1209. Chu's feud
"Although Huang Xie didn't make any moves, after all, he is a native of Chu State, and he is still the Ling Yin of Chu State, and the official worships Shangqing and protects the interests of the entire Chu State!"
"Although he doesn't make any moves on the surface, we have to guard against it, he is an opponent who is even more feared than Qi Xiaobai!" Wei Wuji looked at Zhao Sheng on the side and said.
"Can Huang Xie compare with Qi Xiaobai? Qi Xiaobai is the number one male lord today, leading a small Dongyi country to the position of the overlord of the world! Zhao Sheng said disapprerovingly, Huang Xie is a difficult opponent, but to say that Huang Xie can be compared with Qi Xiaobai, Zhao Sheng doesn't think so.
"Although Huang Xie's achievements cannot be compared with Qi Xiaobai, I have met Huang Xie once, he is a gentleman, but at the same time he is also a very good strategist!"
"He can reinvigorate the ruined Chu State in two years, and integrate the nobles of the Chu State in one year, you can see its ability!" Wei Wuji looked at Zhao Sheng and said.
For Huang Xie, Wei Wuji gave a high evaluation, since the state of Chu was subjected to the Wu Qi incident, it has been in a stage of decline, and there is even the possibility of splitting, so that the power of the central government of Chu may collapse.
But Huang Xie single-handedly saved the power of the central Chu State, although Huang Xie was a nobleman, but he knew that only when the central Chu State was there, the Chu State could maintain the stability of the entire southern part of Kyushu.
In order to be really afraid of the princes of the world, once the power of the central government of the Chu State is not there, and the nobles are sitting on one side, then the Chu State will not be able to enter the eyes of the princes of the world at all.
Therefore, Huang Xie entered the Central Committee of the Chu State, carried out internal reforms, rectified some of the malpractices and policies of the Central Committee of the Chu State, and began to win over various nobles.
Because the Central Committee of Chu itself relies on the strength of its relatives to survive, with the participation of Huang Xie, the relatives are no longer in control of the Central Committee of Chu, but the Central Committee of Chu is in charge of the forces of foreign relatives.
With the support of the forces of his relatives, Huang Xie lobbied the nobles to return to the jurisdiction of the central government of Chu again.
Although it is not possible to recover their territory, of course, Huang Xie will not do it, because the Huang family has also formed a big nobleman in the Chu State.
Although he is doing things for the Chu State, he is also doing things for his family.
In today's Chu State, people know the Xiong family and then the Huang family, and the Huang family can be said to have become a family second only to the Xiong family in the Chu country.
The nobles were once again attached to the central state of Chu, and Huang Xie actively communicated with the southern barbarians, hoping to use their power to strengthen the military power.
At the same time, Huang Xie re-established the Central Army of Chu, since the time of Wu, the army of Chu has been maintained by the private soldiers of the nobles of his relatives, Huang Xie knew that if he wanted to recover the central army of Chu, it was necessary for the central government to have a certain number of troops.
He collected the first large share of tribute from the nobles, came here to form the new army of Chu, and in two years, the central government of Chu had a new army of 300,000 people.
Subsequently, he once again incorporated a part of the private soldiers among the nobles of the Chu State, so that the central standing army of the Chu State reached 500,000 people, and the strength of the major forces of the nobles of the Chu State was as high as one million.
Its armament is not weaker than that of Qi.
Although the State of Chu seems to be very powerful under Huang Xie's governance, and its strength is comparable to that of the State of Qi, or even larger than that of the State of Qi, Huang Xie knows that the State of Chu has a lot of troops, but the intensity of deployment cannot be compared with that of the State of Qi.
With Qi Xiaobai's order, the million-strong army will inevitably be fully mobilized, but only the central army of Chu can be fully mobilized.
Although Huang Xie signed an agreement with the nobles that in the event of a war, they must unconditionally support the central government of Chu, but their support is support, but they will not fully listen to the command of the central government of Chu to a large extent. Weichang
This is something that the state of Chu cannot compare with the state of Qi, and the attack is still a little insufficient for the state of Chu, but this agreement is formulated, but it ensures that the defense of the state of Chu is extremely powerful.
This is also the reason why Tian Ji did not allow him to attack the Chu State, because the defense power of the Chu State was the strongest among the countries.
And once attacked, it is very likely to get bogged down in the quagmire of war.
After Zhao Sheng listened to Wei Wuji's explanation of the matter between Huang Xie and Chu State, he took a deep breath, they are both the fourth sons of Kyushu, and the gap is too obvious.
He used to be dissatisfied with Huang Xie, but now he admires Huang Xie very much.
Wei Wuji looked at Zhao Sheng and said: "Huang Xie's ability is not weak, and his purpose is definitely not the Chu State, the Chu State must want to regain some lost territory, and at the same time want to settle in the Central Plains, this is something that has not changed since the establishment of the Chu State!" ”
"So I must keep an eye on the Chu State and prevent the Chu State from going on a northern expedition!" Wei Wuji looked at Zhao Sheng and said.
Although the Qin and Jin wars now, Wei Wuji is most afraid of the Chu State, although the Qin State is very strong in war mobilization, but they have a natural barrier to block it.
As for the Qi State, although it was a very big threat to the Jin State, and could even swallow the Jin State, Wei Wuji was not too worried, because the Qi State was too powerful.
It was so powerful that Chu, Jin, and Qin were all afraid of it, and once the Qi State dared to start a war, it would inevitably form an alliance of these three kingdoms.
Because the State of Qi was too strong, Wei Wuji was not very jealous, followed by the State of Chu, which had been aiming for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains since its inception.
The state of Chu was a small country at the beginning of its establishment, and from the moment the state of Chu was established, the monarch of the state of Chu was determined to go to the city of Luoyang, and the state of Chu went through many generations of efforts, and their territory reached the largest territory of the whole princes.
Of course, the Qi State is now the largest territory, because the Qi State occupied the Dongyi Island State, and also annexed Goguryeo and other foreign lands in the north.
But the largest territory of Kyushu is undoubtedly the Chu State, which occupies at least two-fifths of the territory of Kyushu.
Qi occupies one-fifth, Qin occupies one-fifth, and Sanjin occupies one-fifth, but Chu occupies two-fifths of the land of Kyushu.
The monarch of Chu once said that if the Chu people did not reach the city of Luoyang, the conquest of Chu would not stop.
Although the state of Qi now occupies Luoyang, to reach the city of Luoyang, the state of Chu must pass through the land of Wei.
It can be said that the Wei people were the biggest obstacle to the Chu State, and after the Jin State, the Wei people were also the biggest force preventing the Chu State from marching.
It can be said that since the division of the Jin State, the Wei people and the Chu State are feuds, and King Huai of Chu has been fighting against the Wei people all his life, and finally under the struggle of King Wu of Wei, he was defeated by King Wu of Wei and died of anger.
Because of this, Wei Wuji was most worried about the Chu State.
After all, there is such a great talent as Huang Xie in the Chu State, he originally thought that the Chu State would decline after Wu Qi, although the appearance of the relatives blocked the road of splitting, but how long can the relatives block it?
But what I didn't expect was that there was a national warrior in the Chu State.