Chapter 176: Where is the land of six hundred miles?
"It's still the woman of Wu Di."
In the Chunshen Jun's Mansion, Huang Xie was lying on the bed with the carved phoenix picture, his chest exposed, and he was holding two identical young women in his arms, and his two rough palms kept exploring under the smooth robe, causing the beauty to turn red, panting constantly, and the jade body wrapped in Ayaluo loomed.
This is a pair of twins, given to him by the Jiangdong County Shou half a month ago, and it is also his favorite pair of concubines, Huang Xie originally wanted to give it to the King of Chu, but then he was not willing to give it, so he left it himself.
"Do you want the king to change his fiefdom to Wu?" Huang Xie looked at the beauty in his arms, and couldn't help but feel a little moved in his heart.
Although Huaibei is rich, it is adjacent to Lu and Qi in the north, Wei in the west, and now it is adjacent to Tao County in Zhao, which is a veritable place of four wars.
Wherever there is a war, it can affect Huaibei, and it is really not safe.
And how can the women of Huaibei have the women of Wudi!
This small waist is slender and slender!
This small mouth is red and tender!
Thinking in his heart, Huang Xie kissed him.
"Lord." Just then, a subordinate appeared outside the curtain.
"What's the matter?" Chun Shenjun's face sank and said unhappily.
"There is a letter from the Qin State." The servant said.
"Qin State?" Huang Xie muttered strangely, "Take it in." ”
The subordinate opened the curtain, walked in quickly with his head down, put the bamboo slip on the eucalyptus platform next to the bed, and quickly retreated, without raising his head once in the middle.
Fan Ju pushed away the woman on his body, walked to the eucalyptus, picked up the letter, opened it, and smiled at the corner of his mouth.
"Fan Ju, Fan Ju, you still haven't changed after so many years, and you still care so much about your power."
"Master, what's the matter?" A beauty pasted it, her lips rose lightly, and the surging aroma sprayed on Huang Xie's face.
"It's fine." Huang Xie threw the bamboo slip aside.
When Chu Wang Wan and Huang Xie were hostages in the Qin State, they befriended Fan Ju.
The State of Qin did not pay attention to martial virtues, and not only deceived King Chu Huai to the State of Qin and imprisoned him, but also sent him back to the State of Chu until King Chu Huai died.
When King Wan of Chu was still the crown prince, he was a hostage in the Qin State, and he was also detained in the Qin State for several years, and the King of Chu Qingxiang was seriously ill and could not return to the Chu State.
Later, with the help of Huang Xie, the king of Chu disguised himself as a coachman, and only then escaped from the Qin state and returned to the Chu state to inherit the throne.
Afterwards, the king of Qin wanted to kill Huang Xie, but was dissuaded by Fan Ju, so he sent someone to send Huang Xie back to Chu.
Three months after Huang Xie returned to Chu State, King Xiang of Chu died, and King Chu succeeded to the throne, in order to thank Huang Xie for his help, he named him Chunshenjun, and gave Huang Xie twelve counties in Huaibei at once, which was extremely generous.
Huang Xie was grateful to Fan Ju for his help, and sent people to give gifts to Fan Ju many times.
One of the two is the prime minister of Qin and the other is the prime minister of Chu, and they have a lot of common language and often exchange letters.
This time, Fan Ju sent a letter to Huang Xie, hoping that he could help him sabotage Lü Buwei's plan, and not let Chu and Qin form an alliance, at least not in the hands of Lü Buwei, otherwise his position as prime minister would inevitably change hands!
In addition, Fan Ju also sent five hundred gold and ten beauties.
However, Huang Xie is not interested in the beauties of Qindi now, he is only interested in the two beauties on the bed.
"Let's talk about it when this is called Lu Buwei." Huang Xie thought in his heart, laughed and threw himself at the two people, "Beauty, I'm here." ”
"Lord." At this time, the subordinate interrupted Huang Xie again.
"What's the matter?" Huang Xie forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and asked in a deep voice.
Anyone who is interrupted twice will not be in a good mood.
However, Huang Xie is self-contained, and he once ordered that as long as there is something important, it must be reported immediately, no matter what he is doing. And he will never anger his subordinates because of this, which is why his subordinates dare to interrupt him at a critical moment.
"The envoy of Zhao has arrived in the suburbs. The king asked him to go and greet him. The subordinate leaned over and said.
"Zhao Guo also sent an envoy!" Huang Xie said in surprise.
"Wait a minute, I'll be there right away." After speaking, Huang Xie kissed each of the two beauties on the red lips, then got up, put on their robes, tied their hair crowns, and walked outside.
Although he is lustful, he still knows the priorities.
Otherwise, it will not be reused by the King of Chu.
Besides, this kind of thing can be good at any time, but Zhao Guo can't be offended.
Now it's not the past, the strength of the Zhao State is different, and the Chu State can't afford to offend!
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On the other side, Cai Ze rushed from Handan to Daliang, and then took a boat along the chasm all the way south, enjoying the scenery on both sides of the strait along the way, and arrived at Chen Ying unconsciously.
"The front is Yingdu (Chen Ying)." After Cai Ze got off the boat, he looked into the distance and said.
"Sir, my subordinates used to hear that the Chu State was also a barbarian in the south, so they thought that the Chu State was in the south, which was very far away from my Zhao State, but how did the envoy to the Chu State not feel very far this time." One of the attendants said puzzled.
"The former capital of the Chu State was in Jiangling, and it was later occupied by the Qin State before moving the capital to the current Chendi. If we hadn't moved the capital, we wouldn't have even walked half the way now. Cai Ze said angrily.
There is still a waterway from Handan to Chenying, which seems very easy, if you go to Jiangling, all by car, then you are really guilty.
Even quite a few officials died on the way to office.
"The state of Chu is so big?" The attendant said in shock.
"Before the Battle of Yanying, the State of Chu was the country with the largest territory among the Seven Kingdoms, and even the State of Qin was not comparable to the State of Chu. It's just that the situation in the Chu State is a bit special......" Cai Ze shook his head.
The state of Chu has the most nobles among the seven kingdoms, and unlike the three Jin dynasties, the nobility of the state of Chu is hereditary, resulting in old nobles everywhere who don't know from what period.
These nobles had a strong grip on the fiefdom and were able to train private soldiers in the fiefdom, and the king of Chu could not control these forces at all.
Wu Qi, who was the only time the Chu State reformed and changed the law, and was ready to cut off these nobles, was also killed by the nobles of the Chu State uniting together.
After the Battle of Yan Ying, if the Chu State can reform and change the law and develop the Yangtze River coast, there is still hope that it will compete with the Qin State again in the future.
It's a pity that the king of Chu chose to move the capital to the prosperous place of Chendi.
Although the control of the north of the Huai River has been strengthened, the development and control of the two banks of the Yangtze River have been greatly weakened.
Moreover, at this time, the state of Chu did not have the strength to compete in the Central Plains.
"Sir, it seems that the State of Chu has sent someone to meet us." One of the attendants suddenly pointed ahead and said.
Cai Ze looked up and saw more than a dozen luxurious frames lined up in the distance slowly driving in the direction of Cai Ze.
Last time, Gongsun Long sent Chu, not only did no one go out of the city to greet him, but even after several days, after the news of the alliance between Wei and Zhao came, he was able to see Chun Shenjun and the king of Chu.
Now Cai Ze makes Chu, and Chun Shenjun goes directly out of the city for ten miles to greet him, which is the benefit of a strong country.
"I've seen Chunshen-kun."
Cai Ze didn't know Huang Xie, but it could be inferred from the banner that the middle-aged man in front of him who was a little fat could only be Huang Xie.
Huang Xie's face froze: Why is this person so ugly!
However, Huang Xie instantly came to his senses and bowed: "I've seen Zhao Envoy." ”
The two exchanged a few words and entered the city together.
"This is a gift from the king of my family to Chun Shenjun, a total of five hundred pieces of paper, and another five hundred are for Chu Jun." Cai Ze said to Huang Xie.
"Huang Xie thanked King Zhao here." Huang Xie said happily that he liked Zhao Guo's gift very much.
This is much more expensive than Fan Ju's gift, after all, Fan Ju gave the golden beauty Chu Guo.
There is no paper Chu State, although King Zhao sent a thousand pieces a few days ago, but even with his identity, the King of Chu only rewarded him with a hundred.
Now a piece of paper has been copied to ten gold in the Chu State, and it is priceless, after all, no one can get the reward of the king of Chu, and no one is short of that money.
This time, Zhao Guo brought him five hundred pieces of paper, which was equivalent to five thousand gold.
However, Huang Xie didn't plan to sell it, and he didn't pay attention to it yet.
The two came all the way to the palace, and the king of Chu personally came out to greet him, he was stunned for a moment when he saw Cai Ze, and then blurted out: "Why did the Zhao State send such an ugly person to envoy out of my Chu State?" ”
Cai Ze was halfway through the ceremony, and after a few breaths, as if he hadn't heard it, he continued to finish the ceremony, and said with a smile: "There are different rules for the envoys sent by the Zhao State. Handsome emissaries are sent to ceremonial nations, while ugly-looking emissaries are sent to barbarian nations. Ze is the ugliest, so it is advisable to make Chu Yi. ”
The King of Chu's face froze, smiled, and stopped talking.
Huang Xie hurriedly played a round next to him and invited Cai Ze into the palace.
After everyone sat down, the king of Chu asked, "I don't know what happened to Zhao envoy entering Chu this time?" ”
"Don't hide it from the King of Chu, the foreign minister is here to form an alliance with the State of Chu on behalf of the State of Zhao this time." Cai Ze leaned over and said.
Theoretically, Zhao and Chu are still allies.
After all, the last time Gongsun Long made Chu, Zhao and Chu had already signed an alliance, and they did not tear it up after that.
But neither Chu nor Zhao mentioned the non-binding covenant.
What the two countries need now is a closer alliance.
"Alliance? Hehe, last time the Three Jin Dynasty negotiated peace with the Qin State, did you send someone to inform me that the Chu State participated? King Chu sneered.
To this day, he is still haunted by what happened at the beginning.
Because it was the closest Chu State was to recovering the old capital, in the end, it didn't get anything, and it lost more than 100,000 troops in vain.
Huang Xie's face was a little unnatural, it was he and Jingyang who led the army to attack Jiangling and were defeated by Sima Cuo and Wei Ran.
"May I ask the King of Chu, when the Chu State formed an alliance with my Zhao State, did you ever send a soldier and a soldier to the north? My Sanjin dragged more than ninety percent of the strength of the Qin State, and as a result, the 300,000 troops of the Chu State were defeated by the 50,000 Qin troops, do you still have to blame me Zhao State? Cai Ze asked. In addition, the original matter has passed, and the revival of the old matter of the King of Chu cannot change the result. ”
"yes, it's over, we still have to look forward." Huang Xie said with a smile.
"Well, the king will not mention the past. It's just that why should I, the State of Chu, form an alliance with the State of Zhao? King Chu asked.
"Although the Qin State has been newly defeated, it still exists and is still the most powerful country in the world. King Chu shouldn't have any objections, right? Cai Ze said.
King Chu snorted coldly and did not object.
"There are four countries to the east of Qin, Korea and Wei have formed an alliance with my Zhao State, dare to ask the King of Chu, if Qin wants to go east, which country will it attack first?" Cai Ze asked.
King Chu and Huang Xie's faces suddenly changed, they hadn't realized before that there was only one way for the Qin State to go east, and there was only one way to go east, the Chu State!
"Sir's words are like a morning bell and a dusk drum, which wakes up the widow, and asks Mr. to bow down to the widow." The King of Chu got up and walked in front of Cai Ze and bowed.
At this time, a eunuch walked over quickly, came to the king of Chu, bowed his head and whispered a few words.
The King of Chu showed a look of surprise on his face, and then confessed to Cai Ze, "The widow suddenly has an urgent matter to deal with, and I ask the messenger to forgive me." The messenger may rest first, and we will talk about it tomorrow. ”
Without waiting for Cai Ze to agree, the King of Chu left an official to entertain Cai Ze, and then hurriedly walked outside. Chun Shenjun also got up and followed.
"Dare to ask Chun Shenjun, what happened to the Chu State? Why did the king of Chu leave suddenly? Cai Ze hurriedly grabbed Chun Shenjun and asked urgently.
Chun Shenjun looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "Dissatisfied with the envoy Zhao, the Qin State also sent an envoy, thinking that it should have arrived outside the city, and I need to go with the king to meet him first." Where Zhao envoy is neglected, please forgive me. ”
"Why did the envoys of the Qin State and the Zhao State suddenly come together." On the way, the king of Chu muttered.
"I'm afraid it's also to win over my Chu country." Huang Xie said.
"What does that gentleman think I should do in the Chu Kingdom?" King Chu asked.
Chun Shenjun suddenly thought of Fan Ju's request in his heart, and arched his hand and said, "The king, the minister has a suggestion. Arrange for the Qin envoy and the Zhao envoy to be summoned together, so that the two will inevitably fight, and our Chu State can profit from it, and no matter how bad it is, it can choose to form an alliance with the victorious side. ”
"Sir, good idea."
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Lu Buwei stepped into the main hall and suddenly saw Cai Ze sitting on it, and suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.
Cai Ze's face was also gloomy as water, his fists were clenched, originally yesterday the King of Chu had already intended to form an alliance with the Zhao State, but the Qin State suddenly sent an envoy over and interrupted his plan.
The two greeted each other expressionlessly and sat down in their respective seats.
"I don't know what the Qin envoy came to Chu this time for?" King Chu asked.
Lu Buwei scolded the king of Chu in his heart.
Under normal circumstances, emissaries from different countries would certainly be entertained separately.
Now he and Cai Ze are deliberately summoned together, obviously to make them compete, and Chu Guohao can profit from it.
"This fat man looks quite honest, I didn't expect to be so cunning." Lu Buwei thought to himself.
"Buwei came this time to have good news to tell the King of Chu." Lü Buwei arched his hand.
"Oh? I wonder what the good news is? King Chu asked.
"I, the Qin State, plan to return the land around Wancheng to the Chu State." Lu Buwei said.
"Is this true?" The voice of the King of Chu suddenly rose.
"Huh." At this time, two sneers came from the side.
"I don't know why Zhao Envoy is laughing?" Lu Buwei looked at Cai Ze.
"Dare to ask the King of Chu, where is the land of six hundred miles of Shang that Zhang Yi said at the beginning?" Cai Ze faced the King of Chu and arched his hand and said.