After interrupting the spiritual communication with Hehua, Gao Yuan also felt that it was indeed a little difficult to deal with his relationship with Hehua, after all, now he and Qin Guo are indeed hostile relations, and Han Teng also represents Qin State, even if he defeats Han Teng, he still has to fight against Qin State, and Hehua is the princess of Qin State, how to deal with the relationship with Hehua at that time?

Thinking of this, Gao Yuan couldn't help but sigh secretly, what he couldn't figure out, don't think about it for the time being, first do the things in front of him, after all, the Qin State is still a behemoth, even if he organizes the Three Kingdoms to join forces, whether he can defeat the Qin State, it is not easy to say, although the national strength of the three kingdoms of the Han and Chu dynasties is indeed slightly stronger than the Qin State, but this advantage is not big, and it is not overwhelming.

And more importantly, although the three countries are indeed facing great pressure from the Qin State now, so they all really want to form a joint column to fight against the Qin state, but there are considerable differences between the three countries, if the agreement is not good, it will cause heavy damage to the joint column, so it takes a lot of energy to coordinate the relationship between all aspects, which is also the most headache for the plateau.

However, this period of time is not without good news, at this time from the plateau called Wang Ji has gone more than ten days, in the first three days after the celebration, the Han State represented by Zhang Liang, and Tian Kezang, Xiang Dong immediately began to negotiate the formation of the matter of the column, and the Han side put forward three conditions: one is by the plateau to serve as the commander of the column, the commander of the army; Second, Qi and Chu should support certain materials to the Han State; The third is to strengthen commercial exchanges between the three countries and reduce tariffs, and Tian Kezhang and Xiang Dong basically have no objections.

Because in the past few years, Gao Yuan has become a recognized famous general of other countries, and he is the only person who can defeat Qin, and the combat effectiveness of the Han army is also obvious to the same eye, so Gao Yuan is naturally the best candidate to serve as the commander of the joint column, at this point, Tian Kezhang and Xiang Dong are still self-aware, if it is not for Gao Yuan to serve as the commander of the joint column, even if the joint column is formed, there is no chance to defeat the Qin State at all.

However, among the three kingdoms, the emerging Han state is the weakest, so if you want the Han state to make a big contribution in this alliance, you really need the necessary support from Qi and Chu, and of course, it is not a problem for the financial strength of Qi and Chu.

Although Tian Kezhang and Xiang Dong don't understand why Gao Yuan added this article, but in their opinion, this is not a big deal, Tian Kezhang and the Xiang family are very close to their own businessmen, so adding this article is of course beneficial to their own businessmen, in fact, it is also good for them.

Although for Qi and Chu, the reduction of border trade tariffs does have a certain loss, but the commercial tax of the two countries is mainly an internal municipal tax, not a border tariff, and the loss is not large, and the reduction of border trade tariffs is also conducive to expanding trade between each other, and can also increase the income of municipal tax. So there is not much to lose in practice.

In addition, for the state of Chu, there is another benefit, because the state of Chu has a great demand for paper, books, furs and other commodities in the county, but can only obtain these goods from the state of Qi, if the border trade tariffs are reduced to each other, the merchants of the state of Chu can directly go to the Han state to buy the goods they need, reduce costs, and after the plateau moves the capital, the output of paper and books will be further expanded, so the supply of goods to the state of Chu can also be guaranteed.

However, Hehua said that Qin Wangzheng sent Fusu to Daliang to supervise the army, which reminded the plateau, and it seems that Qin has already considered the tactics of dealing with the Hezhong army, and it seems that he wants to use Daliang as a base to resist the Hezong army.

The plateau was also based on the Great Liang at the beginning, resisting the Qin army, almost two years, of course, knowing that the high walls of the Great Liang City are thick, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if it were not for the Qin State to use water attack tactics, it is almost impossible to conquer the Great Liang, so the Qin State also relied on the Great Liang to resist the Hezhong army, obviously preparing to use the way of others, and also govern the body. Even if he can lead the Hezong army to capture Daliang, he will inevitably suffer heavy losses and consumption, and he will not be able to advance westward again, and just lose Daliang, which is not a huge loss for Qin, as long as he retreats to Luoyi, it is enough to stabilize the situation. The Three Kingdoms of Han and Chu Qi could not change their strategic passivity.

Therefore, Gao Yuan believes that this time he must achieve two goals, one is to recover the entire territory of Zhao State, so that his strength can be upgraded to another level, and to achieve the goal of being able to independently confront Qin State, and the other is to directly open up the border between Han and Chu, without using Qi State, only in this way can it be regarded as changing the strategic robbery situation of Qin State.

And in order to achieve these two goals, the plateau must not lead the army to fight hard with the Qin army in front of Daliang City, so how to deal with the layout of the Qin State is also a headache for the plateau.

At this moment, there was an internal report, Zhang Liang entered the palace, asked to see the plateau, and reported the progress of the Three Kingdoms, and the plateau listened and hurriedly ordered Zhang Liang to enter the palace.

After a while, Zhang Liang came to the Qianqing Palace and met the plateau. After the ceremony, Gao Yuan smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang, how are you talking?" ”

Zhang Liang said: "Back to the king, we have almost talked about it, Qi and Chu have prepared to return to China in the near future, but Qi and Chu have agreed that this time they will join forces to attack Qin, and the troops dispatched will be no less than 300,000, and they will guarantee to provide our Han army with 300,000 stone grain, but will beg us to dispatch no less than 200,000 troops." ”

Gao Yuan nodded and said: "It is not difficult for us to dispatch 200,000 troops, and the two countries of Qi and Chu can provide us with 600,000 stone grain, which can at least allow us to save 3 million stone grain, which is not a small amount, and it has made Mr. hard these days." ”

Zhang Liang hurriedly said: "There, the king treats his ministers with the grace of knowledge, and these are the responsibilities of his subordinates, but both Qi and Chu said that the time to send troops can only be after April and May next year." ”

Therefore, it is not an easy thing to assemble a large army to go out to fight, the more the number of troops, the longer the time to assemble, like the Qin and Han dynasties, both of which are practical systems of farming and warfare, and the administrative efficiency is higher, and the establishment of the army and the people are conducive to assembly, so that the speed of assembling the army is faster, but the military and political systems of Qi and Chu are obviously unable to achieve such efficiency, so the time to assemble the army is naturally longer, so it is also very reasonable to set the time for the official dispatch of troops after April and May next year.

Gao Yuan said: "It's nothing, we have just established the country and moved the capital, and it will take a while to prepare, and we will send troops after April and May next year, which also happens to give us plenty of time." ”

Zhang Liang said again: "There is another point, Anping Jun Jianyi, during February and March next year, the alliance of the three kingdoms will be held in Qi State, and the alliance will be formally signed, the formation of a joint column, and a detailed military plan will be formulated. ”

After listening to this, Gao Yuan also nodded slightly, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was a common thing for the candidates to hold alliances. However, there are generally two forms of alliances, one is the informal alliance, which is only a temporary alliance held for a certain event, the ceremony is relatively simple, and there is no need to sign a document such as the alliance, after the alliance is over, they return to the country, and it has no relationship, and the participants can be the monarch, or the minister can attend instead of the monarch; The other is much more formal, in which the participating nations formally form an alliance with common powers and duties, and therefore are generally personally involved by the king, not only to build a dedicated altar, but also to hold a blood alliance and sign a formal covenant, and in this kind of alliance, often a leader is elected to be responsible for the affairs of the entire alliance.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons have held more than one alliance of monarchs, of course, they are the second form of alliance, and sign a covenant in the alliance to formally determine their overlord position, although theoretically speaking, the alliance leader is also bound by the alliance, but the overlords have their own way, using the alliance to serve themselves; In the Warring States Period, the alliances between the candidates still happened from time to time, but at this time there was no longer the title of overlord, so the alliance generally did not elect the leader of the alliance, such as Gongsun Yan organized the first joint expedition against Qin, Su Qin and Pei Six Kingdoms, and also carried out the alliance of the monarch. The most recent one was an informal meeting between King Zhaoxiang of Qin and King Huiwen of Zhao more than 40 years ago.

This time, the alliance held by the three countries is of course a formal alliance, and in addition to not electing the leader of the alliance, all other procedures must be completed, so it is natural that the kings of the three countries need to personally participate in it and carry out a bloody alliance.

And although Tian Kezhang is the actual ruler of Qi State, Xiang Dong is an important member of the largest family of Chu State, both of them can represent the qualifications of Qi and Chu, but after all, they are still subordinates, and other things can also represent the monarch, but to hold a formal alliance, the monarch still needs to come forward in person, so Tian Kezang only mentioned that in February and March next year, the monarchs of the three countries will hold a formal alliance in Qi State, expressing the importance that all countries attach to this alliance, and declaring their determination to jointly fight against the Qin army. After all, in this era, people still attach more importance to the oath reached by the formal alliance.

Gao Yuan has no objection to holding an alliance, sometimes he still has to walk in the form of a walk, but Gao Yuan immediately thought that after Han Teng learned of this news, would he take this opportunity to destroy the alliance? This is a great opportunity to wipe out the monarchs of the three kingdoms, and if it is a plateau, I am afraid that an operation will also be held at this time. Maybe Han Teng didn't act in the previous stage, just waiting for this opportunity. After all, Han Teng didn't make any moves in the Qin State, and it didn't seem like he was using this joint effort to strengthen his power in the Qin State.

However, it is not possible to cancel this alliance just because of the threat of Han Teng, otherwise the momentum of this alliance will be insufficient from the beginning. And Han Teng didn't know what he was going to do, so the meeting should still be held as usual, just be careful.