Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Under Qingji's instruction, Bo Tong came to Xingyuan, Marquis of Jin on the side of Luoyi's royal city. After negotiating with the Jin people, he finally exchanged Wu Zixu's wife and children with Zhao Yang's confidant, Dong Anyu.

Originally, they wanted the Jin people to return them together, but the Jin people claimed that they had disappeared.

After negotiating to no avail, Bo Tong could only take Wu Zixu's wife and children back to report to Qingji.

Qingji didn't care too much about getting away from that despicable person.

Under the general trend, Qingji can find another opportunity in the future, let the assassins of the Black Ice Terrace find him and carry out the assassination!

Qingji usually doesn't hold grudges, because if there is a grudge, he may avenge it on the spot.

On the next day, a square platform was built on the banks of the Luoshui River. King Qingji of Wu and Marquis Jiwu of Jin came to participate in the meeting. Some important officials from Wu and Jin would also participate.

As for Zhou Tianzi Ji Gai, she was in charge of mediating and acting as a peacemaker.

As for Zheng Boji Fan, it was tacitly put aside by the Wu and Jin countries.

Ji Fan originally came to Luoyi with the Marquis of Jin and lived in the Chuanshe of Wangcheng.

This time, the victim of the Alliance to Eliminate Soldiers was none other than Zheng Guo.

Wu Zixu led the army to conquer Xinzheng City, Ji Fan had no choice but to flee, hoping to get the help of the Jin people, together with the allied forces to crusade against the Wu army, and drove Wu Zixu's soldiers and horses out of the territory of Zheng State.

However, the Jin people were not active in this matter.

Obviously, neither the Marquis of Jin nor the Six Ministers was willing to go to war with Wu easily and make a big move.

That's why there was an alliance of eliminating soldiers in Luoyi, and the price was that Zheng's city and land would be divided up.

Jin Hou Ji Wu, that is, Jin Dinggong in history, is about the same age as Qing Ji, both in their thirties, but Ji Wu's body is thinner and looks less heroic.

Ji Wu, who was wearing a loose mian suit and a flat crown on his head, looked a bit like a "monkey wearing a crown"...

Qingji was wearing ordinary clothes, with a purple gold crown to tie his hair, and a Longyuan sword on his waist. He looked majestic and heroic.

Witnessed by Emperor Zhou, Qingji and Ji Wu sat opposite each other on Sifangtai after saluting each other.

Accompanying Ji Wu were Shangqing Shiyang and Zhao Yang of Jin, as well as some unknown officials and their retainers.

Accompanying Qingji to attend the ceremony were Zhisu Neishi Fan Li, Tingwei Botong, Yushi doctor Wu Zixu and other ministers.

In front of Qing Ji and Ji Wu, they just stood behind and didn't sit down.

Outside the Sifangtai, there are banners covering the sun, and spears and spears like forests.

The guards of the Wu army and the soldiers of the Jin army stood opposite each other, staring at each other.

"Marquis Jin, the widow means..."

Qingji came to the side of the screen where the sheepskin map was hung, took out a straight whip, and pointed at the place called "Xinzheng".

"Using Xinzheng as the dividing line, Wu Guo can give up Xinzheng City and return it to Zheng Guo."

"The territory of the State of Zheng is divided into three parts. Xinzheng, Changge, Zhitian, Niushou and other cities to the east of Xinzheng can still belong to the State of Zheng."

"Wu and Jin can equally divide the land of the towns west of Xinzheng, with Yingshui as the boundary. The eight cities north of Yingshui belong to Jin, and the seven cities south of Yingshui belong to Wu. What do you think?"

Hearing this, Ji Wu didn't speak, but quietly stared at the sheepskin map.

After discussing with Shi Yang and Zhao Yang beside him, Ji Wu finally nodded in agreement.

"good!"

This celebration of the Ji can be said to have divided the territory of the State of Zheng into three parts.

Taking glaze water as the boundary, Jin State has one more city than Wu State, but its territory is slightly smaller.

This is harmless.

Zheng Guo is actually not a small country of Quer. Among all the Chinese vassal states, Zheng Guo can be regarded as the top one among the medium-sized countries.

From the point of view of territory, Zheng State is now about the same as Lu State, larger than the three medium-sized countries of Song, Wei, and Chen.

Judging from the population, Zheng Guo is also the same as Lu Guo, with more than one million.

However, Zheng State is located in the Central Plains, with thousands of miles of fertile fields, suitable for farming, and the roads extend in all directions, which makes the business of Zheng State quite prosperous.

Therefore, the comprehensive national strength of Zheng State is not bad, stronger than Lu State, Yan State, and Chu State, and weaker than Wu State, Jin State, Qi State, and Qin State.

Why did a powerful country like Zheng Guo fall to such a state?
It's your own fault!

Zheng Zhuanggong, with his great talent and general strategy, made Zheng Guo the first to become strong and dominate the princes in the Spring and Autumn Period, so that "the princes of the world are not Zheng Dang".

The famous prime minister Zichan governed the country well, so that Zheng Guolu did not pick up relics and did not close the door at night.

In the early Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng State already had three armies, and the army used in the civil war had reached two hundred.

In addition to the three armies, there are only soldiers and temporarily added troops.

As far as Qingji knew, the original Zheng State had an army of [-] soldiers, and [-] of them gathered in the capital.

The military power of Zheng State should be higher than that of Lu State.

In the twenty-fifth year of Duke Xiang of Lu, that is, in 548 BC, Zheng Zizhan and Zichan brought [-] chariots to attack Chen, and the number of chariots was equal to the number of Jin chariots in the battle of Chengpu.

Later, in the battle between Jin and Zheng Tie, the Jin general Wei Prince Kuaikui climbed up the Iron Hill to watch Zheng Jun. Seeing many Zheng Jun, he became frightened and threw himself under the chariot.

In this battle, the Jin people took Zheng as their main enemy, which shows that Zheng's military strength was not weak from the beginning to the end of the Spring and Autumn Period.

However, the Zheng army once fought against the coalition forces of Jin, Chu and the princes. The soldiers of the princes even feared Zheng and dared not cross the Zheng border, but were defeated by the Zheng army.

It can be seen that Zheng Guo's military strength is stronger than this, and it is not a lie to say that it is a country of a thousand chariots.

The State of Zheng adopted the "soldier system", which is similar to the military-agricultural system that is prevalent in various countries today.

Mostly it is the combination of soldiers in "soldiers" and "people".

"Shi" refers to warriors whose only career is to practice martial arts and fight.

As for ordinary Li Shu, they usually practice farming for three seasons, and practice martial arts for one season. They also hold hunting in four seasons when farming is slack to teach martial arts, and practice once every three years.

The country's standing army is warriors and the like. In case of war, soldiers and civilians are recruited to serve as soldiers.

When Qingji heard that Wu Zixu led troops to attack Zheng, he felt a little apprehensive, because he was worried that Zheng's war potential was too great, and it might drag Wu down.

However, now that Qingji thinks back, he seems to have forgotten about the "butterfly effect".

Zheng Guo has been greatly weakened.

Two years ago, Shen Zhuliang of the state of Chu led his army to defeat the Zheng army, and once approached the city of Xinzheng. Fortunately, because of the outbreak of the Bai Gong Sheng Rebellion in the state of Chu, the Zheng army followed and regained the lost ground.

Zheng Guo at that stage should have recuperated and recovered his national strength.

Then, under the instigation of the Jin State, the Zheng people aggressively attacked the newly established Jing State in the spring of this year, and Wu Zixu directly led troops in the Fangcheng area to behead more than [-] people. Tian Rangju also won a great victory in Yeyi.

Adding up all this before and after, Zheng Guo didn't know tens of thousands of soldiers and horses died, anyway, the main force was gone.

No wonder Wu Zixu was able to lead his troops to Xinzheng City in one battle.

Although the original state of Zheng was known as the "country of a thousand chariots" and had [-] armored troops, these [-] troops were just improvised.

Is it worthy of a fight?

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