Qing Ji said earnestly: "You must live well, strive for your lifetime, and see the day when my Great Wu will wipe out all the countries and dominate the world." Hearing this, Ji Ran nodded and said, "I hope so." The king, the minister also has a last wish, please fulfill the king. "Say."

"The minister was born in the Song Dynasty, but the sadness is not seen in Kyushu, if one day, the Great Wu destroys the Song Dynasty, please bury the minister's clothes and graves in the hometown of the minister in the Song Dynasty, and it is considered to be a leaf to return to the roots." Ji Ran smiled and said, "When you dominate the world, please also ask the king to send someone to the minister's grave to inform." In this way, the minister really has no regrets. ”

"Okay." Qingji nodded heavily. Ji Ran can be described as a Song person, a Song Guo Kuiqiu person. His ancestors were fallen nobles who fled from the Jin Kingdom to the Song Kingdom.

He looks mediocre and dull on the outside, but he is very studious since he was a child, and he reads a lot of books, just like people often say that a wise man is foolish.

Ji Ran often observes and learns from nature, and is good at knowing the laws of development of things and other people's thoughts from the beginning of things...... The ancients paid attention to the return of leaves to their roots.

Ji Ran agrees that he is a Wu person and a courtier of Wu State, but in the same way, Ji Ran also wants to go back to his hometown to have a look, at least he can be buried in his hometown after death.

At this time, Qingji and Ji Ran said some thoughtful words and complained to each other. If you talk about it, it's endless.

In view of this, Ji Ran could only sigh and say, "King, go back." The minister is leaving. ”

"Ji Ran, the widow watched you go. Take care. ”

"No." After Ji Ran made a final salute to Qingji, he slowly turned around, his eyes already moistened.

In order to keep Qingji from seeing his sad appearance, Ji Ran could only hold his head high and slowly get on the donkey's back, and then let the little scholar lead the donkey, through the official road of the pine forest, all the way to the south.

Qingji, as well as the ministers who rushed over, such as Prince Heng, Fan Li, Wen Chong, etc., all looked at Ji Ran's back and didn't come back to their senses for a long time.

"Listen to orders." Qingji pointed to the pine forest and said with a slightly sad look: "Tomorrow, cut down all the forests in front of the widow." ”

"Father, why...... Why cut down that forest? Qingji turned around and said slowly: "It blocked Jizi's figure." ”

"No!" ……

"King, defend the country...... Dead. In the Zide Palace, Qingji, who was originally playing Go with Fan Li, suddenly received such an urgent report.

Defending the country, perishing? After Qingji read the emergency report, he summoned Fan Li, Wen Chong, Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, Tian Sui Tho and other ministers to the Zide Hall to discuss countermeasures.

Qingji took the report in his hand, and said with a smile: "The widow thought that he was despicable enough, but he didn't expect Qi people to be even more despicable and shameless, and there was no bottom line. ”

"About three days ago, Tian Heng, the left minister of Qi State, led the army to break through the Weidu Emperor Hill."

"Defend the country, die."

"Shhh Such news shocked the ministers. Wen Chong was very surprised and said: "King, this is so good, why did the Qi country destroy the guards?" Even if the defense of the country is relatively weak, and the Qi people want to destroy the defense in a war, it is impossible to have no news in advance. ”

"It's not like it's nothing." Qingji said slowly: "According to the secret report received by the widow before, the Qi people sent troops to the south bank of Jishui on the pretext of helping to defend the country against the invasion of our Wu army and the Zhongshan Kingdom. ”

"Emperor Qiu was destroyed by the Qi people in a false way without any defense."

"......" knew in advance that Qingji did not take any countermeasures. Obviously, the matter of Qi people's annihilation and defense is still acquiesced in.

Throughout the ages, princes have fought for hegemony. Like the state of Chu, if it is defeated by the state of Wu and loses the city and land, it is bound to find a field from other vassal states and capture several cities of other countries to replenish the blood.

The current Qi country is also like this.

"Great King, if the Qi country is destroyed, the national strength will inevitably increase a lot. The king summoned his ministers and others to come and discuss the matter of sending troops to weaken Qi? Wen asked curiously.

"No, the widow didn't take it to heart about the matter of destroying the country." Qing Ji smiled and said: "No matter how strong a sheep is, it is always a sheep, and it is impossible to be reborn and become a tiger wolf." "It's not that you're arrogant.

However, since the Battle of Huanshui, the four vassal states of Qi, Lu, Song, and Wei have basically been crippled by the Wu State, and the elite divisions have been lost, and it is difficult to relieve their breath.

In less than ten or eight years, like the Qi State, the military strength could not be restored to the pre-war level at all.

Destroying the guard is just a way for Qi to drink to quench his thirst. Qingji's original plan was to think that Wu would recuperate for a few years, go east again, and wipe out the countries in one fell swoop with an invincible momentum to unify China and Kyushu.

However, Qi people restore their own national strength then

"Work hard", how can Qingji be indifferent?

"What the king said is very true." In the imperial history, Uncle Cheng said with a flattering smile: "The destruction of the Qi State is just bringing about its own destruction." ”

"Not to mention whether my Great Wu can tolerate it, the Lu Kingdom, the Song Kingdom, the Yan Kingdom, and even the Zhongshan Kingdom that are close to the Qi State will feel frightened and dare not get close to the Qi people anymore."

"Therefore, Qi people are destroying the guards, this is self-isolation from the world!" Hearing this, Qingji laughed loudly and said, "Hahahaha! Bo, you're right, it's true. ”

"Among the princes, everyone is in danger, and in the future, the few people will send troops to destroy Qi, presumably the Lu State and the Song State may not necessarily send troops to help." Admittedly, this is a more optimistic idea.

However, now with the strength of the Wu State, the kingdoms of the heavens and the earth are tied together, and they can no longer stop the Wu State from dominating the world.

If the countries are given time to restore their national strength, it will add a lot of resistance to the great unification war after the Wu Kingdom, and that's it.

"The widow has come to you this time to discuss the matter of going east to destroy the nations."

"This ......" Wen Chong said stubbornly: "King, are you in a hurry?" Last year, our Great Wu destroyed Zhao and launched the Battle of Huanshui, which caused a great loss of national strength and continued to recuperate. ”

"In the battle of Huanshui, my Great Wu did lose a lot, but the four kingdoms of Qi, Lu, Song, and Yan, the elite divisions were all lost, and the rest were just old and weak soldiers, not worth mentioning, and their national strength was almost exhausted, and it was difficult to compete with my Great Wu together." Qing Ji said earnestly: "If you don't take this opportunity to send troops, encompass the universe, and dominate the world, wouldn't it be more difficult for me to go east and destroy the nations in the future?" "It is undeniable that with the current size of the Wu Kingdom, compared with the sum of the volumes of the other countries, the Wu Kingdom is completely crushed.

Slowly developing, the countries are also inferior to Wu, and the speed of development is not as fast as Wu. But, Qingji can't wait!

Even if he risked that the foundation of the Wu State was not deep, it might fall apart with his death in the future, and Qingji was also let out.