Wen Zhao unknowingly plagiarized the opening words of Yang Shen's "Speaking of Qin and Han" in the Ming Dynasty yesterday, which made Chen Gong and Gan Ning quite surprised.

Fortunately, Wen Zhao had a trace of sanity at that time, and changed 'rolling Yangtze River East Passing Water' to 'Rolling Yellow River East Passing Water'. Otherwise, there is really something unfortunate.

The word is not the main theme of this era, although the word plagiarized by Wen Zhao is good, but in the eyes of the orthodox Han Dynasty doctors, it is still a little unacceptable.

Therefore, Chen Gong did not deliberately praise Wen Zhao.

On the afternoon of the second day, the fleet arrived at Yangwu on time, as Gan Ning expected.

At this time, Chen Qun, who was dressed in plain clothes, had already waited for Wen Zhao's arrival at the Yellow River ferry with the Yangwu County Commander and the county officials.

Because Yangwu is adjacent to Yanzhou, its special geographical location is destined to not be calm when Wen Zhao comes. If Yuan Shao's generals attacked Yangwu at this time, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Therefore, Henan Yin had already ordered thousands of people to be stationed near Yangwu before Wen Zhao arrived, responsible for the safety of Wen Zhao and his family.

It can be said that Wen Zhao's eastward trip was a bit of a waste of money and labor, but as the father of the clan, Chen Ji died, and he had to go on a journey.

If it is late today, coupled with the fatigue of everyone, it is extremely hard. After the banquet, Wen Zhao took his family to rest early.

Early in the morning of the second day, the Chen clan people were all dressed in plain clothes and went to worship Chen Ji and Chen Ping. Because of Chen Ping's special status in the Han Dynasty, even if the Chen family has declined, Chen Ping's ancestral hall is still standing.

When the Puyang Chen family, the Dongwuyang Chen family, and the Yingchuan Chen family recognized their ancestors and returned to their ancestors, the clan ancestral hall was built here. When Chen Ji died, he naturally entered the clan ancestral hall.

Yangwu is a famous cultural city, and there are many famous figures in history.

After Wen Zhao and others finished worshipping their ancestors and Chen Ji, under the leadership of local officials, they began to visit the famous places and ancient places in Yangwu and the lives of the people.

Speaking of the place of Yangwu, we have to mention the founding prime ministers of the two Han Dynasty. One of them is Chen Ping, and most of them are naturally known.

However, there is another person, although his fame is not as great as Chen Ping, but he has also experienced the rise and fall of several dynasties and served as the prime minister of the Han Dynasty.

This person is Chen Ping's fellow countryman Zhang Cang.

Zhang Cang, also a native of Yangwu, was very fond of books, music and calendars since he was a child. At the end of the Warring States Period, Zhang Cang studied under Xunzi and was a brother with Li Si, Han Fei and others.

After Qin Shi Huang unified the world, Zhang Cang assumed the post of imperial history and was in charge of various documents and archives in the palace.

Later, Zhang Cang fled home because of the crime. When Liu Bang rebelled and conquered the city through Yangwu, Zhang Cang followed Gaozu to attack Nanyang as a guest.

When Yan Wang Zang Tu rebelled, Gaozu led his troops to attack, Zhang Cang followed Gaozu to conquer Zang Tu as the representative of the country, and was named the Marquis of Beiping for his merits, with 1,200 households.

Later, Zhang Cang worked as a treasurer in charge of finances; When Xiao He served as Xiangguo, the title of Marquis of Elige worked in the Prime Minister's Mansion and helped Xiao He manage the accounting books handed over by the counties.

After the death of Gaozu, Zhang Cang and Zhou Bo, the Marquis of Jiang, jointly honored the king as Emperor Xiaowen. He served as prime minister in Emperor Wen for four years.

Since the establishment of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Xiaowen has been more than 20 years, when the world has just been pacified, the civil and military officials in the court are all from military backgrounds, and only Zhang Cang has been committed to the work of discussing and revising the rhythm and calendar since he was the prime minister.

He not only formulated the law and weights and measures for the Western Han Dynasty, but also formulated a relatively complete set of theories on degrees, measurements, and weights and measures; It also assisted in the correction of the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".

Counting before and after, Zhang Cang has been the prime minister for a total of 15 years, and has made great contributions to the development of the Western Han Dynasty.

After Zhang Cang died, he was buried in his hometown Yangwu County, and the leader of Yangwu County also took Wen Zhao to mourn this famous minister of the Western Han Dynasty.

After listening to Zhang Cang's deeds, Wen Zhao was in awe of him. Not to talk about other achievements, Zhang Cang's revision of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" alone is a major event that will benefit the future.

After condoling Zhang Cang, the Yangwu County Commander saw that Wen Zhao was very interested, and immediately said: "Lord, there is still a place in Yangwu, but I have to visit it." ”

Chen Xu raised his eyebrows, but he was interested, and asked, "Where?" ”

The leader of Yangwu County replied: "Bolangsha! ”

"Bolangsha?"

Wen Zhao heard this rather familiar name, but felt a little puzzled.

Seeing this, Chen Gong hurriedly said: "Bolang Sha is the place where Zhang Zifang hit Qin. ”

"Where did Zhang Zifang hit Qin?"

When Chen Xu heard this, he still had a puzzled look on his face. Seeing this, Chen Gong blushed for his nephew.

I have to say that Wen Zhao has not studied systematically, and he doesn't understand many ancient histories and allusions, so he naturally doesn't know the allusions of 'Zhang Liang's assassination of Qin'.

Yangwu County Ling was quite clever, and when he saw the appearance of his lord, he knew that he didn't know this allusion. In order not to embarrass him, he immediately began to narrate this allusion.

It turned out that Zhang Liang was born in an aristocratic family, and his grandfather Zhang Kaidi was re-elected as the prime minister of the three Korean dynasties during the Warring States period. His father, Zhang Ping, also succeeded as the prime minister of the two Korean dynasties.

By the time of Jang Liang, Korea had gradually declined. The demise of Korea made Zhang Liang lose the opportunity to inherit his father's career and lose his prominent and glorious status.

Therefore, Zhang Liang has always had the hatred of losing his country and family, and is committed to overthrowing the Qin Dynasty.

Zhang Liang first went to the east to meet with Cang Haijun and jointly formulated a plan to assassinate Qin Shi Huang.

Even if his younger brother unfortunately died, Zhang Liang did not spend money to bury him, but scattered all his family resources to find a strong man, made a sledgehammer weighing 120 pounds for him, and then sent someone to find out the whereabouts of Qin Shi Huang's eastern tour.

Zhang Liang heard the news and determined that Qin Shi Huang would pass through Bolangsha, so he ambushed Hercules nearby.

Qin Shi Huang's motorcade did pass through this place, but all the chariots were all four cars, and Zhang Liang couldn't tell which one was Qin Shi Huang's car. I only saw the car in the middle of the convoy, extremely luxurious.

So, Zhang Liang commanded Hercules to hit the car with a sledgehammer.

A 120-pound sledgehammer killed all the passengers and fell to the ground, and Zhang Liang took advantage of the chaos to burrow into the reeds and fled the scene. And the strong man that Zhang Liang found was killed by the Qin army.

However, the person killed by Hercules was the auxiliary car. Qin Shi Huang was assassinated many times, and he had already made preventive preparations, and all the chariots were all four cars, and he often changed cars, so it was naturally difficult for Zhang Liang to judge which car was Qin Shi Huang.

Qin Shi Huang survived, and was immediately furious, ordering a nationwide arrest of the Assassins. However, Hercules had already been killed, and it was not known who the other assassin was, so he had to be killed.

Bolangsha is also famous all over the world. Later poets used Bolangsha as the theme, and no less than 40 famous poems were written.

However, Wen Zhao was not very familiar with these poems after all, so he was a little familiar with the place name of Bolangsha, but he did not think of Bolangsha's deeds.

After listening to the description of the county order, Wen Zhao suddenly realized. He stared at Bolangsha, but he didn't say anything for a long time.

When later generations talk about Bolangsha, most of them are amazed by Zhang Liang's loyalty to his homeland, and applaud Zhang Liang for daring to fight against the tyrannical Qin.

However, as a time-traveling person who has a good impression of the Qin State, Wen Zhao checked a large number of historical materials in his previous life, only to find that the history books distorted the Qin State and distorted this history.

It is not so much that the Qin state died of tyranny, but that the Qin state died of mercy and the rule of law.

It is not so much that the Qin State was killed by the peasant rebels, but that it was disturbed by a group of careerists, a group of remnants of the Six Kingdoms who tried in vain to restore, for their own selfish desires.

History books portray Qin Shi Huang as an unscrupulous tyrant. However, Qin Shi Huang reigned for 37 years, but he did not kill a single general and minister.

Throughout the history of China, almost every dynasty has a cunning rabbit to die and a lackey to cook; The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden. But only Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Guangwu, Li Shimin, and Zhao Kuangyin did not kill the meritorious ministers under their command from beginning to end.

At the birthday banquet, Dr. Chun Yuyue of the State of Qi bluntly advised Qin Shi Huang to let him use the sub-feudal system. His rhetoric was extremely vehement, saying, 'Those who can last a long time without learning from the past are not heard of.'

The meaning of this sentence is: If your dynasty does not follow the ancient system, it will not last long, and there will be a time when the kingdom will fall. If it were an ordinary emperor, if some of his subordinates dared to say that his country could not last long, I am afraid that he would have been punished by the nine clans a long time ago.

However, after all, Qin Shi Huang still had a broad and broad mind, and although he did not adopt Chun Yuyue's suggestion, he did not punish him and opposed his reuse.

Throughout the life of Qin Shi Huang, although he fought in the south and the north, he swept the countries and dominated the world.

However, after he unified the world, he did not slaughter the stubborn nobles of the Six Kingdoms and the clan, but moved them to Xianyang to live and support.

Not only that, even if Prince Yan sent someone to assassinate him, Qin Shi Huang was very angry. But after destroying the Yan Kingdom, he did not vent this anger on the people.

Raising the clans and nobles of the Six Kingdoms and not angering the common people can not only show the broad-mindedness of Qin Shi Huang, but also reflect the deep popularity of Qin's laws from the side.

Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the Qin State has unswervingly implemented the line of 'governing the country according to law'. This kind of law breaks the iron law of 'courtesy is not inferior to the common man, and the punishment is not inferior to the doctor'.

In the face of the laws of the empire, even the head of a country and the crown prince cannot violate it.

It's like during the Shang Dynasty reform, even though Qin Xiaogong and Shang Ying knew that the old scholars of the empire would be the biggest obstacle to the change. Even Qin Xiaogong wanted to kill those old scholars several times to prevent future troubles.

However, Shang Ying thought: Although these people will be the biggest obstacle to changing the law, they have not violated the Qin law, and you, as a king, cannot take the initiative to destroy the laws of the Qin State in order to cut off the troubles. In this case, they are not guilty, but you are guilty.

It is precisely because of this that even if Qin Xiaogong couldn't let go of the new law of the Qin State when he died, he still did not move those old scholars who were indifferent to the new law.

It can be seen from this that the Qin law has the ability to restrain the monarch.

It was precisely by adhering to the law of Shang Yang and always governing the country according to law that the Qin State was able to leap from a remote, barbaric, and backward vassal state to a powerful overlord during the Warring States Period.

Perhaps Qin Shi Huang did not kill the clans and nobles of the Six Kingdoms in order to show his magnanimity, and there was no influence of Qin Law in it.

But what he didn't expect was that he was magnanimous towards the clans and nobles of the Six Kingdoms, but they thought about the hatred of the country and the family, and had been plotting to overthrow this unified empire.

Later, after the fall of the Qin State, the Qin clan was slaughtered by the remnants of the Six Kingdoms. In the end, who is cruel and who is merciful, but it is thought-provoking.

As for the overthrow of the Qin State by a peasant uprising because of tyranny, this is even more nonsense in the eyes of later generations.

Although the laws of the Qin State are harsh, it can be seen from the history of the Qin State that the Qin laws are of great benefit to ordinary people. What Qin Law violated was nothing more than the interests of the old nobles.

The abolition of slaves, the awarding of knighthoods for military merit, the reward of ploughing and warfare, the crime of princes breaking the law and the common people, and the abolition of the hereditary system of feudal lords are all good for the common people.

These Qin laws only deprived the rights and interests of the nobles.

Perhaps it is for this reason that the Six Kingdoms have been so hostile to the Qin State throughout history. In the eyes of scholars and nobles, even if their country actually unified the world, their rights and interests as nobles could be retained.

Only the Qin State unified the world, but they would lose their privileges because of the Qin Law.

The Qin State respected Legalism and was committed to governing the country according to law, so it was naturally the enemy of Confucianism in the world. For this reason, many Confucian scholars can distort the laws of the Qin State and complain about the harshness and brutality of the Qin laws.

However, the history of the Warring States period proves that the use of Qin law by the Qin State has made the country stronger and stronger. For hundreds of years, the Qin people have been able to adapt to the Qin law, and they don't feel brutal and harsh, but only the nobles of the Six Kingdoms feel harsh?

History records that the famous Daze Township uprising in later generations was caused by Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and others, because of the imperial court's levy and forced labor, they could not reach Yuyang on time in the heavy rain, and according to the regulations of the Qin State, everyone was killed.

These poor people, because they were forced to be helpless, revolted against Qin.

It is recorded in the "Historical Records" that when later generations read this historical material, they don't know how many people were indignant in their hearts, scolded the laws of the Qin State for being inhumane, and forced the people to rebel.

It can be said that this record confirms the fact that the Qin law is harsh and the Qin people's rule is brutal.

However, the documents unearthed by archaeologists in later generations found that the laws of the Qin State at that time were completely different from the historical books.

The unearthed Qin State's "Decree Law" clearly stipulates: the imperial middle is a sign, there is no Fu Xing, and the second class is paid. Three to five days out of schedule; From the sixth day to the tenth day, one guilder will be paid; Over the ages, a good one. Water and rain, except for fun.

It means that if you do not levy conscription for the imperial court, if you delay and do not levy it, you should be fined two armors (money for two pairs of armor). three to five days late, reprimand; Six to ten days, a fine of one guilder; For more than 10 days, a fine of one will be awarded. In case of force majeure such as rainfall, you can be exempted from liability.

It can be seen from this that the motives of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising recorded in the historical books are completely inconsistent with the facts. If they had been delayed by heavy rain, they would not have been punished at all.

After Wen Zhao saw this unearthed "Decree of Justice" in later generations, he secretly shouted for the Qin State in his heart. The Qin State, which had been burdened with thousands of years of tyranny, was finally found by archaeologists.

As soon as the leaves are known, the "Historical Records" deliberately blackened the Qin State during the uprising in Daze Township, and how many of the records in the entire history book are worth believing?

Confucianism represented the idea of Confucianism, and these Confucianism were the greatest obstacle to the implementation of the rule of law in the whole territory of the Qin State. Between Confucianism and Qin, it is also a kind of endless ending.

What's more, there are many different characters in the six countries, and there may be dozens of ways to write a character. This situation is naturally harmful to the unified empire and to the communication of the common people.

It is precisely for this reason that Qin Shi Huang ordered the burning of books and Confucianism.

And the appearance of the book-burning pit made the Confucian scholars in the world regard Qin Shi Huang as a demon and a tyrant in the world. Later, after Confucianism controlled the world, it was natural that the Qin State would deliberately scandalize the Qin State that rejected its own doctrine.

In fact, the laws of later generations were almost as detailed as the Qin laws, and they were meticulous to all aspects of the lives of the people.

As Wen Zhao, who grew up in a socialist country and received legal education since childhood, he still has a great affection for Qin's policy of governance.

Confucianism has the style of Confucianism, and Legalism has the charm of Legalism. Wen Zhao did not reject Confucianism, at least it was ruled by Confucianism, which led to the emergence of several powerful dynasties in Chinese history, which proves that Confucianism has its own merits.

However, for the disappearance of that great unification and the once short-lived and powerful empire, Wen Zhao still has some regrets in his heart.

In particular, the deliberate smearing of the Qin State by the Confucian scholars made Wen Zhao feel a faint disgust in his heart.

He sighed in his heart: "Governing the country according to law is the foundation of enriching the people and strengthening the country. However, in this era when Confucianism is orthodox, if you want to do this, you are the enemy of the whole world. ”

"Since ancient times, I have become a king and a loser, if I insist on acting like this in the future, I may be defeated by the Confucian scholars, and I will also leave a reputation for thousands of years."

It is better to believe in the book than to have no book.

Wen Zhao, who came from later generations, believed that there is no eternal truth in the world, and even what is recorded in the history books in black and white may be the product of whitewashing and smearing by the victors.

Retracting his thoughts, Wen Zhao suddenly laughed self-deprecatingly, and secretly thought: "The Qin State has long passed away, what am I sighing about here?" ”

The June sun was already very sunny, and the time under the sun outside the station was too long, and Wen Zhao also felt a little hot and dry.

Squinting his eyes and looking up at the sun, Wen Zhao saw that everyone was wiping the fine beads of sweat on their faces, and immediately said: "Bolangsha really lives up to its name, and today is really worth the trip." ”

"However, it's very hot now, so I'd better go back first."

When everyone heard Wen Zhao's words, they naturally would not object. A large group of men and horses were often rushing to the city, and they had not been long ahead when suddenly a flying horse rushed towards them.

Dian Wei hurriedly guarded Wen Zhao and the others, and only after the person who came to verify his identity was that he was a messenger in the army, he released this person.

"Qiyu lord, Liu Yuzhou heard that the lord was coming, and brought Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to meet the lord."

Chen Xu was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "I never thought that Xuande would take the time to come to see me in his busy schedule, I am very relieved." ”

Liu Bei is now staying in Yingchuan, which is very close to Yangwu.

Therefore, after he learned the news that Wen Zhao had come to Yangwu, he wrote in advance that he wanted to come and meet.

When Chen Xu got the letter, he naturally agreed. He didn't expect that the three brothers Liu Bei would come so quickly.

(5000 words chapter, one chapter today)