On the first day after King Wei Wu's death, King Wei Hui sent a post to Zhao and Korea, asking them to attend King Wei's funeral.

Handan, the capital of Zhao State.

Zhao Yong looked at Lin Xiangru and said: "You go and write a letter to Wei Ying, just say the death of King Wei Wu, I am very sad and regretful, I really want to participate, but the widow has something important recently, and I can't go!" ”

After the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao and Wei formed a blood alliance, the monarchs of the three countries, after the death of any country, the three countries would go to mourn.

And Wei is the head of the Three Kingdoms, is the substantive alliance master, after the death of the monarch of Wei, generally Han Zhao must go to mourn and mourn.

But because King Wu of Wei has been suppressing Zhao State, Zhao State does not want to go to mourn King Wu of Wei, he wants to tell Wei State that I, Zhao State and you, are allies and equal status.

Lin Xiangru looked at Zhao Yong and said, "Wu Linggong, isn't this okay?" Since the blood alliance of the Three Kingdoms, after the death of the monarch of any country, he must go to mourn, and you directly refuse this ......"

"Why not? My Zhao State and Wei State are allies, not servants and suzerains, he King Wei Wu is dead, I have something, why not go? Zhao Yong looked at Lin Xiangru and asked.

Zhao Yong's thought was very simple, just send a message to mourn, there is no need to go to mourn in person.

Of course, there is another important reason why Zhao Wulinggong didn't want to go, that is, the text sent by King Wei Hui was in a commanding tone, as if he Zhao Yong was his subordinate of King Wei Hui.

Zhao Wuling Gong is also young and vigorous, he became a prince at a young age, and he dominates the party, if you order him in a commanding tone, he will definitely not be happy in his heart.

Originally, Zhao Wulinggong wanted not to even send greetings, but he thought that everyone was in an alliance, in order not to make the relationship too stiff, and King Wei Wu had just died, this was the moment to ease the relationship between Wei and Zhao, so he asked Lin Xiangru to send a message to greet him.

As for not going, that is, if you can't let me go, I'll go, so how faceless will I be? Anyway, I'm also a prince.

"But the Grand Duke, you're all right......" Lin Xiangru said with his head down.

After Zhao Wulinggong heard Lin Xiangru's words, he directly threw the letter sent by King Wei Hui to Lin Xiangru: "Look at his tone, I'm going, where is my Zhao Guowei?" As the monarch of the Zhao Kingdom, where is my majesty? ”

Lin Xiangru picked up King Wei Hui's fold and looked at it.

"Cheng Zhao Wulinggong, my father King Wei Wu died, King Wei Wu was the leader of the Three Jin Blood Alliance before his death, and now he has died, as the Zhao State of the Three Jin Alliance, I want to come to mourn, this king hereby notifies, I hope that Wu Linggong will come to mourn as promised!" Behind it is the Great Seal of Time and King Wei Hui.

Although this letter is very short, it is full of command, especially the hereby notice, which has a very strong sense of command.

Generally, when the monarchs of the Three Jin Dynasty died, they would write a special invitation, not a notice, but an invitation to you, which had a great sense of respect.

But when King Wei Wu died, a special notice came directly, and Zhao Yong muttered in his heart, who are you? Still come to notify me? Lao Tzu can go if he wants to, and if he doesn't want to go, he won't go.

Lin Xiangru looked at the letter, and then looked at Zhao Yong: "The letter of King Wei Hui of the Grand Duke is indeed a little lacking. ”

"Hmph, I'm not going, just write a letter to him to mourn and mourn, if I go, it will seem that he King Wei Hui is really my alliance leader!" Zhao Wulinggong said.

Wei has always been the self-proclaimed leader of the alliance, but now Zhao Guohu has become stronger, when Zhao Minggong was in charge, there was nothing, but he Zhao Yongjue, we are an alliance, we should be on an equal footing, and there should be no title of alliance leader or anything.

After Zhao Yong ascended the throne, he has been confronting King Wu of Wei, pursuing an equal status and being equal to Wei in everything.

After all, he Zhao Guo Hu Fu cavalry shooting, recruited many Huns, expanded the armament, he Zhao Yong boasted that the Zhao State at this time was not weaker than the Wei State.

Because King Wei Wu was the overlord of the empire during his lifetime, and King Wei Hui inherited his crown, he felt that he should be the overlord.

So King Wei Hui posted the post to the entire imperial princes.

He also called King Chu Huai the minister of the Southern Domain, and King Chu Huai directly tore up the fold after seeing the letter: "He King Wei Wu called me the minister of the Southern Domain, and I will admit it, after all, he defeated me, what qualifications does he have as King Wei Hui to call me the minister of the Southern Domain?" ”

Qu Yuan said on the side: "King Wei Hui has just succeeded to the throne, and Wei is currently the overlord of the empire, so he is inevitably a little arrogant!" ”

"When I prepare food, grass and materials, I will go north to the Wei State again!" King Chu Huai said to Qu Yuan.

At the beginning, Qi Xiaobai gave 30 million to the Chu State, plus 100,000 Qi troops, but the Northern Expedition was not successful, but King Chu Huai did not give up, this was his lifelong pursuit, so that the Chu State successfully entered the Central Plains.

Moreover, at that time, the Qin State and the Qi State helped the Northern Expedition of the Chu State, and at that time, the Chu State also concentrated almost all the scholars of the Chu State, which was considered to be a favorable time and place for the Chu State at that time.

Although the state of Chu at that time could not be compared with the peak state of Chu, it was also the strongest moment of the state of Chu after the three generations of monarchs before King Chu Huai and King Chu Huai succeeded him.

This did not enter the Central Plains, and it was fought in the later period, which was very difficult for the Chu State.

Chu Huai Wang Jue's needs a reform, but he is just a master of leading troops to fight, and he doesn't know how to start reforming.

He consulted Qu Yuan, and Qu Yuan also knew that reform was needed, but Qu Yuan knew that he was too talented to lead the state of Chu to carry out a reform.

"When we prepare the supplies, this time we bring the army of the Southern Barbarians, and we will definitely be able to defeat the Wei State!" Qu Yuan said to King Chu Huai.

After King Huai of Chu had just experienced the defeat of the Central Plains, he had the idea of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, in fact, there was a reason why he had always wanted the Northern Expedition as the goal, and there were several scholars in the south of Chu who defeated several southern barbarian indigenous tribes in the south of Chu.

Although the number of these tribes is small, they are all brave and good at fighting, and this group of people also raises an animal that is not found in the Central Plains, elephants......

King Chu Huai has personally seen elephants, they are very large, and they have been trained and used on the battlefield, which can be said to be even stronger.

Because King Chu Huai got the war elephant, he had the idea of the Northern Expedition again.

It's just that elephants need a very large amount of food before they can be used on the battlefield, so for King Chu Huai, the current Chu State is the main goal to prepare food.

As long as the food is sufficient, the war elephants can be transported to the front line, and King Chu Huai believes that with the war elephants, then the attack on Wei will definitely be successful.

King Chu Huai nodded: "So, work harder, let the scholars grow more grain and pay more grain taxes!" ”

Qu Yuan nodded, he also knew the ambition of King Chu Huai, and he was also very supportive of King Chu Huai to go to the Northern Expedition, only by settling in the Central Plains could Chu get more resources, so that the people of Chu could live a better life.