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Zhiyao must admit that this was something she had never expected.
If it had been predicted in advance, even if there was only a small possibility, no matter what, the bear would appear.
After what happened, Zhiyao could only think helplessly: "This is very Chu country!"
No matter how the Chu Kingdom fell, there was indeed no coward among its kings. Even if King Huai of Chu, who was scolded as extremely stupid, was deceived and caught, he still showed a strong enough side afterwards.
Then, what happens next?
Chu Junyan stood up in excitement, wanting to say something, but moved her lips without making a sound, pointed at Xiong Zhong's body with trembling fingers, and then made a gesture to hide her face.
What can be said?
With the world situation developing to this day, who doesn't know that Yuan Junyao had the ambition to annex the princes to achieve "one world".
Things that the courts of various countries know well cannot be spread to the whole country, otherwise the situation will develop even worse.
The reality is that the Chu State has been crippled. Even if the Chu State, Yue State and Song State are still in alliance, they should not be able to defeat the Yuan State in a short time.
Xiong Zhong's suicide will definitely make the Chu people hate the original country even more. It cannot be said that it has no effect at all, but the current arm cannot break the thigh.
What the monarchs and ministers of the various countries want most now is to delay time. Whether they are expecting civil strife or other bad things to happen in the original country, the most important thing is to gain time to develop or restore their strength. In short, they really have no confidence that they can defeat the original country now.
Yue Jun Gou Jian looked at Chu Junyan, wondering whether Chu Junyan should be in a sad and happy state of mind now?
As long as Xiong Zhong survives for a day, Chu Junyan's ascension to the throne is actually unjust and unjust, and will make Chu Junyan's situation more and more embarrassing as time goes by.
Personal aspects aside, just having Xiong Zhong in the hands of the Yuan State is a shame for the Chu State. At least it will be used by some people with ulterior motives within the Chu State to make a fuss about it, which will definitely cause chaos in the Chu State.
Among the several monarchs, the one who was most surprised was Song Junluan.
There is no deep hatred between the Yuan Kingdom and the Song Dynasty. Even if the two countries entered a state of hostility, the exchanges that should have been continued were not interrupted, and the exchanges between the two countries became more frequent because of the needs of the situation.
According to the attitude disclosed to the Song State by the Yuan State, the Yuan State will not keep Xiong Zhong in custody and will send him back to the Chu State when the time is right.
The Song State certainly knew that the Yuan State wanted to take advantage of the Chu State. Regardless of the personal feelings of the Song people or the needs of the country, they did not necessarily want Chu State to be as bad as it was, but they did not want Chu State to be easy.
What Song Junluan was most afraid of now was that Xiong Zhong's suicide would trigger a new war. His eyes swept back and forth between Chu Junyan and Yuan Junyao, and he quickly thought of a solution in his mind.
After being quiet for dozens of breaths, Zhiyao took the lead to break the silence of the scene and said with a sad face: "When countries are fighting, don't harm the king. King Chu is wrong!"
Even though they were as cruel as the Chu State, which annexed dozens of vassal states, they never captured any monarch and then killed them.
From its establishment to the present, the Yuan Kingdom has annexed several countries and has never physically harmed the king of any country.
Today's events will of course have an impact on the original country. It should be said that all kings of a country should take it easy in the future. Victory or failure is not only related to the form of the country, but the safety of the defeated king will be lost.
Zhiyao didn't give anyone a chance to speak, and said, "Let's give up the banquet today."
Originally, everyone was just maintaining the style of the classical era and just playing around. No cooperative projects would be reached, and no actual conflicts would occur at banquets.
After such an incident, the "protective shield" belonging to the monarch was shattered, and it was certain that the style of the classical era would be gone forever.
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Gou Jian of the Vietnamese army was the first to leave.
Followed by Song Junluan.
Zhiyao deliberately stayed until the end.
"What happened today was absolutely not my intention. I also had no intention of sending him back to the ancestors of Chu during the alliance," Zhiyao said.
Yin, the magistrate of Chu State, had already come over with a group of nobles of Chu State. They had various expressions when they heard Zhiyao's words.
"If the Chu State hates me, I still hope to tell you, and you and I will invite you and me to hunt at some time." Zhiyao looked at Chu Junyan with a very sincere expression.
What is this doing?
Is there any need to say more? Chu State must hate Yuan State!
However, Chu Junyan was suddenly fooled by Zhiyao.
The Chu State, which has been hit many times, just wants to rest and recuperate, and revenge can be taken slowly.
Now there will be another war with the Yuan State immediately? Not to mention whether the Chu State can win the war, the country that will benefit may not be the Yuan State, but the Yue State and the Song State will definitely gain.
Zhaogu took a step forward in time and said: "The country of Yuan Dynasty should not send envoys to express condolences. Tomorrow and today... we will meet on the battlefield."
After saying that, Zhao Gu stepped forward and tugged on Chu Junyan's sleeve, indicating that he could leave.
Zhiyao stood there and watched the Chu monarchs and ministers leave. He glanced at the blood stains on the floor and said to the ministers: "Ohara's stated goal remains unchanged."
Zhaogu just now wasn't even serious in appearance but was at best trying to save his respect.
A big war? On the contrary, the Chu State was extremely afraid of the Yuan State's army going south, otherwise the wording would definitely be extremely fierce. How could it be so painless?
As for Zhaogu's refusal to send a condolence mission from the original country, it can only be said that it was appropriate.
In fact, if the Yuan Kingdom sends an envoy to express condolences, something will happen to the Chu Kingdom, and there is a high probability that a war between the two countries will be inevitable.
That's why Zhaogu first refused the original country to send a condolence mission, and then invited him to date.
Sima Ranju said with a serious face: "What can't be tolerated? Dayuan needs to destroy Chu within ten years!"
Sure enough, someone asked why.
Sima Ranju said: "Because there are lessons learned from past mistakes."
Not to mention the distant story, the recent Gou Jian endured with great perseverance and successfully resurrected the Yue Kingdom, which was on the verge of destruction.
As a high-level leader of a country, being irritable is the biggest shortcoming. Being able to endure can only be said to be qualified, and mastering the principles of assessing the situation and making the best use of the situation is excellent.
Afterwards, no one in Yuan or Chu deliberately publicized the news of Xiong Zhong's suicide at the banquet, but many people in Yue and Song talked about it, especially Yue, which was the most noisy.
The Yuan State and the Chu State, who were directly involved, maintained restraint. The unrelated Yue State wished that the incident at the banquet would be known to the whole world. What else could it be? They wanted to embarrass the Yuan State and set up a fight with the Chu State.
That's all.
"Judging from past examples, Gou Jian doesn't look like a fool. Is he following in the footsteps of Fu Cha? Having played with too many women, has his brain been burnt and smeared by alcohol?" Zhiyao thought so, but basically he was still a bear.
Their actions have pierced through the fig leaf left over from the Spring and Autumn Period, and the scale of some of the actions taken by other countries will be even greater in the future.
To put it bluntly, we should no longer be so subtle about what we do, and use whatever is useful to death.
Both the Yuan State and the Chu State could spy on the Yue State's intentions. Even if the high-level officials would not be greatly affected by public opinion, the grassroots would definitely be affected.
Let's put it this way, once public opinion becomes too overwhelming, no matter how reluctant the Chu State's top brass is, they will have to do something. This is the role of public opinion.
However, it is actually good for the Yue State to do that. At least it will let the Chu State know what the Yue State is thinking and force the Chu State's top brass to become calmer.
"Fan Qing, can you go to Chu more often?" Zhiyao said to Fan Li, who was serving as a guest in Yuan Kingdom.
Fan Li knew very well what he needed to do, and used his eloquence to explain the current world situation to the Chu monarchs and ministers, making the Chu monarchs and ministers understand Yue's evil intentions.
I believe that the kings and ministers of Chu State should think about how much strength Yue and Song, as allies, can contribute to the current war with Yuan State.
In addition, don't forget that Yuejun Goujian's reputation is extremely bad, especially in terms of credibility.
There is no need for the Yuan State to exert too much effort. The kings and ministers of the Chu State will make various interpretations from the behavior of Yue Jun Gou Jian. One of the guesses is that the Yue State hopes that a war will break out between the Chu State and the Yuan State and then take advantage of it.
The role played by the State of Yue during the joint war against the original country last year was almost non-existent. This alone would make the State of Chu and the State of Song doubt the sincerity of the Yue State's alliance.
It is true that the original country is currently the most powerful. Based on this, all countries need to form an alliance to jointly fight against the original country.
They can also seek to annex each other, become stronger, and then confront the original country.
Given the choice, who doesn’t want to become stronger?
Allies have always been imaginary, only being strong is the most real thing!
What happened next seemed very strange.
The Yuan Kingdom and the Chu Kingdom seemed to have forgotten a lot of their unpleasantness, and the exchanges between the top leaders suddenly increased, causing confusion at the grassroots level on both sides. At the same time, the Yue Kingdom's monarchs and ministers knew that the excessive force they exerted had a counterproductive effect.
After discovering the change of situation, the kings and ministers of the Song Dynasty thought for a moment and immediately reacted.
Zigong, who served as an official in the Song Dynasty, began to act as a lubricant, trying to normalize the relationship between Chu and Yue.
After all, the current situation is that the Yuan State is the only powerful country. No matter how disgusted the Chu State is with the Yue State, it is impossible to forget such a strong enemy as the Yuan State. The relationship between the Chu State and the Yue State seems to have eased due to Zigong's efforts.
Zhiyao learned that Zigong's reputation was getting bigger and bigger, and thought: "My reputation has been wasted."
It cannot be said that it was picked up in vain. At best, Zigong took on an easily accomplished task at the right time.
The Huimeng Tower was built eight days after the construction started. If other princes were to build it, the construction period would not be less than half a month.
The original country will notify the participating princes of the time when the alliance will be officially held.
This time the alliance was different from the past. Not only was the alliance held by the "King of Prime Ministers", but the biggest difference was that the emperor did not send ministers to have a process of bestowing meat.
Is the alliance going to be officially launched? All parties still need to send people to contact them, such as the number of people from all parties who will appear near the alliance platform that day, what kind of people will go there, and the form of admission for the participating princes.
Going on stage or who will go on stage first, etc. are a series of issues that need to be discussed.
The people who conduct discussions are the leaders of each country.
The one dispatched by the Yuan Kingdom was Han Geng, who had just taken over the power.
Zhao Gu from the Chu State had also just become Ling Yin.
Wen Zhong was the ruler of the Yue State a long time ago, and later took on a mission to go to the State of Wu to serve Fu Chai. Counting that he became the ruler of the Yue State again only in recent years.
The one who came forward from the Song Dynasty was Zihan, the right master.
The four countries agreed to send out 500 armed personnel each on that day. At the same time, the monarchs would gather on the steps of the Alliance Platform in order and then stand side by side on the stage.
In the process of praying to God and ancestors, as well as the gods and spirits of the four directions, Yuan Junyao, who called for the alliance, presided over the process.
Praying to God is one of Ji Zhou's most important activities, and not everyone is qualified to communicate with God.
In Ji Zhou's setting, praying to God means reporting and pleading to the Emperor of Heaven.
The Emperor of Heaven whom Ji Zhou worshiped was not the Jade Emperor. He had a name called God Haotian.
The Emperor of Heaven worshiped by the Chu State was Donghuang Taiyi.
Later, Ji Zhou lost his country, and the Qin Empire II died. Because Liu Bang, who won the country, regarded himself as a Chu person, the one worshiped by the two Han Dynasties was naturally the Eastern Emperor Taiyi.
As for the Jade Emperor? It took until the Song Dynasty Zhenzong called the Jade Emperor into his dream, and the Taoists merged with the Confucian Haotian God to honor him as the Jade Emperor. Only then did all the lands of Xia begin to worship this Jade Emperor.
Of course, the elders who are called "Emperors of Heaven" are not limited to the above ones, such as Fuxi, Shennong, Huangdi, Zhuanxu, Emperor Ku, and Tang Yao. They are all revered as Emperors of Heaven in the historical records of various pre-Qin dynasties.
Zhiyao originally didn't want to play the Zhou royal family's game anymore, but people really need a belief.
"If there is a chance, we must restore primitive worship, worship our ancestors, and then canonize those who have made meritorious service to the country as gods..." Zhiyao had just finished reciting the prayer.
It's not that complicated, it's just a prayer that can be accepted by all the princes of the alliance. The general idea is that the Zhou royal family is gone, and the people in each region need a king to continue to lead them. What is the current situation in the world, and several countries have met.
Let's pray together about what will happen after becoming king.
While climbing the steps, Zhiyao continued to think about the problem just now, thinking: "In fact, monotheistic religion is most suitable for external expansion, but Zhuxia has its own national conditions, and it is impossible to abandon the tradition of worshiping ancestors."
In fact, it is not so absolute. There are also many people who convert to a certain religion in the future and no longer worship their ancestors.
During the climb, thinking about problems was just thinking about problems, and Zhiyao did not forget to be wary of Gou Jian.
Others may not be able to assassinate someone in this situation, but to be honest, Gou Jian may not be able to do so.
Zhiyao is definitely not the only one who is wary of Goujian.
Didn't you see that Song Junluan, who was placed next to Gou Jian, subconsciously moved her position, making the distance between the two people a bit wide?
From the looks of the people below, Yuan Junyao, Chu Junyan, and Song Junluan were relatively close to each other, but Yuejun Gou Jian was alone on one side, making it look like Yuan, Chu, and Song were allies, uniting to attack Yue.
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Yuejun Goujian may not have reacted at first, but when he did, he twitched his cheeks and moved closer to Song Junluan, making Song Junluan secretly complain in his heart.
Fortunately, we reached the summit quickly, which relieved Song Junluan's embarrassment and anxiety.
They each had their own seats, and there was a waiter waiting above them. After they sat down separately, the waiter poured a glass of wine.
Zhiyao took the lead in raising the wine prince, and the other three people who had just become kings gathered together one after another.
"The King of Chu, the King of Yue, and the King of Song, please have a drink together!"
The other three kings also gave their respective titles, and Zhiyao was of course the original king.
In this extremely serious situation, Zhiyao shouldn't have thought too much, but she still thought: "First it's the original person, and now it's the original king. Others won't find it strange, I'm different..."