The sun is shining and the weather is clear.

It was another busy farming season, and the weather was very good.

Just when the peasants in various localities were busy reaping the fruits sown in the fields and harvesting grain, the officials in various localities were busy adapting to their new posts and positions, and the military in various localities was conducting regular drills, a piece of news flew all over the country like wings, shocking the whole world.

Confucian rebellion!

This matter also stems from another major event - the invasion of the Huns!

Last year, the grassland outside the Saiwai suffered a huge snowstorm that had not been encountered in a century, countless cattle, sheep and horses froze to death, the nomads suffered heavy losses, and countless people died of hunger and cold, and even the tragedy of the entire tribe of the small number of nomadic tribes was wiped out due to the cold.

Just ten days ago, the nomads in various places gathered their forces and suddenly launched a large-scale invasion of the northwest region of the Daqian Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of troops poured out, bypassing the defense line around the Great Wall that the Mengjia army was building, and did not encounter organized resistance, including Jiuyuan County, Yunzhong County, Beidi County, Shangdang County and other places were all occupied by the Huns, and the troops pointed directly at Neishi County, where Xianyang was located.

But just when the Huns wanted to further expand the soldiers within the kingdom, the kingdom garrisoned the northwest general Meng Tian led the army to kill, the Huns were obviously caught off guard, and the battle line collapsed, in just a few days, with the cooperation of the soldiers and horses of the northwest counties, the Mengjia army swept the world and drove the Xiongnu army out of the northwest counties, and the battlefield went deep into the grassland for dozens of miles.

In the battle, the Mengjia army killed hundreds of thousands of Hun soldiers, and its prestige caused a sensation in the world.

The day after the end of the battle, the supervisors of Jiuyuan County and Beidi County jointly wrote a letter, accusing Confucianism of secretly subsidizing the food and clothing of the Huns, and providing all kinds of covert assistance for the Xiongnu soldiers and horses to invade the northwest of Daqian, including giving maps of the military camps stationed in various places and the layout of the soldiers and horses of the border defense lines, resulting in the failure of the soldiers and horses of the counties to respond to the invasion in time, and the soldiers and civilians suffered heavy losses.

The accusations of the supervision history are not unfounded slander, and there are all kinds of solid and unmistakable evidence that accompanied the concerted twists to Xianyang City, as well as the traitors who were arrested and executed to communicate with foreign thieves, completely confirming their identity as Confucian disciples, and the action was instructed by the Confucian high-level.

At this point, the Confucian collusion with the Huns to invade the northwestern counties of the dynasty is ironclad and unmistakable!

At this time, news came from the Jiujiang counties located in the southeast region of the dynasty that the Lingnan Academy had close contacts with the patriarchs of the Baiyue tribes, and the private armies of the Baiyue tribes secretly assembled at the borders of the counties, and there seemed to be signs of a large-scale invasion of the southeastern counties!

When the news came, the First Emperor was furious and furious, and the kingdom was also boiling, and a strong commotion broke out in all counties.

In the evening when night was about to replace dusk and faint dark clouds were about to bring rain, the first emperor's order was issued from the already blood-colored city of Xianyang, and after a perfect and efficient transmission, it spread to every county, every county, and even every village of the Great Qian Dynasty within three days.

Exterminate Confucianism!

The date on which the decree is issued to all localities shall prevail, and those who do not report to the local officials and institutions within three days to cancel their Confucian status will be killed!

Before the ordinary government institutions received this order, and before the ordinary people knew about it, the generals of the army loyal to the First Emperor had already received a secret order from the First Emperor, and a large number of well-prepared and murderous soldiers showed their butcher's knives and viciously slaughtered the Confucian scholars in the territory.

At the same time, the shadow guards, who have been operating in the shadows, and the intelligence forces developed by the major imperial officials loyal to the First Emperor, have revealed their hideous faces, and the hidden agents have received urgent orders from their direct leaders, asking them to take action at all costs. And the order is very clear: "Cooperate with the Friendship Alliance, and disintegrate any possible counterattack by the Confucian forces at all costs!" ”

Under the guidance of this message, the intelligence officers lurking in the shadows guided the actions of the members of the assassination team, and achieved fruitful results.

Lu Changjiang, the lieutenant of Ba County, was assassinated by his own chief of guards while sleeping at home.

Dongting County Shou Changming was drunk at the wedding banquet to marry the eighteenth concubine, and was assassinated by the servants of the family who did not have the slightest intention of hiding his identity on the way into the cave room, under the desperate cover of the guards, he escaped alone, but unfortunately, his first reaction after escaping was to seek protection from the Supervision of the Imperial History Office, he relied on his identity to break directly into the office hall, drunk and hazy shouted: "It's the opposite, Zhang Yushi, someone rebelled, and wanted to kill me!" ”

As a result, he was surprised to see Zhang Yushi, who had always been a brother and brother with him, looking at him with a strange smile, several masters with sharp blades with strange smiles around him, and in the center of the hall, several Confucian backbone elements fell in a pool of blood......

Dongting County Lieutenant Gao Feng, a master from Yingtian Academy, was stabbed to death with a knife in his home, and Mrs. Zhang, who slept with him, also disappeared without a trace.

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After the first phase of the operation was completed, there was information that more than 200 officials, big and small, had died in the unexplained assassination.

Among the more than 200 officials were nobles who had been loyal to the great cadres for hundreds of years, nobles and scholars who had taken refuge in the Six Kingdoms, law scholars who were well-known and served as important legal personnel among the court lieutenants, county guards who were in charge of the military and political power of a county, county lieutenants who were in charge of the soldiers and horses of a county, inspectors of the imperial history who were responsible for supervising the affairs of a county, county lieutenants and county magistrates who were in charge of specific affairs in the county, low-ranking officers who were in charge of the keys to the city gates, and cell bosses and jailers who guarded the prisons.

Obviously, the shadow guards and the personnel of the major intelligence agencies are not only very good at stealing, but also have a peak in the use of assassination. The Mingzi or Shadow Sons, who have been placed in various places by Confucianism for many years, think that no one knows their identities, but in fact, they have long been quietly lurking around, silently observing their every move; When it comes to hands, they are also clean and neat, more precise and decisive than surgeons in surgery.

The assassination of more than 200 Confucian chess pieces planted in various places, the military power in the hands of Confucianism fell into a situation where the dragon has no leader and a snake has no head, and it also paralyzed the wisdom system of Confucianism to gather forces to counterattack and resist, making their response lag behind the armies everywhere. By the time the specific operatives reacted, the sergeants and masters of Daqian had already put butcher knives on their necks.

Accurate and unmistakable intelligence, swift and lightning action, killing the fewest people, and achieving the greatest effect, this professional level is dwarfed by the special personnel of later generations.

In just a few days, through a series of precise and ferocious assassinations, and tacit military operations, the First Emperor firmly grasped the strategically important and economically important areas such as Xianyang City, Neishi County, and Ba County, and effectively annihilated the organization and forces planted by Confucianism in other places, so that they could not take advantage of the chaos to make a difference, which is a kind of innovation in the history of the past and present.

Such a large list of assassinations and a plan of action could not have been made in a hurry, coupled with the rapid and powerful military action launched at the same time—anyone with a slight intelligence could see that the First Emperor was not an afterthought of Confucianism's actions, and he must have had a complete plan of action and cultivated a large number of loyal and reliable men.

In the eyes of a few insiders, the relationship between the First Emperor and Confucianism is just a question of who will do it first. Although the Confucians struck first, they underestimated the strength of the First Emperor's side, unaware that they were the passive side, and gave the First Emperor the opportunity and truth to act, and finally failed.

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The warm wind was howling, blowing Lin Cheng's hair all over the place.

As an elder of Chongshan Academy, one of the six major academies of Confucianism, he used to pay extra attention to his appearance and demeanor, so as to ensure that his every move was in line with the cumbersome and strict etiquette, but at this moment, if a disciple of Chongshan Academy who knew him saw him here, he would definitely be extremely surprised, and treat him and the elder as two people.

I saw that he was wearing a tattered and bloodstained Confucian robe, and the crown was lost somewhere, and his black hair was tied up scattered, looking very sloppy, and his calm and wise eyes were also occupied by the fire of angry revenge at this time.

Now he looks embarrassed and fierce, and he doesn't have the chic bearing and solemn demeanor of a Confucian master at all.

Chongshan Academy was destroyed, and Lin Cheng escaped by luck.

His strength is not as strong as Wen Tianhao and Gu Chen, but his feelings for Chongshan Academy and the disciples enrolled in the school are not at all any worse, and on the way to escape, he witnessed the disciples being slaughtered and exterminated by the disciples of the Yin and Yang Family, and his distressed blood dripped, igniting a raging heart of revenge.

Since escaping from the Chongshan region, he rushed to Yingtian Academy overnight, preparing to use the power of Yingtian Academy to recapture Chongshan Academy.

But before he arrived at Yingtian Academy, he received a message: In addition to the traitors, Yingtian Academy poisoned the water and diet of the academy, and then contacted the nearby garrison to kill him, and the disciples who were lucky not to eat and drink, and the inner masters who were strong enough to temporarily suppress the outbreak of poison rose up to resist, but the situation was stronger than people, and in the end, only a few people escaped, and everyone else was arrested and executed!

When he heard this news, Lin Cheng's heart was cold.

Confucianism was caught off guard by the First Emperor, and the situation was extremely bad!

Realizing this, he no longer wasted time seeking help from other academies, and went straight to Lingnan Academy, which was located in the southeastern region of the dynasty. The Lingnan side is located in the land of Baiyue, the strength of the Great Cadres is weak, and the Confucian disciples there have a close relationship with the various ethnic groups of the Baiyue, and they are not close to the Great Cadres and the First Emperor, even if the First Emperor suddenly attacked, the safety can be guaranteed over there.

But if something happens even over there, then the hundreds of years of Confucian plans will be ruined!

On the way to Lingnan Academy, Lin Cheng really received the expected news: following the destruction of Chongshan Academy and Yingtian Academy, several other Confucian academies within the Daqian Dynasty were all destroyed, and the way to fall was all the cooperation between internal thieves and foreign troops, only a small number of people escaped, and the worst was the Six Arts Academy located in Xianyang City, from top to bottom, none of them escaped, and they were all arrested by the shadow guards.

Qilu Confucianism, who has never been in the same line with the six academies, saw that they could not do anything, so they chose Mingzhe to protect themselves early, and immediately ordered the Confucian students in the land of Qilu to cancel their identities in the government institutions, endure and stand still, and the current head of Confucianism in the small sage village in Songhai Holy City Fu Nian took the initiative to go to Xianyang to meet the first emperor to ask for guilt, and temporarily saved the Confucianism in the small sage village and the land of Qilu from being exterminated.

As for the Confucian disciples who escaped from the academy, they were all strong and wise, and they all knew that the dynasty could not stay any longer, so they all chose to flee in the direction of Lingnan like him. Although they were fiercely pursued by the Shadow Guards and the Yin-Yang Family along the way, there were still many people who ran to the territory of Lingnan Academy alive.

In fact, as these people expected, the power in the hands of the First Emperor was beyond the reach of the Lingnan Academy in the land of Baiyue, and he could only gather forces to guard the main transportation routes, and the response of Lingnan Academy was not slow, after learning of the tragedy of several other academies, he immediately contacted and mobilized all the clans in the land of Baiyue, gathered troops, and blocked the entire land of Baiyue, and waited for it.

When Lin Cheng finally contacted the old friends of Lingnan Academy, he learned that Lingnan Academy had already mobilized the patriarchs of all ethnic groups in the land of Baiyue, and the Confucian lineage of Lingnan Academy was the main force, gathering all the soldiers of all ethnic groups in Baiyue to form a united army of tens of thousands to crusade against the tyrant!

Although the Chongshan Academy was destroyed, many of the disciples who were on a mission in other places at that time came to Lingnan alive, and they led the army as the vanguard army, all the way north, defeating several large cadre armies stationed in various places in succession, not only plundering a large amount of food, but also carrying many young and strong people who did not obey the harsh laws of the great cadres and the inhumane conscription system to expand their military strength.

Lin Cheng was overjoyed, and immediately found the disciple in charge to identify himself, and he didn't even bother to change his clothes, so he led the vanguard army all the way to the north to kill.

The Great Qian Dynasty had just unified the world, the territory was huge, and the strength was insufficient, coupled with the current land of China, the north was the economic, cultural, and political center, and the rich and prosperous southern and southeastern regions of later generations were now mostly wild and barren land, with inconvenient transportation, many wild beasts, and high mountains and dense forests, and miasma and poisonous gas, which led to the great Qian's extremely insufficient control over the southeast.

In the face of a kind of Confucian master of the Lingnan Academy and the armed soldiers of the Baiyue clan, they did not have the aura of invincible and invincible attack of the Daqian army, and the result was defeat after defeat, and a thousand miles of defeat.

In less than a month, large swathes of the southeast had fallen into the hands of the rebels.

After successive victories, the morale of the Lingnan rebels soared, and all the armies converged to launch the largest Northern Expedition in history.

But at this moment, Lin Cheng, the commander of the former army, felt a chill in his heart - a hundred elite soldiers appeared on the plain ahead.

"Golden Fire Cavalry!"

"We were fooled in the first place."

The bitter taste spread violently in Lin Cheng's mouth.