The big man has a living father

Chapter 27: Li Guang is difficult to be appointed
In Chang'an City, West Market, Huo Hai and Cao Xiang rode tall horses side by side.

As Cao Xiang walked, he turned sideways and said, "Brother Huo, you are too polite to Li Gan. If it were me, I would have beaten him. He is just a commoner, and he is yelling at us!"

For Cao Xiang, he didn't understand what other literati were arguing about, but as a fellow military man, Li Gan had no achievements and yet dared to shout in front of the sons of nobles, so he should be beaten.

In the Western Han Dynasty, any crime below the death penalty could be redeemed with money. If it were Cao Xiang, he could beat Li Gan half to death and then pay to redeem his sin.

Huo Hai laughed loudly: "Forget it, forget it. The Li family has its own pitiful side, and they are not so easy to mess with."

Cao Xiang was puzzled: "Oh? What's so pitiful about the Li family?"

Huo Hai: "Let me tell you about the Qin Dynasty a hundred years ago."

Cao Xiang listened very carefully, and Huo Hai started talking about the Li family.

The Li family was already a large family as early as the Qin Dynasty.

Their ancestor was Li Xin.

When Qin Shi Huang attacked the State of Chu, he asked his subordinates how many soldiers they needed to bring.

Wang Jian ordered 600,000 soldiers to crush the State of Chu.

At that time, Qin Shi Huang wanted to unify the world, so how could he spend so much money in Chu? You have to know that mobilizing 600,000 soldiers and horses would consume a shocking amount of food and grass.

Once the 600,000 soldiers are mobilized, it will no longer be a war, but a competition of national strength with the State of Chu.

There is certainly no room for maneuver in this kind of situation where there is no room for maneuver, so letting Wang Jian lead 600,000 troops to attack the State of Chu is a sure win no matter what, and this is also where Wang Jian's strength lies.

But the problem is that the cost is too high.

So Qin Shi Huang asked others how many soldiers they needed, and Li Guang's ancestor Li Xin said: "Your Majesty, give me 200,000 soldiers to conquer Chu."

In fact, Li Xin was also a natural born general. He led 200,000 soldiers and rushed all the way into the heart of the Chu State. In the end, he was ready to directly attack Shouchun and take over the Chu State.

However, history records that Li Xin was defeated in this battle.

This is also what is written in the documents recorded in the court.

Cao Xiang is not stupid: "Brother Huo, if that's the case, is there another story behind it?!"

Huo Hai nodded: "Actually, the truth is something else."

Another very long story.

Simply put, within the Qin State, the Qin Kingdom's foreign relatives, composed of the nobles of the six states, were competing with each other in the court.

The King of Qin had many wives, each of whom came from the six kingdoms and were all aristocrats. Different foreign relatives of the King of Qin from previous and next generations were spread throughout the court. They all represented the power of the six kingdoms in the Qin court. They also brought talents and officials from the six kingdoms to serve Qin, and they competed with each other.

In the end, the Zhao nobles won and occupied the court.

These Zhao nobles respected Qin Shihuang's mother Zhao Ji and Prime Minister Lu Buwei.

However, after Zhao Ji tasted the power, she was dissatisfied with others sharing power with her, so she promoted Lao Ai to confront Lu Buwei.

In the end, Lao Ai became the master of the court.

But at this time, King Zheng of Qin had already reached adulthood. The first step he took was to kill Lao Ai and even get rid of his own mother.

The executor chosen by the King of Qin was Changping Jun from the State of Chu.

Because of the influence of this series of events, Ying Zheng did not even appoint a crown prince or a queen, for fear that his external relatives would form a new force that would affect his ambition to unify the seven kingdoms.

However, no matter how much the King of Qin planned, he did not expect that even these people who were not direct descendants of the royal families of the six countries still could not accept the destruction of their homeland.

When Li Xin was about to complete the siege of Shouchun and hold a funeral for the State of Chu, Changping Jun cut off Li Xin's retreat and food supply.

Li Xin was stabbed in the back and could only turn back in anger, which led to the failure of his plan to attack Chu.

In the end, King Zheng of Qin had no choice but to remove Li Xin and replace him with Wang Jian.

Wang Jian used the national strength of Qin to crush the national strength of Chu, laying the most solid foundation for his reputation as a famous general.

Hearing this, Cao Xiang said: "Then the question is, the history I have read is not like this, why..."

Huo Hai: "The reason is very simple. Once it is announced that Li Xin's failure was caused by Changping Jun's rebellion, it is equivalent to announcing everything about Changping Jun. If it is announced, it is equivalent to announcing all the past affairs of the Qin State."

"Also, King Zheng of Qin trusted Changping Jun so much that he lost a great opportunity and a large number of soldiers. Do you understand that Li Xin is taking the blame for King Zheng of Qin?" As a big leader, King Zheng of Qin was going to ascend the throne and become emperor. How could he make mistakes?
Cao Xiang pondered: "This makes sense, but...why didn't the historians in this dynasty write down the truth?"

Huo Hai: "At that time, the King of Qin had already treated the old nobles of the six kingdoms with favor, but they still kept rebelling. If it was written as it was, King Qin Zheng would not be so annoying, and people would have fewer reasons to rebel. And now that the country is unified, we keep asking readers to read about the old nobles of the six kingdoms rebelling and rebellion. Do you think that's a good thing?"

Cao Xiang: "I see."

For the people of the world, for ordinary people, what Qin Shihuang did must be overthrown.

But the problem is that those who rebelled were all former nobles of the six kingdoms, so they had no legitimacy or rationality at all. Another reason was that now that the Han Dynasty was unified, it could no longer inspire the patriotism of each country.

If the truth is told, what will happen if the descendants of the old country in various places follow suit?
Therefore, even if the court and historians knew the truth, they could not write it down.

Of course, they just didn't write it in full, but didn't change it.

The Li family is truly tragic. It has been like this since Li Xin and it is still like this with Li Guang.

After entering the West Market, the traffic gradually increased, people were doing business everywhere, and the horses slowed down.

Cao Xiang: "If the Li family has always been pitiful, then how can we say that the Li family cannot be offended?"

Huo Hai: "It's still Li Xin."

Cao Xiang was suspicious. How could there be such a story about this person who lived a hundred years ago?
Huo Hai: "You took the blame for the Qin Emperor, don't you think there is no benefit? Li Xin was named Marquis of Longxi. Do you know where Longxi is?"

Cao Xiang: "Liangzhou."

Huo Hai: "After Li Xin got the title of Marquis of Longxi, he actually started to manage Longxi, the four towns near Tianshui. Think about what His Majesty is doing this year?"

Cao Xiang thought about it for a while, and suddenly realized: "Wuwei, Jiuquan, Zhangye, Dunhuang."

At the beginning of the year, Huo Qubing traveled across the northern desert and the Hexi Corridor, destroying countless countries.

After that, Emperor Wu began to set up the four counties in the Hexi Corridor.

And Longxi is right under the Hexi Corridor.

Maybe the Li family can't help much in the establishment of the four counties in the Hexi Corridor, but if they want to make this thing fail, then it will definitely fail. Besides, how much cash flow will flow through such a large-scale expansion of territory? Shocking!

For the emperor, or for a person who aspires to rule the world, after obtaining Long, he will look to Shu, and then enter Guanzhong. The trinity of Longxi, Shu and Guanzhong will determine the world.

But for the unified dynasty, Longxi was just a waste. But it was not the case for Liu Che, who wanted to separate the tribes in the north and south of the Hexi Corridor and connect the Western Regions.

The Hexi Corridor geographically separates the north and the south, forming a road leading to the Western Regions.

Originally, the Li family had nothing to do with the imperial court, but once Liu Che formulated his policy, he was anxious to reward the Li family and move them away. If the Li family did not leave, they would expand rapidly during their expansion.

Liu Che would never allow any family to grow to the point where it could threaten the royal family! After all, the Qin King's past was here.

Liu Che was more anxious than anyone else. Every time he asked Li Guang to lead a large army to fight the Huns, so that Li Guang could quickly make achievements so that he could be granted a title of nobility and then let the Li family migrate to Li Guang's fiefdom.

But, every time, Li Guang would get lost and avoid being granted the title of nobility.

Liu Che now wanted to use the issue of conferring titles on the Li family to move them out, but he couldn't.

As long as Li Guang was granted a title of marquis and a fiefdom, wouldn’t the Li family move away?

Although Longxi is not bad, compared with those places in the heart of the Central Plains, the living environment can be said to be very poor.

As long as the Li family has a fiefdom of their own, they will definitely move.

Fortunately, Li Guang often got lost. If Li Guang had not gotten lost and was really granted the title of marquis, and had brought all the Li family members with him to his fiefdom, that would have been the end of him and the Li Tang Dynasty would have ceased to exist.

Of course, it is also possible that the Li family does not want to leave at all. They know very well that as long as the times change and the world changes, one day the emperor will have to be replaced by a new family. The Liu family has only been on this throne for less than a hundred years, and there have only been three generations in the world. It is not impossible that the country will change hands.

As long as you occupy Longxi, it means you have a ticket to the finals in the war-torn era, and it is one of the two golden legends.

As long as you hold the admission ticket and eventually succeed in conquering the world, your surname will become the mainstream surname in the long history to come, and the ultimate mission of the human gene to bring glory to the family and spread its branches and leaves will be accomplished.

At this stage, Li Guang himself didn't know whether he was unable to or didn't want to be granted a title of nobility, but he tried his best to train his son Li Gan to be granted a title of nobility.

The only problem is that Li Gan is not the head of the Li family. Even if he is granted a title of nobility, he will only separate a branch of the family instead of moving the entire family away.

Because although Li Guang had lost his first son, he still had a posthumous son, Li Ling.

It's all so convoluted and complicated.

It was already difficult for Cao Xiang to understand war in his little head, let alone politics. He was immediately confused.

Huo Hai: "In a word, no matter what the Li family does now, His Majesty will forgive them. It's useless for you to punish them. Instead, you will be hated and will backfire."

Cao Xiang scratched his head: "But if the Li family committed a crime of genocide, Your Majesty would be very happy, right?"

Huo Hai stared at Cao Xiang with eyes wide open and gave him a thumbs up: "As expected of you."

You are absolutely right!
But the Li family is not fools.

However, Huo Hai was very interested in helping the Li family move.

"We have arrived at Huo's Paper Industry."

(End of this chapter)