Qi country Linzi.

Qi Wangdi and Qi Xiangtian Wen Jizi looked at the news from Su Dai, and they were speechless for a moment.

Gathering the strength of the four countries, spending thousands of gold, losing hundreds of dead soldiers, and even abandoning the intelligence network of the four countries in Yingdu, the result was still a failure.

Not only did it fail, but even the siege of the king of Chu by the ministers of the state of Chu was not instigated.

When Qi Wangdi thought of the loss of Qi State this time, he couldn't help but feel a little pain in his heart, and complained in his mouth: "Su Dai is incompetent, my Qi State is so reluctant to find a huge flaw from Chu State, it took months to lay out, to have a heart to calculate unintentionally, to be prepared to be unprepared, such a high winning rate, it actually failed, and it was wasted in vain."

Even, let the king of Chu find an opportunity to solve the crisis of trust in the king of Chu after the defeat of the Chu state in one fell swoop.

Su Dai misunderstood me. ”

As soon as Tian Wen heard that the King of Qi complained about Su Dai twice in succession, he immediately persuaded: "The king is angry, the king of Chu has ruled the state of Chu for thirty years, inherited and carried forward the hegemony of the state of Chu, and the king of Chu has a stable and unshakable position in the state of Chu. ”

As he spoke, Tian Wen glanced at Ji Zi opposite, who was also the mastermind of this plan, and said with a look of regret: "The minister has long said that the country of Chu has many feudal kings and a chaotic political situation, as long as there are no foreign enemies, then the country of Chu is a plate of scattered sand." And the so-called brothers are on the wall and outside to resist their insults, as long as there is an external trouble in the Chu State, the king of Chu and the feudal lords of various places will be twisted into a rope.

Therefore, if there is turmoil within the Chu State, we only need to add fuel to the fire and let the ministers of the Chu State charge into battle, and there is no need to stand in front of the stage and take the initiative to take action, so that the king of Chu is given an excuse to take the opportunity to win over the feudal monarch.

Therefore, the minister thought that this was not Su Dai's incompetence at all, but that the entire strategy before was wrong. ”

Ji Zi saw that Tian Wen now fundamentally denied the previous strategy, and he was dissatisfied in his heart.

From the news from the State of Chu, before Su Dai and them made a move, the King of Chu had already issued an edict to appease Le Jun and them.

In this case, if Su Dai and they don't make a move, the final result must be that the king of Chu will win over Lejun and them, and then appease the vassals and feudal kings and stabilize the country.

Therefore, the result of not making a move will only be a missed opportunity, and a setback after making a move is a bad move, and the skill is not as good as others.

However, now that Su Dai's operation has failed, he can't argue with Tian Wen.

Thinking about it, Ji Zi took a deep breath and immediately asked the king of Qi for his guilt: "The king, the minister's plan is wrong, the minister is guilty, please punish the king." ”

Qi Wangdi was silent for a moment, and then sighed: "Forget it, the prime minister has been planning with the sons of Jixia School Palace for several months, and it is already considered to be dedicated, and at this time, the failure of the Chu State is not a crime of war." ”

When Tian Wen heard this, he immediately lowered his head slightly, and his eyes showed dissatisfaction.

How unjust the king is!

The slightest mistake on the part of the ministers of their clan will be severely reprimanded by the king, and they will be demoted at every turn. As for others, even if there is a mistake, even a serious strategic mistake, it is a 'forget it'.

The king's intention to hit the office was too obvious and heavy.

On the other side, after gathering his thoughts, Qi Wangdi asked: "Prime Minister Zuo, hasn't King Song agreed to send troops to Sixi?" ”

Ji Zi remembered the news of Song Guo, and his face sank slightly.

After the countries retreated, because the land obtained from Chu was too far away from Qi, and the land handed over to Qi by Song and Wei was far from compensating Qi, Qi and Song decided to exchange land, and Qi handed over all the newly defeated Yingdong land to Song, while Song handed over 200 li of Sixi to Qi.

As a result, after the Song army occupied Yingdong, the ministers sent by the Qi State to accept Sixi were rejected and expelled by Zang Xin, the general of Sixi.

Of course, the people of Qi knew that the land of Sixi was the territory given by Chu to Song, which was controlled by Prince Zhen of Song, and the King of Song used the land of Sixi to exchange land with Qi, which was originally ill-intentioned and wanted to use the hand of Qi to cut off Prince Zhen's wings.

In order to keep Sixi, and even more so to let the Qi State attack Sixi, mobilize the people's disgust with Qi, and drive a wedge between Qi and Song, he ordered the Song general Zang Xin to guard Sixi City, and refused to hand over Sixi.

Because Huaiyin's Chu general Jingyang has been planning Zang Xin, and even gave Zang Xin's department a lot of grain and grass equipment, coupled with the lack of strength of the Qinghe City Shengzi Department of Qi State, but also in order to maintain the relationship between Qi and Song, in order to let Song continue to attack Chu and weaken Chu State, Qi State did not act rashly.

Therefore, the state of Qi repeatedly sent ministers to ask the king of Song to send troops to pacify Sixi with the Qi army in order to fulfill his promise.

However, the king of Song refused to send troops to Sixi on the grounds that the Song army needed to stabilize Yingdong and the army could not get out. It was just to declare the rebellion of Sixi Zangxin and cut off the supply of Sixi.

But the problem is that Zang Xin's department has the support of the Chu State, and there has been no shortage of supplies.

As a result, the Qi and Song dynasties had many contradictions on the issue of Sixi.

Thinking of the previous things, Ji Zi sighed: "King, originally we disturbed the Chu State at all costs, just to let the King of Song see the turmoil and weakness of the Chu State, so as to hook out the King of Song's greed for the Chu State, so that the King of Song will completely stand on the side of my Qi State and follow my Qi State to attack Chu at all costs."

Originally, with the news of the turmoil in the Chu State, the King of Song had already loosened his mind and planned to take action against the crown prince Zhen and Zang Xin in Sixi to eradicate the pro-Chu faction in the Song State.

But after the failure of Suzi's operation, King Song's attitude became ambiguous again, and he suspended all actions against Taizizhen. ”

Qi Wangdi frowned when he heard this.

He knew what the King of Song thought, the state of Chu was strong, even if the state of Chu was seriously weakened by various countries, the strength of the state of Chu was still far greater than that of the state of Song, so the state of Song could follow the state of Qi to attack the state of Chu, but the state of Song could not get rid of all the ministers of the pro-Chu faction, lest when the state of Chu freed up its hands to attack the state of Song in the future, the state of Song was besieged by the state of Chu because there was no channel to communicate with the state of Chu, or the state of Chu did not have the desire to communicate with the state of Song.

Therefore, the king of Song kept the crown prince just in case.

However, it was precisely because Qi Wangdi understood King Song's thoughts that he hated King Song's ambiguous attitude even more.

Especially when the pro-Chu faction of the Song State is still the prince of the Song State, this is even more unbearable.

Thinking about it, King Qi forced the fire in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Forget it, now the primary goal of the widow is still to be strong, and the Song State still needs to be wooed, Prime Minister Zuo will continue to communicate with King Song, but the relationship between Qi and Song cannot be damaged because of the land of Sixi." If the king of Song is unwilling to send troops to Sixi, then the king of Song is required to continue to work with other countries to defeat Chu. ”

"Yui."

A few days later, on the eve of Su Dai's return to Linzi, some rumors began to spread quietly in Linzi.

"I heard that Su Dai was arrested in the State of Chu, and he has defected to the King of Chu."

"Legend has it that Su Dai was ordered by the king to envoy to the state of Chu, but he embezzled the money that the king used to buy the ministers of the state of Chu, which caused the king's important work to fail."

"It is said that Su Dai received the daughter of the king of Chu..."