Chapter 209: The Chu-Han Contention Begins and Peng Feng Emerges from the Mountain
Fusu, was a good person.
Also a good emperor.
It’s just that…
He was assassinated.
The tide of the six states rebelling against Qin never stopped.
During the time of Qin Shi Huang, Qin Shi Huang was repeatedly assassinated. Among the famous ones were Jing Ke’s assassination attempt on the King of Qin, Gao Jianli’s zither attack, and Zhang Liang’s hiring of an assassin to attack Qin Shi Huang at Bolangsha.
Qin Shi Huang was assassinated at least dozens of times in his life.
Qin Shi Huang was powerful, at the Loose Immortal Realm, so he did not die.
However, Young Master Fusu did not have the same powerful strength as Qin Shi Huang.
He did use the National Fortune Dragon Pool invented by Qin Shi Huang to raise his own strength to the Land Immortal Realm, but he still died in an assassination attempt.
And the one who succeeded Young Master Fusu was Qin Shi Huang’s eighth son, Young Master Huyun.
This Young Master Huyun’s nature was actually… completely like Huhai.
Tyrannical, lustful, and immoral.
It can only be said that if the tyrannical part of Qin Shi Huang was inherited, the offspring would not be good.
As soon as Qin III, Young Master Huyun, became emperor, he started to act recklessly. First, he demoted almost all the civil and military officials in the court at the time, and also pulled a group of eunuchs and hooligans into the court to become officials, making the entire court a mess.
When old ministers like Meng Tian tried to advise him, as a result, they were all demoted by Qin III to the grasslands, to eat sand there.
When loyal ministers like Meng Tian were demoted, the people behind them naturally did not dare to advise him anymore.
Qin III Huyun was even more reckless. He spent money like crazy, using up almost all the rich treasury left by Qin Shi Huang and Fusu. When he finally ran out of money, he started to raise taxes. For a time, the common people suffered unspeakable hardships.
Then, the Qin Dynasty became chaotic, just like in history.
First, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang started an uprising in Dazexiang, shouting the famous words that have echoed through the ages: “Are kings, dukes, generals, and ministers born with a special destiny?”
Then, the nobles of the six states appeared one after another to rebel against Qin.
Of course, the most dazzling among them were Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, who also appeared one after another to rebel against Qin. For a time, the whole world rebelled.
At this time, the one with the highest prestige and the strongest strength was undoubtedly the Hegemon-King of Western Chu Xiang Yu.
At this time, the Huaxia Heaven List was like this:
Heaven List First: Hegemon-King of Western Chu Xiang Yu. （Heavenly Human Realm）
Heaven List Second: King of Han Liu Bang. （Heavenly Human Realm）
Heaven List Third: Immortal of Military Strategy Han Xin. （Heavenly Human Realm）
Heaven List Fourth: Meng Tian. （Yes, Meng Tian was not dead yet, and his strength was also growing quite fast.）
Heaven List Fifth: Zhang Han.
Heaven List Sixth: Zhang Liang.
Heaven List Seventh: Long Ju.
Heaven List Eighth: Zhongli Mei.
Heaven List Ninth: Xiao He.
Heaven List Tenth: Ying Bu.
Heaven List Eleventh: King of Wei Wei Bao.
Heaven List Twelfth: King of Qi Tian Du.
Heaven List Thirteenth: King of Changshan Zhang Er.
Heaven List Fourteenth: Qin III Huyun.
Heaven List Fifteenth: King of Zhao.
Heaven List Sixteenth: King of Linjiang Gong Ao.
Heaven List Seventeenth: King of Yan Zang Tu.
In this era, there were many people on the Heaven List, and there were also many experts. It was truly an era of great contention.
The world was in a chaotic mess, and all the forces were vying for territory.
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And at this time, on Mount Maoshan.
Mount Maoshan, was still a forbidden area.
No one could enter, no matter who they were.
On Mount Maoshan, there was only one person and one dragon.
And at this time, Peng Feng was drinking tea.
The tea was also something he had painstakingly discovered some wild tea trees and then cultivated. Now, only he had some tea leaves in the entire world. There were none in other places.
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Not far away.
A Tyrannosaurus Rex, tens of meters long, was lying on the ground dozing off.
Since being subdued by Peng Feng, the Tyrannosaurus Rex had spent almost all of its time on Mount Maoshan. The things it ate were some animal meat from the mountains and forests, or sea fish from the sea.
However, sea fish made up the majority.
Because,
Peng Feng disliked that the Tyrannosaurus Rex had eaten all the animals in the mountains and forests. He thought that the mountains and forests would lack vitality, so he forced the Tyrannosaurus Rex to go to the sea to catch fish.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex could only submit.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex now felt that its whole body smelled fishy, and the smell was very strong.
Peng Feng held his teacup, drank tea, and pondered over one thing.
All of this had to start with ancient Chinese battles.
In fact, ancient Chinese battles did not involve the slaughter of cities.
For example, during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, they did not slaughter cities.
Battles at that time still emphasized the gentleman’s style.
There were also people like Duke Xiang of Song, who thought that attacking an enemy halfway across a river was too ungentlemanly, so he let the enemy cross the river before attacking.
The only famous massacre during the Warring States period was when Bai Qi buried 400,000 surrendered soldiers alive. And these were not even ordinary people, but surrendered soldiers. This was done after Bai Qi had achieved a great victory. In the end, the King of Qin was furious and ordered Bai Qi to commit suicide.
However, by the end of the Qin Dynasty, during the Chu-Han Contention era, both Xiang Yu and Liu Bang started to act recklessly, constantly slaughtering cities and killing ordinary people.
For example, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu Xiang Yu loved to slaughter cities.
According to historical records, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu Xiang Yu had a total of six records of slaughtering cities. They were the Xiangcheng City Massacre, the Chengyang Massacre, the Xin’an Massacre, the Xianyang Massacre, the Poqi Massacre, and the Waihuang Massacre. These massacres were almost all of civilians.
Of course, Liu Bang, who was in the same era, was not a good person either. Liu Bang also engaged in the slaughter of cities. There were several recorded instances of him slaughtering cities, such as slaughtering Yuzhou, slaughtering Wuguan, and slaughtering Chengyang.
These two had broken the rules.
This made the warlords, overlords, and emperors of later generations follow suit one after another.
After that, there were more and more instances of slaughtering cities. For example, Cao Cao liked to slaughter cities.
The beginning of the slaughter of cities was with Xiang Yu and Liu Bang.
Peng Feng felt that.
Since he had the ability, he should do something to make the common people live better.
For example, stop Xiang Yu from slaughtering cities, and also prohibit the people of later generations from slaughtering cities.
And Peng Feng carefully recalled.
This year should be the year when Xiang Yu went to attack the place called Xiangcheng.
The origin of the matter was like this: In the first month of 207 BC, Xiang Yu was ordered to lead his subordinates to attack the military stronghold Xiangcheng. After a hard battle, he captured Xiangcheng, but he was angered by the defenders’ stubborn resistance and the neutral stance of the people. He carried out a large-scale massacre of the city.
Peng Feng estimated the time, and it was almost that time.
Immediately, he stood up directly.
He clapped his hands.
Then, he said to the Tyrannosaurus Rex beside him, “Xiao Ba, let’s go. We’re going to Xiangcheng.”
That’s right, this Tyrannosaurus Rex was given a name, called Xiao Ba.
When the Tyrannosaurus Rex heard this call, it immediately raised its upper body.
And Peng Feng filled his large gourd with wine. There was no other way, the wine of this era was still extremely difficult to drink, so he could only drink wine.
Then, he sat down on the back of the Tyrannosaurus Rex with a thump: “Giddy up! Let’s go, Xiao Ba.”
At the same time, he activated his body technique, and with this Tyrannosaurus Rex, flew into the clouds in the sky, heading directly towards Xiangcheng.
The Xiangcheng of the Chu-Han Contention was not the Xiangcheng of later generations.
The Xiangcheng at this time referred to the area south of Xuchang in Henan of later generations.
