The time goes back to September of the twelfth year of Wei Zhaowu, when Prince Xiong Xin of the Chu State led a group of Chu civil servants and generals including Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, Jingyun of Shouling, Xiong Li, Lord of Diyang, etc., to Luoyang, the capital of the King of Wei.
It was announced to the outside world that the state of Chu had collapsed and was merged into the state of Wei.
Immediately, the six ministries of the imperial court immediately drafted laws and regulations to cover the Chu people. For example, in the name of King Zhao Run of Wei, he declared that "the Chu people are now part of Wei." It was forbidden to kill Chu people indiscriminately or plunder Chu people, otherwise they would be punished according to the law, etc.
This matter was facilitated by both the Wei people and the Chu people: Xiong Sheng, Lord of Liyang, headed by the old Prime Minister of Chu, urgently hoped that the Wei State would formulate corresponding rules and regulations to protect the Chu people to protect the interests of the Chu people; and the Wei State also hoped to speed up the "
The steps of "integrating the Chu people into the Wei people" alleviated the hatred between the people of the two countries and facilitated Wei's rule over the entire Central Plains.
Under the instruction of King Zhao Run of Wei, the six departments of the imperial court were operating rapidly. The Ministry of Punishment began to formulate new laws, while the Ministry of Personnel immediately began to prepare to recruit talents from Chu State to serve as officials. Although the ultimate goal was to expand the talents of the imperial court, for now
In other words, this move mainly serves as a publicity function of "buying horse bones for a thousand gold".
At this time, the Ministry of Rites also began to vigorously guide public opinion and make positive publicity to the Chu people through notices, miscellaneous books, and newspapers.
Even the hundreds of schools of thought under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites, such as the novelist's miscellaneous book "Yitan", also promoted the Chu people in a large and positive way.
Although the novelist's "Anecdotes" is a miscellaneous book, it is more popular than the "Di Bao" published by the Ministry of Rites. After all, those novelists' ideas were wild and unconstrained, and sometimes even absurd--for example, they wanted to publicize it on the front.
South Korea surrendered
At the time of Yan Kui, those novelists could even write such absurd things as "Yan Kui accidentally encountered an immortal mountain, was enlightened by the immortal and surrendered to the Wei State", but it happened that the vast majority of people in the Wei Kingdom and even the entire Central Plains were keen to read it.
to this 'magical' story.
At the request of the Ministry of Rites, in the new issue of "Yitan", novelists such as Zhou Chu vigorously promoted the Chu people in a positive way.
The first half of the article promotes the Chu people who served in the Wei State, such as the current minister of the Wei Dynasty Jie Ziyu, the Shang Shui Army General Wu Ji, the Yanling Army General Qu Cheng, the Tiance Mansion Counselor Zhai Huang, etc., praising these Chu people
He was a civil servant and military official who made great contributions to the Wei State.
As for the second half of the chapter, Chu King Xiong Tuo, Liyang Lord Xiong Sheng, Shouling Lord Jingyun, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei, Diyang Lord Xiong Li and others are promoted as positive characters in "Chu Kingdom Chapter".
Since there are positive characters, of course there must also be negative characters, such as Guling Lord Xiong Wu, Chu Shui Lord, and Juyang Lord Xiong Li, who were designated as villains by King Zhao Run of Wei.
The story of the "Chu Kingdom Chapter" starts from "Chu and Wei jointly conquered the Song Dynasty". In fact, the real protagonists of this incident are Wei Wang Zhao Si and Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo, but in order to cover up the lie - I mean for
To accelerate the integration of Wei and Chu, Zhao Run placed the initial blame on Guling Lord Xiong Wu.
Therefore, in the Chu chapter of "Yitan", the battle of "Chu, Wei and Song" completely changed its appearance. It became Xiong Wu, the Lord of Guling, who took the initiative to contact the Wei State to attack the Song State, and agreed to divide the Song State equally. In the end, Xiong Wu
In order to monopolize the Song Dynasty, I betrayed the agreement, but was finally defeated by the Wei Dynasty. This is a bleak story.
Poor Guling Lord Xiong Wu was unjustly blamed for being blamed. After all, he was only thirteen or fourteen years old when the Chu and Wei Dynasties conquered the Song Dynasty, and he had not even received the fiefdom of Guling.
But Wei Wang Zhao Run said he was, and he was!
In "Yitan", what follows "Chu Wei's Conquest of Song" is Xiong Tuo, the king of Yangcheng, who took revenge against Wei for ten years.
Zhao Run couldn't put Xiong Tuo's blame on Xiong Wu for this matter. After all, in Wei State, there are still many old people who have survived since Xiong Tuo conquered Wei. These people basically knew about the invasion of the country at that time. Who was the commander-in-chief of the Chu army? Who made Xiong Tuo, the king of Yangcheng, almost force Wei to a dead end?
Therefore, under the instruction of Wei King Zhao Run, Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo's behavior in attacking Wei was 'distorted' as being instigated by Guling Lord Xiong Wu, although novelists depicted Xiong Tuo as a young man in the story. He acted like an upright fool, but he succeeded in putting the biggest responsibility on Xiong Wu, making Xiong Wu, the Lord of Guling, take the blame again.
All in all, for anything that damages the relationship between Wei and Chu in the future, novelists will blame Guling Lord Xiong Wu, Chu Shui Lord, Juyang Lord Xiong Li, Diyang Lord Xiong Shang and others. Jun Xiongwu depicts Jun Xiongwu as an ambitious person, Chu Shuijun as a sinister villain, Ju Yangjun Xiong Li as a greedy person, and Di Yangjun Xiong Shang as a cruel blade.
To be honest, this generalization is not wrong, but putting everything on these people makes those who know the situation can't help but sympathize - maybe those Wei people who don't know much about Chu are watching. After reading these stories, most people will think that Xiong Wu, Chu Shuijun, Ju Yangjun Xiong Li, Di Yangjun Xiong Shang and others are the people in power in Chu State.
But in fact, although these people have considerable power, they are not enough to truly influence the decision-making of Chu State.
But what does this matter?
Again, Wei Wang Zhao Run said they are, they are!
After the new issue of "Yitan" was published, people like Shouling Jun Jingyun, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei, Diyang Jun Xiong Li and others also bought a copy each, probably because they wanted to see how the Wei State would guide public opinion.
After reading "Shouling Jun Jingshe Chapter", Shouling Jun Jingyun was very satisfied because the novelists portrayed his father Jingshe as a loyal minister of Chu who had unrealized ambitions, and the ending "feeling ashamed of Chu" "Killing himself in the Chu River" also restored the truth.
The only distorted part is the reason why Shouling Junjingshe was defeated.
The real history is that King Su Zhao Run and King Yu Zhao Yuanji jointly defeated Shouling Junjingshe. There was no conspiracy. However, in order to cover up the reason why Shouling Junjingshe did not withdraw to the west of Chu, novelists included The blame was placed on Lord Guling Xiong Wu and Lord Chu Shui - that is, Lord Guring Xiong Wu was jealous of Shouling Lord Jingshe's talent, so he teamed up with the insidious villain Chu Shuijun to deliberately drag Shouling Lord Jingshe back. As a result, Shoulingjun Jingshe's success was defeated, and he committed suicide in Chushui after the defeat.
When he saw this paragraph, Gulingjun Jingyun thought for a moment and then turned the page.
Right now, he just wants to keep his father's reputation. As for Guling Lord Xiong Wu and Chu Shui Lord, they are taking the blame...
What does this have to do with him?
Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei was also very satisfied.
After all, in the anecdotes, almost all the descendants of his Xiang family play positive roles. From Xiang Mo and Xiang Kuan brothers to Ruyin Lord Xiang Gong, Xiang Xing and his son, including Xiang Pei, they are all regarded as the descendants of the Chu State. Depiction of Naoomi Tadashi.
Di Yangjun Xiong Li was also very satisfied.
Although his brother Diyangjun Xiong Shang was slandered by the Wei people, Xiong Li was described as a positive character. This can be regarded as a positive and negative balance? Hey!
In addition, for example, Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu, Liyang Lord Xiong Sheng, etc., these Chu nobles are all portrayed as positive characters. It seems that from the beginning to the end, there are only Guling Lord Xiong Wu, Chu Shui Lord, Ju
Yangjun Xiongli and Diyangjun Xiongshang are four people who have committed the most heinous crimes.
But what does it matter?
Who made the winner of the Central Plains competition be Wei Wang Zhao Run, and Wei Wang Zhao Run disliked these four people very much?
All in all, after Wei King Zhao Runqin determined that Guling Lord Xiong Wu, Chu Shui Lord, Juyang Lord Xiong Li, and Diyang Lord Xiong Shang were the traitors of Chu, the Wei court put all the responsibilities on these four guys.
This resulted in the harmony between the Wei people and the Chu people.
As for whether the relatives of Xiong Wu, Chu Shuijun, Xiong Li, and Xiong Shang are willing to accept this 'fact', it is not within the scope of consideration by Wei Wang Zhao Run and the Wei court.
And having said that, although the Wei State used the latest printed "Yi Tan", "Di Bao" and the distribution of official notices in counties within the Wei State to encourage the Wei people and the Chu people to reduce their conflicts with each other, it also caused the Qin State to
The spy learned the news that "the Kingdom of Chu has fallen".
Three months after the fall of the Chu State, when the Wei State was vigorously guiding public opinion, Qin's spies sent the news to the capital of Xianyang, allowing the King of Qin to know that the Chu State no longer existed.
After learning the news, King Qin sighed helplessly.
He could not blame the Chu State. After all, the Chu State had resisted the Wei State for a long enough time. From the eighth year of Wei Zhaowu to the twelfth year of Wei Zhaowu, it lasted for nearly four years. It was not easy.
Of course, Chu State could not blame Qin State for anything. After all, in order to support Chu State at that time, Qin State gave up the entire Ba State. Unfortunately, Xiying County of Chu State fell too quickly, and when Wei General Wu Ji cut it off
After the water and land connections between Ba and Chu were established, Chu was destined to be unable to defeat Wei.
The only thing to blame is that the Wei State is now too powerful. Even when it sent troops to attack Chu and Yue on the eastern battlefield, Wei still had enough troops to defend against Qin's attack on the western battlefield.
, even if the Qin State tried its best to attract the attention of the Wei State, hoping to give the Chu State a chance to breathe, it could not change the fate of the Chu State's fall.
For Chu, an ally that had agreed to jointly resist Wei, Qin was extremely benevolent and righteous.
At this moment, King Qin was thinking about only one thing, that is, how to deal with the war with Wei.
Of course he knew that with the fall of Chu, Wei had only one enemy left, Qin. Considering the character of his son-in-law, King Zhao Run of Wei, he would never tolerate that - and besides, the civil servants and generals of Wei
, and would not choose to live in peace with Qin.
Either victory or destruction, the only two paths before Qin were.
Because of the anxiety in his heart, King Qin waited every day for the battle reports from Weiyang Lord Ying Hua, Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi and others.
At this time, the war between Wei and Qin had opened up battlefields in "Hetao", "Hexi", "Hangu", and "Bashu". To be honest, the war situation was not optimistic.
The commander-in-chief of the Qin army in the Hetao battlefield was Weiyang Jun Yinghua. This man was the younger brother of King Hui of Qin and a famous brave general of the Qin State. In previous years, he was sent to attack Qin's trusted enemy "Yiqu". However, the Wei army in the Hetao was defeated.
The generals are by no means mediocre, honest and successful, Feng Ting, Han Xu, and Zhao Yue. The first four are all outstanding generals in Korea in the old days, and the last one is the second son of King Yu Zhao Yuandai, who is the leader of Wei State.
's rising star.
Defeating these Wei generals is as difficult as climbing to the sky.
The commander-in-chief of the Qin army on the battlefield in Hexi was Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin. The generals of the Wei army facing him were Wei Ji, the Lord of Lintao, Sima An, the defender of Hexi, Zhao Xuan, the King of Huan, etc. Moreover, the King of Wei, Zhao Run, also sent the famous old Korean general Le Yi to Hexi, so that on this battlefield, the Qin army had no hope of victory.
As for the Hangu battlefield, the commander of the Qin army was Yangquan Jun Yingbo. Originally, his opponent was Zhao Tan, the Marquis of Anping in Wei. According to Yangquan Jun Yingbo’s description in the battle report, he was not a difficult enemy to deal with. But The bad thing is that King Zhao Run of Wei sent the famous Qi generals Tian Dan and Tian Wu to this place.
Tian Dan, who is good at using soldiers and scheming, and Tian Wu, who is brave enough to champion all three armies, how easy is it to defeat these two Tian brothers?
The last place is the Bashu battlefield. The leader of the Qin army is Changxinhou Wangjian. The generals of the Wei army include Shen Yu, Wu Ji, and the surrendered generals of Chu and Ba. , Fan Bu et al.
Compared with Hetao, Hexi, and Hangu, the Bashu battlefield is currently the most intense battlefield between Qin and Wei. In the latest battle report sent by Changxin Hou Wangjian to Xianyang, it was stated that the Wei army was led by Wu Ji. Fan Bu was the vanguard, and Baman was the rear general. They launched a large-scale attack on "Langzhong" where the Qin army was stationed. The battle lasted for more than a month, and Langzhong was almost captured by the Wei army several times.
Although the Qin army finally defended the city, the losses were very serious.
Especially the thousand generals and two thousand generals in the army were killed by Wei generals Wu Ji and Fan Bu. According to post-war statistics, nearly half of the Qin army's generals above the rank of thousand generals died in The remaining 20% in Wu Ji's hands was killed by Fan Bu, and the remaining 30% could only be divided equally among the other generals of the Wei army.
As a result, Fan Bu from Ba was favored and promoted by Wu Ji, who recommended him to the imperial court as a general of three thousand men, which was higher than the general position held by the former Ba Man Baman in the Wei army.
"Bashu..."
After seeing Wang Jian's battle report, which meant asking for help, King Qin rubbed his forehead tiredly.
From the perspective of King Qin, the main battlefields of the Qin-Wei wars were of course Hexi, Hetao, and Sanchuan. However, this did not mean that the battlefields of Bashu and Bashu were unimportant. After all, the Qin State had already overthrown Shu and Ju. If the Wei army drives out Bashu, then the Wei state can gain Ba, Shu, and Ju without any effort, and the Qin state will become a fool for marrying others.
What's even more terrible is that once the fertile land of Shu is lost, Qin's grain production may be reduced by nearly half, which means that the country will not be able to support the three battlefields of Hexi, Hetao, and Sanchuan, even in these three battlefields , the Qin army had already opened up military garrison fields on the front line, and even in the Hexi area, Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi also raised the sheep plundered from the Wei state - in fact, the same was true for the Wei army on the opposite side, so that everywhere On the battlefield, only the Hexi battlefield had the strangest atmosphere.
Generally speaking, the current war between Wei and Qin is mainly a stalemate. The reason is simply that the Wei State is digesting the captured Chu State. After all, the territory of the Chu State is larger than the entire Qin State. Not to mention adding a country of Yue.
Unless the Wei people have a hole in their heads, of course, they should give priority to developing the already annexed Chu and Yue territories, rather than holding back all their energy to launch a so-called decisive battle with Qin. After all, everything must be done step by step, just like eating one bite at a time. Eat, digest the Chu and Yue territories first, and then consider attacking Qin. This is the best policy.
Because of this, even though the Wei State has hundreds of thousands of troops stationed on the Wei-Qin border, in fact, the Wei State is not urgent about this war at the moment. It just wants to hold off the Qin State. It is best to slowly push the Qin State away.
drag the country to the brink of death, just like South Korea did.
Anyway, Wei can afford it, and now Wei has the entire Central Plains to support the war with Qin.
I believe this is also the reason why Wei general Sima An allowed Le Yi to farm and graze. Otherwise, given Sima An's character, if you Le Yi dare to be so passive and lazy, I don't care who you are!
Don't forget, this General Sima An is the only general in Wei who has openly resisted the orders of "Wei Gongzi Run".
In November of the twelfth year of Wei Zhaowu, with the assistance of Xiong Sheng, Lord of Liyang, Wei State basically digested Chu State.
In fact, to be precise, as early as two years ago, after the Wei army captured the land of the Chu State north of the river, the Wei State had already begun to digest the captured land and cities. However, the Chu State was still there at that time, so it still had some influence on the country.
The righteous loyalists were still resisting. Therefore, people like Wei Shuo, Wei Yun, Wei Zhen, Ji Wu, Han Pu, Qu Cheng, etc. would station themselves in the captured Chu city to prevent the Chu people.
rebel.
However, after King Xiong Tuo of Chu died in battle and Prince Xiong Xin of Chu surrendered to Wei, the situation changed. Not only did Wei gain a sense of righteousness, but those Chu righteous men who wanted to fight gradually gave up.
Later, after Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng spread the last words of Chu King Xiong Tuo and called on the Chu people not to make unnecessary sacrifices, the Wei State ruled the Chu land more smoothly.
After initially digesting Chu State, Wei State began to guide the "annexation of South Korea".
If the news that Wei State had annexed Chu State had already made King Qin sit on pins and needles, then when he learned that Wei State intended to annex South Korea, he could not sit still even more.
Think about it, although Qin's territory is not small, it only covers the Qinling Mountains, Longxi, Hanzhong, and Shu. After Wei annexed Chu, if it annexed South Korea, then in the meantime,
The territory and population of Wei will be more than ten times that of Qin.
What's more terrible is that the Central Plains has always been richer than Xicui. If this war continues to be delayed, in just a few years, the Wei State may be able to drag the Qin State to death without a war, just like the Wei State dragged the Qin State to death that day.
Like Korea.
The only difference is that at that time, South Korea still had the ability to counterattack, and even had a chance to defeat Wei, as long as the damn "Wu'an-Baren-Julu Defense Line" could work. However, Qin had already unified how to resist.
The entire Wei State in the Central Plains?
"We can never sit still and wait for death!"
King Qin Hui thought to himself.
Although now even if Wei is forced to go to war with Qin, King Qin is not very sure of defeating Wei, but he knows that in a decisive battle with Wei at this time, Qin still has a glimmer of hope of victory, but if he waits until Wei is completely unified
If the Central Plains is lost, then the Qin State may not even have a glimmer of hope.
Thinking of this, the King of Qin decided to lead the expedition in person to inspire his Qin army.
In the spring of the 13th year of Wei Zhaowu's reign, when the Wei State was busy deceiving the Koreans by creating some auspicious omens in South Korea in order to annex South Korea, the father-in-law of Wei King Zhao Run, the King of Qin, returned, wearing armor and driving a chariot to fight in person.
When he learned the news, King Zhao Runyi of Wei was stunned for a while, with a rather subtle look on his face.
You must know that Zhao Run was already in his forties at this time, and his father-in-law Qin Wanghui was already over seventy years old. It is hard to imagine that this old father-in-law still has the courage and energy to lead a personal expedition. "PS: Did I calculate correctly? The 10th year of Hongde (26-16), the 10th year of Xing'an, and the 13th year of Zhaowu, 14+10+10+13=47. It turns out that Zhao Run is already forty-seven years old, and he feels so complicated..."
"If not...after Korea is annexed, will you play with your father-in-law?"
Zhao Run stroked the short beard on his chin, thoughtfully.