"Tian Ji, how is it in the Chu State?" Qi Xiaobai looked at the heavy courtier and asked.

And Guan Zhong stood up and said: "Zhaoyang, with the help of Tian Ji, forced Wu Qi to withdraw from the army, and Tian Ji plans to support Zhaoyang to independent the eastern part of the Chu State!" ”

"This Zhaoyang is independent in the East, what good is it for my Qi country?" Qi Xiaobai looked at Guan Zhong and asked.

"Zhaoyang and the old Yue forces are independent, and my Qi country can justifiably go south and seize half of Yangzhou!" Guan Zhong looked at Qi Xiaobai and said.

Qi Xiaobai was stunned when he heard it, and then looked at Guan Zhong: "Seize half of Yangzhou?" ”

Once Zhaoyang and the old Yue forces are independent, then the Qi country will go south, and this Chu country has nothing to say, although I and your Chu country are blood alliances, but the old Yue forces and Zhaoyang have become independent, then it is not the territory of your Chu country, and there is no problem for me to send troops to attack.

"That's right, Zhaoyang is completely independent from the old Yue forces, and the state of Chu admits it, so my country of Qi will send troops south to seize half of Yangzhou, so as to cut off the connection between the state of Chu and the treasure island, and our country of Qi will take advantage of the situation to land on the island and occupy the treasure island!" Guan Zhong said to Qi Xiaobai.

Treasure Island was originally the territory of the Yue State, when the Yue army was defeated, many aristocratic forces retreated to the Treasure Island, originally wanted to sit on the Treasure Island and confront the Chu State, but when the Chu army landed on the Treasure Island, the Yue nobles surrendered to the Chu State in order that the people of the Treasure Island would not be slaughtered.

Since then, the state of Chu has occupied the treasure island, but the treasure island is still ruled by the Yue people, but the young men who live on the treasure island have been recruited by the state of Chu to fight for the state of Chu.

The treasure island is in the hands of the Chu State, and there is no potential for development, because the Chu State is a landlocked country, and the discovery of their development is the hegemony of land power, sweeping the world, and they do not attach much importance to this kind of island.

And Qi is different, because the development of Qi's land is very limited, Zhao, Song and Chu completely resist the development of Qi's land power.

Therefore, the Qi State could only expand overseas, so they landed on the Dongyi Island State, unified the Dongyi Island State, and then attacked and destroyed Goguryeo from two directions, and then attached great importance to merchants going to sea to do business and conduct international trade.

And the islands are very important to Qi country, if there are more islands, then the maritime merchants of Qi country will have more places to rest, and there are more taxes to say.

Qi has one more tax revenue than landlocked countries, that is, after foreign countries enter the islands of Qi countries, they need to pay tariffs for adjustment in the islands.

And this tariff is very high, but at the same time pay this tariff, Qi will do its best to help them repair their ships and help with supplies, so many foreign merchants are also very happy to pay this money.

After all, when they landed on the islands not under the jurisdiction of the Qi country, they were not familiar with them, and they were easily attacked by the local primitive residents, and when they landed on the islands of the Qi country, although they needed to pay money, at least the security was very secure, although the money was important, but life was more important, and he was not unprofitable when he paid this money.

Moreover, Qi has a plan to build a strategy of a maritime state, and the seizure of Dongyi Island and Goguryeo is to build a prototype for a maritime country, and the capture of treasure islands is Qi's sights on the island alliance in the south.

In the south of the empire, there are the Southern Barbarian States, they are backward in civilization, but relying on their own barbarism, the southern Chu State of the empire has suffered a lot, but the successive monarchs of the Chu State have been constantly fighting in the south, which also makes these Southern Barbarians afraid of the Empire.

However, in the more southern position of Nanban, that is the small ocean country and one island country after another, this is the news brought to Qi Xiaobai by the merchants of Qi State, and Qi Xiaobai has also seen it on the map.

These island nations form an alliance called the 'Grand League of Asian Islands!' It was a large alliance of many island nations, comparable to the empire in terms of overall strength, but because it was an alliance, there were many internal problems, and they were similar to the princes of the empire, fighting each other.

However, the struggle is more fierce than the princes of the empire, and the princes of the empire are fighting for a justification, and this great alliance of Asian islands has no justification at all, and values your territory and your money, so I will fight you.

And there is no emperor or leader in the big alliance, although there is an alliance leader, and the alliance leader is the manager of the big alliance, but there are eight alliance leaders, and these eight also fight against each other, resulting in the big alliance has eight big factions, small factions, and countless factions.

It can be said that the Island Alliance only seems to be strong and the data is strong, but in fact it is vulnerable, because there is no internal harmony, it is just a plate of scattered sand, if the foreign enemy wants to attack this alliance, as long as it is broken one by one.

And if Qi wants to attack this alliance, there must be an island in the south as a supply point, and Qi values Baodao and Qiongzhou, these two islands.

These two islands are under the jurisdiction of the Chu State, but the Chu people who govern these two islands are basically nobles who are separated from the main body of the countries.

The treasure island is the Yue people, and Qiongzhou is that after a Chu king entered Qiongzhou, he negotiated with the ruler of Qiongzhou, Qiongzhou was afraid of the strength of Chu and submitted to Chu, although surrendered, Qiongzhou belonged to Chu, but where the army still has the right to govern, it is controlled by that noble.

Moreover, in recent years, the center of gravity of the Chu State has been in the Central Plains, which has also led to the fact that the Chu State has less and less jurisdiction over Qiongzhou, which makes the nobleman in a semi-independent state.

If he could, Qi Xiaobai wanted to take Qiongzhou, because Qiongzhou was close to the Asia Great Alliance, but Qiongzhou was too far away from Qi, so Qi Xiaobai had to take the treasure island first.

As long as Yangzhou is obtained and the connection between Chu and the treasure island is cut off, then it is justified for Qi Xiaobai to take the treasure island, and the Chu State can't say anything, after all, once the Qi State takes half of Yangzhou, this treasure island will become an enclave, and it doesn't make sense for you Chu to ask for him, or that the treasure island is meaningless in the hands of Chu State.

As for Qiongzhou, Qi is also bound to take it, but Qiongzhou, Qi cannot be forcibly taken, after all, it is not an enclave of Chu, although Qiongzhou is in a semi-free state, but after all, it is the territory of Chu, and it still requires certain diplomatic means to ask for Qiongzhou, which depends on the lobbyists.

Qi Xiaobai looked at Guan Zhong: "I know, then just wait for Tian Ji to help Zhaoyang become independent, at that time, my Qi country will take advantage of the situation to go south!" ”

And Qi Xiaobai looked at Guan Zhong again: "That Uncle Bao is in the Qin State, do you have any information?" ”

Guan Zhong waved his hand: "Uncle Bao's matter, the minister doesn't know, compared to it, Wei Dexian should know a little!" ”

Qi Xiaobai looked at Wei Dexian: "Did Uncle Bao come to the letter?" What are Qin's plans? ”

Uncle Bao still contacts the secret guards outside, and as the leader of the secret guards, Wei Dexian is the first to get all kinds of information.

Wei Dexian looked at Qi Xiaobai and said: "There is a letter, the minister is planning to retire from the court today and report to the cabinet!" ”