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Chapter 243: The swallows in front of the old six kingdoms hall flew into the homes of ordinary people (two in one)

After hearing these words, Fan Zeng in the box felt very uncomfortable. He wanted to go out and ask this diner, who was obviously a Qin person, what "there are so many kings of Chu" and "Your Majesty does not care about their past" meant, and asked him to explain it to him.

However, as to the fact that "there were so many kings of Chu", what the Qin guests said seemed to be correct. The kings of Chu did change quite frequently. After King You, three kings of Chu were replaced in less than ten years. If you count the King Xiong Xin of Chu mentioned by the Qin guests, there were four kings in total.

But there is a reason for that. Why did the king change after King Ai? Don’t you Qin people know this?

However, Fan Zeng sneered at the sentence "Your Majesty does not care about their past". If the Emperor of Qin really did not care, he would not have set up the Zhiyu Platform and let Zhao Gao go over the old cases of the six kingdoms and publicize them everywhere.

This move was obviously intended to weaken the influence of the nobles of the six countries, so that they would no longer be a threat to the Qin Dynasty. Can this be called "not caring"? Now that the old nobles of the six countries have rebelled, it is obvious that they were forced to rebel!

Fan Zeng immediately understood why the old nobles of the six kingdoms wanted to rebel, but what was the use of understanding it? What could he change?
With such a big incident, the dinner party could not continue. Fan Zeng suggested, "Why don't we go and see it?"

The other people in the room nodded in agreement, and left the restaurant with their friends outside and rushed to the Xuanzhengtai set up in Xianyang City.

This is the place specially set up by the Great Qin to announce government orders to the people. Sometimes it is also responsible for conveying other news, such as the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Great Qin and the Xiongnu and the prohibition of marriage between close relatives. These are all announced to the people from here.

Compared with Xianyang before the big exam, Xianyang at this time has undergone some changes.

The streets that were originally dirt roads were now paved with something called "cement". Although it was called cement, it was very different from mud. It was as hard as stone and would not become soft even when it rained. It remained as hard as usual. I don't know why it was called "cement"?
Probably because when it was just laid and not yet dry, it was as soft as mud, but different from mud, so it was given this name. It is said that this cement was also made by Mr. Li Nian.

There are words painted on some walls in Xianyang today. They are all very catchy words. Even illiterate people can quickly remember and understand their meaning after hearing them once.

Almost everyone living in Xianyang now knows that there are many tiny things in the world that are invisible to the naked eye and can make people sick, so don’t spit anywhere, don’t eat raw food, and don’t drink raw water.

This also led to a phenomenon that Xianyang was much cleaner than before. After all, Xianyang used to be under the feet of the King of Qin, so it was not dirty or messy, but it was also difficult to compare with now.

When he walked through Xianyang City normally, he didn't feel that Xianyang had changed much since when he arrived. Today, when he learned that the rebels organized by the princes of the six kingdoms had been destroyed, Fan Zeng suddenly found the feeling when he first arrived. He looked at Xianyang again with the eyes of an outsider and found that it had changed so much.

When Fan Zeng and several friends arrived at Xuanzhengtai, there were already many people gathered there, and they could not get in at all. They did not have the identities of candidates for the Xianyang examination this time, and they were embarrassed to say who they were and that they worked in the Qin Palace, so they had to squeeze in the crowd like everyone else.

It is human nature to watch the excitement, not to mention that this is the first victory report since His Majesty became emperor, and the enemy is the princes and nobles of the six countries. It attracted many people to come and want to know what exactly happened in this great victory and what was the fate of the princes and nobles of the six countries?
"It's so crowded, who stepped on my foot?"

Fan Zeng was pushed around in the crowd and someone stepped on his foot.

Seeing that some elderly people and children were being squeezed in the crowd, a Qin official on the Xuanzheng platform said, "I know that you elders are anxious to know about this great victory, but please don't crowd. Today is a happy day, and you don't want any accidents to happen, right?"

Qin Li shouted again: "Those of you coming from behind, stop squeezing to the front, there is no room left!"

After Qin Li's words, Fan Zeng felt that the crowd around him was much less crowded. Looking up, he saw a sea of ​​heads. He could not see Qin Li on the platform at all, but fortunately he could hear his voice.

The Qin official who was speaking said, "Now I will tell you about this great victory. First, why did this great victory happen? It was because the princes and nobles of the six kingdoms were unwilling to give up their evil intentions. They were unwilling to see the Qin Dynasty unify the world and did not want us to live a good life, so they deliberately rebelled."

"Speaking of the kings and nobles of the six countries, you should know that they are the kings and nobles of Yan, Zhao, Han, Wei, Chu, and Qi..."

Fan Zeng felt very uncomfortable after hearing this. What did it mean "unwilling to see the Qin Dynasty unify the world, and not wanting us to live a good life, so deliberately rebelling"? Was he still willing to see the Qin Dynasty unify the world?
Moreover, Qin's actions did not intend to let the princes of the six countries live a good life, did it?

Qin Li explained why the old nobles of the six countries wanted to rebel. Of course, he did not say that the old nobles of the six countries were forced to do so, but that the old nobles of the six countries had evil intentions and had planned it long ago.

The Qin official asked loudly: "The princes and nobles of the six countries want to bring war to the world again and make our lives miserable. Can we agree to this?"

Fan Zeng saw the Qin people around him shouting, "I don't want to!" "Of course I don't want to!"

Qin Li asked: "Then what should we do?"

The Qin people around said: "Kill them, kill them all!"

Qin Li continued, "Your Majesty was thinking the same thing and sent Tongwu Hou to lead the army to quell the rebellion. However, after arriving at the location of the rebels, Tongwu Hou encountered a situation. Do you know what the situation is?"

What nonsense is this person asking? If they knew the details of this great victory, would they still come here to listen? But someone speculated, "Is it related to the rebels?"

Qin Li nodded and said, "It is indeed related to the rebels. Those old nobles of the six countries are really unkind. They actually..."

Everyone was shocked when they heard what the Qin official said about what the rebels had done in the rebellious area. The people in that place were considered their own people, and the rebels actually dared to do this. They were truly inhumane.

Fan Zeng's first reaction was disbelief. He thought that the Qin people were throwing dirty water on the princes and framing them. They couldn't be so stupid. But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this might happen:

Because the essence of what they do is that they have lost the people, the soil on which they hide and grow.

The people are no longer loyal to them, but to the Qin Dynasty. Then many things they can do will be restricted. Even if they do not resist stubbornly in one place, but instead lead the people to flee everywhere, the outcome will still be the same.

The Qin official said again: "Fortunately, it was the Great Qin that won the world. If they had won, how could we have gotten away with it?"

This statement was agreed by many Qin people. These old nobles of the six countries could kill their own people, let alone them, the Qin people?
If they were allowed to unify the world, they would probably massacre them all and implement the policy of "burning the thatch, cutting the stones, and replacing the people". Even if they did not massacre the Qin people in other places, their Xianyang would definitely not be well off.

From this perspective, these old nobles from the six countries deserve to be killed!

Fortunately, your majesty is wise, and the officials and generals in the court dared to lead the Qin people to win the war to unify the world, and did not let the old nobles of the six countries succeed. After listening to the words of Qin Li, some people also had the same idea as Fan Zeng: How could the princes of the six countries do such a thing?

One person shook his head and said, "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

This person was standing in a relatively forward position and spoke loudly, which immediately attracted the attention of Qin Li on the Xuanzheng Platform.

Qin Li looked at the person who was speaking and asked, "Why is it impossible?"

The man said, "The princes of the six kingdoms are of noble status. Although the six kingdoms have perished, they still have great reputations in the world. This shows that their character is recognized by the people. Even if there are some bad guys, most of them are gentlemen. How could they do such a beastly thing? Moreover, this is really stupid. With the intelligence of the princes of the six kingdoms, how could they be so unwise?"

The crowd disagreed with what this person said, that the kings and princes of the six kingdoms were of noble status, good character, and mostly gentlemen. However, his second reason was agreed by many non-Qin people in the crowd.

Qin Li did not want to explain any more to this man. It was difficult to convince such a person with preconceived ideas with verbal arguments. The only solution was to use actual evidence.

He said: "This is not my own nonsense. Soon, the Marquis of Tongwu will lead his army back, and then the local people will tell us about their experiences in person."

This person wanted to say, "How can you be sure that they are local people? Maybe you Qin people specially hired someone to impersonate them to frame the old nobles of the six kingdoms." But when he saw that the Qin people around him were staring at him, he swallowed the words back.

Because in his previous words he had already questioned the authenticity of the victory report, and questioned whether the news reported by Qin Li was fabricated to frame the kings and nobles of the six countries.

This certainly made the Qin people who came to hear the victory report feel unhappy. We won the war to unify the world, and the six countries were all losers. Do we Qin people still need to make up lies to frame them to deal with a group of defeated generals?

If you don't accept it, just beat him up again. There's no need to make up lies!

A Qin person immediately pointed this out: "What about the princes of the six kingdoms? The six kingdoms were all destroyed by our Great Qin. They were all defeated by our Great Qin. If the Great Qin wants to deal with them, must it use false accusations?"

Hearing this, Fan Zeng sighed in his heart. If what the Qin official said was true, then the kings and princes of the six countries were finished and would no longer have a place to survive in this land.

Fan Zeng could imagine what would happen when the deeds of the princes of the six kingdoms spread throughout the world. Even if the Qin people did not play tricks on them, people all over the world would be disappointed in the princes of the six kingdoms, and thus disappointed in the six kingdoms. Moreover, the Qin people would certainly add fuel to the fire.

And the six kings and princes were finished, which meant that the six kingdoms were completely finished. The six kingdoms that had lasted for so many years, including his hometown of Chu, ended just like that?

Although the State of Chu was destroyed in the past, it was only a physical destruction. As long as the kings and nobles of Chu were still there and the people of Chu still missed Chu, then Chu had not truly perished and could grow again from the body of Qin at any time.

But now it's over, everything is over. This time not only his body is destroyed, but also his soul. He can never recall the country called "Chu" again, and his wish to restore his country will never be realized.

With the methods used by the current Qin Emperor and that man, the Qin people will definitely spread the news of this rebellion throughout the world and make it known to everyone, so as to put a final nail in the coffin of the six kingdoms and completely nail them down, leaving them no chance of a comeback!
Even if Qin were to perish in the future, he would never be able to return to his homeland. Even if some kings and princes of the six countries, such as the new King of Chu, Xiong Xin, managed to escape, so what?

Fan Zeng knew very well why the rebellious nobles of the six kingdoms chose to do those things. They must have decided in advance to send a group of people overseas, so they dared to do that.

But once they go out, it will be difficult to come back. Not to mention what the overseas areas are like and whether they can take root and develop, with just that few people, how many years and generations will it take for them to develop to the point of confronting Qin?
Moreover, even if they have developed enough population and returned to this land, no one will be loyal to them anymore. I am afraid that when they come back, they will not be welcomed but fiercely resisted.

But it was difficult for Fan Zeng to judge whether this move was right or wrong. If he stayed, he would either resist and be destroyed by the Qin army, or he would hide his identity and gradually lose the marks of the six countries as time went by, and he would be assimilated into a Qin person. Only if he left could he retain a glimmer of hope.

Without saying hello to his friends, Fan Zeng left the crowd and went to a tavern, where he ordered some drinks and began to drink. A little drunkenness could help him forget all his worries.

On that day, sales of alcoholic beverages in various places in Xianyang skyrocketed. Many people who missed their homeland understood that after Qin's great victory, it would be difficult for them to return to their homeland.

These people were basically all literate people of this era. Ordinary people in the six countries did not have so much leisure time to miss their nominal homeland.

Most people of this era did not care much about which country they were from. They only cared about whether the king could make their lives relatively better.

Inside the Zhangtai Palace, Ying Zheng was reading a document, which recorded the reactions of people like Fan Zeng after they learned that the rebel army of the six kings and princes had been destroyed, such as Fan Zeng getting drunk in a wine shop to relieve his sorrow, and someone crying towards the southeast.

After reading the records on the document, Ying Zheng did not react much, but only sighed: "Although the six countries have been destroyed, many people still miss them. They know that the country is gone and it will be difficult to restore it, so they have such feelings."

He couldn't help but think of what Li Nian said about history. When his Qin II died, was there anyone who cried and drank for the demise of the Qin like this?

The answer was very clear in his mind, probably no. Apart from the royal family of the Qin Dynasty who might sigh a few times, everyone else should wish that the Qin Dynasty would be destroyed as soon as possible.

Even the royal family members of the Qin Dynasty hoped that the Qin Dynasty would perish as soon as possible. After all, their royal status made it quite embarrassing for them to work in the Qin Dynasty.

From this perspective, his Great Qin was even worse than the six kingdoms at its end, and there were not even many people willing to mourn and attend its funeral.

Ying Zheng stepped down from the throne, and Meng Yi wanted to follow immediately, but Ying Zheng waved his hand to stop him. He walked to the palace door alone and stood outside the main hall of Zhangtai Palace. It was sunset at this time, and the setting sun dyed the sky red.

Ying Zheng looked towards the west and saw a red sun setting, as if the sun belonging to the six countries on this land was gradually returning to the night, no longer rising, and turning into a touch of color in the long river of history.

In Liuying Palace, Li Nian put down the pen in his hand, finished copying a document, stretched his waist and walked outside the palace. Looking at the setting sun in front of his eyes, he also thought of the old nobles of the six countries and said with emotion: "Wild grass and flowers beside Zhuque Bridge, the setting sun at the entrance of Wuyi Lane. The swallows in front of the old hall of the six countries now fly into the homes of ordinary people."

The house swallows of the princes and nobles of the six countries will eventually fly into the homes of ordinary people in the Qin Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)