I will not be king in the Spring and Autumn Period

Chapter 230 The Sad Xu Ren

The arrival of Prince Qiji was indeed unexpected to Li Ran.

He didn't know why the prince Qiji came to see the king of Chu, so he stepped back immediately and waited quietly.

Not long after, I saw Prince Qiji and another person entering the palace.

"Your brother Qiji pays homage to the king."

"Ah, Brother Ji, please hurry up, there should be no need for this between you and me." (Di Brother Ji: Little Brother)
The King of Chu stepped forward quickly and helped Prince Qiji up.

It can be seen that the king of Chu is actually very friendly to his younger brother, and he does not call him an official position or name, but directly calls him "Ji Di".

"Chen Guancong, pay homage to the king."

At this time, another person who followed Prince Qiji into the palace also spoke.

That's right, this person is Guan Cong, the Bu Yin of the Chu State who had been hired by the King of Chu to Zhengyi.

After seeing the ceremony, the two were about to retreat to the side, but Wang Ziqi turned his head and saw Li Ran directly, his eyes were obviously stunned for a moment, and he seemed a little surprised.

And that Guan Cong stared sideways at Li Ran for a long time before slowly stepping aside.

This made Li Ran quite uncomfortable and puzzled.

"Why do these two have such strange eyes?"

"Could it be that there is something to say, and I'm not here?"

Li Ran was at a loss as to how much he could guess.

Of course he also knew that the prince who abandoned his illness was not a good stubble, and he was also ambitious.

When the King of Chu dispatched troops to fight against Shujiu, he had noticed that Prince Qiji, although he didn't argue with Wu Ju, his face was quite ugly at that time.

And later, when Wu Ju was victorious and returned to the court, and when he was greeted personally by the king of Chu, he also noticed the prince Qiji who was hidden among the crowd.

Although this person is not very old, he looks very calm and stable, and his city is also extremely deep.

"Hey, this is really a family with [-] minds. If there is one piece in this family, it may be enough to write a novel."

Li Ran secretly said something in his heart, and then he just stepped aside while watching his nose and nose.

At this time, Chu Wang Xiongwei took the lead in asking:
"Second and third sons came to see the widow today, what is the reason?" (Second and third sons: you)

The King of Chu, who was a little suffocated by Li Ran's words, was in a good mood when he saw Prince Qiji and Guan Cong came to "relieve" him, and his face was full of smiles.

This made Li Ran frown slightly.

What he couldn't understand was why Xiong Wei, the king of Chu, trusted the prince Qiji so much?In this era of bad etiquette, doesn't he know that his younger brother is a very threatening existence to him?

Maybe it's because the king of Chu really has no cronies around him?Or is it because he still has a different kind of nostalgia for the family affection between brothers?

He didn't understand, and he really couldn't understand.

"Brother Wang, my brother and Guan Cong came here today to guard the Jianghuai."

"After the battle of Shujiu and Chaocheng, now we, Chu, have completely occupied Qunshu, and the king of Wu died in battle, and the state of Wu has no power to recover for the time being, so there should be no more military disasters in Qunshu in a short time. However, how to garrison to prevent the recurrence of something like Shujiu's rebellion should be the top priority right now."

Once Zhu Fan died, Wu State would no longer be able to compete with Chu State for supremacy in the next few years. This is not because Prince Qiji was exaggerating.

After all, the impact of this incident on Wu State is well known in the world.

Since the Chu State is now a territory that has been conquered, it is natural to send people to defend it. Not only must it be defended, but it may also be necessary to call labor to serve and build roads.

Otherwise, if you just capture it and don't manage it, you will be taken away by others sooner or later.

"Well, Brother Ji's words are justified, and we really should think of a way."

"What does brother Ji think?"

Hearing the sound, the king of Chu kept nodding his head in agreement.

At this time, only Wang Ziqiji continued to say:
"My brother thinks that to defend that piece of territory, we only need to move those relatively obedient Xu people under our city and mountains there, and then keep Xu Nan's son as a hostage in Yingdu to prevent him from making trouble with pretexts. In this way, we can Make people in the Jianghuai area to cultivate and guard the frontier, and at the same time to serve hard labor. On the one hand, we will speed up building bridges and roads, and on the other hand, we can build the city father and the two cities of Zhoulai, thinking of the situation of Jujiao. In this way, we can defend that area for our country of Chu. territory."

"In addition, the people from the father of the city and the state are also moved to the hinterland of our Chu country, which is also easier to control."

Xu State, a baron state granted by King Wen of Zhou in the early Zhou Dynasty.

It stands to reason that Xu Guo, as a baron, has a lower rank than the viscount of Chu State.However, don't underestimate this Xu Guo, he was originally a Xiaozong with the surname Jiang!Therefore, his relationship with the Zhou royal family is naturally closer than those small barbarian countries in the south.

However, with the continuous development and growth of Chu State's power, after hundreds of years, Xu State has now become a small vassal state on the edge of Chu State.Even in the eyes of Chu people, they are no longer referred to as Xu Guo, but directly called "Xu people".

And because of the strong rise of its neighbor Chu State, Xu State had to humbly survive there.Even the capital of their Xu country was constantly moved by successive kings of Chu, so it is no surprise that Xu people moved around.

As long as the king of Chu dislikes them and asks them to move, they will have to move.

And this is why Prince Qiji asked Xu people to move to the Jianghuai area.

In addition, even if Xu Ren was dissatisfied with keeping their heir in Yingdu as a hostage, he would never dare to make trouble.

"color!"

"What Brother Ji said is very reasonable! Why didn't the widow think of it?"

When the King of Chu was happy, he actually raised his foot and slapped his thigh, and suddenly realized.

"In this way, let Xu people guard the new land for us, and let these most disobedient Qunshu people be completely naturalized into Chu people. It is really a clever plan to kill two birds with one stone!"

"Brother Ji has a heart, I don't know what reward Ji Brother wants, just ask! Brother Wang will definitely refuse to accept it without worry."

Before this matter was done, he was already preparing to reward the prince for abandoning his illness. This elder brother's love for his younger brother was really a little touching.

"Your Majesty!"

However, at this warm moment, Li Ran, who had never spoken, suddenly stepped forward.

"Oh? Sir, do you have something to say?"

When the King of Chu heard the sound, he immediately turned his head, looking a little surprised.

Prince Qiji frowned slightly, staring at Li Ran with gloomy eyes.

Just listen to Li Ran said:
"But I thought it was wrong! It's really wrong!"

"Oh? What's wrong? Would you like to hear more about it?"

At this time, Li Ran went a step further and said:
"Transferring people to guard Xinjiang is inappropriate!"

Li Ran said these words with his head held high.

And the Prince Qiji on the side heard it, and his face suddenly became worse.

On the contrary, the King of Chu, who was very puzzled when he heard the sound, couldn't help asking bluntly:

"Oh? But I don't know what's wrong with this move?"

What he didn't understand was, how could it be wrong to have the best of both worlds?
Li Ran bowed to the King of Chu again, and then said:

"Relocating the people of a country and letting them station in another place from their homeland is a waste of money. If the king wants to naturalize Xu people, he should treat Xu people with the same heart as he treats Chu people, and should not Drive them with unrestrained labor."

"Furthermore, the importance of the Qunshu area is self-evident, and if the king treats Xu people in this rude way, if Xu people make trouble in Qunshu, regardless of the life and death of the heir, when the time comes Chu Isn't the country going to repeat the mistakes of Shujiu now?"

Yes, rabbits will bite people when they are in a hurry, let alone people?
However, the method used by the people of Chu to relocate Xu people by force is not rude and barbaric. It is almost the same as treating livestock.

This is of course unacceptable to Li Ran.

If he is not in the state of Chu and doesn't know about it, that's fine.

But today, since he heard it with his own ears and saw it with his own eyes, he must never let such a thing happen!
Chu people are human beings, so Xu people are not human beings?
Forcing them to leave their homeland with such brutal means and go to a strange place to cultivate and defend the frontier, it must be both humiliating and uncomfortable for them.

(End of this chapter)