Six months, "Master, could it be that Zhao Guo is behind my back, and Song State is attacking Teng State?" ”

Ten days later, when Meng Zhong was busy with the spring planting at home with the help of his companions, he returned to Zhuangziju and asked Zhuangzi Dao like this.

Zhuangzi was very surprised when he heard this.

"How so?" Zhuangzi borrowed a bamboo plaque to ask Meng Zhongdao.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong explained: "As far as the students know, Teng is only a small country, and its capital "Tengcheng" is far less rich than Dingtao, Shangqiu, and Pengcheng in my Song Kingdom. Therefore, the students believe that the Song king's capture of Teng may have been to threaten Qilu, and even to attack Xue Yi of Qi later. Although the King of Song claimed that my Song Kingdom was the "Five Thousand Times Power Song", the students heard that our Song Kingdom was still not enough to compete with the Qi State, and I thought that the King of Song would not have the luxury of competing with the Qi State. He didn't want to compete with the Qi State, but he wanted to enter the Teng State to threaten the Qi State, and the students thought that the King of Song might secretly have a private alliance with the Qin State. …… If this is really the case, then among the three Jin Dynasty, there must be a country secretly contacting Qin and Song, and this country can only be the Zhao State, which has always been guilty of not committing crimes with Song. ”

Listening to Meng Zhong's coherent analysis, Zhuangzi was surprised in his heart.

In fact, in March of this year, Zhuangzi had already received a letter from his close friend Hui Shi's nephew, Hui An, who told many things that were not known to outsiders.

For example, "Qiu He", who replaced him as the current minister of the Song State, was sent by the Zhao State, and during this period, the Song King also sent a scholar named "Tian Buyu" to the Zhao State, who has now become the former crown prince of the Zhao State and an important minister next to the current "Anyang Jun Zhao Zhang", serving as the minister of the province in Zhao Zhang's feudal "Daiyi (Daijun)".

From this, Zhuangzi learned that behind the "Qiu He into the Song Dynasty" and "Tian Buyu into Zhao", it was like a transaction between Zhao Yong, the monarch of Zhao, and Song Wangyan, the monarch of Song, and the two countries of Zhao and Song took advantage of this incident to form an alliance in private.

Song and Zhao secretly formed an alliance, of course, it is beneficial to the Song State, after all, the Song State at this moment is hated by the Qi State, the Chu State, and the Wei State, and even South Korea is eyeing the Song State, in this situation surrounded by strong enemies, the Song State urgently needs a strong ally, and the Zhao State, that is, after the monarch Zhao Yong succeeded to the throne more than 20 years ago, it rose rapidly, gradually replacing the position of Wei in the Three Jin Dynasty and becoming the most powerful country in the Three Jin Dynasty.

Being able to secretly form an alliance with such a powerful country is of course beneficial to the Song State.

In the letter, Hui Ang said that he himself also supported the "Zhao and Song Alliance" and did not contradict giving up the position of prime minister to the person named Qiu He.

The only thing he objected to was Qiu He's instigation of the Song king to attack Teng, so that Song's power could cross the "South Lake" and threaten Qi—apparently, Zhao wanted Song to become stronger in order to attract Qi's attention.

"Zhao Guo is not a good person!"

In his letter, Whey emphasized this point.

Slightly different from the world pattern guessed by Meng Zhong, in the eyes of important ministers around Song Wangyan such as Hui An, the current world pattern is not the "Qi, Chu, Wei and Han" four kingdoms against the "Qin, Zhao and Song" three kingdoms, but the "Qi, Chu, Wei and Han" four kingdoms against the "Qin, Zhao, Song and Yan" four kingdoms.

Why did the Yan Kingdom join the camp of "Qin, Zhao and Song"?

Because Yan and Qi have enmity!

Back more than ten years ago, just after Sun Yan, the prime minister of Wei, organized the world-renowned event of "Seven Kingdoms Joining Forces to Conquer Qin", civil strife broke out in Yan State.

The cause of this incident lies in the fact that "Yan Wang" and the minister of Yan at that time "Zizhi".

Yan Wang Hao was a "good virtuous" and "benevolent" monarch, although he was not a wise monarch who governed the country, but he was a generous monarch, and hoped to get a good reputation, he listened to the advice of Su Qin's younger brother Su Dai during his reign, and trusted the prince of the country.

During this period, the scholar doctor "Lu Mao Shou" of Yan Kingdom said to Yan Wang, you might as well give the country to the prime minister. The reason why people call Daoyao a sage is because he gave the world to Xu You, but Xu You did not accept it, so Yao has the reputation of making the world but actually did not lose the world. If you give up the country to your son now, and one of your sons will not dare to accept it, it shows that you and Yao have the same noble character.

King Yan felt that it was very reasonable, so he handed over the power of Yan to the minister of the country, but this move laid a curse for Yan Guo.

Zizhi Dynasty Yan Wang governed the country for three years, Yan Wang's prince "Ping" and the general "City" raised troops to seize power, although it was finally suppressed by Zizhi, but it also aroused the covetousness of Qi State, Qi Xuan King took the opportunity to send troops to attack Yan State, and captured the entire Yan State in just 50 days, and also had Yan Wang Xu and the country's prime minister Zizhi died in the chaos of the army.

Due to the killing and looting of the Qi army when it invaded the Yan State, the Yan people spontaneously resisted the Qi army.

At this time, Yan Wang Xu also had a son "Zhi" as a hostage in Korea, when Zhao Yong, the monarch of Zhao State, learned that Yan Wang Xu and Prince Ping both died in civil strife, he sent someone to persuade South Korea to escort "Yan Gongzi Zhi" back to Yan State to succeed to the throne, that is, the current monarch of Yan State, that is, Yan Wangzhi.

After all, even though all the people of Yan resisted Qi, the army of Qi still refused to withdraw from Yan until the joint opposition of the Central Plains countries led by Zhao State, the Qi army reluctantly withdrew from the territory of Yan State.

Therefore, the Yan prince is close to the people of Zhao and hates Qi.

Therefore, it is natural that Yan will join the camp of Zhao State.

And why did Qin go with Zhao Guo? The reason is very simple, after King Qin Wu succeeded to the throne, his younger brother Yingji was a proton in Yan Kingdom, and no one expected that King Qin Wu, who was only in his twenties, would be idle and have nothing to do to compete with Hercules to win the crown, and what is even more incredible is that he died because of this.

As soon as King Wu of Qin died, because the former had not left an heir, it caused civil strife in the Qin State, and the Empress Dowager Xuan wanted to set up "Gongzi Fu", and Hui Wenhou wanted to set up "Gongzi Zhuang", and at this time, Zhao Yong, the monarch of Zhao State, strongly interfered in Qin's internal affairs and supported the "Gongzi Ji" who was far away in Yan State as a proton.

The Qin State did not want to offend the Zhao State because of this matter, so as not to have a situation of internal and external troubles, so he agreed with Zhao Yong's opinion and welcomed the "Gongzi Ji", that is, the current Qin Wang Yingji (Qin Zhao Wang).

After this incident, the three kingdoms of "Qin, Zhao and Yan" secretly formed an alliance, and the Song State was actually a country that joined this camp after the Yan State.

Therefore, whether it is the Song State or the Yan State, they are all used to contain the Qi State in the "Qin and Zhao Camp", who made the Qi State the leader of the "Qi, Chu, Wei and Han" Four-Power Alliance, and it is the only two strongest countries today.

As for the alliance of the four kingdoms of "Qin, Zhao, Yan and Song", Zhuangzi only learned about it after reading Hui An's letters, but his disciple Meng Zhong was able to guess the alliance of the three kingdoms of "Qin, Zhao and Song" with almost no reliable sources, which made Zhuangzi have to be surprised, and felt that this son's ability to see things is really rare in the world.

But in the end, Zhuangzi still did not tell his disciple what he had learned, and he did not want this disciple to be distracted by worldly disputes, so that he delayed his studies and the pursuit of the Great Dao.

"It's not something you need to care about."

Zhuangzi used a bamboo plaque to admonish his disciples.

At this time, Meng Zhong already knew Zhuangzi's character very well, and knew that this master could not lie and did not disdain to lie, since he interrupted the topic he raised so bluntly, it meant that this master actually knew something about the world's affairs, but for some reason he refused to tell him.

In this case, Meng Zhong could only hide his doubts in his heart.

Six months have passed in a blink of an eye, and in the blink of an eye, it is around October.

During this period, Meng Hu often came to visit him and Meng Sui in Zhuangziju, and by the way, he told Meng Zhong about Meng Bo.

According to the news that Meng Hu heard, his Song army had broken through the "South Lake" at this time and invaded the territory of Teng.

After learning about this, Meng Zhong also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, after all, in his opinion, the only advantage of Teng was its geographical advantage, and it had "South Lake" as a natural barrier to resist the Song army, as long as this barrier was breached, Teng might not be far from destroying the country.

Since Meng Hu's father, Meng Qing, was the Sima of the Meng clan, and his uncle Meng Zhi was Meng Qing's assistant, Meng Hu certainly had channels to learn things that outsiders did not know, for example, Meng Hu secretly told Meng Zhong that Meng Zhong's brother Meng Bo had killed four Teng soldiers on the battlefield so far.

When he heard the news, Meng Zhong was really stunned for a moment.

Because in his impression, his brother Meng Bo is a very honest and honest person, it is difficult to imagine that such an honest and honest person will take the lives of others on the battlefield - although Meng Zhong also understands that this is an inevitability that no one can escape, but he is still a little uncomfortable.

But no matter what, from a selfish point of view, Meng Zhong of course still preferred that his brother could kill the enemy soldiers and survive, although he also understood the preciousness of life, but in the end, relatives and relatives were different.

Now that he learned that the army of the Song State was progressing smoothly and that his brother Meng Bo was also safe and sound, Meng Zhong's heart that had been raised during this period gradually relaxed.

In mid-September, the grain in the fields outside Zhuangzi's residence was nearing maturity, attracting many birds to peck at them, which made Hua Hu, Mu Wu and others very angry, and waved bamboo poles to drive away the birds, but Zhuangzi stopped them.

Zhuangzi admonished his disciples on the bamboo plaque: Under the way of heaven, everything has its own laws, although the birds peck at the unripe grains, but also by the way, the insects in the field are pecked together; If the birds are driven away, the pests in the field will eat up the crops.

The disciples felt that Zhuangzi's admonition was very reasonable, and they stopped driving away the birds in the field.

Half a month later, that is, in the autumn harvest season, Meng Zhong and his disciples harvested the grains in the fields outside Zhuangziju, and then helped Meng Zhong's family harvest the fields.

It is worth mentioning that during this period, Meng Hu secretly stuffed a package into Meng Zhong's hand.

"This is a letter sent by Brother Meng Bo to my uncle (Meng Zhi), who specially instructed me, saying that it was Brother Meng Bo's original words, these letters must not be seen by my aunt, so as not to worry my aunt."

"Brother's letter?"

Looking at the package in his hand, Meng Zhong was very puzzled.