On June 23, when the news of Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, who had returned to Daliang with his army, was spreading throughout the city of Daliang, Zhao Hongrun was paying attention to a letter. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

A letter written to him by Xiong Xu, the king of Chu.

To be precise, this letter was not directly sent to Zhao Hongrun's Su Wangfu by the envoys of Chu, but passed through the Vertical Arch Hall - Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, wrote a letter to Wei Tianzi, but Wei Tianzi said that it was not written to me after reading the letter, so send it to Wu'er's mansion.

So, the guards sent this letter to Zhao Hongrun.

Xiling Jun Qu Ping...... After all, it will be defeated.

Looking at the content of the letter in his hand, Zhao Hongrun's mood was a little solemn.

A few days ago, Qu Yang, the second son of the Qu clan of Chu State, had returned to Chu State with a disappointed mood.

Because he did not persuade Wei to intervene in the civil war between the Qu clan and the Xiong clan in Chu State, some court officials of Daliang were very unkind and accepted generous gifts from the second son, but they did not help persuade Wei Tianzi at all.

Especially Zhao Hongrun's third emperor brother Xiangwang Hongjing.

According to Zhao Hongrun's knowledge, in order to ask to see Wei Tianzi, Qu Yang gave Xiangwang Hongjing a batch of extremely valuable gifts, but this third emperor brother is good, after Wei Tianzi refused to meet Qu Yang, he actually did not spit out the generous gift and return it to Qu Yang, but poured bitter water in front of the latter, saying how he was driven out of the vertical arch hall by his father, and what kind of crime he suffered, so that Qu Yang was embarrassed to speak again.

Zhao Hongjing suffered in the Vertical Arch Palace?

Just kidding, this guy just went to the Vertical Arch Hall and said to Wei Tianzi: Father, that Qu Yang wants to see you.

At that time, Wei Tianzi said: No.

Zhao Hongjing nodded, said oh, and then he turned around and left.

What pulled Wei Tianzi's robe and knelt on the ground and cried, what was kicked a few times by the angry Wei Tianzi, it was nothing at all.

I have to say that when Zhao Hongrun heard about this, he almost squirted out the tea in his mouth: This Zhao Hongjing is too shameless, right?

But it is undeniable that Zhao Hongjing made a lot of money, and it was extremely easy to earn, which made Zhao Hongrun a little red.

After all, Zhao Hongrun couldn't do such a shameless thing, he had already ordered the guards to return all the things that Qu Yang had sent to the palace, because of this matter, a certain guest of the Su Palace's mansion was angry by the big housekeeper of the palace.

"Wow."

With the sound of brisk footsteps, a thin guard in brocade armor ran into the study from outside the house.

"Hongrun...... Why are you still here? Didn't you say that you were going to the Smelting Bureau today? The thin brocade guard said angrily, probably because she had waited in the front hall for a long time and didn't wait for Zhao Hongrun's relationship.

There is no doubt that this brocade guard is the Princess Yulong who said a few days ago that she would follow Zhao Hongrun to the Smelting Bureau to see and understand.

Zhao Hongrun thought that Princess Yulong's freshness would be dispelled in two days, but he didn't expect that after Princess Yulong saw the latest war weapons developed by the Smelting Bureau at the shooting range of the Smelting Bureau, she was actually fascinated, and regarded the war weapons such as repeaters and sniper crossbows as toys, and had a lot of fun at the shooting range.

The officials of the Smelting Bureau didn't care, after all, they were testing these weapons of war at the shooting range, and it was only to test some data so that they could further improve these weapons of war.

Anyway, they just need to record the data.

As a result, Princess Yulong took up a position in the Smelting Bureau, and became a sampling tester who tested the weapons and weapons of war in the Smelting Bureau.

It is no wonder that today's Smelting Bureau, although it has not yet become the standard of Wei craftsmanship, can be said to be unique in terms of military equipment.

It is undeniable that the weapons used by the Sixth Prince's Uncle Zhao Yuanyan and his guards when hunting are actually military-made weapons, but these Yulong princesses once widened their eyes and exclaimed that such powerful weapons, put here in the Smelting Bureau, are purely eliminated and eliminated.

The Smelting Bureau has become the highest technological representative of the Wei State's military-made weapons and equipment and war weapons.

"What are you looking at?"

Seeing Zhao Hongrun sitting behind the desk looking at a piece of silk, Princess Yulong curiously leaned her head to take a look, only to find that this was not a simple piece of silk, but a letter.

What surprised her even more was that there were two kinds of words on the letter, one was Wei Zhen, and the other was not.

"It's ...... Credentials? Princess Yulong asked in surprise.

"Yes, the letter of state sent by the State of Chu." Zhao Hongrun nodded and said.

"Why is it in your hands?" Princess Yulong asked in surprise, because in her opinion, shouldn't this kind of national letter be sent to the Vertical Arch Palace?

Zhao Hongrun blinked when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Because this is a letter written to me by the King of Chu." ”

Princess Yulong looked at Zhao Hongrun suspiciously.

In fact, Zhao Hongrun really didn't deceive Princess Yulong, because this letter of state was indeed written to him by Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, because in early June, he wrote a letter to Xiong Xu, the king of Chu.

A ill-intentioned letter.

——Back to mid-June——

In mid-June, it was the case of the murder of Zhou Yan, the king of Wei, in the capital of the Ministry of Justice, and on the side of Chu, the surname Xiong and the surname Qu were still fighting hotly.

In fact, the civil war in Chu was not a simple civil war between the Xiong clan and the Qu clan to seize power, but a civil war caused by the intensification of contradictions between the royal party and the opposition aristocracy.

The so-called Wang Party refers to the faction that supports Xiong Xu, the king of Chu.

After the campaign of Qi, Lu, Wei, and Yue against Chu, when he learned that Ji Run, the king of Wei, had won the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people in Chu without much effort, Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, finally realized that his younger brother Xiong Hao, the king of Runan, had put forward a correct proposition.

The state of Chu was weakening, and the reason for this phenomenon was not because of the state of Qi or Wei, but because of the aristocratic forces within the state of Chu.

Therefore, Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, finally made up his mind to sacrifice a butcher's knife to some greedy and tyrannical aristocratic forces in the country.

He transferred the panic and hatred of the people of Chu caused by the defeat of the national war and the fall of the royal capital Shouying to those nobles, hoping to eradicate the burden or moths of some countries.

Of course, in order to avoid setting up too many enemies, Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, did not be ruthless to the big nobles who had a relationship with his Xiong clan, such as his Xiong clan himself, and only cut a Juyang Jun Xiong Carp.

In addition to his sons, there are also several ancient clans such as the Jilian clan, the Xiang clan, and the Jing clan.

The opposition aristocracy refers to the alliance of nobles who were deprived of their rights by Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, and therefore angrily threw themselves into the Qu clan in an attempt to unite to make the king of Chu compromise.

In fact, the opposition's claims are not consistent, for example, the Qu clan actually wants to take this opportunity to replace the Xiong clan in charge of the royal power of the Chu State, while many of the opposition nobles who have allied with the Qu clan just want the Chu king Xiong Xu to take back the royal order and restore their original rights.

It's better to compensate for their losses.

There is only one exception, that is, Xiling Jun Qu Ping, the reason why he threw himself into the opposition is only because he has clearly learned that Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, wants to eradicate the entire Qu clan in one go, but he can't sit idly by and watch his family be uprooted by Xiong Xu, the king of Chu.

And just when these two forces were fighting fiercely against each other, Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, received a letter from Zhao Hongrun.

At that time, Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, only called two people to discuss with him, one was Xiang Yan, and the other was Chu Shuijun, who had sent a witch to assassinate Zhao Hongrun.

"Is it possible that the Wei State wants to intervene in the civil war of my Great Chu?"

The person who said this was that Chu Shuijun, a man with long hair and a shawl, and his appearance looked very handsome.

There was a hint of sarcasm in his tone, as if he wasn't at all worried about what Wei would do.

The reason is very simple, because this matter involves the legitimacy of royal power, and it is impossible for any king in the Central Plains countries to support Qu Shi and Keshang, after all, once this matter sets a precedent, whether the legitimacy of the monarchy of each country is stable will also be affected.

"No, that kid is cunning......"

Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, handed the letter to Chu Shuijun.

"The boy?" Chu Shuijun glanced at the letter, then showed a look of understanding on his face, nodded and said, "Su Wang Ji Run...... Scold! These words are really high-sounding......"

"Hehehe." Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, couldn't help laughing.

Why?

Because Zhao Hongrun called on the Xiong family and the Qu family to restrain each other very enthusiastically in his heart, don't because of the turmoil in the country caused by the civil war, and look like he is thinking about the Chu country, if he is not in the know, he still thinks that this is a Chu person.

"The boy with a bad heart!" Chu Shuijun snorted coldly.

Think about it, you must know that the royal party and the opposition of Chu State have fought to the point that they don't share each other's sky, so let them restrain each other at this time?

How to restrain yourself?

Let Qu go? Hey, if you don't cut the grass and eradicate the roots at this time, won't there be endless troubles?

But the embarrassment lies in the fact that Ji Run, the king of Wei, not only wrote a high-sounding word, but also put forward a suggestion that made Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, and Chu Shuijun quite a headache: Wei is willing to return Guling and other counties as a prison for Chu to exile the Qu family.

That's treacherous.

You must know that those pieces of land were originally the fiefdoms of Guling Jun Xiongwu, and they were ceded to Wei by Chu after the Battle of the Four Kingdoms against Chu, but everyone knows that those pieces of land have long been washed by the cavalry under the Su King Ji Run, and even the local Chu people have been swept away, and it is purely an empty land.

And now, Wei has offered to return these few useless pieces of land, and even more Su Wang Ji Run's words calling on Xiong and Qu to restrain each other for the sake of the country, almost reversing the image of the once hostile state of Chu and turning into a good neighbor who hopes that Chu will be good.

What's even worse is that the Wang Dang is really not good at killing the Qu family.

Otherwise, the Chu people will mutter: Even the Wei people are calling on us not to have a civil war, why do we (the royal party) love our compatriots as well as the Wei people?

"Treacherous boy!"

Because of this incident, the faction of the king of Chu did not know that many people were in a dilemma. (To be continued.) )