As mentioned before, Li Ran actually suspected from the beginning that there were people working undercover in Wu.
As Qingfeng himself said, his escape from Wu was the result of many coincidences, and there was no reasonable explanation for this coincidence. The only explanation that could be given was that behind it was the deliberate actions of the underworld.
the result of it.
Even though Qingfeng didn't want to admit it, he actually thought so from the beginning to the end. Otherwise, he wouldn't have thought of being a "king" in Zhongli and using this to please the secret followers.
Therefore, another conclusion can be drawn: even in Wu State, the Dark Walkers are still powerful enough to influence Wu State's decision-making.
Coupled with the information he obtained before, Li Ran now knows that there are more than five countries that have been infiltrated by the underworld.
Except for the unknown Qin and Yan states in the border areas, their power in the Central Plains countries has exceeded his imagination.
The impact that such a behemoth has on the world is obvious.
But Li Ran still doesn't understand one thing, that is, for what purpose did the Dark Walkers choose to support the Wu Kingdom?
He looked at Qingfeng again, hoping to get an answer from him.
"The Kingdom of Wu is relatively peaceful and rarely participates in the affairs of other countries in the Central Plains. Moreover, the Kingdom of Chu suppresses it. Why do the secret agents want to secretly support the Kingdom of Wu?"
In Li Ran's impression, the State of Wu actually did not get many opportunities to perform on the stage of Spring and Autumn history. And before the rise of the State of Wu and the enemy of the State of Chu, the overall strength of the State of Wu was not very outstanding.
It is not enough to pose a threat to Chu State and the Central Plains.
Under such circumstances, it is obviously very incredible for the secret gangs to support the Wu State and do such a loss-making business. They had to invest a lot of material and financial resources into it, and they were not sure that they would be able to do it.
get payback.
After all, Wu State is too far away from the Central Plains, and they have no way of getting involved in many things.
So why do the Dark Walkers invest so many resources to support the Wu Kingdom?
Qingfeng smiled, as if he was laughing at Li Ran's short-sightedness, but also seemed to be proud of everything he knew.
"Sir, he is said to be omniscient and omniscient about all major events in the world, and his wisdom is unparalleled in our time."
"Why don't you take a guess?"
This is not the first time Qingfeng has ridiculed Li Ran.
He had done this just now, but Li Ran ignored him immediately.
But when Li Ran heard such words again, he did not make the same choice as before.
He thought about it seriously, then looked at Qing Feng and said seriously:
"There is no doubt that the reason why the Dark Walkers want to support the Wu State is to contain the Chu State."
Qingfeng was startled when he heard the sound.
He obviously didn't expect that Li Ran could figure out the reason so quickly, which surprised him for a moment.
At this time, Li Ran continued to speak:
"Ever since the late king Shoumeng, the Wu State has been competing with the Chu State for supremacy in the southeast corner. Although they have lost more than they have won, the Wu people's desire to dominate is well known to everyone on the road."
"The doctor should know that when King Wu Zhufan was about to die, Ran was at the scene."
"The integrity of King Wu and Zhu Fan who would rather die than surrender moved everyone at that time. The scene where all the men of Wu killed themselves and were buried with him was even more shocking."
"However, with the power of the Wu State, to the Chu State, after all, it is nothing more than a fly shaking a tree. It is impossible for the successive kings of Wu not to know this, and it is impossible for the courtiers up and down the Wu State not to know this."
"But Wu State still chose to be a direct enemy of Chu State, and even did not hesitate to use the entire country's strength to defeat it."
"If it weren't for the help of others, how could Wu have the confidence to do this?"
In the Battle of Chaoyi, when Wu King Zhufan died in front of his eyes, he had already begun to suspect that there seemed to be something wrong behind all this.
First of all, Wu Ju's sudden appearance suddenly disrupted his original plan, so that King Wu Zhufan directly committed suicide. From then on, the two countries Wu and Chu formed a bloody feud.
Secondly, it was the speed of Wu King Zhufan in rescuing Shu Jiu.
These two factors made him begin to suspect that there must be spies inside the Chu State.
Finally, there is the fact that Wu King Zhufan, who was provoking trouble at the beginning, actually chose to capture Shujiu directly without worrying about Chu's future revenge.
Connecting this series of events from back to front, although Li Ran now knows the final result, when he looks back at what has happened, old questions have new answers, and some of the details are also
It was enough to make him have some new doubts.
Why did Wu Ju suddenly appear?
Why did Zhufan rescue Shu Jiu so quickly?
Why did Zhufan dare to provoke Chu so blatantly, and even directly captured Shujiu City?
These three questions, at this time, seem to have more reasonable explanations.
It was precisely because there were secret agents inside the Chu State that all this became logical.
What needs to be emphasized here is that after the Battle of Chaoyi, Li Ran once thought that it was his own problem that led to the tragedy of "King Wu committing suicide".
But what he doesn't know is that history is not subject to human manipulation and control, and history will only move forward along the established track.
At this time, when he learned about the existence of the Dark Walkers and that the Dark Walkers were secretly supporting the Wu State and using the Wu State to contain the Chu State, his self-blame immediately disappeared.
"The purpose of the Dark Walkers has always been to limit the power of the royal family. However, with the passage of time, the royal family no longer only refers to the Zhou royal family, but to the royal families of all countries in the world."
"The two countries of Jin and Chu have been at war for hundreds of years. The war was scorching the prairie fire, and all life was in ruins. Chu State, like a latecomer, drank the Yellow River and aspired to dominate the Central Plains. As a result, the three-army system of the Central Plains countries remains to this day. Moreover, the whole world has always been shrouded in the Chu State.
Under the shadow of the centralized power of the breeding office.”
"Under this shadow, our secret followers cannot achieve the goal of 'controlling the superiors from below', and naturally cannot overturn the existing structure and their inherent identities, let alone how to restore them.
Shaping the order of this world."
"For this reason, we have to find a way to contain the Chu State."
"The best way before us is to cultivate a powerful enemy of the Chu State. And this powerful enemy of the Chu State is the Wu people."
That's right, the reason why the Dark Walkers support the Wu State is to contain the Chu State. And to restrict the Chu State is to restrict the revival of the official offices of various countries.
Therefore, in this regard, they can be said to have spared no effort.
After listening to Qingfeng's words, Li Ran suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind and thought of something else.
If we say that with the decline of the Zhou royal family, the royal family that secretly practiced public restrictions has become the Zhou royal family and become the official offices of all countries in the world, then can one question be explained?
That is, the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period were each brilliant, but the reason why they could not last for a long time is that this is also the result of the operation of the Dark Walkers?
Qi Huan, Jin Wen, Chuzhuang, and later the controversial King Helu of Wu and King Goujian of Yue.
In fact, it's not just these few people.
Counting down the past heroes of the Spring and Autumn Period, almost every one of them has bloomed their own light on the stage of the Spring and Autumn Period.
But in the end, even those as powerful as Qi Huan and Jin Wen were just short-lived. Most of them were reduced to the dust of history after only one life.
