At this time, the situation faced by the Marquis of Qi was actually similar to that of the old monster Gou Chen, he was very old, and his time was short, and there was not much time left for them to continue the regime.The fatal blow that the old monster gave to Yue Guo did not completely kill Yue Guo, and the strength of the remnants of Yue Guo was still very strong.However, rather than retaining a regional power with a complete structure, it would rather fight a war of law and order and guerrilla warfare.Fighting a law and order war for two or three generations can still be digested after all.And the old monster is not without confidence, in addition to the flood of "Shu Chang Jishi" before his death, there is also a large delivery of the edict, and the family wealth he has accumulated has left a very good financial space for his successor.The business environment that Li Xie created for Wu Guo abroad was quite a bit of tariffs and municipal taxes alone.At that time, the countries traveled back and forth on the ditch, and the destination was either Gusu or Jiangyin, and the customs duties, city taxes, and Jindu taxes to Jiangyin were not collected by Li Jie, but had to be paid to the officials of Wu State.How much profit there is in this, Gou Chen knows it.And from an old point of view, for a courtier like Li Xie who is lustful and greedy for money and can fight, he doesn't have to be three streets strong in the Wuhu clan?
Anyway, before the old monster died, he didn't see Li Xie have any disobedience to him, so he offered auspicious gifts, and paid tribute if he had treasures, and his posture was extremely upright.But Qi Hou did not have such a good life, the reason is very simple, the finances of Qi are not bad, but Qi is rich but not strong, of course, this rich but not strong, is relative to the superpower.The local aristocratic power of the five capitals of Qi was quite strong, and the clan of Qi also led to a series of follow-up suppressions because of the fiasco of the Marquis of Qi in the face of Wu.After all, someone has to carry the black pot in this matter, and it is none other than Qi Hou's uncles, brothers, and nephews who provoke Qi Hou and King Wu Wei to fight each other.The boss can't be wrong, so someone has to be responsible, so the five major clans of Qi State, Qi Qi made trouble, and Qi Hou had no choice but to compress the power of the Jiang clan.This is also why Lai Guo has been infiltrated into a hole, but Qi Guo has not completely digested it until now.Laiguo and Yue are not on the same level at all.So up to now, Qi Hou's family background is not abundant, but if you want to talk about the resources that are effectively mobilized, it is definitely not comparable to Wu Wei Wang Gou Chen.A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is in front of him, not only to reinvigorate his prestige, but also to expand the power of the clan, in addition to the old Qi Hou to wash away the great obsession of humiliation, obviously has long-term considerations.The praise of Chu Guo's virtuous and talented Chu Qi is of course fluttering, but if there is no benefit, no matter how much you blow it, it is useless.The struggle between Qi and Lu has been spread for hundreds of years, and the two countries are quite close in a straight line.But in fact, when Qi and Lu went to war, the real marching distance was not even a few tens of miles away from Qi and Yan fighting.The reason is that Qi has no way to cross mountains and mountains to fight with Lu, so it must bypass the Taishan Mountains and take the line of Jishui in order to attack Lu from north to south.And the country of Lu is waiting for work, as long as the country of Qi dares to fight, you are a tired army on the open ground, even if I have few troops, I am not afraid of you.However, the geographical environment of the two sides is still different after all, at the beginning of the Qi State, it was not much better than the "blue wisps of the road" of the Chu State, and the mountains and seas were either the mountains and seas in all directions or the Rongdi barbarians, attack, expansion, and the blood that the Qi State must have.There's no way, if you don't attack, you're dead, and if you don't want to die, you have to attack and expand.To the present, it is natural to occupy the territory of the original barbarians, and then border with the Lu State, and then turn from friction to war confrontation.After grinding for two generations, with a deep foundation and a much stronger geopolitical environment than the Lu State, even if the Qi State could not cross the mountains and mountains to fight with others, it finally advanced the border area to the Wenshui area.Not to mention the fertile land here, after Wenshui is the country of Lu, from south to north, it can be said that it is a horse and a flat river.The natural danger that Lu can rely on is only Surabaya.The former Mount Tai Mountains have completely become decorations.In the past, the Lu State was not worried about the attack of the Qi State, after all, the Qi State had no chance to bypass the Taishan Mountain Range at all.But this time is different, Qi has "righteousness" in hand, even if Lu Guo knows that Qi Guo is not well-intentioned, there is no way to refute it.In the international community, there are obviously many more people who are willing to listen to the loud voice of Qi than to listen to the protests of Lu State.The most important thing is that Qi Hou is not a lot of money in the Jishui Basin, and those old and young relics of small countries that have destroyed the country have no ability except mouth cannons on weekdays, so they can receive a sum of money, and then help Qi Guo tout it, what's wrong with this?
What Wenshui is not Wenshui, it's their business.Is this Wenshui their home?
Is it their business that Wenshui is lost?!
As for those regional powers, they will not be mixed with the discord between Qilu and Qilu.After all, it is not their meat that the Qi State has cut, they take advantage of the situation to ease the relationship and get another international aid from the Qi State, anyway, it is the Qi State that leads the alliance, and the current alliance leader is not as big as it was back then, and the benefits may not be much.At the beginning, the Jin State was hegemonic, and the Chu State fought to the death, fighting, and the seven or eight countries west of Luojing were all destroyed, who was destroyed?
Jin!
The two powers competed for hegemony, with countless casualties, I don't know how many voices couldn't be heard, and the hegemony of the Jin Kingdom had many benefits.But what is Qi doing now?
Crusade against "no ministers", not to mention that there are so many "no ministers" in the world, you beat the small ones, and now there are no small barbarians to beat you.Those Huaiyi tribes, such as the Wu clan, the branch clan, the Huai clan, etc., didn't know that they had returned to the Wu State a few years ago.Among them, the Wu clan and the Zhi clan have been even more decent people in the past two years, and they have tightly hugged the golden thighs of the Yin Township Shang clan, even if you want to crusade, they are also good people, how to crusade?
But if it is a big crusade, there will be more, Wu, Jin, Qin, Chu, and Han.Each of these five major powers is a "non-minister", so let's go on a crusade.Anyway, Zhou Tianzi has no opinion, you just have to fight, anyway, the widow is not much fun, just look at the excitement.As for the small countries of Puer, they don't have any good ideas, before the Chu and Han struggles, there are still few Huaishui countries destroyed by the Han country's backhand?
This is simply a copy of the Jin and Chu hegemony back then, making it clear that using Chu State as a shoeshine mat and doing Chu State is the goal, but if you have some benefits, who can criticize it?
Besides, as a small country, shouldn't we do our part for the "great righteousness"?
You have lost your country, your society, and your ancestors, but you have spread righteous deeds, you are glorious!
Therefore, the regional powers are all clear-minded, no one can be offended, you love the alliance, we will also come, hold you.But as for the money, it will definitely not be paid.Why not dig in?
There's still a war going on in my hometown.Wei Zheng is fighting, and Song Guo is fishing, it's not easy, so when you talk about this, do you have to think of a way for the alliance leader to think about it?
Even Zheng Chengzi and Wei Hou had already thought about it, if Qi Guo really had the iron heart to declare war on Han Ziguo, they would make preparations with both hands.The first is to send the armed forces to respond, which is a must-do, but the grain and military supplies will not be cut for a grain of rice, and the Qi State must be borne, not including food and shelter, who the is messing with you these days.The second is to send a secret envoy to Huaizhong City at the same time to explain his attitude, the friendship between the two countries has a long history, and diplomatic relations have always been harmonious, in short, at least Zheng Guo and Wei Guo are planning to stand and earn this money.As for whether to contribute to the Han army, although Zheng Chengzi and Wei Hou did not have an official meeting, they already planned to ease the relationship in private.If the nobles themselves do not lose, there is no problem.Then the two sides provoked the Song people to engage in a "war of revenge", after all, the two battles of forcing the sun really made the Song country disgraced.Revenge is a good reason to start a war, which can make the combat power of the Song troops instantly full.Of course, they also knew that the Song State was not easy to fool, so the tentative plan was to see how Qi Guo attacked Lu State.You can borrow the point of Lu Guo to see if there is a chance to make a little benefit in the Surabaya Basin.You don't need much land, and it would be nice to have an enclave in the important port of Jindu that is used as a warehouse.If the country of Lu is killed, it will also give some points of population, food, and materials.It's just that the nobles of the allied countries were stunned after seeing the envoys from the Lu country who came to protest.Qi Hou prepared a lot of words, but forgot to say them.Because when he saw that the eldest doctor of Shenyi entered the camp with a cloth bag wrapped around his waist, the originally lively atmosphere instantly became anxious.