Wang Sunsheng has always been the most hardcore main battle faction in many counties of Chu State, and almost every month he has to send a letter to Zixi asking for war, but today he is unusual, and he turns to the main peace, which makes everyone present very surprised. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Sima Ziqi couldn't help asking: "Bai Gong, didn't you say before you that you wanted to destroy Chen and take Cai and win the terrain for the Chu State?" ”

"Da Sima, this time, that time."

Wang Sunsheng said with some regret: "Two years ago, Zhao State had just finished the war with Wu State, and there was still Qi State on the side, and the soldiers were tired and the people were lacking. But now that the state of Qi has been divided into three, the princes of the Central Plains have to submit to the authority of Zhao Wuxian, if the state of Chu and Zhao fight for Chen and Cai, except for Qin and Zheng, who are not sure whether they will oppose Zhao, there are no allies at all who can share the pressure of Zhao's 100,000 troops for Chu. ”

He analyzed that Zhao Wuxian likes the virtual and the real the most, and the real is the virtual, and Zhao Guo is involved in Chen Cai, but he doesn't really want to go south to compete with Chu for hegemony in the south. The real purpose is to distract the state of Chu and prolong the melee between Chu and Wuyue, if the state of Chu falls for Zhao Wuxian's strategy and blindly competes for Chen Cai, it will allow the state of Wu, which has only one breath left, to recover, and once again reproduce the situation when Jin and Wu attacked the state of Chu.

"It's better not to fight than not to fight, and now the plan is to give up the Cai State, be satisfied with obtaining the southern number of towns in the Chen State, and concentrate on uniting the Yue State to destroy the Wu State. As long as the state of Wu is destroyed, there will be no more elbows and armpits, the state of Chu holds 200,000 halberds, and Fangcheng, Huaihan, and Dabie are still impregnable. ”

Le Yin Zhongjian asked: "Then, what if the Zhao army really went south when the Chu State attacked Wu?" ”

"Zhao Guo is only afraid that he doesn't have the energy."

Wang Sunsheng elaborated that Zhao Guo seems to be extremely prosperous now, but in fact he is very tired. In the past ten years, there has been almost no war, and the consumption of food, soldiers, and horses has been too large, and the government treasury has long been unable to eat. I heard that the last time he attacked Wu, Zhao Hou even had to borrow debts from the wealthy merchants and landlords in Yecheng to send troops, and the old debts had not been paid off, so he borrowed the bonds of the war again.

"With Zhao Hou's steady character, he should recuperate for a few years and accumulate food before he can fight again, at most send a small number of troops to Chen Cai to station. Chu Guo Ming did not send troops, as long as he sent people to contact the doctors who were close to Chu, let them spread rumors that were unfavorable to the Zhao army, and wait for the opportunity to coup d'état, the turbulent Chen Cai was enough to become a burden to Zhao in the south, and Chu would ally with Yue and destroy Wu in one fell swoop! ”

It is worthy of being a retainer who has been a retainer in the Zhao family for many years, Wang Sunsheng can be said to be the person who knows Zhao Wuxian the most within the Chu State, and after his analysis, Zhao Hou's intention to promise to protect Chen and Cai at the meeting of Huangchi has become extremely clear!

"Goodness, great goodness! Just act according to the white public's policy! ”

Zixi Lao was relieved, in his eyes, Wang Sunsheng was like a bird egg that was picked up, hatched and raised by him, and protected him with wings, but after several years of experience, he has grown from a stunned young man with a violent personality and shouting and killing at every turn, to a mature county prince.

Zixi and his younger disciples are not young, and they will be old in a few years, their son is young and has no prestige, and the other county ministers of Chu are mediocre, and the only talented ones are Shen Zhuliang and Wang Sunsheng, so Zixi wants to hand over the burden to them.

Ye Gong is old and steady, he is very relieved, but the only thing that he can't rest assured about is whether Bai Gong can do it. But after today's incident, Zixi fell to the ground with a stone in his heart, and became more and more appreciative of Wang Sunsheng, and after the court meeting, he directly let the two go to his mansion for a banquet, as if they were already regarded as the successors of Ling Yin and Sima.

Although Yin Zixi has always been simple, the banquet for the guests is not bad, with good rice and yellow sorghum. The stewed soft-shelled turtle soup, the roasted lamb legs, the vinegared swan meat, and the fried wild goose pigeon dipped in fresh sugarcane syrup have a unique taste of the southern country.

Halfway through the banquet, the dancers and musicians came up to dance, sang "Shijiang" and then sang "Cailing", Zixi listened for a while, smiled disapprerovingly, and waved their hands to let them go down.

He said to Ye Gong and Bai Gong: "The best music in Yingdu is still the sound of the piano of Zhong Ziqi, the son of Le Yin and Ji Mi, although he is only a weak crown, he has inherited the essence of the music of Chu for hundreds of years. After listening to that wonderful sound, I can't listen to other music. ”

"Katsu is a vulgar person who doesn't understand music."

Zixi was old and chattering, but Bai Gongsheng couldn't sit still, he didn't pick up Zixi's topic, but stood up, hugged his fists and said: "I haven't seen my uncle for several years, and Sheng doesn't have any skills that can be offered, so I just tell a story and talk about it......"

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"There was a man in the land of Anhui who accidentally dropped his sword into the water while crossing the river in a boat, and he carved a mark with a knife on the boat, saying, 'This is the place where my sword fell into the water.'" When the boat stopped, the man jumped into the river following the mark, looking for a sword, but he couldn't find it......"

Ye Gong was thoughtful after hearing this, but Zixi didn't think too much, he laughed and said: "This person is stupid, the boat has already worked, but the sword can't, if the sword is like this, isn't it confusing?"

"Not bad." Bai Gongsheng also said: "Sheng also laughed at this person's stupidity at the time, but when I thought about it, I couldn't laugh anymore, because today's Chu State, just like this fool, carved a boat to ask for a sword!" ”

Zixi smiled and froze: "Victory, what do you mean by this?" ”

"The state of Zhao swept through the north and dominated the Central Plains, and the general trend of the world was driven forward by Zhao Wuxian, surging forward, like a rushing stream. The princes of the world are like ships carried by this torrent, and the state of Chu is also among them. But the Chu people are still living in the glory of the past, thinking that after the sword fell, they carved a mark on the boat, and they could get it back by jumping off after the boat docked, but they didn't know that the times had changed, and then along the previous mark to find the sword, it would never be found! ”

After Bai Gongsheng said the meaning of this fable, he bowed down and said: "Therefore, if the Chu State does not change, it will definitely be eliminated by the world. ”

"The ...... of change" Zixi has been silent for a long time.

Zixi is the person in Wang Sunsheng's fable, the one who carved a boat and asked for a sword. His character is conservative and hesitant, so in the past twenty years as Ling Yin, the national policy of the Chu State has always been to restore the past, rather than bring forth the new.

Ten years of licking the wounds, ten years of restoring the people's strength, the torn order will be cleaned up again, the old clan will be returned to its place, and the heroes will be distributed all over the country as county dukes to shield the royal family, and the former situation of the Chu State has finally been restored.

However, the Northern Expedition of King Zhao of Chu was blocked, but the people of Chu woke up from their dream of being a great power.

They were stunned to find that after twenty years had passed, the neighbors in the north had become so unfamiliar, the utensils produced by Zhao were very popular with the people of Chu, but they did not know their methods, and the weapons produced by Zhao were so powerful that the craftsmen of Chu were dumbfounded.

The princes also began to abandon the feudal etiquette that the Chu State still worshipped as Guiyu, and began to annex on a large scale, and created a behemoth that dominated the north: the Zhao State.

The strength of Zhao has become a heavy persecution for the nations, and the defector of the Zhao family, Wang Sun Sheng, has never forgotten his fear and worry about Zhao for a day.

He said in a hurried tone: "Uncle, when today is a world of great contention, the fortune of the country is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, it is no longer enough to rely on the oars of the past, you must make a new sail for the big ship of Chu!" The state of Chu must change the law in order to avoid the defeat and division of the state of Qi. ”

"I know, it's just ......"

Zixi sighed.

There is no shortage of changes in the state of Chu, and since Xiongqu has dared to break through the old etiquette system, call the Zhou room, and brazenly claim the king. After that, the state of Chu set up the Lingyin and Sima systems, which were very different from those in the Central Plains, and also created the county system, and governed them on behalf of the county duke (similar to a feudal monarch). After that, King Zhuang of Chu also carried out large-scale changes to the system of Chu, thus gaining hegemony.

But the changes are not always successful, and there are also failed changes, that is, King Chu Ling......

At that time, King Ling of Chu felt that there were too many vassals of Chu, so he brazenly destroyed Chen and Cai, moved the rest of the small states into the hinterland, and at the same time promoted a large number of new people, liberated his vassals, and competed with the nobles of Chu for the hidden population.

However, his reform failed, and the internal affairs of Chu became a mess since then, and finally King Ping of Chu could not recover, which also laid a hidden danger for the later entry of the Wu army.

So Zixi is a little afraid of change, if he can stop, he will definitely not move forward, and will even take a few steps back cautiously, and even if he wants to change the law, he doesn't know how to start.

But Wang Sunyu, who had been an envoy to the north, also said to Zixi worriedly that one day, this kind of change would break through the geographical restrictions and come to the state of Chu, but it is unknown when and by whom it was proposed.

Now Zixi knows that the first person to propose the change was Wang Sunsheng, who was influenced by the two different cultures of Chu and Zhao at the same time.

The Wang Sunsheng in front of him, can he rely on it, can he become his help?

Thinking like this, his eyes glanced at Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang.

"Zigao, what do you think?"

Ye Gong did not hesitate, and said concisely: "As Wang Sunsheng said, the state of Chu is indeed unchanged. The state of Zhao pressed people too much, so that the princes were desperate to find a way out. The state of Zhao prospered because of the law, so the state of Yue and the state of Qin had begun to follow the example of the state of Zhao to change the law, one was successfully revived, and the other also stabilized its position, while the Chen clan of the state of Qi, who was still taking the old path, was defeated. The subordinates have always believed that Fabili is more reliable, and they also support the change of law in the Chu State, but they must listen to whether Bai Gong has specific measures. ”

With that, he sat back, leaving Zixi to weigh the pros and cons. Wang Sunsheng glanced at Ye Gong gratefully, and sure enough, it was worth communicating with Ye Gong before coming.

After thinking about it for a long time, the conservative old Ling Yin finally took the first step tremblingly.

"Sheng, let's talk about it, how should the Chu State change the law?"

Wang Sunsheng was overjoyed, and bowed again: "Please don't blame my uncle, the kid thinks that the trouble of the Chu State lies in the fact that the clan relatives are too many, and the county prince is too heavy!" ”

PS: The second chapter is in the evening