Huai Guo returned all the way east, and the spoils of war had been transported away in advance. The army was traveling very quickly with light vehicles.
The allied forces of Qin and Chu wanted to pursue them at first, but they were ambushed by Sun Wu and Qing Ji in the mountains and forests. The Qin and Chu troops came in pursuit, and all the troops came out. The 5,000 vanguards were defeated, and the dead were buried in their homes, filling the roads. From then on, Qin and Chu Don't dare to chase anymore.
After several wars in Yingdu, the city was in ruins and the people were gone. After the King of Chu returned to Yingdu, he moved the Chu State's ancestral temple to Fudu and changed Fudu to Yingdu.
Because Huai State moved the surrounding population, Chu State could only move people from other places and then fill the Han River Plain. This time the Han River was defeated and the Chu State suffered heavy losses in population.
After many efforts, some prosperity in the Hanshui Plain has been restored. Chu State can only rely on Qin State to restore some vitality for the time being.
The original marriage alliance between Qin and Chu started again, and the King of Chu married the sister of the Marquis of Qin as his wife. With the support of Qin State, Chu State began to attack the surrounding small countries in order to restore its national strength as soon as possible. Among them, the first unlucky one was Tang State.
The Qin and Chu allied forces pursued the Huai army, but the vanguard was ambushed and defeated, and they did not dare to pursue anymore. But if they just go back, it would seem that the two countries are too incompetent, so they discussed it and decided to choose a target, then turned around and destroyed the nearby Tang State.
The Qin army received a large amount of gold and silver as a reward for sending troops, and the Chu state gained a population to replenish the capital of Ying. The two countries successfully divided the Tang state, and everyone was happy.
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Although the Qin State suffered many casualties, it was still satisfied after receiving the gold and silver from the Chu State and the wealth of the Tang State. And Qin and Chu renewed their alliance, but this time it was Qin that took the dominant position.
In order to restore its population, the Chu State began to attack the small countries in the south. Although the Chu State was beaten by the Huai State, it was still a behemoth to these small countries.
The Four Kingdoms of Zhongcai, Jianghuang and Huang also gained a lot from this war, especially after the Tang State was destroyed. Although the Chu State attacked and destroyed the Tang State, it moved the population away. The territory of the Tang State was actually still there, so the Four Kingdoms After some discussion, the land of Tang State was occupied.
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In the Huai Kingdom, when the army returned from victory, Wang Qi personally led his ministers ten miles out of the city to greet them, and the entire Huai Kingdom was filled with joy. Wang Qi held a grand banquet in the country to celebrate everyone's success. At the same time, he also began to reward officials.
The first meritorious service in this battle was Sun Wu. Wang Qi awarded him the title of Lord of Huaiyin and granted him the title of Lord of Huaiyin, with the power to live in the city of thousands of households. Wu Zixu was the Lord of Jingmen, with a settlement of 800 households. Qingji was Lord Sishang, with a settlement of 800 households. Fan Li was granted the title of 300 settlements due to his contribution in supplying the army in the later period, and was granted the title of Dafu in Wenzhong, with 300 settlements.
Next, there were a large number of rewards among the three armies. After defeating Ying, Huai State not only obtained a large amount of gold and silver wealth, but also captured many wives and daughters of nobles and palace officials of the King of Chu. Even Chu Jie Hou's wife was also captured by Qing Ji.
Wang Qi did not leave these beauties to enrich the harem. Although these beauties are all good-looking, and because they are the family members of the nobles of Chu, they have status bonuses, but compared with Xi Shi, they all become rouge fans, and they are used to it. Naturally, these rouge fans can't stand Xi Shi's peerless indulgence.
Therefore, Wang Qi not only selected some of the rewards to be given to the clan, but also gave the rest to the soldiers who fought bravely in this battle. Although Wang Qi looked down on them, the soldiers still liked them very much. After all, they were all members of the noble family.
After receiving a large number of rewards, the soldiers of Huai State burst into tears of gratitude to Wang Qi. The only unhappy person may be the Chu State, but the Chu State announced to the outside world that after the fall of Yingdu, the noble ladies in the city either hanged themselves, were killed, or died of illness. He was not kidnapped by Huai State.
Of course, all the countries in the world just smiled and turned around to let the historians record the facts.
In the fourteenth year of the king's reign, the Huai army attacked Chu. Sun Wuzi made a surprise attack on Xinyang, defeated three passes, fought five battles and won five victories. He defeated Chu and entered the capital of Ying. He captured and killed the princes of Chu. Shen Baoxu cried for Qin, and the marquis of Qin sent troops to help Chu. Huai State moved hundreds of thousands of Chu people, and three thousand palace ladies returned. .q.
Chu said: "This is a fallacy. The capital of Ying fell, and all the women hanged themselves and threw themselves into the river."
In the first month, the Huai State defeated the capital of Ying and almost destroyed the Chu State. When the news spread, all the countries in the Central Plains were almost stunned, thinking that Huai was bragging. However, when more and more news came, it was confirmed that it was true.
After that, all the countries fell silent.
You must know that the Chu State has been a huge stone that has been pressing on the heads of the Central Plains countries for nearly a hundred years. It was almost destroyed by the Huai State in one month. All the countries in the world suddenly became more and more in awe of the Huai State.
Because a large number of people migrated, although these people brought rations, it was not enough to survive until next year. When the people migrated, Wang Qi promised to distribute free food for one year, so he mobilized a large amount of food and grass from the treasury to distribute to the people.
Following the tax exemption for these people, Huai State's tax revenue will not increase in the next two years. At the same time, because rewards and migrating populations require a large amount of food, it is not appropriate to send out large armies.
Fortunately, the Huai State has been repaired over the years, and its water conservancy projects have been improved. The fertile fields are thousands of miles away, and there is sufficient food. This way, it is able to supply hundreds of thousands of people with food for a year. If it were any other country, if there were suddenly hundreds of thousands more mouths, there would be a famine.
A large number of people migrated from Chu State, and these people were scattered and settled in various places in Huai State. Huai State is thousands of miles away, and there is a lot of land that has not been cultivated at all.
After these people arrived, they could reclaim wasteland because they had missed farming. Such a labor force of hundreds of thousands of people could not be left idle, so Wang Qi sent people to organize these people to repair roads and build cities.
The resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people was not an easy task. In order to resettle these people, the Huai State began to build a large number of cities.
At the same time, Wang Qi settled tens of thousands of people around Jinling City. After decades of development with the support of the Huai Kingdom, Jinling City now has more than 10,000 people. This time, tens of thousands of people were obtained, which can be said to be a great increase in strength. As long as these people are digested, , Jinling will become a big city.
After capturing a large amount of Chu State's land, it was no longer appropriate to continue to use Huai'an as the capital. Huai'an is indeed strategically located, with the Huai River in the north, a large river in the south, and thousands of miles of fertile wilderness around it. Unfortunately, it is too far away from the newly acquired territory of Chu.
In order to control the newly acquired Chu lands, Wang Qi decided to move the capital to Jinling. Of course, relocating the capital is a very cumbersome matter, and it is impossible for all the 200,000 people in Huai'an to move away.
At the same time, in order to prevent the situation of Quwo Daiyi in Jin State, the population in Huai'an also needs to migrate to other places.
Of course, the premise of all this is that Jinling City must be completed.
Wang Qi handed over the construction of Jinling City to Wu Zixu, and transferred 30,000 people from Huai'an to Jinling. Together with the people who migrated from Chu State, Jinling City already gathered 70,000 people.
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Huai destroyed the capital of Ying and plundered five thousand beautiful women and nobles, but returned them, and all three armies gained wives and concubines. The other states laughed at it, and the state of Chu said, "This is a fallacy. The capital of Ying fell, and all the women hanged themselves and threw themselves into the river." ——"Funny Notes"
