Sun Ke and Ye Qing walked side by side, the two got into the royal car, entered the Hou Mansion from the northeast of the city, because they saw the ministers and guards to greet them, Sun Ke ordered the courtiers behind him to go to the main hall first, beckoning and saying: "You go to the main hall to marquis, me and the King of Han, just say a few words along the way - you drive with you to protect." ”

"Yes, the minister. A guard personally responded, and with a wave of his hand, hundreds of guards scattered far away.

Warm spring is coming, flowers and onion cages along the way, Ye Qing and Sun Ke got out of the car, and walked in the garden, at this time the flowers are blooming, blood red in the sun, only butterflies and bees, except for this no sound.

"King Han, I have received a notice from Qingmai!" Sun Ke was a little stunned, browsing the scenery for a long time, looking at Ye Qing and said.

Ye Qing smiled and glanced at Sun Ke: "I also got the Qingmai notice, this time the alliance is not so much for me to promote, but for the integration of the Qingmai, this is the general trend, you and I are both Qingmai princes, both are smart people, what do you think, here is us, you might as well say it directly." ”

"You waved off the courtiers just now, you must have this meaning - the green vein is already in decline, and internal disputes should be exposed as little as possible in front of the courtiers and outsiders. ”

Sun Ke paced, pondered, and finally felt that it was better to say it directly than to go around in circles, so he sighed: "Qingmai has been declining for a long time, and it is difficult to find a male lord like the King of Han. ”

"Oh?" Ye Qing suddenly stopped, his eyes flashing with surprise: "Sun Hou is willing?"

Sun Ke stared at Ye Qing with a cold expression: "It's reluctant, it's just that I have to listen, as soon as the King of Han ascends the throne, the Qing Court will follow, although it is not the emperor's edict, but the meaning in it can be seen by anyone." ”

"Sun Mou is a person of the Qingting, and he can't resist it, but that's all, the alliance leader can, he can't be a minister, he wants to call me a minister, the king of Han ruled Kyushu and received the mandate of heaven, at that time I called myself a courtier, knelt three times and kowtowed, and offered this Qingzhou!"

"Refreshing, it's really a hero!" Ye Qing smiled: "With your words, then everything is easy to talk about!"

"The main hall is in front of you, you are the master, please go first!"

Sun Ke no longer hesitated and stepped forward.

............

In the morning, and only dispersed in the afternoon, Ye Qing came out and returned to a courtyard, at this time, there was still some time before the night banquet, and it was just right to take a rest.

Qianqian was inconvenient to leave the Eastern Wilderness, so she didn't accompany her, and the company was Cao Baijing, she didn't appear in the men's meeting just now, and in the company of Liniang, she talked happily with the two Xianmen ladies of Qinghou, and then there was no one around, so she turned her head and asked: "How is the husband talking?"

"The alliance has been negotiated, Sun Ke expressed his willingness to support me as the leader of the alliance, and he also agreed with the trade exchange, both of which have been achieved, but when it comes to deeper military-political cooperation, the other party has some concerns...... It's normal, but I'm worried about it. ”

"Look at the specifics!" Ye Qing snapped his fingers, and Cao Baijing saw a dragon groan, and a trace of yellow gas came out of the void, and this yellow gas gathered into a ball, which was very good, and it was being absorbed by the green dragon, slightly larger and larger.

"Is this the spirit of the alliance?" Cao Baijing was a little surprised: "It looks like there is a county, or half a county is so big." ”

"Almost, although the alliance leader is not a monarch, but the order is strict, there are also up and down, Sun Ke recognizes me as the alliance leader, and he wants to offer luck, which is almost the amount of a county!"

"It's not just the number of qi, it's also the actual human heart, influence, command, and so on. ”

"But any more is hard. ”

Ye Qing said and smiled, the subtext behind the so-called heroes sympathizing with each other is - they are all reckless heroes who rise at the same time, who doesn't know who!

"Actually, in my opinion, it's good to be able to finalize the position of the alliance leader, but it's still unrealistic to go further......"

The newly-born Han Kingdom is now vast and sparsely populated, with a total population of only 30 million, and has just reached the passing line of a great country, which can be compared with Zhang Wei Village, which unified Xiaoxiang and restored the ancient kingdom in the previous life.

But Ye Qing now has a high standard of vision, and he disdains to compare with Zhang Weicun, who has retreated to a corner of Xiaozhou: "I feel that I am far from the 40 million directly subordinate population of Chu State and 60 million Wei State - Chu Wei has not been idle in recent years, and quietly and peacefully integrated some small vassal states that have been married over the past dynasties, and the population of each country has increased a lot compared with the past, which is the benefit of being full-fledged." ”

"The strength of the five veins on the wings of the feudal kingdom has its own strength and weakness, excluding not participating in the battle for the dragon and the black vein, not to mention the yellow vein of this generation of bull ears, the remaining white vein and red vein strength is much greater than the green vein, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Chu are the great feudal states that have been inherited for more than a thousand years, with deep influence, broad radiation, and a large number of vassal state princes in the north and south, who have opened their markets, raw material origins, garrison powers, and edicts to them, and the population luck of these spheres of influence is also counted in proportion to the fact that it is even larger. ”

Ye Qing found that this is the highly cohesive discourse power in the original vein - for example, the traditional dominant position of the Chu State, although the King of Chu in the previous life was a waste wood, Zhang Wei Village, which unified the two states of Xiaoxiang and restored the power of the ancient kingdom at that time, could not be shaken for a while, and the King of Chu Jingzhuang seemed to be very popular in this life, Ye Qing calculated to let Zhang Wei Village develop south to add blockage to the Chu State, but it is difficult to say how much effect there is, it can only be said that it is a nail.

"Compared with the Qingmai, it is a standout to be a husband, but it is a pity that the strength and qualifications of the Han State are still shallow, and it can allow the Xianmen of the East China Sea Youth League to merge peacefully, but without historical precipitation, it is impossible for the Qingmai princes on the coast of the mainland to bow down to the order...... The coastal states are not Aokizi from Xianmen, the dragon qi is self-contained and Weifu is self-sufficient, and he will not let the master not do it, but he sold his company and went to make a shop for others, and he received a salary depending on his face. ”

Cao Baijing's eyes flickered when she heard this, she has an independent personality, soft on the outside and strong on the inside, in fact, if it weren't for Ye Qingmei's childhood sweetheart, she would have recognized this independent development more in her heart, but now that she is married to her husband, she thinks about it from the position ......of her husband's interests: "If the price is enough, it can be negotiated, right?" I guess it's waiting for the price to sell?"

"Well, Sun Ke tested my tone, and heard me say that there has been a lot of infrastructure construction in the Eastern Wilderness recently, and resources are in short supply, so he said that he could give full support and cooperate well on the other side of the sea...... By the way, get yourself some more heavenly merit and try your best to achieve immortal marquis...... This is already clear. ”

Ye Qing said with a wry smile: "In fact, the principle of the competition for power and the dumping of capital are the same, the big fish eat the small fish, the small fish eat the shrimp, if it is not cheap, then it has to be sold expensively, the problem is that the population of our Han State is not more than twice that of their state, where is the starting price?"

Cao Baijing thought about it and said: "If you can't keep it in captivity, you can only keep it free-range first...... Anyway, they are all their own people, and the good meat is rotten in the pot, and it is ...... to talk about it when you have money later And I always feel that the Heavenly Court splits the Cai Dynasty, and it also expects to be able to cultivate a large number of immortal marquis, and I won't appreciate it too much......

Ye Qing nodded in agreement, annexation has never been easy.

The first is the habit of whirling outward expansion left by the Five Veins Immortal Dynasty, a vassal state in the Eight Desolations, and in the turbulent nascent region, these pioneers are risking their lives to open up and help the world digest new resources until they are mature and incorporated into the inner state.

Great unification is the rule of Kyushu, not the rule of the Eight Desolations, even Chu, Wei, and Cai dare not say that they have the right to abolish the feudal state, unless the early Chu State let the natural disasters be destroyed, or the Cai Dynasty rose into a new dynasty like the previous one, and the originally remote and wild Cai State is now Caizhou, one of the six states in the west of the gorge.

The second is the newly established state marquis left in Kyushu, these are in line with the rules of dragon annexation, but now is the time when the chaotic times have just started and are not yet fiercely merged, the inter-vein contradiction is greater than the intra-vein contradiction, and the more important is the contradiction with the foreign region, as soon as the civil war ban is lowered, even the Cai Dynasty in the prime of life has no temper, Ye Qing does not feel that he dares to annex by force, which is different from beating the children of the king of Qingjun in Dongzhou.

Heavenly Court suppressed the Cai Dynasty at the beginning and did not allow it to be swept directly, the main purpose should be to cultivate a group of immortal marquis and immortal kings through the state's lower soil and yang, and before this strategic goal is reached, the support for the mandate of heaven for the princes will not change greatly, more or less form a guarantee, the green channel for rapid promotion is opened, and the civil war ban protects these immortal king seeds.

On the one hand, because the security value of the caves in each state has a lot to do with it, if there is a tattered thing like Xiangzhou Xiatu alternating between the old and new dynasties, and the emperor of the old dynasty betraying and turning to a foreign land, not every state marquis can be suppressed as easily as himself.

Ye Qing estimated that only after the comprehensive yangization and basic achievement of the Immortal Marquis, would a slightly slower merger be allowed to promote the birth of stronger ones among the Immortal Princes in each state, so that the better first-line Immortal Princes could step into the Immortal King faster, but a direct civil war would definitely not allow it - at least within the scope of Kyushu.

"But the old Qingzhou is the largest in the Qingmai power state, and the population area of other states is smaller than that of the old Qingzhou, Sun Ke is the leader of the alliance with me, and the other Jiangzhou, Ezhou, Sangzhou, Duzhou, Jizhou, and Tangzhou are ordered one by one. ”

"The success of the Seven States Alliance has actually made me equal to one more state, and the overall formation of a large Qingmai area with a population of more than 60 million has greatly increased the strength of Qingmai. ”

"And I have to take on the responsibility of promoting and defending this big green area. ”

"I think, the green vein has a big piece, I have a small piece, and other princes spend some, but they get some benefits, but the so-called does not increase or decrease. ”

"But these are really icing on the cake, although they are not without benefits, but in the end, the development is limited, if you want to achieve the earth immortal, there is still a lack of resources, which forces you to turn your eyes to the ...... of the earth."

Speaking of this, Ye Qing shook his head and smiled, and did not continue, this is Sun Hou's territory after all, and it is really not very suitable to talk about secrets.

Cao Baijing couldn't help but laugh and pursed her lips: "Husband, this is cheap and obedient, out of thin air to get the position of the leader of the Qingmai Alliance, out of thin air more than half of the state to one state, this is already the help of the Qingmai, are you still not satisfied?"

"If you weren't running the youth system, you would have a great future, and you would support you like this?"

"But here's the problem, the establishment of the green system is a whole thing, and the seven states with princes can't establish the green system...... Xuzhou and real counties have princes, how can there be a green system?"

"Now I have some cheapness, but there is also a burden, this assessment is still difficult!" Ye Qing said with a little depression, although there is no green system, it can also be industrial, but it is not so handy.