I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 304 What does the Wei family want to do?
Wei Ju didn't come back until the day before the new king took the throne, so he seemed to be very neglectful of this matter.

However, it is not a matter of a day or two for Jin Guoqing's family to treat the monarchy slowly. After a long time, no one really thinks that the monarch should not be offended.

Another two "months" passed, and the Wei family still failed to break through the "Zhao" city.

In fact, the battle of attacking and defending a city is like this. As long as the defending side has prepared in advance, depending on how perfect the preparation is, the difficulty of attacking the city will change accordingly.It is common for a city offensive and defensive battle to last for one or two years, or even drag on for four or five years or longer.

So, no family could have imagined that the Zhi family could take down the hard bone of "Jinyang" within three months, but the Zhi family did it under Sun Wu's planning and operation.

Under normal circumstances, it would take at least three to five years for the Zhi family to attack "Jinyang", and it is still unknown whether they can be defeated.

Wei's desire to take down "Zhao" city as soon as possible is very understandable. After they take down "Zhao" city, they can digest it earlier, and then only use troops against Zheng Guo. After taking a breath, he watched Zhi's smashing the fortified city of "Jinyang", and even made some other calculations.

For example, once the Zhi family was exhausted from attacking "Jinyang", and the entire family fell into extreme depression, can anyone blame others for having bad thoughts?It is impossible to specify, it is Zhishi's incompetence that puts himself in crisis.

If the Zhao family really held on in "Jinyang"?In view of the huge size of the Zhi family, imagine how much benefit everyone will get from the fall of the Zhi family. Not only the Wei family will be moved, but the rest of the Han family, the Fox family, or the Zhong family, which one will not be moved?

Everyone is a big family with a family. If they can grow, why not seize the opportunity.If you really gave up killing the biggest threat because of friendship, wouldn't you be digging your own grave?

After Wei Ju came back, he asked his retainers, and after learning about the big and small things that happened recently, he had a small question: "Seeing that the Zhi family has concentrated most of its energy on Qi Guo?"

Now there are two legions of the Zhi clan going to attack "Jinyang", right?
From before to now, Zhiyao has always been a person who is quite capable of fighting, but this time he did not go to "Jinyang" to command the battle.

So, is the Zhi family eyeing the vacated position, or is Qi State more important to the Zhi family?

"Maybe it's both!" Wei Ju thought to himself.

After all, the Zhao family has been weakened repeatedly. Even though they have worked hard to manage "Jinyang" for a long time, the Zhi family has already dispatched two legions to attack, so it cannot be said that they have not paid enough attention to it.

On the contrary, the fact that the Zhi family dispatched two legions to attack "Jinyang" can reflect the importance that the Zhi family attaches to "Jinyang".

Wei Ju admired the core management of the Zhi Clan very much. The matter of destroying the Wei State had not been dealt with, and they had been attacking the Qi State, and were responsible for attacking the "Jinyang" area that the Zhao Clan worked so hard to manage. It seemed that they were still in order. , did not show the slightest confusion to outsiders.

Regarding this point, it can only be said that those people trained by Zhiyao in the early days filled the place and played their due role, and then we can say that Zhiyao's core management is powerful.

To put it bluntly, someone at the top always needs someone to implement any idea that the top leaders have. Without someone who implements it, no matter how good a policy plan is, it will be useless.

When Wei Ju saw Zhiyao again, he saw the other "Qing" at the same time.

It was the scene where the new King of Jin was succeeding to the throne. All the "Qing" must be present, and then the rest of the nobles of Jin, as well as the envoys from other countries who came to watch the ceremony, and the angel sent by Zhou Tianzi was indispensable.

The place where the enthronement ceremony is held is, of course, Miyagi in Nitta.

Now, people in Miyagi are all dressed in plain clothes, and there are some black cloths everywhere.

black?That's right, Jin's mourning clothes are black.This is different from other countries, and the change occurred after the "Battle of Wei".

It is obvious that the new king is enthroned, how could there be such a scene?The answer is that Jin Dinggong has not been buried yet.

The country needs a new monarch to take the throne, and on the premise of the death of the old monarch, it must be a plain scene.

Tianguan came out first. He stood in the center of the hall and recited some deeds of Jin Dinggong aloud.

What kind of conclusion method?It's nothing more than confirming with the posthumous title.

Regarding Jin Junwu's posthumous title of "Ding", the Dukes of the Jin Kingdom have no opinion, and the royal family of Zhou has also passed it.

After this procedure was completed, a large group of people appeared to take away the black cloth, and the Jin people at the scene also took off the white cloth on their bodies, revealing the clothes that were originally hidden inside.

Most people nowadays do not have such a thing as official uniforms, and their status is not distinguished by clothing.

Young Master Chiu is different. He is about to ascend the throne, so he needs to change the royal clothes before coming out.

Taking advantage of this time, Wei Ju approached Zhiyao and asked, "Is there any change in envoy Wu?"

Although Jin won the "Battle of Ai Ling" last time, Wu is still Jin's biggest and most threatening enemy.

What is more strange is that Wu State did not intend to take advantage of the outbreak of civil war in Jin State to go north. On the contrary, this time Wu State envoys came to "Xintian" and reaffirmed the previous revolutionary friendship between the two countries.

What the hell?In fact, in order to compete with Chu for hegemony, Jin discovered the existence of Wu, and Wu and Chu were feuds, so it supported Wu.

Now, of course, the state of Wu would not admit that it was able to rise with the help of the state of Jin. They just re-emphasized friendship and seemed to give up their intention of going north to fight for hegemony.

If Chu State made such a statement, Jin State might be skeptical.

Anyway, Chu State has repeatedly emphasized that they are barbarians, but some of their things are still quite embarrassing, and they will not easily go back on their word at the national level.

Wu Guo is different. Their past hardships have cultivated a too flexible moral bottom line, and their nature is to pay attention to profit, and they have almost no credit.

After hearing Zhiyao's introduction, Wei Ju said with a look of disbelief: "The more this is the case, the more wary you will be!"

Look!

This is the result of reputation bankruptcy.

In the past, Zheng Guo suffered enough losses due to lack of credit, and finally used self-harm to gain the limited trust of Jin State, and Zheng State turned against Jin State only after being honest for less than 30 years.Of course there are factors of being invited by the Fan family and the Zhongxing family, can it be said that they themselves have no intention of turning against Jin at any time?No way!

Zhiyao nodded and said, "Wu people can't be trusted."

In fact, Zhiyao really didn't believe that Wu would give up fighting for hegemony just after the disastrous defeat in the "Battle of Ai Ling".

This time, the envoy of Wu State once again expressed goodwill to Jin State. The problem is that Wu State did not stop digging the canal, and even recruited labor force again. While digging the canal, the other side began to build the city along the canal!

Those signs are evidence that Wu State has not given up fighting for hegemony, and even because of Wu State's increase in labor force, it shows that Fu Chai has become ruthless in his determination.

On the other hand, the state of Wu sent envoys to the state of Chu to express its willingness to repair.Besides this, doesn't it prove that Wu Guo wants to give up fighting on two fronts and concentrate on planning to go north?
Of course, no matter whether it was digging canals, building cities, or reconciling with Chu State, a series of actions of Wu State were the detailed work of Zhi family to send back news. It is not clear whether other families in Jin State knew about it.

Zhiyao took out some limited information to share with Wei Ju, and then said: "It may be five years earlier, or ten years later, Wu Jun will definitely go north again."

When Wei Ju heard that Wu State was mobilizing more labor to dig canals and build cities, he immediately agreed with Zhi Yao's judgment on Wu State.

"Chu is willing to cease war with Wu?" Wei Ju asked.

Zhiyao replied: "Repeated battles and defeats have led to the decline of Chu's state affairs. Its domestic turmoil continues, the monarch's power is weakening, Zixi is exhausted, and it is difficult to achieve results. Bai Gongsheng and Zheng You are always trying to defeat Zheng. Wu shows weakness, Chu must."

In fact, Chu State was not defeated repeatedly. Even if they lost again and again, they still annexed many countries within a few years, and even occupied one-third of the territory after the Man clan lost to the Jin army.

Generally speaking, because of too many internal conflicts, it is difficult for the state of Chu to concentrate its strength in one place, and it is easy to beat some low-level countries. When it encounters a powerful enemy country, the internal opinions are not unified, which leads to repeated battles and repeated defeats.

The state of Chu, which seems to be in a bad situation, has not actually consumed much of their strength. One day they will meet a capable monarch, they will be able to unify the interior at once, and then burst out with strong strength.

Based on this understanding, too many people in the state of Jin have always been more wary of the state of Chu than in the state of Wu. Wei Ju and Zhiyao brought up the state of Chu again, which has some connotations.

Sure enough, Wei Ju said: "If the alliance with Chu is beneficial to me, what about the alliance?"

A limited alliance with Chu State has always been Zhiyao's idea. In the past, everyone deliberately avoided this proposal. When Wei Ju formally agreed with that point of view, the matter became very clear.

Zhiyao asked directly: "It's not good for the Wei family to attack Zheng?"

Wei Ju smiled wryly and said, "Zheng people are good at defense, and they fortify the city everywhere, so it is really difficult to win."

This is really true!
Zheng Guo first managed "Xinzheng" as solid as gold, and then began to extend to the surrounding areas. The cities had more than two defense systems, and every attack on the city would have to pay painful casualties.

This time when the Wei family attacked Zheng State, they marched into the northern part of Zheng State in an armed parade. If they want to continue going south, they need to take down "Xinzheng". , which made Wei very uncomfortable.

They are talking.

The ceremonial process of the new king's enthronement is also going on.

From this point, it is completely reflected that the noble families of Jin really do not have the power of the monarchy.

The angel sent by the emperor of Zhou made the young master chiu become the king of Jin with the legal recognition, and if there is no problem with the legal system, it will be the turn of the envoys of all countries to congratulate.

Whether it is angels or envoys from various countries, their approval actually represents the legitimacy of King Jin's ascension to the throne.

The ceremony for the new king's ascension to the throne was over, and those who were supposed to wear the oyster continued to wear it. After a delay of one or two days, it was the official funeral of Jin Dinggong.

Because of the special situation, all the "qings" and nobles of Jin stayed in Miyagi.

Such a gathering of high-ranking and powerful people should not waste time for nothing, it is a good time to discuss some matters!

(End of this chapter)