The Chu army returned triumphantly.

Pengcheng.

The welcoming procession of singing and dancing crowded the city gate, and the Chu people have not been so lively and proud for a long time, although the place in Jiangdong was originally the homeland of the Chu State.

Zhang Ao, who was ordered to envoy to the State of Chu, was blocked outside the city gate, and the scene of the whole State of Chu united and everyone beaming with joy in front of him made Zhang Ao, who had not seen a big scene at Wei Bao's place, moved.

"Da Chu, Da Chu!"

"Overlord, Overlord! Invincible, invincible. The bursts of the Chu people's chanting made the young Zhang Ao's blood flutter, as if he was in the great wave of rebellion against the tyrannical Qin.

"It's a pity that I was born at the wrong time, if I had been born twenty years earlier, this hero in the world would have left my name Zhang Ao." Zhang Ao was impulsive, so he also joined the welcoming Chu people and cheered.

Xiang Yu also swept away the gloom for many days, and ordered a banquet to be held in the Chu Palace in Pengcheng, banqueting the meritorious generals of the Chu army, as well as a number of important officials, the envoys of the princes in Chu and those famous idle people who stayed in Chu, Zhang Ao, who had just come to Pengcheng, was also fortunate to attend the banquet as Wei Bao's envoy.

At this banquet, the young Zhang Ao was unexpectedly warmly received by Xiang Tuo, the prime minister of Chu, for the son of this old acquaintance, Xiang Tuo did not have a little bit of a great power at all, and affectionately pulled Zhang Ao to sit together, not only persuaded him to drink, but also put down the affairs at hand for several days, and accompanied Zhang Ao to visit the place where Zhang Er lived when he was on an envoy in the past, as well as several scenic places near Pengcheng.

Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet.

In Chu in March, the weather was getting warmer day by day, and Zhang Ao, accompanied by Xiang Tuo and a group of relatives from Chu Xiangfu, traveled through the beautiful scenery near Pengcheng.

At the beginning, Zhang Ao was quite calm, he was somewhat alert, and then, when one after another slender beauties pounced into his arms. Zhang Ao, who was strong-blooded, finally couldn't hold it anymore. After a drunken disorder, Zhang Ao truthfully told Xiang Tuo the true intention of Wei Bao to send him, and at the same time, Zhang Ao also patted his chest and expressed to Xiang Tuo that he was willing to abandon the darkness and go to Chu to work for Xiang.

"Wei Bao has the intention of defecting to Qin?" This news surprised Xiang Yu and Xiang Tuo.

Although they have the intention of cutting Wei, it is not obvious on the surface, and the action of secretly preparing is not fast, and now, the preparation time has become very urgent. Once Wei Bao really defected to the Qin State. If the state of Chu wants to attack the state of Wei again, it is equivalent to directly starting a war with the state of Qin, which is no less than a bolt from the sky for the state of Chu, which needs a righteous name.

"Overlord, Wei Bao has already sent Yongya to the Qin State, we can't wait any longer, we must send troops immediately, otherwise, once the Qin army enters Daliang. We're missing our only chance. Xiang Tuo rubbed his hands a little anxiously and admonished.

As Chu Xiang.

Xiang Tuo is very clear about the current family background of the Chu State, and the proportion of taxes and extraction from the Chu land has reached a critical point. There were only two options for the Chu state: one was to reduce the army, reduce expenditures, and slowly reduce the internal fiscal deficit of the Chu state, and the other was to pursue an adventurous line of military hegemony. By plundering and plundering the wealth of neighboring countries, they will continue to maintain the current size of the Chu army.

No doubt. Xiang Yu's choice can only be the second one.

For the Xiang clan, who relied on the army and force to get started, giving up the army also meant giving up the state of Chu and everything that he already had.

Driven by power and desire, Xiang Yu made up his mind to send troops to attack Wei. He hoped that with the high morale of the Chu army, he would take the fertile Wei land in one go, so as to fill the huge deficit caused by the expedition to Yanbei and the attack on Jiangdong.

As soon as this important decision was proposed, it was not surprising that two voices appeared among the important ministers of the Chu State, with half of the supporters and half of the opponents.

In the eyes of Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Sheng, Xiang Xiang, Xiang Han, and Xiang Bo, they see the cities of Wei and the wealth of the big merchants in Wei. The opponents are led by military generals such as Ji Bu and Yu Ziqi, plus Lou Jing, a Qi person among the Wenchen, on their side, they pay more attention to the people's aspirations, as well as the risks that may be brought by the defeat of Wei.

As for Zhong Liwu, the general who had just returned to the Chu army, he did not express his position on this, he seemed to expect that he could stay out of the court disputes and simply be a military general.

Chu Palace.

The lights were still bright in the middle of the night.

"Niangniang, the overlord replied that I will rest in the front hall tonight, so that Niangniang doesn't have to wait." At the door of the dormitory, an elderly palace maid bowed her head and bowed.

Yu Ji, who was combing her long hair and shawl, stiffened her thin waist for a moment, but quickly regained consciousness: "Got it, you go down." ”

"No!" The palace maid responded, her body retreated on one side, and the corners of her wrinkled eyes seemed to inadvertently glance at the bronze mirror opposite Yu Ji.

Looking from the bronze mirror, Yu Ji's pretty face was calm as if nothing had happened, as if Xiang Yu stayed in the front hall and had nothing to do with her.

"Tomorrow, someone will drive this palace woman out, give her a few pieces of silk, and it will be considered a virtue." Yu Ji said as she spoke, and there was a faint fierceness in her apricot eyes.

"Girl, this overlord is always resting in the front hall, it's not a thing, according to the old body's opinion, let's hurry up and reconcile." Behind her, an older woman nodded in response, and her hands were busy.

"Okay, Mama thinks too simply. Now what I say, how many words can the overlord listen to? Yu Ji sighed and said quietly.

The days in the palace are no better than those outside.

The palace is a woman's world, as long as the slightest weakness is revealed, these women with shallow eyelids and only a small nest will attack it in groups.

The old mother next to her is the nurse she has carried since she was a child, so there is nothing to watch out for, so in her delicate voice, the disguise has also been removed, with a little disappointment and helplessness.

"Hey, those foxes' methods, I really can't say anything, the old body heard that this time Jiangdong came back, the overlord captured several concubines of the British thieves, these hooves should be cleared out as soon as possible?" The old lady said worriedly.

"What Mama said is very reasonable, come here, prepare the car, and go to the front hall." Yu Ji was shocked, and the nurse's reminder made her sober up from self-pity and self-pity. The situation made her feel that if she was still like before, only relying on Xiang Yu's favor, then sooner or later, Xiang Yu would be snatched away by other women.

The last time Xiang Yu often didn't return, he was entangled by the five beauties that Xiang Tuo brought from Jiangnan.

And this time the "busy", whether he was really drunk and busy, or was there some woman pestering him, Yu Ji decided to visit him in person to find out.

Men's promises are often unreliable.

At this point, Yu Ji finally woke up after experiencing a lesson.

After the Jiangnan Wuji incident, Yu Ji finally had a little bit of the appearance of Princess Chu, after giving up the territory outside the palace and the Xiang family, her main energy was on the control of the harem, which was also a step that she couldn't force herself, Xiang Yu's love for her was no longer what it used to be, this point, others may not be able to understand, but she really felt it.

The once reckless boy has become a hero admired by everyone.

The former mountain alliance and sea oath have also disappeared with the passage of time, and the novelty has disappeared and is no longer mentioned.

Yes, there are only each other's habits, mutual coldness, and a little bit of attachment that is indulged in the bottom of the heart, and maybe it is this attachment, and people refuse to let go when they go farther and farther.

Chu State, in the Chaoyang Palace.

Xiang Yu was drunken and hazy and reclined on a couch, the clothes on his body had been all faded by the maids, leaving only the strong and powerful male body beating vigorously. Beside him, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old lady was seriously helping to wipe the stains on the corners of her mouth, and the two people's bodies were very close, and from a distance it looked like they were hugging each other.

Xiao Niang's expression was focused, and at the half-open placket, a pair of small pepper milk was flushed and trembling slightly, and next to them, it was the position of Xiang Yuwanhaode's left hand.

"Wine, wine." Xiang Yu shouted indiscriminately, his alcohol consumption was actually not large, he belonged to the kind of person who blushes when he drinks and likes to drink a few sips.

What's even more surprising is that Xiang Yu's drinking style is not very good when he is drunk, he is not the kind of person who sleeps with his head covered when he drinks, but the kind of person who can't control himself when he drinks.

"My lord, the slave and maid serve you to rest in your clothes, my lord, you have pinched me." In the little lady's low exclamation, her pepper milk had been tightly held in Xiang Yu's hand as a wine cup.

Xiang Yu only felt that this "wine cup" was too slippery in the haze, so he unconsciously increased his strength, so that the high chest of the little lady would be offended.

"Oh, the king spares his life, the king spares his life." The little lady was in tears, she just wanted to take advantage of Xiang Yu's drunkenness and take the opportunity to take the position, but she didn't expect that Xiang Yu would be so rude.

Yu Ji's car, from the back of the dormitory to the front hall, only takes a quarter of an hour, this distance is not long, but tonight, Yu Ji especially hopes that it can be longer, longer.

The little lady's exclamation made her heart sink suddenly.

"It's not the first time." Although she was also prepared in her heart, she really heard the joyful voices of Xiang Yu and the other women, and Yu Ji still couldn't turn around in her heart.

"It's Lu Yuan's voice of that little sassy hoof, the mother pities her, but she doesn't want her to be bold enough to dazzle the king?" Before Yu Ji could say anything, the nurse beside her was already angry.

These days, Xiang Yu, who was immersed in the joy of victory, feasted almost every day, and did not come back until midnight, and he was half drunk when he drank.

However, because Lu Yuan was Liu Bang's daughter, Xiang Yu remembered the old relationship when they started the army together, and took her in the palace, nominally as a righteous daughter, Yu Ji didn't say anything about it, but she didn't want to let Lu Yuan take advantage of the loophole. (To be continued......)