Go to ancient times and engage in construction

Wei State and Tang State are both vassal states bordering Wu State.Tang State is located on the east side of the north of Wu State, while Wei State is on the west side of Wu State’s north.Wei is a landlocked country with three neighboring countries.A small part of the land is bordered by Tang State, and most of the land is sandwiched between Wu State and Zhao State.

The land area of ​​Wei State is not as large as that of Tang State, and it is considered a small and medium-sized feudal state among the princes of the Great Qin Dynasty. Its national strength cannot be compared with that of the powerful princes Zhao and Wu.However, the luck of the Wei State is similar to that of the Chen State, which is sandwiched between Chu and Zhao, because the two major princes on the left and right do not want to increase the danger by directly connecting the border with a strong opponent. In this way, the weak vassal states were spared the fate of being annexed by the powerful ones.

The fiefdom of Beihou is adjacent to the Wei State, a plain with rich water and grass, and it is the main horse herding area of ​​Wu State.Although the amount of tribute stipulated by King Wu every year is not small, Beihou relies on the high-quality horses on the plain to trade with the vassal states that lack horses, and has a lot of coins in hand, so Beihou privately raised [-] soldiers in the fief.Zeng You and Wei Qing led [-] cavalry and [-] infantry to attack Beihou, who had a similar strength.

Wei Qing looked at the caravan at the end of the team slowly transporting food and grass, and felt that this speed was too slow to reach Beihou's fief, which would give Beihou enough time to prepare for the battle. "Mr. Zeng, Wei Qing wants to lead the cavalry to attack lightly, so as to catch Beihou by surprise!"

"You guys want to win by surprise, right?" Zeng You was a little envious of Wei Qing, who was seven or eight years younger than him, but his official position in the army was almost equal to him.

After Ulsan occupied the royal city, the number of troops expanded rapidly. Ulsan's army organization has expanded from battalion to division. Zeng You, who has military merits, jumped two ranks from battalion commander to brigade commander, and Wei Qing jumped three ranks from company commander to brigade commander. The deputy brigade commander who arrived.

"My lord has taught us so many strategies, and he wants us to use them flexibly in actual combat. You see, the wind has started to turn. I guess the weather will cool down in a few days. If it snows at that time, you will be in the mud with your luggage and food. The marching speed in the middle is slower. It is even more disadvantageous for us to march tiredly in the snow to fight the Beihou soldiers." Wei Qing nodded and admitted. "So we can only win with speed and oddness."

"You think well, then choose the cavalry to leave quickly, and I will also let the troops hurry up." Zeng You looked up at the sky with thick clouds, and nodded in agreement with Wei Qing's plan.

Wei Qing selected [-] strong cavalry, each equipped with two horses, and they rode horses day and night in rotation. It took only one day and one night to arrive at the Beihou fief. He also caught Beihou's spy in the capital, and after interrogation, the spy confessed that he sent news of the dispatch of troops from the capital to Beihou.

After Wei Qing learned that Beihou had not yet received the news of the king's capital sending troops to crusade, he was even more sure of the success of his long-distance attack plan.

After Beihou learned that Ulsan's army quickly breached the capital, and that Yiji and Young Master Yong were having sex in the palace, he began to panic.He originally wanted to take advantage of the inextricable fight between the two sides, take advantage of the advantages and first stand on his own, and then send a letter to the princes and kings to expose Zheng Yuming's identity as a fake son, so that he can stand on a moral high ground and condemn Zheng Yuming. It can also attract all forces opposing Zheng Yuming to join in.These wishful thinking were broken by the Ulsan army's lightning-breaking city.

In a panic, Beihou immediately sent a letter to Emperor Qin and the princes, in which he claimed that Zheng Yuming was a fake son, and asked Emperor Qin and the princes to come out to uphold justice, and the throne of King Wu could not be taken by an unknown hypocrite. occupy.

After the founding of the Qin Dynasty, the enfeoffment system was implemented. The land and the people were awarded to the royal family, meritorious officials and nobles respectively.Nearly half of these monarchs have the same surname as Emperor Daqin, and they really belonged to the same family 300 years ago.

Because half of the monarchs in the Great Qin Dynasty have the same ancestor, if a foreign surname wants to steal the throne of King Wu, Beihou firmly believes that as long as Zheng Yuming's fake son-in-law identity is killed, he will get the actual support of the princes. Daqin ruled the country by blood .

After Beihou's letter was sent, Zhao State was the first to take action. Zhao Taizixuan not only immediately sent envoys to reply to Beihou, but also summoned soldiers and horses to march to Weiguo, and through Weiguo, he went to Beihou's fiefdom to help the same clan 300 years ago.

Wei Qing took [-] cavalrymen to hide outside Qucheng, the feudal city of Beihou.Because Beihou had not received the news that the Ulsan army had left the capital to attack him, Qucheng did not close the city gate during the day.Wei Qing sent more than a dozen people to sneak into the city and wait until dark to kill the guards at the south gate, seize the gate and put down the drawbridge to allow the cavalry to enter the city.After safely entering the city, Wei Qing did not send anyone to occupy the city gate, but led all the cavalry to kill Xiang Beihou's mansion.Wei Qing's plan is to capture and kill Beihou before he disturbs Beihou. Without the lord of Qucheng, the morale of the enemy army will naturally dissipate. When the large army arrived, Qucheng, where no one organized resistance, naturally fell into the palm of his hand.

When the Ulsan cavalry entered Beihou's mansion, Beihou and the feudal nobles were entertaining Zhao Guo's envoys. During the exchange of cups and cups, there were shouts of killing in the mansion.Beihou was killed in the chaos, and half of the nobles and Zhao Guo's envoys were captured alive.

Relying on the high and thick courtyard walls of Beihou Mansion, Wei Qing blocked the attack of Qucheng soldiers, and held on until Zeng You led a large army to attack the city, Wei Qing took Beihou's head on a bamboo pole to show the public.When the soldiers of Qucheng saw that the lord was dead, they coaxed them to disperse, and the surviving nobles led a small number of soldiers to open the city gate and abandon the city to defect to Zhao State.

The good news that Zheng Yuming received was that Beihou had been put to death and Qucheng was under control.The bad news is that Crown Prince Xuan of Zhao State has already dispatched troops, and is pushing into the border of Wu State through Wei State.Along with the news, the envoy of Zhao Guo's envoy to Qucheng was also sent to the capital.

Zheng Yuming carefully interrogated Zhao Guo's envoy, meditated for a long time behind closed doors, and sent someone to order Wei Qing and Zeng You to guard Qucheng to guard the border, and told Wei Ren to strengthen the security of the royal city, and assigned Guo Si to bring 2000 troops back to Dacheng, and sent them to the Chu Dynasty. Hui Feige went to the secret letter to do all these things well. Zheng Yuming visited the Taifu late at night, and talked with the Taifu until dawn.

The next day, Tai Tuo began to go out of the house to do activities.Zheng Yuming summoned the ministers to discuss matters, and the Taifu no longer pretended to be sick, and no longer kept silent during the discussions, but seriously helped Zheng Yuming handle government affairs.The ministers and nobles in the capital believed that the Taifu had decided to support Zheng Yuming as King Wu, and the underground activities of some dissident nobles and feudal lords immediately slowed down.

In the first ten days of November, the first snowfall fell in the country of Wu, the temperature in Kangcheng dropped below zero, and the palace where Zheng Yuming lived was lit with a stove.

Zheng Yuming was reading a battle report in his hand, and the log lying lazily at his feet suddenly got up and ran to the gate of the main hall to wait for something.

There were low voices outside the hall, and after a while, the palace door was opened, and a snowman came in from outside the hall, bringing in white snowflakes and cold air.

"Zhaohui? Why are you back?" Zheng Yuming stood up, although the eyebrows and eyelashes of the person in front of him were stained white by the snow, Zheng Yuming still recognized him at a glance.

Chu Chaohui took off his cloak, and patted off the snowflakes on Pai's hair and eyebrows. His hair was not long like Zheng Yuming's, but was shaved short. "I received a secret letter from Feige, can I not come back?"

There was no smile on Chu Chaohui's face, this was an expression the two of them had never seen in private, Zheng Yuming knew exactly why Chu Chaohui was doing this.

"Change your clothes first?" Zheng Yuming found that the clothes under Chu Chaohui's cloak were already half wet, so he quickly helped Chu Chaohui bring clothes to change.Zheng Yuming calculated the time in his mind, and calculated that Chu Chaohui would gallop back to the royal city day and night as soon as he received the secret letter.

"Tell me, why did you change your mind and not become King Wu?" Zheng Yuming's hospitality didn't make Chu Chaohui's expression loose, he changed his clothes and sat by the stove, and began to question Zheng Yuming.

"Look at these." Zheng Yuming handed a few pieces of paper to Chu Chaohui.

"Hey! It's really a dog biting a mouse and meddling in other people's business. Why do these lords of the princes stop Wu's housework? Where did Yi Ji go when she was in trouble?" Chu Zhaohui sneered after watching it.In his hands are the manuscripts of Beihou's letters to Emperor Qin and the princes, and the latest actions of Zhao's army.Chu Chaohui now deeply hates the enfeoffment system of the Great Qin. He made most of the vassal states of the Great Qin have blood ties, and with blood ties, interfering in other countries' internal affairs has become an aboveboard reason.

"I think, without us, son Yong's throne would not last long. There are many nobles in Wu who don't recognize son Yong's throne. They will raise troops to oppose it, and the surrounding princes and kings who have ulterior motives will also take advantage of the opportunity to send troops. The end of Wu is likely to be Carved up by purposeful vassal states."

Zheng Yuming sat down next to Chu Chaohui. The current situation in Wu State was determined by Chu Chaohui's military ability. He said in a secret letter that he would give up the throne, and Chu Chaohui would not be happy of course.

"You don't want to give the vassals an excuse to intervene, because you're afraid that I won't be able to defeat them?" Chu Zhaohui put both hands on Zheng Yuming's shoulders, his expression loosened.

"I believe you can defeat any enemy." Zheng Yuming shook his head.

"Then why did you choose not to inherit the throne?" Chu Zhaohui frowned.

"What did you say when you first trained fifty slave soldiers in the valley?" Zheng Yuming didn't answer Chu Chaohui directly.

"The initial training of fifty slave soldiers was to cultivate the seeds from which the framework of the future army would be constructed."

"Zhaohui, your plan has come true. Those slave soldiers have now become officers, like Zhou Cheng and Ma Ren, and they can stand alone now."

"Of course, I have worked hard to train them." Chu Chaohui was proud. He not only trained these slave soldiers in combat ability, but also taught them how to read and write, and taught them strategies. All these fifty slave soldiers, he It was cultivated as a general in the future.

"With these [-] slave soldiers as the framework, we have nearly [-] elite soldiers. These [-] elite soldiers can equal [-] soldiers in any country in the Great Qin." Zheng Yuming continued to babble.

Chu Chaohui suddenly realized something: "Yu Ming, what do you want to say?"

"In the Battle of Ulsan Crossing, these elite soldiers died 23 people, 52 were slightly or seriously injured, 38 of them were cured and returned to the team, and the other 14 were seriously injured and disabled and retired. In the Battle of the Royal Capital, 240 people were killed, 370 people were injured, 56 people returned to the team, and others In the treatment. In the battle of Qucheng, more than 600 people were reduced. Not counting the reduction of elite soldiers in the conquest army, so far, more than [-] soldiers we have carefully trained have left the team." Zheng Yuming's voice was low, these casualties Only the casualties of [-] elite soldiers in Nanbu and the valley.

"Yu Ming, you have to pay a price for everything." Chu Chaohui was in a low mood, and now there are only [-] of the [-] elite soldiers. Although the quality of these elite soldiers is not as good as the first batch of slave soldiers trained, they are all fully cultivated in martial arts , After several wars, these elite soldiers have become more experienced and brave in combat, and each of them can become the skeleton of an army in the future.

"Of course I know that we can't have our ideal country without sacrifices, but I'm afraid of tossing all these fires. Zhaohui, I'm not only afraid of tossing them all, I'm also afraid of dragging down the South China Sea that we've built so hard. Port and valley economy. Nanbu and Dacheng need a peaceful environment to develop, and Wu needs time to recover.” Zheng Yuming is not just worried that if the neighboring states use his status as an excuse to invade, Wu will fall into endless wars.He and Chu Chaohui are not really strong yet.

Chu Zhaohui understood. "So you want to settle for the next best thing and set up a puppet to be King Wu?"

"Yes, I want to establish a puppet king for Wu Guo. Not only do I want to be like this in my lifetime, but I also want this form to continue as a system."

"Constitutional monarchy?" Chu Zhaohui's eyes lit up, and there was a smile on his face.

"That's right, it's this kind of republic."

"This is much more difficult than being king." Chu Zhaohui stretched his waist. He rode a horse from the front line day and night for two consecutive days, and his body was exhausted. After asking about Zheng Yuming's plan, Chu Chaohui felt sleepy. Came up, fell asleep on top of the limp.

Zheng Yuming helped Chu Chaohui cover the quilt, stared intently for a while, and then said quietly to the candlelight: "If I become a king, I will be the biggest obstacle to the democratic republic in the future."

The author has something to say: Xiao Zheng's ideal is to build a democratic republic. This ideal does not mean that he can realize it immediately after he thinks so.This should be guided according to the social environment at that time and the future economic development, and the guidance must be gradual. Xiao Zheng will work hard for this all his life.