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In mid-September, at the confluence of the big river and Jishui, with the crossing of hundreds of boats, with tens of thousands of Zhao soldiers shouting, the flags were fluttering, the war drums were thundering, and Xingyang Xiaoyi fell......

Zhao Wuxian landed on the shore in cheers, looking at the magnificent scenery of the rushing river, and couldn't help but say to Zixia and the others beside him: "Capture Xingyang, not only is the battle of Zheng stable this time, but even the battle to save the Song Dynasty next year will be won by two points......"

Zixia is familiar with the classics and history, and naturally knows that as early as three hundred years ago, Zheng Huan Gong was the king of Zhou, and he was very worried about the decaying Zong Zhou, thinking that he wanted to set up his own door and leave this ship, which was destined to sink, so he used his position to find a new foothold for Zheng Guo in the eastern soil. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Tai Shi Bo at that time analyzed him: "Fang is under today, the country of the son and man, Yu and Yi are the greatest, Uncle Yu is in danger, and Yi Zhong is in danger." If Ke Eryi, then the front Xin Houhe, the right Luo Zuoji, Zheng Guo can be less solid......"

The so-called land of Dongyu, that is, Xingyang, Xingyang in the Warring States, Qin and Han, Sui and Tang dynasties are the place where soldiers must fight, and the confrontation between Han and Wu Chu in the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion is also quite similar to the current Zhao family-Wu Qi hostility, Xingyang will definitely play an important role in next year's war.

The current Xingyang is far from being comparable to the Xingyang town of later generations, it is only a simple earthen enclosure, which is much inferior to Chenggao, which is dozens of miles away to the west. But for Zhao Wuxian, Xingyang's status is far better than that of Cheng Gao, who can "choke Zhou's throat". It is an important hub for Zhao boats to go east along the Jishui River to Cao and Song, and it is also the first place where he must win Zheng Zhi this time.

That's right, this time, regardless of the domestic economic difficulties, Zhao Wuxian did not plan to blackmail a sum of compensation and leave as before, but planned to make Zheng Guoren, who had repeatedly opposed him, pay some price......

Considering that Zheng Guocai lost nearly 20,000 people in the war, most of them were captured by the Zhao clan and half were slaughtered by thieves, although Zheng Guo had a lot of resentment within Zheng Guo, the power of the entire Zheng State had been greatly weakened, and it was estimated that less than 30,000 people could be used for defense. Therefore, Zhao Wuxian did not mobilize the army, and only dispatched 40,000 people: the first army of military soldiers, the first army of Hanoi County, the first army of Hedong New Army, plus a partial division from the Han clan to attack the rear of Zheng State.

Zheng was accustomed to being invaded by the enemy, and since Zheng Zhuang was a small prince, the princes of Qi, Qin, Jin, and Chu all regarded controlling Zheng as a necessary step to defeat their opponents and establish hegemony. Let Zheng Guo be at the center of various lines of communication, and its national strength is not weak, which force it belongs to is important to the strategic pattern.

Therefore, poor Zheng Guo suffered 80 wars in just two hundred years, especially in the Jin and Chu hegemony, Zheng Guo was often used as a battlefield, and Zheng Guo was subordinated to whom the hegemony belonged as a symbol.

Zhao Wuxian did not have the meaning of "rebuilding hegemony" in Zheng Guo this time, but more importantly, it was mainly to prevent Wu Guo from going north and colluding with Zheng Guo......

Now that the husband has forced Chen Guo to submit, Chen Guo to the north, is the land of Zheng Xu, if Zheng Guo is left alone, when Zhao and Fu Cha confront Sishang, Zheng Guo suddenly makes trouble in his rear, then Zhao will not be able to echo the end, the more it is for Wu Nai's henchmen, and Zheng Zhi is also a thorn in Zhao's eye.

What's more, the Wei clan has been destroyed, the Qin state has surrendered, but the Zheng state has not surrendered for a long time because of the impact caused by the time of the slaughter. It is said that although the Zheng army could not collect the dead in the war and the wounded could not be treated, the new Zheng people wept and wailed, tried their best to share the worries and hardships, and stepped up their work to cultivate the fields and earn more money. And the Zheng court was also worried and frightened, the court was very early in the morning, and retired from the court very late in the evening, with low words and heavy gifts, sent envoys from all sides to ask the princes for unity, married Chen, Cai, and connected Qi and Wu, and took the prevention of the Zhao family as the most important thing.

This is the evil result of the slaughter of prisoners, but what happened has already happened, because of the heroic death of the thief, Zhao Wuxian revered him as a tainted hero, and it is impossible to clear the wrongs of those Zheng people who died unjustly, so they can only accept this fact......

"It is necessary for Yu to bring Zheng Ren to his senses."

Having said that, Zhao Wuxian did not follow the main force of Qi Wan and Mu Xia to approach Xinzheng along the North-South Avenue, but marched east with 5,000 soldiers.

After the loss of troops in the foreign war, although the Zheng people were full of resentment, the resistance was indeed much weaker than a few years ago when Han Zhao attacked Zheng, probably because Qi Mu transferred the main force back to Xinzheng to concentrate on defense, Zhao Wuxian's partial division was like a bamboo, and arrived in a small town in the east of Zheng in late September.

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"It's a great place to be a flat river, a land and water metropolis...... Zhao Wuxian praised the topography.

When a great calamity comes, there will certainly be those who surrender and betray the country if they have a strong main resistance. Although Zheng Guo went abroad to be a patriotic businessman like Xiangao, not everyone can do this, Zigong has been trading with Zheng Guo's merchants for a long time, and has also bought many people, these people have been hiding before, and when the Zhao army entered Zheng, they came out one after another to show the way for the Zhao army.

Although Zheng Guo attaches great importance to business, but has not yet departed from the old system of "industrial and commercial food officials", compared with the Zhao family to "Shinong industry and commerce as the pillar of the country", encourage commerce, and acquiesce in the small merchants to leave the government to trade freely, it is still a little worse, it is said that the Zhao family also announced that during the war, the grain is more than 10,000 stones, and the merchant can also be a scholar, and more than 100,000 stones can be a doctor...... Although this move has been criticized by many people, it has to be said that it is also an expedient measure to prepare grain and grass during wartime, and it was implemented by the Qin and Han dynasties in later generations.

Therefore, there were also some Zheng merchants in Zhao Wuxian's army, and one of them was more familiar with the local map and said to him flatteringly: "Shangqing has good eyesight!" This place is called Kaifeng, Zheng Zhuang Gong built a granary city nearby, taking the meaning of 'opening up the frontier', so it was named Kaifeng......"

"Zheng Zhuang Gong is a hero, dare to shoot the king on the shoulder, and the etiquette and happiness began here, but it is a pity that although he is ambitious, it is difficult for Zheng Guo's territory to expand a single point." After leaving a comment that he didn't know whether it was positive or negative, Zhao Wuxian continued to step forward and examine this land with a low degree of development.

"There are no famous mountains and rivers in this place, and as far as the eye can see, they are all up to the outskirts of the river, extending in all directions, and they are connected to the river and Bian, and they control the Huai and Si, which is enough to prohibit the ...... of the East."

He dismounted and picked up a handful ......of soil and said: "It is a black grave soil, although there are not many people here, but with a little development, you can be rich and prosperous."

Zhao Wuxian got up, patted the dust in his hand, and announced, "From today onwards, this place will be renamed Daliang!" ”

"Yu Qi Mansion is China, and it is for the people!" This is the joy of King Wu after destroying the Shang Dynasty that the Zhou people can enter the Central Plains.

Although it is said that the golden horn and silver edge grass belly, for the princes and doctors of the Spring and Autumn Period, no matter how much time they have spent developing in the corners and how much energy they have accumulated, the ultimate goal is to be able to compete in the Central Plains.

This is the long-cherished wish of the two hundred years of hegemony, the Duke of Qi Huan, the Duke of Wen of Jin, the Duke of Qin Mu, the King of Chu Zhuang and others!

And the girder can be used as a bridgehead for the Zhao family to forge ahead in the Central Plains!

(To be continued.) )