The state of Qi reached an agreement with the state of Chu.

Qi Xiaobai asked people to bring all the people of the Xiong clan to the gate of Yingqiu City, Qi Xiaobai looked at Huang Xie: "Look at it, are these all people from your royal family?" ”

Huang Xie nodded, he took a symbolic look, he didn't care so much about the life and death of this group of people, and none of these people could inherit the throne of King Chu in the future.

And these people are all people on the side of the Chu State, and the marginal ones can't be on the edge, what he cares about is the Qi and Chu non-aggression agreement in his chest.

"There are no less than one!" Huang Xie took the list and looked at it, and when he saw that there were a lot of people, he nodded and said, "There are a lot of them!" ”

Then Qi Xiaobai sent Huang Xie into the carriage and hoped that he would leave, and from then on, Qi Chu would no longer be allies, and the two sides would become opponents.

After Huang Xie left, Qi Xiaobai looked at Tian Dan on the side and said, "Send an order, let Jiang Ai mobilize 300,000 troops from the Xuzhou army and station them in the Qichu border!" ”

In the past, it was an ally of Qi and Chu, and Qi Xiaobai did not take precautions against the state of Chu, but now it is different, although Qi and Chu have signed a non-aggression pact, but the two sides have no hostages, if this Chu country suddenly attacks the state of Qi, then the state of Qi will suffer a big loss if it does not defend.

The heart of defense is indispensable, not to mention that there is no faith between these countries, and generally the monarch with faith cannot die.

Tian Dan nodded: "No!" ”

Zhang Tianshang said on the side: "Your Majesty, Fujian needs funds to build, and I hope that the king will send this 10 million gold to the land of Fujian, and build Fujian, one can buy people's hearts, and the other can build Fujian, killing two birds with one stone!" ”

"Ba Min is a wasteland, and his successive masters, including the indigenous Yue Kingdom, have not built it, is there any point for us to build it?" Qi Xiaobai looked at Zhang Tianshang and said.

"Although the land of Fujian is all mountainous, it is difficult to grow grain, and it needs to be cleared, but Fujian has a special product, which is as precious as real money!" Zhang Tianshang looked at Qi Xiaobai and said.

"What?" Qi Xiaobai looked at Zhang Tianshang and asked.

"Fujian is rich in tea, if it is planted in large quantities, the output will be a lot, but where the transportation is not developed, not suitable for trade, and the grain can not be planted, so there are very few people who plant tea, but the land of Fujian is a good place to grow tea!" Zhang Tianshang said to Qi Xiaobai.

The land of Fujian is a treasure land for growing tea, which is not a secret to the princes.

It's just that his two generations of masters, although they know that they can grow tea and bring huge benefits to their country, but if the people of Fujian are allowed to plant tea, then who grows food and where, and how do people live there?

So even if they knew, they couldn't encourage the people of Fujian to grow tea, of course they could give the people of Fujian a huge amount of money to open up the land to grow tea.

However, the strategic capital of the Chu State was marching into the Central Plains, part of it was guarding the Southern Barbarians, and the nobles were separated, and the central government had very little money.

There is no way to support the people of Fujian to grow tea, and the eight nobles sent to Fujian are all thinking about how to fill their pockets, so that they can use the money to support this group of people, so that it is obviously impossible for them to grow tea.

It was because of poverty that the Yue Kingdom began to fight in the east and west, but it perished in the east and west, and the development of his hometown of Fujian came to an end.

At this time, Ba Min was in the hands of Qi State, and Qi State paid more attention to Ba Min than the previous two places, because Qi had a navy, and the east of Ba Min was a good port.

The state of Chu did not have a navy, so they did not attach much importance to the port where, so the state of Qi attached great importance to it from the beginning.

However, although the Qi State, like the Chu State, attaches more importance to Fujian, they only attach importance to the coastal zone of Fujian, but they do not attach much importance to its inland zone.

And the place where Zhang Tianshang said that tea can be grown is the inland area, but if you want to grow tea, you have to inject a large amount of money into the place, feed the people there, pick up food and money, and exchange it for tea.

Subsequently, Qi obtained a large amount of tea, which could be invested in maritime trade, and secondly, Qi could earn a lot of silver and gold.

However, this is not something that will make huge profits all at once, but it needs to be operated for a long time, and it is also for this reason that Chu State did not implement it.

Although the state of Chu is vast and vast and is known as the crown of the vassal states, the aristocracy is separated, and the money of the central government of Chu is basically used on several major projects, and it is simply unable to do this long-term operation.

But Qi is different, Qi is very rich, in addition to not fully participating in this war to avoid the disaster of war, in addition to this period of recuperation, in addition to the alliance with Qi maritime merchants, Qi State is to get a lot of funds.

Now he has received 10,000 taels of gold from the state of Chu.

"What Zhang Shangqing means is that we inject funds into the inland of Fujian, let the people there grow tea for us, and where do we feed the people, but can this bring a lot of profits to the Qi country?" Qi Xiaobai looked at Zhang Tianshang and asked.

"Your Majesty, the king should know the value of tea, and if we feed the people of Fujian, we can be regarded as able to calm the more expensive disobedience!" Zhang Tianshang said to Qi Xiaobai.

And Guan Zhong stood up at this time and said: "What Zhang Shangqing said is not unreasonable, there are some chaotic ministers and thieves in the land of Fujian, but if we inject funds and feed that group of people, that group of people will gradually calm down, which can be regarded as buying the Yue people in disguise!" ”

"Your Majesty, I don't want the Qi country that I rule to have a lot of instability, right?" Guan Zhong looked at Qi Xiaobai and continued.

Qi Xiaobai nodded: "Of course!" ”

"This party can bring a lot of benefits to our Qi country, and one side can buy the Yue people, the king, it should be able to be implemented!" Zhang Tianshang said again on the side.

"Of course, if it doesn't bring the desired benefits to my Qi country, but the injection of a large amount of funds can allow Ba Fujian to open up some places, even if we don't raise this group of people with a lot of real money, they can also grow food there and bring us taxes, and at the same time, it can be regarded as a complete assimilation of them, so that they can become Qi people!" Zhang Tianshang continued.

From Zhang Tianshang's words, Qi Xiaobai knew that no matter how he did it, it would only benefit him, but there was a certain chance that he would not be able to bring financial benefits, but it was also a good thing to be able to completely assimilate the Yue people!

After all, Qi Xiaobai's Qi State still has to face the rest of the vassal states in the empire, and it also has to operate a huge navy, bringing a lot of benefits to the Qi State on the ocean, if there is a hidden danger inside, but it may make the entire Great Qi collapse at any time.

Maybe the benefits are not important, but assimilating the Yue people is a crucial thing for the current Qi State.