In the palace of the King of Chu, Zheng Sleeve looked at the many gifts in front of him, and his eyes couldn't help but light up a little!

Although there are many things in front of her, they can be roughly divided into four categories. The most conspicuous of these are the boxes of glittering gold and silver jewelry. However, of all the gifts, these gold and silver jewellery are only the least valuable.

In addition to the gold and silver jewelry, there is another whole box of rouge! Rouge is produced in the Yan Kingdom, since the Yan Civil War, plus the Chu State and many countries at war, rouge has become more and more scarce, and now even the palace of the king of Chu can't get enough rouge.

This made Zheng Sleeve very uneasy. As the favorite concubine of the King of Chu, she has no strong maternal family to rely on, and the only thing she can rely on is the favor of the King of Chu. Without rouge as a cover, even a naturally beautiful person like her is quite unconfident.

In addition to gold, silver and rouge, it is a variety of specialties from the Song Kingdom. Among them, glass mirrors and ambergris are the most precious.

Not to mention the glass mirror, no matter what era, any woman hopes to make herself have a better look. In this era dominated by copper mirrors, having a glass mirror is a great advantage over copper mirrors.

As for ambergris, it is definitely an indispensable thing in the palace of the king of Chu. King Chu was born with a foul smell, and Zheng Sleeve was able to stand out back then, that is, because she could tolerate the stench of King Chu's body, but this did not mean that she liked this stench. If necessary, she would still be willing to cover these things.

Before the Song and Chu wars, the various commodities of the Song State had already been circulated among the high-level nobles of the Chu State and became an indispensable thing for the high-level of the Chu State.

However, since the war between the Song and Chu states, the Song states have imposed a series of trade embargoes on the Chu states. Although these trade embargoes caused a lot of losses to the merchants of the Song State, they also hit the will of the high-level officials of the Chu State. At least people like Zheng Sleeve were extremely anxious about not being able to obtain stable Song goods. Now that the merchants of the Song Kingdom are so knowledgeable, they have given her these gifts again, which naturally makes her extremely happy.

And the most precious gift is the last gift. This gift can be regarded as one of the top secret weapons of the Song Kingdom, hyaluronic acid.

This kind of thing, during the civil war of the Song Dynasty, Tao Qiu had already been initially developed and used on Xia Yingchun, the favorite concubine of King Qi. With the help of this thing, the Song State easily opened up the relationship between the harem of the Qi State and allowed the Qi State to remain neutral in the Song Civil War. Now that so many years have passed, Song Guo's control over Xia Yingchun has become stronger and stronger.

A woman's desire to keep herself young forever is incomparably strong. When Xia Yingchun used this thing, he began to want to stop, and he couldn't get rid of this kind of thing at all. Because she knew very well that as long as there was no such thing, her beautiful face would fade within half a year, and then turn into another old pearl yellow face. At that time, everything she had in the palace of the King of Qi would be lost.

This time I came to lobby Chu Guo, in fact, even if I didn't use hyaluronic acid and only used other gifts, Su Li could ensure that Zheng Sleeve, a favorite concubine with no background, was on the side of Song Guo! However, Su Li still added such a gift, because this gift was added by his own monarch himself, in order to allow the Song State to maintain the same control over the harem of the Chu State as the Qi State in the future!

The conquest of the nations, in addition to the vertical and horizontal battles on the surface, the various confrontations behind the scenes are also indispensable. In today's countries, is it all kinds of wise strategists who have the greatest influence on the kings of the nations? Dai Yan never thought so! In his opinion, the most influential kings are always the closest pillow people!

As long as Zheng Sleeve can't do without hyaluronic acid for a day, she must cooperate to instill the will of the Song State on the side of the King of Chu. In this way, the Song State will be able to exert influence on the King of Chu and even the entire Chu State on her!

Sure enough, after Zheng Sleeve received such a precious gift from Song Guo, his impression of Song Guo suddenly became better. In the communication with the King of Chu, he said good things for the Song State from time to time.

Su Li was silent and used a lot of money to buy Jin Shang, the henchman of the King of Chu, and Zheng Sleeve, his favorite concubine, but he knew that these two people alone could not change the political pattern of the Chu court at all. After all, the political pattern of the Chu State is a situation in which the royal family and the three ethnic groups govern together, and in such a major event as ceding land and seeking peace, if the three ethnic groups unite to oppose it, it will be absolutely impossible for the king of Chu alone!

This time, Su Li chose the Qu family among the three clans.

As a veteran family of the Chu State, the Qu family's basic base is different from that of the Zhao and Jing clans, and their core area is almost entirely in the western part of the Chu State, and they have no roots in either the Huaishui Land or the Jiangnan region. Negotiating peace with the Song State did not violate the interests of the Qu family. And the most important thing is that the Qu family has a talented and noble Qu Yuan.

Qu Yuan intersected with Dai Yan very early, and Dai Yan also admired his talent in literature very much. However, when it comes to seeking the country, Qu Yuan's noble character is his biggest weakness.

For the friendship of nations, or the struggle between countries, it is a naked law of the jungle! In such a struggle, what is important is treachery and unscrupulous means; In this kind of struggle, any kind thought, even a heart of "benevolence and righteousness", will pay a huge price!

Back then, Wu Wangfu believed in benevolence and righteousness and bypassed Gou Jian's life, but the result was the end of his death and the death of the country! This kind of thing, in the interaction between people, there is one of the most typical phenomena: good people can't compete with bullies.

Although Su Li is young, he is a vertical and horizontal faction that inherited Guiguzi after all! The figures of this school have a very clear view of international struggles, and have never believed in the so-called faithfulness, and what they are best at is to take advantage of the situation and use the character of others to achieve their own goals.

Su Li took the handwritten letter from his own lord and came to Zuotu Qu Yuan's mansion. When Qu Yuan received the letter and checked it in person, he had to come to meet Su Li in person.

For Qu Yuan, a "clean" person, what he hates the most is strategists and businessmen. The strategists roamed the world and set off storms in the world, which made him extremely disgusted by the advocates of "American politics". And merchants, in the eyes of the nobles of the nations, these people who are not suitable for production, but who are rich in gold, exude a copper smell all over their bodies!

How could Qu Yuan let this copper smell pollute his body? This is also the reason why Su Li was in the Chu State, but he did not meet Qu Yuan through merchants like Jin Shang.

When Qu Yuan saw Su Li, he was also very polite: "When the Song envoy comes to my Chu country, he should be bright and bright." When I passed by the Song Kingdom, I also dealt with your lord, he is a square person, why do you want to hide in the Chu State like this? ”

Hearing Qu Yuan's words, Su Li immediately felt a pang in his heart, and then said casually: "Zuo disciple has such a high evaluation of my family lord, and I am grateful in the lower body. However, this envoy came for the safety of the Song State and the Chu State, so he had to act cautiously! ”

"Then what are the specific affairs of the Song envoy when he comes to my Chu country?" Qu Yuan still maintained his previous coldness.

Su Li smiled slightly: "When I came down to the Chu State, I wanted to persuade the Chu State to sign an alliance with my Song State. As long as the State of Chu is willing to recognize that the lands south of the Yangtze River and Jiangbei belong to our Song State, our Song State will immediately stop attacking the State of Chu and reach an alliance with the State of Chu! ”

After listening to Su Li's words, Qu Yuan immediately became furious: "The Song envoy thought well, the Song State first attacked my Chu State, and then forced my Chu State to cut hundreds of miles of land. For hundreds of years, when did our Chu State enter into such a humiliating covenant? Song envoy, please go back, my Chu State and Song State will definitely not give up easily! ”

Su Li sighed lightly, and then said: "I want to ask Lord Zuo, is the reputation of the Chu State more important, or is the survival of the Chu State more important?" ”

Qu Yuan replied without thinking: "Of course, the survival of my Chu State is more important. ”

"I want to ask, now that the State of Chu is under attack by the Four Kingdoms, it is possible to resist it?"

Qu Yuan was silent.

"Now that the land south of the Yangtze River and the north of the river is owned by my Song State, the Chu State may take it back in a short time?"

Seeing that Qu Yuan was still speechless, Su Li knew that his words were starting to work. Then he said: "Now the state of Chu is besieged by the four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Han and Song, the state of Qin is holding on to the state of Chu in the west, Han Wei is in the north Huaishui and Nanyang to contain the state of Chu, and the state of Song is now taking all the north and south of the river, and can go up the river at any time to threaten the heart of the state of Chu." At such a time, if the state of Chu continues to be so tough and does not know how to be flexible, once the war in the west and north of the state of Chu changes, and the army is overturned, the state of Chu is afraid that the country will be in danger of extinction!

At this time, the best choice for the Chu State is to stabilize the east first and negotiate peace with our Song State. After there were no scruples in the east, the state of Chu either mobilized the elite of the state to compete with the state of Qin or Han Wei, or ended the war, before it had the initiative. ”

After listening to Su Li's words, Qu Yuan thought about it for a long time, and had to admit that now that he negotiated peace with the Song State, stabilized the eastern front battlefield that had completely failed, and focused his attention on the western and northern battlefields, it was the most beneficial choice for the Chu State!

Qu Yuan asked: "Then what are the specific conditions for the Song State to negotiate peace with my Chu State, and the Song Envoy can say it now." In the future, I will report this condition to my king, and my king will decide! ”

Hearing Qu Yuan's words, Su Li was also overjoyed. Then he explained the general conditions of the Song State to Qu Yuan one by one, basically spending a sum of money to buy the conditions for the Chu State to recognize the land south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Jiangbei.

For Qu Yuan, he did not deceive, nor did he use bribes and other inducements. He knew very well that this kind of small means might be useful for people like Jin Shang, but they were completely useless for people like Qu Yuan.

The only thing Qu Yuan cared about was the safety of the Chu State, and he would not think about the interests of the local family. With such a noble character person coming forward, even if the Zhao clan has more interests in the land south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River, and even if the Zhao clan suffered heavy losses in the Song and Chu wars this time, in the face of the righteousness of the life and death of the Chu State, he would never dare to oppose the peace between the Song State and the Chu State!