The envoys from Chen were the first to arrive at the capital of the king of Wu to offer condolences to the Western Marquis. With the arrival of the envoys from Chen, envoys from other vassal states arrived one after another. On the day of the 18th day of the waxing moon, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui's most awaited caravan of Zhao's condolence delegation entered the royal capital through the north city gate.
The envoy of Zhao was named Wu Mian, a trusted sherpa of the Crown Prince of Zhao. On behalf of the King of Zhao, he first paid a visit to the coffin of the Western Marquis, and then he went to pay a visit to the new King of Wu, handing over a letter of state written by Zhao Xuan in his own handwriting.
Wu Mou was in his thirties, and appeared to be a shrewd and capable man, who bowed to the new king of Wu in a humble manner.
"When the Prince of my country heard that your country's adulterous consort and thieves were in rebellion, he immediately gathered his troops and horses and prepared to help your country to exterminate the rebellious party, not wanting to just send his troops into the State of Wei, he heard that the late King of your country had already pacified the civil strife, and that the late King succeeded to the position of the Lord of the State of Wu in the position of the concubine head of the State of Wu. When my prince got the news, he was very happy and rejoiced, and was glad that the people of your country were spared from the trouble. However, God's will is not favorable, your country's wise lord can not live long, hearing the bad news of your country's late king, the crown prince's heart is grieved, I wanted to personally come to the royal capital to offer condolences, but unfortunately, there are many matters of state that can not get away from it, so I can only send my humble servant as a representative to offer incense to your country's late king and congratulate your country's new king for successfully inheriting the throne."
Wu Milling is very eloquent, Zhao Xuan's action of bringing troops to Wu to get a piece of the pie was said by him to come to help Wu to pacify the civil strife, as for the original reason why it was under the banner of the Northern Marquis to enter the State of Wei, Wu Milling did not even mention it.
Zhao messenger Wu Mou came to offer condolences on behalf of the king and the crown prince of Zhao, so the ceremony of receiving the Zhao messenger at the King of Wu's court had to be grand. The meeting was arranged on top of the main hall, and in addition to King Sheng of Wu, Zheng Yuming, Chu Chaohui, and the important ministers of the royal court all attended the meeting ceremony.
Wu Wang sheng dressed in black diamond pattern dragon and phoenix coronation dress, head wearing white jade beaded nine tassels coronation crown, rules and regulations to sit on top of the high wooden platform, the head is not too smart Wu Wang sheng dressed in royal clothes and crowns, do not say a word to sit on top of the throne of the wooden platform, but there is a vassal majesty of the air.
The main hall of the wooden platform of the left side of the standing is Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui, the right side of the Hussar General and Wei Ren, Wei Ren's position would have been the place where Wei Shen should stand, but after the burial of Gong Ziguang, Wei Shen disillusioned, in the Gong Ziguang mausoleum next to the cover of the two pieces of grass huts to live, and no longer ask about the things of the world.
Wu Milling handed the Chinese book in hand to the waiter and slightly raised his head to observe Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui. When he saw the appearance of Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui, he was surprised.
Wu Mou has always thought that the only person who can be called a dragon among men is his own country's crown prince Zhao Xuan, that Zhao Xuan is tall, with handsome features, not to mention how outstanding his abilities are, but just his appearance, Wu Mou has never found anyone who can be out of his right, but now in the court of the King of Wu, the appearance is not inferior to Zhao Xuan, there are two of them, and these two temperament is different, but equally eye-catching, as if the sun and the moon are printed together.
The attendant took the state letter from Wu Mou and did not give it first to the two powerful ministers of Zheng Chu as Wu Mou thought, but went up to the wooden platform, bent down and bowed and handed it to King Wu Sheng.
"Ming, come to Lone!" Wu Wangsheng wiped his tears and beckoned towards Zheng Yuming.
Just now, Wu Milling's flurry of praise for Marquis Xi caused him to think about his father again. Wu Wangsheng wanted to cry loudly and bitterly, before he was about to cry bitterly, he remembered Zheng Yuming's words that only by being a good lord of the country, his father would only talk to him when he meets him in his dreams later on, and the royal court etiquette officer taught that a monarch is not allowed to cry out loud in public, so Wu Wangsheng resisted from letting out any sobs, and just kept wiping his eyes.
Zheng Yuming stepped onto the wooden platform and sat down on his knees beside the desk table, taking the state letter handed to him by Wu Wangsheng and scanning it. "Servant, read!"
The attendant bowed and received the state letter, bowed towards King Sheng of Wu, and turned to open the state letter and read it aloud.
Zhao Xuan's words in the state letter were polite, but the meaning was not so polite. The state letter implicitly asked Wu to give up the mouth of the throat, and in exchange, Zhao would recognize Wu Wangsheng's status as the lord of the state, and the two countries would divide the border of Zhao and Wu by the original border line of Wu Wei.
"My Wu royal family follows the Great Qin inheritance system to pass on the throne, it is originally orthodox, where is there any incorrectness?" Chu Chaohui listened to this with a kind smile on his face. "On the contrary, it seems that your country did not go through the consent of the Son of Heaven before sending troops to destroy Wei, right?"
Wu Mou frowned, Zhao Xuan's reason for using troops against Wei was not honorable, it could be said to be something out of nothing, and the excuse for sending the troops was a bit of a disgrace to Zhao Xuan's face.
"The royal family of Wei deceived people too much, Tang Duke raped and killed my crown prince's favorite concubine, the king of Wei not only did not punish, but instead took sides. My Crown Prince was so humiliated that he didn't hold back his anger for a moment to send troops to Wei himself first to seek justice, but after sending the troops, my Crown Prince has already sent a messenger to report to the Son of Heaven."
Zheng Yuming, who was kneeling at the side of Wu Wangsheng, wanted to laugh, this Zhao's crown prince was very interesting, a cuckold that he wore so much that he hated to have the whole Qin Dynasty know about it.
Wu Mou turned a blind eye to the expressions on the faces of the people in the main hall who couldn't help themselves, but instead spoke eloquently, "Wei was disrespectful in the first place, and it's only reasonable that I, the State of Zhao, would take Wei's land to eliminate the shame."
"Not bad, it's only right for your country to seek justice from King Wei." Zheng Yuming nodded his head in agreement while holding back his laughter.
When Wu Mou heard Zheng Yuming's words of approval, he couldn't help but rejoice. From the information that came back from the royal city, Zheng Yuming's prestige and real power in Wu exceeded that of the State Lord, and was the first real power figure in Wu. Since Zheng Yuming endorsed Zhao to send troops to Wu, it will not be difficult to get the city at the mouth of the throat.
"That throat opening ...."
Chu Chaohui suddenly interrupted Wu Mou, "In fact, my country's sending troops against Wei is the same as your country's as a last resort."
"As a last resort?" Wu Milling froze, throat mouth is obviously Wei Qing took advantage of Zhao Xuan left to attack Wei Wangdu encroachment, Zhao Xuan at that time on the Qucheng Wu soldiers underestimated, thought that just destroyed the northern marquis of Wei Qing and Zeng You will only be dead to defend the Qucheng, do not dare to go out to make trouble, placed in the throat mouth of the defense of the force is less, do not want to be biased to run into the Wei Qing as bold, was he drilled into the empty space.
"Many of the people of the city at the mouth of the throat are from Wu, the King of Wei is greedy and tyrannical, and has imposed additional taxes on our people at the mouth of the throat, and our people could not survive after their property was plundered clean by the King of Wei, so they could only return to the city of Qucheng to ask for help. The Prince of your country sent troops to the King of Wei to seek justice for his favorite concubine, and our country's army sent troops to the mouth of the throat to seek justice for our own country's people." Chu Chao Hui slowly and methodically stated his reasons.
The border between Wei and Wu has never been heavily guarded, Wei and Wu merchants travel freely, there are many Wu merchants who want to be convenient, in the throat of the mouth of the city has a property to live, is considered to be living in Wei Wu people, the King of Wei because of the power of Wu, has always been very courteous to the Wu merchants.
The king of Wei felt that Wu could no longer secure its position as a great vassal state and its power would decline, and the declining Wu would not become the dependence of Wei. The king of Wei immediately turned to Zhao and agreed to the transit of Zhao's army to interfere in Wu's internal affairs. After the Zhao army crossed the border, they even offered grain and jewels to the king.
Offerings of grain and jewels of course not all from the palace treasury out, have to scrape from the people's homes, lost the protection of the state Wu merchants bear the brunt of the family property by the King of Wei confiscated clean.
"For the people of Wu?" Wu Mou's jaw dropped, Zhao Xuan in order to have an excuse to be able to attack Wei, managed to get drunk Wei Duke Zi Xi, sacrificed a beautiful woman, placed a green hat on his head to deal with Duke Zi Xi, and now Chu Zhaohui easily also for Wu to find occupation of the mouth of the throat pretext.
"Yes, just as your prince rushed for beauty, my Wu army will not hesitate to fight for the people, this is the King of Wei's due retribution!" Chu Chao Hui spoke righteously.
"...." Wu Milling was speechless, he wanted to refute Chu Chao Hui, but after refuting that Wu had sent troops for the merchant, the following must be Wu questioning Zhao Xuan's cuckoldry.
"The Throat Mouth City is the King of Wei's compensation for our country's merchants' tyrannical behavior, whoever wants to get their hands on this compensation, I, the Kingdom of Wu, will not hesitate to fight to the death!" Chu Chao Hui drew his sword and slashed at the greenish bronze tripod at his side, splitting off a corner of the tripod.
Sitting on the wooden platform sadly, King Sheng of Wu was first attracted by Chu Chao Hui and Wu Mou arguing, and then after seeing Chu Chao Hui draw his sword and chop down a corner of the bronze tripod, he couldn't help but clap his hands in praise. "Good! Good! Chu Qing is mighty!"
Wu Mou looked towards Wu Wangsheng, the intelligence said that the new king of Wu was not too bright in the head, but what he saw was a king who was well respected by the ministers of the court of the king of Wu, who knew how to be filial, and who also made common cause with his ministers.
"Speaking of which, it is fortunate for the people of Wei to be governed by your country's wise prince, my benevolent king, in the future, isn't it, Messenger Wu?" Zheng Yuming stood up and walked down the wooden platform, smiling gently at Wu Mou, the meaning of his words was anything but gentle, this was to ask Wu Mou to recognize Wu's occupation of the mouth of the throat, and if Zhao acknowledged it, Wu would likewise acquiesce to Zhao's encroachment on Wei.
Wu Mou only felt a dazzle in front of his eyes, he couldn't help but lower his eyes and set his mind before he bowed with great difficulty towards Zheng Yuming, "Not bad, what the gentleman said."
After Zhao's 20,000-strong army destroyed Wei, because of the windy and snowy weather, the supply of food and grass was not available. Zhao Xuan did not know much about the situation of Wei Qing and Zeng You's armies, and only knew that the food and grass in Qucheng was very sufficient, and he did not know that the valley supply of instruments and arrows was also not available because of the weather, and he only assumed that Wu's army had sufficient military supplies. Comparing the two sides, the Zhao army, which is superior in numbers, does not have much advantage in attacking the city. In addition to the news sent back by the spies of the capital of the Wu Kingdom, Zhao Xuan deeply felt that he could not follow the Wu army any longer. Zhao Xuan deeply felt that he could not fight with Wu again. If Wu recklessly fought with Zhao, Zhao would not only be too late to digest the annexed Wei lands, but also fall into the abyss of tug-of-war, which was very unfavorable to Zhao.
Zhao Xuan sent Wu Milling to Wu Wangdu condolences, is to play the idea of negotiation and peace, of course, can be the mouth of the throat back to the best, not to return, the mouth of the throat as the boundary, the division of Zhao-Wu border line.
After Wu and Zhao's emissaries reached an agreement to encroach on Wei and coexist peacefully, and demarcated the border line between the two countries, Chu Chao Hui hurriedly issued two orders, one was to stop recruiting new soldiers, and the other one was to stop hiring merchants to transport masonry and soil to the northern avenue.