Volume 1 The Hidden Movement of the World Chapter 19 Vertical and Horizontal
A month later, the Zhaohua army returned to the dynasty and returned victorious. The king of Chu rewarded the generals one by one, and Qu Yuan was no exception, and was given the official position of Zuo Shi by the king of Chu and the right to come to the pilgrimage. Zuo Shi is equivalent to a staff officer in the army, and his official position is not high, because he is a national surname, so the king of Chu specially gave him the privilege of worshipping in the court.
After Qu Yuan came back, he heard that King Chu Huai was going to marry Qin Guohe, and he was very anxious, feeling that this matter was very inappropriate, so he came to Zhaoyang Ling Yin for help.
"The virtuous nephew returned victoriously, and he was loved by the king of Chu, so why did he come here in a hurry if he didn't go home to visit his parents?" Zhaoyang saw his urgent expression, so he asked.
"The king of Chu wants to marry Qin, this is Zhang Yi's strategy, and it must not be!" Qu Yuan said urgently.
"This matter is a foregone conclusion, and it is irreparable!"
"Old Ling Yin is confused!" Qu Yuan said anxiously.
"Hmm, how do you say that?" Zhaoyang said with a frown.
"Now that our Chu country has gained more and more territory, the world will not be able to compete with Chu! If we get the land of Bashu again, we will be able to sweep the world, and the hegemony will be successful! Now that Qin and Chu are married, they will be spurned by Qi, Wei, Han and Zhao, and the war will be difficult to stop, and Qin will take the opportunity to attack Bashu! Once Qin gets Bashu, the grain and grass people will be rich, and their strength will increase sharply, and they will not be under Chu! Not only that, Qin can attack Chu by relying on the natural danger of Bashu, and if he retreats from the natural danger, he will be invincible!" Qu Yuan finished speaking in one breath, and when Zhaoyang heard it, he suddenly realized it, and immediately said:
"What the virtuous nephew said is good, the old man is really confused, and he almost fell for Zhang Yi's villain again!"
"Is there a turnaround now? Lao Ling Yin quickly think of a way!"
"It's all Zheng Sleeve to bewitch the king, this matter is difficult to do!"
"No matter how difficult it is, we can't sit idly by! This matter is the hundred-year plan of our Chu State, and it is also a turning point in the situation of the country's fortunes!"
"Don't worry, let me think about it!"
"Tomorrow in the court, I should admonish each other with death!" Qu Yuan said angrily.
"Virtuous nephew Hugh wants to talk nonsense, if you die, there will be no chance to serve the country and the people!
"Alas, what can I do?"
Zheng Sleeve has a part in this matter, Zheng Sleeve and Jin Shang are constantly in contact, tomorrow I will talk to Jin Shang first, see what he says!"
"I'm afraid that Jin Shang doesn't distinguish between right and wrong, I don't know how powerful it is!"
"I have my own opinion, don't mention this matter in the court tomorrow, you go back, don't be reckless and impatient in the future!"
"What Lao Lingyin taught me is that my nephew remembered!" Qu Yuan heard Zhaoyang say this, and immediately remembered Gande's words, and felt that he was indeed a little anxious.
On the second day of the court, Qu Yuan couldn't help but ask the king of Chu about the marriage of Qin and Chu several times in the court, but when he remembered the words of Gander and Zhaoyang, he finally held back. During this period, Jin Shang reported that the State of Qi had sent a person named Tian Wen to apologize to the State of Chu and asked to meet the King of Chu. Tian Wen is the youngest son of Tian Ying, the prime minister of Qi State, who was later Meng Weijun, one of the four sons of the Warring States Period, who was in his early twenties at this time, and his fame was not as great as later. After Zhaohua attacked Yue, Kuang Zhang, the general of Qi, saw that the king of Yue Wujiang had quickly failed, so he led his troops back. Afterwards, Tian Wen said to his father Tian Ying, that it was wrong for Qi Guolian to attack Chu and should take the initiative to apologize to Chu in order to rebuild the relationship between Qi and Chu. King Qi Wei then let Tian Wen enter Chu, apologized to the king of Chu in person on behalf of his father Tian Ying, and explained to the king of Chu that Zhao Guonai was the mastermind of the events of the day.
After retiring from the dynasty, Zhaoyang found Jin Shang and asked him to tell Zheng Sleeve to ask Zheng Sleeve to ask the King of Chu to cancel the marriage between Qin and Chu. When Jin Shang heard this, he said to Zhaoyang:
"This matter is very strange, Niangniang doesn't know when she got a daughter, I have never heard of it! Niangniang insists on promoting this, it seems that her intentions are resolute, and it is difficult to move!"
"It must be Zhang Yi's villain who is making trouble, and he has already made a plan, otherwise why did Niangniang suddenly have a daughter?" Zhaoyang doubted.
"If you want to say that Niangniang and Zhang Yi conspired and deliberately deceived the king, I don't think it is like it! It's just that Niangniang's daughter seems to have fallen from the sky and came specially for Qin Chu to marry, which is indeed a bit strange!"
"This matter still needs to be investigated, don't be careless, today you go to the mother's place to listen to the tone, and come back to me immediately!"
Jin Shang then went to see Zheng Sleeve, and when it came to marrying a daughter, Zheng Sleeve was very happy, urging Jin Shang to make a statement to the king and promote this matter as soon as possible. When Jin Shang heard this, he didn't say much, so he asked:
"When did Niang Niang get a baby daughter, and she even hid it from me?"
"It's a long story, it's a trivial matter for my mother's family, so don't talk about it!"
Jin Shang thought about it well, it was indeed the person she brought from her mother's family, and it may not have anything to do with Zhang Yi, so he asked again:
"Now there are not a few people in the court who oppose the marriage of Qin and Chu, and even Lord Ling Yin is strongly opposed, I don't know what countermeasures Niangniang has?"
"Then are you against or in favor?" Zheng Sleeve glared at Jin Shangdao.
"Wechen obeys the king's will!"
"You can speak, and no one can be offended!"
"Weichen naturally didn't dare to offend Niangniang, but he didn't dare not take national affairs seriously, and hoped that Niangniang would take into account the words of everyone in the country and think about it carefully!"
"Flim-tongued, it turns out that you are here to be a lobbyist for that old thing!" Zheng Sleeve said unhappily.
"Wechen doesn't dare! Wechen doesn't like that old thing, how can he be a lobbyist for him?
"If anyone talks nonsense about marriage again, this palace will definitely let the king dismiss his officials, and that old thing is no exception!" Zheng Sleeve said angrily.
Jin Shang didn't dare to say any more, so he resigned Zheng Sleeve and came to see Zhaoyang. Jin Shang informed Zhaoyang of Zheng Sleeve's meaning, and Zhaoyang scolded in front of Jin Shang:
"Demon woman! Disaster to the country and the people, even more than Daji in the past!"
"Ling Yin is angry! If it reaches the ears of the mother, I'm afraid it's not good!"
"I'm in charge of the country's order Yin, and I'm afraid that she won't be a demon woman, even if the king is here, I will scold her!"
"Why do you have to worry about Yin Yin in general with women! Ling Yin is relieved, I have a plan now, I offer it to Ling Yin, it will definitely work!
"But what?" Zhaoyang asked, still angry.
"But Ling Yin can't say to outsiders, this plan is my plan, if it is known by Niangniang, I am afraid that the head of the lower official will not be able to protect!"
"Don't be in cahoots with her, he will be tired by her one day!"
"Now the King of Qi has sent someone to Chu to say peace, this person is a relative of the Tian family, he can speak well, although he is young, he is quite virtuous! Now that Qin and Chu are marrying, it is not good for Qi, and Qi must have the intention of fighting Qin with Chu! Ling Yin Ke first summoned Qi envoy Tian Wen and said it with benefits, so that he would admonish the king of Chu and implement the marriage of Qi and Chu! If it is a marriage between Qi and Chu, it will naturally break the marriage between Qin and Chu, what does Yin think?"
"Well, that's a great plan!" Zhao Yang said happily.
Zhaoyang then met Meng Weijun Tianwen that night, and the two hit it off and decided to admonish the king of Chu.
On the second day, Tian Wen saw King Huai of Chu, saluted, and said to King Chu:
"In the past, Kuang Zhang led his troops to Jucheng, one was to prevent the defeated soldiers of the Yue Kingdom from disturbing the public order, and the other was to wait for the opportunity to help the Chu army destroy the Yue. My king was afraid that the king would misunderstand, so he sent a villain here to explain his original intention to the king of Chu! The boundless move of the king of Yue was a trick of Feiyi! On that day, the five kings forced Zhao, and Feiyi made Lou annoying to attack Yan, and second, he made the king of Yue attack Chu, and contacted Song Han, so he was able to protect the state of Zhao.
As soon as Qu Yuan heard this Tian Wen speak in an orderly manner, he pushed the sins of Qi Guo cleanly with one sentence, and looked forward to his Qi Chu marriage plan a little more in his heart. I only heard the minister Feng Hao say:
"According to what you say, your Qi State has become the hero of my Chu State's annihilation of Yue, isn't it? Ridiculous! Ridiculous!"
"It's ridiculous, I'm afraid it's Chu State!" Tian Wen sneered.
"What do you mean by that?" Feng Hao asked, thinking, see what other justifications you have.
"It's ridiculous that in today's Chu State, there is a Ming monarch, but there is a group of mediocre talents who govern the country!" Tian Wen passed over the matter of Qi sending troops, and the words changed, praising the king of Chu on the one hand, and deliberately causing the public anger of the ministers of Chu on the other, and the rhetoric was quite powerful.
"You ┄┄ you are talking nonsense!" Feng Hao heard this, and didn't know how to refute it, so he could only scold angrily.
"What is this not mediocrity?" Tian Wen laughed when he heard it.
"You are grandstanding and deliberately harming people!"
"Aiqing is rude!" Seeing this, the king of Chu said:
"Listen to him!"
Tian Wen shook his spirit, and said:
"In the past, Su and Qin Pei were in the same country, and they used the method of combining and longitudinal to make Qin not dare to send a letter to Guguan in the east for 15 years!
"The law of combining vertical and horizontal, at this time and that time, today my Chu country has the land of Wu Yue, the land is wide, the soldiers are brave, and Qi and Qin are incomparable!"
When the king of Chu heard this, he felt reasonable, so he nodded, and some ministers also nodded in agreement when they saw it. Seeing this, Tian Wen said sharply:
"Qi is naturally incomparable, but Qin may not be! Today, Qin and Chu are strong, and the so-called one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, and there must be a war between the two tigers! Now the five kingdoms of Qi, Han, Wei, Zhao, and Yan are just standing in line between the two powers! If Qin and Chu marry and join forces, the five kingdoms will inevitably be afraid, so I, the five kingdoms of Qi, Han, Yan, Wei, and Zhao will inevitably unite to reject the two tigers! Qin is far away in the pass, and the five kingdoms will inevitably attack Chu first and then resist Qin, so that Chu will be dragged down by the war, and Qin will take the opportunity to sweep the Yiqu in the north and settle Bashu in the south! It's powerful, it goes without saying, what do you think?"
"What Gongzi said is reasonable! Between the two tigers, there will be a fight! If Qi and Chu are in alliance, why be afraid of strengthening Qin Er!" Zhaoyang Ling Yin said.
"Qin is a state of tigers and wolves, and Yan and Wei are seconded, if it is an alliance between Qin and Chu, Qi, Wei, and Han will definitely take the lead in uniting Chu, so that Chu will suffer, and Qin will reap the benefits! Today, Zhang Yi is using a strategy of succession and horizontality, which is a strategy to delay the army, and he will want to break through each and plot the world! Please think twice!" Tian Wen said again.
When the king of Chu heard this, he felt that this person was very reasonable, but he had already agreed to the marriage of Zheng Sleeve and Zhang Yi and Qin Chu, and it was really difficult to ride a tiger, and he was in a dilemma, so he was silent.
When Qu Yuan heard this, he couldn't hold it back, according to common sense, this kind of occasion is not for him to speak! Seeing that King Chu Huai was silent, Qu Yuan immediately stood up and said:
"King Qiqi! Now that my Chu country has all the land, if he takes Ba, Shu, and Tho again in the future, the territory is vast, spanning the east and west, and he will be invincible, this is the great plan of Chu, please don't hesitate, make a decision quickly!"
"In the past, many times of cutting down Shu have consumed a lot of vitality of our Chu country, not to mention Bashu!
"If Qin wants to dominate the world, he must take Bashu in order to enrich his national strength! If Qin is married now, the three kingdoms of Qi, Wei, and Han will unite to resist Chu and contain the forces of Chu! Qin will take the opportunity to attack Bashu, and Chu will neither be able to save Bashu nor gain Bashu, and will lose the land of Bashu!" Qu Yuan Langlang said.
"Hugh is talking nonsense! Ru Yi Huangkou Xiaoer, An dares to talk about state affairs, the king has his own opinions!" Shangguan Mo Ao came out and said.
"You ┄┄ you ┄┄!" Qu Yuan was about to scold, but when he saw Lord Zhaoyang shaking his head, he forcibly held back his words, and stood so angry that he didn't say a word.
"Okay, okay! Today, the widow is feeling cold and unwell, so he will retire from the court for the time being, and discuss it another day!" The king of Chu saw that everyone could not compete with each other, and it was difficult for him to make a decision, so he used the excuse to disperse the court meeting.
As soon as Lord Shangguan Mo Ao got out of the court, he went to report to Zheng Sleeve about today's affairs in the court. When Zheng Sleeve heard this, he scolded:
"Old horseman, come and meddle in my business again, I really think I'm afraid of him!"
"The mother is angry, the king has not made a statement, and the old man has not succeeded!"
"This time I will meet with him, if he does not fall, I swear not to be a man!"
Shangguan Mo Ao and Zhaoyang Ling Yin are political enemies, and when they heard it, they added fuel to the fire and said:
"If Niangniang makes up her mind, my Shangguan clan will definitely stand on Niangniang's side and fight him to the end!"
Zheng Sleeve calmed his anger, and then asked coldly:
"Who is Tian Wen, when did Qi Guo have such a person!"
Because he was born on May 5, Tian Ying abandoned him, and his mother was reluctant to raise him to adulthood! Later, because he was able to speak well and won Tian Ying's appreciation, he re-recognized him as a son. ”
"How old are you and where are you staying now?"
"In your early twenties, I'm staying at Yingyi!"
"I'll clean up this Tianwen and then talk about it, and I'll talk to the old man again!"
Zheng Sleeve suddenly had an idea in his heart, and immediately prepared to implement her plan to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf.