Spring and Autumn I Am King - Chapter 1197

Chapter 1197 Reunited as one family after four hundred years

Chapter 1197 Reunited as one family after four hundred years

In the spring and January of the 12th year of Zhaohou Wuxi (477 BC), in a palace in Luoyang, Chengzhou, delicious food was served in cups and plates, placed on the table, and a group of female musicians were playing in the hall. Qin Di’s music, in the hall, a prince and a son are enjoying and eating.

After not listening to the local accent for many years, Young Master Qin was a little absent-minded, as if he was dreaming back to the Yongdu Dazheng Palace twelve years ago. At this moment, Zhao Hou Wuxi, who was sitting at the top, suddenly asked, “Ziji, how have you been left alone for so many years?”

The young master stabbed his spirit, lowered his head quickly, and said emotionally: “The prince treats the boy like a parent, and the boy also treats the prince like a father…”

Having said that, but in Young Master Thorn’s mind, Qin Bopan, who was sick and dying, appeared on the couch. That was his biological father, and Zhao Hou didn’t really regard him as a son, he just picked it up. Just a puppy.

Young Master Shi is 20 years old this year. He has been a hostage in Yecheng for 12 years, and he was not allowed to go back even after his mother died. However, the Zhao family did not treat him too harshly, and gave him the treatment of the sons of Zhao State, and built a good palace for him. After he was sixteen years old, Zhao Hou also let some young and beautiful Zhao State women serve. , while giving him the right to walk freely in Yecheng.

Young Master Thorn seems to be keeping his own way, indulging in Zhao’s rich material life and beauties all day long. But in fact, he never forgot that he was from Qin, and it was Zhao who forcibly took him from his mother’s arms. During his time as a hostage, he was careful to hide his true nature, and he also learned to intrigue…

In particular, Zhao Jia, the only daughter of the Zhao Kingdom who had a good impression on him many years ago, went to Daibei for some reason, and the son-in-law had more resentment towards Zhao Hou. This resentment reached its peak when the Qin messenger secretly contacted him.

The eldest son of Qin State’s concubines, Pu, made people complain about Zhao State’s harsh oppression of Qin State, and the son burst into tears. So Young Master Thorn became a spy of Qin State while being a hostage, looking for an opportunity to convey Zhao State’s political and public sentiments to Qin State, and collected some agricultural and military books to send back. After a few years, he was not discovered. He became more daring and began to spy on the military situation.

Zhao Wuxi’s northern expedition to Korea was fake, and the information that he went south to destroy Zheng Chu was “true”, which he learned through various channels. Sure enough, in the autumn and winter of last year, the Duke of Zhao suddenly returned from the north, and the army of the state of Zhao also moved to the south.

And Zhao Hou himself also went south from Yecheng to Luoyang in the early spring, preparing to use this place as the base camp for the southern expedition.

With the thought of showing off his power, he specially accompanied Young Master Thorn. Young Master Thorn could not refuse, so he could only accompany him, thinking that he could report the various movements of Zhao Jun’s southern expedition to Qin State in time, so that Qin State could complete the destruction of Yi Canal. action.

Since Zhao Wuxi took the collapse of King Jing of Zhou the year before and entered Luo in the name of going to the funeral, Chengzhou has existed in name only. , The two cities of Wangcheng are controlled by the Zhao clan, the dignified emperor can only live in the palace, and the vermilion high wall is so tight that not even a bird can fly out. It became a puppet with a range of less than a thousand steps.

However, Young Master Qin, who was also in Luoyang, couldn’t care about showing any mercy to the Son of Heaven, because now, even he can’t protect himself, and he has become a prisoner detained by Zhao Wuxi.

After arriving in Luoyang, he was locked in the building for more than half a month, and he had no way of knowing what was going on outside. He could only hear outside the tightly sealed window, soldiers walking around constantly, cars roaring and horses neighing. The voice was very anxious, but when Zhao Hou met him today, he still had to pretend to be as usual, but he was worried in his heart, whether it was known that he secretly helped Qin. He only hoped to confuse Zhao Hou with the two’s “father and son”.

However, Zhao Wuxi didn’t buy it, and continued to laugh: “Ziji, I also heard that when you were in Yecheng, you used a lot of money to seek your grandson’s tactics?”

As soon as these words came out, Young Master Thorn was so frightened that he almost threw the chopstick in his hand, and his heart skipped a beat.

Yes, he is indeed secretly helping Qin to find Zhao’s agricultural books, work books and even military books, but these things are secret, especially Sun Tzu’s art of war, which is only circulated in Zhao’s office and senior generals, and Ziji is only It was on Zhao Wuxi’s desk that he peeked a few times, and had no chance to come into contact with it.

Now that Zhao Wuxi took the initiative to mention, has his intentions been discovered?

“Since you know that the widow treats you like a child, and a mere military book, if you want it, just say it, why do you want to do this?”

Zhao Wuxi smiled, and said to Ning Jian next to him: “After going down, print a copy of the book on the art of war that grandson gave to the widow, and send it to the son!”

“Thank you, Jun Hou, for your great kindness!” Young Master Shi hurriedly bowed down to thank him, but his heart became more and more frightened, not knowing what Zhao Wuxi’s intention was.

“Why is Ziji being so polite?” Zhao Wuxi raised his hand to get him up, and said, “Since you are interested in the art of war, the widow will discuss war with you today.”

Holding out three fingers, Zhao Wuxi said, “My grandson told me that throughout the ages, people who are good at using soldiers can be roughly divided into three types. Soldiers Yin-Yang, Soldiers, and Soldiers…”

“The so-called yin and yang family of soldiers is the ancient people’s superstition of ghosts and gods. Before fighting, they often used divination, astrology, cloud qi, dream divination, sacrifices, prayers, and victories to weaken the opponent and strengthen themselves. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou fought in the war. In the past, I kept playing with yin and yang alchemy. In recent times, the wise people already know that these things are useless, but based on tradition, they often act before battles to seek auspicious signs to reassure people.”

Seeing that Zhao Wuxi was very talkative, Ziji had to fight hard and said with a smile: “Yes, I heard that when Qin State is at war with people, they often send people to the temple near Yongdi to pray to Wu Xian. Good luck, curse the enemy country. After all, this country is ignorant and backward, and has learned a lot of customs of the Rong and Di, which cannot be compared with the Central Plains.”

Young Master Shizai deliberately said that the Qin army was ignorant and backward, but Zhao Wuxi disagreed: “On the battlefield, it is not uncommon for the side with the backward equipment to defeat the advanced side. Speaking of this, the widow must talk about another school of military use. , a military expert.”

“Army technicians believe that every soldier should have the ability and skills to fight and kill the enemy, so it is necessary to cooperate diligently with wrestling, hand fighting, archery, the way of swords and halberds, and the rules of battle formation, otherwise the soldiers will be sent to death. Secondly, Soldiers are also very concerned about armor and weapons, thinking that this is the factor that determines success or failure, so they pay attention to sharp armor and weapons. In fact, when the few people were armored, the same was true when Zhao Wuzu fought with Fan and Zhong Xing in Hanoi.”

He paused and continued: “That’s why after that, people in the world thought that the strength of Zhao’s soldiers lies in his armor skills and siege equipment. So the Wei clan took the lead to follow suit and established the so-called Wei Wuzun. After the demise, some remnants of the Wei clan also flowed into the Qin state and were used by the Qin state. The few people heard that the great concubines of the Qin state formed a standing army in Lantian called Qin Ruishi?”

This matter is a secret, but Zhao Wuxi knows it like the back of his hand, Young Master Thorn is shocked, but he tries to keep calm on the face: “The boy has been in Zhao all the year round, so I don’t know, if I want to come to Qin State, even if I follow Zhao’s system, it is to defend against Rong and Di, for the king. Hou is guarding the west side, and he doesn’t dare to have other thoughts…”

“The master’s mind, the widow is still unclear?”

Zhao Wuxi laughed dumbly: “Sun Tzu also said that in battle, the temple is the first, in any battle, you must know yourself and the enemy, and expect the enemy to win. This is the best way to use the military. ; Invisibility, the depths cannot be seen, and the wise cannot plan… In short, it is to make the enemy country unable to understand our true intentions, thereby disrupting the enemy country’s military deployment and national policy, in this case, the enemy country will From real to virtual, from prepared to unprepared, and even civil strife…”

In later generations, the so-called “sound east to attack west”, “secretly crossing Chencang”, and “throwing bricks to attract jade” all belong to the category of “formed soldiers”, they are all tricks to deceive the enemy and mislead the enemy, and they are all good tricks of military situationists.

Seeing that there was something in Zhao Hou’s words, Young Master Thorn could only force his composure and complimented him: “This time, the emperor Ming attacked Korea, but in fact he wanted to go south to destroy Zheng Chu. It was the strategy of the military strategist.

“These are all strategies that my grandson has drawn up for me. How dare a widow take credit?”

Zhao Wuxi waved his hand and said again: “But if you think that this is all, then you will underestimate the ability of your grandson…”

The young master stabbed his heart for a moment, and asked, “The boy is stupid and can’t understand the trick, so I hope you will show it clearly.”

“Sun Tzu’s strategic forces are linked one by one. By constantly creating mysteries, the tactics of showing the enemy’s appearance and attracting the enemy are used to the extreme. Our strategy is not visible to the enemy country. In this way, the enemy country has a deep Hidden spies can’t find out the truth of our side, even if there are brilliant generals, they can’t think of a way to deal with us.”

When it came to “spy”, Gongzi Thorn was already sitting on pins and needles, dripping with sweat.

“Ziji’s face is not very good-looking, presumably he has been in the house for a long time.”

Zhao Wuxi pointed out the window with a smile and said, “Why do you keep the door closed under the sun? Second or third son, open the window and let the son breathe.”

The waiter took the order and opened the window that had been sealed by Zhao Wuxi’s order, and a cool breeze blew in immediately, mixed with a burst of smoke and dust.

“Help you go to the window to catch your breath!”

Involuntarily, the Yulin guards set up the son’s thorn and brought him to the window.

Luoyang is located in the world, and this palace building is located near Luoyang’s east, west, north and south avenues. At a glance, all directions are in sight.

The young master saw that a steady stream of carriages, soldiers and horses were passing by the road outside the building, raising bursts of dust. It is not surprising that Zhao State assembled a large army in the south to attack the State of Chu. Naturally, there was a lot of mobilization of troops and supplies, but…

But the strange thing is that these soldiers and horses in front of him are all going to the west gate of Luoyang!

Like falling into an ice cave, Young Master Thorn froze in place, and suddenly understood the meaning of Zhao Hou’s words…

“Your Majesty…”

He turned his head and said, “The state of Chu is in the south, so why are the soldiers and soldiers heading west?”

“Naturally, it is for the crusade against Qin.”

Zhao Wuxi said it as a matter of course…

“Since the year before last, the widowers have followed the advice of Sun Tzu, and on the pretext of crusade against Korea, they wantonly mobilized the southern troops and horses to go north, in order to deceive the state of Chu and let the Duke of Bai dare to reform the law, thus causing chaos. Forcing the State of Chu…”

“It’s just that outsiders don’t know that the massive army of Zhao State in Huaibei and Guangling adds up to no more than 30,000 people. And in Zheng State and Song State, the main force of Zhao State approaching Chu State Fangcheng is also only three. 50,000, and now they have occupied the cities and towns abandoned by the state of Chu, and after helping the state of Chen to recover the lost land, they have died down, and the real goal of the widow is not the state of Chu.”

“Young master went south to Luoyang with the widow at the beginning of the year. Naturally, he did not know that the real main force of Zhao State had assembled in Xinjiang as early as early spring, and then headed west. At this moment, Daijun, Shangjun, Fengyi, Hedong, Taiyuan, Sanchuan, The seven counties of Shangdang plus the elites of Yecheng, a total of 100,000 troops have crossed the Taihua Mountain under the banner of widowhood, and entered the eastern border of the Qin state…”

It turned out that the enemy country was not talking about the state of Chu, but the state of Qin, and Young Master Shi himself was the idiot spy who was secretly proud of himself after passing false information to his mother country!

“Jun Hou…” Young Master Thorn sat paralyzed by the window, his heart was full of despair, and after a while, he turned around and asked Zhao Wuxi, “What’s the fault of Qin?”

Zhao Wuxi’s face was sinking like water~www.mtlnovel.com~ and said: “In the national letter that the widow gave to the great concubine of the Qin country, it was written that Zhao Guogang annexed the Zheng country as a prefecture, but the destruction of the state and the country continued. The ancient ritual is also. For Uncle Zheng, the widow wants to leave him a little incense and find a city to place it in. The best place is naturally Xizheng, the first feudal place of Zheng State hundreds of years ago…”

The ancestor of Zheng State was Duke Xuan of Zhou, the son of King Xuan of Zhou. He was originally sealed in the land of Zheng near Huashan and belonged to the feudal feudal lords of the Zhou family. Before and after the disaster of Mount Li, Zheng Guocai migrated to Xinzheng in the East, so Zheng in the Weishui Valley was called Xizheng, occupied by Qun Rong, and later recovered by Qin…

Nowadays, Xizheng is located in Weinan of Qin State, with Huashan on the left and Weishui on the right. It is the gateway to prevent Zhao State from advancing westward. Once Xizheng is lost, Weinan will have no danger to defend, and the Zhao army can drive straight to Feng and Hao.

Begging for Xizheng is no different from wanting Qin’s life, so the young master smiled bitterly: “If you want to add a crime, why don’t you worry about it, Zheng is like this, so is Qin in my country. I want to come, even if Qin is willing to cede Xizheng, and even In the whole of Weinan, Junhou will not let Qin go.”

“That’s natural.”

Zhao Wuxi got up, filled the bronze jue with wine, handed it to Young Master Thorn, sighed, and said to him: “Zi Ji, after all, the widow is also your adoptive father, today, I will teach you the last lesson. There is no righteous war in the world, the so-called righteousness is just an excuse to attack the country. The real purpose in the hearts of the widow, may as well tell you here.”

With bright eyes, he looked directly at the west: “Qin and Zhao have the same surname as Ying, and after Boyi and Feilian, they are like brothers of the same milk compatriot. Four hundred years ago, Qin and Zhao were forced to divide into two families and became Ji Zhou Munu. Yuzhe. Now that Ji Zhou’s virtue is exhausted, the new emperor will come out, and it is time for Qin and Zhao to reunite as a family!” There is no pop-up window, and the update is timely!