The sun is warm and quiet, the breeze is gentle and gentle, the blue sky and white clouds are elegant, and the woods outside Xianyang City are fiery red, looking like a rolling flame from a distance.

A delicate and luxurious car drove from the official road of the woods and came to the gate of Xianyang City, and a sigh came from the car, and the guards at the city gate checked that it was correct, let it enter the city, and a guard also quietly left.

Sitting in the car was the envoy of Wei, Wei Wuji, the king of Xinling, who was the first envoy of the Six Kingdoms to reach Qin, three days faster than the normal trip.

Three days later, the Korean envoys arrived in Xianyang City, then Chu, Zhao, Qi, and finally Yan.

The envoys of the six countries all arrived in Xianyang City a day or a few days apart, and it had been three days since they arrived in Xianyang City, but none of them visited the ministers of Qin, nor did they ask to see the King of Qin. All this is in the eyes of Zhang Yi, Zhuge Liang and some caring people.

Yingzheng has been handed over to Zhang Yi and Fan Ju to be responsible for this matter, and the envoys of the six countries are calm, and Zhang Yi and the four of them will not take the initiative to find them, and the initiative will be transferred to the envoys of the six countries at that time.

The four of them went to the side hall of the last meeting to confirm each other the reason why the envoys of the six countries were so abnormal.

Fan Ju said first: "The envoys of the six countries to the Qin State this time, each of them is not easy to get along with, Wei Guoxin Lingjun, Zhao Guoping Jun, Qi State Banquet Baby, no matter which one of the envoys to my Qin State has to have a good life, I didn't expect the three of them to get together this time." ”

"Sure enough, there is no better strategy than the Mansion Master's weaker six strong Qin. Even if the vitality of the Six Nations is greatly damaged this time, with these people in power, they can gradually recover. They had been in Qin for three days, and none of them had sued for peace and discussed the matter of taking prisoners. Jing Jian said

"Now the Six Kingdoms are like lambs to the slaughter, if the envoy to the Qin State is a group of incompetent people, I am afraid that on the first day of arriving in Xianyang City, I will give gifts to some ministers of the court and the central government. Fan Ju agreed.

"In the final analysis, they are just building momentum, and one doesn't want to cut the city to the Qin State. Second, warn the Qin State that their determination to unite the six countries, and the six countries advance and retreat together, so that my Qin State's appetite is not too big. Three, tell me and others, they already understand the reality of the Qin State, and the Qin State also does not have too many troops to attack their six countries at present, and everyone is half a catty to eight taels. Fourth, even if a million captives are guaranteed not to starve to death, they eat tens of thousands of stone of grain every day, and now more than 300,000 stone of grain are gone, they want to make my Qin State feel pressure. Zhang Yi thought for a while.

"If the four of us really discuss with them about the prisoners and peace, we really have to be cautious. It's a pity that they tried their best, but after all, they still had a bad move. Zhuge Liang said.

"Although Xinling Jun and Pingyuan Jun are famous, Yan Ying is a diplomatic leader. After speaking, Jing Jian looked at Zhuge Liang and the three of them, and sighed with some sympathy:

"Why—"

"I met the three demons who are the best at diplomacy and scheming. This was said by Jing Jian in his heart.

Zhang Yi, Fan Ju, and Zhuge Liang really wanted to hear what Jing Jian thought, and they all looked at Jing Jian, Jing Jian thought that he showed a warm smile, but he didn't know that in the eyes of Zhuge Liang and the three of them, his old face and the smile on his face were so flat.

Zhang Yi was a little dissatisfied and said: "Since they want to delay, then as they wish, after a month, everything is a foregone conclusion." At that time, they will return to whence they have come from, but they do not know how they will face their king. ”

Fan Ju, Zhuge Liang, and Jing Jian also nodded in agreement, and the envoys of the Six Kingdoms even wanted to control the Qin State, which made the four of them very dissatisfied.

The six Xinling Jun did not know that the envoys sent by the Qin State had arrived in the six countries one after another.

The main and guest department of the Ministry of Rites is in charge of the function of envoys to other countries and receiving envoys from various countries, and the main and guest department has one person in Langzhong, and there are six foreign langs who assist Langzhong in managing the main and guest divisions.

The girder of the capital of the Wei State.

The envoy to Wei this time was called Feng Changjun, and he came to Wei and lived in Wei Daliang Post Station under the arrangement of Wei.

When he came to Wei, he asked his entourage to inquire about Li Kui, which was not much different from the rumors, but Li Kui was imprisoned by the King of Wei. Wei's claim was that Li Kui violated the laws of Wei and was imprisoned by the king of Wei.

After Feng Changjun collected the news, he didn't procrastinate, so he informed the post steward that he would ask to see the King of Wei tomorrow as an envoy of the Qin State.

The King of Wei was already confused when he learned that Qin sent an envoy to Wei, and Feng Changjun sent someone to inquire about Li Kui, and he also knew, which made him even more confused.

When he learned that Feng Changjun would visit him the next day, he could only suppress the confusion in his heart and ordered: "Tomorrow we will greet the Qin envoy with the gift of an envoy." ”

Left and right answered: "No." ”

He also instructed the ministers of the inner chamberlain to come and discuss the intention of Qin to send envoys to Wei.

On the second day, the palace of the king of Wei!

An attendant in the main hall said: "Xuan: The envoy of the Qin State has come to meet you!"

Another chamberlain outside the hall said in a loud voice: "Xuan: The envoy of the Qin State has come to meet you!"

"Xuan: The envoy of the Qin State is here!"

Feng Changjun slowly walked from the gate of the Wei King's Palace towards the Wei Dynasty Palace.

In the main hall, the courtiers of the Wei State are in two classes.

Feng Changjun came to the center of the main hall and saluted: "Feng Changjun, the envoy of the Qin State, has seen the King of Wei!"

The King of Wei was a man in his forties, and he said with a majestic face: "Excuse me, what is the intention of the Qin State to send you to my Wei State?"

Feng Changjun was light and light, but his words were shocking: "Come and ask for guilt." ”

King Wei's eyes widened, and the courtiers were furious: "Presumptuous!"

"Ann dares to be so rampant. ”

An old minister said: "Zhuzian dares to speak wildly in the court of my Wei State, is it really that no one cares about my Wei State?"

"I implore the King of Wei to take down this rampant villain. ”

The ministers pleased.

Feng Changjun is still the same calm and calm appearance.

King Wei's tone was cold, and he said, "Does the envoy think that it is not good for my Wei State Sword to not be sharp?"

Feng Changjun said: "How dare the foreign ministers, the courage of the soldiers of the King of Wei, the advantage of the sword, the most of the six countries." ”

The ministers of Wei were all angry and blackened, deceiving people too much, 'the best of the six countries', excluding Qin, this is not to say that their Wei soldiers are not as brave as Qin, and their swords are not as sharp as Qin, otherwise they will lose this battle, this is a handful of salt on the wounds of Wei.

A minister sneered: "It is indeed the most of the six countries, when my 50,000 soldiers of Wei defeated your 500,000 army, and since then your country has lost Hexi and retreated to the pass." ”

"No one knows if Hexi will return to Wei again, right, Qin envoy?"

Feng Changjun smiled: "I believe that you won't be able to see that day. ”

"You ......"

King Wei's face was as black as the bottom of the pot at this time, and he once again struggled to hold back a sentence from his mouth.

"Did the Qin envoy come to my Wei State to show off his might?"

Feng Changjun saluted and said: "Wei State united with Zhao, Han, Chu, Qi, and Yan to invade our Qin State, so that 300,000 soldiers of Qin State died in battle, and my king specially asked foreign ministers to come to Wei State to ask for an explanation." ”

King Wei was resentful, but helpless, and said, "How can the Qin State be willing to give up?"

The prime minister of Wei was still closing his eyes to recuperate, but when he heard King Wei's words, his eyes opened, shook his head, and closed them again.

Feng Changjun said: "Fifteen cities, 20 million stone grain. ”

"No way. King Wei roared angrily.

Feng Changjun said: "King Wei is not in a hurry, 20 million grains cannot be missing, and the fifteen seats of my Wang Renyi Wei State can be replaced by money, iron ore and other things." ”

As soon as King Wei wanted to refuse, the old prime minister said:

"I, Wei Guo, agreed. ”

Feng Changjun looked at the old prime minister and said politely: "It's still the old prime minister's state that understands things, and my Qin State not only sent back Wei people to help, but also agreed to return to Wei State. ”

After listening to Feng Changjun's words, King Wei still restrained himself and recognized it.

Feng Changjun left, and King Wei could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, and swept down the bamboo slips on the desk, making a noise.

Feng Changjun walked out of the main hall, his back was soaked, he looked back with palpitations, and then smiled proudly, not everyone dared to be so unscrupulous in the Wei State court.

Gongsun Ming, the envoy of Qi, was the most confusing, he put forward the initial request of Qin, and the king of Qi agreed calmly, and then proposed to 'invite' Guan Zhong to go to Qin as a guest, and the king of Qi said that he would consider one or two.

The next day, he summoned him, not only agreed that Guan Zhong would go to the Qin State, but also sent Tian Dan who helped the Qi State recover the country, that was Tian Dan, saved the Qi State in danger, and used the "Fire Ox Array" to break the Yan army and recover the Tian Dan of the Seventy Cities.

It made him feel like he was dreaming, but he didn't refuse, he knew the true purpose of the envoy to the Qi Kingdom. Excitement, suspicion was followed by a burst of sadness, feeling sad for Guan Zhong and Tian Dan, and he was very glad that he was an official in the Qin State, and the Qin State used the rule of law to rule the country, especially in the future, he could not help but be full of longing for the future.

Before the envoys of Qin State arrived in Zhao State, it was rumored in Handan City of Zhao State that Li Mu of Zhao State had secretly defected to Qin State and revealed the march route of Yan Zhao's 100,000 army to Qin State, so that he would be ambushed by Qin State and all of them were killed in battle.

As soon as this Yao Yan came out, Zhao Guo was in an uproar, and even King Zhao had doubts about Li Mu, not many people knew the route of Yan Zhao's 100,000 army, and even the generals of the 600,000 army only a few people knew.

The 50,000 cavalry of Zhao State was trained by Li Mu, so Li Mu knew about the cavalry transfer and the alliance with the 50,000 cavalry of Yan State in the grassland, so King Zhao had to suspect Li Mu.

Of course, there are also people in Zhao State who don't believe it, thinking that this is a discordant plan of Qin State, but they have no evidence to prove that it was not Li Mu's doing.

Five days after the news spread, Qin envoys arrived in Handan City, Zhao State.

King Zhao did not meet the envoy of Qin, and asked Guo Kai, the prime minister of Zhao, to meet him, Guo Kai did not dare to agree to Qin's conditions, and King Zhao had no choice but to summon him in person.

Zhao Guo hated Qin Guo to the core, so naturally he would not put on any reception ceremony, and King Zhao directly summoned Ma Mingfei, the envoy of Qin State, in a side hall, and said: "Your Qin State is really too deceitful, and I, Zhao State, will never agree." ”

Ma Mingfei saw that King Zhao's face was pale and his body was weak. Yili said: "Twenty sitting in the city, two thousand stone of grain, and General Li Mu." This is the bottom line of my Qin State, since King Zhao does not agree, the foreign minister will return to Xianyang tomorrow to report to my king. ”

When King Zhao heard Li Mu, he was shocked and angry: "Li Mu really took refuge in your Qin State. ”

Ma Mingfei said: "King Zhao knows, why bother asking, my king promises that as long as King Zhao lets Li Mu and his family enter Qin safely, my Qin country is willing to ask for five fewer cities." ”

King Zhao was so angry that his eyes were red, his face was even whiter, and he said fiercely: "Don't think about it." ”

The minister took his leave. ”

"I don't know how the Three Kingdoms of Wei and Hanyan are. He turned around and muttered.

King Zhao's anger was immediately replaced by horror, and he shouted, "Wait, the Qin State also sent envoys to the other five countries?"

Ma Mingfei turned around and saluted: "Back to King Zhao, my Qin State sent a total of six envoys to the Six Kingdoms, if King Han agrees to my Qin State's request, the current 100,000 people in South Korea should be on the way back to South Korea." ”

King Zhao was like a deflated ball, and said, "The conditions of the Qin State are inhuman...... Promised. ”

Yan Kingdom, Yan Wang Palace.

The main hall of Yan State, the civil and military columns, the envoy of Qin State stood in the center, and King Yan said: "The rest of the conditions of Qin State are agreed to, but Le Yi is not good, but the widow can add 20,000 more good horses." ”

Qin envoy said: "King Xie Yan." ”

King Yan asked meaningfully, "The Qin State has not only sent you?" ”

The envoy of the Qin State replied: "King Yan is wise, my Qin State has sent a total of six envoys to the Six Kingdoms. ”

King Yan smiled and said, "Wise, how is it compared to King Qin?"

Qin Envoy didn't even think about it: "Naturally, it can't compare to my king." ”

Yan Wang: "......"

Yan Guoqun: "......"

Lao Tie was pierced in his heart, you actually said that King Yan, who was in his forties, was not as good as a ten-year-old hairy child in Qin State. Are people like you really not afraid of being beaten to death when they come out to be messengers?

King Yan's smile instantly froze on his face, and after a while, it darkened, and he said coldly: "Retreat." ”

Han and Chu agreed to Qin's conditions without surprise. In fact, the conditions put forward by Zhang Yi and the four of them to the six countries are the bottom line of the six countries, and the six countries have to agree, they are all afraid, I don't agree, and other countries will agree.

Xianyang City Station, a month has passed, the envoy of the Six Kingdoms couldn't hold his breath ten days ago, and asked to see the King of Qin, but the post station manager told them about the peace with the Six Kingdoms King Qin let Zhang Yi and Zhuge Liang be responsible. They asked the post station manager to inform Zhang Yi and the four of them, and the post station manager reported that the four adults were very busy and could not meet them for the time being. After waiting for two days, he had no choice but to send his entourage to the mansion of the four people, reporting that the four were not there.

This delay was another seven days, and the six people used this method to not see Zhang Yi and Yingzheng.

In the end, they waited, and when they came the letter of reproach of the king of the six people, the six people looked at it and were dumbfounded, and they went to the Qin State as envoys of the six countries. But the Qin State actually sent an envoy to the Six Kingdoms, and also proposed that the Qin State agree to an armistice, and not pursue the peace conditions of the war, and the kings of the Six Kingdoms were forced to agree to it, and there was no room for bargaining.

The six of them no longer had the confidence that everything was under control when they first arrived in the Qin State, but they were decadent, lost, and frustrated.

Today, the six of them are preparing to leave for China, and the irony is that the six of them have worked hard to see Zhuge Liang and the four of them, who have not seen them for ten days, came to the post station today.

It has been a month since the six of them came to the Qin State, and although they were put aside by the Qin State, they still know a lot about many things in the Qin State, especially for Ying Zheng, who is synonymous with "mystery" in their hearts.

The impact of the Qin State's one government, one courtyard, two cabinets and six ministries on them was simply earth-shaking.

So when they left, they looked at Zhuge Liang a few more times, as if they wanted to remember Zhuge Liang to death.

They were also shocked by Zhuge Liang's exploits, and they couldn't believe that this was something that one person could plan.

They were not too surprised that Zhuge Liang became a second-class member of the Qin State and one of the four most powerful people under the Ying Dynasty, and there were not a few examples of some unofficial people in the Seven Kingdoms being favored by the king and being named Xiangguo.

The difference between Zhuge Liang and those people is that they are all famous people in the world, and their abilities are recognized by many people, but Zhuge Liang is an obscurity, as if he appeared out of thin air, this is what makes people afraid, how many such people are there in the Qin State.

The envoys of the six countries set off for departure, and Zhuge Liang and the four of them just saw them off. The envoys of the Qin State to the Six Nations also left the Six Kingdoms and set off for China.

After Gongsun Ming left the Qi State with Guan Zhong, Tian Dan and their families and more than a dozen carts of property, a Yao saying began to circulate in Linzi of the Qi State.