A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 237
King Qi greatly appreciated Mencius's statement, but he had no intention of implementing it.This made Mencius very disappointed.

Duke Huai also admired his theory very much, but also rejected him.Mencius once asked Wang Kan why Confucianism was not used to govern the country.

Wang Kan said with a smile: "Doesn't using Confucianism tie your hands and feet?"

Mencius was silent.

Then Wang Kan said again: "The princes of the Xia Dynasty all take it as their duty to strengthen the country and dominate, and there is no benevolence and righteousness in what they do. If the widows do not use swords and swords with them and talk about benevolence and justice, will the princes of the Xia Dynasty listen?"

"I'm afraid not!"

"I'm afraid that these princes will wake up laughing from their dreams, and will attack the Huai country with all their strength."

After talking with Wang Kan, Mencius left Huai State and came to Qi State, and in Qi State, Mencius suffered the same treatment.

So Mencius gave lectures and debates in the Jixia Academy of Qi State for a period of time, then bid farewell to the King of Qi, and left Qi State to travel to other countries.

Qin State, Xianyang.

Since the Western Chu State attacked Qin State last time and almost captured Xianyang, the capital of Qin State, Qin State has stepped up its defense against Hanzhong.

Although Qin State is now strong and powerful, it still feels difficult to face the attacks of Western Chu State and Wei State.

"Your Majesty, the alliance of Wei State and Western Chu State to attack Qin State is not good for us. I suggest that we form an alliance with Qi State to attack Wei State, and form an alliance with Huai State to attack Western Chu State together." Gongsun Yang said.

A solid alliance is very important for any country, just like decades ago, the Three Jin Alliance, Qin and Qi were beaten very miserably by the Three Jin.Now the Sanjin Alliance is vain, and it has been beaten into a mess by the Qin State.If it weren't for the help of the Western Chu Kingdom, the Wei Kingdom would have been unable to resist last time.

"Didn't the State of Qi negotiate a peace agreement with the State of Wei, are they forming an alliance with us to deal with the State of Wei?" Qin Hou was a little uncertain.

"My lord, Wei State has always wanted the land of the Central Plains and wants to re-rule the Three Jins, this is unacceptable for Qi State.

If the State of Wei becomes stronger and forms the Sanjin Alliance again, then the Sanjin Alliance will definitely attack Qi again. "

"We are far away from Qi State, and there is no conflict of interest with Qi State. On the contrary, we still have the same enemy, and the ministers have heard that the King of Qi is greedy. If the land of Wei State is used as bait, King Qi will definitely take the bait!" Gongsun Martingale said.

"Wei State's strength is limited. As long as Qi State launches a war from the east, Wei State will no longer be able to prevent Qin State from attacking from Hexi."

"As long as the land in Hexi is seized, and then the land in Hedong is seized, Hangu Pass will become Qin's possession at that time."

"As for the Western Chu State, we formed an alliance with the Huai State and surrounded the Western Chu State. The road to Hanzhong is indeed difficult, but it is difficult for us to attack. Is it easy for the Chu State to attack? As long as we block the Baoxie Road, the Western Chu State Just stop thinking about it.

The Western Chu State was driven by the Huai State to Badi and Shangyong. The two places are mountainous and the roads are dangerous. Only Brazil and Hanzhong have fertile land and are suitable for farming.Hanzhong is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but Brazil does not have so many obstacles. "

"We can launch an attack from the land of Shu. As long as we seize the land of Brazil, the state of Chu will not be able to feed the population of Chu state with only the Hanzhong Plain. At that time, the state of Chu will have no food, and it will be destroyed by our state of Qin. , annexed."

"Even after occupying the lands of Badong, Jiangzhou, Hanzhong, and Shangyong, we can take advantage of the trend to attack Huai State and annex the land of Nanyang."

Qin Hou agreed with Gongsun Yang's strategy, and immediately sent envoys to Huai State and Qi State respectively.

When Wang Kan learned that the envoy from the State of Qin wanted to form an alliance, he was slightly taken aback, and did not agree directly. Instead, he asked the envoy to wait, and then called Sun Bin to ask his opinion.

"Sun Qing, this time the envoy of the State of Qin invited us to form an alliance, how should we respond?"

Sun Bin said directly: "The state of Qin wants to go east this time!"

After several years of study and growth, Sun Bin has become more mature.

"Your Majesty, if the people of Qin occupy Hanzhong and Ba, they will have no worries. If they can occupy the land of Xihe, the gate to the east will be opened. At that time, the Qin State will pass from Badong, Shangyong, Wuguan and even Hangu Pass If you go south, you can threaten our Huai country."

"You mean that you refuse to form an alliance with the Qin people?" Wang Kan asked.

"No, I suggest you agree!" Sun Bin said.

"Why is this?"

"Promise to Qin State that we will attack West Chu State together with Qin State, and our army will take advantage of the situation to capture Shangyong and Jiangzhou. As long as we occupy these two important places, we can advance together in two ways to attack the land of Bashu, and we can go north to threaten Qin State."

"The land of Jiangzhou and the land of Shangyong are difficult to travel through. If you don't take this opportunity to seize the two places, it will be even more difficult to seize them after Qin conquers Xichu."

Wang Kan immediately said: "The former king once recruited a large number of Shanyue barbarians. After training, they used them to attack Western Chu. These Shanyue barbarians lived in the mountains and forests all year round. .”

After discussing with Sun Bin, Wang Kan made an alliance with Qin State and agreed to attack Western Chu with Qin State, but the time for attacking Western Chu State has not yet been set.

On the other side, envoys from Qin State soon came to Qi State.

Qin State came to form an alliance with Qi State this time, and his attitude was very low, which made King Qi very happy.After some compliments, Qin State told Qi State about the strength of Wei State, and used Wei State's strength to make Qi State vigilant.And use the land of Wei State to seduce Qihou.

For a long time, Qi State has been very wary of Wei State, especially Wei State has joined forces to form the Three-Jin Alliance, and now Qin State once again mentions Wei State, which reminds Qi State of the fear of being dominated by Wei State's Three-Jin Alliance.

Thinking of this, King Qi directly agreed and decided to attack Wei State together with Qin State.

Wei Guo didn't know that Qi and Qin had formed an alliance to deal with them.King Wei was very happy to be able to defeat Qin this time, and rewarded the meritorious ministers, and at the same time rewarded the hero Gongsun Yan this time.

But when awarding the reward, King Wei made Hui Shili the first meritorious service, Pang Juan the second meritorious service, and Gongsun Yan the middle meritorious service, which made Gongsun Yan feel a little uncomfortable.

Gongsun Yan felt that the Wei State was able to turn the crisis into peace this time because he sent an envoy to the Western Chu State and invited the Western Chu State to send troops.

He was dissatisfied with King Wei in his heart, and King Wei also had his own considerations. This plan was made by Hui Shi. At the same time, Hui Shi raised food and grass, recruited soldiers, and guaranteed supplies.

Pang Juan led the soldiers to fight, blocked the Qin army all the time, and later regained Anyi, which was also a great achievement.As for Gongsun Yan, in Wei Wang's view, although his contribution is great, it is not irreplaceable.

He didn't know that today's actions also planted a hidden danger for Wei Guo.

(End of this chapter)