Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 612
"Historist! Where is the historian?"

"Chen is here!"

Hearing Qingji calling him, the official historian who had been sitting on the sidelines watching the show didn't dare to neglect, so he stood up quickly.

Qingji laughed lightly and said, "Just write it down. In the 18th year of the king, on May 27th, Wu and Qin met in Shaoxi and had a banquet. Uncle Qin played the zither for the king!"

"promise!"

Regarding Qingji's order, the official historian did not dare to disobey, so he quickly took out the bamboo slips and wrote straight.

This official historian is the Nan Shi family.

In ancient times, there were special historians, usually the father died and the son succeeded, and the brother died.

That is to say, a family that records historical facts is called the Shi family.

In the past, Cui Zhu of the Qi State killed his lord and killed three Taishi brothers in succession. Taishi Ji, the only remaining member of Taishi's family, still insisted on writing straight books, and finally scared Cui Zhu away.

The Nanshi family heard that the great history was dead, and carried the slips to the past.I heard that I have written a book, but I still...

It is the basic professional quality of historians to prefer death to maintain the truth of history.

The Great History of the State of Qi is a true record, and it can be seen that there were three victims in succession.

At this time, seeing that Qing Ji not only asked Ying Ning to play the zither for him, but also asked the historian to record it, everyone couldn't help but change color.

Sitting behind Ying Ning, the minister of Qin State couldn't help but darken his expression.

It's just that they didn't dare to act rashly in the face of such a powerful Qing Ji and such a powerful Wu country.

"Uncle Qin, do you have any objections?"

Qing Ji took a meaningful look at Ying Ning.

Ying Ning smiled awkwardly, waved his hands and said, "Don't dare, dare not. After all, the widow played the zither for Marquis Wu for the fact..."

That's what I said, but Ying Ning's heart was extremely sad and indignant.

Qingji like this is simply too deceitful!

It is simply not to take Qin State, Ying Ning, Uncle Qin, seriously!
At this moment, Qing Ji, after seeing that the monarchs and officials of the Qin Kingdom dared to be angry and dare not speak out, finally chuckled and said: "Come here, take the fou!"

"promise!"

Fou is a kind of pottery musical instrument.

Round belly, covered, with ringed shoulders, also square.

This was originally an ancient pottery, similar to an earthen jar, and shaped like a small jar or bowl. It was a container for water or wine in this era.

This kind of wine vessel can become a musical instrument because people beat the wine vessel full of wine and sang loudly when drinking at a grand banquet.

It is quite similar to modern karaoke, so Fou has evolved into one of the earth instruments, and the other is Xun.

Qingji looked at the fou that was placed in front of his eyes, and said with a slight smile, "Uncle Qin, I have heard that when the state of Qin is having banquets, nobles and bureaucrats often hit the pottery fou and slap their thighs to beat the time when they are half drunk. And sing."

"I don't know, do I?"

"Exactly."

Ying Ning didn't know what Qing Ji wanted to do, but she answered honestly.

Qin people are not good at instrumental music, and it is difficult to be an elegant orthodox voice, they only play fou for entertainment.

This is an undeniable fact!

Although Wu State is located in a remote place like Qin State, it still admires the culture of the Central Plains. The sound of music is similar to that of Central Plains and Chu State, and it is not as bad at singing and dancing as Qin State.

"The widow then sang for Uncle Qin's beating the fou!"

Afterwards, Qingji picked up a chopstick-like musical instrument and tapped the fou a few times, without skill at all.

Qingji was just thinking about it.

Qingji asked the official historian of the Qin State to record the incident: ... Marquis Wu fought fou for the public.

This made everyone, including Ying Ning, heave a sigh of relief.

Obviously, Qingji is trying to save face for Ying Ning and Qin!
Ying Ning had saved face.

……

Night falls.

Qingji returned to Xingyuan, the king of Wu on the side of Shaoxi Mountain, and summoned Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, Bo Tong, Fan Li, and his two sons Wu Hong and Wu Heng.

Qingji asked meaningfully: "Hong'er, Heng'er, you know, why did you ask Qin Bo to play the zither at the alliance meeting today and ask the historian to record this?"

"This……"

Young Master Hong and Young Master Heng looked at each other, then fell into deep thought.

"Father, my son thinks that the alliance between Wu and Qin can be a long-term plan."

Gong Zihong first said: "My father's actions at the alliance meeting, although powerful, did not lose the demeanor of a great country."

"What the father did was probably testing Uncle Qin."

"good."

Qingji glanced at Young Master Hong approvingly, and then asked with a smile: "Hong'er, in your opinion, what is Uncle Qin like?"

"If you look at it from the sons and ministers, Uncle Qin is a man who is stern and cowardly, always scheming; he cherishes his life when he does great things, and forgets his life when he sees small gains: he is not a hero!"

Hearing Young Master Hong's evaluation of Ying Ning, Qing Ji nodded slightly, agreeing.

Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and others who were present couldn't help but look at Gong Zihong with admiration.

Don't look at Gong Zihong's young age, this vision is quite unique.

In today's alliance meeting, if Ying Ning declined Qingji's invitation to play the zither, or if there was a minister of Qin State who argued with Qingji.

Maybe Qingji would take a high look at Qin's monarch and ministers.

Facts have proved that the Qin State at this time will not threaten Wu's hegemony.

"Heng'er, what do you think of Uncle Qin?"

Qingji set his sights on Young Master Heng.

They are all his sons, and the palms and backs of their hands are full of flesh. Qingji will not be too partial to one another.

Young Master Heng replied: "Father, my son's opinion coincides with that of my elder brother."

"The people of Qin have no intention of offending our country of Wu, but my father can't take chances and take no precautions against Qin."

"The state of Qin is located in the western corner, but all the emperors of Qin in the past have the ambition to defend the land and open up the frontier, and the uncle of Qin is the same today."

"It's just that in Qin people's eyes, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages of allying with Wu to resist the Jin Dynasty and conspiring against the Central Plains. Only then can we swallow our father's actions and what Wu has done..."

"If one day, the people of Qin rise up, they may not dare to go south and compete with our country of Wu!"

"good!"

Qing Ji agrees with what Gong Zihong and Gong Ziheng said.

In fact, Qingji had never underestimated Qin.

Even after Duke Mu of Qin, the state of Qin just collapsed and failed to recover after a setback, which is far from what Song, Lu, Wei, and Zheng countries can compare.

Qin's "decline" is only relative to Jin, Qi, and Wu.

"The widow decided to set up Wuguan in the Shaoxi Mountain area to suppress the merchants."

Qing Ji said slowly: "In addition, the Wu-Qin trade road in the land of Shang Yu will be renovated and expanded to increase trade exports to Qin..."

On the matter of increasing trade exports to Qin State, Qingji has gone through a lot of deliberation.

Throughout the ages, the combat power of the Qin people has always been very strong.

Why?

In short, in a word -

"Troublemakers" come out of poor mountains and bad waters!
The harsh environment and harsh life can cultivate the unruly character of the Qin people who "rejoice when they hear the war".

If Wu State can dump a large amount of luxury goods, silk, tea, refined salt and other commodities to Qin State, how can the Qin people not "degenerate"?
The most important thing is that if the state of Qin is economically dependent on the state of Wu, once it is subject to economic sanctions by the state of Wu, the loss will be immeasurable.

To a certain extent, this can force the Qin people not to easily tear up the covenant with Wu and provoke war.

Qingji thought of a rather classic and widely circulated verse in modern times——

I could have endured the darkness if I had not seen the sun, yet the light has made my desolation a new desolation.

When people have had the experience of happiness, any bit of suffering will become particularly obvious and intense...

The trade war is actually a tried and tested tactic.

The prosperity of Wu State today is unimaginable to others.

Even the original Qi State has already been crushed economically by Wu State...

Under such circumstances, the State of Wu can go a step further and "export" the economically weak and backward Qin State in order to seek action before moving.

(End of this chapter)