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As Guan Zhong said, if one day the Chu State destroyed the Yue State, then the Qi State could only ally with the feuding Yan State.

Although the State of Qi and the State of Yan are now married, the marriage has not resolved the grievances accumulated by the perennial war.

"King Huai, please think deeply, do you hope that after you destroy the Yue Kingdom, there will be an opponent behind you who is even more difficult than the Yue Kingdom?" Guan Zhong looked at King Chu Huai and asked again.

"The Qi State is only a small country in Dongyi, and it is not worth mentioning in front of my Chu State!" A minister of Chu said.

"Really? Qi Yan formed an alliance, can the King of Chu really feel at ease? My Qi country is under the rectification of Zhang Tianshang, my Qi country is now rich, and it is the richest among the vassal states except for the Song country, if we form an alliance with Yan State, Yan State has 300,000 Yanyun iron horses, plus the economic support of my Qi country, Qi Yan alliance, this is not weaker than Chu State, right? Guan Zhong looked at King Chu Huai and said.

King Chu Huai was silent, the people of the entire empire knew that Yan Guo's Yanyun Iron Cavalry was the most elite legion of the empire, Yanyun Iron Cavalry had never been defeated since its establishment, Yanyun Iron Cavalry made Chu a little jealous, if Qi and Yan formed an alliance, Qi supported Yan economically, and Yan sent troops, then Chu not only had a strong enemy in the Central Plains, but also had a strong opponent in the east of the empire.

One Sanxiong will make Chu State hard, there is an alliance of Qi Yan in the east, maybe Chu State will not feel anything in a short time, but after a long time, under the consumption again, Chu State will definitely become weaker and weaker......

"Qi and Yan are feuds, can you form a blood alliance?"

"Maybe it wasn't possible before, but after the Yue Kingdom was destroyed, did the Yan Kingdom and the Qi Kingdom watch you go north all the time? Even if you don't have the heart to go north, does Yan Guo think so? In this existential time, we will abandon hatred! Guan Zhong said to the people present.

"So King Chu, do you want this situation to happen, or are you willing to form an alliance with my Qi State and divide the Yue State into two, my Qi State guards the rear for the Chu State, and your Chu State can use all its strength to dominate the Central Plains, and at the same time, my Qi State can also give you a certain amount of military and economic support for the Chu State!" Guan Zhong said to King Chu Huai.

After listening to Guan Zhong's words just now, King Chu Huai did have the idea of forming an alliance with Qi State, and concluded a blood alliance with Qi State, with Qi State behind him, he could get Qi State's economic support and a small amount of military support, and the worry-free rear could indeed make Chu State feel at ease and boldly march to the Central Plains.

"I, think about it, after all, the blood alliance is not the same as the military alliance!" King Chu Huai didn't dare to directly agree to Guan Zhong, and Guan Zhong also thought of it.

The blood alliance is different from the military alliance, the blood alliance is to exchange the handles of both sides, when the handle is in the hands of the Qi State, he will be restrained by the Qi State, and of course, the handle of the Qi State will also go to the front of the Chu State.

Generally, the blood alliance is concluded to exchange the national princes of the two sides, although it seems simple to give each other hostages, but once the national prince dies, then the country has no prince, which will cause turmoil.

The exchange of the national reserve is not a simple exchange of the current national reserve, but the escort of all the sons of the lord to the other country, and when the lord of the country gives birth to a new son, he still has to send it to the ally when he is about eight years old.

All this is to prevent the covenant from being broken, which is why the blood alliance has not been broken so far.

The blood alliance was destroyed, all the princes were killed, and by that time the monarch was dead, and that position could only be passed on to the brother's son, and no monarch was willing to pass on the monarch's position to someone else's family.

Of course, there is another blood alliance that is to give the national treasure to the other party, but the only one who exchanges the national treasure for the blood alliance is the Zhao State of the Three Heroes, because Zhao has a treasure named Heshi Bi, which is the treasure of the empire and the national treasure of Zhao State, and the value of this Heshi Bi is equivalent to a Zhao State.

However, except for Zhao, no country could come up with such a thing, so it was generally held hostage by the prince to conclude an alliance.

Although the conditions given by Guan Zhong were very tempting, it was related to his son and the future heir of the Chu State, and he had to think about it deeply.

Guan Zhong believed that King Chu Huai would agree to his conditions, because Chu had always wanted to enter the Central Plains, which was a strategic goal set during the reign of King Wu of Chu, and now it has reached the generation of King Chu Huai, and the breakthrough in the Central Plains has not entered, and there is a strong enemy Yue Guo.

Now that there is a chance to destroy this strong enemy and completely unify the south, there is also a country to give him economic support, and the rear can ensure that there will be no more intrusions, this temptation, Guan Zhong believes that King Chu Huai will not be able to stop it.

As long as the Yue Kingdom is destroyed, there will be a chance to enter the Central Plains and open a breakthrough in the Central Plains, so that King Chu Huai can completely spread the history of Chu and become one of the greatest figures in Chu State.

King Chu Huai is a person who cares about his reputation and prestige very much, if he can make his reputation famous, and he can still be famous in the history of Chu for hundreds of years, this opportunity King Chu Huai will not let go.

Even if King Huai of Chu did not succeed in entering the Central Plains in the future, but destroyed the Yue Kingdom, this was enough for him to linger in the Chu State for a hundred years, because he unified Yangzhou for the Chu State and completed the unification of the southern part of the empire, so that the future monarchs of the Chu State could confidently and boldly enter the Central Plains.

Such tempting conditions, Guan Zhong believes that King Chu Huai will agree, if it is a mediocre monarch who only thinks about keeping it, he may not agree, but King Chu Huai is not, King Chu Huai had a war with Sanxiong in the first year of succession, and a war with Yue Guo in the second year, which is enough to show that he has the heart of a hegemon, he has the heart of domination, and he wants to become a male lord.

At this time, it was already night, and King Chu Huai left Guan Zhong and asked Guan Zhong to listen to the songs and watch the Chu dance in the Chu Palace.

The dance and music of the Chu State are somewhat similar to the Yue Kingdom, in fact, the Chu State and the Yue Kingdom are also half of the same root, both of them are in the same region, but later they both developed and expanded, and they began to attack each other out of political needs.

A lotus root soup was served in front of Guan Zhong, and King Chu Huai pointed to the soup in front of Guan Zhong and said, "This is my famous dish of Chu country, pork ribs and lotus root soup, Zhong Jun taste it well!" ”

Guan Zhong picked up the chopsticks and grabbed a piece of pork ribs and gnawed it, and then said, "Not bad, delicious!" Then he took a small sip of lotus root soup: "The color, flavor, and flavor are complete, the imperial chef in this Chu Palace has really good skills!" ”

Later, Guan Zhong and King Chu Huai enjoyed the songs and dances of the Chu State, and after King Chu Huai succeeded to the throne, he basically either went to Qin Zheng outside the country, or listened to the songs and dances in the Chu Palace.

Guan Zhong admired it on the side, nodded all the time, and kept talking to a minister of the Chu State next to him about the dancing girl's dancing posture: "If I am a few years younger, I must marry this girl!" As soon as Guan Zhong finished speaking, King Chu Huai on the side heard it.

King Chu Huai laughed and said, "Zhong Jun has only reached the age of not being confused, he is still young, and it is not a problem to marry a girl!" ”