I'm a bully in troubled times

The alliance meeting was held in Wancheng on time, and Jiang Yu didn't know what was discussed specifically, but what he was sure of was that this alliance meeting would definitely lead to something.Either, the state of Chu deterred the other princes with its overwhelming strength and made them recognize Chu's status as the number one vassal state, or the other vassal states refused to accept the state of Chu and became the next target of the state of Chu.

On June [-]th, Jiang Yuguan was reinstated and was rewarded with countless gold, silver, pearls and jade to appease the grievances he had suffered these days.

Because of Xun Shu's death, Lord Shen was exiled, and Dong Xiong was dismissed from his post, the three heavyweights in the court of Yan State were all dismissed at once, and there were no suitable people to handle many government affairs, which became a mess.Yan Hou asked their deputy to take the lead for the time being, but there was no one who could take the lead.

For this reason, the Marquis of Yan considered for a long time and decided to let Jiang Yu, who was only 26 years old, succeed his uncle Xun Shu as the ruler of Yan State.

Being in power is equivalent to the Zaifu of a country, but unlike the Zaifu, the ruling is also in charge of a certain amount of military power, and at the same time holds the military and political power, and the status is truly under one person and above ten thousand people.Because the military and the government are not separated now, it is not divided into civil and military officials like in later generations.

Jiang Yu was ordered in danger and dared not refuse.Moreover, after he became the ruling party, it would be much cheaper to implement the New Deal than before.The more power you have, the less obstacles you will encounter.

Since the Marquis of Yan built the Golden Terrace according to Jiang Yu's advice, many talented people from various countries have indeed come, and they have all played a huge role in the process of implementing the New Deal.This group of people is different from the old-fashioned nobles. They pursue the spirit of "governing the country in a different way, making the country lawless" and often produce many whimsical ideas, and they can also see from a more objective perspective. The ills of Yan State.

As the reform gradually progressed, more and more interests of the old aristocrats were touched. Take the land as an example, at first it was only a tentative encouragement to reclamation, and the wasteland was owned by the reclamation individual, and later it became the land owned by the individual Can be freely bought and sold.Later, it began to directly divide the original land of the nobles who were enfeoffed.

This step-by-step, step-by-step advancement will achieve much more effective results than direct and drastic division of land, and the resistance will be much smaller.

The heat is getting heavier and hotter, and the palaces and mansions have to take out the ice cubes stored in the cellar to cool off the heat.The scorching sun hangs high above the clear sky, making the world slumped, and there are fewer pedestrians on the street.Only the cicadas full of trees are tireless, calling for summer.

Jiang Yu was not often in the mansion. He was either reporting and discussing matters related to the reform with the Marquis of Yan in the palace, or he was discussing with the reformers.Government decrees were sent down from Jiang Yu's hands one after another, and they floated to various places in Yan Kingdom like snowflakes.

So far, the nobles and commoners from Jicheng to the entire Yan Kingdom have realized that the sky of Yan Kingdom is about to change.

This news has also spread to other vassal states. In those vassal states that have undergone changes, people with insight can see that Yan State is about to rise.In the next few decades, Yan State will never be a vassal state in the bitter and cold Northeast, and will never rely on others to survive.

Seeing that Qixi Festival was approaching, Jiang Yu wanted to take some time out of his busy schedule to spend their first Qixi Festival together with Qi Ranming.

Jiang Yu was alone, and from the Spring Festival to other solar terms, he didn't spend much of it, and he didn't have any sense of ritual.And this year's Qixi Festival, Jiang Yu also wanted to feel the sense of ritual of this festival, and make up for the lack of getting along with each other due to their respective busy schedules, through Qixi Festival.

Jiang Yu has been so busy these past few months that she feels a little indebted to Qi Ranming.

But the situation is getting tense.

At the beginning of July, Yan Hou received a distress letter from Song State.This distress letter broke Jiang Yu's plan, and broke all the loving and lingering plans.

His general is about to set off.

——It turned out that in early June, because Song Hou was disrespectful to Chu Hou during the alliance meeting, Chu Hou sent troops to attack Song State.

Since the Marquis of Chu was fighting against the state of Qin in the west, and at this time he had to divide his troops to attack the State of Song, it was unavoidable that he had more energy than he wanted, so the Marquis of Chu sent a letter to the young Marquis of Qi.

Today's Qihou is Jiang Ping, the former third son who came to the throne last year, and his mother is from Chu.After the Battle of Gaoyang between Yan and Qi, the original second son was forced to cede land for peace due to his disastrous defeat in the Battle of Gaoyang, which damaged his prestige. Many people in the country opposed him, so he was not imprisoned.

After that, with the support of the state of Chu, Jiang Ping successfully got rid of the second son Jiang Gu, Wen Ji and her son the fourth son Ziyu, and ascended to the position of prince.Therefore, Qi State has been on good terms with Chu State since then.

The Marquis of Chu and the Marquis of Qi have both blood relationship and kindness, so when the Marquis of Chu sent a letter, the Marquis of Qi agreed without much hesitation, and immediately sent troops to attack the State of Song together with the State of Chu.

The State of Song was originally a small country, and its power was weak, so it was unable to compete with the armies of the two big countries. Therefore, the State of Song was defeated as soon as the battle started.Within a few days, Chu Qi's army reached Shangqiu, the capital of the Song Dynasty, approaching the city, and surrounded Shangqiu.

Chu Hou ordered that if Song Hou bound himself out of the city and knelt down to apologize to him, he could consider not hurting the people of his Song Kingdom.

But what I didn't expect was that Song Hou was still a tough person. Even though he was at the end of his life and might soon perish, he still refused to give in to Chu Hou.And the officials and people of Song State also had the strength of Song Hou, gritted their teeth and refused to surrender.

So the siege and defense battle started like this.

Song Guoxing may have reached the critical point of life and death, and the soldiers all broke out with extraordinary fighting power. Even if Chu and Qi attacked at the same time, they were not able to take it for a while.

The battle to siege and defend the city lasted for a month, and Shangqiu was besieged for a month. The Song Kingdom could hardly support it, so the letter of credence asking for help was sent to Jicheng, the capital of the Yan Kingdom.Of course, a letter was also sent to Luo Yi.

But Zhou Tianzi in Luoyi had limited troops, so he just issued a statement to reprimand Chu Qi, but Chu Qi ignored him, and he couldn't help it.

Yan State is now in a critical period of reform, and it is a bit too entrusting to participate in the war rashly, and the opponents are still Chu and Qi.

However, Song State's relationship has always been good, and they have contacts every year.So Yan Hou hesitated, so he called Jiang Yu into the palace and asked his opinion.

Now Jiang Yu can be said to be the most trusted person of the Marquis of Yan, and he will always ask Jiang Yu for his opinion on everything, no matter how big or small.

Jiang Yu thought about it for a while, and suggested that the Marquis of Yan send reinforcements to rescue Song.

When Marquis Yan asked why, Jiang Yu said: "The Chu State used the alliance to test the attitudes of the vassal states. It wanted to realize his ambition to dominate. It was just a pretext to say that the Marquis of Song disrespected him. The actual purpose of the Marquis of Chu is In fact, he wanted to put pressure on the princes and show his strength."

"And if we don't pay attention to this, wouldn't we be afraid of the state of Chu? Doesn't it mean that we recognize the status of the state of Chu and dare not fight against them?"

Marquis Yan frowned, rubbed his fingers, and said slowly: "That's the reason, although my country of Yan may not be able to beat the country of Chu, I will never be afraid of them, and I will never admit Chu's dominance. Heart."

"But..." Marquis Yan changed his mind, "Sending troops now, will it make the already chaotic situation in Yan Kingdom even more chaotic?"

"If Your Highness is worried about this, I have a different opinion," Jiang Yu said.

"tell me the story."

"Yes," Jiang Yu said, "according to my opinion, the foreign war will not make the country of Yan more chaotic, but will make the army and people of the country of Yan unite to fight against the enemy together."

Marquis Yan smiled: "That's true. Reform is one's own people fighting against one's own people, but the war is fought against outsiders. If there is a fight, the people of my country of Yan can still distinguish between inside and outside."

"Your Highness is right," Jiang Yu said. "Moreover, the military merit system has been implemented, but it has not been able to really play a role for the time being. The country of Yan needs a war to test the effectiveness of the reforms in the past six months and let the world see it." Look at the strength of our country of Yan. At the same time, we also need to change the army, so that those brave men who are truly capable and willing to serve the country will be rewarded, and the nobles who only used their salaries to do nothing in the past will be replaced."

Every time he listened to Jiang Yu's analysis, Marquis Yan felt enlightened and very reasonable, and nodded repeatedly: "According to what you said, we must fight this battle."

Jiang Yu said: "This minister is just admonishing, everything needs to be decided by His Highness."

"Fight, since Song Hou Ziyan begged me, I will naturally fight." Yanhou is a decisive person, since he decided to fight, he no longer hesitated, and asked, "Does Aiqing have a good plan to help Song Guo defeat the enemy?" ?”

Jiang Yu said: "I have a plan to defeat the enemy."

In fact, although Jiang Yu's words were high-sounding and the reasons were not false, he still had selfish intentions in his heart - when he was in Quwo, Zhongli Junzihui once helped Jiang Yu find Qi Ranming, who was kidnapped by Ji Mengming.

Jiang Yu kept this grace in mind, now that Mr. Zhongli is in trouble, Jiang Yu should naturally try to help as much as possible.

"Aiqing, please tell me." Yan Hou said, ordering someone to take out the map.

Jiang Yu pointed to the map and said, "The State of Song is in the southwest of the State of Qi, and the northeast of the State of Chu. It is not bordered by the State of Yan. If you want to get from the State of Yan to the State of Song, you must pass through the State of Qi—but it is impossible for the State of Qi. Let's go there."

"Or, we will go around from the new vassal state Shi State to the west of Qi State, go south through Wei State, and then go to Song State."

"The journey is too far." Marquis Yan shook his head.

"Yes," Jiang Yu said, "the journey is too far away. By the time we get there, the Song Kingdom may have already perished. Therefore, it is impossible for us to directly send troops there like Qin sent troops to help Zheng Guo retreat from Chu. "

"During this battle, Song State will face the two major vassal states of Chu State and Qi State. However, Chu State, Your Highness does not need to worry at all. Chu State will fight Qin State and Zheng State in the west, and Song State will fight in the east. Since Chu State attacked Zheng State, the war has lasted for almost half a year. Therefore, the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for Chu State.”

"As long as we continue to procrastinate like this, the state of Chu will surely collapse without attack."

"Yes, I understand what you mean." Marquis Yan said, clicking on Qi State on the map, "We only need to focus on Qi State."

"Your Highness is wise," Jiang Yu said.

"I suggest that Your Highness take the cavalry as the vanguard, head south, here," Jiang Yu pointed to a city of Qi State near the border of Shi State, "Break through quickly with lightning speed, you must be fast, so that the Marquis of Qi has no time to react .”

Jiang Zhi, the crown prince of Qi State last year, was "killed by Jin State". Although Jin State has now split into Shi State and Zhao State, the rift between Qi Hou and his second brother is enough to continue to Shi State.At the beginning, with the help of the state of Jin, Jiang Gu forced Jiang Ping into a miserable situation, and it was impossible not to hate him.

However, there is no serious conflict between the Yan Kingdom and the Shi Kingdom.

Once the Shi country is involved, it will be even more difficult for the Qi country.

At that time, Qi State will be attacked by the enemy, so it will naturally withdraw its troops.After all, he has no enmity with Song Guo.

Chu State, which hadn't been able to completely defeat Song State, without Qi State's helper, Qin State's offensive in the west is intensifying, and Chu State must not be able to stand it.

The crisis of the Song Dynasty was resolved.

Marquis Yan was not stupid either. Hearing what Jiang Yu said, he naturally understood what he meant.

Marquis Yan couldn't help laughing: "It's really a blessing in my life to have Lord Suiyang, but..."

Jiang Yu raised his eyes.

Just listen to Yan Hou said: "You can't get away now, who do you think should be the Chinese army in this battle?"

"How about Qi Shangzao?"

Jiang Yu was slightly taken aback.

Cicadas outside the hall suddenly called out one after another, one after another on the treetops, making people upset.