Chapter 5 3. After the death of the Qin Dynasty, Feng Huo rose from Daze

Just over a year after Liu San fell into the grass, that is, in July of the first year of Qin II, a small exhausted army marched to Qi County, Sishui County.They were the so-called "Luzuo" people who were conscripted to Yuyang to guard the border according to the order of Qin Ershi. Two small officers were in charge of escorting the nine hundred people, and the officers selected two village chiefs to assist them in managing the team.Of the two chiefs, one is Chen Sheng from Yangcheng, and the other is Wu Guang from Yangxia. When Chen Sheng was young, he worked as a farmer's servant. He rested among the long acres for a day. He felt very sad for a long time, and said to his colleagues: "If you are rich and honored, don't forget each other!"Everyone burst into laughter, you work for others, how can you get rich?Chen Shengchang sighed: "Wow, the sparrows know Honghu's ambitions!" You gang of sparrows, how do you know Honghu's ambitions!

This is an inspirational quote in Chinese history. But Chen Sheng, who had no ambitions, is now just a village chief—or a temporary appointment. At that time, it was raining heavily and the roads were muddy, making it impossible to march, so the 900 people had to be stationed in Daze Township.Counting the days, it was already past the stipulated date to arrive in Yuyang. According to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, if the army arrived late, the whole team would be beheaded. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang said together: "If we continue to move forward, we will die if we reach Yuyang; if we run away, if we are caught, we will die; if we raise our flag to rebel, we will die... Anyway, we are all dead. We might as well avenge the state of Chu. Let's fight with the Qin people!"

Wu Guang agreed with him, and the two began to analyze the current situation. The world has been suffering for a long time! The eldest son Fusu persuaded the first emperor several times and was quite popular, but he was relegated to the frontier. After the death of the first emperor, he should be established but could not be established. Instead, he was given to death without guilt. He is the emperor. General Xiang Yan of Chu had made great achievements, loved soldiers, and was very popular among Chu people. It was only ten years since he was defeated and died. Fusu's death is unknown among the people, and Xiang Yan's folks also say that he is not dead, but has just escaped and hid. Now we use the name of these two people to appeal to the world, heroes from all over the world must respond together, and great things will happen.

After the two discussed it, they asked the fortune teller for advice according to the ancient tradition.The divination said, the divination will surely succeed, but you still have to ask ghosts and gods for advice.The ancients believed in ghosts and gods. For them, the power of ghosts and gods often surpassed the authority of the world.If there is an oracle from ghosts and gods, things will be easier to handle. As a result, strange things have happened in the barracks these days. First, in the belly of the fish bought to improve the food, it was found that there was the word "Chen Shengwang" in the alchemy script.Then, in the middle of the night, in the bushes next to the barracks, there was a fox chirping, which sounded like "Da Chuxing, King Chen Sheng".

Yangcheng and Yangxia are both on the border of Chu. Most of the soldiers in this team are ordinary people on the frontier of the original Chu Kingdom. The scene of the decisive battle of Wan Dajun.They all sympathized with the demise of their homeland and Xiang Yan's death in battle. Some of them were even junior officers in Xiang Yan's army back then. Everyone invariably remembered a long-standing prophecy: "Although there are three households in Chu, Chu will die if Qin dies!" Could it be that this day came so soon? The next day, everyone whispered to each other and looked at Chen Sheng with strange eyes. Everyone knew that something was going to happen.

On this day, Wu Guang deliberately provoked the captain who was in command of this small army.Seeing that the time had come, Wu Guang grabbed the captain's sword and killed him. Then, Chen Sheng and others helped him kill another captain. After killing the officers of the Qin Army, they gathered all the soldiers and gave an impassioned speech to everyone: "Everyone knows, because of the heavy rain, we have already missed the schedule, and we will be beheaded if we miss the schedule. Even if they are not killed, the dead are guarding the border Sixty-seven times out of ten. For a strong man, if he doesn't die, he's fine. If he wants to die, it's meaningful to die. Princes and generals, I'd rather have a kind!"

In Chinese history, it was they who uttered the deafening slogan "Princes and generals, I would rather have a kind".Since then, every time there is a change of dynasty, some people will repeat this sentence. In the summer and autumn of 209 BC in Suxian County, Anhui Province, if there was less rain for a few days, perhaps the ancient name "Daze Township" would no longer exist in history. More than 2,000 years later, a thirteen-year-old boy wrote a couplet in his hand, which said: "The dragon in the big lake is stinging, and the deer in the Central Plains is fat." Citing this allusion, it is predicted that the world will be in troubled times.This child became famous when he grew up—he was Yuan Shikai who had been the emperor for eighty-three days.This is probably the last unified "emperor" worthy of being written in history books in Chinese history.

Chen Sheng said what the majority of soldiers wanted to say but did not dare to say. His speech inspired everyone's courage, and a raging fire ignited in Daze Township. This fire will spread to Guanzhong, Liaodong, and Nanyue... It will burn down the majestic Afang Palace, Lishan Mausoleum, and the once extremely powerful Great Qin Empire.On the ashes of this fire, four more empires rose: the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains, the Zhao Dynasty in South Vietnam, the Wiman Dynasty in Korea, and the Hun Dynasty in the Mongolian Plateau.The raindrops in Daze Township have affected the historical process of the entire Northeast Asia.These things are all several years, even ten years later.

Nine hundred garrison soldiers from Daze Township made an oath on the altar, and then cut down trees to form soldiers and rose up.Chen Sheng called himself a general, Wu Guang called himself a captain, and vowed to fight against Qin.Although the Qin Dynasty had a strong military strength, the national policy since the first emperor was to keep the outside and keep the inside. The heavy troops were in Hetao in the north and Baiyue in the south, and the interior was quite empty.Therefore, after the uprising by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, although the troops were weak and had almost no weapons and equipment, they still quickly captured Daze Township and Qicheng.Here, Chen Sheng divided his troops and sent Ge Ying, a man from Fuli, to lead the army to conquer Qidong, and he himself led the army to march towards Chen.Along the way, a large number of ordinary people who suffered from the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty joined their ranks. When the army attacked Chendi, it already had six or seven hundred chariots, more than a thousand riders, and tens of thousands of soldiers.Chen Dishou and Ling were not in office at this time, and only Shoucheng was struggling alone. He fought against Chen Shengyi's army in Qiaomen, was defeated and died, and Chen Sheng then occupied Chen.

Chen, now Huaiyang, Henan, was the capital of the ancient Chen State.Chen Guo was an important country in the Spring and Autumn Period. After the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Yin and Shang Dynasties, in order to win people's hearts, in addition to enfeoffing the princes with the surname Ji, they also carried out a campaign of prosperity and extinction. For example, Hu Gongman, a descendant of Feng Shun, Yu Chen.Hu Gongman once lived on the bank of the Gui River, so he was also called "Gui Man".During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chen family was in turmoil, and the son Chen Wan fled to the Qi State. Because the Qi people had weird pronunciation, they always pronounced "Chen" as "Tian". Chen Wan simply changed his surname to "Tian". , becoming one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.Xi Gui, the most famous beauty in misfortune during the Spring and Autumn Period, also came from the royal family of the Chen Kingdom. There is a famous allusion-"Through the ages, the only one who dies is the only one who dies, but the only one who is sad is Madam Xi!"

But the glory of Chen State was short-lived. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu State "destroyed Chen and made it a county"—that is, destroyed Chen State and made it a big county of Chu State.The Chu people also said, "Chen, Cai, and Butang are all rich in gifts." It can be seen that the surrounding area of ​​Chen is rich enough to support an army of thousands of chariots. Even Chen Sheng's surname came from the royal family of the Chen state - so for him, Chen was not only a strategically important place, but also his ancestral state. Seizing this place was of special significance to him. The area around Chendi was once the place where Qin, Chu, and Han fought for a long time at the end of the Warring States Period.In 278 B.C., Qin general Baiqi attacked the capital of Chu, Ying City, and the state of Chu moved its capital here, known as "Ying Chen". Using this as a base, it regained a large area of ​​lost land and continued the state of Chu.In the battle of the unification of the six kingdoms by the Qin State, the famous two battles of Li Xin and Wang Jian against Chu took place near here.Although it has been more than ten years since the unification of Qin Dynasty, the old people are still there, and the hearts of the people are still toward the state of Chu.In addition, most of the soldiers under Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's command were from this area. Wu Guang himself was born in Yangxia, which is near Yingchen. Therefore, the troops of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang received a warm welcome here.A few days after Chen Shengjun occupied Chen, he called the local elders and heroes to discuss world affairs. Among the heroes, there are two famous gentlemen. One of them, Mr. Zhang Er, was a disciple of Lord Xinling, one of the four sons of the Warring States Period, and a native of Daliang.At the end of the Warring States Period, Zeng Shiwei served as Waihuang Ling, and when Wei's capital Daliang was captured by the Qin army, he was in Waihuang.Because he married a rich daughter-in-law, he was able to spend money lightly and be hospitable. The aforementioned Liu San used to go to live with him for a few months when he was young. There is also Mr. Chen Yu, a native of Daliang, who is also a famous scholar in Wei Dynasty. His father is Zhang Er, and the two are close friends. A few years after Qin destroyed Wei, he heard that these two men were famous men of Wei. He bought Zhang Er with 1000 gold and Chen Yu with 500 gold.The two were forced to flee to Chen, and in order to earn a living, they changed their names and became security guards at the gate of the neighborhood.Chen Yu once made a mistake and was whipped by Li Li (a bit like the head of the current street office).Chen Yu was furious and wanted to pounce on him desperately. Zhang Er dragged him under the mulberry tree and whispered: "How is Shiwu and Gongyan? Seeing this little humiliation makes me want to die!" What did I tell you?Is it worth it to work hard with a small official for this little humiliation?They have been hanging around like this for several years, and the Qin Dynasty issued a wanted warrant offering a reward for their arrest, and they also seriously publicized it in the neighborhood—anyway, there was no photo posted on the wanted notice at that time, so what are you afraid of! After finally waiting for Chen Sheng's army to enter the city, the two of them summed up: It's time to go out!I ran to see Chen Sheng.When Chen Sheng and his friends heard that there were still two famous wanted criminals in the city, they were pleasantly surprised—isn’t the enemy’s enemy my friend?Please come in and have a chat with the host and guests. Chen was originally from the land of Chu, and the local people of course hoped to revive the state of Chu, so the big guy persuaded Chen Sheng to become the king of Chu, "The general was determined to be strong, and he led his soldiers to punish the Qin Dynasty. Be king. And my husband is in charge of all the generals in the world. If you don’t want to be king, I hope the general will be the king of Chu.” But Zhang Er and Chen Yu traveled around the world, and their horizons were broader. What they saw was not just the Chu State in front of them, but the overall situation of the world.So when Chen Sheng asked them for their opinions, they honestly put forward: "Husband Qin has no way, destroys the country, destroys the people's society, and destroys the future generations. Give up the power of the people and use up the wealth of the people. The general looked angry. Bravery, to die ten thousand times regardless of one's life's plan, to eliminate the disabled for the world. From now until now, the king is the king, showing the world's selfishness. May the general be king, and rush to the west, send people to establish the six kingdoms, and build a party for himself , for Qin to benefit the enemy. If there are many enemies, the force will be divided, and if the army is in the crowd, the army will be strong. In this way, there will be no troops to fight in the wild, no county to defend the city, punish the violent Qin, and occupy Xianyang to order the princes. If this is the case, the imperial career will be completed. Now the only king is Chen, and I fear that the world will be overwhelmed." Their point of view is: Qin destroying the six countries is the most immoral, and you Chen Sheng should do the opposite. After supporting the six countries, one can win the hearts of the people, and the other can divide Qin's military strength.Now that the next Chen has been laid down, he will make himself king. This is to show the world that he is selfish and cannot win the support of the people of the world. Chen Sheng didn't care about this, so he made himself king, named "Zhang Chu". After the establishment of the "Zhang Chu" regime, Chen Sheng himself sat in Chen and sent troops out to conquer the land. Chen Sheng used Wu Guang as the false king—the word "false" as an agent, that is, he granted Wu Guang the power to handle front-line affairs on his behalf—and the main force attacked Xingyang, an important town in the Central Plains. Chen Renwuchen, Zhang Er, and Chen Yu led the army to go north to take Zhao land. Take Deng Zong, a native of Ruyin, to attack Jiujiang County. Taking the Wei people as the Zhou city, the Wei land was favored in the north. Zhou Wen led the army to bypass Xingyang, knock on Hangu Pass from Yingchuan County, and invade Guanzhong, the heartland of the Qin Dynasty. Attack Guangling southeast with Zhaoping. Use Song Liu to attack Nanyang to the southwest, planning to enter Guanzhong from Wuguan (this is also the way for Han Gaozu to enter Guanzhong in the future).