Chapter 505: If you want to take something first, you must give it first
Everyone suddenly stopped talking. Everyone understood that although the Yue State was weak, it was still a bastard. The Chu State had no way of telling them, otherwise it would not have allowed the Yue people to jump behind their backs for so many years.
"I would like to lead an army of 300,000 to attack the Yue Kingdom. If the Yue Kingdom is not destroyed, please behead me." General Jing Yang of the Chu Kingdom stepped forward, clasped his fists in his hands, and said loudly.
"I only need one hundred thousand elite soldiers to destroy the Yue Kingdom." Xiang Pei also said in a shocked voice.
"May I ask these two generals, what are their plans?" Xiong Wan was not his grandfather, King Huai of Chu.
A few years ago, hundreds of thousands of Chu troops were defeated by Qin, letting him know that fighting is not a child's play.
It also let him know that the so-called generals of Chu State may not have that high combat level.
Jingyang and Xiang Pei were stunned when they heard Xiong Wan's question. They just felt that they had to fight at this moment. There was no plan.
"Your Majesty, you may be able to deploy heavy defense forces in the east of the Yangtze River," said the doctor, Shangguan Lan.
"You can only be a thief for a thousand days, but you can't guard against a thief for a thousand days." King Chu shook his head.
The elderly Zhuang Xin looked at the group of wine bags and rice bags in the court hall of Chu State, sighed deeply, and slowly walked to the center of the hall.
"What does Lord Yangling teach me?" King Chu asked respectfully.
"May I ask your Majesty, is it easier to catch monkeys when they are in the mountains and forests, or when they are on the flat ground?" Zhuang Xin paused and said.
"Of course it's easy to catch him on the ground," King Chu said.
"Is it easier to catch monkeys when they have a fixed territory, or when they don't have a fixed territory?" Zhuang Xin asked again.
"Of course it's easier to arrest when you have a fixed territory." Chu Wangwan said.
"Now the Yue people are like monkeys, hiding in the mountains and forests, with no fixed abode. Once our Chu country attacks, the Yue people will run away. If we want to catch the Yue people, the only way is to let them come out of the mountains and occupy
A piece of territory. The Yue people who walk out of the mountains and occupy the city are like monkeys imprisoned on the plains. Our Chu country can easily capture them as long as we send a little troops." Zhuang Xin's old voice sounded in the main hall. "As the saying goes, take it in advance.
, must be given first, this is the truth.”
"Mr. Yangling continued." Xiong Wan's eyes lit up and he sat up straight.
"I suggest that the hometown of the Yue State, Jiangdong County, be given to the Yue State as a gift from the Chu State to congratulate the Yue State on its restoration. It will not only demonstrate the greatness of the Chu State, but also attract the Yue people from the mountains and forests." Zhuang
Xin said in a deep voice.
If you want to grasp a person's weaknesses, you have to look at what the person needs most. The same is true for a country.
Hiding in the deep mountains and old forests, what the Yue State needs most is obviously land. As long as the Chu State delivers land to its doorstep, the Yue State will have no choice but not to be fooled.
"These cities were conquered by the ancestors of our Chu Kingdom. How could they be given away so easily? How can we lose the face of our Chu Kingdom?" Jing Chai, a senior official of the Chu Kingdom and a Ci Fu family member after Qu Yuan, said angrily.
"With the general trend of the world, how can one gain or lose in one place or one city? If you abandon a county today, the southeastern part of Chu will not have to worry about it for a hundred years. If you do not abandon a county today, in the future the people of Chu will grow stronger, and our country of Chu will suffer a backlash." Zhuang Xin's voice was sonorous.
Powerful, two eyes shot towards Jingzashi like sharp arrows.
The Yue people are famous for their perseverance. In the past, Gou Jian was humiliated so much that he lay dormant for ten years and finally destroyed the Wu Kingdom.
Although the Chu State destroyed the Yue State today, the southeast has not been pacified. Hundreds of thousands of Yue people have fled into the mountains, posing a serious threat to Chu State's rule in the southeastern region.
No one can guarantee whether a second Gou Jian will appear among this group of Yue people and lead the Yue people to destroy Chu.
"Jiangdong is the hometown of the Yue Kingdom. If the Yue Kingdom takes the opportunity to secure Jiangdong, what crime should Lord Yangling be responsible for?" Jingzha asked in a deep voice.
"As long as I am here, the Yue Kingdom will not be able to secure its position in Jiangdong." Zhuang Xin raised his face, stroked his beard, and said with great pride.
"Your Majesty, I firmly oppose Yangling Lord's proposal. Even if I send a large army to conquer, I can never abandon Jiangdong County. I have never heard of it. Without sending a soldier or shooting an arrow, a strong country cedes territory to a weak country.
And." Jing Cha did not continue talking to Zhuang Xin, but faced the King of Chu, declared his position, and then retreated to his position.
"You haven't heard much about it. When I followed the late king to take back the land south of the Yangtze River from the Qin people, you were still in the sunny spring and snowy, high-minded and quiet. How could you understand the important affairs of the country." Zhuang Xin straightened his back and stretched out his sleeves.
, with a stern look in his eyes.
Zhuang Xin's words were not only scolding Jing Cha, but also scolding people like Song Yu and Tang Le.
Song Yu was a handsome man from Chu State, with outstanding literary talent and eloquence. The King of Chu liked him very much.
However, some ministers kept speaking ill of Song Yu in front of the King of Chu, and even the people did not like Song Yu.
At first, King Chu didn't take it seriously.
But after a long time, the King of Chu couldn't bear it any longer, so he called Song Yu over and asked him what was going on. Is there something wrong with his character? The relationship between colleagues was not handled well, and even the people didn't like you.
Song Yu said: "There was a guest who sang in the capital. At first he sang the folk songs "Xia Li" and "Ba Ren" that everyone in Chu State knew well. Thousands of people in the capital sang with him. Later he sang the more advanced "Yang"
"A", "Xie Lu", hundreds of people in the capital sang with him. When he sang the elegant "Yangchun" and "White Snow", only a few dozen people in the capital sang with him. In the end, he sang with his voice
For Shang Yin, he lowered his voice and became Yu Yin, and mixed it with the flowing Zheng sound, and there were only a few people following him in the capital. From this point of view, the more elegant the song, the fewer people sang along.
"
The implication is that I am something that those country bumpkins can understand.
Now Zhuang Xin is obviously using Song Yu's words to scold everyone, including Song Yu and Jing Cha: How can I be understood by those of you who only know how to write poems and poems?
Zhuang Xin's slap hit his face, and Song Yu, who had been hiding behind him silently, had to stand up, leaned over and asked, "What if the Yue people didn't fall into the trap?"
"The Yue Kingdom has just announced its restoration, and its morale is high. Ministers and people are waiting for the king to lead them to regain their homeland. At this time, the Chu Kingdom is showing weakness, which will definitely make the Yue people happy. If the Yue Kingdom even loses the city that the Chu Kingdom donated to them,
If they don't dare to occupy it, the people's hearts that have just been united will collapse in an instant, and the so-called Yue Kingdom will also fall apart. Our Chu Kingdom can destroy the Yue Kingdom again without spending a single soldier." Zhuang Xin said loudly.
The King of Yue seemed to have a choice, but in fact he had no choice.
Moving forward, there is a very small chance of breaking through the shackles of the Chu State.
If you retreat, the efforts of the past few years will be in vain. Not only will there be no hope of restoring the country, but you may even be ousted from power by the Chinese people.
Therefore, even if he knew that there was a cliff ahead, the King of Yue would still jump off with his eyes closed.
This is Zhuang Xin's conspiracy.
"What Mr. Yangling said is all speculation. How can national affairs be such a child's play?" Song Yu said.