Chapter 487: The Meeting of the Valley (Medium)
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The ceremony of the peace talks continued, Confucius was a courtesy, presiding over the ceremony and rank, Zhao Wuxian slowly walked past Kong Qiu's side, the tall old master bowed to him, and Zhao Wuxian also gave a salute, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "I still didn't start in the end......"
It's not that he can't be ruthless, he is not strong enough to crush everything recklessly; He is not confident enough, if Confucius died at his own hands, he still wants Zigong, Ran Qiu, Fan Xu, Gong Xihua and others to work? It's tantamount to a fool's dream.
At the cost of betraying relatives and leaving relatives, in exchange for a moment of annoyance and anger? This is not fantasy, this is living history, it is walking on thin ice, like intrigue on the edge of the abyss.
One wrong step, one wrong step.
What's more, there is no right or wrong in today's affairs, only interests.
But the resentment towards Confucius in Zhao Wuxian's heart did not disappear, but it was only lurking secretly, and the distance between him and Confucius was a little farther away, maybe it was time for a break and a showdown.
The plan to sabotage the peace talks has been frustrated, and now Zhao Wuxian can only take one step at a time.
But it's not without benefit for Fang to show his teeth, at least he has determined enough right to speak, and he will never let the conspiracy of Qi Hou and Sanhuan succeed!
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Confucius single-handedly prevented the outbreak of the conflict and became a great hero today, reading out the book of rites: "If you take prisoners and do not interfere with the alliance, you will not force the soldiers to do well." It is ominous to God, it is righteous to be righteous, it is rude to people, it is rude to release the armor soldiers, see each other, and the blessings of the two countries are also! ”
So Lu Hou Song and Qi Hou Pestle met each other according to the etiquette of meeting between the princes, and made humility to each other and ascended the altar.
After the kings of the two countries, the ministers of Qi and Lu came to power in two columns. Sure enough, the more noble right side was given to the Qi people.
Zhao Wuxian followed Sanhuan to the stage of the alliance. He is the fourth person with the most powerful position in the Lu State, and he is particularly conspicuous when he is young. Doctor Qi pointed at him one after another. And Zhao Wuxian also noticed that in the Qi team, the front were Qing Shi Gao Zhang and Qing Shi Bao Mu, and then the doctor Liang Qiu, he did not have the prestige of a doctor at all, after all, it was because of his rhetoric and accompanying Qi Hou to have fun to get to where he is today.
In addition, there was also a handsome young man, also wearing a doctor's robe, who was looking at Zhao Wuxian meaningfully. It's not a smile.
According to the custom, after that, a banquet and a gift of sacrifice should be held, and everyone would smile at the dinner table, and then they could talk about sensitive political affairs.
Zhao Wuxian sat in the banquet, indifferent to all kinds of nonsense between the monarchs and ministers of Qilu and Qilu, and just turned his head to look at the scenery in the valley.
Standing on the platform of the Huimeng, you can see the entire Jiagu with a panoramic view, and the scenery is beautiful, so it is no wonder that Qi Hou and others always like to build high platforms. On the one hand, he flaunts his wealth, and on the other hand, he stays on it and has fun, giving himself a false sense of sublime contempt for the creatures on the ground.
But for Zhao Wuxian, everything in this era is the so-called high platform. It's still not as good as a random five-story building in later generations......
Therefore, when it was his turn to be recommended by Confucius and let the Marquis of Qi and the princes of Qi know each other, Zhao Wuxian did not feel that this monarch had any dignity.
Qi Hou is about sixty. The beard is sparse, and the slender horse's face is red and gloomy. The pair of small eyes were particularly peculiar, a shrewd one. A stupor. The graceful black and red dress wrapped around a body hollowed out by wine, and the hands that had early age spots were holding the jade silk belt.
is an ordinary person, and he is already senile, as if he is about to die, just like the Marquis of Jin, Song Gong, Lu Hou, and Cao Bo he has seen, he always reminds Zhao Wuxian of the sentence "The prince will have a kind of Xiangning".
If these people can be kings, why can't I?
The monarch who can make him full of curiosity and attention in this era is probably only the southern husband and Gou Jian.
Seeing Zhao Wuxian, Qi Hou stroked his beard, smacked his lips and said, "I didn't expect Zhao Qing's son to be so young." ”
Zhao Wuxian replied without humility or arrogance: "Qi Hou praised, the kid is regretting that he was not born a few years earlier, so that he can see the demeanor of Sima Sui Tho and Yan Pingzhong, but it is a pity that the people have passed away, and no one in the Qi country can catch up." ”
Qi Hou pondered whether there was any meaning in this sentence, and then looked at Lu Hou, who was a little nervous, and Sanhuan, who was a little flattering, who participated in this kind of big occasion for the first time, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, when Zhao Xiaojun left the Jin Kingdom, why didn't he directly surrender to Qi, if that's the case, I may be able to help you, maybe I have already returned to the Jin Kingdom now, and I don't have to occupy the territory of Qi, Lu, and Wei and not return it......"
These words are hidden in the needle, which seems to remind Lu Hou and Sanhuan Zhao Wuxian that an outsider occupies a large territory, and it is not a long law.
Zhao Wuxian smiled: "Don't dare, the subordinates don't want to be divided into Quwo like Luan Ying, and they don't want to have no place to live like the ancestor Zhaogong." ”
These hard words suddenly choked Qi Hou, Zhao Wuxian was satirizing Qi Ren's thin morality, having a beginning and no end, and making the best use of it but abandoning it.
So Qi Hou looked at the young man in front of him and snorted coldly, now Zhao Wuxian's image has overlapped with the young man in the snow who was riding on a horse, covered in armor and blood, which made his scalp a little numb, and he didn't dare to get too close to Zhao Wuxian during his speech......
Today, anyway, the saber rattling has endured, let alone this? Don't think about stirring up trouble again and let the peace talks fail! Wait! After the agreement between the two countries of Qilu is agreed, after the widow wins over the surrounding states, there is a chance that you will lose nothing!
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After Qi Hou left, Zhao Wuxian's seat suddenly deserted, and he could just think about how to go next.
Before going to Jiagu, Zhang Meng talked about a strategy to cause a dispute between Qilu and make the peace collapse, but also aimed at Zhao Wuxian's counterattack in case this strategy failed.
Since the plot and the war cannot achieve results, the only way to rely on the final solution is to attack the soldiers!
To tell the truth, Zhao Wuxian now ruled four yi, plus the other areas that he actually controlled, the number of mouths was nearly 200,000, which had surpassed the Shusun clan, and was slightly inferior to the Ji clan's Meng clan.
But the strength he can use has already surpassed the Ji clan, and it can be compared with the Meng clan!
Zhao Wuxian had a whole division of new and old recruits under his command, more than 2,500 people. This is the elite and the standing army. Among them, there are already five hundred cavalry! In addition, there were 2,500 Tingyi soldiers who asked Ran Qiu to train with the Mandarin Duck Array for half a year, and Zhao Guangde's 1,000 Wendi soldiers stationed in Punan. These 6,000 people are the main force that can be mobilized even when the farm is busy.
If it is after the autumn harvest, he can still recruit the people of other Yi doctors on this basis, and under the effect of the Shiwu system, at least 10,000 young people can rise up!
Except for those who are left to garrison the defense of various provinces, at least 10,000 people can use it, which is equivalent to an army in the old system. With the spread of iron farming tools in Xilu, not only arable land and grain will be harvested this year. Moreover, a large number of bronze weapons have been liberated, and the weapons and armor are not very short, which is enough to complete the armament......
With such an army, as long as the Qi State did not carry out a national conscription, Zhao Wuxian was confident that he would resist the attack of any surrounding state and Qing clan - at least for two or three years, there were still 5,000 captives in the Jin State and the Qi State of Xilu that could not be recruited on a large scale.
But if you take the initiative to attack...... If you take Sanhuan as an imaginary enemy, plus the many interferers around, there is only Cao Bo, an unreliable teammate, by his side, and the Zhao family of the Jin Kingdom is thousands of miles away. Zhao Wuxian is not yet confident that he can achieve a complete victory.
So he needs help, and Zhang Meng only has two words to talk about the strategy: "Fei!" Huh! ”
If you don't break it, you don't stand it, you break it and then stand up, this is another adventure and a gamble. If the mantis arm blocking the car blocks the road again, he will never choose to give way!
After calculating the strength comparison, Zhao Wuxian was slightly determined. When I looked up, I saw that the feast and drink were already halfway through. The doctors of Qilu probably got acquainted with each other, and they were pushing the cups and talking about some fake words.
That's when it happened. The peer he had just seen in the team of Qi Guo doctors came over with a wine cup and accompanied by Ji Sunsi.
The Qilu peace talks can continue, which makes Ji Sunsi feel reassured, after having this big thick leg in the north, he looked at Zhao Wuxian's eyes and was not as jealous as before, he said with a smile: "Zitai, there is a talented person from Qi who wants to get acquainted with you, so let me introduce ......"
The young man with clear eyebrows and bearded lips bowed respectfully, and introduced himself with a fox-like smile: "Under Chen Heng, the word is often true, and I would like to get acquainted with Zhao Xiaosikou......"
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The sliced lamb is served on a porcelain plate, the dipping sauce is served in the porcelain beans, and the vegetables, fruits, and millet porridge are served aside. Zhao Wuxian could see that these were porcelain fired by Zhendi, and there was no second place in the world for that unique glaze, and after the porcelain became popular, it had quietly replaced the cumbersome bronze ware during the banquet.
Chen Heng's first impression of him was hypocrisy and verbosity, since he came to sit on the table under the recommendation of Ji Sunsi, it has been a full half a moment, and his mouth has been talking nonsense all over the world, from the channels where the Chen family buys porcelain on weekdays, to the exploration of Zhao's porcelain burning technology, and has gone around and returned to the food.
"Xiao Sikou's guards have already tried it, these foods are fine, and the wine is normal, why not try it? The fish is a sea fish from the coast of Qi Kingdom, which is kept fresh by ice cubes, and is sent to Jiagu by a car that travels 200 miles a day, and then cooked by the blister kitchen, accompanied by green salt, which is a rare delicacy in the world......"
Zhao Wuxian was in a bad mood today, and he didn't make a fool of himself, but interrupted Chen Heng's words: "The Chen clan of Qi has passed the sixth generation since the ancestor Chen Gongzi entered Qi?" ”
After that, he knocked on his forehead again and said with a smile: "No, if you count Zichang's uncle Chen Wuzikai, it is the seventh generation." ”
Chen Heng's face was a little weird, he had come to meet Zhao Wuxian with the intention of probing his opponent, but he saw that he was very different from the hypocritical and talkative person he imagined, but he had little interest in his own topic, but he asked such a question directly after half a sound.
"Yes, so what?"
Zhao Wuxian's eyes narrowed slightly, and he chanted in public: "Fenghuang Yu Fei, and Mingqiang." After having a concubine, she will be bred in ginger. Fifth Qichang, Yu Zhengqing. After the eighth generation, Mo Zhi and Jing ...... This is the result of Qi Huan's eldest doctor, Yi Zhong, who wants to marry his daughter to Chen Gongzi's divination. Sure enough, by the time of Zichang's grandfather Chen Huanzi, the Chen family really prospered and became the Qing clan of the Qi State, as for the eighth generation, isn't it Zichang who is the son of the Chen family? It's a blessing to get to know someone like you. ”
Chen Heng's face regained the grace of Fang Cai, and at the same time he looked proud, that's right, it is precisely because of this prophecy that the next generation of family heads has high hopes for the clan! And he was able to fight out from many brothers, and was chosen by his father as the son of the world early!
After the eighth generation, Mo Zhi and Jing, ten or twenty years later, what kind of achievements will he create for the Chen family? Is there anything more noble than the position of Zhengqing? Even Chen Heng himself would be thrilled just thinking about it.
The purpose of him and his father is appalling, and now only Yan Zizeng said it, but most people scoff at it, thinking that what Chen is seeking is at most a status like a country and a high state.
Stealing the kingdom of the monarch with a foreign surname? This is something that has never happened since the Spring and Autumn Period, and it is impossible to accomplish just thinking about it.
Chen Heng sneered in his heart every time, he was a group of uninformed mortal people, how could you know my ambition!
However, at this moment, in the most inopportune place, Zhao Wuxian, who was opposite Chen Heng, said a terrible truth with an expression of "I am from the past, I know everything".
"Zi Changmo is not thinking that in his lifetime, he will complete the feat of the Chen family and steal the country as a marquis?"
With a "bang", there was a thunderstorm on the ground, and the wine cup in Chen Heng's hand fell to the ground, and the pale yellow wine syrup spilled on the ground.
Thank you for the dozing otter, the boy line 31, the fantasy world, and the book friend 151101073247258 for the reward! Thank you for your commuter passes! (To be continued.) )