Chapter 3 The first person to cover Zhuge Gong

Section 1 The Mysterious Face-to-Face Man

In 348, a ragged vendor carrying two baskets of dustpans appeared on the streets of Yecheng, the capital of the Later Zhao Kingdom. This man is in his early twenties, but he is unkempt and vegetable, and his whole body emits a strange smell like over-marinated salted duck eggs, which is sour and refreshing...... The dignitaries and dignitaries who went shopping were afraid to avoid it.

When the young man walked to the street in the center of the city, he was greeted by a middle-aged man who looked like an official wearing a flat scarf and a right robe. When the two were about to pass by, the middle-aged man glanced sideways at the vendor and hurriedly grabbed him.

Middle-aged man: Where does the male come from?

Youth: Male? Do you call me Gong? I'm a dustpan seller.

The middle-aged man shook his head: Although the man looks down, he has an iron face and sword eyebrows and eyes like stars. And the first-class look is not to look at the facial features but to see the charm, the public style is peerless, and it is definitely not a thing in the pool. Let's go, come back to my house with me, and be my assistant (Gong Cao).

Youth: Who are you?

Middle-aged man: I am Xu Tong in the court.

Hearing this, the young man hurriedly put down his burden, and because he was in too much hurry, a stack of dustpans in the basket was turned upside down, revealing several subsets of scriptures and histories......

The young man bowed his hand to Xu Tong: Thanks to your promotion, you should be a Han in your attire, I can boldly say. The one (Shi Hu) sitting in the court hall today is really not the Lord of the Holy Ming. Leave.

Xu Tong looked at the back of the young man who was far away, and kept shaking his head: It's a pity, it's a pity......

The following year, Xu Tong traveled through the streets of Chang'an and was confronted by a boy about ten years old. Xu Tong took a closer look, and his eyes immediately lit up.

Xu Tong walked up and grabbed the little boy, half-squatted down and asked: This is the street where the emperor patrols, you are playing here, are you not afraid that the secret inspector (Si Lixiao Wei) will arrest you?

The little boy raised his eyebrows: Captain Sili only arrests the guilty, why do you tie up the children who are playing.

Xu Tong couldn't help but sigh: You, the bones are not constant, and you will be a nobleman in the future, and you have the appearance of an emperor.

The little boy replied as seriously as an adult: If there really is that day, I will never forget your kindness.

This is the second time that Xu Tongyi has given people a face in the year. After Xu Tong returned to Houzhao, he met people again that year, and this time, he returned his life to God.

In 349, Empress Liu of Emperor Shihu of Later Zhao issued a false edict appointing Zhang Jackal as an auxiliary minister. Xu Tong looked at Zhang Jackal's face and sighed: Disaster is coming, I don't have to participate. He then committed suicide by poisoning. Zhang Jackal later died in the civil strife of the Shi family and was wiped out by the three clans.

Unless you are aware of your subconscious, the subconscious mind will dominate your life, and you call it, Destiny --- Carl. Jung.

The young man Xu Tong met in Luoyang was called Wang Meng. The child I met in Chang'an was called Fu Jian. Will their fate be as Xu Tong said?

Section 2: Adventures

Wang Meng, whose name is Jingluo, was born in 325 in Ju County, Beihai County, Qingzhou, which is now Shouguang City, Shandong Province.

At that time, Shouguang was not the hometown of greenhouse vegetables, and the people lacked food and clothing, and lived in poverty. In 323, two years before Wang Meng was born, his hometown of Qingzhou had been attacked by Shi Hu, a member of the Qian tribe. As mentioned above, after Shi Hu broke through Qingzhou, he buried all of Cao Wei's 30,000 soldiers alive except for more than 700 people. After Wang Meng was born, the civil strife in the Zhao regime continued, and the young Wang Meng was displaced with his family and engaged in selling dustpans as a business.

Every step of the way is often driven by adversity, and he knows that he wants to create things.

Wang Meng first traveled to Wei County (in present-day northern and southern Hebei) to earn a living, and then to the northwest. Since then, the people of Guanzhong often see a ragged young man in the bazaar, with all kinds of dustpans in front of him, but he is holding a subset of scriptures and histories in his hand, and he can't release the scroll in his hand, like hunger and thirst.

This young man is Wang Meng. He still has great ambitions in his displacement, and he studied hard in addition to selling dustpans, absorbing various knowledge, having a strong understanding, and being self-taught, creating a deep and resolute character.

In the past, Zhuge Liang cultivated in Nanyang, and Wang Menghou also lived in seclusion in Huashan, watching the changes and waiting for the opportunity.

Finally, Wang Meng waited for a big hero.

The first hero that Wang Meng waited for was not his life Bole Fu Jian, but the Eastern Jin Dynasty hero Huan Wen.

As mentioned above, in 354, Huan Wen led the Jin army to the Northern Expedition, defeated Fu Jian, a member of the Di nationality in Guanzhong, and garrisoned Bashang (east of Xi'an City).

The heroes of the Northern Expedition are coming! When Wang Meng, who was 29 years old at the time, heard the news, he also rushed to the Huan Wen camp, wanting to witness the outstanding demeanor of Huan Dashuai.

Nowadays, young people have to wear a suit and tie and polish their shoes to make a good impression on the interviewer. What about Wang Meng? He was wearing a large pants and a small vest made of linen.

In the Huanwen camp, there was a group of celebrities sitting in the black, and Wang Meng, who was wearing big pants, a small vest, and straw flip-flops, was very conspicuous. Due to the long-term seclusion in Huashan, the sanitary conditions are not good, Wang Meng has lice on his body, he reaches out to scratch the lice on his body from time to time, and then puts it in his mouth, with a clatter, to eliminate harm for the people.

And the eyes of the people were straight.

Huan Wen is naturally not an ordinary person, he didn't blow out this unhygienic person, but felt that the young man in front of him was extraordinary, although he was sloppy, there was a heroic spirit hidden between his eyebrows.

Huan Wen invited Wang Meng to the front and asked Wang Meng what he thought of the current situation. Wang Meng grabbed lice and rubbed sweat and mud while answering each other, creating countless leg-stretching and staring pills, and at the same time, he also finished answering Huan Wen's question.

Isn't this the reincarnated Zhuge Kongming?! Huan Wen was secretly surprised.

Before the withdrawal of the first Northern Expedition, Huan Wen found Wang Meng, gave Huache a good horse, named him the protector of the capital, and invited him to return to the south together to achieve a great cause.

Wang Meng, but did not agree.

As for why Wang Meng did not follow Huan Wen, there are different opinions in history, and the most common statement is: Wang Meng saw that Huan Wen's Northern Expedition was not for the sake of the country, but to improve his personal prestige and try to usurp the throne, and following Huan Wen was tantamount to helping him usurp the Jin, which would inevitably tarnish his name.

Obviously, it's pretty fucked-up logic. First of all, Huan Wen's first Northern Expedition withdrew because the Qin army cut all the local wheat unripe and raw, and cleared the wilderness, resulting in a shortage of military food for the Northern Expeditionary Army, rather than deliberately not taking Chang'an. Secondly, if Wang Mengzhen had such deep feelings for the Western Jin Dynasty, he would not have taken refuge in the former Qin established by the Di people in the future.

So, why didn't Wang Meng follow Huan Wen back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty as an official? The reason is very direct and helpless.

It should be because of Wang Meng's background.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the appointment of officials valued their background, and the scholars monopolized high-level politics. Although Wang Meng is also surnamed Wang, he is neither Langyu Wang nor Taiyuan Wang, but the old Wang of Weifang Shouguang next door to Langyu (Linyi). You are a member of the Han clan, even if you have the talent to go through the heavens and latitudes, you will not be able to enter the highest decision-making level of the empire. Wang Meng should be very aware of this, he can't see the future in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Although Wang Meng did not return to the south with Huan Wen, this time he "talked about lice" with Huan Wen, but it caused a small sensation in the circle. The local Di regime of the former Qin Dynasty, the general of the left general, Lu Polou (the father of the Later Liang Taizu Lu Guang), invited Wang Meng from Huashan and included him in the palace as a staff member. So, how did a staff member get in touch with Fu Jian, the lord of the world, and complete the gorgeous transformation from a staff member to a big bureaucrat like Zuo Zongtang in later generations?

Let's look at Fu Jian.

Fu Jian, the grandson of Fu Hong, the founding monarch of the former Qin Dynasty. Fu clan, Di people, their ancestors were the chiefs of Xirong for generations, when Zhao Shihu attacked Guanzhong, Fu Hong led the tribe to subjugate, befriended Shihu, and was migrated to Yecheng. Later, he defected to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was appointed as the general of the expedition to the north, and later proclaimed himself the king of Qin.

After Fu Hong's death, his eldest son Fu Jian entered his hometown of Guanzhong in 351, proclaimed himself emperor in 352, and built the capital of Chang'an. Fu Jian's younger brother Fu Xiong was named the king of the East China Sea for assisting Fu Jian in starting a business. After Fu Xiong's death, his son Fu Jian became a knight.

Fu Jian, the word is eternal, and the word is Wenyu, and the nickname is Jiantou. His teenage years can be summed up in one word: precociousness.

History says that Fu Jian has been noble since he was a child, and legend has it that there is a proverb behind him when he was born: "Grass Fuchen and Tuwang Xianyang".

"Grass payment" is "苻"; "Chen and Tu" is the traditional "Jian", which means that the descendants of the Fu family will be the king in Xianyang, Guanzhong in the future. His family named him Fu Jian. Of course, this kind of supreme mythical story, let's just take a look, the truth is difficult to distinguish, and there is no need to distinguish it.

Fu Jian has been smart since he was a child, but it is a fact, he talks and behaves like an adult, and he is favored by his grandfather, the old Qin King Fu Hong.

When he was 8 years old, Fu Jian suddenly made a request to his grandfather, Fu Hong, asking him to hire a tutor to teach him culture. Fu Hong was very surprised: The Di people have always only known how to drink, eat meat and play poker, and now you want to study? Good!

The next day, Fu Hong invited a tutor. Xiao Fujian studied very hard, devoted himself to studying the subset of scriptures and history, set up the great ambition of helping the people and dominating the world, and made friends with many heroes of the world, and was famous in the government and the opposition for a while.

In 353, Fu Hong's successor, King Fu Jian of Qin, died of illness, and Fu Jian's son Fu Sheng succeeded to the throne.

Fu Sheng fought all his life, lacked cultural nourishment, and was a typical beast-type tyrant, who regarded killing people as child's play. This gentleman also has an idea, every time he meets with the minister, just like hunting, let the guards around him wind their arrows, unsheath their knives, and place torture tools such as iron clips and hacksaws in front of him, and be in a state of preparation for crime at any time.

See which minister is not pleasing to the eye, and will be punished; If the minister advises, it shall be condemned as slander and executed; What if someone says something flattering? Set it to flatter and cut off the head. With such a leader who wants your life anyway, everyone in the DPRK and China is in danger, and in order to save their lives, they all hope that Fu Jian will replace him.

Fu Jian hesitated and went to inquire about Lu Polou, who was the Shangshu at the time. Lu Polou smiled bitterly and shook his head: Don't look at me in a high position, but I may die at any time, and it is not enough to accomplish great things. There is a master in my private house, who is rare in the world, and this person will definitely help His Highness achieve great things.

Wang Meng was invited to Fu Jian, and the two people who had met Xu Tong met dramatically.

The two hit it off at first sight and talked about the current major events of the country, which was very speculative. Regarding Fu Sheng, Wang Meng's opinion is: If you are not the Holy Lord, you can take the opportunity to get rid of it. The people's aspirations, don't have any psychological burden, and you're done.

One night in 357 A.D., the moon was dark and the wind was high. Fu Sheng, who was tired of killing people, casually said to a maid: Fu Fa and Fu Jian brothers are also not trustworthy, and they will be eliminated tomorrow.

When Fu Sheng said this, it is impossible to verify whether he said it casually, or whether he really moved the killing machine. But the fact is that the maid secretly reported Fu Jian after Fu Sheng fell asleep.

When there is no way out, people never know how strong they are. Before, although Wang Meng had given Fu Jian spiritual blood, Fu Jian hesitated and couldn't make up his mind. At this time, he had no way out, so he immediately gathered his own soldiers overnight and entered the palace in two ways.

Fu Sheng was still asleep, and now he was pulled out of the bed and dragged to another room for execution. Fu Sheng's death also illustrates a very interesting truth: don't tell anyone before the big thing is done. Otherwise, it will be a loss of face at least and a loss of life at worst.

Fu Jian, who took the risk of betting right, ascended the throne with the unanimous support of the courtiers, and was called the Great Qin Heavenly King, and changed the name to Yongxing. The first thing Fu Jian did after succeeding to the throne was to issue an edict to the whole country, and if he met the descendants of Xu Tong, he must be treated favorably.

The seat was successfully occupied, but what he faced was a super mess. First, because of Fu Sheng's lack of morality, the legal system was not perfect, and the pre-Qin society was in a state of disorder. Second, Guanzhong was originally an area where various ethnic groups lived together, and ethnic vendettas occurred one after another. Third, wars have triggered natural disasters, and floods and droughts are rampant. The people of Qinchuan are miserable for eight hundred miles.

Faced with such a mess, how to clean it up? No problem, look for Wang Meng.

Wang Meng prescribed the right medicine, step by step to make Qianqin from chaos to strength. Its ruling measures to put things in order can be used as a reference for all feudal dynasties in later generations. Below, let's take a look at Wang Meng's prescription for governing the world:

1. The first dose of medicine: rectify the rule of officials, quell civil strife, and punish lawbreakers

First of all, we set about rectifying the rule of officials. First of all, he started by adjusting the central organs, decisively beheaded many ministers under Fu Sheng, and promoted and reused a group of Han scholars to participate in court politics.

At that time, the social order in Guanzhong was chaotic, and Shiping County, the northwest gateway of Chang'an, was rampant, and the people were miserable. Fu Jian appointed Wang Meng as the commander of Shiping County and went to govern.

The king acted vigorously and resolutely, and as soon as he took office, he put to death a traitor who had done many evils. Although Shiping County is small, the officialdom is intertwined, and the traitorous fox friends and dog parties jointly falsely accused Wang Meng, and colluded with superior officials to arrest Wang Meng and escort him to Chang'an Prison.

Fu Jian was suspicious in his heart, and personally went to Chang'an Prison to interrogate Wang Meng: As an official to deal with government affairs, you should first put benevolence, righteousness and morality in the first place, how can you kill people as soon as you take office?

Wang Meng is very calm: to govern a stable country, we must use etiquette, and to govern troubled times, we must use law. Now the social order in Guanzhong is in chaos, there are thousands of evildoers to kill, and only now have I killed a traitor, if you think that I can't eliminate the traitor to calm the society, I am willing to be punished, but I am too cruel to accept.

This son is really in charge of the middle, and the child is also born! After hearing this, Fu Jian immediately announced to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs present that Wang Meng would be pardoned on the spot. After that, he trusted Wang Meng even more, and served in the middle of the service, Zhongshu Ling and Jing Zhaoyin, Wang Meng was promoted one after another, and soon became a very popular minister.

From this incident, it can be seen that although Fu Jian is a member of the Di ethnic group, he is deeply influenced by Han Confucian culture. And what is the cultural background and value orientation of the Han Wang Meng?

Enrich the country and strengthen the army, govern the country according to the law, do not be close to each other, do not distinguish between the noble and the lowly, and break the law. That's right, it is one of the hundred schools of thought and one of the nine streams of ancient China. The representative figures can be traced back to Guan Zhong and Zichan in the Spring and Autumn Period, Li Kui, Shang Ying, and Wu Qi in the Warring States Period, and Han Feizi in the late Warring States Period.

Fu Jian and Wang Meng, although their ideological concepts are different, it is not surprising that the monarchs and ministers trust and appreciate each other, and they can achieve great things later. However, Fu Jian was too deeply influenced by Confucian culture, and in the end, the benevolent had an enemy, and he ended up in a different place, which will be described later.

Wang Meng was promoted by Fu Jian one after another as a Han Han scholar, and some of the elders and nobles in the Di clan began to be unbalanced. The first person who couldn't hold back was Gu Zanghou Fan Shi.

Fan Shi is a veteran of the Di aristocracy who entered Dingguan with Fu Jian, with great merits and qualifications, and the rise of Wang Meng, a new star in the political arena, made him very unhappy.

Although Fan Shiren is brave, the city government is limited, and his method of attacking Wang Meng is the most unskilled way - venting his emotions in public, insulting and slandering.

Fan Shi found an opportunity and scolded Wang Meng in front of the ministers: The world of Great Qin is the result of our hard work with the first emperor.

In the face of provocation, the disciples of the Legalists have always been straightforward and do not beat around the corner, Wang Meng sneered and shot back at Fan Shi: It is cheap for you to let you farm, and you should be a butcher or a cook or something, so that you can make the best use of your talents.

Fan Shi rose up and shouted: Let's walk and see, if you don't cut off your head and hang it on the gate of Chang'an, I, Fan Shi, will not live in the world.

After Fu Jian learned about it, he had already set his heart to rectify: if Fan Shi and his ilk were allowed to be unstoppable, how could they rectify the dynasty.

The Confucian Fu Jian has a Legalist thinking, and Wang Meng's influence on him is not insignificant.

There is a pimple in my heart that will erupt again at any time. At a court meeting, Fan Shi and Wang Meng quarreled on the spot. Fan Shi can fight, but the verbal fight is obviously not Wang Meng's opponent, and he gradually ran out of words, became angry, and his emotional manager failed, and he rushed towards Wang Meng with his fist raised, and was pulled left and right.

Seeing that Fan Shi was arrogant to this, Fu Jian was furious and ordered him to be pulled out and beheaded.

Fan Shi was killed, which caused a shock among the nobles of the Di clan, and they all went to Fu Jian to sue Wang Meng. Fu Jian insisted that talents like Wang Meng were needed to govern the troubled times, and not only scolded Zhu Haoqiang, but also rewarded them with a whip, and this turmoil came to an end temporarily.

Tantrums are instinctive, and suppressing them is the ability. Fan Shi's death also confirmed three truths: first, you can't easily swear poison, especially you can't make sentences with the sentence "If you don't ......, you won't live";

The second is to fight the world by relying on unscrupulous martial artists, and to govern the world, we must rely on the four newcomers who have ideals, morality, culture, and discipline. Historians blame the fact that most of the three no-warriors who violently seized the world with the founding emperor (except for the ideal of being an official) died unexpectedly, and historians blame the blame on the emperor clearing the way for his successor, but often ignore the emperor's struggle to maintain social order.

For example, Liu Bang led a group of poor buddies to conquer the country, and during the court meeting, a group of old men went to the court after drinking, spoke indiscriminately, without any procedures and etiquette, and some even drew their swords and cut the pillars in the hall to express their simple thoughts and feelings that were inseparable from each other with the emperor's buddies.

When Liu Bang made a revolution, the allies still had some nobles from the original six countries, and Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang was even more bitter. Most of his subordinates are village hangers, which can be described as complete newcomers, even strategists like Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang, at best, they are just cultural slings similar to fortune tellers and the like. After the victory of the revolution, these people still had the ideal of enjoying the fruits of the revolution -- to become big officials. It is no wonder that Emperor Liu and Emperor Zhu cleaned this and that.

Third, if the martial artists after the victory of the revolution want to not die by themselves, they must: 1. They are all civil and military talents, and there is no shortage of EQ and IQ;

2. Act in a low-key manner and do not compare with each other. For example, after the victory of the revolution, you were appointed marshal, and you asked to be the president of the military academy, which leader did not like your low profile?

3. Great foolishness is wisdom. Even if you are very small in heart, you have to pretend to be a rough person and let people be defenseless against you. Running Shaolin Temple to be a monk for a few years, decorating the rough selling and cute, not only does this have no political enemies, but even the red soldiers are too lazy to impact you during the special period.

This is the real master of thick black.

Fu Jian suppressed the voices of the Di nobles against Wang Meng, but some of the emperor's relatives were still rampant, and Qiang De was one of them who did not know whether to live or die.

Qiangde, the younger brother of the Empress Dowager (Empress Fu Jian). Fu Jian is Fu Jian's uncle, and you are at most an uncle's uncle, and you can't be an uncle. The actual situation is that this son is extremely arrogant, reckless, drunk, and bullied. Wang Meng had heard of what he had done.

One day, Wang Meng happened to meet Fu Jian's uncle-

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-law was messing around on the street and immediately decided to arrest him. By the time Fu Jian sent someone to arrive with a letter of pardon and Pegasus for the reason of the Queen Mother, Qiangde had already received a boxed lunch, and he was beheaded for public display, and the corpse was on the street ("Chen corpse in the city"). Subsequently, Wang Meng cooperated with Deng Qiang, the middle of the imperial history, and successively killed more than 20 noble relatives who disturbed the people and disordered the government and ran rampant.

Under the guidance of Legalist ideology, the effect of using heavy codes in troubled times gradually appeared, hundreds of officials inside and outside the capital of Daqin were shocked, the powerful and noble relatives began to honestly abide by the law, the social atmosphere improved greatly, and there was a good situation in Guanzhong that the road was not left behind, and the people did not close their doors at night, and the people clapped their hands to celebrate.

Now, I know the benefits of the rule of law! Fu Jian saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart.

2. The second dose of medicine: combine punishment and education, and take the road of rejuvenating the country through science and education.

Centennial plan, education-oriented. With the rectification of the rule of officials, the corrupt phenomena such as lawlessness and corruption and bribery in Daqin were gradually eliminated, the social atmosphere and social order were greatly improved, and Fu Jian began to build etiquette and governance again. That is to say, to set up schools to run education, to improve the cultural quality of the broad masses of the people, and to train talents for governing the country.

Fu Jian read Confucian classics since he was a child and was deeply influenced by Han culture. In view of the current situation of the Di people's general superstition of force and contempt for the backwardness of culture and knowledge, Wang Meng actively advised Fu Jian to restore Taixue. The Former Qin established schools at all levels in the region, recruited well-to-do Confucian scholars to teach, and made compulsory education – compulsory education for the children and grandchildren of officials.

What is even more commendable is that Fu Jian, as the emperor, personally went to Taixue once a month, personally questioned the scriptures and righteousness of all students, evaluated the merits and disadvantages, encouraged the students to study hard, and selected students with excellent character and learning to serve in power institutions at all levels.

For the high-ranking officials who can no longer go back to the night to recharge, Fu Jian stipulated: Officials who are more than 100 stones must "learn the scriptures before they become an art". That is, let the high-ranking officials be self-taught, and if they cannot pass through every skill and one skill, they will all be dismissed from office and serve the people.

It's not good to study full-time, but you have to meet the standard every day when you learn to be a strong country, right?

As a result of vigorously advocating the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and combining it with the selection of officials, the atmosphere of persuading people to compete in their studies and cultivating honesty and shame soon emerged in the former Qin Dynasty. In the end, this will have two positive effects: The first effect is that it has cultivated a large number of idealistic, moral, educated, and disciplined officials, and improved the cultural quality of the ruling class. The second effect is more important.

Consistent hobbies, the same interests, such as watching the small stories of the subset of classics and history, receiving the same education, such as monolingual teaching, coupled with the work of getting along day and night under a unified guiding ideology, the result is that the values will also tend to be the same. This is very important for Guanzhong, where ethnic minorities and Han people live together. As a result, Fu Jian's study plan gradually eliminated the cultural barrier between the Han and ethnic minorities, promoted cultural exchanges and ethnic integration between the Han and ethnic minorities in the Guanzhong area, and laid a solid foundation for social stability.

3. The third dose of medicine: vigorously develop social productivity and pay attention to people's livelihood.

Productivity is the big stick bone in the cauldron of people's livelihood, and the others are chopped green onions, potatoes, and cabbage. When Fu Jian ascended the throne, due to endless wars and natural disasters, the economic situation of the former Qin was extremely difficult, the treasury was empty, and the people's livelihood withered. Developing productive forces and ensuring people's livelihood are the first priority.

In order to quickly reverse the depressed situation in which all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, Fu resolutely decided: stop all military operations, pay attention to the people's livelihood, recuperate, and vigorously develop production.

In 358, there was a great drought in Guanzhong, and in order to tide over the difficulties with the common people, Fu Jian even issued several red-headed documents:

The No. 1 document of the Central Committee involves the three rural issues:

Agriculture-oriented, water conservancy should be built, land reclamation should be encouraged, and agriculture should be advised. Fu Jian ordered the requisition of more than 30,000 wealthy child servants in Guanzhong to provide voluntary labor, develop the upper reaches of the water, dig mountains and embankments, dig ditches, develop saline-alkali land, and increase the area of cultivated land.

Fu Jian also personally went to the fields to cultivate, and his queen Gou also went to the suburbs to raise silkworms, setting an example and exhorting the people to actively engage in agricultural production.

Fu Jian also sent ministers to various places on many occasions to inspect and compensate the elderly who were lonely and widowed, popularize advanced agricultural production technology, and reward farmers who actively farmed their fields.

When the Former Qin Dynasty was hit by drought, Fu Jian, in order to reduce the burden on the peasants, ordered some taxes to be reduced, and ordered the government to economize on expenditures, appropriately reduce the salaries of officials, and stipulate that no levy should be levied for matters that are not urgent.

Document No. 2 deals with the issue of rectifying the administration of officials:

First, reduce the intrauterine meal, not three meals a day;

Second, the daily entertainment activities in the palace are abolished, including but not limited to singing and dancing. Except, of course, for the day-to-day communication and interaction between husband and wife;

Third, the palace maids below the imperial concubine of the harem will all change to cloth clothes, and they are not allowed to wear silk and satin;

Fourth, civil and military officials are forbidden to be extravagant and wasteful, and share weal and woe with the people, and violators will be punished according to hedonism and extravagance;

Fifth, this trick is the most ruthless. Daqin set up a "leading group for civil servants' salary reduction", and civil and military officials reduced their welfare benefits accordingly.

Document III, dealing with natural resources:

Vigorously develop mineral and forest resources, return farmland to forests when it is time to return farmland to forests, and return forests to farmland when it is time to return forests to farmland, and at the same time lift the ban on restricting rivers and lakes fisheries, so that the state will no longer compete with the people everywhere for profit, and resources will be shared by the state and the people.

Document No. 4, involving travel and transportation issues:

From Chang'an to the state capitals, the passage post pavilions have been built, and it is very convenient for tourists and traders to rest and replenish supplies along the way.

Ma Si, a native of Hebei, asked for leave to go back to his hometown to bury his mother, he was anxious, and he was worried that the distance was far away and the supplies were not enough to support him to get home, so he went to find Wang Meng. Wang Meng smiled slightly: You can pack your luggage and go on the road immediately, and I will let the counties along the way be notified tonight.

As soon as Ma Si came out of Tongguan, he found that the government had received a notice along the way, and checked his road photos (road passports) according to the regulations, arranged food and accommodation, and went all the way smoothly, and successfully arrived home to kowtow to his deceased mother.

Government agencies are running so efficiently! Ma Si couldn't help but marvel again and again: The soldiers are strong and rich, and the level is leveled, and the (king) is fierce!

Under the assistance of Wang Meng and Fu Jian's three doses of fierce medicine, the economy of the former Qin Dynasty recovered rapidly, and a few years later, there was a new atmosphere of fertile fields, cattle and horses, sufficient homes, stability and peace, and peace and quietness.

Cangli knows etiquette and etiquette, as long as the people live a good life, the people will wholeheartedly support and praise them. The developed material civilization promoted the positive spiritual civilization of the former Qin, and there is a Qin folk song that is the most representative: Chang'an Street, Yang Huai is verdant; Get off the Chinese car, and perch on the phoenix; Talents gather to teach my people.

Under the leadership of Fu Jian, the Heavenly King of Great Qin, and with the full assistance of Wang Meng, the economic and military strength of Former Qin expanded rapidly. If your own life is better, does the community with a shared future for mankind in the north also have to be formed? Fu Jian moved the idea of unifying the north.

At this time, the heroes of North China stood side by side, in addition to the former Qin, there was also the powerful Murong Xianbei Qianyan, in addition to the Qianliang, and Tuoba Xianbei's Daiguo. And Fu Jian's series of powerful actions made it impossible for the heavens to descend to him.

Section 3 Flattening the West

From the 60s to the early 70s of the fourth century AD, the former Qin was attacked on all sides:

North. There was the Xianbei Tuoba clan that built the capital Pingcheng (present-day Datong, Shanxi), as well as the military groups of other tribes.

West. It was the Qianliang regime of the Han people Zhang and the Qiuchi regime of the Yang clan of the Di nationality entrenched in the area of present-day Gansu, as well as the Tuyuhun military group distributed between present-day Gansu and Qinghai.

East. It was the former Yan Xianbei Murong clan regime that established the capital of Yecheng.

South. Of course, the Sima regime of the Eastern Jin Dynasty with Jiankang (present-day Nanjing) as its capital.

Fu Jian and Wang Meng, neither of them had the idea of Gou An Guanzhong or a corner of hegemony, Wang Meng's wish is to unify the north and lay a good foundation for the future unification of the country; Fu Jian is more ambitious, aiming to mix one and six together to help the common people.

After repeated consultations, the two monarchs and ministers weighed the pros and cons, and finally formulated the strategic policy: first stabilize the northwest, so that there is no worries; Compete for the southeast again, in order to achieve great causes.

Through political and military means, by May 366, the former Qin incorporated the Xiongnu Liu Clan, Wuhuan Dugu Tribe, Xianbei Wuyi Cadres and Tuoba Tribe's Dai Guo into the empire's territory.

In July of the same year, Wang Meng personally led the army to attack the northern counties of Jingzhou in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and won the first battle, and the result was that more than 10,000 households were plundered.

In February 367, Wang Meng sought out the leaders of the Qiang rebellion.

In April 367, Wang Meng defeated the Tianxi army of the former Liang State and beheaded more than 17,000 ranks. Then the soldiers were bloodless, and they captured Li Yan, the former general of the Zhang family, and captured the important town of Paohan (now northeast of Linxia, Gansu).

Foreign enemies are easy to attack, and home thieves are difficult to defend. At a time when the news of foreign wars was frequent, civil strife broke out in the former Qin.

In October 367, the Duke of Jin Fu Liu rebelled against Puban (now Puzhou, West of Yongji, Shanxi) according to the military stronghold. Zhao Gong Fushuang, Wei Gong Fu Shou, and Yan Gong Fu Wu also rushed to respond at the same time. The Former Qin Empire, after the Northern Expedition of Huan Wen, suffered a second existential crisis. These four dukes, plus the Huainan Gongfu Young Rebellion, which had been pacified 2 years ago, and called the "Five Princes Rebellion", can be called a shrunken version of the "Seven Kingdoms Rebellion" in the Western Han Dynasty.

The situation in the former Qin is very good, why do these Fu family members want to rebel against Fu Jian? This has to start with the process of Fu Jian's coming to power.

In 355, Fu Jian, the founder of the former Qin Empire, died of illness, and the "one-eyed prince" Fu Sheng succeeded to the throne. Physically handicapped kings are often psychologically unbalanced—I'm your boss, but you're healthier than me, no!

So, during the two years of this brother's reign, he slaughtered and poked on a large scale, putting everyone in danger. In 357, Fu Jian's younger brother Fu Xiong's son Fu Jian of the East China Sea (said to be Fu Sheng's cousin), with the support of Wang Meng and others, staged a coup d'état and killed Fu Sheng to stand on his own.

In this way, the emperor of the former Qin was transferred from the Fu Jian line to the Fu Xiong line. Although Fu Jian's killing of Fu Sheng was in line with public opinion, eliminating harm for the people, and making people happy, the princes of the original Fu Jian lineage, that is, Fu Sheng's younger brothers, were extremely unhappy, mainly because there were two unhappy ones.

First, the succession to the throne has changed from a direct line to a side line, who can be happy?

The second one is not happy, but it is more interesting, and the problem lies in Fu Jian's title reform. Fu Jian changed the title of the emperor to "Heavenly King", which made the princes of Fu Jian's department very angry, why?

You changed the title of the emperor to "Heavenly King", and our original princes of the former Qin had to follow suit, what did it change? can only change the next level of "king" to "gong"! The title is demoted, in the officialdom that can only go up but not down, who can be happy? !

In fact, the commander of the 74th Army and the commander of the reorganized 74th Division are the same thing, the difference in title is just that, Zhang Lingfu can think of it, but these imperial relatives can't think of it, which is really speechless.

Wang Meng saw the crux of the problem and strongly persuaded Fu Jian to get rid of the scabies on these thrones. Fu Jian was slow to make up his mind, and did not take any measures to reduce the feudal domain for several years after ascending the throne. He didn't do anything, but the princes of the Fu Jian family were not idle, they were just waiting for a suitable opportunity.

In the summer of 365, Cao Hub, the right sage king of the Southern Xiongnu, and Liu Weichen, the left sage king, who had originally submitted to the former Qin, rebelled against Qin. This Liu Weichen is not famous, but his son will be famous in the future, his name is Helian Bobo, and he will be narrated later. In August of that year, Fu Jian personally conquered Cao Hub and sent Deng Qiang, the first fierce general of the former Qin Dynasty and the general of Jianjie, to crusade against Liu Weichen. The rebellion was successfully quelled, Fu Jian captured Cao Hub, and Deng Qiang also captured Helian Bobo's father Liu Weichen.

After quelling the Xiongnu rebellion, Fu Jian did not return to Chang'an in time, and temporarily stayed in Shuofang, patrolling Zhuhu and calming the people's hearts. Fu Sheng's younger brother Huainan Gong Fu You, thinking that Fu Jian was far away in Shuofang, Chang'an was empty, and the opportunity had come, so he secretly contacted his younger brother Jin Gong Fu Liu and cousin Zhao Gong Fu Shuang (Fu Jian's own brother, I don't know what to think) to rebel.

Unexpectedly, Fu You is not only ambitious, but also a quick temper, Fu Liu and Fu Shuang have not had time to respond, Fu You himself rushed from Xingcheng to attack Chang'an. As a result, Li Wei, the general of Wei who stayed in Chang'an, captured Fu You as soon as he met the attack, and the "first public rebellion" in the "Five Princes Rebellion" was easily pacified.

Although Fu Liu and Fu Shuang did not respond in time in the first rebellion, how could this conspiracy hide from Fu Jian's eyes. However, after all, they are all close relatives and flesh and blood, and Fu Jian does not ask questions and implements the appeasement policy to the end.

Fu Jian's house heart is benevolent, which did not make Fu Liu and Fu Shuang feel at ease. The two felt that the emperor did not have the problem of using the butcher's knife against the rebels, only the question of when to use it, how could they completely avoid the butcher's knife? Rebel until you succeed!

The two also connected with Fu Sheng's two younger brothers, Wei Gong Fu Di and Yan Gong Fu Wu, and conspired to rebel again.

In October 367, the Jin Gong Fu Liu was based on Pu Han, the Zhao Gong Fu Shuang was based on Shang, the Wei Gong Fu was based on Shaancheng, and the Yan Gong Fu Wu was stable, and at the same time rebelled, with great momentum.

Fu Jian was a little panicked, why? Because the location of these four places is extremely special, it happens to form an encirclement situation for Chang'an.

Let's be affectionate first. Fu Jian sent an envoy to the door and said: I will wait for the Qing and others, and I will be gracious, so why bother! If you don't levy it now, it is advisable to strike the army, and everyone will be in their place, and everything will be as before.

Who is this fooling?! Sigong was in a mess for a while, beating the messenger and crawling, and ran back to Chang'an with a blue nose and swollen face. The appeasement compromise failed, and there was only one war.

After two months of intense preparations, Fu Jian and Wang Meng officially sent troops to quell the rebellion in the first month of 368, and the strategic deployment was as follows:

1. Wang Meng, the general of the auxiliary state, and Deng Qiang, the general of Jianjie, attacked Pu Han and dealt with Fu Liu.

2. Former general Yang An and Guangwu general Zhang Hao attacked Shaanxi City, and Fu Yi was relieved of this.

3. Later General Yang Chengshi attacked Shangtai and dealt with Fu Shuang.

4. Zuo General Mao Song attacked Anding and dealt with Fu Wu.

The specific tactics were: to take an offensive against Fushuang and Fuwu on the Western Front, and to take a defensive position against Fuliu and Fuwu on the Eastern Front.

Let's first take a look at the status of these generals in Qianqin.

1. Auxiliary General Wang Meng. Needless to say, the number two person in the former Qin, if Fu Jian is Liu Bei, then Wang Meng is Zhuge Liang.

2. Jianjie General Deng Qiang. Cui Hong, a historian of the Northern Wei Dynasty, called "ten thousand enemies", can be called Guan Yu of the former Qin.

3. Guangwu General Zhang Oyster. With Deng Qiang, he was called "ten thousand enemies" by Cui Hong. Strong and agile, he can walk backwards with an ox in tow, and the walls can be climbed over no matter how high or low. Zhang Fei, who can be called the former Qin.

4. Former General Yang An. The former prince of Qiu Chi (established by the Baima Di tribe) defected to Qianqin due to the country's civil strife and the murder of his father Yang Guo, and Ma Chao, who was also from the northwest during the Three Kingdoms and also had a national hatred and family feud, is it very similar? Moreover, both of them are also brave and good at fighting. Therefore, Yang An can be called the Ma Chao of the former Qin.

Later General Yang Chengshi, Left General Mao Song? The deeds of the two are not obvious, and they are second-rate military generals, equivalent to Liao Hua and Wang Ping of the former Qin respectively.

After analyzing the generals, let's analyze the tactical deployment. At first glance, isn't this deployment a little strange? First-class generals such as Wang Meng, Deng Qiang, and Zhang Oyster are all placed on the main eastern front, but on the western front of the main attack, they are Yang Chengshi and Mao Song, two second-rate generals, what is this for?

The reason is very simple: the luxurious lineup of the Eastern Front is to prevent the strong neighbor Qianyan from taking advantage of the fire to rob. Defending but not attacking, but also for fear of pressing too tightly, Fu Liu and Fu Di will throw themselves into the swallow to protect themselves. In the west, Qianliang, the national strength and military strength are weak, so there is no need to worry too much.

There is a psychological effect in psychology called "Murphy's Law", which is very obscure, but in short, what is feared. For example, if you wait for the bus to come, you just light a cigarette and the bus comes. You wear a white dress and go out, thinking that you must not get dirty today, but when you drink soup today, you sneeze or your hands tremble, so you have to get dirty. You hold your mobile phone all day and don't call for a day, but one day you forget your home, and when you come home, you have been called countless times. This is Murphy's Law.

Murphy's Law is too magical, and Fu Jian has also hit it. Wei Gong Fu, who was not a senior executive of his own family business, went to Murong Xianbei's Qianyan Group Co., Ltd. for an interview. In the spirit of "rather to friends than domestic slaves", Shaancheng was dedicated to Qianyan.

Shaanxi City, where the gateway from the Central Plains to Chang'an is located, the former Qin portal is wide open, Fu Jian and Wang Meng are all shocked, and hurriedly mobilize heavy troops to guard Huayin, wanting to add another lock to the portal of Chang'an.

In the face of the big gift sent by Fu Di, what is Qianyan's attitude?

In the summer of 367, Murong Ke, the former Yan Qingtian Yizhu Dazai and Taiyuan King Murong Ke, passed away, and was succeeded by Murong Ping, the king of Shangyong, and Murong Chong, the king of Zhongshan, as the great Sima. Qianyan's other Optimus Prime, Murong Chui, the king of Wu who Murong Ke strongly recommended when he was dying, was excluded from the core leadership.

Fu Di opened the door of the former Qin, and in the face of this great opportunity to unify the north, Murong Ke's youngest brother, Murong De, the king of Fanyang, was sparse: Now the Fu clan is obedient, and the country is divided into five. If you don't take it, you will suffer from it, and the things of Wu and Yue are enough to observe. It is advisable to order the emperor Fu to really lead the merger, the people of Ji go to Pu Han, Wu Wang Chui (Murong Chui) leads Xu, Luo's soldiers gallop to relieve the siege, Taifu General Jingshi Tiger Brigade is the successor of the two years, and the three auxiliaries are passed on, showing the blessings and misfortunes, and the Ming Li purchase reward, he will look at the wind to respond.

This proposal not only clearly analyzes the general situation in the north, but also puts forward a proposal for strategic offensive deployment, which can be described as steady, accurate, and ruthless. The Murong Ke family is really a ruthless person.

Murong Ping's reply? Very Buddhist: Qin, a big country, is not so easy to defeat now, although it encounters civil strife. Although the saint is wise, he is not as good as the first emperor, and our talent is not as good as Dazai (Murong Ke), as long as we maintain the excellent situation of stability and unity in the country, and pacifying Guanzhong is not our business.

A good card, in the hands of Murong Ping, has become a handful of, and it is still rotten.

When Fu Qian got the news, he was instantly confused: How can there be such a thing? Don't give it or not?

Fu Qian still didn't give up, and directly wrote a letter to Murong Chui, the former king of Yan Wu: Fu Jian and Wang Meng are all outstanding people, and they have been in trouble for Yan for a long time; If you don't take the opportunity to take it now, I'm afraid that the monarchs and ministers of Yan will have Yongdong's regrets!

What does Yongdong's regret mean? Allusion source: After King Goujian of Yue destroyed Wu, he wanted to exile Wu Wangfu to Yongdong, which is now the Zhoushan Islands in Zhejiang, and became the owner of Peach Blossom Island. How can the husband have the face to go? He drew his sword and wiped his neck.

Fu is an authentic Di people, but the allusions of Han culture can be easily obtained, and what he says is sincere, what is Murong Chui's reaction? He agreed very much, however, he himself was suspicious and did not dare to speak much. Besides, what's the use of saying it? Murong Trai could only look at the letter and sigh.

The danger in the east was temporarily eliminated, and Fu Jian breathed a sigh of relief, but the results of the western front were very thin. In March, Yang Chengshi was defeated by Fu Shuang's general Gou Xing, and Mao Song was also defeated by Fu Wu.

The danger of Donetsk and Luhansk on the eastern front was lifted, and Emperor Fu Jian calmly mobilized strategic reserves and attacked Kharkov. Not only that, but also changed the coach and sent an ace general.

Lv Guang. Wang Meng's Bole Lu Polou's son is even more ruthless, how ruthless is it? is more ruthless than the aforementioned Zhang Fei-style "10,000 enemies" Zhang Oy, because Zhang Oyster himself was captured by him.

In 358, Lü Guang accompanied Fu Jian to conquer the warlord Zhang Ping. Zhang Ping's adopted son, Zhang Hao, was brave and vigorous, and confronted Deng Qiang, the striker of the Qin army, for more than ten days, and the two could not distinguish between victory and defeat. Soon, Fu Jian arrived at Tongbi, and Zhang Pingjun attacked with a nest. Zhang Hao single-handedly attacked the Qin army's large array, entering and exiting four or five times, invincible, the Qin army was trembling, and no one dared to attack him. Lü Guang, who was 21 years old at the time, bravely went into battle, holding a spear, and the flying horse stabbed Zhang Oyster under the horse, and Deng Qiang and others rushed up to capture him alive.

Therefore, if Deng Qiang is better than Guan Yu, Lu Guang can be called the former Qin Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong. In addition, Lu Guangke is not only brave, after the Battle of Weishui, he also created an empire - Houliang, he is the Taizu of Houliang.

The tactics changed, the coach was changed to Surovikin, and the Western Front turned defeat into victory. In July, Lü Guang conquered Shangtai and beheaded Fushuang and Fuwu, and the war on the Western Front ended.

Eastern Front?

Pusaka Fuliu on the eastern front went out of the city many times to challenge Wang Meng. Wang Meng? As soon as the gate is closed, the base should not be closed.

Haha, this is cowardice. Fu Liu was full of ambition, and as soon as the brain circuit was cleared, he thought of a clever plan.

On a rainy morning in May 368, Fu Liu left his son to guard the city, and he personally led 20,000 people out of the city. Where to go?

The capital of the empire, Chang'an.

The elite of the Central Army of the former Qin Dynasty were brought to Puban by Wang Meng, and the garrison of Chang'an must be relaxed, why don't I take the opportunity to cross the Yellow River and sneak attack Chang'an, and destroy Fu Jian in one fell swoop, in order to avenge the killing of my brother!

The significance of Pusaka to Chang'an has been mentioned above, so I will not repeat it, but just give an example to deepen everyone's impression again. In later generations, Li Yuan raised troops from Taiyuan against the Sui, and the strategic plan was to seize Pusaka first, open the "Guanzhong lock key", and go straight to Guanzhong. See? Kasaka, known as the "key to the lock in the gate".

Fu Liu led an army of 20,000 out of the city smoothly, and galloped all the way to the land of dreams. Chang'an, where my brother's glory lies. The father dies and the son succeeds, and the brother dies and the brother inherits. Even if my brother dies, it should be my willow......

Fu Liu rode a tall horse, and the wild horse of thought was also flying. Flying and flying, it has been out of Kasaka for a hundred miles, and the sky is gradually darkening.

Suddenly, there were bursts of shouts of killing all around. A fierce spirit of Fu Liumeng, from the dream to reality. The reality is that countless cavalry ambushes surrounded and killed from all sides, led by the general, Deng Qiang, the first fierce general of the former Qin Dynasty, known as the "10,000 enemies", and Wang Meng's good partner.

Pusaka to Chang'an, a horse Pingchuan. Fu Liu could think of it, how could Wang Meng not think of it? When Fu Liu came out of Pusaka for more than 100 miles, the formation was scattered, and it was difficult to echo before and after, Wang Meng sent the famous general Deng Qiang to lead 7,000 cavalry to carry out a big night attack.

A sneak attack by an organized army on an unorganized army is a dimensionality reduction strike. In an instant, Fu Liu's 20,000 soldiers were scattered, and only a few hundred cavalry soldiers remained. Under the desperate protection of his own soldiers, Fu Liu was able to escape back to Pusaka.

In July, Wang Jian (General Wuwei) and Lü Guang conquered Shangqi, beheaded Fushuang and Fuwu, and the war on the Western Front ended. After that, the two led their troops to the Eastern Front.

In September, Wang Meng and Deng Qiang captured Pu Han and beheaded Fu Liu, and then attacked Shaanxi City with Wang Jian and Zhang Hao. By December, he captured Shaanxi City and captured Fu Dian alive.

To his cousin Fu Di, Fu Jian had a conversation with him.

Fu Jian: Why not?

Fu Xuan: The minister had no intention of rebellion, but because the brothers repeatedly plotted rebellion, the ministers were afraid and died, so they plotted against their ears.

Fu Jian burst into tears: You have always been a loyal big brother, and I know that rebellion is not your intention. Hey, Gao Zu can't be without a queen.

After that, he gave Fu Xuan death, but pardoned his seven sons, leaving some seeds for Fu Xiong, unlike the Shimin Emperor a few years later, all his nephews were killed, but he gained a good reputation for benevolence and governance with the ability to tolerate Wei Zheng's two stunned sons. Killing people who can kill their loved ones to achieve the effect of group annihilation, where can Nengren go? There are some details of history, I dare not think deeply, and I am extremely afraid to think about them.

At this point, the second rebellion within the Fu family was put down, which lasted 1 year and 3 months from October 367 to December 368.

After the rebellion of the Four Princes was put down, the former Qin cleared the obstacles on the road to the Central Plains, and the next combat goal? It's on paper.

Section 4 Qin Yan's struggle for hegemony

As mentioned above, in April 369, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Xionghuan Wen made a northern expedition to attack Yan. In July, the Jin army reached Fangtou (now west of Jun County, Henan), and the former Yan Ye was shaken, and the Yan lord Murong Wei sent people to ask for help in the former Qin. Asking someone to do such a big thing is definitely not something that can be solved by a few bottles of Maozi and a few Huazi, Qianyan's chips are very heavy - the land west of Tiger Prison (now Xingyang Bishui Town, Henan) is enough to develop countless real estate.

Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight may be the most brilliant strategy, and most of the former Qin ministers opposed saving Qianyan.

Wang Meng? Don't think so. His point of view is that we should first send troops to retreat from the Jin army with Yan, and then take advantage of Yan's decline and decline, which is a plan to "save first and then take".

The basis of the opinion? It's very simple, let Huan Wen, the hero, capture the Central Plains, and what happened to the former Qin (big things)? After all, Huan Wen represents orthodoxy, the Central Plains, which was originally the ancestral industry of those people who went to the south. Things are returned to the Lord, and the people want it, but it will be difficult to take it again.

A handful of Jews who were driven by the Roman emperor to wander around returned to Jerusalem and could be restored to become the eagles of the Middle East, not to mention that the Han people in the world with the strongest sense of recognizing their ancestors and returning to their ancestors returned to the Central Plains, which belonged to them.

Fu Jian suddenly realized. Immediately send troops to rescue Yan. In September 369, the combined forces of Yan (Murong Chui and Qin) defeated the Jin army, and Huan Wen lost 40,000 troops and was forced to return south.

There is only interest in the intersecting of countries. beat away Huan Wen, but Qianyan broke the contract. Cutting the land west of Tiger Prison (now Xingyang Bishui Town, Henan)? This pimple is too important, we didn't think about it before, should I give you something else?

I already knew that your kid was going to come here, and it wasn't just for you to join forces with you to fight Huan Wen. In December of that year, Wang Meng commanded Deng Qiang and Liang Cheng, and commanded 30,000 troops to fight Yan. In just one month, Wang Meng captured Luoyang, an important town in the western part of Qianyan, and returned to the west in triumph.

After winning the battle, why don't you take Yandu in one go? The first reason, in the winter, the army has to be repaired. The second reason is full of deceit.

What Wang Meng captured this time was the land that Former Yan had promised to cede to Former Qin. If you take it, it will create a big illusion for Qianyan.

They came simply for these lands.

Qianyan is not without understanding, Zuo Cheng Shenshao saw it very clearly, and persuaded Murong Wei, the lord of Yan: Qianqin is definitely not here for this little place, and the next step will definitely attack our country in a big way, and the defense of Jinyang and other places on the border should be strengthened.

Murong Wei? Ignored.

After five months of repair, in June 370, Wang Meng mobilized before the battle at Bashang in Chang'an and led his army to attack Yan again. The only leader, Fu Jian, came to see him off, a little uneasy: Jing Luo went first, and I led the army to the east later.

Wang Meng: Sweeping away the remnants of the beard, like the wind sweeping the leaves, do not work Your Majesty to suffer from the wind and dust. However, His Majesty has to do one thing for his ministers.

Fu Jian: What's the matter? Beautiful concubine Liangtian? Just open your mouth.

Wang Meng: Don't want beautiful concubines, don't want good land, you want mansions.

Fu Jian: Huh? Okay, single-family, townhouse, large flat, everything, how many people do you live in?

Wang Meng: It's not for me.

Fu Jian: To whom?

Wang Meng: Reserved for the captured monarchs and ministers of the Yan Kingdom.

Fu Jian: I'm really ......

Wang Mengphi was stubborn and stubborn, and led 10 generals and 60,000 soldiers including Deng Qiang, Zhang Hao, Lü Guang, and Yang An from Chang'an, and marched straight to the Central Plains. Let's take a look at the composition of the command system of this force:

Wang Meng-Zhuge Liang;

Deng Qiang-Guan Yu;

Zhang Oyster-Zhang Fei;

Lv Guang-Zhao Yun;

Yang An-Ma Chao.

Former Yan Commander of the Enemy? is not the star warrior Murong Chui, but the ruling Murong Ping. It's okay for Murong to be an old fritter in officialdom, but it's not professional to fight. Wang Meng took the South Road and captured Huguan (in the Taihang Pass northeast of present-day Licheng, Shanxi) in one fell swoop, and captured Murong Yue, the king of the former Yannan An, alive.

On the north road of the Qin army, Yang An attacked Jinyang (now south of Taiyuan City), because the city was fortified with many soldiers, and it was not down for two months. Wang Meng personally led some elite horsemen to help.

Outside Jinyang City, Wang Meng kept going around the city to inspect and returned to the camp with confidence.

That night, Wang Meng ordered the soldiers to dig tunnels overnight, sent hundreds of people who dared to die to sneak into the city, and led the team with Zhang Hao himself, shouting out, killing all the Yan soldiers guarding the gate and opening the city gate. Yang An and others led a large army of the Qin army to swarm in, instantly capturing the entire city of Jinyang, and Murong Zhuang, the former king of the East China Sea of Yan, was captured alive.

In October, Wang Meng waved his army south, heading straight to Luchuan (the turbidity river that flows into the east of present-day Shanxi at the junction of Hebei and Henan), and confronted the former Yan commander Murong Ping.

In the face of the menacing Wang Meng, what is Murong Ping doing? In the reckoning. Although Wang Meng's army was strong, it was advancing too fast, and he had captured too many cities, so he needed to send troops to stay behind. When the army was dispatched, 60,000 people, calculated according to half of the soldiers left behind, the Qin army that arrived at this time was only 30,000. Compared to my army of more than 200,000, the difference is huge.

Wang Meng's lone army is deep, and the food and grass are not enough, as long as I stick to it without fighting, I will definitely be able to drag down these Northwest Yankees. Murong Ping felt that he had the secret to victory in the war.

The two armies faced each other for 2 days, and there was no movement.

Two days later, in the middle of the night, the people of Yandu Yecheng suddenly saw the fire in the south of the city. Seongnam? The location of the logistics department of the former Yan army.

I have little food and grass, but I also have few people. You have plenty of food and grass, but you also have many people. If you fight a war of attrition with me, I will kill your food and grass. Wang Meng sent the guerrilla general Guo Qing to lead 5,000 cavalry to desperately enter the former Yan logistics department and set fire to the Yan army's baggage.

Lord Yan Murong Wei beat his chest and sent someone to scold Murong Ping. After scolding, there is also an innovative punishment method - take out all your family deposits, stocks, and financial management, and use them as military salaries to buy grain and grass. Then, go all-in!

At that time, although Qianyan did not have a system for reporting major personal matters of leading cadres, the central government still had financial resources for senior officials like Murong Ping. The TOP2 of the empire have all been put out of their old ways, and the decisive battle between Qin and Yan has begun.

On the day of the decisive battle, in the early winter morning, the cold wind suddenly rose, and the haze was everywhere. The 45-year-old Wang Meng straddled a jujube red high-headed horse, patrolled in front of the battle, and mobilized impassionedly before the battle: I, Wang Jingluo, have been favored by the country, and have concurrently held important positions inside and outside, and now I am going deep into the thief land with the kings. In the battle, if you can defeat the enemy, be rewarded in the Ming Dynasty, celebrate and drink in the parents' room, soldiers, what glory and pride!

A speech, like a fire thrown into the autumn prairie, the soldiers of the Qin army suddenly burst into flames, and everyone enthusiastic, breaking the cauldron and abandoning the grain, shouting to race, unstoppable.

When the situation of the Qin army was very good, there was a small episode, which almost caused Wang Meng, the former No. 1 prime minister of Qin, to be buried on the front line of Qin Yan.

On October 21, Wang Meng sent his general Xu Cheng to reconnoiter the layout of the Former Yan army and asked him to return at noon. And Xu Cheng didn't come back until dusk. Wang Meng governed the army strictly, and wanted Xu Cheng to be executed by military law.

Unexpectedly, this decision angered the first general of the former Qin.

That's right, it's Deng Qiang. As mentioned above, Deng Qiang is brave and good at fighting, both civil and military, and is known as "ten thousand enemies". Moreover, he also has a famous ancestor - Deng Yu, the founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, the head of Liu Xiu's Yuntai Twenty-eight Generals, the Eastern Han Dynasty version of Xiao He.

A series of achievements also made Deng Qiang famous, and some people in the DPRK even called him Lian Po and Li Mu alive. Once a person is praised as equal, even the superior cannot be humiliated casually, otherwise, something will happen. Unbelief? Let's look at two examples.

The first is Feng Yuxiang, who often asks his generals to kneel to answer the phone. These generals used to be okay when they were guards, grooms, gangsters and the like, but now they are all small princes who dominate the army, and they still come to the same set back then?

During the Anti-Japanese War, Lao Feng was transferred to the commander of the 6th Theater of Operations, and Han Fuyu of the old department immediately sent a telegram to Nanjing, preferring to obey the leadership of Li Zongren, the commander of the 5th Theater, than to follow Lao Fenggan. Other old departments also stayed away from Mr. Feng's "patriarch" one by one.

The second is the king of the southwest who slapped a big tragedy. The little king under his command has become an old king, and he has also changed from a "hero to fight crime" in the northeast to a "hero to fight crime" in the country, how can he casually slap people's ears and scrape people's ears? Not to mention in front of his men.

The name of a black hero will be like this, let alone a hero like Deng Qiang?

Xu Cheng was Deng Qiang's confidant, so Deng Qiang pleaded with Wang Meng: Now that the enemy is outnumbered, there will be a war early tomorrow morning. Xu Cheng is a general, so let the prime minister forgive him.

Wang Meng: If you don't kill Xu Cheng, how can you establish military prestige?

Deng Qiang: Xu Cheng is the general of my Deng Qiang county, although he should be beheaded if he delays the deadline, but I am willing to fight with Xu Cheng in a decisive battle to atone for my sins.

Wang Meng: Don't talk nonsense anymore, let me go back to the camp and stay.

Deng Qiang touched his nose and returned to the barracks, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became. The small universe of emotions went from forbearance to explosion, picking up the drumstick and beating at the war drums.

The sound of the drum was the mobilization order, and the soldiers of the headquarters quickly assembled.

The commander didn't give an order, but the general was urgently summoning the troops, what is this going to do?! Wang Meng was shocked when he learned about it, and hurriedly sent someone to Deng Qiang's camp to question him.

Deng Qiang told the visitor: We accepted the edict to crusade against the distant enemy, but now there is a close enemy who blindly wants to kill each other, and I want to get rid of him first.

When the envoy heard this, he crawled back and reported to Wang Meng.

The former Qin was not yet a unified regime, and now it was engaged in a war of unification, and the loss of peace would naturally benefit the enemy. Wang Meng knew the stakes, so he hurriedly sent someone to praise Deng Qiang's righteousness, and then announced the order to pardon Xu Cheng on the spot.

A menacing mutiny in the army subsided.

After Xu Cheng was dismissed, Deng Qiang felt that he had done too much, and hurried to Wang Meng's camp to apologize. Wang Meng took Deng Qiang's hand, and smiled all over his face: I am just testing the general, and the general is still like this to the generals of this county, let alone the country?

It is worthy of being the one who sold dustpans back then, and he is good at editing.

Deng Qiang was moved, Wang Meng suddenly put away his smile, and said: Deng Qiang listened to the order, ordered your department to be the vanguard, and immediately attacked the dense place of the Yan army, and the center bloomed!

I'm really, it turns out that I need to go and fight hard to comfort me right away! You old fierce man is so good to put on the banquet, let's drink two glasses of ice to release the previous suspicion wine, and then let me fight.

Deng Qiang instantly felt very hurt again, and opened his mouth to spew: If I can appoint our company as a lieutenant, I will immediately send troops to break the enemy.

Wang Meng: Captain Sili? If my authority cannot reach this, I can appoint you as the Taishou of Stability and the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households.

Deng Qiang turned around and returned to the camp.

On October 23, Qin Yan fought a decisive battle in Weiyuan. The Yan army had the advantage in strength, and the Qin army was at a disadvantage for a while. At the moment of crisis, Wang Meng shouted: Brother Deng Qiang, you will soon be the captain of Sili, I will let the Organization Department stamp and issue a document when I go back, and hurry up to send troops to fight!

Deng Qiang listened to it in the camp, turned around and jumped up, picked up the wine jar and drank it violently. Then put on the horse, the prancing horse and the spear, and the fierce generals Zhang Oy, Lu Guang, and Xu Cheng, who had just been pulled back from the ghost gate, rushed straight to the enemy formation, rushing back and forth, as if entering a no-man's land.

The promise of promotion has an obvious chicken blood effect. At noon, the Yan army was frightened by Deng Qiang, Zhang Hao, Lü Guang, Xu Cheng and other fierce generals, and lost more than 50,000 people. Wang Meng commanded the troops to pursue the victory, and annihilated more than 100,000 Yan troops. Murong Ping fled back to Yecheng alone, and the remnants of the army scattered and fled.

Wang Meng led the army commander to drive in and surrounded Yecheng.

Yecheng, the nearby security was originally very poor, robbing the public bank, at this time, it became quiet near and far. Wang Meng's orders were strict, and the army did not commit any offense against the people. The nearby residents are all Yanmin in name, but the composition is complex, and in troubled times, whoever can let the people eat enough and live a stable life is the holy lord. As a result, the nearby residents all celebrated and ran to tell each other. Wang Meng perfectly built a mass foundation for the Qin army.

The Yan army was in Yecheng, heightened vigilance, imposed a curfew, patrolled day and night, and was ready for a protracted war. However, I didn't get nervous for a few days, and soon I rested again. Why?

Yecheng was besieged, and Fu Jian couldn't hold it back. In November, Fu Jian personally led 100,000 elite soldiers to join the division. Wang Meng's 30,000 horses beat Qianyan like this. Fu Jian brought another 100,000 younger brothers, how can this battle be fought?

Soon, Youyanchen opened the city gate and surrendered. Yan Lord Murong Wei and ruling Murong Ping fled and were all chased back. Qianyan perished, and reigned for 34 years (337-370).

Wang Meng guards Yecheng, selects talents and promotes ability, removes the old cloth and the new, stabilizes people's hearts, develops production, and the people of the six states in the old land of Yan are like drought seedlings in the rain, and they are happy.

Qianyan, the strongest dynasty in the Central Plains, was destroyed, and Fu Jian and Wang Meng made persistent efforts to solve the remaining separatist forces in the northwest and other places. first destroyed Qiu Chi and isolated Qianliang. Then, the Xianbei beggar tribe in Longxi and the Tuyuhun between Ganqing and Qing also surrendered to the former Qin. From 373 to 374, the former Qin pacified Bashu and the areas south of it. At this time, except for the former Liang and the foreign countries, the former Qin had basically unified the north.

When he was young, his family was poor, his nutrition was too poor, his internal organs were underdeveloped, and he was increasingly tired as an adult, and the pressure on his internal organs was too great, so his body could not last long, and Zhuge Liang, who had cultivated in Nanyang, was an example. In June 375, 50-year-old Wang Meng became ill from overwork, bedridden, and died a month later, three years shorter than Zhuge Liang's lifespan.

With the good foundation laid by Wang Meng, the former Qin was still strong, and it was able to sweep the north by inertia alone. In 376, Fu Jian destroyed Zhang's Qianliang, and the Qianliang State advocated the surrender of Tianxi. In the same year, he destroyed Tuoba Xianbei's Daiguo, and Tuoba Shiyiqian, the lord of Daiguo, was defeated and killed after fleeing.

Although it was Fu Jian, the king of the Great Qin, who finally brought about a rare situation of great unification in northern China, it is obvious that the Han king Meng made great contributions.

When Wang Meng was seriously ill, Fu Jian personally prayed for him and sent his courtiers to pray all over the famous mountains and rivers. It happened that Wang Meng's condition improved, and Fu Jian was overjoyed and ordered an amnesty for capital crimes. At Wang Meng's funeral, Fu Jian wept three times in the coffin, and posthumously presented him as a general, Jizhou pastor, and his nickname was Wu. Funeral specs? According to the standards of Huo Guang of the Western Han Dynasty, it is basically the highest specification except for the Son of Heaven.

Wang Meng, a poor boy from Weifang, Jiaodong, established immortal feats in the Northwest Guanzhong and was known as "the first person to cover Zhuge Gong". This is unimaginable in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which pays attention to the family, and just one Shu identity has been passed. And if Wang Meng hadn't died young, it was really hard to say whether the powerful Former Qin would have been able to wipe out the Eastern Jin Dynasty in one fell swoop. Therefore, the mechanism of selecting and employing people is sometimes really worth pondering. For example, the age limit, the ancestral stain of the political trial, etc.

Later, one of Wang Meng's grandsons went to the south, and followed the northern expedition to Guanzhong with the male lord of the south, once again established immortal achievements, and revived the glory of his grandfather in the northwest. Later, he unfortunately died at the hands of his colleagues in Chang'an, which even aroused the strong resistance of the fathers and elders in Guanzhong, which led to the final failure of the layout of the southern lord in the northwest, and once again confirmed the high prestige of the Wang family in Guanzhong. This is a later story.

While the Langyu Wang clan and the Taiyuan Wang clan are reflected in the sky of Chinese history, should there be a Qingzhou Wang clan in this brilliant ethnic group?