Speaking of the general trend of the world, it will be together for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time.

On the Hongyu continent, the seven kingdoms of Yin Shang were divided and merged into Zhou. After the destruction of Zhou, Du and Yu were divided, and they were merged with Xia, and Xia was separated, and there were two countries of Qin and Wei.

In addition to the two countries, there are many more countries on this continent.

The east of the mainland is a sea area, with countless small islands, on the edge of the mainland by the sea, there are Yan and Goryeo, and on the overseas islands, there is also a country called the Japanese Kou, which is full of bandits, aggressive, and often invades coastal countries, burning, killing and looting.

The south is a plain with many rivers, where rivers are all over the place, and there are three countries: Wu, Shu and Chu, all of which are rich in water armies and are good at using rockets.

The west is mostly high mountains and deep forests and swampy areas, which is called a forbidden area by many people, because there are some places where no one can reach, there are countless poisonous insects, birds and beasts, and it is very dangerous.

The northwest is an endless Gobi desert and desert, with two large countries of Western Xia and Tibet, and some small vassal states, where the land is vast and sparsely populated, the weather is often in a hot state, and it is very yearning for the life in the south.

Due north is a vast steppe, with the Xiongnu, Mongolia, Jurchen three countries, nomadic for a living, good at riding and shooting, is the most ferocious country on the Hongyu continent, their commander can not completely control the whole country, there are often wars between the various tribes, the perfect embodiment of the system of the jungle.

In the northeast, it is in the ice and snow all the year round, there are only two countries here, namely the Rakshasa and the Nord Kingdom, where the people are particularly cold-resistant because they are in the ice and snow all the year round, and they are tall and powerful, but because of environmental problems, the mortality rate of newborn babies is very high, and if you are not careful, the baby will freeze to death because of the cold, and the population is very sparse.

In the middle of the continent, there are mostly plains, where the land is fertile, the talents are abundant, and the mineral resources are extremely rich, which is the place that the resource-poor countries in the north and northwest seem to occupy.

There are two great countries here, Qin and Wei, they are the two strongest countries in the entire Hongyu Continent, both military and agricultural, they are very developed.

And among them, there is also a small country called Zhao State, which is their buffer zone.

The various countries on the continent contain each other, and various frictions and even wars often arise due to various things.

The nations compete for hegemony, who is the lord of ups and downs!

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Qin State, Hongyang County, Dongcheng area, this is the rich and powerful place in Hongyang County, only famous families, rich businessmen can settle here.

Among these manors, there is a unique manor, this manor covers an area much larger than other manors, and there are two tall and mighty stone lions at the door, which looks like the demeanor of a large family.

But this manor is lifeless, unlike other manors with laughter and laughter, and it is very deserted.

The gate of the manor is closed, the plaque under the eaves is very blurred, only a single word can be vaguely seen, and the iron ring on the gate is rusty. The steps in front of the gate were covered with dust and fallen leaves, and it seemed that no one had cleaned them for a long time.

The manor is even more unsightly, the house is full of cobwebs, and spiders can be seen crawling on it from time to time. The courtyard was overgrown with weeds, and only a small path was faintly visible.

The magnificent rockery in the past is crawling with green vines and weeds, and the pond water has become green and oily because it has not been taken care of, and it still has a disgusting smell. The whole manor gives people a cold, silent, and deep gloomy feeling.

In one of the courtyards of the manor, a young man who appeared to be in his eighteen or nineteenth years old was lying on the cold stone floor, and next to him was a broken jar, the fragments of which were scattered everywhere.

The young man lying on the ground had yellow muscles and thin muscles, his eyes were sunken in his sockets, his jaw bones were even more raised, and the blood vessels and meridians under the skin were clearly visible.

The young man was very thin, skinny as skinny, and there was hardly any excess fat on his body, and if it weren't for the fact that the young man's chest was still lying together, he would have looked at him as a man who had been dead for a long time.

"Ahem!"

The young man coughed dryly, opened his eyes with great difficulty, supported the ground with his hands, and sat up from the ground with difficulty.

"Damn! This body is too weak to help the wind, just now a gust of wind blew, and it actually blew me down! Hiss! ”

It seems that the waist pole was injured a little when he fell, and when he got up, he accidentally twisted it, and the young man in pain gasped and went straight to his chest.

After rubbing his back for a while, the young man finally recovered from the pain, stood up with great difficulty, and looked at the broken jar beside him, with a distressed look in his eyes.

Move your legs and walk slowly towards the room on the right.

The purpose before he fell down was because he was hungry and wanted to go to the room to get something to eat, but he didn't expect a gust of wind to blow him to the sky, but fortunately it didn't blow into the sky, otherwise he would have died miserably.

Now that he has been in a coma for a while, the young man is even hungrier, and if he doesn't hurry to get food, he is afraid that he will faint from hunger again.

The young man's name is Zhang Guangyi, and he makes friends with a lot of righteousness. He was a down-and-out aristocrat of the Qin State.

His ancestor Zhang Zhende, who used to be a first-class minister of the Qin State, can be described as a high-ranking power, under one person, above ten thousand people, those who can stand side by side with him can be counted on one hand.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, there is a way that if you don't die, you won't die, Zhang Guangyi's ancestor Zhang Zhende, under the leadership of Liu Yi, the king of Qin at that time, actually started to change the law.

What is the change of the law, that is, to break the old system and create a new system.

As soon as this new system was proposed, it almost offended the dignitaries and dignitaries of the entire Qin State, you know, they are all the beneficiaries of the old system, how can they let the new system come into being and harm their interests.

In the end, they still failed, and Liu Yi, the king of Qin, failed to resist the pressure of the family and declared the failure of the reform, after all, they were almost the entire Qin State's wealthy nobles against each other, and they would easily succeed there.

The change failed, and Liu Yi, as the king of Qin, was not punished in any way, at most, he was said by the dignitaries and dignitaries to be deceived by others, listened to the words of the traitor, and was confused for a while, and the person they pointed out as a treacherous person was Zhang Zhende.

This hat was buttoned down, and Zhang Zhende's fate can be imagined, not only did he lose his official position and become an ordinary civilian, but even all his property in Luoyang was confiscated, leaving only the mansion of his hometown in Hongyang County and a few acres of fertile land.

Soon after returning to his hometown, Zhang Zhende died of depression, and his wife accompanied him soon after, leaving only Zhang Guangyi's grandfather Zhang Hansheng and his son Zhang Yunyang, Zhang Guangyi's father.

Originally, even so, with their family background, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the life could still be lived, but unfortunately the time was also fate, and the Zhang family actually had a gambler and lost all the family wealth. And this gambler is Zhang Guangyi's father Zhang Yunyang.

Shortly after Zhang Guangyi was born, Zhang Yunyang suddenly became obsessed with gambling, and the strange thing is that Zhang Yunyang lost every gamble, and he never won a handful, and his family's property was quickly lost by him.

Not only that, but he also lost the last few acres of fertile land of the Zhang family, if it weren't for the fact that the land in the house was hidden by Zhang Guangyi's grandfather, I am afraid that there would be no place to live.

However, because the fertile land was sold, Zhang Guangyi's grandfather was angry to death, and Zhang Yunyang disappeared soon after, leaving only the five-year-old Zhang Guangyi and his mother Huang Yuelan.

The two mothers and sons have been dependent on each other for more than ten years, and finally because of overwork, Zhang Guangyi's mother died of illness not long ago.

How could the fragile Zhang Guangyi withstand the blow of losing his last loved one, and a few days later, he became ill with anxiety, contracted a serious illness, and died in bed soon after.

PS: The background of this book is overhead, so there may be some differences from our ancient times, ahem!