Then again, if the Hu family was smart, they wouldn't have returned to Jin to stir up this muddy water.
So, what was the fate of the Hu family who did not return to the Jin Kingdom in the original history? Because they did not do any bad or good things to Zhu Xia, it means that they will not have any role in historical events in the history books.
In the end, Shi disappeared quietly.
The friendship between Zhiyao and Huyou is average.
The Zhi family does not have much connection with the Fox family.
Therefore, if Zhiyao doesn't have any good or bad intentions, she can just wait for Mrs. Hu's performance and wait for Zhao's reaction.
Many times, you can't be mean when you shouldn't operate, otherwise you will do more and make more mistakes. Zhiyao still understands this truth deeply.
If the Fox family really steals the show, that is their own choice.
It’s already going that way, why does Zhi Yao forcefully add any drama!
They took "Mengjin" to the south bank of the river, and made a circle to a place called "Zhi".
This area belonged to the Zheng State's sphere of influence for a long time. Later, it was under the control of the Jin State for a few years. The needs of the current situation made the Jin State choose to build a city here and named it "Hulao".
Later, the struggle for hegemony between Jin and Chu ceased. In view of Zheng's subjugation to Jin, the kings and ministers of Jin gave the "Hulao" to Zheng.
Although Zhao Yang is currently full of evil spirits and led his army to Zheng State to vent his anger, he must have retained considerable sanity. Regaining control of "Hulao" will be a very strategic option.
Zheng Guo's reaction was a bit like that. They carried out strategic contraction and did not leave heavy troops in the north at all. They all retreated to the surrounding areas of "Xinzheng".
Then, Zheng Junsheng sent a man named Ziyue to "Hulao", which was again controlled by the Jin army, to seek forgiveness.
Confucius said? That's really what Confucius said. In the future, these two will be very powerful. Now they are just names.
Because they did not hold official public positions, Zhiyao, Wei Ju, Han Geng and Hu You were not qualified to participate in the meeting. Only afterward did they find out what was discussed from the adults of each family.
In short, it is nothing more than that Zheng Guo gave up again, asked Jin Guo for forgiveness, and was willing to re-enter the alliance with Jin Guo.
Good thing, isn't it?
First, the state of Wei surrendered again, and then the state of Zheng renewed the alliance, which meant that the state of Jin was restoring its hegemony.
It stands to reason that Zhao Yang should be happy, maybe he is also a little happy in his heart? But he thought that the alliance treaty proposed by Zheng Guo lacked sincerity. Not only did he ask Zheng Guo to make a "sacrifice alliance" with Jin Guo, but he also asked Zheng Junsheng by name to win some generals.
The nobles were handed over to the Jin State.
As for the Jin State regaining control of "Hulao"? The Jin State's rearrangement of its garrison is tantamount to restoring control over "Hulao" and does not need to be mentioned again in the negotiation process.
What is that "sacrifice alliance"? The so-called "sacrifice" refers to animals slaughtered for sacrifice. A covenant of this level must require Zheng Junsheng to be present, and Jin Junwu of Jin State must also be present.
When Zhao Yang mentioned the "Alliance of Sacrifice", he only meant one thing: Where is your monarch? Let him come here! If he doesn't come, I will lead the army to "Xinzheng" in person!
Confucius said that he did not want the Jin army to continue to move south, but he could not make the decision for Zheng Junsheng. He asked Zhao Yang to wait for news in "Hulao", and he himself immediately returned to the capital to report.
The Zheng envoy had just left, and Zhao Yang held a meeting some time later.
"How can I follow the words of the Zheng people? The army broke out of the camp and immediately attacked the capital of Zheng." Zhao Yang said this.
That's right, let alone an envoy from the State of Zheng, even if it was mentioned by Zheng Junsheng himself, why would the "Yuan Rong" of the State of Jin obey as if they were following orders.
Wei Chi looked at Zhishen and was puzzled to see absolute calmness in all aspects of Zhishen.
Their intention to go south this time was for political purposes, and they would not contribute to the attack on "Wen". Crossing the river to the south bank was already a bit too much, so why did they still attack Zheng's capital?
Zhishen's calmness is not a matter of confidence. He lives a very happy life. Zhiyao has to worry about family affairs. At the same time, it is Zhiyao who makes the decision on what the Zhishen family should do externally.
So, what Zhishen was thinking about was that Zhiyao had mentioned before that no matter what Zhao Yang wanted to do this time, he would not object or support it. That was the original intention. Why should he make more expressions?
"'Yuan Rong'." Han Buxin saw that Wei Chi and Zhishen were silent, and even Hu Jie looked eager to try, so he had to remind him: "There are only one 'army' and four 'divisions' going south this time."
To be honest, for other countries, a force of close to 70,000 is considered too large, but for the Jin State, it can only be regarded as an average number.
Han Buxin would remind him because one of the "armies" inside was from the Zhao family.
The quality of Zhao's "army" is mostly worrying. The other families are just here to go through the motions. If they are too impulsive and are defeated, coupled with Zhao Yang's last failure on the west bank of Shaoshui, not only the good situation of Jin will be lost.
, Zhao will also fall into a new dilemma.
Wei Chi glanced at Zhishen again and found that Zhishen remained calm. He couldn't help but think to himself: "Did you all misjudge Zhishen before?"
What's the meaning?
It's just that Zhao Yang's choice and Han Buxin's persuasion contained too much information. Wei Chi himself was deeply shocked. Seeing that Zhishen remained calm all the time, he felt magnanimous.
Zhao Yang, who chose to continue going south, was not just venting his anger, he discovered Zheng Guo's weakness and took extra steps to achieve some political goals and restore his reputation.
Han Buxin's persuasion seemed to be that he didn't want to give Zhao Yang any face, but another layer of understanding was that he didn't want Zhao Yang to mess up a good situation and end up losing everything.
Zhao Yang, who was silent for a while, looked at Wei Chi and asked, "What do you think, general?"
"..." Wei Chi didn't think so.
Zhao Yang looked at Zhishen again and asked again: "Shangjun Zuo?"
Zhishen said expressionlessly: "As it will be, so it will be."
Zhao Yang finally looked at Hu Jie and asked, "General, are you willing to go south?"
Hu Jie felt that he was respected and said with a smile: "I am willing to follow Zhao Meng's order."
How could this scene have happened before? Usually Zhao Yang would do whatever he wanted without asking other people's opinions at all.
Now Zhao Yang will ask, is it really the strength of several high-ranking families that has changed, and then Zhao Yang's prestige has been greatly affected.
"The State of Zheng is afraid of me (the State of Jin), so why not make an alliance to benefit from it?" Zhao Yang's words are interesting.
It seems that this time Zheng Guo will surrender without a fight and return to its previous style of being an old surrendering country.
Such Zheng is not trustworthy, so forcing them to pay compensation is the right thing to do, lest Zheng fall back to other countries soon.
Han Buxin said: "If we go south, I think we will need to send reinforcements from home."
If Zhiyao were present, it would be obvious at a glance that Han Buxin was playing a double act with Zhao Yang!
Hu Jie wanted to show off, so he immediately responded: "Jie can call another 'teacher' here."
Wei Chi, who had been observing Zhishen, decided to continue observing.
Zhao Yang looked at Wei Chi first and found that Wei Chi's eyes were on Zhishen, then he turned his eyes to Zhishen.
Jishen was still the old god, but not a single word came out of his mouth.
"What's going on?" Zhao Yang didn't understand what Wei Chi meant by staring at Zhishen all the time.
In the past, when Zhishuo was alive, the alliance between the Zhi family and the Wei family was with Zhi being the eldest brother; after Zhi Shuo passed away, Wei Chi took up the banner and became the eldest brother of the Wei family, the alliance between the Zhi family and some middle-level nobles.
Zhao Yang now focuses more on Wei Chi, just to keep an eye on what Wei Chi wants to do. Once Wei Chi wants to do something, he will definitely need Zhi's cooperation.
The big tent became eerily quiet.
Hu Jie, who was the first to express his stance, found that the atmosphere had become strange, and his mood changed from excited to slightly uneasy.
Zhishen finally realized that Wei Chi had been staring at him and whispered: "If the general has any objections, Shen will agree with him."
Their seats are connected, and if they turn sideways to get closer, they can still whisper in their ears in a low voice.
"..." Seeing Zhishen's sincerity when he acted like this, Wei Chi wondered if he was overthinking something.
There is a rumor about the Zhi family. As the head of the family, Zhishen does not care about things, and everything big and small is arranged by Zhi Yao, as the heir apparent.
Many people don't believe that rumor at all. The reason is that the head of a family in the Spring and Autumn Period is the god of everyone in the family. Unless he wants the prince to ascend the throne quickly, or he doesn't want to stay anymore, no matter how stupid the head of the family is, he must obey everything.
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This kind of thing would seem unreasonable to modern people. The problem was in the Spring and Autumn Period... and even after a long time, similar phenomena actually existed.
Zhao Yang's face darkened for a moment, and he said: "For the increase of troops, please send people to recruit. Don't delay the southward march. We will break camp immediately."
Just now, Wei Chi was looking at Zhishen, but was provoked by Zhishen again, and simply did not respond whether he wanted to send more troops.
Han Buxin was supposed to say something, but seeing the strange atmosphere, he suppressed it and decided to remain content.
In the end, it was Zhao Yang who made the decision, which made Hu Jie, who was the first to express his stance, feel wary.
What's a bit strange is that Hu Jie simply thinks something is wrong and doesn't know how to avoid unknown dangers.
The Jin army marched south. Along the way, they were surprised to find that Zheng people were not in the cities or villages. Even if there were Zheng people, they were hiding in the mountains and forests.
Zhao Yang sent people to capture a few people from Zheng. When he asked, he learned that the migration had been arranged earlier, out of fear that the Jin army would kidnap people again.
"I heard that the Zhi family and the Wei family had previously carried out large-scale kidnappings by the Jin army. Zheng Guofang was worried about this..." Gubu Ziqing felt that Zhi Yao and Wei Ju were quite good at playing.
Zhao Yang blinked his eyes a little cutely. He only knew that the last time Zhiyao and Wei Ju led their troops south to attack Zheng Guo, he really didn't know that they caught people and ran away when they saw them.
As for saying it was against the rules of a gentleman's war? Zheng Jun himself had done things like robbing crops from other countries during the war. Is he worthy of others telling them the rules?
They approached "Hanling" all the way, which was about forty or fifty miles away from "Xinzheng". Ziyue, who had left before, came to see him again and said that Zheng Junsheng was waiting in the city of "Hanling".
"The emperor's intention is sincere!" Confucius said, scratching his neck, and then said: "Why did you leave Zhi and go south without telling me?"
Good guy, really good guy!
Is it a lie that the kings and ministers of the State of Zheng thought that rituals and music have now collapsed?
What they were facing was Zhao Yang who would kill the relatives who even came to visit him at the request of him!
