I have Futian in my heart

Chapter 913 Xi Rong
Because the people of Chu were too quiet, they only sent people over to negotiate at the very beginning. When none of the conditions were met, they launched a curse, trying to create a fire to burn down the building materials.

After the failure, there was no other movement for so long.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the Chu people's style!

Even if the people of Chu dare not directly attack him, the prince, lest they offend the king of Zhou and the emperor, and come to another southern expedition.

But Chu people are definitely not the kind of character who just watch him build a city and do nothing.

Zheng Xiaoming concluded that the current Chu people must be planning something, but he just doesn't know it!

This made Zheng Xiaoming feel very uneasy, wondering where the Chu people would play their cards.

While Zheng Xiaoming was pacing around the room, someone suddenly came to report beamingly: "My lord, the king sent you three thousand slaves to help you build the city!"

Zheng Xiaoming was slightly taken aback: "Three thousand slaves? Where did they come from?"

"I heard that they are captured Xirong prisoners of war!"

Zheng Xiaoming was stunned: "Why did Your Majesty fight with Xi Rong?"

You must know that Xirong has always been a traditional ally of the Great Zhou Dynasty, also known as Jiang Shirong.

That's right, who do you think of when you hear Jiang Shi?Jiang Ziya.Qi State.

Xi Rong has always been an ally of the Zhou people, or the Zhou people were originally one of the Xi Rong.

After the Ji family and the Jiang family joined forces to destroy the Shang, although some Xi Rong was confiscated to the easternmost state of Qi, a large part remained in the west.

By the way, why was the Jiang family from Xirong enfeoffed to the east coast?This is worth pondering.

Anyway, the relationship between the two parties has become subtle and complicated, and they have met each other several times.

But now Da Zhou's strength seems to be in decline. It's time to win over Jiang Shirong, so why fight Xi Rong?
"I heard that Xi Rong didn't obey the king's order. The king took Qin Zhong as his doctor and conquered Xi Rong. He got a lot of cattle and horses, as well as prisoners of war!"

Qin Zhong is the monarch of Qin State and the vassals in the west of the Great Zhou Dynasty.The main responsibility is to herd horses for the emperor.

In this era, it is just a prince with decent strength but not too high a status.

Of course, only Zheng Xiaoming knows how powerful Qin will be in the future!

But that was after King Ping moved eastward and gave up the entire old Zong Zhou to the Qin people.

At present, it is just a vassal state in the westernmost part of the Great Zhou Dynasty.The sense of existence among Zhu Xia is very low!

"I didn't expect that Qin Zhong still has some skills, and he captured so many prisoners from Xirong... No, I remember reading the history books at the end of Han Dynasty. I remember that when Qin Zhong fought Xirong later, he died in battle!"

Zheng Xiaoming shook his head and stopped thinking about these things. As a southern prince, he couldn't control things so far away in the west.

That's right, the so-called Jianghan now, all the way to the Chu people's ruling power, is called the Southern Land by the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Naturally, Zheng Xiaoming's Zheng Guojian is located in Xiangshui Zhiyang, so he must be a southern prince!

He ordered people to resettle those Xirong slaves properly and not let these people cause any trouble.

But he doesn't need to worry about this kind of thing at all. The Zhou Dynasty has very rich experience in using slaves and domesticating prisoners of war into slaves.

Those under him should be able to handle these things well!
Then Zheng Xiaoming summoned the courtiers of King Zhou who escorted these slaves, and invited them to a banquet to thank them.He asked Zong Zhou Fenghao about the situation there.

Knowing that King Xuan has succeeded to the throne, he defeated the powerful enemies in the west, Hyun-hyun and Xi-rong.The threat from Zong Zhou's side was greatly reduced, and King Zhou's attention would be shifted to the south in the next step.It will be able to strongly support Zheng Xiaoming's Zheng Guo!
Even after a few years, after recharging their energy, it is possible to send a large army to deal with the disobedient Huaiyi and Chu people in the south.

And the sending of three thousand captives this time is also a kind of supportive attitude of King Zhou towards Zheng Xiaoming.

It is also said that the king of Zhou was considering where to seal Shen Bo.

In the original time and space, King Xuan granted Shen Bo to Xie Yi, which was later Nanyang, established Shen State, and controlled the south.

But now, Zheng Xiaoming has come to the south first, and the fief is a little further south than Xie Yi.

So now, King Xuan is considering where to seal Shen Bo.

After hearing this, Zheng Xiaoming also felt a little embarrassed for King Xuan.Because there is really nowhere to seal it!

In the era of King Li, the land of the Zhou family was almost divided.

Archaeological discoveries of later generations show that the scale of land rewarded by the king of Zhou is getting smaller and smaller, and sometimes even a few pieces of land are not connected.

A complete large piece of land is no longer available!

Even Wang Ji, who directly belonged to the king of Zhou, began to give it to others.

So it is really not easy to find a piece of land to entrust to relatives and subordinates.

In history, Zheng Boyou barely gained a foothold by relying on Guo Guo and Qi Guo to donate ten cities.

Of course, it is hard to say whether these two countries in history were willing to give up or were forced to give up!

Now that Zheng Xiaoming has been sealed in the south, it would be meaningless to seal Shen Bo over.

But other than that, it was not so easy for King Xuan to find another piece of land for his uncle.

By the way, Shen Bo is also the Jiang family, including Lu Guo who is now in Nanyang.

In the era of the Jiang family and the Ji family, almost every generation of Zhou kings would marry a daughter of the Lu family.

This is somewhat similar to the later Liao Kingdom, where the Yelu family was the king and the Xiao family was the queen.

Shen Bo was the uncle of King Li and the uncle of King Xuan.Moreover, he is also a virtuous minister known for his virtues, so it is obvious that he must find a way to settle him properly.

But Zheng Xiaoming doesn't need to worry about this kind of thing.These are things that King Xuan should worry about.

What Zheng Xiaoming is worried about now is how to establish his own Zheng State as soon as possible under the blockade and suppression of the Chu people.

When he was thinking about how the Chu people should make moves, he didn't think that the Chu people would really make a fuss.

Because Zheng Xiaoming was not long ago, he heard that the Chu people's boat division landed in Yindi and built a city in Yindi.

This obviously meant tit for tat with Zheng Xiaoming.

From the very beginning, Zheng Xiaoming intended to build a city in Yindi, or build Yang, to establish a country.

But that place is on the banks of the Han River, facing the soldiers of Chu people directly.

That's why Zheng Xiaoming retreated to the next best thing, and retreated to Xiangshui Zhiyang to build the city.

Now the Chu people sent people to build cities in Yindi, the reason is self-evident.

But Zheng Xiaoming breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the news. Since the people of Chu had adopted a defensive attitude, they probably wouldn't take the initiative to attack!That's a good thing, giving him time to find his feet.

(End of this chapter)