If you win, you will fight, and if you can't win, you will make peace, Daqin's strategy against the enemy has always been flexible and realistic. Chencang Road is steep, the Chu army from the Chencang Road upstream, not to mention that two years ago the Qin army has built a dam on the water, even if the dam is not built, the Qin army can also block the river along the way to resist, the Chu army can not attack the Sanguan in a short time, the real killer is the Qiang people.

Many places in Longxi County, which is crisscrossed by mountain ranges, were originally inhabited by the Qiang people, and some roads were known to the Qiang people, and the Qin people did not know. The Qiang people now have great armor and great blades, and they have also practiced the method of shield warfare with the help of the Chu people, and if they do not seek peace, they will inevitably sweep the two counties of Longxi and Beidi. There is no way to seek peace and send hostage, only by seeking peace and sending hostage, can the offensive of the Chu army be delayed and the war will be delayed until the witch medicine is made.

"Summoning Su." Under Wei Yi's expectations, Zhao Zheng finally nodded.

"Yui." Hearing this, the confessor took the summons and hurried down to the church, and soon Fusu came.

Fusu is already ten years old, and under the royal diet, the height of a ten-year-old child is nearly six feet. The tie clothes were worn on him, and the whole person looked white and slender. His face is like a michia, his facial features are not distinct, and his nose is a little low, but his eyebrows and eyes are very similar to Zhao Zheng, and the father and son seem to be carved out of a mold. It's just that the child's temperament is not as aggressive as Zhao Zheng, much gentle, and more smiling.

Seeing Fusu, Zhao Zheng would always think of Mi Qian, and then think of Mi Qian is Jing Girl, the war between Qin and Jing is life and death, and the trace of guilt that rose was ruthlessly snuffed out by Zhao Zheng.

"What's going on lately?" Zhao Zheng, who hardened his heart, poured his love into Fusu and asked him about his current situation.

"Father, the child has been busy with schoolwork recently, and Mrs. Bai Di taught the child the seven arts; Fei Zi Taifu taught the child Qin law; Mrs. Mao taught the child the Spring and Autumn ......: "Fusu asks Zhao Zheng to ask for peace every day, and when he asks for peace, the father and son don't have much dialogue. Specially summoned to the main bed, which has never been done before, Fu Su under the disgust of his parents is sensitive, and his voice is even a little trembling when he answers.

"Seven Arts?" Zhao Zheng was surprised, he had only heard that Confucianism had six arts, but he didn't expect that Bai Di people also had seven arts.

"Father, the seven arts that Bai Di Taifu received are logic, rhetoric, grammar, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy." Fusu replied respectfully, detailing which seven arts he was learning.

"Good." Zhao Zheng nodded noncommittally, he knew what Fusu said. He has also read the translated "Geometric Original", but unfortunately he can't understand it, for example: 'Any two points can be connected by a (straight) line', is this the case, is it necessary to write it into a book, as if it were the words of a saint?

After a brief pause, Zhao Zheng said again: "The Jing people are very anxious to attack me, my father wants to send you to the Qiang land, Daqin is willing to ally with the Qiang people, you ......"

"Father, father, father......" Fusu hit a bang in his head, and he didn't hear what his father said later, until his father finally said "Stand down", he mechanically retreated, down the steps of the main bed, he came back to life, tears flowed down.

He entered the Qiang land as a hostage, which his father wanted him to do. He didn't know where Qiangdi was, and he didn't know how long it would take to be hostage, he only knew that he would soon leave Xianyang, leave his mother, and go to a place outside the Qin State. In a panic, he was inconvenient to go, and walked and walked to Zhiyang Palace, where Bai Di Taifu lived, for some reason.

"I've seen His Royal Highness the Prince." Aristotle IV is the Taifu, and it is not the actual Shaobao, and it is not the time for class to come to Zhiyang Palace, and it is inevitable that he is a little surprised. "Why is Your Highness crying?" He saw Fusu's tears.

"I'm here to say goodbye to Taifu." In Zhiyang Palace, the teachers and students spoke Greek, and Fusu was answering in Greek at this time.

"Farewell?" Needless to say, Aristotle IV, who was behind him, saw Fusu, who was talking to the Egyptian envoy Palops Zaiming. "Teacher, His Royal Highness the Prince said he was coming to say goodbye to the teacher."

"Farewell?!" Aristotle IV was taken aback. "Are you going on a trip? Where to go? ”

"Go to Qiangdi." Fusu wiped a handful of tears. Zhao Zheng was only his father, not his father, and he had a special affinity for Aristotle IV, the White Emperor.

"To Qiangdi? Why go to Qiangdi? "The six kingdoms of the world, this is already a barbarian race in the eyes of Aristotle IV. It's just that there are barbarians in the eyes of the barbarians, and these barbarians are not what he knows.

"Teacher, it's a Qiang person. They lived in the province of Longxi and the area west of the province of Longxi, and now they were united with Chuni and were enemies of Qinni. Wu Ji explained. His Majesty wanted to negotiate peace with the Qiang, so he sent Fusu to the Qiang land as a hostage for the peace talks. ”

"No!" Aristotle IV jumped in anger. "Your Majesty can't do this, he can't do this! It doesn't take barbarians to defeat the Chuni, not at all! ”

Sending his most beloved student, an increasingly handsome young man, into the barbarians in the eyes of the barbarians, Aristotle IV would not have agreed in any way. He first argued loudly and loudly, and then took Fusu to Qutai Palace to meet Zhao Zheng, and the conversation between him and Zhao Zheng continued until late at night. Just as he was talking with Zhao Zheng, the black carrier pigeon flew out of the outskirts of Xianyang, and Fusu sent the news of Yuqiang from Xianyang to Yingdu, thousands of miles away.

After a winter of fighting, Chu and Qin once again tore apart the original territory, and the situation in the world changed again. The most obvious is on the eastern front, the state of Qi has been divided into two, and the state of Qi, which has almost been wiped out by the main force, has followed the advice of the Great Sima Mansion this time, and is ready to abandon Linzi at any time while moving the capital to Jimo, instead of throwing the remaining tens of thousands of troops into the bottomless pit of Jixi defense line.

There was no change on the northern front, and the Chu army had to retreat to Fangcheng so that it could deal with Shang and Hanzhong, so Li Xin soon led his army to camp in Xiangcheng again, facing Yeyi on the southern bank of Lishui.

All the offensives of the Chu army were on the western front, and all the mobile forces were also assembled on the western front, but the western front could only attack along the road of Chencang Road, the road was tortuous and difficult, and the river was constantly blocked, so that the war was protracted and there was no end in sight for at least this year.

However, Xiong Jing instinctively sensed the danger, especially when he learned that the Qin people were entering the Qin State from the grassland with dragon horses, chariots, and a large number of craftsmen ten days ago, he felt that there was less and less time left for the Chu State.

At the beginning of the year, Wang Jian withdrew from the Qi State and suddenly swept the Yan Dynasty, although the Chu State sent a sea boat to rescue, but the spring monsoon has not yet turned, the Qin army is too fast, and the Dai Land is not near the sea, as a result, Zhao Jiacheng, who established himself as the acting king, was captured, only Li Bo, the son of Li Mu who was in Jicheng, took more than 1,000 people to board the sea boat, and the rest of his troops retreated eastward into North Korea, and boarded the boat from North Korea into the Chu State.

At this point, the direct contact between the state of Chu and the outside of the Saiwai was all cut off, and some were only in the outside of the Saiwai pro-Chu merchants and the Zhao people who defected to the Xiongnu intermittently to transmit news. However, this time, the great merchant Duan Quan used carrier pigeons, which returned the Qin people from the extreme west as quickly as possible, accompanied by dragon horses, stallions, sickles, carts, and craftsmen of all colors, but the news was intercepted by the Xiongnu Shan Yu and transmitted to Yingdu.

Just like Zhao Zheng before, Xiong Jing had a hunch that the winner would be decided between Chu and Qin in two years at most, and if the Chu army could not break through the Dasan Pass and enter the pass this year, I am afraid that there would be no chance next year. Therefore, he strongly asked the Chu army not to save gunpowder, gunpowder is not important compared to speed, even if it bombs the city like before, it must be pulled out before September this year.

"The Great King, the Qin people want to make peace with the Qiang." The next day, when the dynasty was finished, Nao Qian hurried into the hall with Don't be me.

"Send Su to Qiang as a hostage?" After reading the pigeon news I handed over, Xiong Jing's brows were depressed again.

"Yes, yes." Don't worry about me: "The Qin people want to make peace with the Qiang, and the Qiang people want to oppose me." ”

"The king, please ask the king to marry Princess Xin to the Qiang people, otherwise it will ......" Nao Cunning mentioned the pending Chuqiang marriage.

There was no marriage between Chu and Qiang, and the Qiang girl originally wanted to marry into the Chu Palace, but Xiong Jing's frank admission 'scared' the Qiang people. The Qiang people are monogamous, the women of the tribal chiefs are never concubines, and the Qiang women who marry into the Chu palace are concubines, not wives.

After that, Dahao Ying asked to marry the princess of Chu State, the problem is that Ying already has a wife, do Xiong Jing's only sisters want to marry as concubines? To this, Ju's reply was that he would treat the princess of Chu as a wife, and would not mention the divorce of his wife at all. So the marriage froze here, and Ying didn't want his daughter to be a concubine, and Xiong Jing didn't want his sister to be a concubine.

"What's the use of marrying a princess?" Xiong Jing asked in annoyance, and naturally remembered the person who made peace back then. The Qin people want to make an alliance with the Qiang people, and the only one who matches them is the one who makes the bridge. "The Qiang people don't avoid being avoided, helping to abuse the people, Mi Xin marries the concubine and is not a wife, how can she persuade the relatives of Chu not to be a wife?!"

Under the tribal system, the power of the wife, who has the maternal family, is often inferior to that of the husband. Even in the Central Plains, before the rise of monarchy in the early Spring and Autumn Period, when the husband was called the monarch, the wife was also called the little monarch. Xiaojun is not as good as the national (big) monarch, but he is also a monarch. The king is always above the minister, and has the power to make suggestions and decisions on the affairs of the state.

Mi Xin married a concubine in the past, and the concubine was no different from a slave among the Qiang people. Once Ju began to greedily sit on the ground and ask for a price, marrying a princess was far from enough, the next time he asked for artillery was estimated, and the next time he asked for it was estimated that it was the entire Shu land.

"However, if the Qiang people really make peace with the Qin people, it will be very disadvantageous to me." Nao cunning couldn't convince Xiong Jing, but he also managed to prevent the Qiang people from alliing with the Qin people.

"Alas!" Xiong Jing sighed, he had to grit his teeth: "Send someone to tell him that the widow will go to Hanzhong next month to discuss with him about the marriage of the princess." Xiong Jing's decision made Nao cunning puzzled, but fortunately, he understood in the next sentence. Knowing that Pisi must know how the Qin people made peace with the Qiang people within a month, and besides, who else among the Qiang people can be a great man. ”

"The king, this is ......," Nao was sly shocked.

"At the moment of the great enemy, he dares to make peace with the Qin people, and the few will kill him!" Xiong Jing couldn't suppress his anger, and slammed his fist on several cases.

Nao cunning didn't expect Xiong Jing to kill the Qiang people, so he forgot to persuade him for a while. It wasn't until he came back to his senses that he hurriedly said: "How can the king kill him, if he knows the king's intentions, he will definitely ally with the Qin people,"

"The Qiang people have been bullied by the Qin people for several generations, how can he be the only one who says that the alliance and the alliance will make peace." Xiong Jing said with certainty.

"The king must not be angry and raise troops!" Nao was even more anxious, the Qiang people were allies of the Chu people, and if he killed the Qiang people, in his opinion, he would push the Qiang people to the side of the Qin people.

"Why are you angry?" Xiong Jing immediately calmed down, glanced at Nao Cunning, shook his head and said, "You don't understand." ”

"Minister," Nao Cunning didn't understand Xiong Jing's meaning, but still said: "The minister really doesn't understand, how can the Qiang people wantonly kill him!" ”

"The Qiang people hate Qin for a long time, how can Dahao Ying make peace with Qin Yan wantonly? When did he have such power? With such power, decide that the Qiang people will make peace with the Qin people? How could he be? Xiong Jing said angrily, angry and cunning, who did not understand politics, especially tribal politics. The widow kills him, the widow doesn't even have to kill him, as long as he asks him in public whether he is with Qin, he will be the target of everyone! ”

"Alas! You don't understand! Xiong Jing looked at Nao with some disappointment, there was no genius who was proficient in realpolitik like Han Fei among Zhu Ao, and he suddenly wanted to invite Han Fei to come to Yingdu to be Da Ao to take charge of national affairs. As long as he reverses the theory he wrote to Zhao Zheng, the king of Qin, he will be able to govern the state of Chu well.

Of course, this is also the fundamental reason why the Chu State did not fall into the fate of South Korea, because the political ecology of the Chu State cannot grow up to a genius like Han Fei who is proficient in realpolitik, and compared to the Han people (in essence, the Zheng people), the Chu people are still very simple. And the reason why he was able to reach this level was mainly due to the posterity, which is a magical world where everyone is self-interested but believes that love can generate electricity.

He knew the difference between Confucius and Mencius, Confucius and Confucius himself, and could distinguish the similarities and differences between Mohist and Confucian, Mohist and Mohist itself. He can also see that his every move, every word and word involves countless threads, and the interlacing and entanglement of these threads constitute the politics of Chu and the politics of the world.

It's just that people's energy is limited, and he can't lead the army to fight while managing the government. These can only be handed over to the Chu people who are not proficient in politics and the two outsiders who are proficient in politics but are not Chu people.

After the matter of the Qiang people was decided, Xiong Jing went to Taimiao again before returning to the south of the city. People who are a little careful in the palace will find that the king will go to the Taimiao Temple every day, go there to worship and pray, and after the prayer is completed, he will go out of the palace to the big tent of Yingshi in the south of the city.

It is not good to advocate beautiful people, not to be lively and extravagant, and not to exceed the duty of a king. For hundreds of years in the Warring States period, not to mention the Chu State, there are few such kings in the world. It's a pity that under their deliberate neglect, the King of Qin, who was also temperate and diligent, was ignored. Zhao Zheng, the king of Qin, was also not good at advocating beautiful people, and dealt with government and military affairs day and night.

The sound of da-da-da Return, red, red Mou return. ”

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