Spring and Autumn I Am King

"It has been seven full years since the defeat of the Chen Clan and Chen Heng fled the sea."

When talking about this in front of Sun Wu, Zhao Wuxi paid more attention to his words. After all, he was also a small sect of the Chen clan. Although he had completely broken with the big sect because of the Sima Rangju incident, he had betrayed the state of Qi, but after all, blood was thicker than water. Zhao Wuxi kept the spiritual positions of Chen Wan and Chen Wenzi in Gaotang, and continued to let Sun Wu provide blood food for his ancestors.

But for Chen Heng, a nasty enemy, Zhao Wuxi would never tolerate it. After conquering Qi and dividing it into three at the next year's Huangchi meeting, Zhao Wuxi ordered three Qi, especially Zichuan. The ruling minister of the country Gao Shi, and the ruling minister of the Jiaoxi kingdom, Guo Shi, let them go out on a boat and go out to sea to search for Chen Heng's whereabouts.

Because of their enmity with Chen Heng, the Yan clan in Jibei County, who belonged to Zhao State, and the Bao clan in Jinan County also volunteered and participated in the task of finding the Chen clan. In the second year alone, they sent boats to try to cross the Bohai Sea many times, but they were all blocked by wind and waves, and the boats went nowhere.

After all, the large ships and experienced sailors in the entire Qi Kingdom were basically swept away by Chen Heng. Although Lu Ban had already produced a relatively accurate compass, and the Academy had also begun to study the measurement of longitude and latitude, it was a weapon of the country, and Zhao Wuxi was not willing to use it for San Qi for the time being. Anyway, don't be in a hurry, look for it slowly, and by the way, you can use their resentment and fear of Chen Heng to make a great geographical discovery of the Northeast region for Zhao.

So in the third year, Sanqi changed its strategy. Since there is no large ship suitable for crossing the strait in the short term, it will send a small ship to Yan State, and then go along the Bohai Sea to Jieshi and Liaoxi, all the way along the coastline to find it. , thus greatly broadening the Central Plains people's understanding of the vast north.

At this time, the western Liaoning and the lower reaches of the Liaohe River were mainly tribes of half-pastoral and half-farmers.

In the report sent to Zhao Wuxi, the explorer of the Three Qi said: "Wang Xi, the Marquis of Han, he pursued his father and was dying in the northern kingdom, because of his uncle. This is "Han Yi" in "Poems" The article says that when King Xuan of Zhou, in order to maintain the stability of northern Xinjiang, he specially established a state in the area of ​​western Liaoning in the northeast of Yanhao, named Han. The scorpion opened up the territory, but unfortunately South Korea has already perished, and the western Liaoning area was first occupied by Shanrong and Guzhu.

The first group of ships sent by Sanqi to explore did not find any trace of Chen Heng on the coast of western Liaoning. They just resumed the sea route from Jiaodong to Jieshi, and established trade relations with the local people by the way. After leaving a stronghold in Huludao , came back.

The reason why they are so cautious is because they are going deep into the area where the Central Plains people have never arrived before, and there is no record even if someone has been there. The coastline there is mysterious and unpredictable, and there are countless challenges. waiting for them.

In the fourth year of Chen Heng's north escape, a fleet of ships set off from Jieshi again. This time, they not only found the estuary of the Liaohe River, but also continued southward to reach the southernmost point of the Liaodong Peninsula, where Chen Heng is most likely. Where you arrive by crossing the sea…

Here, they finally discovered the clues left by Chen Heng!

Zhao Wuxi said to Sun Wu: "In Liaodong, the boats of Sanqi found a group of Qi people who settled on the shore. After they went ashore and besieged the settlement, they asked, and found that these Qi people were indeed fishermen who fled with Chen Heng. According to these people, after leaving the small island in the northern part of Qi, they originally planned to reach the southernmost tip of Liaodong, but they encountered a strong wind and the fleet was blown away. After the storm passed, most of the ships disappeared. Only Hundreds of people rowed boats and fled to land, settled here, and continued to fish for a living..."

Although the Qi people begged hard, the expedition fleet of Sanqi still took all of them back to the Central Plains, and then sent messengers to Yecheng to announce the good news to Zhao Wuxi, saying that Chen Heng's fleet was wrecked by the wind and waves while crossing the sea. Ten does not exist, and he himself is buried in the belly of the fish, and will no longer pose a threat to San Qi and Zhao.

At that time, Zhao Wuxi was busy attacking Zhongshan, and he didn't care too much about it. He also tacitly assumed that Chen Heng was dead. After asking San Qi to present the coastline map, he stopped the search for Chen Heng. After all, the Northeast of this era is desolate, and it is too troublesome to explore.

As for colonization... Even in the hinterland of Hebei, there are still a lot of uninhabited areas to be developed. Zhao Wuxi and others have waited for the growth of the domestic population to turn their hair white.

Two years later, that is, the sixth year of Chen Heng's north escape, with Zhao Wushi integrating the state of Lu, destroying Zhongshan, and the Donghu people, the hidden dangers of the rise of the north, also ploughing the courtyards and sweeping the caves, and the reputation of the state of Zhao gradually spread to Overseas, the State of Yan is also ambitious, hoping to expand its territory in the western Liaoning area it once controlled.

Only then did Zhao Wuxi become interested in the Northeast again. He asked Sanqi to deliver a batch of newly built sea boats. He selected some sailors from Langya and Jimo. The boats were equipped with a compass and used the astronomical navigation techniques summarized by the school to help fishermen in Sanqi. Under the guidance of , directly crossed the Bohai Sea and went to the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, which was previously arrived at, that is, Lushun and Dalian in later generations to establish a trade station, and continued to explore eastward to find business opportunities.

At this time, the eastern part of Liaodong, and even the area around the mouth of the Yalu River on the Korean peninsula, was a filthy place.

Guiren is an ancient inhabitant of the Northeast region. The tribe is in a primitive state and has no monarch, but it has been able to cast bronze. They are the ancestors of Fuyu and Goguryeo in later generations. As early as in the Zhou Dynasty, the filthy people went through untold hardships and arrived in Luoyang to pay tribute and presented the local specialty salamander, which was not actually a fish, but a seal or a sea lion.

This widely distributed ethnic group uses fishing, hunting and gathering as the main way of survival. They are full of curiosity about the Central Plains artifacts. Using cheap Central Plains items, they can exchange for mink fur, sea otter skin, ginseng and other items that can sell for a lot of money, which is an inestimable profit. And because they don't have a ruler and they don't subordinate each other, they can let the messengers wear the bronze seal of Yecheng and coax them into surrendering their land to Zhao Hou.

With the deepening of the filth's territory, Zhao Wuxi's expedition team also learned a piece of news: it turned out that Chen Heng did not die in the wind and waves at all, not only did he not die, but he was still in the east of the filth. Keiko North Korea is on a firm footing!

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"Huiren are distributed in a very wide area, all over Liaodong. To the north of Huiren is Sushen, and to the east of Huiren is Liangyi. Liangyi and Huiren are intertwined, living next to each other, and they are also tribes, and neither of them has their own. Your Majesty, but according to rumors, there is a powerful state that rules the filthy and the liangyi east of the Yushui (Yalu River), and this is Jizi Joseon..."

This is what Zhao Wuxi told Sun Wu in the secret report:

"Jizi North Korea is a state founded by Jizi, one of the three benevolences at the end of the Yin Dynasty. It is also an overseas prince of the Zhou family. In name, it is subject to Zhou. However, after that, North Korea completely cut off contact with the Central Plains, but this state still continues to this day.” At this time, Jizi North Korea was basically limited to the Datong River Basin. Although it was only a small state in the Central Plains, in the Northeast, it has been It is an amazing civilized country.

"Chen Heng encountered strong winds and waves on the way to the north. The fleet deviated from the original route and ran to the territory of Jizi Korea. With the consent of the Joseon Marquis, it has been seven years!"

"Chen Heng has a great fate..." Sun Wu felt a little miraculous. When Chen Heng left, he took five hundred warriors and eight thousand people with him. I don't know how much left when they landed, I'm afraid it's less than half.

"Sanqi's fleet is so small that they dare not go deep into the east of Yushui. The whole thing is still unclear, but there is one thing that has been confirmed."

Zhao Wuxi's mood is a little complicated. UU reading www.uukanshu.com is happy that he has finally found the whereabouts of Chen Heng, the loach. He is annoyed that his cunning has not changed. After that, I can endure it for several years, and once it erupts...

"At the beginning of this year, Chen Heng had turned his back on the guests, took Qi, Guiren, and Liangyi to seize the capital of North Korea, and exterminated the descendants of the Kei clan, leaving only a few people who fled to Guiren in Liaodong. From their mouths, I learned of Chen Heng's whereabouts..."

"Is there such a thing?" If everything was reasonable just now, Sun Wu was a little surprised.

Zhao Wuxi also felt a little incredible, but the reality is so wonderful. There are striking similarities in history. Three hundred years later, there was also a Yan State outlaw named Wei Man who ran to the Korean peninsula with a group of frightened refugees. After a few years of hard work, he turned against the guest and destroyed Jizi Korea and replaced it!

"Although the whole process will not be known until the fleet returns with the surviving descendants of the Kei clan, one thing is certain."

Zhao Wuxi got up and said solemnly: "Chen Hengjiu occupied the magpie's nest, established himself as the Joseon Marquis, and changed his name to Tian Heng, Jizi Korea has died, and the country north of the sea has become Tian's Korea!"