Chapter 219: Huai Gong Loses Qin and Seizes the Throne (1)
A few miles out of the south gate of the capital of the Qin State is the Weishui that flows slowly to the east, and on the narrow strip from the south bank of the Weishui to the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains lies a huge tribal alliance known as "Lu Hun Rong".
Lu Hunrong, surnamed Yun, arose in Guazhou and later migrated to Weinan. This force lived with the Qin State and often crossed the line to do dishonorable things; So much so that the people of Qin had to prick up one ear to listen to the movement on the other side of the river when they slept. Whether during the Chengping period or wartime, Lu Hun Rong was always a big trouble for the Qin State.
As mentioned earlier, after the Duke of Jin Huigong was captured in the Battle of Hanyuan, the Qin State made "the Jin State should assist the Qin State in moving Lu Hun Rong to Hedong" as one of the conditions for the release of the Jin Huigong. The Jin people knew that this was a rather troublesome thing, but they had no way not to accept it.
Since the content of the agreement between Qin and Jin was highly classified, Lu Hun Rong did not know about it. After the return of Jin Huigong, the Jin State strengthened its relationship with Lu Hunrong and recruited mercenaries from the tribe to deal with Bai Di and Dongshan Gaoluo; Lu Hun Rong didn't think too much, there was money to be made from fighting, Lu Hun Rong got the benefits, but was willing to follow the Jin army to the battle.
In the twenty-second year of the reign of Lu Xun, in order to conquer Quangaorong between Yiluo, the Jin State recruited a large number of auxiliary troops from Lu Hurong; As a result, the combat capability of Lu Hurong in Weinan has been greatly weakened.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Qin Mugong immediately ordered Gongsun Zhi to lead an army to launch a surprise attack on Lu Hunrong; The important people left behind in the tribe were wiped out, and all men, women, and children became the cages of the Qin army.
Lu Hun Rong is going crazy, according to the usual practice of the Qin people, they are going to become slaves of the Qin people. The leader begged to see Gongsun Zhi and said to him, "Lu Hun Rong is not an enemy of a great power!" Our ancestors moved here from the northwest and have always lived in harmony with the big countries, never crossing the Weishui River, let alone harassing the big countries. So what is the reason why the great powers have taken us prisoner like enemies? ”
Gongsun Zhi said: "The Jin State is the enemy of the Qin State, but you provide the Jin State with troops. One day, the chariots of the Jin army will come from the west, who dares to guarantee that you will not help the Jin army to attack our country? The widow is terrified, which is why he ordered me to ask you this question. ”
The leader knew that there was no point in saying anything more, so he begged the other party not to turn the tribesmen into slaves. Gongsun Zhi borrowed a donkey from the slope and asked the tribal alliance to migrate eastward. When the chief saw that he had escaped from slavery, he asked for nothing more.
Lu Hun Rong was forced to travel east along Weishui with his family, and when the refugees reached the Yichuan area, they joined Lu Hun Rong's army, which had been recruited by the Jin State, and then settled there.
Lu Hurong's eastward migration caused Qin's power to cross Weishui and reach the Qinling Mountains in the south. The Qin State eliminated the troubles in the south, and was able to concentrate on fighting the enemy in the north.
As early as when King Zhou Ping moved eastward, the doctor Xin You saw someone in the Yichuan area wearing their hair in front of the grave of their ancestors, and asserted that this place would inevitably be occupied by Rong Di within a hundred years, and today this prophecy has finally come true.
When Jin Huigong was in exile in Liang, Liang Bo married his daughter to him. The princess soon became pregnant, but the pregnancy period had passed, and the princess still had no signs of giving birth.
The old priest came with his son. After the divination ceremony, the son said that the princess would give birth to a boy and a girl; The old priest said, yes, but the boy will become a minister in the future, and the girl will become a concubine.
Soon after, the princess gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and Yiwu named the boy "圉" and the girl "concubine" according to the results of the divination. Yu was later made the crown prince and sent to Qin as a hostage; The concubine became a female official in the palace of the Qin people.
Liang Guo's surname is Ying, and he is the same ancestor as Qin. Liang is a small country with a moderate population and limited national strength, but Liang Bo is obsessed with large-scale construction and builds image projects everywhere. Not long ago, he built a city called "Xinli", but after its completion, it became a ghost town because it was uninhabited, and it became the most suitable no-man's land for human habitation. When the people of Qin learned of the situation, they unceremoniously moved in.
In the nineteenth year of the reign of Lu Xu, Liang Bo was still happy to build all kinds of useless construction projects, and the people were already physically and mentally exhausted, and could no longer endure the slavery of the monarch. One night, someone shouted around the construction site under the cover of night: "The Qin people are here!" "The resting people were terrified, and immediately they scattered as birds and beasts.
Liang Bo did not hold the perpetrators and escapees accountable, but instead used the topic to play. He said that you have come back just in time, and if the enemy is coming, the people of the country should first protect the safety of the monarch; Dig a deep ditch outside Miyagi in case of war.
The spirit of the Liang people suddenly collapsed, and the people said: "Since the monarch is so afraid of the Qin people, then let the Qin people take this dying country!" After saying that, they fled their own countries.
When the Qin people heard that the Liang people desperately needed them to destroy their homeland, they immediately happily sent an army to the Liang state. The Qin army met little resistance, and drove into the empty enemy capital almost bloodlessly.
Liang Bo was pardoned because he "made great contributions to Qin", and he went to the son-in-law of the Jin State and cursed Qin Mugong in front of Jin Huigong every day. Jin Huigong felt that his pride had been greatly insulted - he believed that the Qin people's destruction of Liang was a demonstration against him.
The prince is very much like his father in every way, he is pale, thin, withdrawn, shy, and suspicious. When he learned that he was going to be sent to the Qin State, he felt that this life was over. However, Qin Mugong's purpose was to cultivate him into a pro-Qin faction, and he recruited Yu as a son-in-law (his wife was Qin Muji's eldest daughter and cousin Princess Jane), and gave him the treatment of the prince of Qin.
The princes and doctors of the Qin state understood the intentions of the monarch, and people often visited the prince of Jin, invited him to banquets or hunting, hoping to establish friendship with him; Although Prince Qin was only a teenager at the time, he often played with him accompanied by the prince.
However, the Qin people's kind gesture did not receive the expected response, and the prince seemed very nervous and cramped every time he saw the guests; The most common appearance is to keep your head down and staring at your hands restlessly.
After the Qin State destroyed the Liang, Ziyu also began to hate the Qin people; Since this emotion arises from the mind of a person who is not quite mentally normal, it is even more intense and untransformable.
After Qin Jin moved Lu Hun Rong to Yichuan, Jin Huigong's health problems appeared, and there was no sign of improvement; This situation does not bode well for the Jin people, who have suffered from civil strife.
The news was quickly sent to the people of Qin, and the prince immediately suffered from anxiety and mania. He shut himself up in his room and never saw anyone, frightened himself with all sorts of terrible thoughts, often smashing objects or lashing his subordinates.
Using his dual identity as a starting point, the prince speculated where his future would go. He believes that as the prince of the Jin Kingdom, he is the most important bargaining chip in the hands of the Qin people; But the Jin State will never sit back and wait to be blackmailed by the Qin people, so the easiest and easiest way is to abolish itself and set up another prince; After leaving the Jin Kingdom for a few years, his mother also fell from the princess of the Liang Kingdom to the exiled country, and his father was too lustful and mean (he was very much like the Duke of Jin Xian); Perhaps he will ruthlessly abandon himself as soon as he hears the slightest slander - what happened to Shen Sheng is a lesson from the past.