Chapter 1551 I Am Also Greedy for Life

The reason why all the ministers looked at each other in confusion was not that this plan was so clever, but that the Xi Meng Mansion seemed to have lost its mind!

There is only Sang Mansion between Huaiqing Mansion and Xia Capital Guiyi.

Cutting off all the land south of Huaiqing Mansion is almost equivalent to surrendering half of the Xia Kingdom and exposing one's heart to the Chu people!

What kind of talent is the Xi Meng Mansion, and how intimidated was he by Qi State to be able to come up with such a "clever plan"?

"Everyone, please listen to me carefully."

In the eyes of all the civil and military ministers who looked at them like fools, Xi Mengfu said confidently: "The Chu State refuses to come to help. There are just a few reasons. One of them is that we have had many fights with the Chu State in history and have long-standing grievances. Secondly, the environment in the southern region is complex, separated by mountains of books, Li and Yue are barriers, and the sects' forces are complicated. No matter whether the Chu people come or we go, it is inevitable that the gains will outweigh the losses. This is also the reason why the late emperor chose to go eastward. Thirdly, the war between Qin and Chu has not been long, and the river valleys and plains have become white. The pressure of Qin State cannot be ignored. If they come with few people, they may send sheep into the tiger's mouth. If they come with too many people, they may do something strange..."

"There is only one thing that can eliminate these reasons - interests!"

"The benefits are enough, don't mention any grudges. The benefits are enough, it's worth the risk. We take the initiative to cede the territory, and Shushan has no reason to interfere. Now that the past grievances are gone, the future is in sight, and reality is not hindered. Is there any reason for the Chu army not to come?"

Xi Meng's house talked about it for a while, and finally came up with some nonsense.

"This is a way to quench thirst by drinking poison! What is your intention, Xi Meng Mansion?!"

Jin Ling, the Marquis of Anguo who was on an envoy to the Chu State, was red-faced and extremely angry. He actually didn't even want to call him "National Master", and instead called the real person Xi Mengfu by the name of Shen Linjing due to his cultivation level.

"Marquis An Guo, don't get excited. Don't raise your voice when you are justified." However, Xi Mengfu was very calm and gave him a hand: "May I ask how this strategy is to drink poison to quench thirst?"

Jin Ling said angrily: "The people of Qi are greedy, are the people of Chu just good men and women? Now we have cut off half of the country to serve Chu, not to mention whether Qi and Chu will have a secret conspiracy and simply divide our Daxia. Let them really fight. Come on, help us defeat the Qi State. Doesn’t the Chu State have any ideas about us? Doesn’t the Emperor of Chu want to unify the southern region? The Qi State is still outside the country, but you are welcoming the Chu State!”

Xi Mengfu said enthusiastically: "We can ask the Chu people to attack together, and we will control the situation and make them both lose. If the Qi people retreat, we will chase the Chu people again, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

"You only treat others as fools!" Jin Ling said: "Two tigers are fighting, and you, a sheep, decide the intensity of their fight?"

Xi Mengfu said thoughtfully: "Marquis An Guo just returned from his mission to the Chu State. Although he returned without success... I trust your familiarity with the Chu State. In your opinion, it seems that the Chu State is indeed Is there no possibility of sending troops?"

Jin Ling was too lazy to talk to him anymore, but turned to Lord Dan: "I am incompetent and failed to persuade the Chu people. But judging from my trip, the Chu people are ambiguous on the surface, but in fact they are very Determined. It will take time for them to digest the trauma of the Battle of the River Valley. They have no intention of fighting with another overlord in the short term.”

This is of course only the personal opinion of Anguo Hou Jin Ling.

But it undoubtedly convinced many people.

"Forget it!" Xi Mengfu waved his hand: "If the Chu people don't come, they won't come, and we won't beg for it!"

He added: "I have another plan!"

Liu Xiyi, the Prime Minister of Great Xia, endured it for a long time, and finally couldn't help it: "Don't you have any other plans. You are making such nonsense today. I just think you are an old fool. Give it a rest! How can you pretend to be crazy and act like a fool when it comes to military and national affairs?!"

But the voice behind the bead curtain said: "Master, please speak."

The Queen Mother Xia still seemed to have expectations for Xi Mengfu's wisdom and suppressed the voice of the Prime Minister Liu Xiyi.

Xi Mengfu also said with unyielding momentum: "This plan is to 'depose hundreds of schools and respect Confucianism!' From now on, we will use Shushan as a holy place and establish Confucianism as the gate of the country. With our twenty-one prefectures, we will do our best to build Confucianism, please have the support of Shushan. There are so many powerful people in Shushan who can definitely help us stop the Qi army!"

"Okay! Okay! Okay!"

Now even the ancestor of the Chu family and the real person of the time, Chu Gongyi, couldn't help it.

He originally practiced in seclusion all year round and did not care about foreign affairs. When the country was in danger, he broke out of the barrier and came to the court with the leader of the Chu family, Chu Rang. Unexpectedly, I heard these ridiculous remarks.

"What a 'Depose hundreds of schools of thought, respect only Confucianism!'" He was so angry that he laughed: "I am here because of the public disagreement, you come and depose me!"

Fan Ao, Marquis of Xuanping, was a monk from the Sanxing Palace. When the public sentiment was turbulent before, he did not have any bad words towards the Xi Meng Mansion. This would be really unbearable. "Master Xi, you are not an orthodox Confucian disciple. You are still wearing a Taoist robe. If hundreds of schools are deposed, will you be deposed?"

Duke Zhou Ying of Fengguo, Marquis of Guangping Li Fu, and Marquis of Yangling Xue Chang also started making noises. The entire Baohua Palace was filled with unstoppable noise, like a vegetable market.

The Xi Meng Mansion has made people angry, and some people even wanted to kill him to sacrifice the flag.

On the throne, Yu Liyang finally stretched out his fingers and knocked on the armrest of the seat, and said with a headache: "Master Xi, what do you think? Our Xia Kingdom accommodates hundreds of families and accommodates all sects, so that we can have those who can fight against the strong Qi. Jiye. If you do this, there may not be as many people coming to help from Shushan as there are people from Xia Kingdom! Are you going to give up your martial arts in the face of the war? "

Min Wang Yu Liyang was born with good looks. When he was young, he was a beautiful boy with red lips and white teeth. God came before he reached thirty, and he became youthful and immortal from then on.

He has been gifted since childhood and stands out from the crowd. Xia State cultivated him with all its resources, and he lived up to expectations and successfully reached the pinnacle of excellence and became a pillar of the country.

His life was a brilliant and splendid one.

Sitting on the throne at this moment, he did not have a stern expression, and his voice was not very loud, but the entire Baohua Palace fell silent.

Xi Mengfu saluted him: "Your Highness King Min!"

He also saluted King Wu Si Jiao: "Your Highness King Wu!"

Regardless of whether King Wu was still in a trance, he saluted the emperor: "Your Majesty!"

He saluted behind the pearl curtain: "Queen Mother!"

This was probably the ranking of honor in his heart.

Then he stood up, and under the stare of Prime Minister Liu Xiyi, and in front of the serious expression of Xuanping Hou Fan Ao, he bowed and said, "My colleagues, my fellow pillars of Great Xia, I have heard your voices, and I know your opinions!"

"It seems that everyone has reached a consensus except me."

"The so-called peace talks are not advisable, Chu cannot be relied on, Shushan is unreliable, Jingguo? Jingguo even withdrew Yitianguan!"

"So you all think that facing the Qi army, we have only one way to go - that is war!"

He looked around: "You all think so, right?"

"Very good!"

He suddenly became passionate, his voice It seemed to break the dome: "Then let's fight!"

"Stop having illusions!"

"Stop being indecisive!"

"We have no other way to go!"

"Either fight or die!"

"I, Xi Mengfu! I have other ideas, other thoughts. I am afraid of death, I am weak and cowardly. I am different from you! But I am also the same as you! We are all ministers of Xia, we eat the same salary and receive the same grace. I respect the opinions of all of you, and I am willing to implement all the decisions of the court and accept all the consequences. Because this is the future we... decide together!"

He put his right hand together with the sword finger and slowly drew it across the palm of his left palm.

Opened a wound.

The blood of the real person, drop by drop, fell on the floor tiles.

In this hall, he faced everyone and said, "I asked General Longjiao, if the National Defense Army was defeated, why would he teach me?"

"General Longjiao didn't give me an answer."

"I don't have an answer either!"

"But what answer do we need?"

"There is only one way before us."

"If we win this battle, we can slowly find any answer. If we lose this battle, we will be extinct and we don't need an answer anymore!"

He raised his bloody left palm and said loudly, "General Longjiao said that the 100,000 National Defense Army soldiers all have the will to die. Xi Mengfu is not talented, but he is willing to die for the country, that's all!"

The whole Baohua Palace was quiet again.

Falling into another kind of silence.

It was the kind of silence where you could hear your heartbeat as powerful as a war drum.

Listen to this heart quietly, get this will quietly, and feel this heart quietly!

Min Wang Yu Liyang was solemn.

Even Si Jiao, who was wandering in the world, opened his eyes for a while.

Throughout the ages, what people have been fighting for is nothing but fame and fortune.

As the saying goes, "The world is bustling, all for profit; the world is bustling, all for profit."

Who is not burdened by fame in life? Who doesn't want to leave a name in history?

Some seek fame and reputation, and some slander the emperor to seek fame.

Only this Xi Mengfu has nothing to gain from fame, and it is difficult to wash away the bad reputation. Just to unify the will of the court officials of the Xia Kingdom, he turned himself into a pool of mud and asked everyone to step on him, without any self-respect.

He is not a person without status, he is the national teacher of the Great Xia. He struggled all his life to become one of the most honorable people in the entire Xia Kingdom. Today, he can do this for the country.

It is really admirable!

Suddenly, there was a sound of pearls knocking against jade.

Clatter.

Behind the throne, the pearl curtain was lifted -

Empress Dowager Xia actually walked out from behind the pearl curtain!

For the first time in 32 years, the curtain was lifted, and she stood in front of the civil and military officials in the court.

What kind of woman is this?

Her hand that personally pushed aside the pearl curtain was obviously beautiful and delicate, but it had a power to command the country. The jade color was extremely precious, and it covered the sky with her hands.

When the pearl curtain was lifted, her world was revealed.

She seemed to have walked out of a heavy story, so calmly unfolding her life picture.

She was not young anymore, and the fine lines at the corners of her eyes were the sedimentation of years.

You can still feel the beauty of her youth.

Her eyebrows were like new leaves, and her eyes had autumn marks.

She was like jade, and her manners were graceful.

But her unique charm was beyond her beautiful appearance. It was an indescribable and reassuring temperament.

"Mother." Xia Tianzi called, and was about to get up and leave.

But Queen Mother Xia took a step forward, stretched out her hand and put it on his shoulder, and gently pushed him down.

"The emperor should not leave his seat for me, I should help the emperor sit on the chair."

Queen Mother Xia lifted the curtain and came out, which had extraordinary meaning. Originally "listening to politics", now "observing politics"

Xia Tianzi stood up and left his seat, which meant giving up power and authority.

But she refused.

She did not stand up for the sole power, but stood up to resist the wind and rain.

She pressed her hand lightly on the imperial chair, as if she really stabilized this precarious country for Xia Tianzi, for her and the only son left by the late emperor.

She took a step forward, as if she was stepping on the mountains and rivers of Xia State and walking on the ridge of the dragon vein.

Everyone looked at her, at the woman who had actually saved the Xia State and supported it to this day.

"The Imperial Master said that he was afraid of death... so am I?"

She used this sentence to open her speech after lifting the curtain.

Her eyes moved and looked at everyone present: "Standing on the city wall, facing the front of the Qi Emperor's army, looking at the purple flag of the Emperor, it seemed to cover me like a sky curtain... I was so scared that I could hardly breathe!

My palms were full of cold sweat, and my heart was trembling all the time!

I was too afraid to die, too afraid to die like that, too afraid to die in the broken city of Guiyi. I was afraid that my body would lie in the broken walls, the sky would be filled with blood rain, and the world would be filled with lonely souls.

I was afraid... I was afraid that there would be no Xia people in the world after I died, and I was afraid that there would be no Xia in the world a hundred years later!"

"You all!"

She looked at him with sincere eyes.

"Xia is not just my country."

"Xia is not just you and me, not just our country."

"Our fathers, ancestors... our relatives, friends, teachers, classmates, neighbors... all the people and things that appear in the trajectory of life have jointly created this name."

"Now it will be erased!"

"Isn't this scary?"

"Isn't this scary?"

"Isn't this scary?!"

"General Long said that the country should be destroyed. The national teacher said that it is okay to destroy the country. But I don't want you to destroy the country. I hope you live well. I hope you live well with the memory of Xia."

"If things can't be done by then, you can go. The world is so big that there is always a place for you."

"But before that, please don't let anyone erase the word "Xia" easily."

"Because it doesn't just belong to you and me. It doesn't just belong to our fathers and ancestors, it should also belong to our children and grandchildren! How can we let this name that should belong to them be lost in our hands?"

She stood on the Danbi, in front of the dragon throne, and bowed deeply to everyone. Now even Wu Wang Si Jiao and Min Wang Yu Liyang stood up to return the greeting.

Under the red steps, all the officials bowed down.

Queen Mother Xia still bowed and said earnestly: "My lords! Please cherish your lives, and please make efforts beyond your life for the word "Xia"!"

That day, all the civil and military officials in the court of Daxia cut their left palms and swore an oath with blood.

Swear to defeat the Qi bandits!

So Wu Wang Si Jiao was the commander-in-chief, Long Jiao was the deputy commander-in-chief, and Min Wang Yu Liyang accompanied the army. All 200,000 soldiers from the Shenwu and Zhenguo armies were mobilized, and all the soldiers from the country were mobilized.

Prime Minister Liu Xiyi, National Master Xi Mengfu, Guangping Marquis Li Fu, Xuanping Marquis Fan Ao, Anguo Marquis Jin Ling, Yangling Marquis Xue Chang... all filled the army!

Among them, Fengguo Duke Zhou Ying spontaneously mobilized 10,000 Zhou family soldiers and led them to the battle.

Chu Rang, the head of the Chu family, mobilized 10,000 Chu family soldiers. Chu Gongyi, the ancestor of the Chu family, accompanied the army.

Tai Xu, the head of the Tai family, said: "A real person of the Tai family has died, and the world is mourning with blood rain. Can the living mourn for the dead?"

So all the young and strong in the family, all 13,000 soldiers of the Tai family, were sent to the front line!

For a time, the whole country of Xia was fighting!