Chapter 2 The Pattern of Qi Chu
Palace of the King of Qi.
At this time, the young Qi Wang Tian Pijiang was sitting on the steps of the palace hall, and as soon as he yawned, he heard a report from the attendants outside:
"King, the secret agent of my Qi State stationed in Wei State has now come to the outside of the palace to wait for him!"
Tian Bijiang waved his hand:
"Let it in!"
After a while, a spy with thief eyebrows and rat eyes slowly stepped into the main hall, and knelt down after coming to Tian Pijiang.
Tian Bijiang glanced at the spy:
"Get up and talk!"
The spy stood up, stretched his throat, and began to report:
"Qi my king, the minister learned from the Wei State that this time the five kingdoms jointly attacked Qin is a foregone conclusion, and Sun Yan, the prime minister of the five countries, has gone to the Han capital Xinzheng to make the final deployment."
Tian Bijiang waved his hand:
"This king knows, you go down, go down!"
After the spies left, Tian Pijiang immediately stood up and began to walk around the palace.
After a while, the eunuch came to report again:
"Enlighten my king, the old general Tian Ji will meet you!"
At this time, an old general, wearing armor and carrying a pair of crutches, walked slowly into the main hall.
Tian Bijiang ran over very excitedly, personally supported the old general Tian Ji, and then asked:
"Old general, why do you suddenly have time to see this king today?"
This old general is Tian Ji, the general who once helped King Qi Wei, the father of Tian Pijiang, achieve the hegemony of Qi State.
Tian Ji sighed and said:
"Alas...... The minister is old, old, and he almost couldn't get up the steps of this palace outside the palace just now! ”
After Tian Bijiang helped Tian Ji to sit down on a chair that the waiter had just moved, he asked:
"Presumably, the old general, you have worked so hard to come here today, there must be something important, right?"
Tian Ji replied:
"Lao Chen is still the general of my Qi country, of course he can't ignore the affairs of my Qi country? I came today to hear that the five kingdoms of Wei, Zhao, Han, Chu, and Yan are going to join forces to attack Qin! ”
Tian Bijiang smiled lightly:
"It turns out that the general has also received the news, in fact, this king is also weighing this matter just now!"
Tian Ji glanced at Tian Bijiang:
"Could it be that the king is worried?"
Tian Bijiang replied:
"Although this matter has nothing to do with my Qi country on the surface, now this king is worried that if the five kingdoms succeed in attacking Qin this time, Chu and Wei will become stronger and stronger, which will be very disadvantageous to my Qi. If the attack on Qin fails, then Qin is strong and Han Wei is weak, Qin is known as a wolf, and will never be willing to just devour the territory of Han Wei, so this king has always wanted to find someone to discuss, but he doesn't know who to find, it just so happens that the old general is here! ”
Tian Ji stroked his long beard, which had already turned white, with his hand:
"King, what you said is right, judging from my experience in Chu for several years, although Xiong Huai, the king of Chu, has great ambitions, but he is easy to believe in his words, regardless of right and wrong, so he is not the master, so the old minister feels that the state of Chu will decline under his rule, Qin Chu has always been good for Qin and Jin before, this time Xiong Huai is actually willing to be the captain of the Qin column, it seems that it is impossible for this Qin and Jin to be good in the future."
Tian Bijiang was suddenly overjoyed:
"According to the old general's intentions, could it be that our Qi country has a chance to recapture the land of Huaisi occupied by Chu?"
Tian Ji nodded:
"Yes, but it all depends on the result of this expedition against Qin, the old minister thinks that in fact, if the five kingdoms fail to attack Qin this time, the benefits to my Qi country will outweigh the disadvantages!"
Tian Bijiang said very approvingly:
"This king thinks the same way, it seems that this time our Qi country has to be prepared."
Tian Ji nodded:
"Then the king, hurry up and prepare to deploy soldiers and horses on the border between Huaisi and Wei and Zhao!"
田比江 says:
"This king and the old general have the same idea, then let's preside over the court meeting together tomorrow!"
Tian Ji asked:
"My lord, I heard that you have not looked at the court for a few days? And every day in the harem, he doesn't deal with any domestic affairs? ”
After Tian Bijiang smiled, he replied:
"Isn't this king learning from the King of Chuzhuang back then? Tomorrow, this king will start to soar into the sky, let all these people who underestimate this king see the true strength of this king! ”
Chu State, Yingdu Palace.
At this time, Xiong Huai, the king of Chu, proudly invited the envoys of the five countries, as well as the clansmen of the four clans of Zhao, Qu, Jing and Zhuang, as well as the important ministers of the court, to feast and celebrate in the palace.
Why is it celebrated, firstly, it is to celebrate that the King of Chu has newly crowned a beautiful and talented concubine Zheng Sleeve, and secondly, it is to celebrate that the King of Chu has become the captain of the column of the Five Kingdoms to attack Qin this time.
The beauty of Zheng Sleeve has already spread to various countries, and now it has been obtained by the King of Chu, and the King of Chu is naturally like a treasure.
I saw Xiong Huai, the king of Chu, at this time, holding Zheng Sleeve's waist with one hand and holding a wine glass with the other, and toasted to the envoys of various countries in the audience:
"I know that all the envoys have come all the way to our Chu State Yingdu to participate in this celebration meeting held by my Great Chu State, and it has been very hard all the way, so this king also gives you a glass as the hero."
Just as he was waiting for the King of Chu to enter the cup, suddenly three Qin envoys broke into the main hall, and when he saw the Queen of Chu, he said loudly in an accusing tone of the King of Chu:
"I, Qin and Chu, have always been in-laws, and your Chu State has indiscriminately invaded our Qin State with the other four countries and Yiqu this time, I wonder if the King of Chu can inform the envoy if this matter is true?"
This sentence directly made Xiong Huai stunned, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
And a handsome man sitting in the seat under the stage immediately stood up, pointed at the three Qin envoys and said:
"My king didn't invite you Qin envoys to come to this celebration now, please trouble the three Qin envoys!"
He made a gesture to invite the three of them out.
The Qin envoy looked at the concubine Zheng Sleeve who was holding in the arms of the king of Chu, Xiong Huai, ignored the man's words just now to drive a few of his people out, and said to the king of Chu:
"It is not easy for our Qin and Chu to be friends for a hundred years, and when your ancestor King Zhao was alive, even the country was occupied by the Wu State, without the assistance of our Qin State, I am afraid that your Chu State has long ceased to exist, and your Chu State now wants to take revenge on our Qin State General?"
The Wei envoy in the audience first stood up and accused the Qin envoy:
"You used Zhang Yi to deceive my Great Wei and occupy hundreds of miles of fertile land from the west of the Hexi River to the east of the Hedong of my Wei State, and you want to deceive the King of Chu today?"
The Qin envoy refuted the Wei envoy:
"Isn't it a joke that your own Wei State is weak, King Wei Hui is mediocre, and you have lost to our Qin State in several battles, and now you are actually putting the blame on Mr. Zhang Yi?"
After speaking, he laughed at the Wei envoy.
Han Envoy also stood up at this time and said:
"The ambition of your wolf son of the Qin State is well known to the world, and you actually want to sabotage our Five Kingdoms' attack on Qin, you are really brazen!"
The Qin envoy was a little at a loss at this time, and immediately shifted his attention to the king of Chu:
"King Chu, this second envoy of Wei and Han is obviously sabotaging our century-old diplomatic relations between Qin and Chu, and please King Chu, you can distinguish between right and wrong!"
Xiong Huai also reacted at this time, and glanced at the envoys of the other five countries, almost like the Qin envoys, they set their eyes on themselves.
Xiong Huai had to prepare to reprimand the Qin envoy, and suddenly Zheng Sleeve picked up a wine glass in his arms and sent it to the mouth of the King of Chu:
"King, you dissipate your anger!"
The King of Chu held back his words after drinking a glass of wine.
The young boy brother before suddenly walked in front of the Qin envoy, pointed his finger at the Qin envoy, and was about to reprimand the Qin envoy, but was said by another official named Jin Shang next to him:
"Lord Zuotu, the Qin envoy is also a guest in our Chu country, and I hope you will respect the Qin envoy more!"
Stopped.
Seeing that some of the offenders were angry, the Qin envoy left a sentence:
"I hope that King Chu, you can think about it, weakening the Qin State will only fuel Han Wei, and then your Chu State will be the next Qin State to suffer from the joint attack of the Five Kingdoms."
After saying that, he walked away.