"Brother, please tell me." Lu Wu said.
"King Wu, please speak." Gouchang, the Marquis of Yue, said.
"I already know what Brother Lu and Yuehou are worried about, and Brother Lu and Yuehou's suggestions are also reasonable." Ke Tu said, taking a sip of green tea juice to refresh himself, but he felt that the seasoning of the tea juice was not very good. Okay, I couldn't help but frown slightly.
There was no such thing as making tea these days. Today's tea is made by mixing tea leaves with ground ginger and grinding them into a puree, so it is called tea syrup. It is a refreshing drink and is generally only used during important meetings, but is really used for hedonistic banquets. They all use wine to entertain guests.
"Brother Lu proposed to settle the matter once and for all, but the state of Wu really suffered too much, but as the king of Wu, he could not explain it to the officials;
The Yue Hou proposal was based on military power, which was quite fair, but lacked the checks and balances of national power. If the three countries of Wu, Yue and Lu were to have too different national powers in the future, there would still be consequences. "
As soon as these words came out, Lu Wu and Yue Hou Gouchang were immediately surprised.
Judging from the meaning of these words, does Wu Wang Ketu want to create a comprehensive version based on Lu Wu's proposal and Gouchang's proposal?
To be honest, Wu Guo has already suffered a loss if it can implement Yue Hou Gouchang's proposal. If Lu Wu's opinions are integrated, even if only a small part is integrated, it will be a big loss.
It is generally accepted that King Wu was benevolent, but being benevolent does not mean being stupid.
"What does His Majesty King Wu mean?" Yuehou Gouchang asked hurriedly.
"My opinion is that since the three countries of Wu, Yue, and Lu want to form an alliance forever, they might as well make this alliance solid. Regardless of their national strength and military strength, the three countries of Wu, Yue, and Lu will agree on a fixed ratio. In the future, whenever there is a foreign expedition, the three countries will jointly send troops to fight against each other. Advancing and retreating at the same time, the gains from the battles, regardless of the city, the children, the gold and the silk, will be shared by the three countries! In this way, the national power of the three countries will rise and fall at the same time, it is certain."
"Moreover, we can also jointly revise laws and regulations and unify the civil construction laws of the three countries. In the future, the roads between the three countries will be connected, the business travel tracks will be the same, and the laws will become consistent. In addition, in the future, the royal marriages of the three kingdoms will become mutual in-laws. Let the alliance of the Three Kingdoms between you and me be immortal for generations to come!”
The more King Wu Ketu talked about it, the more excited he became, and in the end he became absolutely convinced.
After hearing what King Wu Ketu said, Lu Wu was surprised.
Before he inexplicably turned into a demon, he had lived a lifetime.
In that world, books were written in the same text, carriages were in the same track, and weights and measures were unified. These were the three systems by which Qin Shihuang, known as the ancestral dragon, ruled the world and laid the foundation for the unification of China.
In his impression, Ketu could only be regarded as a qualified king. He could not even kill his ministers, let alone be compared with the talented Qin Shihuang.
——Of course, the status of nobles is very high these days. Even in the Central Plains countries, there are very few kings who can kill and kill big nobles.
But it was such a person who actually proposed that the roads should be connected, the tracks should be the same, and the laws should be consistent. This vision transcended the times and made Lu Wu look at him with admiration. Although many of them were taken for granted, it was not easy to come up with these.
Lu Wu didn't doubt that Ketu was a time traveler. After all, a three-piece set is necessary for time travellers, such as burning glass, making paper, and gunpowder. But Ketu didn't do the same thing. Even if he proposed that the cars were on the same track and the roads were connected, he could explain it with a far-sighted view. , not too outrageous.
Before Lu Wu could say anything, Yuehou Gouchang became excited first and said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, His Majesty the King of Wu has great foresight, and the Yue Kingdom is willing to attach itself to Jiwei!"
If such an alliance is really made, the Yue Kingdom will take advantage of it. The Yue Hou Gouchang can't wait to draft it into a document immediately, and then everyone will immediately seal it with seals to implement it firmly.
Ke Tu looked at Lu Wu's surprised face and Yuehou Gouchang's excited look, and felt quite proud.
It's okay to wait for Gouchang, but Lu Wu is a madman in the world. It's really not easy to make him look surprised.
Moreover, in Ke Tu's proposal, it seemed that Wu Guo suffered a big loss, but in fact, he had another hidden agenda.
Lu Wu exchanged the five southern prefectures for the five Jiangnan counties, which was the most important event in the Wu Kingdom recently.
For this matter, Wu Guo gathered hundreds of talented people from all over the country to think hard and discuss it day and night. They must steadily conquer the five southern provinces without making any mistakes.
Among them, the settlement of interests with Lu Wu and the division of interests with the nobles are still secondary. The most important thing is to firmly defend the five southern mansions under the counterattack of Chu!
If Chu's counterattack cannot be stopped, then everything else will be nonsense.
Nowadays, all the elites from all over the Kingdom of Wu, including private soldiers of nobles and nobles, have drawn out all the men and horses they can. Soldiers, armors and horses, bows, crossbows, swords and arrows are missing. They are crossing the waves one after another. Occasionally, the requisitioned ships were dilapidated and capsized due to wind and waves, but they were ignored.
Fortunately, during the process of conquering the five prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, Lu Wu actually collected a large amount of food and grass, which are now kept in several strategic cities and can be used by the Wu garrison.
In this way, Wu State did not need to transport grain and grass from the mainland, otherwise the ships collected by Wu State with all their strength would not be enough.
As for the grain and grass that Lu Wu was going to bring to the five Jiangnan counties to build the five Jiangnan counties, an equal amount would be spent from the mainland of Wu.
Although no one seems to suffer from this exchange of equal value for entry and exit, the transportation cost saved to Wu State alone is an astronomical figure - you know, one hundred kilograms of grain and grass are transported to a distance of three hundred miles. In addition, just the horse chews consumed by the people transporting the convoy on the road consume half of the food.
Of course, Luwu also saves a lot of transportation costs.
But the problem is that Lu Wu is not in a hurry to take over the five counties in the south of the Yangtze River, but Wu is in a hurry to prepare for Chu's counterattack.
So strictly speaking, Wu Guo took advantage of this exchange.
In this way, the number of troops that Wu State can actually use on its own territory is actually not as many as Yue State.
According to the calculations of Wu's military officials, even with such an all-out effort, if the Chu State counterattacks with all its strength, it is still unclear whether it can defend the five southern prefectures.
Who allowed Chu's troops to fight against Yan and Lu all the year round? The soldiers were actually better than Wu's elites, and Chu's generals had more experience in wars than Wu's generals, and their military tactics were more skillful.
This can be clearly seen from the confrontation between Wu State General Luo Gan and Chu State General Qu Dazhong - Luo Gan was in a favorable location and had made all kinds of preparations in the early stage, but he was still slightly behind. If they met in a field battle, they would have the same strength. Then Luo Gan himself admitted that there was more misfortune than good.
In this way, it is very difficult for Wu State to conquer the five southern mansions. It can even be said that this is a big gamble that Wu State has to make because Lu Wu is fighting against it, and the winning rate is only about 50%.
Today, Ke Tu voluntarily gave up the opportunity to annex Yue and Lu in the future, and made an agreement with the three countries to advance and retreat together. Another meaning is that I want to fight Chu, and you must send troops to help.
This is not to add a toad's strength.
The Yue Kingdom is half the size of the Wu Kingdom, and Lu Wu happens to have a ready-made force of owl soldiers under his command. The two together are enough to change the winning rate of this gamble from a 50-50 chance to a 10-90 chance! It may even go further to attack the Chu State and bite off another piece of fat.
As for the spoils of war, whether the children of the city, gold or silk will be shared among the three countries? That's all after guarding the five southern mansions.
If the Wu State can securely take over the five southern mansions, what if the other cities and wealth captured by the Chu State are discarded? Anyway, the biggest benefit has already been secured.
What's more, according to the covenant that has not yet been written, the spoils of war will still be distributed among the three kingdoms of Wu, Yue and Lu according to the size of their contribution and the number of troops they send - could it be that the Wu Kingdom has almost poured out its entire country, regardless of its military resources, and it will cost more than the Yue Kingdom and the Yue Kingdom? Isn't the Young Master of Lu Kingdom not officially established yet?
