No shortage of walls

This kind of thing has not been discussed in the Qi court. The people who drove Wu and Yue back to the inner pass and even the inner pass of the Song Dynasty will certainly not hurt the Qi soldiers.

But there are two problems:

First, the morale of the Song army is unprecedentedly high. The cost of a strong attack is unimaginable. Since the Song army has already robbed it, and they have the confidence of the Liao and Chen Three Kingdoms, they will not let it go easily. Qi will evacuate Wu Yue and drive Wu Yue's people to attack Wu Yue. Of course, they are afraid of it. The young man was punished and had to do something.

However, things can happen if the Song army's offensive is too strong and the people of Wu and Yue turn against the enemy and attack Qi. At that time, the Song army feels that the people of Wu and Yue are righteous and will treat them with kindness. The people of Wu and Yue will be treated with kindness by Song and they will counterattack. At that time, the Wu Yue Qi army was not only unable to capture Wu Yue's inner pass; they even returned to Song Dynasty along with Wu Yue.

By exchanging the four city gates for the land of Wu and Yue, the gain was little and the loss was huge.

Not cost effective.

Secondly, it is not known whether there are any secret deals between Song and Hu other than business restraint. If there is a stalemate between Song and Qi, the northern barbarians go south to seize the homeland of Qi, and Qi is attacked by Song and Hu. The consequences will be very serious.

The worst result is that not only Wu and Yue will return to the Song Dynasty, but even the homeland of Qi will be divided between Song and Hu. Even if the Hu people don't want the land, the old Qi will be emptied.

The three kingdoms of Qi, Song, and Hu have been feuding for thousands of years, and they will maintain it as long as it lasts. But if one party really fails, the other two parties will be really rude; if you can do it, others will naturally do the same.

The second prince of Qi had basically figured out the matter after waiting for the news that Long Quan had been demoted to the fifth rank of military general. Long Quan was trying to control the Hu people from taking the blame, but when things got to this point, there was no other way but to maintain the status quo.

The Song Emperor was so clever that he used trade to control himself and his neighboring countries.

The most uncomfortable thing is that I clearly know the conspiracy of Emperor Song's son, but I can't figure it out.

Not only are the products from the Song Dynasty Workshop very useful, the main reason is that not only are the Song Emperor's children selling them, but they are also buying them in large quantities.

I have no ability to resist at all.

However, after the prince of Qi was deposed, there was another opportunity for the second prince of Qi.

The second prince of Qi was a man of great talent and vision. He knew that it was impossible for Qi to govern Wu and Yue in this way. He was worried about Song Hu at first and drove the Wu people to attack Wu and the Yue people to attack Yue. The people of Wu and Yue attacked Wu Yue in order to save Qi. of military strength. But now that we have this rare political balance, we should be gentle to Wu and Yue and win over people's hearts. Otherwise, the people of Wu and Yue will suffer too much and it will be difficult to resist rebellion in the future.

Human nature is like this. If you want others to live, they will live in humiliation. But if you can't even live, you will die sooner or later anyway. If you push the people of Wuyue too far, what if the people of Wuyue turn against you?. The problem is huge.

Originally, for such a problem, the second prince of Qi State, as a member of the royal family of Qi State, could make suggestions to his father for the great cause of Qi State for generations to come.

However, it was his own cleverness that captured the first pass of the Wu Kingdom. He sold his father-in-law, bribed his father-in-law's younger brother, and promised to make him the emperor. All the credit for his talent, wisdom, and stratagem was his own. The prince was finally deposed, and he who was expected to become the crown prince was gradually left out. Instead, it was the third brother who, just to cater to his father's wishes, sent many women from the old Wu and Yue to his father for his pleasure; he indulged the court. The minister took pleasure in robbing women from Wu and Yue, but the situation suddenly changed and he was actually left out.

The second prince of the Qi Kingdom was unparalleled in talent and intelligence. Even Liu Gongquan, who served under Prince Jing, the eldest son of Emperor Qing of Qingyuan, who was known as the king of spies. In the past, under Prince Jing, his reputation was unparalleled and spread throughout his neighbors; The spies sent to him were picked out one by one.

If we want to preserve Qi's great cause for thousands of years, we will remain undefeated for ten thousand years. He must be able to be the king himself. In the past, his father was blessed with talents, literary and military talents; but he was also fascinated by women. If the third prince was appointed as the heir apparent, with his pig brain, Qi would soon have problems.

The second prince Qi thought about it. If you want to be the eternal Mingjun and the Holy Emperor, you cannot rebel. He must legitimately seize the position of crown prince, and the next best thing is to enter the middle palace while his father is still on the throne. If the father dies and the third prince becomes emperor, if he starts to cause trouble again, no matter how well he does, he will be considered a traitor in the eyes of future generations.

The Song Emperor's son took advantage of his own attack on Wu and seized the two inner gates of Wu State while Wu was panicking. He also took advantage of Qi State's attack on Yue and robbed two inner gates of Yue State, allowing Qi to conquer Wu and Yue from time to time. Under the threat of the Song Dynasty, the Song Emperor's big arrows were so powerful that he could not build inner gates for defense within the shooting range. He could only leave the big arrows' shooting range and build a small city for defense.

She has already served as a dowry maid for Emperor Song's son for the second time, and she must not do it a third time. But if she wants to become the ruler of the middle palace, Emperor Song is another threat.

Now it seems that with his intelligence and ability, there is no way to let the important ministers of his father's dynasty who fell in the tender dream of a woman see him. He can only drive the people of Wu and Yue to attack the old Qi.

But if this happens, if he takes action, if the Qi Dynasty is in civil strife, and Emperor Song's son takes advantage of the situation, he will become his dowry maid again.

I have been a dowry maid over and over again, but next time I will be in trouble! Once the dowry is over, you may not be able to come back, it all belongs to Emperor Song's son.

It's just that at this time of year, Emperor Song must be making calculations in his mind; the morale of the Song army was high, and they never had a chance, so they could only wait for the opportunity.

So, if you think about it carefully, you can’t do anything.

The second prince of Qi, who was unparalleled in talent and intelligence, was actually powerless to deal with the relationship between Song and Qi.

It’s not that he has not considered selling coarse salt at a reduced price on the seaside and taking away the fine salt business of the Song Dynasty. Now that Wu and Yue are all united, they are all seaside countries. In fact, the production cost of coarse salt is not high, and it can be dried in the sun, and the output How much is a matter of weather.

But:

First, the Hu people are rich; fine salt is really delicious; and there is no problem that the coarse salt is of low quality and has mud and sand; the Hu people have business contacts with the Song Dynasty, and they are afraid of buying coarse salt in Qi State, and the Song people Buy less sheep.

Secondly, in terms of territory, Qi is larger than the Song Dynasty; Wu is about the same size as the Song Dynasty; Yue is larger than half of the Song Dynasty; in this case, shipping coarse salt from the sea to the Hu people in the north is more expensive than salt.

Thirdly, if the price drops to the same price as selling it in the Song Dynasty, people in the Song Dynasty will buy coarse salt by the thousand tons, while the Hu people will buy it by the load. If the quantity is large, you can get a discount; if the quantity is small, it is not cost-effective. The quantity is too small and you can’t make any money.

Fourth, if you surrender, I will surrender. In terms of salt production, coarse salt and salt blocks are the same. However, Chen Guo’s journey to the north is closer than that of Qi, and the travel expenses are a little different. Still, he can’t defeat the Song people. They have to deliver the goods at Heishanguan, and even more close.

Furthermore, salt has been a national strategic resource since ancient times. If it is surrendered abroad, it must be surrendered domestically as well. Such a large reduction will hurt the court's tax revenue, kill ten thousand enemies, and lose thirty thousand. This cannot be done.

As witty as the second prince of the Qi Kingdom, he had long known that the Song Emperor's son meant that the Song Kingdom would never lower prices, including all goods in the workshop, in order to make others speechless and have the same price in the world.