"Father...."

Ji Zhong knelt under the bed, hiding his face and weeping, while the ministers of Yan Guo leaned over and stood behind him.

Even in the inner room, you can hear the howling wind outside. Yan Wang was lying flat on the bed, around him, several big witches were holding torches, wearing masks, and were singing and dancing around him, their posture was weird, and the singing voice was even more weird, a big witch was holding a musical instrument that Ji Chong couldn't recognize, and was waving in front of King Yan, almost hitting King Yan in the face.

"Out.. Go out!! Yan Wang's mood was very unstable, he wanted to shout something, his chest fell together, or Ji Chong understood his father's thoughts, he immediately got up and let the witches leave, Yan Wang looked at the son in front of him, but there was only a thick worry in his eyes, Ji Chong had already cried into tears, and the ministers were all moved, Yan Wang opened his mouth and muttered something, Ji Chong hurriedly attached it to listen.

"Long. City.. Repair... long..."

Ji Zhong asked, "My father wants me to build the Great Wall?" ”

King Yan blinked, looked straight at his son, stared for a moment, tilted his head, and had no more life.

The fourteenth year of King Yan had just ended, and when he was about to enter the fifteenth year, King Yan bid farewell to this world. Because of long-term alcoholism and addiction to women, Yan Wang's body is not as good as day by day, and in the end, he still failed to survive this cold winter. This Yan Wang, who wants to be a ranger since he was a child, has a chivalrous temperament all over his body, and he is not very concerned about the affairs of the temple, and he will follow the minister's advice on big and small things.

Speaking of which, he is not a mediocre king, although he is drunk and lustful, but he never causes trouble, just enjoys alone, hands over the affairs of the country to capable people to deal with, governs the country with chestnut belly, and uses music to crusade against the enemy.

Speaking of King Yan, he is not the heir of the royal family, and he never thought that he could become King Yan, he has been good at martial arts since he was a child, and often gathers with the evil teenagers in the country, driving chariots to hunt, this is his greatest hobby, as for being a king or something, it is not what he wants at all. However, King Hui before him replaced Le Yi with a robbery and forced Le Yi away, because of the defeat in the war, he sent someone to apologize to Le Yi, and Le Yi's "Letter to the King of Yan" made King Hui lose face.

Yan people respect Le Yi very much, and naturally they are particularly dissatisfied with the king who forced Le Yi away, so in the autumn of the seventh year of King Hui (272 BC), the prime minister Gongsun Cao quarreled with King Hui in the palace, because he felt that he was insulted, Gongsun Cao killed King Hui with a sword. Immediately caused a chaos in the royal capital, the clans crusaded against Gongsun Cao, the two sides fought, and Gongsun Cao won a big victory.

Maybe it's because the countries are preparing to crusade, or maybe Gongsun Cao really doesn't want to be the king of Yan, he is ready to support a clan, but he is embarrassed to find that the children of the clan seem to be dead... At this time, a child of the clan who had just gone hunting returned to the national capital... So, he became the king of Yan. King Yan was very confused, why did he go to hunt a prey and come back and become a king? ?

All countries were very dissatisfied with Gongsun Cao's behavior, and the state of Chu intended to form an alliance to crusade against the state of Yan, and Gongsun Cao, who killed the king, committed suicide.

So, the young ranger who just wanted to go hunting with his friends became the king of Yan Kingdom.

When King Yan left this world, he was very calm, there was no angry roar, no crying and wailing, he just told his son that the funeral was simple, and he brought the bow and crossbow he used when he was young and the chariot he rode to accompany him to the funeral.

Looking at the heart-rending crying, finally spurting blood, and fainting in front of his father's bed, the ministers of Yan Kingdom were all frightened.

........

The news of the death of King Yan spread to the nearby countries, King Zhao heard it, sighed, since the King of Yan ascended the throne, the relationship between Zhao and Yan has dropped to the freezing point, King Zhao is also very hateful to him, but now that King Yan is dead, King Zhao is not happy, there is no happiness after the death of the enemy, he still sent people to Yan Kingdom to mourn, to express Zhao State's respect for King Yan.

In the township of Mafu, Zhao Kuo sat in the courtyard, lecturing for his disciples, because the climate was getting colder and colder, he could only lecture in the courtyard, and did not dare to go outside the township, he talked about the matter of King Yan, Zhao Kuo said seriously: "King Yan once came to attack Zhao, I led the army to repel him, so it seems that he should be my enemy, but I am not disgusted with him." ”

"After King Yan ascended the throne, he set up five counties, including Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, and Liaodong, developed the Liaodong region, and taught the Hu people here to learn the language and customs of Yan, which seems to be only beneficial to Yan, in fact, his credit lies in the future.... The credit lies in Huaxia...", Zhao Kuo said seriously, who would have thought that the land opened up by King Yan would even become the capital of China in the future?

This is also the reason why Zhao Kuo has respect for the people of this era, no matter what kind of intentions, they did do something to make future generations be favored. Maybe if King Yan doesn't open it up, someone will open it up, but the important thing is that he did it.

Zhao Kuo came from later generations, whether it was the Zhao people, the Qin people, or the Chu people, in his opinion, they were all Chinese and a family. Therefore, he also worked hard to popularize the national thought for his disciples, and the thought of the Chinese nation was not original to him, Confucius said very early on the words "Micro Tube Zhong, I was sent to the left", of course, not all barbarians are as Confucius said left, in fact, Xirong, Chu, these barbarians are right....

However, Confucius distinguishes races with etiquette, or culture, which can be determined, this is the idea that Zhao Kuo wants to promote now, to determine the race by culture, although the languages and customs of various countries are different, but everyone is not a barbarian who drinks blood and cannot communicate, everyone respects Confucius, Meng, Xun, Lao Zhuang and other sages, and there are unified three views and the like, that is, the recognized barbarian of Chu State, can also invite Xunzi to give lectures.

Like the barbarians outside Liaodong of Yan Kingdom, will they be so courteous to Xunzi?

I'm afraid I didn't just grab it and eat it.

Hearing what Zhao Kuo said about Huaxia, the race, everyone was thoughtful, and the reason why Ma Fujun was benevolent was because he regarded the people of the Seven Kingdoms as the same race? Also in China? Zhao Kuo looked at their confused appearances, and suddenly felt that he might need to compile a false history book and compile a history of the origin of the same ancestor for the countries, anyway, it was blank before Xia, Shang and Zhou.... This should be able to connect countries to each other.

Thinking of this, Zhao Kuo regretted a little, he should have studied hard when he first studied ethnology...

.........

On the banks of Rushui, within a few hundred miles, there are Chu people who are sweating everywhere.

The Chu people were tied together, and could only hold tattered farm tools, and even dig by hand, and around them, there were Qin people with spears and strong crossbows, and knights patrolled around, which made the Chu people dare not have the idea of fleeing at all, and people can't run away from horses. And the Qin people performed joint sitting, and one of the people in the army fled, and the rest were to be put to death... This made the Chu people start to help the Qin people to supervise their own people.

The Qin people said: As long as the pit is dug, they will be let go.

I don't know if the Chu people believe their statement, it's just that they started digging harder, and some people even collapsed on the ground tired, but when the Qin people's strong crossbows were aimed at them, they would still struggle to get up and continue to dig, and on the banks of Rushui, there were many big pits, which were very deep and could accommodate dozens of Chu soldiers. Bai Qi was sitting in the Rong car at the moment, quietly watching those Chu people digging pits, and then lowered his head and continued to look at the bamboo slips.

Meng Wu rode a horse and was patrolling here.

When the Chu people saw him, they immediately raised their heads, smiled flatteringly, hurriedly accelerated the speed of excavation, and shouted in a broken Qin language: "Quick.. Dig it up! Some Chu people will look at Meng Wu in despair, these people seem to have been drained of their souls, their eyes are dull, their eyes are empty, only when the whip of the Qin people falls on their bodies, they will hurriedly lower their heads and dig numbly.

After digging deeper and deeper into the pit, some Chu people seemed to understand something, they howled and cried, all the arrows and urinated out, and frantically knelt down and kowtowed to the surrounding Qin soldiers, crazy, begging them to spare their lives, but in the face of such a half-crazy Chu pawn, the Qin people would usually kill them directly. Meng Wu rode a horse, looking at everything along the road, but his heart was a little heavy.

Meng Wu was a little bored in his heart, as if he was choked by someone's neck, he pulled his collar, breathed deeply, and soon, after the inspection, he returned to Bai Qi's side, Bai Qi was still looking at the bamboo slip in his hand, ironically, Wu Anjun was actually reading the horse service book, during this time, Wu Anjun was very fascinated by the content of the horse service book, and the book did not leave his hand all day long, and the whole person became more comfortable.

"Ahem... Ahem, ahem. Bai Qi coughed violently.

Meng Wu sat aside, looking blankly at the trembling Chu people who were digging, his eyes flashed with a little unbearable, if he was on the battlefield, he would not be soft-hearted if he wanted to kill more enemies, but in the face of these Chu people who had surrendered, he really couldn't kill the killer... What's more, they still have to be sent away in such a cruel way... Meng Wu frowned, a little distracted.

"Did you dig deep enough?" , Bai Qi suddenly asked.

"Wu Anjun... How deep is it going to be? ”

"You can hold ten corpses, that's it." , Bai Qi said calmly, Meng Wu's lips trembled, and he said, "That doesn't seem to be enough... Shouldn't you ask the king about this matter first? ”

"I've sent someone to ask." , Bai Qi said, and continued to look at the book with his head down, he sighed with emotion: "Ma Fu Jun is talented.. I don't know if I can have a chance to meet him...", Meng Wu glanced at him, if you meet Ma Fujun, Ma Fujun will definitely draw his sword and kill you, of course, he didn't dare to say this sentence, Bai Qi put down the bamboo slips, and then stood up and walked towards those big pits.

Surrounded by the soldiers, he walked around the pit, poked his head out to take a look, and then nodded, and said, "It's okay..."

"Report~~~", a scout rode a horse and rushed here, along the way, no one dared to stop him, he got off the horse, a soldier led his horse, and checked his identity again, which allowed him to approach Bai Qi, the scout walked to Bai Qi's side, took down a bundle of unopened bamboo slips, and said to Bai Qi: "Wu Anjun, this is the king's order." ”

Bai Qi narrowed his eyes and stretched out his hand to take the bamboo slip.

.........

"Your Excellency... Jingyang of Chu sent someone to borrow some grain and grass from us... He was defeated by Bai Qi, and lost his food baggage, and wanted to take a temporary rest in Korea...", in the palace of King Xinzheng, Zhang Ping seriously told that Zhang Ping had sent troops to help Chu before, and after Chu had the advantage, Zhang Ping withdrew to Korea. Now that I think about it, it's good that I withdrew it at that time, otherwise, I'm afraid that these 10,000 Koreans will not be enough to plug your teeth.

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King Han sat on the top seat inscrutablely, listening to Zhang Ping's report, he nodded, "Hmm... That's right. ”

He then asked, "What do you think the widow should do?" ”

Zhang Ping said seriously: "I heard that the kindness of giving a drop of water to a very hungry person who came out of the desert is more than the kindness of digging a well for him on weekdays, and now the state of Chu is in trouble, just like a traveler who has just come out of the desert, at this time, if we can help them, it will be the greatest favor to the state of Chu....", King Han nodded, sighed again, and asked: "If Bai Qi is angry with us because of this, what should we do?" ”

"Then we can only send people to Zhao and Wei for help, and we will defend Xinzheng and wait for rescue."

King Han smiled, nodded and said: "Okay, according to what you said, let the Chu people rest in the city of Korea, and send them some food, not too much, just let them return to the Chen capital...", Zhang Ping hurriedly bowed and saluted, since Ma Fujun came to Korea, King Han no longer refused his proposal, and left the affairs of the country to himself to deal with, which made Zhang Ping very pleased.

"By the way, the widow can hold a banquet in the palace, and you can invite the general of the Chu people... What is it called? ”

"Jingyang."

"Please Jingyang to the banquet."

"It's... Shangjun, the state of Chu has encountered a great disaster, Jingyang needs to reorganize the people in time and rush to the Chen capital, there should be no time to go to the banquet. ”

"Hmm...", King Han nodded and said, "Then forget it, you don't have to invite him." King Han paused, and then said with a smile: "Zhang Xiang, don't worry, if Bai Qi attacks South Korea, please inform the widow in time, the widow has a way to repel Bai Qi's 200,000 army!" After receiving Ma Fujun's teachings, the widow had already understood the way to deal with the Qin State. ”

Zhang Ping, who was not worried, became nervous at the moment.

"What can you do?"

"Hahaha, you'll know then."

Han Wang said happily.

Zhang Ping trembled with fear.

ps: The hero of the world, only Han Wang Ran'er.