Chapter 20 Section 8 Zheng Guoqu

Yingzheng Jinkou has been opened, and nothing can be changed.Zheng Guo then returned to Guanzhong and continued to build the canal.Later, the canal was named Zhengguo Canal after him.For Zheng Guoqu's important role in history, Sima Qian once gave a high evaluation in "Historical Records": "So Guanzhong is a fertile field, there is no evil year, Qin is prosperous and strong, and he died and the princes." And through a folk song sung at that time , it can be seen that ordinary people are sincerely grateful to Zheng Guo.The rumor said: "Where is the field? At the mouth of the Chiyang Valley. Zheng Guo is in front, and the Baiqu is behind. Lifting the scorpion as a cloud, breaking the canal as rain. Jingshui is a stone, and its mud is several buckets. And irrigate and dung, grow my millet .The food and clothing of the capital, the mouths of hundreds of millions."

Zheng Guoqu has benefited hundreds of millions of civilians and helped Qin unify the world, but its influence in history is far more than that.When today's people remember the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, they should not forget that Chang'an, the capital of the two great dynasties, is located on the Guanzhong Plain, which was prosperous because of the Zhengguo Canal.Today, the Zhengguo Canal has long been abandoned, and it is difficult to find its original style. In today's Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province, the site of its canal head is still preserved. In the eyes of Qin officials at that time, Zheng Guo was finally pardoned by Ying Zheng, which was Zheng Guo's victory, and Li Si's victory even more.This marked the consolidation of Li Si's status, and marked that the foreigner had once again become an important force in Qin's political arena after a storm of expulsion.After the First Battle of Zazhi, Li Si's prestige reached an unprecedented peak. In Kafka's words, it was to the point where he would regret it the next day.

The tenth year of Yingzheng is really a long year.In this year, there are too many big events happening.First, Empress Dowager Zhao Ji was placed under house arrest because of the Lai Ai case, and then 27 people admonished her to death, and then Mao Jiao admonished her again. Zhao Ji finally returned to Xianyang, and mother and child were reunited.Mao Jiao was worshiped as Shangqing, but immediately took the crown and left.Lu Buwei lost power and was sent back to the feudal state of Henan.Then came the case of Zheng Guo's spies, and Ying Zheng issued an order to expel the guests, which was quickly abolished.Li Si was promoted to Ting Wei, a further step in his official career.

Finally, at the end of the tenth year of Yingzheng, Li Si sent Zheng Guo away. Looking back on the vicissitudes of the past year, he was full of emotions, like a dream.The end of the year is approaching, Li Si thought to himself, this time he can finally take a breather. As everyone knows, this year is not willing to pass by peacefully on the calendar.On the road from Daliang, the capital city of Wei State, to Xianyang, there was a man walking on the snow with a bamboo stick in Ge clothes...