King Zhao still did not execute Lou Xuan.

This is really an incredible thing, in the face of betraying him, and with the determination to reprimand his own Lou Yan, the king of Zhao ordered that he be imprisoned in the palace, dismissed the people who served him, and arranged for several retainers to supervise him. Dong Chengzi originally issued the death penalty to Lou Zheng, but King Zhao directly ordered him to change the final result, which made Dong Chengzi very angry and thought that King Zhao's behavior was against the law.

King Zhao no longer let Dong Chengzi be responsible for Lou Zhuan's verdict, but Zhao Hui was responsible, Zhao Hui was a greedy villain, he had long been bribed by Xinlingjun, and secretly informed Xinlingjun of Zhao Bao's plan, after he took over Dong Chengzi, after deep thought, he still refused to carry out King Zhao's orders on the grounds that he did not know the law, Lou Huan offended too many people, including Xinlingjun and Ma Fujun, he would rather anger King Zhao than offend these two people at the same time.

King Zhao was naturally very angry, but King Zhao was surprised to find that he couldn't find anyone who could carry out his orders in the palace, so he handed over this matter to Zheng Anping to be responsible.

And such a verdict also caused a huge sensation in Zhao, the domestic nobles, ministers, are very dissatisfied with the verdict, in their opinion, this is simply chaos, like this to frame the prime minister, but also set off a rebellion, can still live?

Zhao Kuo didn't express his opinion on this matter, he had more important things to do, he wanted to get married. It's not that Zhao Kuo was in a hurry to get married, but after Zhao's mother learned that the civil strife was over, she began to send people to urge, and Zhao Kuo had no choice but to return to Mafu Township.

Because of the huge controversy caused by the verdict of Lou Zhan, King Zhao had to come to meet with all the ministers who came to advise him one by one.

The first to come to him was naturally Dong Chengzi, when King Zhao tactfully told Dong Chengzi that he wanted to save his life, Dong Chengzi was furious, he pulled his few hairs, and loudly argued with King Zhao, the first law he formulated, including the punishment of major crimes such as rebellion and rebellion, including execution, removal of the person he recommended, etc., compared to Qin Law, but there was only one less large-scale sitting.

This is already a very forgiving law, and you still want to pardon traitors, what does that mean?

In the end, the two broke up unhappily, Dong Chengzi left the palace unhappily, and the last Yu Qing, Xu Li, Lian Po and others who came in persuaded King Zhao to kill Lou Huan, Lou Huan betrayed Zhao State, caused a rebellion, and framed the Prime Minister, no matter which crime it was, it was enough to kill him, but King Zhao just refused, and he didn't know what was crazy, after Zhao Hui also righteously rejected King Zhao's proposal, King Zhao was very angry and drove Zhao Hui out of the palace.

even deprived Zhao Hui of his official position and demoted him to a concubine.

No one knows why King Zhao wants to die to protect Lou Xuan, and they don't know why he wants to argue with so many ministers for a Lou Xuan, everyone thinks it's very strange, and in the end, only Zheng Anping and Pang Xuan supported King Zhao, yes, Pang Xuan actually supported King Zhao and forgave Lou Xuan's capital crime. Probably because he and Lou Xuan have been friends for many years, or because of something else.

In the palace, Zhao Dan sat alone in front of the desk, looked at the candles around him, and took another sip of wine. He was silent, there were no samurai in the main hall, he looked at the empty hall, smiled, took another sip of wine, and while he was drinking, a figure surrounded by samurai, walked into the hall in the night. The person who came sat directly in front of Zhao Dan, and he was not polite, picked up the wine cup, and drank it.

Zhao Dan looked at the middle father in front of him, with an indescribably complicated expression in his eyes.

The person who came was Zhao Bao, Zhao Bao drank wine, and asked, "You finally found out?" ”

King Zhao didn't speak, just frowned.

"I've told you many times... It's not a good thing that the minister is strong and the king is weak, but you are just immersed in the sweet words of these virtuous people, and even reprimanded me, now what? You can't even release a single prisoner, all the ministers are against you, of course, your order is wrong, Lou Xuan should be put to death. Zhao Bao paused, and then said: "But in the past, you gave a lot of wrong orders, and at that time, there were still many people who supported you." ”

"No minister dares to oppose you, no minister is not afraid of you, your orders can be passed in the Zhao Kingdom, no one can disobey them, even if it is a wrong order... And now? ”

"Ma Fujun, Ma Fujun... I asked, did you know? He just stepped forward and waved at the rebels, who surrendered... Don't dare to oppose him, do you think that if you go out of the city and wave to the rebels, the rebels will surrender to you? Zhao Bao laughed, he laughed a little loudly, he shook his head, and said: "You are still young, still immature, the child who cried behind me at the beginning has not grown up now." ”

King Zhao shook his head and said seriously: "The widow knows that Ma Fujun will not betray the widow. ”

"Of course, after all, he prides himself on being benevolent... He is in Zhao State, it is the luck of Zhao State, but it is your misfortune, his orders are more effective than your orders, Zhao people only know Ma Fujun, but they don't know that there is you, the people can dance with joy when they hear his name, the soldiers are willing to follow him to fight when they see his back, and the ministers listen to the truth he tells as the truth, so what about you? ”

"Ma Fujun may not be in trouble, but just a few Qin people, with the fame of Xinling Jun, can raise tens of thousands of soldiers, if there are people who want to follow Ma Fujun to get rich and noble, and use Ma Fujun's prestige to gather the people, the next day, you will be driven out of the palace... Can you believe it? Zhao Bao asked rhetorically several times, but King Zhao still didn't say a word, his face became more and more sad, he drank wine, and said: "Ma Fujun will not allow such a thing." ”

"Yes, Ma Fujun is proficient in warfare, can better govern the country, and can recommend talented sages, so you are in the palace, do your King Zhao, things outside the palace, you can completely hand over to Ma Fujun and let him do it, anyway, this palace is still quite big...", Zhao Bao looked around and said with a smile.

"I want to tell you a story." , Zhao Bao suddenly spoke.

"Say it, please."

"There is a sage called Zizhi in the Yan country, the Yan people love him very much, he is righteous, and the friends he makes are talented sages, the king of Yan will hand over all the major affairs in the country to him, and there are more and more people who support him, so there are ministers who come to the king of Yan, hoping that the king of Yan will give the throne to Zizhi, well, you know what happened later, Yan Wang Chan rang, Yan Gongzi attacked Zizhi, Qi took advantage of the chaos to attack, killed Yan Wang and Zizhi... The kingdom of Yan was almost destroyed. ”

"Now that Ma Fujun is more prestigious than Yan Guozizhi?"

"Ma Fu-kun..."

"How about the person who is willing to follow Ma Fujun compared to the person who is willing to follow the son?"

"This..."

"Now the ministers of the court and the central government are unwilling to carry out your orders, if in the future, they come to ask you for the throne and Ma Fujun, can you refuse?"

King Zhao didn't speak, just looked at Zhao Bao coldly and said, "At least, Ma Fujun will not be used to murder Zhao Guo." Zhao Bao sighed, and then said: "I know, you still blame me, but what I want to do is only to protect you, I can swear to you that if what I do, one thing is out of selfishness, so that I have no place to bury myself." ”

"You're still young, and there's so much I don't know how to tell you... Of course, it is inconvenient to tell you these things, now, you no longer trust me, this banquet is probably for me to see me off, you will not see me again in the future...", Zhao Bao said, his face was slightly lonely, he said: "In the country, not only do you need sages like Ma Fujun, but of course you also need some villains who slap horses..."

"They will support the king's decision, and if necessary, they can also take the blame for your crimes..", Zhao Bao did not continue to talk about this matter, he suddenly smiled and said: "Remember when you were young, you always liked to go out of the city with me to play, remember?" I used to tell you about hunting, you loved to hunt, you like to collect the bones of all kinds of prey, to show others to see... Now, I'm old, and I can't hunt with you anymore."

"But, you must hold the bow and arrow in your hand, you are the monarch of Zhao State, the bow and arrow you want to shoot should hit the target without any resistance... Otherwise, if someone dares to stop your arrow, someone will take it from you when you lose your hand. Zhao Bao said, stood up, and bowed down towards King Zhao, King Zhao's lips trembled, but he still didn't speak.

Zhao Bao left the palace and also left Handan, and he was going to his fiefdom, Pingyang. Chang Anjun was very reluctant to him, and personally went out of the city to say goodbye, Zhao Bao looked at Zhao Qiyue in front of him complicatedly, and then looked at the samurai around him who "escorted" him away, and seriously instructed Chang Anjun: "Protect your brother, no matter when, support your brother, in front of family affection, everything must make way for it!" ”

Chang Anjun didn't know if he understood Zhao Bao's words, sent Zhao Bao away, Chang Anjun lived in Zhao Bao's original mansion, he took over the strength left by Pingyang Jun, that is, those guests, land, wealth, etc., which made Chang Anjun temporarily forget the pain of parting with Pingyang Jun, he used the money to start buying horses, and took the guests to gallop outside the city, and the life was delicious.

"What?? Imperial History? ”

Chang Anjun's eyes widened, listening to King Zhao's words, he almost jumped up, he was having fun these days, what kind of imperial history do you want to be, he was obviously a little annoyed, frowned, looked at the brother with a gloomy face in front of him, but he didn't dare to refute, now there is no Zhao Bao to protect him again, Chang Anjun thought for a moment, only then squeezed out a smile, and said to King Zhao: "Shangjun, you can let Bu Lai serve it, he is serious and has military merits." ”

King Zhao looked at this unsuccessful brother, shook his head helplessly, and said, "He can't do it, before Pingyang Jun left, tell the widow that he must not be reused." ”

"Huh?! How so? He was the only son of his uncle, how could his uncle say that? Chang Anjun asked with some surprise, King Zhao squinted his eyes and said, "Probably.. It's because he's too impulsive. Chang Anjun looked helpless, pondered for a moment, and then said: "Then please come to the afternoon to do the imperial history, he is older than me, and he has a good name, most of the people love him, and they think he has the demeanor of his father..."

"So he can't do it, so I can only let you do it."

"Why? I don't know anything about politics, and I don't even know what the imperial history does! None of the ministers in the country like me, and I don't like them, and I don't want to be with them. Chang Anjun said aggrievedly, his face was full of trouble, King Zhao looked at him approvingly, and said, "Yue.. Pingyuanjun is in Wei, Pingyangjun ... It's not in the country, the only one who can be appointed by the widow is you, you have to grow up slowly, you have to learn to govern, you are the son of Zhao Guo. ”

He also said: "In the future, you can no longer make friends with those lowly wicked people, let alone take the lead in doing evil, treat people gently, do things carefully, and do not act recklessly, the widow will be strict with you, if you dare to disobey what the widow said, the widow will immediately lock you up in the fiefdom!" You will never be allowed to leave your mansion again! King Zhao said loudly, after King Zhao had already done such a thing once, Chang'an Jun didn't dare to question it.

He didn't want to fall to the point where Pingyang-kun was imprisoned in a fiefdom... He nodded and said, "I see." ”

King Zhao's face became gentle, and he asked Chang'anjun to sit in front of him, and then he advised: "Tomorrow, the widow will gather the ministers and announce this matter, there are two things, you have to do it for the widow." ”

"Please, I will live up to my mission."

"First of all, you have to advise the widow and leave Lou Yan's life..."

"Why?!" , Chang Anjun exclaimed in surprise, "That guy betrayed Zhao Guo, he deserves to die!" King Zhao said calmly: "You just have to propose, you don't have to pay attention to other things, if there are ministers who insult you, you can argue with them, but you can't be too rude..."

Chang Anjun nodded a little aggrieved.

King Zhao said: "The second thing is that you have to advise the widows to negotiate peace with the Qin State and stop this war. ”

"Why..", Chang An Jun was about to ask, but when he saw King Zhao's angry face, he didn't ask again, sighed and nodded.

King Zhao said with a smile: "In the future, you have to come to the palace often, the widow will have something to tell you, if you meet a sage who can be promoted, you can tell the widow, and the widow will let them enter the palace to help you." ”

"Well... Okay, I proposed this, the ministers of the DPRK and China were afraid that they would want to eat me in anger, but it didn't matter, my brother wanted me to do it, then I would do it, and they didn't like me anyway. Chang Anjun smiled and said: "Anyway, I have always been a wicked person, I was, I am, and I will definitely be in the future, brother, you didn't want that hound anymore, don't you let me..."

"There is no need to say much about the past."

"I see..."