Chapter 3 The general trend of the world
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At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Zhou Dynasty declined, and the general trend of the world changed again. After hundreds www.biquge.info of years of development, the cultivation of truth has become a common practice, and the cultivators have become a valuable resource that the royal families of various countries are constantly competing for. By the time of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons, history had undergone some changes, and by the Warring States Period, this change eventually caused a great change.
The root of these great changes lies in the cultivators. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the country of a thousand times can be regarded as a medium vassal state, the so-called thousand times, is only a thousand military vehicles, and the soldiers of the whole country are only about 100,000 people. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the tactics of war were backward, and ordinary soldiers were almost powerless in the face of cultivators, and a Nine Realm cultivator like Jiang Ziya could slaughter 10,000 people by himself. Therefore, for these vassal states, rectifying the rule of officials, enriching the country and strengthening the army, and accumulating decades of work are often not as good as cultivating a cultivator above the five realms.
In this way, the number of practitioners becomes an absolute measure of whether a country is strong or not. The Jin State had the longest hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Daomen accumulated the deepest, so it was not swallowed up by the three major families of Han, Zhao, and Wei, but maintained this strong rule and became the largest vassal state.
Without the three divisions of Jin, the countries surrounding the Jin Kingdom would be in danger. In just over ten years, the Jin Kingdom destroyed Chu in the south and Qi in the east, occupying Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Jingzhou, and Yangzhou, and all five states in the world's nine states became the territory of the Jin State.
Just when the Jin State was eyeing the world and wanted to dominate the world, three major events occurred, which finally stopped the Jin State's tide of destruction and formed three points in the world.
The first major event was the destruction of the Zhou Dynasty. Just overnight, all the royal family members and officials of the Zhou royal family, as well as the nobles, countrymen, and subordinate farmers in the land of Wangji, were all killed, and the nine tripods symbolizing the mountains and rivers disappeared and the world shook. This matter is still an unsolved case until now. There is no doubt that it must be a group of powerful cultivators who can make such a big move, but where the cultivators are, the countries have their own opinions, and no one will admit it.
Although the Zhou royal family has declined to the point of decay, there are still some Zhenguo magic weapons, unless more than four Seven Realm cultivators work together, it is absolutely impossible to be so silent. The first object of suspicion of many cultivators is the Jin Kingdom, which has the most cultivators, and the desire to unify Kyushu is also the most urgent, and they can't openly use troops against the Zhou royal family, otherwise they will risk the world's disapproval, so they can only secretly send cultivators to swallow up the Zhou royal family in one fell swoop.
But some people disagree, thinking that although the Jin State is strong, the desire to destroy Zhou is not urgent, and it is completely possible to destroy Yan and Qin and then slowly destroy Zhou, there is no need to rush yourself to the forefront now, as Qianfu pointed out.
If you want to talk about suspicion, Qin Yan's suspicion is just as big: Qin has always been a wild land in Xirong, not regarded as the mainstream of the Central Plains, and it is in a critical period of law change, and it is simply unable to resist the army of the Jin State, so this hand can make the Jin State be spurned by the world, and the Qin State can concentrate on changing the law and trying to become stronger. In addition to these two purposes, Yan Kingdom also has a purpose of being crowned king. Yan Guo is surnamed Ji, is the prince of the same surname of the Zhou royal family, the most foolish and loyal forces in the country, the most loyal to the Zhou royal family, Yan Jun wanted to be the king several times, but was reprimanded by a group of old ministers, and failed to do so. Now that the Zhou royal family has been destroyed, the Yan Kingdom can justifiably raise the banner of "orthodoxy" and establish itself as the king.
It's just that these are just speculations, and until the end, no one can say who the Zhou Dynasty was, whether it was the Three Kingdoms of Qin, Jin, and Yan, or those hidden sects? Where did Jiuding go? This became the first major unsolved case in history.
The second major event was the change of the law of the Qin State. This is consistent with the world that Su Qi is familiar with. The Qin State bowed down to the Jin State, cut the land west of the river in order to seek peace, and led the spearhead of the Jin State to the Yan State. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Qin State succeeded in changing the law, the national strength increased greatly, and a new army was trained in ten years, taking advantage of the new defeat of the Jin army to recover the land of Hexi in one fell swoop.
The third major event is the Jin Kingdom's war against Yan. When the Qin State changed the law, it cut the land west of the river and sued for peace with the Jin State, and a big discussion broke out in the Jin State. Some people are the masters who destroy Qin first and then Yan, and some people think that Qin is not enough to worry about and should destroy Yan first. In the end, the monarch of the Jin State decided to destroy Yan first, believing that the Qin State changed the law as "self-chaos in the country", "there will be chaos in less than three or five years", and "there is no need to worry". As a result, the Jin State attacked Yan with an army of 300,000, but he did not expect that the monarch of the Yan State worshipped Murong Yue, who was only 30 years old, as a general, and won five battles and five victories, and actually used 100,000 troops to defeat the Jin State in a row and beheaded 200,000. The vitality of the Jin Kingdom was greatly damaged, and he had to give up the idea of cutting Yan. Since then, the pattern of the world has gradually become clear, and it has become a situation of three strong people.
Among the nine states in the world, the Jin State occupies five of them, and Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Jingzhou, and Yangzhou account for half of the world. The Qin State occupied Yongzhou and Liangzhou, reaching Hetao in the north, Bashu in the south, and Hanguguan in the east. The Yan State occupied Jizhou and Yanzhou, and held on to the Jin State with the Yellow River as the boundary.
Among the Three Kingdoms, the Jin State was the richest, the Qin State had the strongest military strength, and the Yan State slowly became the weakest of the Three Kingdoms, although it defeated the Jin State five times. This is the big picture today.
Su Qi's grandfather, Wenxinjun Su Muzhi, is one of the secretaries of Yan State. Su Qi was born in a family of generals and is the eldest grandson, so he is naturally clear about these military affairs. It's just that as a traverser, he has a lot of treasures about the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, knowing that Qin died after he unified the world, and then Chu and Han fought and the Three Kingdoms were established...... Naturally, these things don't care so much. He doesn't have the consciousness of "the rise and fall of the country, the husband is responsible", he just thinks that Wang Tu is dominant, and in the end it is just a big dream.
Thinking of this, Su Qi put down the scroll and sighed softly: "Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who don't know me say what I want? ”
At this moment, a maid came in a hurry, saw Su Qi reading behind the window, and hurriedly gave a deep salute: "Young master, the old lady is back, and he will be there soon, and the master of the family asked the young master to go with everyone to greet him." ”
Su Qi perked up when he heard this: "Okay, I'll go over immediately." ”
He rolled the bamboo slips and put them on the table, tidied up the instrument a little, and hurried to the front yard to greet the old lady, Wenxinjun Su Muzhi.
The old lady Su Muzhi is nearly seventy this year, as the secretary of the Yan Kingdom, Feng Wen Xinjun, he is a powerful cultivator of the Seven Realms, and he has a very high reputation in the Yan Kingdom and the cultivation realm. The monarch gave him a large piece of land in Jinyang County, Yanzhou Prefecture, as a fief, and also showed enough trust and respect for the old lady.
As a member of the imperial court, Su Muzhi usually lives in the Wenxinjun Mansion in Zhaowu City, the capital of Yan State, and rarely returns to the family fief, and all the affairs in the fief are handed over to Su Qi's father Su Zhongwen to take care of. This time, Su Muzhi came back and was notified by Hongyan three days in advance, so in the past three days, the Su family has been busy preparing a dust washing banquet for the old lady.