Chapter 124: Great victory in the Battle of Hexi, Wei Yang was named Shang Jun
Qin Sheng couldn't help but chuckled: "You're quite cruel when you curse."
Chu Yian's expression was indescribable, he was furious: "If this were one of your soldiers, you would be even more angry."
Qin Sheng said no: "People like that can't join my team."
If he gets in, he will get him out. Otherwise, he will just find a reason to kill him. That is better than letting him become a black sheep.
He can still distinguish the importance of one person dying and a group of people dying.
Chu Yian took a sip of water to calm down, then continued writing.
Prince Ang is already in this state, who can still expect him to have the ability to fight against Wei Yang?
The final result, of course, was that Prince Ang was captured alive by Wei Yang.
Prince Ang was terrified, fearing that Wei Yang would kill him with a knife. He was willing to offer countless rare treasures just in the hope that Wei Yang would spare his life.
Wei Yang did not kill him. Instead, he took Prince Ang as a hostage to see if King Hui of Wei was willing to exchange Hexi and Mount Yao for Prince Ang.
Wei Yang only gave him six days. If King Hui of Wei did not express his opinion after six days, he would order the execution of Prince Ang.
As a result, King Hui of Wei's letter arrived on the morning of the fourth day.
He was willing to exchange Hexi and Mount Yao for the useless waste Gongzi Ang.
Wei Yang was naturally happy to release him. With Prince Ang back in power, there was no need to worry about the demise of Wei. This would be beneficial to Qin in every way, so of course he had to release him.
The news of the great victory in Hexi quickly spread throughout the Central Plains, causing a great shock.
The Wei government and the people were in panic and hurriedly prepared to move the capital to Daliang. After losing the Lishi fortress, the Qin army could reach Anyi in half a day, making it really unsuitable to be the capital.
The State of Wei had originally planned to move its capital to Daliang, and the construction took a long time.
I used to want to move there in glory, but now I am forced to retreat there.
This has given other countries another opportunity.
The State of Zhao, which hated the State of Wei to the core, took the opportunity to seize a lot of Wei's land and destroyed all the barriers in the northeast.
Han advanced northward and occupied Xingyang and Guangwu, blocking the upper reaches of the Honggou. While threatening the water source of Daliang, they also snatched away the regional advantage of Wei that surrounded the royal family of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and were ready to swallow up the Eastern Zhou Dynasty at any time.
Qin Sheng was so sad that he couldn't sigh anymore: "If this is written out, the boss will not be able to sleep."
The status of overlord was gone in an instant. Everything was fine, but it changed after Pang Juan died.
It seemed as if the Wei State had suddenly become a place where anyone could be slapped in the face.
Isn’t this exactly what the person above is worried about?
If you can't even protect the legacy left by your ancestors, how can you face them when you pass away?
This once again proves the importance of military generals, the importance of capable people, and the importance of the lord knowing people and using them well.
However, this is not the end yet, the State of Chu is not willing to be outdone.
King Xuan of Chu personally led his troops north and not only recaptured the six cities north of the Huai River that had been ceded to the State of Wei, but also occupied other lands of the State of Wei.
They were even preparing to move the capital here to fight for more territory.
Qi, a powerful country that had loosened Wei's dominant position, was of course unwilling to lag behind. It attacked Chu in the south and Wei in the west, directly turning Wei's national barrier into a springboard for its own westward advance.
The decline of Wei State was already doomed when Pang Juan died, so it is not surprising or shocking that it has fallen to this point.
The most shocking thing was undoubtedly the rise of the Qin State.
Although it was just a small country in the western frontier, it completely wiped out the Wei army with a crushing force in the Battle of Hexi.
No one is unaware of what this means. It means that the combat effectiveness of the Qin new army has reached an incredible level.
For a time, the Qin army was known as the "sharp warriors", and other countries took the Qin army as their target, trying to make their own armies as powerful as the Qin new army.
With the recovery of Hexi, the era of Wei's hegemony ended, the early Warring States period passed, and the mid-term period of the dominance of the great powers began from this moment on.
Although a lot of the content is just mentioned briefly, just a few words are enough to make people feel the shock.
It doesn't actually take too long for a country to rise. Give it ten or twenty years and it can leap from a small country that everyone looks down upon to a new first-class power.
The end of a powerful country does not take too long. As long as there is a confused king, the ancestral foundation can be completely destroyed in just ten or twenty years.
It took the Qin State twenty years to grow from a weak state to a strong one, from being looked down upon by everyone to being learned to respect and revere by everyone. Twenty years passed in a flash, but only those involved knew the hardships involved.
If the emperor is truly determined to make Dashun stronger, and if he knows how to use people well, it may not take twenty years.
After all, the current national conditions of Dashun are actually much better than when Wei Yang first arrived in Qin.
However, he did not have the talent of Qin Xiaogong, and it was difficult to find a capable person like Wei Yang. It was unknown whether he could see the true rise of Dashun in his lifetime.
Although he didn't know, the changes made by the emperor still gave Qin Sheng hope, and he looked forward to that day.
If the emperor can really lead Dashun to become stronger, or even annex other countries, then is there any fear that his reputation as an eternally wise ruler will be lost?
It is more realistic to do more and then leave your name in history rather than doing nothing.
You should know that kings who maintain the status quo are usually glossed over, after all, they have no achievements.
The name of a tyrant emperor is indeed worth recording, but it just doesn't sound good. If he wanted to be known in the world with this name, he would have destroyed the Qin family long ago.
After regaining Hexi, the Qin State held a celebration.
One was to celebrate the great victory in the Battle of Hexi, and the other was to celebrate the smooth relocation of the capital to Xianyang.
At the beginning of the celebration, Duke Xiao reported to his ancestors that the State of Qin was no longer the small country it once was. In the past twenty years, it has grown from weak to strong and washed away a century of humiliation.
Everyone present was excited.
Then, Duke Xiao loudly announced that Wei Yang, the Great Minister of Works, had made extraordinary contributions, and granted him thirteen counties in Shangyu as his fiefdom, and gave him the title of Shang Jun.
Everyone shouted "Long live Shang Jun".
Then he began to reward the soldiers.
The Qin State reformed the system of conferring titles based on military merit, so naturally the generals should be given titles and honors.
Although the slogan of reform had been shouted for many years, there was no war and the soldiers still did not receive titles.
But this time it was different, they were really granted titles.
When the Minister of Ceremonies called out their names and read out the titles bestowed upon them, many soldiers present shed tears of excitement.
So were the onlookers.
They really got promoted to higher positions based on their own abilities, and the common people were no longer limited to being common people for their entire lives. They could also move up and stand in the court based on their own abilities. This was all thanks to the reform.
If it weren't for the reform, the Qin State could not wash away the humiliation, they would not be able to obtain the title, and would still have to live in poverty as commoners for the rest of their lives.
Countless people couldn't help but burst into tears, and the whole ceremony was filled with wailing, which made Wei Yang and Qin Xiaogong's eyes wet.
The Qin people were extremely excited. The Zhou royal family and twenty-six vassal states also sent people to present gifts and congratulate Qin on regaining the Hexi region.
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