Chapter 526: Is There a "World War"? (viii)
It is inevitable that the state of Chu will seek to regain the lost territory, and as long as the state of Chu is still alive, there is nothing to doubt about it. However, how to regain the lost territory, and in what way, there are infinite possibilities in the operable space inside.
At present, Lu Zhe's power is on the rise, and it is obvious that Chu cannot use force to regain the lost territory, even if it is to unite Qi and Yan, it is difficult for Chu to recover the whole territory, at least Nanjun, Cangwu County, and Hengshan County, which are the three counties that are operated by Lu Zhe as fortresses, are difficult to capture, which Xiang Liang and Kuaitong's views are consistent.
The possibility of uniting Qi and Yan to defeat Lu Zhe is at least the possibility of saving the place of the alliance in Shen, but what about after defeating? Even if it can kill Lu Zhe and cause civil strife on Lu Zhe's side, how will the Chu State face the Qi State?
The Qi State now has a great appetite, competing with the Yan State for Guangyang County in the north, the Central Plains and the Zhao State for Julu County, and the Chu State for Surabaya County in the south, which has obviously shown the hegemonic posture of a hegemonic country. Qi wants Surabaya County, Jiujiang County, Hengshan County, and Nan County, which is the price offered to discuss cooperation in attacking Lu Zhe Qi State, and is only willing to send 150,000 troops to assist.
See clearly, Qi Guo is talking about "auxiliary", that is, fighting soy sauce immortal battle!
The state of Chu wants to regain the territory occupied by Lu Zhe, obviously to take the lead, and it is the kind of head that sheds a lot of blood. How many people will die in the Chu Kingdom after the fight? After beating Lu Zhe, will the Qi State see that the incomparably weak Chu State does not have the intention of destroying Chu? The answer can be found from the eyes of the rats that Qi has always been! Once the state of Chu is weakened, the state of Qi will never let go of the state of Chu.
Qi Guo's appetite is really too big, and before he fights, he opened his mouth to ask for four counties, which are still the four most elite counties. Once an agreement is reached, not only will the shadowless Surabaya County, Jiujiang County, Hengshan County, and Nanjun become the territory of the legal system of the Qi State, but the Chu State will also shed all its blood to fight with Lu Zhe, so ...... Is it reliable for the state of Chu to cooperate with the state of Qi?
The rational Xiang Liang didn't feel that it was reliable to cooperate with Qi Guo. Not only is it unreliable, it may be that the current Qi State is too powerful and has produced a kind of arrogant psychology, the King of Qi and those clan ministers of the Tian clan, even if they only hit soy sauce to bite the most elite four counties, the posture they show is like giving alms to the Chu State.
The Chu people are romantic, romantic and self-esteem is extremely strong, they have endured the humiliation of the Qi army near the border, and the Qi country has a black history of surrendering the country to Qin without a fight.
After the successive restoration of various countries, the Zhao State was still carrying the Qin State as before, and the Yan State was located in the desolate north, needless to say, there was little manpower. The state of Chu had the intention to help Zhao ...... is really helping Zhao, at least some of Dangjun and Xue Jun were defeated by the Chu army and then returned to Zhao, and what is Qi doing?
It is not slanderous to say that the Qi State is a rat eye, but whether it is the Qi State during the Warring States Period, or the Qi State that was restored later, the Qi State has never known what it means to be cold, and it is thought that it can make a profit without paying a big price, and the Guangyang County that robbed the Yan State came from this mentality, and the Julu County of the Zhao State was also out of this mentality. When the state of Chu was at war with Lu Zhe, the soldiers of the state of Qi forced Huiji County out of this mentality.
What if the country of Qi is strong? In the past, not a single soldier of the Qi State was lost, and the whole country had 670,000 troops, and hundreds of thousands of troops were hoarded to eat grain for three years in the event of a war, and as a result, an envoy of the Qin State made the Qi State surrender without a fight. Therefore, the Chu people really looked down on the Qi State from the bottom of their hearts.
If you really want to tell the mood of the Chu people, they can be defeated, they can lose their land, they can lose their country, but they must not allow the people of the dragon to insult them. Of course, sometimes it is also excellent to insult the fact that you can not be defeated, not lose your land, and not lose your country. The problem is the state of Qi......
Lu Zhe is also talking about Qi State, but he is not talking about anything bad about Qi State, but about the strength of Qi State.
Qilu has always been an economically developed area. There is also the Qilu Plain to provide grain production, not to mention that Qi is a big country with salt control, which is really unique in terms of economy and agriculture.
It has only been two years since the restoration of the Qi State, and in addition to minor conflicts with the Yan State and the Zhao State within two years, it can be said that there have been basically no development obstacles.
“…… There is grain for two million troops to eat for one and a half to two years, and there are also one million armed standard troops, how can such a Qi country not be a strong country? "The examples given by Lu Zhe are very real, and there is no fanning for the flames, such as the matter of the Qi army forcing Huiji County. He got Xiang Liang's nod, and then continued: "Who can compete with Qi State now?" The Qin State may be a family, but the Qin State is about to face the southern invasion of at least 300,000 grassland Hu people, and I am afraid that it will not be able to use too much strength to confront the Qi State, not to mention that the Yan State and the Qi State have formed an alliance, and the Zhao State can only avoid the current Qi State everywhere. ”
It's all the truth, if it weren't for the fact that the Qin State had to face the grassland Hu people, the Qi State would definitely continue to develop in a muffled voice, and the Qi State that had been developing for two years would be like this, if more time was given for the sequel strength, who could be sure that the next country to unify the world would not be the Qi State?
Of course, Xiang Liang agrees with what Lu Zhe said about the fact that the Qi State is strong, and now the country that can pull out two million people is also the Qi State, which no one can compare. However, there is a key question, the Qi State is strong and strong, but at present, it is Lu Zhe who has the most disputes with the Chu State, right? Xiang Liang agreed with Lu Zhe's statement, but he was not so urgent, on the contrary, Lu Zhe was now the biggest threat to the Chu State.
No matter how strong the Qi State is, according to Xiang Liang's knowledge, although the Qi State has the ambition to go south, the biggest long-cherished wish of the Qi State at present is to eliminate the Qin State in order to wash away the black history on his body. Therefore, even if the Qi State wants to learn from the Qin State to dominate the world, it will be after the destruction of Qin.
According to Xiang Liang's estimate, even if the grassland Hu people go south, the Qi State will also launch a national mobilization to attack Qin, and the Qin State should not have much problem supporting it for three or five years.
Three or five years, the State of Qi will be dragged by the State of Qin for three or five years, and three or five years is enough time for Lu Zhe to solve the Baiyue and then attack the State of Chu, so the most urgent threat to the State of Chu is Lu Zhe's side, not the State of Qi.
Lu Zhe is the biggest threat to the Chu State, and it is also the one that the Chu State has to face, but unless Lu Zhe himself makes some stupid moves or suffers a blow from a third party, the current Chu State is obviously unable to compete with Lu Zhe, and the Chu State is also well aware of this.
Judging from Lu Zhe's series of statecraft, the possibility of Lu Zhe making a stupid move is too small and too small, if he really looks like a person who can make a stupid move, it is impossible to capture the hearts of the people within two years, and it is impossible to have his current achievements. On the contrary, it is more likely that Lu Zhe will be attacked by a third party, but the Qin State, which has the ability to attack Lu Zhe in the short term, is involved in the imminent southward march of the grassland Hu people and the Qi State, and the Qi State will not be full until the Qin State is destroyed, and will fight to the death with Lu Zhe.
The reason why Xiang Liang agreed to marry was nothing more than wanting to temporarily ease the relationship between the two sides and buy time for the Chu State to strengthen the country and army. But the state of Chu is trying to be strong, won't Lu Zhe become stronger? Then Xiang Liang has to prepare with both hands.
On the one hand, Xiang Liang created any possibility that might lead Lü Zhe downhill, tried to form an alliance with the Qi State, and even cooperated to attack Lü Zhe on the alliance; On the other hand, Xiang Liang threw out the establishment of the bear girl as the queen, and the blood of the Chu royal family was established as the heir, inheriting the foundation of Lu Zhe and obtaining the foundation of the Chu State, which seems to be a good idea for both parties.
In some ways, it is a fact that it is difficult for Lü Zhe to regain the land without decaying the Chu State, if Lü Zhe is really willing to set up the Chu royal family as his heir, and the Xiang family can obtain Huiji County as a fief, then Xiang Liang really doesn't mind fighting with Lü Zhe as a jade silk, or even serving Lü Zhe's hegemony.
The concept of the family and the country in the world, the family for the big country and the small, and the guarantee of the interests of the family is conceived for the country again, such a concept is not in the Han, Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties...... Yes, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, where feudal thought was deeply rooted in the bone marrow, such a concept was even more profound. If the Xiang clan can obtain Huiji County as a fief, it is a fief in feudalism, not the kind of fief of centralized power, that is to say, it is a fief of "my territory, I am the master", and with the king of the Chu royal blood as a step, what reason does the Xiang family have not to climb down?
Why did Lu Zhe come to meet the personnel of the Chu State, and start chatting with Xiang Liang after just talking to Xiong Xin for a few words during the meeting? It was Kuai Tong, Lu Jia, and Shusun Tong who explained Xiang's thoughts to Lu Zhe, and also explained what feudalism was, and Lu Zhe gave Xiang Liang a place in order to gain an advantage in the alliance!
Lu Zhe has never had a clue what country to choose and what kind of system to use, and what he is implementing now is the one that is closer to feudalism, so it is not allowed for others to interfere in the establishment of who is the queen and who is the heir, but it is still negotiable to talk about fiefs with Xiang Liang.
The clan is dominated by the family, and giving concessions from the interests of the clan to win over is a strategy that the kings of the countries have been adopting. Lu Zhe needs the Chu State not to make trouble in the alliance, so it is very necessary to make a series of moves, whether it is to confuse or win over, so that Xiang Shi'an can divide the point.
"Oh? Zhao Guo also proposed that Zhao Nu be the queen? This is the third time Xiong Xin has spoken.
Yes, the construction proposed by Zhao was expounded by Zhao Envoy on behalf of Zhao Wang Xie not long ago. When the topic of conversation turned to marriage, Lu Zhe repeated it with a look of embarrassment and hesitation, which was the strategy that should be there at this time.
Xiong Xin and Xiang Liang's request for Zhao Wangxi is not unexpected at all, which country is the origin of a country (force), this is something that will inevitably have a huge impact, and no one will give up fighting for it.
"Lu Hou," Xiang Liang spoke slowly: "The State of Chu can give a country, what can the State of Zhao give?" ”
Lu Zhe looked at Xiong Xin and found that even if Xiang Liang said that he wanted the whole country to be a dowry, Xiong Xin was still smiling.
Is Xiang Liang really sincere? Otherwise, how could it be said clearly on such an occasion? (To be continued......)