Chapter 337 Chaos in the Central Plains (37)
Since the beginning of winter last year, the Central Plains has been in chaos. Bai Qi and the Qin army besieged at the city of Handan. Qi State wore sheepskins to siege Zhao State to explode the chrysanthemums of Qin State. Wang Jian confronted the Huns in Taiyuan. On the short-lived Yanzhao border, small-scale conflicts continued. Chu State far south fought with Yuezhi for no reason. It is said that the cause of the battle is no longer important. Anyway, both of them are believed to be taken advantage of by the other party.
In comparison, Ying Guang's Later Qin was relatively calm. In the hall much smaller than the Qin Palace, Ying Guang counted with his fingers and found that he didn't do much: he first sent an envoy to Bai Qi's army to inform him, asking him to be careful of the grandsons of Qi, and then threw Gongsun Ze to Qi, asking him to lead the vigorous salt workers' resistance movement. Finally, he concentrated his efforts to go south while Chu and Yuezhi fought each other, and used the merchant ships that Wu Zhe transported goods to all parts of Chu. While the Chu people were not careful, he raged hard in Chu.
However, the Chu State's territory was too large, and Ying Guang echoed the Yuezhi. After gaining the benefits, it eventually entered a stalemate. All countries on the entire Central Plains lost their initial aura and began a competition of national heritage.
The change of royal power in Qin State allowed those mature politicians to break the deadlock. Just when they waved their arms and rolled up their sleeves to get a share, Lu Buwei quickly supported Ying Zheng with lightning speed. With the help of the Black Armored Imperial Guard, the political situation of Qin State was very stable and there was no expected turmoil.
The first envoy to send an envoy to submit a letter of state to wish the new king of Qin to the throne. Lu Buwei gave enough face to Ying Guang, his old friend, and all standards were treated as a reciprocal great power. However, from the beginning to the end of farewell, Lu Buwei always boasted of himself as the master of Qin, which made the important military officials very unhappy. The two old marquis had always served the Ying clan, but they never thought of changing the party. Although Ying Zheng was nominally the only son of the former king, the two old marquis were not blind. Even if they used their noses to smell the matter in the palace, they could still smell the matter in the palace, but the palace had already unified the caliber, and the Qin was fighting on multiple fronts. Considering the stability of the Qin Dynasty, the military remained silent again.
The flowers bloomed and faded, and they were prosperous every year. The big locust tree outside the Qin Palace secretly drew ten circles in his belly, and the swallows under the eaves of the royal palace next to him also flew back and forth ten times. Just the previous year, the old man of the Wang family had never compared to the old man of the Meng family. He went to drink and play chess with several generations of the previous kings. In that year, the old man of the Meng family did not celebrate after winning for the first time, but completely handed over the power of the clan leader and faded out of people's sight. Montaigne, because of his years of training outside and the deliberate training of the family, naturally became the talk of the new generation of the Meng family.
Bai Qi, who besieged Handan, did not expect that he would delay the battle for ten years. In fact, in the fifth year, Zhao State could no longer hold on. Li Mu was also very powerful. He demolished all the places that could be demolished in the city, planted crops in the vacant places, and relied on the land to hold on for another five years. In the end, if it weren't for the hungry people's riots and eating the green seedlings, the battle might have been fought until when.
When Bai Qi entered the city, he saw hungry people everywhere in the city. The skeletons wearing Zhao Jun uniforms showed the owner's identity during his lifetime. The remaining people had green eyes and looked at the dead bodies and saliva. Bai Qi ordered all such people to behead them. Eating human flesh would be addicted. He did not want to leave these hidden dangers to himself.
In the hall where King Zhao usually discusses affairs, Li Mu personally guarded the door of the hall. When his thin but tall figure fell down, there was silence in the hall, and the door of the hall was wide open. The dazzling sunlight shone brightly on the cold hall. King Huiwen, who was so thin that he looked at Li Mu who was lying in a pool of blood, burst into tears. The God of War in Zhao did not beg for mercy. He committed suicide.
After ten years of war, Bai Qi destroyed Zhao and his reputation reached the peak of his life.
In Qi State, the main force of the Qi army that had sneaked into Bai Qi was so miserable that Bai Qi was cheated. The fate was not much better than the 400,000 Zhao army. The vigorous salt workers riot completely shattered the pyramid of the privileged class and completely interrupted the economic pillar of Qi State. When the panicked King Qi wanted to dispatch troops to confiscate, he found that his main force had been lost under the city of Handan.
The army of the Later Qin entered Qi at this time. With the cooperation of the salt workers, Ying Guang surrounded Linzi without much effort. However, the King of Qi was far less than the toughest, and the King of Qi surrendered after less than half a year of besieging him. At this time, King of Yan took the initiative to contact Ying Guang and expressed his willingness to surrender, but he seemed to be quite afraid of Qin in his words, and seemed to have something difficult to describe.
When Qin and Later Qin Kong took action, Chu had to face three attacks from Qin, Later Qin and Yuezhi. After two years, Chu was destroyed.
At this moment, on the vast Central Plains, only two major countries, Qin, were left, and the Later Qin State.
"My mother, Lu Buwei, is really too bullying, is already fifteen years old. Even mother, she has handed over the power to the orphan king. Lu Buwei is just a prime minister, but he dares to refute the orphan's edict in court. It's really outrageous."
In Zhao Ji's bedroom, the young Ying Zheng kicked over the copper stove with incense, which made the room in a mess on the spot.
"You kid"
Zhao Ji covered her mouth and nose helplessly, pulled Ying Zheng out of the house and asked the maid to come in to clean up, and then took Ying Zheng slowly walked on the corridor in the back garden.
"Your Xiangfu is actually doing it for your own good. He is afraid that you will not be able to control the overall situation and be confused by those treacherous villains. So he said bluntly in the hall. But, it is his fault if you don't care about your face. Another mother scolds him for you."
Zhao Ji touched Ying Zheng's shoulder with love and looked at his son who was taller than him. He felt unhappy. He naturally knew the reason, but Lu Buwei would not harm him. Who would hurt his children as parents? It's just that Zheng'er didn't know this fact, so he was dissatisfied with Lu Buwei's overcomingness. When he knew the truth of the matter, he might not be like this now.
"What edict did you issue today? Tell me."
"It's nothing, it's just preparing to use troops against the Later Qin." To be continued.
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Chapter completed!