Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 235 Dust【Please subscribe】

Under the flames of war, no one can survive.

This is the iron law of war.

Even members of the Chen clan are no exception.

Perhaps when the feudal princes heard that they were descendants of the Chen family, they would be merciful and let them go, but the dangers in this world are not limited to individual princes?

There are many risks in the world, especially during times of war.

Chen Ju turned around and held Mrs. Chen's hand on his shoulder, but the look on his face was not moved at all.

He whispered: "I didn't force the Chen family's children to go out, did I?"

Chen Ju stood up, with a slightly complicated expression on his face: "The world is like this, and wars are bringing disaster to the whole world. Can the Chen family be spared?"

"Yes, the children of the Chen family can live happily in the paradise of Guandu with the glory of the Chen family. Their lives will not have any problems, and they will not even feel how cruel the war is. .”

Today, I want to take it to the new gentleman in the village.

"Madam, don't you know that jade cannot be used without polishing?"

Mrs. Chen was stunned for a moment and then said: "I'm afraid it's the position of Sikou."

"How can the children of the Chen family understand the hard-won peace without experiencing the pain of war?"

"How can a man be like this when he is born in this world?"

Mrs. Chen burst into tears: "But I just want my son to be healthy throughout his life!"

Chen Ju was not angry because of Mrs. Chen's short-sightedness, nor did he get angry and blame Mrs. Chen. He just looked at Mrs. Chen, and both of them saw the emotions in the other's eyes.

He let out a long sigh and then said: "The epidemic in the village has been controlled, and the rest are just minor illnesses, which do not affect their survival."

Chen Lun pressed his forehead, looked at the medical book in his hand and nodded: "Yes, it's time to go."

He looked at Mrs. Chen and said: "The Chen family's ancestral motto [has a clear conscience], since they have made their own choices, they must shoulder their own responsibilities. This is their way and their way."

Chen Ju nodded: "Yes."

"If I want to succeed the family head and achieve something, I must follow the path that every family head has walked, go to the world to see this Guizhou, see the suffering in this world, travel, and combine what I have learned with my own What you hear comes together.”

After the young man took the things in, he walked up to Chen Lun with curiosity in his expression: "Sir, are we leaving?"

Mrs. Chen was still worried. She looked at Chen Ju with a hint of guilt in her voice: "Is this the same for Bi'er?"

There are festive colors everywhere in the village. Perhaps because it is about to arrive in January and live a new year, people's faces are more or less happy.

He stood by the window with his hands behind his hands, but there was emotion in his voice: "Besides, Peter is already so old, it's time for us to abide by his choice."

Having said this, Chen Ju laughed again: "Of course, the more important thing is not this."

A dull voice sounded, and a boy who looked like a boy came out. When he saw the things on the ground, he helplessly raised his forehead and said, "Sir, the villagers have brought a lot of things. What should I do? Should I give them back?"

"Bill's choice may not be the most correct, but it is part of what he has to go through."

"If you don't accept this, see this, and experience this personally, the Chen family's disciples will always be just white clouds floating in the air. They don't know the sufferings in the world, and naturally they can't fight for more for the leaders of Guizhou. .”

This is what a mother naturally wants to do.

At this time, a gentle voice came from the room: "Bring it in."

"Ms. Chen has been standing high for too long, too long."

In the second year of Wu Lie, winter.

Chen Ju said softly: "Madam, do you remember that the children of the Chen family served as the youngest official after entering the court?"

Heavy snow fell again this winter, but for the people in a village in Hedong County, this must be the best year ever.

Chen Ju asked back: "But what about Bi'er? Does he think the same way?"

Wang San walked out of the door with a bit of embarrassment on his face.

Chen Ju smiled. He knew that the most important purpose of Mrs. Chen's visit this time was this sentence. She wanted her son to stay well in the Chen family and in Guandu to avoid the ups and downs outside.

"Squeak-"

Everyone saw each other, and without saying anything in tacit agreement, they walked to the front of the simple house and carefully put down their things.

"But how much suffering in the world can Sikou be exposed to in his position?"

"Only in this way can he be qualified to become the true head of the Chen family."

Along the way, Wang San saw many people in the village, and they all walked towards the end of the village with their things.

Naturally, some people from the Chen family have served as officials in the imperial court over the years, and the position of the Sixteenth Minister is the smallest official. For example, direct descendants of the Chen family have always stood at the highest level of the Qin Dynasty, and were appointed to the position of prime minister, in charge of the affairs of the world.

He looked at Mrs. Chen calmly, and his voice was gentle but firm: "But do those Guizhou leaders deserve to suffer such war?"

Wang San didn't know who that gentleman was, but without that gentleman, the village would probably no longer exist this year, not to mention welcoming the new year with such joy.

"But what?"

He held a small wooden frame in his arms, which contained several eggs. These were eggs laid by the family's hens, and no one in his family was willing to eat them.

"Even if I am the head of the Chen family, I have no right to interfere with this."

"The new year is about to come, and this is also a bit of the villagers' thoughts."

Chen Lun looked silently in the distance, with compassion in his eyes: "The war brings not only war and death, but also hidden disasters."

The young man also nodded.

There were many corpses above the river in the village, but the villagers did not find them. However, these corpses had not been treated in any way, and they died of famine. Many germs followed the river down the river.

Before Chen Lun and his master and servant arrived in the village, a disaster that could destroy the entire village was almost about to break out.

Now that the disaster has dissipated, it's time to leave.

Chen Lun sat in the room, looking at the things in the room with regret.

"Go and tell Guard Liu, we will set off tomorrow."

Kuaiji County, Eastern Chu Kingdom, Frontier
The water of the Yangtze River flows vastly, falling from an unknown end of the world to the distant sea.

The Chu State's army is stationed here, and what they have to guard against is Zhang Chu's army, which is also stationed on the other side. The Zhang Chu regime has been ready to move in the past few days, and seems to want to annex the Eastern Chu State, thereby achieving the purpose of increasing its own strength.

But with Xiang Yu in the Eastern Chu State, it was obviously not an easy bone to chew on.

In the military tent

An ordinary soldier was lying on the ground, carefully carving something on the bamboo slips with a knife.

He is writing a letter home to his family.

Even the soldier himself was not sure whether such a letter could be delivered to his home, but he did not want to give up any possibility.

In his letter, he stated that he was in good health, that he was now able to eat well in the army, that Xiang Yu was majestic and majestic, and that he also wrote about the upcoming war. He raised his head and looked at the moon in the sky: "What a world."

"When can we stop fighting?"

Yes.

The soldiers squatting next to the soldier, who were also waiting for the soldier to write a letter for them, also had sad expressions on their faces.

In this world, when can we stop fighting?

No one knows.

Yingchuan County

The ground was covered with messes and corpses, and even the Yingchuan County City in the distance was in tatters. When the fighting temporarily stopped, the armies from both sides began to come out to clean up the battlefield.

certainly--

Not all bodies can be properly disposed of.

Most of the corpses can only float in the moat, and then float to unknown places along the river of the moat. Some corpses are also randomly lying on the ground, and then corrode or are eaten by animals.

This is the fate of most Guizhou soldiers and ordinary soldiers.

There has just been a war here, a very tragic war. The two warring parties were the Zhang Chu regime and the governor of Yingchuan County.

After experiencing countless thoughts, struggles and hesitations, Chen Sheng of the Zhang Chu regime finally abandoned the only bit of reason in his mind. He had to capture Yingchuan because it was so important!

If he didn't really dare to touch the Chen family, the first thing he wanted to capture would be Guandu.

Naturally, the governor of Yingchuan County was not willing to be taken over by Zhang Chu's regime, so he resisted desperately. In the end, it was the soldiers and Guizhou leaders who suffered the painful price of the war.

How could the superior county guards and King Zhang Chu feel the pain of the Guizhou leaders?

In the vast history, everyone is a tiny speck of dust, but in this vigorous world, the only ones who are truly as humble as dust are the truly ordinary Guizhou heads.

The smoke and dust brought by the dignitaries and heroes when they walked fell on them, and it was a mountain that was enough to crush them.

Yingchuan County has been defending the city for more than half a month, and the situation in the city is very bad.

They did not save much food during the troubled times, so the price of food in the city has soared to an unlimited level.

How to describe this crazy food price?

A ten-year-old boy with no illness or disaster can only sell a bushel of rice, and it is brown rice.

In the wilderness villages outside the city, the situation was not much better.

People have almost developed to the point of exchanging children for food. Under this situation, this ancient and somewhat barbaric nation burst out the bestiality in their bones. In order to survive, they can only do this.

This is war, this is the dust of war.

In the third year of Wu Lie, spring.

The season of recovery for all things is the time for spring plowing, so now the few remaining regimes in the world have stopped fighting and started spring plowing. They all know what will happen to the food prices in their territories if they are unable to complete spring plowing.

Food is the basis of human survival.

Without food and grass, let alone war, they may not even be able to maintain their current status.

But under such peace, there is a regime that does things that are extremely scary, and that is the "East Chu Kingdom".

Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, not only did not stop the war and start spring plowing, but started the war even more arrogantly and frantically. He occupied countless lands, but he did not have much jurisdiction over the life and death of the leaders of Guizhou under those lands.

In the third year of Wu Lie, Xia.

With the arrival of heavy rain, farming within the Qin State is still as smooth as it was during the peaceful reunification. Da Qin still has half of the granaries under its control. This half of the granaries is enough to support the Qin State to continue.

At this time, Emperor Qin did something that even the princes could not understand.

When he was ensuring that the leaders of Qin had enough food and would not go hungry, he proposed a deal.

Use Qin's "old grain" in exchange for books.

Yes.

books.

No matter what kind of books they are, the "princes" or the remnants can be exchanged for food from here, but - Emperor Qin has one condition.

These grains must be distributed to the head of Guizhou, and they must be "disaster relief". At least they cannot watch the spread of famine and ignore it like they are now.

For the princes, this was a business that was not considered a loss.

After all, it would not do them any good if the chiefs of Guizhou under their rule continued to die. Whether it was recruiting corvees or military service, these small chiefs of Guizhou were needed.

It is precisely because of this that they are willing to exchange something.

What's more, it's just books.

It's not anything else.

Zhangtai Palace
Meng Yi looked at Ziying who was sitting there and hesitated: "Your Majesty, why should we help them?"

Ziying just smiled: "Have we helped them? These grains will be distributed to the heads of Guizhou under the supervision of Da Qin. Now, no matter who they are, if they want to overthrow Da Qin, they must first overthrow the other party."

He held a chess piece in his hand and placed it on the chessboard.

"The State of Qin owes the leader of the world, so this is what Qin State should do."

Ziying closed his eyes: "We have clearly achieved unification, but we are unable to let the leaders of Guizhou live a peaceful life. This is Qin's fault, and it is also my fault."

He waved his hand tiredly: "In troubled times, human life is like a piece of grass, and the heads of Guizhou in the world are like grains of dust floating."

"We cannot harm the heads of Guizhou just to punish those traitors. After all, the heads of Guizhou have not committed any crimes."

Meng Yi had a gut feeling that there were other reasons, but he didn't dare to ask.

He could only lower his head and watch the young emperor continue to deal with the government affairs in his hands.

Pei County
Liu Bang looked at Xiao He eagerly: "Sir, Chen Sheng intends to attack our Pei County."

"How should this matter?"

Yes.

When spring plowing was over and summer was about to leave, Chen Sheng of Zhang Chu's regime finally couldn't restrain his ambitions.

He wants to conquer Pei County.

In this way, the people of the world can "kill the chicken to scare the monkeys" and at the same time test the attitude of "Great Qin".

This is the result of killing two birds with one stone.

(End of this chapter)