Yingchen originally belonged to the capital of the Chen State, and was called Chen County after being destroyed by the Chu State. In 278 B.C. (the 29th year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin), Bai Qi, a famous general of Qin, captured the capital of Chu (now Jingzhou City, Hubei Province), and set up Nanjun in this place. Since the west of Yingchen is connected to the border of Korea, once there is an entanglement between Yingchen and Chen, it often affects the three kingdoms of Qin, Han and Chu.

Although Yingchen was eventually occupied by the Qin state, its Chu people's power was not eliminated, but has always become a hotbed for the Chu people to oppose Qin, from the battle of Qin to destroy Chu to the Chen Sheng uprising, almost all the important events of the Chu people against Qin are related to the land of Yingchen. Therefore, Ying Zheng's demote of Changping Jun to Yingchen has profound political intentions.

Because Changping Jun had been with Qin for a long time and helped to quell the rebellion of Chang Yu, and he did not have contact with his homeland Chu, he won the trust of Yingzheng. The ostensible reason for Changping Jun's migration to Yingchen was to supervise Han Wang'an, but in fact, Yingzheng hoped to use Changping's status as the prince of Chu to appease the Chu people in the Yingchen region and prepare for the destruction of Chu.

In 225 BC (the twenty-second year of the reign of King Qin), Yingzheng sent 200,000 generals such as Li Xin and Mengwu to crusade against the Chu State, and went deep into the hinterland of the Chu State in the southeast direction, attacking Pingyu (now southeast of Runan County, Henan) and Yu (now Linquan County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province), and defeated the Chu army, and the troops pointed to Shouchun (now Shou County, Anhui), the capital of Chu, but Changpingjun rebelled against Qin and returned to Chu at this time, cutting off the back road of the Qin army in the south.

Li Xin's army of Chu then led his troops westward to capture Yanying (i.e., Yingchen), and then received urgent news from the father city of Yingchuan County (present-day Baofeng County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province). So Li Xin and Meng Wu made a date with Master City to quell the rebellion of the Koreans.

Although the rebels of Changping Jun failed to hold Yingchen, their strength was not damaged, they pursued the Qin army closely, and did not rest for three days and three nights, but they defeated Li Xin's troops with the Korean rebels near the father city, attacked two military camps, killed seven captains, and the Qin army was defeated and fled.

Li Xin's defeat was mainly due to Wang Ben's annihilation of Wei Qian. The military campaign against the state of Chu was too easy. He misjudged that the anti-Qin forces in the Yingchen area and nearby counties had been eliminated, without considering that the Chu people in the Yingchen region still had considerable resistance forces, although the Chu army of the Shouchun Chu King was weak. Easy to attack. But Changping Jun, who had been with Qin for many years, rebelled against Qin at a critical moment. But he gave Li Xinjun a fatal blow and finally failed.

The state of Chu recovered the lost territory centered on Yingchen, the former capital of the state of Chu, and took advantage of the situation to advance westward into the territory of the former Korea. Coupled with the news of Li Xin's fiasco, Ying Zheng was frightened and even more embarrassed, because it was he who made the decision to appoint Li Xin and denounce Changping Jun from Kyoto.

He had to go to Pinyang in person, visit Wang Jian who was reprimanded from Beijing and returned to his hometown to retire, and forcibly recruited Wang Jian to attack Chu. Wang Jian originally refused to attack Chu because he was old and sick, but seeing Ying Zheng's uncertain face, he was worried that he would repeat the mistake of Wu Anjun Baiqi, so he had to agree to Ying Zheng's request, and said that it would take 600,000 people to attack Chu, and he asked for full command of 600,000 troops, Ying Zheng agreed one by one, and personally went to Bashang to see off Wang Qian's army.

In order to dispel Ying Zheng's suspicions, Wang Jian said that he had not been able to seal the marquis for many years, so he hoped that Ying Zheng would give a large number of good fields, beautiful houses, gardens and ponds, etc., to earn a family business for his descendants.

In 224 BC (the twenty-third year of the reign of King Qin), Wang Jian led an army of 600,000 troops along the previous route of Li Xin's attack on Chu, and went straight to Yingchen. In the same year, another Qin army went south to Pingyu, captured Shouchun, and captured the king of Chu.

In the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Qin, Wang Jian's army broke through Yingchen, and Yingzheng personally went out to patrol Yingchen to suppress the anti-Qin forces, while Changping Jun withdrew from Yingchen after receiving the news that the king of Chu was captured, and was established as the king of Chu by Xiang Yan, the general of the Chu army, and continued to carry out the anti-Qin cause in the Huainan region.

Wang Jian and Meng Wu led the Qin army to eliminate the remnants of the Chu army, Changping Jun was killed in battle, and Xiang Yan committed suicide in defeat in Qi County in Huaibei (present-day Qi County Town, Suzhou City, Anhui Province).

In 222 BC (the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Qin), Wang Jian's army pacified the area south of the Yangtze River, subdued the leaders of the Yue people, and set up Huiji County, and the state of Chu was completely destroyed. In May of that year, in order to celebrate the destruction of Chu, the Qin State ordered the world to gather and drink.

Yan Prince Dan is the son of Yan Wang Xi, who used to be a hostage in Zhao State, because Ying Zheng lived in Zhao State when he was young, so he is quite good with Prince Dan. Later, Ying Zheng was made the king of Qin, and Prince Dan went to Qin as a hostage, but Ying Zheng treated Prince Dan harshly, and Prince Dan became resentful, and finally fled to Yan State.

After Prince Dan fled back to Yan Kingdom, he planned to take revenge on Ying Zheng for his rudeness, but Yan Kingdom was weak and unable to reach it. His Taifu Juwu pointed out that the Qin State had a vast territory, many people who dared to fight, and there were mountains and rivers, and advised Prince Dan not to touch Yingzheng's backlash because of his resentment of being bullied by Yingzheng.

"The stone carving of the Wu Clan Ancestral Hall in Shandong Province, China, "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin", the left is Qin Wangzheng, the right is Jing Ke, the center is on the ground is Qin Wuyang, and below is the head of Fan Yuzhi. ”

At this time, the Qin general Fan Yuzhi (i.e., Huan Qi) offended Yingzheng and fled to the Yan Kingdom, where he was taken in by the crown prince Dan. However, Ju Wu was very opposed to Prince Dan taking in Fan Yuzhi, he pointed out that Yingzheng would definitely use this matter to make a big fuss and anger at Yan, in order to avoid giving Yingzheng an excuse to attack Yan, Fan Yuzhi should be exiled to the Xiongnu, he advocated the union of the six countries, and reconciled with the Xiongnu in the north, so as to have the possibility of dealing with Qin.

However, Prince Dan thought that this strategy would take too long, and that Fan Yuzhi was desperate, and that letting him defect to the Xiongnu would send him to death, and he could not abandon Fan Yuzhi's defection because he was afraid of the Qin State, so he did not accept Ju Wu's suggestion.

Ju Wu thought that Prince Dan was too short-sighted, and in order to befriend Fan Yuzhi regardless of the country's disaster, he was disheartened and recommended Tian Guang to Prince Dan, and Tian Guang also accepted Ju Wu's lobbying, personally met Prince Dan, and then recommended the patriot Jing Ke to Prince Dan.

At that time, the Qin army had already eliminated the Zhao State, garrisoned Zhongshan, and the troops were directed at the Yan State, and the monarchs and ministers of the Yan State were afraid of a catastrophe, so they formed an alliance with Zhao Gongzijia, who fled to Daidi, to jointly defend the Qin State.

Prince Dan thought that the unity of the four kingdoms of Wei, Chu, Qi and Yan was no longer of much significance, and planned to send warriors to Qin State, like Cao Mo kidnapped Qi Huan Gong, to force Ying Zheng to return the land that had been invaded by various countries, and if he did not agree, Ying Zheng would be killed, so that Qin State would fall into chaos. Jing Ke is the best person to carry out this matter, so Prince Dan respects Jing Ke as the secretary.

Jing Ke helped Prince Dan improve the plan to assassinate Yingzheng, and knew that Yingzheng offered a reward of 1,000 catties of gold and 10,000 households to buy Fan Yuzhi's head, so he persuaded Fan Yuzhi to commit suicide.

In 227 BC (the twentieth year of the reign of King Qin), the Yan State took Jing Ke as the main envoy and Qin Wuyang as the deputy envoy, bringing Fan Yuzhi's head and the map of the Yan State Governor Kang, and sent the Qin State to Yingzheng.

Jing Ke brought a gift worth a thousand gold and generously presented it to Meng Jia, the concubine of Yingzheng's favored courtiers. Meng Jia said all the good things in front of Ying Zheng, which made Ying Zheng very happy, arranged a diplomatically very grand nine-bin ceremony, and personally met Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang in Xianyang Palace.

Jing Ke held Fan Yuzhi's head, and Qin Wuyang held the map box, advancing in the order of the main and deputy envoys. Qin Wuyang, who walked under the steps in front of the hall, had a sudden change in his face, trembling with fear, and the ministers all felt strange.

Jing Ke explained that "Qin Wuyang was a barbarian, and he was afraid because he had never seen the majesty of the Son of Heaven". Ying Zheng ordered Jing Ke to hand over Qin Wuyang's map, Jing Ke unfolded the end of the map, and a quenched dagger was revealed.

Jing Ke grabbed Ying Zheng's sleeve with his left hand, and stabbed Ying Zheng with a dagger with his right hand. Ying Zheng was shocked, stood up, broke his sleeve and wanted to draw the sword, but because the sword was too long, he couldn't pull it out. Jing Ke chased after Ying Zheng, and Ying Zheng ran around the pillar. (To be continued......)