Chapter 42: The Lord of the Great Qin's Wealthy Family
Bian Wushuang sat in his big tent, leisurely drinking tea, as the patriarch of one of the two major clans of Daqin, the deputy marshal of the Thunder Army, in the status of Daqin, he is enough to rank in the top few, life is naturally extremely elegant, even if he is out on the expedition, all the arrangements in the big tent are beautiful, not only comfortable, but also tasteful. In this regard, he deeply despises the Deng family, and in Bian Wushuang's eyes, the Deng family is completely an explosive household.
Bian is an ancient clan in the territory of the Western Qin, when the Western Qin has not yet established a country, they are in that ground to hold a great deal of power, and more than a hundred years ago, Cao Wen set a rebellion, the once glorious Tang Empire collapsed, when the general Xiao Changfeng stationed in the western Xinjiang took the opportunity to start an incident, independent statehood, self-established as the emperor, and in this process, Bian is a great effort, but also Xiao Changfeng's most staunch supporter. As for the Deng family, it was only after the Western Qin and North Vietnam, Southern Chu, and Eastern Qi that they rose again and again in the wars, and in those decades, the Deng family repeatedly appeared in the stunning generation, and once suppressed the limelight of the Bian family, or because the emperor Xiao Changfeng reached his old age, realizing that the Bian family's dominance was extremely unfavorable to the Western Qin royal family, he has always intended to support it, and the Deng family has risen strongly and become one of the wealthy families that can compete with the Bian family.
Even if the Deng family and the Bian family go hand in hand now, becoming the two major valves that control the political situation of Daqin, in Bian Wushuang's eyes, they are still a complete nouveau riche, and the most common thing that the Bian family ridicules the Deng family is that if you go back to three generations, do you know who your ancestors are?
This is an eternal pain in the hearts of the Deng family, because three generations ago, their ancestor who was powerful in various countries at that time was indeed just a beggar on the street.
The Deng family is vulgar, it seems that they have no intention of changing this, but they are proud of it, the Bian family is exquisite, everything has a charter, over the years, the two families have competed from the central government to the locality, and the two families have been different from each other, that is, the stability of the political situation of the Qin State for more than a hundred years, and the successive emperors of the Western Qin have also seen this, as long as the struggle between the two families does not endanger the foundation of the rule, they will even add fuel to the fire at some times.
The dominance of a family is very dangerous for the royal family.
Over the years, it has formed the Bian clan to gain the upper hand in the center, and the Deng clan is extremely powerful in the local and border armies, and now the struggle between the two sides has entered a new stage, the Deng clan began to stretch out his hand to the imperial court, vigorously cultivating the civil official system, and the Bian clan also stretched out its claws to the border army, but what annoyed Bian Wushuang was that the Bian children in the border army, but whoever had the slightest rise would inexplicably die on the battlefield in the war.
Compared with Bian's methods of suppressing the Deng clan in the central government, Deng's approach in the border army system is very rough, but it makes Bian unable to speak, on the battlefield, life and death contest, death is a very common thing, and it can't be taken on the table at all, because Deng's own children often die on the battlefield.
This time for the Bian family, it is an excellent opportunity, in order to kill Zuo Lixing's army, Western Qin found an excellent opportunity, the Thunder Army out of Yongdu, after this battle, he has a lot of opportunities in the traditional territory of the Deng family, placing more people in more important positions, and those positions that are not easy to be secretly calculated.
For the result of this battle, Bian Wushuang didn't care at all, because there would be no second situation at all, Western Qin had won, and now the western border of Great Chu was already wide open, let him take what he wanted, what he was thinking about was how to end this war successfully.
Western Qin did not want to start a large-scale war with Great Chu, the two sides went to war on a large scale, or in the early stage of the war, Western Qin would be overwhelmed and completely include the western part of Great Chu, but what about after that? The national strength of Great Chu is much stronger than that of Western Qin, which is located in the western wilderness, and once Great Chu reacts and the whole country is mobilized, it can pull the war into a stalemate stage, thus forming a protracted war, which is not what Great Qin is willing to see.
If you stand taller, you will naturally see farther. Over the years, the aggressive trend of the Eastern Qi has become more and more obvious, and the Western Qin fought this battle, but also had to fight, the great drought in the country made the people's livelihood extremely difficult, and the defeat of the western border army of Southern Chu was to use a victory to divert the domestic contradictions and ease the tense atmosphere in the country, and secondly, they also needed to use the rich Anyang County to subsidize the country, so as to survive this disaster year.
But that's about it.
Zuo Lixing was defeated, the western border army of Great Chu was gone, in the next few years, Great Chu wanted to build a strong border army similar to Zuo Lixing's command again, it was not an overnight thing, and it would be much more convenient for Daqin to come over again in the future. When there is nothing to do, it is a very pleasant thing to come and beat the grass valley.
Gently blowing the foam on the tea, Bian Wushuang thought proudly, the fortress is always breached from the inside, Zuo Lixing is ready to take advantage of the great drought in Western Qin, and the domestic contradictions are on the verge of breaking out to take advantage of the fire to rob, but he doesn't want to achieve Daqin instead. I'm afraid this is something that Zuo Lixing under Jiuquan couldn't have imagined. Yes, Bian Wushuang confirmed that Zuo Lixing was dead, and Li Dashuai said that if he would die, he would definitely die, and Bian Wushuang was convinced of this. Zuo Lixing probably couldn't have imagined that he didn't lose in the hands of Li Shuai, but in the hands of their own people.
A generation of grandmasters, this is a happy event for the Qin people, for the Chu State, I am afraid it is not worth being happy, of course, there will be people who will be happy, because some people will get great benefits from this matter.
For the internal strife of the Chu State, Bian Wushuang is very disdainful, as a politician, fighting is necessary and inevitable, but there must be one thing to confirm, that is, it must be under the premise of the country's great security, fighting but not breaking is the truth, like Bian and Deng have been fighting for many years, Western Qin has not collapsed because of this, but from the weakest country at the beginning, it has slowly grown stronger, and now it has surpassed North Vietnam to rank third, which is proof. If Nanchu continues to fight like this, he will lose the country and the clan.
In the face of great interests, it really makes people lose their minds! Bian Wushuang shook his head and sighed, tilted his neck, and swallowed a small cup of tea into his stomach.
Dongqi must be looking forward to Qin Chu doing a big job, but they haven't made any movement so far, it's also strange, if something goes wrong, it must be a demon, Dongqi may be thinking about some conspiracy, the two families are fighting, it is in the best interests of Dongqi, they must be doing something quietly, but they haven't guessed it yet.
Footsteps came from outside the tent and stopped at the tent door. Immediately, a voice sounded: "Father, may I come in?" ”
"Come in!" Putting down the teacup in his hand, Bian Wushuang said, the tent curtain opened, and a ray of sunlight shone in through the tent door, making Bian Wushuang squint his eyes, and it was his eldest son Bian Wenzhong in the Thunder Army who came in, and now he is a deputy general, and after another seven or eight ten years, he will be able to stand alone.
"Father, here's your chance for revenge!" Bian Wenzhong's face revealed full of excitement.