I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 538 Different Needs

After the war, there were burnt black warships floating on the surface of the river, and many corpses were hooked on some plants on the mountain walls on both sides of the river, and more corpses were sinking and floating in the river.

Some survivors can be seen leaning against the mountain wall, they are either holding on to the raised stones, or hugging the branches of plants, or even pulling the corpses of their dead companions, waiting for one shot after another. The incoming arrows took life.

Chu's large wings were all wiped out, only a small part of the middle wing and more small wings were separated.

If there is no accident, the surviving Chu State navy would never dare to go north again, or go to the "Dog Hill" to retreat, or even abandon the warship and go back to the Chu State by land.

Knowing that the navy was nearly wiped out, the top leaders of the Chu-Song coalition forces quarreled, some generals of the Song army were killed, and the coalition forces chose to withdraw from Suishui.

The withdrawal of the Chu-Song allied forces is not good news for the Yuan Kingdom. It means that the Chu Kingdom will abandon "Shangqiu", the besieged capital of the Song Kingdom, and even continue to plunder the Song Kingdom in the future, and then coerce the Song army back to the Chu Kingdom.

Zhiyao came to the outskirts of "Shangqiu" after the Chu-Song coalition forces withdrew, sent someone to inform the Song State monarchs and ministers about the withdrawal of the Chu-Song coalition forces, and then persuaded the Song State monarchs and ministers to surrender.

"The people of Chu are really treacherous barbarians. They didn't try to rescue them, and even killed my generals and took away my army!" Song Junluan's physical and mental state seemed to be fine, but now his face turned blue from anger.

Zihan said hesitantly, "Or Yuanguo is deceiving?"

There is this possibility, but the king and ministers of the Song Dynasty are very aware that the possibility of Yuan Guo's deception is unlikely.

The relationship between Song State and Chu State was already very bad, and it was because Yuan State put too much pressure on them to unite, so they had to choose to unite and resist.

It’s good for a seemingly incompatible alliance to have infighting from time to time. Without a foundation of trust, it’s hard to cooperate efficiently. It’s almost as good as finding out that allies are going to be unlucky and not stealing the joy.

Not long ago, they learned from the envoy of the original country that the main force of the Yue country had been wiped out and the Yue king Gou Jian had disappeared.

The original country's definition of King Goujian of Yue is disappearance, and in the near future it will be announced that King Goujian of Yue was starved to death while fleeing.This is Zhiyao's decision not to leave any reputation for Goujian.

In the history books, it will be recorded that King Goujian of Yue was decapitated by Zhiying.

After all, people today still treat history very rigorously, record history without their own likes and dislikes, and have not learned to falsify.

Contemporary people will only adopt the original army's statement, that is, King Goujian of Yue died of starvation while fleeing; people of later generations will get another answer by reading history books.

The history books of this dynasty are not for contemporary people to read. Even if Zhiyao, as the king of a country, wants to ask a historian to read it, a moral historian will refuse.

At the same time, the dynasties did not write their own histories, and only the new dynasties behind them compiled the history for the previous dynasties.

A new dynasty with integrity will generally use the records of the historians of the previous dynasty, while a new dynasty without integrity will ignore historical facts and play nine false ones and make up stories.

"The thief of Chu signaled Concubine Chu to reveal that the two countries were at war with Mizi, which caused Mizi to have a miscarriage. This enmity is greater than heaven!" Song Junluan roared.

Mizi is the concubine of the original country, if the first child is born with a handle, it is no surprise that it will be the grandson of the original country, and will become the prince in the future, and then the king of the original country.

Regarding the news about Mizi Xiaochan, even if the two countries have entered an actual war, Zhi Shi still has the obligation to tell Song Guo.Is there any calculation in it?It can only be said that the timing was too coincidental.

Song Junluan was more saddened by the news of Mizi's miscarriage than that "Shangqiu" was about to fall. The reason was that the crisis of "Shangqiu" was difficult to change, and it was somewhat of a comfort that his grandson would become the king of the original country in the future.

Now the crisis in "Shangqiu" has not been resolved, but his grandson is gone. I don't even know if Mizi can keep her position as the crown princess. How can I not make Song Junluan want to go crazy!
In general, the state of Chu, which treats its allies, is not only shameless, but also a villain. It keeps playing tricks on and off the battlefield, and Song is the most seriously injured.

From Song Junluan's constant scolding, Zihan understood that Song Junluan wanted to surrender.

The king of a country cannot directly say that he wants to surrender, he can only express it with his attitude, and then there are ministers who are responsible for suggesting surrender.

"Your Majesty, there is no reinforcements outside, the city is not enough to defend, and the allies have betrayed their promises, so it is hard to hold on. I cry, why don't you please surrender?" Zihan was really crying, crying for the death of Song Guozuo for hundreds of years.

Song Junluan didn't immediately agree, glanced at the silent ministers, and said loudly: "The widow curses Mi's surname Xiong, the disasters continue for the living, and the remains of the ancestors are hairy."

This is an extremely vicious curse!
However, Song Junluan, who was betrayed and plotted to kill his daughter, had reason to carry out such a curse.

Three days later, Song Junluan, who had cursed the state of Chu for three consecutive days, committed suicide and died, and the crown prince succeeded.

The newly succeeded king of Song had to mourn his father first. The original army temporarily released the complete blockade of "Shangqiu", allowing the envoys of the Song State to go to the existing countries to announce the news of King Song Jing's death, and then invite representatives from other countries to participate in the funeral.

Today, the king of Song, dressed in plain clothes, came out of the city and came to the original military camp by bicycle.

The person who received Song Wangde was Zhikai.

When the two met, there was no embarrassment at all. After greeting each other, they did not mention the war, but only talked about King Song Jing and Mizi.

"My wife is fine. The doctor told me that I can still conceive after recuperation, but it's not suitable for three years." Zhikai told Song Wangde the news.

Song Guo is the surname of Song.Before the state of Song became king, it should be called Song De, after becoming king, it could be called Zi De, and after succeeding to the throne, it should be called Song Wang De.

In other words, during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, calling nobles with their surnames and first names was swearing, and calling people with king titles with their surnames and first names became a kind of honorific title.

Song Wangde showed an overjoyed expression when he heard this, and said repeatedly: "That's good, that's good..."

Zhikai's words have two meanings, one is that Mizi is still the crown princess, and the other is that the remaining boys will also be the eldest sons.

This is very important to the current state of Song, and it is almost the only spiritual sustenance.

Zhi Kai also said: "In the future, Buyu can be an official in Dayuan, even if he does nothing, he can still enjoy the position of Viscount."

Buyu is the son of Song Wangde, and Song Guozuo will be the heir apparent.

This is equivalent to the price offered by Yuan Guo to King Song to surrender, which means that as a relative of the crown princess, they can still get preferential treatment.

In fact, there is nothing to say, even in later dynasties, queens married from enemy countries, or other women with high ranks in the harem, their brothers can generally get rich by virtue of their sisters.

If you don't do this, people will criticize the stinginess of a certain dynasty, thinking that even their relatives are not willing to treat them kindly, and they will be even more ungrateful and ungrateful when treating others.

King Song was silent for a while, smiled forcedly, and said, "Father, after the funeral, De will open the city and surrender."

The entire battle was only one step away. It wasn't that the original army was incapable of breaking through the city, but no matter how the crown princess was the princess of the Song Dynasty, she should have left the Song Kingdom with the last decency.

After digging trenches outside "Shangqiu" for a year and a half, the soldiers who besieged the city would of course have objections to the military achievements that were at their fingertips, but that's just how society works. passive acceptance.

What the senior officials of Yuan State want is to take over Song State as peacefully as possible, to prevent Song State people from having too strong resistance to Yuan State's rule, to reduce post-war resistance, and to gain the obedience and support of the original Song State people.

Under that kind of appeal, to give dignity to the royal family of Song Dynasty, and even give some preferential treatment to the people of Song Dynasty, ordinary people will doubt who is the victor, and the high-level people have their own starting point for doing so.

Zhiyao was reading a book at first, when she was asked to let Zhikai in, she asked, "Has King Song left?"

"Yes, father." Zhi Kai took the lower seat, and said after sitting down: "There are many discussions in the camp, whether it is too preferential treatment for Song Guo."

Zhiyao continued to read and asked, "What does the prince think?"

In the eyes of outsiders, Zhiyao chose to treat Song Guo preferentially to give face to the crown princess, and of course the one who bears the pressure has become the crown prince Zhikai.

If it is not handled properly, Zhikai will be rejected by the military.

To put it bluntly, for those who participated in the war, victory was actually secondary. What they wanted was military merit, and only military merit could lead to titles, including land, wealth, and servants.

From a normal point of view, it looks like Zhiyao is suppressing his rising son to prevent Zhikai's prestige from being too high and threatening his own rule.

Zhi Kai said with a smile: "The expansion of the Great Plains is too rapid. The people of Qin, Yan, Yue and others are hard to be gentle, but the people of Song are different."

There are also princes in Yue who become the concubines of the original country, but if they are not crowned concubines, the children born will be too low in the succession to the rule, and there is no hope of succeeding. The people of Yue must have different thoughts from the people of Song. of.

In the future, the sons of Zhikai and Mizi will become the crown prince, and then become the king of the original country, which means that the blood of the Song royal family is flowing in the veins.This is the greatest consolation for the people of the Song Dynasty, and their natural hostility towards the original country is not as strong as the remaining survivors of the old country that was destroyed.

There is a way to reduce the hatred of those subjugated people, that is, entrust the children born to their princesses to the local area and become the lords who rule them.

However, the current king of the Yuan Kingdom is Zhiyao, and the operation cannot be performed until Zhikai succeeds to the throne.

The Song Kingdom is located in the central plains and the south. Whether it can eliminate the hostility of the local people as much as possible is extremely important to the original country.

A Song land that resisted constantly, the Yuan country had to invest a lot of ruling costs, and it was difficult to use the Song land as a base for going south. If the resistance of the Song land was not suppressed, how could the Yuan country continue to go south?

Therefore, it is very important to eliminate the hatred of the Song people. It is not only related to the issue of public security, but also determines whether the Yuan country can march south to invade the Chu country.

"The new king of the Chu Kingdom is really benefiting and making Zhi faint. In order to gain a temporary advantage, he rebelled against the alliance and attacked the Song Dynasty." Why didn't Zhiyao pursue the coalition forces on the south bank of Suishui after they withdrew?The purpose is that the Chu army will burn, kill and loot Song land in various ways.

The Chu army really did that, entering cities or villages as an ally of Song State, and then suddenly turned their faces and became violent.

This is because the state of Chu believed that the demise of the state of Song was irreversible, and tried its best to plunder more benefits from the corpse of the state of Song, completely forgetting that by doing so, it was attracting the hatred of the people of the state of Song to itself.

Maybe it's not that the kings and ministers of the state of Chu don't understand, but they don't care so much anymore?Knowing that it will attract hatred for the original country, he still wants to plunder as many people and supplies as possible. Fortunately, he will have more strength to fight against the original country.

Each has its own understanding and does things out of different needs. There really is no absolute wisdom or stupidity.

If the war between the two countries has come to a stalemate because of Chu's actions, and the war between the two countries has reached a stalemate, and the North-South confrontation has continued for a very long time, how can it be said that the current generation of Chu's monarchs and ministers are stupid?It's time to praise the monarch and ministers of Chu for a decisive decision.

After waiting for half a month, the funeral of King Song Jing was held as scheduled, but only a few of the surviving countries sent representatives to attend the funeral.

Zhiyao, who lives in "Shangqiu", did not attend.

Those who attended the Yuan country were Prince Kai and Han Geng who was in power.

Zhikai is the son-in-law of the Song Dynasty, so he should have participated, but considering the current situation, participating still carries great risks.

During the funeral, not only Yuan Guo was doing its best to ensure Zhikai's safety, Song Guo was also trying to avoid accidents.

Reasonable Song people will guarantee Zhikai's safety, because they have no chance of turning the tables, and they should focus on the long-term future.

It's just that it is inevitable that some people will be carried away by hatred.In this way, those Song people who are rational should eliminate hidden dangers in advance, and try their best to ensure the safety of Zhikai in the process.

This part of the rational Song people is difficult to understand. Maybe they will be called traitors for a long time?

Seven days after King Song Jing's funeral, the city gates of "Shangqiu" were opened, and groups of Song troops went out of the city to disarm.

Part of the original army advanced into the city, and then the king of Song had to surrender at a certain city gate.

In terms of the historical process, following the surrender of the king of Song, the presentation of the king's seal, maps, and household registers also represented the disappearance of the Song State as a country.

During the surrender ceremony, Zhiyao also did not show up, and the person who went to accept the surrender was the prince Zhikai.

For no other reason, Zhiyao, as a king, does not lack that honor.

Zhi Kai is the main general in this battle, and he should be the one to accept the surrender.

After King Song had to surrender, the surrender team of Song State still needed to take on the responsibility of conveying the news of the surrender to various places, firstly to confirm the handover of Zhu Quan, and secondly to avoid more casualties.

Later, King Song and some ministers of Song who were not needed by the original country will be sent to "Zhongjing" for resettlement.

According to the usual practice, Zhiyao needs to treat the Song king who surrendered kindly, and the future dynasty will be raised by a marquis, which is not the case in Yuanguo.

Don't even think about being a Marquis in the original country if you surrender.

At most, King Song won because he was the elder brother of the Crown Princess, and Yuan Guo still needed to get the people of Song to return to him, to obtain a title below Marquis, and to have a mansion in the city of "Zhongjing".

The Song State logo on the maps of various countries will disappear, and the color of the Yuan State will be restored, but the Yuan Army is currently stopped at the north bank of the Sui River, and because the south bank is controlled by the Chu army, the mark on the map will temporarily belong to the State of Chu Jurisdiction.

Now, what is to be seen is when Yuan country will continue to go south, and whether it will launch an invasion of Chu country immediately.

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