Chapter Eighty-Five: Civil Strife in Chudi
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Some time before the Chu State reinforced the Qi State, Li Hunt began to plan an uprising in the Huaibei region. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
And because after Peng Yue left, the Huaibei (that is, Huaiyang, the ancients used to call the south of the mountain and the north of the water called the yang, and the north of the mountain and the south of the water called the yin) area was occupied by the Jing family. And this place was relatively good under Peng Yue's original governance, but because of the Jing family's rampant conquest, the rule of Chu in this area was greatly reduced.
After nearly half a month of preparation and planning, on April 13, 202 BC, that is, some time after Xiang Yu promised to lead his army to reinforce Qi, Li Hunt successfully launched an uprising in the Huaibei region.
In some areas of the Huaibei region, Li Zhan resorted to killing the officials of the Chu state and opening warehouses to release grain to win people's hearts.
In a sense, Li Hunt's approach is more no different from that of Liukou.
However, it has to be said that because of this, Li Hunt quickly gathered a group of more than 10,000 people in the Huaibei area.
Li Hunt's uprising in the Huaibei region was so successful, in fact, it was quite directly related to Li Yuan and another person, that is, Chunshenjun Huang Xie, one of the four princes of the Warring States who was originally enshrined in the land of Huaibei.
Chunshenjun Huang Xie, (314 BC - 238 BC), a native of Jiangxia of Chu State, originally from Huang State (now Huangchuan County, Henan Province). During the Warring States Period, he was a minister of Chu and a famous politician. Together with Wei Guoxinlingjun Wei Wuji, Zhao Guopingjun Zhao Sheng, and Qi State Meng Weijun Tianwen, he was known as the "Four Princes of the Warring States" and served as the prime minister of Chu. Huang Xie is well-informed and good at arguing. In the first year of King Chu Kaolie (262 BC), Huang Xie was named Chun Shenjun. 12 counties in the north of Cihuai.
In 238 B.C., King Chu Kaoli died of illness, Chun Shenjun went to mourn, Li Yuan had people ambush in the Thorn Gate, killing Chun Shenjun and his family.
According to the "Book of Yuejue", Chun Shenjun was killed by King You when he was King You of Chu.
(The Book of Yue Jue is based on the historical facts of Wu and Yue's struggle for hegemony from the end of the Spring and Autumn Period to the early Warring States Period, going back to Xia Yu, down to the Han Dynasty, and the princes and countries, and covering the politics, economy, military, astronomy, geography, calendar, language, etc. of the Han people in the Wuyue region during this historical period, and is known as the "originator of local history".) Some of these accounts are not found in other extant texts, but are unique to this book, while others can be invented and corroborated with other texts.
On the one hand, it shows that there is no consensus on some important issues concerning the Yue Jue Shu, and doubts still need to be discussed; on the other hand, it also shows that it is precisely because of the historical value of the Yue Jue Shu that it occupies a special position in the classics, which has caused many researchers to persevere.
The Book of Yue Jue is an important classic that records the history of Wu and Yue in the early period of China. The content recorded in it is based on the historical facts of the struggle for hegemony between Wu and Vietnam from the end of the Spring and Autumn Period to the early Warring States period. Some of these accounts are not found in other existing classical documents, but are unique to this book, while some of them can be invented and corroborated with other classical documents, so they are valued by scholars. In the course of the research of modern social sciences, many people have used Yue Jueshu from different angles and to different degrees to investigate some specific issues in ancient Chinese history, Chinese literature, Chinese ethnic history, Chinese linguistics, and Chinese historical geography, and have achieved many important results. This shows that this book has a certain reference value for the research of the above disciplines.
"Yue Jue Shu" is a miscellaneous history that records the local history of ancient Wu and Yue, also known as "Yue Jue Ji", the whole book has a total of 15 volumes. The book records the historical facts of Wu and Yue during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, traces back to Xia Yu, down to the Han Dynasty, and the princes and countries, and involves the politics, economy, military, astronomy, geography, calendar, and language of the Wuyue region in this historical period, and is known as the "originator of local history".
Regarding the origin of the title of the book, "Yue Jue", the first article "Foreign Biography Ability" said: "The more Yue, the clan of the country also." Absolutely, absolutely, it is said to be a hook and practice. "Sage, what is said cannot be severed, so it is not for the sake of being remembered. Yu Yue of the Qing Dynasty explained this, which is to say that the "Spring and Autumn Period" is written in the absolute book of the Lin, and its intention is to remember the things of Wu and Yue to continue to supplement the "Spring and Autumn Period", and the focus is more on the Yue, so it is said, "the more absolute".
This book originally consisted of 35 articles, the so-called "8 internal records and 17 external legends in the old days"; five articles were lost in the early Northern Song Dynasty, and now only 19 articles remain. Among them, the first and last two articles belong to the nature of the preface, and the middle seventeen articles have internal classics, internal transmissions and external transmissions, which are relatively messy. However, the "External Transmission Ability" explains: "The scripture talks about its affairs, and the preacher speaks its meaning, and the outsiders are not made by one person, and they are quite overlapping, or they are not their own affairs, and they are cited as those who say it with the meaning of the will." On the one hand, this shows that the sources of his materials are multifaceted, and on the other hand, it shows that the author's intention to write the book, each article has its own specific purpose, the so-called "view of the Taibo, can know the distinction between sages and sages", "view the nine arts, can know the truth of people, the blessing of turning evil" and so on.
The Book of Yue Jue preserves many historical materials before the Eastern Han Dynasty in the Wu and Yue regions, and pays special attention to the diplomatic and military activities of Wu Zixu, Zigong, Fan Li, Wen Chong, Ji Ran (Ji Ni) and others; These historical materials can corroborate with the "Zuo Chuan", "Chinese" and "Shiji" to supplement their shortcomings. )
And what does this matter have to do with Huang Xie? Mainly because after Li Yuan killed Chun Shenjun's entire family, he took over Chun Shenjun's fiefdom in Huaibei and ran it.
But Li Zhan knew very well that he couldn't survive in the Huaibei area at all, so he quickly led the people who were willing to follow him to Wu County before Pengcheng, which was not too far away, reacted.
Of course, he also has another trick, that is, when he left Huaibei, he sent someone to meet his former friend, who is now the lieutenant of Hengshan County.
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To be honest, Yu Ziqi was very surprised by Li Hunt's approach of sending someone to see him. He is not unaware of what happened in Huaibei.
But he didn't expect that such a thing would actually be done by his former friend. This really surprised him.
As for Li Hunt's desire to initiate a real uprising in the area of Wu County, Yu Ziqi quickly made a judgment after being silent for a while.
That's what he decided to do in favor of Li Hunt.
For Yu Ziqi, although the Yu family's foundation in Wu County was basically uprooted by Xiang Chu, he knew that if he really wanted to use some of his remaining influence to help Li Zhan occupy Wu County, then such an approach could be said to be very beneficial to both parties.
Because once Li Hunt expelled Xiang Chu's forces in Wu County, it would be easier for the Minzhong County troops to attack from the direction of Wu County to control the situation.
And the people sent by Li Hunt also clearly stated an attitude, that is, Li Hunt had no intention of being an enemy of the Great Qin Empire, and if the Great Qin Empire really sent troops to Wu County, he was willing to surrender to the table.
Although I don't know whether Li Hunt's practice is true or not, Yu Ziqi still sent Yu Da to help Li Hunt very simply.
In fact, Li Hunt can be said to be extremely surprised by one situation, that is, his former good friend Li Hunt is actually a descendant of Li Yuan.
I have to say that this situation is indeed something that Yu Ziqi never thought of.
But he thought about it carefully, that is, his father may know something, but he didn't tell him about this matter, more because he didn't want Li Hunt's identity to implicate the Yu family.
After thinking of this, Yu Ziqi was also relieved. Because compared to Xiang Chu, even if Li Hunt occupied Wu County and resisted the Great Qin Empire, he was not qualified to do such a thing. After all, Li Hunt's foundation is too weak.
Although the other party gathered more than 10,000 people in a very short period of time, Yu Ziqi also looked down on the combat effectiveness of these personnel who were not even a rabble.
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With the assistance of Yu Da, the housekeeper of the Yu family, who was once the county guard of Wu County, Li Zhan soon cooperated with the remnants of the Yu family in Wu County and gradually controlled some counties.
In these counties, Li Hunt followed Yu Da's suggestion, that is, to send a small number of people to guard these counties, and he and Yu Da took advantage of Xiang Chu's failure to react and went straight to Huiji County.
As the county governor of Wu County, the gains and losses of Huiji County will greatly affect the difficulty of the offensive launched by the Qin army in the south.
Moreover, Yu Da believes that although Li Hunt does not seem to have the courage to resist the Great Qin Empire, he hopes to use the intervention of the Great Qin Empire to avenge his family.
But for many considerations, Yu Da hoped that Li Hunt's strength would not be too strong, otherwise Yu Ziqi might still encounter trouble.
After all, Yu Ziqi did not inform Zhang Jiashi of this operation, but just discussed it with Wu Rui, the county guard of Hengshan County, and quickly made a decision.
As for why Wu Rui still became the county guard of Hengshan County, this point is not entirely because Zhang Jiashi is in line with the trend, but after thinking about the situation in Changsha County and Jiujiang County, he hopes to give full play to Wu Rui's ability, and stay away from Changsha County, where the other party was originally entrenched, to avoid problems.
Of course, the history of this world has changed a lot from the history of Zhang Jiashi's original world:
The original Wu Rui, in July 209 BC, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up in Daze Township, Suxian County, Anhui Province. In August, the first Qin official to respond was Wu Rui. Fanyang made Wu Rui win the hearts of the people in the rivers and lakes, called "Fanjun", [3] and later supported Xiang Yu, and used prisoners (prisoners with characters on their faces) to lead troops, and sent troops to sweep Jiangxi, Hunan, and Gui, Weizhen Jiangnan, and the masses from all over the country defected, and some officials of the Qin Dynasty also led their subordinates to follow. For example, the king of Minyue Wuzhu and the king of the East China Sea are all descendants of Goujian, the king of Yue, and they all belong to Wu Rui. Among them were LinkedIn Bu, the leader of the Huainan Rebel Army, and fellow villager Mei. At that time, Yingbu already had a team of thousands of men and fought bravely, Wu Rui married his daughter to him and ordered him to send troops to attack Qin. Wu Rui first followed Xiang Yu to fight in the south and the north, and after capturing Xianyang, Xiang Yu named him the king of Hengshan for Wu Rui's outstanding military achievements, and built the capital in Yi (now northwest of Huanggang County, Hubei). His son-in-law Yingbu was named the king of Jiujiang, and his fellow villager Mei was also named the marquis of 100,000 households.
In 204 BC, after Wu Rui took Changsha, he built the ancient city of Changsha on the fertile soil near Xiangshui. [7] At that time, the northern army was in chaos, and the jurisdiction of Wurui was relatively peaceful, attracting a large number of merchants to Changsha in the south. After occupying South Vietnam, Wu Rui sent a large number of agricultural and technical personnel to promote "Rui" rice in South Vietnam, develop and utilize local resources, and publicize the concept of "valuing the people". Wu Rui also took good measures to promote a policy of peaceful coexistence in Guangxi, Vietnam, and other ethnic minority areas to help them develop production, and was respected by the people.
Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, crowned a total of eight kings with different surnames, all of which were used to buy people's hearts and minds during the war. Emperor Liu Bang was certain, so he and Empress Lu used various methods to eliminate heroes with different surnames. The seven kings with different surnames were all killed and deposed for various crimes. Only Wu Rui and his descendants were the hereditary king of Changsha, who began and ended well, and became the only surviving king with a different surname (the five generations of the calendar ended because there was no heir). But in fact, Liu Bang did not relieve his suspicion of Wu Rui, and repeatedly tested Wu Rui. After Zhang Liang resigned and lived in seclusion, he lived in Wu Rui's house. Wu Rui followed Zhang Liang's strategy, preserved his strength, and began to act in a low-key manner, giving up most of his territory to Liu Bang's children, and distributing some of his elite soldiers to the account of Liu Jia, the king of Jing (Liu Bang's cousin), and arranged for his fifth son Wu Yuan (the son born to Concubine Ji) to bring some of his family members back to Fuliang Yaoli to live.
This is what Wu Rui needs to deal with in Zhang Jiashi's world so far.
Wu Rui in this world did also raise troops, but because of the lack of Yingbu's help, and Mei, who had become a marquis of 100,000 households, was also nowhere to be found, which led to Wu Rui, who fought against Liu Bang in Changsha, was defeated and retreated, and even needed to rely on Tu Sui who appeared unexpectedly to keep his land and repel Liu Bang.
After knowing the arrangement of the Yuzi period, Wu Rui did not oppose this arrangement of the Yuzi period, but vigorously supported the practice of the Yuzi period.
After all, for Wu Rui, although he has been transferred to the county guard of Hengshan County, he can become a feudal official again, and he has not been held accountable by Zhang Jiashi for betraying the Great Qin Empire, which is already a very good arrangement for Wu Rui.
So at this point, Wu Rui said a sentence about the arrangement of the Yu Zi period: "Since Lord Yu is already planning to do this kind of thing that is beneficial to our Great Qin Empire, then this county guards the Natural Scripture and will help with all their might." ”
It was because Wu Rui also supported the practice of the Yuzi period, and after mentioning this matter in the letter to Lu Ze, the county guard of Nanjun, Lu Ze also sent a team of boatmen to the east section of the river overnight to take Li Hunt's team to the south bank of the river.
If it weren't for Lu Ze's help, just relying on the Yuzi Period, Wu Rui, Li Hunt and others, they would not have been able to cross the river that was still a moat at that time.
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More than a year later, Zhang Jiashi met this Li Hunt under the recommendation of Yu Ziqi and others, and he had to say that some people's backgrounds can indeed affect each other's temperament.
However, due to many considerations, Zhang Jiashi tactfully proposed that he hoped that Li Jia would be transferred to the position of Bajun County Guard.
And Li Zhan did not refuse Zhang Jiashi's "unreasonable request", but simply handed over his post of county guard of Wu County, and then transferred to the county guard of Ba County.
What no one expected was that Li Hunting would become the first Qin official to govern the Qinghai Lake area......