It is really difficult for the Zhao family at this stage. First, Zhao Yang attacked the "Handan" city alone, and then he fought successively with the Fan family and the Zhongxing family, and finally fell into the big pit of "Mo".
Of course, those are Zhao Yang's own choices and have little to do with others.
It was not until the civil war lasted for nearly two years that Zhiyao heard a rumor about the monarch and Zhao Yang.
According to rumors, Zhao Yang actually made many arrangements in order to restore the authority of the monarch. Wei Chi and Han Buxin agreed with Zhao Yang's choice to some extent, so the three families united to fight against the Fan family and the Zhonghang family.
So, the Fan family and the Zhongxing family are opposing the monarch's restoration of authority?
"Why are things becoming more and more complicated?" Zhiyao felt that she needed to take a good look at it.
If the rumors are true, are the monarch and the Zhao, Wei, and Han families in the same group? They performed various performances, and then used Handan Zhao to detain the Zhao family's 500 guards to make trouble, in order to separate the Fan family and the Zhonghang family
Pulling him into the trap, he may have plotted against Zhishi, but Zhishi didn't get involved.
Zhizong has not done many things. To say that the incident has the greatest impact, it is actually the death of the Qi family and the Yangyu family, further weakening the Gong clan.
Since the restoration of the Qi family, the Zhi family has kept a low profile, especially when they repeatedly showed weakness to Zhao Yang. It seems that this was the most correct choice for Zhi Yang?
What a strange thing! The "Qing" of the Jin Kingdom actually wanted to strengthen the authority of the monarch, and suddenly overthrew the undertakings carried out by the "Yuanrong" of Zhao Dun's generation.
Looking at the current situation, it seems that Zhao Yang's choice was not wrong.
The reason is that the loss of power by the Jin king made the strife among the Qing family more serious, which further intensified the internal strife of the Jin state and made it increasingly weak externally.
"Can having a strong king reduce internal strife? Today's kings and ministers can find the answer from Chu and Wu..." Zhiyao thought so, but she didn't believe that Zhao Yang could be that great.
The power of the king of Jin has been strengthened. Do you think that the Zhao family will have a good life? Impossible!
The Qing family has suppressed the monarch and the clan for more than a hundred years. Once the monarch gains power again, what he will do is to support the clan. When the clan becomes stronger again, they will settle their previous hatred, which means they will definitely find Qing.
A family settles accounts!
So, is it possible that Zhao Yang deceived the king mainly in order to bypass Zhi Zhao and gain some power?
No matter what, the situation seems to be that Zhao Yang is a bit out of his element.
During the march, Zhiyao repeatedly chatted with Zigong, Zilu and others, mainly because he wanted to know what the current monarchs were like.
What is more puzzling is that Zhiyao discovered that Zigong and others did not know much about other countries.
Seems right?
Confucius was in the state of Lu before he gained power, and then he could not run around when he gained power. It was only after he lost power that he lived a wandering life, traveling around the country for more than ten years.
Zhiyao thought with disappointment: "Now that Confucius has been invited to Jin by me, they have no experience of traveling around other countries. In this era when it is difficult to understand information, they can know a lot of information about Lu, Qi and Jin
Even if you are intentional, how can you possibly know more?"
To say which of the Xia kingdoms has the most powerful king, it must be the kings of Chu and Wu.
The Chu State and the Wu State are two more examples. As a centralized monarchy system, the Chu State declined, while the Wu State rose to prominence in a very short period of time.
The reason for the decline of the Chu State, which was also a centralized monarchy, was that it could not defeat the Jin State during the hegemony period. The other reason was that after King Chu Ling, the Chu State repeatedly experienced abnormal power changes. As a result, the Chu State also suffered from repeated civil strife and not only gave up.
After fighting for hegemony with the Jin State, even the Wu State could not defeat it.
The State of Wu was defeated by the State of Chu many times before. At its worst, three kings died in the five-year civil war. Subsequently, the State of Chu repeatedly experienced civil strife, allowing the State of Wu to seize the opportunity. What was fatal was that Wu Zixu entered Wu and recommended Sun Wu. Only from a military perspective.
Yan quickly rose to prominence.
In the process of the rise of the Wu Kingdom, the monarch's exclusive power was undoubtedly one of the biggest features. When the country's power was concentrated in one place, it would naturally be quite shocking when it exploded.
But Zhiyao knew one thing. After it was Fu Chai's turn to take power, Wu's monarchy would also be severely attacked, proving that if a dictatorship succeeds, a dictatorship will fail.
Related thoughts made Zhiyao not feel lonely or boring along the way. When they were marching to "Mu", Fu Liao came over with Gubu Ziqing.
"See Gongsun." Gubu Ziqing looked very haggard.
Zhiyao could guess from Gubu Ziqing's appearance that the battle situation in "Mo" was not good for the Zhao family, so he said: "My father accidentally caught a cold, and now Yao is in charge. Yao needs to know what the commander-in-chief's plan is."
In this civil war, two city offensive and defensive battles broke out in "Mo" alone, and the second one is currently underway.
Zhiyao had known in advance that the Zhao family had once again increased its troops. The problem was that the Wei family had found a reason to withdraw. There were still four "divisions" composed of the Zhao family, the Han family, and the small and medium nobles on the battlefield, fighting against the Fan family, the Zhongxing family, and the princes.
The coalition forces are at war.
The combined strength of the allied forces of the princes, the Fan clan, and the Zhonghang clan is not exaggerated. The princes combined have about 40,000 troops. The Fan clan and the Zhonghang clan have three "divisions", so their total strength is more than 60,000.
appearance.
There is not fighting there every day, but it has evolved from a city offensive and defensive battle to a field battle. The counter-insurgency camp is at a disadvantage in terms of military strength. Zhao Yang has been holding on to the camp many times recently, and it seems that he is struggling to support it.
So, you can imagine how surprised Zhao Yang was when the Zhi family sent troops.
Gubu Ziqing said a lot, including the fact that the war situation was not favorable for them, and finally said: "My lord thinks that the Zhi family can rest and recuperate in 'Mu', and wait until the opportunity to fight is ripe before joining the war."
ah!
When did Zhao Yang become so selfless and great, willing to sacrifice his own hardships in exchange for the opportunity for Zhishi to enter and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop???
In fact, Gubu Ziqing was somewhat surprised in his heart that he came here to discuss matters with Zhiyao, not Zhishen.
Under normal circumstances, Zhishen would not come forward. It would be an insult to Zhao to let a young man take charge.
That is to say, Zhiyao made it clear from the beginning that she was the person in charge. Otherwise, no matter how difficult it was for the Zhao family now, Gubu Ziqing, who wanted to save the Zhao family's face, would not talk to Zhiyao and leave without throwing up her sleeves.
Zhishi lost face.
Gubu Ziqing, who came to Zhishi's side, will serve as the liaison between the two sides, so naturally he will not leave.
He confirmed one thing here, that is, Zhi Yao has indeed become one of the core members of the Zhi clan. What surprised him most was that the Zhi clan and its vassals were more accepting of Zhi Yao than imagined.
Yao's order was not hesitant at all.
"What exactly is going on?" Gubu Ziqing couldn't understand it at all.
If you ask Zhiyao, the answer is actually not complicated at all: he has set up an interest group to win the support of the majority of people, and with his record of leading his army to defeat the coalition of princes, even if the people inside don't like him, there is no reason to oppose him.