As soon as Zuo Cheng's voice fell, Song Chen in the hall looked at Zuo Cheng again, and suddenly the hostility disappeared, and he was still close.

Then, the ministers in the palace began to talk about each other.

At this time, King Song listened to the discussion of the ministers, although he didn't know what his ministers were talking about, but from their faces, King Song clearly saw the color of approval.

Seeing this, King Song's face was extremely heavy.

It is true that in order to resolve the previous misunderstanding, the king of Chu is indeed full of sincerity, as long as he accepts the two hundred miles of land of Chu, then the two countries of Chu and Song will inevitably reconcile.

But... And then what?

The king of Song could already foresee that as long as the Song State accepted the apology of the Chu State, then when the Qi and Wei countries learned of this incident, they would inevitably think that the Song State had fallen to the Chu State.

In this way, the Song State spent a lot of money to ask Qi and Wei to assist the Song State, which not only could not win the favor of Qi and Wei, but also made Qi and Wei dissatisfied with Song.

Although the front foot asks for help, the back foot immediately makes peace, which is indeed a bit inauthentic. But this matter is easy to say, after all, Qi and Wei have not officially agreed to aid the Song State.

King Song frowned, he was more concerned about another thing, that is, the crown prince who was still in Huaibei.

In order to drive the prince out of sight and out of Shangqiu, the king of Song handed over all the two hundred miles of Huaibei land that he had obtained from Chu to the prince.

And now, Zuo Cheng's words just now are very clear, this two hundred miles of Huaibei land was specially given to Prince Zizhen.

If he agrees, then the prince will have 400 miles of land in his hands.

Four hundred miles...

As soon as King Song thought of this number, his heart immediately sank.

Although the land of four hundred miles is not large, it is not small compared to the Song Kingdom. You must know that the Song State itself is only 500 li, and the efforts of the ancestors of the past dynasties, coupled with his nearly 30 years of painstaking efforts, not counting the land obtained from the Chu State, the Song State is now less than 900 li in size, which is still less than 1,000 li.

Although the land of Huaibei is not as rich as that of the Song Kingdom, Huaibei is not barren anywhere.

If the crown prince controls such a large piece of territory, then how can he, the king of Song, abolish the prince next.

King Song can be sure that as long as he dares to abolish the crown prince, then he will definitely abolish the prince on the front foot, and the prince in Huaibei will raise troops to resist on the back foot.

If he sends troops to attack the crown prince, then the state of Chu will definitely intervene, and if the prince raises troops to attack him, then all countries in the world will look at the jokes of the Song state and take the opportunity to support the prince and weaken the Song state.

If you don't abolish the prince...

As soon as King Song thought of the white hair on King Song's head, a trace of irritability immediately appeared in his heart, and a wave of anger surged up for no reason, and he couldn't suppress it.

Thinking about it, King Song suddenly wanted to open his mouth to refuse.

But...

The moment he spoke, King Song saw the joy on the faces of his ministers, and his heart burned with anger suddenly chilled, and then his cold heart sank straight down.

Originally, the envoy of Chu State made insulting remarks and insulted the Song State, so the ministers and people of Song State were furious and wanted to fight to the death with Chu State.

But now, the state of Chu came to apologize, and also gave away two hundred miles of land, hoping that the two countries of Chu and Song would be reconciled.

In this case, if you open your mouth to refuse, you will offend the Chu State, and the Chu State will have a justifiable excuse for cutting the Song Dynasty.

At that time, the whole Song State complained in their hearts that the King of Song did not accept the good intentions of the Chu State, and resented him for sending the ministers and people of the Song State to the battlefield to fight a war that should not have been fought.

At this time, who will fight to the death for him King Song?

Once the war broke out, the prince was in cahoots with the state of Chu, and he couldn't stand it.

Thinking about it, King Song opened his mouth and couldn't say anything.

At this time, the ministers of the Song State saw that the King of Song was sitting on the throne, and they did not open their mouths to refuse or agree, and they immediately stared at the King of Song and fell silent.

Soon, the temple was silent again.

As soon as the atmosphere in the hall changed, King Song instantly noticed it.

Then, King Song thought about it, and then ignored those ** feathers, as well as those pro-Chu ministers, and then set his eyes on his important ministers, hoping that they would open their mouths to refuse.

At this time, Situ saw King Song looking over, and looked like he wanted him to open his mouth to refuse.

Seeing this, immediately lowered his head.

Although he is a prince, he is not willing to do this kind of thing that obviously offends the Chu State and offends the fathers and elders in the country, in case the Song State loses the battle, after the crown prince ascends the throne, he will definitely use his whole clan to curry favor with the Chu State.

After King Song saw Situ lower his head, his body stiffened slightly. Then, he turned his gaze to Sikong again, this time Sikong did not lower his head, but gave him a look in turn and persuaded him to agree quickly.

Seeing this, King Song froze for a moment, then immediately looked away from Sikong, and then turned to the others.

At this time, Zuo Cheng saw that King Song was looking left and right, and did not respond for a long time, so he immediately arched his hand and said, "King, the minister knows that the Song Kingdom still has doubts about our country at this moment, and this minister can also understand." Therefore, in order to express the sincerity of our kingdom, the minister was willing to stay in the city for the time being, waiting for the king's decision. ”

When King Song heard this, he was stunned, and then immediately responded, "Okay, the widow still needs to discuss this matter with the ministers, and ask the envoy to stay for the time being, and the widow will reply to the envoy in a few days." ”

"Yui." Zuo Cheng bowed, and then immediately withdrew from the main hall, leaving the main hall to the monarchs and ministers of the Song State.

As soon as Zuo Cheng left, over there, Song Chen in the hall immediately discussed.

"King, Chu is strong and Song is weak, now Chu Guo has taken the initiative to apologize for the previous incident, if you don't agree at this time, when will you stay?"

"Not bad..."

King Song listened to the discussion of the ministers, and saw that most of them all agreed, and his heart suddenly sank.

After a pause, King Song coughed lightly twice, and after interrupting the ministers, he looked at Song Xiangqiu, who had been silent, and asked, "Xiangguo, what do you think?" ”

When Qiu Li heard this, he replied without thinking, "King, the minister thinks that he should agree to the peace of Chu State. ”

When King Song heard this, he nodded, and Zhao Guo didn't want Chu and Song to go to war.

Then, King Song looked at Tian Buli and asked, "Xianqing, what do you think?" ”

When Tian Buli heard this, he said as a matter of course, "King, do you think you need to be cautious at this time?" Maybe this is a conspiracy of the Chu State! ”

"!" Before Tian Buli finished speaking, General Zang Xin scolded and said, "Conspiracy, I think this is not a conspiracy of the Chu State, but a conspiracy of the Qi State, and the Qi State hopes that my Song State will attract the troops of the Chu State, so that the King of Qi can calmly tide over the crisis!" ”

"You..."

As soon as Tian Buli's words came out, he was interrupted by Sikong.

"General Zang is right, the State of Chu sent out two hundred miles of Huaibei this time, obviously to make friends with my Song State. If there is a conspiracy in the Chu State, it must also want to unite with our Song State and gather troops to attack Qi together, just like the two countries of Chu and Song did before. Now that the king of Qi and Qi Xiang have all died, the chaos in the country of Qi will definitely be able to be completed in one battle.

Mr. instigated the king to reject the kindness of the Chu State, didn't he want my Song State to block the soldiers of the Chu State for the Qi State, so that the fishermen of the Qi State could benefit? ”

"I..."

"What the commonplace said is extremely true..."

As soon as the king of Song saw that Tian Buli opened his mouth to object, he was immediately besieged by his ministers, and the other ministers of the pro-Qi faction closed their mouths when they saw this.

Seeing this, King Song couldn't help but shake his head.

At this moment, the gift and kindness of the Chu State Song State could not be refused, but after agreeing, how to deal with the prince's affairs?

For a moment, King Song fell into deep thought.

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