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Chapter 393: Wu Yue's Struggle for Hegemony: Luring the Wolf into the House

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    Although Duke Chu of Jin was played like a monkey by the four ministers at the court meeting, he was not discouraged. Instead, Zhiyao's sarcasm aroused the anger accumulated in his heart over the years.

    The next day, Jin Chugong issued an edict to publicize the feudal towns of Fan and Zhongxing and return them to the state.  Four more officials were appointed as county officials for the Fan family and Zhonghang family fiefdoms. Of course, the four county officials could not manage such a large fiefdom.  The county officials who were appointed were only responsible for the large-scale or geographically important cities in the Fan family and Zhongxing family fiefdoms.

    "Similarly, this is also a test for Jin Chugong to see how the four ministers respond.

    But the four ministers had already reached a certain agreement on this. The four officials had just entered the city and were immediately kicked out of the city.  The four county officials immediately returned to the capital in despair and cried to Duke Chu of Jin about the arrogance and domineering behavior of the four ministers.

    When the Duke of Jin heard this, he couldn't believe it!  You ministers, do you really think that I am not the king of the country?  Jin Chugong asked his chamberlain to come and personally wrote a new decree.  The general idea is that the four ministers are lawless and ignore the majesty of the monarch.  You are limited to ten days to arrest the rebellious ministers who ignore the appointment of the monarch, otherwise you will be regarded as treason!

    Where are Zhiyao and the others?  He really didn't want to leave Jin out of business. Ten days have passed and nothing has been done. What should be done, and what should be done.  Oh no!  Zhiyao and the others did not attend the court meeting. They were also afraid that they would be detained in the capital by the Duke of Jin.

    "Damn it! Are these the emperor and his ministers?" The veins on Jin Chugong's face popped out, and he looked ferocious like a wounded beast.

    "Please calm down, Your Majesty! The Four Ministers are deeply rooted. They have been taking root since the time of Duke Wen of Jin. It has been nearly two hundred years and twelve dynasties. If Your Majesty wants to eradicate them, you can only do it slowly and don't rush."  ! Otherwise, I¡¯m afraid it will turn out that I will not be able to kill the tiger, but will be eaten by the tiger instead!¡± Doctor Gongsun Han knelt on the ground and persuaded him hard.

    "Calm down! Are I still the king of Jin? They blatantly ignored my orders and drove away the officials appointed by me. What is this? It is equivalent to a slap in my face! No matter what, even if I will  The Jin Kingdom has been crippled! I have also destroyed the four ministers!" Duke Chu of Jin was extremely angry, no!  To be precise, now Jin Chugong is not only angry towards Zhiyao and the others, but also has unforgettable hatred.

    This hatred also implicated Jin Wen Gong, the first overlord of the Jin Kingdom. Jin Chu Gong said bitterly: "Of course, if our ancestor Wen Gong killed Zhao Shui, Hu Tu, Han Jian (the ancestor of the Six Ministers) and others, where would we be today?"  disaster!"

    When Gongsun Han heard this, he was immediately shocked and hurriedly advised: "My lord, be careful what you say! Be careful what you say!"

    After all, Jin Chugong also knew that his complaint about Jin Wen Gong had a huge impact. Although he was still a little dissatisfied with Jin Wen Gong, he stopped speaking out.  After a long silence, Jin Chugong asked Gongsun Han: "Ziming (Gongsun Han's character), I have decided to raise an army! Kill all those rebellious ministers!"

    Gongsun Han smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, you can only equip an army of fifty thousand at most, but any one of the four ministers is enough to equip an army of seventy or eighty thousand! Please bear with it if I see it!"

    "Forbearance? You are willing to do it, but I am not willing to do it either! Don't you want to restore the glory of the office?" When Jin Chugong said this, he became angry again.

    Is Gongsun Han really willing?  Of course he was unwilling to give in!  Gongsun Han and Jin Chugong are technically cousins, and their grandfather and Jin Chugong's grandfather are the same mother. Because of this, Jin Chugong and Gongsun Han have a very good relationship.  In addition, Gongsun Han and Jin Chugong also have the same philosophy, or they have the same interests.

    They all want to restore the former glory of the Gongfu. They dare not say that the power of the Gongfu will overtake the Qing clan, but at least they have the strength to protect themselves under the pressure of the Qing clan.  And if the offices are divided, there is no doubt that Gongsun Han, who has a very good relationship with Jin Chugong, will definitely get a good fief, and now is a good opportunity to get it.

    Gongsun Han gritted his teeth and was aroused by Jin Chugong's ambition. He raised his head and looked at Jin Chugong and said: "My Lord, if you must raise an army, then you must have foreign aid!"

    "Foreign aid? You mean where the Emperor of Zhou is?" Jin Chugong asked.

    "No! The Emperor of Zhou is too weak! And whether he has the courage to send troops to offend the four ministers is still a question! I am talking about powerful countries such as Han, Qi, and Qin. Only they dare not fear the revenge of the four ministers.  And send troops!" Gongsun Han threw away his burden at this moment, and he became a lot crazier.

    "You're crazy! This is the werewolf room!" Jin Chugong was also shocked by Gongsun Han's words.

    "No! My Lord, I am not crazy! This is fighting fire with fire. Don't you understand, Lord, that if this continues, the Jin Kingdom will be destroyed sooner or later?" Gongsun Han asked.

    Jin Chugong was silent. Now the power of the palace is getting worse day by day, and the palace belongs to the king.Base.  If this continues, Duke Chu of Jin will not know whether his own generation, his son's, or his grandson's generation perished in the hands of the four ministers.

    If drastic measures are not taken, it is unlikely that the office will turn around.  Although the four ministers have constraints on each other, they all know that Gongfang holds great righteousness and great reputation. If Gongfang regains power, it will not be an exaggeration to say that they, the former powerful ministers, will be exterminated when they are unlucky.  For this reason, despite the constraints, they all had a tacit understanding to suppress the office relentlessly.

    On the other hand, as the saying goes, it is easy to pick on the weak. There is no doubt that in the Jin Kingdom, the power of the public office is the weakest.  While it can prevent their descendants from being exterminated, and at the same time gain benefits, why not do it?

    Precisely because he understood this truth, Jin Chugong didn't know what to say.

    On the contrary, Gongsun Han, who had previously persuaded Jin to leave the palace, now put aside the burden in his heart and became much more decisive.  "My Lord, Han, Qin, and Qi are wolves. This is true. But what are the Four Qings? They are leeches attached to the Jin State, sucking the blood of the Jin State all the time! They were bitten by the wolf and their flesh was removed.  , of course it hurts! But you won¡¯t die, but you will die if you are sucked by leeches!¡±

    Jin Chugong still did not speak.

    Gongsun Han was very worried. After thinking for a long time, he organized his words and said: "My lord, didn't you say before that even if the Jin Kingdom was defeated, the four ministers would be gone? Why are you hesitating now? You keep cutting off, but you suffer instead.  What a mess! Does the Lord want to continue to live a life of being wantonly oppressed by the four ministers?"

    Gongsun Han was aroused by Jin Chugong, and he abandoned the disadvantages of inviting Han and other countries to provide foreign aid.  He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Ziming will do as you say!"

    Gongsun Han nodded and asked, "Then I wonder what kind of price your Majesty is prepared to pay? Please tell me, Your Majesty, so that I can make a decision!"

    "Only Qi State is willing to send troops! The three hundred miles east of the Yellow River belong to Qi State! If Qin State is willing to send troops, the two hundred miles of fertile fields west of Hexi will belong to it! As for Han State, as long as Yang Zilu is willing to send troops, I will  Make Han the overlord!" Duke Chu of Jin said through gritted teeth.  His heart aches!  This mouth has traveled five hundred miles!  Especially for the State of Qin, even though the State of Qin only has 200 miles of land, what kind of fertile wilderness is that!

    That is fertile land!  Even if someone exchanged a thousand miles of wilderness, no one would exchange it.  The last promise made to the Han Kingdom made Duke Chu of Jin bleed in his heart!  The Jin State has always been strong. Even if it failed to compete with the Chu State for hegemony, it never surrendered to the Chu State.

    ??????????????????? But now, by bowing to the Han State and treating it as the overlord, it not only loses dignity, but also requires a large amount of wealth to be paid to the Han State every year.

    Gongsun Han shook his head and said: "My lord, although your conditions are quite generous, today is different from the past. The Han army is confronting Zheng State, and its military strength seems to be somewhat insufficient. However, the Tian family of Qi State is in power, but they dare not move easily.  Soldiers, lest someone take the opportunity to seize the country's foundation. Only Qin is the easiest, but the relationship between Qin and our Jin"

    Having said this, Gongsun Han shook his head and did not say the next words, but the meaning was obvious.  Moreover, there is a lot of hatred between Jin and Qin. There have been three battles of Wei. Jin won two of the three battles and lost one. The two victories left the bones of Qin soldiers all over Mount Wei.  What made the people of Qin even more angry was that victory or defeat was a common matter for military strategists. If they lost, they would be defeated. However, the people of Jin did not pay attention to the corpses of Qin soldiers, but allowed them to die in the wilderness.

    It was not until the third battle of Xiao that the Qin State defeated the Jin people and that the soldiers who died in the battle could be safe.  In the first Battle of Wei, the Jin State sneak attacked the Qin people who were still allies at the time, causing the Qin State's 300 troops and chariots to be completely wiped out by the Jin State.  Only the remaining three generals managed to escape, which shows how miserably Qin lost in this battle.

    That¡¯s all. As time goes by, the hatred between Qin and Jin should disappear no matter what.  After a period of time, Jin Xianggong, the king of Jin, died. At that time, Jin Xianggong's son was still young.  Zhao Dun, the ruler of the Jin State, suggested that Prince Yonglai, the younger brother of Duke Xianggong of Jin, should be appointed as the king. Although some people opposed it, after Zhao Dun's tricks, Prince Yonglai was finally established as the king.  At that time, Prince Yong was in the State of Qin as a hostage, so Zhao Dun sent people to the State of Qin to invite Prince Yong to come to the State of Jin to take over the throne.  Qin also wanted to restore the relationship between Qin and Jin to the good level between Qin and Jin, and readily agreed to Zhao Dun, and considering that when Qin sent Jin Wengong Chong'er back to China, he was attacked by some hostile officials.  Duke Wen of Jin also almost died.

    ??Then the Qin State sent a large army to escort Young Master Yong, which also gave Young Master Yong courage.  Originally everything was fine, Prince Yong was living a good life in the Qin State, and he still held the position of a Qin official with good abilities, but the reality is crueler than you can imagine.

    As mentioned before, the son of Duke Xianggang of Jin was too young, so he made him Yong.  But Duke Xianggang of Jin had his son Xiao Xiao, His mother is not young.

    So the wife of Duke Xianggang of Jin went to the court and cried and cursed, saying that we, mother and son, were suffering!  Orphans and widows!  And being bullied!

    Then he pointed at Zhao Dun and cursed, "The late king treated you like a brother and sister, and entrusted the prince to you before his death."  But what did you do?  The former monarch had his own flesh and blood to stay in the country, but he went to Qin to support others.  In the future, how can you go to hell to meet the late emperor?

    It has to be said that the wife of Duke Xianggang of Jin was very powerful, which suddenly forced Zhao Dun to give in and support Duke Xianggang of Jin's son.  But the problem is that things had been discussed at the beginning, and the prince Yong was to be appointed as the king, and the people of Qin also escorted the prince Yong to the state of Jin.

    Zhao Dun has no choice but to fight!  But generally when you start a fight, you have to be famous!  Otherwise, the soldiers would not know why they were fighting, and there would be no way to improve their morale.  So Zhao Dun thought of a bandit logic and encouraged his soldiers: "The people of Qin have sent people, people, we accept it! Then Qin is our friend of Jin. People, we don't accept it! Then Qin is our country of Jin.  enemy!"

    Zhao Dun was also extremely shady. The people of the Qin State did not know what was happening in the Jin State at that time. Although they knew that Zhao Dun was coming with a large army, they were fooled by Zhao Dun to welcome Prince Yong.  In the middle of the night, the Jin army suddenly attacked and defeated Qin.

    You say, what is the truth of this?  Not only did he fool me, but he also showed up with a bandit logic and gave me a good beating.  The whole state of Qin was furious!  In the following time, almost every generation of Qin kings went to war with Jin, regardless of winning or losing, but this has become a tradition.

    It can be seen that the people of Qin are resentful towards Jin. Even if a small country loses, it will still bite Jin.  But then again, the Jin State was indeed not kind enough, so when Duke Chu of Jin heard Gongsun Han's words, he rarely blushed.  "Ziming, what kind of promise do you think I should make?"

    Gongsun Han thought for a while and said: "As for the Qin State, except for the two hundred miles of fertile wilderness in Hexi, I suggest that the Lord marry a Qin princess to become the queen of the country. The people of Qin will not send troops to help. Especially now that the Lord has the queen.  , is from the Zhi family, even if the Lord loves and protects him, what will his subordinates think? Aren't you afraid that the Lord will be betrayed and change his mind? So this action of the Lord can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone!"

    Jin Chugong hesitated for a long time, nodded vigorously, and said: "Okay! Just do as you say! What about Qi and Han?".

    "The State of Qi promised seven hundred miles of land, but it is hard to say whether it will send troops or not! After all, the Tian family has only risen for a short time, and its foundation is not stable. It is unlikely that we will abandon our foundation for the sake of profit, so this matter can only be done  As for the Han State, in my opinion, they are unlikely to send troops. However, I believe that it is enough to have the help of Qi and Qin. As for the Han State, it is enough for the Han State to openly support the Lord!"  Gongsun Han spoke eloquently.

    Jin Chugong was overjoyed and said: "Okay! All this will be done as you said, Zi Ming! When it is completed, Zi Ming should take the first credit! I will definitely grant Zi Ming Baili Fertile Field as a fief!"

    "Thank you, Your Majesty!" Gongsun Han excitedly knelt down and worshiped Duke Chu of Jin.  He said all this just for this fiefdom!

    Although I haven¡¯t gotten it yet, it¡¯s better than nothing.  Especially when the Four Ministers were in power, they, the sons of the public servants, were the targets of suppression.
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