Chapter 70: Changing the Law
Tian Widow was reprimanded by the Linzi Imperial Court because of his reputation as an enemy, but he was transferred to the Yi doctor, and seeing that Linzi did not punish the crime in this part, the strategy he proposed to block the water was naturally not adopted. Only Tian He, who also felt the crisis, immediately ordered the Jimo Boat Division to go to sea day and night, especially Chengshanjiao. Chengshanjiao is the most stormy place in the west of the Yellow Sea, and after patrolling several times, the boat was destroyed and people died, so it had to build a lookout on the coast to let people look at it day and night.
The guard was like this, and Tian He, who knew that it was useless to be on guard, entered the Chu realm in person, and planned to enter Yingdu to persuade the Chu people to give up the war. As soon as he entered Muling Pass, he was welcomed to Langya Port before he arrived in Yingdu.
Langya was once the capital of the Yue Kingdom, and the scale of the city is naturally different from that of the general city, and the royal city also has Gao Gate, Zheng Dynasty, Road Gate, and Zheng Sleep like the Central Plains Royal City. However, due to the terrain restrictions, the scale of the royal city is not large. Tian He was welcomed into the main bed by the confessor, and finally saw Xiong Jing wearing a Wei Ben suit.
"Big ...... The king should be cut down?! "Last time Mu Lingguan met the alliance, Tian He saw Xiong Jing was no more than five feet, and this time goodbye, his height is over six feet. The little face that has not grown is still immature, but the eyes are cold, not angry but mighty.
"When you go to the State of Chu, do you want to persuade you not to invade the State of Qi?" Xiong Jing looked at Tian He, he hadn't seen him for three years, and the adults had not changed much, Tian He was still the same Tian He who matched Chu Qi's marriage back then.
"Yes, yes." Tian He smiled bitterly. "Unexpectedly, the king does not want to marry with Qi."
"The king of Qi has no faith, he is afraid of Qin like a tiger, and he does not marry his daughter as a queen and give birth to a prince, but what?" Xiong Jing really didn't want to marry Qi Guo, but military affairs were meant to put an end to personal feelings, and he couldn't refuse it explicitly. The King of Qi broke his promise, and the Chu people despised the King of Qi's promise-breaking behavior very much, and naturally they also despised the daughter of the King of Qi.
"Yes." Tian He replied helplessly.
"No, the king of Qi has promised the princess to the Qin State, is this light?" Xiong Jing asked again.
"This move is the result of the victory, and the widow is covered by the villain." The sad look on Tian He's face was even worse. He didn't wait for Xiong Jing to speak, so he took the initiative to say: "The tariff matter is also done by Hou Sheng, and the minister whispers that if Qi and Chu are warned, Hou Sheng can get 100,000 gold from the Qin people." ”
"Oh?" Xiong Jing remembered the Hou Sheng who wore a dustpan crown, and he actually bought Qi Guo for 100,000 gold. "King Qi doesn't know?"
"Tell the king, the widow takes the medicine of immortality, and he no longer cares about the government, and everything is managed by the aftermath." Tian Aidao. "If you knew this, the king should not give the immortal medicine to the widow."
"Don't give immortal medicine and King Qi, King Qi should be hated." Xiong Jing also repeatedly wondered if he had done something wrong at the beginning, but after thinking about it, he felt that he was right. "Do you think it's wrong?"
"I don't dare." Tian He naturally didn't dare to accuse Xiong Jing. "However, today's Qi and Chu are evil, because of the promise of immortal medicine."
"What does it have to do with the elixir of immortality?" Xiong Jing was furious. "The Qin people bribed Qi Xiang with huge sums of money, and the doctors of Zhuyi were for their own selfishness, and they would rather sit back and watch Zhao Chu perish than raise troops to resist Qin."
"Since the king knows that the doctors of Zhuyi are like this, why should he cut down Qi?" Tian He took the opportunity to argue. "The Qi State has a lot of businessmen and attaches great importance to practical benefits, and it is useless and harmful to attack Qin and Qi, and the Qi people are absolutely unwilling to cooperate with the Zhao State Alliance."
"Cutting down Qi is not a conspiraction, but a punishment." Xiong Jing was not for Qi to resist Qin, sending troops to attack Qi was just a punishment. "Instead of lobbying for the country, it is better to return to China and lobby the doctors of Zhuyi......"
"The minister is puzzled, please make it clear to the king." Tian He asked.
"If you don't destroy Qi, you will only win after you." Xiong Jing bluntly said the intention of sending troops this time, "And the politics of the Qi State are all in the hands of the ministers and villains, and the doctors of Zhuyi and Linzi are separated from morality, and they cannot control the national affairs, and the merchants pay taxes and worship, but they are often despised by the imperial court, and they do not think that the Qi State should change the law." Although it will not become the state of Chu, it should also become the state of Zheng. ”
"Ahh Tian He looked at Xiong Jing in disbelief, he thought that Xiong Jing was just a punishment, but he didn't expect that he would change the law in Qi State.
As for why Qi Guo is Zheng Guo? A long time ago, Zheng Guojun swore an oath with Shang Jia: 'You have no rebellion, I have no strong Jia, and I will not take it.' I don't know if you betray me, I don't force you to buy, I don't beg or plunder. You have profitable deals and valuable goods, and I don't bother to ask)'. It was precisely because of this oath that Zheng Shangfang rose among the merchants of other countries.
The number of merchants in Qi is no different from Zheng Guo, and some people have always hoped that Linzi will not be forced to buy, do not or rob, but there is an essential difference between Qi and Zheng Guo. If the state of Qi also swore an oath with the Shang Jia like Zheng Guo and did not try to interfere in the economy, the policy of Guanshan and Hai would be completely bankrupt, and once the policy of Guanshan and Hai went bankrupt, the rule of the monarch would also be bankrupt.
"The king must not!" As a doctor of Jimo, Tian He certainly knew the ruling mechanism of the Qi State, and Xiong Jing's change was to destroy this mechanism. The Tian clan is not the Lu clan, and once the ruling mechanism fails, the Tian clan may be executed.
"Why not?" Xiong Jing remained silent, "No, you will be the prime minister of Qi, what if?" ”
"How can a minister be the face of a great country if he is stupid?" Tian He not only did not have the slightest joy when he heard this, but his expression became even more flustered, and he finally understood why Xiong Jing saw him. "The king really wants to destroy my Qi country?"
"Destroy the Qi country?" Xiong Jing smiled, looked at him and asked, "You just want to rebuild the Qi country, not destroy the Qi country." If it is said that the country of Qi is destroyed, and Le Yi has destroyed it, can the country of Qi be 'the right to disperse in time' today? Is it possible to 'kill the benefits of the businessmen and benefit the farmers'? Is it possible to 'raise the lower, divide and merge, and scatter and accumulate' again? ”
"I can't." Tian He also looked at Xiong Jing, he couldn't imagine how the Chu State, which had never advocated light and heavy techniques, could understand the ruling techniques of the Qi State.
"If you can't, why can't you change the law?" Xiong Jing asked rhetorically, but Tian He was speechless.
"However, what good does the king do to act like this?" Tian He, who was unwilling, couldn't help but ask again. "And there are only 200,000 people with armor in the Chu State, and the king really thinks that he can go down to Muling to pull Linzi? This national war also! ”
"You'll see." Xiong Jing smiled, of course he didn't forget to woo Tian He again. "If you don't pull out Linzi, win after killing, and take the king as the same phase, what?"
"If the king invades the kingdom of Qi, the ministers may die under the soldiers." Tian He didn't refuse, but he didn't agree, he only said: "Once Qi and Chu fight, the Qin people can calmly attack Zhao, how can the king fall for the Qin people's plan?" ”
"It's not that you don't want to cut Qi, but you can't do it because of the bribe. Now he will cut Qi, just so that he will not cut Qi again in the future. After Xiong Jing finished speaking, he immediately waved back to Tian He. After being quiet, he thought that his expedition was for the well-being of the Qi people, and he felt that it was a bit stupid to do so. Why use the blood of the Chu people for the benefit of the Qi people? What are the benefits of Qi changing the law to Chu State?
It was almost February, and the wind and waves in the Yellow Sea were still more than one meter high, but they were still smaller than two months ago. Because of the wind and waves, the war boat had to scoop water out of the cabin while rowing, otherwise it would be submerged in the sea. In addition to the wind and waves, the endless sea gives a sense of powerlessness, especially with no coast in sight, which is very unsettling.
At this time, the morale of the soldiers of the Ying division endured the discomfort, gritted their teeth and trained in the shallow sea where the waves were rolling. They had to learn how to allocate their men during the three-day row, get used to seasickness and vomiting from the wind and waves, and finally maintain a close formation, which was especially important at night, and if they got out of formation, they were likely to get lost at sea.
Master Yingshi trains every five days, one training session for three days, and the other two days off. After three trainings, they have a five-day break, and then another five-day training. Under Xiong Jing's strict order, the food of the Yingshi was no longer the standard of the boat division's foot soldiers, but the standard of the fleet's sailors.
There are no vegetables and fruits in the New Year, but there are always Chinese cabbage, bean sprouts, winter bamboo shoots in the south, and a lot of citrus in Huainan are stored until the New Year, and fried tofu can be eaten every day. In the era when there were no calcium tablets, calcium supplementation was tofu, Xiong Jing ate tofu every day, this thing is white, tender and smooth, and there are various methods and tastes. It's a pity that the name of tofu has spread outside the palace, and no matter how good the official is, he doesn't know how to make tofu. Before going to sea, I was able to eat tofu, and the soldiers were very happy.
Of course, seasickness is not something that can be solved by food, the root cause of seasickness is in the vestibular organs, which feel various acceleration changes in the head and body when moving in space. In addition to taking seasickness medicine, the best radical cure is to cut off the eighth pair of cranial nerves or destroy the labyrinths on both sides, and if you can't do both, you can only gradually adapt. If you really can't adapt to it, you can't participate in this battle.
In the Yingshi military camp outside Langya City, dozens of charcoal fires are lit in the huge tent, and people often have to shiver twice when they come in. After shivering, the hot aroma of the meal hit the nose. This is the meal of the sea pawn, not the pig food of the foot pawn, the dishes are fried in a small pot of soybean oil, sandwiched with shredded meat slices, or the whole fish is fried, and then accompanied by ginger, garlic, plum sauce, vinegar, sugar or peppercorns, the same buffet, the dishes are placed together in a small pot, and the pots are steaming. In addition to the dishes, there is also meat soup, and in addition to meat soup, there are also refreshments.
Seeing that the soldier's mouth was full of oil and he forgot himself, Xiong Jing nodded with satisfaction. In order to find enough cooks, he emptied almost the entire palace and recruited some female cooks in Yingdu, so that more than 60 pawns could eat stir-fried food.
"Bye...... Meet the King. Xiong Jing entered the account for a while, and someone found out that it was the king himself, and immediately bowed.
"Don't think the king is here, you wait for dinner." Xiong Jing naturally instructed. Master Yingshi is his descendant, he has seen more than 60 foot soldiers, and the soldiers below the rank of soldier have also patrolled many times. He didn't know the soldiers, but the soldiers all knew him.
"Minister, minister......" The captain ran over in a panic, at a loss.
"Nothing." Xiong Jing smiled and asked, "How's the food?" ”
"The food of this prince is also the food of the ministers, and the ministers are sincerely afraid." The pawn wiped his mouth, but he didn't wipe it clean.
"The brave and sharp army should be treated as the food of a prince." Xiong Jing wanted to snicker in his heart, didn't he just eat a few pieces of tofu and stir-fry a few vegetables.
"The minister will repay the king's favor with death." The words behind the pawn were crying, which made Xiong Jing embarrassed.