"It's unreasonable, Bailiyan is too deceitful! He had already been promised by the eldest grandson, what else did he want. ”

The Son of Heaven was furious, and Xiangguo Jia Zhou said carefully:

"Your Majesty, Baili Yan is very ambitious, and he must want to ask for more land from the east of Changsun to strengthen his homeland."

"Never!" The Son of Heaven flatly refused, and then said: "If the queen mother knows, how will the widow explain." ”

"But now it's self-defeating, and it's really tricky."

"Isn't there a good way to go?"

Jia Zhou shook his head, looking embarrassed and helpless

"I'm afraid not."

In fact, there was originally, at the beginning of the agreement between Zhang Jie and King Xian, it was the Xianguo annexation of the three counties of Weiguo, the eldest grandson to sell half of the local county, and the eldest grandson to annex the four counties of the Weiguo, although the four counties annexed by the eldest grandson were huge, but it was a fair deal.

Of course, this agreement was originally a trap for Bailiyan, which was to be obeyed when it was advantageous, and it could be torn up at any time when it was unfavorable.

However, it ignored the ambition of Liang to get deeply involved and wantonly annex land. I just thought that the Liang State had annexed some land, but half a county and one county was already a lot, but now four or five counties could not be filled, which complicated the situation.

The goal of Liang's attempt to annex included three of the four counties annexed by Changsun, and once it was completed, Changsun would not be able to make any good gains. At the same time, Dekang promised to Zhiguo, so that Xianguo could not get benefits, so from the beginning to the end of the Liang State calculated all the princes.

First, he arranged for Wei and Changsun to secretly cooperate, and then instigated Weiguo to sell Dekang to Zhiguo in exchange for a barrier, so as to lure the Xian army to borrow the eldest grandson, and then gather and encircle and annihilate. and then to the later delays and changes, instigating the Wei army and the Xian army to fight for attrition, and then developed to this situation, if they all follow Liang Guo's script, the biggest beneficiary is only Liang Guo.

Now in order to avoid Liang Guo's script, Bai Liyan can only tear up the agreement with Zhang Jie, make peace with Wei Guo, and use Wei Guo to suppress Zhiguo and let Zhiguo know each other. At the same time, if he dared to swallow the bait of Baili Yan, then he would be saddled with the notoriety of betraying his eldest grandson in the blink of an eye.

Therefore, ensuring that the defense of the country is not dismembered to the greatest extent is the key to balancing the current situation.

If the Wei State is dismembered, not only will the Liang State and the Changsun State be strengthened, but the Xian State will have to face a direct strategic conflict with the Zhi State, and at the same time, the West Sea will also fall into war because of the strong intervention of the Jin State, and the entire Central Plains plate will soon fall into a melee situation full of beacons and smoke everywhere.

So under the careful calculation of Bailiyan and his think tank, the hot potato finally fell into the hands of the Son of Heaven himself.

In the face of the Son of Heaven's inquiry, Jia Zhou was helpless, but after thinking about it, he had a plan:

"Your Majesty, you might as well go to the head of Mo Jianzi to discuss this matter, the master may have a good plan to use."

"Xiangguo is reasonable, and quickly arrange for the head of Mo to come to see the widow."

"No!"

Soon after, Mo Lingzi secretly entered the Xingyuan, and Duan Ling followed closely behind, and the two did not leave until dark. But in the afternoon, Xiangguo Jia Zhou personally went to the Weiguo Shentong Hao Pavilion and did not leave until dusk, and I don't know what the two sides talked about.

Bai Liyan learned that Jia Zhou went to Shen Tonghao to talk for a long time, but she was even more relieved:

"Mr. Guan Long, it looks like our fish has taken the bait."

"How can the deputy marshal see that Mo Qingzi has already been tricked?"

"Now that the land of the defense is in the hands of our country, and the Liang State holds the grain of the Wei army, Shen Tonghao has no room to move around, or continue to confront our army, or can only obey and rely on the Liang State.

However, Ben Shuai treated him sincerely and promised a lot of benefits, at least King Wei's face could get by, so Shen Tonghao had more room to bargain with us, no matter how Liang Guo made arrangements, even if it was promised benefits and benefits, Shen Tonghao's room for maneuver would only be greater, but if Liang Guo exerted oppression, it would squeeze Shen Tonghao to fall to our country. ”

Guan Longxiang was still confused when he heard this, and he didn't understand Bailiyan's intentions, so he asked:

"I still don't understand, why does the deputy marshal expect that no matter how Jia Zhou treats Shen Tonghao, Shen Tonghao will definitely accelerate to our country."

"Mr. Zongbo had said before that Liang Guo used deception to seek the world, but one can be two, but it must not be repeated. Since the fall of the black scarf, this Wei Guo has colluded and cooperated with Liang Guo, but has been betrayed by Liang Guo many times, even though there are our designs in it, but it has been betrayed several times, and Wei Guo can not believe in Liang Guo again.

Not to mention, let's just say that in the past year, Liang Guo first induced Wei Guo to cede Dekang to Zhiguo, and then designed to trap our army, seeing that a plan could not be reborn, instigating Wei Guo and me to consume each other, and the results were all broken by us, all kinds of bad deeds Shen Tonghao didn't know, he knew that he was not your opponent, and he knew that Liang Guo was too calculating, how could he suffer again.

But all people have the heart to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and Shen Tonghao has taught us to be powerful, so he doesn't want to take any more risks and lose the promise he has made. Therefore, no matter how clever Liang Guo is, even if he gives more temptations than my country, Shen Tonghao will not be gullible, not to mention that Liang Guo has a big appetite and sinister intentions, and he can't give a tempting promise to impress Wei Guo. ”

In the final analysis, political and diplomatic activities are still the manifestation of national strength, and the hegemon will always be a military and economic hegemony, and its essence will not change because of the changes of the times and the change of titles.

The means by which the Liang State restrained the princes was nothing more than the influence brought by the economic and political heritage of the suzerain, and the Xian State, as a rising power, was certainly not as influential as other princes, but its military and economic success was enough to support all the influence that the politics of the great powers had.

Compared with the economic oppression of the Liang State to the Wei State, the military attack of the Xian State on the Wei State was more devastating, and at the same time, the economic strength of the Xian State far exceeded that of the Liang State, and the Wei State could only choose to make peace with the Xian State under the double oppression.

Although state-to-state exchanges are intriguing and deceitful, at least there should be a basic code of conduct and a bottom line.

Liang State implements fraud to rule the world, food princes, unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, can betray teammates again and again, in the absence of potential opponents This is no problem, in the past six hundred years, there is an endless stream of princes in the overlord position, but without exception are military hegemons, but not economic hegemons. Under the manipulation of Liang Guo, being pulled off the horse is an inevitable result.

Now that the economy of the Xian State occupies half of the Central Plains, and the military crushes the princes, in this international context, it is no longer feasible for the Liang State to continue to implement fraud to balance the princes, and it can only highlight its incompetence and no lower limit.

Of course, it is undeniable that Liang's incompetence and failure are relative, if there is no Xianguo as a competitor, and no Bailiyan is born, theoretically all the strategies of Liangguo can be realized, and naturally there will be no political bad impact caused by the failure of strategic manipulation.

The next day, as Bai Liyan expected, Shen Tonghao did not come to the Xianguo Pavilion Station, so it can be concluded that Shen Tonghao did not change his intentions. If he changed his mind, he would definitely come to negotiate with Bailiyan and ask for more benefits, but he didn't.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that Shen Tonghao and Liang Guo will make peace again, and sit back and wait for time to slip away, so that Bailiyan will fall into passivity. If this is the case, Liang Guo must give enough benefits to make a big concession to Shen Tonghao, but it is obviously impossible.

In the face of the military reality pressure and economic blockade of Xianguo, under the condition that Bailiyan has already made major concessions, Liang's concessions are insignificant, and it is obviously impossible to make Liang vomit the fruits of a county that has been eaten.

In the next few days, there was calm in Boyuan City, and Bailiyan still did not plan to meet the Son of Heaven, but he would send Liu Boxun into the palace every day to negotiate some trivial matters.

About nine days later, Bailiyan's urgent mail was delivered to Chenling, with two contents, one was a secret agreement on peace talks, and the other was to promote the king. As expected, King Xian prepared to cut the land on a large scale to repay the Son of Heaven. For this reason, King Xian convened the cabinet to discuss the matter of ceding land and changing the title, and the news soon spread out of the palace, and Xihuan was taken aback when he heard the news:

"What, Jin Feng Wang!"

"Yes, Bai Liyan is at the feet of Boyuan Tianzi at this time, and the news will never be fake."

Ji Jinsheng said quickly, Xihuan frowned and thought for a moment and then said:

"The title of the king of the county is far lower than that of Brother Wang, if Jin is crowned King Ping, wouldn't he be on an equal footing with Brother Wang."

"That's true, if King Xian and King Dawang are the same, the Supreme of Shangbang will probably be gone."

The king of Jin has maintained the title of King Ping for a long time, and the king of Xian was only the title of the king before Jiangdong, and it had no effect on the lower state, and the promotion of the county queen was still one level lower than that of the Jin state, and now the king of Xian is the king of Ping, and the king of Jin is the king of Ping, and the Jin state has lost its superior status in politics.

And what's worse is that the Xian State comprehensively crushes the Jin State militarily and economically, and the Jin State is a superior state in politics and can at least maintain the posture of the nominal state and offset part of the military and economic influence of the Xian State.

"Damn, if Bailiyan is allowed to succeed, how can this palace explain to Brother Wang in the future!"

"Your Royal Highness Princess, my subordinates think that this matter is still worth scrutinizing, I'm afraid there are other clues."

Ji Jinsheng was cautious, and Xihuan was extremely displeased:

"Baili Yan Minghuo is committed to the following crimes, what clues can there be!"

"Your Royal Highness, at present, Zhiguo has failed to ask for Dekang, and the army is facing each other in Dekang, if you offend our country again because of the king's name, Xianguo will inevitably fall into the isolation of the princes, I still know this reason, how can Bailiyan not know."

"He knows what's the matter, now that the combat power of the Xian army is unmatched, who else is he afraid of."

"Not necessarily. Based on his subordinates' understanding of Baili Yan, although his behavior is deviant and unruly, there is one thing that he must follow, and he will never gamble with the fortune of the country for profit. Rashly offended the princes, the harm to the Xian country is huge, and now the Xian country has offended the country, if you offend our country again, the Zhiguo will also fall into the ground, then the Xian country will fall into isolation, cut off the supply of raw materials, and the Xian country will be finished. ”

"According to General Ji's meaning, the title of King Xian is not good for Xianguo."

"Yes, so the subordinates have the courage to guess that the matter of adding the title of king should be designed by Liang State, as the so-called inseparable, but the two countries of Jin and Xian have a marriage alliance, which is actually deliberately provoking the relationship between the two countries, and then joining forces to attack Xian."

"Since Liang Guo designed a joint army to attack Xian, wouldn't it be better like this!"

Xihuan gloated, but Ji Jinsheng said:

"Your Royal Highness, the future Xianguo is the Xianguo of Tuogongzi, can Your Highness bear to sit and watch Tuogongzi's country wither?"

"Of course not, how can this palace sit and watch the princes join forces to destroy the great rivers and mountains of this palace Tuo'er, but we must give Baili Yan a color, so that he knows that Xianguo is inseparable from this palace and my Jin country."

"But did the princess ever think that we could think that Liang Guo would design a separation between Jin and Xian, and how could Bailiyan not see through it."

Ji Jinsheng's words hit the nail on the head, and Xihuan was stunned when he first woke up from a dream:

"Shhh...... In this way, Baili Yan is not anti-treacherous and calculates Liang Guo! ”

Ji Jinsheng nodded heavily and said affirmatively:

"It should be, with Baili Yan's wisdom, there is no reason to ignore it, and if it detects, it will definitely take countermeasures. But with the current situation, his subordinates really can't see what means he has to counter the Liang State to balance the princes, and at the same time appease our country. ”

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