The next day, Jiang Ze officially issued a notice announcing the demise of the Chu State. In order to win over people and facilitate management, Yecheng has not been renamed for the time being, but it is no longer the capital, but one of the big cities under the Lieguo.
Jiang Ze sent people to send all the battle reports to King Lie. There was also an extremely important and lengthy letter of appointment. The content was probably to appoint Jiang Ze as the Lord of Ye City, Luo Erhu as the Lord of Nuer City, and Li Xiuwen as the Lord of Dong'er. The city lord, Wei Sheng is the lord of Zhonger City, etc. To put it bluntly, Jiang Ze gave almost the entire city of the original Chu State to his own people.
In the past, Jiang Ze's approach was not inappropriate. After all, he was the number one contributor to the destruction of Chu State. This self-appointed letter of appointment is more like a formality and only requires the seal and signature of King Lie. Regardless of whether there is a letter of appointment or not, Jiang Ze has three months of autonomy over the entire Chu State, which is equivalent to a prince, and even the Lie King cannot interfere.
But today, in addition to Jiang Ze's letter of appointment, King Lie also had a letter from Su Kouye.
Su Kouye's letter directly touched King Lie's pain points. During this invasion of Tianzhu, Jiang Ze established unparalleled achievements and became famous far and wide, even overshadowing King Lie. This Lie Wang was originally unhappy with Jiang Ze, but after reading this letter, his jealousy became infinitely greater.
King Lie held the letter tightly in his hand, his mouth trembling with anger.
At this moment, Guo Jia entered the office and noticed something strange about King Lie.
"What's wrong with you?" Guo Jia slowly walked to the desk.
Ao Lie glanced at Guo Jia, then pushed the letter in his hand and Jiang Ze's letter of appointment in front of Guo Jia.
Guo Jia picked it up, browsed it quickly, and said bluntly: "King Lie, please don't be influenced by Su Kouye's letter. Su Kouye's words are nonsense. Jiang Ze is loyal to King Lie."
"But look at this letter of appointment. It's not polite at all. Even if he has made great achievements, he can at most claim a city for himself. But in the end, he rewarded all his younger brothers. This is what he should do. What did you do?" Ao Lie said displeased.
"Prince Lie, you are serious. He only made reasonable rewards based on the merits of each general. Even if he didn't do it himself, you must reward these cities to those generals. And Jiang Ze helped you draw up the list. Isn't this exactly right? Has it reduced your workload?”
"I don't need him to reduce my workload. I don't need him to do my work. He is taking over his power. Do you know that he is taking over his power?" Ao Lie said excitedly.
"King Lie, if the person who destroyed the Chu State was not Jiang Ze but Wei Jing, you probably wouldn't have asked Wei Jing how to reward his subordinates. Your anger now is not directed at things, but at people."
"It's good that you know, I just don't like Jiang Ze, not from the beginning." Ao Lie confessed.
"But one Jiang Ze is worth ten Wei Jings. This is an indisputable fact. If you want to occupy the whole territory of Tianzhu as soon as possible, you must use Jiang Ze. With him here, you can make your emperor's great cause even further." Faster and smoother.”
"Then what if he also has imperial ambitions?"
"How can I see it?"
"Because he is Jiang Feng, and the blood of a king flows in his bones."
"Prince Lie, you can't look at things this way. For example, in the original future, didn't Jiang Feng obediently serve as a general in Xichuan for more than ten years? Later, after decades, Jiang Feng gradually became an emperor. It was not so much his Driven by ambition, it is better to say that the situation and the current situation made Jiang Feng successful. Anyone else would have succeeded. But today's Jiang Ze does not have any situation to become king, and he has never forgotten his ultimate goal, which is Revenge against the Yan Kingdom."
"Power can make people get lost. If Jiang Ze is given too much power, his desires will gradually
Expansion, one day, he will have the idea of becoming a king on his own. "
"Well, although Jiang Ze is a clone, he is really different from Jiang Feng. He will not have any ambitions before destroying the Yan Kingdom."
"Then do you promise? Do you have any divination to determine the future? Can you guarantee that Jiang Ze will devote his life to me?"
"This..." Guo Jia hesitated for a few seconds and sighed, "I really can't guarantee this. If you are so prejudiced against Jiang Ze, I really can't help you."
Guo Jia no longer wanted to argue. From the past to now, Guo Jia had said countless good things for Jiang Ze. But Ao Lie's view of Jiang Ze was always filled with disgust and hatred.
The two fell into silence because neither could convince the other.
Ao Lie felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Guo Jia didn't speak. He has always regarded Guo Jia as his best subordinate, even his best partner, but he always puts in good words for Jiang Ze. Maybe what he said was right. Jiang Ze had not yet committed any act of disloyalty, but Ao Lie just didn't like hearing these words.
And Guo Jia is also a very straight person. He will not deliberately please anyone. He always says what he has to say.
After a long silence, Ao Lie finally gave in. He said to Guo Jia: "Well, let's stop arguing about Jiang Ze's ambitions. How about we do an experiment?"
"Experiment? What experiment?" Guo Jia asked curiously.
"I took a look at the military merit points and records. In fact, Luo Erhu's achievements are not much lower than Jiang Ze's. I plan to give the largest city to Luo Erhu, and it depends on whether Jiang Ze is willing. If Jiang Ze If he refuses, he will definitely bring trouble to me, and we can see clearly whether he has any ambitions. If Jiang Ze is willing, it means that he is still obedient to me and loyal to me, then I have nothing to say. What do you think?"
Guo Jia did not answer immediately, but thought for a while before replying: "To be fair, this is a good strategy. We can see how Jiang Ze reacts."
"So you agree?" Ao Lie asked in surprise.
"Yes, I have always dealt with the situation rather than the person. As I said again, Jiang Ze is really a rare war wizard. As long as he doesn't do anything too extreme, I basically have no problem with it. And the strategy you just mentioned, It’s not too much, but it can be tested carefully to resolve your doubts.”
"Okay, let's do it this way. Let Luo Erhu be the lord of Ye City and give Dal City to Jiang Ze."
"That's too cruel. Such an approach is clearly to sow discord between the three Jiang Ze brothers. Jiang Ze will definitely have complaints, and it will even trigger conflicts among the various factions of Chu's military headquarters. Now that Jiang Ze has just occupied Chu, the foundation It is not stable, if there is unrest..."
Before Guo Jia finished speaking, Ao Lie immediately added: "You don't have to worry about this. If there is unrest in Chu, my troops can intervene. In that way, it won't take three months, and I can Drive Jiang Ze out of Chu and let him continue to lead troops to attack other countries in Tianzhu."
"We are eager to let them continue fighting before they have even enjoyed the blessings. It would be too ugly to look at them."
"It doesn't matter, it's just a good time to see if Jiang Ze is loyal."
"Your such partial approach will inevitably make people feel chilling."
"Guo Jia, do you agree or disagree?"
"I can't say that I completely agree, but I don't object. Because I also want to see what Jiang Ze will do when he encounters such unfair treatment. If there is a problem, I can mediate it. It shouldn't be a problem. What a big problem."
"That's good. As long as you don't object, I can implement it with confidence." Ao Lie suddenly became extremely happy. After all, it was rare for Guo Jia to support Ao Lie.
A sudden thought.
On the other side, in the western seaport city of the Menes Empire, Xiao Yifeng personally came to the naval base and officially issued an order: "Within three days, assemble the twelve fleets and march to the East China Sea."
The Twelfth U.S. Fleet is the main force of the Imperial Navy, with each fleet having hundreds of large and small warships. Now that all twelve fleets have been invested, this will be the largest investment Xiao Yifeng has ever made. Of course, Xiao Yifeng would not start a unilateral war against Yan Kingdom without any thought. In a certain sea area at the bottom of the distant Pacific Ocean, Emperor Kun made a strange loud noise and headed towards the eastern coast of the Yan Kingdom. Its target was the port city of the Yan Kingdom, Ningbo City.
The next day, Jiang Ze received the letter of appointment from King Lie. After reading it, he smashed the long letter of appointment to the ground in front of all the soldiers.
Jiang Ze gasped with anger, but didn't say anything. When everyone saw this, no one dared to say anything.
Finally, the third brother Li Xiuwen bent down to pick up the letter of appointment, read the content, and frowned: "What's going on? Is there a mistake?"
With Li Xiuwen speaking first, other generals also took courage. Wei Sheng, who was quite curious, quickly walked towards Li Xiuwen and said, "What happened? Let me have a look too."
Wei Sheng was shocked after reading this: "Is it true? Luo Erhu was made the Lord of Ye City, and the one given to our leader was the ruined city of Dal City."
Everyone immediately started talking, and most of them were shocked and suspicious. Some people were complaining about Jiang Ze.
"Captain, this must be a mistake."
"That's right, how could King Lie do this?"
Faced with everyone's indignation, Jiang Ze suddenly calmed down and sneered: "Everyone, Ao Lie is worried about me. Do you think I should accept this kind of commission?"
"Inappropriate." Everyone said in unison.
"Yes, it is indeed unacceptable. But everyone, if we refuse to accept it now and go to Ao Lie, will it be considered treason? What do you think Ao Lie will do?"
"This..." Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but they couldn't explain why.
"You should think about this issue carefully and then hold a meeting after you have thought it through."
Jiang Ze temporarily left the conference hall, came to the top of the watchtower, and looked at the huge Yecheng.
Feeling the cold wind blowing, Jiang Ze felt sad inside for some reason. The reason why he is sad is not because of Ao Lie's embarrassment. Because Jiang Ze knew very well that Ao Lie was narrow-minded and often acted impulsively without considering the overall situation. Jiang Ze is miserable because of Guo Jia.
Why? Why didn't Guo Jia stop Ao Lie's mindless behavior?
As the number one contributor to the destruction of Chu State, Ao Lie only gave Jiang Ze a ruined city. Moreover, the largest city of Ye was specially sealed to Luo Erhu.
The purpose of this approach was to intensify the conflict between Jiang Ze and Luo Erhu, and to use Luo Erhu to restrict Jiang Ze's development and prevent Jiang Ze from becoming bigger alone, in case his superior achievements would overwhelm his master. This approach may seem wise, but in fact it is extremely stupid. You know, most of the people in Luo Erhu's Flying Tiger Group are Chu people. Most of the legions under Jiang Ze's control were from the Lieguo people. If Jiang Ze does not receive a big reward, then it will be difficult for his soldiers to share the benefits. They sacrificed their lives, spilled their blood, and sacrificed so much. In the end, they all followed Jiang Ze and drank from the northwest wind. From now on, who would be willing to sacrifice their lives for the Lie King?
Jiang Ze couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "Guo Jia, you can't think of the truth that I can think of? Why would you let King Lie do such a stupid thing? I am a small person, but the army has big worries. Such intensification of conflicts, How will the development and construction of Chu land achieve long-term stability?"
(End of chapter)
