Da Qin: Confucianism, Dharma and Taoism

(This is the last volume.)

The First Emperor unified the world and gained power throughout the country. In order to show his military prowess and make Qin territory everywhere he could see, after unifying the six kingdoms, the First Emperor sent 400,000 troops to attack Baiyue.

Because the Baiyue region was located in a remote area, with many hills and valleys and miasma, the Qin army's attack on Baiyue was not smooth.

Even the first general sent by the First Emperor was killed by the people of Baiyue when attacking Baiyue.

This made the First Emperor extremely angry and sent another army.

Although the people of Baiyue defeated Qin once, due to the huge gap in national strength between the two sides, the entire Baiyue region was defeated.

Especially, His Royal Highness Prince Yong had rescued many Baiyue refugees in the past. These Baiyue refugees were deeply grateful to Prince Yong and admired the Central Plains culture, so they followed the Qin army to the Baiyue region.

Under the leadership of the locals, the Qin State sent Zhao Tuo as a general for the third time, and the attack on the Baiyue region finally saw the dawn of victory.

Now, five years later, most of the Baiyue regions have surrendered, and only a small part is still resisting stubbornly, and the Qin army is also stepping up its attack, striving to take over the entire Baiyue region within a year.

The way that Ying Wei let the Baiyue locals lead the Qin army to attack Baiyue is actually the same as Huo Qubing's attack on the Xiongnu in the official history.

Why Huo Qubing was able to gallop across the desert without getting lost in an unfamiliar place was due to the leadership of the Xiongnu locals.

Therefore, without Ying Wei's letter, several Baiyue people with outstanding achievements also received titles in the Qin State and were granted titles by the First Emperor. With these people as examples, there are more and more guides in the Baiyue.

This is also an important reason why the Qin State was able to take over the Baiyue relatively easily.

You should know that in the official history, the Qin Dynasty suffered heavy casualties in order to conquer Baiyue, even comparable to the casualties when it unified the six kingdoms.

While conquering the land of Baiyue, the First Emperor sent Meng Tian to the southwest to conquer the Shushan tribe here.

In addition to making the Shushan tribe, which connected the land of Baiyue, surrender, the First Emperor also wanted to make the Yin-Yang family, who were connected to the land of Baiyue, surrender, because the Yin-Yang family had told the First Emperor that in order to complete the construction of the Mirage, the Fusang sacred tree, a treasure guarded by the Shushan tribe, was needed!

Although the Shushan tribe had a large population, most of them were ordinary people, and there were not many people who could really fight.

Facing the tens of thousands of Qin troops, and the troops led by Meng Tian, ​​a famous Qin general, they were defeated from the beginning.

Compared to conquering Baiyue, attacking Shushan was much easier. In just less than two months, the entire Shushan area almost completely fell into the hands of Qin.

The last resistance force in Shushan could only gather at the last important place of Yuyuan in Shushan to resist.

A girl wearing ethnic minority costumes with the characteristics of Bashu region and a silver crown on her head was guarding the sacred place of Shushan with a few Yuyuan guards.

The so-called Yuyuan means dusk.In the deep canyon called Yuyuan, there is a towering tree that needs several people to hug, and the whole body is like the sun shining with flames.

This tree is the Fusang sacred tree, the treasure protected by the Shushan clan.

It is rumored that in ancient times, the sun goddess drove from this tree, making the sun rise in the east, and then when the sun sets, it will return to this tree, which is the west.

The Fusang tree symbolizes the place where the sun rises. This place is called Yuyuan, which symbolizes the place where the sun sets in the west. The combination of the two is the trajectory of the sun.

In another legend, Dayi stood on the Fusang tree to shoot the sun and stepped on the Fusang tree, which led to the beginning of the connection between the earth and the sky.

The reason why the Yin-Yang School, or Donghuang Taiyi, wanted this legendary sacred tree was to study it and find out the reason for the connection between the earth and the sky, so as to open up the way between man and god.

It’s just that the Yin-Yang family in the past did not have the ability to take the Fusang sacred tree from the Shushan clan, but after surrendering to the Great Qin Empire, with the help of the Qin army, the Yin-Yang family finally extended their claws to the Shushan area.

In Yuyuan, the girl wearing a silver crown gritted her teeth tightly. She looked at the many Yuyuan guards who were silently bandaging the wounds in Yuyuan at this time, and looked at an old man behind her stubbornly, and said angrily:

"Elder, those Qin soldiers must have come for the Fusang sacred tree. We must not hand the sacred tree to them. Even if we die, we must protect the sacred tree!"

The girl was not old, she looked like she was only fourteen or fifteen years old, but her words made many Yuyuan guards nod their heads.

They were not afraid of death. In order to protect the sacred objects of the clan, even if they still had a breath, they would never bow to the tyrannical Qin!

The old man did not speak. He just looked at the many tribesmen with a complicated expression. After thinking for a while, he whispered to the girl: "Princess, I have something to tell you."

The girl was stunned for a moment. She followed the old man to a deserted place and asked hurriedly: "Elder, what do you want to tell me?"

The Shushan elder hesitated for a moment, sighed and said: "Princess, I have decided to surrender to the Qin army."

The girl was shocked and said anxiously: "Elder, why should we surrender? Our Yuyuan guards are not afraid of death. Besides, we have many witchcrafts in Shushan that have not been used. As long as we use those witchcrafts..."

Before she finished speaking, Shushan The elder interrupted her and said, "Princess, it's not that I'm afraid of death. I've lived for so long that I don't care about my life anymore."

"But there are tens of thousands of Qin troops outside. I don't know how many of our people have been captured by Qin. If we continue to resist, I'm afraid those brutal Qin people will attack our people."

"Princess, is the sacred object we are guarding more important, or are our people more important? You have to think clearly about this."

"As for the witchcraft of my Shushan, it is useless in the face of the murderous aura of the army, and there are also people from the Yinyang family coming with the Qin army this time."

"The Yinyang family has a close relationship with our Shushan.Deep, many of the Yin-Yang family's magic is also derived from the witchcraft of Shushan. Those Yin-Yang family people have their own ways to restrain my Shushan witchcraft. "

The Shushan elder's persuasion made the girl silent.

The elder was right. If the tribe members died tragically just to protect the sacred object (Wang Nuo's), it would not be worth it. The kind-hearted girl could not bear to see the death of the tribe members.

She was unwilling to give up the sacred object that the tribe had guarded for thousands of years.

The Shushan elder said at this time: "Princess, Qin wants to get the Fusang sacred tree, which must be the idea of ​​the Yin-Yang family."

"But the Yin-Yang family does not know how to use the Fusang sacred tree. Only you, as the princess of Shushan, are qualified and capable of using the power of the sacred tree."

"Although I am in Shushan, I have always been concerned about the situation in the Central Plains. After the Yin-Yang family joined the Qin State, I was prepared. ”

“Therefore, I have never revealed the princess’ identity. I just told the Yuyuan guards that the princess is just a member of the Yuyuan guards.”

“As long as you are okay, our Shushan clan still has a chance to take back the holy object. Now we must be patient. It is not wise to confront the Qin State head-on.”

The words of the Shushan elder moved the girl..