Shang Cai is broken, Wu Fang is also down, the cavalry and elite led by Shi, also took advantage of Chu Da Sima's unpreparedness, ambushed on his march, Chu army 40,000 did not have time to open the formation was scattered by the cavalry, this battle was a big victory, Chu Da Sima killed himself in the chaos of the army.

Soon after, 3,000 combat sappers successfully attacked Xianghe Pass, and the Mo family had opened the way from Song to Nanyang.

More than 10,000 people gathered by the feudal monarchs of the Chu State in the south of Funiu Mountain were annihilated by the combined forces of Shihe Six Fingers, so that the Chu State had no power to resist in the south of Funiu Mountain.

The Mojia scouts have been patrolling Luyang, Niu Qi and other places, and the defeat of Chu is a foregone conclusion. The remaining feudal monarchs huddled close to the border between Wei and Han, not daring to plan.

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Yangjae, South Korea.

The nobles of the Chu State, who were originally going to emulate the Crying Qin Court in order to restore the country, had changed their attitude, from asking for the restoration of the country to requesting the annexation of the fief into Han.

However, Han Hou has not yet given an answer.

In the original history, there was a major event in South Korea in the past two years.

Originally, Korea was the Zheng State that was destroyed a few years ago, and after the Zheng State was destroyed, it bordered the Western Zhou State, which made the Western Zhou State have to deal with Korea.

South Korea is a big country, the Western Zhou State is a small country, although it has the name of the orthodox royal family, but in fact it is poor and weak, as a result, when Korea sent its favored ministers to the Western Zhou Kingdom, there were some contradictions, and the Western Zhou Dynasty was very uneasy, afraid that the favored ministers would provoke Korea to engage in the Western Zhou Kingdom.

Feng Fu, who was the best at engaging in aristocratic palace coup plots in the Western Zhou Kingdom, came up with an idea, saying that the relationship between the Korean minister and the favored ministers was not harmonious, and the Korean minister was Han Hou's uncle.

Sending assassins to assassinate Han Xiang, and then Han Xiang was killed, the favored ministers must be suspicious, and of course the monarch is also suspicious, so Han Hou will deal with the favored ministers in order not to bear the name of killing his uncle, and Korea will inevitably have civil strife. As soon as there is civil strife in Korea, it will have to be chaotic for a few years, and then the Western Zhou Kingdom will be safe.

So there was such an incident in South Korea: Han Shanjian, a Korean prince, colluded with Feng Fu of the Western Zhou Dynasty to assassinate Han Xiang. As a result, Han Xiang "walked away and hugged him".

That is, in a hurry, Han Xiang hugged Han Hou as a shield, but the assassin had a very high level and had internal responses, killing Han Hou and killing Han Xiang.

There are many theories about this matter, some say that a nobleman kicked Han Hou and made Han Hou pretend to be dead and escaped, and finally this nobleman was the prime minister for life after Han Xiang's death; It is said that this nobleman did not kick Han Hou at all to make him pretend to be dead, but that Han Hou was kicked by this nobleman when he was struggling, and as a result, Han Xiang and Han Hou both died.

Later, when Cai Yong did piano exercises and later generations did "Guangling San", they all thought that Nie Zheng assassinated Han Hou and not just Han Xiang, and there were too many assassination conspiracies in South Korea, so they merged into one, and it was difficult to distinguish.

It was also this incident that prompted Han Hou to reuse Shen Buxian's method later—the assassin was able to run to the nobles' gatherings to attack, and no king could rest assured.

This situation in Korea and the geographical location of enemies on all sides made Shin Buxian's change of law emphasize "art" rather than "law", requiring the monarch to be good at using art to restrain the nobles, restrain the aristocracy, and be good at engaging in intrigue and spy politics under centralized power.

Because the aristocratic power is too strong, there is no way to comprehensively change the society, and it is impossible to create a new group of military nobles in the case of enemies on all sides, so they can only tinker, and the final result is that they will be strong when they meet the Ming monarch and weak when they meet the faint monarch.

After this assassination, Han Shanjian, who conspired with Feng Fu, supported Han Hou's son to succeed him, but the matter was revealed, and Feng Fu accepted his escape.

And when questioned by South Korea, Feng Fu said that the small country of the Western Zhou Dynasty also took him in for fourteen days, just waiting for you to arrest him.

But after waiting for a long time, he didn't come to arrest, and he said that after the assassination, the new Han Hou succeeded to the throne, we thought that this was a palace coup d'état involving the new Han Hou of a big country, and we didn't dare to provoke it, and we waited for fourteen days to see that you really didn't come to arrest it, thinking that it was just a formality, of course we didn't dare to provoke the big country, let alone provoke the new Han Hou, so we let him go.

After saying this, the envoy had no way to continue questioning, because the envoy didn't want to know too much, so everyone made up a reason to avoid a diplomatic turmoil.

Feng Fu's level is basically a master of aristocratic conspiracy under the feudal system, making good use of assassins, making good use of poison, using conspiracy, and using tricks.

However, these sophisticated intrigues of the aristocratic era are of little use in the face of the general trend.

Historically, these palace conspiracy techniques did not block the Qin of Shang Ying, who had a clear law, did not block the dragon in a certain story, and it was even more impossible to stop the Mo family who had begun to expand and was engaged in yang conspiracy.

It was because of the expansion of the Mo family that this civil strife in Korea did not occur, but temporarily stabilized the minds of the Korean princes and several nobles.

Although it is not said that it is unanimous with the outside world, at this juncture, it is really not the time for internal strife.

I didn't know that Han Hou, who saved his life because of the rise of the Mo family, was in a dilemma at this time.

The state of Chu was defeated, and there was no possibility of recovering the country at all.

The feudal monarch of Chu State wanted to attach himself to South Korea, but his purpose was no longer obvious, to pull South Korea into the water and block the Mo family.

Keluyang, Xianghe and other places, only more than 100 miles away from the capital of South Korea, the Mo family is now in full swing, if South Korea accepts the refuge of these Chu feudal monarchs, the Mo family will have an excuse for a war against Korea.

South Korea fought against the Mo family alone, and the capital was only more than 100 miles away from the front line, and after the news of the Yangxia siege came, Han Hou did not dare to accept it.

It is still unclear what the attitude of each country is, and they all say that they will work together to fight against Mexico, but South Korea also knows that Qi has also sent envoys to take advantage of the opportunity to kill Wei, and what they say and what they do are not all the same.

If all countries do not send troops together, and South Korea sends troops on its own, there will be more defeats and fewer victories, and even if all countries send troops, they will wait and see for a while, and only when South Korea's national strength is almost lost can it send troops.

This is highly likely.

However, if they don't accept it, the Mo family will seize all the land, and the border is a hundred miles away from the Korean capital, which is equivalent to a sword that always hangs over the head, and it may fall one day.

If the Chu State is a feudal monarch and takes refuge, South Korea can have an extra buffer zone of 100 miles, and if it can make peace with the Mo family through diplomatic means, it is not necessarily a bad thing.

There are pros and cons to each other, and it is difficult to choose.

From the beginning, the envoys of the Chu people waited for news in the pavilion, crying in front of the palace every day, hoping that Korea could help.

However, after the news of Shang Cai and Xiang He being taken away and the Chu Da Sima being killed in the array, the envoy of the Chu people changed his crying to a plea to join him.

His attitude changed day by day, and Han Hou was worried.

At night, Han Hou's favored ministers asked to see him, and after a little politeness, the favored ministers said: "The worries of the monarch lie in the princes. The worries of the princes lie in Sishang. The Mo family is now strong, and the non-princes are not in harmony with each other, but Han Chu is connected, the Mo family has all the Chu land, and Han Zong is in danger. ”

"The Mo family is warned, on the grounds that King Shengheng had a secret conversation with Shi in the past, but there were no six ears at that time, and no one knows whether it is true or not. It is not credible that it is suitable for the sake of the art. The gentleman must know that Mo Zhai is a true gentleman, and the bird slippery is also a great sage, but the only one is suitable, the craftsman is born, and the slut has no trust, so he must be guarded against. ”

Han Hou said: "In your opinion, should I accept those Chu land feudal monarchs?" ”

Since it is said that it is not trustworthy and the wolf is ambitious, then it has to be guarded against. If you want to fight sooner or later, then it is better to fight early, Han Hou felt that this was what the favored minister said.

However, the favored minister said: "The king wants to accept it, but also does not accept it." ”

"The Chu Zhifeng monarch clan can accept it, and if you want people not to have land, because even if you get the land, you can't break the suitability of the shackles, and you can't keep it."

"The best use of soldiers, more than 20 years of crisscrossing the Middle Earth, no one can beat. Now that he is in Fangcheng, who can win the battle at this time? ”

"The Mo family attacked Chu, and they wanted land and not people. These feudal soldiers are all silverfish in the eyes of the Mo family, it is better to vacate the land and distribute it to the untouchables, they are not interested in these nobles. ”

The statement that people don't want land made Han Hou seem to understand something, but what he was worried about was not whether he wanted it or not, but said: "If you don't want it, the Mo family occupies Luyang Niuqi, Ye, Fang and other places, and the widow capital city is within a hundred miles." ”

"If I don't have this land, what use do I want those Chu people? If you get these lands, you will be angry with the Mo family. ”

"In the past, the Mo family fought in Yicheng, and some people said to the widow that Chu would die, so it was better to take the opportunity to divide Chu land with the Mo family and get a hundred miles of buffer. But some people say that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, and they tell the widow not to divide the Chu land, once it borders the Mo family, the Mo family will have friction and trouble. ”

"There are endless arguments, but today there is no choice."

The favored minister said: "Your Majesty, it's true that your lips are cold and your teeth are cold, but if you don't want your lips to be cold, you must have the ability to resist the Mo family and not hesitate to go to war." ”

"When the Mo family fought in Yicheng, the Qin people fought Wei in Xihe, and at that time, Wei was Han Lip. The Mo family attacked Chu, even if he knew that his lips were dead and his teeth were cold, could the king be able to fight the Mo family with the power of a country without defeat? ”

"To divide up the Chu land, we must also consider the attitude of the Mo family. The Mo family attacked Chu and had their morality. If we are in accordance with their morality, we may do it; But if it is not in line with their morality, according to the words of the Mo family, it is the unrighteous king dog eats the dog, and whether the Mo family goes to war with me is also up to the Mo family. ”

"And these two things can't be done now, let alone send troops to Chu. If the king sends troops at this time, the Mo family will find an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with me, and no one in the field can defeat us, and our army will be defeated. ”

"For the present, only for the future."

Han Hou and the Mo family have fought too many times, Wei Han and Si Shang's grievances and hatred are not a day, as soon as he heard this sentence for the future, he smiled bitterly: "The Mo family works hard, technology is far superior to other places, good at governance, rich people, gathering the hearts of the people, and there is no disadvantage of the power of ministers and the power of the monarch, and the upper and lower are synonymous and single-minded." If it is allowed to get Jingchu Yuzhou, the world will be the Mo family in the future. ”

"Now the princes, only don't think about the future, because time is beneficial to the Mo family. If they are allowed to integrate the interior, what will the princes have in the future? ”

The favored minister said: "Do you think that we will have a chance of winning if we start a war now?" The monarch also knew that if he wanted to start a war, he would have to attack from five directions, so that the Mo family could not take care of each other, or it might be feasible. ”

"To attack from all directions, it is necessary to discuss with the princes and allies, and each of them will abide by the oath, so that South Korea can send troops without worrying about the flanks and rear."

"Therefore, you can retreat first, the Mo family has been fighting for a long time, and it is impossible to continue fighting, so it must be hoping for peace and recuperation."

"Besides, although the Yue Kingdom is weak, it has not yet been destroyed, and the Mo family must first solve the affairs of the Yue Kingdom."

"At this time, the only way to make peace first, when the Mo family is attacking, will ally the princes, mobilize grain and grass, and prepare soldiers, and then attack the five roads together, and will be able to destroy Mo in one battle."

"When I say the future, not ten or twenty years, but a year and a half. Now it is not appropriate to provoke the Mo family, it is better to give up the Chu land, but collect the Chu people's feudal monarchs and soldiers and let them retreat into the Korean land, these feudal monarchs and the Mo family have the hatred of captive kings and broken families, and in the future, they will be the vanguard of the anti-Mo family and dare to fight to the death. ”

"But at this time, you must not rashly send troops, let alone accept the land of the feudal monarch of Chu. Otherwise, there will be no chance for the future. ”