Chapter 1: sequence

Chapter 1: sequence

Chapter 1 Preface

Preface

The land in Guanzhong is bordered by Hangu Pass to the east, Dashan Pass to the west, Wuguan Pass to the south, and Xiao Pass to the north. Because it is in the center of the four passes, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It can be attacked or defended when advancing, and it has great potential for war. It is so big that it is called "Guanzhong".

Because of its fertile water and soil, dense population, rich products, and excellent geographical location, it is an excellent foundation for the emperor, so it is also called "the place where the dragon rises" by ambitious people.

Qin conquered Guanzhong, swept Liuhe, leveled the eight wastelands, destroyed the ancestors and sacrifices, killed the barbarians, opened the sky and split the earth, and established an unparalleled legacy!

The Han and Tang Dynasties dominated the world for hundreds of years because of their victory in Guanzhong. Over the centuries, there were countless heroes in the world, but they could not shake its foundation. The Han and Tang Dynasties also became the most splendid dynasties in China!

However, the earliest dynasty that ruled the world because of Guanzhong was neither the Qin Emperor, the Han Ancestor, nor the Tang Zong, but Ji Fa, King Wu of Zhou.

During the period of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty, the land in Guanzhong had another name, called "Xiqi".

In 1046 BC, King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty launched the army of benevolence and righteousness. With the assistance of Taigong Jiang Ziya, Feng Ming Qishan conquered Zhou on behalf of the sky, thus establishing the Jiangshan Sheji of the Great Zhou Dynasty for 800 years.

 Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, thousands of precious stones, keeping a business is more difficult than starting a business!

 The ancestors started a business and the descendants lost the family.

The unworthy descendant King You smiled for the sake of praise and played with the princes with beacon fire. He regarded the country as child's play and the people as pigs and dogs. Therefore, the Western Zhou Dynasty was finally destroyed by the barbarians. After the establishment of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the capital was moved to "Luoyi".

At this time, there was a small country in the west called Qin. The country was small and the people were few. However, the king of Qin was wise and the people of Qin were diligent and martial. Under the hard work of more than a dozen kings, Qin gradually grew stronger and became a country that could not be ignored by all the major vassal states in the Central Plains. The presence.

Although the Qin people are called "Xirong" by various countries in the Central Plains, they are actually one of the major tribes of the Huaxia tribe that migrated westward.

The Ying family, the ancestor of the Qin people, was an effective general guarding Xirong as early as the Yin and Shang Dynasties. He was highly valued by the Shang Dynasty and was a noble of the Shang Dynasty.

After the Shang Dynasty was destroyed by the Zhou Dynasty, the tribe surnamed Ying was involved in a rebellion instigated by Wu Geng, the son of King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty. As a result, they were punished by the rulers of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Not only were they forced to move westward, but the entire tribe was reduced to slavery.

During the reign of King Xiao of Zhou, Qin Feizi, the ancestor of Qin, was made a vassal by the King of Zhou because of his merits in raising horses for the Zhou royal family.

From then on, the Qin people raised horses for the Zhou royal family and guarded the border against the Xirong.

Since King Zhou Yi, the Zhou royal family has become increasingly declining and has to rely on the Qin people to stabilize the peace in the western territories. Therefore, it generously granted land to the Qin State, and the Qin State gradually grew stronger.

In 821 BC, the Qin people, under the leadership of Duke Zhuang of Qin, defeated the Xirong with the weak and the strong. King Xuan of Zhou named him the doctor of the Western Frontier, and once again granted Qin Tianshui, together with the Quanqiu (Xianyang) where the Daluo clan originally lived. )place.

In 772 BC, King You of Zhou was attacked and killed by Xirong. Duke Xianggang of Qin was appreciated by King Ping of Zhou for his meritorious service in leading troops to save Zhou.

 Later Qin Xianggong was granted the title of a vassal due to his meritorious service in sending troops to **** King Ping of Zhou to move eastward, and was also granted the title of land west of Qishan.

Since then, Qin has officially become one of the vassal states of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

 Many kings of the Qin State died in the expedition against the Xirong. Year-round battles with the Rong people made the Qin people good at conquering and fighting. However, due to its remote location and weak national power, Qin was still not taken seriously by the Central Plains princes despite having a strong army.

Until the period of Qin Mugong, Qin successively destroyed twelve Rong kingdoms in the west, opened up more than a thousand miles of territory, and stabilized the rear area, and its strength greatly increased.

Later Qin destroyed Shu and gained the land of Bashu. From then on, Qin became the largest country among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period.

Since the Qin State established its capital in Xicui during the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, the Qin State has experienced a total of eight capital moves. Each capital move means an expansion, and the eight capital moves took a hundred years and involved countless people and wealth. Finally, it was settled in Xianyang. This has never changed again.

 At that time, Qin Xiaogong appointed Shang Yang, a great talent, to carry out reforms. After the reforms, Qin State changed and became stronger with each passing day.

After the death of Duke Xiao, Shang Yang also died, but the Qin law still existed. Relying on the Qin law, Qin gradually became the most powerful country in the late Warring States period.

 Eight hundred years since the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty and four hundred years since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the world has been in the flames of war every day. Until the King of Qin won the government and succeeded to the throne of Qin, the world finally had hope of unification.

In 221 BC, under the leadership of Qin King Ying Zheng, Qin quickly wiped out the six countries in ten years, unified the world, and established the Qin Empire.

Yingzheng, the king of Qin, believed that destroying the six kingdoms and establishing the world, ending the war that had been going on for more than 400 years, and restoring peace to the world were unprecedented achievements. "King" was no longer enough to demonstrate such achievements. King Yingzheng of Qin believed that he had "high virtues among the three emperors and more merit than the five emperors", so he decided to adopt both the titles of "emperor" and "emperor", and called him "emperor" to show his nobility. He became the first emperor, and was known as Qin Shihuang in history. .

 Later Qin Shihuang abolished the feudal system and established prefectures and counties, with the same writings and texts, and the same rails as the chariots, built Chi Road, repaired the Great Wall, conquered South Vietnam, and attacked the Northern Rong...

 But the same abuse of people's power has caused domestic resentment and people's complaints.

As long as the First Emperor is alive, the world will be stable and no one will dare to make any changes.

However, after the death of the First Emperor, domestic uprisings continued, and the survivors of the Six Kingdoms were restored. Since then, the world has been in chaos again, with wars and wars everywhere, but heroes have emerged in large numbers.

 Chin lost its deer, and the whole world chased it away. Overlord Xiang Yu, armed with the spirit of ghosts and gods and unparalleled bravery, led his troops into the pass and burned the Alpang Palace.

Xianyang, which has a history of hundreds of years, suffered great damage. Thousands of palaces were turned into dirt, and the previous prosperity no longer existed.

Although Xiang Yu is majestic and heroic, he is too rigid in his dealings with others, which can also be called cruel. He does everything that is worse than the first emperor, causing the whole world to rebel.

The King of Han, Liu Bang, led his army of benevolence and righteousness, and with the assistance of the sage Zhang Liang and the military strategist Han Xin, he finally defeated Xiang Yu and established the Han Empire.

 The Han Dynasty conquered Guanzhong and became king of the world, but Xianyang, the pearl of Guanzhong, had been burned by Xiang Yu.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the national power was limited, and rebuilding Xianyang as the capital was not worth the gain. At Zhang Liang's suggestion, Liu Bang decided to build a new city fifty miles east of Xianyang and use it as the new capital. He named it Chang'an, which means long-term peace and stability.

Chang'an has experienced continuous construction by emperors Wen, Jing, Wu and other generations of emperors, and finally became another spectacular and magnificent capital city that has risen in the land of Guanzhong.

 The surrounding city is more than a hundred miles away, and at its peak there were as many as 1.2 million residents.

Xianyang, fifty miles to the west, eventually slowly deteriorated until no one cared about it. The cold wind every winter was the cry of this centuries-old capital.

Although the Han Dynasty conquered the world with his benevolence, the great ancestor Liu Bang came from a humble background. No matter how he whitewashed it, he could not get the recognition of the royal families and the truly powerful families.

 So although the Han Dynasty appears to be peaceful and peaceful on the surface, there are still undercurrents flowing behind the scenes, and resistance has never stopped.

During the Liu Bang period, the survivors of the Six Kingdoms who wanted to restore the country cooperated with the rebel generals in the army to plot rebellion, but were forcibly suppressed by Liu Bang.

 After Liu Bang's death, Empress Lu took power, and the country almost changed hands;

During the reign of Emperor Wen, the Han Dynasty fell into civil strife. Eight kings with the same surname rebelled and rebelled with the support of major opposition forces, and their troops were directed towards Chang'an;

Emperor Wu Liu Che deposed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism. As a result, except for Confucianism and Taoism, all schools turned against the Han.

But Emperor Wu was talented and strategizing. While fighting against the Huns externally, he also suppressed hundreds of rebellions at home and forced hundreds of families to return to Confucianism!

 At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the officials were corrupt, the emperor was incompetent, localities were looted and exploited, powerful tyrants annexed land, the people were displaced, life was poor and desolate, people's hearts were wandering, and the political crisis became more and more intense.

In 9 AD, Wang Mang, who came from a wealthy family, stood up for himself on behalf of the Han Dynasty, established a new dynasty, "founded the country" in Jianyuan, and announced the implementation of the New Deal, but the restructuring ended in failure.

At the end of Wang Mang's reign, the world was once again in chaos, and uprisings broke out everywhere.

 In the fourth year of Emperor Xinmang's reign, the rebel army invaded Chang'an, and a generation of heroes also died in the rebellion.

Among the rebel armies that were rising up in various places, Liu Xiu's power was growing day by day. Liu Xiu received the support of the famous families in the world because he promised to share the world with them.

 After gaining the support of the famous families in the world, Liu Xiu quickly unified the world and reestablished the Han Dynasty. However, the old capital Chang'an had been destroyed in the war and could not bear the heavy responsibility of the capital, so he moved the capital to Luoyang. From then on, the Han Empire entered the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Although the Liu family regained control of the world, due to Guangwu Liu Xiu's promise to share the world equally with the aristocratic family, the local real power fell into the hands of the aristocratic family.

 The aristocratic family is like maggots, constantly sucking the essence of the big man to strengthen itself, and eventually it is too big to lose its tail.

Today, another two hundred years have passed, and the Eastern Han Dynasty has decayed again, and chaos is imminent.

All the ambitious people are secretly accumulating strength, silently waiting for the decayed tree of the Eastern Han Dynasty to fall, and then swarm up to eat its corpse and compete for the position of common master of the world again.

Among this group of ambitious people, there are princes and nobles who have changed their names, there are hundreds of Confucian and Taoist schools of thought, and even the Qin people who have always been the most loyal lackeys of the Han Dynasty are one of them!

More than four hundred years have passed since the fall of the Qin Empire. Most Qin people in Guanzhong have forgotten their ancestors, the glory of the Qin Empire, and Xianyang County, fifty miles west of Chang'an, was once a more magnificent metropolis. The Han people regarded themselves as such and shed blood and tears for the Han Empire.

 The body is easy to conquer, but the mark passed down in the blood from generation to generation can never be erased.

Although the elites of the Qin people were in the Han Dynasty, their hearts were with the Qin Dynasty, and the people of Qin who had their hearts with the Qin Dynasty were all waiting silently, waiting for a great leader who could rival the First Emperor to lead them to give the Han Empire great help when the Han Empire was extremely weak. The empire's final blow, reappearing the Qin Dynasty, reappearing the... glory of the Qin people!

 At that time, all the people of Qin who have never seen the light of day can take to the streets openly, they can say outright that I am a Qin person, and they can sing the immortal war song together again.

 Jijiao Lao Qin restored our rivers and mountains.

 Until the blood is shed, there will be no truce until the end.

 There is Da Qin in the west, and it is rising like the sun.

Hundred years of national hatred, the sea is difficult to calm.

How can we find peace and tranquility when the world is in turmoil?

 There are capable men in Qin, who can compete with him for supremacy?

 Our story also begins here!

 (End of this chapter)