"Uncle, you are really well-intentioned!"

Looking around at the new graves around, Qingji couldn't help but sigh at Ji Za.

It wasn't until nightfall that Qingji returned to the palace of King Wu with his group.

Qingji, who was originally in a heavy mood, was gradually relieved.

According to the current situation of the Wu State, there is absolutely no benefit in continuing the battle of Vachu!

Qingji could not waste his national strength on the war of foreign expansion, but he was unwilling to give up the Shudi and the cities along the river that he had already conquered.

"The widow is determined to make peace with the State of Chu, but not now."

Qingji looked at Ji Za, Sun Wu and Bo Que who were sitting under the Majesty's platform, and said slowly: "As Bo Que said before, the time is not yet ripe to negotiate peace with the Chu people!" ”

"At this time, if we propose peace, it is tantamount to seeking peace, and we are bound to fall behind. Therefore, we have to force the state of Chu to take the initiative to propose a request for peace! ”

Hearing this, the three important ministers present couldn't help but look at each other, and they all muttered in their hearts.

"I wonder if the king has a plan?"

Ji Za asked puzzled.

"The State of Chu was originally just a small country, but after hundreds of years of wind, frost, rain and snow, the road was blue, and it eventually became a big country dominating the south!"

"Since King Wu of Chu, the state of Chu has successively annexed Jiang, Liu, Dongjiao, Jiang, Shu, Zong and other countries, watching the troops in the suburbs of Zhou, and winning the championship."

After a pause, Qing Ji changed his words and said: "However, the momentum of the expansion of the Chu State is so rapid, in addition to the fierce nature of the Chu people and the overwhelming number of people, there is another extremely important reason!" ”

"That is, every time the Chu people destroy a country, they will keep their temples and not waste the sacrificial rites. In a country that does not resist, it is even canonized as a feudal lord of a place, just reduced to a vassal existence! ”

"That's why the Chu State is now full of feudal kings."

"The feudal monarch is to the king of Chu, as the princes are to the son of Zhou Tianzi!"

"The difference is that most of the princes and nobles of the Chu State who split the land and sealed the territory still dare not disobey the will of the King of Chu!"

"However, the widow has heard that in recent years, in relatively remote places from the hinterland of the Chu State, there have been repeated popular uprisings, or rebellions by feudal monarchs, and there are also those who try to secede and stand on their own."

"All in all, the feudal lords and nobles of the Chu State have become a big trend, and we may be able to start from this to create some incidents within the Chu State."

Upon hearing this, Ji Za and the other three important ministers couldn't help but bow their heads slightly and agreed.

If it weren't for Qingji to wake up, they would have forgotten that the Chu State had such a crisis, such a weakness!

Since King Wu of Chu, the momentum of Chu's external expansion has been very rapid, and it was not until the Battle of Yanling was defeated by Jin that Chu's hegemony was hit.

After the military conference, the state of Chu has not swallowed another country for many years, and it was even pressed and beaten by its neighbor Wu in the east!

During the period of King Chu Ling and King Chu Ping, the aristocratic power in Chu was already too big.

King Ling was killed in a coup d'état in the process of cutting the domain, and during the reign of King Chu Ping, the nobles of Chu divided the royal power, which stalled the pace of its expansion.

Now, the state of Chu is satisfied with the existing territory, and it is difficult for the country to requisition more resources to compete with the state of Wu!

This is a very harsh reality.

Don't look at the vast territory of the Chu State, with a large population and hundreds of thousands of armor, but all the soldiers and horses that can be mobilized are distributed to the feudal monarchs in various places, and there is basically not much left!

Now that the Chu State has lost 80,000 teachers, there is no sharp spirit, and they have long been dissatisfied with the Chu State, and there must be many people who are determined to restore the homeland, and there must be many feudal lords with different surnames from all over the country.

And the drawbacks of the Chu people's implementation of the sub-feudal system in the country lie in this!

"The king is wise!"

Ji Za praised: "My lord, the old minister has learned that in countries such as Yong, Luo, Deng, and Shen that were annexed by the Chu people, there are often people who riot and try to expel the Chu soldiers and restore them. ”

"As for the Yun State to the west of the Chu State, it has been mediating with the Chu army in the mountains and fields all the year round, and it is difficult to separate. However, its land was further encroached upon by the Chu people, presumably the Yun State could not refuse the opportunity to counterattack the Chu State this time! ”

"If possible, the king should instigate the Chu State to be the king of Juchao, Liu, Yingshi, Jiang, Huang and other places adjacent to my Wu State, because the army of Chu State attacked Wu, and most of the soldiers recruited were young and strong in their lands."

"If the Chu people recruit troops again, I am afraid it will provoke a civil uprising!"

"If the feudal lords of all parts of the Chu State can riot together, I am afraid that the Chu people will have to ask for peace with our Wu State, in order to suppress the rebellion in the country as soon as possible!"

Hearing this, Qingji nodded and said with a smile: "Uncle's strategy is very much in line with the widow's intentions!" ”

……

The time entered 512 B.C., that is, at the end of the first month of the second year of King Qingji of Wu.

According to Qingji's order, the Wu army led by Sun Ping had stopped attacking Qianyi, retreated to Shudi, and confronted Shen Zhuliang's Chu army!

In view of the fact that his own troops and horses did not have an advantage, and there were too many less than the Wu army, Shen Zhuliang did not dare to fight easily.

The battle situation is so deadlocked.

On the other hand, under the operation of Ji Za and Bo Gu, a large number of Wu State Xizuo began to spread rumors in Juchao, Liu, Yingshi and other places in Chu State, advocating that the locals resisted Chu State's conscription order!

After all, there is a bloody example of losing 80,000 teachers in the past, and Li Shu, who does not have a strong sense of belonging to the Chu State, naturally has no intention of going to the battlefield to die.

And the feudal monarchs in various parts of the Chu State also have their own wishful thinking in their hearts, and it is impossible to forcibly pull the strong Ding, at most they will send some old and weak people to Qianyi to try to get by.

After all, the state of Chu has taken these places for so many years, and the locals almost have no sense of belonging to their homeland, and the feudal nobles do not dare to act rashly.

However, it is still possible to disobey the edict of the king of Chu!

As for the places far away from the hinterland of Chu, Luo, Yong, Shen, and Han all coincidentally broke out in rebellion one after another.

This is not instigated by Wu Guo, but the feudal lords and nobles everywhere are trying to restore their homeland, purely their own actions!

They rely on the sky high and the emperor is far away, and they have nothing to fear!

And to the west of the Chu State, the Yun State also invaded the borders of the Chu State.

The Tang State, a country within a country surrounded by the Chu State, automatically and consciously dispatched troops to respond to the Wu army's offensive in the east when it heard that the Chu people had lost 80,000 troops and the Wu army attacked Chu in a big way!

For a time, wolf smoke was everywhere in Chu State, and the border was in an emergency.

For the Chu State, the rebellions in various places, as well as the invasion of the Yun State and the Tang State, can only be regarded as a disease of scabies, and their real enemy is the Wu army!

Rao is like this, he can't stand the chaos within the Chu State, like a spark that can start a prairie fire.

Clear-sighted people know that the foreign national war can be suspended, but the internal rebellion cannot but be suppressed!

Because if you are not careful, the state of Chu will fall into endless civil strife and pay an even more tragic price for it!

Therefore, after some discussion with the ministers, Guotai Meng Huan decided to send Zixi as an envoy to Wudu to negotiate peace with Qingji.