"So, does King Chu agree?"

In the study of a mansion in Yan City, Wei Wang Wei Feng gently put down the slip in his hand, and his eyes fell on the figure in front of him who had just returned from Yingdu.

"Your Majesty, that's exactly what it is." Faced with Wei Feng's inquiry in front of him, Xu Yan, as the envoy, immediately replied: "Before leaving, the King of Chu personally told me that he would definitely come and meet with the King."

"That's good."

A smile appeared on his face, and Wei Feng looked at Xu Yan with a gentler expression, "It's been really hard for Aiqing to travel all the way. Let's go down and rest first. Tonight, we will hold a banquet for Aiqing to wash away the dust."

"My lord, thank you so much for your love and care, Your Majesty."

After a moment, when the sound of footsteps disappeared from his ears, Wei Feng looked at the man sitting beside him.

"What does the Prime Minister think?"

Wei Xianggong Sun Qi, who had just been silent and just sitting there, faced the gaze projected by Wei Feng, but there was a touch of confidence in his eyes.

"It's just something that has been expected for a long time. Chu will definitely come to this alliance and has to come."

The current situation is that Wei is the swordsman and Chu is the fish.

As the overlord of the world, King Wei summoned all the princes to come to Lantian of Chu State for an alliance, clearly intending to harm his Chu State.

How could the kings and ministers of the Chu State, who were only two hundred miles away, sit back and watch as they were dealt with at will without any resistance?

"Since Chu State has agreed, this alliance is half successful." The smile on his face faded slightly, but Wei Feng became concerned about the other half, "Prime Minister, I don't know where the other princes are..."

"But please rest assured, Your Majesty, everything is going smoothly."

In fact, if we look at the princes in the world, there are only a few who have a direct interest in the Wei and Han alliance's southward attack on Chu and have a certain degree of strength.

Among them, the King of Han has already arrived at Yancheng together with the King of Wei, so there is no need to mention this.

Song and Lu had always followed Wei's lead after Wei became stronger, so naturally they would not refuse to come and participate in the alliance.

The Ba State in the southwest and the Yue State in the southeast have frequently had wars with the Chu State in recent years. They will definitely come to Lantian this time, hoping to get some Chu State territory from the Wei State.

As for Qin, Zhao, Wei and the newly surrendered Shu, they are completely subordinate to Wei. As long as the King of Wei has orders, these countries will definitely come for a while.

In this way, more than half of the princes in the world who are sure to come to join the alliance have already taken up.

The remaining countries, such as Qi State, Zhongshan State, Yan State, and the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty who was trapped in the royal territory, are the few targets that Wei State needs to send envoys to vigorously invite.

After hearing his Prime Minister say that everything went well, the smile on Wei Feng's face became even brighter.

"In this way, the 'dividing the kingdoms' plan planned by the Prime Minister for me this time can be implemented smoothly."

"I would like to congratulate the king and the state of Wei."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Feng's eyes met with Gongsun Qi's, and a tacit understanding appeared in their eyes for a long time.

…

As the crown prince of the Chu Kingdom, and also the King of Chu Wei who single-handedly created the prosperity of the Chu Kingdom in history, Xiong Shang naturally possesses considerable knowledge.

He could see at a glance that the Wei State at this time did not have the strength to annex the Chu State. The so-called "Lantian Meeting" this time was just an act of establishing prestige like the Chu State's "quest to conquer the Central Plains" in the past.

It's just that what Xiong Shang saw was the limitations of Wei's strength, and he didn't expect how Wei would weaken Chu, its most powerful opponent.

At this time, the Wei State did not have the strength to completely annex the Chu State. After all, the territory of the Chu State was so vast.

If Wei Guo swallowed it in one gulp, he would inevitably suffer from indigestion and even suffer from it.

But if we call it a truce, Wei Feng, as the king of Wei, is really not willing to do so when he is only two hundred miles away from Yingdu, the capital of Chu State.

Therefore, after expressing his thoughts to his prime minister, Gongsun Qi offered the strategy of "dividing Chu among the states" to Wei Feng who was unable to make a choice.

Since the Wei State alone cannot annex the Chu State, and it is imperative to weaken this too powerful opponent, why should the Wei State not recruit its own allies as it did several times before?

Ba, Han, Song, Lu and Yue, these countries have the same characteristic as Wei, that is, they all border on Chu, a vast country.

Instead of the Wei State annexing a large area of ​​Chu State's territory and being unable to digest it, it would be better to change the annexation of one country to the division among other countries.

According to Gongsun Qi’s idea, the weakening of Chu by other countries this time is roughly as follows:

The territory of the Southwest Ba Kingdom expanded eastward to the Jushui River line, completely bringing Yiling and other territories originally belonging to the Chu Kingdom under its rule. At the same time, it adopted a coercive posture from the west to Yingdu, the current capital of the Chu Kingdom;

South Korea's territory expanded southward to the line of Yancheng. After defeating Chu's threat to South Korea's Wan County, it formed a coercive force on Chu's capital Yingdu from the north;

The territories of Wei State, Song State, and Lu State expanded southward to the Huai River line, and the originally prosperous land in the central part of Chu State was included in the territory of the Three Kingdoms respectively, greatly weakening the strength of Chu State;

Finally, the territory south of the Yangtze River of the Yue State expanded westward to the line of Yishan Mountain, basically eliminating the threat of the Chu State to the land south of the Yangtze River of the Yue State and squeezing its territory south of the river.

After such a division of the states into Chu, Chu's strength was bound to be greatly weakened, and it would no longer be able to pose a threat to Wei's position as the world's hegemon.

At the same time, Chu State, which still has a vast territory, still has the strength to deal with other princes except Wei State.

From then on, whether to continue to unite with other princes to besiege Chu, or to unite with Chu to suppress other princes, or to select a few allies to fight against the other side.

How to control the situation vertically and horizontally depends on the monarchs and ministers of Wei State taking practical actions according to different situations.

However, it is conceivable that since then, there has been no rival in front of Wei State. Wei Feng has already seen the possibility of realizing the grand plan he set when he took the throne.

…

When the banquets at night dispersed, and when the silence of the night enveloped the earth, Wei Feng, the king of Wei, chose to stand alone in front of a map, thinking about the biggest secret in his heart.

Qin, Qi, Chu, and Zhao, these were the four countries that Wei Feng was most afraid of in his previous life;

Ying Quliang, Ying Si, Tian Yinqi, Xiong Shang, Zhao Yu, these were the main opponents Wei Feng had fought against in his previous life;

After resurrecting his life for nearly thirty years, Wei Feng worked hard and slept day and night, thinking all the time to avoid making the same mistakes and revitalize the country passed down by his grandfather Wenhou and his father Wuhou.

After thirty years of hard work and thirty years of iron-blooded journey, the Wei State at this time is much stronger than before.

Qin and Zhao, these two former rivals, were accepted as vassals. Qi was locked on the coast of the East China Sea and unable to expand. Even Chu, the most difficult opponent, would be swept away.

When he thought that he would be able to complete what his ancestors King Wen and King Wu had accomplished in his lifetime, and bring the whole world under the rule of Wei, Wei Feng couldn't help but feel a little surge in his heart.

Slowly taking a brush covered with cinnabar from the side, Wei Feng concentrated on sketching a seal character on the map in front of him.

"Wei!"

Looking at the red word "WEI" on the map, Wei Feng's eyes almost overflowed with smiles.

"Just wait, this day won't be too far away!"
Chapter completed!