After listening to Zhao Xing's incisive insights, Li Fang gave Zhao Xing a gift: "I see that it is really the master, and what I say is in harmony with what I see." Then he smiled and continued to tell his experience: "In my spare time, in Zhongshan, I met a person, his name is Dan, he came to Lu country, so his name is Lu Dan, he has ambitions, Confucianism is profound, he sees that there are mistakes and omissions in Zhongshan Confucian classics, it is Zhongshan people who misinterpret the original intention of the sage, so he has always wanted to correct the misinterpreted sage scriptures. ”

At that time, Zhao Xing was shocked, it was broken, the lie that half of his treatise on ruling the world would be exposed, his saint and gentleman among the Zhongshan people would be replaced by liars, and his reputation was in crisis, Zhao Xing was very concerned about his reputation. So, nervously asked: "What happened later?" Then he began to plot in his heart, preparing to send an elite to assassinate this Lu Dan.

Li Wei shook his head, "But I have been asking to see the King of Zhongshan but I can't, and I have always been depressed." ”

Fei Yi sneered: "It's just a toddler in Handan, it's just a name, Zhongshan's literary style is prosperous, and it is no longer worrying." ”

Li Yan continued: "As a result, Lu Dan bribed King Zhongshan's favorite ministers with fifty catties of gold, and he was immediately summoned by King Zhongshan. ”

Yu Shigong sighed: "Zhongshan is corrupt. ”

"Then after this Lu Dan met the King of Zhongshan, he hurriedly said goodbye to me and went to another country."

Zhao Yong wondered: "I have already met the King of Zhongshan and shown my talent, why did I suddenly run away in a hurry?" ”

Li Shili: "When Lu Dan said goodbye to me, the current King of Zhongshan is surrounded by greedy villains, since he can listen to the words of the close ministers who accepted my bribes to meet me, of course, he can also listen to the villains who have not been bribed by me, and slander me because of jealousy, so he ran away." ”

A doctor asked with interest, "What about the result?" ”

Li Wei said with admiration: "As a result, before Lu Dan escaped from Zhongshan, he was chased and killed by the King of Zhongshan in the name of the people of Zhao Guojian, and he was not willing to give up until he reached the border of the Song Kingdom. ”

"There is also a Zhongshan's important minister, Bai Gui, who is unparalleled in the world in business and collecting wealth for the country. The new king succeeded to the throne, and Lingshou was prosperous, and his merits were unparalleled. But at the beginning of this year, he left the country of Qi. ”

Zhao Yong wondered: "Why?" ”

Li Shili replied: "He once said that I planned for Zhongshan to be strong and not to be destroyed by the princes. I am collecting wealth for the country in order to strengthen Zhongshan's armament and conquer my neighbors. But when the new king succeeds to the throne, my plan is just to become his achievement in showing Confucianism in governing the country, and I am collecting money for it, but I want him to use it to support those corrupt Confucians, and let the corrupt Confucians humiliate the already poor generals with high officials and generous officials. ”

Hundreds of civil and military officials, including Zhao Yong, were silent when they heard this.

"Zhongshan 9,000 chariots, the cattle pulled by the cart were taken by the people to plough the fields, for this reason, Zhongshan's agricultural situation is stronger than other princes. But the people began to be greedy for vanity, and sold all the grain in their hands to merchants at a high price, and took the money to fight with their neighbors to get rich. The cavalry's war horses were used to pull carts for those Confucian scholars, and they ran around various mansions to talk and drink. The merchants and citizens are clothed and fed, and the soldiers are sleepy and hungry, and the style of respecting Confucianism and light martial arts has been formed. ”

At that time, Fei Yi patted his thigh and laughed: "What era is this, this is the era of the pragmatic, this is the era when the samurai must be respected to expand the territory, or the era of self-preservation, at least the era of both civil and military affairs." However, Nakayama went off track. Okay, the law of rejuvenating the monarch is completed, the time is ripe to attack Zhongshan, we don't listen to the story now, let's discuss the crusade against Zhongshan. ”

There is nothing more to discuss in the crusade against Zhongshan, everything that should be discussed has already been discussed, and the major policies have been decided.

First of all, in order to avoid the interference of other princes during the crusade against Zhongshan, Zhao Yong took out the strange goods that Zhao Xing bought with money in Sitongguan - Zhou Tianzi appointed Zhao Yong to crusade against the alien races in Zhongshan, and sent the envoy Lou Yan to Qin State, Qiu Liquid to Korea, Wang Ben to Chu State, Fuding State to Wei State, and Zhao Jue to Qi State to carry out diplomatic activities. Announcing to these countries that the recovery of Zhongshan is the long-cherished wish of several generations of monarchs of our Zhao State, and it is our own business. And this war is still under the orders of Zhou Tianzi, please do not contain and interfere.

Of course, the princes of various places understand the truth, and at the same time, they are not willing to provoke the third largest country in the world, especially that Zhongshan is a Bairong person in the eyes of the princes, a foreign race, and it is natural to crusade against foreign races, and there is nothing to say.

Qi State is even more angry because Zhongshan is king, Yan State is extremely hateful because Zhongshan took advantage of the fire to rob, Zhao destroyed Zhongshan, they still want to.

Far away from the other states of Chu and Qin, I wish that the state of Zhao would be weakened when it attacked Zhongshan, and the state of Wei in Korea also had the same mind.

So the whole world has said that it has nothing to do with me. Let's fight, it's better to play for ten or eight years to make people happy.

As a result, the diplomatic war has reaped a great reward.

Although the Song State (a descendant of Shang), who was also a non-Zhou mainstream, stood up to speak for Zhongshan, the protest of the weak country was equal to air, and no one cared.

Diplomatic momentum, tight troop deployment.

This time, the troops were sent in three ways; All the way, with Zhao Yong as the main force, 50,000 cavalry, 50,000 siege infantry, equipped with the equipment specially sent by Zhao Xing to attack the city first, with Le Yi as the main commander, launched an attack from the south.

The second road, with Zhao Xing and Zhao Hao brothers as the mainstay, 30,000 cavalry, 10,000 Poxi troops, 3,000 camels and 10,000 technical soldiers, as the attacking troops, plus the mobilization of Lou Fu's 50,000 army servants, attacked Quyang again from the north, the left people, the middle people, and approached Lingshou.

The third way is their ally Yan State, they sent 100,000 troops, mainly to recover the hometown of Yan State seized by Zhongshan, and to contain Zhongshan in the east, but in fact, it has little effect.

Historically, this attack on Zhongshan, in the end, Zhao occupied the ten cities of Zhongshan, and only accepted the five cities of Zhongshan to cede land and sue for peace, and it ended. The reason for this is that the Zhongshan people are unruly and need to digest the occupied areas. At the same time, it was also because of logistics that Zhao Yong had to stop again. It took eleven years before and after the final destruction of Zhongshan.

But this time, under Zhao Xing's operation, the unruly nature of the Zhongshan people is gone, and they have been taught to be sheep by Confucianism. And Zhongshan no longer has a famous general like Lao Zheng. As for logistics, Zhao Xing has already mobilized sufficient grain, grass and military salaries for Zhao Yong, and the Dune Garden has long existed, and the Dune Palace in later generations will definitely not have any problems.

In order not to appear half-full above, the things that have been supported are appearing, and it took eleven years to make things that were solved at one time.

At the same time, in order to alleviate the resistance of the Zhongshan people, Zhao Yong also set up a puppet Zhongshan King in a fake appearance, and finally thought that the time was ripe and abolished. made Zhao Yong leave an image of a capricious villain without faith, so Zhao Xing formulated the Ten Covenants in Zhongshan to buy people's hearts.

Everything is ready, and the battle of Zhao to destroy Zhongshan officially begins.