Just when Wang Li's army had just arrived at Chen County, a chaos was also slowly unfolding in the southernmost part of the Qin Dynasty.
Kuaiji County was the hometown of Wu and Yue countries during the Warring States Period. After the Qin Dynasty divided counties, Kuaiji County was established, with Wu County (Gusu District, Suzhou City) as the county government. It roughly governed the present-day Nanjing City, the northwest corner of Zhejiang and the southeastern part of Anhui.
Therefore, the Xiang clan, an aristocratic family in the late Chu Dynasty, is now hiding in Wuzhong.
Today, the head of the Xiang family is Xiang Liang, the son of the late Chu general Xiang Yan. Xiang Liang, as the son of the late Chu general Xiang Yan, was also a young general of the Chu state.
The man was imprisoned for murder.
Perhaps it was fate that Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew bribed the prison warden at the time and escaped.
After Xiang Liang fled back to his hometown in Jiangdong, he completely changed his strategy towards the Qin Dynasty. He no longer tried to plot eye-catching events such as assassination and revenge. Instead, he led the Xiang family incognito to buy property and settled in Wuzhong, making a solid secret alliance.
Manpower.
As a large family in the late Chu Kingdom, the Xiang family had two fiefdoms, one in Xiangdi, Huaibei, and one in Wuzhong, east of the Yangtze River. Xiang Liang believed that the hometown of Huaibei was too close to the Central Plains and was not conducive to invisibility, so he made the Xiang family's invisibility
The land was chosen in the old fiefdom of Wuzhong in Kuaiji County.
Xiang Liang was once a young general of the Chu army. After traveling around the world for several years, he had a clearer understanding of the general trend of the world: as long as the First Emperor's generation of monarchs and ministers is around, no one can dream of restoration. As a descendant of a subjugated family, he can only dream of restoration.
Can wait for the opportunity.
It can be said that Xiang Liang's cognition is still very correct. Of course, rather than saying that Xiang Liang's waiting and patience are predictable, it is better to say that his waiting and patience is completely helpless and desperate.
During the years when Xiang Liang was on the run, the First Emperor's attack on the remnants of the six kingdoms who secretly plotted restoration was like an overwhelming force. Fusu, the virtuous and trustworthy eldest son of the emperor, was the recognized prince in the world, and no one saw any sign of the collapse of the Qin Dynasty.
The aristocratic families of the Six Nations and their descendants who were engaged in the restoration conspiracy were busy running around in panic all day long. The only thing they could do was spread a few rumors or occasionally instigate an assassination, that's all.
Xiang Liang is not Zhang Liang, a son of a Korean family who was obsessed with assassinating the First Emperor and spreading rumors all over the world.
Xiang Liang was once a general who commanded the army, and he had some knowledge of the overall situation of the world. Once he hit a wall, he immediately understood the root cause: Killing several enemies and killing an emperor not only did not help, but forced him to wander around and risk death at any time.
Perhaps, the result can only be counterproductive; waiting for the opportunity to accumulate strength is a longer-term strategy. Once the opportunity comes, you can immediately take action.
Of course, if there is no opportunity in life, I will die, so I can only accept it. This was Xiang Liang's most sober understanding after he fled in the later period of the First Emperor.
But Xiang Liang never expected that this dream opportunity would come so quickly.
Last September, news suddenly came that the First Emperor had died violently in a sand dune and that the young prince Hu Hai had ascended the throne. Xiang Liang was so excited that he almost jumped up. God not only caused the First Emperor to die violently, but also made the young prince Hu Hai the second emperor. This
Didn’t God clearly call for the destruction of the Qin Dynasty?
Xiang Liang had been secretly wandering around Guanzhong for two or three years. He knew both Fusu and Hu Hai. When he heard that the second emperor was that Hu Hai, he immediately snapped at the crime and said: "God wills the destruction of Qin! If you don't come out now, what more can you do?"
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Immediately after Fusu died, Hu Hai ascended the throne and began to favor Zhao Gao, building palaces and mausoleums wantonly. Then Meng Tian and Meng Yi were imprisoned by Hu Hai, and Feng Quji and Feng Jie were banned from home by Hu Hai. When news of this came, Xiang Liang
It's always a big move in my heart.
Without any hesitation, Xiang Liang immediately began a series of troop deployments.
First of all, Xiang Liang immediately asked his close relatives to spread his true identity among the people in Wuzhong fiefdom, so that those people in Jiangdong who still miss Xiang Yan and his son would know that Xiang Yan's descendants are still there, and they are in Wuzhong.
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Secondly, Xiang Liang arranged for his nephew Xiang Yu to immediately secretly gather the Jiangdong disciples and start training secretly so that when the army was launched, they could fight against the Qin army at any time.
While Xiang Liang asked Xiang Yu to train the Jiangdong disciples, he also began to hide his identity and deliberately interact with the county magistrates and governors in Wuzhong area. Within three or two months, he became friends with the county magistrates and governors and talked about everything.
The officials and the people exchanged opinions.
One thing has to be said for why Xiang Liang gained the trust of Kuaiji officials so quickly. Since Hu Hai came to the throne, corvee levies have been extremely frequent, causing almost all the governors and magistrates in Da Qin to complain endlessly. At this moment, a quarter of the people in Da Qin
Basically, they are doing corvee labor. Where can we recruit so many people?
The governor of Kuaiji County was also thinking hard about how to deal with the imperial court.
At this time, Xiang Liang came up with a good idea for the Kuaiji County Magistrate and the Wuzhong County Magistrate. Whenever the imperial court ordered the collection of corvees, on the last day of the deadline, he would report them to the top and complete them; and then wait for a month and a half.
After that, he immediately reported to his superiors that the corvee had escaped on the way.
The desperate magistrate of Kuaiji County tried it once, and sure enough, despite being sternly warned, he was not dismissed and questioned. This made the Kuaiji County Magistrate and Wuzhong County Magistrate even more convinced of Xiang Liang.
As a result, the county magistrates and county magistrates followed suit one after another in eating marrow and knowing the taste. In this way, they not only retained their official title, but also won the hearts of the people. The county magistrates and magistrates admired this leader of Wuzhong and Guizhou so much that they recommended Xiang Liang to be the county magistrate several times.
They all declined.
Soon, the county magistrate also learned from popular rumors that this commoner was Xiang Liang, the son of Xiang Yan, the famous general of Chu.
However, instead of apprehending Xiang Liang, the county guard increasingly regarded Xiang Liang as a guest. From then on, whenever there was any major matter, he would always ask Xiang Liang before making a decision.
At this point, Xiang Liang has understood that the counties and counties are alienated, the world has become chaotic, and the time to rebel against Qin is not far away.
When the news of Zhang Er and Chen Yu's rebellion against Qin reached Jiangdong, Xiang Liang immediately realized that this was the perfect opportunity he had been waiting for, and immediately sent agents to Chen County, Sishui and other counties to investigate the news.
Therefore, not long after Wu Rui in Jiujiang got the news, Xiang Liang later received the news that Zhang Er and Chen Yu, who had been sent back urgently, had not only not been wiped out by the Qin Dynasty, but had captured Chen County and reestablished the Wei Kingdom.
When Xiang Liang got the news, he almost jumped up with excitement. Xiang Liang felt that he had to take action immediately.
If you want to start an uprising, the army is of course the first necessity. At this moment, Xiang Yu is not in Jiangdong, but on a small island training Jiangdong's disciples who secretly defected.
Just when Xiang Liang was calling his servants to summon Xiang Yu to come back and discuss the important matter of raising an army, an old family member came to report to the county governor for an invitation.
"You immediately call the Major General to return home quickly. Also tell the county guard that his servants can go back to the house first, and I will be there soon!" Xiang Liang didn't know what the county guard invited him to do at this time, but he immediately realized that he was raising an army by himself.