At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 158: The messy selection of Chinese people and the pain of national subjugation

Two days later, Xiang Biao also found Zhou Zhang and asked, "Is the opera "Red River Water" true?"

Zhou Zhang once again showed Xiang Biao the intelligence of Qi State, and Xiang Biao broke into a cold sweat after reading it.

He looked at Zhou Zhang and said, "What are the plans of the King of Han?"

Zhou Zhang said: "When the soldiers come, they will block the water and the earth. The King of Han can only resist the Qin army with all his strength and prevent them from entering the Han Dynasty, but this also requires your support."

The King of Han plans to summon all the heroes, sages, and prestigious clansmen of the Han Kingdom to discuss how to fight against the Qin army. You can see the current situation. The Qin army has more and more troops in the Central Plains. The King of Han needs More support.

Xiang Biao and Jing Yi looked at each other hesitantly. Xu Fan had said that he would do it when he wanted to share the land. At that time, they had already agreed, and they had exchanged some rights with food.

It's a pity that when Wang Li and Li You led the army to attack Chen County, they were frightened. They were worried that Xu Fan would not be able to withstand the Qin attack, so they naturally did not dare to accept Xu Fan's kindness.

And when Xu Fan annihilated Wang Li's tribe and Li You's tribe one after another, the two of them became interested in what Xu Fan said again. However, at this time, Zhou Zhang ignored him and they had nothing to do. After all, they were the ones who I gave up this opportunity myself.

But now their family rebels were deeply bound to the Han Dynasty. When the Qin army attacked the Han Dynasty, they couldn't escape even if they wanted to, so they did not refuse this time.

Then Chen Sheng wrote the names of these dozen people on a blackboard. The voting was also very simple. Each officer could vote once, and no matter how many people there were, the winner would be.

So Zhou Zhang's order was quickly issued to the six counties of the Han Dynasty, requiring the governors of the six counties to select local prestigious heroes, powerful patriarchs, and capable people among the scholars, farmers, workers, and soldiers.

“1-2-3-4，1，2，3，4！”军官们小队整齐奔跑到陈胜身前。

"speak!"

"Boom, boom, boom~~~! The whole army gathers!" Chen Sheng shouted with anger in his Dantian.

Chen Sheng continued: "So the elected people should not care about anything else. As long as the King of Han says, you will agree with it. Help the King of Han, and we will not be short of food when fighting the Qin army in the future, and the soldiers will be rewarded for their merits." ,do you understand?"

There are a dozen people on the list.

Han Xin said: "Report!"

They went to stand up for the King of Han.

"Let me tell you, the King of Han convened everyone to discuss how to deal with the violent Qin Dynasty. Our military has 5 representatives, who are selected from among you. After everyone discusses, if you think that officer is prestigious and trustworthy, he will be elected as our military representative in Chen County. In the end, the whole army voted, and the five people with the most votes went to Chen County to see the King of Han."

The officers who were still training separately began to line up and assemble.

"Understood!" all the officers shouted back.

Chen County, officer crash course training camp.

Then the officers all mentioned that they knew prestigious officers.

At the same time, Han's military mobilization has begun. The six counties of Han have recruited 10 troops for the first time. Elite soldiers from each county have begun to gather to prepare for the upcoming war.

Chen Sheng said: "You are also aware of the current situation in the world. The Qin Dynasty has assembled armies from the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest. A big war may break out at any time. If Han wants to defeat the Qin Dynasty, it needs more land to win over its soldiers. We need more grain and grass to assemble an army, but land and grain cannot fall from the sky. We can only get it from those who have land, money and grain. And who else in Han has money, grain and land now?"

Chen Sheng said so clearly that all the officers understood that this conference was a conference for the nobility, power, land, money and food.

Han Xin asked: "What is this conference for? Why do we need to participate?"

Chenjun Gongshili.

The election process was very fast, and the Chen County military elected Liu Bang, Chen Ying, Xu Zhongzhao, Zhang Qiang, and Chen Xiaodao as military representatives.

After everyone is gathered.

Lu Shu shouted while beating gongs and drums: "Everyone, please listen, the King of Han is going to convene a national assembly. There are five places for craftsmen. Please elect those you think are prestigious to attend the assembly and discuss the country with the King of Han." event."

"What kind of wise man is he? Can he meet the King of Han? Discuss matters with the King of Han and his elders?" A craftsman was surprised when he heard this voice.

Lu Shu immediately explained: "Wise people are people with high morals and high respect. They will represent you and convey your daily opinions to the King of Han, so that the King of Han can make decisions with you."

"Then what else do you choose? Just let the patriarch of the big family go." A craftsman said.

"Then there will be more people going. King Han has a lot of things to do. He has no time to meet so many people, so he has to choose 5 people. From today on, the county will be under the notice board. Anyone who wants to go can just gather them all." 100 people’s fingerprints can become a representative, and then everyone’s vote is accepted, and the five craftsmen with the most votes can become representatives.”

After explaining, Lu Shu moved on to let more people know about the conference.

But when Lu Shu was explaining, he didn't know that the King of Han was listening to what he said.

Zhang Liang asked: "King Han, is this man really telling you what you think?"

Xu Fan smiled bitterly and said: "Although the gap is a bit big, at least this matter has been passed on."

Zhang Liang shook his head and said: "You are messing around. As soon as this news comes, the entire Chen County will definitely become a mess. For this so-called reputation, I don't know how many troubles will be caused. You might as well just summon Forget about the powerful aristocrats of Han State, this will save trouble and the result will not be much different."

In this era, the most prestigious people are not just the local nobles and tycoons. Even if he doesn't have to choose, Zhang Liang knows that they are not much different.

Zhang Liang thought for a while and then persuaded him earnestly: "And there is a huge hidden danger in doing this. The nobles and powerful people are scattered in various places, but they still have huge influence on the court, and now you use a conference to give them If they form a joint place, I'm afraid they will control the government in the future, which will be detrimental to the future kings of Han."

Xu Fan smiled bitterly and said: "The First Emperor has supreme authority. He spent a lot of money to seek immortality, build palaces, build imperial mausoleums, build roads, and expand territory. Even if the Qin Kingdom was on the verge of collapse, there was no one." If we can stop him, it is not an exaggeration to say that the First Emperor is the biggest scourge of Qin. If we really conquer the world, should we learn from Qin's lesson and abolish the emperor?"

"How is this possible?" Zhang Liang simply could not imagine what a world without the leadership of an emperor would look like. Even in the three ancient times, there was a common leader of the world.

Xu Fan continued: "In order to govern the world, the First Emperor created hundreds of thousands of Qin officials, but these Qin officials only knew how to work as slaves and persecute the people. Should we also abolish the officials?"

Zhang Liang said: "King of Han, you have gone too far. Officials cannot be abolished, but they can be reduced. The court is centralized, and it is easier to stabilize the world in a small country with few people in the local area."

Xu Fan smiled bitterly and said: "The emperor's evil dragon can harm the whole world; the officials' tigers can harm one area for their evil deeds; the local tyrants are evil wolves. Although they can also harm the place, they can also fight against tigers and tigers. Evil wolf. Now we have to deal with the evil dragon of the First Emperor. Sometimes we need to unite with the evil wolf." People of this era may not dare to think about it, but Xu Fan feels that the fall of the First Emperor is the reason why the world has become what it is now. The source of everything, he changed from a divine dragon who maintained order in the world to an evil dragon that caused trouble to the place, so the world of Da Qin collapsed.

If the world wants to find ways to limit the emperor's power, this conference is a good choice.

Zhang Liang was shocked in his heart. He did not expect that Xu Fan agreed with the Mohist way.

Shangheli.

The head of the village, Qu Lu, summoned all the villagers and said, "I have just gone to the township to discuss matters. The township chief conveyed the order of the imperial court. The King of Han said that a general meeting will be held to discuss national affairs. Our county will elect a prestigious sage to meet with him." King of Han, let’s think about who to choose?”

A villager wondered: "What does this have to do with us ordinary people? The King of Han can just go to the gentlemen to discuss matters."

Qu Lu actually didn't know what this conference was about, but he certainly couldn't say that he didn't understand. He could only say according to his own understanding: "The king of Han wants to find some highly respected masters, and how to find them, naturally he will support others." .”

The villagers said: "Of course we want Mr. Qu to go. This place has been owned by the Qu family for hundreds of years. There is no more virtuous and respectable person in the county than Mr. Qu."

The choice of the villagers in Shangheli represents the choice of most villagers. Although he wanted to elect some farmers' representatives, the farmers used all methods to recommend powerful men as their representatives. There is a classic saying in later generations that can represent the psychology of these farmers, Farmers who do not want to be landlords are not good farmers.

In mid-February of the 37th year of the First Emperor's reign, after a chaotic month of selection, most of the Han people just watched the excitement, but the 2 representatives were still selected.

Most of these people are nobles from various counties, powerful and powerful, and heads of big families. The selected powerful men came to Chenjun in carriages and ships.

Zheng Jing, Zhang Qiang, and Han Zhong were sages from Yingchuan County. They immediately found Zhang Liang as soon as they arrived in Chen County.

Zhang Qiang looked worried and said: "Zifang, will the King of Han make any big move this time?"

They are really scared. The only thing that makes them feel at ease now is that Zhang Liang has become one of the Nine Qings of the Han Kingdom. He follows the King of Han every day and is a confidant of the King of Han. They can also know immediately about any policies of the Han Kingdom.

Just like the last imperial examination, after they received Zhang Liang's notification, they sent the elite children of the family to participate. Although these children are still just minor officials, Zhang Liang has already found a way to arrange for a few people to enter the Prime Minister's Mansion. Their relationship The Internet finally spread throughout the Han court from top to bottom.

Zhang Liang smiled bitterly and said: "It is a big move, but it has little to do with you. You just need to remember one thing. Whatever the King of Han says, you all agree."

This was really a mistake. Most of the land owned by his relatives had been turned over, but this time they had nothing to do with it.

Zheng Jing said worriedly: "The Qin army has left the border again. Will it be unsafe for us in Yingchuan County? Should we hide in Chen County for a while?"

Zhang Liang shook his head and said: "The battle between Han and Qin is inevitable. Looking at Yan and Qi, my brother should understand that there is no safe place in the world. We can only fight hard to find a way to survive." , Brothers, just remember that helping the King of Han at this time is helping yourselves. Whether our family can continue may depend on the outcome of this war.

If we win, the family can continue. If we lose, the country will be destroyed and the family will be destroyed. Don't take any chances. The Qin Dynasty wants to completely wipe us out. "

The three people were even more worried when they heard Zhang Liang's words, but they remembered Zhang Liang's words. They understood that the strength of Yingchuan County's powerful forces was too weak, and they could only have a chance of survival by following the King of Han.

Xu Fan and Zhou Zhang also attached great importance to this conference. Xu Fan wanted to use these people to restrict the bureaucrats. In Xu Fan's view, the state of Qin was the result of the expansion of imperial power and the lack of restrictions on the expansion of the power of the bureaucratic group.

In particular, the First Emperor was not restrained and indulged his desires wantonly. The bureaucracy below also followed suit. The First Emperor, who was supposed to supervise the bureaucracy, was busy asking for immortality. As a result, the upper echelons of the Qin Dynasty lost control. They were like Like an idiot, he keeps demolishing the foundation of his empire.

Now Xu Fan wants to use the methods commonly used in later generations to restrain the upper-level imperial power and bureaucratic groups. Of course, this is an extremely difficult task, but at least he wants to make a start and not indulge the powerful forces.

Please, if you don’t indulge, they won’t rise?

Xu Fan's future generations are in modern society, and powerful people have risen differently.

Their level of lawlessness is much worse than that of the feudal era.

Zhou Zhang's idea was extremely simple. He wanted to conquer the powerful landlords in Han Dynasty. He estimated that the food for this war would be at least 4000 million shi, but there was still a gap of half.

Now the people of the Han State are the backbone. If the Han State wants to rely on them to defeat the Qin army, it is naturally impossible to harvest their grain. At this time, there are still a large number of people in the Han State who have food and land. Only these landowners are powerful, so Zhou Zhang This time it was planned to extract 2000 million shi of food from these people.

For this conference, Xu Fan specially asked craftsmen to build a conference room based on the large conference rooms of later generations. The room structure was simple and bright. The structure is made of wooden pillars and beams. In order to have good lighting, there are ventilation openings in many places, which has excellent ventilation and light transmittance.

Xu Fan likes to live in this kind of spacious and bright house with a bit of the style of later generations, which can make him feel that he is still in the later generations. Zhou Zhang also likes this kind of palace that is simple, not luxurious but accessible and atmospheric. This kind of open environment can make him feel that he is still in the later generations. Let him feel like he is in control of the overall situation.

Zhou Zhang personally received these 120 powerful nobles from various places, famous craftsmen, children of farmers, children of the Mohist family, and even Gong Shuqiu. The scene was full of talents.

Then Zhou Zhang handed over to them the information about what the Qin army did in Qi, and also handed over all the information about the Qin army's gathering in Yan, Guanzhong, and southern Xinjiang to these people.

They gnashed their teeth at the atrocities committed by the Qin army, and officers like Liu Bang were even more eager to try the upcoming war.

But nobles like Xiang Biao and Jing Yi are not as confident as others. They think of the cruel unification battle decades ago. The main lines of their families were completely destroyed, and only their side branches were ignored like grass, but were given space to grow.

But now the First Emperor is completely crazy. He wants to use the Qin army to replace the powerful nobles in the world. Such crazy behavior makes them feel extremely scared. Back then, Xiang Yan’s 400,000 troops could not stop the Qin army. The current King of Han can do what he did back then. They expressed doubts about things that Xiang Yan had not accomplished.

"What should we do?" Many people asked in fear.

Although the Qin army's atrocities made them angry, the Qin army's powerful strength made them even more frightened.

Zhou Zhang said: "The King of Han will find a way to keep the Qin army out of Han. As long as our 30 Han army is not killed by the Qin army, you will be safe."

But such a guarantee did not reassure Jing Yi. The Qin people have millions of troops. Can you defeat them just by guaranteeing victory?

How can your army ensure their safety?

But they had no other choice. Instead of choosing the King of Han, who had 10 men in armor and repeatedly defeated the Qin army, should they choose Xiang Liang, who had only ragtag troops from Chu Dong, or Wei Jiu, who had not yet regained the main beam?

This time the First Emperor didn't even play the game of surrendering and losing half of the game with them. They had no choice at all.

Zhou Zhang said calmly: "Many of you here are old friends, so I won't say more polite words."

At that time, Zhou Zhang was a disciple of Chun Shenjun and Xiang Yan. Although his status was not high, he had a wide range of contacts. The big nobles of Chu State all had some contacts, so he had met most of the nobles who came this time. , and now that he is the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, the relationship back then is of great use. The nobles and powerful people in Chu will take the initiative to close this relationship with Zhou Zhang.

After Zhou Zhang was dull for a long time, he had enough emotions to brew up and said: "We all experienced the fall of the Chu State. The Qin people defeated the 40-strong army assembled by the Chu State at this place. The most capable of conquering and fighting. General, that battle broke the backbone of our Chu people. The Qin people killed people in the Chu land and filled the fields. The chasm was filled with the blood of our Chu people.

My clan members from the Chu State were captured as prisoners by the Qin people, and my princess from the Chu State was captured by her relatives and taken to the Qin Palace as a slave. She is still living in the Qin Palace to this day. We can only watch what is a human tragedy. Everyone living here is a coward. We only survived until now because we surrendered to the Qin people. "

Zhou Zhang's words reminded Xiang Biao and Jing Yi of those unforgettable and frightening years. How could they forget the hatred of the country and the family? But they had no strength, could not defeat the Qin people, and did not want to die, so they could only put themselves to death. The hatred is suppressed in the deepest part of my heart. Even after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, they wanted to forget this history because it was extremely shameful to them.

For a moment, the entire venue was quiet. The younger people's eyes were red, and they were heartbroken by the pain of the country's subjugation. But for people like Jing Yi, although they also felt it in their hearts, they were already numb. Just like Zhou Zhang said, back then, That battle had already killed all the young people in Chu who dared to fight, and the old people who were left behind were not hard-core at all.

(End of this chapter)