Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 542 Emperor Shenmu
Xiang Yu, who had his own ideas, did not choose the two paths given by Ziying in the end. Ashamed and angry, he snatched a long sword from a guard and ended his life.

As soon as Xiang Yu died, the remaining forces of the Chu State immediately collapsed under the offensive of the Qin army, and the world that had been in chaos for five years was once again unified in the hands of the third emperor Ziying.

This year is the second year of the third emperor.

Although it is along the Huaihe River at this time, there is already a lot of chill in the air, and it is already the end of autumn and the beginning of winter.

However, just as everyone was immersed in the joy of Qin's victory over Chu and finally reunifying the country, a battle report from Yan came to Gaixia with the chill of the North.

Strictly speaking, this is the good news of a big victory.

Although the Xiongnu occupied five cities of the Qin army before, and the Qin army lost [-] people in battle, no less than [-] Donghu people died under the city.

In the final bloody battle in Juyang, the Donghu people left [-] to [-] corpses, while the Xiongnu's [-] elite basically did not escape many people in Juyang.

In the battle of Yandi, more than [-] Qin troops were killed, more than [-] Donghu people died, and the [-] elite Xiongnu were basically lost.

However, Ziying knew that the result of the battle was the result of the determination of the military god Li Mu and five thousand soldiers of the Qin army to burn their bodies with fire.

After all, the grasslands in the north are the confidant of the Chinese nation!

Ziying tightly grasped the battle report and looked at the north and thought.

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Although Ziying had already decided to settle the grassland issue, he was not in a hurry. At this moment, the cold winter was coming soon. In this era when there was no cotton, it was not a good idea to go north to fight on the grassland in winter.

Of course, Ziying didn't do nothing. With the pacification of the South, the main force of the Qin army had begun to slowly move north under Ziying's dispatch.

According to the battle report, Mouton had already died under the city of Juyang. After Mouton died, the main force of the Huns was over, and the form of the grassland can be imagined.

The strength of the Xiongnu was greatly weakened and the dragons had no leader. The Yuezhi and Donghu people who had been conquered by the Huns would never let go of such a good opportunity.

Livestock on the grasslands are usually fattened and grassed in autumn, but this autumn the grasslands have spent time in the two-front war with Daqin.

It doesn't matter if the war goes well and enough food is plundered from the Great Qin this winter, but the Huns warriors who went south were almost wiped out.

At this time, not only did the livestock not fatten up on the grassland, nor did they accumulate enough forage for the winter.

In order to survive, even wars on the grassland in the cold winter may be indispensable. When the spring is warm next year and the strength of the tribes on the grassland is almost exhausted, it will be almost time for Daqin to move into the Central Plains.

Just when Ziying was about to return to Xianyang, a group of uninvited guests delayed Ziying's footsteps.

After Qin Jun captured Kuaiji County, Xiang Yu's hometown, he accidentally rescued a group of "foreign friends".

According to him, they came from the other side of Lelang Sea, and came to seek help from the Lord of the Kingdom.

On the other side of Le Langhai, Ziying's first reaction was Fusang, which is a certain island country today. You must know that Ziying always thought that the kid from Xushi had gone to Japan with three thousand virgins.

Ziying never forgot about it.

If this team of envoys really came from Fusang, it would be a good time to know whether Xu Shi has gone to Japan.

And since they were able to reach Middle-earth smoothly, maybe these people hold the sea chart from Middle-earth to Japan in their hands.

You must know that Japanese envoys were recorded from time to time in the Han Dynasty. "Hanshu·Dizhi" records that "there are Japanese people in the sea of ​​waves... to present at the time of age".It can be seen that Japan has had relatively close exchanges with the Han Dynasty.

At this time, although there is no record of exchanges between the two places in the history books, it cannot be denied that Zhongtu and Fusang have no connection, and maybe they will be chopped up when they come.

Isn't this group of people rescued by Qin Jun from the prison in Chu State? If it was a little later, these people might have gone to see their great god.

Ziying immediately ordered the team to be sent to Gaixia.

Gaixia was not far from Kuaiji, and five days later this team of "foreign envoys" was brought before Ziying.

To be honest, the image of this group of people also surprised Ziying. As an envoy sent to represent the image of the country, they look good, but Ziying's first reaction when seeing these people is that they are not from Fusang. It's from Lilliputian.

The average height of these envoys is probably only about 1.5 meters at most, and the envoy standing at the front is already a well-deserved "giant" in this group of people with a height of nearly 1.6 meters.

"The envoys of the Izumo Kingdom greet His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor!" Seeing Ziying's team of envoys, they saluted Ziying directly.

What surprised Ziying was that Zhengshi actually spoke the language of Middle Earth. Although the tone of voice was a little strange, but if you listen carefully, you can hear it clearly.

And obviously on the way here, some etiquette, including the address for Ziying, should have been introduced to these people by the officers and soldiers of the Qin army.

Ziying of the Izumo Kingdom has a slight impression in his memory. It seems that this country is an ancient country in Japanese legend.

So much so that it can be confirmed that these envoys are really from Japan.

"Your country is far away overseas, and your envoy can learn Qin Yin, can you clear up my confusion?" Ziying asked directly.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the words of my ministers are learned from my ancestors." The envoy explained politely: "The Zhou Dynasty collapsed, and the princes fought for hundreds of years. Most of the people of the Shang Kingdom avoided disaster overseas. Gao Min', my ancestors also drifted across the sea to Izumo more than a hundred years ago.

Today, in the hundreds of countries in Fusang, most of the kings are descendants of Gaomin, and learning Qin dialect is the most important thing. "

After listening to the envoy's narration, Ziying finally understood that during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, some ordinary people who couldn't make it through the chaotic wars of various countries and even the Qing doctors crossed the sea to flee overseas to seek a living, and some of them fled to today's Japan.

Compared with the local or even uncivilized indigenous people, these people naturally mastered more advanced production technology. Over the course of hundreds of years of development, they gradually formed more than a hundred miniature countries by gathering the indigenous people.

Among them, those who dominated the Central Plains were those who crossed the sea back then. This Zhengshi was able to grow to a height of nearly 1.6 meters, probably because he was the descendant of the original "Gaomin".

However, compared with the large number of indigenous people, those people are a minority group after all, and it is estimated that after a few generations of intermarriage, they will all be the same.

"What do you want to do when you come to Daqin?" Ziying continued to ask.

As soon as Ziying said this, the envoy suddenly became excited.

Kneeling down on the ground with a plop, he said to Ziying, "I beg the emperor of Shangguo to save me from Izumo Kingdom. I, Izumo Kingdom, wish to be a vassal of Great Qin from generation to generation!"

As he spoke, he took out a roll of bamboo slips from his bosom, and was about to stand up and present it to Ziying.

"Stop!" The guard on the side immediately stepped forward with a sword to block the way of the envoy.

The sword is out of its sheath.

Ever since Jingke's assassination of Qin happened, the guards of Daqin were a little sensitive to these envoys who tried to get close to the emperor.

Seeing the ferocious guards of the Qin army holding swords in front of him, the envoy was a little terrified, not knowing what happened.

Seeing this, Ziying knew that the guards were also loyal to their duties, so he gave a little signal, and the eunuch at the side went to fetch the letter of credence from the envoy's hand, and handed it to Ziying.

Ziying opened it and saw that the content was similar to what the envoy said. It was nothing more than that the Izumo Kingdom was attacked by a group of extremely powerful "high people" and hoped to get assistance from the Shang Kingdom. vassal of the country.

A group of "high people" are attacking Izumo country.From the previous envoy's narration, Ziying already knew that "Gaomin" is Fusang's name for the Central Plains people who traveled eastward. Could it be that the words of a large group of "Gaomin" are...

"Do you know who those high-ranking people are?" Ziying continued to ask.

The envoy obviously hadn't recovered from the shock just now, and replied tremblingly: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I don't know the background of these people in Fusang, but these people have been counted since they landed in Fusang more than ten years ago. Thousands of people, but most of them are children.

At the beginning, it only occupied a small area along the coast, but after the children he brought grew up these years, they began to expand on a large scale, and almost half of the Fusang Kingdom was wiped out by him. "

"Is the leader of that group called Xu Fu?" The envoy asked at this point, Ziyingda had at least confirmed the identities of those who traveled east to Japan, so he interrupted the envoy's narration.

"How does Your Majesty know?" Ziying suddenly revealed the identity of the team, which surprised the envoy.

Could it be that that team has something to do with the Great Qin Emperor in front of him, so wouldn't it be a case of his coming here?

"You just need to answer me, don't you?" Ziying continued to ask.

Hearing Ziying's question without much emotion, the envoy did not dare to hide and replied honestly:
"Yes, according to the rumors, the leader of that group is named Xu Fu. He has the ability to move mountains and seas and summon wind and rain. He claims to be the emperor sent by the gods of Gao Tianyuan to rule the earth. He will eventually become the emperor of the earth, so his subordinates call him that. For Emperor Jimmu.

His army claims to bring peace to the Fuso Hundred Kingdoms, so it calls itself the Yamato Army. "

(End of this chapter)