After all, Yingdu and Zhu Palace were only separated by a river. When Emperor Yin Douhuang, the leader of the Chu State, heard that all the elites in Zhu Palace had gone out, he felt puzzled. He thought that there was no place to have fun. Could it be that he was going out to seek death?
A burden to the country?
When the definite news came, Ling Yin Douhuang almost wanted to die first as a way of respecting him. He felt that the actions of those scumbags in Chu State could bring the ancestors of "Ji Lu Lan Lu" back to life.
If he hadn't been afraid of offending Li Jie, Dou Huang would have just raised his three-foot sword and killed all these scum, so as not to embarrass Chu State.
You can't criticize publicly, but it's still okay to make some small moves behind the scenes.
Within a few days, envoys were sent to the official office of Yin, the capital of Ying, to Zhu Palace. They met with the Qu family, Chiang family and others, and then asked them, have you forgotten the glory and hardship of your ancestors? You have forgotten the glory and hardship of our ancestors.
In this way, how can I be worthy of the ancestors of my old Xiong family? How can I claim to be the descendant of Emperor Gaoyang?
The Qu family, the Jiang family, etc. were all deeply ashamed, and then used the "crocodile language" they had just learned to loudly say to Ling Yin Douhuang's envoy: Get the hell out of here!
I don’t want “a rough road”, I want “good clothes and good food”!
With random punches, Ling Yin's retainers and staff were blasted out of the Zhu Palace.
These retainers and staff did not rush back to complain just because they were beaten by an old fist.
On the contrary, they made bold assumptions and carefully verified them, and walked around the newly built official offices around Zhugong Palace to inquire about the specific situation, and then crossed Yangshui and returned north to Yingdu.
When they arrived at Yingdu Ling Yin's office, Emperor Dou listened to their investigation seriously, and then was stunned: "Really?"
"Shang Yin, it's absolutely true."
A guest with a bruised nose and swollen face said seriously while covering his forehead, "When a man gives orders to the emperor in Zhu Palace, they are all written in thick silk. Anyone who is a lobbyist in each family can hold up the silk book and act as an envoy to Handong.
We went to various counties and places to persuade the powerful people in the east of the Han Dynasty to submit to the Han Dynasty."
"In addition..." Another person took over, "If you convince one person to join, you can get an 'East China Sea Glazed Pearl' or a Five Lakes Pearl. Ten pearls for ten people, a hundred pearls for a hundred people, a thousand pearls for a thousand people, tens of thousands of pearls...
…There is no ceiling.”
Hearing this, Dou Huang felt bad all over. What does this mean? Being rich and willful? Spending money to death?!
Is the man Li Jie really so rich? After he surrendered to the God of Huai River, maybe he also ransacked the warehouse of the East China Sea Dragon Palace? Where is this "East China Sea Glazed Bead"... the rare treasure that was promised?
Dou Huang, who was in a daze and had cold hands and feet, felt that he could not keep up with the rhythm of the Han Dynasty. The conflict between Chu and Han seemed to be a complete dream until now.
How to play? How to fight?
What's even worse is that he already knows at this time that the old man Sui Guo Zeng Shan is also very vicious and even ceded the green forest to Hanzi State.
If it was just a cession, it would be nothing. At most, the country would send some guides.
But the problem now is that the extremely despicable old man actually let the people of Sui call themselves "heroes" in the green forest in order to be loyal and summoned.
This is tantamount to allowing the Han army to easily reorganize here and pull out a large army at any time.
The Sui people could not afford to raise many regular troops. They were not strong enough, their family resources were not strong, and they did not have the support of the Jin State, the Emperor of Zhou, and other countries in the Central Plains. Raising a large army would be a dead end.
It's different now. Now this is a big job. Let's not talk about whether the job is good or not. It's easy to get up to this scale.
With the atmosphere that Li Jie is blowing now, those scumbags in Yangzhu Palace are able to smash a lot of "East China Sea Glazed Pearls" and Five Lakes Pearls, but how much does it cost to raise a bunch of Suiguo mud legs?
A little leakage from between the fingers is enough to make the mud-legged man happy to heaven.
Pearls are like rice and glass is like sand. Normal people would just think it was fart after hearing it, but Dou Huang is different. No matter how unbelievable legends appear on Li Jie, he will treat them as true.
The same is true now, and the opposite is true.
He looked at the problem from a normal person's perspective and subconsciously thought that this was nonsense.
But judging from his several successful experiences, you should never gamble, think about it the other way around, that is the bright road.
"So, this man does have a valuable treasure in his hands." Dou Huang sighed with emotion, which shocked all the Nuke staff.
Someone directly advised him: "Shang Yin, how can you take these jokes seriously?"
The man spread his hands and stamped his feet anxiously towards Dou Huang: "How can there be such a powerful person in this world? If the people in Zhu Palace are lobbyists and really persuade hundreds of thousands of people to join, can Han Jie really come up with tens of thousands of people?"
Thousands of pearls, hundreds of thousands of 'East China Sea Glazed Pearls'?"
"Shang Yin, please don't fall into the trap. This move by the Han Dynasty will definitely disturb the hearts of our Chu Kingdom. It is winter now, and everything is peaceful. If this news spreads, I am afraid that the noble families in the country will have different thoughts.
Shang Yin, you must be on guard and watch."
Nu Ke's staff tried to persuade him one after another, but Dou Huang didn't even raise his eyelids. He sighed softly and looked around: "How can I not know what you all said? But it is precisely because of what you all said that I firmly believe that Han
You must have such great wealth."
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When Ling Yin Douhuang said this, the surroundings were completely silent, and everyone was confused. What the hell is this human talk?!
How is it that we are all reverse beacons?!
The staff member who was stamping his feet anxiously just now stepped back with a confused look on his face, and suddenly he was no longer anxious.
I'm so anxious, I'm so anxious, the situation is like this, the boss has such an attitude, there is no trust at all.
Douhuang knew that their thoughts must be complicated, but in the past six months, they had all been defeated in the battle of wits and courage with Li Jie. What could he do? He was also desperate.
Besides, isn't there a self-righteous bitch living in the Yingdu Palace behind Ling Yin's official office?
She was so arrogant and arrogant half a year ago. The entire Chu country was tormented by this bitch and was in constant internal strife. There were countless big and small battles among various families in private.
This woman is powerful enough, but what’s the result? Doesn’t it fall on Li Jie, a wild dog from Soochow?
Using common sense, there is no way to explain everything that happened in the past.
Anyway, Dou Huang can't trust the judgment of normal people. If normal people's judgment meets normal people, that's fine. But if he meets Li Jie, save it. He's afraid, he's really afraid.
Ling Yin Douhuang had long thought of quitting. Now he just wanted to reintegrate the Dou clan, regain strength and work hard within the existing power territory of Chu State.
Those who have been dormant for ten or twenty years are betting on the fate of the country in thirty years.
If his generation can't do it, then the next generation will do it. If the next generation doesn't do it, there will be the next generation.
He didn't believe it. Li Jie could still live forever?
Even if he is immortal, he will get old, he will be weak, and he will get sick. This is an opportunity, this is the dawn of victory.
As for now, as a descendant of Emperor Gaoyang, I have to admit my defeat honestly. When it is time to give in, I still have to give in.
However, Ling Yin Douhuang couldn't find a good way to say it to his subordinates. I can't say that what you said is too right or too reasonable. But just because what you said is too right and too reasonable, I won't listen.
For yours, I want to do the reverse...
If this is really said, the already fragile symbiotic relationship will probably become even more fragile, and may even fall apart.
It's difficult.
When Emperor Yin Douhuang of the Chu Kingdom felt that life was difficult, Queen Mother Zhao, who returned to the familiar pavilions and pavilions in the Yingdu Palace, felt a little bit excited and a little bit excited.
She felt that she was back to the time when she controlled the world. When facing her, the princes and ministers could only surrender obediently and did not dare to be presumptuous.
The experience in Nagisa Palace was simply a nightmare. For her, it was like being pulled down from the clouds and then stepped on and ravaged in the mud.
Even when I return here, the feeling is more like a bad taste of unchaining.
Pets should not be kept for too long. They should be allowed to go out and move around occasionally and run freely.
But the reason why it can run is not because the pet breaks away from the chain, but because the owner loosens the reins.
The owner holding the whip can ask the pet to walk to the collar obediently at any time, and then let the pet take the initiative to pick up the collar and put it around his neck.
From the high platform of the palace, looking to the south, you can see a blur of yellow. There is the Yangtze River, and a little further from the Yangtze River, where there are crowds of people, are the civilian workers working on the south bank of Yangshui River.
The Hanzi Kingdom organized civilians to strengthen the Yangshui River embankment, and at the same time cleared the low-lying silt on the south bank of Yangshui, and opened up acres and acres of new fields.
There was originally a place where the King of Chu hunted and the "Wang Field" was located, but now it has become the land allocated by the Han Dynasty.
The architecture of Zhugong Palace is very eye-catching. When she first went south, Empress Dowager Zhao was attracted by the geographical location of Zhugong Palace at a glance.
Looking at it now, she wished she could burn Nagisa Palace, as if this was the only way to erase the humiliating experience from her memory.
Crunchy...
Her fingers drew traces on the railings, and the harsh sound came, which made the Queen Mother Zhao jump out of her wits. When she saw the palace maidservants still standing not far away with their heads lowered, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"I heard something big happened again in the DPRK?"
Empress Dowager Zhao was dressed in rich and heavy clothes, which made her look extremely dignified. However, her current dignity and nobility were a complete joke in the eyes of the maids who served her.
They had clearly witnessed the ugly behavior in Zhu Palace. Empress Dowager Zhao wanted to kill them, but unfortunately she could not because these maids were not from Chu. Without Li Jie's order, Empress Dowager Zhao would not dare to do anything.
Even if it is just to create an accident, it is useless.
Li Jie will not reason with you or listen to your excuses. He will only look at the results and then make his own judgment.
In all principles of truth, Empress Dowager Zhao had no way to deal with Li Jie. Therefore, even though she was extremely angry and unhappy when facing these maids, she still held back in the end.
Empress Dowager Zhao is very sober. As long as she still has value, then at least it is okay for her to be bossed around by these maids.
The maids who can be selected to serve her also understand this.
"Back to the Queen Mother, news came from Henan that the Qu family and other aristocratic families were heading to Handong to serve as lobbyists to persuade the powerful Handong to join the Han Kingdom."
"I see……"
Queen Mother Zhao nodded slightly, her tone was very calm, but she was quite shocked inside.
Regardless of whether those former ministers and ministers of the Nagisa Palace are truly loyal, at least their apparent loyalty is no problem.
I just didn't expect that such a major change would occur in such a short period of ten days and a half.
All of them are shameless and become traitors one after another!
Using the connections of these old aristocratic families to go to places as lobbyists, even if not all of them can be convinced, Empress Dowager Zhao estimates that at least half of them can be persuaded.
If half of the millions of people in eastern Han Dynasty were to make trouble, Li Jie didn't need to put much effort into suppressing the remaining people who were stubbornly resisting.
Just click on two groups of troops to go out and they can be easily swept away.
Moreover, the Empress Dowager Zhao knew from the beginning that Li Jie planned to fight in person. This was an excellent opportunity for many powerful people who wanted to make a name for themselves.
What if? What if Li Jie is killed?
Didn’t the entire Chu country come back to life? Didn’t heroes like them rise to the top in one step and become the noble species of the Chu country?
This kind of dream can be seen everywhere. If you have some strength and troops, you think you can dominate a place, but you have no idea how high the sky is and how high it is.
When the Empress Dowager Zhao heard that the Qianyi people in the northeast of Hengshan were rebelling, she was so angry that she laughed, because the Chu people in Qianyi were poor in armor and armor, and most of the weapons and equipment in the hands of the Jingman tribes they had attracted were still stone tools.
With all this rubbish, how could he be Li Jie's opponent?
The people of Chu in Qianyi were miserable, but the people of Chu in eastern Han Dynasty, didn’t they understand the situation?
The main force of the Chu Kingdom fell apart without even trying a head-on collision. Now, Danyang Gong Douzun, a veteran of the Three Passes, has entered into peace talks with Shang Wuji on the grounds of "obeying the king's orders" and even moved to Luoru.
The general trend of conflict between Chu and Han has completely disappeared for Chu State.
What we can do now is to rest and recuperate and wait for changes in the international situation.
Whether it is the Qin and Jin attacks or the Central Plains Incident, they will eventually collide with the Han Dynasty.
This change is not too late, and may happen soon.
Once the international situation changes and an "anti-Han alliance" is formed, then those forces in the east of the Han Dynasty that are loyal to Chu can definitely take advantage of the situation.
At that time, the opportunity for Chu-Han conflict may turn around.
As for now, it is not impossible to resist, but all frontal resistance is to attack the stone with an egg, and it is completely meaningless suicide.
"call……"
After exhaling, a vast expanse of white instantly formed in front of his face. The weather was getting colder, which was not conducive to war for a normal country.
But all this does not seem to apply to Li Jie.
All crocodiles and "White Sand Warriors" have very warm winter clothing.
In addition to very expensive furs, there are also laminated leather jackets made of crocodile skin, lined with goose down, duck down, cashmere, and rabbit down.
It is not that the high-ranking officials of the Hanzi Kingdom have not enjoyed this kind of expensive luxury goods, but most of the time, they are given priority to the Crocodiles and the "White Sand Warriors".
A large number of furs and leather maintenance are performed by unified professionals. These luxury goods are "heirlooms" for the crocodile family. In addition to being indeed valuable in themselves, they are also a symbol of honor.
When Queen Mother Zhao slept with Li Jie, Li Jie would tell her some things that he was very proud of every time after finishing things, including the fact that the crocodile man's weapons had surpassed countless figures in this era.
I had never heard of anything like a baleen bowstring before, but Empress Dowager Zhao learned from Li Jie that a baleen bowstring is not afraid of the cold in winter and is still powerful even when the weather is cold.
As for military uniforms, there is not just one set throughout the year, but multiple sets. Each set can be regarded as a "family heirloom" and can be passed down to at least three generations.
The Empress Dowager Zhao couldn't imagine how much money was invested in the Crocodile Man. She just asked Li Jie for an idea. Li Jie told her that the money invested in the Crocodile Man was enough to rearm the Chu Kingdom's mausoleum division.
When she heard this answer, Queen Mother Zhao knew very well that the fighting power of the Crocodile Man was really beyond the reach of ordinary people. So instead of being a Crocodile Man, it was clearly a Golden Crocodile Man.
His whole body exuded the aura of wealth.
But it is such an elite force, the troops directly under Li Jie, that can easily launch a running attack. No matter how far you are thousands of miles away, wherever the crocodile man can reach, he will behead him wherever he should, without any delay.
Therefore, no matter how calm and calm Empress Dowager Zhao appears in front of the maids, she actually knows in her heart that those powerful locals who can only huddle in villages in winter have no chance of winning against the crocodile man.
No.
Even the soldiers in the hands of powerful people in those places may not even be able to shoot bows and arrows, and the bow strings will be too weak to pull apart.
As for the Crocodile Man?
What they are wearing must be iron armor!
However, even with this judgment, Queen Mother Zhao still wanted to know what Ling Yin Douhuang thought and how he acted.
Waiting until the next day, during the court meeting, Ling Yin Douhuang acted as if nothing had happened and continued to talk to the Queen Mother Zhao about what preparations should be made for next spring plowing, whether to purchase cattle in advance, and whether to prepare more seeds.
It's all nonsense. As for what happened in Zhu Palace, it seems that the dignified Ling Yin of the Chu State has become ill-informed and doesn't know anything.
Seeing Emperor Yin Douhuang acting like this, Empress Dowager Zhao suddenly understood and was a little surprised. She originally thought that Emperor Douhuang would definitely take action, but now it seems that she has decided that Han Dong and others are worthless trash.
, there is absolutely no need for help.
Although she didn’t know what Ling Yin Douhuang had gone through to make such a decision, for Empress Dowager Zhao, she was quite pleased to have an important minister like Douhuang stabilize the government, regardless of whether he was
Loyalty, at least to stabilize the political power, is not a problem.
Anyway, Li Jie left her with two brigades of crocodile men. With these two brigades, she was as stable as Mount Heng.
The higher the talent of Ling Yin Douhuang, the more beneficial it is to her and the easier it is for her to become the de facto monarch of Chu State.
Therefore, when the Han army was mobilizing in the Zhu Palace, the "juniors and ministers" of Chu State in the capital of Ying all looked peaceful and worked hard to prepare for the spring plowing in the coming year.
Ling Yin Douhuang didn't know what Empress Dowager Zhao was thinking. In his opinion, Empress Dowager Zhao was just a puppet supported by Li Jie and was not worth mentioning at all. What he had to do now was to revive Chu State and wait for the future.
opportunity.
After getting through it, you can always see the light. Li Jie will die one day, just like Gou Chen. No matter how brilliant you have been, you will die when you die.
At that time, the Queen Mother of Zhao and the King of Chu can follow Li Jie to be buried with him.
Douhuang felt that he might not be able to see that day, but his descendants could always see it!
So in a very strange and oppressive atmosphere, Ying Du did not move at all, watching helplessly as the Han army marched out, with a large number of troops coming and going. The Chu people even went to watch, but were not expelled by the Han army.
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What surprised the Chu people even more was that their king seemed not to be taken away by the man Li Jie, but stayed in Zhu Palace. This move even shocked the Chu officials in Yingdu.
In their opinion, this clearly meant that the man Li Jie did not take them seriously. Wasn't Li Jie afraid that they would secretly take the king back to Yingdu?
The Yingdu Yingjies were extremely angry, so as soon as Li Jie left, they sneaked into Zhu Palace and met with King Xiong Sheng of Chu.
The security of Zhu Palace is mainly to prevent close assassination and poisoning. As for the interview and exchange with King Xiong Sheng of Chu, these are all allowed. After all, this can be regarded as a signal to release friendship.
Even if this signal is released after being beaten.
"Your Majesty! The Zhu Palace is empty at this time, and the Han army is loose in patrol in Henan. I have my own way to send the king across the river and back to the capital of Ying!"
Xiong Sheng, the king of Chu who was entertaining the officials of Yingdu, was stunned when he heard this, and then asked curiously: "This is crispy roast duck. It is very delicious while it is hot. Don't you want to eat it?"
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Yingdu Yingjie's attempt to rescue the King of Chu... failed.