Chapter 53: Mutual Alliance
The Chu army did not advance westward quickly in Yiyi, but stayed temporarily, not because Xiong Jing led the generals to dig graves for an afternoon, but because the camp was burned and the heavy vehicles suffered serious losses; The other is the day of obscurity (the twenty-ninth day of the month). The day of the cease of war is the day of the truce, which is just an ancient system. Although Qin and Jin and other countries no longer abide by the ancient system, and the Chu army was defeated by the Wu army in the Battle of Jifu more than two hundred years ago, the ancient system is the ancient system, and the ancient system is deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chu people.
The Chu army stopped at Yiyi, while the Qin army had reached Xiaoyi (present-day Minggang) north of Chengyang. Here, the Qin military stayed to rest and recuperate, while counting the losses of each army and discussing the next step. However, the Xianyang Wang Envoy, who came from Xianyang and ordered the Qin army to retreat, was surprised by the defeat of the Qin army.
Xiaoyi went to Xianyang for more than 1,300 miles, and the envoy summoned Mengwu to know that the attack had failed, and before he arrived in Xianyang, the lobbying envoy set off from Xianyang and drove directly down the river to Daliang. Daliang is the capital of Wei, although Wei remains in the south of the Yellow River, but Wei is still the pivot of communication between the north and the south, as long as Wei does not join the alliance, Chu and Zhao want to unite and can not be together.
The majestic Xianyang is still the same, but Qin Wangzheng's car stopped in front of Changping Jun's mansion today, including Shu Ying, the mother of Changping Jun, and the family went out of the house to welcome King Qin. are all relatives, King Qin took the first step to Shu Ying after the courtesy, and sighed: "Aunt and grandmother, don't be sad, the widow has ordered someone to thoroughly investigate the matter of attacking Jing, what the court discussed at the beginning was just to intimidate Jing Guo, who wants to ......"
"The destiny of life and death, Jing people are often proud of dying in battle, and the king doesn't have to worry about it." Shu Ying is the wife of Xiong Yuan, the king of Chu, although she has no contact with her husband after Xiong Yuan returned to the throne from China, she did not remarry. After Shu Ying finished speaking, he said: "The king should have an important task here, and the old body will retire for the time being." ”
Mother Shu Ying retreated, Chang Wenjun also retreated, and only Qin Wangzheng and Changping Jun were left in the Ming Hall. Changping Jun bowed his head and said nothing, looking at the back of his neck, Qin Wangzheng said earnestly: "The widow regrets not listening to Uncle's words, then Lu Buwei colluded with the Zhao people to cut down Jing without authorization to damage the friendship between Qin and Chu, and the widow has ordered him to leave his post." However, it has been a state for many years, and there are many guests in the DPRK and China, and the public is violent, and they are all unhappy. Don't ask Uncle to help me! ”
"Tell the king, if you don't want to be a minister, it's really inconvenient for a minister." Lü Buwei's resignation had already been discussed, but no one expected that Lü Buwei would raise troops to attack Chu in the name of asking for protons. This made Changping Jun, the right prime minister, dare not speak on this matter at all, he is the son of the king of Chu, at least half of the Chu people, such an identity should not discuss the matter of attacking Chu, let alone taking over Lü Buwei's position when the war against Chu is not finished. On that day, after a minister in the court said that he was half a Chu person, he fell ill at home.
"Uncle takes care of the widow and knows that the widow has ordered the Qin army to retreat." Qin Wangzheng added.
"King, it is not easy for the Qin army to attack, and every inch of land is covered with the blood and sweat of soldiers, how can you easily retreat?!" Changpingjun finally raised his head, and the only trace of doubt was hidden in his heart. After getting along for a long time, he fully understood the heart of this cousin.
"The Qin army has already been defeated." Qin Wangzheng didn't want to say it, but he didn't want to say that Changping Jun would know it in the future. "Jing people are brave, Jing Wang is heroic. 270,000 inferior soldiers defeated the elite of my 240,000 Qin army. It's ridiculous that Lü Buwei also said to the widow, saying that the Jing people are really vulnerable, and although my Qin State often cuts down the Three Jins, it will always swing south every few decades, and every time it cuts down Jing, there will be something to gain. ”
The Qin State did have a rhythm in attacking the north and south, and after attacking the Three Jin Dynasty for decades, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the Chu people, he suddenly struck south, and he could always tear off a large piece of meat on the Chu State, but this time because of the terrain and because the Chu people resisted desperately, so that nothing was gained.
"Our army was defeated, and Zhao sent troops to rescue Jing, and his envoy wanted to move Han Wei and other countries to join forces again. And the Duke of Qi is also incompetent, besieging the city for several months, and Chang Yu is still holding the fiefdom and has not yet been ambushed. Today's plan is to make peace with the Jing people, otherwise we will fight both inside and outside Qin, although there is a risk of Cuihan, Shangdang, Hanoi, Sanchuan, Dongjun and other counties can also be in danger. ”
"Tell the king, since the Jing people have won, with their hearts, they will not want to make a truce with me." What the situation in the country is, Changpingjun naturally knows. He shook his head in embarrassment, saying that he did not have the ability to make peace in the case of a great victory for the Chu army.
"Uncle will say that the Jing people are allied with me. Qin Chu has been married for hundreds of years, and the widowed sister should be able to marry King Jing. "King Qin's political situation is urgent. He has experienced two joint columns in his life, the first time the Qin army was defeated, and the second time the coalition army invaded the Qin realm, but fortunately, Lü Buwei led his troops to retreat from the enemy. If the five kingdoms jointly attacked Qin again, the Qin army was newly defeated, and Jing raised the strength of the whole country, he really had no certainty of victory. What's more, the country is restless, and the rest of the party of Chang Yu and Lü Buwei has not yet been exhausted, and maybe he will lose his position due to internal and external difficulties.
Changping Jun also smelled the dangerous question, and he said: "Dare to ask the king, what is the defeat of our army, what is the loss?" Our army has retreated into the Qin realm? ”
"Our army lost 20,000, the camp was broken by the Jing people, and it was too late to escape, and it lost another 10,000, and now the army has retreated to the Qin realm." King Qin's political road. "In this battle, King Jing was also used as a weapon to throw fire, and even more, it was the respect of the king of a country, before the battle, he personally went to the front of the battle to tuyi the whole army, and shouted the oath, and the morale of the Jing people soared, and after the defeat of our army, the soldiers had no heart to fight."
"Come to the front of the battle, Tuyi the whole army, swear and shout......" Changping Jun was surprised, he remembered that his younger brother who was the king was not very old.
And so it is. The envoy didn't believe it when he heard it at first, but when he asked the sergeant of the army, he believed it. Qin Wangzheng sighed, "Fortunately, his people have not been crowned, and the ministers of the DPRK and China are still in charge of state affairs." Now the widows are determined to make a truce with the Jing people, which can make a huge amount of money to say. ”
"Since the king has the heart to rest, the minister naturally tries his best to rest with him." The battle of Qin and Chu was the biggest obstacle to Changpingjun's ruling on behalf of Lü Buwei, and since the king had decided to withdraw his troops and negotiate peace, Changpingjun had no reason to continue to complain. "Then ......"
"So what?" Qin Wangzheng's smiling face couldn't help but linger. "Uncle, please."
"If Qin and Chu make good alliances again, the king must not attack Jing for no reason." Changping Jundao, he added the word 'no reason' before the attack, which can be regarded as leaving a step between himself and the King of Qin.
"The widow will keep this promise." Qin Wangzheng said loudly, his sincerity was indescribable. And his hand is tightly holding Changping Jun, at present, only Changping Jun, a relative of the Chu family, can calm down the government after Lü Buwei left office, and only they who are familiar with the internal situation of Chu can lobby within the Chu State, so that Qin and Chu can ally with each other again to stabilize the southern line of the Qin State.
'With Kui Xiang as the left prime minister, thinking that Feng Qujian was ...... to the court', as soon as he returned to the palace from the Changping Junfu on the north bank of Weishui, Qin Wangzheng summoned Kui Xiang and Feng Quji. Lü Buwei had just left office, and it was impossible to appoint Xiang Bang again, so as not to arouse the opposition of the rest of the party, and Xiang Bang was in charge of the state affairs and had too much power, so it would be better to be divided into left and right prime ministers. And Kui Zhuang is also a Chu person, he and Changping Jun are the left and right prime ministers, which is equivalent to Changping Jun as the prime minister. Feng Quji is a Han, and the Han and Chu people are not a faction, but they are not capable of Zhao Wei.
As soon as the personnel summoning order in the road gate came out, the rumors in Xianyang City immediately changed. Previously, everyone thought that Wen Xinhou's resignation was just to avoid suspicion, and the matter was not serious - Qin was the overlord of the world, and it was normal for Zhao Xiang to send someone to visit Wen Xinhou. But when the news of the defeat of the Qin army came faintly, and the king of Qin appointed Chu Renkui as the prime minister of Zuo, people who had insight into the situation in the court and China had to face a reality, that is, the Marquis of Wen Xin went to work this time, and he was afraid that he would never return.
Xianyang is still prosperous, but there is an undercurrent inside. In Huayang Palace, the old queen mother smiled from ear to ear, and she smiled: "...... Hearing that the new king of the mother country has not yet broken his teeth, how could Zheng'er think of marrying the princess of Qin to him. ”
"The nephew is also unknown, I am afraid that the king heard that the new prince was in battle, and he killed the whole army in front of the battle, so he thought he was an adult." Changping Jun also had a smile on the corner of his mouth, the situation was successfully reversed due to Lü Buwei's resignation and the great victory of the Chu army, and the mother country was safe.
"There is indeed an ancestral legacy." Mi Thorn sighed, and then his smile gradually faded, and said, "That's why I'm worried that he doesn't want to ally with the Qin State." ”
"The government of the mother country, the lower is not the higher, and the Qin truce is allied, and the counties must agree with it." Chang Wenjun was surprised, although he had never been to Chu State, but he was surrounded by Chu people, and he had already heard of what happened in Chu State.
The counties naturally agreed, but the queen was a Zhao person, and the two masters were also Zhao people. The new king is young, and he is bewitched by them day and night, and he will continue the life of Zhao with the blood of the people of his mother country. The rebellion failed, but Mi Thorn still couldn't accept the reality that the son of Zhao Nu was the king of Chu. Zhao Ji was imprisoned in Yongcheng and Lü Buwei went to the prime minister, and the next step for Qin was to destroy Zhao, and Zhao should try his best to persuade Chu to save him......
"Aunt, the child wants to go to the mother country in person to make the Qin Chu alliance good." Changping Jun said.
He said this, but the old queen mother was still imagining that after the Chu Palace was occupied by Zhao Nu, the new king was deceived by it, and countless Chu people died in vain for Zhao State, so she said: "If the new king is a few years older, he should indeed marry a princess of Qin for him." Qi'er, do you think there is a young princess in my Qin Palace who can be called a beauty? ”
"Auntie?" King Qin said that he would marry a princess, but he didn't know the situation at that time, but his aunt knew that King Chu was still young, so she still thought so, which made Changping Jun shake his head.
"Isn't it possible?" The old queen mother looked at her nephew with doubts in her eyes. "The young son's heart is undecided, and if you tell him that Zhao Ren is a good person, he thinks that Zhao Ren is really a good person; If you tell him that the Qin people are evildoers, he thinks that the Qin people are all wicked people.
The Kwantung countries often say that the Qin country is a country of tigers and wolves, and it is also said that the Qin people are greedy, profitless, and untrustworthy, and do not know etiquette, righteousness, and ......virtue. Don't they know that the Qin people were originally simple, and their behavior was not the custom of the Qin people, but was taught by the scholars of the Three Jin Dynasty.
The most vicious person in the world is none other than Zheng Ren, but Zheng Ren is resourceful but powerless. The Zhao people are different, the Zhao people are scheming and murderous, and with them by the new king's side, I don't feel at ease at all. If we can't find a way to condemn people to the side of the new king, not to mention the new king, even the mother kingdom will be in great trouble. ”
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