We temporarily settled down at Quwei Wharf Guest House. The local officials got some benefits from Li Jie and got carried away. They didn't even care about Zheng Guo's dignity. What? Fighting on the front line?
What does it have to do with me? I am from the rear!
The Wei people are coming, and the locals in Quwei know about it, but if they come, they will come. Naturally, the carnivores will organize troops to resist.
What is the inner connection between this and our Quwei folks entertaining Princess Wei?
Not at all.
As a result, fellow Quwei man slaughtered the cattle and sheep confidently and treated Princess Wei to a good meal.
Of course, I didn’t see Princess Wei during the whole trip, which was a pity.
But it doesn't matter, I met Princess Wei and her husband Li Jie the whole time, and it was the same.
"The frontline is tight, the rear is tight. Tsk, tsk, praise!"
After Commissioner Li had had enough wine and food, he waited for another dinner party tomorrow. This time, wealthy merchants from the Chen and Cai countries were invited to treat him. Not only were they provided with beef and mutton, but they also had all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas.
Chen Guo and Cai Guohao wanted to treat them not just to curry favor with Li Jie, but of course the main purpose was to curry favor with them.
There are also some minor requirements, such as the masters of their respective hometowns. Seeing Huaizhong City continuously transporting weapons to the north is a bit irritating, isn't it?
The arms trade is actually nothing, we have seen it a lot.
But the cheap arms trade... I have never seen it.
The price of the spears produced in Jiangyin City is only about half of that of Qilu and one-third of that of Wei and Zheng.
For the same price, you can come out with twice as many armed people, which is really great!
At first, Chen Guo, the local boss of Cai State, thought that the goods were cheap but not good, but he touched a few of them and found that these spears made of "evil gold" were definitely not bad!
There are even some top-quality equipment, which are made of the finest "ju". They are tougher than anyone else and look very effective at first sight.
In addition to spears and spears, there are also armors. The workmanship of those armors is actually average, but they are cheap, and their protective power is not bad. They are quite reliable. It is really not that easy to cut a gap with ordinary swords and halberds.
These armors were sold to the people of Zheng, and there was also a batch of goods that had been floating on the Yingshui River for some time, and had never gone north. Even the wood on the equipment looked a little old.
After the rich people of Chen and Cai inquired about it, they found out that it was a mace used to break armor and defense.
When you take it out, it's not just hard, it's also very thick, long, and thorny. In short, in a nutshell, it can be summed up as: Laohei is thick, hard, and thorny!
It's not very good at breaking armor.
The reason why Chen Guoren is eyeing this thing is because their princess still has some conscience and has people prepare to cut off the purchase in advance.
It's not that Chen Guoren wants to break anyone's armor, but he wants to be a second-rate dealer and everyone can make money together.
Commissioner Li, at the same price, is there any difference between selling to Weiguo or Chenguo?
Of course, Chen Guo bought these maces, doubled them and resold them to Wei Guo. They had one fish and two special editions. All three parties were equally beautiful, so why not?
It's just that now Wei and Zheng are fighting, it's just a crazy trial, just like dancing tango, it's completely turn-based, you come in a little, I retreat a little; you retreat a little, I advance a little.
The upper body was hinting wildly again, one of the top executives of the two companies was yin and yang, the other was shameless.
But generally speaking, the top management of the Wei Kingdom should be more confident. After all, the monarch of the Wei Kingdom is thinking that the monarch of the Zheng Kingdom is not at home, so what are you talking about?!
However, Xinzheng's senior officials have actually completed a purge. Whoever clamoring for peace again is the bad element of Xinzheng and the enemy of Zheng's upstarts!
Zheng Chengzi is not a fuel-efficient lamp, not to mention that with the stable channel of Huaizhong City, cheap iron equipment continues to enter Zheng State through Yingshui River. Compared with Wei State, this is a huge advantage.
It's just that Zheng Chengzi is not a king after all, and he can't integrate the resources of the entire Zheng Kingdom. In general, Li Jie can't say how much force he can mobilize to fight against the Wei Kingdom.
However, all the way south, the southern cities of Zheng State were still in an idyllic state. Li Jie boldly guessed that unless the war escalated, Zheng Chengzi would not be forced to resort to internal robbery to supplement the external war.
"It's really hard to say who will win."
Hearing Li Jie say such a sentence out of nowhere, Ji Douzi couldn't understand it at all.
So Princess Wei asked him out of curiosity: "Are there any allusions to a gentleman's words?"
"Qin..." Li Jie blinked, "Well...the emperor lost his deer, and the princes chased it away."
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Ji Douzi's delicate body trembled. At that time, Ji Douzi felt that the wild man in front of him was really majestic, mighty, domineering, and particularly mysterious.
He looks very promising at first glance, and he is a person worth trusting for life.
Wei Zhaoniang lightly lit the teapot, made each of them a cup of tea, and then asked Li Jie in a low voice: "Although the Zhou Dynasty is declining day by day, there are no princes, just like the emperor back then."
Even Wei Zhaoniang's home state of Jin is the overlord, and in terms of strength, it can start a war with two great powers at the same time.
While suppressing Qin, he stepped on Chu. There was pressure, but he could bear it.
But if all the princes in the world attack, Jin is no match and will give in in a minute.
An overlord is just an overlord!
Even if King Wu Wei fights this and that, what's the use? After his death, Wu's true colors were revealed, and his foundation was not good. This was a problem brought from the mother's womb.
A generation of heroes may be able to rise to prominence for a while, but will chicken blood still be unable to win?
The "Hebei Shuangbi" are all female intellectuals with a very good vision of the situation. They certainly cannot look at problems the same as country servants.
Commissioner Li's analogy is very good. In the current situation of Emperor Zhou, the deer has indeed been lost. Of course, it is not said that it has been completely lost. At least everyone still agrees that this deer belongs to your old Ji family.
Now Emperor Zhou is just holding a bunch of hair on the deer's tail, which proves that this thing does belong to his old Ji family.
It's just that the princes of the world stretched out their evil hands and touched and scratched the body of the beautiful little deer sister, and the Emperor Zhou could not stop her.
Qin, Jin, Qi, Wu, Chu, hundreds of years ago, they were all rebellious ministers and traitors. The king's army went out to fight and that was all.
It's a pity that the current Master Wang is just a novice. Unless he is pushed back and pushed by the powerful overlords, he really has no ability.
Commissioner Li didn't think too much. He held the tea cup carelessly, took a sip and said, "All the small countries will disappear, and only the big ones will be left. Isn't that enough?"
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It's a very simple reason.
Very crude, but very true.
"Hebei Shuangbi" deliberately retorted, saying that what you said was too simple, but when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly felt that what he said was really right.
In fact, merger wars have become more frequent in recent years, but frequent does not mean intense.
The typical example is "Tan Jun offers his soil". Tan Zhuangzi abdicated, but he still lived well? Moreover, Tan Zhuangzi had a good relationship with Li Jie, and even more closely with one of Li Jie's right-hand men, the super-powerful rice bucket Shaha.
good.
The state of Tan was annexed, but the process was very gentle. Although the superstructure of Tan state was not smoothly integrated into the superstructure of Wu state, at least it did not disappear.
There are still sacrifices that should be performed, but they have just been changed to a different place and form.
The ancestors of Tan State still ate cold pork during festivals.
Wu State used a "moisturizing and silent" method to annex Tan State easily and gently.
The negative teaching material is that Zheng Guo attacked Xu and beat him hard. As a result, Xu Guo was not digested. It also gave Xu Guo people an excuse to recruit very famous and dynamic social groups from the international community.
Can "loyalty to the liver and righteousness to the gallbladder" be eaten casually?
Eat it and punch it out!
Zheng Guo vomited out Xu Guo again. Maybe the international community doesn't care about Xu Guo at all, but through righteousness, it can pluck Zheng Guo's wool and make Zheng Guo bleed and cut some flesh.
In the end, Xu State still perished. Does the international community still care? Not at all.
Because Xu State has no use value, such a low-level small country will die if it dies. There are countless such small countries in the world, and the international community has no chance of caring about them one by one.
Of course, if one of these novice countries can be used to gain profit, then the international community’s voice of trolling will naturally be the loudest!
Feeling the sorrow of a small country, Jidouzi felt sad. Weiguo was not a small country, it could even be considered a medium power. However, compared with the big countries, it was just a pawn in the Colosseum.
Especially now, Ji Douzi can even feel the malice of Wu, Jin and even Song and Lu in the war between Wei and Zheng.