Chen Zhen began to tell the story with emotion: "Someone gave a pot of wine to a guest of a large family, and the guests said that a few of us shared a pot of wine to drink, which was too enjoyable." It is better for everyone to draw snakes on the ground together, and whoever draws it first will enjoy this pot of wine alone. Everyone agreed, and began to draw snakes. One of the first to finish the painting was and he proudly took the flask and said, "I can still draw the snake's feet," and he drew the snake's feet. The man next to him took the flask from the hand of the person who had drawn the snake first, drank it all, and said, "The snake has no feet, and if you draw feet on it, it will not be a snake." ”

After the story was told, Chen Zhen wanted to tell Zhaoyang: "My lord, as the prime minister of the Chu State, you have no greater merit than attacking the Wei State and killing the enemy generals, and your official position will not be promoted again." If you attack Qi again, if you win, your official position will still be Ling Yin, and if you don't win, you will lose your official position or even be killed. This is the same as drawing snakes. ”

After Zhaoyang heard this, he no longer attacked the Qi State, and it was indeed as Chen Zhen expected, and in the end, the King of Chu Wei did not send Zhaoyang to attack Qi, but asked Zhaoyang to guard the border of Wu and Chu to prevent the Wu State from taking advantage of the danger to attack the rear.

The king of Qi was relieved, so he asked if anyone in the court was willing to send an envoy to Wei and send troops to support the fight against Chu.

In fact, there are also opponents in the Qi dynasty to accept the prime minister of Wei, after all, Wei is still the number one power not long ago, such a sincere and humble attitude will numb Qi and make Qi feel good about himself.

Wei Zhang Chou pointed out that the consequence of "Chen Wei" was "humble Qin and Chu".

But the king of Qi still resolutely threw himself into the arms of Wei. Under the auspices of Qi Xiangtian Ying, Qi and Wei turned enemies into friends for a while, and they were intimate.

Not only King Qi Wei was anxious, but the entire Jixia was also making suggestions for King Qi in a hurry.

According to Zhao Bixia's understanding of history: in the 7th year of King Chu Wei, in 333 BC, Chu raised a large army to attack Qi, and fought with Qi general Shen in Surabaya, entered the siege of Xuzhou, and after the defeat of Shen Bin, Qi was defeated and Chu was victorious. King Chu Wei took advantage of the great victory to order King Qi Wei to remove Tian Ying's phase, and then King Qi Wei appointed Tian Pan to unite the alliance of Han, Wei and Qi to fight with Chu in Surabaya to break the Chu army, so that King Chu Wei returned defeated

Although the state of Chu won first and then lost, due to the previous annexation of the Yue state, the power expanded to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Jianghuai region, and in the same year it fought with the powerful state of Qi, and the prestige of the king of Chu Wei was prominent for a while. ("Yingwei is strong, and the princes of the world are in the world.") ”）

At night, there was already a curfew in Yingdu City.

The entrance of the Qu Mansion.

Qu Yuan heard the news of the prince's visit, and hurriedly went out with his father to greet him.

Xiong Huai stopped Qu Yi and Qu Yuan, father and son, who were about to salute

Qu Yi explained the importance of this battle to Xiong Huai and Qu Yuan: "The western part of Wei was captured by Qin in Hexi and Shangjun, and in the east and Qi were successively defeated in the battles of Guiling and Maling, so that Wei's hegemony declined. In order to preserve itself, the state of Wei and Qi and yin knot with Chu, before the act of bowing down to the state of Qi and calling the king of ministers, was to declare the state of Qi to the world as the strongest among the nations"

Xiong Huai: "According to my father's temperament, I am definitely not willing to sit back and watch the strength of Qi and Qin." ”

Qu Yuan: "I'm afraid that all this is a ploy of Wei, and the Wei State was defeated in the Battle of Maling, so the King of Wei wanted to send troops to avenge Qi again, and with the current strength of Wei, it was not enough to defeat Qi, so he broke the knot to Dynasty Qi and respected Qi as the king, so as to provoke Chu and take revenge on Qi by fighting Qi and Chu."

Qu Yi threw an appreciative gesture to Qu Yuan: "What Lingjun said is not unreasonable, so we are clearly an envoy this time, and we have to keep an eye on the movements of Wei State secretly." ”

Qu Yuan received the praise from his father, and his mood became happy.

Qu Yi changed the topic and said about this envoy: "His Royal Highness the Prince, Lingjun's envoy to Wei this time is the key to this battle, let me talk about my plan first, Wei has always been regarded as an opponent of the Eight Qi States, and has always been sandwiched between Qin, Qi, and Chu, and what they are most willing to see is that our three parties fight." According to Lingjun's speculation, it is very likely that the King of Xuzhou and then the king will attack the Qi State, and it is very likely that it is Wei Xianghuishi's strategy, so we have to think about how to persuade the Wei State not to help the Qi State."

Qu Yuan thought of a little: "Father, we can bluff, Wei State does not dare to offend Chu State rashly, on the contrary, Wei State will never help in order to retaliate against Qi State, but Qi State, we must beware of Qi State sending capable ministers to make Wei, don't forget that Qi State Jixia School Palace, the world's sages gather, and they can always come up with strange tricks"

Xiong Huai looked at Qu Yuan when he heard the sound and also expressed his opinion: "So we keep an eye on the Wei State, the envoys of the Qi State will definitely come to the Wei State to ask for support, we are waiting there, I don't know if Dr. Mo Ao has anyone who is familiar with the Wei State."

Xiong Huai's sentence reminded Qu Yi. Qu Yi was thinking hard: "Our Chu State and Wei are familiar with Zhuangzi, but Zhuangzi is now under Qi Guoji, we must break through from Hui Shi and persuade him to unite with Chu, Han and Zhao, with such a combination of forces, they can not be afraid of Qin and Qi, these decades Wei has been living in the gap between Qin and Qi, losing ground in the east to Qin, and losing to Qi in the west, and Qin must use Wei as a breakthrough if he wants to go east, and weaken my Chu with a horizontal momentum, so we have to strike first."

Because of the continuous defeats in Qin, Qi and other countries, King Wei Hui had to adopt Xiangguo Huishi's suggestion of "using Wei to join Qi and Chu to press the army", and led Han and other small monarchs to Xuzhou (now southeast of Tengzhou, Shandong) to meet King Qi Wei, and at the same time, King Qi Wei also recognized the title of King Wei Hui.

Qu Yuan thought of the situation of Wei and reminded: "Wei approached Qi very close to it, so that Qi stopped attacking, but Qin still regarded Wei as a "heart disease" and continued to attack Wei. It would be nice if we could change the anti-Qin strategy of King Wei Hui, their current strategy and the small vassal states that survived in the gap were still defeated by the Qin state, and if the Chu state took the initiative to help this time, it would also be beneficial to the battle of Qi and Chu."

At this time, Qu Yi, Qu Yuan, and Xiong Huai were all worried about what to do...... Several people decided to follow the lines of today's discussion and go to Wei to contact the ministers of the DPRK and China to see who was the pro-Chu faction and who was the pro-Qin faction.

On the second day, the king of Chu Wei granted Qu Yi and Jing Li the envoy of Wei, Qu Yi and Jing Li bid farewell to the king and the ministers of Chu each led the envoy team to set off. If nothing else, he will rush to Wei before the army arrives on the battlefield, and he will have a few more days to contact his friends in Wei.

The battle between Qi and Chu was on the verge of breaking out.

The Great Liang of the Wei State, inside the royal city

King Wei Hui received the news that an envoy from Chu would visit, so he urgently summoned the ministers of the court and China to discuss countermeasures.

Hui Shi, the leader, said bluntly: "Your Majesty, this battle between Qi and Chu is in line with our hearts, we can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and we can also take this opportunity to win over the Chu State in the south, maybe we can fight with the Qin State and the Qi State to preserve the national strength of the Wei State."

King Wei Hui listened to Hui Shi's point of view, and then asked: "Do you still have any objections?"

All the ministers were silent.

(According to the records of historical materials such as "Warring States Policy" and "Historical Records", in 334 BC, King Hui of Wei led Han and some small states to Xuzhou (southeast of present-day Tengzhou City, Shandong Province) to meet King Qi Wei, and respected King Qi Wei as king. After the king of Xuzhou, there was another king of the five kingdoms, which prompted the seven heroes of the Warring States to become kings, and the status of the Zhou royal family declined even more. It is worth noting that after the prime minister of Xuzhou, the state of Chu sent troops to attack the state of Qi, which broke out the Battle of Xuzhou. ）