Xiong Xu of Chu killed many domestic nobles after the war, in fact, when Zhao Hongrun was still in Xiangcheng, he had already heard about it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

I remember that at the beginning, Zhao Hongrun was not interested in this, after all, in his opinion, this move was a typical scapegoat, and there was nothing to care about.

But later, when he learned the clan details of the nobles who were killed, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Because those nobles who were killed, although they were not the top first-class nobles in the Chu State, they had a certain marriage relationship with the top first-class nobles such as the Xiong family, the Xiang family, the Ji Lian family, and the Jing family, and they were quasi-big clans attached to the former.

Two days later, when Zhao Hongrun heard again that there were actually many noble children surnamed Xiong in the list of nobles who were executed by Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, he felt more and more that something was wrong.

After all, with the transcendent status of the Xiong nobles in the Chu State, things like catching scapegoats in the past couldn't be close to them at all.

"I've heard a little." Zhao Hongrun nodded, looked back at the lord of the country of Lu and said, "I don't know what the lord of the country thinks about this?" ”

may not have expected Zhao Hongrun to ask him, the lord of the country of Lu was slightly stunned, but then, he smiled with relief and said: "The widow originally wanted to hear the opinion of the prince Run, hehe." Speaking of this, the smile on his face gradually retracted, a trace of essence flashed in his eyes, and he lowered his voice and said: "No one suspects, His Majesty King Qi and you and I may have fallen for the tricks of Xiong Xu's old thief......"

Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly, lowered his voice and said, "What does the lord of the country refer to, the battle of Shouying?" ”

"Hmm." The lord of Lu stroked his beard and said in a deep voice: "Maybe what the widow said, Gongzi Run doesn't like to hear it." …… The widow always has some suspicions, in the battle of Shouying, the progress of your army is too fast and too smooth, as if it is a ......"

"It's as if the Chu army deliberately put our Wei army into the city." Zhao Hongrun interjected.

"......" The lord of the country of Lu looked at Zhao Hongrun in surprise, and then said as if relieved: "The widow finally understands why His Majesty King Qi values Gongzi so much. ”

Zhao Hongrun smiled bitterly when he heard this, not only lamenting that Lu Xi, the king of Qi, had expressed his intention to rob him as his son more than once, but also lamenting that the wise and martial King of Qi was no longer alive.

Shaking his head to stabilize his mind, Zhao Hongrun lowered his voice and said: "If the guess between the lord of the country and Xiao Wang is good, then you and I may not be the biggest winner in this battle......"

"......" Lu Guoguo asserted and opened his mouth, barely squeezing out a wry smile on his face: "Who says it's not." ”

Saying that, he invited Zhao Hongrun and his party to the palace of Lu State and held a banquet to entertain Zhao Hongrun.

Not to mention the banquet that day, it was nothing more than the lord of Lu State treating Zhao Hongrun, Mi Jiang and others with good wine and food.

It may be influenced by the idea of excellence of the craftsmen of the Lu country, and the court dishes of the Lu country are also extraordinarily exquisite, small in quantity and delicious, which is quite in line with the overall national conditions of the Lu country.

After the banquet, the lord of Lu sent Zhao Hongrun and his party to the post house in Qufu City to rest.

At noon the next day, when Zhao Hongrun had just gotten up, Zong Wei Jiao entered the house to tell him: The envoy sent by the lord of Lu has been waiting in the post house for a long time.

Zhao Hongrun was not surprised by this, after all, his conversation with the lord of Lu yesterday had not yet ended.

Placing Su Wangwei in the post house to take care of the carriages loaded with the rubbings of the "Lu Gong's Secret Record", Zhao Hongrun took Mi Jiang and several Zongwei, and under the leadership of the messenger, came to the palace of King Lu again.

If it is said that yesterday's banquet Zhao Hongrun used the specifications of a state banquet, then today is a private banquet, and Zhao Hongrun did not see the hundred officials of Lu State as accompaniment.

He realized that the lord of the country of Lu most likely wanted to continue the conversation with him that had not been resolved yesterday.

Sure enough, after entering the palace, the eunuch of the palace told Zhao Hongrun that the lord of Lu invited him to a separate banquet in the palace Zhao Hongrun.

So, Zhao Hongrun asked Lu Mu, Mu Qing and others to follow another eunuch to eat and drink, and he himself, with Mi Jiang and Wei Jiao, followed the eunuch to the place where the lord of Lu was located.

As Zhao Hongrun expected, there were no idlers at today's banquet, and the lord of Lu only brought a palace guard named Kong Fuling.

After the two sides met the ceremony, the chief of the palace guard, Kong Fuling, and the chief of the Zongwei guard, Wei Jiao, guarded the Yayuan alone, while Zhao Hongrun took Mi Jiang and sat opposite the lord of the Lu State.

At this time, although Mi Jiang was still dressed as Zongwei and wearing leather soft armor, how could he hide the eyes of the lord of Lu State, and he could see through the details of this woman disguised as a man at a glance, so there was a little ridicule in his eyes when he looked at Zhao Hongrun.

And Zhao Hongrun didn't explain this, after all, if Mi Jiang's true origin is explained, it is still quite shocking: the eldest daughter of Runan Jun Xiong Hao.

"Old thief Xiongxu, I really killed a lot of people a few days ago......"

After inviting Zhao Hongrun and Mi Jiang to the table, the lord of Lu personally took the wine from the pot and poured a glass for all three, which means that he and Zhao Hongrun are equals, which makes Zhao Hongrun's impression of this lord even better.

"Thank you, Lord." Zhao Hongrun poured a thank you, and then raised his glass and blew the hot aroma of wine on his face, and said lightly: "Xiao Wang thought about it for a night yesterday, and felt that King Chu might want to take this opportunity to attack some hidden dangers in the country...... Hum! What a cunning and treacherous old fox! ”

In the last sentence, Zhao Hongrun's tone was full of resentment.

Why?

Because after the capture of Shouying, he did not get the huge wealth he expected. Those riches had already been taken to the south by the nobles who had fled during the Wei army's attack on Shouying.

Don't look at Wei Jun's gains in terms of money this time, it is indeed not small, so that even Mi Jiang, who has no good impression of Chu State, feels that Zhao Hongrun has robbed too many things from Chu State, but in fact? How much did Wei Jun really gain?

Joke!

Shouying, that is the royal capital of the Chu State, is the most densely populated location of thousands of aristocratic families in the Chu State, and that is the savings that the Wei army spent several months and couldn't move through!

But right now, the coalition army, as the victorious side, only got some leftovers that the nobles of Chu didn't have time to take away when they fled, and Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, took advantage of the matter of catching scapegoats after the war, and quietly confiscated those huge sums of money and included them in the country.

Insatiable!

On the side, Mi Jiang saw Zhao Hongrun's tangled expression, and secretly snorted coldly, who let Zhao Hongrun complain too many similar things along the way.

As for the lord of the Lu country, he is not as dissatisfied as Zhao Hongrun, what he is worried about is another matter.

"If your guess and mine are correct, this time Xiong Xu old thief has played a great trick in front of us......" Speaking of this, he said worriedly: "Early this morning, there was news from Xizuo, saying that in the Chu State, led by Shouling Jun Jingshe, Diyang Jun Xiong Shang and others, he wantonly impeached some nobles for their inaction during the war, forcing Xiong Xu to severely punish people like Juyang Jun Xiong Li......"

"......" Zhao Hongrun's eyelids jumped, and he scolded in his heart.

Although the lord of Lu said it vaguely, how could Zhao Hongrun not hear it?

Like Juyang Jun Xiong Carp, this person used to be one of the best brothers of King Chu Xiong Xu, if Xiong Xu did not secretly agree, even if it was Shouling Jun Jingshe and Diyang Jun Xiong Shang, it would not be able to move Juyang Jun Xiong Carp.

In other words, it was just a double reed play performed by Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, Jingshe and Xiong Shang.

Now it's okay, the wealth of Juyang Jun Xiong Carp is also owned by the King of Chu.

Damn the Shrine!

Zhao Hongrun sullenly drank the hot wine in the cup, and secretly scolded Shouling Junjingshe in his heart.

Because if it weren't for Shouling Jun Jingshe arriving in Juyang in time, he would probably be able to break through Juyang County and take the huge wealth of Juyang Jun Xiong Carp for himself.

Entangled in his heart, he subconsciously put the empty wine glass in front of Mi Jiang.

Mi Jiang was stunned for a moment, then put down his chopsticks and filled Zhao Hongrun's wine glass.

This scene evoked the ridiculous smile of the lord of Lu again.

And Zhao Hongrun didn't care, and after drinking another glass of hot wine, he frowned and said, "Those nobles of the Chu State can't even see this thing, right?" …… Can't they see that Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, is taking the opportunity to kill people? ”

"Look, of course, it's out." The lord of Lu also drank a glass of wine, and said with a complicated expression: "At present, there are rumors everywhere in the Chu State, saying that Xiong Xu's old thief is no match for our coalition army, so he killed the nobles to vent his anger, causing many Chu nobles to unite and force Xiong Xu's old thief off the throne...... But so what? Chu State also has Xiang Mo, Xiang Jiao, as well as Shouling Jun Jingshe, Xiling Jun Qu Ping, Diyang Jun Xiong Shang, as long as these people stand on Xiong Xu's side of the old thief, those nobles can't play any tricks. ”

Speaking of this, he drank all the hot wine in the cup in one gulp, sighed and said: "Xiong Xu, the faint king, has never won a battle with the king of Qi for half his life, but I didn't expect that this time, he actually had a draw with the king of Qi." As he spoke, he shook the empty wine bottle and muttered, "When the Chu State calms down the civil strife, I, Qilu, will suffer." ”

Zhao Hongrun naturally understood what the lord of Lu meant by these words, and persuaded him: "The lord of the country does not need to worry, Xiong Xu wants to take power, but I don't think those nobles will be willing to hand over power, if it is not surprising, the state of Chu will usher in a civil strife." …… And this civil strife is far worse than the civil strife in the Qi country! ”

Indeed, if the civil strife in the State of Qi is just a struggle for the throne between the sons of the King of Qi and Lu Xu, then the civil strife in the State of Chu is the dying struggle of the old aristocratic forces when they were suppressed by the King of Chu Xiong Xu, and the intensity of the two is not at all on the same level.

It is no exaggeration to say that the state of Chu, which was not defeated by the forces of Qi, Qi, Wei and Yue, is likely to collapse and become fragmented in this civil strife.

The problem is that once the Chu State ends its civil strife, then the Qilu, Wei, and Yue Quartet forces will have to face a Chu State that has been the strongest in the past few hundred years. (To be continued.) )