Twenty years later, the smoke of that war has long since dissipated.

On a lonely hill stands a stone monument with a short line of text carved into it.

Those who sacrifice for the benefit of the world are immortal.

Several moving carriages paused for a moment, and the people in the carriages were dressed in the wide-sleeved costumes that nobles had worn twenty years earlier.

Someone in the carriage pointed to the hill where the monument was erected and said: "Back then, the Mo family pulled the cannon to that hill, which led to the collapse of the coalition army. When Zhou Tianzi fled, he was hacked to death by unknown cavalry, Qi Hou surrendered, and Han Hou committed suicide. ”

In the end, more than 600 aristocratic gentlemen who were surrounded in Sanliu Society, faced with persuasion, raised their eyebrows coldly. The Mo family pulled the bronze cannon over and bombarded it at close range, and more than 600 people were all martyred. True heroes too. ”

The person who spoke had a very strong taste of the Qin dialect, which was as thick as the fertile soil in the customs of the Qin State.

Listening to these words, the Mo family soldiers escorting next to the vehicle showed a rather dissatisfied look on their faces, thinking to themselves that if those nobles were heroes, what would it matter if their fathers participated in this battle and hacked the Son of Heaven to death, and finally killed 600 nobles with artillery fire?

The executioner of the slaughter hero?

But these soldiers of the internal guard were well educated, and they did not open their mouths to refute, but only did not understand.

The middle-aged man in the car, dressed in a wide suit, listened to these words and looked at a stone pillar that read "Zhou Tianzi's death place" standing farther away, where the fugitive Zhou Tianzi was hacked to death by the Mo cavalry who did not know his identity.

Twenty years with a flick of his fingers, the middle-aged man in the car looked at all this, recalled what he had seen and heard along the way, and sighed: "Twelve years of not setting foot in the Middle Earth, after all, it is still the Central Plains, and it is not within the reach of the Western Regions." ”

Speaking of the twelve years of not being in Middle-earth, many middle-aged people who were in the same car with him couldn't help but be amazed.

After the war that year, the kingdom of Qi was surrendered, Korea was destroyed, and the Mo family gathered a large army to win Luoyi, and then changed the country name to the Han of Xinghan.

Qin Jun knew that he could not stop it, so he inherited Wu's legacy and went all out to march westward and move his clan.

Exactly: Qin lost his hometown because of the Han Dynasty and went west to Fanrong Wanlibang. After ten years of undetermined operation, he finally worked in agriculture outside the territory.

At the beginning, there were many people from other countries, or the nobility of other countries who did not agree with the Mohist system.

When I return to the Central Plains today, I have another feeling in my heart.

These people got out of the car and climbed the hill, not by their hearts, but by their sighs.

A young man of about fifteen or sixteen years old saluted the middle-aged man who had just sighed in the car and asked, "Shule Jun, I heard that my great-ancestor was also a Mo scholar back then, and when he was young, he was a retainer in Qidi for his meritorious service, and was later expelled from the Mo family. But I don't know how far away Qidi is from here? ”

The middle-aged man known as Shule Jun looked eastward, sighed, and said, "This place is in the middle of the world. I heard that the Han Dynasty was going to move the capital to Daliang, and it was precisely because this place was in the middle of the world. Hundreds of miles to the northeast of this place, it is the place where your great-grandfather became famous in the past; If you go directly to the east, it will be the Ludi where Wu Qijun fought against your great-ancestor in the past. ”

Speaking of this, the middle-aged man known as Shule Jun looked to the northeast and sighed: "Further northeast, it is Weidi, my hometown." At that time, my name was Wei Ying, and now I am sealed in Shule City, according to the rules of that time, I should be called Shule Martingale now. ”

The rules have changed, and many of the rules of Sishang have also affected the Qin State that has moved west for 12 years.

Twelve years ago, it was he who led 8,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry to the west, relying on the advantage of firearms, and decided the Western Regions in three wars.

After occupying the fertile river valley area to the west, the advanced farming technology and artisan technology of the Central Plains also quickly took root there, which was suitable for growing cotton and wheat, and with good weaving level and transportation costs, the cotton textiles of the Central Plains could no longer enter the Western Regions.

The Qin people in the Western Regions used the political means of different varieties of the country and the wilderness according to local conditions, and the agricultural areas adopted direct management, and the nomadic areas adopted nomadic jurisdiction.

However, there is a large and fashionable empire to the west, and Wei Ying has come here to solve diplomatic problems.

After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the center of gravity of rule was the east, and the control of the border areas was only the control of some agricultural areas, and the existence of the weapon generation gap and the advent of the post-black powder era made the border areas not have much border trouble.

The development of the south of the Yangtze River, overseas trade in the South China Sea, and the development of maritime transport strengthened the control of the coastal region all the way to Liaodong.

The vast desert in the west always puts the attacking side at a great disadvantage.

Qin Jun's westward migration was also the result of the acquiescence of the Mo family, and the trade and technical exchanges between the two sides had never stopped, and now they only hoped to negotiate a result.

The difference in national strength between the two sides is too great, and Wei Ying knows that it can be seen from the soldiers of the internal guard unit who escort them.

The escorted internal guards have been reequipped with mercury guns with a higher firing rate, and although the loading is still front-loaded, and although leaf spring charging is still required, the delivery rate has increased considerably.

The Qin State was still using the same heavy flint spear as it had been twenty years earlier.

This is just a glimpse of the internal security forces, in fact, after passing the old land of Qin Guanzhong to the Song land in the Central Plains, the visible gap has completely destroyed the bottom line of Wei Ying and others' negotiations.

large textile mills that smoke and use coal and steam; Iron-smelting workshops using coal and steam as blast equipment...... All these new machines, which have been appearing in Sishang since 10 years ago, herald the dawn of a new era.

The past years, as if there is no past, present and future, everything is a cycle of reincarnation.

And the present years, a thousand miles in a day, everything visible to the naked eye, declares that something called "the future" has become a kind of hope visible to the naked eye.

It has also brought visible despair to all the old forces.

This time, the conditions given by the Central Plains are not very harsh in terms of the strength of both sides.

After the Central Plains was pacified, after the Han Dynasty established the country and was called the Son of Heaven, Qin gave up the original title because it was divided by Zhou Tianzi and changed his title to king.

Now the Central Plains has asked Qin to go to the king's name, change his name to Anxi Duhu, and admit that he is part of the concept of the world in Kyushu.

Changing the flag and changing the flag, the Central Plains will symbolically station a small number of troops in the capital of Qin to declare sovereignty.

The rest is left alone, because the input and output are not proportional, the emerging class in the Central Plains needs markets and dumping grounds, and the development of maritime transport makes it cheaper than by land, and its center of gravity is also to the south rather than to the northwest.

The two sides can travel freely, and the currency is common.

In return, Anzai can be supported to protect some of the new muskets against the threat of the empire to the west, and allow the export of some new steam machinery.

For the real ruling class of the Central Plains today, the bitter cold northwest is thousands of miles away, and it may not be as good as an island in the vast sea where spices and sugar cane can be grown.

Moreover, the distance was long, the trade was difficult, and the trade route could not support much goods, except for luxury goods such as silk, munitions, and some porcelain glass.

On the contrary, because of the development of trade routes in the South China Sea, the importance of the Western Regions as a trade route was greatly reduced, and the Central Plains put more energy into the south.

Not only in the South China Sea, but also in the south of the Yangtze River, there are large tracts of undeveloped land and primitive ethnic groups that have not yet been conquered.

The Western Regions are remote, and the rich places are too far away from the Central Plains, from the old capital of Qin to the new capital of Qin today, in fact, the distance is about the same as from the far west to the new capital of Qin.

This remoteness leads to the fact that as long as the Central Plains is large enough and technologically advanced, the military threat to the west is equivalent to non-existent.

The fur traders north of the Swallowland would rather organize people to explore the huge tundra wasteland in the north, because the tundra wasteland in the north has rivers at least in summer.

Relying on simple and light birch bark boats and muskets, it is possible that an adventure party of more than 100 people can follow the rivers in the vast northern tundra to the west in the summer, and go to a very far place to buy furs there and do a lucrative business.

No profit can not be made sooner, and no one wants to shed blood for a place that seems to be neither a threat nor a profit for the time being.

All these factors from the Central Plains have contributed to this negotiation.

For the Qin State, which is now going to the Western Regions to establish a state, on the one hand, the rule is not stable and urgently needs the support of the Central Plains, as for things such as the name of the Fali State, it is not important at this time.

At the same time, the Western Regions is the land of four wars, and the Qin State not only has to face the threat of the old empire in the west, but also considers whether to go south to those richer India lands and become the ruler there, after all, it is the real rich and populous place.

The Central Plains is of course good, rich and homogeneous, but if there is no possibility of counterattacking the Central Plains at all, then it can only retreat to the second.

Wei Ying knew this very well, when he led the army to the west twelve years ago, 8,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry had exhausted the logistics capacity of the Qin State, which was the result of Wu Qi having been operating westward for more than ten years.

With the logistical capabilities of the expedition at this time, it may be that the two sides can gather 30,000 troops to cross the desolate area, which can be regarded as exhausting their efforts.

30,000 troops, whether from the Central Plains to the Western Regions; Or coming from the Western Regions to the Central Plains, nothing is nothing, and there will be no threat.

This was the reason why Qin could trust the Central Plains and wanted to negotiate with the Central Plains after moving westward.

There are many difficulties and thousands of problems, and Wei Ying and others came to the Central Plains again after 12 years, which is for this reason.

Wei Ying stood here at this time, not to hang everything in the past, because he was not a real nobleman, and everything in the old times was not so beautiful.

He was just thinking, why was it not the Qin State that he assisted in killing Zhou Tianzi in the first place?

In his opinion, Zhou Tianzi is immoral and incompetent, and he should have gone down a long time ago.

He was not hanging on Zhou Tianzi or the many nobles who died in that war, and even he did not object to hacking Zhou Tianzi to death, but only to the Mo family and not the Qin State who hacked Zhou Tianzi to death.