In the afternoon of the same day, Ouyang Shuo made an appointment with て砆.
The meeting between the two was not sneaky, it was directly arranged in Ouyang Shuo's camp. Because there is no need to hide it, and there is no way to hide it.
"Can you tell me, what are Di Chen and Chun Shenjun's plans?"
Ouyang Shuo was taken aback by his directness, and said without thinking, "Why tell you?"
"It means that there is really a conspiracy?!" Ouyang Shuo was stunned.
"You!" て砆 found that he fell into the other party's trap immediately. He was about to adjust his strategy, and said calmly: "Yes, they have a plan, but I won't tell you."
"You will." Ouyang Shuo said with certainty.
"Arrogance!"
Ouyang Shuo smiled slightly, "Brother, we don't have to make such detours anymore. I think you know very well that you and Dichen are not in the same way. Otherwise, those who came to the Shang Dynasty camp to be spies would have to Not you. You're ostracized, they don't trust you, that's a fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that."
The complexion of 砆 instantly became gloomy, and Ouyang Shuo's words pierced his sore spot.
raised his head, expressionless, "Then, can I trust you? Or, you, the number one lord in China, leader of the Shanhai League, representative of civilian players in China, trust me?"
Ouyang Shuo nodded, "You have no choice."
Dejected, he made up his mind, "Qiyue Wuyi, let's make a deal."
"speak!"
"I'll tell you the truth, and you accept me into the Shanhai League."
Ouyang Shuo's eyes were fixed. He didn't expect that the matter would be so serious that て砆 would need to seek the protection of the Shanhai League before he dared to tell the truth. That being said, those old guys are really unwilling to be lonely.
Old guys, do you really think that I didn't notice it at all? It's ridiculous.
"I promise you." Ouyang Shuo didn't hesitate.
"The matter is actually very simple. The Six Hegemons of Handan show signs of reuniting again. Not long ago, I was in Handan County and accidentally saw the leaders of the major forces gathering in Handan. The leaders I am referring to are not Dichen, Chun Mr. Shen and the others are their elders, who are the real talkers of all forces." て砆 recalled.
Sure enough, Ouyang Shuo's premonition came true.
The split among the Six Hegemons in Handan stemmed from Dichen's arrogance, Chunshenjun's self-confidence, and Fengyuhuang's ambition. What Ouyang Shuo and Xiongba played was just a catalyst.
Handan's six tyrants were divided into three, and the Shanhai League took advantage of the situation to gain the right to speak in China.
After the interstellar immigration, the major powers who are talking about things finally have the energy to deal with the affairs in the game. The nonsense of the juniors obviously made these old guys extremely dissatisfied.
Apparently, the younger generation is still too emotional to master the art of compromise. At this time, the older generation will naturally come forward to clean up the mess. In the final analysis, they are absolutely not allowed to hand over the right to speak in China. In the eyes of these people, Ouyang Shuo is just a yellow-mouthed child.
The best option is to bond the parties back together through mutual compromise.
What Ouyang Shuo was worried about was not this. He was even more worried about Feng Prison Huang. Various signs showed that Feng Prison Huang had been kept in the dark. She had no idea that the elders in her family were colluding.
"Is Xiongba also involved?" Ouyang Shuo asked.
Surprised, he didn't expect Ouyang Shuo to be so sharp, nodded and said, "Not bad!"
In the split of the Six Hegemons in Handan, Xiongba played a disgraceful role in it, and it was he who seduced Lord Chunshen and made him stand on the top of the mountain. If the Six Hegemons of Handan want to get back together again, they cannot get around Xiongba.
And with the wisdom of these old guys, it is the safest choice to accept Xiongba or the forces represented by Xiongba, killing two birds with one stone.
It is foreseeable that if the Handan League, the Spring and Autumn League, and the Jagged League are integrated, their power will be even more powerful than the previous Handan Six Hegemons.
As for why he was abandoned, there is a reasonable explanation, because people simply look down on him. At the beginning, Dichen pulled て砆 into the Handan League, but it was just an emergency. It's useless now, so naturally it has to be thrown aside.
Ouyang Shuo nodded and said, "That's the end of today's conversation. After the battle is over, we'll talk about the alliance. What we need to do right now is to make this battle a success."
After seeing him off, Ouyang Shuo did not stay in the barracks, but rode back to Chaoge.
In Chaoge City, people are panicking. The news of the Zhou army's attack has spread throughout the city. The city is empty, and the master of the king hangs alone in the east. What will the king use to stop the damned Zhou people.
In fact, there is still at least a week before the real decisive battle. This period of time is what Gaia leaves for players to complete side characters.
This time, Ouyang Shuo didn't have any such intentions, and went straight to the palace.
The palace guards stopped Ouyang Shuo: "Who is coming? The palace is a forbidden area, idlers are not allowed to enter."
Ouyang Shuo dismounted, handed the reins to Wang Feng behind him, and clasped his fists together: "The representative of the stranger is Wuyi, please see the king, and please inform me!"
Su Wei checked Ouyang Shuo's waist badge, and after confirming that it was correct, he immediately went to the palace to report.
Following behind Su Wei, Ouyang Shuo inadvertently looked at the Shang Palace, thinking about how to persuade Emperor Xin to accept his suggestion.
In the palace hall, Di Xin was discussing how to deal with the advance of the Zhou army with his generals, and when he heard the report from the guards that it was a representative of a different person who was seeking an audience outside the palace, he immediately became interested.
Elai is the son of Fei Lian, a warrior who can fight rhinoceros, bears and tigers.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Dian Wei was called by Cao Cao "the evil of the ancient times", and the evil he referred to was the one in front of him.
Ouyang Shuo walked into the main hall, bowed and saluted, "Is this a stranger without clothes? I pay my respects to your majesty."
Di Chen sat on the throne, his aura raised high, "Why did you come to see me?"
"I came here for the king's relief." Ouyang Shuo was neither humble nor overbearing.
"What a big tone." The evil on the side was not angry.
Ouyang Shuo was not annoyed either, and said with a smile, "Dare to ask the general?"
"This general is evil, so don't talk big. Zhou's army is powerful, and our side is empty, how can we get out?" Elai is straightforward, saying what comes to mind.
"The general's words are wrong. I heard that your majesty has recruited 700,000 slaves, which is several times that of the Zhou army. Why do you say it in vain?" Ouyang Shuo pretended not to know.
Elai sneered, "Huangkou boy, what do you know? Those slaves, who have no military training and no weapons or armor, how can they fight?"
Ouyang Shuo nodded, "That's it, why don't you give them weapons and armor?"
Elai's patience was about to run out, but it was Di Xin who sat at the head and remained silent.
"You, you really don't understand anything, yet you dare to threaten to break the siege of Chaoge, it's just ridiculous."
Ouyang Shuo still greeted people with a smile on his face, clasped his hands together and said, "General, please clarify!"
Seeing the evil, the king did not stop, and finally said patiently: "Many of the 700,000 slaves recruited came from the Zhou Kingdom or various princes and tribes. How can we make people feel at ease and give them weapons. If they turn against each other, it will not be a waste of time. Furthermore, even if you give them weapons and armor, what is the use in a short period of time without training?"
Ouyang Shuo pretended to be stunned, and said with a smile, "So that's why I came here."
Di Xin was finally moved, "What's your plan? Tell me quickly!"
"I would like to report to Your Majesty, if you want to achieve success with this strategy, Your Majesty must first agree to one condition."
"What conditions?"
"My lord, implore the High Priest to be claustrophobic and not allow him to communicate with the outside world." Ouyang Shuo said surprisingly.
The high priest Ouyang Shuo mentioned was Wei Zi, Di Xin's elder brother.
Wei Ziqi, Wei Zhongyan, and Di Xin are brothers from the same mother. When Wei Ziqi was born, his mother was still a concubine, and after being made a queen, he gave birth to Emperor Xin. Because Wei Ziqi was old, Emperor Yi wanted to make Wei Ziqi his heir. According to the law of etiquette, Tai Shi believed that Wei Ziqi was a concubine and Di Xin was a concubine, so he made Di Xin his heir.
When Emperor Xin succeeded to the throne, Wei Ziqi was naturally brooding. But this man's patience is quite deep, and he has never had an attack. As the true eldest son of the former king, Wei Zi had great appeal and influence among the Shang royal family, high-ranking nobles and slave owners, and finally formed a powerful force headed by him.
Emperor Xin of Shang knew the potential threat of this big brother better than anyone else. But the situation after ascending the throne forced Emperor Xin to win him over again: the former king died, but the former king's two younger brothers, Bigan and Jizi, were in their prime of life at this time, and they were ignorant of the throne. This group of people represented a large group of nobles and slave owners, forming a powerful force.
Therefore, Di Xin decided to win over his elder brother Wei Zi: After eradicating the theocratic group headed by the original high priest, Wei Zi became the country's high priest. Theocracy runs through the entire history of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and the high priest is the highest theocracy leader of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, whose status and identity are similar to that of the Pope of Rome.
But the result was far more complicated than Di Xin had expected: after he came to the throne, he was determined to reform. One of his major measures was to restrict and deprive the rights of the old nobles, and vigorously selected and reused talents from the lower class civilians and even slaves. This is how he made his fortune. But such behavior angered the entire slave owner aristocratic group.
From the Xia Dynasty to the Warring States Period for more than 1,000 years, China practiced the hereditary system of aristocratic official positions, and the slave-owner aristocratic group monopolized the country's political and economic power. Di Xin's actions were undoubtedly confronting the entire slave-owner aristocratic group of the Shang Dynasty, and he was bound to receive a strong backlash. In particular, the serious consumption of national power by the Eastern Expedition was severely criticized by the ministers of the DPRK and China. A variety of new and old contradictions come together. In the end, the upper echelons of the Shang Dynasty formed a powerful alliance of opposition nobles with Weizi, Bigan and Jizi as the core.
This is an extremely powerful alliance formed by the collusion between the great nobles with military, political and financial power and the royal family with theocratic power, which poses an extremely serious threat to the royal power of the Shang king. And Di Xin's personality is extremely cold-blooded and cruel, and it is impossible to compromise at all. As a result of the final showdown, Bigan was killed, Jizi was imprisoned and exiled, but Weizi fell to Dixin at the critical moment and kept his position.
But in fact, Wei Zi's hatred for Di Xin is irreversible. He must take revenge, and the way of his revenge is almost unbelievable to future generations - betraying his ancestral country and country, and colluding with the greatest enemy of the Shang Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty.
It was this traitor who ordered Tai Shizhen and Shao Shijiang to formally defect to the Western Zhou Dynasty with the ritual utensils used by the royal family to worship the ancestors, as well as the "Nine Tripods", an artifact that symbolized the country and the emperor's power at that time. At the same time, it also brought the political, economic and military information of the Yin and Shang country at this time, including the turmoil of the ruling group in the country and the economic decline, especially the information that the local defense of the Yin and Shang was extremely empty. At the same time, he explained to King Zhou in detail the route and time needed in case the main merchant army in the east wanted to return to the mainland.
So far, the Yin and Shang Dynasties no longer have any secrets at all, and they are nakedly displayed in front of Zhou.
So King Wu of Zhou and Jiang Shang acted decisively, mobilized all the available troops in the country and summoned the princes to form a coalition army, and took advantage of the situation in the shortest time to attack Chaoge, the capital of Yin and Shang. Thus, the tragedy of the Battle of Makino was staged like this.
When the Zhou army attacked Chaoge, it was Weizi who led a group of people out of the city to surrender to Zhou. Later, Zhou Gongdan, the actual ruler of the Western Zhou Dynasty, repaid Wei Zi for his great help to Zhou, and granted Wei Zi Qi in Shangqiu, the hometown of Yin and Shang, and established Song State to show "the endless successor of Yin". In this way, Wei Ziqi became the ancestor of Song Dynasty in Zhou Dynasty.
Therefore, if Ouyang Shuo wanted to offer advice, he had to deal with the biggest traitor in the Shang Dynasty first.
Di Xin's gaze froze, revealing a cold light. Di Xin was naturally worried about his elder brother, but it was really difficult to claustrophobia him. "Must be so?"
"It must be so." Ouyang Shuo was uncompromising.
Di Xin was also a decisive person, "Okay, I promise you. However, if your strategy doesn't work, you should know what will happen to you." The majesty of an emperor cannot be provoked.