Chapter 22 Yin Smile
Tian Jiao was sent to the city wall by the Qin army. In order to let Tian Jiao know that the Qin army really had witchcraft, he was deliberately taken to the gate between the royal city and Guo city, pointing at the fake witchcraft rolled up by the mat from afar and warning. It was dark in the first lunar month, and when Tian Jian was hung off the royal city wall by the Qin people, it was already dark.
The last afterglow of the sun passed through the reflection of the sky, illuminating some clouds in the west. The crows roared from time to time. They flew over the snowy fields west of the city and entered the green bamboo forest with frost outside the Shenmen. The Qin army did not move all the tents, and the endless black curtains still occupied the Qinyuan ten miles away. At this time, smoke was rising in the military camp, and the Qin army was making rice happily.
The one who welcomed Tianfu was Anping Juntian. Originally, in order to defend against the attack from Guocheng, the royal city was specially built higher than Guocheng in the area where the royal city and Guocheng intersected. Now that the Qin army occupied the royal city, the Qi army had to withdraw from this section of the city wall and retreat to the area where the two cities did not intersect. At the same time, a large amount of caltrops were sprinkled on this section of the city wall about five miles that intersected.
The Qin army arranged 10,000 crossbowmen on this intersecting city wall, and more than 10,000 soldiers and soldiers of the trap. Once the two sides fought again, this wall would be a place for fierce battle. However, the Qi people asked to surrender. The Qin soldiers standing on the high royal city looked at the Qi people under their feet arrogantly, with a contemptuous sneer on their faces.
Cold is the characteristic of the Qin people, and it is still known as the cold-boy in Shaanxi two thousand years later. Qi has been prosperous since ancient times. If you really want to summarize Qi people in one word, it should be "fresh". The rich and noble people in Qi are luxurious, while the poor people must "have to eat enough wine and meat before going home (the meat is full and the wine is enough). When his wife asked who to go to the banquet with, she replied: "It is all wealth and honor."
The people of Zhao were also greedy for luxury, but the luxury of the people of Zhao was used to cover up their innate humility so that the people around them could value themselves in order to gain a small self-esteem in the pyramid-like social hierarchy. In fact, in the Yanzhao land where Hu Feng was popular, most of them were slaves besides noble people - this was a real slave, two-legged sheep on the grassland, not servants or domestic slaves. In order to make themselves less like a slave, luxury is a must-fitting for everyone.
The luxury of Qi people is more of their own desires. Even if they do not have the ability to enjoy luxury like noble people, they must pretend that they are enjoying it. In the prosperity of business, everyone pursues "wealth, wealth, prosperity and prosperity". Therefore, wisdom and strategy are more important than courage, so that Qi's country is "wise and clever, easy to talk about". If they are too stupid, they can only "be brave to hold the thorns" and rely on their own force to seek wealth.
But it cannot be said that the Qi people could not fight. The Zhou people destroyed the Shang Dynasty and allowed Qi to be ruled according to customs, and tried their best to improve the status of Lu State. It was precisely because they were afraid of the Qi people who were called Yi people and Lai people at that time. The myth of Houyi shooting the sun refers to the earliest nations in East Asia that learned to shoot archery. The most outstanding warrior among them shot and killed the arrogant Shang royal family with bows and arrows. The ten days of Xihe was born, and the ten days were A, B, C, D... only the Shang king could use the name of the Heavenly Stems.
The Qi people who were so afraid of the Shang and Zhou dynasties would definitely become a martial arts trend. Even if the commercial nation was not martial, they could, like the Carthaginians, just pay money, and screamed the Romans who would unify the Mediterranean world in the future, and shouted in fear that the slogan "Carthagin must be destroyed."
The fundamental reason why the Qi people became so rare and flashy now is that the imperial court's confinement of business, as well as the continuous inflation and deflation, made the Qi people lose their desire for wealth. They could only lower their qualities, try to curry favor with the officials of the government, and make some small money through the court's policies, and then try their best to avoid the next inflation or deflation led by the imperial court, and save as much wealth as possible.
Business becomes a cadre, and you must kneel down to make money. How can merchants become real big merchants in this way? They are just a group of slaves who work for the court in the non-official economy. Not to mention the political status of Zheng Shang, who once vowed with the king of Zheng, even the merchants of Chu. The merchants of Chu could not buy the account of King Zhuang of Chu, and could "get away from their business", and could also surrender to the throne like Meng Sheng, a master of the Mo family, and rely on the connections of the county magistrate to make the transaction nationwide.
Leeks are perennial herbs, which can be harvested from spring to autumn every year. If managed well, they can be cut 4-6 times a year, about once a month. In order not to affect the growth of leeks, people no longer cut leeks in late autumn and early winter. At the same time, after each cutting, they must loosen the soil in time, and fertilize and irrigate in time after the new leaves grow. But no matter what, after 3-4 years of cultivation, leeks will always age.
At the top of the wall of the king, the leeks that Qin Zhu sneered were as old as Tian Fu. He needed the support of his servants so that he would not be blown down the wall by the shouting north wind. When Tian Gu held his hand, he seemed to hold a piece of ice.
"The prince works hard!" Tian Gu let go of his hand and bowed deeply, with deep apology. He "sent" Tian Jie to come over to ask for surrender.
"No, it's okay." Tian Fu controlled his trembling. He now saw that Tian Guye didn't want to hate him as much as before. It was all for Qi. "The Qin people..."
Tian Gu held the Qin King's life in his arms. When he saw Tian Gu, he wanted to take out the secret bag. Unexpectedly, Tian Gu held him down and said, "No hurry. There is still..."
Tian Gu pointed behind him, and there were a bunch of brightly dressed women standing on the city wall. They seemed to have stood on the city wall for a long time, and everyone was trembling in the cold wind. "The king gave a hundred beauties to the Qin people, and there were also pearls, jade, treasures, silks and satin items..."
The actors in the palace stayed directly in the royal city. These beautiful women and luxury goods were collected from the nobles in the east of the city to make the Qin people happy. The matter would be easier when the Qin people were happy. Seeing this, Tian Kuo couldn't help but sigh. When these women made way, Tian Gu went down to the city with him and drove straight into the carriage to the old city in the east of the city where the Wangting shogunate was located.
The roads in the city were three vertical and three horizontal. Although the dusk gradually dimmed, Tian Guan still saw the soldiers of Qi in the neighborhoods of various regions. Their huge armor appeared in the dark, and the spears were sharp. The common people were evacuated, and there were no people on the streets, but only dogs were seen walking around. Without bright lights, no lively music, no laughter and shouting, Linzi seemed to have become a dead city.
This kind of Linzi made Tian Fu extremely disappointed. Fortunately, when the carriage passed through the gate of the old city guarded by the soldiers, the Linzi he was familiar with appeared in front of him again. The common people who retreated here inevitably started playing the jiu, and a group of people laughed around the jiu. As night fell, the lights in the city ignited, illuminating the streets and houses along the way.
"Please go up to the steps." The carriage stopped, and a soldier with a halberd and armored man opened the car door. The envoy bowed and said in the dark.
There were also royal palaces in the old city, and the palaces had their own courts and main halls. However, compared with the southwest royal city, these palaces strictly abide by the Zhou rituals, and the courts were all nine banquets, less than sixteen meters long. More than a hundred doctors and lieutenant generals led hundreds of people. These people could not stand at all, and could only occupy all the halls and rooms on all sides of the court, so they could barely squeeze out these people.
Tian Jiao climbed the steps and entered the hall. The doctor led him to look at him while crowding people to make way for him to enter the courtyard with Tian Yu. Tian Jian, the king of Qi, was sitting in the courtyard, but when he heard that he came, he immediately stood up and wanted to grab his hand and speak. However, Tian Jiao stopped bowing before he walked to Tian Jian. He said, "I am not humiliating my mission, and the Qin people will let me."
Although he had expected this result, the Qin people did not attack all afternoon, and the doctors and generals could not help but breathe a deep breath when they heard this. Instead, Tian Jian looked around and saw that the doctors and generals were nodding, and smiled on his face. Then he stuttered: "Good...good! This is the merit of the prime minister."
He wanted to say something else to praise Tian Jiao. Grand Sima Tianzong came up and said, "King, matter is imminent, I would like to sue you."
Tian Zong represented all the generals of the Qi army. As soon as he spoke, the generals in the entire bedroom followed him, and the voices of hundreds of people made the bed buzz. Tian Jian said: "O." Then the hundreds of people withdrew from the bed one by one and returned to the main court where the shogunate was located.
At this time, Tian Jian grabbed Tian Jiu's hand and looked at him again and again, his eyes full of care. Tian Jiu, who still didn't know what Tian Zong was going to do, couldn't help but ask: "Does Brother Wang really want to surrender to Qin?"
The general led them out of the sanctuary, and there were court officials in the court. Tian Qi, who knew the inside story, smiled and said, "The King of Chu is here."
"Chu..." Tian Jiao was shocked, and the man couldn't help looking around. He woke up again while looking around. The King of Chu could not be in the city, but outside the city. He should have led hundreds of thousands of troops to rescue Qi.
"In this battle, the Qin people will be full of ink!" Tian Gu, behind him, added, and he found the feeling of his father using the Fire Cow Formation to defeat the Yan people, with his face full of a sinister smile of a successful plan.
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Tian Gu smiled sinisterly, but Xiong Jing in the tent smiled bitterly. The smile was because the Chu army's self-heating individual soldiers' rations was a scam. It was common for military households to eat individual soldiers' rations, and it was also common for individual soldiers to study individual soldiers' rations for nothing. Five years ago, many soldiers in the battle against Qi did not have hot food, so under his order, the Military Control Commission was responsible for developing self-heating individual soldiers' rations, relying on quicklime powder and water to react to heat.
The rations are cooked, rice, sauce, and meat are combined together to make a flat can. The can is filled in a larger can of tin. The large can contains about 400 grams of quicklime powder. There is a seal with a plug and wax half a liter of the water line of the can. This is for water injection. The amount of lime powder varies depending on the temperature. In the winter in the north, four hundred grams are required to heat up a single ration.
Chapter completed!