The arrival of Prince Qiji was indeed unexpected by Li Ran.
He didn't know why Prince Qiji came to see the King of Chu, so he immediately stepped aside and waited quietly.
Not long after, I saw Prince Qiji and another person entering the palace.
"My younger brother abandons his illness and pays homage to the king."
"Ah, Ji Di, please get up quickly. There is no need for this kind of harmony between you and me." (Ji Di: Little Brother)
King Chu stepped forward quickly and helped Prince Qiji up.
It can be seen that the King of Chu is actually very friendly to his younger brother. He does not refer to him by his official position or name, but directly addresses him as "Brother Ji".
"I am observing and paying homage to the king."
At this time, another person who followed Prince Qiji into the palace also spoke.
Yes, this person was none other than Guan Cong, Bu Yin of the Chu State who had gone to Zheng Yi with the King of Chu to hire him.
After the two greeted each other, they were about to step aside, but when the prince turned around, he saw Li Ran directly. His eyes were obviously stunned for a moment, and he looked a little surprised.
The Guan Cong stared at Li Ran for a long time, and then slowly stepped aside.
This made Li Ran quite uncomfortable and confused.
"Why do these two people look so strangely in their eyes?"
"Is there something you want to say and it's not convenient for me to be there?"
Li Ran made some confused guesses.
Of course he also knew that this prince Qiji was not a good person, and he was also an ambitious person.
When the King of Chu ordered his troops to attack Shu Jiu, he had noticed the prince Qi Ji. Although he did not argue with Wu Li, his face was quite ugly at that time.
Later, when Wu Ju returned to the dynasty victoriously and was greeted by Lao himself in the outskirts of King Chu, he also noticed Prince Qiji who was hidden among the crowd.
Although this man is young, he looks very calm and steady, and his palace is also very deep.
"Hey, this is really a family with eight hundred minds. If this family were to share one piece, I'm afraid it would be enough to write a movie."
Li Ran said something secretly in his heart, and then stepped aside as he just watched his eyes and his nose.
At this time, Chu King Xiong Wei was the first to ask:
"Second and Third Son came to see me today, why are you here?" (Second and Third Son: You)
King Chu, who was initially suffocated by Li Ran's words, felt very good when he saw Prince Qiji and Guan Cong coming to "rescue" him, with smiles all over his face.
This made Li Ran frown slightly.
What he couldn't understand was why Xiong Wei, the king of Chu, trusted Prince Qiji so much? In this era of broken etiquette and broken music, doesn't he know that his younger brother is a very threatening existence to him?
Perhaps it was because King Chu really had no confidants around him? Or maybe he still has a different kind of nostalgia for the affection between brothers?
He doesn't understand, and he really can't understand.
"Brother Wang, my brother and I have come here today to guard Jianghuai."
"After the battle of Shujiu and Chaocheng, Chu has now completely occupied Qunshu, and the King of Wu died in the battle, and Wu has no power to recover for the time being, so there should be no more military disasters in Qunshu in a short time. However, how to garrison the troops to prevent something like Shu Jiu's rebellion from happening again should be the top priority right now."
Zhufan's death meant that Wu would no longer be able to compete with Chu for supremacy in the next few years. This was not an exaggeration by Prince Qiji.
After all, the impact this incident had on Wu State is well known to the world.
Since Chu State is now a conquered territory, it is natural to send people to defend it. Not only must it be defended, but laborers may also be called in to serve in road construction.
Otherwise, if you just capture it without planning it, it will be taken away by others sooner or later.
"Well, Brother Ji's words make sense. We should really find a way."
"What do you think, Brother Ji?"
When the King of Chu heard this, he nodded in agreement.
At this time, I heard Wang Ziqiji continue to speak:
"I think that in order to defend that territory, we only need to move the relatively obedient Xu people at the foot of our city, and then leave Xu Nan's son as a hostage in Yingdu to prevent him from causing trouble. In this way, we can Let many people cultivate and garrison the Jianghuai River and perform labor services at the same time. On the one hand, we will step up the construction of bridges and roads, and on the other hand, we can build the city of Fu and Zhoulai to balance the situation. In this way, we can guard that area for our Chu State. territory."
"In addition, we will also move the people from Chengfu and Zhoulai to the hinterland of our Chu Kingdom. This will make it easier to control."
Xu State was a baron state granted by King Wen of Zhou Dynasty in the early Zhou Dynasty.
It stands to reason that as a baron, Xu Guo's title is still lower than the viscount of Chu State. However, don't underestimate Xu Guo, he was originally a small sect named Jiang! Therefore, his relationship with the Zhou royal family was naturally closer than that of the small barbarian countries in the south.
However, as Chu State's power continued to grow and develop, hundreds of years later, Xu State has now become a small vassal country on the edge of Chu State. Even in the eyes of the Chu people, they are no longer called Xu people, but directly called "Xu people".
And because of the strong rise of its neighbor Chu State, Xu State had to live there humbly. Even the capital of their Xu Kingdom allowed the successive kings of Chu to move continuously, so the people of Xu were no longer surprised by this matter of moving around.
As long as the king of Chu doesn't like it and asks them to move, then they have to move.
And this is why Prince Qiji asked many people to move to the Jianghuai area.
In addition, by leaving their heir in Yingdu as a hostage, even if many people were dissatisfied, they would never dare to cause trouble.
"color!"
"What Brother Ji said is very reasonable! Why didn't I think of it?"
King Chu was so happy that he actually raised his foot and patted his thigh, suddenly enlightened.
"In this way, we can allow many people to guard the new land for us, and at the same time, these most disobedient Qunshu people can be completely converted into Chu people. This kills two birds with one stone, what a brilliant plan!"
"Brother Ji is interested. I don't know what reward Brother Ji wants. Just ask! Brother Wang will definitely not allow it."
Before this matter was settled, preparations had already begun to reward Prince Qiji. This elder brother's love for his younger brother was really touching.
"Your Majesty!"
However, at this warm moment, Li Ran, who had never spoken, suddenly took a step forward and stood up.
"Oh? Sir, do you have something to say?"
When King Chu heard the sound, he immediately turned his head and seemed a little surprised.
Prince Qiji, on the other hand, frowned slightly and stared at Li Ran with a gloomy look.
Just listen to Li Ran say:
"I thought this was inappropriate! It's very inappropriate!"
"Oh? What's wrong? Would you like to hear the details?"
At this time, Li Ran went one step further and said:
"It is inappropriate to move people to protect Xinjiang!"
Li Ran said this with his head held high.
Prince Qiji on the side suddenly became worse after hearing this.
King Chu, on the other hand, seemed very puzzled when he heard the sound, and couldn't help but asked bluntly:
"Oh? But I don't know what's wrong with this?"
What he doesn't understand is, why is it inappropriate to do something like this that has the best of both worlds?
Li Ran bowed to King Chu again and then said:
"Relocating the people of a country and letting them go from their homeland to garrison in another place is a waste of money and people. If the king wants to naturalize Xu people, he should treat Xu people as he would treat Chu people. He should not It drives them to endless labor."
"Furthermore, the importance of the Qunshu area is self-evident, and if the king treats Xu people in this rough way, if Xu people cause trouble in Qunshu and ignore the life and death of the heir, then Chu Isn’t the country going to make the same mistakes as Shu Jiu is doing now?”
Yes, rabbits will bite people when they are anxious, let alone people?
The Chu people's method of forcibly relocating many people was extremely brutal and barbaric. It was almost no different from how they treated animals.
This is of course unacceptable to Li Ran.
If he is not in Chu State and doesn't know about this, then that's fine.
But today, since he heard it with his own ears and saw it with his own eyes, he must never let such a thing happen!
Chu people are human beings, but Xu people are not human beings?
Using such barbaric and brutal methods to force them to leave their homeland and go to a strange place to cultivate and guard the frontier must be humiliating and uncomfortable for them.
