Chapter 56: The Meeting
"The king is smart, dare to ask the king if he has any other strategy?" Doctor Sanlu, who had never said anything, looked at the map and sighed again and again, even if it was only the restoration of the Seven Kingdoms, the territory of Chu would be reduced by two-thirds, and an old minister like him could not accept it at all.
As soon as Qu Sui asked, the other ministers also looked over and wanted to know what else the king had planned. Xiong Jing said: "Whether his plan is feasible or not is all up to time, and time does not wait for me, what can I do?" After saying this, he said again: "If all the people of my Chu State are devout and faithful to serve the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, can they fight for Taiyi?" However, only the Chu people believe in Taiyi, and the Yue people, the Lu people, the Song people, the Chen people, and the Huaiyi people, each believing in their own gods, is difficult to unify within ten years, and since they cannot be unified, they naturally cannot fight for the gods. ”
"If the Seven Kingdoms are no longer restored, we will send someone to tell the common people, saying: You are a Chu person, can you?" Qu Sui didn't give up and asked again.
Before Xiong Jing could answer, the rest of the ministers shook their heads. There are many ethnic groups under the rule of Chu, the customs are completely different, the language is also different, the same is the tiger, the Chu people are called 'Ban', the Yi people are called 'Yu Su', and the Yue people are called 'Dun'. In addition to the scholars who have learned Yayan can also communicate with each other, the various ethnic groups simply do not understand the language.
The assimilation of the Chu people to other ethnic groups was only by the upper class scholars and nobles, and the assimilation of the Chu people by the Zhou people was only by the upper class scholars and nobles. As soon as they arrived in the township, the common people still spoke the Chu language, and the customs were still Chu customs - it was a weekly ritual for men and women to sit at different tables, but even the nobles of Chu State had the same table for men and women for hundreds of years, and it had not changed at all.
If the Chu people did not wholeheartedly learn the etiquette of the Central Plains, so the barbarian habits did not go, then what about the Lu State? The state of Lu is the marquis of Zhou, and it is the Zhou rites that have been practiced since the beginning of the country, and great Confucians like Confucius and Mencius are also from Lu. It is such the hometown of Zhou Li, and its powerful minister Yanghu is also 'the alliance and the three huan in the Zhou Society, and the allies in the Bo Society'.
The Zhou Society is naturally the Society of Zhou Li, Lu Dinggong and Sanheng are nobles, and they are allied to the Zhou Society, but the Chinese people are not allied to the Zhou Society, but to the Hao Society. What is Milli Society? The company is the society of merchants. Yin people usually worship in the Hao Society, and naturally ally in the Hao Society. The people of Lu are not Yin people, but Yi people, Yi people and Yin people are the same race, so they are also allied to the Hao Society.
Dongyi, Baiyue, Sanmiao, Pu people, Ba people ......, before the Zhou people replaced the Shang and before the Chu people moved to Jingshan, there were many ethnic groups in the land of China. The partition of the Zhou people was essentially no different from colonization. Colonized in Wei, the colonizer Wei Yigong died in battle, and the colonized Wei people fled in fear; Colonizing Yulu, although Confucius came out hundreds of years later, he still wanted to be 'allies in Boshe'. It has not been assimilated for hundreds of years, how can you assimilate with the sentence 'you are a Chu person'?
Qu Sui finally felt that he had thought simply, and shook his head again and again. Xiong Jing said: "It is necessary to be customary, follow its words, compile its history, and teach its literature, otherwise it will not be able to become its clan." If you don't become a clan, why fight? Why did you die?
There are five plans for today: one is to avoid overseas and fight its laziness; Second, it is said that he will restore his country and help his clan; Third, it is said that with reference to the Qin State, the commercial law is all over the country; Fourth, he believed in the Eastern Emperor and fought for God; Fifth, it is said that the old system is followed, and the enemy is killed with great iron.
The first strategy is to move the power of the whole Chu State to carry hundreds of thousands of princes to the sea to avoid it, and the common people are not allowed to migrate. Rather than this, it is better to allow him to restore the country, help his clan, and lead the people to fight against the Qin army. The third policy refers to the Qin State, and the commercial law is all over the country, and the fourth policy believes in the Eastern Emperor, and it is not feasible to fight for the gods, for the same reason, and the time does not wait for me. The law of commerce should dismiss the county Yin and abandon the nobles, and the whole country will be turbulent and self-defeating; The Eastern Emperor is the god of my Chu people, and the Lu people, the Song people, the Chen people, the Yue people, and the Huaiyi people are all unbelievers.
As for the fifth policy, after Qin swallowed the three Jin Dynasty, the world had accounted for eight out of ten, and the number of servants who could make Dingkou as little as 25 million. Attack me with all the manpower and material resources of the whole world, and if you do not have the heart to die, you will collapse without a fight. Huge soldiers, catapults, crossbows, ......, no matter how good the armor is, there must be people who dare to fight, if not, they will be sent to the Qin people in vain.
Zhongqing, there is no satisfactory solution, only the optimal solution. Xiong Jing unconsciously used the terminology, but fortunately, everyone could still understand it. After that, he shook his head again and said, "The biggest lesson of my Chu people is that for eight hundred years, I haven't worked hard to give birth!" ”
Xiong Jing was laughing at himself in the end, most of the people in Jiang Han's hometown were Chu people, but those people had become the people of the Qin State. Because of this, the culture of Chu must find a way to penetrate into the hometown of Jianghan, and fight a bloodless cultural propaganda war in the hometown of Jianghan, so that more than one million Chu people in Jianghan can understand that they are Chu people and not Qin people. The Chu army was to attack Wanjun before the fall of the Zhao State and fight with the Qin army. win, take back the homeland, and rescue the people; If they are defeated, they will move to Jiangdong, expand their ethnic groups, and fight again in the future.
"Dare to ask the king, if Qin doesn't attack me, what if?" Shen Yinyu thought of another possibility. "Qin doesn't attack me, fifteen years later, all countries will be restored, how can I stand as a Chu people? Or the Qin army attacked me, but the Qin State died in 20 years, and the Zhao State died in another 10 years, and Han Wei died in another 10 years......"
"Zhao Guo is already at the end of the strong crossbow, and Han Wei is gone." On military issues, Sima Nao has the most right to speak. "Zhao Zhiqiang's army all died in Changping, and only the Dai Junjun army survived. Qin Ruo attacked repeatedly, attacked in spring and defended in autumn, and the death of Zhao in ten years was not unfounded. ”
"Won't I save the Chu State?" Dazai Shen Yinyu circled the problem back to reality again, "If you don't save it, it's unjust!" ”
Xiong Jing and Nao looked at each other when they heard this, and in addition to them, Lu Yangjun, Xiang Yan, and Peng Zong knew about Chu's counteroffensive plan. It can't be called a plan, to be exact, it's just an idea, although the idea is progressing gradually.
"Chu and Zhao are not adjacent, if you save them?" Nao asked slyly. After knowing the counteroffensive plan, the Zhao State was destined to be sacrificed, otherwise how could the Qin State relax its vigilance? Moreover, before the change of the domestic political system and the political situation is not stable, it is simply impossible to move troops on a large scale.
"It can be said that in the Wei State, all the countries are combined." Shen Yinyu was still thinking about Hezhong.
"The King of Wei has said from the Qin envoy Yao Jiazhi that he will no longer join forces with my Chu State and Zhao State." Nao Cunning told the news he received yesterday that he had reported the matter to Xiong Jing.
"Ahh Shen Yinyu was immediately stunned, and after being surprised, he hurriedly said: "Yes, even if the Wei State is not in harmony, the joint efforts of our Chu and Zhao countries can also make the Qin people frightened." King, the Qin army will attack me, Zhao will save me, Qin will attack Zhao, and I, Qin, should also save Zhao."
"Everything will be discussed after meeting the envoys of the two countries." Xiong Jing was helpless. There are fewer and fewer options, and the rope around the neck is tighter and tighter. Whether it is the king of the dead country or the lord of Zhongxing, it all depends on the actions of the past ten years.
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The state of Chu is discussed, and a discussion is seven days. The envoys of Qin and Zhao in the post house were waiting anxiously, and they did not know that the king of Wei had said from Yao Jiazhi that he would not join forces with Chu and Zhao. Wei is not in harmony with South Korea, and Yan is naturally not in harmony. Every time these two countries join forces, they play the role of soy sauce, not because they are helpful in battle, but because they can let Wei and Zhao have no worries.
Two days before the burial of the first king, Zhao envoy Wei Jia and Qin envoy Changping Jun Xiong Qi, who had the idea of 'the confessor is rare to see like a ghost, and the king is rare to see the emperor of heaven', finally met the king of Chu.
Wei Jia's words were not surprising, in addition to talking at length about how necessary and how good Hezong was, he also wanted the crossbows, huge irons, firearms, and flying ...... of the Chu State. It was not surprising that he wanted these things, but when Zhao Huang asked him why he was compensated, he said that Zhao and Chu were like brothers.
After ascending the throne, this was the first time Xiong Jing looked at the court, and the ministers under the rank looked like black nails, he looked at these nails, and these nails also looked at him. Because Xiong Jing's hair has been broken, the nail's gaze is even more surprised and puzzled.
"What Zhao Envoy said, I don't know, please go back to the post house for a while." Xiong Jing did not wear mourning clothes, but white clothes, looking at the court in leather clothes.
"Please follow the legacy of the ancestors of your country, and defeat Qin and allied with Zhao." Wei Jia not only refused to take it, but took two steps forward, which was unpleasant.
"The first king only saved Zhao, and never allied with Zhao, what will he do?" Xiong Jing sneered. He felt that if Wei Jia got closer, he might press his sword like Mao Sui and force Wang Mengzhao.
When Wei Jia first saw Xiong Jing, he didn't care. How can you swear and fight side by side before the battle? Others believed that he only thought that this was a myth made up by the Chu people, and at this time, he was a little surprised to see Xiong Jingkouli.
"The king is ridiculous. The Qin army attacked Chu, and when the widow heard about it, he sent 200,000 troops to save it, so the Qin army retreated. What the widow thinks is that Zhao Chu is not allied and the real alliance, the love is like a brotherhood, and now the king says that my two countries are not allied, where is the righteousness? Weiga continued to step forward until he reached the bottom of the stairs.
"The first king sent an envoy at the end of August, an envoy into Handan at the beginning of September, your country was allowed to send troops at the end of October, and the army went out of Handan in November. The army did not come out and the Qin army was defeated, and the war could not afford to recover from Chu, and now it is righteous to hold the merit of retreating from Qin, what is the righteousness? Xiong Jing looked at Wei Jia. The words of the Zongheng family actually can't stand scrutiny, but most of the monarchs are confused, so they are often blinded by them, Xiong Jing used to argue with people about the price of British steel can argue for hundreds of floors, how did Wei Jia's little trick deceive him.
"It is not that when the country of his father is in danger, he said that the king was between the rebels and soldiers, but fortunately, the guards died inside, and the faithful soldiers fought for their lives outside, so that the peace of the Chu country could be achieved today. Now the king is not buried, the major politics are not clear, the alliance Zhao, and Qin, to the ministers after the discussion, have their own decision. Xiong Jing's gaze swept over the ministers, and finally fell on Wei Jia's face. At this time, he no longer has the momentum he had before, and his steps are no longer moving forward.
"Does the king want to be with Qin?" Wei Jia pretended to be surprised. "The former Qin will rise in vain, raise Yan Ying in one battle, burn Yiling in another battle, and humiliate the king's ancestors in three battles, and Zhao Zhi is ashamed of this hundred years of resentment. The king and Qin, how can he see the first king of Chu? ”
"In the battle of Changping in the past, the Qin people killed 400,000 Zhao soldiers, and the nobles were also beheaded, Handan families wore filial piety and every household went out to the funeral, but the king of Zhao wanted to cut the six cities in order to seek peace, how could the king of Zhao see the first king of Zhao?" Xiong Jing is-for-tat.
"In the battle of Changping, the army of my Zhao State was lost, so the first widow cut the six cities to seek peace with Qin, but the six cities were not given to Qin, Qin besieged Handan, and returned defeated, and the first widow can see the first king." Weiga Road.
"After Yan Ying, only half of the Chu State remained, five feet to sixty, and there were only more than 300,000 blunt soldiers in armor. In the Battle of Qingshui, the Chu army defeated the Qin army, causing the Qin people to enter Chu to sue for peace. Xiong Jing sneered and motioned for the maid to send off the guest.