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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 31: Process, Zheng Guoqu

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    After the Qin army captured Tunliu, Cheng Xi's subordinates were all beheaded and executed for being in a row, and the people of Tunliu were exiled to Lintao (now Min County, Gansu Province).  (After the Literature Museum surrendered to the State of Zhao, it was granted the title of Yurao (now northeast of Raoyang County, Hebei Province) by King Zhao Daoxiang.

    Since the death of King Zhuangxiang of Qin, the relationship between Lu Buwei and Queen Mother Zhao Ji (mother of Ying Zheng) has been disconnected, but this unethical relationship seems to have been initiated unilaterally by Zhao Ji.

    As Ying Zheng grew older, Lu Buwei was afraid that the matter would be exposed and disaster would befall him, so he secretly sought out a very wealthy man, Lao Ai, as a guest, and took the opportunity to let Lao Ai attend a grand banquet.  , performed the trick of driving the Paulownia wheel to turn, and deliberately spread it to the ears of Queen Mother Zhao Ji.

    As Lu Buwei expected, the Queen Mother was indeed very interested in Lao Ai, so Lu Buwei pretended not to know and brought Lao Ai into the palace, and found someone to falsely accuse Lao Ai of being suspected of corruption.

    On the other hand, Lu Buwei secretly instigated the Queen Mother and arranged for Lao Ai to stay in the palace.  The Queen Mother believed this deeply and secretly bribed the slaves who carried out the corruption. She did not execute the torture on Lao Ai, but asked them to declare to the public that Lao Ai had been tortured and to pluck out Lao Ai's beard.  In this way, Lao Ai became the eunuch serving the Queen Mother Zhao Ji.

    The Queen Mother was completely crazy about Lao Ai's huge vagina, and she unexpectedly became pregnant during this period.  In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, the Queen Mother and Lao Ai fabricated divination saying that living in Xianyang was disadvantageous, so they both moved to Yong, the old capital of Qin (south of Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province today). During this period, the Queen Mother and Lao Ai gave birth to two sons.

    In 239 BC (the eighth year of the Qin Dynasty), Lao Ai was granted the title of Marquis of Changxin, with Shanyang County (southeast of today's Jiaozuo City, Henan Province) as his seat, and Hexi, Taiyuan and other counties as his land.  Lao Ai's family sometimes had thousands of children at most, and the number of people who wanted to be officials and voluntarily became Lao Ai's disciples also reached more than a thousand.

    But according to Qin¡¯s rules.  It can be said that it is quite difficult to make a marquis. For example, before Wang Jian destroyed Chu, he mentioned to Ying Zheng that he had been a general for many years and still had not received the reward of being a marquis. At that time, Wang Jian had already destroyed the Zhao State and severely damaged the Yan State.  Surprisingly, "Historical Records" does not mention the reason why Lao Ai became a marquis.

    Some scholars have inferred that Lao Ai was granted the title of Marquis in the same year as Lao Ai was granted the title of Marquis.  Cheng Xiu and Pu Xiu launched a rebellion in Tunliu. It is possible that Lao Ai's contribution in quelling Cheng Xiu's rebellion made him eligible for the title of marquis.

    In 238 BC (the ninth year of the Qin Dynasty), the 22-year-old Ying Zheng went to Yong, the old capital of Qin, to hold a crown ceremony as usual. During this period, someone reported to Ying Zheng that Lao Ai was a fake eunuch.  He also had an affair with the Queen Mother Zhao Ji, and even tried to make his son with the Queen Mother the king of Qin. Ying Zheng ordered a thorough investigation.

    Determined to make a desperate move and strike first, Lao Ai forged the seals of the King of Qin and the Queen Mother, and guided his servants and a small number of deceived troops to launch a coup and attack Qinian Palace.

    The Ying government ordered Prime Minister Lu Buwei and the brothers Changping Jun and Chang Wenjun, who were related to the Chu family, to lead troops to quell the rebellion.  The Lao'ai army was originally a rabble.  Vulnerable and unpopular, it was quickly defeated.

    With a huge reward of one million red copper coins, Lao Ai was captured alive.  After being sent to Xianyang, he was punished by being broken into pieces. The Yi tribe and his two sons born to the Queen Mother were also killed.  His servants, servants, and guests were all exiled to Shu, while Queen Mother Zhao Ji was imprisoned in Yongdu.

    But at that time.  Imprisoning his own mother was always contrary to filial piety. Yingzheng was still angry and ordered that anyone who interceded for the Queen Mother should be beaten with tribulus first and then killed. For this reason, 27 people who came to remonstrate were killed.

    At this time, Mao Jiao, a native of Qi State, persuaded Ying Zheng, pointing out that confining his mother would damage Ying Zheng's reputation and make it difficult to convince the world; killing ministers who had given loyal advice would chill the hearts of the world's talents, and would be detrimental to the great cause of winning over the hearts of the six countries and unifying the world.  .

    Ying Zheng suddenly had a sudden enlightenment and adopted Mao Jiao's suggestion. He gave the slain minister a grand burial and personally led a convoy to Yongdi to take the Queen Mother back to Xianyang and return to Ganquan Palace. The relationship between mother and child was restored.  Mao Jiao was honored as Shang Qing because of this incident.

    However, some scholars believe that Mao Jiao's words were not enough to make Ying Zheng change his original intention. What really worries Ying Zheng is that the power of the Zhao family relatives almost disappeared during the Lao Ai Rebellion, leaving the Chu family relatives headed by Mrs. Huayang  The power became the final winner. Out of the need for imperial balance, Ying Zhengcai treated Lao Ai's retainers who were exiled in Shu and welcomed Zhao Ji back to Xianyang to prevent Chu relatives from dominating the court.

    In 229 BC (the 19th year of the Qin Dynasty), Queen Mother Zhao Ji passed away. She was posthumously named Queen Mother Emperor and was buried in Shuyang with King Zhuang Xiang.

    The Lao'ai rebellion eventually implicated Prime Minister Lu Buwei. Ying Zheng planned to kill Lu Buwei, but Lu Buwei allowed Ying Zheng's father to ascend to the throne of Qin, and he had the merit of supporting him. Moreover, many of Lu Buwei's retainers interceded, so he gave up the death penalty for Lu Buwei.  idea.

    In 237 BC (the tenth year of the Qin Dynasty), Ying Zheng dismissed Lu Buwei from the post of prime minister for dereliction of duty and exiled Lu Buwei to his territory.

    However, a year later, Lu Buwei still had a prominent reputation and had many visitors.?Guests and envoys from various vassal states made a special trip to visit Lu Buwei, which made Ying Zheng deeply uneasy.  Ying Zheng was afraid that Lu Buwei would launch a rebellion, so in 235 BC (the 12th year of the Qin Dynasty), he gave him an edict accusing him. The general content is as follows: What contribution does the king owe to Qin?  Qin Fengjun Henan, fed 100,000 households.  Why are you so close to Qin?  Known as Zhongfu.  He and his family moved to Shu!  ©¤"Historical Records of Lu Buwei"

    Lu Buwei was ordered to move to Shu with his tribe. Thinking that Ying Zheng would not let him go, he committed suicide by drinking poisoned wine. His body was secretly buried in Mang Mountain in the north of Luoyi by his diners.

    Ying Zheng took the following measures against Lu Buwei¡¯s old troops and the guests attending Lu Buwei¡¯s funeral: all Lu Buwei¡¯s retainers from the six countries were expelled.  Qin officials with a salary of more than 600 shi were deprived of their titles and exiled to Fangling.  For Qin officials with a salary of less than 500 shi, if they did not participate in Lu Buwei's funeral, they would also be exiled to Fangling, but their titles would not be deprived.

    After Lao Ai and Lu Buwei died one after another, Yingzheng became less angry and ordered all Lao Ai's disciples who were exiled to Shu to return to the capital Xianyang. He also warned his ministers that if they dared to behave like Lu Buwei, Lao Ai and others and did not follow the right way to handle state affairs,  , he will be deprived of his official position and his family will be used as slaves.

    At this point, Ying Zheng completely eliminated the factors that threatened his throne, took full power, and became the monarch of Qin who lived up to his name.

    Although Yingzheng was still young when he first came to the throne, the Qin army under his command did not stop the pace of expansion. For example, the Qin general Meng Ao captured thirteen Korean cities in the third year of Qin Wangzheng (244 BC), and in the third year of Qin Wangzheng's reign (244 BC),  In the fifth year (243 BC), he captured twenty cities of Wei and established Dongjun there.

    The construction of the Zhengguo Canal began in 246 BC (the first year of the Qin Dynasty) and is located in the Jing exit area of ??Shangran Village, Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province, China today.  The proposer is Zheng Guo, a water conservancy expert from South Korea, whose true identity is a Korean craftsman.

    At that time, South Korea, one of the Three Jin Dynasties, heard that Qin State liked to build large-scale construction projects, so it wanted to use the construction of canals to consume Qin State's national power and prevent Qin State from sending troops to the east. South Korea asked the hydraulic engineer Zheng Guo to find opportunities to lobby Qin State and let Qin State build canals.  To connect the Jingshui River, a canal was built from the west of Zhongshan Mountain to Hukou. It flows out of Beishan Mountain and flows eastward into Luoshui River for more than 300 miles, which is used to irrigate farmland.

    During the progress of the project, Zheng Guo's conspiracy was discovered, and Ying Zheng planned to kill Zheng Guo.  Zheng Guo pointed out that although he came here to do detailed work for South Korea, building the canal would not extend much national progress for South Korea, and it would indeed be of great benefit to Qin after the canal was completed.

    In fact, as strong as the Qin State was, it was inevitably threatened by natural disasters. A severe locust plague that occurred in the fourth year of the Qin Dynasty (243 BC) led to an epidemic of plague, and even forced Ying Zheng to issue an edict to encourage the people to accept millet and receive titles. This explains to a certain extent  It was necessary to build the canal in the Guanzhong area to withstand natural disasters, so Ying Zheng finally ordered Zheng Guo to continue building the canal.

    Since the completion of the canal, the silted and turbid Jinghe River water has been diverted to irrigate the low-lying saline-alkali land on both sides of the river, covering an area of ??more than 40,000 hectares, and the yield per mu has reached six stones and four buckets.  From then on, Guanzhong became a fertile wilderness, and there were no more famine years, laying a solid foundation for the annexation of the six countries. Therefore, the canal was named Zheng Guo Canal.
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