These four words should be written bigger, eye-catching, you can see them when you go out and go home every day, you must spur yourself all the time, and you must tell yourself every day that everything you have done is not enough, and you need to work harder! ”

After listening to these serious words, the eyes of many ministers have become red, and there are faint tears flashing in their eyes, and the hearts of every minister have become extremely heavy.

Next, they have only one goal, to catch up with the Great Qin Empire and take revenge!

"Ministers obey His Majesty's teachings!" The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs bent down excitedly and said in unison.

"Retreat!" Zhao Didan flicked his sleeves, got up from the carved dragon throne with an expressionless face, walked directly down the high platform, and left the solemn and sacred Chengqian Hall from the apse!

When the civil and military ministers under the high platform saw Zhao Didan leaving, they knelt on the ground one after another, bowed down and shouted: "Ministers send your majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live!" ”

When Zhao Didan's figure disappeared from the eyes of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs got up from the ground unhurriedly and left the Chengqian Hall one after another.

After Zhao Didan left the Chengqian Palace, he took the eunuch Li Bo to the Yangxin Palace, at this time it was the middle of July, the summer was scorching, the hot earth made people sweat, and the Yangxin Palace was as cold as autumn, as soon as the people outside walked in, they felt refreshed, and the heat was dispersed.

The Heart Cultivation Hall has this effect, and it naturally relies on more than a dozen ice furnaces for refrigeration!

As soon as Zhao Didan and Li Bo entered the Heart Cultivation Palace, they saw a beautiful woman in a purple gauze robe sitting in the center of the main hall, the beautiful woman was drinking tea, looking leisurely and complacent, and Zhao Didan, who was afraid of everyone, couldn't help but bow his arrogant head in the face of this beautiful woman, and a look of guilt appeared on his face.

Zhao Didan walked up to the beautiful woman and bowed slightly, "Grandma Huang, the grandson of the emperor has come to see you!" ”

"Slave Li Bo, I have seen the Queen Mother!" The eunuch ordered Li Bo to bend down respectfully and salute.

This beautiful woman is resolutely Zhu Ci, the empress dowager of the Great Zhao Empire!

Zhu Ci glanced up at Zhao Didan, sighed lightly in his heart, and then gently put the teacup in his hand on the table next to him, and said to Zhao Didan in a soft tone: "Grandson, what happened in the Chengqian Palace just now, the imperial grandmother already knows!" ”

"The emperor and grandson are ashamed of the expectations of the imperial grandmother and the long-cherished wish of the ancestors and ancestors!" Zhao Didan's eyes were slightly red, and his tone was full of guilt.

"Grandson, you sent troops to attack Jin, which made the imperial grandmother very disappointed, and the reason for the disappointment was because Cheng'er understood that the Jin Empire had been regarded as Qin soil, and the Jin invasion must be a tiger's mouth, even if it succeeded, it would be scarred by the tiger's bite, such a simple truth, but you didn't understand, and still insisted on sending troops, resulting in a big defeat at the front line, and the fall of five generals and one king!"

"This defeat is the heaviest casualty since the founding of my Great Zhao Dynasty, as a decision-maker, you can't escape the blame, but you deal with the aftermath, so that the imperial grandmother is very pleased, understand that there is a sky outside the sky, there are people outside the people, know that temporarily avoid the edge, did not be humiliated because of this, continue to send troops to attack Qin, it is considered to be a timely stop loss!" Zhu Ci looked at Zhao Didan expressionlessly and said, unable to detect whether he was happy or sad in his heart from his expression.

Zhao Didan bowed his head and was silent, his expression gloomy.

"What are you going to do next?" Zhu Ci asked softly.

"Hold a national funeral for five generals and one king, double the pension of the fallen soldiers, reward ten taels of silver for each of the fleeing soldiers, and issue an edict for their own crimes!" Zhao Didan said without thinking.

Generally speaking, the front line is defeated, and it is already merciful not to punish, let alone reward the three armies, but Zhao Didan just does not take the usual path, not only does not punish, but also rewards the three armies, and the three armies are rewarded, and the edict of guilt is issued, what is the edict of guilt? It is the emperor who admits the mistakes he has made!

In the eyes of ordinary people, Zhao Didan's move is extremely irrational, but in the eyes of smart people, this move is really wonderful, first of all, due to the defeat of the front, the morale of the army and the people has plummeted, if you have to punish the defeated soldiers on the front line at this time, it will cause panic in the army!

Secondly, Zhao Didan is the decision-maker for sending troops to attack Jin, and the main responsibility for this defeat is him, if he admits his mistakes at this time and rewards the three armies, he will be able to stabilize the morale of the army, and the families of the fallen soldiers will also feel gratified, and the entire empire will do its best to support him and achieve the goal of stabilizing the people's hearts.

As long as the people's hearts and the army's hearts are stabilized, Da Zhao will be able to resolve the sequelae of this war, and then begin to recuperate, restore national strength, and seek fighters to fight with the Qin army and take revenge!

Zhu Ci picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip of fragrant tea gently, and then said indifferently: "Knowing mistakes can improve a lot, since my grandson has an idea, then don't stand here and do what you have to do!" ”

"Grandson retires!" Zhao Didan bowed down with respect on his face, and then took Li Bo out of the Heart Cultivation Palace.

After some time, an edict of guilt came out of the palace and was posted on the streets and alleys of Handan City, attracting hundreds of people to watch, and the announcement was as follows:

[King Cheng once advised me not to send troops to attack Jin, but I insisted on going my own way, insisting on sending troops to attack Jin, in a vain attempt to take advantage of the fire to rob, seize the Jin land to expand the Zhao land, but the final result told me that I was wrong, I regretted that I should not send troops to attack Jin, resulting in the death of 200,000 troops in other countries, five generals and one king fell, I bow to the Zhao people in the world, one bow, two bows, three bows! 】

In this announcement, Zhao Didan did not make a trace of falsehood, attributed all the responsibility to himself, and admitted that the Great Zhao Empire wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, nor did he condemn the Great Qin Empire, and did not even mention the Great Qin Empire, obviously the Great Zhao Imperial Court did not want to provoke the Great Qin Empire, and wanted to let this war end completely in this way.

"Defeated... Defeated? ”

"How is it possible, how can it be defeated!"

"How was the army of 200,000 destroyed? Jin Empire? Impossible, the Jin Empire has no strength to fight again, and it is impossible to annihilate the 200,000 elites of our Great Zhao, this must be a heinous crime committed by the Qin army! ”

"Sure enough, I guessed it, the Qin army did something to us!"

"Alas~ The enmity between Jin and Qin is as deep as the sea, the Jin army was almost killed by the Qin army, and when we were about to enjoy the results, our Da Zhao intervened, and naturally we would be regarded as enemies by the Qin army, after all, no one could bear to have someone snatch their own results!"

"Your Majesty is confused!"

"The imperial court did not point out the Qin Empire openly, and eighty percent wanted to stop the war!"

"For now, a truce and a halt to the war is the best choice, and if you continue to fight, you won't get any benefit!"

"I hope that Your Majesty and the hundred officials of the court will learn this lesson, don't make frequent expeditions, and the development of national strength is the royal way!"

(End of chapter)