Before the winter, Zhao Xing launched a comprehensive attack on Taiyuan County, Jinyang, with the cooperation of gunpowder, the first war took the Taiyuan, Jinyang, all the land north of the South Taihang was taken in the hands of Zhao Xing, and the army stopped under the obstruction of the South Taihang.

Up to now, Zhao State, only left Handan south of Taihang Mountain and a piece of land in the south of the original Zhongshan, the total area has been less than one-third of the original heyday, for a time Zhao State's court was in chaos, and the people of Zhao State were panicked.

Zhao Bao stood on the main hall and talked eloquently in front of Zhao He and Li Dui. "Now, we use Taihang to block Zhao Xing's footsteps, but as long as the spring flowers bloom in the coming year, he Zhao Xingbi will make a detour to the original Zhongshan land and send troops from the east to occupy my entire Zhao country. Now our top priority is to occupy all the Shangdang areas, attack Zhao Xing's flank from the west, or make a surprise attack and directly kill Zhao Xing's Jiuyuan. ”

Li Dui nodded in agreement: "Pingyang Jun is right, as long as we occupy the entire Shangdang and then raid Jiuyuan, Zhao Xing will definitely withdraw his troops, because Zhao Xing can't afford to lose Jiuyuan." ”

Jiuyuan is the industrial base of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time, it is the basis for using the industrial products produced by him to accumulate the wealth of the world and raise soldiers. The tax income of Jiuyuan alone is enough to cover the entire tax income of a medium-sized prince. Therefore, as long as the Zhao army attacks Jiuyuan, Zhao Xing will definitely transfer the front-line army, or simply save the whole army, so that Zhao can get respite again and calmly arrange, and Zhao may get out of the threat of annihilation.

Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains, who came back to discuss state affairs, was deeply worried: "The importance of the land of the party, the world knows, Qin has entered, if we are greedy for the party, it is bound to conflict with Qin, in the case of Zhao Xing's army pressing, we can't unite with Qin to fight against Zhao Xing, it is already a failure, if we clash with Qin again, it will be a disastrous consequence, I think it's unwise." ”

Lin Xiangru, who has become a doctor, also thinks so: "Qin's greed, the world knows, Shangdang has long been in their goal, this time South Korea has nominally ceded Shangdang to Qin, how can they give up easily." Then he said firmly: "It's not easy to give up, but definitely won't give up, if you want to occupy the party, we must have a battle between the two sides." ”

Zhao Bao yelled: "I am fortunate to be a child, what militaristic principles do you know?" Now that Zhao Guo has survived and died, only by taking down the Shangdang can Zhao Xingjin be attacked, retreated and defended, if there is no Shangdang, our Zhao State will die. What about a war with the Qin people? He is now only 70,000 horses, I already have 50,000 in Shangdang, there is already a basis, as long as we increase the number of troops, as long as it reaches -" He originally wanted to say 100,000, but thinking about the strength of the Qin army, he finally conservatively said: "As long as 200,000, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Qin army's poor logistics, we will definitely be able to win." Then he flicked his sleeves: "Ignorant child, Hugh is making noise here." ”

Lin Xiangru returned to Zhao and obtained a high position, and his talent was not obvious. A scholar was born and was always despised by the old princes and nobles, and now Zhao He is still young, and the entire court is controlled by the domineering Zhao Bao and the sinister and arrogant Li Dui, even Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains, can't say much, let alone Lin Xiangru?

Seeing Zhao Bao so domineering, Lin Xiangru could only look at Pingyuan Jun and could only close his mouth, but there was already deep sadness in his eyes.

Zhao He was ignited by Zhao Bao's self-confidence, and began to support Zhao Bao Li Dui's idea, and prepared to drive the expedition in person, and won the party in one go, then the whole situation was alive.

As a result, Xiaqing Lou Chang stood up and objected: "The minister thinks that this will be useless, even if we defeat the Qin army and monopolize the party, we will be greatly damaged in the battle with the Qin army, and if we want to send troops to Zhao Xing, we will not have that ability at all." At the same time, Qin also knew that the Tang Dynasty would be their biggest enemy, and we were considered to be the same enemy, so we might as well send high-status envoys to Qin to negotiate peace, jointly occupy the Shangdang, and jointly send troops to Zhao Xing, then the chances of victory would be greater. ”

Yu Qing stood up and shouted: "If the Qin State is determined to monopolize the party and the peace negotiation is difficult to achieve, it is better to send envoys to carry treasures to the Chu State and the Wei State for activities, and then mention the alliance, so that the Qin State is afraid of the cooperation of all countries to resist Qin, so that the peace agreement can be successful." ”

Li Dui came out to object: "Qin's ambition is known to the world, and the state of Chu and Wei have made the state of Qin afraid. Besides, time is pressing, if you wait for the Chu State and Wei State to send troops, it will already be next summer, and by then, the hot dogs will be cold (Zhao Xing quotes) Now is not the time to hesitate, you must be decisive. ”

Zhao Bao came out to perform again: "It's better to do this, we will send Zheng Zhu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to Qin to seek peace, in order to confuse the enemy, and we will recruit another 150,000 troops here to raid the Qin army."

Lin Xiangru couldn't help but persuade again, "When Zheng Zhu enters Qin, the King of Qin will definitely receive it ceremoniously to show the world, even if the State of Chu and Wei want to help Zhao State, thinking that Zhao State has already negotiated peace with Qin, he will definitely not send troops to save Zhao." Qin knew that if the world did not save Zhao, the peace negotiation would not succeed, and if the peace negotiation could not be successful, the Zhao army would be defeated. ”

Zhao Bao angrily reprimanded Lin Xiangru again: "Ignorant child, what do you know? At this time, he dared to say that Zhao Jun would be defeated, and he was really unlucky, and someone came to beat him out of place. ”

In the face of Zhao Bao's dominance, even the eunuch Ling Liao Xian did not dare to come out to protect his original disciples.

A group of Yellow Gate guards rushed over, beat Lin Xiangru out of the main hall.

Lin Xiangru staggered out of the palace gate, stood in the empty square, looked back at the hall that was about to collapse, and finally could only sigh: "The monarch is erected, Zhao Bao is domineering, Li Dui is talking, the ministers dare not speak out, the people are detached from morality, such a Zhao country is not saved." ”

Then he went home directly, took his wife and children, went directly out of the north gate of Handan, passed through Taihang Mountain, and went to Zhao Xing.

Zhao Bao beat away the doctor Lin Xiangru, stood proudly on the top of the hall, and asked the ministers loudly: "I am decided with Li Xiang, who else is against it?" ”

Beat Lin Xiangru away, making the other ministers tremble one by one, even Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains, closed his mouth tightly, for fear of angering Zhao Bao and humiliating himself.

At that time, Li Dui announced loudly and vigorously: "The strategy of driving Qin to monopolize the party and attacking Zhao Xing with the party as the core is so decided, and the prime minister announced that Zhao Guo will be recruited again to recruit men over the age of 15 and under the age of 45 to join the army and enter the party." If you can talk to Qin Neng, you can talk, if you can't talk, you will fight. ”

Pingyuan Jun looked at Zhao Bao Li Dui, who was like a clown jumping beam, and Zhao He, the monarch who didn't understand the reason, secretly thought sadly in his heart: "How mighty King Zhao Wuling is, a group of unscrupulous descendants, but this Zhao Kingdom, which was once the first in the world, has been corrupted to this extent, since you are bent on seeking death, why should I be buried with you?" Wait for the next court, I will follow the car and leave the Qi country. ”

And squinting at the silent ministers, looking left and right one by one, Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains, smiled bitterly: "Here, I don't know how many people have the same mind as themselves, this is really, the tree is falling and scattering." ”