In the fifty-fourth year of the Qin Dynasty, on the fourteenth day of February in the fourth year of the Second Emperor's reign, Zou Hong, the eunuch of the Qin Tianjian, headed by Shiling Zou Hong, led the two deacons of the Qin Tianjian, Cai Ze and Kuai Tong, as well as two royal family elders from Zong Zhengfu, to rush to the East China Sea.
Responsible for handling the suspected Yuzhou tripod found in the Huaihe River in Guangling.
In accordance with Hu Hai's edict, a large number of dead soldiers from the Longwei Mansion escorted Zou Hong and others there under the leadership of Ying Yi.
All the generals who returned to Xianyang during the Chinese New Year had already left Xianyang and returned to their bases after the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.
Hu Hai knew that after the letter from Qi Hong and others, he should also receive a letter from Weng Zhong. After all, Weng Zhong's Xuanwu Army was stationed in Chen County. If the Xuanwu Army did not have Weng Zhong's generals, it would be the same.
Impossible to mobilize.
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Zou Hong and others left Xianyang in a hurry, but Hu Hai arrived at the emperor's study alone.
The copper desk in his study room is already filled with various old bamboo slips and documents copied on paper.
These bamboo slips were collected by Zongzheng Mansion from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Zongzheng Mansion's library at Hu Hai's request.
After three years, the use of paper has begun to spread throughout the Qin Dynasty. However, there are too many books and documents in various county treasuries, especially the important secret treasuries in Xianyang City. These documents require a large amount of
It takes time to sort out, and according to Hu Hai's requirements, after the excerpts are completed, the originals must be sealed intact and not damaged, so carefully transcribing and sorting out a large number of bamboo slips requires countless manpower and time. In Hu Hai's view, to complete this work
.It is estimated to take at least ten years to complete.
At the same time, by copying the bamboo slips, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue and Zongzheng Mansion also began to identify and classify various bamboo slips according to Hu Hai's wishes. After all, after the Great Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, it destroyed hundreds of vassal states and the Zhou royal family.
All the collections of bamboo slips in the treasury were collected in Xianyang. Until now, I am afraid that no one has ever properly summarized the contents recorded in these vast bamboo slips.
Among them, there are naturally many extremely important secrets.
As for the large number of bamboo slips and documents stacked around the Hu Hai Bronze Case, many of them actually revolve around one person.
This person is what Hu Hai thought of after seeing Cai Ze and Kuai Tong.
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He has a thorough understanding of the world and combines knowledge of mathematicians. No one can match him. The first is theology: sun, star and latitude, divination and gossip, budgeting is sophisticated, very accurate; the second is military science. Six Taoist strategies and three strategies. There are endless changes. When setting up formations and marching, ghosts and gods are unpredictable.
; The third is study travel, remembering and learning widely. Being able to understand the situation clearly and speak it in a coherent way is difficult for thousands of people to accept; the fourth is transcendental learning, cultivating one's moral character, curing diseases and prolonging one's life. It is profound knowledge. It is good at cultivating one's body and one's character, good at psychological speculation, and has a deep understanding of the power of hardness and softness.
He is proficient in the art of vertical and horizontal manipulation, and possesses unique wisdom that reaches the heavens.
This is Guiguzi, who is known as "Ancestor Wang Chan" by later generations.
Pang Juan who helped King Hui of Wei become the hegemon; Sun Bin who helped King Wei of Qi become the hegemon; Su Qin, a great political figure who wore the seal of the Six Kingdoms; two politicians, strategists and diplomats who were prime ministers of Qin and Wei, Zhang Yi,
All of them came from Guiguzi’s sect.
There are also Huang Shigong, who was originally one of the five great hermits in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, and taught Zhang Liang the art of war and the art of Qimen Dunjia; Fan Ju, who made great contributions to the unification of the Qin Dynasty; and the assistant minister of the Qin Dynasty who now occupies the position of Grand Master.
Minister Wei Liao was also a disciple of Guiguzi.
In addition, there are many famous generals or celebrities of the Warring States Period such as Gan Mao, Sima Cuo, Le Yi, Li Mu, Zou Yan, Zou Ji, etc., all of whom are Guiguzi's disciples.
Mao Sui in the idiom "Mao Sui recommends himself" is Sun Bin's disciple; and Xu Fu, the great thief of the country who has been captured by Jia Han and is on his way back to Xianyang, is Zou Yan's adopted son and disciple.
Gan Mao, a famous general introduced to Da Qin by Zhang Yi, later defected to Qi due to the villain's slander; Le Yi, a famous general of Yan, conquered more than 70 cities in Qi with the weak defeating the strong; Sima Cuo, who had been assigned to guard the border in western Liaoning by Hu Hai
The ancestor of the Sima family, Zhang Yi recommended him to serve the Qin Dynasty, pacify the Shu Kingdom for the Qin Dynasty, and turn the Shu Kingdom into the granary of the Qin Dynasty;
Li Mu, together with Bai Qi, Wang Jian, and Lian Po, were known as the four famous generals of the Warring States Period. Wang Ben, who was in his prime, led an army of 200,000 to destroy Zhao. At the same time, South Korea and Wei also sent troops to get a piece of the pie. For three years,
For a long time, Li Mu, who was over 70 years old, led his army to defend Jingxing Fortress to defeat the Qin army and still had the strength to defeat the allied forces of South Korea and Wei from the south.
Zou Ji, the prime minister during the reign of King Wei of Qi, was granted the title of Marquis. He made great contributions to King Wei of Qi's quest to become the overlord.
Zou Yan, the founder and representative of the Yin Yang Sect, and the ancestor of Zou Hong. Most of the people in the Yin Yang Sect today are disciples of Zou Yan.
These are not counted. If we add some figures who should have shined in history, Han Xin studied under Wei Liao, and Wei Liao was a disciple of Guiguzi; Zhang Liang studied under Huang Shigong, who was also a disciple of Guiguzi; Mao Sui was Sun Bin
Disciple; Xu Fu is Zou Yan’s adopted son and disciple;
Let’s take a look at Huangshi Gong again.
Speaking of Huangshi Gong, we must mention Shangshan Sihao.
The four Shangshan Sihao people are actually closely related to Da Qin. The four of them are actually four doctors in the palace of Da Qin doctors, namely: Dongyuan Gong Tang Bing, Xia Huang Gong Cui Guang, Qili Ji
Wu Shi, Mr. Luli and Zhou Shu.
And Huang Shigong was the humerus minister of Hu Hai's grandfather, King Zhuang Xiang, and also assisted the young First Emperor. He once used the name Fang Yan. In "Lü Shi Chun Qiu" compiled by Lu Buwei, "on power", "decision making", "
"Three Strategies" and other articles on the art of war were all written by Huang Shigong. Later, because Lu Buwei wanted to obtain "Tai Gong's Art of War", he gave up his official position and returned to Shangshan with three other ministers. This led to the famous "Shangshan Four" in history.
The title "Hao".
Xiao He, the founding hero of the Han Dynasty, was actually a disciple of Qili Ji Wushi in Sihao. Likewise, he was also taught by Cui Guang, Duke of Huangshi.
As for Cai Ze and Kuai Tong, they are actually Zou Hong's senior brothers and studied under an elder of the Yin Yang sect.
In fact, when we really connect everything together, we find that the entire history of the late Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period fell into a strange and bizarre cycle.
That is, all virtuous ministers, good generals and great sage people cannot escape the shadow of one person.
For more than two thousand years, military strategists have respected him as a saint, politicians and strategists have respected him as the ancestor, fortune tellers and fortune tellers have respected him as the ancestor, and Taoism ranks him with Laozi and respects him as the ancestor of Wang Chan.
This person is Gui Guzi, a strange man from the ages who often goes to Yunmeng Mountain to collect medicine and practice Taoism, and lives in seclusion in the Ghost Valley of Qingxi River in Zhouyang City.
The hundreds of years of fighting for hegemony throughout the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, to put it simply, were actually the product of the survival of the fittest among the disciples and descendants of this strange man. Even after the original Great Qin unified the world, it still did not get rid of such a strange circle.
Han Xin and Xiao He, these two men who made great contributions to the Han Dynasty, can still be regarded as Guiguzi's disciples.
He is able to control various princes and countless princes and generals in the world through his many disciples and disciples and "play around" for hundreds of years. Thinking about such a character makes people shudder.
Perhaps the final rise of Great Qin should be beyond this old man's expectation.
Because, during the most critical ten years when the Qin Dynasty unified the world, or the most important figure, the First Emperor, there was another disciple who did not have as many disciples as him, and his reputation was not as great as his, but his talents, strategies, and knowledge were not inferior to this strange man.
What characters have exerted influence and ultimately destroyed Guiguzi's hundreds of years of layout?
This may be something Guiguzi never expected.
Is it because we did not expect that the Qin Dynasty would eventually unify, so that the Qin Dynasty unified the world and collapsed in the wave of restoration of the six kingdoms' remnants of the six kingdoms that surged around the world in just over twenty years?
Han Xin was born out of nowhere, Zhang Liang was born out of nowhere, Xiao He was born out of nowhere, and Wei Liao disappeared. Is there really no connection between all of them?
Wei Liao is Guiguzi's disciple, Hu Hai has confirmed it; Zou Yan is Guiguzi's disciple, Zou Hong has told him; Huangshi Gong Cui Guang is his junior brother, Wei Liao has also confirmed it; Xu Fu is Zou Yan's adopted son, and is Zou's son.
Hong took the initiative to confess the news of Xu Fu's arrest the day after it was announced to the world; as for Han Xin and Xiao He, it goes without saying; Zhang Liang naturally needs no more saying.
Seeing Cai Ze and Kuai Tong, and thinking of their identities, as well as Zou Hong, Wei Liao and others, seemed to suddenly arouse some kind of worry or curiosity that had never been discovered in Hu Hai's mind. It was this
This kind of worry or curiosity made Hu Hai spend a lot of time to retrieve countless slips and documents to find something that he had ignored before.
But it’s okay not to look at it. Once all the things are connected together, the truth seems to be what I feared. For hundreds of years in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, and even the unification of the Qin Dynasty, there seems to be an almost monster behind it who is not known to be dead.
It's the living old guy who's plotting.
You must find that person as soon as possible!
I was in Bashu before because I didn’t have time and didn’t take it too seriously. I just wanted to meet that person out of curiosity. However, when Hu Hai discovered that he had touched these connections that had been covered up, he knew
, I must see him as soon as possible.
Back then, he was able to help the First Emperor break Guiguzi's scheme. Now, maybe he is the only one who can continue to break through the layers of fog hidden in it, allowing himself to truly discover the inner truth.
Regardless of whether Guiguzi has arranged any conspiracy behind him, Hu Hai has already felt a little uneasy since he sent so many people into the Qin court. If there is really a plot against Da Qin, once it takes action, Da Qin will not be defeated.
, it will also take more than ten years of muscle and bone damage.
In other words, this situation had already been set up, but it didn't work just because he suddenly came?
But no matter which one it is, it is urgent to find that person.
Of course, the premise is that he is really alive as Pang Ai said.
Late at night on February 14th, the fourth year of the Second World War, dozens of fast horses rushed out of Xianyang City and drove away along the Longxi Road to Juechen. (To be continued...)