Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

Although it is said that the territory of Chu State is still at the forefront of the Warring States Period and is second only to Qin State, Chen Ying, the capital of Chu State, does not look so majestic, but rather bleak, just like it has gradually become. There is a Chu State that is declining.

Since Bai Qi, Lord Wu'an of Qin State 19 years ago, led his army to break through Yingdu, the capital of Chu State, Chu State was forced to move its capital to Chencheng.

Although nearly 20 years have passed, and although the King Chu Qingxiang who was as stupid as his father Chu Huai has been dead for three years, the country still does not seem to have any signs of recovery, and it still looks like a wounded cat. The giant beast was silently licking its own wounds.

A group of chariots and horses came slowly from the northwest, gradually approaching Chencheng, guarding the convoy was a group of soldiers from the State of Zhao, and the man with fluttering sleeves was sitting on the carriage at the front of the convoy. The middle-aged celebrity is Zhao Guo's envoy, Zhao Guo Shangqing Yuxin.

When Yu Xin looked at the silent city standing on the ground in front of him, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion: "The scenery of Chen Ying is far inferior to Handan! Recalling the hegemony between Jin and Chu in the past, unexpectedly the current Chu The country has fallen to Sri Lanka!"

Yu Xin's emotion is justified.

Before the Warring States Period was the Spring and Autumn Period, and the theme of the Spring and Autumn Period was "struggle for hegemony". There were five overlords in this era. Although there are several different versions of the Five Hegemons, in any version of the Spring and Autumn Period Among them, Jingong Ji Chonger and Chuzhuang King Xionglu will definitely be missing.

Because including Duke Huan of Qi and Lu Xiaobai, other overlords and their countries only flourished for a while, and the time for hegemony was also intermittent.During the Spring and Autumn Period, there were only two countries that really stood on the stage of hegemony, that is, the state of Jin in the north and the state of Chu in the south.

If the Spring and Autumn Period is a game world, then the Jin-Chu struggle for hegemony is the real main task of implementing this game world.

Let’s first look at the state of Jin in the north. The state of Jin has risen strongly since Duke Jin Ji Chong’er, replacing the original state of Qi in the Central Plains in one fell swoop, and became the well-deserved boss of the Central Plains at that time.

In the east, the big brother Qi State was beaten to the brim by Jin State, and he almost had no defeats against Jin State.In the west, Jin Xianggong Ji Huan, the son of Jin Gong Ji Chonger, wiped out tens of thousands of Qin elites led by another Spring and Autumn overlord Qin Mugong Zhao Renhao in the Battle of Xiaoshan, and thus won a decisive victory over Qin. It completely shattered the Qin people's dream of fighting for hegemony.

Since then, the powerful Jin State has suppressed Qin State within the Hangu Pass for more than 100 years. It was not until the Jin State disintegrated into the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei and Han that Qin State once again saw the hope of advancing eastward and put it into action.

Apart from the barbarians in the north, Rong and Di, in both the east and west directions, the Jin State can be said to have achieved decisive victories, and they have trampled on the two main opponents, the Qin State and the Qi State.

Only when expanding to the south, Jin State encountered an extremely difficult opponent, and this country was of course Chu State.

If Jin, one of the vassal states surnamed Ji, is a branch of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty, it is a typical second-generation official, rich, handsome and domineering president, then Chu, which has been called the "Chu Barbarian" by the Central Plains for hundreds of years, its The rise is undoubtedly a model of diaosi's counterattack.

Don't talk about it, the ancestors of Chu State were also rich. In the past 5000 years, whose ancestors were not Yandi and Huangdi?

Just when Duke Jin and Ji Chong'er were in high spirits to accept the audience of the princes, he suddenly discovered that the Chu barbarians from the south had come.

The state of Chu at this time is no longer the state of Chu that had been suppressed by the concubines of Hanyang for nearly 200 years.At that time, more than a dozen vassal states surnamed Ji in the Hanyang area that locked the northward route of Chu State like an iron chain, now most of them have been annexed by Chu State, and are no longer a threat to Chu State's northbound route.

With great ambitions, the Chu people crossed the Dabie Mountains under the leadership of Xiong Lu, the overlord of Chu Zhuang in the Spring and Autumn Period, and went northward to the banks of the Yellow River, vowing to win the Central Plains.

After that, countless large and small battles broke out between Jin and Chu.

Plagued by civil strife, Jin was defeated at the Battle of Bi in 597 BC and was forced to recognize the hegemony of King Zhuang of Chu.

But Chu's victory was short-lived. After solving the civil strife, Gao Fushuai Jin made a comeback and defeated Chu in the battles of Chengpu, Yingbei, Yanling, and Zhanban. The battle of attacking Chu and defeating Shen, the battle of Jiaoyi and the battle of Zhanban invaded the mainland of Chu many times. Even the son of King Zhuang of Chu, Xiong Shen, the king of the Communist Party of Chu, was shot blind in one eye by the people of Jin.

But the Chu people just refused to admit defeat.

The Qi State was conquered by the Jin State and gave up the idea of ​​fighting for hegemony. During most of the Spring and Autumn Period, it was willing to be the second child after the Jin State, and occasionally came out to make trouble when the Jin State was declining.The State of Qin was conquered by the State of Jin. For more than 100 years, it was huddled in Guanzhong, not daring to take a step east.

Only the state of Chu refused to accept it.

I can lose, but I don't accept it.

Throughout the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Chu fought and defeated the State of Jin for most of the time, but never bowed its head.

Chu State is like a Xiaoqiang who can't be beaten to death. No matter how the overlord Jin State ravages and tramples on it, he will always make a comeback, and then stand in front of the overlord Jin State again, declaring the world loudly.

I!Do not!Clothes!

I just can't fucking accept it!

Come again!

The war between Jin and Chu lasted so long and the intensity of the battle was so cruel that it may only be comparable to the Hundred Years' War between France and England a thousand years later.

If it hadn't been for the state of Chu to firmly contain the state of Jin on the frontal battlefield for more than 100 years and nearly 200 years, it is very likely that the protagonist of the Spring and Autumn Period, the state of Jin, would have unified the world before it was completely divided into the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei due to civil strife.

In 546 B.C., after the state of Jin found that it was impossible to completely defeat the state of Chu, it finally made an alliance with the National Assembly of Chu under the mediation of the state of Song.

From then on, Jin and Chu equally divided the hegemony of the Central Plains, and the unbeatable Xiaoqiang Chu State from the south got an equal status with the overlord of the Central Plains, Gao Fu Shuai Jin, and became the joint CEO of the Spring and Autumn Period.

It was also the last gorgeous performance of Jin and Chu on the Spring and Autumn Stage, because not long after, the Warring States Period came.

It has been almost 300 years since then.The Jin State, the hegemon of the Central Plains, was replaced by the "Three Jins" Zhao Weihan. The unbeatable Xiaoqiang Chu State fell from the overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period to being beaten by the Qin State in a fancy way, and became the little slave and sandbag of the Qin people.

This situation really made Zhao Guoshangqing Yu Xin, who was familiar with history, deeply moved.

"The state of Jin has passed away. Could it be that the state of Chu is going to follow in the footsteps of the state of Jin?"

Amid Yu Xin's sighs, the convoy of missions from Zhao State slowly approached the gate of Chencheng.

Chapter 41 Yu Messenger Chu (2)

Yu Xin looked at Chen Cheng who was gradually approaching in front of him, and a little excitement gradually surged in his heart.

In this era, there are two main stages where scholars can become famous, one is the battlefield, and the other is diplomacy.

Speaking of it, Yu Xin is actually not very good at these two aspects.Yu Xin is good at strategic planning, that is, he is responsible for the macro formulation of the country's major policies. His role is more inclined to staff and staff, and he belongs to the kind of person who stands behind the scenes, like commanding thousands of troops or fighting in the court of other countries. This kind of thing is not suitable for him.

This time Zhao Dan, the king of the state of Zhao, sent Zhao Sheng and Yu Xin as envoys to Wei and Chu respectively. The intention is actually very obvious, that is, you Gongzu faction and commoner faction don’t talk about me and me in front of the widow for a day. , you all think you are capable, right?Then let the widows go to the diplomatic stage to compete and compete, and you will know who is stronger and who is weaker.

In fact, this time the commoner faction actually had a better candidate than Yu Xin, and that was Lin Xiangru, the real god of Dinghai of the commoner faction.Lin Xiangru's eloquence can be said to be famous all over the world, which can be seen from the fact that the two incidents of "returning the jade to Zhao" and "the meeting in Mianchi" made Qin's monarchs and ministers deflated one after another and still unable to attack.If it was Lin Xiangru's mission, the possibility of success would undoubtedly be much higher than that of Yu Xin.

It's a pity that Lin Xiangru's health has been getting worse and worse recently, and he can't bear this kind of long-distance travel as an envoy at all, so this task was handed over to Yu Xin by Zhao Dan, and Yu Xin knew it well.

But even so, Yu Xin didn't have much worry in his heart.

You must know that among the six important ministers of Zhao Guo, only Yu Xin can be called Zhao Dan's real confidant, and this alone is enough to make Yu Xin feel at ease.

Of course, even if he had no worries, it didn't mean that Yu Xin didn't care about this mission at all.On the contrary, Yu Xin attached great importance to this mission.

As a famous scholar of the Warring States Period who is very good at strategic planning and looking at problems from the perspective of the overall situation, Yu Xin has long seen the importance of the Battle of Changping clearly, and knows that Zhao Guo will definitely not be able to participate in this battle Otherwise, Qin's annexation of the world would be unstoppable.

It is precisely because of this that Yu Xin repeatedly supported Zhao Dan's opinions at the previous Longtai Palace meeting, regardless of factions, at the expense of some interests of the commoner faction, in order to enable Zhao Guo to fully deal with Changping.

What's more, the scholar died for his confidant. Since Zhao Dan trusted Yu Xin so much, he promoted Yu Xin from a commoner to a lieutenant of Zhao Guo in just a few years, and took the position of Lord Qing. How could Yu Xin live up to Zhao Dan? hope?

Besides, the title of Shangqing is not the end of being a minister. Yu Xin is even more eager to rely on his achievements for Zhao Guo and finally be crowned king by his own king!

Jun Hou Jun Hou, Feng Jun is actually "Hou".The pinnacle of the way of being a minister is this Marquis Baixiang!

It has never been an easy matter for people who are not of royal blood to be named a prince.Yu Xin is now Shangqing, and he is only one step away from Fengjun, but even this one step away is likely to be the insurmountable natural moat.

In today's world, there are very few people who can obtain the title of emperor as a subject of a non-royal family.

Bai Qi, Lord Wu'an of the Qin State, used the bones of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the six kingdoms of Shandong as stepping stones to ascend to the position of emperor.

Ma Fujun Zhao She, who just died a few years ago in the Zhao Kingdom, first managed the internal affairs well, and then stood up to turn the tide when Lian Po and Le Cheng, the two former generals of the Zhao Kingdom, both chose to shrink their eggs in front of the strong soldiers of the Qin Kingdom. The Zhao army defeated the Qin army in the battle of Yan Yuzhi, and shattered the Qin army's attempt to bypass South Korea and directly attack the state of Zhao.

Bai Qi, Zhao She, which one is not a powerful person who shakes the world, who is not a hero who has made great contributions to the country?If Yu Xin wanted to become the king, he had to at least let his own merits be at the same level as these two.