I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 165 The end of self-castration

Zhao Yang was indifferent to Zi Yue's questioning, and asked instead, "Is Mr. Zheng coming?"

Now Zheng Guo is cowardly.

The present is no longer an era of respecting etiquette, so what's the use of talking nonsense.

In the past, it was mainly about respecting the monarchy, and the authority of the monarchs of various countries was very strong. In line with the relationship between the princes, as a minister, he respected courtesy and was worried about being liquidated by the monarch of his own country. Non-national monarchs also need to treat each other with courtesy.

Others might not be so straightforward, Zhao Yang directly asked where Zheng Junsheng was, meaning nothing more than that if Zheng Junsheng could not come, the Jin army would continue to go south until the soldiers encircled "Xinzheng".

Ziyue looked at Zhao Yang with a dumbfounded expression for a while, obviously he couldn't believe what was happening.

Although Zheng Junsheng is the monarch of Zheng State, he is also a prince after all.

The "Qing" of the Jin State is a prince, but not a real prince.

"It seems that the authority of the king of Jin has really been completely lost." Zi Yue thought to himself.

Jin Junwu's authority had long since been lost, otherwise Zhao Yang hadn't sent someone back to pick him up last time, why didn't anyone say anything.

If it is a serious alliance, even though Zhao Yang is the "Yuan Rong" of the Jin State, he still cannot sign the alliance on behalf of the Jin State.

Zhao Yang thought Zheng Guo couldn't believe it, but the others agreed, and didn't think it was necessary to let Jin Jun go south at noon. It seemed reasonable, but in fact he was doing contempt for the monarchy.

Zi said, "Isn't the Marquis of Jin coming?"

Zhao Yang said: "The widow is in trouble."

Ziyue looked at the other "Qings" of Jin who were present, and some did not understand whether it was true or not that Jin Junwu was too ill to go south.

He is from Zheng, even if he knows that the state of Jin doesn't value the longevity of the covenant at all, and he knows in his heart that the state of Jin doesn't trust the state of Zheng, he definitely can't say it out of his mouth.

Zheng Junsheng was already in the city of "Hanling". Once Jin Junwu did not show up, the person who signed the covenant with Zheng Guo would not be the king of a country anyway, at most it would be the ruler or the prince.

"Is he provoking Zheng Guo?" Zi Yue heard that Zhao Yang is a person who doesn't pay attention to etiquette and law, and that Zhao Yang will always do some shocking things, but he still doesn't believe that Zhao Yang dares to be the one who undermines the authority of the princes in the world. people.

In the end, Ziyue mentioned that he needed to go back and report.

This time, Ziyue knew very well that even if he mentioned it, he would be humiliating himself, and he didn't mention the request that the Jin army should stay where it was.

After Zheng Guo's envoy left, Zhao Yang repeatedly emphasized that Zheng Guo could not be trusted, and then led the army to continue to approach "Hanling".

What Zhao Yang and other Jin people did not expect was that Zheng Guo reacted very quickly this time, and Ziyue came back the next day after he left.

The person who represents Zheng Junsheng and is in charge of handling it is Chu Junyi, who can also be called Gongzi Yi according to the current custom.

There were not many visitors from Zheng Guo, only more than [-] people including Prince Yi.

"Zheng Guo is really not sincere." Zhao Yang said.

One must know that signing a covenant is not a matter of writing a covenant letter or something. Zheng Guo only has two hundred people, so how should the etiquette be carried out?

Even if it's playing house, it's not like this!
"Your widow is seriously ill suddenly, it is not disrespectful to Jin." Zi said, weeping.

Zheng Junsheng is sick?Or a sudden illness? ? ?

Before Zhao Yang said that Jin Junwu was sick, now Young Master Yi said that Zheng Junsheng was also sick, what a coincidence!
It seems that such a thing can be forgiven even if it is fake?

After all, Zheng Guo himself can attack the monarch, and if he can hide for a while, the country's reputation will be hit, and what should happen in the future will inevitably happen again, and it will be very worthwhile to cheat.

Zhao Yang knew it was a fake, so he didn't want to expose it at all, and directly proposed the content of the covenant on the Jin side.

According to the requirements, Zheng Guo needs to compensate a lot, including some cities around the "Hulao", as well as related materials and population.

The covenant that Zhao Yang took out did not mention how much protection fee Zheng Guo should pay to Jin State every year, and this alone made Young Master Yi's face change drastically.

"Yi has prepared food..." Young Master Yi saw the coldness in Zhao Yang's eyes.

What is food?In fact, it is a kind of banquet that includes etiquette. It is quite meaningful to choose such words.

The current situation is that Young Master Yi needs to conduct internal discussions to discuss whether to agree to Jin's request, or if there is anything that needs to be supplemented.

Zhao Yang said with a blank face, "It's important to get down to business."

Wei Hua wanted to say something, but after hesitating for a while, he still kept his mouth shut.

The current situation is obviously that Zhao Yang is pressing Zheng Guo step by step, which means that Zheng Guo can't bear the humiliation and choose to continue to resist.

"Why is there no gift of diplomatic relations?" Young Master Yi couldn't delay, and couldn't discuss internally, so he had to ask cautiously.

Zhao Yang made a gesture of sighing, and asked, "General Zheng will obey?"

Without waiting for Young Master Yi to answer, Zhao Yang continued, "If I (the state of Jin) are strong, Zheng Zi will contribute; if I become weak, Zheng Yi will also be made. I don't need to mention it here."

At this moment, Young Master Yi felt the arrogance coming towards him.

It was Zhao Yang's firm belief that under his leadership, the state of Jin would inevitably regain its hegemony. At that time, what the state of Zheng owed to the state of Jin would not only have to be repaid, but interest would also be added.

There were no alliances that day.

Young Master Yi returned to his residence and said to his left and right: "It is really my misfortune that Zhao Meng is in such a dictatorship."

In fact, Zheng Guo was unwilling to cause the current situation. Whoever caused the Jin State to split itself before, and it was the Fan family and the Zhonghang family who were targeted by the Zhao family.

In the eyes of the nations, the Fan family and the Zhongxing family are one-on-one powerful in the Jin state. They were invited by the Fan family and participated in it out of profit.

The development of the situation is very unexpected. Even now that the civil strife in Jin has come to an end, they still feel unbelievable about the failure of Fan and Zhongxing.

There is one thing to say, the Fan family and the Zhongxing family seem really powerful. Based on the paper data, the Fan family alone can beat the Zhao and Han families, and the Zhonghang family can match the Wei family no matter what. As for Zhi Doesn't Shi still have a bond with Zhongxing?

At the beginning of the development of the situation, the Fan family and the Zhongxing family assembled much more troops than the combined forces of the Zhao, Han and Wei families, and the Zhi family also adopted neutrality as guessed.

What they never expected was that Fan and Zhongxing, who seemed so powerful, could take advantage of Han's, but they lost again and again against Zhao and Wei.

What is the situation! ?
It turns out that the Fan family and the Zhongxing family are so strong outside but the middle class, but the Zhao family and the Wei family are so capable of fighting, it's a fucking dog, okay?

Now that Zheng Guo was cornered, he wished he could go back in time before interfering in Jin's internal affairs, and cut off the envoy sent by Shi Jishe.

"The only thing I'm glad today is that the state of Chu is powerless." Zi Yue said with an embarrassing expression on his face.

right?Zheng Guo was caught in the middle at the beginning, and was hit by Jin and Chu in mixed doubles. He really had no choice but to keep jumping left and right, but he also got the nickname of an old surrender country because of his repeated jumps. Time has reduced from a first-rate power to a second-rate country.

After Zichan's operation, Zheng Guo finally regained his vitality, is he going to return to the previous miserable situation now?

Many people who occupy high positions in Zheng Guo now look stupid, but there is no one like Zichan who can replace him, not even someone who is inferior to Zichan.

Why did Zheng Guohui become like this?It can only be said that Zichan made Zheng Guo strong for a while, but the reforms carried out made Zheng Guo destined to decline rapidly in the future.

Zichan's reform can be summed up as feeding the Zheng family with nobles with different surnames, strengthening the strength of the Zheng Guogong clan, and then causing a large number of nobles with different surnames to die out.

Based on the background of the times at that time, it cannot be said that Zichan did something wrong. He just strengthened the public clan according to the needs of the mainstream. During the process, the Si clan, Du clan, Hou clan, Zishi clan, and Wei clan rebelled, and some interests were damaged The aristocrats of the state of Zheng also turned against each other. It seemed that Yi Zichan and the rest of the public were just eradicating pests.

A large number of nobles with different surnames could not get along in Zheng Guo, they could only choose to flee, it can be regarded as the Zheng Guo that happened in the Spring and Autumn Period sent talents to other countries.

After that, Zheng Guo cut off the threat from nobles with different surnames, to avoid the risk of "Qing Clan chaos" in Zheng State when it happened like Jin State, and a large number of public clans were raised as pigs at once.

"How, what..." Even if Young Master Yi knew that the reform had produced vicious results, he would definitely not be able to admit it, and was very worried about how to make the Jin Kingdom give up the idea of ​​revenge.

Zi said, "Why don't you imitate Zikong?"

Young Master Yi's expression changed upon hearing this.

Who is that Zikong?He used to be in charge of the state of Zheng, and he was also a good player of the "Seven Injuries Fist". In order to convince the state of Jin of the sincerity of the state of Zheng, he sent troops to let the Jin army beat him violently, and weakened the strength of the state of Zheng.

Why did Zikong do that?The main reason is that it is embarrassing for Zheng Guo to be neither strong nor weak. Standing on the side of Jin State can threaten Chu State, and standing on Chu State's side can also threaten Jin State. Some of the most of the strength, and then surrender to the drama of Jin.

To be more transparent, the threat of Zheng Guo's weakness to everyone will be reduced. It doesn't matter whether he sincerely surrenders to anyone or not. Zheng Guo himself will firmly hug Jin Guo's thigh.

This time, the State Council of Zheng intervened in the internal strife of the Jin State. In fact, after the State of Zheng surrendered to the State of Jin, it was Fan's fault that the State of Jin was in charge of establishing diplomatic relations with the State of Zheng.

To make it easier to understand, Zheng Guo was completely brought into the sinkhole by Shi Jishe.

Young Master Yi's complexion kept changing, indicating that he was at war with heaven and man in his heart, and finally shook his head and said: "If you repeat the old trick, there may be a danger of Dun and Cai!"

The Kingdom of Dun was swallowed by the Kingdom of Chu not long ago.

Cai Guo was simply moved by all the Chu people. No accident, it was also a dish in Chu Guo's bowl, and he would be eaten sooner or later.

Zheng Guo lost a lot of troops during the period of intervening in the Jin civil unrest, and it is hard to say whether it will be able to protect itself after another wave of losses.

"So..." Zi Yue smiled wryly for a while, and said, "Join Chu in the south, Song in the east, Wei and Zhi in the north?"

Young Master Yi shook his head again.

If you really hook up with other countries again, is it because you hate being beaten hard enough by Jin?
Young Master Yi thought for a while and said, "Maybe you can contact Wei and Zhi?"

It's a fool to believe that the Qing clan of Jin can truly unite, right?

Currently, the Wei family and the Zhi family are allies. They are united against the Zhao family and the Han family. With Jin Junwu supporting the Hu family, the chaos of the Jin country may give Zheng the room to maneuver in diplomatic relations?
　Chapter 2 will be later.The main reason is that the author Zha has been in poor spirits for the past few days, and he will start to feel sleepy within two hours of waking up. I don't know the reason, but it is really uncomfortable anyway.

　　
　
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