September of the second year of Yan Wangkang is the autumn harvest season of the Central Plains countries.

From south to north, the counties of Yan Kingdom were successively engaged in the labor of harvesting grain.

In a restaurant in Jidu, Zheng Zhu, the envoy of Zhao who came to Jidu, was full of melancholy.

Standing next to a window lattice on the second floor of the restaurant, looking at the bustling street below the restaurant, Zheng Zhu couldn't help but sigh.

Zheng Zhu's envoy to Yan Guo this time was very unsmooth.

He has been on the envoy to Yan for several months, but he was received by Su Dai, the prime minister, and his proposal to meet the Empress Dowager Yan and Yan Wangkang was politely declined by the officials of Yan State.

This year, since Yan and Zhao engaged in the war in Weidi, the relations between the two countries have reached a low point.

Yan Guo also stopped the food supply to Zhao State, which was simply worse for Zhao State.

Zheng Zhu also knew that since the Battle of Changping, the Zhao State, which was originally known as the head of the Six Kingdoms of the Kwantung Kingdom, has gradually declined from its heyday, and its national strength, military strength, including the national economy, have all shown a cliff-like decline.

However, the northern neighbor of Zhao, Yan, is becoming stronger and stronger.

Especially after this year's defeat of the conspiracy of the five Central Plains countries to attack Yan Lian, the prestige has reached a new height in the hearts of the people of the world.

Thinking of this, Zheng Zhu sat back at the table, picked up the wine glass in front of him, and drank it all.

The spirits produced in Liaodi are indeed good wines. But when he drank it in Zheng Zhu's mouth, he felt a trace of bitterness.

After drinking, Zheng Zhu closed his eyes dejectedly, leaned back in his chair, and muttered:

"Your Majesty, there is no way for the minister. Alas! My Zhao State participated in the battle of Yan, wrong, really wrong! ”

When Zheng Zhu sighed in the restaurant, Ji Kang and several cabinet ministers such as Ju Xin and Su Belly, including Ji Mao, the president of the Supervision Yuan, and Huang Yong of the Intelligence Bureau, were discussing the future of Yan Guo in the map room in the Military Aircraft Pavilion.

Han Fei and Ju Wu were on the side of the room, making records.

Tian Guang, the commander of the palace guards, listened indoors.

Gao Yang Jun Rong Worm stood next to the map of the world, and was explaining the military strategy of Yan State to Ji Kang and others, explaining to Ji Kang and others.

"Your Majesty, since this year's Defending War, the army of our Yan Kingdom has been replenished, and after the autumn harvest, we will devote ourselves to an active state of preparation, so as to devote ourselves to the Great War of Unifying the Central Plains in the coming year according to the development strategy formulated by our Yan Kingdom."

Ji Kang interrupted Rong Yan's words at this time and asked:

"General Rong Yan, are the pensions for the casualties of our army in place?"

Rong Yan replied to Ji Kang: "The king can rest assured, after the war this year, as far as the ministers know, the county and county governments have paid the casualties of the soldiers in full to their relatives. ”

The cabinet minister who presided over the household department also stood up and bowed to Ji Kangyan and said:

"Your Majesty, this matter is handled by the ministers, and the household department has allocated full funds according to the list of casualties and soldiers, and has issued a number of official documents to the counties and counties before, and the local officials dare not live up to the king's entrustment."

Ji Kang nodded, and said to the old manager Ji Maoyan:

"The local supervisory institutes must supervise the implementation of this matter, not only to distribute the full amount of the pension to the relatives of the casualties, but also to supervise the implementation of the resettlement of the soldiers who returned home due to injury."

"We can't let our soldiers, after shedding blood for the sake of the country, have to shed tears again. As soon as it is discovered that the government has withheld pensions and that officials have not properly resettled my disabled soldiers, they must be dealt with immediately. ”

Although Ji Kang's words were calm, the killing intent contained in his words made everyone stunned.

There is a reason for this.

Just a few days ago, the Weiliu County Supervisory Yuan of Xingdong County reported that the pensions for the casualties of the Weiliu County were issued to the county magistrates and other officials for other purposes.

When the Supervision Yuan investigated, the reason was still very high-sounding, saying that these casualties were all Huyi people, and it didn't matter to them whether pensions were paid or not.

After Ji Mao, the president of the Supervision Yuan, reported the matter to Ji Kang.

Ji Kang was in the Affinity Hall at the time, and he was furious.

broke the teacup on the desk on the spot, and scolded:

"These officials are simply damned, and the widow has emphasized many times that all the people who are registered as the household register of my Yan country, regardless of their origin, are all the people of my Yan country, regardless of Hu Yi, and they are treated equally."

"If there is chaos today, before unification, these officials dare to act so recklessly, and treat the laws and regulations of our Yan State as nothing. If it goes on like this, it's worth it! ”

"What's more, these soldiers are all killed or injured for our Yan country, and these officials are simply not sons of men. They are like this, how can the widow face the soldiers of my Yan Kingdom? How to deal with the people of the widow? ”

Immediately ordered that the Supervision Yuan should lock up all the officials of Weiliu County who violated this matter and take them back to Jidu and deal with them according to the law. And publish the incident in the tenth report to give a warning to officials across the country.

The boss is in charge of Ji Mao, but he has watched Ji Kang grow up since he was a child, and he has never seen Ji Kang have such a big fire. It can be seen that Ji Kang is angry about the interception of pensions by officials in Weiliu County.

Gao Yang Jun Rong and Changguo Jun Lejian, who were in the map room, as representatives of the military, were extremely moved to see that Ji Kang attached so much importance to the bereavement and resettlement of disabled soldiers.

The two looked at each other, bowed together and saluted Ji Kang:

"The two ministers, on behalf of the soldiers of my Yan Kingdom, are grateful to my king."

Ji Kang waved his hand and said to Rong Yan and Lejian:

"Needless to say, this is what a widow should do. Okay, General Rong will continue to give this king and the secretaries, and then talk about the military planning of my Yan Kingdom!"

Rong Yan saluted Ji Kang again and said, "No." ”

The wooden stick in his hand pointed to the Qi land of Yan Kingdom.

"At present, the seven strongest countries in the world have become six countries. The original Qi State was a powerful country in the East of the Central Plains, and when the Qi regime was passed to the King of Qi, during the period of King Qi Wei, the hegemony established had already become a historical relic, and it had already had the false name of an eastern power. ”

"It is politically backward, its economic development is slow, the country has no virtuous ministers and good generals, the army has no will to forge ahead and fight, and in the face of the war of annihilation launched by our Yan country, it is unprepared and sits and waits for death. It was destroyed by my Yan country the year before last, and there is no need to say much since then. ”

Everyone saw the wooden stick in Rong Yan's hand, and then pointed to the Wei State in the west of Qidi.

"The Wei State also experienced the strongest period in the early days of the founding of the country. At that time, the Wei State possessed a vast area of Hedong, Hexi, Hanoi, and Hewai, and the mountains and rivers within the territory were vertical and horizontal, and the situation was dangerous. ”

"However, due to the fact that Wei is blocking the throat of Qin's eastern Hangu, it has been Qin's primary opponent for many years, especially since King Wei Hui, he has been continuously defeated by Qin, and his territory has been shrinking day by day."

"Since the accession to the throne of our king, the state of Wei has weakened even more. However, in the Battle of Handan, the Xinling Emperor Wei Wuji stole talismans to save Zhao, especially the united vassal states to fight against Qin and achieved a great victory outside the river, which greatly increased the prestige of Wei. ”

"Wei was supposed to take advantage of the victory to restore the territory of Wei, but the current Wei Wang Yu was incompetent, not only did not take the opportunity to restore the country, but instead listened to the Qin State to stir up discord, did not trust Xinling Jun, let him stay in Zhao State for many years, and repeatedly raised troops against our Yan State. At this point, Wei has lost the precious opportunity to make a comeback. ”

Ji Kang and the others in the map room all nodded when they heard this.

The baton in Rong Yan's hand then pointed to Korea next to Wei State.

"South Korea was originally the weakest of the three jins. Today's South Korea, under the rule of Han Wangran, South Korea has long been subservient to Qin, and it is obedient to Qin Wang Yingji and has done nothing. ”

And under the blows of the Qin State over the years, the territory of Korea has shrunk year by year, leaving only the capital Xinzheng and more than a dozen small and medium-sized cities around it. Compared with our Yan country, South Korea is called a country, but it is actually a county. In fact, it is basically a country that exists in name only. ”

Han Fei, who was recording indoors, his face became extremely ugly at this time.

No matter what, as a member of the Korean royal family, seeing South Korea like this, my heart hurts.

Rong Yan didn't notice Han Fei's expression, but instead paddled the baton in his hand towards the Chu State in the south of the map.

"Your Majesty, since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, the State of Chu has risen from a poor and weak prince, after hundreds of years of development, in the world of King Cheng of Chu, it has begun to rise, dying of Jiang and Han, and constantly annexing the surrounding small vassal states.

"Especially after the annexation of Wu and Yue, the territory stretched from Daba Mountain, Wushan Mountain, and Wuling Mountain in the west, to the sea in the east, from Nanling in the south, to the Central Plains in the north, and to the Qin State in the west. It has a vast territory, more than 5,000 miles of territory, a million armor, a large land and abundant resources, and a large number of years in Suzhi, which is a large country with considerable strength among the vassal states. ”

"Since the Qin general Wu Anjun Bai Qi captured the Chu capital, the power of the Chu State has been greatly weakened, and the national capital was forced to move to Chendi, and this year it was moved to Juyang, and it is rumored that it will be moved to Shouchun again.