After being choked to death by a copper coin, she became a demon Jin Ji in the other world

[The data says that the first coins were minted around 222 BC. Where should we find them now? ]

[Let's go to Liaodong Peninsula. That's the last territory of Yan State. It's also the place where the coins are cast. Let's try our luck there. If we're lucky, we can capture the coin monster from the casting material. If not, we'll have to wait a little longer.]

Shen Yuelan and others spent about two years exploring the local copper mines, but did not find any trace of the Yihua demon. Considering that the casting material of the Mingdao demon was found by them in Shu, it is not ruled out that the casting material of the Yihua demon also came from other places.

But if this is the case, Shen Yuelan and others will have a headache, because it is unlikely that the battle will be ended in a short period of time, and they will have to stay here for another two years. After all, Yan State is the second to last to be destroyed.

In fact, the war of unification had already begun. The year they just arrived in Yan, Han had already perished. There was a reason why Han was the first to perish. It was the smallest among the seven countries, but its geographical location was the most important.

It blocked Qin's route to the east through Hangu Pass. If Qin wanted to conquer the six states, it had to conquer Han first, which led to continuous wars between the two countries. Even though Han had expressed its willingness to be a vassal state of Qin, it was still not let go by the Qin Empire.

In the 230th year of King Zheng of Qin and the th year of King An of Han ( BC), King Zheng of Qin sent General Nei Shi Teng of Qin to lead troops to launch a general attack on the Kingdom of Han. The Kingdom of Han was unable to resist, and the Qin army conquered its capital and captured King An of Han. The Kingdom of Han was thus destroyed.

From 403 BC when King Weilie of Zhou officially recognized Han, Wei and Zhao as vassal states, to 230 BC when the Kingdom of Han was destroyed, it lasted 173 years. There were 13 monarchs in total, the last five of whom were kings, and the kingdom lasted 104 years.

Qin's second target was Zhao, which was also one of the Three Jins. In the 230th year of King Zheng of Qin and the th year of King Qian of Zhao ( BC), a severe drought and earthquake occurred in Zhao. Qin launched a large-scale attack on Zhao the following year.

Although the Qin army fought hard, the outcome was still a draw with the Zhao army. King Zheng of Qin and his advisers believed that Li Mu was responsible for the two failures of Qin's attacks on Zhao. Since they could not win militarily, they decided to use a counter-espionage strategy.

The Qin people spent a large sum of money to bribe Zhao Wangqian's favorite minister Guo Kai, and let Guo Kai slander Li Mu and Sima Shang in front of Zhao Wangqian, accusing them of attempting to rebel.

King Qian of Zhao believed the slander and dismissed Li Mu and Sima Shang, and appointed Zhao Cong and Yan Ju as commanders of the Zhao army. He mistakenly killed Li Mu, destroyed the Great Wall and paved the way for Qin to conquer Zhao.

In the 228th year of King Zheng of Qin ( BC), Zhao Cong and Yan Ju fought for several months but were eventually defeated by Qin general Wang Jian and had to retreat to Handan. At this time, Zhao Xiang Guo Kai began to play a role again.

It was he who, for his own selfish reasons, repeatedly persuaded King Zhao to surrender, causing King Zhao to lose his fighting spirit and finally order the city to open and surrender to the Qin army. It can be said that if it were not for Guo Kai's obstruction, the outcome of the battle between Qin and Zhao would be still unknown.

After the Qin State captured Handan, Prince Jia fled to Dai and proclaimed himself king, known as King Jia of Dai. In 222 BC, the Qin general Wang Ben captured Dai City, and King Jia of Dai committed suicide, and the Zhao State was completely destroyed.

From 403 BC when King Weilie of Zhou officially recognized Han, Wei and Zhao as princes, to 222 BC when the State of Zhao was destroyed, it lasted 181 years. The State of Zhao had 11 monarchs in succession, the last six of whom were kings, and the kingdom lasted 101 years.

Of course, it was 228 BC at this moment. As far as the situation was concerned, the State of Zhao was not completely finished, but after losing the population and land of Zhao, the State of Zhao had basically lost the ability to make a comeback.

[Although I am the King of the Former Qin State and I am very happy to see the grand spectacle of Qin State conquering the six states, Guo Kai is really not a good person. Even though he has helped Qin State a lot, he must not be kept.]

[He can betray his motherland today, and he can betray Daqin at any time tomorrow. How can we let such a lowly person live in this world! ! ]

Chapter 272: Death of Guo Kai

It seems that Ying Mengze really dislikes Guo Kai. Shen Yuelan doesn't know whether Ying Zheng likes this person, but he did give Guo Kai the title of Shangqing.

As for Guo Kai's final outcome, there is no record in official history, so there are many different opinions. There are currently three main theories.

One is that he was killed by the Qin people. Because Guo Kai did not restrain himself in Qin State, he was still greedy for pleasure, cheated and deceived, and his villain nature was exposed. As a result, he offended the ministers of Qin State, so he was killed.

The second was that he was killed by thieves. Guo Kai left a large amount of gold and silver treasures in Zhao State, so he wanted to return to Handan, the capital of Zhao State, to retrieve his wealth, but in the process of transporting the wealth, he encountered robbers who not only robbed Guo Kai's treasures, but also stabbed him twice.

The third was that he was killed by the people of Zhao. Guo Kai betrayed Zhao, and Prince Jia fled to Dai County and was very angry, so he organized a group of assassins and sent them to Qin to assassinate Guo Kai.

The long historical novel "Records of the Warring States Period" mainly adopts the second theory of the thief. What's interesting is that no matter which theory is true, Guo Kai could not escape death, which shows his image in the hearts of the people.

Shen Yuelan and others heard a rumor that was a mixture of the thieves' story and the story told by the people of Zhao.

[It is said that Lord Jianxin Guo Kai served in the State of Zhao for more than 20 years and served as prime minister of two dynasties. During his tenure, he used his power to plunder a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry and buried them in the basement of the prime minister's mansion.

After he became an official in the Qin State, he had always been thinking about this wealth. Later, with the approval of the King of Qin, he personally took more than a hundred servants to the old house in Handan to dig for treasures, filling four full carts.

Guo Kai planned to transport these treasures back to Xianyang, present part of them to the King of Qin, use part of them to bribe high-ranking officials of the Qin Dynasty, and use the rest to build mansions and keep slaves.

But unfortunately, on the way back to Xianyang, the caravan encountered a group of vicious robbers, and more than a hundred of his servants were killed.

These people stripped Guo Kai naked, then tied him to a big tree. Thousands of people took turns cutting his body while shouting "Revenge for General Li!" In the end, Guo Kai was cut until only bones and a pool of blood were left.

It is said that this group of people were Li Mu's subordinates. In order to avenge Li Mu, they sent people to infiltrate Guo Kai's mansion to act as spies.

After obtaining accurate information about Guo Kai's departure, they set an ambush on his way back, killed people and seized treasures, avenged General Li Mu, and then left with four carts of treasures.

[Humph, he deserves it. This kind of person who has no king or father and whose personal morals are corrupt deserves to die miserably. This great-grandson of mine is still responsible and knows that he should not continue to live.]

[Huh? Mengze, how do you know this is Zhao Zheng's work? ]

[Humph, do you really think it's that easy to get hold of the movements of such a high-ranking official? Without the Qin court's tacit approval, who can hurt Guo Kai at this juncture? ]

[I see. It seems that I was too kind to Guo Kai in the branch history. I killed him with just one sword. It's a pity that he didn't get to be cut into pieces.]

[Humph, I didn’t know about this at the beginning. If I knew, I would definitely recommend the various criminal laws of the Qin State. By the way, I heard that the Qin army has recently arrived at the border of the Yan State? ]

[Yes, who made Yan and Zhao border each other? It is said that the king of Yan and his ministers were in a state of panic all day long. After all, they watched helplessly as Qin wiped out the Three Jins and was about to attack them, but they had no way to do anything. Anyone would be afraid. ]

Under such high pressure, Prince Dan of Yan finally came up with a stupid move, a desperate assassination attempt, which is the famous "Jing Ke Assassinating the King of Qin" in history. It happened in 227 BC, which was the next year.

[Hmph, if I were to ask you, even if he succeeded, what would happen? The Qin Dynasty's annihilation of the six kingdoms was not the will of Zheng'er alone, but the will of the entire Qin Dynasty. If he killed a Qin king, he could only delay the war for a year or two at most, not to mention that the assassination attempt failed.]

[Yes, but King Zheng of Qin almost died at the hands of Jing Ke, which directly led to the Qin army turning its guns and attacking the State of Yan. In 226 BC, the Qin army captured the Yan capital Ji.]

[Yan Wangxi and Prince Dan fled to Liaodong County, which is where we are. It is said that Qin General Li Xin led thousands of Qin troops to chase Prince Dan to the vicinity of Hunhe River. Prince Dan survived by hiding in the water.]

[Haha, this bastard dared to do it but not take the responsibility. He assassinated my great-grandson and didn't dare to bear the consequences. Instead, he wanted his motherland to pay the price for it. This is truly a cowardly act. He deserves to be stabbed in the back by his father! ]

King Xi of Yan, who fled to the Liaohe River Basin, believed that the Qin army's attack on Yan was entirely caused by Prince Dan's assassination conspiracy, and that the disaster of the country's destruction started with the prince. King Jia of Dai also advised the King of Yan to kill Prince Dan and offer his head to Qin in order to seek peace.

So King Xi of Yan killed Prince Dan and offered his head to ask for peace, but the Qin army did not stop its military attack on him. The Qin army pursued the remnants of Yan all the way to Liaodong. Due to the remoteness of the place and its little impact on the overall situation, Qin immediately transferred its troops to the war against Wei and Chu.

Three years later, Qin's war against Wei and Chu ended in victory. The Qin army turned its guns again and attacked Liaodong and Daijun. King Xi of Yan was captured and King Jia of Dai committed suicide. The State of Yan was destroyed.

Since 1044 BC, when King Wu of Zhou conquered the Shang Dynasty, he granted Ji Xie the land of Yan, and the kingdom lasted for 222 years until the demise of the State of Yan in 822 BC. There were 44 monarchs in Yan, the last eight of whom were kings, and the kingdom lasted for 8 years.

[So, Your Majesty, Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Qin will happen next year, and the Yan court will be beaten to our side the year after. Can we make some preparations in advance? ]

[Well, I think so, but actually, we just need to wait for the coin minting workshop of Yan State to move here and then keep an eye on it.]

[Eh? Is it that simple? I thought we were going to have to fight.]

[Easy? Then we'll leave the arrest to our King Zhaoxiang, how about that? ]

[Although I am glad that you still remember my identity, please do not address me as King Zhaoxiang. That is a posthumous title given to me by later generations. How can it be used to address me while I am still alive?]

[Ah, yes, yes, I think it’s more impressive to call you this. The name Mengze sounds like a girl’s name.]

[Humph, you gave me this name, and now you're disgusted with it. I don't even feel disgusted.]

[Okay, okay, don't be angry. It's still early. How about we go fishing on the Bohai Sea? And take a look at the fishing village. ]

[Hey! Hey! Lan, is it the fishing village you want to see? You're thinking about that girl, right?]

[Alas, Su Yi, has anyone ever told you that you should see through things but not speak them out? I really want to take a look at that girl. After all, I don’t know when I will be back in this era.]

[But...she had already left...the day we met.]

[I know, I know, I just want to see her again, even if there is nothing there.]

Chapter 273: Things Are Different and People Are Changed

That small fishing village, after thirty years of wind and rain, has long been deserted, with broken walls and black crows' bones all over the ground. The wind and snow from the northern frontier have gradually buried the place, leaving only a broken wall still standing stubbornly.

Shen Yuelan had thought about the fact that things and people have changed, but she never expected that just thirty years would be enough to destroy a once prosperous village. Yes, that's thirty years. How many thirty years does a person have in his lifetime? It was difficult for the ancients to live for a whole sixty years.

Although Shen Yuelan and the others would not be frozen to death even if they wore thin Warring States skirts, they still wore winter clothes made from Hun coats to suit the occasion.

When they set out, the weather was still warm, so they planned to go to the beach for a few days. However, they never expected that in just a few days, the whole Liaodong had entered winter.

[Alas, since I left the Song Dynasty, I rarely pay attention to the four seasons. When I was at the Xiaopo Temple with Lao Zhao and the others, I still paid attention to these things. When did I start to become so detached from the world? ]

[What your Majesty said, I have also felt a little bit in the past thirty years. At the beginning, I also planned to live a serious life. Spring passed and autumn came, and I lived with Zhao Ji. Now I think that those years were the happiest days for me.]

[But after watching Zhao Ji enter Qin, I felt that time passed so quickly. Although I did a lot of things in the process, I felt that everything was so illusory, like clouds and smoke, elusive and incomprehensible.]

[It was like a dream, which made me want to explore the difference between the long-lived species and the short-lived species. Although I tried again and again, I still couldn't figure it out. ]

[Hahaha, I sometimes think about this question, but I think that the so-called immortal species is just that, it's just that their lifespan is relatively long. A person's life is one life, so isn't an ant's life also one life? ]

[It is true that it is refreshing to go from a so-called short-lived species to a long-lived species, but the feeling in the end is the same, it is just that more time is wasted, there is nothing to be happy about. ]

While Lu Zhiwei was having a brief philosophical discussion with Shen Yuelan, Su Yi and Ying Mengze were thinking about how to do winter fishing at the beach. Winter fishing requires drilling a hole in the frozen sea.

But the two had an argument about where to dig the hole. Su Yi thought that there would be more fish in deeper places in the sea, while Ying Mengze preferred to dig a nest by the sea because it felt safer that way.

[What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of drowning? ]

[Of course I'm afraid of drowning. That's the sea, and I can't swim.]

[Alas, you won't drown even if you sink to the bottom of the sea. How can a demon like you die so easily? Oh, you haven't seen the bottom of the sea yet, right? I'll take you down there to have some fun when I have time.]

[I have never seen what kind of scenery there is under the sea, and I really want to see what it is like there, but it is a bit cold now. Although the body of a demon girl will not be frozen to death or drowned easily, it will still feel cold. ]

[It's okay. It's only the first few dozen meters above the surface that will be cold. It's very warm below. We can go to the deep sea to catch some seafood. I guarantee that they are all the ones you have never seen or eaten before.]

[Is that so? Then let's go down and take a look. If anything unexpected happens, Sister Su Yi, you must save me.]

[Don't worry, nothing will go wrong. I'll take care of any problems. ]

At Su Yi's instigation, Ying Mengze dived into the deep sea with her. Shen Yuelan noticed this on the shore. At that time, she was talking with Lu Zhiwei about the destruction of several other countries, so she did not stop it.

[Now that Han has been destroyed, Yan and Zhao have virtually perished, only Wei, Qi and Chu remain among the six states in Shandong. Wei is weak and cannot bear the burden of fighting against Qin. Even Daliang may be the next state to be destroyed.]

【Zhiwei was right. After Zhao was destroyed by Qin, Qin wanted to go south to destroy Chu, but there was still Wei in between. Even though Wei only had some cities near the capital Daliang, it was still an obstacle to Qin's advance.】

[Haha, given the geographical location of Wei, when it was strong, it was the hub of the world, but when it was weak, it was a place of war on all sides. It was defeated by Qi in the east, lost to Qin in the west, and humiliated by Chu in the south. In addition, it had been fighting for years, and it had long been unable to make ends meet.]

In the 225nd year of King Zheng of Qin and the rd year of King Jia of Wei ( BC), Qin sent troops to attack the Wei capital Daliang. The commander of the Qin army, Wang Ben, believed that the walls of Daliang were strong and difficult to capture in a short period of time.

So he followed Bai Qi's example and diverted water from the Yellow River and the Honggou Canal to flood the city of Daliang. Three months later, the city wall collapsed, King Jia of Wei surrendered, but was killed by Wang Ben, and the State of Wei was destroyed.

From 403 BC when King Weilie of Zhou officially recognized Han, Wei and Zhao as princes, to 225 BC when the State of Wei was destroyed, it lasted for 178 years. The State of Wei had eight monarchs in succession, the last six of whom were kings, and the kingdom lasted for 8 years.

[This was the case with Wei, and Qi as well. None of these great Central Plains states that were granted fiefdoms by the Zhou Dynasty in the early years could survive to the end.]

[To put it bluntly, they are all surrounded by enemies. When they are strong, it's okay, but when they are weak, anyone can bite them. The tolerance rate is too low. The remaining powerful countries are mostly border countries. Even if they are weak for a while, there are mountains and rivers. The worst that can happen is that they can just run to the border.]

[Indeed, land and population are also a problem. The land of the Central Plains is so small, and the population it can support is so small. If it is lost, it is really gone. However, Qin, Chu and other countries can expand westward and southward. As long as there is land, there is no need to worry about lack of population.]

[However, there are also some strange ones, such as Qi, which had more than 70 cities and surrendered without even fighting. The king and queen really taught their son a good lesson. ]

After the Yan army destroyed Qi, Qi was severely weakened and no longer had the strength to participate in the political and military struggles between the eastern countries and Qin.

During the war when the Qin army was destroying Zhao, Han, Yan, Wei, and Chu, Qi State remained aloof and watched the countries perish. Even at the critical moment of the Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao, when Zhao requested military aid from Qi, the state sat back and watched.

A Qi minister with far-sighted political vision once said to the King of Qi: "Moreover, Zhao and Qi and Chu are a shield, just like the lip of a tooth. If the lip is lost, the tooth will be cold. If Zhao is destroyed today, Qi and Chu will be in trouble tomorrow." He strongly advocated actively supporting Zhao.

However, King Jian of Qi did not accept this strategically far-sighted suggestion. Although the various vassal states united to fight against Qin several times, Qi avoided participating or participated in the wars ineffectively.

King Jian of Qi had been on the throne for more than 40 years. He was incompetent and the Prime Minister of Qi, Hou Sheng, was a greedy person. The State of Qin had bribed Hou Sheng with large sums of money for many years. Hou Sheng served Qin's strategy of making friends with distant countries and attacking nearby ones, and he persuaded King Jian of Qi to submit to Qin all day long.

When the Qin army was at the gates of the city, the Qi people had lost all their fighting spirit. Their level of disgust was comparable to that of Guo Kai. Therefore, even though Qi still owned more than 70 cities when Qin conquered the six kingdoms, it was still vulnerable.

In the 221th year of the reign of Emperor Zheng of Qin ( BC), the army led by Qin general Wang Ben suddenly launched an attack on the northern border of Qi from the southern part of Yan, and headed straight for the Qi capital Linzi.

However, Qi was caught completely unprepared and had no soldiers to fight. Under the persuasion of Qi's prime minister Hou Sheng, King Jian of Qi, who owned more than 70 cities, surrendered without a fight. Qi was thus destroyed, and King Jian himself was sent to Gongdi, where he starved to death among the pines and cypresses.

Since 1046 BC, when King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty, he granted Taigong Wang Lu Shang the land of Qi, and the kingdom lasted for 221 years until the demise of Qi in 825 BC. Qi had 40 monarchs, including 32 from the Jiang family and 8 from the Tian family. The last 5 of them became kings, and the kingdom lasted for 113 years.

Chapter 274 Deep Sea Deduction

The depths of the sea were much quieter than Ying Mengze had imagined. Only the sounds of flowing water and bubbles could be heard from time to time. That was Su Yi chasing after their dinner for today.

Dozens of meters below the surface of the ocean, there is still a glimmer of light. You can see some schools of fish swimming in the sea in search of food, and occasionally there are a few large predators wandering around them.

However, these unlucky guys will soon be killed by the fierce Su Yi and taken back to be their food for tonight, but Su Yi is still not satisfied. She begins to pull Ying Mengze towards the deeper part of the sea.

This was a place that the sisters had visited many times thirty years ago, so they were very familiar with it, just like being at home. However, Ying Mengze had a completely different feeling.

In the deep sea, there was no longer a trace of light, nor any sound. The world seemed to have disappeared, and everything returned to the starting point. Ying Mengze had never had this feeling before. If death had feelings, it must be similar to it now.

As the former king of Qin, she was naturally very concerned about the fate of her country. The war of Qin's conquest of the six states and other wars seemed to her to be minor fights. The only one that made her sweat was the war of Qin's conquest of Chu.

After Qin annexed Han, destroyed Zhao, defeated Yan, and pacified Wei, it immediately launched a large-scale attack on Chu. At that time, Chu was still a big country in the south, owning a vast area east of Dongting Lake and south of the Central Plains. It still had the strength needed to compete with Qin.

King Zheng of Qin was dazzled by several consecutive victories at that time and underestimated his opponent. In addition, he was interested in training new people. He believed that Qin general Li Xin, who had pursued Prince Dan of Yan at Yanshui with thousands of soldiers and won the victory, was an ideal general to lead troops to attack Chu.

So he entrusted them with important tasks, and asked Wang Jian and Li Xin separately how many soldiers they would need if they were to attack Chu. Li Xin replied that 200,000 would be enough, while Wang Jian believed that 600,000 would be necessary to defeat Chu.

The young and energetic Qin Wang Zheng did not like the old general Wang Jian's opinion, but liked Li Xin's opinion. He immediately said to the two of them: "General Wang is old, why are you so cowardly! General Li is indeed brave and his words are true."

Seeing that he was not welcomed, Wang Jian claimed to be ill and retired, returning to Pingyang. Li Xin was appointed commander of the Qin army, and together with Meng Tian, he led 200,000 troops and was responsible for the attack on the State of Chu.

Li Xin concentrated his forces in Yingchuan County. In view of the fact that the border between Qin and Chu was mostly plains with no strategic locations, he believed that the purpose of this battle was to annihilate Chu's field troops.

Li Xin judged that when the Qin army attacked the Chu State, the Chu army would concentrate its forces on both sides of the Ru River in order to resist the Qin army's attack, and then decided to adopt a two-wing pincer attack to encircle and annihilate the Chu army.

It was decided that a part of the army would be commanded by Meng Tian, advancing along the Ru River to attack the Chu army from the front. The main force would be commanded by Li Xin himself, intending to bypass the left wing of the Chu army from the south of the Ru River, join forces with Meng Tian's army, surround the Chu army, and annihilate it.

After eliminating the resistance of the Chu border troops, the Qin army launched attacks on Qincheng and Pingyu in the north and south of the Ru River respectively according to the original plan. Li Xin's army occupied Pingyu, and Meng Tian's army occupied Qincheng. After occupying the two cities, they continued to cross the Hong River and advance eastward.