(Portrait of Prince Yan Dan)
During the Warring States period, Zhao was strong and Yan was weak, so Yan sent protons to Zhao.
The proton is the hostage, and the hostage sent by the Yan State is the prince Dan.
Coincidentally, the Qin State was also relatively weak at that time, so the Qin State also had to send hostages to the Zhao State, and the hostages sent by the Qin State were Zichu.
The Zhao people were fierce and often humiliated Zi Chu, so Zi Chu did not live well in Zhao State, but fortunately, he met a businessman named Lü Buwei.
Lü Buwei's family is rich, he is very rich, but in his opinion, it is not enough to have money alone, he prefers to use his existing resources for political speculation, and this Zichu, who is a hostage in Zhao State, is a good potential stock.
Therefore, Lü Buwei and Zichu became friends, buddies, and good friends who talked about everything, Zichu asked for things for things, asked for money for money, and even Lü Buwei dedicated his woman Zhao Ji to Zichu.
When the Seven Heroes competed for hegemony, the enchanting and charming women of Zhao Di were famous all over the world, and Zi Chu and Zhao Ji soon blossomed and gave birth to a son, that is, Ying Zheng.
Father and son Chu are protons, so Ying Zheng, who was born in Zhao State, is of course also a little proton.
Many years later, when Yingzheng had become the king of Qin and began his great cause of unifying the six kingdoms, when he destroyed Zhao, Ma Qian of Taishi Company once had such a record:
"Historical Records, Volume 6, Qin Shi Huang Benji Sixth": Handan of the King of Qin, all tastes have grudges with Wang Shengzhao's mother's family, and they are all gone.
After conquering the Zhao State, Ying Zheng personally went to Handan, the capital of the Zhao State, found the Zhao people who had bullied his mother and himself, and then killed them all.
(Portrait of the First Emperor Yingzheng)
So through this sentence, we can know that Ying Zheng should have had a very bad time in Zhao when he was young, which is also understandable, because Proton has no dignity to talk about in the enemy country, he is often abused by Zhao people, and he is often punched and kicked at every turn, and even almost died several times.
During the same period, Prince Dan of Yan State was also a proton in Zhao State, and they were both protons, Ying Zheng and Prince Dan should have met, or contacted.
When describing the proton years spent together by Yingzheng and Prince Dan, Sima Qian used the word "驩".
驩 means joy, happiness.
Therefore, the two children should get along very well, Prince Dan is slightly older than Yingzheng, and in the difficult years, Prince Dan should also help Yingzheng.
The gears of fate of the two people turn in the midst of suffering, but they go in different directions.
Later, Ying Zheng became the king of Qin, and the Yan State gradually declined, and the prince Dan left Zhao State and lived a tossy life, but many years later he was sent to the already powerful Qin State as a proton.
Seeing Yingzheng dressed in a gorgeous costume and hanging a sword from his waist, Prince Dan couldn't help but sigh infinitely.
The former friend has become the pride of the sky, but he is still the mud in the swamp and the dry bones in the grave.
When Prince Dan met Ying Zheng, it was the eve of the destruction of Korea by the Qin State, and the pace of the later First Emperor's domination of the world could not be stopped, and Ying Zheng would tell Prince Dan that he wanted to build a huge and unified country, and Yan State would also become a part of this country.
Prince Dan was angry, not only because he thought Yingzheng was too arrogant, but also because of his heartfelt panic towards the Qin people.
When the old people met, Yingzheng and Prince Dan had a big quarrel, and Prince Dan resented King Qin's unfriendliness to him, so he found an opportunity to flee back to Yan Kingdom.
From the past to the present, to the future, Yingzheng has almost no people to trust, such as Zhao Ji, the mother who violates human ethics, the ill-intentioned Prime Minister Lu Buwei, the bent Zhao Gao, and the heavy-hearted Li Si... Prince Dan is almost the only person Yingzheng can trust, and it is a rare soft memory in his humanity.
However, Ying Zheng understands that he has his own mission.
The mission given to him by the remnants of the Sixth Dynasty made him have to abandon all emotions and move forward for that one goal.
(Restoration of the Qin Palace)
Therefore, he told Prince Dan that there would be no more Yan people, and there would be no more Zhao people and Qi people, because, sooner or later, they would all become Qin people.
Yes, back then, when the Zhao people beat and scolded Yingzheng and insulted Yingzheng, Prince Dan never despised Yingzheng, and even used his not strong body to block Yingzheng in front of him to protect this little brother.
But now, Ying Zheng has grown up and become a king, but he will not miss the slightest friendship with the crown prince Dan when he was young, and the iron cavalry of the Qin army will one day set foot on the land of Yan Kingdom.
In terms of personality, Prince Dan and Ying Zheng have no conflict, they are friends in distress, like brothers and sisters, they should have been a pair of excellent friends, but from a political standpoint, Prince Dan is a Yan person, and he has to think about his country.
However, Prince Dan never thought that the country he wanted to protect may have never cared about him.
Prince Dan, who returned to Yan State, single-handedly planned the assassination of Qin by Jing Ke, who shook the world and left his name in history, but ultimately failed, and Wang Jixi of Yan State, that is, Prince Dan's father, was afraid of a catastrophe, and in order to curry favor with Qin, he actually killed his son.
Four years after the death of Prince Dan, the Yan Kingdom perished.
Another year later, Qin annexed the Six Kingdoms and unified the world.
All the powerless fate, the tenacity of countless moths to the fire, at this moment, want to stop talking, want to say goodbye.
Qin Shi Huang's convoy once paraded in Xianyang City, good guys, the battle was quite large, the golden car was shining in the sun, flashing with supreme authority and glory, the flag in front of the car was hunting, like the sound of thousands of troops and horses galloping, the people knelt on both sides and did not dare to raise their heads, only a person named Liu Bang was very bold, looked left and right at the parade convoy, and also issued such an exclamation:
"Historical Records, Volume 8, Gaozu Benji": "Wow, the husband should be like this!"
Before this exclamation, Liu Bang was a complete hooligan.
He is the pavilion chief in Zhongyangli, this Qin Dynasty set up a pavilion in ten miles, and there are countless pavilion chiefs in the world, it can be said that Liu Bang is a very unpopular sesame petty official, so he is a mess in his post every day.
Moreover, Liu Bang is a lazy person, everyone else works, everyone else goes to the field to farm, but he does not participate in labor, basically you can't see Liu Bang working all day long, so what does he like? First, he has good wine, and second, he is lascivious, so it can be said that his personal style is not very good.
(Xinling Jun Wei Wuji statue)
But don't look at Liu Bang's style, he is actually an idealistic person, he has admired Xinlingjun, one of the four sons of the Warring States since he was a child, that is, the one who stole the talisman to save Zhao, Liu Bang is an iron fan of Xinlingjun, and regards Xinlingjun as an idol, and he once planned to visit Xinlingjun in person, but he had to give up due to insufficient money.
But in order to get closer to the idol, Liu Bang still went to work as a doorman for Xinlingjun's doorman Zhang Er for a period of time, which is equivalent to working for the idol's subordinates.
Liu Bang is the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, we can say that he was a Han Dynasty person, but most of his life was actually spent in the Warring States and Qin periods, so we can also say that Liu Bang was a Warring States person.
And Liu Bang, a Warring States person, when he worships the style of another Warring States person, then he will default in his heart that the world should belong to the nations.
Liu Bang would have thought that the world should be like this, there should have been many countries, there should have been many kings, and then kings and kings, countries and countries either occasionally communicate with each other, or completely old and dead, but after seeing Qin Shi Huang go on patrol with his own eyes, Liu Bang was shocked, and a new word appeared in his mind, that is, "emperor".
Liu Bang suddenly realized that in addition to the parallel of the nations, there was such a form of unification of the world.
Many years later, Liu Bang had established the Han Dynasty, and half a year before his death, he had returned to his hometown of Pei County, and the fathers and villagers of Pei County sang and danced, reminiscing about the old times, and left a popular "Song of the Great Wind".
The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, Weijia is returning to his hometown, and the warriors are guarding the Quartet.
The first two sentences are Liu Bang's recognition of himself, he overthrew the tyrannical Qin, defeated Xiang Yu, revisited the whole day, established the Han Dynasty, and finally returned to his hometown.
And the last sentence is Liu Bang's hidden worries about the future, he is sighing, where is he going to find a truly brave soldier to protect the territory of the Han Dynasty for himself?
(Liu Bang image)
The overall tone of this song is sad, Liu Bang later said that he is a wanderer's sad hometown, so the question is, Liu Bang is such a successful person, where does his sadness come from?
The reason is that although Liu Bang worships Qin Shi Huang, his emperor is very different from Qin Shi Huang's emperor.
The Qin Dynasty adopted the county system, the world was divided into large and small states and counties, and the county guards and county orders were only responsible to the emperor, but at the beginning of the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, the system of parallel counties and states was adopted, not to mention that the Liu clan owned the land and was crowned princes, and the power of those princes of the opposite sex was even greater.
The feudal states in various places have their own systems, they own land, have an army, have their own people, and can appoint and dismiss bureaucrats on their own, so Liu Bang's emperor is similar to Xiang Yu's feeling of being the co-ruler of the world back then.
When Liu Bang was there, princes and kings like Yingbu would rebel blatantly, wouldn't Liu Bang be worried that the political system of the county would bring a greater crisis to the Western Han Dynasty after his death?
Therefore, Liu Bang will be sad, because the half year left to him by God is obviously not enough.
Of course, this far-sighted founding emperor would not have known about the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in later generations, let alone known that he had made a prophecy, but it didn't matter, because the mission from the founding of the country to the establishment of the government would be gradually completed by his descendants.
He didn't know that he would have a descendant named Liu Che who would create a new world in the future era.
At that time, Liu Bang sighed in front of the convoy of the First Emperor when he was like this, but Xiang Yu, who happened to have seen the First Emperor traveling, issued a completely different exclamation:
"Historical Records, Volume VII, Xiang Yu Benji VII": "He can take his place." ”
Xiang Yu thinks that Qin Shi Huang is not a big deal, he will be replaced sooner or later, and the person who replaces Qin Shi Huang may be himself.
Xiang Yu has always been very proud, because he is different from Liu Bang, Liu Bang is basically a commoner, but he is a nobleman of Chu State, born brave, infinitely powerful, the last member of the Qin State Zhang Han cleaned up the resurgence of the old soldiers of the Six Kingdoms, everyone cringe, but Xiang Yu only used 50,000 elite soldiers to create a miracle of winning more with less.
(Battle of the Great Deer)
It can be said that the defeat of the Qin army in the battle of Julu was a key battle for the rise and fall of the Qin state, after this battle, Xiang Yu basically destroyed the main force of the Qin army, although the Qin state still exists, but it is only a matter of time before it falls.
Of course, later, due to various reasons, Xiang Yu's stubbornness, his ambition and talent, misuse of people, and so on, he was still defeated by Liu Bang.
One of the questions that people have been talking about is that after Xiang Yu fled to Wujiang, the pavilion chief of Wujiang was Xiang Yu's person, his own person, and he had already prepared a boat on the Wujiang River for Xiang Yu to escape.
Not only do we modern people have this question, but the famous poet Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty also issued the soul torture of "Jiangdong's children are talented, and the comeback is unknown".
Actually, this answer is very simple, because Xiang Yu himself explained:
"Historical Records, Volume VII, Xiang Yu Benji VII": And with 8,000 people from Jiangdong crossing the river to the west, no one has returned today.
(Portrait of Xiang Yu)
Simply translated, it is a sentence, Xiang Yu thinks that he has no face to face Jiangdong's father.
Yes, Xiang Yu said that he recruited 8,000 soldiers from Jiangdong to fight the world, please note that the soldiers he said are not simple soldiers, but child soldiers, what are the child soldiers, these people are Xiang Yu's clansmen, Xiang Yu's relatives, no matter how bad they are, they are also Xiang Yu's good friends and neighbors, but when he fled to Wujiang, Xiang Yu only had twenty-eight horsemen left.
If he returns to Wujiang, Jiangdong's loving mother will ask Xiang Yu for her son, the virtuous wife will ask Xiang Yu for her husband, the child will ask Xiang Yu for her father, and Jiangdong's fathers and elders will ask, "Wang, where did they go, why didn't they come back with you?"
The water of Wujiang River is like a jade belt, flowing around the green mountains, the lake surface is sparkling, the breeze blows the water surface, the sound of slapping the shore is like a piano, the fishing boat is a little bit, slow in the meantime, this calm river can be a thousand in a day, eight hundred in the night, Xiang Yu can cross it.
However, what Xiang Yu couldn't cross was not the Wujiang River in front of him, but the Wujiang River in his heart.
Finally, Xiang Yu abandoned the boat and landed on the shore, drew his sword and killed hundreds of people in a row, fought until he lost his strength, and finally killed himself.
Interestingly, Xiang Yu's highest status during his lifetime was the overlord of Western Chu, which means that he was actually a king at best, and had never been an emperor, but Sima Qian wrote him into the book that belonged to the emperor alone, which was the only time in the "Historical Records".