As Zhao Wuxian expected, a chaotic minister and thief like Yang Hu, as soon as he entered Yangzhou, he was unceremoniously tied up by the officials, and the treatment was so poor.

During the siege of Yanghu, more than half a year of hard life, and many days of fighting to the death, this would look unkempt, but he still did not bow his head, and asked why the officials of Yangzhou treated him like this.

The official said viciously while tying the rope: "What? A treat? In the spring of last year, you led the Lu people to invade Qi, attack Yangzhou, and shoot my relatives, if you didn't want to escort you to the capital, Naigong would have stabbed you now! ”

Yang Hu lamented: "You did the right thing, but I didn't expect me to end up like this...... "He immediately accepted the restraints.

After walking on the official road of Qi for a few days, at the beginning of July, Yanghu was finally brought to Linzi, the capital of Qi. As soon as he entered the city, he found that something was wrong, the streets of Linzi could still see white flags and ink-dyed mourning clothes, and in the palace of the Duke of Qi, the same was true on the mountains and high platforms, and it seemed that the snow roof would not melt all year round from a distance.

Yang Hu was surrounded by Meng's Gongyi Yang in Guan City, completely cut off from outside news, and only then did he know that Yan Zi was dead. In addition to the endless road of the secret path, he strongly asked to meet Qi Hou in person, saying that he had something important to inform Qi Hou.

Things hurt like that, not long after Lao Yanzi's funeral ended, Qi Hou was depressed, and he was not in the mood to play and feast. I heard that Yang Hu was bound and sent to Linzi, and he agreed to summon him out of curiosity, but the courtiers tried their best to stop it, saying that why should the king of a country see foreign traitors, and I am afraid it will not sound good to spread it.

After Yan Zi's death, Qi Hou became more and more bent on going his own way, and he said angrily: "There are many people who defected from the Lu State. But he has never met Yanghu, and this person is a private minister. But he has been in charge of the country's life for several years, and he must have something extraordinary. Why not see him once? ”

So he finally saw Yang Hu under the willow tree outside the prison, although Qi Hou was old, but his demeanor was graceful, and he was wearing a luxurious robe. Yang Hu was in the prime of life, but he was shackled, and only because the monarch wanted to meet him, he was splashed with cold water by the jailer and rinsed with a hard and sultry pig hair brush, and put on an ill-fitting linen clothes.

After the autumn in July, the weather changed suddenly, and the yang tiger caught a cold, like a wilted summer seedling. He reluctantly said: "Yang Hu, the foreign minister of the Lu State, has seen Qi Jun. ”

Qi Hou looked down on his appearance, and his attitude was arrogant: "Yang Hu, a traitor of the Lu State who has no king and no father, why do you ask to see a widow?" ”

Yang Hu raised his head and said with red eyes: "Without him, the foreign minister just has a good opportunity to dedicate to the king." ”

With just one sentence, Yang Hu scratched Qi Hou's itch.

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Yang Hu knew that the early experience of this Qi Hou Pestle was extremely similar to the current Luhou Song. He is the youngest son of Qi Linggong, the younger brother of Qi Zhuang Gong, and Cui Zhu killed Qi Zhuang Gong back then. Lu Pestle, who was still a child, was supported as the monarch, but he was like a puppet, and he was always trembling, and he only obeyed the orders of the ministers.

Cui Zhu was followed by Qingfeng in power. This one is even more excessive, replacing all the people around the pestle with his cronies. It was the most miserable period of Lu Pestle's life, and the monarch's daily diet was two chickens. As a result, the bold Yongren secretly ate the chicken and replaced it with a duck. The pestle is afraid of Qingfeng. I could only endure it with tears in my eyes, but even the emperor bullied him. I stole another chicken every day and ate all the meat, leaving only the bones in the food box.

On that day, when the pestle looked at the chicken bones that seemed to be laughing at him, he suddenly lifted the table, and his heart was furious, and the temples were snickering on the side, and the self-esteem of the monarch was trampled to the extreme.

After the anger was a dead desolation: "What is the meaning of this king? ”

After that, Ziya and Ziwei Erhui expelled Qingfeng, they are a public family, although they are still empty, but life is gradually getting better.

The head of the city changed the banner of the king, and after the death of Erhui, his heirs were expelled by the Chen family and the Bao family, and at this time, Lu Pestle, who had reached the prime of life, began to use his own means. He appointed Yan Ying, supported the Guo clan and the Gao clan of the old Qing clan, checked and balanced Chen and Bao, and reversed the decline of the monarchy of the Qi State in the past few decades.

But the chicken bones in the pile of food boxes still fell asleep from time to time, so in addition to being close to Liang Qiu, who was crazy, playing, having fun, and collecting money, Qi Hou also hoped to do something more meaningful, so that he could forget those bleak days.

That's hegemony! The Marquis of Qi in all dynasties had a common dream, that is, to restore the hegemony of Duke Qi Huan!

However, the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, according to the covenant of the Soldiers' Association, although the Qi State is one of the four major powers, it is still the small partner of the Jin State. Pestle still has to let Yan Ying send the daughter of the clan to let the hungry ghost Jin Pinggong in the color be ruined, and if one dies, he has to pay for the smile and send another one. When he met Jin Jun Xinli, he still had to worship the Jin Kingdom.

But the Marquis of Jin was short-lived, and the six secretaries in China fought for power, but the pestle was tough, and after boiling the death of the powerful minister Chen Wuyu, he said nothing in China.

In that year, the Duke of Jin Zhao succeeded to the throne, and the Bank of China Mu Zi saluted, and during the banquet, the two monarchs of Jin and Qi played a game of pitching pots, and the slightly drunk pestle began to reveal his ambitions.

At that time, Jin Zhaogong voted first, and the wine order must be carried out when throwing pots, and Mu Zi of the Bank of China said for the monarch: "There is wine such as Huai, and there is meat such as Di." The widow is in this, and he is the division of the princes. "Jin Zhaogong won as soon as he voted.

When the people of the Jin Kingdom praised with their palms, the pestle and mortar also raised the arrow and said: "There is wine like a mian, and meat is like a tomb." The widow is in this, and the king is prosperous. "It also hit.

At this time, there was a silence, and the Bank of China Mu Zi glared angrily, and the thoughts of the pestle and the mortar who wanted to compete with the Jin State for hegemony because of the revival of the Qi State were clear at a glance.

But at this time, the Jin State was still "the commander of the army, the pawn was competitive and persuasive", and the two famous generals of the Bank of China Wu and Wei Shu were in charge, and Han Qi was in power, and even the invincible King Chu Ling did not dare to say that he could resist, and none of the princes dared to make a mistake.

A few years later, at the Pingqiu meeting, in the face of the Jin people's 4,000 strong soldiers, he had to succumb to the hegemony of the Jin and sent Shangqing to show his loyalty.

But since then, he has gradually reused Yan Ying, Sima Sui Tho and other virtuous ministers, and at the same time attacked from all sides, opening up the situation for the Qi State.

In the east, hurry up and digest Ley. In the south, in the name of attacking Xu and Ju, as a result, the four countries of Qi, Xu, Tan and Ju formed an alliance of Pu Tunnel, and Qi became the hegemon of Haidai. In the north, he fought for the Northern Yan. Let Yan become a country of Qi, and accept women to seek peace. In the direction of the Central Plains, they supported the return of the expelled Wei Hou. also interfered in the Zhao Gong Escape incident of the Lu State, and seemed to have become the arbiter of Zhuxia's international affairs when the Jin State was inactive. Enough prestige and vanity.

At this time, the infighting between the six secretaries of the Jin Kingdom intensified, and he could only turn a blind eye to the actions of the Qi State. As a result, more than 20 years have passed, and when I turned around, I found that there were already more allies such as Beiyan, Zheng, and Ju around Qi State, and Song, Di, and Wei had ambiguous attitudes, and they might one day defect to Qi State, and their little friends were only left with a fish-belly-like Lu State, as well as the Zhou royal family who was too busy to take care of themselves.

Only then did the Qi State dare to completely tear its face with the Jin State. Began a blatant struggle for supremacy in the north.

However, as Sima Sui Tho and Yan Ying died one after another, Qi Hou also found that his "hegemony" was a little worse after all. It took thirty years to completely defeat Jin, and the newly acquired younger brothers in the south, Xu Guo and Tan Guo, fell into the hands of the emerging power Ju Wu one after another.

In last year's war, not only was the patriotic country that had been in the pocket forcibly recaptured by the Jin people, but even the fortress Liqiu was lost, and the struggle for hegemony fell behind. He was hit by this, and Yan Zi, who was also a teacher, friend and minister, died, and he was suddenly at a loss.

As the beard fades whiter. The teeth were shaken, and Qi Hou began to be anxious, hoping that before he died, like Qi Huan Jinwen, he could make the Son of Heaven pay tribute. Enjoy the treatment of the overlord of the Eight Classics.

So Yang Hu's words are right in his arms!

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Qi Hou became interested, and he asked Yang Hu: "You can talk about it." Is there any good way to help the widow recover the matter of Qi Huan Jinwen? ”

Yang Hu said: "The situation in China is not the same as Jin. Now that the four realms of the king have been served, there is only one Lu country in the Jin Kingdom to help. In the past, whenever Jin Qi was in trouble, Lu would attack from Qi's belly and back, hindering Qi's division......"

Yang Hu's face was not red and his heart did not beat when he said this, in the past few years, wasn't he the one who led the Lu army to contain Qi people again and again?

Of course, Qi Hou also thought of it, he smiled and said nothing, Yang Hu could only stubbornly continue to flicker: "Uncle Muzi has a word, if you are not reckless, then the small country will be harmonious." If even the Lu State is subordinate to the monarch, not only has it removed a belly and back problem, but the Jin State has no country, what kind of overlord will it be? Naturally, it will lose its hegemony, and at that time, the princes of Huaisi will not hesitate to fall to Qi, and this so-called victory over the situation is also. ”

Qi Hou stroked his beard, but said meaningfully: "This is a good word, but someone said that if you are taken in, you will definitely have a grudge with the Ji family." But if you are sent back to the Lu country, you can make good friends with Lu Hou and Sanhuan, and promote the matter of Qilu peace, so that the Lu country will be peaceful without a fight, why fight, what do you think? ”

He originally wanted to see Yang Hu's panicked and embarrassed appearance, but Yang Hu's face remained unchanged, and he said with a smile: "If Yang Hu's head can help Jun Shang become a hegemon, then it will be good to take it, but now there is one more variable in Lu Guo, and Jun Shang's plan may not work." ”

"What variables?"

"Have you ever heard of the son of Zhao Qing of the Jin Kingdom, he has only been in Lu for a year, and now he is the little Sikou, and he is in the west of the Lu State, and he is in a high position. This person was originally established by me, so Yang Hu knows his person very well, although he is young and weak, he was born with a wolf ambition, and wants to seek a return to the country for the Jin Dynasty, and any resolution related to peace talks in Lucheng will be blocked by him. ”

Qi Hou bowed his head: "That's right, it was this person who entered Lu with Zhenyi and Xiaqiu, which made the reconciliation of Qi, Lu, Wei and Lu a little more hindered." ”

Yang Hu took the opportunity to say: "According to the foreign minister, it is better to send troops to attack it. The foreign minister knew that the Lu army was false and real, and there were still many henchmen in the country, so he could be a guide and take the Qi division to pull out Yangguan and Guancheng first, and make it to the north. Lu people are cowardly, one blow will not work, and three blows will be defeated! ”

"The six secretaries of the Jin State are eventful, and there is no time to look eastward, Zhao Wuxian to the Jin people to steal Lu Xi, the people are suffering, and they have fled to Dayozawa as a thief. At that time, the three huans of the state of Lu will definitely send an envoy to sue for peace, instead of having to travel hundreds of miles, and fight a decisive battle with the Jin army between Heji, so that the people of Linzi will be separated.

Yang Hu knew that meeting Qi Hou this time was his only chance to live, and even to repay his grievances, so he took his eloquence to the extreme. After all, he was a person who had been the "governing" of a country for a few years, and after jumping out of the game, he learned from the pain, and his vision was naturally extraordinary, which made Qi Hou a little moved.

"Take the power of the tyrant, in this move! Please think about it! (To be continued......)