Chapter 13 Surrounded on All Sides

Time crept into the spring of 267 B.C., and after a winter of hibernation, all countries regained a lot of vitality. The plan of the year lies in the spring, the prophet of the plumbing duck in the spring river. The peasants relaxed their muscles and bones, hoeed down the fields, and began a year's hard work.

In the past winter, there was an undercurrent underneath the calm surface. The four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Chu, and Qi were persuaded by Xinlingjun to stand faintly on a front. While they have not formed an alliance with much fanfare, South Korea is already feeling tangible pressure.

Just like a dog that bites a person and doesn't bark, the more careful they are and the less they do to provoke South Korea, the more wary South Korea is of this. South Korea is well aware that the combined strength of the four countries has far surpassed that of South Korea. The reason why they did not act rashly is simply because the interests are not well divided! In the final analysis, all four countries want to share the maximum benefits for themselves, and at the same time exert the least effort. The only thing South Korea can exploit is their mutual wariness and wariness of each other.

Yan Guo's failure to participate in it was beyond King Han's expectations, but after thinking about it, it is understandable. Because the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Chu, and Qi were all adjacent to Korea, it was easy to send troops and take land. Unlike the Yan Kingdom, which is far away from the Central Plains, it has sent more troops, and all it occupies is an enclave. There are fewer troops, and there is not much benefit to be gained. However, the king of Han concluded that before the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Chu, and Qi sent troops to attack Han, they would definitely force Yan to express his position.

If Korea wants to avoid the dilemma of being besieged from all sides, it must divide the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Chu, and Qi, and break them individually, and the sooner the better. Otherwise, once the four countries join forces, South Korea will not be able to take care of both the beginning and the end! Now it seems that Yan Guo is a good object worth fighting for!

In a winter's rush, Luoyang City has been built for most of it, and it can be completed in only half a month at most. Forced by the current situation, King Han decided to move the capital early. When the time comes. Even if the worst situation for Korea occurs, it can still resist the enemy with Hangu, Bishui, Xuanyuan Sanguan and Taihang. Of course, the chances of this happening are slim, but King Han has always prepared for the worst.

Along with the edict of moving the capital, it was issued a decree on the complete abolition of the Wei script, weights and measures, and currency. A winter of preparation, South Korea has already made enough preparations in the early stage. It was clearly written in the edict. In a month, South Korea will no longer recognize the legitimacy of the currency of the former Wei State, even Anling! This month's time is naturally the time to redeem huàn. This means that the people of Anling, including the Marquis of Wei, must also exchange the Wei currency in their hands into Korean, otherwise, the people of Anling will face the dilemma of not being able to trade with other places.

As if it was a signal, Qin was the first to make a-for-tat statement with South Korea, that is, Qin was willing to accept the exchange of Wei's currency! Although on the surface. The state of Qin is hinting that people who can't exchange the currency of the state of Qin after a month can come to Xianyang to exchange the currency of the state of Qin, not to continue to recognize the legitimacy of the currency of the state of Wei, but such a statement is enough!

Qin and South Korea are already like fire and water, and it is naturally not surprising to sing the opposite drama. What was unexpected was the statement of the three kingdoms of Zhao, Chu and Qi! The three countries said that if their businessmen did not have time to exchange huàn, they could directly exchange huàn in Handan, Linzi, and Yingdu as the currency of their own countries! They claim to be solving problems for their country's businessmen, but what they actually have behind their minds is obvious!

Yan Guo was not interested in this matter. It seems that for the Yan Kingdom, the Great Wall was built. Guarding against Donghu is the most important thing. The strife in the Central Plains, the increasingly weird atmosphere in the Central Plains, has nothing to do with Yan Country at all!

After this happened, King Han couldn't sit still. The monarch and the ministers deliberated for three days and three nights, and finally came up with a plan. Early one morning, three waves of messengers commanded the north and south directions. Deal with the situation that the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings!

Dongyue country, will be Ji.

Yue is located in the southeast of Yangzhou, and Qi country, Zhangguo, Bao country, etc. are all divided by the descendants of Dayu. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Gou Jian, the famous monarch of the Yue Kingdom, eliminated the Wu State, and his sphere of influence once reached Qilu as north. It is bordered by the East China Sea in the east and the Jin Kingdom in the west, which is the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period. (There are many theories about the Spring and Autumn Five Tyrants, the Duke of Qi Huan, the Duke of Wen of Jin, and the King of Chu Zhuang are three certain, and the remaining two are uncertain, including King Wu Lu, King Gou Jian of Yue, Duke Xiang of Song, Duke Mu of Qin, and Duke Zhuang of Zheng.) )

In the early Warring States period, Yue was one of the top four, and its national strength was comparable to that of Qi and Chu. It was only later that the surrounding countries all changed their laws and tried to become stronger, but only the Yue country gradually declined because it was far away from the Central Plains and did not want to forge ahead. When the king of Yue Wujiang succeeded to the throne, he followed the example of other countries to conquer the Central Plains, and led the army north to attack Qi. King Qi Wei sent an envoy to persuade the king of Yue to crusade against the state of Chu with the emptiness of the state of Chu, and the king of Yue had no borders to follow. As a result, it was defeated by the Chu State, which had already taken precautions, and the main force of more than 100,000 Yue States was wiped out, and the King of Yue Wujiang was even killed on the battlefield. The Chu army was like a bamboo, all the way to Zhejiang (the ancient name of the Qiantang River).

Because King Wujiang of Yue did not establish a prince during his lifetime, the eldest son Yu and the second son Hoof both regarded themselves as orthodox, and established the Dongyue Kingdom and the Minyue Kingdom with their cronies respectively. Of course, the country name is actually the Yue. The so-called Dongyue and Minyue are all names added by later generations in order to distinguish them. At this point, the once powerful Yue Kingdom has existed in name only and has been torn apart!

The remote Yue country does not know whether to be happy or sad, after the rise of the Qin State, with irresistible strength to sweep the Liuhe unified the world, Qin Shi Huang because of the attack on Dongyue, Min Yue is extremely difficult, far beyond the six countries, specially given the Yue monarch (shake, Wuzhu, weaving) as the surname, but can not. It was not until the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the Yue Kingdom was completely subsumed into the Han Dynasty, and it was the longest kingdom in Chinese history.

Since the state of Chu has decided to confront South Korea with all its heart, of course the king of Han will no longer be polite to the state of Chu. Of course, South Korea can strike first, but the Xinzheng Alliance is vivid, and if South Korea, as the initiator, is the first to tear up the alliance, it will undoubtedly be realized, and it will also be a huge blow to prestige! Since he couldn't do it himself, King Han decided to find a helper to add to the blockage of Chu State! No matter how you look at it, Dongyue is an ideal choice. King Han knew that the Dongyue Kingdom later rose up again, recovering the Jiangdong and Jiangbei lands occupied by the Chu State, and the power reached Huaishui again.

The pawn Chen Zheng was an envoy sent by the King of Han to the Dongyue Kingdom. When Xiong, the monarch of Dongyue State, learned that Korea, the number one power today, had sent important ministers to see him, he was immediately overjoyed! Yue Wang Xiong remembers very well that since the Yue Kingdom was divided into two, no country in the world has been willing to send envoys to trek through the mountains and rivers to meet his nominal Yue King! After all, how much good can a poor country like their own do them? Who wants to maintain a relationship with themselves without being driven by interests?!

Of course, Yue Wang Xiong is unwilling, but what can he do if he is unwilling? ! Today, there are only 30,000 soldiers and horses in the entire Dongyue Kingdom, and even if the old and weak soldiers are included, it is only less than 50,000! With such a small population and such a small number of troops, how can you go north to the Central Plains? How to recover the land of Jiangdong and Jiangbei? I'm afraid that the countries of the Central Plains have long forgotten that in the depths of Huiji Mountain, there is still the Yue country to survive! From the few news, Yue Wang Xiong certainly knew that the current era was no longer the era of the Spring and Autumn Period! Nowadays, whenever there is a war, countries often dispatch more than 100,000 or even more than 200,000 troops! The current strength of the Yue Kingdom is only enough to fight the smallest war, and it is still the kind that can't make a splash!

Therefore, Yue Wang Xiong is still forbearance in addition to forbearance! Therefore, even if the State of Chu lost the capital of Ying, when the King of Chu led the only remaining 100,000 troops to flee to Chen County in a hurry, King Xiong of Yue could only hold back his thoughts of revenge. Because he knows very well that there is only one chance left to himself and to Dongyue, and Dongyue can no longer afford to lose once! Without complete certainty, Yue Wang Xiong does not dare to take risks!

If you are drunk and dreaming like the king of Minyue, your life will undoubtedly be much happier and simpler! It's just that Yue Wang Xiong has the blood of Dayu and is unwilling to accept such a fateful arrangement! Therefore, when the Korean pawn Chen Xiao asked to see him, he realized that the opportunity that he and Dongyue had been waiting for for a long time had come!

There is no doubt that if there is no important thing, something powerful, South Korea will not send an important minister to come all the way to meet him! South Korea is already the first power in the world, defeating Qin and Zhao one after another, destroying Wei, and completely overshadowing the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period! Even the Qin State more than ten years ago was not far behind!

Yue Wang Xiong doesn't know what South Korea likes about himself! Yue Wang Xiong is worried about whether his Dongyue Kingdom can help South Korea, and if he can, everyone will naturally be happy! Because Yue Wang Xiong is sure that since South Korea wants to help itself, it will definitely pay a certain benefit! If not, it can only be empty joy!

This is where the news of Yue is sluggish and backward, if it is a big country in the Central Plains like Qi and Zhao, what is the meaning of South Korea's every move, most of them can guess it! Even if it is Yan Guo, there are enough talents for Yan Wang to analyze the current situation! But in the entire Dongyue country, there are very few talents who can be called talents! There has never been a shortage of warriors in the Yue Kingdom, there is no shortage of dead soldiers, if you want to recruit people who can fight with tigers and wolves, it is just a matter of words to Yue Wang Xiong! If you want to find a wise man, it is undoubtedly more difficult than climbing to the sky!

Therefore, when he decided to accept Chen Xiao's request to see, Yue Wangxiong's mind was complicated and indescribable, with a trace of excitement and some apprehension! The most solemn etiquette, the most noble treatment, beauties, delicacies, all available, completely ignoring Chen Xiao, who is over 70 years old, can stand it! Yue Wang Xiong did his best to entertain Chen Xiao, although he also knew that the conditions of Dongyue Kingdom were not as good as those of the Central Plains, but he wanted Chen Xiao to understand that he attached great importance to Chen Xiao! Emphasis on Korea! (To be continued......)

PS: On the first day of February, come on, everyone!