At the beginning of qin shi huang's reign, a man named Zheng Guo traveled to Xianyang, the capital of the Qin state, and successfully entered the court of the Qin state with his special ability.
But don't compare his ability with Yan Yi's superior "male" ability. Zheng Guo's label was "water conservancy expert", which was a scarce technical talent in the Qin state at that time.
Once, seizing the opportunity, Zheng Guo gave a passionate speech, he suggested that the Great Qin Empire build an irrigation canal connecting Jingshui and Luoshui, and showed everyone the bright prospects after the successful construction of the canal: the Guanzhong Plain would become a rich area with abundant grains and cattle and sheep.
His speech successfully impressed two of the empire's big men: qin shi huang, the first leader, and Lü Buwei, the second in command.
At that time, Qin Shi Huang was still only a 13-year-old monarch who had not personally governed, and the main decision-making power was in the hands of Xiangguo Lü Buwei. Lü Buwei weighed the pros and cons, and waved a big hand, "Old Zheng, brother give you 100,000 people, just do it according to your ideas."
Lü Buwei and Yin Zheng fantasized about the grand scene after the completion of the water canal, but they did not know that behind everything that seemed beautiful was a huge conspiracy buried.
The conspiracy behind the construction of the Zhengguo Canal
After several generations of Qin kings' reforms, the state of Qin became increasingly powerful, often engaged with the other six kingdoms. The one who was bullied the most was South Korea.
South Korea is close to the east of the Qin State, and its national strength is much weaker than that of the Qin State, and it is better to live and die on the traffic artery of the Eastward Expansion of the Qin State. The State of Qin did not move, and hanguguan violently beat the six kingdoms around, and each time had to pass through Korea.
South Korea was thus caught in a dilemma. Resist it and beat the Qin State alive and dead; when the little obedient Qin State is, the five countries point to the nose and scold the soft bones, and the Korean monarch is worried, and a lot of hair is lost.
There was really no way, the Qin State was strong through the change of law, Han Wang An thought that he had to do the same, he completely copied and pasted the Qin State model. The Qin state changed the law using the Shang martingale of the Fa family, and Han Wang An also used a person named Shen BuJian.
This Shin is not harmful, but focuses on not hard work but power plots, and in the more than twenty years of his reign, South Korea has been made into a miasma, not to mention, and frequently fainted. For example, taking the initiative to give up the Shangdang area, letting Qin Zhao fight fiercely, and sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, the result was that the Shangdang area was occupied by the Qin state, and he lost his wife and folded his troops.
Han Wang'an was a more and more courageous character, one move could not be used again, and he actually came up with a magic method of "a soldier who yields without fighting". His plan was to take advantage of the ambitions of the State of Qin and send people to persuade the State of Qin to build a long canal to deplete the national strength of the State of Qin.
In fact, his idea is definitely desirable. In ancient times, repairing canals was a major project that cost the people money and great risks, and the usual result was that the canals were repaired and the country was gone.
During the Spring and Autumn Period before Qin Shi Huang, Wu Wang Fuchai ambitiously built a canal Anduangou to connect the Yangtze and Huai rivers.
But it was this canal that led to the decline of Wu's national strength, and was finally easily destroyed by the Yue people.
After Qin Shi Huang, the most famous case of the destruction of the country due to the construction of large-scale projects was the Grand Canal built by the Sui Emperor and the Yellow River embankment built by the Yuan Dynasty, which eventually led to a large-scale peasant uprising and accelerated the demise of the dynasty.
It seems that the strategy set by Han Wang'an, a scheming boy, is very good, and the top priority is to find the right plan implementer.
Soon Zheng Guo stood out. He was born to repair water canals, and he went to the Qin Kingdom to lobby professionally. Zheng Guo, a high-ranking spy, did not fail in his mission, and used three inches of uncorrupted tongue to move The King of Qin and Lü Buwei to become his "angel investors".
The conspiracy was revealed, and Zheng Guo escaped from death
The reason why Lü Buwei was so interested in Zheng Guo's proposal was because the famous Dujiangyan had been successfully built at that time. The Chengdu Plain has been successfully transformed from unsuitable for human habitation to a "country of heavenly capital" that guarantees drought and floods.
Unfortunately, Sichuan is too far away from Guanzhong, and the conquest of the Six Kingdoms needs a large amount of grain and grass as a backing, if the grain is transported from Shudi to the southeast battlefield, the distance is too far and too much loss, And Lü Buwei is a businessman, thinking that this is not a cost-effective deal.
It happened that Zheng Guo appeared at this time, and his idea was to build an irrigation channel in Guanzhong that was more than 300 miles long, divert water from the west to the east to inject Luo water into the east, and build guanzhong, which was frequently plagued by disasters, into a granary of Great Qin.
This idea coincided with Lü Buwei's vision. The development of water conservancy in Guanzhong and the abundant reserve of grain and grass are a solid foundation for the unification of the six countries. Guanzhong has convenient transportation, and if there is a strong supply, no matter which direction you send troops from, you will be victorious.
From this point of view, the leaders of the Qin State really have a long-term vision and have unparalleled boldness. Of course, they also did not know that Zheng Guo was a traitor sent by South Korea, so they entrusted the task of building the Zheng Guo Canal to this outstanding water conservancy expert.
It can be said that at this point, Zheng Guo's purpose as a spy has been achieved.
But Zheng Guo is a person with feelings, he regards the water conservancy cause as life, and being able to build such a great project that has never been seen before is also a rare opportunity in his life.
So he wade through the mountains and rivers to survey the ground. Looking at the terrain, finding water sources, visiting the people, and making plans, I was as tired as two fools.
The problem is that when the construction of the water canal was in full swing, the Korean high-level who did not know which big mouth exposed the true identity of Zheng Guo, which suddenly made Qin Shi Huang angry, and he even issued an expulsion order and decided to expel all foreign officials, but after reading Li Si's ancient famous chapter "Book of Expulsion", Qin Shi Huang calmed down.
He sent someone to escort Zheng Guo up for personal interrogation, and Zheng Guo painfully admitted his identity, but also pointed out that the successful construction of the canal would bring great benefits to the Qin state.
After consulting with Lü Buwei, who was still young, Qin Shi Huang and Lü Buwei unified their opinions, decided not to consider the previous suspicions, and moreover, the talent was rare, and decided to open up to Zheng Guowang and let him continue to return to the construction site to build a water canal.
This is the open-mindedness and arrogance that a great politician should have!
"Tired Qin's strategy" has become a "strategy for a strong country"
In order to build this long canal, the Qin state used 100,000 laborers and spent countless amounts of money. Fortunately, thanks to the solid foundation laid by the monarchs of previous dynasties, the Qin state was not dragged down.
Zheng Guo was a righteous person, and in order to thank Qin Shi Huang for his kindness, he worked hard in the spirit of "a soldier dies for a confidant". After more than ten years, the construction of the Zhengguo Canal was completed.
This is a grand project to connect the two major rivers of Jing and Luo. In the northern part of the Guanzhong Plain, a cobweb-like irrigation system is formed between Jingshui, Luoshui and Weishui, so that the arid and water-scarce Guanzhong Plain can be irrigated. More than 40,000 hectares of wasteland were turned into fertile land, which could solve the food problem of one-third of the qin population, and it was enough to solve the rations of 600,000 troops.
For a whole decade, in order to build the Zhengguo Canal, the ambitious Qin State did not destroy a single country, and now that the grain and grass are sufficient and strong, Qin Shi Huang waved a big hand, "Comrades, rush! "The Tiger and Wolf Division of the Qin Kingdom rushed to Korea.
This is not to avenge the spies sent by the Korean State of Qin, but only because South Korea has been close to the State of Qin recently, and the action of unifying the Six Kingdoms cannot be carried out without first destroying it.
South Korea is really home. As early as the time of Qin Shi Huang's grandfather Qin Qi, Qin Qi, And Qin Zhaoxiang, Korea was ravaged several times by the Qin general Bai Qi, the army was getting weaker and weaker, and the land was getting smaller and smaller, and when Qin Shi Huang wanted to take it for a knife, it only dismantled a small piece of territory from Luoyang to Nanyang.
Han Wang'an was also a lord with a strong desire to survive, and when he saw that the Qin Kingdom was coming to Zhenge, he could only pretend to be a grandson in a low voice, and then cut the land and called him a subject, and also gave Han Fei, the representative figure of the Fa family and the treasure boy, to the King of Qin as a gift.
Unfortunately, Qin Shi Huang accepted the gift but did not do anything, and sent an army led by the unknown commander Nei Shi Teng, who easily destroyed Korea, and Han Wang An became the first high-ranking prisoner in the War of Unification of the Six Kingdoms.
Zheng Guoqu's role was played to the extreme in the process of Qin's annihilation of Chu. At first, Qin Shi Huang was light enemies, and asked Li Xin to lead 200,000 troops to attack the State of Chu, but Li Xin was defeated miserably, and there was no way but to reactivate Wang Qi, who was listening to small songs at home, and let him lead 60 troops to fight with the State of Chu.
The tactic used by Wang Qi was to refuse to fight. Eat and drink in the barracks every day, let the soldiers engage in friendly exercises. At the beginning, the famous General Xiang Yan of the Chu State also used the same tactics, and it was not long before the King of Chu could not stand it, because what? It's not a poor fight.
Wang Qi's 600,000-strong army had a steady stream of grain from Guanzhong, and he was fine for two years of public tourism in the Chu State, but the Chu State could not even hold out for two months, and the poor Xiang Yan generation of famous generals could not withstand the pressure from the top, and could only attack hard, and then be beaten to the ground.
In the end of the war, the fight is national strength. Although the Qin state is not bound to win every battle, it can quickly recover its blood volume after defeat, and the other six countries can only repeatedly lose blood, which is the gap in strength.
Although the construction of Zheng Guoqu began with a huge conspiracy color, this conspiracy and Zheng Guo, the spy, became the strongest assist in the history of Qin Shi Huang's unification of the six kingdoms, and it has to be said that although most of history is tragic, it will occasionally stage a few light comedies.