After some discussion, the Huaiguo Office made a decision. Prepare to use the estrangement strategy to drive a wedge between Wu Qi and the Crown Prince of Wei.
Since you, Wu Qi, are invulnerable, let your own people force you away. It's just that this kind of strategy needs to be subtle and subtle over a long period of time. Being too impatient will only cause flaws and be self-defeating.
After formulating the plan, the spies of Huai State began to implement it. At the same time, Wang Pu also began to summon the children of the public family to give them more political courses.
The teaching materials are also very simple, adapted from the history books of various countries, and also include the experiences written by the kings of the Huai Kingdom over the past dynasties. In the past, the children of the public family were so well protected that the children of this generation had not yet grown up. After Wang Pu discovered this problem, he immediately invited some elders from the academy to teach them.
There are also many talented people in the previous generations in the public office. With the words and deeds of these people, the children of the public office will soon become familiar with the politics of various countries.
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After Wei Hou joined forces with Han and Zhao to beat up the three kingdoms of Qi, Chu and Qin, he did not continue the war, but began to manage the land of Xihe. After the Wei State obtained the land of Xihe, the Qin State was greatly threatened and could only build fortifications along the Luoshui River. .q.
After experiencing a series of major defeats, the Qin State was temporarily unable to launch an offensive. It could only recuperate and wait for its national strength to recover before fighting for the land of Xihe.
For a time, there was rare peace between Qin and Wei.
After the Marquis of Wei saw that the State of Wei was rapidly becoming stronger with the help of a large number of talented people, he wanted more talented people to serve the State of Wei. Therefore, after discussing with the Prime Minister and others, he invited the great Confucian Xia Qian to give lectures. He also personally worshiped Zixia as his teacher and invited him to give lectures in Xihe.
This operation of Wei Hou directly elevated Zixia to a very high position, and he respected Zixia extremely. Although the Huai Kingdom gave preferential treatment to these scholars, no Huai Guigong ever appointed a great Confucian as the king's teacher. This approach immediately gained the favor of a large number of Confucian disciples.
Even many scholars in the academy went to Wei State, and Wei State suddenly became the center of cultural inheritance in the Xia Dynasty. Zixia went to Hexi to give lectures, which made the border states of Qin, Chu, and Zhao have a high cultural yearning for Wei.
Even the land of Xihe has become a cultural center.
Wang Pu couldn't help but sigh at the actions of the Marquis of Wei. If the Marquis of Wei had inherited all the land of the Jin Kingdom, Qin and Chu would have been in danger of subjugation.
Zixia's line of Confucianism originally taught Confucianism that could be applied to the world and cultivated talents to govern the place. Moreover, the Marquis of Wei also requested that students should not be accepted based on their status. Even poor slaves, as long as they had the ability to learn You can also come and learn if you have a good heart.
Since the founding of the country, the Qin people have been called barbarians by the Central Plains countries, and they yearn for the Central Plains culture. Chu State is also called a barbarian, and Zhao State is located on the border, which is not much better. These countries admire culture very much. This also caused scholars from various countries to yearn for Hexi, and Wei became their ideal country to serve.
This operation of the Marquis of Wei directly copied the policies of the Huai State. Since the Marquis of Wei personally came to worship Zixia as his disciple, the status of Xihe Academy was greatly improved. He actually has some ability to compete with Huaiguo Academy.
Seeing the behavior of the Marquis of Wei, Wang Pu couldn't sit still. If Wei is allowed to continue to develop, Wei is likely to become the next Jin.
Therefore, Wang Pu began to use spies from Huai State to implement the plan. Because the Marquis of Wei didn't care about his family background, he appointed virtuous people to make the Wei state strong and politically clear. It was basically impossible to make small moves with him, but his prince was a lot worse.
Although the prince is not bad, especially his tactical talent is higher than his father, he does not have the long-term vision of Wei Hou, and the prince pays more attention to family background.
If you use the system to check it, you will find that the prince's military strategy is as high as 91, but his political strategy is only 63 and just passed, and his internal affairs is only 70, let alone the personnel.
The seriously biased Prince Attack would be qualified as a general on the battlefield, but he would be completely incompetent if he was in charge of the government. His vision is short-sighted, and he can only plan for a moment, but not for a lifetime.
The spies sent by Wang Pu to Wei State communicated through various methods.
Good nobles of Wei. Although most of these nobles have no rights, these nobles have good relations with the prince.
Through these people, Huai's spies could quietly influence the Wei prince.
Once, the prince held a banquet in his mansion and invited his good friends to come. During the banquet, everyone was drinking heartily. A guest next to him accidentally said that Wu Commandery's troops were like a god. In the last battle of Xihe, 50,000 people defeated the Qin army of 200,000, which was the best in Wei.
When the prince heard about it, he was a little angry. In the battle of Xihe, he personally led the army to break through the Qin army's Xihe defense line and cut off the Qin army's logistics. In this way, when the Qin army fought against Wu Qi, the morale of the army was in chaos, and then the whole line collapsed.
He always believed that he was the first hero in the Battle of Xihe. When the Marquis of Wei saw that his son had made great contributions, he was very happy and wanted to give him the first credit. When discussing with the Prime Minister Zhai Huang, he expressed his thoughts Speak up.
Zhai Huang knew that the crown prince had made great achievements, but the main achievement in this battle was Wu Qi. After all, it was Wu Qi who showed weakness, induced the Qin army to attack, and resisted the main force of the Qin army. Later, he defeated the Qin army of 200,000 in one battle.
Although Prince Strike made great achievements, he was still inferior to Wu Qi. If the crown prince was given the first merit, it would be unfair to the other soldiers.
Zhai Huang immediately said: "Your Majesty, the prince is the future king. I have never heard of the king and his ministers competing for credit. The king comes to reward his ministers for their achievements, but there has never been a case of the king robbing his ministers of their achievements."
"Your Majesty is a wise and benevolent monarch, so he will not make such a mistake."
After hearing this, Marquis Wei thought it made sense, and immediately downgraded Prince Strike's contribution to third place.
After Prince Edward learned that his merit dropped from first to third place, he was very unhappy. He felt that Wu Qi had taken the credit from him, so he was very disgusted with Wu Qi.
"Nonsense, if it weren't for the prince's wisdom and prowess, who attacked decisively, broke through Qin's defense line, and cut off its logistics, how could the Qin army have been defeated? It's the prince who saved Wu Qi!"
"It's just that your Majesty wanted to commend these officials from civilian backgrounds, so he specifically gave Wu Qi the first credit to appease people's hearts."
What he said touched the heart of the prince, and everyone complimented him one after another, as if the battle of Xihe was really his victory.
"It's a pity that in the Wei Kingdom now, the people only know Wu Qi but not the prince." The man next to him shook his head and sighed.
"It doesn't matter, Wu Qi is also serving the country, so he doesn't care about these false reputations." The prince smiled reluctantly.
