"What does His Royal Highness King Su mean by this?"

Qi envoy Tian Yu asked with a gloomy face. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He could hear that the king of Wei in front of him was clearly reluctant to send troops to help, or rather, the other party was asking for benefits.

In the face of Qi envoy Tian Yu's questioning, Zhao Hongrun smiled slightly and said, "Don't be in a hurry to get angry first. …… In fact, the three kingdoms of Qi, Lu and Wei invaded Chu, and everyone knows which side will benefit the most from this battle...... To put it irreverently, this king does not want to cause my Great Wei to destroy the current peaceful relations with Chu for the sake of the selfishness of the King of Qi......"

Hearing this, Qi envoy Tian Yu said coldly: "Your Royal Highness King Su, have you forgotten the kindness of my Great Qi to help your country back then?" ”

"Of course not." The smile on Zhao Hongrun's face was closed, and he said righteously: "The love of your country's assistance back then, this king remembered it in his heart, so this king has already deployed heavy troops in the southern border of my Great Wei, a full 80,000 soldiers......"

Qi made Tian Yu suddenly dumbfounded.

Indeed, the Wei State did station heavy troops in Fenchengsai, Yanling, Zhaoling, Shangshui and other places, and the number of troops was as high as 80,000, but this "help" aligned with the country's fart?

However, it was difficult for Qi envoy Tian Yu to refute, because when they Qi came to the aid of Wei, they only threatened Han and Chu on the border between the north and south, and did not directly send troops to help Wei fight Chu.

Since they didn't have it at the beginning, it is naturally difficult to say anything about Zhao Hongrun now.

If that's just the case, then that's fine, after all, Ji Run, the king of Wei, is really a rare genius in the world.

Two years ago, Ji Run could rely on more than 30,000 troops to press Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, who led an army of 160,000, to beat him in the mud; And today, two years later, Ji Run's military power has doubled compared with that year, but Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, only has a new army of about 100,000 people.

However, the key is that the relationship between Ji Run, the Su King of Wei State, and Xiong Tuo, the monarch of Chu Xuancheng, is quite ambiguous!!

Otherwise, Wei obviously had 30,000 Chen soldiers in Shangshui County, but Chen County and Xiangcheng in the territory of Chu Ping Yujun Xiong Hu had almost no troops deployed, and they were almost unfortified.

In this case, as long as the King Su in front of him is willing, he can take the opportunity to defeat most of Chu Xi in the blink of an eye.

But what? There was no movement in Shangshui County.

If there is no ulterior agreement in this, Tian Yu will not believe it.

What made Tian Yu even more concerned was that, according to the news, Shangshui County in Wei and Pingyu County in Chu had fleets to transport materials from time to time.

Does this mean that Ji Run, the king of Su of Wei, and Xiong Tuo, the king of Xucheng, of Chu, have an ulterior cooperative relationship in private?

It is precisely for this reason that Tian Yu, as an envoy of Qi, will visit Wei with the will of Lu Xi, the king of Qi, and let Zhao Hongrun rush directly to Jiangdong with Wei's army, lest he partner with Xiong Tuo to act.

Thinking of this, Qi envoy Tian Yu sneered and said, "It turns out that His Royal Highness King Su has already made arrangements, which is excellent...... But how did Tian hear that King Su and Xiong Tuo have a good relationship? ”

"Nonsense!" Zhao Hongrun opened his eyes and said nonsense.

"Oh?" Qi made Tian Yu squint his eyes, lowered his voice and said: "Tian Mou has heard that there is a whole shipload of grain in Shangshui County, which is transported to Chen County and Xiangcheng......

Zhao Hongrun smiled when he heard this: "The hater in this king's heart is just Xiong Tuo and Xiong Hu, who provoked the war two years ago, what do they have to do with the civilians of Chu State?" …… At that time, the king was young and ignorant, and swept away his belongings and grain in the territory of Chu, causing many civilians in western Chu to suffer from hunger and cold. …… This king thinks that this move can be called the word "benevolence and righteousness", could it be that the envoy thinks that this king's move is inappropriate? ”

Hearing this, Qi made Tian Yu speechless for a moment.

Even if he knew very well that most of the grain was used to prepare for the new army, it was not easy to refute Zhao Hongrun's sentence of "benevolence and righteousness", and the word "benevolence and righteousness" was the face of the Central Plains country and the great righteousness.

After thinking about it, Qi envoy Tian Yu pointed out again: "It is said that there are still some weapons and equipment ......."

"Oh." Zhao Hongrun made a look of sudden realization, and said casually: "That is what this king used to plunge the Chu State into civil strife...... This king heard that after the army of our Great Wei withdrew from the Chu realm, Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, did not dump the civilians in his fiefdom, so he asked people to transport some weapons and sell them to those civilians. With weapons in their hands, civilians may be able to resist Xiong Tuo's tyranny? …… If it goes well, this move is enough to make Xiong Tuo anxious. ”

He casually made it up, anyway, as long as there is no conclusive evidence for this kind of thing, Qi Envoy Tian Yu can't do anything to him.

Taking a step back, even if there is evidence, he Zhao Hongrun and Xiong Tuo both bite the bullet and refuse to admit it, and there is always a way to "explain" it clearly.

However, this kind of rhetoric made Qi make Tian Yu even more convinced that there must be some ulterior secret agreement between Zhao Hongrun and Xiong Tuo.

“…… In short, the king asked King Su to lead 50,000 elites to Jiangdong. Probably because he didn't want to talk nonsense with Zhao Hongrun anymore, Qi made Tian Yu's tone gradually become tougher: "If His Royal Highness King Su violates the agreement, then I have no choice but to inform the world of this matter and let all the people of all countries discuss this matter......"

Hearing this, the smile on Zhao Hongrun's face slowly retracted, only to see him glance at Qi envoy Tian Yu, and asked lightly: "Tian Yun, are you threatening this king and threatening me Dawei?" ”

This sentence sounded like an understatement, but it made Qi make Tian Yu's face change slightly, because he suddenly felt that the temperature in this room seemed to have dropped a lot out of thin air.

He hurriedly explained, but there was still a bit of toughness in his words: "I don't mean this in Xia, I just state the facts." ”

"......" Zhao Hongrun stared at Tian Yu, and after half a sound, he suddenly smiled slightly, and said in an inexplicable tone: "State the facts...... Very well, then this king will also state a fact. …… When the king of Qi Lu Xi died of illness, the princes seized power and led to civil strife, and the state of Chu took advantage of the weakness to enter, and the huge and strong Qi became a third-rate in an instant. ”

Hearing Zhao Hongrun's sentence of 'stating the facts', Qi made Tian Yun's face suddenly turn red, and he saw him glaring at Zhao Hongrun angrily, his fists clenched.

At this time, I heard Zhao Hongrun add lightly: "...... If I were you, I would not offend the allies who could help you through the crisis in the future. ”

"......" Qi envoy Tian Yu glared at Zhao Hongrun angrily, and was about to rise up several times, but finally endured it.

After half a ring, he took a long breath, shook his head and said, "King Su doesn't want to trick me, your country will not sit idly by and watch the Chu State counteract my Great Qi." …… If something happens to me, the situation of your country will not be easy. ”

"Hah!" Zhao Hongrun sneered and said lightly: "In this matter, it is not the turn of the envoy to worry about my Great Wei." ”

To be honest, he was not worried about this matter, because after the death of Lu Xi, the king of Qi, the state of Chu finally lifted the dark clouds that had shrouded their heads for decades, and was bound to raise troops to counterattack the state of Qi.

But was the Qi State so easily defeated by the Chu State?

Of course not!

Qi also has a huge Tian family, as well as Zhao Hongrun, the sixth brother whose talent is not inferior to him, Zhao Hongzhao.

What's more, Wei and Lu will not sit idly by and watch Qi be attacked by Chu, and when the time comes, both sides will exert pressure on Chu and drag Chu back, what strength does Chu have to attack Wei again?

At that time, the most likely thing to happen is that the prince of Zhuchu such as Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, will seize the throne.

If it goes well, at least for five years, neither the Qi State nor the Chu State will think of coming out, and during this precious time, the Wei State will develop by leaps and bounds.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun is not afraid of the Qi State at all, nor is he afraid of the Chu State.

In the face of Zhao Hongrun, who did not eat soft and hard, Qi made Tian Yu feel a little difficult for a while.

He finally understood why those officials of the Ministry of Rites of Wei who he thought were difficult did not discuss with him about sending troops, it was because the young King Su in front of him was even more difficult than those officials of the Ministry of Rites of Wei.

Tian Yu suddenly thought of Ji Zhao (Zhao Hongzhao), the prince of Wei who was now gradually entering the center of power in their Qi country, with a similar youth and similar talent.

Sighing slightly, Qi made Tian Yu's words soften, and muttered: "When I came, Zuo Xiang reminded me that this time your country sent troops, there is a chance that it will fall on the head of His Royal Highness King Su." At the same time, the left minister also reminded him of what kind of character His Royal Highness King Su is......"

"Left Phase? Sixth brother?'

Zhao Hongrun was slightly stunned.

To be honest, he still can't understand why Lu Xi, the king of Qi, promoted Zhao Hongzhao, who was born in the clan of the Wei royal family, to a high position like Zuo Xiang, which is an official position of the State of Qi with greater power than the six Shangshu on the Wei side.

Although Zhao Hongrun was also happy for the sixth brother Zhao Hongzhao, in the final analysis, the hostages of the royal family of one country were listed as high-ranking officials in another country, which was simply unprecedented.

However, Zhao Hongrun's face did not show doubts about this, but said lightly: "The envoy does not plan to deceive this king in the name of the sixth brother of this king, right?" ”

"How dare you." Qi envoy Tian Yu shook his head, and then, he took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Zhao Hongrun respectfully.

"Is it the letter of the king's sixth brother?" Zhao Hongrun looked at Qi envoy Tian Yu suspiciously, but found that the latter smiled and said nothing, as if he was a bamboo in his chest, and he was like two people with Fang Cai's appearance.

Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun took the letter suspiciously, and then opened it and glanced at it roughly.

After only two glances, I saw that he frowned slightly, and his expression became much more solemn.

Because he found that this was not a letter written to him by his sixth brother Zhao Hongzhao, but should have been written by Lü Xu, the king of Qi—that was the price that Lü Xu, the king of Qi, was willing to pay when he asked Wei to send troops to help!

Among those promises, there are two that Zhao Hongrun cares about the most.

First, the king of Qi, Lü Xi, promised to leave the fleet of Qi crossbow warships stationed at the river boundary completely untouched, and handed over his military power to Ji Zhao (Zhao Hongzhao), who was now the left minister.

Second, the king of Qi, Lü Xi, was willing to persuade the monarch of the Lu State to hand over the rubbish of the "Secret Record" that recorded the craftsmanship of the Lu State to the Wei State.

What Wei had to do was to send 50,000 troops to Jiangdong to join the armies of Qi and Lu to form a coalition of up to 300,000, and promised to do everything possible to assist Qi to sanction Chu by force at all costs.

There is no alliance commitment of ten or twenty years, and there is no real silver and silver or anything like that, but these two promises alone are enough to make Zhao Hongrun's heart move.

At this moment, Zhao Hongrun vaguely understood why Lu Xi, the king of Qi, wanted to support Zhao Hongzhao and did not hesitate to hand over all the military power of Qi to the latter.

Because the relationship between Zhao Hongzhao and Wei will replace the current Qi-Wei alliance and become an unbreakable bond between the two countries in the future.

As for the rubbings that record the craftsmanship of the Lu Kingdom, it is a treasure that Zhao Hongrun is difficult to give up, which is far more precious than the most precious treasure in the world, and it is still priceless.

"Ben Wang...... Can't refuse. ”

With a wry smile, Zhao Hongrun put away the letter with a slightly surprised smile from Qi Envoy Tian Yu. (To be continued.) )