The moment the State of Qi captured the State of Yan, the State of Chu fell into passivity, if it were not for the fact that the State of Chu and the State of Qin were in a state of hostility and warfare, the former King of Chu Huai would have killed the State of Qi a long time ago, just like his father, King Chu Wei, besieged King Qi Wei, the father of King Xuan of Qi.

On the one hand, he is confronting another big country, and he can't easily get out. On the other hand, his allies are too powerful, as long as Qin Chu does not interfere, it is difficult to support the restoration of Yan State with the strength of Zhao Wei Han alone.

Once the Qi State swept away all the resistance forces within the Yan State, the regime of the Qi State played an effective role in the land of the Yan State, and obtained the manpower and material resources of the Yan State, and after ten years, the Qi State no longer had that country to fight alone.

It was in this situation that the Qin State did not want to continue to fight against the Chu State, and wanted to send troops to attack the Qi State, Zhang Yi came to the Chu State, offered the price of 600 miles of Shangyu Land, and asked the Chu State and the Qin State to make peace, break off diplomatic relations with the Qi State, and all countries joined forces to besiege the Qi State.

This move of the Qin State immediately hit it off with the Chu State, which had long been unwilling to hold on to the Qin State, and Zhang Yi persuaded the Chu State without much effort.

After all, it is my misfortune that the enemy has grown, and it is also unacceptable that my allies, who were originally weaker than me, suddenly become stronger and far surpass their own strength.

In the past, Wei was strong, and the four kingdoms of Qi, Chu, Qin, and Zhao jointly attacked Wei and finally crippled Wei.

Before the Qin State became strong, the six countries allied to jointly crusade against the Qin State, but it was a pity that the Qi State was dragging its feet.

Now that there is a Qi State that is even more powerful than the Qin State, so what to do, all the countries are tacit, but the Qin State and the Chu State are still facing each other, and neither of them is willing to take the lead in withdrawing their troops, so they are deadlocked.

Now the situation of Chu is very delicate, on the one hand, it is an ally with Qi State, if it sends troops to attack Qi, it will be treacherous, and secondly, there will be Qin State eyeing it behind. If you continue to form an alliance with the Qi State, you will almost be unable to endure the Five Nations Alliance, and it is very likely that you will take the lead in attacking the Chu State, which is even more unacceptable.

But he didn't do anything, rashly broke off diplomatic relations with Qi State, and other countries saw that Qi and Chu were all isolated, and Qin, as the leader of the alliance, attacked Chu State first, or attacked Qi State first, this gamble Chu State could not afford to gamble.

If Chu first sues for peace with Qin, Qin's attitude is unclear, and Chu, as a victorious country, is very important. Because of the problem of face, King Qi Wei was called the king, King Chu Wei also sent troops to attack Qi, and Wei fled to the king of the five countries, and as a result, King Chu Huai captured Xiangling, an important town of Wei, which shows that Chu attaches great importance to face.

Fortunately, King Zhao Wuling's method immediately gave Qin a reason to send 10,000 troops to Qi State, and tied Qin State to the chariot, so Qin State followed the steps and sued Chu State for peace, at the cost of 600 miles of land in Shang.

So Xiong Huai originally thought that the question of whether he should break off diplomatic relations with Qi State, but when he came to the ministers, it became a question of whether Qin State could be trusted, and whether he would attack Chu State instead of giving Chu State land after Chu State and Qi State broke off diplomatic relations.

Thinking about this section, Xiong Huai was shocked into a cold sweat, but fortunately he didn't have a hot brain, and according to the memories of later generations, he directly rejected Qin's peace talks.

If the state of Chu and the state of Qin continue to hold on, it will be a proper wedding dress for the state of Qi, once the state of Qi is strong, whether the state of Chu will suffer first or the state of Qin will suffer first, the result is self-evident. Who made the territory of Chu so big that it bordered Qin and Qi at the same time.

Qi is an old power, and its strength is stronger than that of Qin, especially after King Qi Wei changed the law, his strength is even stronger, and then annexing Yan is the rhythm of beating the six countries to dominate the world.

In the face of such a Qi country, even if Qin has Hangu Pass to protect it, it is still hairy in my heart, and I can't help but be afraid, let alone the other four countries.

Therefore, the issue of breaking off diplomatic relations with Qi is not a problem at all.

Xiong Huai looked at Qu Yuan and Doctor Shangguan, who were still arguing, coughed lightly, and interrupted: "Ladies and gentlemen, how is Yan Guo now?" ”

When Zhaoyang heard this, he got up and said: "Back to the king, according to the report of Zhaohua in Zhao, the king of Qi has not long ago transferred Kuang Zhang, the chief general of wanton arson and plunder, back to Qi, but Zhao's strength is weak, Wei is weakened greatly, and the Zhao-Wei coalition army is still unable to compete with Qi. ”

Xiong Huai continued to ask: "Then if we don't break off diplomatic relations with the Qi State, but only make peace with the Qin State and withdraw the troops on the front line, do you think the Qin State will attack the Qi State because of this?" ”

"Great King, although the King of Qin is old, he will not be so confused, if they wait for them to send their army out to fight with the State of Qi, and the State of Qi asks for help from our State of Chu, even if we do not send troops, they will not rest assured." The general Qu Kuo smiled.

Xiong Huai heard Qu Kuo's laughter, chuckled twice, and continued to ask: "Then our Chu State does not break off diplomatic relations with the Qi State, and transfers the army of the Zhu State Jingcui to the east and is stationed on the border of the Qi State, will the Qin State rest assured to attack the Qi State?" ”

"Probably." Qu Kuo thought about it and gave an uncertain answer.

"Great king, the ministers think it is impossible, and the country will decline if it has no faith. Not to mention whether the Qin State will attack the Qi State, as long as our Chu State transfers the main force to the border of the Qi State, it will be a provocation against the Qi State, that is, an undeclared war, and it will definitely cause the Qi State army to come to confront it, so that our Chu State and the Qi State will compete, and other countries will reap the benefits of the fisherman. ”

Qu Yuan listened to what the King of Chu said and hurriedly dissuaded.

Zhaoyang also said: "Great King, what Doctor Sanlu said is extremely true, once war is not declared, then the treacherous country is our Chu State, which is worse than our Chu State directly breaking off diplomatic relations with Qi State, and afterwards, whether the Qi State withdraws its troops from Yan State or not, will resent our Chu State." ”

Hearing Qu Yuan and Zhaoyang's dissuasion, Xiong Huai immediately knew that he had taken it for granted.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if the State of Chu withdraws its troops from the front line and breaks off diplomatic relations with the State of Qi, then the State of Qin will not attack the State of Qi."

Everyone said in unison: "Back to the king, it will definitely be." ”

"Then will the Qin State give up the land of Shang Yu to us?"

"Yes."

"No, it won't."

Hearing that the minister was divided into two factions again, each holding one word, and entering the mode of argument, Xiong Huai opened his mouth, as if pulling the question back to the same place.

As a traverser, this question is no longer a problem in Xiong Huai, Zhang Yi, a liar, has made King Chu Huai ridiculed for more than 2,000 years.

Whenever Xiong Huai thought of this, he wanted to kill Zhang Yi in his heart.

"Ahem." Xiong Huai interrupted the controversy of the ministers again, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, what is in front of us now is obvious. ”

"That is, to break off diplomatic relations with the Qi State, and the Qin State wants to exchange the land of Shang Yu in exchange for the withdrawal of our Chu army from the front line."

"If the Qin State cedes the land, naturally everything will be over. But the crux of the matter is, what if the Qin State waits for us to break off diplomatic relations with the Qi State, in case it does not give us land? ”