The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

When the documents sent by Qin State arrived at the major vassal states, the surrounding states fell into a daze for a while.Compared to the sobs that Yingji had really died, they were more annoyed that they had lost this opportunity. The old thief King Qin was really cunning. up and down.

Why?

According to the rules of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the period before the death of the lord of other people's family is absolutely forbidden. This is a period of exemption from war. If anyone attacks another country at this time, the consequences must be condemned by the entire international environment.

Qin State had done this kind of thing before, and the price was very heavy.

At that time, it was the time of Duke Mu of Qin Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period. The swollen Duke Mu refused to listen to Baili Xi Jianshu's advice and insisted on sending troops to steal Zheng Guo. As a result, the army encountered Zheng Guo's cattle dealer Xian Gao on the way.Xian Gao confronted the Qin army in the face of danger and said that he was the envoy of Zheng State, and he was ordered by the king of Zheng State to send twelve cows to reward the Qin army.

Qin's generals came here for a sneak attack, but upon hearing this, they thought their purpose of the sneak attack had been exposed, so they stopped advancing.But it was really embarrassing for the army to go out without making any progress, so they wiped out Huacheng, a small town on the edge of Zheng Guo.

However, at that time, Huacheng was a border town of the Jin State, which was actually nothing. The Qin and Jin countries were still in harmony after the honeymoon period, but generally speaking, they were still in harmony, and it was over after going back and apologizing.

It so happened that it happened that it was the funeral stage after the death of Duke Wen of Jin who had not yet been buried.The Prince of Jin at that time, later the Duke of Jin Xiang, was furious when he heard the news, and sent troops in mourning to attack the Qin army on the way back.The morale of the Jin army soared for the mourners, and they wiped out the Qin army and took away three generals of the Qin state.

This army is an elite army that Qin Mugong spent more than ten years cultivating in the later period. He made great military exploits for Mu Gong before, but all of them were lost in this war.

This is what Lao Tzu said: Resisting soldiers are similar, and those who mourn will win.

Of course, Qin Jun paid a huge price to prove this iron law, and also reminded the other princes and states that such unkind things really cannot be done.

Frankly speaking, if the state of Qin did this, others would roll their eyes, but if the five eastern countries did it, they would definitely be sprayed to death by their own people.

In the barbaric land of Qin and Chu, it is not surprising to do anything, but we can't do it, otherwise how can we have the face to say that we are a state of etiquette?

In this way, regrets are regrets, but countries have to send envoys to hang temples after they get the news.

This is also the rule of the Spring and Autumn Period. Even if you were killing people just a second ago, you still have to attend the funeral of the king of another country. This is respect for one's opponent and is also a diplomatic etiquette.If anyone really doesn't want to go, then there is no doubt that he has completely turned against the country.

But the number of teams participating in this ceremony and the gift guards they carry depend on the situation of each country.

After Zhao and Chu were defeated by Qin State successively, Qin State is now the well-deserved largest country in the entire land of China, and the guard of honor sent by the princes to hang the temple is unprecedentedly grand.

Almost all the envoys who came to attend the funeral were the princes or ministers of various countries, and the number of personnel and horses sent was also very large.In South Korea, Qin's neighbor, the King of Han personally came to condolences for the King of Qin in mourning clothes. After arriving in the Qin State, the group was received by the son and other people on their behalf.

The new king of Qin State said that he wanted to be filial piety for his father, so naturally all the vulgar things could only be handed over to his heirs.

Everyone's mentality was very subtle when they saw the young master and the stranger appearing in front of them.Except for the king of Han and Lord Chunshen of Chu, all the people from other countries who sent condolences to Qin had visited Zhao, so it was a "coincidence" that they had all met.

But when he was still a hostage in Zhao Guo.

It's a pity that today is not what it used to be. Not only has his status risen, he has become the future heir of the Great Qin Kingdom, but he has also single-handedly broken the conspiracy of the Six Kingdoms.

It is precisely because of him that the Qin State did not decline further after the Changping War, but instead took the opportunity to grab several handfuls of wool from various families.

On the way here, when everyone talked about this incident, they still sighed, expressing that they never thought that they had misjudged the cunning fox and mistakenly regarded the cunning fox as a white rabbit. People can even greet them with an absolute high position and an equal attitude——In terms of diplomatic etiquette, the identity of the greeter should be basically the same as that of the guests, and the fact that Yiren can stand here instead of Fan Ju means that he is indeed the heir—— That is, the position of the quasi-prince of Qin.

However, the self-cultivation skills of everyone present were excellent enough, although in their hearts they wished to scratch this person who had ruined their god-given opportunity a few times, everyone could still smile kindly on their faces.

In addition to dealing with the son and other people, the envoys of Yan and Zhao countries also had a delicate atmosphere with each other.

These two countries were originally allies, and they once threatened each other to attack Qi.

However, not long before, the King of Yan saw that the national power of Zhao State was empty after the Battle of Changping and wanted to take advantage of it, so he sent a large army into Zhao Wei and Dai. The king had no choice but to surrender and cut five cities for compensation. He sent Prince Dan into Zhao as a hostage, and Zhao Guofang retreated.

With this battle, the atmosphere between the two envoys became more embarrassing. Of course, the main embarrassment was Yan Guo.The envoy of the State of Yan was Jiang Qu. He tried his best to dissuade him when the State of Yan sent troops to attack the State of Zhao, but was not accepted by the King of Yan.After the war, in order to show friendship, King Yan appointed him as his prime minister, but despite this, he was inevitably short of breath when standing in front of Mr. Pingyuan, the envoy of Zhao State.

But fortunately, Mr. Pingyuan just snorted coldly and didn't intend to attack in person. Obviously, everyone was quite concerned about this being the land of Qin, and they didn't want to show their plastic brotherhood for the Qin people to watch.

King Qin Yingji was old, he had already started building the mausoleum more than ten years ago, and now that his life was over, it was not too hasty.The whole mourning ceremony was held in a decent manner, and nothing happened.At this time, everyone didn't dare to make trouble, because they were afraid of provoking Qin, who was in a state of mad dog.

Prince An Guojun was in charge of organizing the funeral, which was not unexpected.But when seeing An Guojun appear, many people secretly breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

In the era of family affairs, the person who presided over the funeral must be the next heir. Now that Mr. An is presiding over the funeral, it means that his position as the patriarch has been stabilized.

Before, they were really afraid that a dark horse from Qin would succeed to the throne. After all, for them, a mediocre and incompetent King Qin was much easier to deal with than an ambitious King Qin.

But now they really saw An Guojun standing on the high platform, and they felt a little uncomfortable.

An Guojun is mediocre. He can stand on the stage safely. It must be that King Yingji of Qin paved all the roads for his son and cleared all the obstacles, so that he can succeed in a stable way.

This undoubtedly proved Yingji's scheming.

The interested people of the Six Kingdoms scanned the civil and military officials when they were in the ranks, trying to identify the current political dynamics of the Qin State, and tried to read some signs of turmoil in the Qin State from it, but It looks like nothing.

The two leading officials of Qin State were still Bai Qi and Fan Ju.It seems that the attitude of these two people is still quite close, and they will get along with each other... This is really the most difficult situation.

The place Yingji chose to be buried was Zhiyang, on the east side of Xianyang, on the highland at the west foot of Lishan Mountain.

The Taimiao of the Ying family was originally in Yongcheng. As the saying goes, the pre-Qin period paid attention to the incompatibility between the tomb and the temple, and the status of the temple was higher than that of the tomb.

Since the winner's temple is in Yongcheng, if Yingji is buried in Xianyang, wouldn't it be difficult to eat incense and offer sacrifices?But helplessly, the head of the burial site obeyed the wish of the deceased. Since Yingji chose Xianyang, everyone can only respect this.

In this regard, everyone is not without speculation.

The location of Yongcheng is in the far west, where the earliest foothold of the Qin State was. In the era of Duke Xian, Duke Xian chose the location of the mausoleum in Diyu, Xianyang, which is much further east than the location of Yongcheng. At that time, Qin State had not moved its capital to Xianyang.

Since then, his son Xiaogong, grandson King Huiwen, and great-grandson King Wuwu all chose to be buried near the new capital, as if this represented that the old Qin kings were advancing eastward like a baton.

King Qin died in autumn, so he chose the winter solstice for his burial.Harvesting in autumn and storing in winter, in the law of the four seasons in winter, it is the season of chilling and burial, and it is also the most suitable time for divination.

On this day, from Xianyangyuan to Zhiyang was covered in white.

In the white snow, the people of Xianyang spontaneously put on mourning clothes and set up sacrifices on the side of the road to send their king the last journey.The funeral procession was quiet, but the sound of playing music could be heard continuously from the side of the street. It was a funeral song played by the old Qin people holding their instruments like a relay.

After leaving the city, the envoys from the six countries were shocked to find that all the way from Xianyang City, Qin people spontaneously offered sacrifices and sent them off on the side of the road. At a glance, the sparse team could tell that it was not an official organization, but a private worship.

Previously, since the news of Wang Yun came out, people from Qin came from all directions to Xianyang to see Yingji off. There were about ten thousand people.

But at that time, one was that the date of the burial had not yet been determined, and the other was that in order to prevent unscrupulous people from taking the opportunity to make trouble, Fan Ju did not allow these people to enter Xianyang City.Later Lord An knew that he was grateful for their friendship with his father, and ordered people to set up tents for them outside the city. They could enter the city to buy freely during the day, but they had to go out of the city to live at night.

The reason for such a helpless move is that the accommodation space in Xianyang City is limited, and it needs to be reserved for mourners from all over the world. The people of Qin expressed their understanding of this.

And since the news came out and King Qin was buried for nearly two months, these Qin people stubbornly stayed outside Xianyang City, until now, they waited on the road from Xianyang City to Zhiyang, wearing hemp and filial piety for King Qin.

They brought the best grain harvested this year's autumn harvest as a sacrifice, and they knew that this was what their king wanted to see most.

Among them, the most special ones are the Shu people who came from Shu County. The news of King Qin’s death has not yet entered Shu. These people originally brought the plump ears of rice produced in their hometown, and were ordered by the patriarch to look for their son who was studying in Xianyang. The good news was announced, but the bad news was heard halfway through the journey.

But now, they are led by the sons of various families to wear hemp for the king of Qin, and use the ears of rice produced by the protection of the water conservancy project in Shu County as a tribute. News to be known--

"Your Majesty, this year is a bumper harvest in Shu!"

"Our paddy field produces three dendrobium rice per mu this year."

"The Shu people thank the King of Qin for their kindness——"

They cried out as the coffin passed by.An Guojun, as the heir, was sitting on a car with white flags in his hands. He was moved by the scene, and he turned his hand to the house with tears in his eyes to thank the Shu people for telling his father the news in time.

The road to send off the King of Qin stretched for several miles, until the outside of the Zhiyang Mausoleum was blocked by soldiers. When Yingji’s coffin disappeared in front of them, the Qin people who saw him off all burst into tears, and even those who died couldn’t control their breathing. , the music whimpered intermittently.

The scene was full of sadness, and this kind of heartfelt sadness made all the accompanying envoys from the six countries lose their expressions.

Different from Yingji's status and meritorious service, the mausoleum he built for himself is very simple, and there are not many funeral utensils and utensils, which can be called a thin burial.

An Guojun personally filled in the first handful of soil for his father. After that, the clan members surnamed Ying picked up one after another and sent their old patriarch off for the last time.

According to Ying Ji's wish, the top of his mausoleum should not be more than three meters high. When it is finalized, his mausoleum looks even smaller than that of his mother, the Empress Dowager Xuan.

When the scholars of the six countries returned to their country, they all expressed their emotions about this, especially the state of Chu, which had the most complicated relationship with Qin.

Chu Guochen, who was on the mission together, said to Chunshen Jun: "I really don't know what the king of Qin is thinking. Is he afraid that others will not know that he has been under his mother all his life?"

"I don't think so." Chun Shenjun Huang Xie sighed, he sat on the carriage and looked at a plain-wrapped field in the distance, and sighed, "This is the most extravagant funeral I have ever seen. "

"Extravagant?" The courtiers were puzzled, but Jun Shen slightly shook his head and refused to say more.

People's livelihood refers to national destiny.The state of Qin spent nearly ten years switching from offense to defense to concentrate on developing the domestic economy, and built two major water conservancy projects. The country that should have been dying is now abundant in food and grass.How can the people not feel what Yingji wants and wishes?Thousands of Qin people spontaneously saw him off, as evidenced by the fact that the Shu people who were originally enemies also turned enemies into people.

What the people want, what the government does.Qin Min loves the king so much, why don't they know what Qin Wang gave up for them, and what is his wish?

The state of Qin is now like charcoal covered by firewood. It looks dull, but it only needs a little spark to detonate.

Ying Ji's death is not the end, but just the beginning. He spent the last few years of his life planting seeds in the hearts of Qin people to cultivate fertile soil, and this gratitude will surely benefit his descendants.

This funeral took the mountains and rivers as the altar, the hearts of the people as sacrifices, and Qinchuan, which is eight hundred miles away, as the background. It was really a swearing-in meeting.

Is there a more extravagant funeral in this world?Gold and silver are easy to get, but really hard to find.

Looking at his posthumous title, King Zhaoxiang.

The sage heard about Zhou Da, his mighty virtue, and the scorching sun showing his head and wings. He thought that the successor of the Qin State would be a moderate man, and the Qin State would soon turn from prosperity to decline, but...

It seems that the people of Qin don't intend to stop their conquests, but the state of Chu is now in chaos.

He let out a long sigh, closed his eyes and thought about the countermeasures for the future, and the irritability in his heart lingered for a long time.

At the end of the winter of that year, Mr. Pingyuan, who returned to Zhao State, was exhausted on the road, and died after returning to the country. Mrs. Zun Huayang is the Empress Dowager Huayang, and her biological mother Xia Ji is the Empress Dowager Xia.

Thus began the era of King Zhuang Xiang.

The author has something to say:

An Guojun died three days after the Yuan change, not after he ascended the throne, otherwise Qin would have been too miserable.

According to regulations, the old king continued to use the old country name in the year of his death, and the new king's year name was used to show respect in the second year.

Of course, there are also those that were changed as soon as they came up (that’s really hated) and those that haven’t been changed for a long time (such as Zhu Di, he used Hongwu for a long time, but this was to skip the Jianwen of the year)

Although An Guojun has no reputation in history, he did a special... thing. He let his own mother and old father be buried together (covering his face). Joint burial.

The story of Mu Gong in the article is true. This is a rare setback after Mu Gong's glory period, and it was this defeat that awakened the complacent Qin Mu Gong at the time and made him continue to immerse himself in development.He redeemed the three captured generals and continued to employ them, admitting to them that the responsibility lies with me and not with you.Then four years later, an army was retrained and used these three generals to attack Jin again. Soldier and apologized.

So Mu Gong's kindness is really remarkable.

...Although when he finally died, he had a brain twitch and took all the capable officials of Qin State to the ground, causing Qin State to collapse from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States period of Duke Xiao.