The reason why all the ministers looked at each other in confusion was not that this plan was so clever, but that the Xi Meng Mansion seemed to have lost its mind!
There is only Sang Mansion between Huaiqing Mansion and Xia Capital Guiyi.
Cutting off all the land south of Huaiqing Mansion is almost equivalent to surrendering half of the Xia Kingdom and exposing one's heart to the Chu people!
What kind of talent is Xi Meng's family, and how scared they are by Qi State, so that they can come up with such a "wonderful plan"?
"Everyone, please listen to me carefully."
In the eyes of all the civil and military ministers in the palace who were looking at fools, Xi Mengfu said confidently: "The Chu State is unwilling to come to the rescue... There are just a few reasons. One is that we have had many fights with the Chu State in history, and we have a lot of grievances.
Secondly, the environment in the southern region is complex, with mountains of books across it. The more the barrier is, the more complex the sect's power is. No matter whether the Chu people come or we go, it will inevitably outweigh the gains and losses. This is also why the late emperor chose to march eastward.
.Thirdly, the war between Qin and Chu has not been long, and the river valleys and plains have become white. The pressure of Qin State cannot be ignored by Chu State. If they have fewer people, they are afraid of sending sheep into the tiger's mouth. If they have more people, they are afraid that the Qin people will do something strange...
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"There is only one thing that can eliminate these reasons - interests!"
"The benefits are sufficient, and there is no need to raise any grudges. The benefits are sufficient, and it is worth the risk. We take the initiative to cede the territory, and Shushan has no reason to interfere. Now that the past grievances are gone, the future is in sight, and reality is not hindered. Is there any reason for the Chu army not to come?"
Xi Meng's house talked about it for a while, and finally came up with some nonsense.
"This is a way to quench thirst by drinking poison! What is your intention, Xi Meng Mansion?!"
The Marquis of Anguo, Jin Ling, who was on an envoy to the Chu State, was red-faced and extremely angry. He actually did not even want to address him as a national master, and instead called the real person Xi Mengfu by the name of his godly cultivation.
"Marquis An Guo, don't get excited. Don't raise your voice when you are justified." However, Xi Mengfu was very calm and gave him a hand: "May I ask how this strategy is to drink poison to quench thirst?"
Jin Ling said angrily: "The people of Qi are greedy, are the people of Chu just good men and women? Now we are cutting off half of the country to serve Chu, not to mention whether Qi and Chu will have a secret conspiracy and simply divide our Daxia. Let them really fight.
Come up and help us repel the Qi State. Doesn’t the Chu State have any thoughts on us? Doesn’t the Chu Emperor want to unify the southern region? The Qi sword is still outside the country’s borders, but you welcome the Chu sword into the heart?!”
Xi Mengfu said enthusiastically: "We can ask the Chu people to attack together, and we can control the situation and make them both lose. If the Qi people retreat, we will chase the Chu people again, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"
"You only treat others as fools!" Jin Ling said: "Two tigers are fighting, and you, a sheep, decide the intensity of their fight?"
Xi Mengfu said thoughtfully: "Marquis An Guo just returned from his mission to the Chu State. Although he returned without success... But I trust your familiarity with the Chu State. In your opinion, it seems that the Chu State is indeed
Is there no possibility of sending troops?"
Jin Ling was too lazy to talk to him anymore, but turned to Lord Dan: "I am incompetent and failed to persuade the Chu people. But judging from my trip, the Chu people are ambiguous on the surface, but in fact they are very
Resolutely. The trauma of the Battle of the River Valley will take time to digest. They have no intention of competing with another overlord in a short period of time."
This is of course only the personal opinion of Anguo Hou Jin Ling.
But it undoubtedly convinced many people.
"Forget it!" Xi Mengfu waved his hand: "If the Chu people don't come, they won't come, and we won't beg for it!"
He added: "I have another plan!"
Liu Xiyi, the Prime Minister of Great Xia, endured it for a long time, and finally couldn't help it: "Don't you have any more plans. You are making such nonsense today. I just think you are an old fool. Give it a rest! How can you pretend to be crazy and act like a fool when it comes to military and national affairs?!"
But the voice behind the bead curtain said: "Master, please speak."
The Queen Mother Xia still seemed to have high hopes for Xi Mengfu's wisdom and suppressed the voice of the Prime Minister Liu Xiyi.
Xi Mengfu also said with unyielding momentum: "This plan is to 'depose hundreds of schools of thought and only respect Confucianism!' From now on, we will use Shushan as a holy place and establish Confucianism as the gate of the country. With our twenty-one prefectures, we will do our best to build the country."
Confucian cultural background, please get the support of Shushan. There are so many powerful people in Shushan, they will definitely help us stop the Qi army!"
"Okay! Okay! Okay!"
Now even the ancestor of the Chu family and the real person of the time, Chu Gongyi, couldn't bear it anymore.
He had been practicing in seclusion all year round and did not care about foreign affairs. When the country was in crisis, he came out of the seclusion and came to the court with the head of the Chu family, Chu Rang. Unexpectedly, he heard these ridiculous remarks.
"What a 'Depose hundreds of schools of thought, and only respect Confucianism!'" He was so angry that he laughed: "I am here because of the public disagreement, you come and depose me!"
Fan Ao, the Marquis of Xuanping, is a monk who came from the Sanxing Palace. When the public sentiment was raging before, he never had any bad words towards the Xi Meng Mansion. This situation is really unbearable. "Master Xi, you are not an orthodox Confucian disciple. You are now
You are still wearing Taoist robes, and if you depose hundreds of families, will you be deposed?"
Duke Zhou Ying of Fengguo, Marquis of Guangping Li Fu, and Marquis of Yangling Xue Chang also all started making noises. The entire Baohua Palace was filled with unstoppable noise, like a vegetable market.
Xi Meng's house has made people angry, and some people even want to kill him to sacrifice the flag.
On the throne, Yu Liyang finally stretched out his fingers and knocked on the armrest of the seat, and said with a headache: "Master Xi, what do you think? Our Xia Kingdom accommodates hundreds of families and accommodates all sects, so that we can fight against the strong Qi.
Jiye. If you do this, the people who come to Shushan to help may not be as many as the people who leave our Xia Kingdom! In the face of the war, do you want to give up your martial arts?"
Min Wang Yu Liyang was born with good looks. When he was young, he was a beautiful boy with red lips and white teeth. Before he was thirty, a god came to him, and he became youthful and immortal from then on.
He has been extremely talented since he was a child, and he has shown his integrity. The Xia Kingdom used the country's resources to train him, and he lived up to expectations, successfully climbed to the top of the world, and became a pillar of the country.
His life was a brilliant and brilliant life.
Sitting on the throne at this moment, there was no stern expression on his face, and his voice was not loud, but the entire Baohua Palace fell silent.
Xi Mengfu saluted him: "His Royal Highness King Min!"
Then he saluted King Wu Sijiao: "Your Highness King Wu!"
Regardless of whether King Wu was still wandering around, he saluted the emperor again: "Your Majesty!"
Then he saluted behind the bead curtain: "Queen Mother!"
This is probably the ranking in his mind.
Then he straightened up, under the glare of the Prime Minister Liu Xiyi, and in front of the serious expression of Xuanping Marquis Fan Ao, he held his hands in a circle: "Comrades, you pillars of Daxia, I have heard your voices and your opinions.
, I know it all!”
"It seems that everyone has reached a consensus except me."
"The so-called peace negotiation is undesirable, Chu State cannot be relied upon, Shushan is unreliable, Jing State? Jing State even withdrew the Yitian Temple!"
"So you all think that facing Qi's military front, we have only one way to go - war!"
He looked around: "You all think so, right?"
"very good!"
He suddenly became passionate and his voice seemed to shatter the dome: "Then fight!"
"No more illusions!"
"Stop trying to be on both ends of the spectrum!"
"We have no other way to go!"
"Fight or die!"
"I am Xi Mengfu! I have other thoughts, I have other thoughts. I am greedy for life and afraid of death, I am weak and cowardly. I am different from you! But I am also the same as you! We are the same ministers of Xia, eat the same wealth, and suffer the same
Xia En. I respect the opinions of all of you, and I am willing to implement all the decisions of the court and accept all the consequences. Because this is the future that we... decided together!"
He raised his sword fingers with his right hand and slowly drew them across the palm of his left palm.
Make a wound.
The blood of real people fell on the floor tiles drop by drop.
In this main hall, he addressed everyone: "I asked General Long Jiao, if the Zhenguo army is overthrown, how can he teach me?"
"General Long Jiao didn't give me an answer."
"I don't have an answer either!"
"But what answers are needed?"
"There is only one way before us."
"If we win this battle, we can find any answers slowly. If we lose this battle, our country will be exterminated and we will no longer need answers!"
He raised his bloody left palm high and said loudly: "General Long Jiao said that one hundred thousand soldiers of the national army all have the will to die. Xi Mengfu is not talented, and he is willing to die for the country, that's all!"
The entire Baohua Palace fell silent again.
Fall into another kind of silence.
It's the kind of quiet where you can hear your own heartbeat beating as powerfully as a war drum.
Listen to this heart quietly, gain this ambition quietly, feel this heart quietly!
The King of Min, Yu Liyang, all became solemn.
To be continued...