Because the Chu people were too quiet, they only sent people over to negotiate at first. When no conditions were reached, they launched a blessing curse in an attempt to create a fire and burn down the materials for building the city.

After the failure, there was no other movement for a long time.

This doesn't look like Chu people's style!

Even if the Chu people did not dare to attack the prince directly, they would avoid angering the King of Zhou and launching another southern expedition.

But Chu people are definitely not the kind of people who just watch him build a city and do nothing.

Zheng Xiaoming concluded that the current Chu people must be planning something, but he just didn't know it in his heart!

This made Zheng Xiaoming feel very uneasy, wondering where Chu Ren would show his cards.

Just as Zheng Xiaoming was pacing around the room, someone suddenly came to report with great joy: "Your Majesty, your Majesty has sent you three thousand slaves to help you build the city!"

Zheng Xiaoming was slightly startled: "Three thousand slaves? Where did they come from?"

"I heard they were captured Xirong prisoners of war!"

Zheng Xiaoming was stunned: "Why did the king start fighting with Xirong?"

You must know that Xirong has always been a traditional ally of Zhou Dynasty, also known as Jiangshi Rong.

That's right, who do you think of when you hear Jiang? Jiang Ziya. Qi Guo.

Xirong has always been an ally of the Zhou people, or the Zhou people are originally a branch of the Xirong.

After the Ji family and the Jiang family joined forces to destroy the Shang Dynasty, although some of the Xirong were sealed off to the easternmost state of Qi, a large part still stayed in the west.

By the way, why was the Jiang family from Xirong entrusted to the eastern seaside? This is worth pondering.

Anyway, the relationship between the two parties has become subtle and complicated, and they have met each other several times.

But now that the strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty is declining, it is time to win over Jiang Shirong. Why do they want to fight Xirong?

"I heard that Xirong disobeyed the king's orders. The king appointed Qin Zhong as his official and conquered Xirong. He obtained a lot of cattle, horses, and prisoners of war!"

Qin Zhong was the king of the Qin State and a prince in the western part of the Zhou Dynasty. His main responsibility was to herd horses for the emperor.

In this era, he was just a prince with reasonable strength but not a very high status.

Of course, only Zheng Xiaoming knows how powerful Qin will be in the future!

But that was after King Ping moved eastward and gave up the entire Zongzhou hometown to the Qin people.

At present, it is just a vassal state in the west of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Its presence among the Xia is very low!

"I didn't expect that Qin Zhong had some skills and actually captured so many prisoners of Xirong... No, I remember reading history books at the end of the Han Dynasty. I remember that Qin Zhong later fought with Xirong and died in the battle!"

Zheng Xiaoming shook his head and stopped thinking about these things. As a southern prince, he had no control over things so far away in the west.

That's right, what is now known as Jianghan and the areas where the Chu people ruled were all called Southern Land by the Zhou Dynasty.

Naturally, Zheng Xiaoming's Zheng State was built in the Yang of Xiangshui River, so it must be a southern prince!

He ordered people to place all the Xirong slaves in a safe place and prevent them from causing any trouble.

However, he didn't need to worry about this kind of thing at all. The Zhou Dynasty had very rich experience in using slaves and domesticating prisoners of war into slaves.

Those people under him should be able to handle these things!

Then Zheng Xiaoming summoned the officials of the King of Zhou who had escorted the slaves over, and gave them a banquet to thank them. He also asked Zong Zhou about the situation over there.

It is known that after King Xuan succeeded to the throne, he successively defeated the powerful enemies in the west, Xie Xun and Xirong. The threat from Zong Zhou was greatly reduced. Next, King Zhou's attention will be transferred to the south. He will be able to strongly support Zheng Xiaoming.

Zheng Guo!

Even after a few years, after recuperating and gathering strength, it would be possible to send a large army to deal with the disobedient Huaiyi and Chu people in the south.

The sending of three thousand prisoners this time was also an attitude of support from King Zhou towards Zheng Xiaoming.

It is also said that the King of Zhou was considering where to seal Shen Bo.

In the original time and space, King Xuan granted Shen Bo the title of Xie Yi, which was later known as Nanyang, and established the State of Shen to control the south.

But now, Zheng Xiaoming has arrived in the south first, and the fiefdom is further south than Xie Yi.

So now, King Xuan is considering where to canonize Shen Bo.

After hearing this, Zheng Xiaoming felt a little embarrassed for King Xuan, because there really was no place to seal!

During the era of King Li, the land of the Zhou family had almost been enfeoffed.

Archaeological discoveries of later generations showed from the inscriptions that the size of the land awarded by the Zhou king became smaller and smaller, and sometimes there were even several disconnected pieces of land.

A complete large piece of land is no longer available!

Even Wang Ji, who directly belonged to the King of Zhou, began to entrust it to others.

Therefore, it is not easy to find a piece of land to entrust to relatives.

In history, Zheng Boyou only managed to gain a foothold by relying on the sacrifice of ten cities by Guo and Hao.

Of course, it’s hard to say whether these two countries in history gave up willingly or were forced to give up!

Now that Zheng Xiaoming has been sealed in the south, there is no point in sealing Uncle Shen over again.

But apart from that, it was really not that easy for King Xuan to find another piece of land to entrust to his uncle.

By the way, Uncle Shen is also a member of the Jiang family, including the current Lu State in Nanyang.

During the Jiang family's marriage with the Ji family, almost every Zhou king would marry a daughter of the Lu family.

This is somewhat similar to the Liao Kingdom in later generations, where the Yelu family was the king and the Xiao family was the queen.

Uncle Shen is the uncle-in-law of King Li and the mother-in-law of King Xuan. He is also a virtuous minister with a reputation for virtue. Obviously, he must find a way to arrange it properly.

But Zheng Xiaoming doesn't need to worry about this kind of thing. These are things that King Xuan should worry about.

What Zheng Xiaoming is worried about now is how to establish his Zheng State as soon as possible under the blockade and suppression of the Chu people.

When he was thinking about how the Chu people should attack, he didn't expect that the Chu people would actually cause trouble.

Because Zheng Xiaoming was not far away, he heard that the Chu boatmen landed in Yindi and built cities in Yindi.

This is obviously tit-for-tat with Zheng Xiaoming.

From the very beginning, Zheng Xiaoming intended to build a city or a country in the Yin or Yang.

But that place was right on the bank of the Han River, directly facing the Chu people's troops.

So Zheng Xiaoming retreated to the next best thing and moved to the Yang of Xiangshui River to build the city.

Now the people of Chu sent people to build cities in Yin. It is not clear why.

But after hearing this news, Zheng Xiaoming breathed a sigh of relief. Since the Chu people have adopted a defensive attitude, they probably won't take the initiative to attack! This is a good thing, giving him time to gain a foothold. Like Futian in my heart
Chapter completed!