Chapter 353: Financial Aid Diplomacy

Juyongsai is the most important checkpoint in the north of Yan today, and it is the most important pass used by Yan to defend against the invasion of Donghu.

Such a fortress set up for the safety of Yan State, the army in it, because of the perennial battle against Donghu, is one of the strongest armies in Yan State! With such a powerful army, even in the Zizhi Rebellion, and even when the Qi State invaded Yan, Ju Yongsai's army did not give up its duty and left the north!

However, when the Qi State invaded the Ji Capital of the Yan State and destroyed the Yan State, the situation of Juyongsai suddenly became obscure.

After the destruction of the Yan State, Kuang Zhang followed the instructions of the King of Qi and issued orders to all parts of the Yan State, asking them to recognize the dominance of the Qi State in the Yan State. Regarding Qi Guo's requirements, the entire Ju Yongsai soon had two opinions.

One of them is naturally that the Qi State is strong, and now that it has invaded the Ji Capital and destroyed the Yan State, Ju Yongsai should pay tribute to the Qi State. And more, they think that Juyongsai is the city of Yan State, and has always been loyal to King Yan, why should they surrender to Qi State?

Fortunately, now everyone knows very well that quarrels cannot solve the problem, and only by uniting together can the people of Qi realize their strength. After all, even those who were inclined to surrender to Qi Guo thought that Qi Guo had to give them a better condition before they could agree.

Therefore, the entire Juyong Sai was united in the hands of the military commander here, a young general named Qin Kai.

Qin Kai was originally a Yan man and used to be a hostage in Donghu. Later, he seized the opportunity to flee to Yan, because he was familiar with the situation of Donghu, so he was appointed by the king of Yan as the chief official of Juyongsai, so that he could resist Donghu's invasion of Yan.

Now Donghu has not made much action, but the Yan State has already died, all of which makes Qin Kai extremely depressed. He ignores the differences between the two sides within Juyongsai today, and allows the two sides to argue, as long as there is no direct conflict, he turns a blind eye to the past.

Just as the argument within Juyongsai continued, the behavior of the Qi army in Yan also reached the ears of Juyongsai's soldiers!

When they knew that the soldiers of the Qi army were wantonly burning and looting in the Yan country, even the most gentle Yan soldiers were furious! They asked the chief officer to join the war, and everyone returned to the country together to drive the Qi people out of the Yan country!

However, such a move was stopped by Qin Kai! As a far-sighted general, he knew very well that although he now had a powerful force in his hands, it could not be abused! Now that the soldiers of the Qi army have caused great harm to the Yan Kingdom, they must not allow them to stay in the territory of the Yan Kingdom! When the Yan people are at war with the Qi army, this powerful army in their hands may be the key force for the future restoration of the Yan State, how can they allow it to be consumed here?

And just as Qin Kai continued to lie dormant in Juyongsai and directly ignored the orders issued by the Qi Kingdom, the entire Yan Kingdom also began to gradually change!

As a mercenary army, the Qi army immediately transformed into a bandit army after the victory! Their wanton plundering finally angered the Yan people, and the entire Yan country began to have people rebelling against the Qi army!

In Zhuoyi, Jidu and other places where the Qi army is stationed, the soldiers of the Yan Kingdom look at the soldiers of the Qi army with a sense of hatred! As long as the soldiers of the Qi army go out alone, they will easily encounter danger!

Such a scene of "deterioration of public order" immediately shocked Kuang Zhang! As a Confucian disciple and the most beloved general of King Qi today, he will never allow his failure! Therefore, he quickly responded to the deterioration of internal security in Yan Kingdom!

First of all, he divided the Yan occupation zone into several areas. Only in safe areas are Qi soldiers allowed to move freely. And in other areas where there is no confirmed safety, if the Qi army wants to act, it must be with the troops!

In this way, the probability of casualties among the Qi soldiers was greatly reduced!

At the same time, he also activated some of the original ministers in the Yan Kingdom, and these subordinates were mainly people who were familiar with the domestic situation of the Yan Kingdom, such as Lu Maoshou, to help the Qi army stabilize the situation in the Yan Kingdom.

Lu Maoshou and others, as the king of the support of Lizi, and the first batch of Yan traitors who surrendered to the Qi State when the Qi army entered Jicheng, they knew very well that if the Qi State could not maintain its rule in the Yan State, and the Qi army withdrew from the Yan State, then they would have no use value, and because of the previous stain, it would inevitably be a dead end!

Therefore, they are very concerned about stabilizing the domestic situation in Yan Kingdom.

As a country with a long history but few contacts with the Central Plains, Yan is very backward in terms of political system and national governance. The entire Yan Kingdom still basically maintains the Jingtian system handed down at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, and in all parts of the Yan Kingdom, it is still the aristocracy that occupies the absolute dominance.

After the former Zi Zhichan, out of fear of the Yan royal family, he withdrew the privileges of many nobles surnamed Ji and implemented some changes to strengthen the authority of the central government. Now, Lu Maoshou and others immediately abolished these decrees one by one in the name of "obeying the Zhou rites", hoping to win over the old nobles!

Subsequently, because Lu Maoshou and others began to gradually grasp the ruling power of Yandi, they proposed to the Qi army that they hoped that the Qi army would hand over the security of Yandi to them, and asked Kuang Zhang to stop the wanton looting of the Qi army!

Kuang Zhang also knew that if he wanted Yan Land to become the territory of Qi from now on, he could no longer exercise such brutal rule in Yan State. Moreover, the soldiers of Qi State, after looting for so long, most of them have already gained a lot, and if they rob it at this time, there will be nothing valuable in Yan Kingdom!

Therefore, Kuang Zhang immediately agreed with the behavior of Lu Maoshou and others, and began to take military discipline seriously! After killing the soldiers who still did not obey the order one after another, the wanton plundering of the Qi army was truly contained.

And Lu Maoshou, as a great Confucian, as a real Yan traitor, in order to be able to let Qi rule Yan State permanently, began to propose a real killer to Qi State: let Qi send immigrants to Yan State!

As a country bordering Donghu, Yan still has a lot of experience in how to expand its territory. And the most effective way to quickly stabilize a newly conquered territory is to send immigrants directly to occupy the core area of the newly conquered territory!

Such a policy is small, but the effect is extremely significant! It was with such a policy that the Yan State continued to expand its territory and annexed the land of Donghu!

But it is a pity that as soon as Lu Maoshou's proposal was submitted to the Qi court, it was immediately rejected by the important ministers of Qi.

In their minds, the land of Yan, such a bitter cold land, the people are fierce, and there are often Donghu invasions, will there be Qi people willing to go? What is the most important purpose of Qi annexing Yan? Could it be that the Yan people are really a Qi person who has taken a fancy to the land of the Yan State, and the Qi State just wants to dispel the threat from the north!

In the end, such a policy proposed by Lu Maoshou that could allow Qi to really gain a foothold in Yan State was wasted because of the self-defeating of the Qi court. And the king of Qi couldn't deny Kuang Zhang's actions in Yandi, so he sent more than 1,000 people to settle in Yanguo at will, even if it was a comfort to the Qi soldiers in Yandi.

In doing so, Qi not only completely ruined the hope of Yan Di becoming the territory of Qi State, but also made Yan Land completely become an occupation area that required Qi State to expend troops.

And for such an occupied area, Lu Maoshou began to use no means to keep the soldiers of the Qi army! And the most unsightly method he used was to use the national ruling agency to help the soldiers of Qi find a suitable woman to marry!

This practice has aroused the anger of the people of Yan State more and more! In this context, the incident of inciting the Yan people to rebel against the rule of Qi led by Su Qin and cooperated by the merchants of the Song State began to intensify!

Of course, at present, this kind of resistance of theirs is still spontaneous and not organized, so it has not really affected the situation in Yan Kingdom. However, such behavior immediately changed after a prince of Yan returned to Yan from abroad!

The Yidu of the Yan Kingdom, although the Shangdu and the Zhongdu of the Yan Kingdom are all occupied areas, but the attitude of the Yan people here towards the Song people and the attitude towards the Qi people in other places are completely two attitudes!

Ji Zhi, the son of Yan Guo, walked on the streets of Yidu in simple clothes like this, looking at the friendly picture of Yan Guo's people and Song Jun, he couldn't help but nod secretly.

At Su Qin's invitation, this was already the third day that he had come to Yandi. In the past three days, he kept walking around the city of Yidu to see the situation in Yidu, and at the same time fled from other cities in Yan Kingdom to the people of Yidu to understand the current situation in Yan Kingdom. The more clearly he understood, the more firm he became about his hatred for Qi Guo and even Yan traitor, Lu Maoshou and others!

Especially his hatred for Yan and Lu Maoshou is even higher than that of the Qi people!

In Ji Zhi's opinion, it was this old guy who deceived his father and asked his father to give up the throne to his son, which led to civil strife in the Yan Kingdom, and is now occupied by the Qi State! And now that the Yan people are unwilling to accept the rule of the Qi people, this person still takes such pains to help the Qi people stabilize their rule, it can be said that Lu Maoshou is now the biggest cancer in the Yan country!

Ji Zhi even came up with the idea of sending an assassin to assassinate this Yan traitor, lest he trouble the Yan Kingdom again! However, under Su Qin's obstruction, Ji Zhi finally gave up this action.

And after Su Qin led him to Yidu, he soon introduced Tian Bu, a big merchant from Taoqiu, to know him.

And under the leadership of Tian Bu, Taoqiu merchants "aided" 50 million yuan to Ji Zhi in the name of Handan Qianzhuang to help him ascend to the throne of Yan! And most of the 50 million aid will be realized through the trade network between Zhao and Yan to transport all kinds of food, weapons and other strategic materials needed by Yan today!

And Ji Zhi has such a large amount of funds, and can exchange these funds for strategic materials, he can quickly pull up an army in Yandi! As long as Ji Zhi has an army in his hands and uses this force to drive the Qi people out of the Yan Kingdom, then it is logical for him to ascend the throne of Yan!

This is also the first time that Dai Yan has used the method of "financial aid" to support a king and influence the situation in the world since he took charge of the Song Kingdom!