The meeting of the five kings in Taoqiu is over, and this time the alliance meeting, Dai Yan is completely watching with the mentality of a bystander. And Taoqiu, who was watching this alliance, also reaped huge benefits!

The kings of all nations arrived at Taoqiu and saw this prosperous city. The regular order, convenient transportation, and comfortable living environment in Taoqiu City have given the kings and nobles of all countries infinite yearning. As a result, the monarchs of various countries purchased a large amount of materials from Taoqiu, including whale oil, tiles and the like. And for the excellent experience of toilets, air conditioning, etc., it is the requirement of every king and even nobles.

Even the King of Yan and the nobles of the Yan Kingdom, who were very unfriendly to Taoqiu, also purchased some luxury goods before leaving Taoqiu. When King Yan wanted the craftsmen of Taoqiu to help repair a comfortable toilet, Dai Yan replied directly to Yan Guo: In the bitter cold land of Yan Kingdom, the workers of Taoqiu could not bear it, so they directly rejected the request of the Yan people!

Such a kind of differential treatment made Yan Guo's popularity thunderous, but they really couldn't do anything about Dai Yan and Tao Qiu. After all, Yan and Taoqiu do not border at all, even if Yan wants to trouble Taoqiu, it still has to go through the land of Zhongshan and Weiguo. And Taoqiu's way of differentiating hospitality, picking soft persimmons out to offend the strategy, the kings of various countries did not say anything, but secretly they still felt that they were valued by Taoqiu, which greatly changed their impression of Taoqiu. And when they returned to their own country, they also praised the prosperity of Taoqiu!

When the kings and nobles left the Taoqiu, the Taoqiu soon became busy due to the large number of orders brought by these monarchs.

After the five kingdoms were kings, the true face of Taoqiu also became known to the world with the praise of the monarchs of various countries. Although Taoqiu was also very prosperous in the past, it was the largest commercial city in the world, but when you know Taoqiu, you are more interested in Taoqiu businessmen! And after the prosperity scenes that the monarchs of various countries saw with their own eyes, coupled with the propaganda they made when they returned to China, now the nobles in the five countries, as well as the celebrities and gentlemen of various countries, know such an extremely prosperous city, and everyone yearns for such a city.

There are even many nobles who left their fiefdoms privately and secretly came to live in Taoqiu. Their arrival not only brought with them their retainers, increased the population of Taoqiu, but also brought abundant wealth! At the same time, the arrival of these nobles also gave the depressed scholars in the whole world a new place to go. All of this made the population of Terauchond more concentrated, and the city became more prosperous!

Of course, the prosperity of Taoqiu has become known to the world, and it has also brought bad effects, that is, Suiyang has also begun to have some different thoughts about Taoqiu.

When Dai Yan presented the piano to Song Junzixi before, from Suiyang's reply to Tao Qiu, Dai Yan already knew Suiyang's attitude. He was deeply worried about this cold attitude, and now he actually didn't have two hearts, he just wanted to make Taoqiu such a city develop better, and his life could be more comfortable, that's all!

Moreover, if there is a conflict between Taoqiu and Suiyang, it will obviously be detrimental to the entire Song Kingdom. After all, Song State, a country sandwiched between the three major powers, once civil strife occurs, it will inevitably trigger the intervention of various countries, and no one can predict what the situation will develop into at that time. This is an unbearable price for Dai Yan, who is bent on seeking development.

Dai Yan didn't want Taoqiu or even the entire Song Kingdom to cause civil strife, however, the trees wanted to be quiet, but the wind did not stop!

At the beginning, Suiyang proposed to Taoqiu to increase a certain tribute. Such a tribute was not a tax, but only a gift from Tao Qiujun as a courtier of Song Jun. In the past, due to the insufficient control of Taoqiu by the Song State, the tax on Taoqiu was only a small part of the commercial income, and the income that Suiyang could obtain from Taoqiu was only 30,000 gold.

Dai Yan referred to such an income, handed over a tribute of 30,000 gold to Suiyang, and selected some good tea from Fengyi, and then selected porcelain from the porcelain factory in Taoqiu, selected craftsmen to renovate the palace city in Suiyang, and added various advanced equipment to the mansions of the monarch and the important ministers of the Song State, so that Suiyang's attitude towards Taoqiu has improved.

Subsequently, Dai Yan spent a lot of money to bribe Suiyang's three important ministers, Le Cheng, Hua Rong and Xiang She. Under such a heavy offensive, Suiyang's impression of Taoqiu finally changed, and everyone maintained this peaceful attitude to socialize again.

However, Dai Yan knew that Taoqiu's prosperous scene was completely different from that of five years ago, and his brother Zixi could no longer treat him with the same mentality as he did five years ago. What he can do is to retreat as much as possible, make himself low-key, and have the heart of An Song Jun.

However, although Dai Yan has various experiences in building industrialized cities and refers to some advanced experiences of later generations, Dai Yan seems to have forgotten one of the most important truths: once the bourgeoisie is formed, it is inevitable that it will be impossible to endure the continued oppression of the feudal aristocracy!

The success of the Prime Minister of the Five Kingdoms and the achievement of the Five Kingdoms have greatly changed the situation of the whole world. The Five Kingdoms were a defensive alliance established by Wei to resist Qin's invasion. Its appearance has brought a serious threat to the national security and strategic interests of Qin!

In the Qin State, there is the King of Qin, who can be called the British lord, and there is the real strategist Zhang Yi, for such an alliance specifically against the Qin State, they naturally cannot tolerate it! And the King of Qin also gave Zhang Yi a death order, telling him to find a way to break up such an alliance and safeguard the interests of the Qin State!

Due to the emergence of Hezhong, Zhang Yi stopped Qin's continued attack on Wei and Han, hoping to use encroachment to collect the land of the two countries. Instead, he began to lay out the world, hoping to start from a diplomatic point of view and break the method of the alliance!

In Zhang Yi's view, the emergence of the five countries is certainly a threat to the Qin State, but the Qin State has the Guanzhong Plain, and there is a danger of the four passes, and the Qin State is not afraid of the five countries! What the Qin State was worried about was actually nothing more than the five countries being united, and the Qin State would not be able to break through the blockade of Han Wei, and then be locked in the Hangu Pass forever!

The five countries are united, and the real threat is actually the Chu State and the Qi State, after all, these two countries do not have such a good geographical advantage as the Qin State. Han and Wei together can attack Chu in the south, while Zhao, Zhongshan, and Yan can form an absolute suppression of Qi together!

Qin Xiang Zhang Yi keenly grasped this psychology of Chu and Qi, and immediately put forward the "Lianheng" strategy corresponding to the "joint vertical". Lianheng's strategy is to form an alliance with the three kingdoms of Qin, Chu, and Qi to jointly deal with the five countries. Because Qin is located in the west of the world, Qi is located in the east of the world, and Chu is located in the south, the alliance of the three kingdoms roughly forms an east-west alliance on the map, so such an alliance is also called Lianheng!

The core of Lian Heng is to break the alliance that Gongsun Yan spent a lot of effort to form!

In order to be able to promote Lian Heng, Zhang Yi first asked people to contact the state of Chu, and re-talked about the marriage between Qin and Chu, hoping to promote the alliance between the two kings of Qin and Chu first, and make the two countries form an alliance. However, for the rise of such a powerful country as Qin, Chu felt deeply about it. In the eyes of Yin Zhaoyang, the commander of the state of Chu, the marriage between the state of Chu and the state of Qin was an additional enemy of the state of Chu in order to weaken the state of Wei. In other words, in the eyes of the State of Chu, the State of Qin was "supported" by the State of Chu!

Now that the Wei State has crossed, it can only be strengthened to confront the Qin State by joining forces with some small and medium-sized countries. Such a country, whose spirit has been dispersed, is naturally the best thing in the Chu State, how can it be left to the Qin State?

And for the ambition of the Qin State, Zhaoyang also felt it deeply! The Qin-Chu alliance seems to be beneficial to both sides, but in fact it is beneficial to Qin and not to Chu, if the Chu State does this, it is cultivating an incomparably powerful enemy for itself! Therefore, Zhaoyang directly persuaded the king of Chu and rejected the proposal of an alliance between Qin and Chu!

Gongsun Yan's alliance is not easy, but Zhang Yi's Lianheng is not so easy to succeed. Zhang Yi knew very well that the encroachment strategy implemented by the Qin State in the past few years could not deceive the Chu State. The State of Chu saw through the ambitions of the State of Qin, and could no longer tolerate the continued strength of the State of Qin!

And he can't make Chu join Qin's camp by ceding the interests of Qin! The plan to form the Qin-Chu alliance simply by winning over the Chu State will not succeed. However, he then came up with another way, sending envoys to invite Yin Zhaoyang, the commander of the State of Chu, and Tian Ying, the Minister of Qi, to jointly hold a three-phase alliance, and everyone discussed the strategy of dealing with the joint alliance of the five countries!

Zhang Yi clearly explained that the three-phase alliance is just the three kingdoms of Qin, Chu, and Qi gathering together to discuss and exchange views. If the three countries come to talk, then an alliance can be reached. If you can't talk about it, you don't force it, and the right is just to exchange feelings with each other!

Chu Yin Zhaoyang and Qi Xiangtian Ying actually hoped to enhance understanding between countries, so they immediately agreed to such a suggestion made by Zhang Yi. As for the location of the three-phase alliance, the three prime ministers reached an agreement without any surprises: Taoqiu.

After all, the wealth of Taoqiu is now known to the world, although the three prime ministers are seeking a life for national affairs, but they also hope to be able to enjoy it and see the most prosperous city in the world!

Zhang Yi was very happy that the opinion was reached so quickly. In his opinion, before the three-phase alliance, everyone can have such a high consensus, then the three-phase alliance should also have a good omen!

For the ministers of Qin, Chu, and Qi, hoping to hold an alliance in Taoqiu, Dai Yan, a sovereign who hopes to expand Taoqiu's influence, naturally has no opinion!