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Chapter 2 Qin of Tigers and Wolfs(1/2)

ps: Let me explain it in a concentrated manner. I have planned the Qi Kingdom before, but I found that I couldn’t write it. In short, the new book and new atmosphere are new. I hope everyone can support July and have some confidence in July. I don’t talk big, I just hope to write a wonderful story. Finally, I would like to recommend it!

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"Who am I? Where am I from? Where am I going?"

This is the ultimate question for considering a person. Nowadays, it is even more difficult to answer it.

In my memory, he was Zhao Mingyue, a civil servant who had lived in the new century for more than 20 years, but he was Chang'an Jun of Zhao who was in the 3rd century BC. His indeed came from the future, but tracing his genealogy and origins, 80% of them were related to the current Zhao State.

Then where is he going? Or, what is the purpose of his time travel?

People always have to find a reason to live for themselves, even if it is an excuse or a hint, so he focused on the Battle of Changping that will take place in five years.

During the Battle of Changping, Qin Wu'an Jun Bai Qi was about to kill more than 400,000 Zhao soldiers. Historical records: "Blooding is like a river, and the sound of boiling sound is like thunder!"

It was an unprecedented massacre in Chinese history and a tragedy on earth that future generations cannot forget. History has written a lot about this.

When Zhao Mingyue was in school, she sighed for this, and argued with her classmates whether Zhao Kuo was a mediocre person who talked about war on paper, and deduced how Zhao State should do in the Battle of Changping to avoid defeat. However, it was just a whim, and then she threw it aside and devoted herself to a mediocre life...

After all, it was the failure of sand and broken bricks and rubble that was a thousand years ago.

Now, when Mingyue was in the Zhao State five years before Changping, she truly felt that the war was so close to her!

Even if it is a passerby who doesn't care about one's own affairs, he cannot let this tragedy happen again and remain indifferent, right? What's more, he is now the young master of Zhao. He prospers and loses both of them. The result of Changping is related to his own interests. Once Zhao is defeated in danger, his life will be difficult...

"But what should I do?" Mingyue came first, she was weak, and she lay on the sickbed all day long, and she was watching her daily life. Because of Queen Mother Zhao's spoiling, he was grown up as a woman since childhood. She did not go out and had no close friends around her, so she was at a loss.

His worries come from this. In the following days, the indirect theme has also shifted to matters related to the Qin State.

However, the attendant palace maid has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and may have known a lot of gossip in the palace, and occasionally heard about the big and small things in Handan City. But once it rises to the relationship between the country, how could he know so much? He could no longer get the information he wanted from them.

So Mingyue began to target the eunuch Ling Miaoxian...

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The Book of Changes says: "The sky hangs on the elephant, and the saints will follow it." It is said that there are four eunuch stars next to the Heavenly Emperor Star. Therefore, since the Zhou Dynasty, the princes have set up official positions in the palace, and there are eunuchs. These people with incomplete bodies may either manage the access control in the palace as gangs, or serve as temples to manage the harem.

There were also eunuchs in Zhao State, and they also set up special officials to manage the palace gangs and temple people. This is the eunuch order, which is now held by Miao Xian.

Miao Xian is not young anymore. The old eunuch in his sixties or seventies has a yellow face, but his eyebrows are white. He is wearing soapy narrow-sleeved clothes, without any jade on his body, and his face is full of pleats. He is very kind no matter who he sees. But in the palace, except for the empress dowager, the king and the prince, everyone in the palace must respectfully greet him.

Mingyue saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart. He knew very well that this eunuch was not just a slave to the royal family of Zhao. He was a confidant of King Huiwen of Zhao. He not only organized the miscellaneous affairs in the palace, but also had his own voice in state affairs. Even King Zhao of Yan wanted to make friends with him and show kindness to him during the alliance.

Miao Xian also owned his own mansion in Handan City and kept many disciples. The famous Lin Xiangru was introduced to King Huiwen of Zhao through his own way.

Now that King Huiwen of Zhao is dead, Miao Xian is assigned by Empress Dowager Zhao. The task assigned to him is to take care of Chang'an Jun, who has just recovered from a serious illness when he is busy with government affairs. This is more important than anything for the Empress Dowager.

Although Mingyue was just a grassroots civil servant in her previous life, she had dealt with all kinds of people over the past few years. Not to mention anything else, her communication skills were not bad. He could see that once the emperor was the emperor and King Huiwen was dead. The new king Zhao Wangdan trusted the eunuchs who served him when he was the crown prince. The only one who had lost his backer was Miao Xian who could rely in the palace was the only one who could rely on, and the Queen Mother Zhao loved him the most.

With this identity, Mingyue thought that he didn't need to be a fuss. As long as he showed a little respect to Miao Xian and treated him as an old minister and a hero of Zhao State, rather than a slave, the relationship would naturally improve naturally.

"The young master asked when the old servant would enter the palace?"

After a few words were drawn close, Mingyue asked about Miao Xian’s past, and he replied with a smile: “About it, I’m afraid it’s been forty or fifty years. Then it was when King Wuling was in power. When he entered the palace, the old servant was probably about the same size as the young master…”

He suddenly stopped, slapped himself in a small mouth, and said self-deprecatingly: "I'm so confused, how dare I compare the old servant's low-key body with the young master's daughter?"

"How can eunuchs be rude to themselves?"

Mingyue quickly stopped his hand, carefully used words, and comforted him: "Although Mingyue was young, he knew that the eunuch Ling was the confidant minister of the previous king. Without your recommendation, there would be no Lin Xiangbang today, and there would be no good stories of returning Zhao and generals and ministers in Handan City. What is even more rare is that Lin Xiangbang rose up and was promoted to the Supreme Minister, and he was also Zhao Prime Minister. His title was far above the old master, but the eunuch Ling had no complaints. Mingyue thought that even General Lian Po would be ashamed! "

However, Miao Xian did not look overjoyed as he imagined, but looked at Mingyue with a steady look and suddenly said, "Young Master, the old servant has felt that since the death of the previous king, the young master has matured a lot."

This sentence made Mingyue feel worried and wondered if she had performed too much.

Fortunately, it was okay if you didn't mention King Huiwen. When he talked about him, Miao Xian's nose felt sore, and he wiped his tears again, lamenting that Haotian was unkind and that the former king could not live long...

After crying for a while, when Mingyue asked someone to hand him Ge Qian to him, Miao Xian smiled and said that fortunately, the Empress Dowager was kind, so that he could still keep this old bone in the palace and do his best to Zhao. Seeing Zhao's prosperity and peace, watching Chang'an king grow up, and when he went to the underworld, he could report to the former king with peace of mind.

Although the process was a little different from Mingyue’s imagination, after this incident, he became familiar with Miao Xian.

What surprised Mingyue was that although Miao Xian showed closeness to him, he always kept his bottom line, maintained a relationship between slaves and masters, and never surpassed the rules. In addition, when he deliberately praised Miao Xian, he looked calm and disgraceful, which made Mingyue dare not look down on him.

How could the eunuch who could stand firm for decades and stand firm and not fall into the king's heart, would he be rude to him?

But this is enough. Through Miao Xian, Mingyue learned that the king of Qin is Qin King Ji, the famous King Zhaoxiang of Qin. The mother of Qin King, Queen Mother Xuan, Mi Yue, just returned to power last year and retired to Ganquan Palace. When Queen Mother Xuan fell, the powerful "Four nobles" of Qin, Wei Ran, the King of Rang, Prince Shi of Jingyang, Mi Rong of Huayang, and Prince Shi of Gaoling, also stepped down one after another. Now the King of Qin has monopolized power and has appointed a new prime minister, Zhang Lu, a native of Wei...

"Zhang Lu?" Mingyue secretly guessed that this was probably the pseudonym of Fan Sui, who would be rewarded for his kindness and revenge for his grudges!

Fan Sui had just been appointed as prime minister, and people still don’t know his true identity, let alone what he has. After the resignation of the Marquis of Rang, the Qin people whom the six kingdoms in Shandong feared the most was Bai Qi, Wu'an Jun...

"This Wu'an Jun is amazing. In the early battle of Yique, he defeated the Han-Wei coalition forces with less than half of his troops and beheaded 240,000! He led tens of thousands of people to fight with Chu. The Chu State claimed to have a million halberds, and the area was 5,000 miles away, but it was vulnerable to his hands. Wu'an Jun raised Yan and Ying in one battle, and drowned more than 100,000 people with water to attack the city and drowned Yiling. After fighting again, the King of Chu did not even want the state. He fled to Chen in a hurry to take refuge. The Sanlu doctor of Chu State was so sad that he jumped into the water and committed suicide."

"I only heard of these two wars, but the battle in Huayang nine years ago was like what I experienced yesterday."

These days, Mingyue has never seen Miao Xian look so pale, and she also wiped the fine sweat from her forehead with her sleeve.

This tragic war in the Warring States Period, which often beheaded tens of thousands of people and killed people was greatly shocked by Mingyue, who was still thinking modern people. He couldn't help but swallow his saliva and asked, "Eunuch's Order, what happened at that time?"

"At that time, Zhao and Wei attacked Han, Qin rescued Han. Wu'anjun marched and arrived in Huayang, annihilated 130,000 Wei soldiers, captured three Wei generals alive, and Wei Xiangmangmao fled alone. Then, he defeated Zhao's general Jia Yan, tied 20,000 Zhao soldiers and sank into the turbid river, and drowned them all! When the king heard the news, he took his old servant to the riverside to look, but saw the floating corpses floating down from the upstream, and the miserable appearance, the old servant still cannot forget..."

The situation on that day must have left an indelible impression on Miao Xian. Until now, when he called Bai Qi, he did not dare to call him directly, but respectfully called him "Wu'an Jun".

Finally, Miao Xian defined the man in an unquestionable tone: "Wu'an Jun is the God of War, and he uses both military and military power. Unless Sun and Wu are born, no one in the world can surpass him!"

Who knew that Miao Xian's statement made Mingyue's hair stand on, and he felt that Bai Qi and Qin Jun's huge black figures slowly pressing towards him like mountains, making people breathless!

Bai Qi, he is really a legend living in this Warring States Period!

Miao Xian was still talking about Bai Qi in a nagging manner, but Mingyue turned her eyes away and looked at the wooden screen in front of his couch.

This object is also called "原" (yǐ), with painted painted on it, and there are murals on it. But a phoenix is ​​seen flying in the sky, flying in the clouds and fog, with light and agile body, with golden phoenix body, with red or green cloud patterns, dragon patterns and diamond patterns on the edges, just like the Zhao State where the fire is cooking oil.

But what about its future?

With his eyes down, Mingyue saw the base of the screen: the wrong gold copper tiger deer-eating screen seat, a hungry tiger's eyes wide open and his ears stand up, and was devouring a weak deer. The deer struggled desperately in the tiger's mouth, and its short tail was upturned, but it could not get out of it...

"That deer is like me, like the 400,000 Zhao soldiers who were massacred by the tiger and wolf Qin in the future Battle of Changping!"

He couldn't help but feel a little discouraged and thought to himself: "At most I know the direction of history, but I know very little about the specific details. In this era, relying on the identity of a young master, I make a little life better. It's okay to talk and laugh with various schools of thought, but I don't know anything about how to fight."

"Now that the King of Qin is in power alone, Fan Sui almost has to offer a strategy of getting along with far and near. In addition, the war god Bai Qi, the Qin war machine has been fully activated. But I am just a deep palace son, a little Fengjun with no fame and no achievements. Relying on the spoiling of Queen Mother Zhao, can I really change the end of the Battle of Changping?"

For a moment, Mingyue was a little troubled. How to help Zhao break the deadlock before the Battle of Changping became a big problem that troubled him.

Day and night, he had this in his mind. He dreamed more than once that there was scarlet blood everywhere on the Changping Killing Field. The entire Danshui River Valley was filled with corpses in Zhao Guoxu's outfits. Some were different from their bodies and heads, some were covered with arrows, and some were buried in the land with only one big thin head with eyes wide open...

He was also one of the victims buried alive, with blood pouring down his body, and his life suffocated a little bit as time passed. In the end, only a hand that desperately stretched out from the surface was left. After a thousand years, it turned into a shocking pile of bones...

"No!" After waking up from the dream, Mingyue was already sweating profusely. He knew that if he didn't find a way to solve this problem, it would always be his nightmare.

After that, the weather warmed up day by day, and February of mid-spring had arrived. Swallows pecked at the new mud and settled down under the eaves of the palace. The geese returning from the north lined up into a herringbone and crossed the blue sky of Handan City...

Standing on the pavilion and breathing fresh air, Mingyue felt that his sickly body over the past month was almost cured, but the hidden dangers in his heart were getting stronger and stronger. Five years, I really don’t have much time left for him.

However, at this moment, he was shocked to hear from Miao Xian that Qin had attacked Zhao!

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"Qin is a country of tigers and wolves, and it is the least moral. Now, taking advantage of the fact that the country of Zhao has not yet ended, we have sent a large army to attack us and have already captured the three border cities."

Now that Qin and Zhao are in a hostile relationship, Miao Xian has never had any good feelings for Qin, and he is even more resentful of the Qin people coming to attack during the funeral of the previous kings.

Mingyue’s most sensitive thing is the Qin and Zhao war. He was afraid of changes in history and let the Battle of Changping happen in advance. He immediately asked: “Eunuch’s Order, when did this happen?”

"Twenty days ago, it was the time when the young master was ill."

Seeing Mingyue showing a worry, Miao Xian thought it was not good. If the empress dowager came back and saw Chang'an Jun like this, he would be afraid of blaming him. He quickly smiled and comforted him: "Young Master, don't worry, the empress dowager has sent an envoy to Qi State for help. As long as Qi State sends troops, the Qin people will naturally retreat."

Mingyue was stunned: "The Empress Dowager asked for help from Qi State?"

"Yes, it's very convenient to get from Handan to Linzi. If the horse express train is short, it will take ten days or half a month, and the messenger will return."

"Oh no!" Mingyue cursed herself in her heart and was attracted by the Battle of Changping five years later, but she forgot about the big things that were close to him and were closely related to him.

The beginning of a text I learned in middle school came to his mind.

"Empress Zhao is new and Qin is attacking him urgently. Zhao asked for help from Qi, and Qi said: "The Lord of Chang'an must be the commander, and the troops will come out!"

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Things that have happened over the past month have emerged one by one. It was because of the shock that Qin attacked Zhao this time, and the historical incident in which Zhao asked for help from Qi was likely to affect him. Mingyue reported the conditions of Qi to the Empress Dowager on the day when the envoy of Zhao State returned, she persuaded and asked Miao Xian to take him to Fengtai where the Empress Dowager was in charge of the political affairs.

Miao Xianao was not only him, so he had to agree.

The so-called "Tai" is a common building of the palaces of the emperor of the Qin Dynasty and princes. It uses rammed earth as the foundation, making the building higher than the surface and shines everywhere, highlighting the unattainable heights of the meat eaters and making them proud of the humble rooms in the inner and inner chambers. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there were Zhanghuatai of the Chu State, the Lu Sleeping Platform of Qi State, and the Xintai of the Wei State. Later, the three families divided the Jin Dynasty, and the Zhao family was listed as princes. After moving the capital to Handan, they began to build large-scale buildings, so the Taixi Palaces were naturally indispensable.

The Royal City of Zhao is located in the southwest of Handan. It is separated from the main urban area called "Dabei City" by a moat and a wall. It is the administrative center of the entire Zhao State. The royal palace is divided into three areas: the east, west and north, three small cities in the shape of Pin, which are mutually supporting.

Among them, the North City is the garden of King Zhao. Here, dig soil and dig ponds, plant trees to form forests, and raise many flowers, plants, deer, and other animals. The deer sings and eats wild apples. The spring breeze swept across the pond forest and brushes people's faces, which is extremely warm.

Xicheng is called "Longtai", which is mainly the main hall and Mingtang ancestral temple of the State of Zhao, and is a place where the dynasty meetings and various ceremonies and sacrifices are held.

The East City, separated by a wall from the West City, is called "Fengtai", which is the harem of King Zhao. During the special period when Empress Dowager Zhao was regent, the main hall of Fengtai became her office space, and important officials of Zhao State were able to enter here and ask the Empress Dowager for state affairs.

Fengtai is a building complex with eight zhang high platform as the core. Mingyue, as the prince's prince, was the king. After the new king ascended the throne, he should have moved out of Zhao Palace, but because he was sick and bedridden at the funeral of King Huiwen of Zhao, he was left in the palace by Queen Mother Zhao, and lived near Fengtai. He trotted over but was not far away.

An eunuch ordered the Taoist path, and with his identity as Chang'an Jun, he was unobstructed all the way and entered the inner room separated from the Fengtai main hall.

Through the curtain, Mingyue heard the sound in the hall...

Sure enough, the token that Qi asked Zhao State for was his Chang'an Jun!

Later, Lin Xiangru's analysis of the current situation and the country's lack of relations, and the ministers' request to the empress dowager to put the country first and give up the Chang'an king to Qi as a qualifier, and one by one came to his ears. Pingyuan king and Lian Po, these people were the generals and ministers of Zhao, the pillars of Zhao, and were also the figures who played an important role in the Battle of Changping five years later.
To be continued...
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