When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 589 Cheng Xi leads the troops, the three tribes of Meng Xibai
After a large court meeting where the next war plan was announced, almost everyone in the Qin State maintained a high degree of excitement.

The people of Qin were happy when they heard about the war. War was the fastest and most direct way to promotion for civilians, and it was also the only way for them to transcend classes.

Even the princes and nobles were happy to hear the battle.

Compared with the people of Qin who dance in writing, the sturdy folk customs still make the people of Qin as a whole advocate force, and the princes and nobles are no exception.

This time, even Ying Zheng's only biological brother, Ying Chengyu, who was crowned just at the beginning of the year, will join him on the battlefield.

The Qin State has always had clan members serving as generals in the army, including Ying Qian, the elder brother of Duke Xiao of Qin, Ying Ji and Ying Hua, the younger brothers of King Qin Huiwen, Ying Xi, the clan brother of King Zhuangxiang of Qin, and Ying Xi, the younger brother of King Zhuangxiang of Qin. , and now Ying Zheng’s biological brother Cheng Xi.

The purpose of this was not only to boost morale and let the old Qin people know that the Ying Qin royal family also sent their children to join the army, but also to check and balance the court and balance the military power to prevent the emergence of ministers with excessive military power.

Ying Zheng is a person who lacks love. Because of his lack of love, he pays more attention to emotions.

Zhao Ji, Lu Buwei, the Queen Mother Xia, and even the Queen Mother Huayang, who pretended to be the Chu clan in her heart and constantly grabbed power and status for the Chu clan, still had a very high status in Ying Zheng's heart.

As for Cheng Yu, this younger brother who was once pushed by the Chu clan to compete with Ying Zheng for the throne of Qin, Ying Zheng did not show any fear towards him at all. As an elder brother, he even took the initiative to take care of his younger brother who lost his father when he was young. , gave Cheng Xi trust and military power, and also provided opportunities to make meritorious deeds.

Cheng Yu lost his father when he was eight years old. In the next twelve years, it was he, the older brother, who found someone to train his younger brother. Therefore, Ying Zheng knew better than anyone else how much Cheng Yu had real abilities.

Like the Chu State, the Yan State with Yan Dan's presence would not let Qin destroy Wei so easily.

Cheng Xi's task was very simple. He only had to lead an army of 100,000 to guard the border and prevent Yan State from causing any substantial interference to Qin State's expedition to Wei. This was a big achievement.

Therefore, Ying Zheng planned to place Cheng Xi on the border of Qin and Yan to resist the invasion of Yan.

Ying Zheng doted on his younger brother Cheng Xi, so he naturally knew that Cheng Xi had some abilities.

Of course, Cheng Xi could only be the nominal commander of the army. Ying Zheng planned to entrust the army to Huan Jue, with Cheng Xi's retainer Fan Yuqi as the assistant general, and a few partial generals and Ya generals from Meng Xibai. It is enough to deal with the Yan army.

Meng Xibai is one of the three surnames in Qin.

The three surnames are not derogatory, but refer to the three most noble surnames in Qin State except the Ying surname. The Mengxibai clan was the first to follow the Qin royal family, and they served the Qin royal family longer than the founding of Qin. In the early days of Qin, power was concentrated on the clan and the Mengxibai clan.

Many people think that the Mengxibai clan became the three surnames of the Qin State because of Meng Mingshi, Xiqishu and Bai Yibing, the three famous generals who assisted Qin Mugong to achieve hegemony. In fact, these three famous generals were born in the Mengxibai clan. clan, had the opportunity to assist Qin Mugong to achieve hegemony.

Of course, the achievements of these three famous generals have also allowed the Mengxibai Tribe to completely stabilize their position in the core power circle of the Qin Dynasty. Even if certain generations did not contribute top talents to the Qin State, the Mengxibai Tribe can be found throughout the Guanzhong region. However, his descendants are abundant in the middle and lower classes of the army and counties.

The Lao Qin people that many people refer to actually refer to the Mengxi Bai tribe to a large extent.

However, the three tribes of Mengxi and Bai also brought great troubles to the governance of the Qin State. Although the three tribes once became friends of life and death because of their common bloody battles, they could not live in harmony from generation to generation.

The three Baili tribes in Mengxi jointly manage Baili Canal, an irrigation canal that is extremely important to the Qin State. However, this kind of joint management is most likely to lead to conflicts. The three tribes often have conflicts and even fight over water sources. This appeared before Shang Yang's reform. There have been countless large-scale armed fights.

However, if there is a drought, the three tribes will unite as one, but the purpose of their unity is to close the sluice gate and give priority to meeting the irrigation needs of the land under the name of the three tribes. This behavior aroused the dissatisfaction of other large tribes downstream, leading to fierce fighting. Struggle for water.

This was also deliberately done by the kings of the Qin Dynasty in the past dynasties, secretly intensifying the conflicts between the three Mengxibai tribes, and then intensifying the conflicts between the three tribes and other old Qin nobles, so that the Mengxibai tribe would not be like Qu Jing of Chu. The Zhao Tribe generally has the tendency to be too powerful to lose, but this also allows the Mengxi Bai Tribe to be preserved and even endure for a long time.

The purpose of sending the Mengxi Bai Tribe and Cheng Xi to the Qinyan border together was to win over the Mengxi Bai Tribe. This was the suggestion of the Queen Mother Huayang.

As a young and promising king, Ying Zheng is constantly creating unprecedented feats. Even anti-Qin people sincerely recognize this. However, Ying Zheng, as a king, has a shortcoming that ordinary people have not noticed.

That is the lack of attention to middle and lower-level officials.

Ying Zheng was a virtuous corporal and attached great importance to talents. As a result, great talents from other countries such as Li Si, Wei Liao, and Han Fei came to help him, but he ignored the role of middle- and lower-level officials.

A country needs cutting-edge talents. They are the makers of national policies and the drivers of the chariot of the Qin Empire. But without the horses pulling the chariot, even if the chariot has a clear purpose and direction, it will not How to run a Mercedes-Benz?
Officials at the middle and lower levels are like horses pulling a chariot. They may not be thousands of miles colts, nor thousand-mile horses, but they must bear the weight so that the chariot of the Qin Empire can continue to move forward.

And Ying Zheng's neglect of the role of middle- and lower-level officials is like not caring whether these horses are thousand-mile horses or rogue horses. He still requires these horses to move forward according to the standard of thousand-mile horses. The final result can only be that the rogue horses stumble and destroy the speeding horse. The running chariot overturned and fell to the ground, and Ying Zheng, the owner of the chariot, would also die with the overturning of the chariot.

Ying Zheng, who was reminded by Queen Mother Huayang, suddenly realized that the first thing he did was to win over the Mengxibai tribe, which was among the middle and lower classes of Qin State. The military achievements that Qin Yan easily obtained on the battlefield were the favor given by Ying Zheng.

(End of this chapter)