Controlling mountains and rivers since the Warring States Period

Chapter 316 Daytime
After the efforts of the Qin envoys,

He recruited many talents from Xinxia and went to the West Sea to inject the excellent seeds from Yanhuang into the barbarians. Before leaving with great satisfaction,
He Bo ran over and told Qin and Xia some things in their dreams.

The young King Xia was very surprised when he saw a mighty and powerful divine turtle in his dream.

When he saw King Wen next to the divine tortoise, he knelt down and crawled to his great-grandfather.

King Xia Wen stroked the descendant's hair and introduced the origin of the divine tortoise to him:
"This is the Lord of the Great River in his ancestral land, who appointed him as the Water Lord and came to Xinxia to take office. When he was in the Central Plains, he was the ruler of the Guanhe River in Zhao State."

After hearing this, the other party was very surprised and asked, "Is it the big river that flows through the entire Central Plains?"

"Yes," King Wen said to him, "you should build a temple for Him on the banks of the An River, where Xinxia is rising, and worship Him sincerely."

Anhe,

It is a short tributary of the Xindu River.
It is also the place where the first generation of Xinxia lived and multiplied.
For Xinxia at this time, it was very insignificant.

But in the land of Sindhu, where the water and heat are extremely extreme, it has a rare stable amount of water, and where it merges into the Sindhu River, it has created a flat and fertile land.

Therefore,
The first ancestors of Xinxia were able to settle down there and establish a country.

Now He Bo came here and heard the story of Anhe, and remembered what was mentioned in the "Records of the First Ancestors" -

The ancestors of Xinxia once frequently visited the banks of the An River.

Zhao Chao, who has always been active and likes to play with children, especially likes to drive a group of little boys to the river to play in the water and fish when the weather is hot.

That little river,
After watching the first batch of Xinxia people grow old,

I also saw the first batch of seeds that were planted sprout and grow.

then,

He decided to settle down in Anhe.

King Wen later told his descendants, "Don't worry, the gods of our country are very different from the wild gods of Sindhu. They have the elegant and calm demeanor of a gentleman."

The implication of his words is,
It means that this god will not support his own representatives like the Sindhu sect and then let them challenge the power of the monarch.

After hearing this, King Xia readily agreed to the request.

But he still felt sad.

He Bo sensed something and asked him, "Your sadness is not about me, but about the river. Why is that?"

King Xia replied honestly, "I am worried about the matter of 'orthodoxy'."

"If Xinxia's River Lord has to accept He Lord's appointment before he can take office, then does this mean that Xinxia will eventually become a vassal of the Central Plains Dynasty?"

After King Wen of Xia rebuilt the New Xia Dynasty,
Among the scholars of the Xia people, there also emerged similar remarks such as "Although Xia is an old country, its destiny is to be renewed."

If you have a chance,
Xinxia also wants to be the "Son of Heaven"!

Although Xinxia knew,

The conditions of the ancestral land of the Xia Dynasty are so favorable, and the dynasty that occupies it now is also very powerful.

But as a country,
You also need to have ideals to pursue!

For this,

He Bo just let out a dull laugh.

He said to the ambitious King Xia, "I don't care about this kind of fighting for position!"

"If you want it, just go get it yourself!"

Anyway, considering the current world situation,
Wherever you go, you can see the gentlemen of Zhuxia running around.
The area where they wander is even wider than the places visited by ghosts and gods.

Even if we have to fight in the future,

That can only be regarded as an internal struggle among the various states of Xia.

It was just a "battle among princes" that affected the entire continent.

So He Bo was too lazy to bother with the disputes between Qin, Xia and Han.
He just "does everything he can to moisten it."

……

Then I met the envoy of Qin again.
It was King Xia Wen, the new Xia figure, who came forward.

He introduced himself:
"I heard that Ying Qin has shown signs of dominating the West Sea, so I came here to express my inner joy."

The envoy was also surprised and kowtowed to the king, praising the king's kindness to his country and expressing his gratitude to the elder for showing up and greeting him even though he was rotten.

Then he had time to look at He Bo who was standing next to him.

"This is Xinxia's Shuibo."

King Wen told the messenger with a hint of boasting, relaying He Bo's identity.

Take a look!

This is something that Qin State doesn't have! Are you envious?
The messenger was even more surprised, and even though He Bo greeted him, he was unable to recover.

After my mind cleared up a bit,

The messenger then revealed King Wen of Xia's expectant look.

He said sourly, "Why..."

"Why can Xinxia be protected by ghosts and gods, but my Qin State is not?"

Obviously!

It is obvious that Ying Qin left the Xia later than Xin Xia, and is the one that needs more care!

He Bocai didn't tell him.
This is a problem that I haven’t yet smoothed over!
He always blames others and forgives himself.

So he said, "This is because you haven't educated the barbarians there yet!"

"After you seize the two rivers of Persia, you still have to do a lot before you can welcome me over!"

The messenger felt that what Shui Bo said made sense.

The water, soil and climate of the two rivers,
It is very different from the Central Plains.

Ying Qin wanted to govern it well and teach the barbarians there to evolve into humans, which would cost a lot of effort.

To know,
It took Xinxia nearly two hundred years to manage its two major rivers and educate the people on both sides of the river.

Even so,

There were still many Sindhu people squirming in the south, and occasionally they would give Xinxia a big blow to disgust the overlord of the north.

How can the Qin Dynasty, which lasted less than 50 years, be compared with it?
"Besides, I once had friendly exchanges with your great ancestor."

"Now that I have met you, I would like to entrust you to deliver some letters to express my friendship."

At last,
He Bo took out a few letters and handed them to the messenger, asking him to give them to the King of Qin and take them to the ancestral temple to burn them as a sacrifice to Ying Pijiang.

The messenger took it and carefully put it in his arms.

When he woke up, he put his hands on his chest and took out the letter.

The envoy then told his companions about this matter, and said with emotion, "The mission of Qin to educate the barbarians outside the territory is a long and arduous task, and it cannot be neglected!"

"My great ancestor actually knows ghosts and gods, and can let them express their condolences from thousands of miles away. It can be seen that ghosts and gods still care about the country of Qin."

"But I don't know how many years it will take to return to Zhuxia and retake the Central Plains."

"In order to live up to the gods and ancestors, and live up to the remaining destiny of the Qin Dynasty, we must continue to strive for self-improvement and make persistent efforts!"

Others nodded as well.

I feel that if they can't even govern outside the territory, how can the descendants of Qin have the face to return to the Central Plains and overthrow the Han Dynasty and restore the Qin Dynasty?

When the envoy returned to Qin and told the King of Qin about this matter, the other party was very surprised.

He burned the letters in his father's ancestral temple with doubt, and then saw wisps of green smoke floating up and being absorbed by the pottery jar enshrined next to the tablet of Taizu.

The already aged King Qin Ying Duan widened his eyes and remained silent for a long time.

At last,
He turned and walked out of the ancestral temple, demanding to summon his ministers to re-discuss how to govern Persia after the conquest.

In the previous court meeting,
Some officials believed that Persia had existed for hundreds of years and had a large population, so it was impossible to eradicate it like weeds.

So they advised the King of Qin, hoping to accommodate some Persian nobles.

In order to establish Qin's rule over Persia more quickly, it could also employ Persian scholars, just as the First Emperor had employed Confucian scholars from Qi and offered sacrifices to the sacred Mount Tai in Qi, to ease the rejection of Persian Zoroastrianism.

Ying Duan did not directly refuse this.

Because he is old now,
At this age, his body developed various minor and major ailments, which often tormented him and prevented him from sleeping.

This made Ying Duan's will no longer be as firm as when he was young.
He also longed to establish great achievements during his lifetime and bring the Qin Dynasty to new heights, rather than ending his life suppressing a rebellion in a newly conquered area.

He secretly thought:
Some things don't have to be done to perfection in your own hands.

Believe in the wisdom of future generations!

but now,
How dare he?

He didn't want to die and be scolded by his own father for being "bright at first but stupid later", not being able to finish a good job, and basically pouring stinking sewage on the Qin Dynasty.

so,

We can only suffer in Persia!

……

(End of this chapter)