After leaving Daliang City, Su Dai continued to move south and soon arrived at Chencheng, the temporary capital of Chu.

Because the Chu customary practice is to call the capital Yingdu, Chencheng is also called Chen Ying.

Here, Su Dai received warm welcome and reception from the King of Chu.

"Emunique, Bai Qi committed countless crimes in Yandu and Yingdu, which is simply a waste of time! This time, I must give the Qin people a good look!"

While drinking, the King of Chu said to Su Dai with great resentment.

Su Dai's eyes swept through the hall.

Although Chencheng is also one of the big cities of Chu, this city is close to the Central Plains and has been mainly used for many years to compete for hegemony with the princes of the Central Plains. Therefore, it tends to be a military fortress-type city. When used as the capital of a country, it inevitably reveals a sense of shabbyness and poverty.

This made Su Dai feel a little moved.

Once upon a time, after destroying Yue, Chu dominated the South Heaven. It was the largest country among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period. It was so glorious to fight against Qi and the west against Qin!

However, in just over twenty years, the State of Chu had fallen to such a terrible state. Not only was hegemonic, but even the capital of Ying, which had been run by its own for hundreds of years, was gone.

No wonder the king said at a meeting with disdain that the Chu State was just a paper tiger, and it was true that the king's eyes were sharp.

As Su Dai thought about it, a smile appeared on his face and said, "Please don't worry, the world has suffered for a long time. This time, the alliance of princes is going to kill the arrogance of the Qin people and give the world a bright world!"

The King of Chu's face shook for a moment, and then he also showed a big smile: "That's right! Come on, messenger, and drink this wine with me!"

Su Dai smiled even more vigorously, drank with the King of Chu, but his eyes fell on a minister of Chu not far away.

Qu Yuan, the Grand Marshal of Chu, sat there quietly, neither drinking nor eating food. The expression on his face was extremely gloomy, and it looked like a stone statue.

Su Dai blinked his eyes and remembered what Zhuxian said to him.

"This time, the most troublesome person who went to Chu State was not the King of Chu, nor Xiong Zilan, Zhaoju, but the Grand Marshal Qu Yuan of Chu State. If Qu Yuan did not obstruct it, then the plan of Zhao Lianchu would definitely be successful."

It was not until after coming to Chencheng that Su Dai heard about Qu Yuan's jumping into the river.

This incident also had a significant impact on the Chu State's political arena. After all, senior officials like Qu Yuan could jump into the river in anger, which shows how desperate he was about to Chu State.

What is surprising is that the King of Chu did not say anything about this, and did not even punish Qu Yuan, nor even reprimand him.

Obviously, the fall of Yingdu was not untouched in the heart of the King of Chu.

At this moment, the King of Chu waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "Where is the dancer? Why don't you come up and perform the dance quickly!"

Soon, a group of dancers walked up gracefully and began to dance in the melodious music.

Although it is winter, there are stoves, warm wine and soup cooks in the hall, and the air is filled with warm breath. Therefore, these dancers are also dressed very cool, and their beautiful figures are looming under the gauze dress. In addition, the stimulation of alcohol, you can hear a very obvious and heavy breathing sound one after another.

The King of Chu smiled at Su Dai and said, "This is the Zhongshan singer whom King Zhao gave me a few days ago, but I was dancing the Chu dance. I wonder what the envoy thought?"

Su Dai also smiled and said, "Although the foreign ministers do not understand the rhythm of dance, the Great Chu has been in great shape for more than 700 years. If this dance is not beautiful, it would be unreasonable."

When the King of Chu laughed and looked at Su Dai with bright eyes, he said, "That's natural. For more than 700 years, countless ancient kings of our great Chu worked hard to govern, and only then did the situation of Great Chu have like this today. Who would have annexed my great Chu? What did the envoy say?"

Su Dai said seriously: "What the king said is extremely true! Not only is it impossible to annex the Great Chu, but the Great Chu will soon retake Jianghan and Nanyang, so that the Qin people can know the true magnitude of the Chu men!"

The two looked at each other and laughed, and the host and the host and the host were having fun together.

That night, the King of Chu gave it to two dancers to Su Dai, but Su Dai was politely refused because he was inconvenient to take people to South Korea.

Three days later, after signing the alliance, Su Dai and his delegation left Chencheng and headed towards Xinzheng in the southwest.

It is very boring to travel in winter. The cold weather and extremely inconvenient roads make chatting the only pastime that can be done most of the time.

"The State of Chu is over." Su Dai said this to the Taoxian in front of him with great certainty.

Wangxian raised his head and looked at Su Dai in surprise: "Why?"

Su Dai sighed and said, "The treacherous and slanderous are in power, loyal ministers are not allowed to speak out, and the king is addicted to wine and sex without great ambitions. How can there be endless countries like this?"

Zhu Xian thought for a while and said, "Didn't the King of Chu agree to send troops with us to attack Qin and recover his hometown? This cannot be said to be without great ambitions."

Su Dai shook his head disapprovingly and said, "It was just because he thought that fighting with Da Zhao would definitely win and profitable, so he sent troops. Haven't you said it before? If he stayed in Yingdu at that time, Ying could have been defended."

Zhuxian nodded and said, "Of course it is OK. Although Yandu has been broken, it has been turned into a dead city by Bai Qi. Bai Qi cannot obtain any supplies from Yandu at all. As long as the King of Chu can appease the hearts and hold on to Yingdu, even if Bai Qi cleans up the entire Jianghan Plain, there will be no sufficient supplies to allow the Qin army to spend the whole winter outside Yingdu City, then Bai Qi will definitely have to choose to withdraw his troops."

"As soon as Bai Qi withdraws his troops, the Chu people actually lost a Yandu. In addition, the Jianghan Plain was robbed. Although the losses are quite large, they are acceptable. However, because the King of Chu left Yingdu in a hurry, countless supplies and wealth in the entire Yingdu were cheaper Bai Qi, and the Jianghan Plain was gone. Tell me, this is really...hey."

As he was talking, Wangxian couldn't help but shake his head. Obviously, he looked down on the King of Chu's actions.

Su Dai laughed: "Actually, the incompetence of the King of Chu is not a bad thing. If he is really a wise king, it will be a trouble for me, Da Zhao."

Zhuxian also smiled and said, "No, I think even if he is really a wise king, he will eventually become a king who will fall into a country in front of the king."

Su Dai was silent for a moment and nodded vigorously: "It's true."

In the heavy snow all over the sky, a pride laughter burst out from the carriage bit by bit, and then slowly dissipated into the air.

Xinzheng is here.

When he learned that Su Dai had arrived in Xinzheng, the King of Han did not immediately summon the envoy of Zhao, but summoned many important Korean officials, including Bao Yuan.

"Your Highness, this envoy of Zhao State is here. I want to let me attack Qin for the front of Zhao State. What do you think about this matter?"

King Han rubbed his temples, looking quite distressed.

The Korean ministers looked at each other, and no one dared to speak for a while.

This starts with the Korean system.

As we all know, South Korea adopts the Legal system.

The origin of the Legalists can be traced back to Guan Zhong, the famous prime minister of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period. After Li Ku, a powerful Legalist, reformed the Wei Kingdom and helped King Hui of Wei successfully bring Wei Kingdom to the position of the world's number one overlord, the Legalists instantly rose and became the world's extrinsic scholar.

Later, the Legalists were divided into three veins, one of which was mainly Shang Yang, and advocated that the "law" was the highest, and the law was implemented with severe punishment and generous rewards, so that no rewards were needed for those who obeyed the law and obeyed the orders, and no punishments were avoided. This lineage mainly developed and strengthened in the Qin State.

Another lineage takes the powerful Jixia Academy, who had just passed away, and the people of Zhao were cautious and talked about "power". The so-called power is authority. This faction should expand the authority of the government as much as possible and concentrate it in the hands of the master, so that the monarch and the government can have power, and thus smoothly implement the law. This lineage has received the support of Zhao Zhufu and is the most popular theory in Zhao's territory today.

The last line comes from South Korea, which is the "art" proposed by Shen Buhe, the famous prime minister of Han Zhaohou's era. Compared with the other two factions, this lineage pays the most attention to concentrating all rights in the hands of the monarch. All officials should be just tool users of the country, and the entire country should execute orders completely according to the will of the monarch.

If there is even Wei Ran in Qin State who can fight against the King of Qin, and Fei Yi in Zhao State who can persuade Zhao He, even a person who dares to talk back to the King of Han cannot find him.

This system that pays too much attention to the power of the monarch and suppresses the power of ministers to the extreme is undoubtedly unreasonable, and it also greatly hits the subjective initiative of South Korean ministers.

There is nothing wrong with not doing things or saying things. Once you do things, you may anger the king and then disappear directly. It is not surprising that such a silence occurs.

King Han waited for a while and found that no one was talking, and the clouds on his face began to gradually become dense.

The Korean Xiangbang Baoyuan, who was sitting at the bottom, sighed in her heart and said, "Master, the old minister thinks that it is actually a good idea to have an alliance with the Zhao Kingdom."

"Oh?" King Han's face moved slightly, and he looked at Bao Yuan with a smile: "Let's talk about it, why is this?"

Although it is a Xiangbang, the tone of King Han does not appear gentle when he speaks, and even a little sarcastic.

This is of course caused by Bao Yuan's self-decision in the Battle of Lianggou and his subsequent cooperation with Zhao State.

If the former Bao Yuan was a loyal minister in the heart of King Han, then after the battle in Lianggou, the loyal minister Bao Yuan had already died.

For King Han, Bao Yuan, who is now colluding with the people of Zhao, is a traitor, a thorn in his eyes, and he wishes he could get rid of it and get it done quickly.

Although there is no chance to get rid of Bao Yuan at the moment, this does not prevent the King of Han from saying a few sarcastic words.

Bao Yuan felt helpless when he saw King Han like this.

In Bao Yuan's heart, he actually felt that he was completely for the sake of South Korea's good. Of course, Bao Yuan also cooperated with Zhao, but this kind of cooperation did not sell off South Korea's interests, and even made South Korea win. Isn't this very good?

But at this point, Bao Yuan actually knew that he was indeed tied to the Zhao chariot by the people of Zhao, so it was hard to turn back.

Bao Yuan said: "King, when the Qin envoy came a few days ago, the old minister had opposed the alliance with the Qin State. Now the old minister still said that Dahan should continue to remain in the alliance of the Three Jins. This is the most beneficial plan for Dahan."

In this winter, it is not only the envoys of Zhao State who are acting.

King Yingji of Qin was also not a person who was waiting to die. In fact, Qin also sent envoys to Han, Wei and Chu countries.

Someone is going to ask, Qin State just finished fighting with the Three Kingdoms, and the King of Qin was so shameless that he sent the envoy again?

This is actually very normal. The relationship between allies and hostiles in the Warring States Period did not last long, and they were often wars as a time period. After a war, the relationship between allies and hostiles would often change due to the resumption of alliances and alliances among the countries. South Korea and Wei often swayed between Qin and Chu in the past few years when Chu was still strong. This is the origin of the so-called "morning and dying in Chu".

In this era, short-term alliances are very common, and long-term alliances are even more rare than rare treasures like Heshi Bi.

The conditions proposed by the Qin envoy was very simple, that is, the Qin and Han alliance would fight against Zhao together. As long as Zhao could be defeated, Shangdang County could be returned to South Korea.

King Han looked at Bao Yuan and said lightly: "Zhao State took Shangdang from me. Is Shangdang County so worth mentioning in the heart of the Brutal Xiang?"

Bao Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "The king misunderstood. Isn't I not want to take back Shangdang, but Old Minister Rong asked the king a question - Can Dahan and Qin join forces to defeat Zhao?"

King Han was speechless.

Indeed, Zhao State looks really too strong now.

But immediately, the King of Han spoke again: "The Qin and Han may not be enough, but if one of Wei or Chu is added, it should be enough?"

Bao Yuan shook his head and said, "That's the case, but have the king forgotten that Wei State also suffered a great loss in the Battle of Yiyang, and Chu State was even more captured by the Qin people. The King of Chu must now hate Qin State deeply, so how could he cooperate with Qin State?"

King Han snorted and said, "Then even if Chu is neutral, Wei... the biggest loss in the battle of Yiyang is that I can cooperate with Qin. Can the King of Wei be unable to do so? Besides, as long as he defeats Zhao, Wei may be able to take the opportunity to seek Qi territory, and he will have many benefits."

After the disputes in the hall, the other Korean ministers looked at me and I looked at you, and the expressions on their faces began to become solemn.

As everyone has said this, they can naturally hear the meaning of their king.
Chapter completed!