"Brother, in today's world of great strife, people's hearts are not as old as before. Even among the countries in the Central Plains, it is not uncommon for them to tear up their alliances with each other." Lu Wu said.
"Brother Lu, is it possible for me to have such bad morals that you, Brother Lu, are also suspicious?" Ke Tu said angrily.
He asked himself that he was definitely one of the few with credibility and bottom line among the kings, and Lu Wu had also seen him take the risk of coming to Lu Wu alone out of loyalty, just to persuade Lu Wu to escape in time - although Lu Wu was The injury was faked, but his integrity was not fake.
"That's not true, it's just that, brother, you and Yuehou are both a hundred years old. Yuehou is worried that his successors will forget our agreement today." Lu Wu said.
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"Exactly, His Majesty King Wu, the power of the Wu Kingdom has greatly increased after taking back the five southern mansions. My small country of Yue is sparsely populated, how can I not worry about the future?" Yuehou Gouchang continued.
"This -" Wu Wang Ketu also had to admit that the two people's concerns were justified.
When the state of Wu becomes more powerful, even if he can control himself and not be greedy, he will not be able to control what happens after his death.
The two countries of Qin and Jin were so good at that time that there is still a special term called "the good relationship between Qin and Jin".
But later, after the Jin Dynasty was divided into three parts due to civil strife, didn't Qin annex a large part of Jin?
In the end, the Jin Kingdom was extinct, and Qingzhou Ding returned to Kunlun Mountain.
At that time, Jiuding was divided into nine kings, and they swore to be a kingdom of brothers forever and protect the emperor.
But now, the Four Cauldrons have returned to Kunlun - this is a well-known fact in the world.
What about their brotherhood?
What's more, the emperor of Zhou has lost all his power, and now he can only make sacrifices on Kunlun Mountain - who took that power away? Wasn't it taken away by the descendants of the kings who swore to defend the Emperor of Zhou?
No matter how sincere the oath is, it will be unreliable in the face of time - especially after the person taking the oath passes away.
After pondering for a moment, Ke Tu could not solve this eternal problem, but he was also the king of Wu who had been doing it for a long time. It was the basic skill of a king to leave the problem to others to solve.
What's more, isn't the purpose of these two getting together to resolve this matter?
"Brother Lu, the longer you wait, what do you think you can do to win the trust of the two of you?"
Yuehou Gouchang and Lu Wu looked at each other, but neither spoke.
Ke Tu arrived too quickly, and the two of them were still testing each other. They hadn't even started bargaining, let alone reached an agreement. So when Ke Tu asked about it, although they had their own concerns, they had not discussed it.
"There are only three of us here, so we don't need to be secretive. And Brother Lu, don't you even believe me?" Ke Tu looked at Lu Wu and said with a sad face.
He must show that he has a deep friendship with Lu Wu to prevent Lu Wu from being attracted by the cunning Yue Hou - otherwise, why would he come in such a hurry as soon as he heard that Yue Hou was going to Wutong Village?
Wu Yue and the soon-to-be-established Lu Kingdom formed a three-legged alliance south of Lanshui River. Although the Yue Kingdom was much stronger than the Lu Kingdom in the five counties south of the Yangtze River in terms of population and land area, it was Lu Wu that Ke Tu really worried about.
Lu Wu conquered the five southern prefectures with one man's strength. His force was second to none, and his tactics were even more appalling. This was not the opinion of Wu King Ketu himself, but the opinion of dozens of people in the Wu court who were famous for their resourcefulness. My counselor, I analyzed the results bit by bit.
Moreover, Lu Wu's strategies in the five southern mansions were all scheming, and it was impossible to do anything about it. This was the most astonishing thing.
Only those ignorant traders and lackeys would think that Lu Wu conquered the five southern prefectures with his personal bravery. In fact, if you think about it, you will know that the five southern prefectures combined have nearly 200 cities. With five maids, even if each of them can guard one city single-handedly, they can only suppress six cities. How can we talk about conquering the five southern mansions?
Lu Wu nodded and said, "Then I'll throw some light on it. I don't doubt that brother is kind, but after a hundred years, if the successor becomes ambitious, it will indeed be a problem."
"However, the so-called worry is just an imbalance of power. If we always maintain a balance of power and advance and retreat together, even if we are three hundred years from now, what worries will we have?"
After Yue Hou heard Lu Wu's words, he was immediately overjoyed. This was much more thorough than what he had said, and the Wu State was the most powerful now. If the three parties' forces were balanced, the Yue State would definitely take advantage!
However, Yue Hou Gouchang thought with his toes and knew that King Wu would never agree to such a thing.
But sometimes, if you want to open a window, you have to first say that you want to demolish the house.
Now that Lu Wu has spoken about demolishing the house, Gouchang will have to tell him his intention to open the window later - this is called cooperation.
"Ahem, Uncle Lu's words are a bit exaggerated," Yue Hou Gouchang said: "Wu is one of the nine kings personally consecrated by Huangdi Xuanyuan. It has a long heritage. Yue is a small country with few people, so it dare not compare. But we are waiting for you. The worry is also a fact. Gou is not talented and has an idea, but I don’t know whether to talk about it or not?”
"Just tell me later." Ke Tu said quickly.
Lu Wu's idea was too much. Even if Ke Tu originally planned to cut off some meat, it would be fine, as long as stability could be maintained. Anyway, the five southern mansions had been replaced by the five Jiangnan counties, which had already taken a big advantage.
But he did not dare to agree to this idea of balancing the strength of the three kingdoms - it was not cutting off the flesh, it was simply cutting off the thighs and giving them to others. But even if Tu was willing, the officials would never do it.
"King Wu, to be honest, Gou is really afraid -" Gou Chang sighed.
"I wonder if the King of Wu knows? Wu and Yue also had a series of wars back then. The Yue State was beaten badly by the Wu State. Later, when the Chu State became stronger, the Wu State and my Yue State joined forces to fight against Chu. After fifty years, Only then can the covenant be considered stable.”
"Now that the Chu State is weak and the Wu State is at its peak, if we wait until the Wu State becomes even more powerful than before, what can my little Yue State do to survive?"
Yue Hou said with a bitter look on his face. Seeing that King Wu Ketu was about to speak, he stretched out his hand to stop King Wu from interrupting and continued:
"So today I pulled my old face and came to see Lu Uncle. I hope to ask Lu Uncle for an alliance. In fact, it is just to protect the country of Yue in the future."
"Your Majesty King Wu, Lu Bo is young, and his proposal is too extreme. Gou has another idea here - you and I will form an alliance to maintain a military balance based on the current proportion of standing troops in our three countries. Don't worry about anything else - Wu Your Majesty, Uncle Lu, what do you think?"
Gouchang's original idea was not to do this, but to form an alliance among the three countries, with one country breaking the treaty and the two countries attacking together.
However, after listening to Lu Wu's suggestion, the old man found that it was better to maintain the balance of national power.
Ke Tu nodded slightly, Yue Hou Gouchang's proposal was indeed much more realistic than Lu Wu's proposal just now.
However, he also saw that Lu Wu and Gouchang, the Yue Hou, seemed to have some tacit understanding. No matter whose proposal they made, they were all restricting the state of Wu.
"You two, I also have a suggestion here." Ke Tu's mind raced and he came up with a way to break the situation.
