"I'm not doing all this for the sake of Yin's position."

In Chen Yingcheng, when he learned the news of Li Xin's defeat in Huaibei, Changping Jun seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to be explaining something to his confidant Chen Ta, but there was only one sentence, and then he didn't speak for a long time.

He was still standing on the site of the majestic Chen Yingchu Palace, and from here, beyond the palace walls, there were several local children who were playing, chasing around on bamboo horses.

Children at the age of five are called dove car play, and at the age of seven, they are called bamboo horse play, and girls like to play at home, no matter what era, boys' games are always very aggressive.

These local Chu children in Huaiyang, although there are still few things to do, but the soldiers of this city have seen a lot of comings and goings, so they learned to stuff a bamboo stick under their crotch, hold it with both hands, and pretend that this is a chariot and ride, and they are the generals who command the army.

They usually split into two groups to fight, but interestingly, these children are arguing over who will play the role of "Qin Kou".

"Last time, I pretended to be Qin Kou, and let you wait for a mess, why do you want me to pretend this time?"

The children who are always bad guys are very aggrieved, and the children can't discuss it, so they can only guess the winner in the end.

The loser was discouraged and wrapped a black rag around his head, like a black soldier in the Qin army, while the child who won the guessing fist got a red cloth out of nowhere, and carried it with a bamboo pole as the red military flag of the Chu people. He ran forward with a bamboo horse in one hand, shouted the password loudly, and led several other people to chase and kill "Qin Kou" with a black scarf on his head.

"It's been almost half a year, and the children still regard Qin as a coward." Xiong Qi secretly thought that in the past, he would be worried about this, but now, he is not worried but happy.

What is the attitude of Chen Yingchu people towards the Qin army stationed here, there is no need to go deep into Lilu to ask, just by looking at the children frolicking, you can see the clues. If it weren't for the ears and eyes of adults, how could these young children have such a bad feeling for Qin Jun, who was not too bad in military discipline?

At this time, one of the seven or eight-year-old children accidentally fell, and the eldest boy of eleven or twelve years old immediately threw down the bamboo horse and went over to help him, and it seemed that the two should be brothers.

Seeing Changpingjun frowning, Chen Ta thought that these children had disturbed him, so he wanted to call someone to expel him, but Changpingjun stopped him.

"I have been left alone in Qindi since I was a child, with no brothers or playmates, and it is fresh to see these teenagers frolicking."

He then asked Chen Ta, "Do you have brothers in your family?" ”

Chen Ta replied angrily: "Yes, three brothers, two sisters, I am the youngest. ”

Not every family loves the youngest son, the third boy, which is beyond the need for inheritance, but it means another mouth waiting to be fed, and the clothes will soon be unwearable, and the fabric will be wasted.

So Chen Ta left home very early and began to mix in the rivers and lakes outside, relying on his good martial arts, and gradually became famous, and later became a guest of Changping Junmen, and attached to him as a dead soldier.

"But I am the firstborn."

Changping Jun sighed in his heart: "It's a pity that it's just a lone chick abandoned by my father." ”

Although his three brothers are far away in Chu to be real sons, Xiong Qi actually has a "brother" in Qin.

Or rather, there were.

Xiong Qi still remembers that at that time, he was also a naughty teenager, and in the palace of the Empress Dowager Huayang, he saw for the first time the "Gongzizheng" who came back from Handan, Zhao State......

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Before he met Gongzizheng, Xiong Qi had heard of his deeds and always felt that he was quite similar to him.

was also abandoned by his father in a foreign country, and he also depended on his mother for his life.

The difference is only that Xiong Qi entrusted the blessing of the Empress Dowager Huayang and received preferential treatment from the Qin royal family.

And Gongzizheng was not so lucky, even with the protection of his mother's family, he still suffered a lot in Handan and was bullied by the Zhao people.

This is natural, Zhao Guogang died more than 400,000 people in Changping, Handan was still besieged by the Qin army, and the Qin generals who besieged the city did not care about their mother and son living or dying.

At that time, the young Gongzizheng had already shown a trace of extraordinary, facing a group of relatives who had never met before, he was polite on the surface, quite a prince and grandson, and would say some well-behaved words, which made the Empress Dowager Huayang more than loved.

But Gongzizheng's precocious eyes were full of distrust of everything around him.

Only by grasping power and being a superior person can he ensure his own safety, and since then, he has understood this truth that Xiong Qi understood very late.

The Empress Dowager Huayang was deeply resentful of Gongzizheng's suffering in Handan, and specially instructed Xiong Qi to take Gongzizheng to walk around in Xianyang more......

"Although you are an uncle, you are the same age as the government, so you can treat him as a younger brother."

It's funny to say that the future King of Qin's initial impression of Xianyang was familiar to the prince of Chu who was detained here, and it could be regarded as a rare "bamboo horse" time for Xiong Qi.

The royal family is no match for the commoners, and as they get older, they will throw away their horses and doves and devote themselves to an even more exciting and bloody game - politics.

A few years after Gongzi Zhengcai returned to Xianyang from Zhao, he defeated his own brother through his flawless performance, and Gongzi Chengji, who was born in Xianyang and grew up in Xianyang, successfully succeeded to the throne as the king of Qin.

And Xiong Qi, as the hope of the new generation of relatives in the Chu family, was also pushed to the position of the imperial historian by the Empress Dowager Huayang.

At that time, the government of the Qin State was controlled by Lü Buwei, and there was a favored concubine in the palace, and the order of the Qin Wangzheng could not leave the Xianyang Palace for half a step. He could only endure in silence and wait for the day of the coming-of-age crown.

And Xiong Qi is one of the few people who was frequently summoned by King Qin to discuss with him how to govern the country after he became a pro-government.

So in those few years, the younger brother, mother, and middle father, they betrayed Qin Wangzheng one after another. Only Xiong Qi and his relatives of the Chu family loyally surrounded the King of Qin, quelling the rebellion of Chang Yu for him and replacing Lü Buwei.

The king of Qin also repaid Xiong Qi and Chu's relatives and made him the prime minister of Qin.

Xiong Qi, the prince of Chu, stayed in the position of Qin Xiang for ten years, and during this period, he and King Qin were really close brothers. King Qin, even under the auspices of the Empress Dowager Huayang, like many generations of Qin kings in the past, married a princess from the state of Chu, who is also the younger sister of Changping Jun, and gave birth to the eldest son Fusu......

At that time, the Qin State was busy with the Zhao Dynasty and had not yet made trouble with the Chu State, so Xiong Qi sincerely hoped that the two countries could restore the friendship of the past 18 generations, and let those scars slowly heal......

In this way, he can stay in the Qin State with peace of mind.

But when the Empress Dowager Huayang died, and the King of Qin really monopolized the government, his true ambition began to be revealed.

Xiong Qi remembered clearly that the conflict began at the banquet where Prince Yan was entertained.

Yan Prince Dan and Qin Wangzheng were hostages in Handan when they were children, and they were once playmates who rode bamboo horses and doves together.

Now, the King of Qin has become the master of life and death, but the prince of Yan does not seem to have the consciousness of being a prisoner and a caged bird.

After some politeness, he raised a bottle to toast to the King of Qin, and then questioned the fact that the King of Qin stayed in Han Fei and killed him, and pointed out sharply that the King of Qin made Nanyang County defend Teng to attack Han and besiege Zheng for three months, which was too pressing.

"The ancients Shang Tang and Zhou Wu broke the country without dying their society, and I hope that the king can follow suit." Prince Dan pleaded with the King of Qin not only for Korea, but also for Zhao, Yan, Wei, Chu, and Qi.

King Qin, who was rarely drunk once, showed his ambition for the first time in front of Prince Dan and Xiong Qi.

"Break the country without destroying its society?" Xiong Qi remembered that King Qin laughed at that time, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.

"When King Ping moved eastward, there were still hundreds of princes in the world, but now five hundred years have passed, but there are only seven kingdoms left in the world, where are the hundreds of kingdoms? Disappeared into thin air? ”

"Yan country is vast for two thousand miles, from Shanggu to Liaodong, this land once had thistle, lone bamboo, kei, Zhongshan and other countries, if it is not for the annexation of the country, where did Yan come from such a big land? Zidan, today you want the widow to follow the example of the ancient Renjun and save the lives of South Korea, why don't you return to China first and restore the legendary Ji Kingdom after the Yellow Emperor? ”

"During these 500 years, the nations annexed each other and waged endless wars, and it was the people of the world who suffered. There are no two heavens and no two people, as long as there are more than two kings in Kyushu, the war will not stop, this is the so-called peace, the so-called benevolence and righteousness, Prince Yan, do you still want to maintain the status quo and let the people of the world suffer for a long time? ”

Prince Yan Dan was dumbfounded, and King Qin said categorically: "You can hate widows, but the mandate of heaven cannot be violated, and someone must eventually rule the world and end this troubled world!" Therefore, the widow will not be hypocritical, and will destroy the six kingdoms, leaving no one behind. ”

He was drunk, looked at Prince Yan Dan, and also looked at Xiong Qi and said with a smile: "That's right, in five or ten years, the Yan Kingdom will be destroyed, and the Chu State will be destroyed, but what awaits you will be a bigger country, and the world will be one country!" ”

"Whether it is within the reach of the eye or out of sight, it will be unified under the order of the widow, and the people of the world have become the head of Qin, using a unified language, a unified currency, and a unified weights and measures! The whole country will be divided into counties and counties, and honest officials will be governed, and all the royal ministers will no longer be divided into princes, but will only be given a fortune and a nominal food estate. Collect the world's soldiers, and there will be no more war in the Central Plains, and the army will go to the frontier to open up new lands, or to resist the invasion of Rongdi. The crops are harvested every year, and the head of the Qiansan lives and works in peace and contentment, and the road leading to the whole country is to be built, and a stone monument is erected at the end of the mountains and the sea, so that people in a thousand or ten thousand years can know the merits of the widows......"

King Qin's ambition shocked Xiong Qi, and King Qin's ambition made Xiong Qi confused.

He only woke up from his dream at that time, and it turned out that he and King Qin were not all the way from the beginning.

King Qin wanted to sweep the Six Kingdoms, while Xiong Qi only wanted Qin and Chu to make peace and maintain the status quo.

Even though he didn't set foot on the land of Chu for the first time until he was thirty years old, in the final analysis, he still recognized himself as a Chu person, which was the painful memory left by King Chu Kaolie with Jing and Chu on him.

While beating him, his father told him that he was a descendant of Emperor Gaoyang! There is Zhu Rong's burning fiery blood flowing on his body!

Eight hundred years old, how can it be said that death is death?

From that day on, the King of Qin began to speed up his plan for the day, and disgusted that Changping Jun was not active enough in implementing the policy of destroying the Six Kingdoms, and gradually used Li Si and other new courtiers who could do their best to help him become emperor.

Finally, when Qin had destroyed Han Zhao and the war with Chu was just around the corner, the king of Qin began to purge the Chu relatives in the court, and Changping Jun was deposed.

After that, with the sudden death of Xiong Qi's little sister, the personal relationship between the two also went down. Although the once intimate monarch and ministers gradually drifted apart, although last year Changping Jun was appointed to inspect Shandong counties on behalf of the king, but in Xiong Qi's view, this is like exile.

Politics is like that, once you have lost the trust of the king and are far away from that center, you can't go back.

Xiong Qi could only rely on a series of conspicuous feats such as quelling the Zheng Chaos, killing the King of Han, and subduing Chen Ying to show his loyalty, and begged the King of Qin to leave him a dignified exit......

Today's Qin Wangzheng is no longer the boy Xiong Qi took him to walk around Xianyang, but a conceited, impatient and unbelieving king.

"I didn't have a choice in the past." Xiong Qi looked at his palm.

Whether it was to be left in the Qin State, or for the sake of being a relative of Chu in Qin, Xiong Qi had no choice.

But now, after returning to his homeland, he suddenly has a choice.

Do you want to be a deep-rooted and hard-to-migrate Chu Tangerine?

Or is it Qin Tong, who is bright on the outside, but the bitterness on the inside, but only he knows?

Xiong Qi already has the answer in his heart!

This time, he wants to be a Chu man again!

"Let's go, it's time."

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Xiong Qi hung his sword around his waist and put on a red armor like blood, which was the color he avoided before, Qin Wangzheng was not his father Zi Chu who wore Chu clothes to please the Empress Dowager Huayang, he liked deep black and did not like dazzling red.

Xiong Qi took his cronies Chen Ta to the courtyard of the official residence, where at some point, there were already more than 100 swordsmen dressed in white kneeling on one knee, holding long swords, waiting for the call of their lord.

In half a year, he gathered so many dead soldiers, pushing clothes and clothes, pushing food and food, just for today.

Xiong Qi slammed at them.

"If it doesn't work, Qi must die before the kings."

"It's done, all the monarchs are the heroes of Chu! Qi is the prince of Chu and Ling Yin, and he will never live up to the kings! ”

"May I die for the Lord!" More than 100 dead people bowed down to worship.

Xiong Qi has already connected with Xiang Yan of Chu State, as long as Xiang Yan proves to him that the Qin army is not invincible, then Xiong Qi is willing to do something in Chen Ying!

But Chen Ying also has 3,000 Qin troops to garrison, is it enough to rely on a hundred dead soldiers? I'm afraid that as soon as I rushed out, I was surrounded and annihilated.

Xiong Qi is confident, for today, he has been preparing for a long time.

"Chen Ying's 10,000 households in the big city, with a population of nearly 50,000, from the elderly to children, do not want to be Qin."

"Therefore, in any bazaar, every household, there are our reinforcements!"

The mansion was opened, Changping Jun led the crowd out, and the Qin soldiers guarding the door were not surprised, and now, the rumors have spread to Chen Ying, saying that the Qin army was defeated, and as the county guard of the city, it is normal to lead the troops to resist the enemy.

And the children playing in the corner looked at the red-robed general in amazement, isn't there a "stinky orange" who lives in this mansion?

Changping Jun and his entourage followed the familiar road in the past and went straight to the downtown area!

Today is the market day, every step of the way, the crowd has become denser, they all turned around in surprise, looking at Xiong Qi who came to him in full armor, in the past, Xiong Qi did not take this road less, along the way, he was secretly pointed out by the local Chu people, saying that he was a "bad man", which means that Xiong Qi forgot his roots and became a Chu traitor who acted for the Qin people, and was ashamed of his ancestors.

Sometimes, people even throw rotten oranges at him......

But now, they all looked at Xiong Qi in a daze, watching him stand on the chariot and hold a phoenix bird flag.

"Second and third sons!"

Xiong Xuan shouted out to everyone he could reach in the Chu dialect that he had not dared to speak or speak at all in the past ten years.

"Xiong Qi is here today, not as a guard of the Qin State, but as the prince of the Chu State, to inform the second and third sons!"

"The Qin army has been defeated by Chu, and I am willing to raise things for me to restore Chen Ying, punish the Qin officials, and give the right arm!"

His arms were held high, and the red flag was fluttering, as if he was a phoenix that had been bathing in flames......

That's right, Xiong Qi, the Miao descendant of Emperor Gaoyang, will be reborn with Chen Ying today!

On that day, there were 3,000 people in Chen Ying's market, all of them were on their right arm! With Changping Jun attacking Qin's guards, Chen Ying's rebellion!