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Zhaoyang was silent for a while, then looked at Tian Ji: "This is what King Qi Huan meant?" ”
Zhaoyang thought in his heart that when Tian Ji said this, it might be authorized by Qi Xiaobai to help him fight this civil war and support him to wait for the throne.
"No, King Huan does not allow me to participate in the civil strife of this Chu State, but I have an enmity with Wu Qi, so I am willing to support Zhao Gong to defeat Wu Qi, and when Wu Qi is defeated and Zhao Gong's soldiers are in Yingdu, I can send an envoy to Qi for Zhao Gong and get the support of Qi State!" Tian Ji said to Zhaoyang.
For the Qi State, Zhaoyang and the others are on the throne of the King of Chu, and the Xiong family is on the throne of Chu, so it doesn't matter to the Qi State.
What the Qi State really wants to do is that there will not be an incomparably powerful Chu State in the south of the Qi State, but a weak Chu State.
And if Zhaoyang raises the banner of rebellion, then after inheriting the throne, it will inevitably lead to a series of chain reactions, and the Xiang family in the West will definitely not watch him on the throne.
At that time, the state of Chu has just finished this civil strife, and a civil strife will break out again, which will continue to consume the national strength of the state of Chu.
And what the State of Qi has to do is how long the civil strife in the State of Chu can be fought, then let him fight as long as possible, if the civil war cannot be stopped in the State of Chu, this is even better.
"If I defeat Wu Qi, can you really get King Qi Huan to support me?" Zhaoyang looked at Tian Ji and asked.
If he can get the support of the Qi State, there will definitely be no problem in dealing with the Xiang family, and it will not be difficult for him Zhaoyang to become the new King of Chu at that time.
"Our King Qi Huan only supports the winner, if you can defeat Wu Qi, our King Qi Huan can't support you!" Tian Ji said to Zhaoyang.
Of course, Tian Ji did not deceive Zhaoyang, if Zhaoyang can really defeat Wu Qi, when the army is in the capital of Ying, Qi can indeed support Zhaoyang in exchange for some benefits, of course, the premise is that this Zhaoyang can defeat Wu Qi.
Zhaoyang defeated Wu Qi and defeated the Central Army, which indeed represented the withering of the Xiong family of the Chu State, and there should be a new figure to lead the Chu State to strength.
"If I defeat Wu Qi, Your Excellency can help me lobby King Qi Huan, and I will definitely give Your Excellency ten thousand taels of gold!" Zhaoyang said to Tian Ji.
Tian Ji's words made Zhaoyang's heart moved, and he thought in his heart that he must defeat Wu Qi, so as to get the support of the Qi State, so as to become the king, become the king of the Chu State, and thus embark on the big stage of the princes competing for hegemony.
"If Zhao Gong defeats Wu Qi, I hope to get Wu Qi's head, I myself have a grudge against Wu Qi, which is why I support Zhao Gong!" Tian Ji looked at Zhaoyang and said.
After listening to Tian Ji's words, Zhaoyang instantly understood something, he was still curious just now why this Tian Ji gave him a plan for no reason and helped him unite the Qi country.
Tian Ji's words explained all this clearly, that is, Tian Ji wanted to use him to kill Wu Qi, and in return, help him connect Qi Xiaobai and help him become the king of Chu.
From this point of view, this is a deal between him and Tian Ji, but this education, he needs Wu Qi's head as a weight.
However, he sits on half of the Chu State, and he has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and he has also won many battles, and he can be regarded as a generation of famous generals, he does not feel that he is much worse than Wu Qi.
He felt that Wu Qi was too boasted of, and his actual skills were not very good.
Therefore, he has a lot of confidence in defeating Wu Qi, and he also sends people to contact the Xiang family.
Although there will be some friction between the Xiang family when they compete for the throne in the future, now they have a common enemy, that is, the central government of Chu.
As for what happened after friction, the important thing now is to befriend each other and defeat their common enemy.
For the internal situation of the Chu State, the Xiang family also took action, they reorganized the army, united with the small nobles who surrendered to them, and prepared to defend the army in the center of the Chu State, in exchange for the central government's killing knife against his Xiang family!
Of course, the Xiang family also thought about taking the initiative to attack, but in the current form, the soldiers did not allow his family to do this, because the Wei State in the north had already mobilized a large army in the north of the Chu State.
If the Xiang family goes to attack the central part of the Chu State at this time, and the Wei State suddenly attacks, wouldn't this make the Chu State lose a lot of territory?
Of course, for the lost territory in the center of the Chu State, his Xiang family will not worry too much, his territory at the junction of the great armies of the Wei State is his Xiang family.
At that time, the army of Wei was overwhelmed, and Wu Qi thought that he might be able to use Wei to destroy his family, so as to defeat Wei.
Although Wei sent hundreds of thousands of troops to the border of Chu, he did not attack rashly, which was mainly due to Zhao.
Wei is worried that they will march into Chu on a large scale, and this Zhao State will attack them from behind, which will be a bit more than worth the loss.
The territory of the State of Chu may not have been defeated yet, and the army of the State of Zhao has already occupied a large area of his territory of the State of Wei.
Therefore, Wei did not dare to attack rashly, and they sent envoys to Zhao, hoping to make friends with Zhao and solve this big hidden danger in the rear.
Of course, when Wei went to fight Chu, he did not forget his loyal little brother Korea, at the junction of Chu and Korea, South Korea also stationed 300,000 troops, ready to enter Chu.
Because the foreign enemy was outside, the Xiang family did not dare to attack the central part of the Chu State during this time period, for fear that after the central attack, his Xiang family would have no base camp.
At this time, Zhaoyang's envoy arrived at the Xiang family's base camp 'Xiang City'! The messenger of Zhaoyang sent the letter to the head of the Xiang family, 'Xiang Yan'!
In fact, Xiang Yan is relatively central to the central government of Chu State, and he is also conscientious in guarding the frontier, but recently because of Wu Qi's reform, the interests of the entire Xiang family have been touched, and he Xiang Yan is also vaguely unhappy in his heart.
But fortunately, Xiang Yan's descendants are all tigers, they can fight well, even if the reform deprives the Xiang family of the public position, but with his son's ability, he can still re-establish his merits, and his status will be extraordinary.
But who can guarantee that there will always be a tiger in the family? Without the territory, this is not how the descendants of the tiger should survive?
Wu Qi's reforms stripped his nobles of their titles and recaptured their territories, all of which were owned by the central Chu state.
This alone can be said to have touched the interests of the entire aristocracy, which is why the Chu State can be in turmoil so quickly.
However, Wu Qi's reform is actually a last resort, the other princes are all centralized and can exert the power of the whole country, but he Chu can't, how can the future princes compete for hegemony?
With the passage of time, will the central government of the Chu State become what the current emperor is, with only one city for the elderly, relying on the protection of the nobles, like the nobles, and the former courtiers are compromised?
Because of the deprivation of the title and the withdrawal of the hereditary system, many nobles who were loyal to the central government of Chu were not allowed to take up arms to resist.