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Zheng Jun left with two people who couldn't see the situation clearly and didn't understand Lu Zhe, but Yan Bi came in with a smile on his face after the report.

Lu Zhe was thinking about something and didn't pay attention to it, so he just let Yan Bi sit next to him and wait.

It can't be said that Xiang made such a request because he couldn't see the situation clearly, right? From Xia to Shang, and from Shang to Zhou, even if the Warring States Period has just ended, the aristocracy is really a special group, they rely on the Meng Yin under the hard work of their ancestors to live a high-quality life, with noble blood flowing in their veins, and the pedigree theory is very market-oriented.

How much did Confucius's father pay to get the status of a nobleman? With his flesh and blood, when attacking Zheng Guo, he carried a thousand catties of floodgates, so that the warriors who attacked the city escaped a few before they got a final title, but Kong Qiu's father died before he returned to his hometown.

What price did Yingzheng's ancestors pay to get a fief in order to become a nobleman? At that time, the winning family was still a member of the Zhao family, and in order to protect Zhou Tianzi, who was hunted down by Rong Di, there were less than 100 men in the family.

Do you know what the aristocracy is like in the eyes of the common people? It is a group of people who take it for granted no matter how much they eat and wait for death, no matter how luxurious the nobles are, they are elegant, the farts of the nobles are fragrant, and the nobles must be civilians who deserve even if they kill a few civilians.

From the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Qin dynasty, and even to the Tang and Song dynasties, the aristocracy was really an aristocracy, and the nobles who would find trouble with the commoners were destined to be written into the history books and scolded for thousands of years. Why? And not because there are too few. The nobles will only find trouble with the nobles or those challengers, otherwise they can't afford to lose that person.

From the point of view of modern people, it is a crime for nobles to oppress commoners and should be spurned, and commoners should hate nobles very much, and they can't wait to spit on a nobleman when they see them. What about the facts? No matter who it is. They will only bury their heads in their little lives. If you have the opportunity to obtain the status of a nobleman, as long as you can leave a root for your ancestors, everything else is secondary, and fighting for your life is the truth.

The Xiang family is an aristocrat, and even if the state of Chu has perished, the Xiang family is still a nobleman. Xiang argued that he agreed to the marriage in order to become an ambitious courtier, which was not too excessive but took advantage of it.

There is no shame in being an ally of a certain prince and grandson, would Zheng Jun not know that it was a reasonable request? No! He knew that this deal was very cost-effective, but what was the Xiang family, and a woman of the Xiang family was not qualified to be used as a bargaining chip in exchange for the submission of Lu Zhe, who owned Nanjun and Qianzhong County. If it's an ambitious daughter-in-law, it's pretty much the same.

No kidding, before Chen Sheng established himself as king, none of the nobles who raised the army dared to do so, their choice was to find a certain prince and grandson to be reestablished as king, even if that prince and grandson was an idiot, they could accept it, and then become a nobleman again, and live a high-quality life under a certain monarch with glorious ancestors.

The Xiang family has great ambitions, they themselves are nobles and need to pull out an ambition as a signboard, and it is estimated that only one stupid Chen Sheng dares to establish himself as the king.

Before Chen Sheng established himself as king, the people who followed him had been advised to find a prince and grandson to reinstate. The morale of the military is also okay. After establishing himself as the king, Chen Sheng immediately rebelled against his relatives and left, and in a moment he was immediately killed and annihilated.

So far, even if Nanjun has a strong side, none of them have gone to Lu Zhe to persuade him to become the king, all they want is that Lu Zhe can become a powerful figure who can influence the situation in the future, and become a new nobleman with the big guy. If Lu Zhe stood up and said that he would set himself up as king. Judging from the current situation, the Qianshou of Nanjun will be in fear all day long, and most of the civil and military personnel will be so frightened that the army will flee. It's not that the people in Nanjun don't have courage or ambition, but the current social atmosphere is like this.

Xiang has been in business for too long. Lu Zhe was considering the Xiang clan's influence in the south, and if nothing else, the Xiang clan could obtain Huiji County at any time, and it seemed that the rebellion of Zhang County was the hand of the Xiang clan. Zhang Jun is now in the hands of the Xiang family. The largest and largest rebel leader in Lujiang County is called Huan Chu, and this person seems to be related to the Xiang family?

Lu Zhe carefully calculated, the Xiang clan would not be able to raise troops, and once the Xiang clan raised troops, they would be able to obtain three counties in a short period of time! And these three counties are only controlled by the Xiang family, if the Xiang family has ambitions to be the king of Chu, Jiujiang County will needless to say that it will immediately lean over, and at the same time, Surabaya County and Chen County will also be in Xiang's pocket sooner or later.

Heritage, this is the heritage, as a nobleman's connections and the power of the legacy is terrifying, Lu Zhe took advantage of the time, location, and people, and worked hard to get out of the territory of the two counties, and the Xiang family was just promoting the ambition of the Chu State, and at least five counties were pinched in the palm of his hand at once.

"Eight thousand ......soldiers," Lu Zhe was a little confused, "The Xiang clan, who mastered the five counties, only had eight thousand troops at the beginning of the army?" ”

No, the population of Huiji County is more than 1.4 million, and Zhang County has more than 700,000, and the Xiang clan has only established a force of 8,000 people out of more than 2 million people. And it seems that in ancient times, it was a bad brain to take the route of elite soldiers, it takes at least three years to train a qualified soldier, and how many three years can be wasted in troubled times.

Yan Bi finally spoke up: "County Lord, what eight thousand soldiers?" ”

He wasn't talking to himself just now, Lu Zhe just wanted to talk about the confusion in his heart and discuss it with Yan Bi.

After listening for a while, Yan Bi smiled dumbly: "The sergeant of the Eight Thousand Hometown is probably the limit of the Xiang Clan. ”

Lu Zhe also smiled: "Yes, they can only secretly build weapons and armor, and they can't make them on a large scale, and it is indeed not easy to have eight thousand people." ”

There are nearly 200,000 troops in Nanjun, and they are not conjured up in an instant, they are all thanks to the immigration policy of the Qin State, and the other is that Lu Zhe at least has an open environment to make weapons and armor, Rao is like this, the current troops have not yet fully allocated weapons and armor to the hands of the soldiers, and it is not easy for the Xiang clan to secretly save so many things in a few years.

"County Lord, do you have any thoughts on the Xiang clan's request for an alliance?" Yan Bi feels that this question is very important.

Lu Zhe was a little repulsed by the relationship with the Xiang family, after all, no one except Liu Ji had a relationship with the Xiang family in history. The methods of this empty glove white wolf are too powerful, as long as they occupy a little righteous name, they can do anything, and if they become allies with such people, they may even swallow their bones at any time.

"Yin Tong was killed by Xiang Liang." Lu Zhe explained when he saw that Yan Bi didn't know who Yin Tong was, and then frowned: "Yin Tong himself thought of rebelling against Qin, hoping that the Xiang clan could assist, but Xiang Liang, who instigated Yin Tong to oppose Qin, killed people without hesitation. You know why? ”

Yan Bi didn't even think about it: "The Xiang family wants to be in charge of the power alone, if Yin Tong is really anti-Qin, wouldn't the Xiang family only be able to serve as a deputy, and maybe not even be a deputy." ”

Yes, yes, why did the Xiang clan oppose Qin? In this era when there is no national righteousness, the Xiang clan is definitely not just to restore the Chu State, to put it bluntly, it is not to use the anti-Qin process to achieve any purpose. Yin Tong is the lord of a county, and he is the best choice for the boss of the anti-Qin queen, where will he put the Xiang family at that time?

After finishing speaking, Yan Bi was a little strange: "The person sent to Huiji has returned?" ”

Lu Zhe shook his head: "The person named Xiang Wei said that the Xiang clan was about to raise troops, and said that it was easy to get the dominance of Huiji County. Yin Tong must have colluded with the Xiang family, and the Xiang family had already drawn a map of the mountains and rivers of the southern counties. So is it still a conjecture for Xiang to kill Jijun Shou Yin Tong to stand on his own? ”

Yan Bi showed a shocked expression, and really thought that Lu Zhe had guessed so much from Xiang Wei's sentence or two. Shocked, he cautiously asked, "What about the alliance?" ”

"I have a covenant with Wu Rui. Recently, Zheng Hao went to Lujiang to negotiate trade with Huan Chu, and from the fact that Lujiang County continued to exchange grain and grass with Qian, Huan Chu would also agree to form an alliance like Wu Rui. Lu Zhe knows very well that he is a giant in the south now, and no one dares to provoke him, so he can only curry favor: "But I am a little frightened by the Xiang family, and I have always been unable to make up my mind." ”

Yes? Yan Bi didn't understand, now Nanjun wants soldiers and food, it can be said that there is no shortage of anything, and although the Xiang family is still unclear about what the situation is, it will not be stronger than Lu Zhe, who has developed for half a year, why do you feel frightened?

If you don't understand, ask it, this is a good habit that Yan Bi has always cultivated.

"You know very well the deal with Wu Rui, a hundred stones of grain in exchange for five spears is extremely fair to everyone. The transaction with Huan Chu, a hundred stones of grain in exchange for three spears, is also very fair to earn. Lu Zhe sighed: "Wu Rui is full of gratitude to us, and Huan Chu admires us for daring to sell weapons during the war. If a hundred stones of grain were exchanged for five spears with Xiang, Xiang would be furious. 100 stones for 3 spears, Xiang will inevitably hate us to the bone. On the contrary, giving 100 spears to Xiang's Xiang clan for nothing would be too little, giving 1,000 spears for free Xiang would feel insulted, and giving 10,000 spears for free Xiang would want to get the entire Nanjun. ”

I kind of understand, a greedy and without any faith at all, Xiang is like a painting vividly displayed in front of Yan Bi's eyes.

"The Xiang clan was the first to contact the nobles of various countries, and they continued to boast in all places they could to support their hopes. However, Xiang's ridiculous method was really successful, at least the nobles of the six countries bought Xiang's account. Lu Zhe was really stunned: "If the Xiang clan is close to Nanjun, I will not hesitate to raise troops to kill them." But the Xiang clan is too far away from Nanjun, which is a pity. ”

Yan Bi was a little stunned: "So you knew that Fan Zeng was the mastermind of the Xiang clan and immediately killed him?" ”

Killing Fan Zeng was purely forced, if he didn't kill him, would Lu Zhe himself have to die at the hands of those remnants of the Six Kingdoms who were instigated? He really didn't believe in a clan that would kill a benefactor who was kind to him and kill the monarch when the goal was achieved. (To be continued......)

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