Chapter 409 409.Chu's internal strife

Qi Xiaobai, who was very calm just now, was no longer calm at this time, Qi Xiaobai thought that Chu was in turmoil, and the 500,000 army could make Chu chaotic.

In this way, the state of Chu, which has the title of the crown of the vassal states, will be greatly weakened, and the state of Qi will not care about the state of Chu at all.

Although Qi Xiaobai is now hegemonic, the Chu State controls the entire southern part of the empire, although there are big problems within the Chu State, but where is the comprehensive national strength, this Qi Xiaobai cannot be ignored at all.

If you want to dominate the world, this Chu State is an opponent that Qi Xiaobai has to face, and it must defeat the Chu State.

The more problems there were in the Chu State, the happier Qi Xiaobai became, so at the beginning when he heard that a civil war broke out in the Chu State, Qi Xiaobai was very happy, but when he heard that Wu Qi had wiped out the main force of the rebels in three days, Qi Xiaobai was a little uneasy.

"King Huan, once the reform of the Chu State is successful, who else will be the opponent of the Chu State?" Tian Ji looked at Qi Xiaobai and said.

Qi Xiaobai was silent, if the reform of the Chu State is successful, the power of the entire southern part of the empire will be completely exerted, and the power of the crown of the vassal states will be completely exerted, unless the princes of the world are united, they will not be able to resist the power of the Chu State at all.

But then again, the princes united, each with a ghost, and in the face of Wu Qi, who was unparalleled in the country, it didn't fall apart in minutes.

At that time, the state of Chu will not only settle in the Central Plains, but it is very likely that the empire will be unified, and the Zhou Empire will be renamed the Chu Empire.

"So what are we going to do?" Qi Xiaobai looked at Tian Ji and asked.

"Although Wu Qi won the battle of Zhaoling, he did not completely eliminate those noble forces of the Chu State, although these noble forces could not compete with Wu Qi head-on, but they could still create a lot of trouble for the Chu State behind the scenes!" Tian Ji said to Qi Xiaobai.

And at this time, Zhang Tianshang stood up: "These aristocratic forces are not Wu Qi's opponents in the front, how can they create trouble for Wu Qi behind this?" I'm afraid that it won't be long before Wu Qi will be annihilated one by one! ”

Qi Xiaobai nodded, he agreed with Zhang Tianshang's words very much, he was not an opponent in the front, and he made small moves behind his back, could he create heavy trouble for Wu Qi?

I'm afraid that as long as Wu Qi gets serious, soon these small aristocratic forces will completely collapse.

"King Huan's reform of Wu Qi this time is different from the period of King Huai of Chu, this Wu Qi wants to completely unify the Chu State and integrate the power of the Chu State, not simply to make the aristocratic forces of the Chu State submit to the central government, so the small forces jointly resist, but the big aristocratic forces actually support the resistance of the small forces behind the scenes!" Tian Ji said to Qi Xiaobai.

This reform of Wu Qi moved the interests of the entire Chu nobles, and the entire Chu nobles were basically Wu Qi's enemies.

And the nobles of the Central Army, although they all obeyed Wu Qi on the surface, they were actually perfunctory errands and did not cooperate with Wu Qi.

It is obviously impossible for you to shake the interests of other people, and you want people to help you, and Wu Qi also knows this, so these counterinsurgency or something, reform or something, Wu Qi did it himself.

He knew that these nobles in the central government could not be trusted, and he had to do it himself and cultivate his own cronies in order to complete this reform.

Moreover, Wu Qi also knew that what he was facing was the power of the nobles of the entire Chu State.

"King Huan, although the rebel coalition failed this time, there are countless nobles in the Chu Kingdom, and there are other coalition forces that will rise up next!" Tian Ji said to Qi Xiaobai.

This 500,000 coalition army of the Chu State can be said to be just a prelude, after all, there are so many nobles in the Chu State, and Wu Qi has mobilized their interests, they will definitely raise their banners to resist Wu Qi, and the three major families that can directly confront the central power of the Chu State have not yet come out.

"As long as the three major families raise the banner, there will be many small nobles jumping out, and at that time, we will help these small forces behind our backs!" Tian Ji looked at Qi Xiaobai.

"This time Wu Qi has shaken the interests of the entire Chu nobles, it is only a matter of time before the three major families make a move, our Qi State must help the interests of the nobles of the Chu State, and we can't let the nobles of the Chu State lose to Wu Qi, otherwise the entire Chu State will have all the strength, I'm afraid it will be ......" At this time, Guan Zhong stood up and said.

Guan Zhong, who is the three important ministers of the Qi Cabinet, knows what happened in the Chu State, but he has not yet completely responded to it.

However, after listening to Tian Ji's words, he knew what to do, that is, to unite those small nobles of the Chu State behind the Qi State to help them resist Wu Qi, and then instigate the three nobles to join forces to rebel.

Wu Qi's military talent is unparalleled, even if he helps these noble forces in this way, Tian Ji and Guan Zhong are not sure that they will defeat Wu Qi.

So they didn't have much hope of defeating Wu Qi, and the reason why they still did it was that even if Wu Qi integrated the power of the Chu State, it was not as good as before.

No matter who wins or loses in the civil war between the two sides, the loss of the strength of the Chu State is the greater the loss of the Chu State, and the longer the fight, the greater the loss of the national strength of the Chu State.

This is Tian Ji's real purpose, to consume the national strength of their Chu State.

Qi Xiaobai looked at Tian Ji and said: "I understand, then Tian Ji will leave this matter to you, tell those noble forces of Chu State, as long as they dare to resist, I will dare to support them!" ”

"King Huan, we support these noble forces of the Chu State, not in the name of our Qi State official, I want to support the nobles of the Chu State in the name of merchants in the form of trade!" Tian Ji said to Qi Xiaobai.

Although the State of Qi is worried about the strength of the State of Chu and wants to weaken the national strength of the State of Chu, on the surface, the State of Qi and the State of Chu are blood alliances, and you have done it openly in the State of Qi, what is the difference between this and tearing up the alliance?

Therefore, the State of Qi can't support the State of Chu openly, it can only support the curve, even if the State of Chu finds out, as long as the face is gone, there is nothing the State of Chu can do.

Of course, it is not allowed to be discovered as much as possible, after all, after the civil war of the Chu State, the Qi State still has to form an alliance with the Chu State to fight against the Central Plains forces together.

Of course, the premise of this is that after the Chu State experienced a civil war and its national strength was greatly weakened, if the Chu State integrated all the forces of the Chu State and became a veritable crown of the vassal states, at that time, the primary purpose of the Qi State was to fight against the Chu State together with other vassal states.

Even if you tear up the covenant, you have to fight against the state of Chu.

After all, after the Chu State and the others have eliminated other enemies, can you still stay where you are safe? Apparently impossible.

Although the State of Qi is now strong and is known as the overlord of the vassal states, the State of Qi and the State of Zhao are not crushing Dugu alone, and the same is true for the State of Wei, but after the State of Chu integrates the national strength, it will have an advantage over any of the vassal states.

This is not the same nature as the Qi State, this is a complete break of the pattern of the separation of the vassal states, and at that time, I am afraid that the princes will be afraid of the Chu State.