Wu'an Jun reappeared after more than ten years and wiped out Southern Chu within half a year, causing an uproar throughout the country.
Prince Chu of Qin beat his chest and stamped his feet: "Why didn't I use Wu'an Jun earlier!"
Cai Ze said: "Wu'an Jun is in poor health. You employed him early. Do you want to see him off to the grave early?"
Prince Chu of Qin immediately stopped beating his chest and stamping his feet.
Cai Ze sighed and said, "With the Southern Chu Kingdom as Wu'an Jun's burial object, Wu'an Jun should be relieved."
Qin Prince Chu thought about it and sighed, "It may be enough in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of Wu'an Jun, it is still not enough if we have not destroyed the State of Chu."
Cai Ze thought about it and said, "That's right."
Prince Chu of Qin said: "I have decided to go to Nanchu to see Bai Qi off."
Cai Ze frowned: "Your illness is not yet cured."
Qin Wang Zichu smiled and said, "It's an old problem. It's just a cough caused by the cold weather. It will be better when the weather warms up."
But you've been coughing for longer this year, Cai Ze thought to himself.
He thought that Lin Zhi stayed in Yanmen, Yunzhong and Jiuyuan to appease the Zhao people, and he was too busy to control Zichu. With Zhu Xiang in Nanchu, it might be better for Zichu's health.
Southern Chu is just south of the Huai River and not too far from the State of Qin, so it would be no big deal for Zichu to go there.
Cai Ze said: "Okay, take care, Your Majesty."
Prince Chu of Qin said, "Let Cai Qing take charge of Xianyang."
Cai Ze rolled his eyes fiercely: "I'm tired of hearing this."
Qin Wang Zichu laughed: "Hahahahahaha."
In 245 BC, the sixth year of the reign of Prince Chu of Qin, the Qin army had destroyed the Kingdom of Han and the Kingdom of Southern Chu, and captured the three counties of Yanmen, Yunzhong and Jiuyuan of the State of Zhao. The results were so fruitful that they were chilling.
People all say that since King Zhaoxiang of Qin, Qin has produced another tiger-like and wolf-like ruler, and the world is in danger.
The Qin army temporarily stopped its operations and waited until next year to recuperate and save some money and food before fighting again.
This is what King Zhaoxiang of Qin did back then: he would fight a wave, rest for half a year to a year, and then fight again.
Prince Chu of Qin had just gone to Zhao to reward the army, and then went south to reward the army.
By the time he arrived in Shouchun to meet Zhu Xiang and Bai Qi, the summer planting in Southern Chu had ended and green seedlings had already grown out.
Zhu Xiang was not surprised by Zichu's arrival.
He took Zichu to see Bai Qi, who was too ill to get up and had been unconscious for a while.
Bai Qi dragged his sick body on a forced march, which further destroyed his health.
Afterwards, he traveled around Nan Chu without any rest. Under the extremely dazzling light, the remaining lives were burning violently.
But luckily, when Prince Chu of Qin arrived, Bai Qi had not left yet.
After King Qin's Prince Chu arrived, Bian Que used acupuncture to wake Bai Qi up.
Although he was suffering from illness, Bai Qi was still in good spirits and his eyes were still clear and sharp.
After seeing the Qin prince Chu, Bai Qi smiled and said, "Thank you for coming to see me, Your Majesty."
Qin Prince Chu held Bai Qi's hand and said, "Mr. Bai, take care of yourself. You will definitely get better."
Bai Qi smiled and said, "It's not going to get better. This is good. I have been silent for more than ten years for the sake of my life. Before I die, I still want to move and tell the world that there is a person named Wu Anjun. Is your Majesty satisfied with this result?"
Prince Chu of Qin said: "Satisfied! Very satisfied! There is no general in Qin who is more powerful than Wu Anjun!"
Bai Qi's smile became happier and he laughed loudly: "Although Li Mu and Wang Jian are powerful, they are still far inferior to me!"
Bai Qi didn't know whether he had a premonition that Prince Chu of Qin would come, so he kept sleeping to retain his last breath.
Now he met Prince Chu of Qin, and after showing off to the king, he closed his eyes with satisfaction and died in laughter.
Qin Prince Chu held Wu Anjun's old hand with both hands, and said to Zhu Xiang after a long moment of melancholy, "General, this is a happy funeral."
Zhu Xiang said, "It is indeed a very happy funeral. We should call Li Mu and Wang Jian to Lord Bai's bedside to listen to his last words."
Prince Chu of Qin knew he should be sad, but Zhu Xiang still made him laugh: "Aren't you afraid that the two of them will get angry and want to wipe out the State of Chu right now?"
Zhu Xiang rolled his eyes and spread his hands: "If there is no food, they will raise it themselves."
Prince Chu of Qin laughed out loud.
When Bai Qi, Marquis of Wu'an, died, the King of Qin was laughing. To outsiders, it was really frightening.
Although Zhu Xiang and Zichu felt a little sad, they were not too sad.
Bai Gong always passed away with a contented smile. If they cried and wailed, Bai Gong would definitely be unhappy when he saw it.
The only one who cried hard was Ying Xiaozheng.
Ying Xiaozheng cried and blamed Bai Weng for not waiting for him to come back.
Although the Southern Chu Kingdom was destroyed, the most difficult thing was to deal with the Southern Chu nobles.
Most of the land in Southern Chu was in the hands of the nobles. If Qin wanted to stabilize the situation in Southern Chu, it had to take away most of the land in the hands of the nobles and distribute it to the landless Chu people. Only in this way could Qin collect taxes and recruit soldiers.
However, most of the Southern Chu nobles had surrendered to Qin. If their land was seized by force, the nobles of the other five countries would probably be disheartened and would not dare to surrender easily.
At this time, some conspiracies and tricks would be used to seize the land of the Southern Chu nobles through methods such as "land exchange" and "migration".
Zhu Xiang couldn't do this kind of thing. It was time for Prince Zheng to show his ruthless power.
Ying Xiaozheng won over a group of people, killed a group of people, and put down the rebellion of another group, eliminating the hidden dangers of the Southern Chu State one by one.
Zhu Xiang had to take care of Bai Qi, and Ying Xiaozheng had to take over Zhu Xiang's original job, supervising the harvesting and farming, and was very busy.
Xue Ji also came to the Southern Chu State to help Ying Xiaozheng and appease the Chu people to resume farming and production.
Knowing that Bai Qi was too ill to get up, Ying Xiaozheng hurried back, but was still a step too late.
The young prince, who was already eighteen years old this year and would be considered an adult in later generations, sat on the ground and cried like a child, complaining that Mr. Bai was not good enough to him and that he only waited for the king and his father but not for him.
Zichu said a few sarcastic words on the side, but before Zhu Xiang could hear, Xue Ji waved her hand and drove Zichu away, without giving the King of Qin any face at all.
Zichu touched his nose and dared not ridicule Ying Xiaozheng in front of Xue Ji anymore.
Bai Qi did not want to return to his hometown. He wanted to be buried in the place where he had fought his last battle, and at the same time help the King of Qin to stabilize the country of Chu.
At that time, people believed in ghosts and gods.
The pantheon of the Chu State was quite different from that of the Qin State and the Central Plains, and the people of Chu were good at witchcraft.
After Bai Qi attacked Chu twice, the nobles of Southern Chu always cursed Qin and spread rumors that it was the one who would destroy Qin.
Bai Qi couldn't bear to hear these words.
He would not return to Qin. He would just lie down on the land of Chu to see which monsters dared to come.
Bai Qi's descendants hurried over, wanting to help their ancestor return to his roots.
After seeing Bai Qi's will, Bai Qi's descendants had complicated expressions.
They always think that their ancestors simply despise them and don't want to be with them even after they die. This must be an illusion.
Afterwards, Bai Qi's descendants worked hard and several outstanding talents emerged among the third and fourth generations. This is a story for later.
Some people in later generations wrote legendary novels saying that it was Bai Qi who stayed in Chu to protect Chu. The people of Chu were grateful to Bai Qi, so Bai Qi became a god and benefited his descendants.
This statement was adopted by many later scholars and writers, who also wrote many popular poems.
If people of this era heard the random fabrications of later generations, they would probably have the same expression as the person involved in the hell joke would have when he heard the hell joke with him as the protagonist.
Bai Qi, the Marquis of Wu'an, was buried near the city of Shouchun, using the mausoleum that was half built for him by the Marquis of Nanchu.
Prince Chu of Qin specially buried Wu'an Jun with the rites of princes.
Not to mention the Qin people, even the scholars from the other five countries were not too surprised when they heard about this.
For the State of Qin and the King of Qin, Wu'an Jun deserves such posthumous honor.
Zhu Xiang played the qin in front of Wu'an Jun's tomb while saying to Zichu, "After Qin unifies the world, we can posthumously confer the title of king on Wu'an Jun and build a temple for him."
Zichu played the harp and said, "I'll leave the title to Zheng'er."
While beating the drum to keep the beat for his father and uncle, Ying Xiaozheng said speechlessly: "Do we have to play music in front of Mr. Bai's tomb? Then will we have to play music in front of Mr. Xun's tomb in the future? What if we make Mr. Xun angry?"
Zhu Xiang said, "Isn't that better? Congratulations, Zheng'er, for mastering the art of resurrection."
Zichu said: "That's right, congratulations."
Ying Xiaozheng: “…” These two fathers are simply unreasonable, I don’t want them anymore.
At Zhu Xiang's suggestion, Fuqiu, who recorded the "daily records" for Ying Xiaozheng, who had not yet succeeded to the throne, recorded the scene at that time.
The two Qin kings played music to see Wu'an Jun off, which showed how sad Wu'an Jun looked.
Then he secretly made an additional note in his diary, writing down the conversation between Changping Jun, Prince Chu of Qin and the future Qin Shi Huang.
When this story was passed down to later generations, no one believed it was a true story and they all thought it was a joke made up by later generations.
When Bai Qi passed away, he did not give Zhu Xiang anything. He left in a very free and easy manner without any reluctance.
But during the time when Zhu Xiang took care of him, his favorability towards Zhu Xiang increased to three hearts.
Bai Qi’s three hearts of favor are given in the form of a delicious big watermelon.
Zhu Xiang suspected that Bai Gong gave him the watermelon because he had been longing for eating watermelon in front of Bai Qi for a long time.
When he came to the south, Zhu Xiang wanted to eat big watermelons in the summer, and he couldn't control himself.
Zhu Xiang was thinking that after the world was unified, he would instigate Zheng'er to send people to the Western Regions to open up the Silk Road and bring back the original watermelon.
After several generations of breeding efforts, people in later generations will be able to eat large watermelons with thin skin and sweet flesh in advance.
Unexpectedly, after he recited it for a long time, Bai Gong remembered it.
Now, while Zhu Xiang was watching the fun, he finally had something to eat.
He planted watermelons in front of Bai Qi's tomb, and when the watermelons had a good harvest the following year, he offered them to Bai Qi first.
After Zichu saw Bai Qi off, he originally planned to return to Qin immediately. But the weather was not good and heavy rains fell in the autumn.
Zhu Xiang and Zichu sat under the eaves looking at the rain with sad faces.
"Why is it raining so soon when the harvest is almost here? My grain is in trouble!"
"Zhu Xiang, go talk to God and ask him to stop raining."
"You are the King of Qin, go and tell him."
The two brothers sighed repeatedly.
They built a simple altar and quickly prayed to the heavens to stop raining.
At the same time, Zhu Xiang and Ying Xiaozheng toured various places to check the disaster situation in Chu.
Zichu also wanted to go, but Zhu Xiang asked Xue Ji to stay in Shouchun to keep a close eye on Zichu and not let him wander around.
As the weather turned cold, Zichu started coughing badly again, and Zhu Xiang didn't dare let Zichu run around.
Bian Que examined Zichu carefully, and Zhu Xiang added his meager knowledge of modern medicine and hygiene, speculating that Zichu's living conditions in Zhao State were too poor, and he may have contracted pneumonia during a fever and had problems with his lungs.
Every time Zichu caught a cold, his lung problem would get worse, and now he couldn't get tired at all.
If there were a large amount of antibiotics, perhaps Zichu's lung problem could be cured.
But after Zhu Xiang fully awakened his past life memories, he observed mold and experimented with sulfa drugs for more than ten years, but achieved nothing.
It is extremely difficult for a time traveler who has not paid attention to relevant knowledge to create antibiotics across fields. It is so difficult that Zhu Xiang has no clue at all.
He could only rack his brains to come up with some Chinese herbal medicines that were proven to be effective in later generations, and let Bian Que figure out how to treat Zichu.
But since the year before last, the weather has started to become abnormal.
Chunshen Jun borrowed soldiers from everywhere to help with the harvest. That winter, Zhu Xiang felt cold in Nancheng and had to wear a cotton jacket.
The winter in Xianyang is getting more and more difficult every year.
Zichu used to hide in the Hanzhong Hot Spring Palace to avoid the cold in winter, but last winter and this winter there were a lot of things going on in the Qin State. Not only could Zichu not avoid the cold, he also had to run around, and his lung problems worsened.
Cai Ze was worried about Zichu's health, so he asked Zichu to drop his current job and go south to look for Zhu Xiang, while he himself stayed in Xianyang.
The Jianghuai Plain was lucky this year. Although it rained continuously before the autumn harvest, it finally cleared up for several days, drying the rice in the fields.
Although the rice suffered during the filling period, which affected the harvest, at least we did have a harvest.
Fearing that the autumn rain would come again, the Qin army marched from north to south in sequence to help harvest rice and wheat in the fields.
The rice and wheat in Nanjun matured first. After harvesting the food in their own fields, many farmers followed the Qin army south with their own food and helped the southern Chu people to harvest the land.
Helping to collect the land was not free. Xue Ji had already piled up cotton cloth as a reward.
Xue Ji had saved up a lot of cloth in the past few years, and it was just the right time to use the old cloth. It would have been a waste to just pile it up in the warehouse and rot.
The people of Southern Chu had never seen such a scene before and thought that the Qin people were coming to steal their food.
After learning that the Qin people were only helping with the harvest, and that this was a very common occurrence in Southern Qin, the farmers of Southern Chu were speechless for a long time.
They said that they had heard such rumors before and it turned out to be true.
They also said that they heard that Chunshen Jun had done such a thing, but unfortunately Chunshen Jun was unable to help the people of Southern Chu.
Finally they said, what a bunch of bullshit people of Nan Chu, they were Chu people, there was no Nan Chu, the King of Nan Chu was a traitor.
The Qin people felt complicated when they heard this and told them, you are Qin people now.
Some people from Nanchu looked indifferent, while some were crying loudly.
None of these minor incidents could stop the Qin people from rushing to harvest in the autumn.
Zhu Xiang's preparations for a rainy day were really accurate. Just as the harvest was finished in the Jianghuai Plain, it rained for half a month.
Looking at the rain in the sky and their own food, the people of Southern Chu suddenly felt that it would not be bad to be a Qin person.
Most farmers don’t know which country or king they belong to. They just follow whoever makes them live better.
Zhu Xiang's autumn harvest campaign obviously touched their hearts and made them feel a sense of identity with the Qin State.
The rumor that the Qin people were brutal and cruel that had been circulating in the Chu State before was also refuted.
But this was just the beginning. Qin laws were much stricter than Chu laws, and they still had a lot to get used to. But as long as they didn't starve to death, the Chu people, like the Qin people and farmers all over the world, had a high level of tolerance. Ying Xiaozheng was very confident that he could completely conquer the Southern Chu Kingdom.
During the days of autumn harvest when the weather cleared up, Zichu hurried back to Xianyang.
Seeing such heavy rain in the Jianghuai Plain, Zichu was worried that there would be problems with the autumn harvest in Guanzhong and Guandong.
He was not wrong. This untimely rain indeed affected the autumn harvest in Guanzhong and Kanto, and even caused a small-scale autumn flood.
Fortunately, the Qin State has a strong foundation and has not caused too many problems for the time being.
Cai Ze acted promptly and adopted the emergency plan that Zhu Xiang had reserved for many years but had never activated. On the one hand, he replanted sweet potatoes, potatoes, beans, pumpkins and other famine relief foods in various places, and on the other hand, he used work-for-relief to speed up the construction of water conservancy projects.
The State of Zheng had already begun building a canal to divert water from the Jing River in the west and flow into the Luo River in the east, which was later known as the Zhengguo Canal.
According to the "Records of the Grand Historian", the Zhengguo Canal was completed around 236 BC. From then on, "Guanzhong became a fertile land, there were no bad years, Qin became rich and strong, and finally annexed the other princes."
In fact, this is just an exaggeration.
When Ying Xiaozheng heard about the disaster in Guanzhong and Guandong, his brows were furrowed.
There is no such thing as a year without disaster.
He came to the dream and said to the blurred figure of Daying Zheng: "Although your memory is vague, I remember that after the Zhengguo Canal was repaired, Qin also suffered many disasters."
He sat cross-legged in front of Daying Zheng, looking worried.
Although he could look through the memories of Da Ying Zheng, the fragments of Da Ying Zheng's memories did not clearly record everything, and he only had a superficial impression of most things.
For example, regarding famine, he only remembered that there was a famine, but he had no idea which year it was or what kind of famine it was.
But there was one thing he was very sure of, that was that King Zheng of Qin had never originally thought of annexing the world in a short period of time.
There was a severe famine in the Qin State, so the Qin State had no choice but to send out troops repeatedly to grab food.
As a result, they found that the six countries were vulnerable. Qin Shi Huang decisively changed his strategic goal to sweep across the world and pacify the country.
But this kind of pacification of the world created many hidden dangers.
When Qin was hit by famine, the six kingdoms were also hit by famine. Qin attacked the cities and robbed them of food, and countless people from the six kingdoms starved to death.
The six kingdoms deeply hated the tyrannical Qin.
After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang intended to recuperate, but found that people's resentment was even worse, but he didn't know why.
Therefore, Qin Shihuang had no choice but to restart corvée and military service, hoping to use Qin's old method, the policy of exhausting the people, to stop the civilian rebellions in various places.
Until one-fifth of the registered population in the country was subjected to severe military service and corvee labor.
Prince Zheng held his forehead and said, "It's really difficult."
Even with an uncle, it was still difficult.
Because even if he is my uncle, farming still depends on the weather and the land. If there is a famine, there is nothing we can do.
"But if you made it through, I'm sure I can too." After sighing for a while, Prince Zheng regrouped and said, "Besides, we still have our father here."
Prince Zheng looked through Daying Zheng's memories again, and then regretfully discovered that there was nothing more to look through, so he sat aside with his chin propped up to think about the political affairs he had to deal with tomorrow.
As Crown Prince Zheng grew up, the appearance of Emperor Ying Zheng became increasingly vague.
Prince Zheng guessed that Emperor Ying Zheng would probably disappear in a few years.
He now enters the dream world, where he mostly says things to Daying Zheng that are difficult to say in reality, and then uses this extra time to handle official business or study.
Prince Zheng did not feel much regret about the departure of Daying Zheng.
He has realized that perhaps Great Ying Zheng is not the future he thought it would be, nor is it himself in another world.
But it doesn't matter.
The self in another world is not himself; if this is the future, his future has changed; if Daying Zheng is the past, then he is a different person since his rebirth.
it's the same.
After Prince Zheng left, Daying Zheng opened his eyes.
He tapped his knee twice with his fingers on his leg and talked to himself.
“For three years, there was great famine.
In the fourth year, locusts covered the sky and the whole world was plagued by epidemics.
In the eighth year, the Yellow River flooded.
In the ninth year, there was a cold winter in April.
In the eleventh year, there was a severe drought throughout the country.
Fifteen years later, there was an earthquake.
In the seventeenth year, there was an earthquake and a great famine.
In the nineteenth year, there was a great famine.
Twenty-one years, cold and freezing. "
He had clearly re-read his old records and written down all the future events, but this younger self "could not see" them.
Qin Shi Huang had long discovered that the "memories" he saw when he was young had become a little blurred. All important events with specific dates and years were blocked, and he could only get a brief record similar to that in history books.
This is probably because the future will change, and we cannot let our younger selves rely too much on "prophecies".
In his early years, he taught his younger self.
Now, every day he greedily looks for ways to break the impasse from the words and deeds of a group of elders from another world whom he has never met.
The room was falling apart completely.
The two worlds will be completely separated.
As the figure disappeared, the First Emperor talked to himself.
Is that myself in another world, or myself in the future
It doesn't matter.
Because his world is the world before his eyes.
He is the First Emperor, the emperor of the world at that time.
The emperor would not be complacent about his own achievements in another world, nor would he pin his hopes on an illusory future.
Everything must be taken into your own hands.
He claims to be the only one in the world and is the only one who can rule the world.
The First Emperor closed his eyes and disappeared.
The third year of Qin Shihuang's reign was 244 BC, the seventh year of Qin Prince Chu's reign.
In the winter of the sixth year of Qin Prince Chu's reign, Zhu Xiang was the first to realize that something was wrong.
This year's winter was a bit too warm and rainy.
The weather in the pre-Qin period was generally warm, and the temperature in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River was similar to that in Guangzhou, Fujian and other places in later generations.
In the past few years, the winter temperature in China has gradually dropped, and Zhu Xiang wore a thin cotton jacket in the south city.
The weather in Shouchun this year is surprisingly similar to when Zhu Xiang first came to Nancheng. The winter is warm and rainy, as if spring has arrived.
A warm and rainy winter is not a good thing.
Without pesticides, pest eggs in the field need severe winter cold to freeze to death. A warm winter is likely to cause pests and diseases in the next year.
Moreover, a warm winter often heralds a dry spring.
What's more, the abnormal winter weather is just the beginning. The weather will be abnormal throughout the year.
Zhu Xiang acted promptly and ordered the Qin soldiers to quickly plant famine relief grain on the fallow fields where they were stationed. He also patrolled granaries in various places and arrested many corrupt officials.
Prince Zheng issued an order that anyone who embezzled granaries would be put to death, their property would be confiscated, and their family members would be forced to serve as criminals.
Zhu Xiang also inspected the Yangtze River coast, urged the repair of embankments, and formulated flood emergency plans.
If the abnormal climate is what he expected, there will probably be floods in the Yangtze River Basin.
Li Si, Han Fei, Fu Qiu and others also patrolled various places to prevent famine in the coming year.
They all trusted Zhu Xiang's prediction.
Even if Zhu Xiang's prediction was wrong, it would only be a loss of some money, which was better than trying to remedy the situation after a real disaster.
Zhu Xiang also wrote to Xianyang about his prediction of the climate for the coming year.
When Cai Ze received Zhu Xiang's letter, he was already taking precautions against famine in the coming year.
King Zichu of Qin toured Guanzhong and Guandong and urged local officials to implement disaster prevention measures.
In this way, it came to the spring of 244 BC, the seventh year of King Qin's reign.
Sure enough, there was a spring drought.
(End of this chapter)