Heifu led the lieutenants from all the counties to quell the chaos and besieged Gaotang City. While the fighting was in full swing, Pengcheng, Surabaya County, hundreds of miles away in the south, had also assembled an army of 50,000. They were troops from Guanzhong and were handed over to Wang Bi.
Commander, nominally, he is the main general who is quelling this chaos...
However, Qin Shihuang did not rush to let the army march into Qi to quell the rebellion. Instead, he ordered them to station in Pengcheng and perform martial arts all day long. There would be a huge drill every day. The emperor would occasionally show up for inspections, and they were brave and vigorous. This made people hear that the Qi rebellion
Afterwards, the Pengcheng Chu people, who had some thoughts in mind, immediately gave up the idea of rebellion.
Not only Pengcheng, but the surrounding areas of Chu and Liang also received such a signal. Qin Shihuang was still there. The Qin Dynasty's army that wiped out the six kingdoms was also stationed in Pengcheng in all directions. Wherever they dared to rebel, they would immediately advance by land and water.
Go to encirclement and suppression.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the emperor deliberately stood still and did not even send a single soldier to Qi: he just wanted to show the people of the world that the fields of Qi that dared to rebel, and the restored so-called "Qi State",
There is no need for the imperial court's battle-hardened troops to come out. It can be easily suppressed by just relying on local miscellaneous county soldiers!
Sure enough, at the end of May, the deputy general of this battle, "General Pi" Heifu, sent someone to report that Tian Ni had been cut off from his retreat and could not go to Julu County. He was now trapped in Gaotang and could be broken overnight. Qi was in chaos.
Can be flat!
"good."
Qin Shihuang just nodded lightly, which was expected, and at the same time smiled at the ministers:
"Although the chicken-killing knife is small, it is sharp enough to deal with those local chickens and dogs. It seems that Tongwuhou's cattle-killing knife does not need to be used."
Since there is no need to worry about the chaos, perhaps in order to prevent the Pengcheng army from making a wasted trip, or perhaps to show that the court has enough time to quell the chaos, the emperor ordered that on the first day of June, 50,000 troops gathered on the shore of Surabaya outside Pengcheng.
They lined up for more than ten miles on both sides of the strait, with loud cheers and banners. Then thousands of people with good water skills were selected from them, took a boat to the middle of the water, and dived into the water to look for the Zhou Ding that sank here decades ago...
The Three Dynasties emphasized that "important matters of the country lie in sacrifices and military affairs", and the most important ritual vessel in sacrifices was the tripod. According to the ritual system, the number of tripods used by people of different levels was strictly limited, with three tripods for scholars and five tripods for officials.
The princes have seven tripods, but only the emperor can use nine tripods!
Legend has it that Xia Yu collected Jiu Mu's gold and cast the Jiuding, which resembles Jiuzhou. From then on, the Jiuding became a symbol of power in the world and an orthodox national treasure.
When Xia's virtue declined, Ding moved to Yin; when Yin's virtue declined, Ding moved to Zhou and was placed in Luoyi, the eastern capital. It survived the catastrophe of the destruction of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but after the decline of the Zhou royal family, it did not escape the covetousness of the princes.
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In the Spring and Autumn Period, the importance of King Chuzhuang's bid for the throne is well known to the world. Needless to say, let's talk about Qin. After King Hui of Qin became queen, he also had the desire to win the tripod.
According to Qin Shihuang's knowledge, Sima Cuo and Zhang Yi had an argument in front of King Qin Hui. Sima Cuo wanted to attack Shu, but Zhang Yi said: "It is better to attack Han." One of Zhang Yi's reasons was that after destroying South Korea, he opened the way to the Zhou Dynasty.
At that time, "Zhou knew that if he could not be saved, the Nine Cauldrons would surely come out. According to the Nine Cauldrons, according to the pictures and books, he would hold the emperor hostage and command the world. No one in the world would dare not to listen. This is the king's business."
In the end, King Qin Hui adopted Sima Cuo's suggestion and attacked Bashu, but the time for Qin to become the king was only postponed for more than ten years.
King Wu of Qin appointed Gan Mao and captured Yiyang. He personally brought a group of strong men to the Zhou Dynasty and proposed to "visit and visit". This visit was not important. King Wu of Qin, who was physically strong, took advantage of King Zhou's territory and Jiuding.
A tripod-lifting competition had the strong men planning to move all the tripods back to Xianyang.
Unfortunately, there was an accident in the weightlifting competition. When King Wu of Qin was lifting the Yongzhou tripod, he accidentally smashed his leg. The people of Qin had to return in a hurry. Not long after, King Wu of Qin died...
When King Qin Zhao, the younger brother of King Wu of Qin and the great-grandfather of the First Emperor of Qin, came to the throne, his obsession with winning the throne did not stop. After the Battle of Yique, the Qin State raised an army and approached the Zhou capital in an attempt to seize the Nine Tripods. Seeing that the Nine Tripods could not be secured, it was Zhou Dafu Yan who led him.
King Min of Qi, who encouraged Zhou to compete with Qin everywhere, helped Zhou drive Qin, and promised to dedicate the Jiuding to Qi afterwards, so that the Qin soldiers retreated, but in the end, the Jiuding was not given to King Min of Qi.
Until the eve of the death of King Zhao of Qin, he sent troops to destroy the Duke of Western Zhou who collaborated with the princes to attack Qin. Then he took his Nine Tripods treasure and moved the Nine Tripods that had been cherished by the kings of Qin for several generations to the Xianyang Palace...
Qin Shihuang remembered that after he ascended the throne at the age of thirteen, he asked to see the Jiuding, so the long-dusted Ding Pavilion was opened again, and the Jiuding emerged in front of his eyes.
To him who was young at that time, Jiuding was really a huge thing. Each tripod had a different color, and the strange patterns with different shapes on the tripod added to the simplicity and mystery of the tripod. Some of them were turtles, snakes, red birds, green dragons.
White tigers and other auspicious beasts, and some are ferocious-looking monsters from the Book of Mountains and Seas that cannot be named, each represents the legend of the mountains and rivers of the state...
Qin Shihuang remembered that when he was thirteen years old, he touched those patterns one by one, and turned around and asked Prime Minister Lu Buwei: "Father Zhong, does getting Jiuding really mean that he has achieved the king's legacy? If it can, why do the six countries still not join the Qin Dynasty? If it can't, why don't the six countries join the Qin Dynasty?
, why have the overlords and ancestors of all generations pursued them diligently?"
Lu Buwei just smiled softly: "Jiuding? Wang Ye? Your Majesty, they are just a few rabbits."
"Rabbit?" Qin Shihuang was quite surprised at the time. What did it mean?
Lu Buwei gave Qin Shi Huang an impressive answer.
"A rabbit is running in front, and hundreds of people are chasing it, not because the rabbit can be divided into many parts, but because its ownership is undecided."
In Lu Buwei's eyes, the disputes between princes for more than five hundred years are, in the final analysis, nothing more than a group of people chasing a few rabbits whose status has not yet been determined...
This saying of "all heroes chasing rabbits" made the young Qin Shihuang laugh for a long time, but Lu Buwei immediately became serious again.
"Therefore, governing the world and the country only depends on the determination of divisions!"
He knelt down and said to Qin Shihuang:
"Your Majesty, the people of the six countries will not respect you as the emperor just because Jiuding entered the Qin Dynasty. Instead, they will only recognize this when your majesty becomes the true emperor and his title has been determined!"
Lu Buwei was a good teacher. He taught Qin Shihuang a lot, but Qin Shihuang also used what he learned to overthrow Lu Buwei and let him die...
The past events were vivid in his mind. Thinking of this, Qin Shihuang shook his head again:
"No, Lu Buwei, you are still wrong... Determination cannot completely stop the war. Even if I am the emperor, even if my achievements have surpassed those of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, surpassed Shang Tang, Zhou Wu, and even if I were granted the title of Zen, there will still be people.
I don’t want to admit this and still want restoration!”
So Qin Shihuang wanted to tell them the truth.
"dream!"
After finishing his memories, Qin Shihuang, who had fasted and bathed, stood by the surging Si River. His ships were connected as a bridge on the Si River, and his soldiers filled the shore, shouting. Ever since Jiaodong Yeyi took the lead in shouting, he suddenly
The popular “Long live Long live Long live Long live!”
Thousands of warriors bowed to the emperor, drank a glass of wine, and jumped into the water to look for Zhou Dinglai.
After King Zhao of Qin destroyed the Duke of Western Zhou, the tripods moved back to Xianyang were called nine, but in fact, one of them was fake.
The people of Qin soon discovered this. After questioning, it turned out that the son of the Duke of Western Zhou secretly sent the Yuzhou tripod to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. King Qin Zhao was furious and sent someone to ask for it. The son of the Duke of Western Zhou had escaped from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and took the tripod with him.
, ran between Wei and Chu. At that time, Qin was the only strong one in the world. Although Wei and Chu coveted the tripod, they did not dare to take it in. So the son of the Duke of Western Zhou, in despair, transported the tripod on the Si River in Pengcheng.
The ship was scuttled, and he himself threw himself into the water and died...
At this point, the Qin people could not cross the border to seize the tripod, so they had no choice but to give up. But now, Qin Shi Huang was rich all over the world. Now that he had arrived in Pengcheng and had enough manpower, he naturally wanted to get this big tripod.
Although in the final analysis, it is just one of the "rabbits" in Lu Buwei's mouth, but after all, it is the obsession of the ancestors starting from King Hui of Qin. If it can reappear in the world at this juncture, it will "determine the fate of the imperial court and end the dispute"
", it is of great benefit.
It's a pity that countless people were mobilized to fish for seven days, searching dozens of miles of rivers, and a lot of fish and shrimps were caught. There was even a big turtle with the words "Song Gongji 30 years" engraved on its back and was caught. Summoning Boxue
Zhang Cang came to ask and found out that this "Song Gongcha" was the Song Yuan Gong who was the same generation as Confucius, two hundred years ago. Therefore, the big tortoise was said to be "auspicious" by local officials, and the tortoise came from
Surabaya is a sign of the prosperity of the Qin Dynasty.
But the lost cauldron was still missing.
He couldn't find anything, so he had to give up. Qin Shihuang was a little disappointed. Fortunately, there was good news from the north:
"Thanks to His Majesty's wisdom, Gaotang City has been conquered, all Tian's rebels are dead, and Tianjia and his thieves have been captured by thousands of people!"
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In mid-June, the heads of "King Qi" Tian Jia, together with Tian Dan, Tian Heng, and Tian Rong, were all sent to Pengcheng by Heifu to be seen by Qin Shihuang.
Tian Jia was the younger brother of King Jian of Qi. He defended himself, saying that he was forced by Tian Dan and Tian Rong and did not want to rebel, hoping to survive.
But Qin Shihuang didn't even bother to see the real King of Qi, let alone this "fake king". With a wave of his hand, he ordered Tianjia and his brother to die: be placed among the pines and cypresses and starve to death!
After Gaotang was conquered, except for the Tian brothers and their die-hard followers, almost all the others were arrested. There were more than 10,000 people who directly participated in the rebellion, and there were tens of thousands of Guizhou people in various counties who were traitors.
As for how to deal with this group of people, some people suggest that they should not distinguish between them and kill them all. Others think that they should be screened. Those who deserve to be killed should be killed, and those who should be punished as prisoners should be allowed to do hard labor in Lishan, Great Wall, and Hexichi.
Dao, there are many places where Da Qin needs manpower.
It was Heifu who put forward a suggestion in the memorial.
"The first hundred thieves can be punished with car-breaking, and the next two thousand or so, have their hands and feet nailed to the wooden frame with five-inch wooden nails, and placed beside the pavilions and houses in the four counties of Qi, to frighten Qi.
They all had their faces tattooed, their toes chopped off, and sent to the Great Wall, Mount Li, and Hexi to become Sikou Chengdan..."
Ting Wei Ye Teng praised this method as a good one. Those who directly participated in the rebellion should be punished with death. It was enough to nail a traitor in front of more than 2,000 pavilions in the four counties of Qidi, so that all locals and passers-by would know
, the fate of a rebel. A timid person will naturally be afraid, and will not dare to have a rebellious heart. If there are dissatisfied people who want to rescue them, they will just let the guards wait and catch them all!
Qin Shihuang also thought this idea was good, but what he admired more was Heifu's awareness.
Han Fei once said to Qin Shihuang that there are five types of traitors.
One is to bribe the monarch and the monarch's ministers with property, so that the ministers can say good things and convey news, so as to find out the monarch's whereabouts and thoughts.
The second is to win people's hearts through rewards, strengthen one's own power, and expand one's influence.
The third is to appear as a friend of wise men, establish one's own image, recruit cronies, and form cliques for selfish interests.
The fourth is those who privately pardon criminals to expand their own power and make others loyal to them.
The fifth is those who confuse people's hearts, attract others' attention with strange talk, dress up in strange clothes to confuse people's hearts, and confuse right and wrong.
The above five types are all evil and must be investigated by the Lord!
For the officials in the feudal frontiers, we should pay special attention to the appearance of the second, third and fourth people. These officials are stationed in the place and often collude with the local forces. If they encounter good things that win people's hearts, they will be blamed on themselves, and if they do bad things that offend others, they will be blamed.
It was said that it was the imperial court, and the emperor's intention gradually became unresolved, and the place was regarded as a private fiefdom.
After Heifu solved the Linzi crisis, Qin Shihuang ordered him to personally supervise the execution of thousands of traitor family members. This was not because he did not trust Heifu, but just a warning and a beating for him because of Heifu's behavior in Jiaodong County.
, the emperor was not only surprised, but also a little dissatisfied.
His reputation seems a bit too positive...
A good official in the eyes of the common people is not necessarily a "good official" in the eyes of the emperor.
Heifu was very spiritual and understood the emperor's intention. After quelling the Qi chaos, he took the initiative to take advantage of the evil and put forward this suggestion that would make Qi people pierce their spines.
The implication is obvious: "My black husband is loyal to Your Majesty and is not afraid of offending anyone!"
"This is what a loyal minister should look like!"
Qin Shihuang secretly praised Zhou Ding for not being in a bad mood and it was much better. But he immediately asked Li Si and Ye Teng a question.
"Is it only Qi Di who needs to be shocked?"
After Qin Shihuang said this, Li Si and Ye Teng understood and changed the number of executions to 10,000!
Almost all those who directly participated in the rebellion were crucified! The scope of the pavilions and houses with crosses was also expanded from the four counties of Qi to Zhao, Wei, Han, Chu, Yan...
In every pavilion, a wooden cross will be erected, with a traitor nailed to it. The wooden nails will penetrate his hands and feet. The pavilion guards will feed him a little water every day, flies will lay eggs on him, and crows will peck at him.
His flesh and blood will be itched and tortured every day until the blood dries up and maggots gnaw and squirm between his skin and lungs, and he will die!
This is the price of rebellion!
The entire Six Kingdoms, two-thirds of the world, and every road will be shrouded in stench and fear.
And the bad reputation of the man who proposed this cruel proposal will be known to everyone from Liaodong to Kuaiji!
Hei Fu expressed his "undying loyalty" to Qin Shihuang, and Qin Shihuang happily rewarded him accordingly!
"Guard Heifu of Jiaodong, and sent troops from Jiaodong to Linzi to suppress the violence of the rebel soldiers, suppress the troops who rebelled against the country, secure a city thousands of feet long, and establish the towns of thousands of families. He also joined forces with soldiers from all counties to defeat the thieves in Gaotang and kill the chief culprits.
Capture the false king and quell the chaos. Heifu’s merits can lead to two levels of nobility and the title of great concubine!"