Chapter 37 The Alliance
"The king should come to the altar first, stand here, and the King of Qi will bow to him after he goes to the altar." The person who spoke was Jin Yi, the deputy of Shaozai, Yang Wenjun. He came from Yingdu in a warship and was exhausted all the way.
"Then what?" Xiong Jing didn't know what happened to the alliance. The State of Chu has not yet passed the alliance in recent decades.
"Then the King of Qi lays the jade." This alliance was the leader of the Chu State, and saved a procedure for laying jade. "Another dig a hurdle on the ground, Rong You killed the beast and cut off the left ear of the cattle, and put it on a bead plate. The bead plate was held by the king, which was to hold the ear of the cattle."
"Zhi Niu Er?" Xiong Jing nodded. He knew how the word "Zhi Niu Er" came from.
"That's right." Jin Yi nodded. "The blood of cattle, pigs, etc. is abundant in Yudun, and is maintained by Rongyou. The alliance begins. The king stands on the altar to the west, and the king of Qi stands on the altar to the north. First, the Si Alliance reads the alliance letter and tells the gods, and then there is a blood from the right of Rongyou. The king should apply the blood on his mouth to show his determination. This is blood. The King of Qi is the same. After the blood is removed, the alliance letter and the cattle are buried in Kan, which is a book on Kan."
What Xiong Jing had to do was just to slap blood, and there was no difficulty. Jin Yi said again: "In the future, the king should sacrifice to the sun, moon, mountains and rivers with the King of Qi, and then he would go down to the altar to have a feast, or perform the ceremony of guest shooting. After the banquet, the alliance will be completed."
"I know." Xiong Jing looked relaxed. He thought the alliance was very complicated, but he didn't expect it to be so relaxed. He just went on stage, gave him blood, sacrifices, and feasts. Except for the stage and he took him to the blood, he had experienced the rest.
"King, remember, never lose your power in Qi." The alliance is not difficult, but it is difficult to maintain majesty in the alliance. Jin Yi looked at the king and was a little worried. He was not worried about the king's intelligence, but about the king's age.
"Of course, it will not lose his power in Qi State." Xiong Jing said naturally. "If he is not convinced, he will not be able to join forces. Everyone will fight another battle."
Qin and Wei have withdrawn their troops, and under this situation, Chu can do its best to deal with Qi. Although it is not really about conspiring with Zhao to deal with Qi, it can still be done. Today, Qi is no longer the fighting Qi before the destruction of the country. The reason why Lu was destroyed by Chu was because Qi was unwilling to fight with the great powers again. Last year, Qin was suppressed by Qin.
Although Xiong Jing, who had survived another crisis, was in a good mood. After the alliance, the Yingdu Outer Dynasty was launched, and the new policy was about to be fully launched. The relationship with Zheng Shang and Wei Shang is gradually becoming harmonious. I believe that they will change their minds soon and discuss the 300,000 gold treasury bonds.
Muling Pass was built on Daxian Mountain. The Guancheng was not high, but more than two feet tall. However, with the mountain, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The first Guancheng was captured by the strange army of the king. After taking down the first Guancheng, it was easy to fight the second Guancheng. Looking at Weiwei Guancheng, I didn't expect that the minister who had agreed to the alliance suddenly changed his mind.
"I think I may not hand over Neiguan to the people of Qi." Qu Guang accompanied King Qi to Muling. The people of Qi were extremely arrogant at the beginning, but only after learning that Qin and Wei withdraw their troops, they became respectful.
"What do Qu Qing thinks the people of Qi? Do you have any trust? How about the people of Wei?" Xiong Jing also considered this issue on the way. Since Muling Pass had been taken down, why not cooperate with Zhao and really destroy Qi, but he was still concerned about Qi itself.
The King of Qi may be timid, but the Qi people, of course, were the Qi people outside Linzi, who needed to spend their efforts to conquer and even more to suppress them. This is different from the Wei State. The current territory of Wei State is owned by Zheng State, and most of the people are Zheng State. Since the Zheng people are willing to be Wei people without resisting, they are also willing to be Chu people, which is undoubtedly true. Taking any city can quickly be incorporated into the Chu system. Compared to being Wei people, the common people are more willing to be Chu people.
"This," Vuguang didn't expect that Xiong Jing was asking about people, not soldiers, armored cities, etc. "I don't know."
"Do you know the details of Qi State?" Xiong Jing asked Xiang Shaozhao Jin Yi, but Jin Yi didn't know either.
"I would like to remind the king that the king must not be trusted in Qi." Qu Guang and Jin Yi did not understand Qi, but the Right Historian seemed to understand Qi.
"Why?" Xiong Jing only cared about Lu Zhonglian, Tian Heng and others, and did not know the truth about Qi.
"Qi is like our Chu State. Can the King think that Chu State can be bullied?" The right historical saying goes astonishing. "Qi State originated from the Jiang family and spread the Zhou people's system. It was changed during the Guan Zhong period, and then implemented the village system and the Five Capitals system. It has been more solid than our Chu State for hundreds of years.
The king may not give Qi a pass, but Qi will not let it go, and Qin will not sit idly by. Qi is weak, but weak defeats strong. He does not want to be an enemy of our Chu State, so he deceives him. Qin State may send four counties to help Qi attack us, and become my mortal enemy."
Organization is the word Xiong Jing introduced into this world, but few people understand the true meaning of organization. The right historical said that Qi State's organizational level was higher than Chu State, and Xiong Jing was a little confused. In his concept, Xiang Yu had eight thousand children, and Tian Heng was only five hundred dead soldiers. It should be that the Chu State's organizational level was higher than Qi State. But what he ignored was that after the Qin unification, the Guandong nobles moved to Xianyang, and the Xiang family was not the Duke of Chu State escaped. Except that, only Xiong Xin, who was herding sheep in the countryside, escaped.
In addition to Tian Heng, the princes who escaped the net from Qi State also included Tian Dan, Tian Rong, Tian Du, Tian Du, Tian Kuo, Tian Guang, Tian An, Tian Jian, Tian Jiao, all of them were the princes. Since there were so many princes, there were naturally many nobles. Qin destroyed the six kingdoms and had no spare time to arrest the princes and nobles of the six kingdoms, and it was impossible to favor one or the other. Since the Qi State's net could protect so many princes, it would naturally have a higher organization than the Chu State. There were fewer Qi people who complained to the Qin people for rewards than Chu.
This is actually the difference in the background of the two countries. Once Qi was established, it was a great country. After nearly a thousand years of influence, people living on that land considered themselves to be Qi people. The different states of Chu were different. The viscount of Chu started his family fifty miles away. After the conquest, he only moved his tribe and turned his country into a county. Not to mention the scholars, even the common people knew that they were not Chu people originally - frequent sacrifices allowed the common people to keep their memories of their ancestors.
This resulted in bad consequences: the woodcutter who guided the coalition forces to cross the water in the Battle of Chusha, if he thought he was a Chu man, he would never have given the Qi general Kuang Zhang. Similarly, Tian’s father, who was fighting for hegemony in Chu, would never have said, “Left”, which caused Xiang Yu to fall into the biggest tragedy of the cavalry. The real Chu man was only in the old Yingjiang-Han Plain, but unfortunately he had already lost it there.
Muling Guan City, the day before yesterday, Xiong Jing and his ministers discussed the alignment strategy again. A dispute was also unfolding in the Qi army shogunate outside the Guan City. Unlike the Chu people, what should we do if the Chu State did not join forces with it?
"I have sent an envoy to Zhao to repair it with Zhao." said the Prime Minister Housheng. He felt that he had helped him during this period and that everything he did was right. The king was very satisfied. "However, the time he went to Handan was abandoned, and the envoy still had not returned the news."
"Does King Zhao want to attack me?" When he arrived at Muling Pass, even though he brought an army of 100,000, Tian Jian's heart was still beating very fast.
"I think if I join the Chu State, I will not attack." Hou Sheng said in vain.
"But I still don't hear that King Chu has arrived in Muling." Tian Jian was deeply worried, "Love, but the time for the alliance is too short and the King of Chu has not arrived yet? If this is true, I would like to wait for the King of Chu to be the leader."
"Doctor Qu is the descendant of Qu. Duke Qu told me that the King of Chu must arrive at Muling before the day of Xinchou." Hou Sheng remembered that day that he wanted to join forces to ask for three thousand gold from him because Qu Guang wanted to join him as soon as possible. "King, I think I should add gold."
"Add gold?" Tian Jian looked at him blankly, for some reason. Of course, it is not difficult to add gold, but he is afraid that Chu and Zhao will plot against Qi. "If the King of Chu is willing to join forces with me, I am willing to add gold."
"Yi!" Hou Sheng was overjoyed, and he could take the opportunity to make another profit.
"I would like to ask the king not to worry about it," General Tian Luo saw that the king was so weak and could not stand it. He said, "If the king of Chu does not join me, the 100,000 soldiers under the pass can take back Muling Pass."
"Recapture?" The Chu army still did not know the number of people. Even if they knew the number, Guancheng would not be able to be captured in a short time. Hou Sheng did not like Tian Luo's words and said, "I dare to ask the general, what if Zhao State also attacked me?"
"If Zhao State attacks me, it will naturally send troops to resist Zhao." Tian Luo said loudly. "In addition, I should ask for help from Qin. Qin will never allow Chu and Zhao to conspire to attack me."
"Never do not." Jimo's king Tian He completely opposed it. "The Qin people have no trust, and what if Qin soldiers enter Qi and conspire with Chu and Zhao?"
"Ah?" The others were fine, Tian Jian's face changed, "What's that?"
"I think the King of Chu has faith." Tian He said loudly, "I heard that the King of Chu has a reputation as a scholar. One must be brave and the other must be loyal and trustworthy. What is loyalty and trustworthy? He said: Love his family, be filial to his elders, fulfill his promises, keep his duties, be loyal to his king, and die in his country. If there is any, it can be said to be loyal and trustworthy.
The loyal and trusted king will like the loyal and trusted men. The loyal and trusted king will join our Qi State. The two countries will continue to fight and will not attack again. I would like to go to Muling to see the people of Chu. If the King of Chu arrives at Muling, he will say that he will join us."
"Good, great kindness!" Tian Jian said loudly. "Your dear will enter the pass quickly and ask the King of Chu to join me."
"I respectfully accept the order." Qi State implemented the Five Capitals, and Jimo was one of the Five Capitals. If the King of Qi could not believe in the Prime Minister's victory, Tian He's influence in Qi State might not be inferior to that of the Prime Minister.
"What? The people of Qi are asking for a meeting?" Xiong Jing in Guancheng had not yet made up his mind, and the Jimo doctor from Qi came.
"That's right." The military officer reported.
"See or not?" Xiong looked at Qu Guang, Jin Yi and Youshi. Before the reply from Yingdu came, he had only these two ministers by his side.
"Please see him." Vulcan and the Right Historian said in unison. Vulcan meant to see him and see what the Qi people said. The Right Historian believed that it should not be joined by Zhao to attack Qi. Qi had not fought with Chu for decades. After this, he would no longer be tempted by the Qin people.
"See." Xiong Jing said, the key now is whether to return the city to the Qi people, rather than whether to attack Qi or not.
Chapter completed!