Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

Pang Nuan said: "The queen mother only needs to convene an alliance in the name of Da Zhao, those who come are naturally friends, and those who do not come are naturally enemies.

Whether it is Lord Pingyuan's fight for Wei and Han or Lord Xin's fight for Yan, they can do it by the way when they send envoys to inform them of the alliance. Wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone? "

The queen mother thought for a while, and then laughed: "Yes, what Pang Qing said is very reasonable, so let's do it this way! Hold a meeting to see who is Da Zhao's ally and who is Da Zhao's enemy! "

Chapter 502 Chun Shenjun's Predicament

Things like alliances are usually held in spring or summer, because this time period is very suitable for starting a war immediately after the alliance is reached.

But Zhao Guo, as the most powerful country in the world, of course has the capital to do whatever it wants to hold a meeting in autumn and winter.

Zhao Guo's envoys flew to various countries, submitted credentials to each country, and invited the princes to come to the alliance.

The attitudes of the princes to Zhao's alliance this time were not the same.

Not surprisingly, Qin and Qi rejected the invitation of the alliance.

Chu State, Wei State and South Korea successively expressed their willingness to come to the alliance.

Regarding the Yan Kingdom, Zhao Kuo originally thought that the people of the Yan Kingdom might agree to come, after all, Le Cheng and Chang Guo Jun Le Jian belonged to the same Le clan.

Don't underestimate this kind of blood relationship. In fact, in this era, there are many families like the Le family who have made multiple bets.

For example, the well-known Su Qin, his main countries are Yan and Qi, and Su Qin's two brothers, Su Dai, are now officials in Zhao, and Su Li is a doctor in Qi.

Generally speaking, for "transnational families" like the Su family and the Le family, there must be very close internal contact channels to communicate and ensure the interests of the family.

Le Cheng lost a lot of face just after taking office, and he must have held his breath and wanted to prove himself through this matter.

But the reality is that Le Cheng screwed up, and King Yan resolutely rejected the alliance.

Looking at Le Cheng, who was pleading guilty to the queen mother with a face of panic, Zhao Kuo watched coldly, but understood something.

It seems that since Chang Guojun Le Jian was beaten to vomit blood by Zhao Kuo last time, the political situation in Yan State has not fundamentally improved because of the victory in the defense of Jidu.

But just judging from the "shabby" degree of this alliance, it is enough to see the huge impact of Lian Po's continuous failures on Zhao's national strength.

Among the six other vassal states, only three countries are willing to form an alliance!Moreover, these three countries are not all of one mind with Zhao Guo.

Seeing the approaching Handan palace city, King Wei frowned, and said to Lord Xinling with some displeasure: "Mr. Xinling, since our Great Wei has made up our minds to stand with Qi to conquer Zhao , why do you still strongly advocate that the widows come to Handan?"

During the wars in the past few years, under the leadership of Wu Xinjun Zhao Kuo, Zhao Guo occupied a large area of ​​land in the east of Wei State, which reduced the area of ​​Wei State to half of its original size. Naturally, Wei Wang was extremely resentful. mind.

Lord Xinling Wei Wuji smiled wryly, and said, "Your Majesty, I actually don't want to come to Handan.

But if you don't come, what if Zhao Guo decides Wei as the first conquest target in the next war? "

King Wei's expression changed, and he was speechless for a long time.

Just like the last war, it was clear that Zhao State wanted to conquer Qin State at the beginning, but because Wei State was closer to Zhao State, then Wu Xinjun came directly to the door first.

With such a disadvantage in geographical conditions, the monarch and ministers of the state of Wei really have nothing to do.

After a while, King Wei slapped the armrest of the carriage seat, and said in an extremely displeased voice, "Could it be that the widow can only humiliate that old woman?"

Lord Xinling observed his words and expressions, and in order to ease the restlessness in King Wei's heart, he said again: "Actually, this time I feel that there is one more thing that Wei can do, and it will be very beneficial to the war next year."

Wei Wang said: "Say!"

Lord Xinling said: "The King of Han is also coming this time, South Korea's attitude towards war with Zhao is quite vague, and the envoys sent by the Great Wei before were not received by the King of Han.

This time the alliance happened to be able to use the excuse of the princes to communicate with each other to ask the King of Han, and then he could persuade the King of Han to join our side and start a war against Zhao. "

King Wei's eyes flickered, and it took a while before he said, "King Han, that covetous person who is afraid of death, really dares to join?"

Lord Xinling said with a smile: "No matter how greedy a person is, he will always have a weakness.

I can assure you that as long as I can meet King Han, I will be [-]% sure to convince King Han! "

The [-]% certainty is definitely quite high.

Only then did King Wei look a little better, and said: "If this is the case, of course it would be the best.

Then again, Wu Xinjun Zhao Kuo won't make trouble in this matter, right? "

This name seems to have some kind of magical power. After spitting it out from King Wei's mouth, Wei Wuji, who is well-known in the world at that time, turned pale a lot.

After several seconds, Lord Xinling gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely not let Mr. Wu Xin interfere with this matter this time! What's more, where did Mr. Wu Xin come from to know about this matter?" What's up?"

King Wei let out a long breath, and patted his chest unconsciously: "So, very good."

In the distance, a carriage had appeared, it was Mr. Zhao Guoxiang Bang Pingyuan who was in charge of welcoming Wei Wang and his party.

Except for the state of Wei, Lin Xiangru, the trustworthy king who had once been an ally with Han Xuwei, the grand master of Zhao State, was responsible for welcoming the Korean monarchs and ministers, and the king of Wu Xin Zhao Kuo was naturally responsible for the remaining Chu State.

After the routine salutes and other procedures, Zhao Kuo took the monarchs and ministers of the Chu Kingdom to move into a palace that was just built for this alliance next to the palace city of the Zhao Kingdom.

Naturally, there was an extremely sumptuous welcome dinner afterwards. Zhao Kuo is also a veteran in the political arena now, so it is easy to deal with such a dinner.

After the banquet finally ended, Zhao Kuo was about to leave in the carriage, but Jun Shen grabbed his sleeve directly: "Mr. Wu Xin stay a step!"

A moment later, in a very gorgeous room in the palace, Chun Shenjun looked at Zhao Kuo with a sad face: "Wu Xinjun, we are old friends, this time you must give me a hand. "

Zhao Kuo was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "Mr. Chunshen, you are the Minister of Chu, and you have the trust of your king. Is there anything in Chu that you can't solve?"

Jun Shen sighed, and said, "Who says it's not?

But this time and that time. "

Chunshen Jun began to speak eloquently.

To put it bluntly, the cause of the incident was actually the failure caused by the war that Chu State took advantage of the fire to rob Qin State a few months ago.

As the main general of the Chu army at that time, Chunshen Jun left tens of thousands of corpses and fled back to Chu in embarrassment after being taught a lesson by Qin general Wang Jian.

The three Zhaojingqu families, who could not hold back for a long time, naturally swarmed up under the leadership of Jingyang, and launched a crazy attack on Chun Shenjun.

Under the overwhelming criticism and Chunshenjun's poor military record in the past few years, Chu Wang's trust in Chunshenjun began to waver.

With the current power of Lord Chunshen, without the support of the King of Chu, it is far from being able to compete with the three major families. Once he loses the support of the King of Chu, Lord Chunshen can be said to be a dead end!After Zhao Kuo listened carefully, he couldn't help laughing.

"I thought it was something.

When it comes to dealing with the three major families, this matter is actually not difficult! "

Chapter 503 Have you heard of the Tweet Order?

"Not difficult?"

After hearing this sentence, Chun Shenjun was stunned, and looked at Zhao Kuo with very surprised eyes.

You must know that the three major families of Zhaojingqu have been entrenched in the state of Chu for hundreds of years, and they are completely intertwined existences.

In the past, the Zhao family and the Jing family were the strongest. Later, King Huai of Chu deliberately promoted the Qu family to fight against these two families, but he unexpectedly promoted Qu Yuan.

Although Qu Yuan is a great poet who has been famous through the ages, his level of governance and political struggle are quite average. In the end, he couldn't think about throwing himself into the river because Yingdu was defeated by Bai Qi.

After Qu Yuan's death, the Qu family suddenly weakened, and then the next family members of the Qu family played a trick, and instead joined forces with the Zhao family and the Jing family to form three major families.

Then, the king of Chu promoted Huang Xie to compete with the three major families.

Huang Xie has been fighting with the three major families for so many years, even with the support of the King of Chu, he did not cause much harm to the three major families, so when he heard Zhao Kuo say that it is not difficult to deal with the three major families, he immediately felt that Zhao Kuo was joking .

Jun Shen sighed, and said: "Mr. Wu Xin, now is really not the time to joke around, let's discuss it carefully and come up with an idea, shall we?

As long as you can help my brother this time, this old man will never forget your kindness, and there will be rewards! "

Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "It's really not difficult, really."

Jun Shen said angrily, "Why isn't it difficult?

It's hard to die.

The old man's hair has fallen a lot during this time because of this incident! "

After finishing speaking, Chunshen Jun took off the crown of the emperor on his head, and showed Zhao Kuo his obviously sparse and Mediterranean-looking top of his head.

Zhao Kuo was speechless, this brother Chunshen Jun seemed not only in a very anxious mood, but he was probably almost drunk.

Zhao Kuo said calmly, "Mr. Chunshen, don't be impatient. Sit down and I will talk to you slowly."

Chun Shenjun sat down with his eyes wide open, with an attitude of "I want to see how you kill the three major families, and if you don't kill me, I'll cry for you."

Zhao Kuo said patiently: "Mr. Chunshen, you must be very clear about the most critical issues of the three major families."

Jun Shen nodded and said, "Of course."

The reason why the three major families can't lose their tail is mainly related to the incomplete reform of Chu State in the early Warring States period.

At that time, the reform of Chu State presided over by Wu Qi was going on, and as a result, King Chu Mourning, who supported Wu Qi's reform, died suddenly.

Afterwards, those old aristocrats whose interests had been damaged due to the political reform in Chu State quickly launched a counterattack, and directly shot Wu Qi's random arrows at the corpse of King Chu Mourning.

After this incident, Wu Qi's reforms in Chu State were basically abolished, and only a small part remained.

The incomplete reform of the Chu State greatly hindered the centralization of the Chu royal family, and also caused the Chu State to have a vast territory and a large population, but it was impossible to realize the true war potential of the entire country, and finally fell behind in the struggle for hegemony. defeat.

Just like the old aristocrats like the three major families, the reason why they have been able to hold the right to speak in the court of Chu State is that apart from their ancestors being important ministers of the Chu State, there is also a very important reason why the three major families are in the Chu State. All of them have large tracts of land.

This kind of fief is not a "food city" that only gives you a part of the tax every year like Zhao Kuo's fief, but a real fief like the Western Zhou Dynasty and Spring and Autumn Period.

The three major families have the power of taxation, conscription, judiciary, administration, etc. in these fiefs. The people in the fiefs do not recognize the king of Chu as the monarch but the lords of the three major families as the monarch.

In other words, the fiefdoms of the three major families only symbolically hand over a little money and materials to the Chu royal family every year, and they are actually real independent kingdoms.

And such an independent kingdom is not only unique to the three major families of Chu State, it is also the case for many nobles in Chu State, and even the fiefdom of Chunshen Lord Huang Xie who is talking with Zhao Kuo is also in this situation.

According to the information controlled by Zhao Kuo, the combined land area of ​​all the nobles in Chu State is about [-]% of the entire territory of Chu State, which is almost half.

The area and land of Chu State that the Chu royal family really controls is actually only a little more than half of the current area of ​​Chu State!The nobles will follow the order of the king of Chu to send troops together, but when fighting, the nobles will inevitably save their own troops and will not really sacrifice their lives for the state of Chu. This is why the state of Chu has been fighting foreign wars for many years. reason.

Zhao Kuo said loudly, "What happened to Chu?

If you want Ben Hou to say, this must be a system problem! "

Jun Shen nodded approvingly, and said, "Could it be that Lord Wu Xin has a way to solve this problem?"

Zhao Kuo looked at Chun Shenjun and smiled meaningfully: "Of course there is, but it will also cause damage to your interests, Chun Shenjun."

Even though Chunshenjun is the sworn enemy of the three major families, he is also one of the nobles of the Chu Kingdom. Even personally, Chunshenjun himself is the nobleman with the most fiefdoms in the Chu Kingdom!Chun Shenjun hurriedly said: "It's about this time, as long as I can pass this test, it doesn't matter if I lose my interests at all."

Zhao Kuo said: "Okay, then I will say it.

Mr. Chunshen, have you heard of the Tweet Order? "

When Chunshen Jun heard the words, his face immediately became bewildered: "What is a Tweet Order?"

The Tweet Order in history only existed during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and that happened more than 100 years later.

Zhao Kuo said with a smile: "The reason behind the Tweeting Order is actually very simple. Let me ask you, do you know how many children Jing, the Patriarch of the Jing clan, has?"

Chun Shenjun thought for a while, and said: "There seem to be four sons, but there should be more than a dozen sons."

Zhao Kuo said: "Can each of these sons get a fief?"

Jun Shen said: "How is this possible?

Of course, only the eldest son can get the fief.

Sometimes it may not be passed on to the eldest son, but no matter what, only one person can inherit the head of the Jing family and all the fiefdoms of the Jing family. "

Zhao Kuo stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers, and said, "So, if Mr. Chunshen advises the King of Chu to issue a decree, what about agreeing that Jingyang should distribute the fief fairly to his four sons?"

Chun Shenjun's body trembled suddenly, and he froze.

A few seconds later, Mr. Chunshen spoke tremblingly: "Mr. Wu Xin, what do you mean?" It becomes four medium-sized families, and these four sons will definitely have many grandchildren, and if they continue to be divided in this way, they will become a small family with dozens of descendants.

After such a division from generation to generation, the Jing family will become dozens of hundreds of scattered small families at most in a few decades. At that time, you think the Jing family, no, it should be said to be all the old nobles of Chu State Is there even a little restraint on the royal family? "

This is actually the Tweeting Order launched by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in history based on the opinion of Zhu Fuyan. It was precisely because of this that the Han Dynasty completely solved the constraints of the centralization of power by many vassal states surnamed Liu in the early Han Dynasty, and completely concentrated all rights in the central government. In the hands of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

With Han Wu's ability, he even approved of this plan as "a wonderful plan unparalleled in the world", and if it is used to deal with these mere nobles of Chu State, isn't it easy to catch?

Chun Shenjun took a deep breath, and suddenly grabbed Zhao Kuo with an extremely sincere expression.

"Wu Xinjun, you are really a super genius who is rare in a century, no, once in a thousand years!"

Chapter 504 Chun Shenjun's Return! (first update)

Chun Shenjun's praise for Zhao Kuo is definitely from the heart.

The problem that has plagued the Chu State for so many years can be completely solved only by Wu Xinjun's words. If this is not a super genius, who else is worthy of the title of super genius?