Zhong Yu returned to his hometown Xue and used the advanced knowledge he had learned to make Xue prosperous, and in just a few years, Xue became a well-known vassal state with a relatively developed economy and relatively strong strength, and was deeply supported by the people, so that King Xue gave up the throne to Zhong Yu. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing that the Xue State had changed so dramatically, the Xia King Ji Gui was jealous and wanted to take the wealth of the Xue State for himself, but without a legitimate reason, no matter how tyrannical and unreasonable, he did not dare to snatch the wealth of the Xue State out of thin air, otherwise it would inevitably arouse the opposition of all the princes.

On the other hand, after some negotiations with the king of Youxin, the king of Shang Chengtang married the daughter of the king of Youxin and reached an alliance with the state of Youxin, so the king of Shang invited the famous Yi Zhi to the Shang country logically, and after a secret conversation between the two, they had the same opinion on the situation of the current Xia Kingdom, so Yi Zhi took advantage of the situation of Cheng Tang and became the Ah Heng of the Shang State.

This year, all parts of the wasteland suffered a great drought that had not been encountered in a century, and the disaster was very serious, and even some vassal states had already happened that people gathered to grab food, and the local princes asked King Xia for help, hoping that King Xia could come up with a solution.

In this regard, Ji Ji did not have any thoughts, but thought of how to loot the wealth of the vassal states. On the pretext of relieving the disaster area, he informed the vassal states to hand over eighty percent of their wealth, grain and other goods, and those who did not comply with the order were beheaded by the whole clan.

For a while, the people of the princes were panicked, but there were still many princes who did not dare to disobey the orders of the Xia Wang, and went to Xiacheng with eighty percent of the country's supplies to pay tribute.

And those princes who did not respect the orders of the Xia king were not a few, and many vassal states even announced their independence from the rule of the Xia state headed by the state of Youyi (mín) and established themselves as kings, including the state of Xue.

In this regard, it was all expected by Ji Gui, so Ji Ji had a legitimate reason to send troops to fight.

He was not angry at all because of the villains of the country, but was a little lucky, these years, although the vassal states paid tribute every year, but he squandered little left, just take this opportunity to loot, this rebellion of the vassal states such as the state of the country just gave the country a legitimate reason, immediately, the princes of the world ordered all the princes in the world to exterminate the country can use military exploits instead of tribute.

For a time, the princes of the world were divided into two factions, on one side was the rebel alliance led by the Youyi State, and on the other side was the alliance of the vassal states led by the maintenance of the orthodoxy of the Xia State.

At the same time, Yi Zhi knew that the opportunity had come, so Yi Zhi offered advice to Cheng Tang, so that Cheng Tang took the initiative to surrender to Xi Gui, promising to help Xi Gui exterminate the princes who rebelled against the Xia Kingdom.

In recent years, the development of the Shang State has also heard of it, knowing the strength of the Shang State, and now seeing that the Shang King is still subservient to the Xia State, he is naturally very happy, and immediately granted Cheng Tang the power to 'have a special expedition', which means that Cheng Tang can directly send troops without the approval of Cheng Tang no matter which vassal state is conquered, similar to the 'first cut and then play' in later generations.

Under Yi Zhi's plan, the Shang State did not participate in the wars between the other princes and the Youjin Kingdom, but first made contact with the Zhong Yu of the Xue State.

Yi Zhi introduced Zhong Yu, who had quietly come to Shang Kingdom, to Shang Wang, and the three of them discussed it and decided to act in a scene for King Xia to show first, so that King Xia could trust Shang Kingdom more.

So, the next day Cheng Tang sent troops to send troops to Xue State, because of the previous plan, Xue State resisted desperately on the surface, but in fact it was pretending, and soon pretended to be defeated and surrendered, so Shang Guo came to Xia with Xue's belongings and reported the battle situation to King Xia.

King Xia was naturally very happy to see a large amount of treasures, and praised Cheng Tang for a while, which was regarded as a complete recognition of Cheng Tang, and he didn't even ask Xue Guo's prisoners of war, so he let Cheng Tang take the reward and return to China.

After returning to Shangguo, Cheng Tang and Yi Zhi Zhongyu immediately began their plans.

Because he received the power of the Xia king's 'special expedition', the process of Chengtang's dispatch of troops was not obtained by the other princes, so it was more beneficial to their plans.

At the suggestion of Yi Zhi and Zhong Yu, the first thing to be conquered was Ge Guo.

Just because Ge Guo is the prince who supports the Xia State, and this Ge State is the closest to the Shang State, if you don't get rid of Ge Guo first, it will have an impact on the Shang State's future plans, not to mention, now that Ge Guo's army has all gone out to participate in the battlefield of the crusade against the Youmu Alliance, the capital of Ge State can be said to be empty of troops, and it can be easily occupied.

The news of the capture of Ge Guo reached the ears of Ji Gui three days later, and Xi Gui was furious and immediately summoned Cheng Tang.

On the main hall, the soup is sprinkled and stands, without fear.

Ji Ji said angrily: "Bold into soup, why did you capture Ge Kingdom, do you also want to rebel against this king?"

Cheng Tang Yizheng said: "Back to the king, the minister received a secret report, Ge Guo seems to be loyal to the king, but in fact he secretly colluded with the country, and on the battlefield it was repeatedly hindered by the war. ”

Ji Ji thought for a moment, and asked to the side: "How is the battle situation ahead, is it as Cheng Tang said, Ge Guo is hindering the war?"

One person replied: "Back to the king, there was a battle report submitted yesterday, which did mention that the war of Ge Guo was delayed, but ......"

This person wanted to continue to say something, but when he heard this, he was already furious, slapped the table vigorously, and said angrily: "Dare Ge Guo dare to deceive this king, it really deserves to die, fortunately, Cheng Tang Hui's eyes are like torches, and he saw Ge Guo's rebellious move, otherwise this king will still regard him as a hero." ”

calmed down his anger for a while, and said again: "Someone is coming, notify the battlefield ahead, and order someone to kill King Ge on the spot, and if the army belonging to Ge Guo resists, they will be killed, and the rest of the people will be reduced to slaves and sent to the battlefield!"

With this incident, Xi Hui no longer had any doubts about Cheng Tang, so that after Cheng Tang swept away the three or four princes one after another, Xi Hui didn't even ask.

A few years later, when Cheng Tang quietly swept away the princes who supported the Xia Kingdom, news came from the battlefield ahead.

After several years of war, the allied forces of the princes of Xia finally defeated the rebel alliance led by Youmen after paying a huge price, forcing the king of Youman to sacrifice two beauties, Wan and Yan, in order to save his life.

Seeing that the two beauties were very beautiful, she liked them very much, and immediately accepted them as concubines, and handed over the matter of dealing with the rebels to Cheng Tang.

At the suggestion of Yi Zhi and Zhong Yu, Cheng Tang secretly took prisoners of soldiers from various tribes, and forbade these tribes to train their armies, and at the same time imposed a secret ban on them, ordering the kings of these defeated tribes to never leave their tribes.

These orders were reported to Cheng Tang one by one, but Ji Hui was busy enjoying himself with the two new concubines, where was he in the mood to care about this, and even blamed Cheng Tang for disturbing himself.

Seeing this, Cheng Tang didn't say much, but on the other hand, he sent people to secretly entrap these tribes, and let them use them for his own use on the grounds of justifying their names in the future.