Daqin: Assist Zulong at the beginning and become a public enemy

Chapter 466 Changes in Chu State
Chapter 476 Changes in Chu State
The former place of Chu State in the south of the Great Qin River, the new capital city of Chu, Shouchun.

Since the founding of the new state of Chu, this old palace that once belonged to the monarch of the state of Chu has been cleaned up. Although it is not much worse than the Great Qin Xianyang Palace, it is already the best palace compared to the state of Chu. up.

Today, there are no empty seats in the huge Chu Palace.

On the left side of the main hall, the Great General, Da Sima, Shangzhu State, and Xiang Yu are the first on the left. Below Xiang Yu are Zuo Sima, Zhu State Song Yi, and then Right Sima, Zhu State Wu Rui, and Zhu State Fan Zeng. General Longqi, General Yingbu, and more than ten Baiyue elders who followed Wu Rui and returned to Chu State were appointed officials and knighted by the King of Chu.

On the right side of the main hall, Ling Yin Zhaotong ranks first on the right, and under Zhaotong are Zuo Yin Xiangbo, Right Yin Jingtong, and more than ten officials of the old Chu family aristocrats attached to the Zhaoqujing clan and after the new Chu was established.

On the left and right sides of the main hall, there are hundreds of civil and military officials, with a clear distinction between Wei and Wei.

After Long Qie was defeated and the Four Kingdoms' joint attack on Qin failed and they returned to Shouchun, the honeymoon period between the Xiang family and Zhao Qujing, the three old Chu families, was really over.

The two sides competed for a series of official positions in the court hall, no less than fighting on the battlefield.

After a series of fights, the two sides have their own winners and losers in terms of the pattern.

Although the Xiang clan still controls more than [-]% of the new Chu's military force, under the persecution of the Zhao Qujing clan, Song Yi, who had already worn the same pair of trousers as the Zhao Qujing clan, was forced into Xiang Yu's subordinates and became the name of the present state of Chu. Second only to Xiang Yu's second-in-command in the military.

Among the civil servants, in order to gain the support of the three clans, Xiang Yu retreated and gave up the position of Ling Yin to Zhaotong.Now Xiang Bo is only temporarily serving as a deputy, but in the civil service system under the control of the huge clan, Xiang Bo's position has basically become a idle job.

In addition to these, the places occupied by Chu State, except for the county guard and county magistrate of Kuaiji, the hometown of Jiangdong, belonged to the Xiang family.All the officials in Jiujiang, Qianzhong, Hengshan, Minzhong, Changsha, Lujiang and other counties were basically from the family of Zhaoqujing.

Of course, there are also a few former Daqin prefects and county magistrates who chose to belong to Chu.

According to common sense, the three of them are not enough to compete with Xiang Yu, but they secretly support the three clans. The Zhaoqujing clan armed an army of 10 people with the Daqin-style weapons secretly provided, and sent Shouchun and several people around The relatively affluent county is firmly in his hands.

It was this [-] army that made Xiang Yu finally choose to take a step back.

At the same time, all the high-ranking civil servants in the state of Chu were divided up by the three Zhao, Qu, and Jing clans, and the Xiang clan didn't even get a real official position as big as a sesame mung bean.

The two sides can be regarded as officially tearing their skins apart.

Today, I don't know how many times the two sides have quarreled in the main hall of the Chu Palace in the past month.

The quarrel between the two sides ranged from the distribution of interests such as official positions at the beginning, to the deployment of troops, to the distribution of weapons, etc., everything.Both will take at least several days to finally reach a compromise.

but.Today, the purpose of the quarrel between the left and the right has changed.

All because of the battle report that Shouchun had just received from Xianyang to Shouchun led by the Huns and the Qin army in a decisive battle in Liaodong.

With 50 iron cavalry heading south, they could feel the great oppression of the situation even thousands of miles away.

It stands to reason that it would take at least 20 to [-] days for the news from Xianyang to reach Shouchun, if not through special channels. The reason why Chu State was able to receive the news so quickly was thanks to their fast transportation by water.

There are many rivers in the south of the Yangtze River. Although the army of Chu State is not strong enough, after seizing all the naval ships of Qin State, they can be regarded as building their own naval army.

With the benefit of the navy, the transportation of various items was accelerated.

The three families of Xiang Yu and Zhao Qujing who received the news.The reaction was quite different.

Xiang Yu believes that Ying Zheng is arrogant.To dare to fight a decisive battle with 20 Hu people with 50 troops is to seek death.This is a great opportunity for Chu. We should contact the three countries of Zhao, Wei and Han to send troops at the same time. Taking advantage of the fluctuating hearts of Qin and the lack of preparation, the Chu army crossed the Huaihe River and wiped out the Qin army in Nanyang County, and then went directly north from Wuguan; It is to attack the pass from the east county of Qin State, send troops at the same time, destroy Qin together, and divide the world equally afterwards.

Obviously, news from Chu State was too slow.

The Zhao Qujing clan believed that the Qin State always liked to fight on multiple fronts and defeat each of them.Liaodong is far away and difficult to support. In order to expand the victory, we must find ways to obtain benefits from other places to make up for losses. At this time, we should strictly defend the Huaihe River, and send a letter to the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei and Han to take precautions in advance, and send buildings to the Yangtze River and Huaihe to prevent the Qin army. Cross the river and enter the hinterland of Jiangnan.

As long as the two major moats of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River are guarded, the Qin army, which has no buildings, boats and navy, can only look at the capital of Chu State from the other side of the river and sigh at the river even if it has millions of people. .

In this way, the state of Chu doesn't have to worry that the Qin army will suddenly cross the river and kill him in his lair.Even though there were a lot of losses before, it only takes a few years for Chu to increase its strength greatly.

Regarding this debate, Fan Zeng did not speak.Whether it's Xiang Yu's plan or the defense and self-protection methods of Zhao Qujing's three major families, they all look good on the surface.

Relatively speaking, Fan Zeng is more inclined to what Zhaotong, Jing Gong, and Qu Ping said.Because he also knew very well that Chu State really couldn't afford it at this time.

The Qin State next door, through a series of means, is now united in the land of Xianyang, and there is no chance for them to achieve great things.

Leading an army to attack at this time will only return in vain.

Xiang Yu, Song Yi, Zhang Liang and others did not speak, and Fan Zeng was speaking to Xiang Yu.Although Fan Zeng is more inclined to the opinions of Zhao Qujing's three clans, his lord is Xiang Yu.

Zhaotong, Jinggong, and Quping naturally couldn't speak, and the speaker of the three tribes was Jingtong, the younger brother of Jinggong.

The two have been arguing for more than half an hour citing scriptures and spitting.

The new King Huai of Chu, Xiong Xin, was sitting on top of the main hall, looking boredly at the two arguing below, and couldn't help feeling drowsy.

Although he really wanted to take all the power into his own hands like his ancestors did, he knew very well that now he could only be a bystander, and someone who would get along with each other at critical times.

So after feeling Xiang Yu and Zhaotong's eyes looking over at him, Xiong Xin, who had been drowsy, had no choice but to cheer up immediately.

He knew that this was the time for the two of them to signal that it was time for them to end the argument.

After all, at present, he, the King of Chu, only has such a little power.

(End of this chapter)