"The palace platform?"

Qingji narrowed his eyes, noncommittal.

"Exactly!"

Shen Baoxu beckoned, motioned for an entourage outside the Zide Hall to enter, and then opened a scroll map and asked the CRRC Fu Lingjiao, who was standing on the side, to hand it over.

When Qingji was looking at the drawings, Shen Baoxu said angrily: "King, this is the drawing of the high platform."

"This platform is 300 zhang high, 84 zhang wide, and there are nine winding roads to climb the steps."

"After completion, the king can climb the majestic platform to enjoy the lake, mountains and pastoral scenery within a radius of 200 miles, and its scenery should be the best in the south of the Yangtze River and famous all over the world!"

"The flowers of the four seasons and the fruits of the eight knots should be planted around the high platform, which stretches for five miles, and there are spiritual halls, digging heavenly pools, opening rivers, building dragon boats, and encircling prey, for the king to enjoy himself......

Seriously, Qingji was a little excited.

Who doesn't want their house to be splendid?

"King, the Duke of Chu has ordered three thousand carpenters to go into the mountains to cut wood, and if they don't return for a year, they will cut down a large number of high-quality timber."

Shen Baoxu continued to bewitch and said, "Among them is a pair of giant trees that are twenty circumferences thick and forty zhang high, one is a catalpa tree with markings, and the other is a terried nanshu tree, which is hard and straight."

"The Duke of Chu ordered the craftsmen to carve into a large pillar with a dragon pattern, smeared with danqing, and inlaid with white jade, with staggered gold and gold, shining gold, and bizarre."

"In addition, the Duke of Chu also ordered people to process all the harvested timber, which was to let the ministers dedicate to the king to build a magnificent palace and high platform."

"If the king doesn't use it, won't he be a tyrannical thing?"

Can't be wasted!

Can't afford to waste it!

Qingji's heart was still quite hesitant.

He knew that all this that the Chu people had done was to consume their national strength, indulge in wine, and indulge in sightseeing.

How can Qingji be fooled?

In other words, in history, Gou Jian's use of Wu Guo's nine techniques to cut Wu is also like this.

Gou Jian knew that Wu Wangfu was fond of building palaces and building pavilions, so he used the "strategy of defeating Wu" in the language of the auxiliary doctors.

Offering a lot of money and property to the king and his subordinates of Wu State, so that they were obsessed with money and lost their vigilance against Vietnam.

Send beautiful women to consume the will of King Wu, send skilled craftsmen and good building materials, let Wu build palaces and high platforms, exhaust its resources, and fatigue its people.

Goujian, the king of Yue, used these methods to win by scheming, and did not spend great efforts to fight tough battles, so that Wu Wangfu almost unknowingly entered the trap he designed, and fell deeper and deeper......

Wu Wangfucha once built a splendid Gusu Terrace.

The husband spent all day drinking there, ignoring the government and politics, and wherever he went, there were pavilions and pavilions.

Where to live, where there are concubines, maids, palace prostitutes to serve around, in order to facilitate the king of Wu at any time and "build a curved road to ascend" from the mountain to build a special winding road to the Xumen of Wucheng in the capital.

I don't know how much blood and sweat it cost to build this high platform, and how much money was looted by the people.

"Wu Yue Chunqiu" Volume 9 "Goujian Conspiracy Biography" contains: It makes the roads often have dead, the streets and alleys cry incessantly, the people are tired, and the soldiers are miserable......

When Wu Wangfu and the beauties were immersed in joy and luxury, Yue Guo attacked Wu. ….

In the three years before and after, the Vietnamese army besieged the city of Wu Guochi, so that Wu Guocheng was cut off from food and cooking, the people of Wu were famine, and the soldiers were unable to fight and were vulnerable.

The Yue soldiers easily entered and soon occupied the city of Wu.

Just when the Vietnamese soldiers attacked, Wu Wangfu led his cronies to flee to Gusu Mountain in embarrassment.

When they were barely breathing, they were besieged in the mountains by the pursuing Vietnamese soldiers, there was no way to go to the sky, there was no way to enter the ground, and Wu Wangfu sent Sun Yu to sue for peace.

Wu Wangfu sighed in the sky, regretting that he had not listened to Wu Zixu's advice and had fallen into such a situation, so he covered his face with a scarf and killed himself.

Gusutai, which was built by Fucha with eight years of painstaking efforts, was burned by the Vietnamese soldiers and became a ruin......

How can Qingji not take it as a warning?

"Shenzi, please convey your gratitude to Duke Chu on behalf of the widow. For his kindness, few people will appreciate it."

Qingji finally overcame that huge temptation, waved his hand and said, "However, my Wu Kingdom is now in full swing with various projects, and the people are already exhausted."

"The widow is the king of Wu, the king of a country, and he must not only care about his own pleasure and let the people of the country fall into misery."

Hearing this, Shen Baoxu could only look complicated, and sighed, "The king is benevolent!"

Seriously, Qingji is also thinking about building some palaces like Gusutai when he is expanding the palace of King Wu.

What is "Leaving the Palace"?

The palace is a palace room for the emperor to live in outside the main palace.

The monarch of Chu successively built a large number of palaces and gardens, such as Zhu Palace, Qiangtai, Kujutai, Wurentai, Layer, Diaoyutai, Xiaoqutai, Wuletai, Jiuzhongtai, Jingtai, Zhanghuatai, Qianxitai, Gradual, Yangyuntai, Lantai Palace, etc.

Among them, the most famous is the Zhanghua Palace built during the reign of King Chu Ling.

This grand building, which is "run by the whole country and completed in a few years", was known as the "first in the world" at that time!

Zhanghuatai is 10 zhang high, the base is 15 zhang wide, the curved column climbs up the steps, and you have to rest three times to arrive in the middle, so it is also called "three rest platforms".

And because King Chu Ling particularly likes thin-waisted women to sing and dance in the palace, many palace maids in order to flatter the king, eat less and endure hunger, in order to seek a thin waist, so it is also called "thin-waisted palace".

Qingji's intention to build Gusutai is even more exaggerated.

Lutai and Zhanghuatai, in front of Gusutai, are just a small thing!

……

Qingji, who returned to the harem, took Zheng Dan and Iris to the palace where Mrs. Jiang lived.

They are all old Yue people, and when they see their fellow countrymen, their eyes are full of tears.

Especially Yiguang, after meeting Zheng Dan, who he hadn't seen for many years, couldn't help but cry with a headache......

The two played from childhood to adulthood, but they escaped separately in the battle of Wu and Yue, and never met again.

In the past ten years, how can you not have relatives?

As for Iris, it turned out to be the daughter of Sima Shimai, a member of the Yue Kingdom, and she didn't have much hatred with Qingji.

After the fall of the Yue Kingdom, Qing Ji has always treated the nobles of the Yue Kingdom like Shi Mai without killing them, but still treating them with courtesy and not treating them badly.

"The King's ......"

Zheng Dan, who had stabilized his emotions, couldn't help wiping his tears, and said to Qingji in a choked voice: "This time the Chu State dedicated me and Irose to you, the king, but in fact, I didn't have a good heart, please be cautious and careful......

"No one knows."

Qingji chuckled and said, "It's just a beauty trick. As for whether or not to accept it, that is the widow's own business."

"Zheng Dan, you and Iris are living in the palace of King Wu, if you need anything, tell the queen."

"Thank you, King!"

Want to use beauty tricks to bewitch Qingji?

The Chu people are still whimsical.

Qingji, which has long been the year of establishment, has completed its transformation, how can it be so easy to be confused?

Confused little lamb