Controlling mountains and rivers since the Warring States Period

Chapter 196 The Fall of the Nine Cauldrons

The emperor's reign lasts fifty years.

The forty-second year of King Ji of Qin.

Queen Dowager Xuan of Qin died of old age.

When she died, her children and grandchildren surrounded her, and her eldest son Yingji held her hand.

Although the King of Qin was already very old, the Queen Dowager Xuan could still feel the heat from his body.

Her son is still full of passion and will lead the Qin State to a better future.

Therefore, when Queen Dowager Xuan was dying, she did not miss her eldest son.

During the more than ten years that he was in power, how much infamy did he bear for this guy?

If she hadn't gotten angry and annoyed and refused to do it, I'm afraid she would have continued to take the blame for her son!
Fortunately,

Ying Ji, who was almost forty years old at the time, had practiced health preservation for many years and felt that he had laid a solid foundation. He did not need to worry about the heavy state affairs that would drag down his health and cause him to die early like his father and grandfather.

He calmly took over the power his mother had left behind, and then became a powerful monarch who commanded the world.

There was no prince in the world who was not afraid of him.

now,

More than 20 years have passed.

"You must be kind to your brothers." Queen Dowager Xuan murmured.

"They lack talent and their personalities have been spoiled by me, but you, as the eldest brother, don't care about filial piety..."

She was really worried.

As soon as he left, the King of Qin disregarded their brotherhood and slaughtered them like fat pigs.

The Qin State fought wars one after another, and spent a lot of military supplies and rewards!

"can."

The King of Qin responded gently, and did not forget to ask his mother, "Does it include the two children you and Lord Yiqiu gave birth to?"

"if not!"

Queen Dowager Xuan had a moment of brilliance, and her voice rose a little, "They are all my flesh and blood!"

Hearing this,

The two young men of humble origins also fell to the ground and burst into tears, grieving the fact that their mother was about to leave.

So the King of Qin nodded and said, "I understand!"

Queen Dowager Xuan was relieved.

She closed her eyes.
Then came a new light.

A very familiar face appeared in front of her, with a very ugly expression.

"what!"

"There's a ghost!"

Queen Dowager Xuan uttered a cry of surprise and tried to run away.

Subsequently,

She found herself feeling light all over and her sons were crying loudly in front of her body.

She then reacted:
It turns out that I am dead!

just,

Why did I see my husband who passed away decades ago right after I died?

Judging from the other party’s expression, he wouldn’t still know about my relationship with Lord Yiqiu, right?

"Didn't we agree not to keep a concubine?"

The old ghost King Huiwen of Qin questioned the woman he once loved.

The Queen Mother Xuan pointed out seriously, "How can I say that I raised him without spending any money?"

"Still quibbling!"

King Huiwen of Qin was so angry that he grabbed the woman and took her to the underworld, intending to teach her a lesson there.

Only Queen Dowager Xuan's five sons were left, and they cried even more sadly.

But no matter how sad you are, you still have to do something!
The King of Qin wiped away the tears from his face, put away his half-true and half-false grief, and then took charge of state affairs again.

He said to his ministers, "Last year, Qin and the Three Jins were at war, and Zhou dared to help these countries. This is disrespectful to Qin!"

"This year, I heard that there was another conflict between the Eastern Zhou and Western Zhou, and the people of the Western Zhou fled, so I wanted to attack them and punish the Zhou family for their disrespect!"

The King of Qin's eyes were very serious, revealing his ambition to completely destroy the Zhou Dynasty.

Because the process of succession from brother to younger brother was very smooth, the King of Qin had been in power for decades and had accumulated enough prestige to make the Qin State even stronger.

Therefore,
The King of Qin felt that it was time to announce to the world who the destiny belonged to!

In order to prevent some princes from failing to see the reality and attempting to resist stubbornly!

The King of Zhou was able to survive in Luoyi for so long.

This is already the kindness of the princes!
otherwise,

In today's world where everyone wants to be king,

Why does he still occupy the Nine Cauldrons?

The ministers all bowed down, "We obey the king's order!"

then,

While Zhao was busy sending its general Li Mu to the north to attack the Huns, and Han and Wei were immersed in the fear of their previous defeats, Qin brazenly sent troops to Luoyi!

When the Qin army arrived at the last territory of the Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Yan was cowering in his only royal city. The Duke of Western Zhou and the Duke of Eastern Zhou, who were nominally his vassals, were still fighting among themselves and had not organized any resistance.

then,

The Qin State easily captured thirty-six cities in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and Duke Zhou of Dongzhou surrendered.

Emperor Yan had no other options.
Because it all happened too fast.

At that time, he was still hiding in that narrow attic, avoiding the debt collection of the rich people in the city.

After civil strife broke out in Xinxia, the Zhou emperor completely lost the support of the princes.

But Emperor Yan was an ambitious man and always wanted to restore the glory of the Zhou Dynasty.

Although he could not gather many soldiers with just a royal city, this did not prevent the emperor from borrowing money from others to maintain his dignity.

After all, he had lost even his face, so how could he revive the Zhou Dynasty?

Therefore, it is only natural that he is heavily in debt now.

After he peeked through the small window of the attic and saw the debt collectors disperse, he had the courage to come out, and then he heard:
The Qin people have entered the royal city.

Coming towards me!

Emperor Yan tried to escape in panic, but was eventually captured by the Qin people.

So he could only shout in grief and anger: "I am willing to surrender the city to Qin!"

Thus, the royal city also fell into the hands of Qin.
Emperor Yan, who had watched King Wu of Qin being crushed to death while lifting a tripod, had to watch the Qin people move the Nine Tripods to Xianyang.

He knelt on the ground.
Tears streaming down my face,

He watched with sorrow as the Qin people plundered everything from Luoyi and lifted the heavy Nine Cauldrons onto the ship one by one.

They will cross the great river,

Transport the Nine Cauldrons to Xianyang!
"me!"

Watching the sails being blown by the wind, the people on the boat began to row while shouting slogans, carrying the Nine Cauldrons upstream. Emperor Yan suddenly turned red in the face, wanting to chase the Mandate of Zhou that was getting farther and farther away.

"cannot!"

"No way!"

He shouted so loudly that his shoes fell off while running.

The Qin people chased him and tried to stop him.

As a result, before he could grab Tian Ziyan's sleeve, the other party fell to the ground with a thud and stopped breathing.

The last emperor of the Zhou Dynasty,
And so he died in grief and anger on the way to bid farewell to his destiny.

But the people transporting the Nine Cauldrons were not moved at all.

They paddled heavily and continued to move across the river.

When the Nine Cauldrons left the river section of the Three Jins and completely entered the Qin State, the river water, which was not too turbulent originally, suddenly caused huge waves!

The river water seemed to be boiling, rolling violently and creating countless waves.

The school of fish seemed to be scalded. They jumped out of the water frantically and opened their mouths wide to breathe in the air.

The river waves were surging, hitting the shore again and again. The strong force directly blasted some mud down, making the already unclear river water even more turbid.

Faced with such a huge change,

Everyone on the boat on the shore showed a look of horror.

Someone was so scared that he shouted, "He Baek is angry!"

"The ghosts and gods are about to punish you!"

Subsequently,

They quickly escaped from the river bank and ran towards the higher ground.

The people on the boat also started to panic and held on to the railings of the boat tightly. No one had the time to pay attention to Jiuding.

……

"what!"

"You said the Nine Cauldrons sank into the river?"

In Xianyang Palace,

The King of Qin, who had been happily awaiting the arrival of the Nine Cauldrons, was shocked to hear the unexpected change and suddenly jumped up from his seat.

Although he is old, he is still as agile as ever.

The face that always pretended to be gentle and innocent also revealed direct anger.

His hair and beard stood up, his eyes were wide open, and he looked like a man-eating beast.

The minister who reported the incident kowtowed tremblingly, "The river moved strangely, and the Nine Cauldrons accidentally fell off the boat!"

"And wherever a big river flows, such shocking changes have occurred. If you don't believe it, just ask anyone and you will know the answer!"

The King of Qin was furious. "Why did this happen at this time?"

"How could such a thing happen!"

After easily taking Luoyi and destroying the Zhou Dynasty, he should have been happy to confirm his destiny to the world. However, the gods and ghosts in heaven and earth were so uncooperative that such a thing happened!
Thus,
The courage of the princes to fight against Qin will be strengthened again!
The King of Qin was unusually flustered.

Fortunately, his guest official Fan Sui comforted him in time and said, "I congratulate the king!"

The King of Qin glared at him and said, "I have received such a surprise. Why should I be happy?"

Fan Sui said, "Because this is a sign that Qin has obtained a new Mandate of Heaven!"

He explained to the King of Qin why he said so:
"Although the Nine Cauldrons have been passed down for three generations, how does the world of those three generations compare to today?"

"In terms of land, during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the land of our country was occupied by barbarians, and the land did not extend beyond Yanshan Mountain in the north and the Yangtze River in the south. It was very small. How can it be compared with the current expansion?"

"In terms of population, during the Three Dynasties, each country had only tens of thousands of people, and the Rong and Di tribes were endless. However, now when the princes fight, is there a force of less than 10,000?"

"In terms of power centralization, the orders of the rulers of the Three Dynasties were difficult to leave their own kingdoms, and the government was only under the jurisdiction of the princes, and was not known to the ministers and officials. Each of them controlled his own territory and held his own power. This is why there were examples such as the three families dividing Jin and the Tian family replacing Qi."

"In terms of skills, the people of the Three Dynasties used wood and stone for farming, but our Qin State has developed farming and warfare, and has a large number of copper and iron tools; and a large number of strong and sharp objects!"

"So, if the Qin Dynasty unified the country, would the world be the same as it was during the Three Dynasties?"

"Since the situation in the world is different, how can the destiny be the same?"

"The Nine Cauldrons were cast by Dayu based on his achievements in flood control, and their origins naturally lie in the great river."

"Now that the world has changed, destiny has changed, and Dahe has taken back the Nine Cauldrons, isn't that normal?"

"After our country is unified, we will follow the story of Dayu, collect treasures from all over the world, and then forge a new symbol to show the destiny of the new world. This is also very normal!"

The King of Qin listened to his words.
My anxious heart actually calmed down.

“…You have a point!”

He closed his eyes and pressed his eyebrows.

But in the end, the King of Qin still gave up and ordered, "Go and salvage the Nine Cauldrons from the river!"

If the Nine Cauldrons can't be found, then release Fan Sui's theory to appease the people!

……

Far above the plateau,
He Bo is playing tug of war.

He immersed himself in the source of the Yellow River, striving to seize the authority of the mother river.

But this mighty river stretching for thousands of miles would not be easily conquered by He Bo even if it did not reject He Bo.

Immersed in the source for more than ten years,
He Bo waited until a few crops of water plants grew above his head before he refreshed the progress bar!
then,

He discovered with grief and anger that
This progress bar, which is unique to the Yellow River, would take too long to move if it relied solely on its own!

It was so long that even ghosts and gods could hardly bear it!
Ten years of sorting,

Ten years of refresh.

Will it take many more decades to achieve the current rate of growth?

But if He Bo does it himself, like a boat tracker, pulling hard, he can also move the progress bar forward!
then,

He Bo got angry and started pulling hard, causing the progress bar to move forward a lot.

Subsequently,

He was so tired that he sat on the ground gasping for breath, but he was happy about his harvest.

As for what kind of movement occurred in the river because of his fierce attack, He Bo, who was completely immersed in the joy of "tug of war", had no idea!

(End of this chapter)