The king of Chu liked hundred of plays, and the most favorite among the hundred of plays was jiaolai play, so the hundred officials of Chu threw themselves into the king's favor and tried their best to find wonderful jiaolai plays to please the king of Chu. On this day, a merchant of Wu Kingdom offered a novel Jiao Dai Opera for the King of Chu to enjoy through Zuo Da Fu. The king of Chu favored Zuo Daifu and accepted his recommendation, so he held a banquet in the palace and gathered all the ministers of the king's court and his concubines' young children to watch it.
Jiaojia opera is derived from primitive people fighting with wild beasts. Generally speaking, there are two artists wearing masks to decorate warriors and beasts, and they compete with each other, deciding the winner by the strength of their power.
The performance method of the Jiao Dai Opera presented by Wu merchants is very different from that of the past, in that the performers do not compete with each other, but rather focus on the content of the performance. The performance process is also different from the past as only a simple accompaniment of gongs and drums, the whole process of mixing a variety of music, rare is that the role in the performance process also said lines, so that the viewer understands what is happening in the theater.
The show opened with a warrior without make-up, only full body armor, wearing a sword, claiming to be Wu Sung, traveled around the vassal states for six years to return home, and in the evening traveled to the vicinity of a hillock, hungry, want to find a village to buy some food.
After selling food to Wu Sung, the villagers kindly advised Wu Sung not to go forward, informing him that there was a vicious tiger in front of him, which had already injured countless people, and the people could not defeat it by encircling and fighting it, so they had to walk around the Gang. The villagers advised Wu Song to stay at their house. Wu Sung suspected that the village people want to get more money from him, immediately ignored, ate and went on the road by himself.
Walked to the place called Jing Yang Gang, Wu Sung sat down for a nap, drink from the village people that exchange of green wine, do not want to this green wine flavor is very good, Wu Sung will be three gourds of green wine all drink all, drink all the wine after the onset of force, looking for a piece of smooth green stone, lie down on your back ready to sleep. At this time, the dubbing of the urgent pipes and strings, the sound of music and tension, the rain is coming, a big tiger with white eyes in the wind whistling pounced over.
Eyes white tiger appeared, the king of Chu monarchs and ministers were startled, around the service of the concubine and the maid is even more scared of the blossom of color, because the eyes white tiger makeup is too much like, as if the real tiger in front of the face.
People and tigers meet, the sound of music is thrilling, and everyone is scared and worried about the warrior Wu Sung. Drunken Wu Sung lost his weapon and fought with the white tiger with his empty hands and fists, and the process of the fight was thrilling and thrilling, hitting people's heartstrings, and Wu Sung finally won the battle with his bravery.
At the end of the performance, the king of Chu was the first to clap the table and applaud, followed by the ministers, and the performers were rewarded with very generous gifts.
"Love, I wonder where Wu Song is? I would like to summon the warrior." The King of Chu sidled up to his favorite minister, Zuo Daifu, and inquired.
Wusong in the offset theater is set as a Chu man, and the wine that Wusong drinks is the famous Chu wine, green wine, which enhances the authenticity of the performance, plus the lines are so well written that the King of Chu thinks that Wusong fights the tiger is really true.
The left doctor froze, he did not expect the king of Chu will take the hundred against the play seriously, a moment to think, rise to flatter: "The king of the arrows shot a tiger, valor is stronger than Wu Sung, the artist is just based on this performance. Because of the king's bravery, the country's Huben brave people abound, Wu Song is our country's Huben!"
King of Chu when he was young hunting encountered tiger, tiger by the King of Chu and the guards of the arrow shot to death, the tiger in the body of a hundred arrows, like a hedgehog, the King of Chu with the same arrows and the guards, he shot the arrow has not set up in no one knows. But at that time the people present all cheered is the king of Chu will tiger shot dead.
"Haha, Ai Qing is really not humble!" The King of Chu was very happy as he held his goatee beard.
"The humble servant is only telling the truth. It won't be like the self aggrandizement of Zhao's subjects, boasting about their Crown Prince Zhao Xuan's bravery like a heavenly being." Zuo Daifu's words changed and pulled to Zhao Xuan.
As soon as the King of Chu heard the word Zhao Xuan, his face showed his displeasure: "But it's just a brat who doesn't know the heights of heaven."
"The Great King should teach a lesson to the boy who doesn't know the sky and the earth." Zuo Daifu advanced.
The King of Chu meditated for a moment and shook his head, "It's not worth it to make a fuss over a cocky kid."
The king of Chu was eager to teach Zhao a lesson, but as the king of a country, he understood that the whole country must be poured into Zhao in order to win.
"To teach Zhao Xuan a lesson, why do you need the King to do it himself!" The right doctor sitting at the banquet table suddenly rose to admonish, the right doctor is different from the left doctor who was favored by the king of Chu and climbed up to the position of the doctor, the right doctor comes from a big family, is the representative of the big family of Chu in the royal court. The right doctor doesn't open his mouth easily, if he remonstrates, the king of Chu will generally pay attention to it.
"Oh, aiqing have good plan?" Although the king of Chu is becoming more and more mediocre, in his heart, he is still clear that the right doctor is more capable than the left doctor.
"The Duke of Wei was framed by Zhao Xuan for the destruction of his country and his family, and he wants to eat his flesh. If the king lends him his troops and horses, Duke Shih will go all out to seek revenge on Zhao, and Zhao Xuan will be taught a lesson."
The feud between Zhao and Chu was actually a dispute over the interests of the nobles in power between Zhao and Chu. As the representative of a major family in Chu, the Right Honorable Doctor, of course, did not have a favorable opinion of Zhao Xuan. When the Wu merchants persuaded the Right Honorable Doctor to go to the king of Chu to help Gongzi Xie, the Right Honorable Doctor immediately agreed.
"There have been many natural disasters in the past few years, and I don't want to impose more taxes."
The king of Chu frowned, lending troops to Gongzi Xie to conquer Zhao was tantamount to Chu providing troops and financial resources for Gongzi Xie, in which case the price paid by Chu was too great for the king of Chu to be happy.
"Your majesty, you can lease the troops and horses to Gongzi Shi, so that Chu will not only not spend money on military expenses, but also benefit." Zuo Daifu suddenly stood up to speak.
The king of Chu's eyes lit up, and he deeply felt that this was a good idea, Chu didn't spend any money, and could still earn rent while making Zhao Xuan suffer, it was really a good plan.
The right doctor surprised to look at the left doctor, the two are political rivals, in front of the king of Chu has always dragged each other back, the right doctor did not expect the left doctor will come forward to agree with his proposal, but also put forward feasible programs for this.
Because the two forces of the right and left daofengs were in agreement, the court of the king of Chu unprecedentedly appeared as one voice, all in favor of supporting the duke to take revenge by means of the Chu soldiers.
"Renting troops and horses with me?" Gongzi Yi was overjoyed after hearing the words of the Wei Clan's patriarch, and after being overjoyed, Gongzi Yi remembered his own financial resources, and immediately turned gloomy and sighed heavily. "Where does Yi still have things outside of his body."
Duke fit himself down and out, all rely on the followers of the Wei clan offerings, Wei clan brought to the state of Chu, although more property, but in addition to the offerings of the Duke fit, but also in the Chu king's court up and down the point, three years later, Wei's money scattered half, rely on Wei's financial strength is now unable to lease with the state of Chu to the soldiers, even if barely pay the lease fee, the soldiers of the grain and grass supplies can not be resolved. The way Chu agreed to help is just a piece of fragrant pie that can be seen but not touched for Gongzi Xie.
"Your Excellency, don't be discouraged, my Wei clan is willing to go all out, this is the clan brother Wei Shu Qing who has taken refuge in Wu, the clan brother has quite a fortune in business in Wu, he is willing to offer all of his family's wealth to your Excellency for the restoration of the country!" The Wei Clan patriarch pointed to the man in his forties, who came in with him, and introduced him.
"Are you willing to offer all of your family's assets?" Gongzi Xie had a bit of a feeling of gold cake falling from the sky.
"Your Excellency, after the fall of Wei, I and my clan took refuge in Kang City, in order to earn money to fund your Excellency to carry out the restoration of the country, Shu Qing is not talented, three years of operation only to get the money of three hundred thousand gold, I wish that the thin capital can help your Excellency." Wei Shu Qing respectfully went up and saluted, this 300,000 gold all provided by Huang Zhong, Huang Zhong came to Chu, he himself did not appear, only in the curtain command.
"Three hundred thousand gold?" Duke Yi's eyes widened, and after a moment he suddenly laughed wildly up in the air. "Haha, Wei is sent from heaven to assist Yin, with a huge sum of three hundred thousand gold, it is feasible to borrow troops to attack Zhao!" The royal family of Wei was surnamed Yin.
Gongzi Xie laughed and then cried, the revenge of the family and the country has been avenged, so that he was in a thrilled mood. Next to him, Wei Shuqing saw Gongzi Xie's crazy appearance, and couldn't help but secretly shake his head, and once again, he was glad that he and the Wei patriarch parted ways and went to settle in the Wu Kingdom.
"Duke, the State of Zhao has a friendly alliance with the State of Wu, and I hope that the matter of Shu Qing's gold offering will not be leaked out." Wei Shu Qing waited for the duke's appropriate emotions to calm down a little and went forward to demand.
"Wu even allied with jackals..." Gongzi Xie's face was not happy, when he thought that Wei and Wu had a good relationship, when Wei was invaded by Zhao Xuan, Wu not only didn't send troops to help the royal family of Wei, but also took the opportunity to grab the mouth of the throat, Gongzi Xie had a lot of opinions about Wu. Duke Xie had completely forgotten that Wei had first done something wrong to Wu when it lent its way to Zhao to attack Wu.
Wei Shuqing's face looked helpless, "Your Excellency, my Wei family still has to do business in Wu to earn more coins, which will be used to fund your Excellency's great cause of restoring the country. The Kangcheng Wei family cannot expose their identity!"
"Not bad, the matter of clan brother's funding should not be known to the Wu people, it is necessary to keep it a secret." Clan Chief Wei agreed, this time borrowing troops to attack Zhao is not yet known to be victorious, Wei Shu Qing's financial path there cannot be cut off.
"Oh, that's right, I understand, Qing endured the humiliation for the sake of Wei, and after the restoration of the country, I will honor the Wei family!" After listening to the explanation, Duke Suit realized the benefits, and immediately agreed not to disclose the matter of the Wei family's financial support in Kangcheng to anyone.
Since he was able to get soldiers and horses to attack Zhao, he had to formulate a battle plan to attack Zhao, but Gongzi Xie had no desire for revenge but no ability to fight and deploy troops. He was at a loss as to what to do with the map in front of him. The Wei patriarch was a man of letters, just like Gongzi Xie, he had no idea of how to fight a war.
"Gongzi don't be in a hurry, Shu Qing has a good friend who was originally a warlike Huben general officer of Wu, now forced to retire, dissatisfied with the court of the King of Wu, this time following Shu Qing to Chu, just want to serve for Gongzi to win prospects." Wei Shu Qing recommended to Gongzi Shi.
"Oh, where is this man? Quickly have an invitation?" The Duke was fitfully pleased; he was here to sleep, and there a pillow was brought for him.
"This man is just outside the door, Shu Qing will go and ask him to come in and help the Prince."
Wei Shuqing brought less than thirty years old, born stout, demeanor and action with the style of the military.
"Zuo Yi, meet Your Excellency, meet Patriarch Wei!"
"Zuo Yi, can you march and fight?" Gongzi Shi was satisfied with Zuo Yi's appearance.
"Zuo is familiar with military books and led the army for the late king." The late king in Zuo Yi's mouth referred to Gongzi Guang's father.
"If you lead an army, how will you conquer Zhao?" Gongzi Xie pointed to the map.
Zuo Yi came to the map and looked at it for a moment, and immediately had a plan. "Your Excellency, the best path for Your Excellency to attack Zhao is to borrow the road with Chen, Chen is afraid of offending Zhao, so I think it won't agree to Your Excellency's request, since there is no hope for borrowing the road, Zuo will attack Zhao from this place."
The place Zuo Yi pointed to was the Zhao-Chu border junction area, which was separated by a mountain range.
"There are large mountains blocking the way there, and the soldiers and horses cannot pass through." Gongzi Suit shook his head.
"There is a river here that crosses a large mountain, so the soldiers and horses can reach the Zhao border with the help of boats. After the soldiers and horses land, the boats stay here to receive them." Zuo Yi pointed to a tributary of a long river that crossed the mountains of the Zhao-Chu border.
"Where to find a large ship to carry?" Duke fit worried, Chu's largest ship but eight hundred material, can only carry dozens of people, this kind of big ship or military ship, the largest civilian ship is even smaller, are less than five hundred material.
It was again Wei Shuqing who relieved Gongzi Shi's worries: "My lord, don't worry, Shuqing can go to Wu to buy a large ship, which has thousands of materials and is sufficient to carry soldiers, horses and provisions."
Gongzi Xie stroked his palm in great joy, "Good! After this Duke rents troops and horses from the King of Chu, he will use General Zuo as the vanguard of restoration!"
After dark, in a room of a deep house, Huang Zhong was receiving his men, who were clearly the two merchants who had gone to lobby and bribe the right and left daimyo of Chu, the entertainer who had performed the Jiao Dai opera for the king of Chu, and Zuo Yi, who had been appointed vanguard by the duke, Yi.