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Standing on the boat, thinking about Fang Cai's own evaluation of Gou Jian, Wang Sunsheng fell into contemplation again, although the great enemy of Chu State, Wu State, was destroyed, but there were no fewer tigers and wolves around, and the general trend was rolling forward, and it was really like this boat sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat.

Wang Sunsheng's brows furrowed again, his mood seemed to be wrinkled by the evening breeze, and he couldn't calm down for a long time. In this world of great contention, unchanged is weak, but today's Chu State is always carving a boat for a sword and stagnating.

As early as six years ago, when he had just been named Bai Gong, he returned to Yingdu to tell Ling Yin and Sima about the change, but he was hindered by Ye Gong and others, so that in the end, he only tepidly promulgated some measures to restrain the royal power of the current situation of the Chu State, so that the power of the country could not be used in one place. Even in Bai Gong's own territory, radical strategies often encountered obstacles, and Bai Gongsheng was annoyed when he thought that those relatives and nobles surnamed Mi, who did not have the slightest merit to the state but were divided into Huainan territory, repeatedly relied on the old and sold the old, and moved out of the tradition of respecting the relatives and respects of the Chu State to force him and prevent Bai Gong from liberating the large number of slaves and maids in their hands.

Fortunately, he withstood the pressure, and in six years built Huainan like an iron bucket, the territory became bigger and bigger, and the local old clans were uprooted everywhere he went, and he boldly used low-born scholars, and had an army of 30,000 people, of which 5,000 were standing "Chu Wushu", and for a time, Bai Gong was rampant in Jianghuai, and he was in the limelight.

More importantly, he not only completed the tasks assigned to him by Zixi and Ziqi, but also hit Jiangdong in one go, obtained the land of Danyang, that is, the area on the east bank of the Yangtze River, helped the Yue Kingdom destroy the Wu State, and completed the partition of Jiangdong.

When Bai Gong's exploits reached Yingdu, the whole country shook.

The Chu people, who were afraid and hated of Wu, began to cheer and celebrate, and at the same time regarded Bai Gongsheng as a hero, and even compared him with the former Ling Yin Cheng Daxin of the Chu State - Cheng Daxin was the son of Ziyu, a descendant of the Ruo Ao clan, who had followed his father Cheng Dechen on the expedition during the Battle of Chengpu, and was Ling Yin when he was the king of Chu Mu. Continue to expand the territory in the north, lead the division to destroy the six and the tate, defeat the division in Fangzhu, plot the Central Plains, and compete for hegemony with the Jin......

But even if it is Cheng Daxin, whether it is his background or merits, he cannot be compared with Bai Gongsheng. Such a person, looking at the Chu State, is unique in a hundred years!

The pressure of public opinion began to roll westward, and the small nobles and people of Chu demanded that the imperial court pay more and more attention to Wang Sun Sheng's official reward, so Yingdu issued an order: let Bai Gong enter Yingyin as "Zuo Yin" while retaining the position of the territory and county duke.

The official system of Chu is slightly different from that of the Central Plains, Ling Yin and Sima are the chief of the ministers, and Ling Yin is equivalent to Xiangbang and governance, and under Ling Yin, there are Zuo Yin and Right Yin as their deputies, because Chu is still left, so Zuo Yin is the season of a hundred officials, second only to Ling Yin and Sima, and more importantly, the successive Zuo Yin, generally speaking, is the successor of Ling Yin......

When the news came, the Bai Gong shogunate in Huainan was jubilant, and Bai Gongsheng was also full of ambition, which means that under the merits of breaking Wu and expanding the territory, Yingdu finally began to face up to the results of Bai Gong's reform.

Zixi is over sixty years old, and he is becoming more and more powerless, as the king and grandson of Chu State, as Zixi's favorite successor, Bai Gongsheng can naturally gain great power. This means that he can ignore the obstruction of Ye Gong and others and start implementing his plan, looking forward to promoting the successful experience of Huainan throughout the Chu State!

If he can succeed, he will be able to take over Zixi's class logically, become the greatest Ling Yin in the history of the Chu State, realize his ambitions, and stand at the peak of ten thousand people under one person......

Because the reef and sandbar are unpredictable, so at sunset, the ship does not dare to continue sailing in the river, Bai Gongsheng's building boat docked at the dock on the south bank of the river in a small Yi, which belongs to the land of Danyang in Jiangdong, which is the riverside metallurgical place of Wu State, named Yeyi, and was conquered by Bai Gongsheng's sailors two months ago.

Bai Gongsheng got off the boat and looked around, but saw that under the sunset, there was a strange rocky mountain between the Xiaoyi and the river, called Stone Mountain, and on the other side of Xiaoyi, there was also a pine and verdant mountain, called Jinling Mountain, which seemed to have a faint purple gas rising from between the two mountains......

The sunset is infinitely good, the scenery is fascinating, just as Bai Gongsheng is also quiet in this beautiful scenery, but he heard a person next to him exclaim: "It's amazing!" ”

When I turned my head to look, I saw that the people of Qi who had come to take refuge in him five years ago were amazed, pointed to the small yi and said: "Jinling Mountain is like a dragon, and the stone mountain is like a tiger. ”

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In the past six years, Bai Gongsheng began to recover the lost territory of Huainan with an army of 3,000 loyal to him, and I don't know whether it was a coincidence or an inevitability, it was quite similar to Zhao Wuxian's starting experience: the former Ying and Six Princes had long since declined, the nobles of Chu ran out when the Wu army came, and the nobles arranged by Wu in the local area were all killed by Bai Gongsheng and deprived of all their territories.

In this way, a power vacuum was formed in the local area, and Bai Gong could methodically press his cronies and recruit his staff at the same time. He adhered to the principle that he learned from Zhao Guo that "the officials of the Ming Lord, the prime minister must start from the state department, and the fierce generals must be sent from the army", abandoned the incompetent nobles, put an end to nepotism, and began to vigorously employ scholars from humble backgrounds or from middle families.

This Gao Amnesty is one of them, he speaks with a Qi accent, claiming to be a native of Jibei of Qi State, a side branch of the Gao family, because the State of Qi was broken by Zhao Wuxian, divided into three, he did not want to be a slave of the country, so he came to Huainantou. Gao Yu served as a staff member under Bai Gongsheng for four years, and he was full of clever plans, and he suggested that Bai Gong avoid Cai Guo and Huaibei without attacking, and the well water of the Zhao garrison did not violate the river water, and concentrated on seizing the territory of Wu State, and even crossed the river to take the land of Danyang, all of which came from his suggestion, and now it has achieved excellent results. As a result, Gao Yu was increasingly relied on, and there was a vague tendency to become the first adviser under Bai Gong, and Bai Gong also attached great importance to his words.

So when Gao Yu commented that this Yeyi was amazing and was the "overlord's house", Bai Gongsheng was immediately attracted by Gao Yu's words.

"Zizhi, what do you mean by that?"

Gao Yu hurriedly arched his hand and said: "When the minister was in the Qi Kingdom, he once learned the art of the basket with a master......

"The Art of the Basket?"

Gao Yu began to say in a gullif: "According to legend, in ancient times, when Fuxi was in ancient times, the dragon horse appeared in the big river, carrying the "River Map" and dedicated it to Fuxi, and Fuxi evolved into gossip according to this. When Dayu, the turtle emerged in the Luo River, carrying the "Luo Book", dedicated to Dayu, Dayu succeeded in controlling the water according to this, and then divided the world into Kyushu, and according to this set nine chapters of Dafa, to create the foundation of the Xia Hou clan. After this river map and Luoshui were handed down, they were collected by one of the three benevolent people at the end of Yin, and he once dedicated these techniques to King Wu of Zhou, called "Hong Fan". The avenues of governing the country in Hong Fan are not revealed, but the observation of celestial phenomena and the divination of yin and yang, as well as the small path of the five elements of yin and yang and the art of looking at qi, have been circulated with the chaos of the prince dynasty and the classics of the Zhou room, and the minister was lucky to practice it ten years ago. ”

He pointed to the small town between the Stone Mountain and the Jinling Mountain, and said matter-of-factly: "It was the old minister who used the technique of looking at the qi to take a look, and then calculated the location of this place, and then knew that this was the king's qi!" ”

"Wang Qi?"

Bai Gongsheng was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Zizhi was smart and alert in the past, but why is he so confused and believes in divination? If there is really a royal spirit in this place, why did the man who built this town be killed by someone chopping off his toes on the battlefield? Why did the husband die and the country was broken, and the society was destroyed, laughing for the world? If this royal spirit should be Gou Jian in the southeast, Gou Jian has taken the initiative to remove the king's name, and is willing to live under Zhao and Chu, so to speak, who should this so-called overlord's house be? ”

Gao Yu smiled, and arched his hand: "The lord is a blind eye, I haven't seen Mount Tai, this prince's purple qi, and this overlord's mansion, of course, should be on you!" ”

PS: There is one more chapter in the evening