Bai Qi smiled and looked at the bamboo slip in his hand.

He looked very seriously, and the young Meng Wu stood cautiously not far away, and did not dare to disturb him. Meng Wu admired Wu Anjun very much, even though his father Meng Wei was a famous general in Qin, he still wanted to learn from Bai Qi. At first, when Meng Fu was teaching him the art of war, Meng Wu was lazy and refused to learn, and when Meng Fu was furious and was about to punish him, he asked his father: Can you become a person like Wu Anjun by learning your art of war?

Meng Fu was even more angry and beat him hard, and then he grabbed his ears and brought him to Bai Qi. There are very few friends in Baiqi... No, he didn't have any friends, but he had been fighting side by side with Meng Fu for a long time, and he didn't close himself off like he did with everyone else. It's just that he didn't want to teach Meng Wu, he told Meng Fu that he didn't know what the art of war was, and he didn't know how to teach the art of war to others.

Meng Qi didn't say much, just left Meng Wu here, and since then, Meng Wu has been in Bai Qi's courtyard all day, Bai Qi didn't drive him away, but he didn't teach him anything. Until the later Battle of Changping, Bai Qi directly took away Meng Wu and let him serve as the captain, he must take the lead in every battle, even such a dangerous thing as siege warfare, but also let him be the first to charge, this move frightened many generals, even if you don't want to teach him, you shouldn't want to kill him.

Meng Wu didn't complain, his life was in danger several times, but after waking up, he hurriedly put on his armor and went into battle. Someone told Meng Wei that Bai Qi intended to murder your son, please bring him back to his side, but Meng Fu laughed and said: "Wu Anjun finally taught him the real art of war, this is Wu Anjun's art of war." ”

At this moment, Bai Qi has returned to Xianyang, and Meng Wu is still by his side, he will remember the books that Bai Qi reads, and after returning home, he will also go to read it, Bai Qi has a very clear rest arrangement, every day is according to the rules of the military to get up, rest, eat, train, has insisted for decades, never slack, Meng Wu is also following him, serious study.

After seeing Bai Qi's iron-blooded appearance, seeing his smile now will undoubtedly make people a little frightened. I just think this smile is so inconsistent, it's frightening.

Bai Qi held the bamboo slip, nodded his head, and said, "Zhao Kuo said it very well." During this period of time, Zhao Kuo's answers were very popular in the Qin State, especially his views on the law, but his views on the great unification were only popular among the high-level, even so, Ma Fujun also became a respected figure in the Qin State within a few days.

"He can give full play to the combat power of his soldiers, but he is not impossible to defeat, he values the lives of his soldiers too much, and the national strength of Zhao cannot afford large-scale wars, their generals are insufficient, and their equipment is not well-equipped... Now that it has lost Shangdang as a barrier, the Qin State can launch an attack on Handan from three directions at the same time, and after three years, Handan can be taken. Bai Qi said seriously.

Meng Wu nodded, and then asked, "But there is still the Great Wall as Handan's support, what should I do?" ”

"This war, because the battle for the party consumed too much material, so that the soldiers are very tired, so I did not storm the Great Wall, Qin State is united, recuperate, three years later, there are the most elite soldiers, there is sufficient food, there are sophisticated weapons, Zhao State population loss is very serious, three years later, Zhao State can mobilize 150,000 elites to go to the battlefield is very difficult, but Qin State can still gather more than 300,000 soldiers, in the face of such a gap, Zhao Kuo is unstoppable."

Bai Qi said very calmly. Meng Wu nodded, in this battle, Bai Qi wanted to send troops to stay in Shangdang, divide the troops into the wild king, and because of the reinforcements of the Wei State, he was broken by Zhao Kuo by Zhao Kuo, that's it, Zhao Kuo was not able to give Bai Qi a painful blow, the casualty ratio of the two sides was equal, if Bai Qi had an absolute advantage in strength, Zhao Kuo wanted to defeat him, which was tantamount to a fool's dream.

At this moment, Fan Ju was also in the palace talking with King Qin about the next national policy.

"The Qin State occupied the Shangdang, so that the Zhao State lost the last barrier, and Handan was directly exposed to the place where the Qin State's spear could pierce. I've heard that exposing the vital point to the other side when tearing up is the most dangerous act, and the most beneficial act for the enemy. The most important thing now is not to target Zhao State, but to run Shangdang, to move the people of Qin State to Shangdang, to arrange virtuous county guards, and to distribute the children of the school to Shangdang... The cultivated land of the party was distributed to meritorious soldiers. ”

This is the consistent style of the Qin State, and there is no need for Fan Ju to say more, the King of Qin nodded from time to time, and Fan Ju said: "If you win the party, it will only take three years to be able to do it against Zhao Wei at the same time.... Zhao Sheng of Zhao served as the minister of Wei, he had Zhao in his heart, if Qin crusaded against Zhao, Wei would definitely send troops, and the person who led the troops was likely to be Zhao Sheng, but the king of Wei may not be able to tolerate him, most of the people of Wei are like this. ”

Fan Ju said with some mockery, King Qin glanced at him and didn't say anything. Fan Ju said again: "Our main enemies are still Zhao and Chu, Chun Shenjun of Chu seems to be close to Qin, cowardly and cowardly, but he has always been trying to find a way to recapture the land captured by Qin... Zhao Guo also has talents like Wei Wuji and Ma Fujun. Hearing Ma Fujun, King Qin was a little sour, he squinted his eyes and said, "Then three years." ”

"Three years later, the widow will personally rush to Mafu and drive for Mafujun."

"What if he doesn't want to get in the car?"

"Hahaha, the widow holds the lives of millions of Zhao people in his hands, with the character of Ma Fujun, how could he not be willing?" , King Qin smiled confidently, and then he seriously arranged domestic political affairs with Fan Ju, and determined the basic strategy in the future, and these big and small things, King Qin handed over to Fan Ju to deal with, and Fan Ju was also as confident as King Qin, and took over the mission.

"However, you still have to dissolve the alliance of the nations as soon as possible." , King Qin said slowly.

"The State of Wei and the State of Zhao have aimed their blades at us, if the blades of the State of Qi can be aimed at their backs..."

Fan Ju smiled.

.......

In 1045 B.C., Zhou Tianzi sealed Taigong Jiang Shang in Qi, established the state of Qi, and governed Yingqiu. During the period of Qi Xiangong, in order to prevent the invasion of Jiguo, he strengthened and expanded Yingqiu City, and the east wall of Yingqiu City after expansion was on the verge of Zishui and was built along the river, so Yingqiu City naturally became Linzi. This is the capital of the current Qi State, and the Qi State was the former overlord, and even now, the princes dare not despise it.

The prosperous Linzi City, representing the glory of the Qi Kingdom in the past, this city built along the river is very crowded, there are scholars, rangers, and merchants. Qi has always been a wealthy country with the benefits of fish and salt, there is no shortage of merchants, and Qi is not very harsh on merchants like Qin, which makes Qi commercially prosperous. And the ranger is the characteristic of Qi country, and everywhere in Qi country can see these young people wearing sharp blades and doing nothing.

These young people may be the first batch of mercenaries, when the Qi State is in the war, they will hire them to fight, according to their military merits to give a reward, the war is over, immediately dismissed, Xunzi is very contemptuous of this kind of army, thinking that they may be the worst army at the moment.

As for scholars, that is a bigger feature of the Qi State. A long time ago, there was a King of Qi Wei, he indulged in wine, ignoring the government, but soon, under the persuasion of Zou Ji, cheered up, began to change the law to become strong, he changed the Qi State from many aspects, and also made the countries reverence the Qi State again, and his greatest contribution may be to follow the example of Wei Wenhou Zun Lizi Xia to establish the Xihe School, so he established the Jixia School Palace.

The Jixia Academy is the world's first institution of higher learning in a special form organized by an official and privately hosted institution. The controversy of a hundred schools of thought in the history of Chinese thought is centered on the Jixia School Palace of Qi State, and his official school is the study of Huang Lao, but it does not exclude other learning, which makes the Jixia School Palace an important link in the exchange of ideas in the world, the debate of scholars, and the gradual improvement of doctrines, and academic contention has emerged since then.

The Jixia School Palace accommodates almost all schools of thought and brings together thousands of scholars, including scholars such as Mencius, Chun Yuji, Zou Zi, Tian Piao, Shenzi, Shenzi, Jiezi, Ji Zhen, Juanzi, Peng Meng, Yin Wenzi, Tian Ba, Er Shuo, Lu Lianzi, Suzi, Xunzi and so on. This has greatly enhanced the talent pool of Qi State, making Qi State have been in a position of looking down on other countries for a long time.

More than 20 years ago, the states of Qi and Qin used to be called emperors, Qin was the Western Emperor, and Qi was the Eastern Emperor. Although King Qi quickly abandoned the title of emperor, he destroyed the Song State, crusaded against the Chu State, and attacked the Three Jin Dynasty. In the end, the Six Kingdoms led by Le Yi ushered in the invasion of Qi, and the State of Qi almost perished, if it were not for Tian Dan, the State of Qi would have long since ceased to exist. Six years ago, King Qi Xiang, who had been put on the throne by Tian Dan and sold him to Zhao, died.

The son of King Xiang of Qi ascended the throne, and King Qi built.

At this moment, Qi Wangjian was sitting in the palace, looking at the envoy of the Qin State in front of him with some embarrassment.

The envoy of the Qin State looked a little arrogant, raised his head high, and did not take the angry Qi ministers in the palace in his eyes, Qi Wangjian was a little dazed, a little afraid in his heart, and at a loss. The Qin State has not sent an envoy to the Qi State for a long time, probably since the death of the King of Qi Xiang, the two sides have not had much contact, and the Qin envoy suddenly came with a gift from the Qin State, which made the ministers feel uneasy.

Especially the young King Qi was particularly uneasy at the moment.

The envoy of the Qin State handed the gift of the King of Qin to the warrior on the side, it was a jade made of nine rings, which looked very exquisite, the warrior respectfully handed the nine links to the King of Qi, the King of Qi took the nine rings curiously, groped in surprise, and asked: "How is this made?" Can jade stones be connected together? King Qi played with it for a while, and the worry in his heart disappeared without a trace.

He smiled and said to the Qin envoy: "Please go back and tell the King of Qin that the widow likes the gift he sent very much, and the widow will return the gift." ”

The Qin envoy smiled, the purpose of his coming was not to make friends with the Qi State, on the contrary, he was taking the order of the King of Qin to test the current Qi State, the King of Qi Xiang was dead, and the Qi State did not have any sages who could do it, could the Qi State be used as a helper, and would it endanger the Qin State? The envoy raised his head and said loudly: "I brought the king's message, and the king said: I have heard that there are many talents in the Qi country, and I don't know if anyone can untie this nine links?" ”

King Qi was stunned for a moment, looked at the Nine Links in his hand carefully, and after looking at it for a moment, he exclaimed, "How can this be solved?" As he spoke, he raised the Nine Links and asked the ministers, "Who can untie the Nine Links for the widows?" The ministers of Qi just sat in their seats and didn't say a word, the king of Qi was a little embarrassed, so he asked the warrior to take the nine rings for the ministers to see, some ministers were very confused, some ministers were very angry, and some people lowered their heads and couldn't see their expressions.

King Qi waited for a long time before he said to the envoy: "Please forgive me, these nine links cannot be unraveled. ”

The envoy nodded, his face became more and more arrogant, and several ministers of the Qi Kingdom clenched their teeth, stared at the envoy in front of them, and grabbed the hilt of the sword with their hands.

"How can it not be solved?" Suddenly, a voice came from outside the door, and everyone hurriedly looked over, it was an old woman, the woman looked a little old, on crutches, and two maidservants followed behind her, and when the king of Qi saw her, he hurriedly stood up and shouted with a smile: "Mother! The ministers got up one after another to pay respects, and the Qin envoy also bowed and saluted, looking at the old woman with some confusion.

At the beginning, Le Yi broke Qi, the king died, and the king of Xiang, who had not yet ascended the throne, hid incognito in the family of Taishi Ji as a servant, and the daughter of Taishi fell in love with this handsome young man, regardless of the opposition of the family, and fell in love with him, and soon, King Xiang ascended the throne and set up the daughter of Taishi as the queen. This old woman is the queen of King Qi Xiang and the mother of Qi Wangjian. The old woman smiled, walked to King Qi's side, and then sat down.

The envoy of the Qin State looked at her and asked, "Does the queen have a way to untie these nine links?" ”

The queen laughed, nodded, and stretched out her hand, the warrior hurriedly walked over and handed her the nine links, the queen took the nine links in her hand, and slammed them to the ground, at that moment, the nine links were torn apart, and everyone was speechless, that is, the messenger of the Qin State, also widened his eyes, looking at the old woman, the queen said gently: "Please go back and tell the king of Qin that I have untied it." ”

The envoy was speechless, and could only bid farewell to the ministers with the broken jade.

When the envoy left, the king of Qi said happily to the queen: "Mother, it turns out that this can be solved, why didn't the widow think of it?" However, if you drop King Qin's jade, won't he be angry? She looked at her ministers and asked with a smile: "Even if the king of Qin is resentful, will the sages in the court sit back and watch the king of Qin come to bully me as an old woman?" ”

The ministers immediately got up and bowed to her, and the old woman sat down again, and she continued: "The King of Qin wants to fight with Zhao Wei, this is to send people to test the Qi State..."

"Mother, then you broke the jade, do you want to be close to Zhao and Wei and make enemies of the Qin State?" , King Qi asked again.

The queen shook her head and said to one of the ministers, "Please go to Xianyang with gifts and meet the king of Qin... Since the King of Qin has sent a gift, the State of Qi cannot be rude, and in addition, tell the King of Qin that the State of Qi is willing to maintain friendship with the State of Qin, and has no intention of being an enemy of Qin. ”

The minister got up in a hurry, took the order, and left in a hurry.

King Qi was even more puzzled, since he wanted to be close to the Qin State, why did he drop their jade?

The queen looked at a minister again, and said to him with a smile: "I remember, there is a proton in Zhao State, in Qi State, I want to ask you to send him back to Zhao State, meet Zhao Jun, and tell him that Qi State has always been close to Zhao State, and I hope that he can also be exempted from military war in the future, I also have a letter, which is addressed to Tian Dan, please bring it with you." ", said the queen earnestly.

When the ministers had left, King Qi followed his mother and asked, "Why don't we choose a side?" If the two sides make friends like this, I am afraid that it will endanger the Qi country. ”

The queen paused, stopped, looked at the king of Qi, wanted to say something, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Jian, you have to understand, the country of Qi has experienced a great calamity, and it has not yet recovered, and the country of Qi needs time to recover. Zhao and Wei are the barriers of Qi to Qin, and with Qin, Zhao Wei does not dare to attack Qi easily..."

"The mother..."

"Jian, you can't listen to my orders for everything, you can't rely on me for everything, I'm old, I don't know when I'm leaving, you have to think for yourself, make your own decisions, you are the king of Qi, do you know?" , The queen interrupted King Qi's inquiry, and said to King Qi with some grief.

King Qi lowered his head and said seriously: "Mother, the widow will not let you leave me." ”

The old man sighed, raised his head, and said, "If he is still in the Qi Kingdom, it would be nice to let him assist you." ”

King Qi hurriedly asked, "Who are you talking about?" ”

"A hero of the Qi Kingdom."

"Son, you must trust your minister... Don't doubt them too much...", the queen said a few words blankly, then shut her mouth, and refused to say any more.

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