Chapter Ninety-Eight: He Fu
Standing at the Yingdu Yangshui Wharf and looking east, the last warboat was also rowed away. At this time, without the help of Lu Lijing, there was only a small black dot left on the phoenix flag fluttering in the wind at the front of the boat team. When this black spot also disappeared in the sky of Chu Kingdom, where the north wind was fierce, Concubine Zhao, Ying Nan, Nao Cunning, Zhao Xiao, and Lan Hao, who saw them off, turned around and returned to the city.
Li Xin's army had previously stopped and assembled on the north bank of the Lishui River, and when the bridge on the Lushui River was erected, it had advanced for another fifty miles, and at this time, the Qin army's front army had stopped and assembled on the north bank of the Lishui River (now the Li River). Li Xin's movements were very slow, and it took a total of twenty days from the camp in Xiangcheng to cross the water. It is expected that it will take 20 days to cross the water from the water to the water.
Twenty miles ahead of Lishui is the entrance of Fangcheng, and it is unknown whether it will really take twenty days for Nandu Lishui to enter Fangcheng. But more than 20 days have passed, except for the two divisions in Hanzhong, including the 80,000 Zhao army, the 340,000 army has rushed to Fangcheng and is assembling towards Wancheng. Xiong Jing went north overnight, less than a thousand miles away, and could be arrived in two days.
The more urgent the battle on the front line, the colder it became overnight. Concubine Zhao, who was dressed in a white fox fur, still felt cold hands and feet when she entered the carriage, so Ying Nan hurriedly helped her take off her hand clothes, roasted her hands on the brazier, served a cup of hot tea, and smelled the aroma of frankincense burning in the bronze incense burner, and her tense body was relaxed due to the cold.
"Alas. The king went on the expedition...... "The body is comfortable and warm, but thinking of her son going on the expedition again, Concubine Zhao is a little depressed."
"Don't worry, the queen mother, the king is invincible, and the Qin people are already frightened when they hear the wind." Marrying into the Chu Palace is like marrying into the Cold Palace, the joy and sorrow at the beginning are all gone, Ying Nan is no longer the lively and proud woman she used to be, she seems to be old and has lost all her charm.
Concubine Zhao is familiar with this look, and some of the concubines of the former kings in the palace also have this look. They can no longer get the favor of the former king, and they have no children under their knees—children are the permanent topic of the mother, and if they don't even have children, it is better to go with the former king in front of the empty and deserted dormitory every day.
"Hey!" Concubine Zhao sighed again, she grabbed Ying Nan's hand and said, "When the king comes back, he will change his mind." ”
The queen lives in Ruoying Palace, but Ying Nan often goes to the North Morning Palace, and the people of the mother country in the mother's harem come and go from time to time, and they can guess one or two without knowing. Concubine Zhao's words made her indifferent eyes inevitably ignite some hope, but this hope immediately dissipated: "Queen Mother, the king will be furious." ”
"The king is furious, and that is also to the queen mother." Concubine Zhao's face couldn't help but show a little viciousness. "That slut is going to give birth next month. She really wants to give birth to the king's eldest son, this Chu country, this Chu country......"
Concubine Zhao didn't continue, she got out of the car and walked into the Beichen Palace with a calm face, and shouted after sitting still for a long time. Soon, Lianyu came.
"I've seen the Queen Mother, I've seen the Queen." Lian Yu was in Yingdu, and did not go north with Xiongjing.
"Stand down." The palace is full of Zhao people, and Concubine Zhao is still not at ease, so she waved her sleeves and asked everyone to retreat. Ying Nan got up and was about to retreat, but she grabbed him: "It's okay to listen." ”
"Yui." Ying Nan agreed and sat quietly on the seat.
"Who is leading the army this time?" Concubine Zhao took a cup of tea and asked quietly. This sentence made Ying Nan want to jump up from the mat, but Concubine Zhao's eyes looked at her with substance, and said, "Nan'er, do you know why the queen mother is like this?" ”
"Nan'er doesn't know." Winning Nanton's head, she even regretted that she had stayed.
"Chu and Qin have been married for a long time, so the Qin Palace has always been inhabited by Chu women, and Chu Palace is often inhabited by Qin women. The first monarch favored Zheng Sleeve, and the harem fell into the hands of Zheng Sleeve. When the first monarch poured into the king, although the king was in Xianyang, the first monarch still married the Qin girl as the queen. When the first king was the crown prince, he was in Xianyang, and he married a Qin girl. If it weren't for the first king returning to the country in casual clothes, this Chu Palace would still be the queen of Qin. ”
Concubine Zhao talked about the past of the Chu Palace, Ying Nan didn't dare to speak, and Lian Yu knew these things and didn't speak. Concubine Zhao is the queen mother and Xiong Jing is the king, and the root cause is because Xiong Yuan was the crown prince in Xianyang, and he returned to the country without permission to take the throne. King Qin Zhao was furious at that time, and although the anger subsided after Fan Sui's persuasion, Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun stayed in Xianyang, and Queen Yingqing also stayed in Xianyang. Without this matter, Concubine Zhao could not be the queen mother, and Xiong Jing would not have been able to inherit the throne.
"If the king favors Qin, Chu will inevitably be pro-Qin, and if the queen is Zheng, Wei, and Zhao, Chu will naturally be pro-Jin. The harem is related to national politics, and national politics is related to the world and the mother country. Concubine Zhao continued to speak, this is her as a senior educating the juniors. She must make Ying Nan quickly wake up from the mind of a little woman who can't get on the stage at all, such as 'being favored, falling out of favor, and having ......a mother and a son', and become a real queen. This is a struggle, not a palace fight.
"Although the mother country has moved south, the mother country has died. Does the king want to destroy Qin? Hehe...... the king doesn't want to destroy Qin! The king does not want to destroy Qin, and the Chu people are also happy to live in the land of Henan, what about the mother country? He will meet the alliance of Chu and Qin Mi soldiers, how can the mother country be restored? !
Although Mi Xuan's surname is Mi, she is a Qin woman. If Mi Xuan gives birth to the eldest son of the king, Chu and Qin will join the alliance, and they will enter the palace as the queen, and you ......" Concubine Zhao's words became louder and louder, and the loud was so loud that the entire large room was echoed. Ying Nan had never seen her aunt so sonorous, and she had never been touched like this, she seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, her whole body was cold, and her eyes were full of tears.
"And you ......," Concubine Zhao sighed, and said weakly: "You will be sent out by the king." ”
"Woo... Woo woo...... "Ying Nan couldn't help but throw herself into Concubine Zhao's arms and cry bitterly. The king told the kings of all countries in the northern city of Daliang a reason for not fitting the bed, which gave the daughters some hope, and she also had some hope in her heart. Now Concubine Zhao ruthlessly punctured this hope, and said that she would be married by the king in the future, how could she not cry.
"Don't cry, don't cry. I, the Zhao people, don't cry men, and women shouldn't cry. Concubine Zhao comforted her softly, "The mother country is dead, you are a princess, and you must always think of the mother country." For the sake of the mother country, Mi Xuan will die. If she doesn't die, he will be allied with Chu and Qin, and you will be born by the king, how will the mother country be restored? ”
"......" Ying Nan was still crying bitterly, trying to restrain himself and kept sobbing, "Mother... Queen Mother, so... Big... King... Must... Anger ......"
"How could the queen mother not know that the king was angry, but you can't have both fish and bear's paws, and the queen mother has only this strategy." Concubine Zhao, who was holding Yingnan, also cried. She could imagine her son's anger afterwards, but what could she do if she didn't? Really watched his son give birth to a wife and then set up a Qin girl as the queen of Chu?
The battle for the harem has never been milder than the battle for the city, and this is the case with Zheng Sleeve's framing of Wei Nu, who is also a member of the Three Jin Dynasty. If the Chu Palace is controlled by Mi Xuan, Chu and Qin are really in good arms, how can the Zhao State be restored? If you don't take advantage of this time to kill Mi Xuan, everything will be a foregone conclusion when she gives birth to the eldest son of the king.
The crying in the large room stopped for a while, and after wiping away her tears, Concubine Zhao continued to ask what she hadn't finished asking before, "Who led the troops?" ”
"He is the son of the great general Sima Shang, Sima Mao." When Ying Nan cried bitterly, when he heard Concubine Zhao's words, Lian Yu couldn't help but feel ashamed, but shame is shame, reality is reality. The king of Qin has been kind to the clansmen left by the Mi clan in Qin, and the king of Chu has no intention of destroying Qin, and the Qin state has no result in attacking Chu, and the final result is nine times out of ten that the army will be an alliance.
"Sima Mao?" The general Sima Shang and Concubine Zhao knew who Sima Mao was, but she didn't know.
"Sima Mao is nameless and good at fighting, so he takes on this responsibility." It is extremely important that Lian Yu accentuates the pronunciation when he says 'nameless'.
"How much do you want to do with soldiers? And how to get into Chu? "Concubine Zhao is also satisfied with the nameless, this is a private matter of the royal court, and it has nothing to do with Zhao Guo.
"With the equipment of Xiaoyi, it is necessary for more than 1,000 people to invade the city. Our army has entered the city to reject Qin, and the heavy grain and straw are transported by the beams, if it is from the waterway, it must pass through Jingling. Jingling is not far from Yingdu, and it is not difficult for thousands of people to sneak into Yunmeng Daze in the boat. "The plan is not a day or two, so Lian Yu told him." However, if the soldiers in the city of Yingdu are blocked when attacking......"
"When the city was attacked, the old woman ordered the whole city to be closed." Lian Yu was worried about the soldiers of the Yingshi who stayed in the city of Yingdu, even if there were not many soldiers in the city, a big city like the capital could temporarily gather thousands of people. Concubine Zhao said that she could order the whole city to be closed, which surprised Lian Yu. He knew that whether it was the queen of Chu or the queen mother, he had power in the Chu Palace, but he had no power when he left the Chu Palace.
"Don't ask too much, the old woman has her own plan." As soon as Lian Yu opened his lips, Concubine Zhao blocked his words. She said again: "The king was still worried when he left, so he left the four pawns in Xiaoyi. The Mi family has a private pawn, and it is rumored that the Mi clan's private pawn has entered Xiaoyi......"
Even if Zhao Guo has Hou spy in Chu State, there are very few, and only Concubine Zhao's eyes and ears can really be relied on. Lian Yu kept in mind Concubine Zhao's words, and these must be quickly transmitted back to the northern city of Daliang for the strategists to weigh and refer to.
"There are many cities in the world, but there are small towns," Lian Yu asked. "Its shape is very different from the cities in the world, I don't know if the Queen Mother can know ......"
"The old woman remembered that the king once said that this is the latest city jointly built by the Great Sima Mansion and the Qi family, but the city can be bombed by fire artillery, and the rest is unknown." The rest of Xiaoyi couldn't get in, and Concubine Zhao remembered her son's original defense.
"The Great Sima Mansion ......, can the fire cannon bomb the city?" Lian Yuyan was slightly moved when he heard this.
"The king loves Mi Xuan very much, and builds a small town to defend it, and the fortress will be strong." Concubine Zhao doesn't know anything about military affairs, but with her understanding of her son, that small town must be difficult to attack. "The Qin people attacked Chu, and I will be honored this day. You can't lose it, you can't indulge the enemy, if you want to indulge the enemy this time......"
"The minister knows also." Lian Yu solemnly paused.
Concubine Zhao is the queen mother, and the king of Chu will naturally not kill his mother, which is also where Zhao Guo's courage lies in daring to do so. The State of Qi was worried that the State of Chu would dominate after the death of the State of Qin, and that was because the people of Qi did not understand the State of Chu. The state of Chu destroyed the state of Qin, except for horses, there would be no interest in the cold land of Hebei, and at that time, the state of Chu would naturally help the state of Zhao restore the country and govern the north. Guanzhong should not be handed over to the Zhao State, and the King of Chu is likely to support a royal family as the King of Qin, and the future Qin State will be controlled by the Chu State.
This situation was beneficial to the Zhao State, and the most unfavorable thing for the Zhao State was the immortalization of the Qin State. The Qin State did not die and the Chu and Qin Alliances, the two countries were bounded by the Qinling Fangcheng, with Wei and Qi in between, and then the north of the Great River was owned by the Qin State, and the Zhao State had no hope.
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