Pang Juan returned to the big tent of the Chinese army and prepared to eat and rest. And Qin Feng also took advantage of the kung fu to return to the camp to perform light skills, found a dead corner where no one was, and condensed his true qi on his fingertips to make a small opening.

Pang Juan was dining at this time, and the political affairs on the military case were steaming with steaming Fengze yellow mutton. Seeing that Qin Feng wanted to drool a little.

After hurriedly using the yellow mutton, and then coughing with salt water, Pang Juan immediately walked into the inner tent. Different from ordinary commanders, Pang Juan's big account of the Chinese army is small in the front and large in the back. The front account is only one zhang square, and it is so simple that there is only a big case of placing tiger talismans, order arrows, and Wang Jian, and then there are thirteen bluestone piers for the generals' deliberations. The back tent is three zhang square, except for a military couch that can only be accommodated, and the neatly stacked bamboo slips occupy three-quarters of the space in the back tent. In addition, there is a huge topographical map of the nations that is more than square to the eye. The picture was not drawn on sheepskin, but carved into ten wooden planks and put together with vertebrae, which were disassembled and assembled into wooden boxes during the march and assembled together when camping. This wooden map is the brainchild of Pang Juan's study and travel around the world, and its accuracy has been highly praised by his teacher Guiguzi. This wooden drawing is placed in the back tent and covered with a white cloth, which shows that Pang Juan treated it as a military secret. On weekdays, no one is allowed to step into the back tent, except for Pang Juan's personal guards.

At this moment, Pang Juan opened the white cloth, sat in front of the bookcase behind him, looked at the seven warring states on the map, his eyes swept over, staring at the Qin State in the west of the river and contemplating. In terms of the mainland, Qin borders Yan, Zhao, and Zhongshan in the north, Wei in the southeast, Korea in the south, and Chu in the southwest. The western part of the Qin State is a far-reaching and unfathomable alpine grassland and desert, and there is no ally force that can be used as a backup. Among the seven warring states, the Qin state is located in the west, but it has the most neighboring countries, and it is the weakest and smallest at present......

When Qin Feng saw this scene, his heart suddenly tightened. "This Pang Juan. Sure enough, I still have to fight the idea of the Qin State......"

Suddenly, Qin Feng flashed sideways, obviously hearing something through his true qi. Sure enough, a fast horse with a detective came galloping quickly.

"Report ——!" Outside the tent, there was the shrill shouting of the horses approaching the tent.

Pang Juan walked to the front tent, and the scout had already opened the tent and entered, bowing down and reporting: "General Qiqi, the king of Chu has already entered Fengze, hunting and drinking thirty miles away, and not entering the official road, somehow?" ”

"King Chu. Sure enough. Qin Feng heard it clearly, and his heart suddenly understood, which also confirmed his previous guess.

"In an hour and a half, the king of Chu will arrive." Pang Juan instructed, "Tan Ma and go away, don't care about the king of Chu anymore." ”

"Yes!" The scout shouted his command and rushed out.

"The state of Chu is barbarian, and the king of Chu is cunning. But after all, it's just clever. The king of Chu is not good at seeking the country. Qin Feng shook his head secretly.

In fact, he was very aware of the cunning of the King of Chu, because Qin Feng knew a lot about various historical biographies during the Warring States Period.

The Central Plains scholars scolded the people of Chu for being a monkey, although they were mean, they were indeed wonderful.

The monkey is shrewd, can bathe and crown, and then never become an adult. In the final analysis, this is to ridicule the people of Chu for being calculating and lacking a big game.

Let's just say that at present, this Chu Xuan Wang Mi Liangfu obviously arrived in Fengze in the early morning according to the itinerary, but he didn't enter the Xingyuan area, and all his thoughts were to arrive finally to show his dignity.

For this reason, he stopped thirty miles away to hunt, painstakingly sent scouts to investigate, and had to wait until Han Zhao Qiyan entered after the countries, and maybe waited for Pang Juan to go thirty miles away to greet him. Pang Juan has always scoffed at this kind of perverse and delicate calculation.

What can a country do if it does not work its fundamental strength and focuses on these trivial etiquette?

Since the annexation of Wu in the late Spring and Autumn Period, the land of Chu is 5,000 miles wide, the people are nearly 10 million, the Jianghuai water network is like weaving, the lakes are dotted, although there are continuous mountains and dense forests, but the plain area is fertile and easy to cultivate. The mountains and rivers are restored, the territory is deep, and no powerful country can swallow it in one bite. If the upper echelons of the Chu State have a high-level instrument bureau, change the law to become strong, and enter the Central Plains in the north, why worry about not being able to complete the unification and hegemony?

It is a pity that this country just sticks to the bad habits of barbarians, rarely absorbs the essence of the Central Plains civilization, and the official, military, and civilian governance are all their own sets, and never learns the civilized legal system of the Central Plains countries.

The prime minister is called "Ling Yin", the doctor is called "Zuo Yin", the minister of royal affairs is called "Mo Ao", the general is called "General", and there are various inexplicable official names such as Dengtu, Zhuguo, Cifei, Zhigui, and Sanlu Doctor.

There are many places in this vassal state, which was self-reliant by the mountain tribes and later recognized by the Zhou Dynasty, that is difficult for the Central Plains culture to understand, which is why it is difficult for the Central Plains celebrities to make contributions in the Chu State.

During the reign of Marquis Wu of Wei, Wu Qi, who was a well-rounded man in civil and military affairs, fled to the state of Chu because he was rejected by traitors and was not trusted by the monarch.

At that time, the king of Chu Mourning appointed Wu Qi as Ling Yin (prime minister), determined to change the law and become strong.

Wu Qi forcefully changed the backward and ignorant old system of the Chu State with an iron fist, but he almost made himself a loner. As soon as the king of Chu mourned and Wu Qili was brutally killed, the state of Chu became a peculiar warring state with "three parts of the new and seven points of the old", which was always sluggish and difficult to do.

In order to choose the country he wanted to serve, Pang Juan had done in-depth travel research on the Chu State, believing that the Chu State and the Central Plains civilization were still a hundred years away.

Wu Qi's failure in the state of Chu was not a mistake in the reform itself, but the backwardness, ignorance and closure of this country, and there was still a long way to go from the foundation needed for the reform, and it would be difficult for anyone to reverse it in the short term.

One of the important reasons is that the upper-class aristocracy of the Chu State has always been in favor of the closed mountain country, and has not looked at the big game of competition for survival in the world.

All major events in the Central Plains are inseparable from the participation of Chu, but none of them pin their hopes for survival on Chu.

Small and medium-sized vassal states rarely took the initiative to seek the protection of Chu. Among the seven warring states, Chu and Qin had the fewest vassal states.

The Qin State was closed west of Hangu Pass by the Six Kingdoms of Shandong, and it was impossible for it to go east to fight for the vassal states of the Central Plains.

However, the Qin State swallowed and annexed almost all the western Rongdi tribal states in the Qin Mugong era, and almost all the grassland tribes that were not incorporated also submitted to the Qin State.

The Qin state was also a vassal state that actively moved closer to the Central Plains civilization, and no matter how much the Central Plains powers despised the Qin state, the Qin state always took the Central Plains civilization as a model.

The lack of effective integration of the Chu state with the barbarian tribes in the south was caused by the fact that the Tai were not enterprising. For example, in Baiyue in Lingnan, the state of Chu was only satisfied with the loose "tribute of ministers", and did not include this thriving and populous tribe into the overall national strength. The state of Chu nominally has a population of tens of millions, but the troops that can be mobilized are only hundreds of thousands, which is not as good as the troops that the state of Zhao, which has only a population of several million, can mobilize. In the final analysis, it is also caused by this huge bloat in name only.

In the in-depth investigation, Qin Feng also found that the upper strata of the Chu State had an inferiority complex and unwilling to give in to the Central Plains civilization. There is always a strong demand for the Central Plains civilization to recognize them and accept them, and it is always and everywhere vigilantly keeping a certain distance from the Central Plains civilization. If they are not taken seriously, they will look for opportunities and reasons to demonstrate to the Central Plains and show their strength. If the big powers of the Central Plains open their minds, they will automatically retreat, fearing assimilation by the Central Plains. Three hundred years ago, when King Zhuang of Chu was king, everyone knew that the power of Chu was far inferior to that of a Jin state in the Central Plains, not to mention the combined strength of many princes. However, the king of Chuzhuang wanted to take the opportunity of the joint army to resist the army, and Chen Bing was on the outskirts of Luoyang, and provoked Wang Sunman, the labor envoy of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and asked how heavy Luoyang Jiuding was? At that time, Jiuding was a symbol of the kingship of the Son of Heaven, and winning the title of the Son of Heaven was tantamount to challenging the kingship of the Son of Heaven. Wang Sunman replied: "Although Zhou De is declining, the mandate of heaven has not changed. King Chuzhuang had no choice but to return in a huff. From then on, the ambition of the Chu State for the Central Plains was revealed to the world, causing all kinds of troubles with the Central Plains royal family and vassal states.

Later, the state of Chu had a period of hegemony, and lacked strategy, and did not know how to set up the banner of "respecting the king and conquering the king" like Duke Qi Huan and Guan Zhong, but the fierce and roaring command of the Central Plains. As a result, it provoked a great battle with the Jin Kingdom, and was defeated, and since then it has been sluggish for more than two hundred years. Pang Juan believes that these are all caused by the lack of a big tool in the Chu State. In Pang Juan's view, such countries are the best to deal with, and the most difficult to deal with are those countries that are not informal, even regardless of the gains and losses of a city or a place, but are ambitious, such as Zhao and Qi. Even the state of Qin is the same. It is unbelievable that the new monarch of Qin, who had just succeeded to the throne, would give away most of the land in Hexi that had been recaptured in order to ask for a truce! This kind of person is either cowardly and stupid, or he is scheming. They are by no means sluggish about these details of diplomatic relations such as first-come, first-served, first-served, and seating arrangement, but on the surface they do not care about it, and they only focus on major issues. A country, if it is more serious about this kind of detail game everywhere, is undoubtedly old, because they have nothing more valuable to care about. King Chu Xuan is exactly like this, give him a noble seat, and give him a little visible benefit, he will shout and shout in the difficult Chu language to cheer for the alliance leader. This point, Pang Juan has already decided.

Qin Feng also understood that the time when the King of Chu was about to arrive, and now was to perform light skills to rest in the camp, preparing to follow Pang Juan to meet the King of Chu.

As soon as the unitary time arrived, the iron cavalry honor guard of the Wei State was unfolded outside the Xingyuan area on time, and it looked majestic and brilliant in the sunset. When Pang Juan's car drove away, bursts of smoke and dust also rolled up on Fengze Avenue.

The chief secretary who served as the celebrant laughed softly: "General, what a clever calculation! ”

A contemptuous smile crossed the corner of Pang Juan's mouth, and he slowly raised his right hand. Suddenly, the drums beat loudly, and the trombone whined to the sky, and the sound was very majestic. One stone's throw away, the word "Chu" on the yellow flag has been clearly visible, and the glittering light of the bronze umbrella cover on the royal chariot has also been reflected in the eyes of the honor guard iron horseman.

"General, why don't you see the king of Chu in the king's chariot?" The Lord asked, confused.

Pang Juan didn't answer the main book, but just bowed deeply respectfully, and ordered in a low voice, "Report the number." ”

The main book woke up and hurriedly sang loudly as a celebrant, "Pang Juan, the special envoy of the Six Great Alliances and the general of the Wei State, greets the king of Chu——! ”