After Bai Gongsheng took Shenyi, he immediately took advantage of the victory to pursue, and saw that the seven cities near Shenyi had been taken down, and the ruling area had reached more than 100 li.

As for the Qi State, Zigong did not disappoint Yang Zilu as always. There was good news in the Qi Kingdom, and Tian Chang also hoped to establish a good relationship with the Han Kingdom, and the two sides hit it off. At the same time, Zigong clearly pointed out in the letter that Tian Chang had the intention of replacing the Lü clan to rule the Qi state.

To this end, the Han State and the Tian clan established a secret agreement, and the Tian clan handed over the seven iron mines known to the Qi State and all the current Qi States to Yang Zilu's merchants to develop. Of course, these merchants, in the eyes of others, are ordinary merchants.

The excavated iron ore will be roughed in the mines, and they will be smelted into crude iron and transported to the iron city at the mouth of the Huai River. It is processed locally and made into weapons. Coal could also be imported from Pengcheng (now Xuzhou) in the Song Kingdom and transported to Tiecheng through Surabaya for coking coal refining. Moreover, the distance of the coal transported to the iron city is all the way down the river, and the speed is very fast, which also reduces the cost to a certain extent. Compared with the shipping from Huiji City to Tiecheng, the surname price ratio is much higher.

And Yang Zilu is not without paying, he will sell 2,000 weapons to the Tian family every year, and at the same time, the Han Kingdom will distribute the right to distribute straw paper and brown sugar, of course, there was no such thing as distribution rights in ancient times, but the meaning is similar. Anyway, the straw paper and brown sugar sold by the Han State in the Qi State will be sold to the Tian family first, and the merchants of the Qi State can either only take the goods from the Tian family, or they can only go to other vassal states to buy them. And the Han State would not sell these straw paper and brown sugar to merchants who sold them in the territory of the Qi State.

At the same time, under the influence of Tian Chang, Zigong met the son of the Duke of Qi Mourning, the current monarch of the State of Qi, the Duke of Qi Jian. Zigong represented Yang Zilu and Qi Jian Gong as a blood alliance, and Qi and Han formed an alliance.

However, it seems that Qi Jiangong also vaguely understands that the Tian clan has recruited the Han State as foreign aid, and Qi Jiangong is not willing to become a puppet. In this regard, Tian Chang obviously does not have his father Tian Qi's old way, Tian Qi forced other doctors to push Qi Mourning Gong to the throne. However, Tian Chang contacted other Chinese people to push Qi Jiangong to the throne, so his control over Qi Jiangong was obviously not as good as his father Tian Qi's control over Qi Mourning Gong.

After the blood alliance, Qi Jiangong united with other doctors and appointed Kan Zhi as the right minister of Qi. And Kan Zhi is Kan Pingtian's half-brother, but he was able to ascend the throne not because of Kan Pingtian. In fact, except for Yang Zilu, no one else knows that Zuo Xiangguo of the Han Kingdom is actually Kan Zhi's half-brother.

After the death of Duke Jian of Qi, civil strife broke out in the Qi State, and Tian Qi joined Bao Mu and other doctors to drive out the suzerains of the Guo and Gao clans, and the five major families of the Qi State, the Guo clan and the Gao clan have been hit hard. And the Battle of Ailing also swept away the forces of the three clans of Guo, Gao, and Yan in the five worlds. Now these three clans are a little better, except for the Yan clan, which used to be the two most powerful families in the Qi country, and the Gao clan has only said that they are still breathing.

And Bao Mu also killed Qi Mourning Gong, and Baotian often took the opportunity to kill. Although it is said that his son Bao Xi inherited the suzerainty of the Bao family. However, the Bao family's private soldiers and territory have been seriously reduced due to Tian Chang's blow, which also caused Qi Jiangong to have to promote the emerging family Kan family. And Kan's ascendancy also aroused Tian Chang's dissatisfaction, and the contradictions between the two sides began to be aroused, but this is also in the interests of Yang Zilu, a Qi country of infighting is a safe Qi country.

Time flies, the old year has passed, and the new year has arrived, Yang Zilu began to consolidate his position and change the law of the Han Kingdom. Although a doctor played it, he persuaded Yang Zilu not to take too big steps, so that it would be too easy to fall.

But Yang Zilu didn't adopt it, in fact, now the Han Kingdom needs to change the law, and it has reached the point where it can't wait. The current territory of the Han Kingdom is composed of the original territory of the Shanyue people, the territory of the Sanyi people, the Yue Kingdom, and the Wu Kingdom. But in fact, the subdivision is different, Wu has destroyed many countries in the past few decades, and the original places are ruled in a semi-exploitative way, with little investment, which also leads to the fact that although decades have passed, the people in these places are not very attentive.

If these problems were not solved, Yang Zilu would not dare to start a war against the state of Chu.

In the reform, Yang Zilu divided the Han Kingdom into five counties, namely Guangling County, and governed Guangling City. Donghai County, Zhongwu City, is the only county in the north of the Han Kingdom. The south of the Yangtze River is divided into three counties by Yang Zilu, namely Wu County, Huiji County, and Jian'an County, which combines Shanyue and Sanyi. At the same time, the townships and towns were gathered as counties, and finally the Han Kingdom was divided into a total of 34 counties. All these are conducive to Yang Zilu to strengthen local rule, and at the same time, Yang Zilu also takes advantage of the trend to increase the number of people selected for the imperial examination system.

The reason why the number of people selected for the imperial examination system was reduced in the past was because of the fear of opposition from the doctors. But now that the place is bigger and the scale of the officials is larger, it will naturally not harm the interests of the doctors.

Then Yang Zilu allocated funds to allow each county to open at least two school houses, free of charge, or even a small amount of tuition. The teaching materials for recruiting school-age children are all provided by Yang Zilu, which is tinged with chauvinism and strengthens the sense of identity of people everywhere with the Han Kingdom. And teachers are easier to find, Confucius's 3,000 apprentices, with those apprentices and grandchildren, I don't know how many tens of thousands of people. In addition, Confucianism is the most eloquent, and Yan Zi said that these Confucian people are the most demagogic.

Yang Zilu now understands a little why all dynasties, except for the Qin Dynasty, other dynasties like to use Confucianism so much. It is because they are able to demagogue, they can consolidate their political position.

Then Yang Zilu asked Zigong to be responsible for dividing the fields, and Yang Zilu was a little glad about the system of this era. All land is state-owned, and even the seeds for spring ploughing are provided by the state. This made Yang Zilu's work of dividing the fields very smooth, and there was basically no resistance. Yang Zilu allocates land to adult men and women according to the fertility of the land, and Yang Zilu handed over this matter to Zigong to do.

According to the usual practice, Yang Zilu assigned the disabled veterans to various places to serve as security chiefs and garrison envoys, so as to strengthen Yang Zilu's rule over villages and towns in various places.

The measurement standards were also unified in various places, and the first reform was the length of the field, no matter how large it was, to 240 steps per acre. This work was mainly carried out in the original territory of the state of Wu, and the measurement standards had long been unified in other places.

In the Han Kingdom, the law was in full swing, and the Chu State was not willing to live quietly. Of course, the last thing they want is to sit back and watch Bai Gongsheng still live alive. In April, Ye Gong organized an army of 50,000 to attack Shenyi along the Huai River.

Yang Zilu immediately sent Han Jiading to lead a thousand longbow soldiers and 2,000 strong crossbowmen to enter Shenyi. Bai Gongsheng did not fight with Ye Gong, and defended the city. Bai Gongsheng was naturally unwilling to forget it like this, and led an army of 50,000 to besiege Shenyi.

But although Ye Gong was powerful, he was caught off guard for the first time when he encountered the crossbow and longbow. After attacking for three days in a row, more than 3,000 soldiers and horses were lost, and they did not even attack the city wall of Shenyi once.

Ye Gong was not discouraged, and ordered the army to change the siege to a siege, and built a dirt mountain on the edge of Shenyi.

But Yang Zilu will be unprepared? He immediately sent 200 warships and marched west along the Huaishui. Fighting with the Chu army's boat division on the Huai River, but the Chu army's boat division was not many, first, when Bai Gongsheng fled, he burned at least a quarter of the Chu State Boat Division, which led to the rapid decline of the Chu State Boat Division.

It was Han Jiading who set up a trebuchet and a bed crossbow on the head of Shenyi City, so that the Chu army boat division could not defeat the Han army boat division and was forced to retreat out of the waters around Shenyi. After opening up the waterway, Bai Gongsheng was relieved, there was a water gate in Shenyi, and grain ships could enter Shenyi through the waterway, and they could transport reinforcements to Shenyi endlessly.

In this way, Ye Gong was also dumbfounded, besieging a city, it was necessary to isolate him from the outside world, and it was best to let him know that there were no reinforcements. In this way, it is easy to capture, but now Ye Gong does not occupy either.

Although Ye Gong was unwilling, he had a certain level of talent, and he ordered the army to retreat very decisively. In the first confrontation between the Han State and the Chu State, the Han State won with a small advantage. But in the end, the Chu State has a big business, and the loss of 3,000 people is not a heartbreaking thing, strictly speaking, this time it can only be regarded as a tie.

However, an interesting incident also happened in the Central Plains this year, Zhiyao sent troops to crusade against Zheng Guo in order to show his ability to govern. Because Zheng Guo died in Zhao Ying, he took advantage of the turmoil in the Jin Kingdom to reduce the tribute, and originally thought that it would be enough to gradually restore the number of tributes every year. I didn't expect Zhi Yao to be so courageous, and he dared to be in power for less than two years, and attack Zheng Guo with a group of freshly baked doctors.

Zheng Guo was afraid, at that time, the State of Chu was besieging Bai Gongsheng, so it was naturally impossible to rescue Zheng Guo. Han Kingdom? There is no friendship, and the distance is a little farther, Zheng Guosi thinks about it, it seems that there is only Qi Guo. With a faint hope, he asked Qi Guo for help.

I have to say that this guy Zhiyao does not know the situation. He sent troops with Zhao Wuxian and arrived in Xinzheng City, the capital of Zheng Guoguo. Although this Zheng State is a small country, the national capital is not much worse than the national capital of some large countries, and even a few points stronger. This is also the reason why Zheng Guo has been a wall grass for more than 100 years, and it has not been destroyed.

The city wall of Xinzheng City is generally five zhang high, and the highest point reaches eight zhang. The base of the city wall is even more powerful, the narrowest place is also 20 zhang (about 40 meters) wide, and the widest part is 30 zhang.

The city wall is so tall, and the Zheng people are bent on defending it. Zhi Yao was also a little scared, thought for a moment, rolled his eyes, and immediately counted on his mind. Returning to the big tent of the Chinese army, someone called Zhao Wuxian over, Zhi Yao said with a straight face: "Zhao Wuxian, this commander orders you to immediately lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to attack Xinzheng City!" ”

When Zhao Wuxian heard this, he immediately understood the intention of this guy Zhiyao, he wanted to consume the Zhao family's soldiers. Zhao Wuxian immediately disagreed, shook his head and said, "My soldiers have just arrived, and they are exhausted from camping again, and they don't have the strength to attack the city!" ”

Although Zhi Yao was angry, there was no way, the politics of the Jin State were private, and those soldiers of the Zhao clan listened to Zhao Wuxian alone. Zhi Yao was half excited, and said angrily: "You are a person! It's really annoying and unguts! How could Zhao Jianzi (Zhao Ying's honorific title) make you the heir! ”

Zhao Wuxian said confidently: "Because I can forbear, this is not harmful to the Zhao family, right?" ”

When Zhi Yao heard this, he was even more angry, but Zhao Wuxian's words did not leak, and Zhi Yao couldn't get out of the fire in his heart. Zhi Yao could only wave his hand angrily and said, "Go!" Walk! Walk! ”

Zhao Wuxian was also not polite, and immediately strode away.

Because of the discord between the generals, Xinzheng City was as stable as Mount Tai in the encirclement of 40,000 Jin troops.

And Tian Chang learned about the Jin State sending troops to Zheng Guo, and after thinking about it, he decided that he had just ascended to the throne and had no military exploits, so how could he replace the Lu family in the future? So Tian Chang led 50,000 Qi troops and came to the rescue of Zheng Guo along Jishui.

Zhi Yao saw that he couldn't take advantage of Zheng Guo anymore, and he had already occupied seven cities in Zheng Guo along the way, which was enough to make. Zhi Yao was also unwilling to fight to the death with the Qi army, so Zhi Yao ordered a retreat. But don't say it, Zhiyao is mean, and before leaving, he doesn't want to leave like this.

Before leaving, Zhi Yao sent someone to Tian Chang and said to Tian Chang: "Before I sent out the army, I deliberately divined. The hexagram said that if I started a war with Zheng Guo, I would definitely win, but unfortunately I didn't have a battle with Qi Guo, so I retreated. And this time I attacked Zheng Guo, in fact, it was not for Jin Guo! Rather, it is to investigate the reasons for the demise of the state of Chen! ”

When Tian Chang heard this, he was so angry that he jumped like thunder. Tian Chang's ancestor was not from Qi, but from Chen, and he was also the son of the monarch, who fled to Qi because of civil strife. And this period of time is not long, and the generation that has been passed down to Tian Chang is only the fourth generation. And in the year when the Baigong Rebellion occurred in the Chu State, the Chen State was destroyed by the Chu State. The office was slaughtered, that is to say, the clan of Chen Guo was left with Tian Chang.

Zhi Yao's words are really poisonous, the words are not dirty, and he also picks on people's scars.

Tian Chang was so angry that he jumped like thunder, and said to the messenger: "I won't kill you, you go back and tell that guy Zhiyao!" Chan is dead! Will you Zhi clan survive forever? With your virtue, you should still be the ruler of the Jin Kingdom! The Ji clan is not far from extinction! ”

(Note: In ancient times, Chen Yin was the same as Tian, so Tian Chang and others had two clans, and some historical records were Chen Chang and Chen Hengzi.) This Chen Hengzi is Tian Chang's honorific title after his death. And in the generation of the Tian family, the Tian family established the clan, which is Tian, no longer Chen. Let's say Zhiyao, when he heard the words of the messenger coming back to report, he waved his hand disappreciatively and said, "Tian Chang, this guy! That is, there is a mouthful of kung fu! If I hadn't been without divination and the war of the Qi army, I would have been beaten by me a long time ago! ”

It is best that these words were spread by Zhi Yao's intention, and they reached Tian Chang's ears, and they were ridiculed by some of Tian Chang's political enemies in Qi State, and Tian Chang was so angry that he was like thunder, but there was no way.

(To be continued)