(Four thousand words, two chapters in one)
The Queen of Chu, Li Yanyan, was the sister of Li Yuan, a retainer of the Chu Ling Yin Chun Shen Jun. In order to please Chun Shen Jun, Li Yuan gave her to Chun Shen Jun. After she became pregnant, Li Yuan proposed a plan to encourage Chun Shen Jun to marry her. It was given to King Wan of Chu who had no heir.
The King of Chu was not without heirs. When he was a hostage in Qin, he married a woman from the Qin clan and gave birth to Mi Qi and Mi Dian. However, on his way back to Chu to ascend the throne after escaping from Qin, he married a woman from the Qin clan. He did not take the two of them with him, but left them in the care of his sister, Mrs. Huayang at that time.
On the surface, in order to prevent being controlled by the Qin State, the King of Chu did not recognize the identities of Mi Qi and Mi Dian after he ascended the throne, so the two people who should have been called Xiong Qi and Xiong Dian were not named Xiong. Instead, they are called Mi Qi and Mi Dian.
However, the King of Chu never expected that in the next twenty years, he would not have any more children, until Li Yanyan entered the palace.
I don't know what kind of magic power Li Yanyan has. In the second year after giving birth to Prince Han, who has the blood of Chun Shenjun, King Chu completely favored a palace maid and gave birth to a son.
Because her mother was just a palace maid, and King Chu Wan already had an heir, she didn't like the child very much and named her Fu Chu.
Those who carry the cud are also like woodcutters who carry firewood on their backs. This shows that the King of Chu was not happy with them.
Two years after the birth of Ning Chu, Li Yanyan gave birth to a son for King Chu, named You, which completely stabilized the throne of Queen Chu.
However, King Chu's body was getting worse day by day.
King Wanben of Chu, who was just fifty years old this year, had become ill due to overwork due to taking care of state affairs. After the defeat of the Allied Forces, King Wanwan of Chu worried all night long. His condition became more and more serious, and he finally became ill.
The people of Chu still had a favorable impression of the king who once revitalized the Chu Kingdom, and many people spontaneously prayed for King Chu Wan. Even the nobles did not want King Chu Wan to die of illness.
At least during the twenty-four years of Chu King Wan's reign, the Chu royal family and the nobles got along fairly harmoniously. Who knows whether future rulers will imitate Wu Qi and attack them like that.
Only two people were happy about it.
One of them is Chu Ling Yin Chunshen Jun Huang Xie.
As a mantis, Chun Shenjun knew that Prince Han was his own flesh and blood, and Li Yanyan naturally could not let Prince Han treat her biological father badly, so she could continue to sit on the throne of Ling Yin.
Not only that, Prince Han, who is only four years old, is not even enlightened yet and cannot read half of the Chinese characters. How can he manage politics?
He, the commander-in-chief and biological father, is definitely the one who governs on his behalf.
The power is overwhelming, the uncrowned king.
By then, he will gain even greater power. Wouldn't it be better than serving King Chu of Chu, who has been dissatisfied with him since his defeat in the Battle of Hezong?
As for the other one, it is Li Yuan as the oriole.
Li Yuan, who had been hiding for several years, still maintained a low profile and agreed with everything in everything, even though he became a relative of King Chu Wan, the uncle of the prince Han, and served as King Yin of Chu, responsible for handling matters in the palace of Chu King. Chun Shenjun, it seems that he is still the little retainer next to Chun Shenjun.
Chun Shenjun, who has white hair and beard, is also grateful for Li Yuan's unchanging original intention, trusts Li Yuan very much, and promises to reuse him in the future.
In response, Li Yuan smiled and said nothing, asking for nothing, as if he trusted Chun Shen Jun just as Chun Shen Jun trusted him.
Wang Yin's Mansion
Li Yuan had a gloomy look on his face, and he felt angry when he remembered Chun Shenjun's proud face when he said he would reuse him.
"You should have just thanked him in person, or even knelt down to him in public, so that you could better confuse him."
A cold voice came from behind Li Yuan. Li Yuan was so shocked that he held down the long sword at his waist and almost drew the sword to kill.
But after seeing the figure dressed in black armor of the Qin Army, he breathed a sigh of relief. After all, this is his own collaborator.
And if the other party wanted to kill him, he would have no time to react.
"You are not me, and you cannot understand my feelings." Li Yuan seemed to have remembered something and said bitterly, "But you are right, there was indeed a flaw just now. Fortunately, this old thing has been immersed in joy and has forgotten himself."
In this regard, Zhanri did not comment, but simply asked: "How is King Chu Wan's health?"
"He is dead." Li Yuan sneered and told the news of Chu King Wan's death in the most indifferent tone. "Before his death, he left a will and ordered that old man Huang Xie to take charge. I will continue to serve as Wang Yin to prevent Huang Xie. Xie has a disobedient heart."
"However, I intercepted the imperial edict and the Chu Palace was also blocked."
"So, I need your cooperation."
Li Yuan turned around and looked at Zhenri, a red light flashed in his eyes, "Three days later, I will announce the death of King Chu, and send a trustworthy servant to order Yinfu Xuanhuang to enter the palace to accept King Chu. Yi Zhao, I need you to ambush him at the gate of the inner palace!"
Chun Shenjun is not so easy to ambush. He is always accompanied by seven first-rate masters. They form a formation and can fight against grand masters. Coupled with those second-rate and third-rate guards, Li Yuan is not able to ambush Chun Shenjun at all. strength, otherwise he could throw away the trap and go it alone.
"Yes, Luo Wang doesn't mind helping his collaborators, but don't forget your promise."
A blood-red light flashed across the Hidden Sun Sword held tightly in Zhan Ri's hand, and he reminded: "If you violate the secret agreement with Qin, then you will be the next Lord Chun Shen."
Faced with the threat from the sun, Li Yuan didn't care that much.
This is not to underestimate the power of Luo Wang. No one in the world dares to underestimate the power of Luo Wang. However, if you can ensure that you will not antagonize Luo Wang, then you really don't need to care about the threat of Luo Wang.
Li Yuan had no intention of breaking the secret agreement with Qin.
The state of Qin helped him clear the way for him to ascend to the position of Ling Yin and take charge of the government. However, he never asked for Chu's cities, land, or treasures. Instead, he asked Chu and Qin to maintain peace, not invade each other, and not interfere with any Qin state's affairs in the Central Plains. Action, and reopened trade between the two countries, allowed the flow of merchants between Qin and Chu, and cut the tariffs charged by Chu on Qin merchants at least in half.
Li Yuan was naturally happy to do this.
What Qin wanted was for Zheng Guo to continue to recuperate and restore its national strength after the canal was opened, and why didn't Li Yuan want to maintain peace with Qin so as to better control Chu?
Compared with Chun Shenjun, Li Yuan did not have much prestige in Chu State.
In the final analysis, he just changed from a transparent disciple to a larger transparent Wang Yin, with no military merit, no support from hundreds of schools, few allies, and no disciples or old officials.
Just liquidating Chun Shenjun's ministers after his death and wooing the nobles would be a headache for him. If Qin sent troops to attack Chu at this moment, the consequences could be imagined.
Moreover, the reopening of trade between Qin and Chu would also be of great benefit to Chu.
Chu's ban on trade with Qin certainly had a certain restrictive effect on Qin, but the prerequisite was that Wei was not defeated, let alone moved from Diqiu to Yewang.
Now that Qin State is directly bordering Qi State, the lack of grain, grass, various metal ores can be purchased from Qi State, and there is not much restriction other than increasing transportation costs.
In addition, King Yan of Zhao was confused and attacked Qi State to vent his anger, pushing Qi State towards Qin State. Qi State directly closed trade with Zhao State, withdrew Qi State envoys who were stationed in Zhao State, and completely separated from Qi State. The State of Zhao broke off diplomatic relations.
In addition, Qi also lowered tariffs on Qin, supported Qin merchants coming from Qin and Qi merchants going to Qin for trade, encouraged trade between Qin and Qi, and even opened some government-run Workshops and shops reduced prices to Qin merchants by 20%.
Now, South Korea has accepted the imperial seal from the Qin State and requested it as a vassal to tear another hole in the giant web woven around the Qin State.
As a result, the trade blockade imposed by various countries on Qin became a joke. Apart from the sharp drop in commercial taxes of various countries, which greatly reduced the revenue of their own treasury, there was no impact at all.
Therefore, Li Yuan greatly supports this kind of cooperation that can unlock the trade blockade without any steps. This may be his first political achievement after taking control of the government.
As for reducing tariffs by half...it's nothing more than losing some tariffs, which is better than not getting a single coin. Besides, how much of the commercial tax revenue from trade with Qin does tariffs account for?
Lord Chun Shen died, and he died simply.
Although when the chamberlain Xuan Chunshenjun sent by Li Yuan entered the palace to accept the final edict of King Chu, his retainer Zhu Ying, who was born in the armored family, stopped Chunshenjun.
"Your Majesty, you can't go on this trip!"
Although the Pi Jia Sect is a martial arts sect that practices the Hard Kung Fu, it does not only teach the Hard Kung Fu. The art of commanding troops is also taught. Among them are the founders of Wei Wuzu, military strategists who once served as the masters of the Pi Jia Sect. Yasheng Wu Qi’s experience in leading troops and the essence of military tactics.
However, among the armored sect, there are really too few people who can master the key points. Most of them cannot even practice the hard and hard skills, and they have no time to understand the art of war left by Wu Qi.
However, Zhu Ying went against the grain of other disciples. He gave up the practice of the most rigid skills and focused on the art of war left by Wu Qi, which was considered to be a small success.
Although the art of war is different from politics, he always felt that Li Yuan was deeply scheming and had a tendency to show off his weakness and lure the enemy deeper.
But Chun Shenjun didn't think so.
"Li Yuan was originally a declining aristocrat of the Zhao Kingdom. He was able to achieve his current status only by taking refuge in me. I treat him so favorably, and he has absolutely no reason to betray me."
"What's more, Li Yuan is a gentle and humble person. Even though he became the king's relative and the prince's fierce uncle, he never showed any disrespect to me. Instead, he became more and more respectful. How could such a sincere gentleman betray me?"
No matter how Zhu Ying persuaded him, Chun Shenjun still didn't believe it and decided to go to the inner room to take a bath and change clothes before following his servants into the palace.
Seeing this, Zhu Ying shook his head and sighed and left Ling Yin's Mansion, preparing to flee Chu State overnight and return to his hometown in Wei State.
I have to say that Chun Shenjun died very simply.
Although Chun Shenjun does have some undisclosed trump cards. For example, in addition to the seven first-class masters who formed a formation to fight, he was also protected by a master master. When the two sides fought, he even shot a thunderbolt into the sky. The arrow summoned a palace guard in the Chu palace who had been bribed by Chun Shenjun.
Fortunately, the Chu Palace was tightly sealed and no one could enter or exit, and the plan was kept confidential. Otherwise, Li Yuan's plan to ambush Chun Shen Jun would have been known to Chun Shen Jun in advance, and he would have made plans accordingly.
But the gap between the power of Luo Shen and Chun Shenjun who just brought these people into the palace was so huge that no matter what trump card Chun Shen Jun had, he could not change his fate of being ambushed.
The seven first-class masters were stopped by Ba Linglong, and they used Black and White Xuanjian as the main attack, with Zhenri assisting at the side, and powerfully killed the grandmaster guard.
Before the palace guard who was loyal to Lord Chun Shen arrived, Lord Chun Shen's head was beheaded by Black and White Xuanjian, and all the guards who accompanied him into the palace were also killed in battle.
Li Yuan, the king of Yin, was not slow to respond. He immediately mobilized the imperial guard of the palace and declared that Lord Chun Shen wanted to rebel and proclaim himself King of Chu, and he collaborated with the guard to kill the prince and queen.
Li Yuan's usually loyal and courteous persona came in handy at this time, and several imperial guardsmen in the palace believed his words.
As a captain of the Imperial Army, he was naturally someone whom the King of Chu could completely trust.
They naturally knew that Chu Wangwan had expressed his fear of Chun Shenjun in private many times, let alone colluded with a palace gate guard in the Chu palace, what was he going to do?
If he didn't have any evil intentions, why did he collude with the palace guard?
What's more, the palace gate guard really seemed to want to join forces with Chun Shenjun who entered the palace to attack the inner palace, so the rebellion led by the palace gate guard was quickly put down.
As for survival, the crossbow arrows fired by the several killer-level snare killers following Li Yuan would not give that man a chance to speak in front of the captains of the imperial army, no matter whether he knew something or not.
And when the news that Lord Chun Shen was beheaded reached the ears of these imperial guards, they believed even more that Lord Chun Shen wanted to rebel and become independent.
If you didn't intend to commit rebellion, why would you bring a grand master into the palace in addition to the seven bodyguards who are comparable to the masters in battle?
Afterwards, Li Yuan dug up many of Chun Shenjun's daily plans with him to control the government, and made them public.
When there is a lie among many truths, it is often difficult to detect the lie. Because the truth has been confirmed, people will not doubt the authenticity of the lie.
With the death of Lord Chun Shen, Li Yuan, as the relative who was originally supposed to assist Prince Han in running the affairs of state together with Lord Chun Shen according to King Chu's final decree, Li Yuan naturally became the only one to be appointed after the death of Lord Chun Shen.
Li Yuan, who legitimately took over the power of the government, fulfilled his secret agreement with Qin and signed a three-year non-aggression treaty with Qin. He also announced that Qin and Chu would reopen trade and the two countries would re-send envoys to each other.
However, Li Yuan added another one to these already agreed regulations.
That is, they hope to join forces with Qin to take advantage of the situation to destroy Wei and carve up Wei.
And when Zhang Ji, who was far away in Xianyang, was called to Zhangtai Palace for discussion by Ying Zheng, Zhang Ji couldn't help but feel confused after seeing these treaties.
Yes, confused.
A non-aggression pact between two major powers, a third country separated by melon between the two countries, a trade treaty...
This is to have no trouble, ah, no, no stomach (Wei) mouth?
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(End of chapter)
