Zhao Ju saluted to the King of Chu, ignored the other people who knelt on the ground, and said unhurriedly: "Great King, there are three great countries in the world, our Chu State, the Qi State in the east, and the Qin State in the west. Now that the Qin State has defeated the Three Jins, the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei, and Han have formed an alliance with the Qin State to jointly fight against our Chuqi Alliance. ”

"The alliance led by the Qin State, the next target of attack is either the powerful Qi State or our Chu State. For the Qin State, the Chu State is close and the Qi State is far away, if it were not for the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei and Han to deal with the Qi State first, I am afraid that the alliance of the four countries would have killed the border of the Chu State. ”

"The Qin State wants to attack the Qi State, but because of our relationship with the Chu State, we can't send troops for a long time."

"The State of Wei is weak, the State of Zhao is lonely, and it is difficult to compete with the strong Qi, the country of tigers and wolves of the State of Qin, and wants to go on an expedition to the State of Qi, but it has always been worried about our State of Chu, and in order to avoid fighting on two fronts, it has to make peace with our State of Chu."

"The minister thought that before the Qi State was defeated, the Qin State would definitely abide by the covenant."

Hearing this, Xiong Huai suddenly remembered that there were seven countries in the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, the Chuqi Alliance, the Qin, Wei, Zhao, and Han Alliances, and there were only six countries, so where did the Yan Kingdom go now?

As soon as he thought of Yan Guo, the memory of his predecessor suddenly jumped out.

"I'll take it, the Yan Kingdom has been destroyed by the Qi Kingdom."

At this time, Xiong Huai's mind finally connected the events of the past few years into a string.

Four years ago, the Qin State adopted the plan of the guest secretary Sima Cuo, and attacked the two countries of Bashu in the south, destroyed the two countries, and established the Bajun Shu County and Hanzhong County.

The state of Chu was too dangerous to the state of Chu, so it formed an alliance with the state of Qi to fight against the state of Qin.

The year before last, Qin defeated Zhao Korea, and last year, Qin attacked Wei, seized Wei's Qudi, opened a gap in the east, and stretched out its claws to the Kwantung countries. Sensing that the threat of Qin was too great, Qi finally decided to send troops to help Chu attack Qin.

As a result, the Qi-Chu coalition army defeated the Qin army in Qudi, and the Chu state captured the Qu region, which originally belonged to the Wei state, and then, at the instigation of the Qi state, the army marched westward and surrounded the Yuzhong region of the Qin state, in an attempt to further weaken the Qin state.

Just when Qin Chu was in the middle of the war, news came from the Qi State that the Qi State took advantage of the opportunity of the Qin State to attack Zhao Wei Han, and at the same time instigated the Chu State to attack the Qin State on a large scale, and when Qin Chu Zhao Wei Han had no time to take care of the Qi State, he took the opportunity to send the general Kuang Zhang to attack Yan.

At this time, the Yan Kingdom has been in chaos for several years, two years ago, the King of Yan sold his reputation, imitated Yao Shun and gave up the position of the monarch of the Yan State to the prime minister, became a courtier himself, and used the entire Yan Kingdom to buy the reputation of Chan Rang, which made the Yan Kingdom a mess. The prince and the son of the king of Yan attacked each other, and the Yan country was in chaos.

Qi Guo had been waiting for this day for a long time, and finally seized the opportunity that other countries could not afford to take care of, and sent troops to Yan State.

The army of Qi drove straight into the country and received a warm welcome from the Yan State, which, in the words of Mencius, was the Yan State eating pot pulp to welcome the Qi army. The subjects of Yan surrendered one after another and did not resist, and in less than fifty days, the Qi army broke through Jicheng, the capital of Yan State, and killed the king of Yan and Zizhi.

I thought that the Qi State would set up a new Yan King, harvest the treasures, land, and favor of the Yan Kingdom, and determine the status of the overlord of the world with the power of great victory.

As a result, all the people in the world fell to the ground, and they were all stunned by the big gesture of the Qi State, and the Qi State did not set up another Yan King, but completely occupied the Yan Kingdom, and there was a great posture of swallowing the Yan Kingdom.

This move shocked the world, there has never been a precedent for one great power to annex another, and the practice of each country towards other great powers is to only weaken and not destroy the state, otherwise the Qin State would have been destroyed by the Wei State long ago.

Maybe it should be because King Qi Xuan and Kuang Zhang didn't communicate well, Kuang Zhang just wanted to take a handful of them for Qi Guo in Yan Country and leave, but he didn't expect King Qi Xuan to have such a big appetite and want to swallow Yan Guo in one bite. So the army of Qi State, under Kuang Zhang's intention, was like a devil entering the village, and everything that should be done and what should not be done was done.

For this reason, the people of Yan Kingdom have woken up, and while asking for help from the other five countries, they are connecting everywhere in Yan Kingdom, trying to drive away Qi State, and they don't want to ask God to send God easily, but at this time it is too late to return to heaven and weak, and they are all suppressed by Qi State.

Qi was so powerful, it scared the other five countries stupidly for a while, and the four countries of Zhao, Wei, Han and Chu, which were hostile and bordering Qi, were the first to react, and together they met in Handan, Zhao State, and the three countries of Zhao, Wei and Han stationed heavy troops on the border of Qi State, trying to intervene by force, put pressure on Qi State, and try to make the next Yan king of Qi State withdraw his troops from Yan State.

Faced with the threat of various countries, especially the threat of Chu, an ally who was stronger than himself, King Qi Xuan was afraid.

For this matter, King Qi Xuan specially went to consult Mencius, yes, it was Mencius in Confucius and Mencius.

As a result, Mencius said: "I have heard of an example of being able to command the whole world without occupying seventy li of land, and that is the Shang King Tang. I've never heard of a country that is thousands of miles wide and is always afraid of others..."

Because of Mencius's words in the first half, King Xuan of Qi was greatly inspired, so he was full of confidence for a while, refused the interference of other countries, sent troops to confront Zhao Wei Han, and stationed heavy troops in Yan State, indicating that Qi State has the ability and confidence to annex Yan State.

After this incident, Qi Chu's alliance was on the verge of breaking.

The rupture of the relationship between Qi and Chu was the most unlucky for Qu Yuan, although the matter of forming an alliance with Qi was unanimously decided by Chu State, but the minister who formed an alliance with Qi State was Qu Yuan.

Because of this incident, almost all the ministers said that Qu Yuan had sold the Chu State, and the Chu State was deceived by the Qi State, so Qu Yuan, who was in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs, was transferred by the King of Chu to the Sanlu Doctor to manage the royal family and nobles of the Chu State.

The turning point on the side of Yan soon appeared, Zhao State, which was surrounded by Qi State from the northeast side, saw that Qi State was determined to swallow Yan State, King Zhao Wuling came up with a way, first befriended Qin State, eased the relationship between the two sides, and then took back the son of Yan State from Korea, and strongly promoted the prince position as King Yan, and this prince position was the famous King Yan Zhao in later generations.

Of course, at this time, Gongzi was just a hostage of Yan Guo in Korea, not even King Yan. But he has an identity, that is, his mother is the daughter of King Qin, and he is the nephew of King Qin. In this way, the Qin State quickly engaged in the fear of being worried and feared that did not concern himself, and became an insider.

As soon as King Qin saw that Zhao Guo wanted to support his nephew to be the King of Yan, Gongzi cried and shouted to his grandfather, wanting to be a grandson and hug Qin Guo's thigh. King Qin immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to gain the support of Yan and fight the arrogance of Qi at the same time, and immediately raised his hands in favor and decided to form an alliance with Zhao, Wei and Han to send troops to attack Qi.

However, if Qin wants to send troops to Qi, it must first solve a trouble, that is, Chu State, which is still allied with Qi, Chu State does not withdraw troops from the front line, and Qin State does not dare to send troops to attack Qi, so as not to be copied from the back road.

At this time, the State of Chu was already very dissatisfied with the State of Qi, and he sent troops to fight hard with the State of Qin, and resisted the pressure of the State of Qin with his own strength, only getting a piece of curved land, and the State of Qi easily swallowed the State of Yan.

This gain is completely disproportionate to the pay, and Chu Guo's heart is unbalanced.

Moreover, after the Qi State swallowed the Yan State, its strength jumped to become the most powerful country in the world, and in terms of the degree of threat, it far surpassed the Qin State, and Zhao Wei, Han, Chu, and Song Yue faced the huge pressure of the Qi State and had to find ways to weaken the Qi State.

The State of Qi became the target of public criticism for a while, attracting the hatred of the world.