Back in early October, when Meng Zhong stayed in Yecheng and had a drink with Zhai Zhang, Tang Zhi and others, Tian Wen had already returned to Daliang one step ahead of him, and conveyed Zhao's attitude to Wei Wangyun, that is, Zhao's attitude on the two matters of "Qin-Qi Mutual Emperor" and "Three Jin Alliance".

In the matter of the mutual emperor of Qin and Qi, Zhao promised to stand on the side of Wei, which made Wei Wangyun very happy, which is why Wei Wangjun and the Korean monarch Han Wangji entered the Zhao court before and after, but Zhao's request for the "Three Jin Alliance" made Wei Wangjun feel quite embarrassed.

I have to say that since King Wei Hui, Wei has gradually begun to weaken, and no longer has the domineering and confidence that swept the Central Plains before, coupled with the fact that it lost in the confrontation with Qin again and again, so that Wei also began to reconsider the issue of the alliance of the Three Jins, but unfortunately because of the relationship between Zhao's father, the Zhao State became stronger and stronger and gradually overtook the Wei State, and the Wei State refused to let go of the face of the old overlord and succumbed to the Zhao State, so that the proposal of the Three Jin Dynasty alliance was just a flash in the pan at that time.

But as far as Wei Wangjun is concerned, he very much hopes to re-conclude the alliance between the three Jin Dynasty, after all, it is really very difficult for him and Wei and Han to fight against Qin, but this time the conditions proposed by Zhao Guo made Wei Wangjun feel embarrassed.

Return Meng Zhong?

Leaving aside the question of whether the word "return" is used accurately, how could Wei give up a commander like Meng Zhong who was good at leading troops to fight?

A good general is worth 100,000 elite soldiers, this proverb is not just a metaphor for Meng Zhong!

If there was no Meng Zhong, Wei would not have been able to win the battle of Yique that year, when Wei 50,000 defeated troops and 60,000 or 70,000 troops under the command of Tyrant Kite would most likely be defeated by Bai Qi of Qin, not to mention that Qin then attacked the Hedong of Wei State, it is no exaggeration to say that the appearance of Meng Zhong allowed Wei and Han to avoid great losses, which is also the reason why Wei Wangyun still had to meet the requirements of these two with a smile on his face Although he was softly threatened by Song Wangyan and Hui An, he still had to meet the requirements of these two with a smile on his face to reward Meng Zhong, just because this young general can indeed be used as a defense against Qin. The pillar of the security of the Wei State.

Coupled with the fact that Meng Zhong is currently twenty years old, if nothing else, it is enough to defend Wei against Qin for thirty years, how could Wei Wang Yun give such talents to Zhao State?

Therefore, when he later met with Zhao Wanghe, Wei Wangjun never mentioned the alliance of the Three Jins, because in his opinion, the threat of the Three Jin Alliances to the Qin State was not necessarily worthy of the Qin State's jealousy of Meng Zhong.

Of course, the most important thing is that Wei Wangjun is still a little suspicious of Zhao, thinking that Zhao may still fall to Qi.

During the period when Wei Wangqi and Han Wangqi entered the Zhao Dynasty to meet Zhao Wanghe, Meng Zhong returned to the Yeyi area from Yecheng.

At this time, the edict of Wei Wangjun has been issued throughout the country, and the Wei people of the whole country have learned that Wei Wangjun canonized Fangcheng and made Meng Zhong the king of Yuncheng, and gave Yuncheng to Meng Zhong as a fiefdom.

After all, the twenty-year-old feudal monarch still has the three feudal towns of Yeyi, Wuyang, and Yuncheng, which is simply unprecedented in the Wei State - even the famous general Wu Qi, who founded the Wei Wushu, he has never received such treatment in the Wei State back then.

As the saying goes, people are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, and King Wei rewarded Meng Zhong with a reward, so that Meng Zhong's name almost spread throughout the Wei country, and it was a household name in the Wei country, and among them, it was inevitable that it would be controversial.

Think about it, there is no shortage of famous generals in the history of the Wei State, Wu Qi, Le Yang, Zhai Huang, Gongsun Yan, Gongsun Xi, Zhai Zhang, are all courtiers who have made great contributions to the Wei State, but the personal rewards that these famous generals finally received are not as many as today's young general named Meng Zhong, how can this not cause controversy?

After learning of the controversy among the people, the Xihe Confucian sect immediately came forward and spread Meng Zhong's teacher to the country, and when he learned that the young general's teacher was actually Zhuangzi, Huizi, and Mencius, the three sages, all doubts turned into amazement.

It's no wonder, first of all, Huizi, that is, Hui Shi, although he was born in the Song State, but his reputation in the Wei State is no less than Li Kui, Zhai Huang and other famous ministers of the Wei State, which sounds very strange, after all, Hui Shi's political achievements in the Wei State are actually far inferior to Li Kui, Zhai Huang and others, but don't forget, the Wei State is because of the Hui Shi opened the altar to teach, attracting talents from all over the world to gather in the Wei State at that time, so that the Wei State became the center of culture at that time.

In a letter to his close friend Zhuangzi, Hui Shi said that he was invincible in the world, which was not a joke but a fact.

Because of this, Hui Shi was extremely famous in the Wei State, far greater than Zhuangzi.

Not to mention Mencius, the head of contemporary Confucianism, no matter which country he goes to, will definitely be regarded as a guest of honor, in contrast, it is actually Zhuangzi who is the least famous - this can not be helped, after all, Zhuangzi's ideas and ideas were indeed too niche at that time, so much so that he was once ridiculed by his close friend Hui Shi for this.

But no matter what, Zhuangzi, Huizi, and Mencius are still the sages of the three schools of Taoism, Ming, and Confucianism, and these three sages jointly taught a disciple, that is, Meng Zhong.

All in all, under the propaganda of Xihe Confucianism, the Wei people recognized Meng Zhong, who was only twenty years old, and looked forward to this young general, hoping that he would be able to protect Wei like Zhai Zhang and Gongsun Xi.

How to say it, although Gongsun Xi was not guaranteed to be in the evening and died in the hands of the previously "unknown" Qin general Bai Qi, he still has a high reputation in the eyes of the Wei people.

After all, Gongsun Xi was in Hedong County before, and it was indeed effective in blocking the Qin State, like Qin State's Qi Rong and Xiang Shou, and he did not get any bargain in the hands of Gongsun Xi before, as for the later defeat of Gongsun Xi in the hands of Bai Qi, it can only be said that on the one hand, Bai Qi is better than Qi Rong, Xiang Shou, and Gongsun Xi, on the other hand, Gongsun Xi was too light at that time, thinking that his opponent was Xiang Shou's soft-footed shrimp, but he didn't know that it was Bai Qi's tiger.

At the end of November, Meng Zhong and Meng Hu braved the wind and snow to return to Yeyi, and then stopped in Yeyi for a while, met with Xiang Yi, Qu Yuan and others, and then went to Fangcheng.

As Meng Zhong thought, although he was not in Fengyi during this time, Fangcheng and Yeyi were still developing as usual, and I have to say that this was thanks to Meng Sui and Xiang Yi.

In the evening of the same day, Meng Zhong, Meng Sui, Meng Hu and other old brothers met at Meng Zhong's house in Wuyangyi, drank wine and ate meat to celebrate.

As a result, as soon as the meat was stewed, guests came to the house, and when Meng Zhong's guards opened the door, they saw Sima Cai Wu, the army stationed in Yuncheng, standing outside the house with a smile on his face.

Cai Wu, an old acquaintance, and everyone didn't see it, so they immediately beckoned Cai Wu to drink together.

When asked about Cai Wu's intention, Cai Wu said with a smile: "Isn't it some time ago that Daliang issued a notice asking me if I want to be transferred to another place, so I said to the envoy that I will stay in Yuncheng......"

As he spoke, he arched his hand towards Meng Zhong and said with a smile: "Yun Chengjun, Cai is not talented, but I still hope to follow Yun Chengjun." ”

Meng Zhong was stunned, and immediately understood what Cai Wu meant.

It turned out that when Yuncheng was given to Meng Zhong as a fief, Cai Wu should have been transferred elsewhere to continue serving as the garrison Sima - considering the current Wei State's jealousy of the Qin State, Cai Wu was actually very likely to be transferred to Hedong County.

However, Cai Wu gave up the transfer, hoping to defect to Meng Zhong's account as a general.

"Cai Sima is too humble."

After hearing Cai Wu's words, Meng Zhong hurriedly welcomed.

To be honest, Cai Wu is not a very good general, to put it mildly, it is actually mediocre, but no matter how you say it, this is also a military Sima who has been in office for nearly ten years, and he is so experienced that it is naturally an excellent thing to be followed by such a veteran.

Who thinks they have more people available to them?

After Meng Zhong, Meng Sui, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, Le Jin and others also expressed their goodwill, especially Meng Hu, who hooked Cai Wu's neck and smiled: "I said Lao Cai, we are really our own people now." ”

Cai Wu couldn't laugh or cry about this, after all, in terms of age, he was more than enough to be Menghu's father.

The next day, led by Meng Sui and Xiang Yu, they chatted with Meng Zhong and Cai Wu about Yuncheng.

Different from Fangcheng, Yeyi, and Wuyang, Yuncheng is an almost perfect city, and the scale and population have also reached the category of Dayi, although it is not comparable to Taoyi, Anyi, Handan, Linzi and other big cities, but it is not comparable to Fangcheng and Yeyi - of course, this refers to the former Yeyi, after all, the current Yeyi, there are hundreds of thousands of people from the six counties of Chu State, and there are really few cities in the world that can exceed this population size.

During the discussion, Xiang Yi took the lead in speaking: "To be honest, I Yeyi really can't afford more than 100,000 Yi people, and now that Ah Zhong has obtained Yuncheng as a fief, I think it is best to move some of them to Yuncheng......"

Meng Zhong nodded slightly when he heard this.

To tell the truth, with the scale of Yeyi's development, he actually couldn't afford more than 100,000 Yi people, but there was no way before, so he had to let those 100,000 people squeeze into Yeyi, after all, it was Meng Zhong's dictatorship to contain those Chu people at that time, in fact, several neighboring counties were unwilling to accept it, and Meng Zhong was not good at forcibly stuffing it.

For example, Yuncheng, although he had transported grain to Yeyi on credit many times before to alleviate the food crisis in Yeyi, Yuncheng was also unwilling to accept those refugees who defected from Chu State, even if these people changed their words to claim to be Yeyi people.

But now Yuncheng has become Meng Zhong's fiefdom, and this city is now naturally Meng Zhong's final say.

After thinking about it, Meng Zhong said to Xiang Yu: "This matter ...... Take your time, the people of Chu poured into Yeyi back then, which made the locals of Yeyi very resistant, and the people of Yuncheng were far above Yeyi at that time, so I don't want any disputes to happen. In this way, you will come to Yuncheng in a few days......"

Saying that, Meng Zhong turned his head and asked Cai Wudao: "Lao Cai, the commander of Du County in Yuncheng ......"

In view of the fact that Cai Wu is now Meng Zhong's subordinate, at Cai Wu's insistence, Meng Zhong learned Meng Hu's name for Cai Wu and called Cai Wu Lao Cai, which not only followed the etiquette of respect and humility, but also was polite and close.

Of course, Cai Wu understood what Meng Zhong meant, and said with a smile: "I talked to Du Su about this, he has been a county magistrate in Yuncheng for more than ten years, longer than my years, and in fact, he also wants to stay in the local area, but because he is not familiar with Yuncheng Jun, he is embarrassed to mention it, I am thick-skinned, so I came to explore the wind......

Because he was very familiar with Meng Zhong and others, he said it all.

"It's better that way." Meng Zhong said with a smile: "Du Xianling has been in Yuncheng for more than ten years, so he naturally knows the folk customs of Yuncheng best, Xiang Yi, you will talk to Du Xianling about this matter when you turn around......"

"Hmm." Xiang Yu nodded.

From the side, Cai Wu said tentatively: "Does Yunchengjun still plan to let Du Su continue to serve as the county commander?" ”

As if he had guessed Cai Wu's thoughts, Meng Zhong asked with a smile: "Lao Cai, how many of us do you think are able to honestly govern the county?" ”

Cai Wu blinked and thought about it carefully, and then his expression became strange.

Indeed, Meng Zhong and his group of brothers are all excellent generals, and they are very good at training and leading troops, but when it comes to governing the county, to be honest, almost no one is really competent-to be exact, it's not that they are incompetent, the main thing is that they can't bear it.

For example, Hua Hu has the ability to serve as a county commander, but the problem is that Hua Hu is unwilling, as a brave general who is no less than Menghu in the Fangcheng army, do you want him to take a group of people to reclaim the fields?

Not negotiable!

On the contrary, the big brother Wu Ying can persuade and persuade, but he is afraid that Wu Ying's deputy general Wei Xu will be angry about this.

If you think about it carefully, let the generals who can lead the troops to fight the war be responsible for cultivating the land and governing the people, it cannot be said that it is overkill, it can only be said that it cannot do its best.

What's more, Meng Zhong's current fiefdom is not so large that the brothers must be stationed in one place, at most, there is only one left in Fangcheng and one in Yuncheng.

Fangcheng's side is now managed by Meng Sui, and considering that Meng Sui has done a good job during this time, Meng Zhong intends to officially transfer Fangcheng to Meng Sui for management.

The only problem was that Fang Cheng was not Meng Zhong's fiefdom, so Meng Zhong could not transfer the position of Fang Cheng Ling to Meng Sui without authorization, so he decided to ask Da Liang to play after the New Year and recommend Meng Sui to be Fang Cheng Ling.

It's not that Meng Zhong has now become the king of Yuncheng, and he suspects that Fang Chengling's official position is small, he mainly takes into account the current situation, after all, although the Qin and Qi Emperors are in this matter, the relationship between the countries in the Central Plains will inevitably undergo earth-shaking changes, in order to cater to the general trend of the world, Meng Zhong can't be tied to Fangcheng, right?

Fangcheng is too remote, and Daliang is the power center of Wei.

As for another reason, that is, to bring their own brothers, just like Gongsun Yan and Gongsun Xi back then, as the so-called fighting tiger brothers and fathers and sons, in this year, brothers and sisters are naturally the most trustworthy.

When mentioning Yuncheng's side, Meng Zhong paused slightly, during which Meng Sui and Xiang Yi also looked at Cai Wu intentionally or unintentionally.

Seeing this, Cai Wu immediately patted his chest and said: "Yunchengjun, Lao Cai, I don't have the ability, I just want to be able to eat under Yunchengjun, I also think what Xiang Yicheng said is very reasonable, considering that the Qin State had used the Chu State to sneak attack Yuncheng, I also think that Yuncheng needs to send a brave person to guard it......"

Seeing Cai Wu cooperating like this, Meng Zhong naturally would not treat this veteran who was willing to follow him badly, and said with a smile: "In this way, I will transfer Wu Ying to Yuncheng and give Lao Cai you as a Zuo Sima ......"

Hearing this, Cai Wu hurriedly said, "No, no, no, how can this be done?" Let's let Wu Sima be the positive, and I will be the deputy ......"

Meng Zhong said with a smile: "Lao Cai trusted me to wait before he defected to me, how can I treat you badly?" ”

On the side, Xiang Yu also smiled and said: "Lao Cai, you just accept it, you are the first military Sima to defect to us, if we take your position as Sima, even if you are relegated to Zuo Sima, who will dare to defect to us in the future?" ”

"That'...... That's a shame to be underneath. Cai Wu said with a smile.

Xiang Yu and Meng Sui glanced at each other, smiled and said nothing.

Is it true that Cai Wu defected to Meng Zhong without any selfishness? How can it be!

Although Cai Wu is not very good at leading troops to fight, how can he say that he is also a person who has been a military Sima for nearly ten years, how can he do anything that harms his own interests? Even if he really admires Meng Zhong.

To put it bluntly, Cai Wu defected to Meng Zhong because he saw that Meng Zhong would not remove him from his position as military commander.

And for this matter, Meng Zhong, Meng Sui, and Xiang Yi all know it, but they will not debunk it, after all, just a few of their brothers plus Mengyi's children, can not support the entire "Mengjia army", in order to make this army grow stronger and stronger, of course they have to continue to recruit talents, how can they lose their reputation because they favor their own brothers?

What's more, Meng Sui, Xiang Yi and others don't believe that Meng Zhong's achievements stop at Yun Chengjun, in their opinion, it is only a matter of time before Meng Zhong succeeds the Great Sima Zhai Zhang, and when Meng Zhong succeeds Zhai Zhang as the Great Sima, the brothers are still afraid that they will not get the opportunity to be promoted?

How can it be!

I'm afraid that when the time comes, the brothers will each guard one side, and it will be rare to see each other a few times throughout the year, which is worth considering.

After the general discussion, Meng Zhong took Cai Wu and told Wu Ying about it.

As the eldest brother among the brothers, Wu Ying's state of mind is worthy of his identity as a Taoist disciple, to put it bluntly, he doesn't care about fame and fortune, even the army under his command, he is now lost to Wei Xu for training, whether it is Sima of the Yuncheng Army, Zuo Sima, Wu Ying really doesn't care.

Not to mention that Cai Wu is more than twenty years older than Wu Ying, even if Cai Wu continues to serve as a military commander, how many years can he serve?

However, Wu Ying's Zuo Sima Wei Xu was a little dissatisfied with this, but because Cai Wu was also familiar with them, and Cai Wu was also sleek and knew how to save face for Wu Ying and Wei Xu, Wei Xu was not good at having any disputes with Cai Wu over this matter.

All in all, the Wuying Army was transferred from Fangcheng to Yuncheng, merged with the army under Cai Wu, and after the reorganization, it was renamed the Yuncheng Army, with Cai Wu as the military Sima, and Wuying as the name Zuo Sima, as for the general affairs in the army, it was mainly in charge of Wei Xu, a fierce general.

At the same time, Mu Wu and the cavalry under his command were also reassigned to the Yuncheng Army and renamed the Yuncheng Warriors.

The reorganization of the Yuncheng army and the relocation of the Yuncheng military cavalry have significantly improved the strength of the Yuncheng army, greatly strengthened the control of Yuncheng over the county, and will not again have the embarrassing situation that the Qin cavalry entered the territory but the county army was helpless.

In the next year, it is the sixth year of the reign of King Wei.

At the end of the first month, when Meng Zhong was celebrating the New Year with his family and paying attention to the rectification of the Yuncheng army, Sima Zhai Zhang, the great of Wei, sent a letter to him, telling him that Qi had abolished the title of "Eastern Emperor" on its own, and called on all countries to crusade against Qin under the pretext of calling Qin "Western Emperor".

In addition, Zhai Zhang also reminded Meng Zhong in the letter that at present, Li Dui, the Fengyang Jun of Zhao, is trying to organize a coalition of various countries to crusade against Qin, and once the time is ripe, Meng Zhong will participate in this war against Qin as the representative of his Wei State.

Seeing this letter, Meng Zhong frowned slightly.

『…… Obviously, it was the Qi State that first called on all the countries to jointly crusade against the Qin State, why was it the Fengyang Jun Li Dui of the Zhao State who was finally appointed as the commander of the coalition army? Wei and Han are also counted, and Qi ...... I don't have any opinion on that?'

After thinking about it carefully, Meng Zhong felt that Qi Guo's recent behavior was a little weird, and the weirdness made him feel a little uneasy.