In mid-May, the war between the four allies of Qi, Lu, Wei, and Yue and the Chu State had gradually subsided, and they began to count their gains or heal their wounds in a period of peace, although no one believed that this peace could last long.
Among the coalition forces, Qi State retreated the fastest. Relying on the relationship between Qi State's left prime minister Ji Zhao, Zhao Hongrun knew very well why the Sixth Prince brother returned to Linzi in such a hurry with the body of Qi King Lu Xi.
The reason is that the incompetent sons of King Lu Xi of Qi heard that their father seemed to have died on the way to conquer Chu, so they jumped out one by one, eager to become the king of Qi.
How could Ji Zhao tolerate this?
Zhao Hongrun knew the character of his Sixth Prince brother very well. Despite his gentle appearance, in fact, the scholar was more stubborn than an ox.
Since King Lu Xi of Qi made a will and made his youngest son Gongzi Bai king, Ji Zhao would support his brother-in-law to become the king of Qi no matter what, and assist him wholeheartedly.
If nothing goes wrong, Qi will soon face a civil strife.
"Why don't you go and help your Sixth Prince brother?"
Mi Jiang was very puzzled that Zhao Hongrun was still staying in Xiangcheng.
By the way, Xiangcheng, after the Allied Forces signed the "Shouying Peace Treaty" with Chu, became a city of the Lu State, but it temporarily belonged to the Wei Army. After all, there were many original items that Zhao Hongrun was preparing to pack up and take back to the Wei State in Xiangcheng.
The people of Chu State, therefore, the leader of Lu State generously handed over the temporary ownership rights to the Wei army.
However, regarding this matter, most of the Wei soldiers and generals frowned. After all, Xiangcheng was originally captured by the Wei army. If it weren't for the fact that it was an enclave far away from the mainland of Wei, how could it be the turn of Lu to conquer it?
Considered already?
"help?"
After listening to Mi Jiang's inquiry, Zhao Hongrun shook his head and explained: "That is the internal affairs of Qi State, and it is not for me to interfere... If I interfere, it will give Brother Liu Wang's enemies an excuse, and they will slander me.
The Wei Dynasty attempts to annex Qi."
Yes, no matter how fiercely the various forces within Qi State fight for the position of King of Qi, Wei Fang cannot interfere, because this is a family matter, and the loss of the Lord of Lu State was precisely because of this consideration
, he returned to Qufu, the royal capital of Lu State.
Before leaving, the leader of the Lu State greeted Zhao Hongrun and invited him to visit Qufu, the capital of the Lu State, in a few days.
Zhao Hongrun said he would visit.
Of course, it was said that it was a visit, but in fact it was just for the rubbings of the most precious treasure of the Lu State - the volume "Secret Records of Lu Gong".
During this period, more than one million people from the Chu State in Xiangcheng began to migrate to the Wei State one after another.
Because the number of people was so huge, Zhao Hongrun decided to conduct several routes at the same time.
One is to walk along the Huanshui River, pass through the Suishui River, go to Xiangling of Wei State, and then walk to Shangshui County.
Second, take the Wo River, pass through Cai River, Shangshui, and then to Shangshui County.
These two waterways are relatively safe and convenient because the former town of Xiong Wu, Lord Guling, has belonged to the Wei State.
However, the draft of these two waterways is very shallow, so the number of civilians carried on each trip is not very large.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun chose the third relatively difficult route, which was to cross Song County.
For this reason, Zhao Hongrun sent someone to contact Song Mo's wealthy son Xu Ruo. After all, this person had some connections with Song Yun, the leader of the largest rebel force in Song County.
After all, in the past ten years, first Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, and then Xiong Wu, Lord Guling, the two armies of the Chu State successively captured the Song Dynasty. Who knows if those Chu soldiers had done anything harmful to the Song people.
Nowadays, more than a million Chu civilians are crossing the Song Dynasty. If the Song people are thinking about their hatred against the Chu people and massacre the Chu people who defected to Wei, Zhao Hongrun will not tolerate it.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun clearly told Xu Ruo to tell Song Yun, the leader of the Song rebels, that if the rebels dared to kill a Chu citizen who defected to Wei, Zhao Hongrun would join forces with Nangong Kui, the general of the Suiyang army, to The rebels in Song Dynasty were uprooted. Even if Song Yun fled to the ends of the earth, he would send troops to capture and kill him!
Faced with Zhao Hongrun's warning, Xu Ruo repeatedly stated that he would communicate with the rebels in the Song Dynasty, and he repeatedly stated that the enemy of the Song Dynasty rebels was only Suiyang Army General Nangong Kui, a shameless traitor and regicide. I have no intention of antagonizing the Wei State.
Even, to be cautious, Xu Ruo, the great son of Song Mo, made a trip in person.
About three to five days later, Xu Ruo received good news: Song Yun, the leader of the Song rebels, stated that his rebels were definitely not bandits and bandits, and would not kill innocent people indiscriminately, nor would they attack Chu who defected to Wei. civilian.
In addition, Song Yun, the leader of the Song County rebels, also expressed goodwill to Zhao Hongrun and hoped to have further contacts with Zhao Hongrun.
Zhao Hongrun didn't care about this. Of course he knew what the Song rebels wanted to do with him. They just wanted to use the power of the Wei court to kill Suiyang Army General Nangong Kui.
In Zhao Hongrun's view, although Nangong Kui, the general of the Suiyang Army, was not a good person, he still ostensibly submitted to the Wei court. Therefore, before this person revealed his obvious rebellious intentions, the Wei court could not touch him, lest he Drop your tongue.
What's more, if Nangong Kui is not a good guy, are the Song Dynasty rebels a good guy?
As far as Zhao Hongrun knew, when the Wei people were attacked in the Song Dynasty - although most of those attacked were aristocratic forces seizing the resources of the Song Dynasty - there were shadows of the Song Dynasty rebels behind this.
Without this rebel leader, would the common people in Song Dynasty alone have the courage and ability to attack the nobles with hundreds of private soldiers?
In the final analysis, for Zhao Hongrun who stood in the Wei position, neither Nangong Kui nor Song Yun, the leader of the Song Dynasty rebels, were good people.
Of course, since Zhao Hongrun had no time to intervene in Song Dynasty, as long as Nangong Kui and Song Yun didn't offend him, he didn't bother to care about the fight between the two parties.
After that, Zhao Hongrun also sent people to Suiyang to reassure Nangong Kui, the general of the Suiyang army. After all, Nangong Kui was equivalent to the uncrowned king of the Song Dynasty at this time. Zhao Hongrun wanted to make more than a million Chu people cross the Song Dynasty. You must at least communicate with this general to avoid unnecessary friction.
Within a few days, Nangong Kui sent a message to the effect that he agreed to the matter. In addition, Nangong Kui also said that he would send troops to escort the Chu people to prevent them from being attacked by the Song rebels.
Regarding this matter, whether Nangong Kui wanted to spy on the civilians of the Chu State or take the opportunity to throw dirt on the Song rebels, Zhao Hongrun didn't care. He didn't pay for the military anyway. If Nangong Kui wanted to send troops, then send troops. As long as The people of Chu State are safe and sound.
After completing these deployment arrangements, Zhao Hongrun's work in Xiangcheng was completed, and the rest was left to Wu Ji of the Shang Shui Army and Qu Cheng of the Yanling Army.
So, he took Mi Jiang, Zong Wei and King Su's guards to the royal city of Lu State, Qufu.
Of course, among them is Xu Ruo, the great master of Song Dynasty.
This person wanted to promote Mohism to all the countries in the Central Plains. Now that he was on the line of King Su Zhao Hongrun, how could he let go easily?
However, Zhao Hongrun did not agree hastily to the various demands made by this person. Who made the relationship between Song Mo and the Song rebels unclear?
He planned to deceive Song Mo's craftsmen first.
In late May, Zhao Hongrun and his party arrived at Qufu, the royal city of the State of Lu.
To Zhao Hongrun's expectation, after learning of his arrival, Shupan, the lord of Lu State, actually went out of the city to greet him in person. This made many officials and people of Lu State who were watching at the time dumbfounded.
After all, the leader of the Lu State personally went out of the city to greet him. In the past, no one except King Lu Xi of Qi had enjoyed this honor. Even the King of Song and the leader of the Lu State had never gone out of the city to greet him.
Of course, during this period, Zhao Hongrun also met Lu Mo Juzi Gongshu Ban.
To be fair, Zhao Hongrun had a very good impression of Gongshu Ban. After all, this man had helped the Wei army consolidate Qi County and later built many war weapons for the Wei army.
It's just that at this moment, the great man of Lu Mo looked at Zhao Hongrun with a bad expression. It's no wonder, who asked Zhao Hongrun to ask for their Lu State's most precious treasure, "The Secret Records of Lu Gong"? That was countless craftsmen from the Lu State for dozens of generations.
The crystallization of his wisdom, even if he gave a rubbing to the Wei State, this great master of Lu Mo would not give Zhao Hongrun a good look.
But in the end, under the order of Duke Shupan, the lord of the Lu Kingdom, Gongshuban finally led Zhao Hongrun and his party to the place where Lu Gong's secret records were placed.
At this time, Zhao Hongrun realized that "Secret Records of Lu Gong" was not a picture album, but a bamboo album filled with a whole warehouse.
Perhaps noticing that Zhao Hongrun was a little dumbstruck, the Lord of Lu State smiled and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Run, I have already ordered the craftsmen to make a rubbing of the copy, and you can take it with you when Mr. Run leaves Qufu."
Looking at the smiling face of the leader of the Lu Kingdom, Zhao Hongrun did not hesitate to use the heart of a villain to judge the heart of a gentleman, and begged: "Can I let Xiao Wang have a look at the real thing?"
As soon as these words came out, the Gongsu Ban immediately became angry, because everyone could see that Zhao Hongrun doubted the authenticity and integrity of those rubbings.
However, the leader of the Lu Kingdom stopped Gongshu Ban, smiled and nodded in agreement.
So, under the angry and contemptuous eyes of countless Lu craftsmen, Zhao Hongrun read the authentic products one by one. It took him two full hours to finally finish reading the authentic products in that warehouse.
After that, he read the rubbings again, then nodded and said: "Well, it's exactly the same, no mistakes." After saying that, he turned to look at the leader of the Lu Kingdom, cupped his hands and said, "Because this matter is very important, please forgive me.
Xiao Wang is rude."
The leader of the Lu Kingdom smiled slightly, but he didn't care about Zhao Hongrun's actions just now. After all, he knew very well the abilities of the young man in front of him - he was a great man in the world who even King Lu Xi of Qi wanted to snatch back as his son or son-in-law.
He just had some suspicions. Zhao Hongrun just took a few glances. Could it be that he really figured it out?
So he said kindly: "I would like to keep Mr. Run for a few more days. Mr. Run can check slowly. Maybe one of the craftsmen made mistakes in copying and rubbing..."
Zhao Hongrun saw the kindness of the leader of the Lu Kingdom, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Thank you very much, Lord, but I still don't have to. I have just read it once, and there is no deviation at all. You are a famous craftsman of your country."
It is an ingenious workmanship that is rare in the world."
Facing Zhao Hongrunchu's praise, Lu Mo Juzi Gongshu Ban looked much better, but it could be seen that he didn't think Zhao Hongrun could really tell anything from just a few glances.
Naturally, Zhao Hongrun would not explain to him that he had super strong absolute memory and could feel even the smallest difference.
After that, the guards of King Su stayed behind to transport the rubbings onto the carriage, while Zhao Hongrun, Mi Jiang and the Zongwei were invited by the Lord of Lu to the palace to entertain them.
During this period, the leader of the Lu Kingdom asked: "A few days ago, King Xiong Xu of Chu killed a number of nobles in his country. Did Mr. Run hear about it?"
Upon hearing this, the smile on Zhao Hongrun's face immediately dropped.