Eight hundred and seventieth chapters Chu State victory
Zhuang Zhou couldn't deny it and asked: "With my junior brother's character, would he interfere in the war between Buddhist Confucianism and Biyou Palace?"
Lin Ze thought for a while and replied: "As long as it is profitable, there is nothing wrong with Xi Qin's intervention. If we can control the rhythm and let the Buddhist and Confucian Biyou Palace continue to consume like this, that would be even better."
Zhuang Zhou asked back: "Junior brother, are you so sure that the stalemate between the two sides will continue? If there is a winner between the two sides, the winning side will become a formidable enemy that even junior brother will find difficult."
Lin Ze spread his hands: "Even if this is the result, aren't there still senior brothers and teachers here? Junior brother, I'm not worried. If the sky falls, there will be tall people to hold it up."
Zhuang Zhou's expression was stagnant. He looked at Lin Ze who was reviewing the memorial normally, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.
After a while, Zhuang Zhou took the initiative and asked: "What do you think of Di Xin, my junior brother?"
Lin Ze said without raising his head: "I haven't seen it, so I don't know."
Zhuang Zhou looked in disbelief: "Then why is junior brother so sure that Chu will win in the early stage?"
Lin Ze scrawled his comments and said somewhat perfunctorily: "The reason is a long story, and I can't explain it clearly to my senior brother in a short time. After a few days, the battle between the Buddhist Confucians and the Confucians to join forces to attack Chu has come to an end. Senior brother estimates that
That’s clear.”
Zhuang Zhou did not feel dissatisfied with the perfunctory treatment, but moved a stool to sit next to Lin Ze and looked at him quietly.
Lin Ze paused and asked, "Senior brother, what is this?"
Zhuang Zhou smiled and said: "Junior brother, aren't you busy? Senior brother, I won't disturb you. I'll talk slowly after you finish your work."
Lin Ze...
Lin Ze, who had bravely reviewed several memorials, really couldn't stand the look in Zhuang Zhou's eyes. He immediately stopped writing and looked directly at Zhuang Zhou and said: "Junior brother suddenly remembered a few confusions about martial arts. I hope that senior brother will not hesitate to answer them."
After saying that, Lin Ze looked at Zhuang Zhou with a smile on his lips, "Don't you hate being pestered by others to discuss the avenue? If you insist on being entangled, then you will hurt each other."
Lin Ze keenly noticed that the smile on Zhuang Zhou's face suddenly became a little unnatural, and immediately took advantage of the victory and said: "There are only seven or eight questions. Brother, please answer them carefully. It will probably take two or three days."
Zhuang Zhou was silent for a moment, and then said seriously: "Senior brother, it is natural for me to answer my junior brother's questions, but at this time, my junior brother is thinking about state affairs, so I am afraid he has no intention to ask."
"If you ask questions forcefully, it is very likely that there will be deviations and the Taoist mind will be unstable. Senior brother thinks it is better to wait until the junior brother has finished reviewing the memorial and is calm before sitting down to discuss Taoism."
"Senior brother, I won't disturb my junior brother from handling government affairs. Let's go first."
After finishing his righteous and touching words, Zhuang Zhou turned into a gust of wind and disappeared in front of Lin Ze before he even waited for Lin Ze to reply.
For some reason, Lin Ze, who had witnessed this poor performance, had a strange feeling in his heart. What did Zhuang Zhou seem to be hiding?
Could it be that he is actually a parallel importer who doesn't know how to preach, so he tried every means to escape?
Lin Ze, who couldn't figure it out for a while, kept this matter in mind, shook his head, picked up the brush, and continued to devote himself to the work of reviewing the memorial.
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For the next three days, Zhuang Zhou did not appear in front of Lin Ze, as if he had disappeared.
Until the early morning of the fourth day, Zhuang Zhou appeared in front of Lin Ze in a dusty state.
Lin Ze hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Where has senior brother been these past few days? Why is he missing?"
Zhuang Zhou waved his hand and said, "Senior brother, I went to inquire about the military situation for you."
Lin Ze looked puzzled and asked: "Inquiring about military information?"
Zhuang Zhou replied with an extremely sure tone: "Yes, it is to inquire about the military situation. In order to know the results of the Buddhist Confucian attack on Chu as soon as possible, senior brother, I went to Chu to watch the battle. I just came back last night."
Lin Ze suddenly couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. How dare you have so much time to rush to watch the battle thousands of miles away?
Without waiting for Lin Ze to ask questions, Zhuang Zhou took the initiative and said: "I didn't expect that Junior Brother, you guessed it right. The Chu State won a great victory. Confucianism suffered a big loss this time. There is no place to cry."
Lin Ze smiled and said, "Senior brother, can you tell me more clearly what's going on?"
Just as Zhuang Zhou was about to answer, a guard in gilded clothes rushed over and shouted: "Report, there is an urgent secret report from the front. Chu and Han are fighting in the south of the Yangtze River. The commander of the Han State was timid before fighting and directly ordered the surrender. The Chu State did not waste any time."
The power of blowing ashes will prevail."
Zhuang Zhou, who had been overtaken by others, could not help but point at the Jin Yiwei and said angrily: "You..."
The Jin Yiwei, who had just passed the secret report to the king, had not had time to breathe a sigh of relief. Seeing Zhuang Zhou's performance, a look of confusion appeared on his face, and he was a little at a loss.
Upon seeing this, Lin Ze said gently: "You have done a good job. I will send you the compiled information later. Let's go down first and collect the reward of one hundred gold."
The guard in golden clothes quickly bowed and retreated as if he had been granted amnesty.
Lin Ze looked at Zhuang Zhou who looked depressed, smiled and said: "Senior brother witnessed it with his own eyes, so he must know it best. Why don't we tell him what happened?"
Zhuang Zhou wiped away the depression on his face and said without any emotion in his tone: "The intelligence system established by junior brother is pretty good. We got the news in less than a day."
Lin Ze accompanied him with a smile and said, "No matter how fast you are, you won't be as fast as your senior brother, right?"
Zhuang Zhou said with a sigh on his face: "Brother, I have thought about countless possible outcomes, but I never thought that the leader of Han would surrender to Chu."
"On that day, Di Xin led 30,000 Chu troops to confront 100,000 Han troops. Di Xin personally led the charge. Before they could charge forward, the Han troops dropped their weapons and surrendered."
"The entire 100,000 Han troops did not fire an arrow. Except for a few who escaped, they all became prisoners of the Chu State. It is even more outrageous than what was sung in the play."
"I thought I had seen it wrong for a while, until Emperor Xin took action and drove away the heavenly beings sent by Confucianism, and found out that it was actually true."
As Zhuang Zhou was talking, he suddenly noticed that Lin Ze looked as usual and was not surprised at all. He couldn't help but ask: "Junior brother, you already knew this would be the result?"
Lin Ze touched his nose and said, "I guessed a little."
Zhuang Zhou was stunned and said: "In a time of great strife and chaos in the heavens, can my junior brother be able to calculate such trivial matters?"
Lin Ze coughed lightly and said slowly: "To be honest, senior brother, two years ago, I sent people to secretly investigate the backgrounds of everyone around Liu Ji and Xiang Ji, and found something interesting."
"Long Qie, the coach of the Han Dynasty's expedition to Chu this time, was actually Xiang Ji's younger brother."
"Then I arranged for people to carefully investigate all the information about Long Qie. Long Qie was born in Chu Di and lived in Chu Di until he came of age."
"Until three years ago, Long Qie suddenly went to the then Qi State, secretly obtained funding from a mysterious businessman, and gathered the rangers to occupy the mountain and become king. Qi State failed miserably in several encirclement and suppression campaigns, and there was nothing that could be done to him."
"When all these pieces of information are put together, there is only one truth. Long Qie has always been Xiang Yu's man. He went to Qi State on Xiang Yu's order in order to help Xiang Yu capture Qi State."
"It's just that there was an accident. Whether it was the state of Qi or the state of Chu, it all fell into my hands, junior brother. Xiang Ji played a big game of chess, and I accidentally overturned the table."
"Although I don't know how Long Qie became Liu Ji's general, senior brother, think about it, Xiang Ji, as the reincarnation of Emperor Xin, can't even seize this opportunity before him?"
Zhuang Zhou had no expression on his face, turned around and left without saying a word.
Lin Ze quickly tried to dissuade him: "Senior Brother, why are you leaving in such a hurry? How about just saying a few words to Junior Brother?"
I only heard Zhuang Zhou say: "I'm going to inquire about the military situation of the war between Buddhism and Chu."