After staring for a long time, there was the sound of footsteps outside. Xiong Jing motioned to the palace maid to help him take off his clothes, just try on the wedding dress, and tomorrow he will officially wear this set of clothes and get married.

"Stand outside and pray." It was Don't worry about me, Xiong Jing summoned him before trying on the wedding dress.

"Yui." I replied quietly, and stood outside talking. "When the ministers hear it, those who regulate the small rules cannot become famous, and those who are evil and shameful cannot make great contributions. On the grounds that the king lived in the Qin Palace in June......"|

"Neither?" Xiong Jing suddenly understood the reason, if Empress Dowager Zhao and Marquis Chunping really turned against each other, then Zhao Jia would become the most powerful bomb. The position of the state of Chu is not clear, they will not let Zhao Jia come to Yingdu.

"This matter is reported to Zhu Ao, please make a decision." Dealing with this kind of palace struggle requires a wealth of experience and wisdom, and Xiong Jing knew that it was difficult to retreat, so he could only throw this matter to Zhu Ao. "Who will be the king of Handan?"

"King Yu: The king will be Zhao Cong, and the black-clothed man of the palace will be Han Su." Don't hesitate to reply. "Zhao Cong is related to Taifu Guo Kai."

"Be sure to keep an eye on Handan." Xiong Jing groaned and felt that the situation in Handan was not good, and he might have a coup d'état at some point. If Zhao State has a coup d'état, it may not be able to hold on next year, and if it can't hold on, Zhao State may lose the country. The more he thought about it, the more important he felt that this matter was important, if Zhao Guo died, Han Wei would follow, and if Han Wei died, Chu Qi would follow.

Then there is the plan to attack Qin. This may be the only chance to prevent the Qin State from destroying the Six Kingdoms. Even if Zhao Zheng could not be killed, it would make the Qin State begin to focus on the defense of the north, and advance the northern defense line to the north of Baiyu Mountain, or even Yin Mountain north of the Yellow River. In the northern part of the Hetao, there are Yanrong, Linhu, Loufu, and Qiangrong, and it is impossible to complete the clean-up and consolidation of these places in one or two years, and it will take several years or even more than ten years.

According to the reconnaissance of Lu Gao and Lu Xuan, there are not only grasslands in the Yinshan and Hetao areas, but also large areas of primeval forests. There are still patches of palm and bamboo in the Liupan Mountain area. The reason why there are only three roads from Qin to Xianyang (Malianshui, Jingshui, and Huangshui) is because there are dense forests outside the three river valleys. On the grassland, it is not difficult to clean up the grassland tribes, but if the Rong people hide in the forest, Rong people like Lin Hu, who already live in the forest, will be time-consuming and laborious to clean up.

In the end, it is Xiong Jing's selfishness. His own woman is in someone else's palace, it's good that the Empress Dowager Huayang Zu doesn't die, if she dies, wouldn't Mi Xuan be summoned by Zhao Zheng to go to bed?

Send me away, Xiong Jing thought about it in a mess, and finally couldn't sit still and ran to Da Sima's Mansion.

"I've seen the king." A few days ago, Lu Gao had just finished reporting what he had seen and heard during his reconnaissance trip to Qin, and now the Operations Department is sorting out these materials. In addition to astronomy and geography, more complex and more important are the Qiang people who live in the meanders of the river (Lingwu).

The Zhou and Chu people all married the wives of the Qiang people. Qiang, that is, Jiang, Jiang surname has four surnames: Shen, Lu, Xu, and Qi. These are all Qiang people who have integrated into China, and those who have not integrated still live in the northwest and live a nomadic life. The Qiang people live in the meander, the southeast of the meander is the Yan Rong, and the south of the Yan Rong is the Yi Canal that has been destroyed by the Qin people. Understanding the beliefs, customs, taboos, and past of the Qiang people is the key to engaging with the Qiang people. Otherwise, what awaits the Chu army may be a well-prepared ambush.

"Li Qing, what's going on with the attack on Qin?" Xiong Jing asked the question he had been asking.

"Tell the king, the matter of attacking Qin is being prepared." He replied. "The palace is already building carriages, the countries are counting horses, Qi Wei is already selecting knights, Wu Anbo's henchman fox baby has led people to board the boat, and he can arrive in a few days."

"If there is a big change in Zhao's country, can Qin be attacked?" Xiong Jing said worriedly.

"Great changes in the country?" I don't understand what it means. He didn't know about the affair of Chunping Hou and Lingyu.

"If the state of Zhao is dead, how can our army attack Qin?" Xiong Jing simply prepared for the worst.

"Great King, if the Zhao State is dead, how can our army attack Qin?" I don't know what Xiong Jing is thinking. If the Zhao State is destroyed, the knights will definitely make up less than 30,000, and even if they are forcibly raised, it is impossible for the three kingdoms of Chu, Qi and Wei to gamble once with 90,000 horses. Besides, how will it get out of the plug when the time comes? Where does the plug come from?

"What if you have to attack Qin?" Xiong Jingqiang asked. Seeing that Li was still puzzled, he had no choice but to say: "The strength of the army is only 4,000 cavalry, and it is necessary to make a plan for attacking Xianyang with this in the War Division, and it must be foolproof." ”

The 4,000 cavalry is the cavalry that the Yingshi had first, and the king wants to go out alone like the last expedition? He didn't think about it, and shook his head again and again. "Not at all!"

"Why not?" Xiong Jing asked. He wanted a plan, not a question about the War Division.

"There are 30,000 Xianyang guards, and there are also Qin troops along the road. Xianyang City is 80 miles around, with more than 120,000 households. The Qin people are not Qi people...... "Li is afraid that Xiong Jing will be addicted to the expedition for thousands of miles, and he will attack Qin desperately."

"How about fifty rides?" Li and the four thousand cavalry to attack Qin was of no avail, and forcibly attacking Qin was likely to be strangled by the Qin army. The northern Shaanxi Plateau is densely forested and ravine-ridden, which is completely different from the flat terrain of Huaishang. Maybe the 4,000 cavalry were ambushed by the Qin.

"Fifty horsemen?" Li He stood up in fright, and only shouted: "Not even more! ”

There are not many rooms in the Da Sima Mansion, although there are many small rooms, and this name still makes all the people in the War Division look at it. When these people saw Xiong Jing's eyes sweeping, they quickly lowered their heads again.

"Fifty horsemen are not to attack Qin, but to pick up people." Xiong Jing looked back at Li Ji and said his original intention with some embarrassment.

Li He only understood at this time, but he still disagreed, "How can the king's body be so risky." ”

"You should be ......" Xiong Jing was really hard to say now, he forced a reason, and said: "You should take this as a personal welcome." ”

Greeting is one of the six ceremonies, and men are required to go to the woman's home to greet her. Of course, when the king marries a woman from another country, he usually sends an envoy to greet him, and he only waits on the outskirts of the capital. However, in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, the monarch was also personally welcomed, and at that time, the country was small, and many times it was dozens or hundreds of miles.

It has been 3,000 miles from Zhao to Xianyang, and if it is counted from Yingdu, it will be more than 5,000 miles, and more than 10,000 miles back and forth. The king of a country travels thousands of miles just to welcome a woman, how beautiful is that woman?

Li and instinctively refused, not only refused, but also wanted to inform the Queen Mother and Zhu Ao of the matter. Let the Queen Mother and Zhu Ao prohibit Xiong Jing from risking his life. Why bother to pick up a woman, whether it is the cavalry general Fei Jing or Xiang Chao, you can do it for you.

"How?" Xiong Jing didn't know what Li Ji was thinking, so he asked again.

"The king forgives the sin, but the minister still thinks that this matter is impossible." Li Ji's answer disappointed Xiong Jing. "The king is the king of the Chu country, how can he go deep into the enemy country for a woman? This is not wise; The king is the king of the Chu country, and the rise and fall of a country is the king, how can he take risks because of private affairs, and ignore the society; The king is the king of the kingdom of Chu......"

And this is admonishing. He smelled a sense of danger: since ancient times, it was not good for a king to favor a woman too much. A woman who can make the king travel 5,000 miles to greet him in person is better not to marry into the Chu Palace, otherwise it will be detrimental to the Chu State.

The Great Sima Mansion was an institution of the imperial court, and Li was an official of the imperial court, and he was only loyal to the Sheji of the Chu State and not just Xiong Jing. After admonishing him in person, he quickly reported the matter to Lan Hao, one of the Ao on duty, and Lan Hao quickly met with the Queen Mother Concubine Zhao, and Concubine Zhao quickly summoned the Taifu Song Yu and Kong Qian, as if the dark clouds were overwhelming, when Xiong Jing was called into Ruoying Palace, the three-hall trial began immediately.

"Does the king want to welcome Mi Xuan as queen in person?" Concubine Zhao sat in the middle, and the Chu people worshiped the left, so Song Yu and Kong Qian were on the left, and Lan Hao and Zhao Huang were on the right. All five of them looked at Xiong Jing with expressionless faces.

As soon as Xiong Jing arrived at Ruoying Palace, his hair stood up. Of course, this is not a political struggle, this is a family admonition. However, the family admonition is not good, the former king Wen 'Dedan's concubine, lewd, do not listen to the court for a long time, Taibao Shen Moss fifty'. Xiong Jing didn't want to be supported on the board by Song Yu or Kong Qian, it was too dignified.

"Jing'er!" Xiong Jing was thinking about the precedent of Taifu Taibao whipping the monarch, and forgot to answer Concubine Zhao's words.

"After returning to my mother, this is true." Xiong Jing thought fiercely of Li and that bastard, and admitted it without making any excuses.

"The first king entrusted the society of Chu to you, and you are the king of a country like this?" The son grew up, but the son was stubborn by nature and didn't listen to his own words, Concubine Zhao could only sigh about this, and her dislike for Mi Xuan increased by another point.

"Queen Mother!" Xiong Jing didn't understand Concubine Zhao's mother-in-law psychology, so she only said: "Taifu once taught me that you have no jokes, I once said that I wanted to marry her as my wife, and I can't break my word." ”

Xiong Jing pulled Song Yu in, which made Song Yu a little embarrassed. Thinking of her son's stubbornness, how could she force her son, Concubine Zhao's tears suddenly fell: "You marry her, how can you go out to Xianyang?" If you are ......"

The more Concubine Zhao spoke, the more she couldn't cry, no matter what the result of the kiss, she felt that her son had been snatched away by others.

"Queen Mother!" Xiong Jing is in a hurry. When Concubine Zhao cries like this, he may be called unfilial.

"Hey. Why should the king marry his wife? Seeing this, Lan Hao interjected. Accompanied by fifty horses, out of the fortress for 5,000 miles, the northern county of Qin State is full of mountains and jungles, in case of loss, what is the state of Chu, what is the sheji? ”

"Da Ao doesn't know." Xiong Jing smiled bitterly. "The Qin State is my enemy, but I have never seen the Qin State, and I have never seen the Qin people. There is a saying that it is better to see than to hear, and what you know and what others have heard is not as good as seeing it yourself. Entering Qin is one, and seeing Qin's national sentiment is two. ”

"If you see it in person, why go to Northland?" It was difficult for Lan Hao to tell if Xiong Jing was quibbling or if he really had such thoughts.