Chapter XXXVII

"The king should ascend the altar first, stand here, and after the king of Qi ascends to the altar, he can grass it." It was Shaozai who spoke, Yang Wenjun's deputy Jin Yi. He came from Yingdu by warboat, and he was tired enough all the way.

"And then?" What is the process of the alliance, Xiong Jing still doesn't know, the Chu State has not met the alliance in the past few decades.

"Then the king of Qi will lay the jade." This time, the alliance of Chu State is the main alliance, and a procedure for laying jade is saved. Then dig a ridge in the ground, kill the right side of the animal, cut off the left ear of the cattle, and put it on the bead plate. The bead plate is held by the king and is held by the bull's ear. ”

"Bull's ear?" Xiong Jing nodded, he knew how the word "bull ear" came from.

"Yes, yes." Jin Yi nodded. "The blood of cattle and pigs is held in Yudun, and it is held by Rong right. The alliance will rise, and the king will stand on the altar to the west, and the king of Qi will stand on the altar to the north. First, there is a league to read the covenant, to announce the gods, and then there is the right end of the blood of the sacrifice, the king should put the blood on the mouth, in order to show unswerving, this is blood. The same is true of the King of Qi. After the blood, the book of the covenant was buried in the kan along with the cattle, which is the kan book of the cattle. ”

All Xiong Jing has to do is to bleed, and there is no difficulty. Jin Yizai said: "After that, the king should sacrifice the sun, moon, mountains and rivers with the king of Qi, and then it is time to go down to the altar to feast, or to shoot guests." After the banquet, the alliance will be completed. ”

"I don't know." Xiong Jing's face was relaxed, he thought that the alliance would be very cumbersome, but he didn't expect it to be so easy. On stage, blood, sacrifices, feasts. Except for being on stage and blood, he has experienced the rest.

"The king must remember that he must not lose his authority to the Qi country." It is not difficult to form an alliance, but it is difficult to maintain its majesty in the alliance. Jin Yi looked at the king a little worried, he was not worried about the king's intelligence, but worried about the king's age.

"No, naturally, you won't lose your authority in the Qi country." Xiong Jing is very natural. "If he doesn't accept it, he can not ally do it, and everyone will fight again."

Qin Wei has already withdrawn his troops, and in this case, the state of Chu can deal with the state of Qi with all its might. Although he didn't really want to conspire with Zhao Guo and Qi State, he could still make it. Today's Qi State is no longer the aggressive Qi State before the destruction of the country, and the reason why the Lu State will be destroyed in Chu is because the Qi State is unwilling to fight with the big countries again. Last year's attack on Ju was the one that the Qin State tried its best to suppress.

Xiong Jing, who feels that he has passed another crisis, is tired, but he is still in a good mood. After the alliance, the Yingdu Outer Dynasty opened, the new policy was about to be in full swing, and the relationship with Zheng Shang and Wei Shang was gradually harmonious, and I believe that they would change their minds soon and discuss the matter of 300,000 gold bonds.

Muling Pass is built on Daxian Mountain, the city is not high, but more than two zhang, but by virtue of the mountain, it is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack. The first pass was captured by the king's soldiers, and it was easy to take the first pass to gain a foothold, and then it was easy to fight the second pass. Looking at the towering Guancheng, he didn't expect that the courtiers who had agreed to the alliance before suddenly changed their minds.

"The minister thinks that he may not hand over the internal customs to the Qi people." Qu Guang accompanied the King of Qi to Muling, and the Qi people were extremely forward-looking at the beginning, and their attitude became respectful after learning that Qin Wei had withdrawn his troops.

"What does Qu Qing think Qi is like? Trustworthy? How is it compared to the Wei people? On the way, Xiong Jing also considered this problem, since he had already taken Muling Pass, why not cooperate with Zhao Guo and really destroy Qi State, but he was still worried about Qi State itself.

The king of Qi may be cowardly, but the Qi people, of course, the Qi people outside Linzi need to spend strength to conquer, and even more need to spend great efforts to suppress it. This is different from the Wei State, the current territory of the Wei State was originally owned by the Zheng State, and most of the people were Zheng people. Since the Zheng people are willing to be Wei people and not resist, then they are also willing to be Chu people, there is no doubt about this. Taking any city can quickly be incorporated into the big system of the Chu State, and the common people are more willing to be Chu people than to be Wei people.

"This," Refractive didn't expect Xiong Jing to ask about people, not soldiers and cities. "I don't know."

"Does Jin Qing know the details of Qi Kingdom?" Xiong Jing asked Shaozai Jin Yi, but Jin Yi didn't know.

"Tell the king, the king must not be without faith." Refractive and Jin Yi don't know the Qi State, and the right history seems to know the Qi State.

"Why?" Xiong Jing only took care of Lu Zhonglian, Tian Heng and the like, and did not know the truth about Qi State.

"Qi is like my Chu State, does the king think that Chu State can be bullied?" Right history is amazing. "The country of Qi started from the Jiang family, all over the Zhou people's township system, Guan Zhong changed it, and then the system of the township, and the system of the five capitals, hundreds of years to the present, the organization is solid, better than my Chu country.

The king may not be able to pass the Qi country, but the Qi country will not be unwilling, and the Qin country will not sit idly by. Qi people are weak, but weak is better than strong, they don't want to be enemies with my Chu State, bully them, and Qin State may send soldiers from four counties to help Qi attack me and become my mortal enemy. ”

Organization is the word that Xiong Jing introduced into the world, but few people understand the true meaning of organization. Right history said that the organization of Qi is higher than that of Chu, Xiong Jing is a little puzzled, his concept of Xiang Yu has 8,000 children, Tian Heng is only 500 dead soldiers, it should be that the organization of Chu is higher than that of Qi. But what he ignored was that after the unification of Qin, the nobles of Kwantung moved to Xianyang, and the Xiang family was not a prince of Chu to escape, except that only the bear heart of herding sheep in the countryside slipped through the net.

In addition to Tian Heng, the clans of Qi that missed the net also include Tian Dan, Tian Rong, Tian Shi, Tian Du, Tian Jiao, Tian Guang, Tian An, Tian Jian, and Tian Jiao, all of which are clans. Since there are so many clans, there are naturally not a few Qing clans. Qin annihilated the Six Kingdoms, and spared no effort to arrest the Qing clan of the Six Kingdoms, and it was impossible to favor one over the other. Since the net of the Qi State can keep so many clans, it is naturally more organized than the Chu State, and there are fewer Qi people who complain to the Qin people for rewards than the Chu people.

This is actually the difference between the two countries, Qi is a big country when it was founded, nearly a thousand years of edification, and the people who live in that land consider themselves Qi people. The state of Chu is different, the viscount of the state of Chu started fifty miles, and after the conquest, he only moved his clan and turned the country into a county, not to mention the scholars, even the common people also knew that they were not originally Chu people - frequent sacrifices made the common people maintain the memory of their ancestors.

It also led to a bad result: the woodcutter who led the coalition army to cross the water in the Battle of Hanging Sand, if he thought he was a Chu person, he would never give the Qi general Kuang Zhang the way; Similarly, when the Chu State was fighting for hegemony, if he was really a Chu person, he would never say: 'Left', causing Xiang Yu to fall into the biggest tragedy of the cavalry. The real Chu people are only in the old Yingjiang Han Plain, but unfortunately they have long been lost there.

Muling Guancheng, the day before the alliance, Xiong Jing and the ministers discussed the alignment strategy again, and the Qi army shogunate outside the Guancheng, a debate is also unfolding, unlike the Chu people, what should be done if the Chu State does not ally with him?

"The minister has sent an envoy to Zhao to reconcile with Zhao." Minister Hou Sheng said that he felt that he was really like heaven during this time, and what he did was all right, and the king was very satisfied. "However, it took a lot of time to go to Handan, and the envoy has not yet heard back."

"Does King Zhao want to kill me?" When he came to Mulingguan, although he brought 100,000 troops, Tian Jian's heart still beat very fast.

"The minister thinks that if he allied with the Chu State, he should not be killed." Hou Sheng prevaricated.

"However, the widow still does not hear about the king of Chu to Muling." Tian Jian was deeply worried, "Aiqing, but the time of the alliance is too short, and the king of Chu can't get in time?" If this is the case, the widow is willing to wait for the king of Chu. ”

"After Doctor Qu is Qu Zi, Doctor Qu told his ministers that the King of Chu will go to Muling before the Xin Chou Day." Hou Sheng remembered that day that he asked him for 3,000 gold because he wanted to meet the alliance as soon as possible, and he was a little uneasy. "The king, the minister thinks that he should add gold."

"Add gold?" Tian Jian looked at him blankly, and he didn't know why he wanted to add gold. Of course, it is not difficult to add gold, but what I am afraid of is that Chu Zhao conspires to defeat Qi. "If the king of Chu is willing to ally with the widow, the widow is willing to add gold."

"Yui!" Hou Sheng was overjoyed, and he could take the opportunity to make a fortune again.

"Please don't worry about it," the general Tian Luo saw that the king couldn't stand the weakness of the Chu people, and he said: "If the king of Chu does not ally with me, the 100,000 soldiers can take back Muling Pass." ”

"Recaptured?" The Chu army still does not know the number of people, and even if they know the number, Guancheng will not be able to be taken in a short time. Hou Sheng didn't like Tian Luo's words, and said: "Dare to ask the general, what if Zhao Guo also kills me?" ”

"If Zhao Guo attacks me, he will naturally send troops to reject Zhao." Tian Luo said loudly. "In addition, I should ask for help from Qin, and Qin will never allow Chu and Zhao to conspire against me."

"Never." Jimo King Tian He was completely opposed. "The Qin people have no faith, if the Qin soldiers enter Qi and conspire with Chu and Zhao, what can they do?"

"Huh?" The others were okay, Tian Jian's face changed immediately, "What if this is the case?" ”

"The minister thinks that the king of Chu has faith." Tian He said loudly, "When the minister hears that the king of Chu is a honored soldier, one needs to be brave, and the other needs to be faithful. What does it mean to be faithful? He said: love his family, filial piety, keep his promises, keep his duties, be loyal to his king, and die for his country, if there is, it can be described as faithful.

The faithful king rejoices in the faithful, and the faithful king should make an alliance with us, and the two countries will be armed, and there will be no more attack. The minister invited himself to go to Muling to see the Chu people, if the king of Chu went to Muling, he should say that he was in alliance with me. ”

"Good, great good!" Tian Jian said loudly. "Aiqing quickly enter the customs, please ask the king of Chu to ally with me,"

"Respectfully obeyed." If the king of Qi can not believe in the prime minister of the country and win, Tian He's influence in the state of Qi may not be lost to the prime minister.

"What? Qi people ask to see? "Xiong Jing has not yet made up his mind in Guancheng, and the Jimo doctor of Qi State has come.

"Exactly." The officer reported.

"To see or not to see?" Xiong looked at Qu Guang, Jin Yi and You Shi, Yingdu's reply had not arrived, and there were only these two ministers by his side.

"Please see it, the king." Refractive and Right Shi said in unison, refractive means to see each other, to see what Qi people say; The right history believes that Zhao and Qi should not be together, and the Qi State has not been at war with the Chu State for decades, and after that, it should no longer be tempted by the Qin people.

"See you." Xiong Jingdao, the key now is whether the city is handed over to the Qi people, not whether to cut down Qi or not.

"Summonsβ€”β€”! Qi envoy Jimo doctor to meet. Half an hour later, the maid finally shouted for Dr. Jimo to see him. Hearing that the King of Chu had seen him, Tian He was determined that the matter of the alliance should be worry-free.