warring states careerist

Chapter 368
In April, on the border of Vietnam and Shandong, beside the Yishui River.

The army was stationed, and King Yi of Yue met the "princes" here.

Such a thing as the alliance is a grand event in the Spring and Autumn Period, and at least the emperor of Zhou must send someone to participate, and the princes of the alliance must at least have the status of a non-vassal state.

But the current state of Yue is no longer the country that Guan Zhong and Qi Huan were afraid of backstabbing in the time of Duke Huan of Qi. Therefore, there is a way to do this." The country of Yue.

For things like the alliance, we had to close the door and play on our own. The big countries didn't bother to participate or recognize it, but the small countries in the Surabaya Basin wanted to participate.

It's as small as Ni and Xue, but it's only around a hundred miles away.As big as Fei State, it is still a vassal state of Lu State in name. It is the product of the Jisun family's usurpation. Like the "Xiao Kingdom" of the Kingdom of Zhou, it is not a subdivided country of Zhou Tianzi, but a subdivided vassal country of the Marquis Kingdom.

The Yue Kingdom now completely lacks the power to fight for hegemony in the Central Plains in the Goujian era, so it can only play with this small alliance.

Back then, in order to truly "observe China's politics" and achieve dominance, Wu Yue used the status of "Wu Gong" and "Yue Gong" when he was in the General Assembly.

But now King Yi of Yue can only be called "King Yue". It seems that his rank is higher than "Gong Yue", but he is actually telling the world that Yue State has no power to dominate under the Zhou Tianzi system. The Surabaya Valley has experienced the addiction of being king.

The name on the head is not called casually.The king of Chu, that is the name of the theocratic sacrifice originated from Chu, which is different from the king of the Central Plains.As for the two most prosperous overlords of the two southeastern countries, Wu and Yue, they both thought of ways to turn themselves into "gongs", because the alliance that claimed to be the king would be joined by big countries such as Qi and Jin, while the alliance that claimed to be king was only Ni. , Zou, Fei these Baili countries or vassal states participated.

Inside the military tent, Yue Wang Yi was getting angry, and smashed a very beautiful crystal cup on the table to the ground.

The shape of this crystal cup is extremely beautiful, if you see it properly, you must exclaim that it is clearly a glass.

Even though the Yue Kingdom has already moved its capital to Langya, which is the border between Lianyungang and Linyi, even if there is the largest natural crystal mine in the world near Lianyungang, even if the crystal grinding technology of the small princes destroyed by the Yue Kingdom is already extremely high, such a quality and Crystal glasses in good shape are still expensive.

The crystal cup that was slammed to the ground by King Yue was shattered into pieces, which shows the anger of King Yue.

Looking at the crystal shards on the ground, Dafusi District knew what King Yue was angry at, and also knew how angry King Yue was now.

During the Warring States period, there was a poem saying: Climb to Kunlun and eat Yuying, live the same life as the heaven and earth, and have the same light as the sun and the moon.This Yuying is a crystal, and it is also known as a fairy thing. The nobles of the Yue Kingdom often use crystals to be buried with them. .

Originally planned to join the small countries in the Surabaya Valley in April, King Yi of Yue had been preparing for this event for a whole year.

The Vietnam-Jin Alliance fought against Chu and Qi together. A few years ago, they fought against Qi with the Three Jins and won the two cities of Jianyang and Juling and thousands of slaves.

The Mo family helped Teng to restore the country, and King Yi of Yue was worried about Qi's actions in the future. Last year, besides sending envoys to Qi to question him, he also sent someone to Wei.

Now that Wei and Chu are confronting each other in Daliang, Qi State has made it clear that it will support Chu State, and Jin State also hopes that Yue State will do something in the east of Chu State.

However, Yue State did not intend to provoke Chu State, but decided to maintain the final hegemony in the Sishui River Basin. After thinking about it, Weiss approved the idea of ​​Yue Wangyi, so that Qi State could be contained.

For this reason, Wei State has come forward to ask Qi State to abide by the contract signed a few years ago and dismantle the Great Wall, and said that if Qi State does not abide by it, once Chu State is defeated, Qi State will immediately be charged with the crime of not abiding by the covenant.

Everyone knows that the restoration of the Teng Kingdom was initiated by the Mohists, but Weiss didn't want to provoke the Mohists at this juncture, at least he had to wait until after the Chu Kingdom was defeated, so he had to come forward to intimidate the Qi Kingdom as the biggest threat to the Yue Kingdom. support.

The State of Yue is expanding in Surabaya, and the State of Qi is like a light on its back.If the State of Yue withdraws from Surabaya to the south in an all-round way, the room for expansion of the State of Qi will be released at once. Qi State is a big country with potential, and Weiss has to guard against it.Even the current state of Qi is still very powerful, if it weren't for the civil strife in the Tian family, it would not be so easy to defeat Qi.

Mixed with the variables of the Mohist family in the Surabaya Valley, Weiss could only secretly support the Yue State's plan to conquer and restore the Teng State.

From the era of Goujian's language, there have been different opinions on whether the Yue State should go north to the Central Plains or develop the Yangtze River Estuary in a muffled voice.Internally, Weiss has been unstable, and Weiss does not want Yue to retreat to the mouth of the Yangtze River for strategic contraction, in which case Qi will expand.

After receiving the diplomatic support from the State of Wei, King Yi of Yue sent envoys to the State of Qi to inquire about the restoration of the State of Teng by the Tian family.

It was Dafu Siqu who was sent to Qi State.Qi was a defeated country, and was forced to form an alliance with Yue before. However, since Mohist Hu Feizi passed Langya and went to Linzi, Qi is building the city wall north of Langya and expanding the southern capital Jucheng.

Jucheng was originally the fiefdom of Xiangziniu. The rebellion between Xiangziniu and Gongsunhui has been completely subsided. Xiangziniu died. Jucheng, one of the five capital cities of Qi State, fell into the hands of Tian He, seriously threatening Yue State. The safety of Langya.

Hu Feizi showed some of the Mohists’ defensive equipment and gunpowder weapons in Langya. Back then when Zhu Gou was in Yue State, he had the heart to recruit Mozi. Before the two sides turned their faces, they were considered “acquaintances”. What Wang Yi of Yue was worried about was the matter of Teng Guo’s restoration of the country. The Mohists and the Qi State conspired.

After Siqu arrived in Qi State, he paid a symbolic visit to Marquis Qi, and went to visit the Tian family. During the meeting, he wanted to ask about this matter, but Tian was vague. He talked about him and used an old story Reminding the Yue State embarrassed the envoys of the Yue State.

In normal envoy receptions, what kind of music to play and which song in the "Book of Songs" to use are all well documented, but after the envoy of King Yue arrived in Qi State, before Tian's reception, he asked a scholar to sing " Rain without Zheng".

The song "Yu Wuzheng" cannot be sung casually, it is full of frustration, it is a song of exhortation.

Then Tian He sang the phrase "Hu does not fear each other, he does not fear the sky" a few times, and sighed: "Hu does not fear each other, does not fear the sky? The way of heaven is to obey the sky, and it is inevitable to go against the sky." Yea!"

The temple area didn't know how to answer, Tian He said again: "In the past, when Duke Yi defeated Cao Cao and forced Cao to make a pilgrimage, the reason was that Cao State violated the etiquette, so he would be punished, and the country could even be destroyed."

"Ji Wenzi once said with emotion that if a gentleman does not abuse the young and humble, he fears the sky. In Zhou Song, he said: "Fear the power of the sky, and protect it at the time." If you don't fear the sky, how can you protect it? Take the country with chaos , follow the propriety to keep it, and still be afraid that it will never end. If you do a lot of rudeness, you can't do it!"

"You know about Mr. Yi, don't you?"

Siqu's complexion suddenly changed, he never expected Tian He to use this allusion, and even used this allusion at the banquet, he was both angry and very disturbed.

When the State of Yue destroyed the State of Teng, it used the same reason as Duke Yi of Qi conquered the State of Cao, and asked the State of Teng, "Why are you so rude?"

The chaos in Yue State in the past few years is similar to that of Qi State in the years after Qi Huangong's death: brothers killed each other, and their fathers were killed.

In the end, Tian He asked Siqu if he knew about Jiang Qiyi's fate, which completely expressed Qi's attitude.

Back then, Duke Huan of Qi was starved to death, and his five sons fought with each other. Duke Yi picked up a mistake and became Marquis of Qi for four years.

The only foreign war was the crusade against Cao State, and then he was "cursed" by the people of Lu State with the reason of "not fearing the sky". If you violate the Heavenly Emperor, you may be killed in the future.

as predicted.

Although the lives of the nobles are in chaos, and such things as killing fathers and fathers and sleeping with daughters-in-law are endless, the cause of Qi Yigong's death can stand out in these disgusting noble lives.

When Qi Yigong was a son, he had a grudge with a big man. Later, the first thing he did as a monarch was to open the grave of the old man who had a grudge, and cut off the foot of the corpse to vent his anger... Then miraculously let the son of the man with the broken foot Be your own bodyguard.

He is also a good wife, and it took him 30 years to climb to the position of monarch. When he was old, he knew that women were good, so he slept with a wife named Yan Zhi.

This kind of thing is also normal in the aristocratic circle. Back then, Chen Linggong and Yi Xingfu slept with Xia Ji, and they joked with each other that Xia Ji's son must be the other's seed like the other party, and they enjoyed it happily.Since Yan Zhi had the merit of dedicating his wife, he also let Yan Zhi be his own bodyguard.

Two guards, one whose father was whipped to death and his legs broken by him, and the other who had his wife slept with him, he was also considered good at manipulating people, and he lived for four years.

As a result, in the fourth year, when a few people went to the hot springs, the son of the broken foot and the man who took his wife were joking and anxious, and the son of the broken foot scolded Yan Zhi and said that I was just playing with you.Your wife was sleeping and didn't see you anxious.Yan Zhi scolded me back and said that I was just sleeping with my wife, and you are not in a hurry when your father's grave was looted...

The more they talked, the more angry they became, so they almost killed Yi Gong.

This is exactly in line with Ji Sunzi's curse-like prophecy of "If you don't fear the sky, how can you protect it? Take the country with chaos, follow the rites and keep it, and you will never end in fear. .

Tian He's words have actually made it very clear that Zhu Gou of the Yue Kingdom killed his father and took power, and then destroyed the Teng Kingdom with the excuse of being rude and Yue, and now he is still thinking about revenge?Get ready for funerals early!

There was a lot of trouble in the temple area. Although Tian refused to admit that Teng Guofu was related to Qi State, this attitude also showed Tian's support for Teng Guofu.

Qi State is a big country, Yue State and Jin formed an alliance, and took advantage of Tian's civil strife to defeat Qi State, but now the situation is different, and Tian's know the power of Mohist's city defense.

Hu Feizi also lobbied and told that if the Mohist method was used to defend Jucheng, Qi would no longer have the humiliation of the Jianyang giant mausoleum. He and Tian's ancestors were of the same clan.

The humiliation a few years ago was the Marquis of Qi surnamed Jiang.And now, if the Jianyang Juling can be recaptured, the Tian family will be honored.

The external situation has changed, and the internal situation has also changed. Siqu is no longer the doctor of the Yue Kingdom who accompanied the King of Yue in Qufu a few years ago and watched Qihou Luhou drive for the King of Yue with a smile...

(End of this chapter)