At the beginning of April, the Chu army built beams with boats, and the whole army crossed the sand and water, and the cities along the way were closed without fighting, and the Chu army was only 100 miles away from Shangqiu.

In the same month, the Qin people mobilized Chongquan and Luoyin farmers to besiege Wei Zhilinjin and Hequ.

The Qin state tried to implement the initial mu tax in Chongquan and Luoyin, acknowledging the rationality of private land, hoping to attract the return of the Qin people who had fled to Wei in large numbers.

In the same year, the prince of Chu appointed Zheng. The pro-Jin faction of Zheng Guo's ruler Ziyang was greatly dissatisfied, but the rest of the "Qimu" families who really held real power were secretly drinking and feasting with the prince of Chu to wait and see.

The prince said that this time the Chu army dispatched tens of thousands, in order to ask the Song Dynasty for the crime of Chu Dynasty and Jin, once Shangqiu was captured, it was necessary to continue to go north to crusade.

Zheng Guo's ruling Si Ziyang thought that the relationship between Zheng and Chu was too close, and he should appropriately alienate Chu, and he was a Legalist figure in the early stage, so he overthrew Zheng Jun and tried to change the law in China, which touched the interests of a large number of nobles.

Within Zheng State, like Song State, the pro-Jin and pro-Chu factions were already on the same page, and each of the two factions occupied most of Zheng State's cities, and a civil war in Zheng State seemed inevitable.

Within the Qi State, which had just taken a breather from the war and calmed down the Xiang Ziniu Rebellion, the two Tian brothers each hoped to change the state politics of the Qi State from a family republic to a patriarchal dictatorship, regardless of the external situation.

Zhongshan was still unstable, and the nobles of the princely clan that had been initially formed in Wei were very dissatisfied with the fact that Wei Hou divided his son Wei Zhen as Zhongshan Jun, and Zhongshan Jun changed the title of someone else instead of the heir, which became the most concerned thing for the nobles within Wei.

Zheng Guo had just defeated the Han army a few years earlier, and the Han army knew that the prince had sent Zheng to Zheng, and was worried that Zheng Guo would counterattack Korea, so he was worried and uneasy, and begged Wei Hou to abide by the oath of the three Jin Dynasty that year.

The Marquis of Wei had just defeated the State of Qi a few years ago, and the strength of the country had not yet recovered, and there were the constraints of the Gong clan and the rebellion of the Zhongshan State, hoping that the State of Zhao would be able to send troops to fulfill the obligations of common development discussed by the Three Jin Dynasty Alliance.

However, when Gongsun would rebel in Xiaqiu, he clearly said that he wanted to take refuge in Zhao Hou, but he didn't want Wei Hou to take the lead and accept Xiaqiu as Wei soil, which caused Zhao to be extremely dissatisfied.

At this time, Wei Ye's guard of Ximen Leopard and the construction of water conservancy, the fight against Wuzhu, and the elimination of Hebo sacrifices, Yecheng began to enter a stage of rapid development.

Yecheng can block the southbound road in the direction of Zhao Handan, and can threaten Zhongmu, the capital of Zhao State at this time, at any time, so that Zhongmu and Handan, the two important cities of Zhao State, cannot take care of each other.

For this reason, Zhao Hou only superficially agreed with Wei's request, but delayed the mobilization, only saying that the mobilization would affect cultivation at this time, and that Lou Fu, Lin Hu and other Yidi in the north were about to move, so they could not send troops at this time.

Zhou Tianzi, the newly succeeded to the throne, trembled, and said that the matter between your princes, don't ask me, you can solve it yourself. My father died after dividing the three families into marquises, I have to be busy with funerals, and my grandfather obtained the position of the Son of Heaven by coup d'état, and I don't want to manage the coups and hegemony of your countries, so don't ask me again.

There is still a half-dead patriotic country left in the Central Plains, and the weakened ones directly stated that they "dare not compete with the country of ten thousand times", clearly stating who is the hegemon and who supports whom, but never before the hegemon is decided......

The eyes of the whole world are watching Shangqiu, and they all know that the struggle for hegemony between Jin and Chu, which has been quelled for nearly a hundred years, has been quelled because of the rebellion of Jin Liuqing and the dispute between Chu and Wuyue, and it has unfolded again.

Or, this time it should be called the Wei Chu Struggle.

In Shangqiu City, the nursery rhyme that began to be sung two or three years ago, but gradually faded out, was sung again.

"Yin business customs, brothers follow."

"Wen Zhouli, sister-in-law."

"After mourning, it will be buried."

"Knowers, please settle the dispute."

The period of decay is three years, and it is not over, which means that the result of this nursery rhyme is still within the shelf life.

Although the new Song Gongzi Tian changed the yuan when he succeeded to the throne, which greatly broke the rules and etiquette, it cannot change the fact that this nursery rhyme has not been more than three years old.

The sister-in-law is naturally the current Song Gongzitian, and the elder brother and uncle Cen Xi are also the brothers.

Zitian went to Luoyi, and it was Zhou Tianzi who made the pilgrimage, not to the three Jin Dynasty at all, but in the eyes of outsiders, this is the betrayal of Chu and the Jin, and the king of Chu has already raised a teacher to ask for guilt.

Zang, the father of Emperor Sicheng, married three pairs of Jiahe, and made another effort to promote the Song Dynasty's pilgrimage to Zhou Tianzi.

Strong external reinforcement and internal power, there is a tendency to let the imperial father's family replace them as the Duke of Song, no matter how it is said that it is a family that was separated when Dai Gong was divided, even if he seizes the throne, it cannot be regarded as "usurpation", it can only be said to be "taking", which is not the same as Han Zhao Weitian and other families.

The rest of the six Qings led by Da Yin Lingqi were originally opposed to the Song Duke forming a good alliance with the Chu State against the imperial father's family, but now because of the huge change in form, it is abnormal to vigorously promote the benefits of being close to Chu, and it seems that if you are not close to Chu, it will lead to chaos in the Song Kingdom.

In addition to that nursery rhyme, there was another rumor circulating in Shangqiu City.

Rumors say: Song Gong insisted on going his own way, did not listen to the advice of the ministers, and turned his back on Chu while flattering Jin, which led to the siege of the Chu people this time.

He also said that in fact, the king of Chu was just asking for an explanation, and it would not be unfavorable to the people of the Song Kingdom.

Besides, twenty years ago, it was the Duke of Song who took the initiative to go to the Chu State and begged the Chu people to send troops to fight against the imperial father's family. For this reason, Chu and Sanjin fought in Yongqiu and Huangchi, with tens of thousands of casualties.

The nursery rhyme three years ago that did not cause much turmoil, with the spread of this rumor, finally set off a shocking wave in Shangqiu.

Many people believe that it was because of the blind rivalry of the princes and nobles that the Chu people sent troops this time, and they blamed Song Gong Mei Jin for betraying Chu.

When rumors spread in Shangqiu City, the newly succeeded Song Gongzitian finally made an important decision.

The tiger talisman was awarded to Mo Zhai, and Mozi, who had briefly served as a doctor of the Song State and hundreds of disciples all over the world, was responsible for the defense of Shangqiu, including the office, and before the Chu people retreated, all the affairs in the city were under the jurisdiction of Mo Zhai.

This is a decision that has been forced to the point that there is no way out.

Just when the Chu people sent troops, Zitian summoned his ministers and asked for countermeasures, hoping to win the field battle with the Chu people.

However, the imperial father Zang and the imperial father Yue Ling, father and son, did not care about the decisive battle out of the city.

What they want to rely on is the Three Jins, if the Chu people have not yet besieged the city and will be defeated...... So how can you show your family's contribution to Shangqiu?

It is necessary to wait for Shangqiu to eat, break bones and cook, and when he is about to be completely unable to hold on, and then come forward to appease the people, saying that they will ask Sanjin to send troops.

At that time, the credit for defending Shangqiu will naturally fall on his own family, and his reputation will rise, as long as the people of Shangqiu can support it, then his own family can replace him.

Although the people of Shangqiu are the most supportive of those who are inkers, the imperial father's family believes that the people of Shangqiu do not have too high aristocratic blood after all, and they have no right to inherit, so even if the people of Shangqiu support the people of Shangqiu, they need a person with blood to be the monarch after all, and at that time, it is naturally their family.

After all, the Mo people were only defending the city, and according to the plan, it was the imperial father's family who invited the Sanjin to send troops in the end.

Therefore, the royal father and the nobles behind it did not care about the decisive battle out of the city, and they did not want to go out of the city for the decisive battle at all.

It seems that you can't win, but what if you win? At that time, the credit will be Song Gong's, not his own family's.

If you don't starve to death of tens of thousands of people, how can you show the importance of your family asking Sanjin to send troops?

The nobles on the other side, don't talk about the city field battle, even the matter of betraying Chu and Jin itself is extremely opposed.

It's not that they really think about the Song Kingdom, but that the Sicheng family has already done the pro-Jin thing first, they must be pro-Chu, how can they fight against the Sicheng Emperor Father if they don't pro-Chu?

Even if the Chu people captured Shangqiu, it would be impossible to annex the Song State, and the Song State was also half a country of ten thousand times after all.

You can change the monarch and set up a puppet, but if you dare to make the Song State a county of Chu and deprive the local nobles of their power, these nobles will definitely resist with all their might, and the Chu people will not be so stupid to do such a thing.

They were looking forward to the capture of Shangqiu by the Chu State, which was not their fiefdom, but the capital of the Song State, which was the sphere of influence of the Song Duke and the Imperial Father's family.

Since their fiefdom is not in Shangqiu, what does it have to do with them whether Shangqiu was captured or not?

Moreover, if the Chu people win, it will be easier for them to support Shu Cen Xi to ascend to the throne, which is a prince who does not have much power, and it is suitable for control.

Yesterday of the Jin Kingdom and today of the Zheng State are the things that these nobles of the Song Kingdom are looking forward to the most, and the six Qings should jointly control the state affairs, rather than the imperial father's family.

And they had a plan, and they were looking forward to the Chu people besieging Shangqiu.

When the time comes, the grain stored in the city will be burned, so that the people of Shangqiu will be killed and injured in serious battles, and more than 10,000 people will starve to death, and the people in the city will inevitably be angry.

When the time comes, let the current Song Gong let Xian agree to the conditions of the Chu people, and then the big thing can be accomplished.

As for saying that the ink man defends the city, they don't care, this city still has to be defended in the end.

If they directly rebelled and welcomed the Chu people in, it would not be good, and the people in the city would feel that they were shameless and might not support them.

And if the ink people help defend the city and hold out until the city is full of complaints, then they come forward to say that the ink movers are "beneficial to the world" and "beneficial to the ten thousand households in the city", but they may get the support of the ink people to get rid of the current Song Gong.

Anyway, the ink artist doesn't care about such things as fame and etiquette, which is known to the world.

They would not be willing to recruit private soldiers in their fiefdoms to fight the Chu people in the field.

The result of this kind of discussion is inevitable: you Song Gong is willing to fight a decisive battle with the Chu people, and use your own soldiers, and we will participate in it in a form at most, but ...... What exactly it will become, it is not up to you Song Gong to decide.

Although Song Gong was young and arrogant, he also knew that at this time, the field battle would inevitably fail.

In the end, he still knew about Hua Yuan, who had prompted Hua Yuan, who had been involved in the Soldiers' Association, to go to Zheng Guo and reward his close servants before the battle, but he forgot his chauffeur and sheep.

When the battle was fought the next day, Yang Shen drove Hua Yuan straight to Zheng Ren's Chinese army and sent Hua Yuan to Zheng Ren: What you said yesterday is what I say, and what I say on the battlefield!

Replaced by Song Gong, it is the same.

Today's talk is useless, the nobles can completely do the thing of turning you to death on the battlefield.