Chapter 366: The dust has settled

Although peace had already been decided, Yang Zilu did not immediately summon Qu Mu and agree to the conditions proposed by Chu State. Instead, he pretended to be both willing and unwilling. Yang Zilu summons Qu Mu every day, but the two sides meet, it is not so harmonious, Yang Zilu is engaged in a tug-of-war with Qu Mu, and the two sides are arguing about peace talks and the amount of tribute.

And during this time, Pakistan also moved. After half a year of wait-and-see, Pakistan finally decided to take the last train and intervene in the war near the end. 30,000 Pakistani troops swore outside the capital of Pakistan, commanded by the famous generals of Pakistan, and 30,000 Pakistani warriors marched eastward along the Yangtze River and went straight to Yiling.

Although the soldiers of the Chu army in Yiling chose to resist bravely, they had no choice but to have insufficient troops inside and no reinforcements outside, so after half a month of hard defense, they were finally captured by the Pakistani army.

Of course, Ba State is not stupid to meddle, he also knows that now Chu State, not Chu State has the right to speak, but Han State Pu State has submitted to Han State, and although Qin State and Han State are still in an alliance relationship, but no one knows who has a higher status in this alliance. Ba didn't want to have a misunderstanding with the Han State, which would lead to a war with the Han, Qin, and Pu States in the future.

Therefore, after capturing Yiling, Ba did not further expand its territory, but sent an envoy to meet Yang Zilu.

Pakistan's action made Yang Zilu overjoyed, and Yang Zilu didn't care about Yiling. Yiling was too far away from the Han Kingdom, and his control over him was not strong. Moreover, if Pakistan wants to expand eastward, Yiling is a place where Pakistan must fight. Of course, it's not just that, there are other reasons, but in Yang Zilu's opinion, it is good to exchange a Yiling for the friendship of Pakistan. Besides, he had been mentally prepared to give Yiling to Pakistan.

And for Pakistan's 'sensible', Yang Zilu is also very satisfied. In the matter of receiving the envoys of Pakistan, Yang Zilu gave a rather grand welcoming ceremony. To flatter the envoy of Pakistan, although the territory of Pakistan is large, the title is not high, and he is only a viscount. He was also regarded as a barbarian.

Moreover, this barbarian is even worse than the Chu State, and the people of the Chu State are strong enough, and the other vassal states just dare to say it behind their backs. But Pakistan is different, there are so many overlords in the Central Plains, and they have held alliances several times, but they have never found Pakistan, and it can be seen that Pakistan has an embarrassing position among the princes of the Zhou Dynasty.

But does Yang Zilu really value Pakistan? Of course not, Yang Zilu's move was a drunkard's intention, not in wine. With such a grand welcoming ceremony, if Qu Mu, who stayed in the barracks, didn't know that the Pakistani envoy was coming, then he could buy a piece of tofu and crash to death.

Qu Mu was deeply worried when he learned the news. Even if Pakistan finally sent troops to Chu, as a neighbor of Pakistan, the relationship between Pakistan and Chu was actually not good. The reason why Pakistan sent troops late is not that Pakistan and Chu have a feud, but that there are more defeats and fewer victories in the war with Chu. Pakistan was scared, so Pakistan chose this time, almost when the battle situation had been fixed, to send troops to Chu.

Regarding the relationship between Chu and Pakistan, although Yang Zilu did not dare to say it clearly, he also knew that it was the best of ten, otherwise he would not use Pakistan to stimulate Qu Mu.

The original foundation of Pakistan was not the current Sichuan. Rather, it was in the northern part of Hubei, and the first capital was in Enshi, in the southwest of Hubei. It was only later that the state of Chu expanded, and the state of Ba was defeated by the state of Chu, so it had to move all the way west, until now, it moved to Sichuan, with Jiangzhou (now Chongqing) as the capital, and divided Sichuan equally with Shu (ancient vassal states).

After intense consideration, Qu Mu had to make concessions to Yang Zilu. First of all, the state of Chu needs to pay Yang Zilu a tribute of one million stone grains every year. This amount is calculated according to three stones per acre, one hundred acres of land per household, and one fifth of the tax system. This also means that more than 16,000 households in the Chu State are cultivating the fields for the Han State, and the seeds of this field are still provided by the Chu State, the kind that guarantees the harvest during drought and flood.

But this is not counting, the copper coins of the Chu State are no longer minted, and the only thing that the Chu State can mint is the copper coins of the Han State, and its material weight must be in accordance with the regulations of the Han State, and the Han State will send people to supervise the production of the coins of the Chu State. If it is violated, it will be punished by the state of Chu depending on the situation. This penalty is not a sending of troops, but a fine.

The state of Chu provided two hundred war horses for the Han state every year, and two hundred war horses did not seem to be much. But war horses are not ordinary horses, they need to be selected, this is not counted, they still need to be cultivated, often ten horses will have one or two war horses. And the herding horses need to occupy a lot of land for pasture cultivation.

And the land around Wancheng that the Chu State now occupies is not much in the plains, which also means that if the Chu State wants to revive and breed a large number of war horses, it will lead to a shortage of food in the Chu State. But after raising enough war horses and paying tribute to the Han Kingdom, he didn't have many war horses available. This ordinary tribute is actually the Han State's restraint on the power of Chu.

However, Yang Zilu didn't plan to force Chu Guo too much, just stop at the point. So Yan Ying, the former capital of the Chu State, which could have been obtained, Yang Zilu chose to give up and returned Yan Ying to the Chu State.

At this point, the territorial boundaries of the four kingdoms of Han, Chu, Qin, and Ba were also re-stabilized. Among them, Jingshan of Chu has also become a border line of four countries, east of Jingshan is the land of Chu, north of Jingshan is Qin, west of Jingshan is Baguo, and south of Jingshan is East Chu, of course, this is only nominal, in fact, Yang Zilu controls this land.

After the discussion, on November 1, King Hui of Chu withdrew from Zaiying with the remnants of the Chu State. Because many of the soldiers were locals, Yang Zilu naturally did not allow King Chu Hui to take too much labor. Therefore, King Chu Hui only had all the doctors, palace maids, chamberlains, and 5,000 soldiers and their families to go north, accompanied by 20,000 Han troops who were nominally protected.

Although there was such a huge disparity in numbers, Yang Zilu did not attack King Chu Hui, which also made King Chu Hui secretly relieved. When passing through Quan County, Ye Gong couldn't help but sigh long after knowing the news of the peace talks, but now Ye Gong is no longer unwilling, and he can only obey orders, and it didn't take long for Ye Gong to go out of the city and surrender with Yin Chengzi Lu, the county of Quan County.

Yang Zilu allowed the two of them to bring 500 soldiers and their families with them, and Ye Gong and Cheng Zilu did not argue with Yang Zilu about this issue.

In this way, Yang Zilu has been escorting King Chu Hui to Jingshan, in Jingshan, the commander of Ba State, the commander of Qin State, plus Yang Zilu and King Chu Hui, the four of them are a blood alliance in Jingshan. The wars between Chu and Han also came to an end, and King Hui of Chu was also freed after a bloody alliance.

King Chu Hui, who returned to Yanying, did not move the capital to the old capital Yanying, as Yang Zilu estimated, but chose to move the capital to Wancheng. Wancheng is located in the hinterland of the current Chu State, and it can be seen from this that King Chu Hui seems to be afraid of Yang Zilu.

Yang Zilu stayed in Zaiying for a while, and it was only in December that he commanded the army and returned to the division. Seeing that the war was won, Song Jinggong also took the opportunity to make a request and asked Yang Zilu to send troops to help him destroy the Cao State. In view of the fact that the Song Kingdom has been loyal enough for a period of time, a lot of food has been sent. Yang Zilu agreed to Song Jinggong's request and asked Tongue Yong to lead the 10,000 Han troops under his command to help the Song State.

Cao Guo, who had followed in the footsteps of Chu before, was also scared and sent someone to ask Yang Zilu for peace. What kind of cheap things are there in the world, Yang Zilu ignored it, and the Cao State perished and merged into the Song State.

Yang Zilu, the other vassal states that followed him, naturally couldn't favor one over the other, and also rewarded them according to the number of troops sent by each country and the meritorious deeds they had established. Most of these rewards are military vehicles and weapons. There is also food and money, but not the most. The reason why there are so many troop vehicles and weapons is naturally that Yang Zilu can't use them.

Needless to say, in Yang Zilu's view, military vehicles are already very outdated weapons. The weapon is a bronze weapon, and it is also an outdated thing, so it was naturally given to those vassal states by Yang Zilu as a favor. Those vassal states were elated by this, but they didn't know that what Yang Zilu left them was waste.

After dealing with the reward, Yang Zilu did not lead the army to withdraw from Eastern Chu. Instead, on the grounds that Eastern Chu was newly established, I was afraid that it would not be able to control so much land for a while, and sent the Han army to help Eastern Chu defend the territory.

Defense belongs to defense, but the military expenditure is given by Dongchu, which is equivalent to Dongchu helping Yang Zilu raise the army. But in the end, these soldiers lived in the Han Kingdom, and Yang Zilu did not leave too many soldiers, only 10,000 people, led by Han Jiading. But don't think that if there are fewer troops, Yang Zilu will not be able to control Dongchu. Yang Zilu is very smart, and most of the 10,000 Han soldiers are officers.

Their task was to control the army, select soldiers from the Chu State and civilians for training, and the military salary was handed over to Han Jiading by Eastern Chu for distribution. Although there were 10,000 people, Han Jiading actually controlled an army of 110,000.

The only army that Eastern Chu could control was the 8,000 county soldiers in Shenyi, and these 8,000 county soldiers were tightly held in Shi Qi's hands. Xin Cai has 5,000 palace armor and 10,000 county soldiers. Most of these soldiers are in the hands of Mu Ji and her uncle Mu Ti, but they are all new soldiers, and in terms of combat effectiveness, they are not as powerful as the 8,000 soldiers in Shi Qi's hands.

This is only superficial, Yang Zilu has infiltrated the Eastern Chu officialdom and sent a large number of Confucian students into the Chu State as officials, and the official position is not high. The highest is only the county order, many of which are county officials, county lieutenants and other positions, but the places where they are officials are very important, and many of them are strategic. Of course, it is not absolute, south of the Yangtze River, especially in the area of Dongting Lake, nine of the ten officials are Han Chinese. These lands nominally belonged to Eastern Chu, but the reports of officials in the world were handed to Yang Zilu.

And the local construction was also funded by Yang Zilu from the Han State to help build it, and the doctor of Dongchu naturally knew about it, but he only opened his eyes and closed his eyes. The main reason is that these lands are too wild, and it doesn't have much effect if they are occupied, even Shi Qi is not entangled with Yang Zilu in this matter because of this.

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