683. The threat of the West
Night.
Luo Ji took her son, Shangguan Zilan, and the three of them to the position of the Qi army.
Then the Qi army took the three of them to the camp of the Qi army, and Wu Zixu looked at the youngest boy among the three: "This is the new King of Chu 'King Chu Xiang'!" ”
The young man glanced at Wu Zixu, and then timidly ran behind Luo Ji, Luo Ji looked at Wu Zixu and said: "This is the King of Chu Xiang, what are the conditions of your Qi State, let's say, as long as it is reasonable, our Chu State will promise you!" ”
"We want Yangzhou, the whole Yangzhou, and at the same time we want you to withdraw from the alliance and face my Qi country!" Wu Zixu looked at Luo Ji and said.
When Shangguan Zilan heard this, she hurriedly said, "Your Qi country's appetite is too big, right?" Because the swallowing of the Song Dynasty triggered the alliance of all countries, and you still want the entire Yangzhou territory of my Chu State! ”
"This is not a good time for you, although our Qi country was attacked by the coalition army, but our Qi country has sufficient resources, strong soldiers and horses, and is not weaker than the coalition army, and your Chu State will attack my Qi country, of course, you have to pay some price, this Yangzhou is your Chu country's compensation to our Qi country!" Wu Zixu looked at Shangguan Zilan and said.
And Luo Ji on the side looked at Wu Zixu and said: "Is it that we give Yangzhou to you Qi State and agree to withdraw from the United States, will you evacuate Chu State?" ”
Wu Zixu waved his hand and said, "Of course not!" ”
"Then what reason do we have to agree to your Qi State's unreasonable demands?" Luo Ji originally thought that as long as he promised the Qi State and ceded the land and paid compensation, then the Qi State would withdraw from the Chu State.
If this is the case, he Luo Ji can promise the Qi State, after all, his son has just succeeded to the throne, and the Chu State is in ruins, so it is indeed necessary to end the war quickly, withdraw from the war, and slowly recuperate.
If the State of Qi is willing to withdraw its troops, it is not impossible to promise to cede the entire Yangzhou, after all, Yangzhou does not have much significance to the State of Chu.
During the period of King Huai of Chu, it was the rising period of the Chu State, of course, the bigger the expansion, the better, but now the Chu State is no longer the Chu State of the year, and the territory that the central government of the Chu State can control is pitiful.
This Yangzhou was the territory of the Zhao family before, and after the collapse of the Zhao family, it was under the jurisdiction of the central government, but the central government was suppressing the nobles in various places, preparing to centralize power, and did not have much control over this territory.
Later, those small princes who were pardoned gradually took power, and those princes were all courtiers of the Zhao family, and those princes were attached to the previous Chu State, but not to the current Chu State.
In the past, it was the center of the Chu State centered on Xiong Su, and now it is centered on Xiong Dang, which are two forces respectively.
And this group of small nobles and Xiong Dang's forces are a little overdue, Xiong is suspicious of supporting these people at the beginning, and the relatives did not retaliate against them in order not to cause trouble, but now it is different.
Therefore, it is still possible to sacrifice the interests of this group of people in exchange for a short period of peace in the Chu State.
Of course, this is also a cession of territory, which is a loss of power and humiliation for the Chu State, but does the current Chu State still have a choice?
Although Luo Ji is a woman, he also knows that the current Chu State must launch a war and recuperate, otherwise this Chu State will always end in the war.
At the beginning, during the period of King Chu Huai, the soldiers of Chu were strong and strong, and King Chu Huai gathered the strength of the entire Chu State with the talent of one person, and at that time the Chu State could conquer the east and the west.
But King Chu Mourning, including his son, did not have the talent of King Chu Huai, and the war would only cause the power of the central state of Chu to decline little by little, and eventually become a point of silent force.
Therefore, for them, they must recuperate and withdraw from the struggle for hegemony, so Luo Ji is willing to agree to cut off the land in exchange for a short period of peace.
But the premise is that Qi must withdraw its troops, if Qi does not retreat, this Chu State will be reduced to the military territory of Qi State, this Chu State will recuperate, and the restoration of national strength will become a dream.
And Wu Zixu looked at Luo Ji and said, "We want to borrow the four cities of Huaizhou from you!" ”
"Of course, we will give you a certain rent like Chu State!" Wu Zixu looked at Luo and said.
In fact, Wu Zixu originally wanted to directly cede the four cities of Huaizhou, but this is his enclave, and with this territory, there will always be friction with the Chu State, and it will still be taken away by the Chu State at that time.
Therefore, Wu Zixu chose to borrow it, as for asking for the four places of Huaizhou, this is what Wu Zixu wants to think as a springboard to attack Wei.
For the State of Qi, it is far from enough to just let the State of Chu withdraw from the United States, and he must also pull the State of Wei out.
After holding Wei hostage, and cutting off the back road of Qin and Han, this grand strategic plan was successfully implemented.
At that time, Qin Han will inevitably withdraw his troops, and when the time comes, the Zhao State will be isolated and face the huge Qi State, and it will be powerless to fight.
As for the emperor and Yan Dan? In front of a giant like Qi State, what is it?
The Song State will still return to the embrace of the Qi State, which is Tian Ji's strategy.
Forced the state of Chu to withdraw from the joint column, ceded Yangzhou, so that it could not recover its national strength for decades, and attacked the state of Wei, which was empty in the country, so that it also withdrew from the joint column, so that the Wei state withdrew from the joint column, and the Korean and Qin states, the expedition, were separated in the middle, and they must be worried that the Wei state would turn against the water, and they would also choose to withdraw their troops.
"Borrowing the four cities of Huaizhou? You're still going to invade Wei? Shangguan Zilan was stunned, looked at Wu Zixu and said.
"My Qi country is facing the princes of the world with the strength of one country, it is not us who invade Wei State, but Wei State invades our Qi State, and my Qi State uses the curve method to confront Wei State!" Wu Zixu looked at Shangguan Zilan and said.
"The ambition of your Qi country is not small, after this battle, I am afraid that the princes of the world are not the opponents of the Qi country, Qi Xiaobai is called the emperor, I am afraid that he is ready to command the world!" Shangguan Zilan looked at Wu Zixu and said.
Wu Zixu shook his head: "You all think that my Qi country is the biggest threat to all countries, but you don't know that the real threat is in the West!" ”
"The West?" Shangguan Zilan looked at Wu Zixu suspiciously.
"The Qin State in the West, since the Qin State got the land of Bashu, has abundant resources, and after the reform of the Shang Dynasty, the Qin State pursued the strategy of ploughing and warfare, and the Yiqu died with the Qin State!"
"Although seeing that the Qin State is using troops against our Qi State, who is going to carefully observe the main army of the Qin State, which is attacking Xirong!" Wu Zixu said lightly.
Wu Zixu also got this news recently, if it weren't for the intelligence system of the secret guard in the Qi State, I am afraid that I don't know that the Qin State is already strong today.
Although the Qin State was not as economically as good as the Qi State, their farming and warfare strategies did not need to be economic, they only needed grain and grass, and they only needed to be able to feed more people.
They can be meritorious head system, the expansion of the overall situation, the country of Qin, the country of tigers and wolves.
Before getting this information, Tian Ji wanted to use this battle to destroy the Wei State, but at this time, he also chose to give up attacking the Wei State and instead wanted to support the Wei State.
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