Chapter 975: Zheng Han
A steady stream of refugees walked through the fields and crossed the fences, coming from the northwest and going southeast, and being trampled by them was the uncultivated farmland.
Zhang Liang looked at the refugees' frightened eyes, staggering steps, and his frowns, and his eyebrows furrowed together.
This is a refugee from Sanchuanjing and Suo. In the past, it was also a land belonging to South Korea. The residents were mainly Koreans. The Qin and Chu armies confronted each other on the Sishui River. Although there was no war yet, the scout cavalry teams fought endlessly, which affected the livelihoods of the people around the surrounding hundreds of miles.
"They went far and went to Xinzheng, but continued to walk south because they knew that Xinzheng would become a battlefield sooner or later..."
This is the wisdom of the people of Zheng and Han, and it is also the current situation of Zhang Liang's motherland. This land with many disasters and difficulties has rarely had peace in the past six hundred years.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the four major powers, Qi, Chu, Jin and Qin, all took Zheng as their target for competition, and Zheng was always trapped in the quagmire of great powers' competition for hegemony.
Zhang Liang was familiar with classics and knew that during the Spring and Autumn Period, there were about 300 wars. Among them, nearly a hundred of them affected Zheng State, and there was an average of one in three years. Of course, Zheng State usually appeared as the target of being beaten.
The Jin Dynasty Tubo made progress in the Central Plains, and Chu was also invaded and fought in the north. Chen, Cai, Zheng, and Xu were at the forefront. Zheng's key points were especially ahead. If China had Zheng, it could resist Chu, and if Chu had Zheng, it could see China. Therefore, Zheng was a place that Jin and Chu must fight for.
The Battle of Chengpu, Yanling, and Bi were basically fought within the territory of Zheng. As the saying goes, the thorns are born in the place of the army. Every time the war is over, it takes many years for Zheng State to recover.
The people of Zheng once cried: "Heavenly caused trouble to Zheng State, and Jie was among the two major countries. The great country did not add moral pronunciation, but was in chaos to make it difficult for the ghosts and gods to be worshipped, and the people did not enjoy the benefits of the earth. The couple worked hard and had no bottom line. "As a small country, in order to survive, he had to follow the two ends, but he was strong and obeyed, and he fled to Chu. People in the world said that the people of Zheng were "greedy for profit and abandoned their faith like earth", which was indeed their helplessness.
Only in this way can the people be sheltered.
Han destroyed Zheng and moved the capital to Xinzheng, but it seemed to inherit the curse of Zheng State. For more than a hundred years, Han was still a small country, sandwiched among the great powers, and tried his best to survive. Wei Qiang relied on Wei, Zhao Qiang joined Zhao, and Qi and Chu Qiang were in good terms with him. In the era of Qin State's prosperity, Han was a regular visitor to Qin Lianhe camp. Nothing else, Han was closest to Qin, and if he did not follow Qin, the Qin army would arrive all the time.
With this unprincipled dependence and pleasing, South Korea has only occasionally had a few peaceful days...
And when there is no war, the people of Xinzheng will seize the opportunity to enjoy life.
The stern and the stern are just scattered.
The convoy continued to move forward, the water flowed gurgling, and Xinzheng was approaching.
Zhang Liang is very familiar with this river. Every early spring, the spring water flows, and young people in Xinzheng City will come out of the city to the water. Everyone wears brand new spring clothes and dress up with spirits, because the water water meeting is a blind date meeting that no matter the noble or common people can attend.
The scholar and the daughter are just standing up to the throne, and the scholar and the daughter are joking with each other.
Zhang Liang and his younger brother were from famous families, with their ancestors from fifth generations and were handsome, and Zhang Liang was even more beautiful and elegant. Back then, he was the pretty man whom the noble girls in Xinzheng City dreamed of. Everyone was young and knew that they were young, and the beauty of the curtain was unknown. There were countless women who gave me spoons of medicine to show their love.
The people in Zheng are unrestrained, and men and women often invite each other to sing and dance, and they have instant fun in the sky and earth. In addition to the blow, they are truly happy. Zhang Liang once hugged and surrounded the flowers, and there is no need to say much about the beauty of it.
It’s a pity that they are young and voluntary, and they are gone forever. Zhang Liang didn’t even know that those women who had been close to them were still alive now...
The once clear water also became turbid. Wang Ben's army and Chu army fought here. The bodies were piled up in the river, becoming filthy and odorous, and even caused a plague. Zhang Liang came to Xinzheng and organized manpower, and finally cleaned it up.
Last year, when the Chu army evacuated, it was like a locust passing through the border. It ate all the grain stored in Xinzheng, and the city had a thousand coins of rice and stones. Zhang Liang could see that many people were scooping fish and shrimps in the water at this moment. He saw a team coming from afar. His first reaction was to run away.
They were panicked, like the gulls and swallows that were scattered, because they didn't know whether the visitor was the Chu army, Qin army, or bandits, even if the city was right next to them, they could not give them a sense of security.
But there were no ones who ran away. A woman tried to approach the convoy, but was stopped by her servants. However, the woman recognized Zhang Liang and shouted with her feet:
"Is it a gentleman in the ovary?"
The call that had not been heard in almost twenty years sounded, which made Zhang Liang stunned and ordered his servants to bring the woman over.
The woman was wearing a thorn hairpin and cloth skirt, with her hands and feet wet. She was holding a seven or eight-year-old child with a draped bun in one hand and a dustpan in the other hand. She was obviously the one who had just washed fish and shrimps in the water. At this moment, Zhang Liang was at a loss and was stroking his hair, but they were dry and knotted, and they were already like messes, and they became more and more messy.
"Who are you……"
"I am Yan, who lives in Xili, Xinzheng. The gentleman in Zifang may not remember it, but I remember it."
Seeing that Zhang Liang was still confused, she said, "I was merciful to Zhang Jun when I was out on a spring outing in the water. I wanted to take me as my concubine. However, Zhong Jun died, the matter was left unresolved. The gentleman of Zifang also left me money and asked me to find a good family to marry..."
Zhang Liang remembered that this was one of the women who had an ambiguous relationship with his younger brother at the Water Shui meeting. He seemed to be intimate in the bushes. When Zhang Liang discovered that he was not dressed, he ran away with his face covering his face.
It is common for noble children to marry concubines as concubines, so they can arrange for the priest to handle it. Unfortunately, they were born in an era of drastic changes. In that year, Qin destroyed Han. Zhang Liang's younger brother was even stronger than him. He participated in the secret ranger organization to eliminate Han traitors. He was surrounded by Qin officials. Before his death, he died in order not to implicate the family...
Although Zhang Liang relied on bribes to get his body, he could not be buried publicly. The family even pretended to be his younger brother who went to study in a foreign country, and ordered Zhang Liang to do everything as usual, and his blood could only be poured into his heart...
The past scenes emerged one after another, and Zhang Liang nodded: "Then you later..."
The woman said: "Married to a neighboring county, I gave birth to two sons and two daughters. Later, my husband died of war, and one son died of illness. My two daughters could only send him away. I went back to Xinzheng's mother's house and barely survived. I didn't want to see the gentleman again."
She spoke very calmly, without much compassion, nor did she pretend to be pitiful to Zhang Liang. It seemed that only a piglet died and two puppies were sent to others.
Because they have seen too many deaths, they are numb and used to it, and even themselves fall down and never wake up again.
But Yan was a little regretful about what happened when he was young: "It was because my concubine was blessed and she failed to serve Zhongjun."
She touched her rough face and felt a little sad: "I am old, like a falling mulberry leaves, so ashamed to see Zhongjun."
Who would consider Zhang Liang's appearance? She sighed: "A gentleman is like that of the past, and is beautiful Yao Ye, with extraordinary temperament. If Zhong Jun is still there, the same will be true."
How popular was the Zhang brothers back then? All women wanted to be husbands, and all virgins wanted to be scholars. Those who abandoned their relatives and wanted to run for them rose up together...
Zhang Liang didn't want to listen anymore. Seeing that the child Yan was holding was pale and thin, he gave her a bag of food. He also caught the coveted eyes of some refugees around him, and asked someone to escort Yan back, so that she could not survive, he came to find him.
But when the woman thanked her for farewell, Zhang Liang couldn't help but ask her a question she had been holding on for a long time.
"You think the past is good."
"Or it's better now?"
The woman naturally replied: "Of course, it's better for Korea to be there."
She looked at the water in front of her. The youth of Zheng people had flowed here, and her eyes were a little nostalgic: "At that time, Zhongjun was still there."
Zhang Liang said: "I'm asking about the ten years and present when the Qin people ruled Han land."
The woman thought for a while and replied: "It's still better than ten years!"
She couldn't tell any big truth, or the examples of stability in the past and wars now, and only pointed to the waterway:
"I'm afraid the gentleman of Zifang didn't know that after returning to Xinzheng, I asked the people in the village. They said that from the twenty-fourth to the thirty-seventh year, the meeting of the womb women of the Shui River was able to be thirteen consecutive years without interruption. I'm really envious... "
"Thirteen years."
Zhang Liang was stunned. It was unbelievable to say that it had been six hundred years. From Zheng State to South Korea to South Korea as its capital, to this day, the land of Zheng and Han has never enjoyed such a long peace...
Thirteen years of peace is a luxury for Zheng State, which is war-torn in three years, and for South Korea, which is bound to be transited by the Qin army every four or five years!
Zhang Liang was speechless for a long time, and finally shook his head and headed towards the city.
The city also learned about Zhang Liang's return, but the spacious avenue was not as popular as they were when they "restored" Xinzheng several months ago. Whether it was the hungry people sitting on the roadside looking at his car coldly.
The excitement brought by restoration of the country was not as good as the pain of hunger in the stomach. The Koreans quickly left the "resurrection" behind. This political victory did not bring benefits to ordinary people. The following series of turmoil made them miss the peaceful years during the Qin Dynasty.
Refugees outside are running around, and Xinzheng is in decline. Xinzheng, which was once rich and famous for the world, is now closed and people are in panic.
This scene is so similar to when Neishen came to attack South Korea...
In the year when South Korea was destroyed, Zhang Liang was 10** years old and was young and energetic. He raised his sword to kill the Qin people. If his uncle had not asked his servants to tie Zhang Liang, he would have been shot to death on the street with the group of rangers by Qin crossbows.
When Ye Teng entered Xinzheng as a conqueror, Han Wangan surrendered with all civil and military officials. At that time, there were also indignant Koreans who questioned Ye Teng:
"As Han Chen, why do you want to destroy Han??"
"Destroy Han?"
It is said that Ye Teng smiled at that time:
"That's right, I will destroy Han Sheji and capture Han Wangan."
"But I also saved the Han people and saved millions of people from disasters of war. In this way, I destroyed Han, but also saved Han!"
This statement of Korean traitors saving the country through a curve is not accepted by the radical Korean revival Zhang Liang.
When he finalized his revenge list, he said: "The most damn thing is Emperor Qin Shi, followed by Ye Teng!"
But now, Zhang Liang has to admit that in those more than ten years, Xinzheng did get a rare breathing and stability.
Unfortunately, Zhang Liang and his others' restoration did not bring peace to Xinzheng, but instead suffered, war, and greater crisis!
The Qin and Chu generals fought decisively in the Central Plains, while Han and Yingchuan were the battlefield sandwiched in the middle...
The curse and nightmare that shrouded Zheng and Han for six hundred years was the dark cloud called war. It was there, briefly dispelled by the sun, but condensed again, becoming thicker and thicker...
When the thunder sounded and the spring rain fell, Zhang Liang finally made a decision.
"Bring Li Shiqi! I have something to ask him!"
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After Zhang Liang revealed his identity in the pavilion, the unlucky Li Shiqi was placed under house arrest and locked up in a sealed carriage, pulling Xinzheng all the way down. Now that he was finally released, he yelled to drink.
"Yingchuan is short of food, let alone wine."
Zhang Liang asked the attendant to retreat and sat opposite Li Shiqi. After a long time, the two suddenly laughed.
"When did Zifang guess the identity of me, Qin Ji?"
“From the beginning, I knew.”
Zhang Liang pretended to be in control of everything and said to Li Shiqi: "You have a lot of information, which is useful to me and the State of Chu." "Did I ask someone to punish me, or do you say it yourself?"
Li Shiqi said lazily: "How can my old bone stand the torture? Just ask me if I ask."
Next, Zhang Liang asked Zhang Liang about the time when Li Shiqi entered Qin and why he rebelled against Wei and surrendered to Hei. "Of course, it was because good birds chose trees to live there. "Li Shiqi didn't agree." Oh? Do you think the black husband is a wise master?"
"At least it's more like a wise ruler than Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew." Li Shiqi smiled and said, "What do Zifang thinks?"
Zhang Liang ignored it and only asked the question he had been wandering around for a long time and was most concerned about:
"After speaking, what kind of person is that Blackfu?"
Li Shiqi was so excited that he got up and bowed to the West and said, "Xia Gong is kind and virtuous, has great ambitions, and can suppress selfish desires! He is a true saint!"
"He is quite like the Dayu who casts nine tripods and eliminates floods. "" It is also like the Zhou Gongdan who opened the eight hundred years of Zhou and sets the rituals and music!"
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ps: The punctuation has not been changed yet.
Chapter completed!