After Yun Jindong left the palace, he struggled a lot, and finally went to see Lu Qi, told Lu Qi what happened, and bluntly suggested that Lu Qi, a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall, and if he is unwilling to belong to Zhou, he should run away as soon as possible.

After hearing this, Lu Qi was grateful for Yun Jindong's Chongyi. After Yun Jindong left, Xiaodie suggested that Lu Qi leave tomorrow. After Lu Qi thought about it, he shook his head. First, he would inevitably implicate Yun Jindong. Second, according to Yun Jindong's words, the Emperor of Zhou had actually paid attention to him. If he escaped, it would inevitably cause pursuit and implicate his relatives in Shou County. Third, according to Yun Jindong's words, the Emperor of Zhou did not have murderous intentions towards him. If the frightened bird escaped, he would have fallen into a bad strategy.

Lu Qi was patiently dormant. He vaguely felt that the Emperor of Zhou might have made some big decisions. In fact, now he hopes that Zhou can attack Tang, Zhou will attack Tang, and Jin will be able to move from passive defense to strategic offensive.

The so-called present is different from the past. After a period of time, the internal affairs of Jin State have become stable, but stability has also caused peace in the hearts of the people of Jin State. Most people in the world do not want wars to happen. If Lu Qi launched a foreign war, it would be able to follow the action, but it would also make the people of Jin State disgusted. After all, Jin State has not been established for a long time.

If Zhou attacked Tang, then it would be natural for Lu Qi to launch a war. Zhou attacked Tang, which would inevitably lead to part of Zhou's military strength being restrained in the war of Tang. At that time, Jin could choose to compete with Zhou for the territory of Tang, or launch a war to enter Bashu. If it did not swallow Bashu Han, Jin would not be able to enter Zhou. If it directly entered Zhou, it would be easy to be cut off by Han's retreat in Jingzhou.

If Zhou State attacked Tang, how much military force could it be? Lu Qi considered this issue and guessed that it would be more than 300,000, while Jin State could use 600,000 troops to implement early defense. The weakness of Jin State's military strength is that it lacks military equipment and may not be as brave as the Zhou army. Therefore, Lu Qi has always focused on developing long-term attack military equipment, and the popularity of military equipment cannot be achieved in the short term.

Of course, the Zhou State may also attack Bashu and Jingzhou, and use strong means to drag Jin into a protracted war, but protracted war is not desirable for the Zhou State. Therefore, if the Zhou State is determined to expand its territory, it will be the easiest to attack Tang State. Today, the Tang State is the weakest soft persimmon on the borders of the Zhou State. It has a weak military strength and no aid alliance. It relies too much on the river natural barrier to defend against Zhou State.

Lu Qi was quietly dormant in the King of Wu's Mansion for three days. Suddenly, Ban came to look for him. Xuan went to see His Majesty the Emperor. He was seen by Emperor Xuan of Zhou. It was also as Lu Qi expected that Lu Qi left the King of Wu's Mansion under the uneasy sight of the prince.

When he entered the Zhou Dynasty Palace, Lu Qi was ordered to wait outside the Chuigong Hall. Lu Qiping calmly stood up. He thought he would wait for a while, but he didn't expect that he could only wait for half a stick of incense. The troupe came out and let him come in.

Lu Qi entered the Chuigong Hall and saw that there were only two big figures in the hall except for more than a dozen eunuchs and Ban Zhi. One was a graceful figure in the bright yellow robe sitting behind the imperial case, and the other was an old minister with purple official robe and half-white hair sitting on the right side of the imperial case.

Lu Qi walked into the hall, knelt down and said respectfully: "My memory, Lu Tianfeng, kowtowed to His Majesty the Emperor."

"Get up." Emperor Zhou said calmly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Lu Qi stood up after responding.

After looking at Lu Qi for a while, the Emperor of Zhou said calmly: "Lu Tianfeng, you are from Wu, you can actually speak the accent of Kaifeng Mansion, although it is a little stiff."

"Your Majesty, I have followed the customs and have communicated a lot with Kaifeng Prefecture people." Lu Qi replied.

"What do you think of Kaifeng Prefecture?" asked Emperor Zhou.

"Your Majesty, Kaifeng Prefecture is very prosperous." Lu Qi replied.

"How about Jiangning?"

"Jiangning is prosperous, with beautiful and elegant everywhere, while Kaifeng Prefecture is prosperous, with simple and busy figures everywhere." Lu Qi replied.

"So, Jiangning is better than Kaifeng Prefecture." Emperor Zhou said peacefully.

"I said that Jiangning is prosperous, and there are many literati who do not need to do things leisurely. Outside Jiangning, difficulties can be seen everywhere. The Tang Dynasty used the wealth of the whole country to support Jiangning." Lu Qi replied.

The Emperor of Zhou was silent, and after a while, he asked, "Have you ever seen the King of Jin?"

"I have seen it." Lu Qi replied.

"Oh, what kind of person is King Jin?" said Emperor Zhou.

"The King of Jin was about thirty-five years old, and he gave me the impression that he was resolute and courageous." Lu Qi replied.

"You have Shezhou, did the King of Jin not recruit you?" asked the Emperor Zhou.

"When I was sending a marriage envoy, I met King Jin. King Jin wanted to keep the ministers. I refused, and King Jin did not feel embarrassed. I let the ministers go back to Tang. Later, the development of Jin was amazing. At that time, Jin destroyed the Min Kingdom. It happened that the Xinghua army of Tang suddenly attacked Quzhou and Wuzhou of Yue Kingdom, defeated the strongest Wusheng Army of Yue Kingdom. Unexpectedly, the Xinghua army occupied Wuzhou, and the Chu army suddenly attacked Tang on a large scale. The Xinghua army was forced to abandon the results of the war to deal with the attack of Chu Kingdom. King Jin took the opportunity to occupy the western states of Yue Kingdom, forcing Yue Kingdom to turn to Jin Kingdom. Later, Jin attacked Chu Kingdom and finally destroyed Chu Kingdom together with the rebellious minister of Tang Yuwen." Lu Qi asked ten questions and answers.

The Emperor Zhou nodded and asked, "I heard that you commanded the 15th army in Hongzhou to attack Chu, but did not destroy Chu. What is the reason?"

"Your Majesty, my command of the army at that time was actually a fox and a tiger's power. Half of the fifteenth army were surrendered by Jing State and half of the Ezhou Army. At that time, His Majesty the king could not stand the strong recommendation of the right prime minister and was forced to let Lord Lin Renzhao take over the war in the west. However, His Majesty the king appointed Zhu Lingjun as the military supervisor to control Lord Lin Renzhao, which made Lord Lin Renzhao only the nominal supreme commander in the west. Lord Lin Renzhao could not mobilize the military stationed in Hongzhou, so he gave me the 30,000 flag troops. At that time, I became the governor of Hongzhou. In fact, it was a false position. His Majesty the king did not give me any power, but because he did not have the power, he was granted the power to lead the army. Later, he asked me to go to get food and grass to lead the army away from Hongzhou, causing the 30,000 troops to escape Zhu Lingjun's control.

After leading the army, I went to Xinzhou and secretly returned to Ezhou. I joined forces with the governor of Ezhou, and then attacked Jiangxia to seize the food of Jingzhou. After successfully capturing Jingzhou, I obtained 80,000 surrendered soldiers from Jingzhou. After that, General Yu Hua ordered me to lead the surrendered soldiers of Jingzhou and Ezhou army to return to Ezhou and began to conquer Chu. General Yu Hua led my 30,000 flag troops to occupy Jingzhou. In fact, it was really surprising at that time. I did not expect to occupy Jingzhou, and the military strength of Han and Zhou was also unaware of it." Lu Qi told himself that he was intending to mislead the emperor of Zhou.

The Zhou Emperor frowned when he heard this. The old minister looked at Lu Qi deeply, but Lu Qi knew in his heart that the Zhou Emperor would inevitably be annoyed that the military power guarding the Han River was incompetent and would actually miss the opportunity to seize Jingzhou.

In fact, when Lu Qi replaced the Jingmen army with Ganzhou military, he specifically ordered the secret spies who were lurking in Zhou. Since he had given instructions, the soldiers would naturally patrol the Han River closely. When they found that there were people from Jingzhou who were close to the Han River, they would shoot and kill them immediately. During that period, according to a memorial handed over by Jiangling, more than 300 people were patrolled, which was a bloody blockade, and countless people were killed in vain. However, the blockade lasted only for more than a month. After reaching an alliance with the Han army in Fancheng, fishing was allowed.

"Why did he lose afterwards?" Emperor Zhou asked calmly.

"Then it was said that it was because of the rebellion of Yuwen that the great defeat in the west was caused. In fact, the great defeat in the west was caused by His Majesty the king." Lu Qi replied.

"Oh, what do you mean?" asked the Emperor of Zhou.
Chapter completed!