Chapter 61 The Eastern Zhou Dynasty Gong Ji Gen
But not long after Tian Wen, Wei Ran and the others went to the direction of the embankment, there were bursts of fighting at the embankment.
At this time, Wei Si hurriedly rushed to the side of the embankment with Su Qin and the remaining more than 200 personal guards, and asked Zilian and the coachman and others to wait for a few of them here.
After approaching the Luoshui embankment, Wei Si found that Tian Wen, Wei Ran and others were leading more than 50 relatives to be besieged by hundreds of soldiers and horses of the Zhou royal family under the embankment.
Wei Si hurriedly led the people to the front and shouted, shouting at these people who were fighting:
"Stop me...... Stop it! ”
At this time, these people stopped one after another, and then a general wearing the uniform of the Zhou royal family came over and glanced at Wei Si:
"Who are you? Did you order someone to open the floodgates here without permission? ”
Su Qin hurriedly walked up to the general, pointed at it, and said angrily:
"Bold fanatic, how dare you speak so boldly to our King Wei?"
The general touched his head and sneered with a slight question:
"What? What did you say? Wei Wang ...... Who is King Wei? Why hasn't General Ben heard of it? ”
As he spoke, he laughed with a group of soldiers not far behind him!
Wei Si directly questioned the general:
"Presumptuous, even if you Zhou Tianzi don't dare to be so contemptuous of this king, I didn't expect your little bandit leader to dare to be so bold, this king asked you, who are you under the Zhou royal family?"
The general seemed to be very unimpressed by King Wei's questioning, but said arrogantly to Wei Si:
"I am the general Qi of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the doctor of the Right Army, even if you are really the King of Wei, what can you do to me? You see, this is the territory of our Eastern Zhou Duke, not your Wei Kingdom! ”
Wei Si was also very angry and said:
"Call your Eastern Zhou Duke to this king!"
The general who called Qi out sneered:
"Is our Eastern Zhou Duke a casual sight that you can see if you want? General Ben told you that our Eastern Zhou Dynasty has the support of King Han and King Zhao, even if you are really the King of Wei, with your status as a bully in Wei now, don't be reckless here, now kneel on the ground immediately, General Ben can also consider letting you go, and not prosecute you for wanting to open the embankment without authorization! ”
Wei Si directly said angrily to the guards behind him:
"Take down all these arrogant people for me!"
The armies on both sides instantly set up their formations and fought, after all, Wei Si's personal guards are the most elite troops of Great Wei, where are these rabble Eastern Zhou armies who are opponents, and they will be defeated after a while, and the general called Qi out saw that he really couldn't beat these well-trained soldiers in front of him, and he also fled directly with the remnants of his troops.
Wei Si also ordered all the people to obey Tian Wen's command to open the embankment, release the water, and then cross the danger by driving a pontoon bridge.
But he didn't go far, and thousands of Eastern Zhou soldiers in front of him surrounded Wei Si's side again.
Su Qin and the others were also a little panicked at this time, and hurriedly asked Wei Si about the countermeasures:
"What shall we do now, King?"
Wei Si replied:
"You don't have to panic, before the widow entered the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, didn't he already send someone to inform the Duke of the Eastern Zhou? Forgive this Eastern Zhou Kingdom and dare not tolerate the widows, otherwise the widows will be able to send people to destroy this small Eastern Zhou Kingdom immediately when they return to Liangdu! ”
After a while, although the thousands of Eastern Zhou soldiers tightly surrounded Wei Si and his entourage, they didn't seem to draw their weapons until an elderly official who was dressed very similarly to the previous Western Zhou Duke slowly walked towards Wei Si.
After walking not far in front of Wei Si's car and looking at the scene ahead, this person suddenly walked over quickly and knelt directly in front of Wei Si's car:
"Gong Ji Gen of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty kneels here to welcome the King of Wei to our Eastern Zhou Kingdom!"
Wei Si was suddenly stunned by the sudden move of the Duke of Eastern Zhou, and he didn't react at once, after all, Wei Si was already ready to let the guards protect themselves and evacuate the idea of opening the Eastern Zhou border.
Zi Lian saw that Wei Si didn't react for a long time, so he walked over to Wei Si and pulled his sleeve:
"King, is the Duke of Eastern Zhou saluting you?"
Wei Sicai reacted, and after calming down a bit, he politely got out of the car and stepped forward to help the Duke of Dongzhou:
"Why do you have to do this great gift, the widow can't afford it, he can't afford it!"
Dong Zhou Gong was a little afraid to get up at this time, and said very excitedly:
"King Wei...... King Wei, I'm Ji Gen...... Ji Gen is guilty, there is no way to discipline his subordinates, and I have disturbed you, King Wei, I really have no shame to see you, King Wei, please give me Ji Gen the death penalty! ”
Seeing this, King Wei did not rush to help up the Eastern Zhou Gong Ji Gen, but asked:
"Isn't that group of arrogant soldiers before sent by you as the Duke of Eastern Zhou?"
Ji Gen hurriedly replied:
"I really don't know anything about this...... I don't know anything, I was still preparing for your arrival in our Eastern Zhou Kingdom, King Wei! ”
At this time, someone escorted the previous general Qi Chu and his group of soldiers to kneel behind Ji Gen.
Wei Si, after thinking about it, still held his breath, and said to the Duke of Eastern Zhou:
"Okay, then the king should go to your Eastern Zhou Kingdom to rest first!"
The Duke of Eastern Zhou hurriedly got up and took Wei Si and the others all the way to Gongcheng, the capital of his country.
After arriving at the palace hall of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Ji Gen, the prince of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, gave up the throne of his palace hall to the king of Wei, arranged a dance and music performance in the palace, and bowed down like a courtier, and personally served tea and water for Wei Si.
After Wei Si took the tea from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty princess, he pointed to a woman in the hall with a bewitching figure and a very exquisite dancer:
"This Maiko is good, not bad!"
The Duke of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty immediately said:
"As long as you like King Wei, I will send her to your bed for King Wei tonight, what do you think?"
Although Wei Si admired this female maiko very much, he didn't have any feelings for him at all, and at this time, Wei Si still had some resentment about the arrogant attitude of the soldiers of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom towards him, so he said to the Duke of Eastern Zhou:
"Duke of Eastern Zhou, although you are higher than this king in the title of Zhou Tianzi, you can't just treat this king as that kind of good king, right? This king is not the king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, you think! ”
Seeing that he was so courteous, Ji Gen, the Duke of Eastern Zhou, made King Wei a little displeased, and hurriedly apologized:
"King Wei, please forgive Ji Gen for the sin of gaffe just now!"
Wei Si naturally didn't expect this Eastern Zhou Gong to be so frightened when he saw him, so he quickly got up and helped it up:
"Duke of Dongzhou, why do you bother? On the official residence, the king should bow to you and kneel, don't you make the king lose his etiquette? ”
Ji Gen got up with Wei Si's support and said:
"King Wei, what etiquette is there in this era, isn't I, the Duke of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, also relying on the support of big countries like you, to be qualified to lead the people here? How dare I hold any title, it is already my greatest honor to be the king and your courtier! ”
Wei Si couldn't help but be amused by the groveling appearance of this Eastern Zhou Duke to himself:
"Haha...... Haha...... I think how majestic it was for Duke Zhou to assist him as the king back then, but I didn't expect that your generation of Duke of Eastern Zhou and Duke of Western Zhou would become like this, it's really ridiculous...... Amusing! ”
Eastern Zhou Gong Ji Gen naturally lowered his head and didn't dare to make a sound on the side.
Wei Si suddenly asked:
"Duke of Eastern Zhou, this king heard that you are the king of Han and the king of Zhao, right?"
The Duke of the Eastern Zhou replied:
"Yes, it is thanks to the support of King Han and King Zhao that I am qualified to be the lord of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty!"
Wei Si asked again:
"Since it was King Han and King Zhao who set you up to be the Duke of Eastern Zhou, why did you say just now that you were willing to be the king's courtier? And you are now an important minister who assists the Son of Heaven, as the saying goes, one minister does not do two masters, are you now thinking about four masters? ”
The Duke of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty immediately made a gesture:
"King Wei, of course not...... Not so! ”
Wei Si looked at this Eastern Zhou Gong and smiled lightly:
"Okay, then the widow wants to hear what you want to do with the Duke of Eastern Zhou?"
Dong Zhou Gong immediately explained:
"If you promise to let the Duke of Zhou and me be your courtier, I, the Duke of Eastern Zhou, will serve the State of Wei wholeheartedly from today onwards and follow the King of Wei!"
At this time, Wei Si also found out that this Eastern Zhou Duke was just a sycophant, could it be that King Han and Zhao Jun would choose him as the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, so he said:
"Then where do you put the Son of Heaven in serving the widow like this?"
The Duke of the Eastern Zhou replied:
"The Son of Heaven doesn't value me this Zhou Gong in the first place, but the Son of Heaven is optimistic about the Ji Dynasty that occupies the royal city, so even if I turn to serve you King Wei in the future, the Son of Heaven will not care! What's more, King Wei, you are the lord of a great country, and you have just won a great victory over Qin, even if the Son of Heaven sees you, he has to grovel, instead of following the Son of Heaven who has lost his majesty, it is better to follow the wise and martial King of Wei, this is the right choice for my Duke of Zhou! ”
Wei Si naturally did not dare to accept the request of the Eastern Zhou Duke easily at this time, after all, the Wei State was not enough at this time, if the Eastern Zhou State was really annexed, then Han and Zhao would definitely raise troops in the name of the Son of Heaven to crusade against themselves, and the three kingdoms of Qi, Qin, and Chu would definitely not watch themselves annex the Eastern Zhou State.
Wei Si had no choice but to refuse the Duke of Eastern Zhou:
"Duke of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the widow thinks that it is very suitable for you to assist the Son of Heaven now, you are a major minister of the Son of Heaven, although the widow is the king of Wei, but he also belongs to the minister of the Son of Heaven, if you offend the Son of Heaven because of your small country of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the widow will feel that the gains outweigh the losses!"
Dong Zhou Gong suddenly said again:
"What if the king of Japan and Korea let us annex the Eastern Zhou Kingdom to Korea?"
Wei Si listened to the words of the Eastern Zhou Duke, and also understood, it turned out that the Eastern Zhou Gong was really not simple, and he must have guessed that he did not dare to accept the words of the Eastern Zhou State into Wei, and now he was testing his idea that the Eastern Zhou State would be annexed by Korea one day, so he replied:
"I think that the Duke of Eastern Zhou, if your country is really favored by the King of Han in the future, it will be very good to enter South Korea, after all, your Eastern Zhou Kingdom is closer to the Han capital Xinzheng than the Great Liang!"
Wei Si deliberately said this, but also in response to the temptation of the Eastern Zhou Duke just now, so that he could not understand his thoughts as the king of Wei, only in this way can the Wei State obtain more benefits here in the Eastern Zhou State in the future.