Handan was not this name in the pre-Qin era in ancient times, she should actually be called "Gandan" before the Qin unified the world, the origin was in the Yin Shang period, originally as a simple city, there was no city wall zài, and the inhabitants were only a few hundred, which was regarded as an advance base for the Yin Shang to expand southward from the source of the Yellow River. ☆ → top ☆ → dot ☆ → small ☆ → said, www.

It was until the Zhou Dynasty that the Zhou royal family divided a country called Tang, which was one of more than 3,000 feudal states. Tang changed its name to Jin in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, so there is only the Book of Songs in the Book of Songs. Tang Feng" without "Book of Songs. Jin Feng. The Jin State naturally practiced a feudal system, and the modern name is called the "lord system", and one of the lords is the Zhao family.

This Zhao clan migrated to the Jin Kingdom from the far northwest, and they were a branch of the Qin royal family, and after developing for more than ten generations, they became one of the nobles of the Jin Kingdom. The nobles naturally have cities, but at the beginning, Zhao's fief was not near Handan, but because Zhao's Zhao Shu helped Jin Xiangong destroy a country called "Geng", Zhao Shu was named a doctor, and then Jin Xiangong gave Geng this place to the meritorious Zhao Shu as a fief. And this is also the first fief obtained by the Zhao family.

In the Jin State at that time, the doctor can already be regarded as one of the great nobles, in the repeated battles of the Zhao family and has made meritorious contributions, won from the monarch rewarded "Yuan", "Wen", "Gandan", "Jinyang", "Pingyang" and other fiefs, of which the "Yuan" was later given by Zhao Yuanqian to a person named Xianzhen, of course, Xianzhen according to the habits of the time, because there is a fief called "Yuan" changed to call "Yuanzhen".

The Zhao family has never been very beautiful in the Jin Kingdom, and even at some point because of the changes involving the monarch, the entire family was almost wiped out, the most famous of which is the "Zhao Orphan" paragraph, and later it was in the Zhao Wu era that the Zhao family really laid the strength of the Jin State in three points, and it was also in the Zhao Wu era that the Jin State subdued the Chu State in the south, so that the Chu State officially became a member of the Chinese ethnic group. The "becoming" here is not a culture, but a broadly conscious identity.

Gandan became Handan because the font of each country was different in the pre-Qin period in ancient times, and there were also differences between the administrative system of the Qin people and the administrative systems of other countries. The reason why I added an ear is actually a bit fucked, it is related to the terrain of "Gandan", and the ancients...... When choosing the name of the city, it was based on the terrain, and at that time, "Gandan" had mountains and rivers on the right, so an "ear" was added.

The army left Quliang and marched towards Handan, Lu Zhe, who knew the above allusions, was full of curiosity about the mountain next to Handan, if he remembered correctly, the mountain was gone in modern times, and the river was also missing in modern times. As for what has changed, isn't the long river of history all the changes? The Yellow River has also been diverted countless times. In the past, the export was in the area of modern Guangzhou, and then it was diverted to the east.

The city wall of Handan looks like it has been rammed again and again, and when you look up from the bottom, the four zhang below is a color that has been blown by the wind and the sun and become dark black, the color of the first zhang of the king of the four zhang is earth black, and the five zhang and then the top are a kind of earth yellow.

The six-zhang high city wall is not very high for a capital city, and even if you count the towers at the entrance to the city, the highest is only about ten zhang. Qin Shi one zhang is the modern two meters thirty-one, ten zhang is twenty-three meters one height, almost the height of the eighth floor. In this way, the width of the base must not be less than four zhang, after all, it is a rammed earth construction mode, not a reinforced concrete structure. In addition, the walls are not completely filled with dirt as expected, in fact, because the walls are wide enough to leave some dark spaces. In addition to being used as storage, it can also hide soldiers, which is why the ancient city wall had a Z-shaped upward walkway every fifty steps.

Before Lü Zhe came to Handan, the 50,000 defenders in Handan had been ordered to go out of the city and station, so the Han army quickly took over the city defense after Lü Zhe's arrival.

During the Han army's takeover of the city defense. Zhao Xie, who came out of the shadow of the last assassination, has been personally introducing some allusions to Handan for Lu Zhe, and for those who don't know much about it, Lu Zhe also learned that the original "Gandan" was not the main concentration of the main lineage of the Zhao family, but a clansman named Zhao Chuan who was the first to operate. This Zhao is the direct ancestor of the current Zhao royal family, and as for Zhao Wu's lineage, it is a little far away.

Who Zhao Wear is Lu Zhe didn't know, he was a little dazed by Zhao Xie saying that the current royal family was Zhao Chuan's lineage, and he really understood it after listening to it, it turned out that the Fan family and the Zhi family attacked and killed the Zhao family, and Zhao Chuan's branch escaped the family vendetta, and it was not until Zhao Wu became the commander of the Jin State (both the prime minister and the ruling party) that he returned to the Zhao clan. And Zhao Xie said that the current royal family refers to the Zhao royal family after the restoration of the country, not the group of people who were caught by the First Emperor in Xianyang when the Zhao State was destroyed.

Now it can explain a lot of things, that is, why Zhao Xie's group of Zhao clansmen did not get the full recognition of Zhao Diqian's head after the restoration of the country, and why Zhao Xie gave up the vassals except for the Handan generation so cleanly, in fact, it is because Zhao Xie's line is not "Zhengshuo", and only in this area of Handan can it be fully supported, after all, it has been operating since Zhao Chuan's era, and the ancients paid the most attention to the ancestors' Meng Yin, and Handan's Qianshou has been ruled by Zhao Xie's department since ancient times. There is a concept of leading the people, to put it more bluntly, it is the modern local feelings, the local complex, etc., and the kind of family helping their own family.

Lu Zhe, who was staying outside the city, couldn't see any of the Qianshou figures, and the banners on the city wall didn't know if they had received instructions and were all put away, he listened to Zhao Xie's introduction while watching the city through the city gate.

So far, except for the avenue that runs through the entire city in Kainanling, there is no avenue in any city that runs straight across the entire city, when Lu Zhe looked into the city gate, the passage into the city was only about a mile (three hundred meters) extended and was blocked by buildings, and it seemed that the width of the road into the city was also narrower, only less than two zhang wide.

Zhao Xie didn't understand the architectural pattern, and when faced with Lu Zhe's question "Why are there buildings within a mile of the city wall, aren't you afraid that someone will ignite the houses and cause a fire when they attack the city", Zhao Xie immediately asked Chen Yu for help.

Chen Yu has been to Nanling, and he is very aware of the majesty of the Nanling city wall, and he also has a strong impression of the roads in Nanling City. However, Chen Yu is not an architectural or engineering major, and he is not even a qualified general, he only said: "The Central Plains is densely populated, and the space in the city has not been enough. ”

Right? It should be that Zhao State is not strict in law enforcement, and the army also pays attention to city defense. This must have happened in other countries, and only the Qin State really enforced the rule that there should be no buildings within two miles of the city wall.

Lu Zhe had no intention of complaining, if he wanted to complain, he would have complained as soon as he saw that the forests around Handan had not been cut down.

"This is also a good thing for us," Kuaitong secretly lowered his voice: "If the Zhao people remove all the buildings within two miles of the city wall, and all the trees within thirty miles outside the city are also cut down, it means that they have the intention to resist." ”

Lu Zhe didn't make any evaluation twice, he didn't remember whether it was three or four years ago, Wang Ben led the army to the city of Handan, and the surrounding trees looked more than three or four years old.

To put it bluntly, there are either no capable people in the Zhao State, or there are people who are determined to protect the natural environment, otherwise in ancient times, the country entered a state of war, once a certain city is about to become a battlefield, it is sure to destroy the forest within at least 20 miles of the city, which can be cut down clean, or it can be burned all in a fire, so as to avoid the siege troops being able to obtain wood nearby to build siege equipment, and it is also to let the siege troops have no food and no firewood, increasing the logistical pressure of the enemy.

Is there a capable person in the Zhao Kingdom? Lu Zhe thought about it and came up with a positive answer, Chen Yu and Zhang Er can only be regarded as talented scribes, but these two people can definitely not be called generals. His gaze moved to Wu Chen, who was about 1.7 meters tall but very burly, looked like a general in temperament, but only like a general in the real sense.

Wuchen came from a humble background and was destined to have no family inheritance, so he lacked systematic knowledge of leading soldiers. It can be imagined how difficult it is for him to climb up, and he should have slowly accumulated experience in leading troops in repeated battles, and sorted out a set of ways to lead troops according to his own understanding.

Lu Zhe admires people who can be self-taught, such people have not only talent but also luck, otherwise they should have died on the battlefield a long time ago. He beckoned: "General Wu." ”

Wu Chen was obviously stunned, probably didn't think that Lu Zhe would talk to him? He was stunned for a moment and replied with a respectful salute, and then kept a salute posture.

"Approaching and talking." Lu Zhe was smiling, he seemed to be communicating with this person who was killed by Li Liang in the original history?

Wu Chen answered the "promise" and then unsheathed his sword and handed it to the attendant next to him, and then walked towards Lu Zhe.

Wu Chen's current position in the state of Zhao seems to be a lieutenant? This lieutenant is certainly not the modern one, nor is it a position dedicated to guarding the security of the palace during the Han Dynasty. According to the official position of Zhao State, the lieutenant is actually a kind of loose official, and he has the power to recommend talents to the monarch, so the military minister was added to the post of general.

What kind of military attache is the general? In the Qin system, it is a military attache position that can command 8,000 to 10,000 people, but in the system of the Zhao State, it is a relatively high-level cunzài, which is generally used as the adjutant of the main general, and sometimes can also be in charge of the army independently, and at the same time, the troops under his command are also chaotic, ranging from dozens of people to hundreds of thousands, without a qualitative character.

Lu Zhe stared at the military minister with blazing eyes: "Chen Yu and Zhang Er have no ability to command the army, but they are the generals of the left and right, you have led the army to fight against the Qin army many times and made great achievements, but you are only a lieutenant and a general, do you feel unfair?" (To be continued......) R527