This is the second time that Zhao Xuan meets with Chu Chao Hui, the first time was at the Dacheng stagecoach, and Zhao Xuan was injured on both occasions. This time, the injury is very serious, Zhao Xuan is lying on a stretcher to meet with Chu Chao Hui.
"Lord Zhao, we meet again!" Chu Chao Hui saw Zhao Xuan amiably, with a smiling face.
"Luckily, Yudi saved me and was able to see Great General Chu again."
Zhao Xuan barely want to take out the momentum, but because the wound is too painful, lying on the stretcher can not move, can only lie flat to talk to Chu Chao Hui, Chu Chao Hui high gaze.
Chu Chao Hui smiling eyes glanced down beside Zheng Yuming, Zheng Yuming immediately felt numb back. Leave Zhao Xuan life is Zheng Yuming private master, for fear of Chu Chao Hui misunderstanding, Zheng Yuming has left the benefits of Zhao Xuan, wrote a detailed letter one by one with Chu Chao Hui instructions.
"Alas! My Yuming is just too soft-hearted, always acting righteously, and I don't know if those who are favored by him will appreciate it!" Chu Chao Hui sighed longingly.
Zhao Xuan remembered that his injured horse almost caused Zheng Yuming to lose his life, so he couldn't help but blush. He arched his hand towards Chu Chao Hui on the stretcher: "Mr. Ming's great kindness, Xuan will never forget it, but if there is anything that can be done to Xuan, please ask Mr. Ming to do so."
Chu Chaohui stared at Zhao Xuan for a long time before slightly skimming his lips, "These words of Lord Zhao's will be kept in mind by Chu! I'm afraid that the farmer who saved the snake was bitten by the snake instead!"
Zhao Xuan was still thinking about Wu helping him to retake Zhao at this time, firstly, he was favored and secondly, he had a request, so he put up with Chu Chao Hui's dark sarcasm and clenched his teeth and swore a poisonous oath: "If Zhao Xuan wrongs Duke Ming even a little bit, he'll be struck by heavenly thunder, and his children and grandchildren will be condemned by that day!"
Zheng Yuming pinched Chu Chaohui's hand, signaling Chu Chaohui not to squeeze Zhao Xuan too much, after all, he still needed Zhao Xuan for the annexation of Zhao.
Chu Chao Hui was angry to learn that Zheng Yuming left Zhao Xuan alive, but he also understood that with Zhao Xuan in his hands, annexing Zhao would become very easy. So angry as he was, Chu Chao Hui still accepted Zheng Yuming's point of view and readjusted his plan for Zhao.
Zhao Xuan was carried by Wu soldiers into a city near the Great River to recuperate, along with his men who had not yet fully recovered. Zhao Xuan will recuperate for a few days in the city of Tangdi, and when his injuries have healed a bit, he will go to Kang City with the flotilla.
The wounded were all carried away first, before Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui stepped onto the battleship planks hand in hand.
"Wood!" Zheng Yuming reached the shore and mounted his horse, walked a few steps, realized that Woody was not beside him, and hurriedly turned back to look for him.
The wood did not follow Zheng Yuming, it was still squatting on the bow of the boat, gazing across the big river with its head held high.
"Wood! Woody! , we have to get out of here!" Zheng Yuming yelled at Woody.
Woody heard his master call, turned back and wagged his tail, then turned his head again, staring intently across the river.
"What's going on?" Chu Chao Hui felt that the wood was very strange.
"Could it be that Long Sideburn Hair has followed them?" Zheng Yuming guessed.
"The same wild dog that saved you and Zhao Xuan?" Chu Chao Hui had long since received Huang Zhong's flying pigeon message and knew that Zheng Yuming had been saved by Woody and Long Sideburn Hair in front of the deep ravine.
"Uh-huh! That's a very eccentric and beautiful dog." Jung Yuming nodded.
When Xu Guo boarded the ship, Zheng Yuming wanted to take Long Sideburns with him, but Long Sideburns refused to get close to him. Huang Zhong had designed to use wood to trap Long Sideburns and tried to force them to board the ship. Unfortunately, Long Sideburns was very smart and always stopped before the trap.
Since Long Temples refused to give in, Zheng Yuming had no choice but to set sail. In the first two days, the people on the warship could always see the long sideburns running along the river, but after the warship entered the Qi state, there was no sign of the long sideburns.
Woody, who had not seen his long sideburns appear along the riverbank for several days in a row, began to grow unhinged, and this time went ashore, crouching stubbornly in the bow of the boat and refusing to leave.
"Let Woody squat here for two days, maybe the dog will come after him over the mountains." Chu Chaohui suggested.
"I'd rather that dog not come after me." Zheng Yuming was worried, there were starving people all over Qilu and Lu, even if Long Sideburn Hair was smart, how could it hide from those humans whose eyes were green with hunger?
"That long sideburned hair is only worthy of our wood if it has the ability to chase it here." Chu Chao Hui relieved Zheng Yuming.
"I still don't know if that long sideburns hair is male or female!" Zheng Yuming lowered his voice and told Chu Chao Hui. It was almost dark by the deep ravine, and the hair on the long sideburns was long, so even though Zheng Yuming was in close contact with the long sideburns, he still didn't see the gender of the long sideburns.
"Huh?" Chu Chao Hui was stunned. Wood's sexual orientation was also different from that of ordinary dogs?
Wood refused to leave, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui had to instruct the soldiers on the battleship to take care of it. Separated from two months miss, Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming this pair of husband and wife after the bath rolled to bed. In the middle of the night Chu Chaohui out of the room to bring some food, two couples to feed their stomachs to continue the human war, vowed to accumulate the remaining two months of bullets before giving up.
The next morning, a refreshed Fufu opened his bedroom and was surprised to find Woody squatting in the yard with a wild dog of unkempt appearance. Woody didn't mind the dog's filth at all, and was always not touching it with his head, the scruffy dog responding to the same action every time.
"Is that long sideburns?" Zheng Yuming exclaimed as he pointed at the scruffy dog.
"My lord, it seems to be oh!" Da Niu had already squatted near the two dogs and studied them for half a day, judging from the length of the remaining dog hair on the scruffy dog, the dirty dog had precisely long sideburns.
"What a brave dog, worthy of our family wood!" Chu Chaohui praised, being able to pass through the two hellish countries of Qilu in one piece proved Long Sideburns' ability.
Long Sideburn Hair was starving and swallowed two roasted chickens to satiate his stomach. Long temples hair body is too dirty, the hair must have parasites because of the dirt, and with the wood, the wood body can not be spared. Both dogs had to be washed heavily with medicated water, and how to bathe Long Temples became a problem again.
Da Niu, Chu Chao Hui, and the soldiers could not get close to the long sideburns, and the long sideburns were only not very resistant to Zheng Yuming. In the end, Zheng Yuming first gave the wood a bath and washed it for Long Temples Hair to watch, so that Long Temples Hair felt that the bath was not dangerous.
Then with the help of the wood, Zheng Yuming pressed the long sideburns hair, gave a thorough cleaning. This cleaning, Zheng Yuming figured out the long sideburns hair gender, long sideburns hair appearance formidable, but an uncompromising female dog.
While staying in Tangdi to recuperate, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui met with the officers gathered in Tangdi and told them to be ready to fight at any time, and as soon as the time was ripe, the 70,000 to 80,000 troops in Tangdi would move north.
A week later, Zheng Chu returned to Kang Cheng on a ship with his envoys and the injured members of Zhao Xuan's monarch and officials, and King Sheng of Wu led his ministers to greet him at the Gao Ma ferry. King Sheng of Wu became a father in the middle of May, and Queen Tian gave birth to a son named Beginning, a name agreed upon by Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui, meaning that Great Wu's quest for the world began with the birth of this son.
When Zhao Xuan arrived at the pier, he was surprised to see his beloved consort, your daughter, standing on the shore with her son, Zhao Jing, next to the family members of Wu Mu Bo Yao. Wu's spies in Zhao had used every possible means to smuggle your daughter and her family out of Zhao before the King of Yan arrived at the Zhao capital. However, when Wen Zai heard that the Right Honorable Minister had colluded with the Queen of Zhao to rebel, he was so anxious that his condition worsened and he died in less than a day.
While Zhao Xuan was recovering from his injuries, he was very concerned about his two young sons. The eldest son, Zhao Rui, had his mother to defend him, so Zhao Xuan didn't worry about his well-being, but only worried that Zhao Rui would be crookedly raised by his brain-damaged mother. For his younger son, Zhao Jing, Zhao Xuan is very, very worried. With Queen Zhao in control, your daughter's mother and son would not have a good outcome. Thinking that his cute and smart youngest son might have met an untimely end, Zhao Xuan's heart was like a knife, and in his heart, he had already cursed Yan Ji a million times.
Now seeing that his son's favorite concubine is safe and sound, and the families of his two beloved subjects are also out of danger, Zhao Xuan is truly grateful to Chu Chao Hui.
Zhao Xuan, who was grateful to Chu Chaohui, stayed in the mansion that was arranged specifically for him, and that bit of gratitude immediately dissipated after seeing the two people who were in the compound.
Chu Chao Hui was too thoughtful, not only did he save Zhao Xuan's young wife and concubine son, but he also rescued the two male pets he kept in the backyard of the Zhao King's Palace and placed them here as well.
In the seventh month of the fourth year of King Sheng of Wu's reign, Wu sent 40,000 troops from the mouth of the throat to attack the state of Zhao, and all the soldiers at the border between Zhao and Wu surrendered. Duke Shi, who had been rioting in the southern part of Zhao, suddenly led his troops back to Chu. The 30,000 Zhao soldiers led by Bo Yao were able to escape and swung north to respond to Wu's action. Nobles loyal to Zhao Xuan in all parts of Zhao rose up against the King of Yan and the Right Hand of the Emperor.
The king of Yan, who had only 10,000 soldiers and horses in Zhao, saw the situation become bad, and on balance, he searched the money in the palace of the king of Zhao, took his sister and nephew and left the capital of Zhao, and took the road from Qi to return to Yan. The soldiers of Wu were invincible all the way and arrived at the king's capital of Zhao in just half a month.
Seeing that the situation was over, the Right Honorable Minister of the State of Zhao rode his horse to Mount Li alone and hanged himself on a balsam camphor tree before the soldiers of Wu arrived at the royal capital. His dream of restoring the fief was shattered after only two months.
Bo Yao led 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack back to the capital, the capital of the king of Zhao had been occupied by Wu soldiers, and standing on the castle tower of the king's capital was Bo Yao's old acquaintance, Wei Qing.
Wei Qing did not satirize Bo Yao this time, instead he smiled and ordered people to open the city gate and personally came out to greet Bo Yao. While welcoming Bo Yao, he handed over a handwritten letter from Zhao Xuan, which requested Bo Yao to hand over his marshal seal and go to Kang City single to meet Zhao Xuan.
While Zhao Xuan was recuperating in Kangcheng, he realized that Wu's slogan of using military force against Zhao was to seek justice for him, but his movement was restricted everywhere. When Chu Chao Hui comes to ask him to write a letter to Bo Yao to release his power, Zhao Xuan realizes that he has become a tool for Wu to annex Zhao.
If Zhao Xuan was on his own, he would not have listened to Chu Chao Hui's request, but his concubine and his young son and his beloved family members were all in Wu, all hostages, and Zhao Xuan, under his scruples, was forced to send a letter to Bo Yao in his own handwriting as Chu Chao Hui requested.
After Zhao Xuan finished writing the letter, he still had a little hope in his heart, hoping that Bo Yao would not be too obedient and loyal to himself, and that he would be able to save 30,000 soldiers and horses, and return to the south to hold fast, so as to save some leverage for himself to restore his community.
Seeing Bak Yiu, who is alone and seeking an audience, Zhao Xuan is greatly disappointed that his dream of restoring the country has no last resort to rely on.
"Bo Yao is ashamed of the Lord, Bo Yao deserves to die!" As soon as Bo Yao saw Zhao Xuan, he fell on his head and bowed, hugging Bo Yao's thigh and crying bitterly.
"Alas! The sin is not on thee, it's all God's will!" Zhao Xuan let out a long sigh.
"Before Bo Yao came to see the Lord, Great General Chu had revealed to Micronauts that Micronauts would lead the army in the future attack on Yan!" Bo Yao looked excited. To say who did Bo Yao hate the most? It was none other than the King of Yan. Chu Chao Hui promised to let Bo Yao go to Yan to take revenge in the future, of course Bo Yao was happy.
Zhao Xuan was silent, this Chu Zhaohui wouldn't stop until he had squeezed a person's abilities cleanly.
When Wu used troops against Zhao, the two major newspapers of Wu wrote successive reports exposing the despicable King of Yan and praising the justice of Wu's troop deployment. The lords and nobles of Xu were powerful witnesses to Zhao Xuan's murder by King Yan. Both newspapers sent people to interview the King of Xu and published his oral statement.
The two events of Yan's plot to seize the Zhao family's territory and Wu's courage in sending troops to restore the country for Zhao Xuan were widely rumored in Great Qin. At the time, people believed that Wu was acting in a righteous manner, and that it was another instance of gratuitous help.
When the King of Yan was driven away by the Wu soldiers, the Wu newspapers published the Zhao Xuan affirmation, which stated that Zhao Xuan was too seriously injured and would recuperate in Wu until he recovered, and that at this stage, the Lord of Zhao would not return to his country.
The people of Great Qin were convinced of the newspaper reports. In the middle of August, the kings of Qi and Lu asked Wu for help at about the same time, hoping that Wu would send troops to help their countries to quell the chaos.
Chu Chaohui, who was already prepared to take action against Qilu, was overjoyed, and originally wanted to create an excuse for the refugees from Qilu to harass the borders of Zhao and Wu, and to use troops against Qilu. Now there are these two kingdoms take the initiative to ask for help, it is really a good reason to send troops.
Using troops against three countries at once, the whole country of Wu turned like a gyroscope, workers canceled their vacations, and discharged soldiers were re-enlisted. Merchants were busy shipping goods.
In order to raise enough money to run the war, Jung Yu-ming once again issued bonds, this time in huge amounts.
The people of the Ulsan region had tasted the sweetness of buying bonds, and the people of this region were also the richest, so as soon as the bonds were issued, all sectors of Ulsan purchased them enthusiastically. The total amount of 5 million gold dollars of bonds was digested by one third in Ulsan.
Because Wu had a good reputation, noble merchants from Chu, Chen and other vassal states also purchased a lot of them. The money changer in charge of the issuance of the bonds later counted that 1 million of the Wu bonds were purchased by people outside the country.
Although the kings of Qi and Lu were taking the initiative to ask for help, Chu Chao Hui was not prepared to really go to their aid. These two monarchs were not as valuable as Zhao Xuan, and Wu did not need them alive.
Receiving a letter of distress from Qi Lu in mid-August, the Wu soldiers waiting at the border waited until September to act. By this time, most of the domestic areas of Qi and Lu had been controlled by the uprising refugees, and in the areas controlled by the uprising refugees, the nobles were basically decimated. The Wu army threw out the slogans of "a field for those who plow and a house for those who live" to persuade the refugees to lay down their weapons and defect.
Most of the spies sent by Wu in Qi and Lu were already leaders of the volunteers, and with their cooperation in doing ideological work among the volunteers, the refugees, who had been trying to survive, put down their weapons and surrendered to the Wu army.
There were those volunteers who refused to give in, and the Wu army did not fight them head-on, but only drove them to the vicinity of the capitals of Qi and Lu.
In the middle of October, when the west wind blew across the land of Qilu, the two kingdoms of Qilu were successively captured by the volunteers, and the royal nobles of Qilu and Qilu died tragically at the hands of the volunteers.
The princes and nobles of the royal court of Qilu were only killed by the righteous army when the elite soldiers of Wu arrived in large numbers. The volunteers were a group of farmers who formed a scattered army, while the Wu soldiers were professional soldiers who had gone through systematic training, and the weapons of the volunteers and the Wu team were not in the same class at all, so when the two armies fought, the defeat of the volunteers was doomed.
When the righteous army was defeated, the leaders and minions of the righteous army who still refused to surrender were executed, and some of the leaders and the others were escorted back to Wu and sent to the mines for labor and rehabilitation.
In November, Wu fully occupied Qi and Lu. Since the kings of these two countries had died, these two countries, like Tang, had become the territory of Wu. The Kingdom of Zhao still retained its name, but the local administration had been changed to the Wu style, and the Zhao king still stayed in Kangcheng, the Kingdom of Zhao existed in name only.
Wu annexed three powerful states in one breath and did not stop annexing. In the summer of the fifth year of King Sheng of Wu, an army of 80,000 men led by Wei Qing, Zhou Cheng and Bo Yao attacked Yan. The state of Yan sustained for three months and broke up, and the king of Yan died in battle.
Bo Yao led his soldiers to search for Yan Ji and Zhao Rui in the palace of King Yan, and Bo Yao had to bring Zhao Rui back to Wu.
The Yan Ji that Bo Yao saw had gone crazy, she had been holding a swaddling cloth in her hands, patting and calling out 'Rui'er'.
Bo Yao snatched it and found that the swaddling clothes were nothing more than cotton wool wrapped into, not a baby at all, but Yan Ji frantically snatched it and held it in her arms and tenderly coaxed it.
Bo Yao tortured Yan Ji's maid to find out. Zhao Rui was shocked when he followed the king of Yan back to his country, and he fell ill when he arrived at Yan land, and he died of illness in the following spring.
The sword that Bo Yao raised gestured several times at the crazy woman in front of him, but he finally put it down and turned away with his soldiers. By the time people remembered Yan Ji again, Yan Ji had already disappeared from the Yan King's Palace. Some said that she had thrown herself into the river, while others said that she had strayed outside the palace. How exactly, people paid little attention at all to this woman who had become unhinged.
Wei Qing was doing his old tricks at the Yan Palace this time, packing up all the gold and silver treasures and transporting them back to Wu.
There were very many belongings in the Yan King's Palace, as a large portion of them had been moved from Zhao. Even though most of the belongings originally belonged to Zhao Xuan, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui would not return them to Zhao Xuan. It would take a very large amount of money to rebuild the three Qi Lu Yan countries, and besides, it wouldn't be a good thing for Zhao Xuan to have more money and would be thinking about restoring his Zhao family's community.
After Wu occupied Qi and Lu, the praises of Great Qin's vassals for Wu came to a crashing halt, and with the capture of Yan, Great Qin's vassals were already trembling with fear. Many of the vassals bordering Wu's existing lands began to fear Wu, and were very afraid that Wu's annexation guns would be aimed at them.
To the delight of the lords, Wu did not make another move after annexing Yan, but concentrated on building up the whole territory.
In the seventh year of King Sheng of Wu, production was restored in Qi Lu Yan and the people's life was stabilized. The economy of Wu itself and the Tang and Zhao regions developed rapidly. In developing areas, primary and secondary schools and universities were commonly set up, and in developing areas, schools were gradually set up.
In the fall of the eighth year of King Wu's sheng, the northern nomads once again allied themselves to the south to loot. The Rong people did not spare Haojing this time; they broke through the stronghold of Xiguankou and besieged it with more than 30,000 men. Seeing that the situation was not good, Ying Zhai organized his men to resist while asking the surrounding lords for help.
Unfortunately, none of the vassal states around Haojing was strong enough to send troops to help Jin Zhai. By the time Wu learned the news and was ready to send troops, Haojing had already been captured by the Rong people, and Ying Zhai was martyred at the sacrificial platform with hundreds of members of the royal family of the Win Clan.
Before his death, Weng Zhai hated all the lords who refused to send troops, and the only one he had good feelings for was Wu. Because even though Wu had become a veritable hegemon, it always treated him, the son of heaven, with respect, sending valuable tributes year after year, and King Sheng of Wu and Zheng Yuming had greetings and letters year after year.
Knowing that he could not preserve the state, Ying Zhai hid the Nine Cauldrons and instructed his close friends to send a letter to the state of Wu. Win Zhai left the Nine Cauldrons to the state of Wu.
The soldiers and horses of Wu Kingdom rushed to Haojing, drove and killed the Rong people out of the West Pass, and raised the Nine Cauldrons from the Royal Pond of the King's Palace. In this year, Zhao Xuan began to serve Wu.
A year before Wu got the Nine Cauldrons, the old king of Chu had just died, and since he had not appointed an heir to the throne during his lifetime, the six sons of the king began to fight for the throne. After half a year's struggle, the eldest son, Ur, joined his third brother to take the throne.
Since there was no more Son of Heaven, King Ur of Chu simply called himself the Son of Heaven. Seeing that Chu did so, Chen followed suit and also named himself Emperor of Heaven. Some small and medium-sized vassals were moved by this, and the bold ones followed the trend of self-establishment, while the timid ones secretly claimed the title of Emperor.
Seeing that each of the vassals claimed the title of Son of Heaven, Wu lit up the Nine Cauldrons and proclaimed that Wu was the successor to the Great Qin Kingdom. He ordered all the vassals to cancel the title of Son of Heaven and submit to Wu.
King Ur of Chu, who had only been the son of heaven for half a year and had not yet had enough of it, was the first to jump out to oppose it. The king of Chen, who had always been honest, followed suit, and the two countries formed an alliance to fight against Wu.
In the 10th year of King Sheng of Wu, Wu used troops against Chu Chen, and half a year later, Wu took Chu Chen. In the 11th year of King Sheng of Wu, Wu used military force against the northern vassal states. The king of Xu was wise, he knew that he could not keep Xu, so he made a deal with Wu, he sold Xu to Wu for one million gold dollars, and he moved to Kang with his royal family, and became a rich man who did not worry about food and drink.
There were more and more lords who sold their countries cheaply when Xu Guo started, only that their land area was too small, and these small lords could not get much coins according to the proportionate pricing of Xu Guo's land area.
In the twelfth year of King Sheng of Wu, the Kingdom of Wu unified the Great Qin. In that year, the Kingdom of Wu changed its name to Hua Han, historically known as the Hua Han Empire, and the King of Wu was honored as the Great Emperor, and its nationals were referred to as Chinese and Han Chinese by those outside the country. The institutions of the royal court were reformed, with the establishment of a Premier and Grand Marshal under the Great Emperor, and the separation of legislative and law enforcement institutions. Zheng Yuming was the first Premier and Chu Chao Hui was the first Grand Marshal.
The first year of the Great Emperor was set as the starting point of the chronology, and in later times this chronology was adopted by the entire planet.
In the 10th year of the Great Emperor, the 10th year of the AD, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui both resigned from their public positions and returned to Minghui Valley to focus on their academic writings. The person who took over Zheng Yuming's position as Premier was Zhao Xuan, the Grand Marshal was Wei Qing, and Huo Sizhong was the Vice Premier.
In addition to the hereditary head of the governmental institutions in Hua Han, other officials are elected from all walks of life, because Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui term did not exceed ten years, the term of office of the head of government is ten years as the longest.
In the thirty-first year of the Great Emperor's reign, the Empress died of illness, and the Great Emperor, overwhelmed with grief, trailed off that year. The Crown Prince succeeded to the throne. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui were honored as saints by the First Emperor.
The first emperor succeeded to the throne of six years, Ming Hui valley suddenly exploded, people rushed to the valley villa was blown into ruins, ask the people of the valley, only to know that Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui with a group of henchmen and wood, in five giant ships out to sea.
Since then, people have not seen Zheng Chu figure in Da Qin, only the merchants of the voyage said that they had met the two saints at sea, the two saints turned into a legend.
A hundred years later, people began to put the two saints' tablets on their sacrifices, and Zhao Xuan, who bowed for Hua Han, was honored as a sub-saint and also took his place on the sacrifices.
Author's Note: This is the end of the main text, followed by extras for various characters in the book, this time there are more extras.