favored as him. ”
Ying Ke's face sank, "Then what do you mean?" ”
Ziying sighed and said slowly; "I mean, Han Xin's power is too big, and it's enough to threaten the survival of my Ying clan. The Wang family is in decline, the ministers are in power, and the chaos of the country is like, you can see the fate of the Jin State and the Jiang Qi State, one was divided by three ministers, and the other was even more miserable and the temple was cut off and replaced by someone on the throne, don't you think our Qin State is now very similar to Jiang Qi? ”
"Little aunt, you might as well go out now and see how many troops I, King Qin, can command. The Qin army has almost become the private property of the general, and the generals and soldiers have already lost their loyalty to me, the king of Qin, if I walk out of the palace now and raise my arms, how many people will respond? The only thing I can control is the hundreds of guards in my palace, and who else will listen to me? Those generals have long been unreliable. ”
After listening to Ziying's words, Ying Ke's anger gradually calmed down, and after listening silently, he opened his mouth to defend; "Actually, you don't know him, Brother Han is a very affectionate person, if you don't take him first, he will definitely not do it to the royal family first, at most he will take power. In fact, to put it mildly, if it weren't for him, my Qin Kingdom would have been gone, and he would have given you and my lives, but now you are so suspicious of him, aren't you afraid of chilling the hearts of people in the world? ”
Ziying sighed slightly in his heart, he could see that Ying Ke had a deep affection for Han Xin, and he had already trusted it to the point of being unreasonable, and it would be useless to say more.
The art of the emperor cares about the way of balance, and now the power of the Qin State has been seriously out of balance, although it seems that the civil official group led by Meng Jian seems to be able to resist Han Xin, but the problem is that the Qin State is a country established by force, and if Han Xin's army has a different heart in his hand, he can completely cut down all these civil officials in one go instead of arguing with them.
Ziying originally meant to persuade Ying Ke to stand on his side and restrict Han Xin's rights more, but he didn't want to do anything to Han Xin, but he just wanted to divide some of the rights in his hands and it had reached a level.
At that moment, he didn't say more, but changed his tone to say to Winke; "Little aunt, you're right, it seems that the widow is too worried, the general is kind-hearted, and it won't be unfavorable to my Qin country. In this case, I think it is better to agree to the invitation of the ministers and generals, and give you a marriage to the general. ”
Win Ke was stunned for a moment, then his cheeks flushed, he lowered his head shyly, and said softly; "Everything is up to Your Majesty."
On the second morning of the dynasty, the child will let the news of the marriage be announced to the world, the eldest princess will marry the general, Han Xin, the Marquis of Wuxin, in order to avoid the funeral of the first emperor, the wedding date will be set after February, that is, on the fourth day of November.
At this time, the Kanto region had undergone great changes, and after Xiang Yu returned to the fiefdom, he used thunderous means to uproot the opposition forces within the Chu State, and deposed the king of Chu, Xiong Xin, to the fief of Changsha County and called him king. Because he was worried that Xiong Xin would use the influence of the Chu royal family to make trouble again, Xiang Yu lured him to buy the king of Linjiang with heavy profits, and asked him to send someone to scuttle Xiong Xin's boat to cross the Xiangjiang River, and finally drowned in the Xiangjiang River.
As soon as the king of Chu Xiong Xin died, the princes of Kwantung were in an uproar. You must know that Xiong Xin was once regarded as the righteous emperor by the princes and was the leader of the alliance against the Qin princes, but now he was killed by Xiang Yu's faction, which undoubtedly made Xiang Yu's reputation plummet. Liu Bang, who had already gained a foothold in Hanzhong, was the first to stand up and cry out for Xiong Xin, ordering the whole army to wear white armor to wear filial piety for him, and at the same time calling on the Chu people and the princes of the world to jointly crusade against Xiang Yu, a traitor.
The first to rebel was Tian Rong of Qi, Tian Dan occupied Qi after the Chen Sheng uprising, and set up the king of Qi, after Tian Dan was killed by Zhang Han, his younger brother Tian Rong took over the banner of Qi, and Tian Shi, the son of Tian Dan, continued to engage in the great cause of anti-Qin, and was the first batch of anti-Qin leaders, and his qualifications can be said to be older than Xiang Liang. However, Xiang Yu hated Tian Rong's refusal to rescue the Chu army in the Battle of Dingtao, which led to Xiang Liang's death, so when he divided the princes of the world, he changed Tiandu to the king of Qi and Tian An to the king of Jibei, and Tian Rong, who had made remarkable achievements, did not get any reward but was driven out of Linzi.
This will also lay the groundwork for Tian Rong's rebellion, after Liu Bang issued a call for the order, he was the first to respond to the anti-Chu, attacked Linzi overnight and killed Qi Wang Tiandu, and then attacked Boyang to kill Jibei Wang Tian'an, and re-incorporated the four counties of Linzi, Jibei, Jiaodong and Langya in Qi under his rule. At the same time, the southern army attacked the eastern county and Xue county of the old Qi, and the northern part captured Handan with Zhao Xie's joint army, and drove Zhang Er, the king of Changshan, away.
Seeing that Tian Rong and Zhao Xie succeeded, Han Guang, the former king of Yan and today's king of Liaodong, immediately raised troops to attack Zang Di, the king of Yan who was divided by Xiang Yu, and the two armies were mixed together in Yandi. In principle, Wei Wang Leopard raised troops to the south, and the Zhao army that went south combined forces to attack Sima Wei, the king of Yin, and Shenyang, the king of Henan, Sima Wei and Shenyang were defeated by the combined forces of Zhao and Wei, and retreated to the city of Luoyang, and after his death, he sent people to Xiang Yu for help.
After Xiang Yu of Pengcheng got the news that the four kingdoms of Qi, Zhao, Wei, and Yan had all rebelled, he was immediately furious, and immediately gathered an army of 300,000 to prepare to crusade against the rebellious princes. Ji Bu led 80,000 troops to the Central Plains to join the armies of King Yin and King Henan to resist the Wei and Zhao coalition forces, while Xiang Yu himself personally led the main army of more than 200,000 to Qi to attack Tian Rong.
The world, which had been quiet for less than three months, rekindled the flames of war, and at this time, the Qin State in Guanzhong couldn't help but be ready to move.