Chapter 774: The Biggest Crisis in the Qi Country
Wang Xu's words were very sonorous and powerful, like a drum. The armies can't help but recall the bloody battles experienced by the Great Wei since the founding of the country, the battle of the worm prison, the battle against the invasion of the four kingdoms of Zhao, Han, Qin and Bai, and the battle of annexing the Zhou State, which one was not fought by their own fists?
Besides, my neighbor Zhao State, which is a hybrid country of Rong and Hu, still dares to fight with the people, is my noble Great Wei Guo's sons and daughters not as good as them?
What's more, we still have the only handsome man in the world who can match Sun 100,000, the prime minister!
Thinking of this, these brave generals of the Great Wei Kingdom immediately became energetic.
Seeing the group of generals leave excitedly, there was only one scribe and Wang Xu left in the tent at this time.
The scribe was a hunchbacked man, young but already giving birth to a flourishing hair. He looked at Wang Xu, who was stunned, and stepped forward to pour him a cup of tea: "Master, but are you thinking about how to deal with Qi State?" β
Wang Xu woke up from his own thoughts when he heard the sound, he looked at the hunchbacked young man in front of him, his eyes were full of pity: "Lu'er, do you have any good advice?" β
It turned out that the hunchbacked Huafa young man was a member of Shaozheng Mao's gate, Lu Di's righteous son, Xiang Lu.
Xiang Lu since the master Shao Zhengmao was accidentally killed by Kong Qiu, people have a night of luxury, after three years of mourning, he left the country of Lu and wandered in the world.
Later, he unexpectedly met Wang Xu, and was deeply attracted by Wang Xu's wisdom and talent, oh, not to be precise, in Wang Xu's body, Xiang Lu vaguely saw his dead master, Shao Zhengmao's figure.
Wang Xu knew Xiang Lu and knew Xiang Lu when he was young. Wang Xu can't forget that in the competition in Linzi Xingtan to recruit relatives, the little hunchbacked boy picked up the chicken and peed under the apricot tree, and made the poem of "urine in the water and drink the song city".
Thinking of Xiang Lu's life experience, Wang Xu had an old heart and fatherly love, and felt that he was so old, but he had no one to trust in the future, so he asked Xiang Lu if he was willing to worship him as a master, and Xiang Lu happily agreed.
This is the intimate name of the two now.
Xiang Lu handed the poured tea to Wang Xu, Wang Xu took a sip, and then Xiang Lu went to taste his own: "Master, there is no need to worry about this matter, because this battle cannot be fought."
"Oh?" Wang Xu frowned. He didn't understand what Xiang Lu meant.
Xiang Lu said with a smile: "Dare to ask the master, how many years of war has the Qi State fought in a row since the Qi monarch Lu Di ascended the throne, and how many soldiers have died?" β
Wang Xu's eyes lit up, he seemed to understand what Xiang Lu meant, yes, since Lu Di ascended the throne, has Qi State ever stopped the pace of war?
The answer is no!
LΓΌ Di returned to Qi to seize power and quell the chaos, and nearly 100,000 people were killed and injured in Qi; The Jin State launched an alignment war, and the Qi State lost nearly 20,000 people; The State of Qi launched a four-nation war against the State of Hu, Chengguo, Mu, and Lu, and nearly 3,000 people died in the State of Qi; In the War of Swallowing Wu, 80,000 people died in the Qi State; In the Third Qi-Chu War, more than 90,000 people died in Qi; Defeating the guards, 40,000 people died in the Qi State; Qi destroyed Yan and killed more than 50,000 people; Huangchi will be in the alliance, and 60,000 people died in the Qi country; The state of Qi was destroyed, and 2,000 people were killed in battle; In the Qilu War, 30,000 Qi died; The state of Qi destroyed the Yue and died 70,000; The state of Qi invaded Chu and 110,000 died; Qi swallowed Cai, 5,600 people; The Qi State destroyed Zhongshan and killed 10,000 people; The melee of the three kingdoms of Qi, Zhao and Han, the death of 110,000 in the Qi country, and so on, and so on, add up, and over the years, the number of soldiers killed in the Qi country is no less than 750,000.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand! In less than 30 years, so many young people died!
No matter how large the population of Qi is and how rich the things are, it can't withstand such a toss from Lu Di!
"You mean?" Wang Xu's eyes burst with essence.
Xiang Lu nodded, put down the teacup and said, "Qi Guo, it's already strong and hollow!" β
Wang Xu laughed, picked up the teacup and drank the tea in the cup and said: "That's why we need a war even more, a war that kicks the Qi country into the fire pit."
Xiang Lu looked at the excited old Wang Xu, with a smile on his face, and he drank by himself. But in my heart, I thought, the Grand Duke asked me to be the master of Gongzidu, and find a study partner for Gongzidu, should this matter be inherited?
The Grand Duke naturally refers to the lord of Wei, Wei Ju.
Wei Ju carried out Wang Xu's policy of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, so he did not call the king, but after imprisoning the Son of Heaven, he called himself the Grand Duke, which means that among the dukes in the world, he has the greatest meaning.
Gongzidu, nicknamed Si, this little boy is Wei Ju's favorite son-in-law, the most rare thing is to be smart and wise, now it is just the age of the horns, Wei Ju intends to train him as a successor, so he wants Xiang Yu to teach him knowledge.
Wei Ju actually wanted his sub-father Wang Xu to be his son's master, but after thinking about it, one is that the seniority is a bit messy, and the other is that Wang Xu is old and entangled in official duties, so I am afraid that he will not have the spare time and energy to teach his son, so he chose the second and chose Xiang Xu.
Xiang Lu is known as the fourth genius boy after Sun Wu, Wang Xu, Lu Di, and has been a famous man since he was a child, and he has been carefully taught by Shao Zhengmao, that talent and wisdom will naturally not be weak, and what is even more rare is that he worshiped Wang Xu as a master.
Although Wei Ju is conceited, and sometimes feels that his own father is not as good as himself, Wei Ju has one thing that is particularly good, that is, he believes in his father's vision very much.
Will the person who can be accepted as a closed disciple by Ya Father be an ordinary person?
Xiang Lu thought of a few horn boys who were about the same age as Gongzi, and finally after a series of eliminations, only Li Ke, the son of Dr. Anyi, and Tian Wu, the widow of Qi Guotian, were left.
Li Ke is also the Duan Mugan who relied on his reputation to scare off the 300,000-strong army of the Qin State recorded in later documents. The reason why Li Ke is also called Duan Mugan is because Li Ke's fief is in Duan, and he is the doctor in the land of Mugan, so he is called Duan Mugan.
As for Tian Wuxue, also known as Tian Zifang, he was originally a son of the Tian (Chen) clan of Qi State, and later Chen Heng of Qi State was in turmoil, and his grandfather was unwilling to echo him, so he took his father to the fief of Wei to seek refuge with his maternal uncle. Now Tian Wuxuan is just a sheep's horn boy, and naturally there will be no crown, Zifang, so he is called his name.
According to the normal historical development, one of these two prodigies should have worshiped the second-generation disciple of Confucius, Zixia's disciple, and the other should have worshiped the second-generation disciple, Zigong's disciple.
It's just that now it can't, because Lu Di's chaos of time and space has made these two prodigies can only worship the Guigu School.
And what's even more terrifying is that the prince is the famous Wei Wenhou in history, the first monarch of the Warring States who is respected by Confucianism, and the "first person who respected Confucianism by ancient emperors" by later scholars.