Chapter 2 preamble

On the morning of January 9, 1044 B.C., Jiazi Day, the Zhou army from Shaanxi, under the leadership of King Wu of Zhou, swore to be a master in Muye, and immediately started a fierce battle with the Shang army who came to fight. Known as the "Battle of Muye" in history. Due to the sudden arrival of the Zhou army, King Zhou, the last ruler of the Shang Dynasty, had no time to call back the army from the east to conquer Dongyi, so he temporarily armed a large number of slaves to join the war.In the battle, although the merchant army had many troops, they were all slaves and had no fighting spirit. They turned against each other one after another.King Wu of Zhou waved his army to pursue the victory and went straight to Chaoge, the capital of Shang.

The Yin Shang Dynasty with the mysterious bird as its totem was defeated, and it was reborn in the raging fire of Lutai.From then on, the world was owned by the Zhou Dynasty, the descendant of Houji.In the Zhou Dynasty, the clan and relatives were enfeoffed as vassals, and the countries spread all over the Central Plains.Hundreds of years later, the vassal states with gradually full wings, forgetting their ancestors several times, set up their own houses one after another, and no longer obeyed the call of the emperor of Zhou.The five tyrants and seven heroes rose one after another, and the world was in turmoil for hundreds of years, which was ridiculed by later generations as "the war of no justice in the Spring and Autumn Period".

Later, Mr. Yang Shen, a man of the Ming Dynasty, had a poem that said it well: In the third and fourth centuries BC, when times were troubled, in the palace of Daliang City, there was such a dialogue of a wise man. Question: Will the world be evil?Answer: It will be one. Question: Which one can one of them?Answer: Those who are not addicted to killing can be one. Question: Who can be with it?Answer: There is no one in the world who does not agree with it! It was King Wei Xiang who asked the question, and Mencius, the sub-sage, answered the question.In the turmoil of the troubled times, the wise men are looking forward to the future, setting aside the darkness in front of them, and predicting the coming of the era of great unification.

However, it was the Qin State in the remote west that ended the troubled times.In 230 BC, Qin sent Nei Shi Teng to destroy Han and captured Han Wang'an.Two years later, Zhao was destroyed, and Zhao Wangqian was captured.Three years later, Qin general Wang Ben destroyed Wei and killed Wei Wangjia.After two years, Wang Jian led 600,000 Qin troops to destroy Chu.In the next year, Wang Ben destroyed Yan and Dai, and captured Yan Wang Xi and Zhao Gongzi Jia who made himself the king of Dai.In 221 BC, Wang Ben went south from Yan to attack Qi and captured Qi Wang Jian. In ten years, the six overlords from Baiyue in the south, Liaodong in the north, and the sea in the east all surrendered to Qin in the west.So far, Qin State, one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, has finally completed the historical mission of razing the six kingdoms and unifying the world after nearly a century and a half of hard work. , Could it be the land of the king, the shore of the land, and the land of the king, could it be the unified dynasty of the king's ministers".

That day finally came, and no one thought it would come so fast and so suddenly.It was an era without precedent.In this land, there has never been such a large population, such a large army, and such a vast country ruled by a single person.People at that time stepped into such a brand-new era hastily and dazedly—they were not ready yet.The books are different, the carts are different, the four languages ​​are different, the money and silk are different, and the weights and measures are different... In terms of thinking, there is no unity. Everyone in the world is right and wrong. How to govern a country is uncertain in the world.

Where is the way forward?How long can unity last?No one knows the answer.The blood dripping from the predecessors has turned into a signpost for the descendants to step forward with their heads held high. In this sense, regardless of success or failure, they should not be blamed.