When Qingji led his army to Linzi City, the monarchs and ministers of Qi held a grand surrender ceremony.

Lu Ren was holding a piece of jade in his mouth, shirtless, and wearing plain clothes. And the ministers who followed closely behind were also dressed in plain clothes, as if they were attending a funeral en masse.

Zhou Chaoyi

"Rites and music" govern the world, and Zhou rites are divided into five rites, namely auspicious rites, fierce rites, guest rites, military rites, and jia rites.

Obviously, the death of the country must belong to the category of murderous rites. Lu Ren not only wants to be a leader, but also to lead the sheep.

There is no respect, and I dare not be clothed. People can only show it when they are respectful, even if they are sweating from farm work, they can't show it at will.

Sheep are docile and can be slaughtered at any time, and the king compares himself to a little lamb that has always been harmless to humans and animals, and is left to the slaughter of the other party.

The jade bi is not an ordinary thing, but the jade used by the king to worship the heavens every time he sacrifices.

To put it bluntly, it is a very important one for the vassal states

"Sacrificial vessels", handing over such an important thing to the other party is like handing over one's protector to the other party.

At the same time, the jade bi symbolizes the country's social heritage. At this moment, Lu Ren said with jade in his mouth that he would hand over everything he had, including the country, wealth, and people.

When a person dies, according to the etiquette, he must put something in his mouth, whether it is gold, silver, jade, or some rice and grain...... This shows that Lu Ren has been

"Dead", or rather, the state of Qi has perished. And the priest and the doctor can't be idle, yes

"Decay" and

"Cowardice".

"Decay" is to wear filial piety clothes and tie white linen belts on the head and waist.

"Yu coward" is to pull the coffin. The meaning is self-evident: our monarch is already at this moment

"Dead", whether your Wu army kills or stays is all up to your will. Of course, in order to show his generosity and benevolence, Qingji can't do this kind of thing.

Qingji immediately stepped forward to untie Lu Ren and burned the coffin pulled out by the monarchs and ministers of Qi, while Yubi himself remained.

"Lu Ren, from now on, you are the Qi Marquis of my Great Wu. The widow gave you 1,500 households of food in Linzi, and the hereditary replacement. Qingji patted Lu Ren's shoulder with a pleasant face, and said with a smile: "In the future, you will settle in Xianyang, and the widow will give you a first-class mansion in Xianyang, and then give you 300 acres of fertile land, 1,000 taels of gold, 500 horses of silk, and 5,000 stones of corn." ”

"Thank you, King!" Lu Ren breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and was busy thanking Qingji. Among the kings of the dead country who were treated kindly, Lu Ren's treatment was undoubtedly the highest.

Because, the territory of Qi is indeed large enough. It is worth celebrating the jealousy of treating Lu Ren so kindly. …… After the collapse of the Qi State, the Song State and the Lu State also knew that they could not resist the invasion of the Wu army.

In addition, these two countries are not warlike countries, but ceremonial countries, and when they saw Qingji treating Lu Ren so well, they all surrendered with courtesy.

Qingji then canonized the Song prince Luanwei

"Song Hou", Lu Wangji will be

"Luhou", respectively, gave his original capital 1,000 households of food, hereditary replacement, such as good land, house, gold, jade silk, but also a reward of hundreds of thousands of strong.

However, it is inevitable that they and their family scrolls, as well as a cadre of clan children, must settle down in Xianyang.

With the fall of the three kingdoms of Qi, Song and Lu, the remaining three northern kingdoms, Yan, Dai and Zhongshan, are still surviving.

Qingji had already sent an envoy to ask the three northern kingdoms to surrender with courtesy. However, there was no news of them, or they were sternly refused.

At this time and a half, Qingji can't afford to fight a big war and destroy the three northern kingdoms, so he can only endure it for the time being, and only wait for next year to send troops again.

When Qingji returned to Xianyang, it was already the eleventh lunar month of 483 BC. According to the usual practice, Qingji held a large court meeting in the Chongzheng Palace, and all ministers with an official rank of more than 600 stone in the court must be present to participate.

"The land of the old guard, Zhidong County."

"The land of the old Lu is located in Taishan County."

"The land of the Song Dynasty is located in Donghai County."

"The land of Qi is divided into two, and it is placed in Bohai County and Langya County."

"In addition, the original Upper County was divided into two, and the Northland County was placed separately." Originally, Shangjun was the largest county in Wu State, but the city was small and the people's hearts had not yet been attached, so Wu State had spared no effort to develop.

Such a large Shang County is not in line with the actual interests of the Wu State. It's also not necessarily easy to manage. Therefore, Qingji considered the actual requirements and decided to divide half of the upper county and set up another northern county.

Those who did it just wanted to unify the governance and divide the power of the original county guards. After the addition of Beidi County, Dongjun County, Donghai County, Taishan County, Bohai County, and Langya County, there were already forty-one counties in Wu at this time.

They are: Wu County, Huiji County, Jiujiang County, Surabaya County, Minzhong County, Lujiang County, Cangwu County, Nanhai County, Xiang County, Guilin County, Nan County, Nanyang County, Yuzhang County, Qianzhong County, Dian County, Jiaozhi County, Hanzhong County, Hengshan County, Wuling County, Sanchuan County, Huaishui County, Ba County, Shu County, Chang'an County, Shang County, Longxi County, Hedong County, Yingchuan County, Shangdang County, Jibei County, Qinghe County, Hengshan County, Taiyuan County, Hanoi County, Wei County, Beidi County, Dong County, Donghai County, Taishan County, Bohai County, Langya County.

In terms of population, Qingji conservatively estimated that the total population of Wu at this time exceeded the 30 million mark. The combined population of Yan, Dai, and Zhongshan, which had not yet been destroyed by Wu, could not necessarily exceed three million, but the military strength of the three northern kingdoms was relatively strong, and that was all.

If Qingji wants to destroy the three northern kingdoms, it may be more difficult. Why? Because the elite divisions of Yan, Dai, and Zhongshan are all there, it is not easy to provoke.

The Daiguo was established by Zhao Wuxian on the basis of the Zhao State, based on the Daidi. However, in the past two years, Zhao Wuxian has been committed to opening up his territory to the outside world, driving out the Donghu people, annexing many tribes such as Lou Fan and Xiongnu, and setting up Dai County, Yanmen County and Yunzhong County.

As a rising star, Daiguo's military strength is not weaker than that of Yan and Zhongshan. Needless to say, Zhongshan has the smallest territory among the three northern kingdoms, but its military strength is at its peak, unruly, and it is very brave to fight.

Even the warriors of Wu Junrui and the warriors of the Zhongshan people were one-on-one, and they couldn't take much advantage. As an ancient vassal state, Yan has existed for the longest time, and its comprehensive national strength is the strongest among the three northern states, but its military strength is relatively poor.

If the persimmon is to be pinched softly, the state of Wu wants to fight at every turn, and if it continues to launch the war of great unification, the next country to be destroyed, if nothing else, will be the country of Yan.

However, Daiguo and Zhongshan will not necessarily sit idly by. In view of this, Qingji did not take advantage of the momentum of annexing the three eastern countries and sent troops north in one go.