Tian Pan continued: "Great King, it is not enough for us to separate the relationship between Qin and Chu, after all, our Qi State is the main target of the current countries, in order to prevent the Chu State and the Qin State from merging and sending troops to attack our Qi State together, we also need to stabilize the Chu State, at least we must not let the Chu State send troops to attack Qi and threaten the Song State or the southern part of the Qi State." ”

"Therefore, we not only need to send envoys to Qin, but we also need to send envoys to Chu to bribe Chu with heavy profits and induce Chu to attack Qin. For the state of Chu, our Qi and Chu are in a stalemate in the Huaisi region, and no one can help anyone, but Qin and Chu are not, it is difficult for Chu to threaten Qin, but Qin can easily attack Chu. ”

King Xuan of Qi understands that now the State of Qi can provoke the State of Chu, but it cannot be excessive, otherwise once the State of Chu becomes angry and sends troops to attack the State of Qi with the State of Qin, then the State of Qi will be in big trouble.

At this time, the crown prince Fu Chunyu came out and said to King Qi Xuan: "King, as Panzi said, the threat of Qin to Chu is great, in order to eliminate Qin's threat to Chu including Yingdu, the Jianghan region, so Chu has always been snooping on Qin's Nanzheng, and both Qin and Chu have gathered heavy troops in Hanzhong. ”

"The contradiction between Qin and Chu is that either Chu moves its capital, or Qin loses Nanzheng Bashu, otherwise the two countries will inevitably have a big war. Now because of the relationship between Qi and the state, Qin and Chu are temporarily making peace, but their peaceful relationship is extremely unreliable. Whenever they get the chance, they will tear their faces and fight a big fight. ”

"Therefore, in order to avoid a joint attack by Qi and Chu, our Qi State can create an opportunity for Qin and Chu to have a big fight."

Chun Yuji is a celebrity in the Qi Kingdom, and has a very high status in the Jixia School Palace.

He was from a low background, and he was once punished by a shaved hair (that is, the punishment of shaving part or all of his hair, Cao Cao is famous for the story of Cao Cao's head in history, and it should be regarded as a very serious punishment in the Warring States), he is called Chun Yuji, and he is also the son-in-law of the Qi region.

The son-in-law originated from the customs of the Qi State in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, the customs of Qi believed that the eldest daughter of the family could not marry, and she had to preside over the sacrifice at home, otherwise it would be detrimental to the family's fortune. These eldest daughters who presided over the sacrifice at home were called "Wu'er", and Wu'er wanted to get married, so she had to recruit a son-in-law, so she had a son-in-law.

The status of the son-in-law in the women's family is very underground, and in the era of patriarchy, the son-in-law is almost the same as the subordinate.

Because Chun Yuji can speak out, dare to admonish, and be good at speaking, as early as the time of King Qi Wei, he was reused by the Qi State.

Just a few years ago, when King Qi Xuan was looking for a teacher for the prince's field, he chose Chun Yuji.

When King Qi Xuan heard Chun Yuyan's words, he squinted slightly, thought for a while, and asked, "Please tell Xianqing in detail." ”

Chun Yu said: "Great King, Qin and Chu have maintained restraint because of the Qi State, but this kind of peace maintained by external forces is also very likely to collapse because of external forces, so we only need to create an opportunity for either of the two countries of Qin and Chu, and a big war will definitely break out between the two countries." ”

King Qi Xuan asked, "Then how do we create opportunities?" ”

Chun Yuji replied: "Whether it is Qin or Chu, we can create opportunities. ”

"If we want to create an opportunity for the Chu State, we only need to send troops to attack any of the Zhao and Wei countries, let them ask the Qin State for help, and force the Qin State to send troops. As long as the main force of Qin's army rescues the Three Jins, it will inevitably cause a shortage of domestic troops. Then our Qi State sent a man of eloquence to persuade the Chu State to attack Bashu Nanzheng. ”

"As long as a big war breaks out between Qin and Chu again, then the Qin army that is fighting with our Qi State on the front line will inevitably be unstable, if the Qin State cannot withstand the pressure of the Chu State and transfer the Qin army back to the Qin State, then Zhao and Wei alone will not be the opponent of our Qi State, and the Yan State will be regarded as the territory of our Qi State."

"If you want to create opportunities for the Qin State, you only need to contain the Chu State in other places. Although our Qi State cannot send troops to the Chu State, the Yue State that has been fighting against the Chu State can. We sent heavy profits to the Yue State, lured the Yue State and our Qi State to form an alliance to attack Chu, saying that our Qi State would attack the northern part of the Chu State, and asked the Yue State to send troops to attack the eastern part of the Chu State, then, in the face of the pressure of the Yue State, the Chu State would inevitably transfer part of the main force of the confrontation with the Qin State in the west to the east. ”

"Then our Qi State only needs to express the intention of forming an alliance with the Qin State to attack Chu, and the Qin State will inevitably attack the western part of the Chu State. Compared with the Qi State in the far east, the Chu State is close at hand, so that the Qin State can benefit. Compared with the false name of saving Yan and the actual benefits of the Chu State, it is really insignificant, and the King of Qin will consider it. ”

King Qi Xuan thought for a moment and said: "Sending troops to attack the Three Jin Dynasty will inevitably lose the strength of our Qi State, once the war breaks out, it will be difficult to control, and strengthening the already very powerful Chu State is not a good thing for our Qi State." ”

"As for the loss of some money and benefits, it is really a trivial matter for the rich Qi State to teach a lesson to the treacherous Chu State."

After the decision, King Qi Xuan immediately arranged for an envoy to go to Yue Guo with heavy gifts, and asked Yue Guo, who had been harassing Chu for many years, to continue the unfinished business and strengthen the harassment of Chu.

"It's just that if Qin and Chu are not fooled, or if Chu has decided to unite with Qin and attack our Qi State together, what will happen?"

This situation is the worst outcome that Qi is facing.

King Qi Xuan has also been worrying about this problem these days.

"Great King, this situation must not occur, but if such a situation occurs, the first thing our Qi country should do is to shrink our Qi country's sphere of influence, conduct a defensive war, and break up the alliances of various countries in defense. If the defensive war is unfavorable or failing, and diplomacy has not yet achieved results, then there is only one way to withdraw troops from Yan. Tian Pan said.

King Qi Xuan knew that once there was a situation he said, the Qi country would face a huge crisis, so not to mention whether he could keep the Yan country, it was also a difficult thing to keep the territory of the Qi country.

Qi is different from Qin, Qi is the defense line, Qin is the defense point, for Qi, many places are breakthroughs, once a defense line is lost, the enemy can drive straight into the hinterland of Qi, especially in the face of siege from all the surrounding countries.

Chu.

Soon ten days passed.

Today is the day of the Great Pilgrimage.

Before dawn, Yingdu woke up from his slumber, and the area where the nobles were located was lively, preparing to go to the Chu Palace to participate in the court meeting.

When the sun rose, all the ministers of the Chu State had already arrived at the main hall of the Chu Palace.

"Ling Yin, you are always an old minister of our Chu State, the pillar of our Chu State, and you have won the trust of the king, do you know what the king is going to do this time, why did you suddenly hold a court meeting?"