: "So, you two have not completed what I told you to do? Then what are you doing back here?"

Upon hearing this, Jiao Mu was so frightened that he trembled all over, because at this time, he was no longer as ignorant as he was in Wei.

At this time, Huang Xu said with a face of shame: "When we returned to China, we passed by Pingyu, and Mr. Xiong Hu, Lord of Pingyu, also reprimanded me like this."

Hearing this, King Chu Xiong Tuo was slightly startled: "Xiong Hu?"

"Yes." Huang Xu took out the letter from Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu from his arms, handed it to Xiong Tuo respectfully, and said: "In addition to scolding the two of you, Sir Xiong Hu also entrusted me to send a letter to you.

Letter to the king."

"..."

Taking the letter from Huang Xu's hand, Xiong Tuo glanced at the handwriting on the cover and found that it was indeed the handwriting of Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu.

He was seen holding the letter with one hand, staring at it with a gloomy expression. After a while, he said: "Although you two have been entrusted by Gu Gu, there is hard work without credit. This time Gu Gu will not

I've punished you two, please go down and have a rest."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Huang Er and Jiao Mu knew each other and immediately resigned.

After Huang Er and Jiao Mu left, in the dark hall, a figure emerged from behind a pillar, it was Xiong Tuo's uncle Chu Shuijun.

Chu Shuijun glanced outside the palace and said with a chuckle: "This Huang As, it seems that you really can't underestimate it, right, Your Majesty?"

"Humph." Chu King Xiong Tuo snorted coldly, still looking at the letter in his hand.

Seeing this, Chu Shuijun chuckled and said with a smile: "This Huang As probably thinks that the king wants to take advantage of this opportunity to kill people and eradicate the Huang family, the Jiao family, the Lian Cheng family and others... Hehe, he doesn't want to either

I think, even if the king wanted to eradicate that group of people, he would not choose to do something so obvious..."

At this point, his voice suddenly dropped: "But, if we lose the battle with the Wei army in the future, we will be punished for both crimes... Haha. But having said that, Lord Pingyu intervened, which is a bit..."

"Okay."

Xiong Tuo interrupted Chu Shuijun's words and said calmly: "According to the previous arrangement, Chuxi will be handed over to Xiong Hu, and Song County will be handed over to you... I heard that the Wei State is stationed in Hulingshui near Weishan Lake in Song County.

The army has been trained for a long time, so don't be careless."

Even though he was interrupted by Xiong Tuo, Chu Shuijun didn't care and said with a chuckle: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have my own way of dealing with it."

After saying that, he bowed and retreated into the palace pillar, and then there was no more movement.

At this time, Xiong Tuo held the letter in his hand and walked to the candle and lit it.

"eventful."

Looking at the letter that was slowly burning, King Xiong Tuo of Chu murmured in a low voice.

A few days later, the news that "Wei and Chu were at odds" gradually spread like wildfire in Chu State.

To be fair, manipulation of public opinion is not unique to Wei State. In fact, all countries are good at it.

For example, this time, the Chu State seemed to criticize the Wei State from the highest moral point, accusing the Wei State, as the overlord of the Central Plains, of not thinking about harmony with its neighbors, attacking Qi State for no reason, etc.

All in all, Chu State's scolding of Wei State was so righteous that only a small number of people could see it. The reason why Chu State was dissatisfied with this was probably because the war between Wei State and Qi State had seriously affected Chu-Qi trade.

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However, the truth seen by this small group of people is actually just the surface. The real reason for the discord between Wei and Chu is that the Wei State has endured for a long time and has shown terrifying strength that can overwhelm the two countries of Korea and Qi.

If the Chu State remains indifferent, then after the Wei State annexes Han Qi, the Chu State may become the next victim, let alone compete with the Wei State for the hegemony of the Central Plains.

Therefore, Wei's momentum must be interrupted at this moment.

In July of the tenth year of Wei Xing'an, the relationship between Wei and Chu deteriorated rapidly in view of Chu's public remarks accusing Wei of the unjust war against Qi.

At the same time, Qi State immediately responded to Chu State's denunciation of Wei State, accusing Wei State of being overbearing and not worthy of being a leader of the Central Plains, and implicitly expressed its willingness to respect Chu State as its overlord and resist the unbenevolent Wei State.

Faced with the denunciation of Chu and Qi, the literati of Wei also launched a counterattack, and in turn denounced Chu, accusing Chu that it should not stand with a country like Qi that appeared to be one thing but had another behind its back.

All in all, from July to August, the three parties of Wei, Chu, and Qi started a war of words from a distance. Each party hoped to occupy the highest moral position, which confused the people of the world and couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong.

In fact, it doesn't matter what is right or wrong. Neither Wei nor Chu would be naive enough to think that they could defeat the other party by relying solely on public opinion. In the final analysis, the public opinions they each guided were just to provide

This "War between Wei and Chu" is just a warm-up, allowing more Wei people and more Chu people to stand up and support their country.

No, when the time came around autumn, Chu State saw that the time was ripe, and immediately issued an ultimatum to Wei State: Stop this unjust war against Qi State!

Of course, Wei State ignored Chu's so-called ultimatum.

In view of Wei's "obsession", Chu finally declared war on Wei in November of that year and formed the "Chu-Qi Alliance" to jointly boycott Wei.

In December, South Korea responded to the call of Chu and Qi and officially announced that it would join the alliance to form the "Three Kingdoms Alliance of Chu, Han and Qi", forcing Wei to compromise and oust itself as the hegemon of the Central Plains.

In response to the persecution from the three countries of Chu, Han, and Qi, Wei King Zhao Run made the most powerful response:

In the first month of the eleventh year of Wei Xing'an, Wei King Zhao Run issued an edict to His Highness Chui Gong in the Luoyang Palace to change the name of the year to "the first year of Zhaowu". On the same day, he declared war on the three kingdoms of Korea, Qi and Chu.
Chapter completed!