Chapter 339: Han's Decision
Splitting Han Wei is a very vague order, and there are many ways to understand it. Since there is no consensus on whether to take the opportunity to attack the old guy's team, of course, this order will have various interpretations depending on the identity and strength.
Without exception, any way of interpreting it is beneficial for the old guy's team.
Jinyang City really couldn't hold on for long, but every time Zhao Gao insisted on it, Han Kangzi and Wei Huanzi's faces became gloomy. The news obtained from the rear was very shocking, the speed of the old eight's advance was extremely fast, and he found a far-fetched reason for every sneak attack for himself with the order of the Duke of Jin, and even Zi Xia, an epic historical figure who Wei Huanzi was guarding his hometown, was very helpless.
"Monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons", under Zhao Gao's special instructions, Lao Ba sacrificed a warrant he got from the Duke of Jin, and with the eight words given by Zhao Gao, he was forced to tie his hands and feet.
Confucius often lamented the collapse of etiquette and music, and longed for an ideal society in which everyone abides by the rules, and one of the rules of the ideal society is etiquette, the etiquette of each in its place. From this point of view, the Duke of Jin is the monarch of the entire Jin Kingdom, so Wei Huanzi, as a secretary, has no reason not to abide by this.
Perhaps others can completely ignore this Duke of Jin, who no longer has any prestige, but Zi Xia cannot, which is inconsistent with the core philosophy of the legendary sage Confucius he followed, and a forcible reversal will even affect the foundation of his sanctification.
Under the condition of restraining Lao Ba from offending the officials and the people, Zi Xia successfully protected all the clansmen of Wei Huanzi and the core elite of the Wei clan, and Lao Ba did not dare to be too tormented, and the strength preserved by the Wei clan was at least five or six out of ten.
In comparison, Han Kangzi's situation is very miserable. The Han family, who is good at blade casting, was obviously taken care of by Lao Ba, a large number of craftsmen were forced to relocate, many casting furnaces were destroyed into ruins, and what was more deadly was that some of the elites in the family were also killed by Lao Ba in various names. After this battle, without ten years of recuperation, it is difficult for the Han clan to have the strength to build a country on its own.
The news of the two forces can be said to have reached their respective ears like flowing water, causing ripples one after another.
In this way, there was a gap in their attack on Jinyang City. The imbalance of Han Wei's strength will inevitably cause suspicion, in order to ensure that he is not eaten, Han Kangzi has to try to save the strength in his hand, this is his last flame, and he will never allow it to be extinguished in this place, so his siege strength is getting lower and lower.
Wei Huanzi doesn't have so many scruples, if he can take Jinyang City and cooperate with the essence of the Wei family escorted by Zixia, it won't take long for him to have the capital to compete again, even if it is not enough to fight with the Zhi clan for a long time, but he also has the confidence to protect himself, so his siege strength is getting stronger day by day.
Unconsciously, the alliance between Han and Wei is no longer solid, and the task of splitting Han and Wei arranged by Zhao Gao at this time is like piercing the last layer of window paper, once the siege is weak and forced to stop, there will never be a chance to start again.
Of course, the better situation is that there are also divisions within the various forces of Han and Wei.
With the decline of the main family, the retainers and lords who followed Han Wei will also have a chance to choose again, and when the old eight armies arrive, it is also a good choice to nominally surrender to the Duke of Jin again, but actually to the Zhi clan. Anyway, it is impossible for the Zhi clan to infiltrate every inch of the Jin Kingdom, and in the end they still have to rely on them to complete the actual rule, so for these people, it is nothing more than a change of allegiance, and there is no substantial loss.
Of course, there are loyal people who have the grass on the wall, and there are many retainers and lords who are willing to advance and retreat with the main family and share the same fate, and the friction and competition between them are also very fierce, and under the strong suppression of Han Kangzi and Wei Huanzi, they can barely maintain the current situation.
"It's not the way to go." Han Kangzi's real name is Han Hu, and he was humiliated by Zhi Boyao in front of him at the banquet, but he has never mentioned half a word in the same court as him all these years, and his forbearance is very home. Now in addition to being entangled, he actually has endless anger in his heart.
originally thought that Zhi Boyao was already very excessive, but Zhi Yan, the newly appointed patriarch of the Zhi clan, was simply a complete shameless, worse than the barbarians of Chu or the savages of Qin.
Even North Dissilon would not choose to raid other people's hometowns when the allies went out together, this is no longer a conspiracy, but a moral degradation after no bottom line.
There is no doubt that from now on, Zhi's fame will be regarded as a stinking street, and the records about Zhi's in the history books will be despicable and shameless from this moment on, and even if he wins in the end, it will not change in the slightest.
Is it really worth it?
Han Kangzi had asked himself silently more than once in his heart. It was a big gamble to exchange the fame of the future life for the current great cause, and no matter what the final win or loss was, Han was already out of the game in this game, because the Zhi clan had taken all the chips from his hands unreasonably.
"The head of the family, the Zhi family's move is angry and resentful, we only need to gather reinforcements from the outside and raise the banner inside, then there will be countless heroes and heroes, and it is not a problem to restore the ancestral homeland."
Listening to Han Kangzi's exclamation, a doorman immediately jumped out to show his loyalty, but this sentence could not wait for Han Kangzi's approval, because although he said it arrogantly, the two points he put forward had no actual content, and it could only be regarded as an addiction to the lips.
"Wei Wuji's words are wrong." Looking at Han Kangzi's face, another doorman walked out in time. He was old, and although he called the name of the person in front of him directly, it was fine, and the former also took this opportunity to sit back in his seat and said nothing more.
"Your Majesty heard that when the Zhi clan will pass through the temple of the head of the Han family, he will go to worship and seal it in person, if as far as I am concerned, if I don't send a man of argument to the Zhi clan, I may be able to get something, if not, it is okay to slowly figure it out." The elder doorman smiled slightly, and at the same time twisted his white mottled beard, and then said with a straight expression, "I look at the Wei camp, yesterday there was a brigade that faintly protected the northwest corner, this is the back road of our army, and the head of the family must not be guarded." ”
"A bunch of nonsense, Han and Wei are each other's lips and teeth, one is dead and the other is lost, how dare Wei have two hearts?" The other doorman didn't care a lot, because he stood up too quickly and knocked over the wine glass in front of the banquet, and the juice was dripping with juice on his sackcloth, and he couldn't say anything, but what he said was loud, faintly questioning the other party's courage.
"That was before, but now it's different." Another doorman stepped forward.
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Listening to these arguments, Han Kangzi felt sad in his heart, he was not young, he didn't expect to be insulted by Zhiyan again after being insulted by Zhi Boyao, but sometimes patience does not change because of the object. When he is powerless to resist, he will even kill his radical and brave son, and then let the heir, who is good at forbearance, inherit the family business, and then look for the most appropriate opportunity.
In fact, when he sighed, he had already decided to ask the Zhi clan for peace, and the messengers had already been sent. The bottom line he gave was even low enough to be a de facto independent retainer lord, and the territory could also be cut out of more than half, anyway, as long as there was a foundation, these things could always be saved little by little.
Before that, he had already said this idea to the retainers, lords, doormen, and others. Unlike the heirs who have to be patient, those vassals who have a tendency to surrender will all be killed, this is a big blood exchange, and the rotten blood and bad flesh within the family can be removed, so that the family can go further.
While he was doing this, Wei Huanzi's envoy also came to the camp of the Han army.