Forty-seven Troubled waters
Fang Li and Yan Liang led their troops back, and in addition to Li Ji, they also captured more than a hundred Jin women, and enjoyed hero-like cheers outside the city gate.
Fang Li laughed on the horse and said to Yan Liang: "Gongji (Yan Liangbiao), I see that the soldiers welcome not you and me, but women on horseback. So if you want to be a national hero, you have to keep robbing everywhere, robbing women is robbing, and grabbing land is also robbing! Robbing a woman is a hooligan, grabbing a piece of land is a bully, grabbing too much will become a hero, and you will become a hero! ”
"Haha...... What General Bofu said makes sense! ”
Yan Liang echoed and laughed, reached out and threw the silver sword in front of the saddle to the ground, with an expression of calm expression, "However, instead of robbing women, I, Yan Liang, would prefer to grab land!" ”
Silver Sword's hands and feet were free, and he suddenly got up and slammed into the city wall, "The women of our Jin Kingdom would rather die than be humiliated!" ”
With a muffled sound of "bang", the silver sword that looked like death hit the city wall solidly, and the skull cracked when it landed, and white brains and red blood flowed down the cheeks, making people unbearable to look at it and feel sick to watch.
But not all women can see death as if they were like Silver Sword, and her heroic martyrdom did not resonate, except for a few familiar sisters who cried bitterly, most of them were at a loss, worried about their future.
Ants are still greedy for life, not to mention people, if these captured women can be rewarded to a reasonable man, it is not impossible to burn high incense, and become military prostitutes; In this troubled era where the king is defeated and human life is as cheap as mustard, they can only go with the flow and accept the arrangement of fate.
The city gate opened, Fang Li led his troops into the city, and ordered the women to be temporarily imprisoned, to be distributed according to merit in the future.
After losing Pinglu, there was no material aid, and the poor jingle in Chiyang City, Fang Li had no choice but to use these women as a reward to encourage his soldiers to fight bravely against the enemy.
"General Fang, do you think this is appropriate?"
Li Ji, who was held in solitary confinement, grabbed Fang Li's sleeve before he was about to go out, pleading pitifully.
Fang Li smiled slightly, and asked rhetorically, "Li Ji Niangniang, what do you think is wrong?" ”
Li Ji straightened her chest intentionally or unintentionally, and stretched out her finger to point to the slightly shabby house: "I'm also the concubine of the Duke of Jin, how can you let me live in such a place?" ”
"The capital of our Yu country has been occupied by your Jin army, Chiyang is a border pass, a poor and remote area, and such a house is already a luxury. The other women were all in thatched huts, or would the mother go and squeeze with them? Fang Li shrugged, looking helpless.
Li Ji chirped and changed the subject: "That's good...... Even if you don't mention my identity, you should be treated like a guest with a posture like me, right? How can you throw it in this broken house and ignore it? ”
Fang Li stretched out his hand and slapped Li Ji's plump buttocks: "What? Could it be that the mother wants me to kiss Fangze? ”
"If the general pleads to let me go back to China, I ...... Maybe I can grant your request! Li Ji's eyes were fluttering, full of charm.
Back then, she used this method to fascinate the Duke of Jin, Li Ji felt that this would definitely be useful to the other party, shouldn't a woman like herself make every man salivate?
Fang Li laughed: "Haha...... Looking at what Niangniang said, if Fang Li is a womanizer, what difference does it make if Niangniang agrees or not? ”
Seeing that it didn't work for the beauty to plan the other party's separation, Li Ji decided to use another means to deal with Fang Li, her face sank, and she threatened: "Fang Li, do you know that I am the favorite woman of the Duke of Jin, and the Jin Kingdom has an army of 400,000, you are so rude to me, aren't you afraid that my Great Jin Iron Cavalry will raze Yu Guo to the ground and behead your Fang family?" ”
Fang Li was not angry at all, and said with a smile: "Of course I'm afraid, that's why I decided to give you away!" ”
"Giving it away?" Li Ji was stunned, "Who are you going to give me to?" ”
Fang Li paced back and forth in front of Li Ji with his hands behind his back, and said, "With Li Ji's appearance and status, naturally it can't be given to ordinary people!" ”
The question of who to give Li Ji to has been bothering Fang Li for a long time, and he meditated all the way from Linquan to Chiyang, and finally had an answer.
If Li Ji is sent to the Qin State, he may be able to curry favor with Qin Mu Gongying, but in view of the strength of the Qin State, perhaps Wei Zhu can only knock out his teeth and swallow blood, swallow this humiliation hard, and give Li Ji to others.
It's the same with sending Li Ji to the Qi State, although the Qi State is not as handsome as the Qin State, but the population and national strength are still above the Qin State, and Ji Yizhu also does not dare to provoke Jiang Xiaobai, the Duke of Qi Huan.
If Li Ji is sent to Zhao State, Wei Zhu will have the confidence to come to the door to ask for someone, but these two countries are already in a state of hostility, whether to send Li Ji Jin and Zhao will sooner or later have a war between the two countries, and sending Li Ji to Zhao State will not maximize the benefits.
Yan and Wei bordered the Jin State, and they were afraid of the strong strength of the Jin State, and it was impossible for them to be enemies of the Jin State for the sake of a woman.
After thinking about it, Fang Li finally decided to give Li Ji to the Chu State.
In the history of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin and Chu hegemony lasted for many years, although the two countries did not border, but the direction of development could only be the Central Plains, so sooner or later there must be a war.
In this case, giving Li Ji to the Chu Zhuang Gong Xiong couple will definitely intensify the contradictions between the two countries and make the two countries bring up a conflict. In that way, Fang Li would get a good opportunity to breathe, gain time for development, annex Yu and Yu according to the plan formulated by Gongsun Yan, and then go south to annex small countries such as Shen, Ji, and Zhongwu, and then compete for hegemony in the world.
Fang Li pointed to the south: "The Duke of Chu is a great husband who aspires to the world, and I will definitely be full of joy when I give you to him." Moreover, the strength of the Chu State is not below the Jin State, and the status of the Chu Gong Xiong is equal to that of the Jin Duke, so it is not an insult to the mother, right? ”
Li Ji frowned slightly, and secretly thought to herself: The Jin army has killed many generals of Yu State in the past few days, and has broken through the royal city of Yu State, and the two countries are already incompatible with water and soil, and the people of Yu State are afraid that they will not treat themselves well.
Although the state of Chu is strong, it does not have a deep hatred with the state of Jin, and if the Duke of Jin sends someone to give some gifts to the state of Chu, he may be able to redeem himself. Moreover, the state of Chu is much richer than the state of Yu, and if he goes to the state of Chu, he will definitely not live in such a simple and dilapidated house.
As soon as she thought of this, Li Ji snorted coldly: "Okay, then I'll go to Chu State, I want to see if the bear couple treats me as rude as you?" ”
At this moment, Lu Yi strode to look for Fang Li, and before he entered the door, he said breathlessly: "General Fang, there are dozens of horsemen from outside the south gate, there are guards and eunuchs inside, surrounded by a young man about twenty years old, saying that it is Gongzi Zhai, let you go out to greet you." ”