There is no way, the battlefield was defeated, the conspiracy did not succeed, the state of Chu is now in a storm, Xiang Liang began to realize that he could not suffer any blow in the short term, otherwise the state of Chu, which had internal contradictions and could not expand, would inevitably collapse by itself.

Fight and defeat, the conspiracy and tricks can be resolved one by one, not only resolved, but also absorbed the Qin army for adaptation, and the strength has not been damaged, but has grown a few points.

What do you think? What else! I can only admit it.

Xiang Liang asked Xiang Ji, who had been lurking in Nanling for nearly two months, very seriously: "What kind of conditions do we offer to make Lu Shizhe lift the state of war with us?" ”

What price can be paid for even a short period of peace? Xiang Ji was thinking. He had seen many things under Lu Zhe's rule with his own eyes, and his judgment was more accurate than Xiang Liang, who had never been to Lu Zhe's rule and could only rely on intelligence to speculate.

"Lu Thief is a little incomprehensible." Xiang Ji has studied Lu Zhe's character and behavior: "It seems that Lu Thief seems to be forced by his subordinates to oppose Qin autonomy, but looking at Lu Thief's series of actions after autonomy, he knows how to buy the hearts of the people under his rule, and he knows that ...... steady expansion, a series of official actions are not from the hands of others, but from Lu Thief's own planning." ”

Xiang Ji was most impressed by the cash-for-work method, which was countless times more clever than the gratuitous disaster relief in the face of civil disasters since ancient times. He thought about it for a long time and came up with many advantages of cash-for-work, first of all, it can give the disaster-stricken Qiantou hope of survival, concentrate the disaster-stricken Qiantou can eliminate the chaos and riots that will accompany the disaster, and at the same time employ a large number of laborers and start a project that requires a huge amount of forced labor to start.

"In less than a year, the northern, western, and southern counties of Nanjun each had a corresponding fort system, and the Qin army's southward movement was resisted precisely because of the perfect fortifications. In addition, the city building plan that Lu Thief was ridiculed for has built a majestic city wall that stretches for an unknown number of miles, and all kinds of infrastructure construction in the city are basically about to be completed. Not only those, but they also built roads similar to the Qin State Chi Road in Nanjun, and built on the original old roads or new roads. They extend in all directions, stretching from Nanling New Town to almost every county in Nanjun. Before I returned to Wu County from Nanling, I heard that Lu Thief intended to build another Chi Road, and to build a wide road between Nanjun and the counties. ”

It's surprising, but it doesn't seem so unexpected when you think about it, after all, Lu Zhe hired too many people, and at its peak, he even employed nearly 1.5 million people. And Lu Zhe's brain didn't know how to grow, and he could think of using various new engineering techniques to reduce the difficulty of construction, so it was not so surprising that the progress of city construction and road construction was faster.

"Of the five city walls, is the minimum of each city wall not less than seven zhang? I'd love to see it with my own eyes. What a majestic city it is. Xiang Liang sighed.

Lu Zhe built a city and established a heroic city, where is this heroic city? South! That is to say, Lu Zhe set the location of the administrative center in Nanjun, and what he had to do was to manage the territory of the south and take root in the south.

Territory? The lands held by Lü Zhe were all Chu lands, and once Lü Zhe successfully took root, it would be equivalent to the loss of the land occupied by Lü Zhe by Chu State. And it seems that Xiang Liang is not so sure that he can recapture the occupied Chu land from Lu Zhe, not only is he not sure of regaining it. If they didn't develop and grow, it was likely that they would even lose the only Huizhang County and Huiji County, and then Chu would no longer be Chu Land, but would become the territory of Lu Zhe's future state.

"Possibly...... Is it possible to trick Lu Shizhe into becoming king? Xiang Liang's words were incoherent, proving that he had no confidence in this.

Xiang Ji groaned for a long time. Not so sure: "Lu Thief's personality is very selfish, but he is not as self-righteous as an ego person." Once such a person decides what is difficult to change, no matter how much he says next to it, it will only be a reference opinion. ”

"Really?" Xiang Liang didn't know what he was thinking, and was silent for a full quarter of an hour before he spoke: "Give it a try." Let Zhang Liang and Wei Bao mention yì, anyway, give it a try. ”

"I'm afraid...... Lu thieves will not be fooled. Unless ......" Xiang Ji looked intently at his own brother, who had recently looked haggard because of his hard work: "Unless we are willing to pay a big price." ”

"Oh?" Xiang Liang's spirit lifted slightly.

"Yes, unless we revoke the title of King of Chu. From the geographical and legal rites, let Lu Thief become the king of Chu. Xiang Ji said very normally, it seems that whether or not to revoke the king of Chu is a matter of hand-to-hand capture, not to discuss their king.

Xiang Liang also thought about this matter, there are only two counties, and the state of Chu that has abolished one of the counties of Huizhang cannot be called the state of Chu at all, except for the two jokes of Han and Wei, the state of Chu is now a new joke in the world.

They don't have the strength to fight with Lu Zhe for the time being, so they have to find a way to relieve Lu Zhe's hostility, and at the same time set a trap so that Lu Zhe will fall into a state of death.

It is a trap for Lu Zhe to be called king, but in a fundamental sense, it is just a complete blow to Lu Zhe in terms of reputation, and Lu Zhe is at odds with the nations.

Although fighting evil and entering a state of war are both bad directions, they did not deal a heavy blow to Lu Zhe from the hard power, they are not as strong as others now, and the most urgent need is to reduce or weaken Lu Zhe's strength, so the planning cycle is too long to start from the reputation, with the current bad status quo of the Chu State, I don't know if I can support the countries to send troops to defeat Lu Zhe who claims to be the king in vain.

Let Lu Zhe become the king of Chu from the geography and rituals? That is basically the same as the case of the Tian dynasty, but there is a difference, that is, the Tian dynasty used several generations to exert favors on others, so that they could love and accept the Tian family, and the Tian family could peacefully transition to become the royal family of the dynasty.

How long has Lu Zhecai been rising? Less than a year.

Did Lu Zhe have a favor for the Chu people? may be a favor for many people, but it is far from the people of Chudi to the point of gratitude.

Xiang Ji proposed that Lu Zhe make Lu Zhe the king of Chu from the geographical and legal rites, not to give up resistance and submit to obedience, let alone really to make Lu Zhe the king of Chu. He wanted a non-Chu person to be called the king of Chu, arousing the disgust of the head of Chu and Qian, so that they had the right soil to carry out many operations, as long as they did not make mistakes, they would definitely make Lu Zhe's rule become everywhere.

"Once Lu Thief becomes king, it will be impossible for him to live in peace with Qin Dog again. The reaction of the countries can also be expected, if the Qin army sweeps through the Central Plains like a bamboo, the royal families may reject it in their hearts but on the surface admit that the Lu thief is the king, and if the Qin army can't sweep the Central Plains, the royal families will also admit it, but they will put the rejection in their hearts into action, or interfere openly, or sabotage secretly, which will always make the Lu thief fall into a dilemma, and the Lu thief will not have the extra energy to target us. ”

"Well, if Lu Shizhe becomes the king, his subordinates will also have their minds floating. If Lu Shizhe rewarded his subordinates lavishly, there would inevitably be an imbalance in interests, resulting in a situation of mountains and mountains, and internal strife was inevitable at that time. If Lu Shizhe didn't give a reward, his subordinates should think about what they were working so hard for, they wouldn't want to see Lu Shizhe become a king and his descendants, and they didn't get the benefits they wanted. At that time, we can divide them and bewitch them, and as long as a rising power is divided internally, then its momentum will be fierce and its decline will be rapid. ”

Its momentum is also fierce, and its decline must be fast? Lu Zhe's rise speed is indeed very fierce, and many people analyze that Lu Zhe has taken advantage of the right time, place and people.

The so-called Tianshi, Yiling riots, the south followed the erosion, and then the re-establishment of the countries that were destroyed in the world, at which time the Qin State obviously would not notice that there was a Lu Zhe rising in Nanjun, and the countries were also busy with their own affairs and had no time to take care of it, that is not what the time of day is.

What is the so-called geographical advantage, what is Nanjun? From the southwest direction of Qin, that is, from Hanzhong County to Ba County, from Ba County to Nan County, the Qin army wanted to crusade over a number of mountains, and the rivers at that time were not suitable for boating. At that time, the state of Chu had not yet been restored, and it was impossible to send troops to Nanjun.

And people? God knows what those people of the Six Kingdoms think, after suffering a lot, they were moved to the south by the Qin people from all over the country, and after launching a riot against the Qin army, they actually chose a Qin warrior as the leader, and I don't know if they were used to being abused by the Qin people, and they would continue to be abused. Nearly 400,000 people from the Six Kingdoms, at the beginning, at least 100,000 were used by Lu Zhe, and then Lu Zhe had the capital to start a business, and after he started, he received some small favors and began to work hard, so that Lu Zhe became stronger.

The right time, the right place, and the right people? The Xiang family doesn't seem to be bad, but the time came too suddenly, the location didn't have time to play, and the people didn't make the best use of it because of the family's interests.

"I missed it."

Xiang Liang didn't say that he did something wrong, Xiang made so many preparations to let Xiang rise, and he didn't take advantage of it to complain to anyone, but the location and any was a waste of nature, but he didn't do anything wrong, Xiang couldn't rise selflessly and selflessly support the bear heart and not consolidate his own power, and come to a "I am for everyone, everyone is for me" or "sacrifice the small self, complete the big self" fearless discipline, and exercise the noble behavior that even moved him to tears.

"Choose, choose Jingju as the main envoy, Bai (Xiang Bo) as the deputy envoy," Xiang Liang was silent for a long time, and then said: "Revoke the national name and choose to send protons...... Look at what Lu Shizhe wants. As long as the state of war can be lifted, so that Lu Shizhe's hostility towards us can be reduced to the point that he does not want to get out as soon as he wants, he will pay the necessary price. The temporary humiliation will not let the Xiang clan sink here, we can endure the violent Qin for so long, and we can also make concessions to Lu Shizhe, one day we will recapture Chu land and snatch the one that belongs to Lu Shizhe! (To be continued......)