Don't steal a man from me

Chapter 31

In the 28th year of King Shangyou, a four-nation alliance ended vigorously as a result of Chu being isolated. This southern power finally subsided. However, before the kings of the Central Plains had time to breathe a sigh of relief, Qingguo made a new move.

At the beginning of April of the following year, General Jing Ming led [-] elite soldiers to destroy Zheng Guo, a small country next to Luoyang, the king of the Shang Dynasty. In June, he sent troops to destroy Zhongshan Kingdom.

The structure of the Central Plains has changed again. The powerful countries in the Central Plains are still leaning. Chu, Song Wei, Chen, Ji, and Xi are the six countries. The neighboring powerful states are Chu, Song, Wei, and Chen.

General's Mansion.Jing Ming, who was dressed in a black eagle wing robe, was sitting quietly in the pavilion in the back garden, playing the flute.The moon is like a hook, the Xiao's voice is low and melodious, the peaceful place is chilly, sad but not hurt, the heart of a child is clear, he is reticent, this Xiao's voice also reveals a trace of silence.

Feng Qing brought a jug of wine and sat down beside him.

Jing Ming accepted Bai Yudong Xiao, smiled at Feng Qing and said, "You are very busy these days."

Feng Qing lowered her eyes, gave a rare gentle smile, turned her head to look at Jingming and asked, "What does your majesty mean to you when you wave your master to the north?"

"Your majesty doesn't agree with me leading troops to the northern border." Jing Ming said with a frown.

Jing Ming can't understand King Qing. Any king avoids the matter of his ministers' achievements like snakes and scorpions. However, this sensual king not only did not limit his military power, but also destroyed the Zhongshan Kingdom. Afterwards, he was named Lord Wu Ding, and Jing Ming's power reached the peak of his years. It can be said that he wanted to steal the country, and it was just a sentence or two.

Feng Qing's long and narrow eyes narrowed, and he also sensed Qing Wang's abnormality.

When King Qingwen was on the throne, he promoted Jingming with one hand, but he was always on guard against him. The old fox kept restricting Jingming's rights with Qingxiang Huiwen. His unprecedented trust and entitlement.

It gives people the impression that Qing Wang is extremely stupid, digging his own grave and creating excellent conditions for Jing Ming to rebel.Now that Jingming proposed to go to the northern border and leave the power center of the capital, this is a very good time to take back the military power. That stupid and surly king actually disapproved of Jingming sending his troops to the north. A king can be fatuous and incompetent, but they don’t He may not be aware of people or things that threaten his position of power. What is Qing Wang doing this for?

Excluding the explanation that King Qing is too stupid to add, then there is only one explanation for doing so—he is constantly hinting to Jingming to let him kill the king and usurp the throne.

Thinking of this, Feng Qing's beautiful phoenix eyes flashed sharply, and his thin lips curled up playfully, he turned his head and glanced at Jing Ming, the young general's sharp and three-dimensional eyebrows and eyes carried a sense of vicissitudes of life, no matter when, He is always the most taciturn in the crowd, but cannot be ignored.

"General, is your allegiance to Qingguo or the ruling class of this country?" Feng Qing raised her head and took a sip of her wine, then turned her head to meet Jingming's gaze.

Jing Ming didn't understand what Feng Qing wanted to express, he looked at him in confusion and frowned and asked, "What?"

Feng Qing shook his head and laughed, he looked up at the endless sky, and said word by word: "Feng will enter the palace tomorrow to speak to my king, three days later, I will guarantee you to go north."

"Mr. thank you." Jing Ming was overjoyed, and hurriedly got up to salute Feng Qing.

In the past few months, he has commanded an army to destroy several larger vassal states to the east of Qingguo. One is to expand the territory, land is endless wealth, and the other is to deter other small countries in the Central Plains that are dependent on Qingguo. , only the troubles of Rongdi in the north of Qingguo were left, that's why he proposed to Qingwang to send his troops to the north. Leaving like the wind, if Qingguo sent an army to crusade, they would retreat to the depths of the vast desert, and they could not be completely wiped out. Therefore, one of the most troublesome things for Qingjun in the past was the trouble of Rongdi in the north.

Jing Ming wanted to solve Rong Di's problem completely while he was still young.

Feng Qing leaned against the pillar, looked down at Jing Ming and said, "General Jing, you are the stupidest person Feng Qing has ever met."

Jing Ming was stunned for a moment, he looked at Feng Qing, half of Feng Qing's face was hidden in the darkness, the watery moonlight shone on his face, his thick eyelashes cast a shallow shadow on his face, his eyes were half closed He looked lazily, with a touch of charm, and his soul was taken away. The colorful clothes on his body were like flames. It was a high-profile and luxurious aura, so dazzling that people couldn't take their eyes off.Jingming's Adam's apple rolled up and down unnaturally, and he subconsciously blurted out: "Peerless, you are unparalleled."

Feng Qing smiled silently, turned her head to look at Mingyue, and said nothing.

The next day, Feng Qing fulfilled her promise and went to Qing Palace to speak out.

Qing Wang, who had just finished court, didn't even have time to take off his court clothes, so he hugged a newly bought beauty Hui Yu had for fun.What Feng Qing saw when he came to King Qing's bedroom was that beauty lying in King Qing's embrace with her fragrant shoulders half exposed. Better to wait outside."

"Feng Aiqing doesn't need to be too polite." Qing Wang glanced at Feng Qing, pushed the beauty away, put the cloak on his body, and said: "Come here, give me a seat for Feng Shangqing."

The waiter came in response to the sound, and spread a thick felt cushion beside the wooden table. The beauty showed her interest, bowed to Qing Wang Yingying and disappeared behind the heavy curtains.

Sitting barefoot on the bed, Qing Wang asked, "Why is Ai Qing here?"

"I have some important matters to report to my king, can my king retreat?" Feng Qing lowered her voice.

King Qing raised his eyebrows, he hooked the corners of his lips, and waved his sleeves to the waiters. When only the two of them were left in the huge bedroom, King Qing looked him up and down and smiled: "What is so important?" , Feng Shangqing insists on coming to the king's bedroom to talk?" He deliberately put the word "bedroom" very heavily.

Feng Qing raised his eyes to meet Shangqing Wang's narrow eyes, he sighed almost inaudibly, and said in a low voice: "Jingming, the head of the rhinoceros, is so powerful that it will endanger my king's status. I am willing to advise my king and get rid of Jingming."

Qing Wang glanced at him, the ambiguity in his eyes disappeared immediately, he squinted his eyes, the expression was something Feng Qing had never seen before - wise and sharp.

Feng Qing slowly clenched his fists, he took a deep breath, and forced himself to look at King Qing, he said: "In the state of Chu there is such a big bird, its claws are as sharp as a sword and can tear apart any Something, its beak is extremely hard, it can pierce the hardest wood, but this bird can't see, there is also a small bird, it is so small that it can be covered by a palm, it is so small that people often can't see it, So the carriages on the road often run over the little bird. Later, the little bird found the big bird, and they reached an agreement. The little bird acted as the eyes of the big bird, and the big bird protected the little bird from being run over by the carriage. In this way, they It has been multiplied in Xiangtingze until now."

Qing Wang's eyes flickered, he turned his head to look out the window, and remained silent for a while.

"Preach the will of the widow, and allow the general to send his troops to the north." Qing Wang's voice was very low and soft, as if making this decision had exhausted his entire life's strength.

Feng Qing raised his head, but Qing Wang was still looking out of the window, he got up, bowed his hands to Qing Wang, and said softly: "Your Majesty, General Jing is not suitable to be king, he can be your most powerful pawn, invincible for you, even if he dies No hesitation, he can afford the sword, but he cannot carry the jade seal, he can carry the lives of thousands of soldiers, but he cannot carry the entire country."

King Qing turned his head, he looked at Feng Qing, and said word by word: "You go north with General Jing, and protect my general for the widow."

"No." Feng Qing clasped his hands again and saluted, and exited Qingwang's bedroom.

The three kingdoms were wiped out for half a year, but the Chu country was unexpectedly silent. Mei Hao felt that something was wrong, so he sent his retainer Wang Ji to enter the Chu country to inquire about it, pretending to be a businessman.

Three months later, when the diners returned home, they saw Mei Hao and shouted, "Amazing! Amazing!"

Mei Hao frowned, secretly screaming that something was wrong, not as panicked as Wang Ji, and immediately patted Wang Ji on the shoulder and said slowly: "Don't panic, I will tell you everything you have seen and heard in the past three months."

Wang Ji picked up the tea on the table and drank it with his head up, and said slowly with a long sigh of relief.

When he received Mei Hao's silk letter that day, Wang Ji didn't dare to stay. The next day, he pretended to be a traveling merchant and went south from Jiaocheng to Chu. After less than half a day's journey, he arrived at Tangcheng, the eastern border city where Chu and Xi meet.

Wang Ji's chariot and horse were stopped by the guards in front of the city gate. Wang Ji got out of the chariot and asked why.

"Take out the ID card." The guard said coldly.

"Identity post?" Wang Ji was puzzled.

"Is this your first visit to our country of Chu?" The guards looked Wang Ji up and down and said, "You look like a wandering businessman. Don't you know that our new law of Chu stipulates that the people of Chu and those who enter Chu Do traveling merchants have to have an identity card to enter the city?" The guards glanced at his outfit and said.

Hearing this, Wang Ji was stunned. He had only heard of the new king of Chu in Xi before, and immediately implemented the reform vigorously. As for the content and the effect of the implementation, he didn't know anything about it. Outside the gate of the Kingdom of Chu, Wang Ji didn't know what to do for a while, so he had to stand aside, worrying about how to enter the city, a group of horse-drawn carriages wrapped in cowhide drove over in a row, and it looked like who it should be The caravan of wealthy merchants, Wang Ji stepped forward to stop the leader of a bronze chariot.

A white-clothed young man got off the car, and his age was about the year of a weak crown. He was wearing a bamboo crown, and he looked handsome, tall and tall, and elegant.

Wang Ji stepped forward and cupped his hands, saying: "Wang Ji, a traveling merchant from the Xi Kingdom, dared to stop your carriage, and I will apologize to you here."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm Xia Lu Buwei." The boy in white smiled and said.

"When I first came to Chu to do business, before I arrived at Tang City, the guards said that I needed an ID card before I could enter the city, but I don't know what the ID card is for?" Wang Ji asked.

"This is one of the new laws promulgated by Chu State, which is used to register the population." Lu Buwei smiled and said: "The so-called identity card is a bamboo board with your identity information engraved on it, um... Are you new to Chu to do business? How about this, I will give you a guarantee, and you will do it as soon as you enter the city."

After hearing this, Wang Ji's eyes flashed a little complicated.

In the world of great strife, the connotation of national wealth is only three real things - land, people and various practical goods.In addition, jewelry, famous utensils and even coins are dispensable. In the words of the king, if the king has a city, he will have iron cavalry.Furthermore, the amount of land among various countries is difficult to change. Unless there is a war between the South and the North, the land of a country will not change much in a short period of time, so the most precious thing in the end is the people.

In the flashy and chaotic times, the frequent wars of various countries, and the migration of the people made it difficult to determine the national conscription system. Often there were nine families listed on the household registration, but the actual number of recruits was less than three, which caused headaches for the kings of all countries for a long time.Now with the new law of the Chu State, each Chu citizen has an identity card. If they want to move their families with them, they will be recorded at the household registration office.

Wang Ji stood there in a daze for a long time, only this one, Wang Ji felt the hidden threat of this big southern country.

Lu Buwei took him into the city, pointed out to him where to apply for an identity card, and then left.

The author has something to say: The point of view in the article that land is priceless wealth comes from Mr. Sun Haohui's "The Great Qin Empire" For details, please refer to the book