Fifty-three years of the hundred families, winter.

On this day, Chu Hou summoned his henchmen and frowned.

"Lord, the Xiang clan has been defeated again. However, this is good news, and I ask the lord to continue to promote Xiang Yan. The head of the Qu family said directly.

The head of the Jing family also nodded: "Yes, the Xiang family is a typical, a typical example of loyalty and patriotism. At the time of the Battle of Yingdu, Xiang was the first to send reinforcements. Later, when the lord hunted in the west, the Xiang clan was also the first to respond to the lord's order. It has been in the south, resisting the army of Wu. ”

"After the traitor Wu Zixu did a great rebellion, he untied the knot in his heart and directly broke through to become a real person. If it weren't for the Xiang clan's insistence on resisting in the south, I'm afraid that the entire south would really fall into the hands of Wu. ”

Hearing this, Chu Hou was very unhappy: "Yancheng thief! Yancheng thieves! ”

Chu Hou looked left and right, and they were indeed all real henchmen. The Qu family, the Zhao family, and the Jing family, the heads of the three families, are all Chu Hou's playmates from childhood to adulthood, and they are like brothers, and there are no outsiders at all. Shen Baoxu is also a loyal minister who has been tested, and the reinforcements of Qin are made by Shen Baoxu crying Qin Ting.

After thinking about it, Chu Hou also said something heart-wrenching: "To tell the truth, no matter how lonely Wu Guo is, he will not hate Wu Guo because of this, because Wu State and Chu State are hostile countries, and they can understand any means, and it is a big deal to double their revenge afterwards." ”

"The traitor Wu Zixu, although he whipped his father and made Lone want to pick up his skin and cramp, he and his father already have a life-and-death feud, so Lone will not resent him because of this, anyway, after catching him, he will definitely not let him have a good end, there is nothing to say."

It's originally a life-and-death relationship, and it's an enemy who doesn't share the sky, and you can understand anything.

"But this Yancheng has always pretended to be a good person, neutral, and impartial on the surface, but in fact, it is selling arms on both sides and has been stirring up trouble."

"If there weren't so many qi practitioners in Yancheng to help, just a little nobleman like Wu State, they would be tired to death before they could move a few counties a year?"

However, with the help of the Yancheng Qi practitioners, a large number of counties and counties, the leylines were pumped away, the water veins were pumped away, the minerals were frantically mined, and the population was all moved, and the loyal ministers were sold as slaves.

Wu Guo sells Chu State loyal ministers, if the price is one, then after returning to Yancheng and buying it, it will be resold to Chu State: Chu State loyal ministers, Wu State has certified it, do you want it? If you want it, it's not expensive, just give ten times the price.

"If there were no thieves in Yancheng, Wu Guo would not be able to demolish a few counties in a year, and it would be impossible to loot them all!"

But now, Wu Guo is addicted to scraping!

"In less than two years, fifteen counties in the Chu State have completely become abandoned land, and if you want to recover slowly, it will take at least hundreds or even thousands of years."

This was all done by the Yancheng Qi practitioners.

The point is that there are still many people who whitewash Yancheng: this is not the original intention of the qi practitioners, and the qi practitioners are also hired to carry out the tasks of their employers.

This is all due to the greed of Wu State, which contracted these counties to one after another warmongers who did not want to disclose their names, and the mastermind behind the scenes.

In this way, Wu raised a large amount of military spending. For so many years, I haven't worried about Lingmi, Lingquan, Xuanjia, Blue Bird, and battleships.

As for Yingdu, after so many years, it has almost been hollowed out.

The valuable things are almost gone, so that the Wu army is planning to retreat. When the time comes, the Chu army can also report to the outside world that after a fierce battle, it defeated the Wu army and recovered the Yingdu.

"Originally, I planned to spend a hundred years first, but now it seems that if it really takes a hundred years, the Chu State can be emptied by the Wu State!"

"No, it should be said that it was emptied by Yancheng!"

"The State of Wu directly robbed our State of Chu, and most of the products went to Yancheng to sell the stolen goods. We ourselves are constantly selling our ancestral property in exchange for money, and finally exchanging it for all kinds of war-related materials in Yancheng, which is motionless to harvest the accumulation of the entire Chu State for so many thousands of years. ”

Speaking of this, Chu Hou gritted his teeth with hatred!

This Yancheng is hateful!

Hearing this, the head of the Zhao family nodded: "Yancheng is indeed hateful, but now is not the time to discuss whether Yancheng is hateful. Now the focus is on defeating the Wu State, although the minister doesn't want to say discouraged words, but I also have to say that today's Wu State, there are three great real people, Sun Tzu, the traitor Wu Zixu, and Wu Hou, which are not so easy to deal with. ”

Chu Hou said with a smile: "Now, the reinforcements of the Qin State are led by Shang Ying himself, and this Shang Ying is a strange person. Thirty years ago, he was invited by the Marquis of Qin several times to go out of the mountain, and as soon as he came out of the mountain, he served as the ruler of the Qin State to carry out reforms, and now it has been decades. ”

"With Shang Ying and the Qin army he trained, he can resist Wu Zixu and his naval army."

Speaking of this, although Chu Hou didn't say anything on the surface, he made up his mind to reform in his heart.

After this war, we must reform!

If you don't reform, you will fall behind!

If you fall behind, you will be beaten!

Moreover, after the reform of the Wu State and the defeat of Yingdu, Wu Zixu became a real person.

After the reform of the Qin State, after the success of the reform, Shang Ying, who presided over the reform, directly became a great real person.

Although the reform of the Han family, the Zhao family, and the Wei family has just begun, Li Si, Li Kui and others have also broken through after practicing their personal ideas in the twenty counties of Yancheng.

The rise of the younger generation is too fast, too fast, to the point where it can't react.

Yancheng has been reforming, and the real people of the younger generation are more than the number of hands, and these young people seem to be more capable than one another, and one is more talented than the other. In the next few decades or hundreds of years, how many real people will be born?

Thinking about it like this, Chu Hou felt remorseful.

It felt like the whole world had changed overnight. If you don't get a real person, you're a weak chicken?

However, after thinking about the current strength of the Chu State, the Marquis of Chu immediately said: "The Chu State also needs to reform, in order to win this battle, Gu must also reform!" ”

Without reform, the state of Chu will not be able to give full play to its strength at all.

If you don't give full play to your strength, with your current strength alone, it will be very difficult to deal with the three great real people.

Thinking back then, when Duke Wen of Jin was a real person, King Wen himself was a real person, and he still carried at least one Jiuding in his hand, coupled with the national strength of the Jin State, Duke Wen was able to exert the strength of the three saints no less than today, plus at that time, Duke Wen united the entire Central Plains countries, did Duke Wen dare to underestimate the State of Chu at that time?

Even the Duke of Jin Wen at that time, in the face of the united Chu State, had to retreat, and then defeat the Chu State.

Thinking of the glory of the Chu State when he was his ancestors, thinking of the strength of Zhuang Gong when he won the Central Plains, and then thinking about the fact that even Yingdu has been broken by the enemy now, and even the tombs of his ancestors have been dug up openly, Chu Hou feels that he can't stand this grievance!

"The state of Chu must be reformed!" Chu Hou said firmly.

This reform will at least give birth to a great real person!

So, who will reform?

What is the direction of reform?

Will the reforms succeed?

Will the reform further exacerbate domestic contradictions?

These are the questions!

When the reform is successful, a great real person is born, but what if it fails?

The head of the Qu family thought for a while and asked directly: "Lord, the minister also knows that reform is necessary. Nowadays, countries have reformed one after another, and their national strength has become stronger, but how to reform? ”

Now the domestic politics of the Chu State, it is a darkness!

It's not a nobleman, unless you become a real person and a first generation, otherwise, it's hard to get ahead.

Therefore, although talents like Wen Chong and Fan Li had been in Chu State, they finally ran away with a bucket.

Now, the literary genre has gone to the Yue country and has been reused by Gou Jian, and has been cooperating with Gou Jian over the years, presiding over the reform of the Yue country, and his strength has greatly improved.

Fan Li went to Yancheng, and now he is presiding over the country's co-governance of the county, and his future is immeasurable.

"This time, Lone invited Mr. Jujun and his two junior disciples to come over and reform."

"Mr. Jujun? Could it be Wang Jujun? ”

"This person has also heard that he is a native of Yancheng Lijun, although he has been defeated repeatedly, ordinary people only think that he is a failure, but insiders know that he is determined and resilient, but he is a retro Zhou Li faction, a royal retro faction, come to our Chu State reform, is there something wrong with this?" In the end, there were many doubts between the words of the head of the Jing family.

Is Wang Jujun famous?

Very famous!

At a young age, he is already a real person.

The personal philosophy is even more famous all over the world.

I am a real person, and my two juniors are also real people.

For more than 50 years, a group of talents have been accumulated in Lijun, all of whom recognize Wang Jujun's concept and are willing to run with Wang Jujun.

If Wang Jujun comes to Chu to reform, with the talents accumulated in Lijun, he can spread the reform on a large scale as soon as he comes up, and there is no problem of insufficient talents, and he can start the reform as soon as he comes up.

If Wang Jujun presides over the reform, plus his two junior disciples, these are three real people. The three real people who opened the Dao, if they had the support of Chu Hou behind them, such a force would not be weak.

The rest depends on the direction of the reform.

Putting aside the content of reform, the head of the Jing family found that this Wang Jujun and his two junior disciples really had the possibility of reforming the Chu State.

But how to think about this thing makes people speechless.

The reform of the state of Chu was finally presided over by a group of people from the Zhou Li faction?

Zhou Li, isn't this thing the essence of Da Zhou?

Isn't it a little inappropriate to let Zhou Li send him to preside over the Chu State, a country where I am a barbarian?

Can this reform really be sustained? A cat as a bridesmaid for a mouse?

Looking at the puzzled looks of several people, Chu Hou said directly: "Reform, there must be a huge change. ”

"The current situation of the Chu State is that there is no power in the air and it cannot be exerted."

"The essence of the Chu Hou lineage is all guarding against the feudal monarch. The masters of the feudal monarch are also guarding against the Marquis of Chu. ”

"The local government is wary of the central government, and the central government treats the local government as a thief."

"If it weren't for the Wu State calling, the Chu State would still be in internal friction."

"But even if the State of Wu called, the State of Chu only temporarily let go of the internal friction, and the internal friction did not disappear."

"Whoever comes to reform must change that."

"And Mr. Jujun's junior brother has provided Gu with an idea, that is, to truly rule the world with the nobles, and govern the Chu country with the nobles."

(End of chapter)