Ji Kang's uncle, Zhao Wangdan, was like five thunderbolts after receiving the news that Zhao Guo's army had defeated Fan Cheng.

Zhao Guo, who thought that he could reap the benefits of the battle of Yan in the five countries of the Central Plains this time, especially with the participation of Qiang Qin, was really in big trouble.

The military and civilians of Zhao State, many people privately disagreed with Zhao Wangdan's attack on Yan State.

The people's opinion is very simple, no matter what, every time Zhao Guo encounters a crisis, other countries do not help Zhao Guo. Only Yan Wangkang and Empress Dowager Yan Ji Zhao always helped Zhao Guo under pressure.

Especially after King Kang of Yan ascended the throne as King of Yan, Yan and Zhao can be said to be a country of relatives. The atmosphere of saber-rattling on the border between the two countries is long gone. Even the border residents of the two countries have begun to communicate with each other, and business and trade exchanges are also very frequent.

You, Zhao Wangdan, cooperated with the Qin State, which had a deep blood feud with him, this time to fight Yan together.

For the sake of the people of Zhao State, you are not right!

It's almost the same to unite with Yan to jointly attack Qin, why did you Zhao Wangdan send troops to attack Yan? If Fa Yan succeeds, it's okay to say, the key is to lose so many elites of the Zhao State. This is already an unbearable burden for the current Zhao State.

Zhao Wangdan is actually very aggrieved, every time Yan Wangkang helps me Zhao Guo, my Zhao Guo also pays a lot of price!

But the people of Yan and Zhao don't care so much.

For example, the matter of exchanging food for people.

You Zhao Guo can't feed your own people, Yan Wang Kang gave you food, and replaced many people, and gave them shelter and food, so as not to let the people starve to death, this is the heart of Yan Wang Kang who has the heart of a benevolent monarch!

Is it wrong for Yan Guo to do this? There's nothing wrong with that! If you want to be wrong, you Zhao Wangdan is wrong.

Don't forget, and in the Battle of Handan, the Yan State gave you Zhao State food again, and traveled thousands of miles to help, and sent troops to cut off the back road of the Qin army besieging Handan, so that Zhao State survived.

You Zhao Wangdan did this, in the simple words of the people, it is a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs.

Because of the war against Yan, Zhao Guo lost his troops and generals, and this political responsibility needs someone to be responsible.

To put it simply, someone needs to carry this "black cauldron".

Of course, in Zhao State, it is impossible for this "black cauldron" to be carried by Zhao Wangdan. Without the slightest hesitation, from the court to the people, Zhao Wangdan's uncle, Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains, is undoubtedly the best candidate to carry this "black pot".

Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains, was also very wise, and above the court, he took the initiative to carry this "black cauldron" in public.

was dismissed from the post of Zhao Xiang by Zhao Wangdan and accused Zhao Guo.

The people of Zhao scolded their own king in private, but Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains, did not have so many concerns.

Especially in the Battle of Changping, the performance of Zhao Sheng, the king of the Plains, was also turned out by the "people with a heart", and was crowned as the "culprit" of the failure of the Battle of Changping and the Battle of Yan.

Now, that's a big problem!

At this time, Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains, in the eyes of the people of Zhao State, had lost the aura of "the four princes of the world". has become a "heinous" person in the mouths of the people, the biggest "traitor" in the Zhao court, and should be divided into five horses and sentenced to death.

Therefore, Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains, was also sick.

Like Qin Wang Yingji, it is not a fake illness, it is really sick, and he can no longer take care of the government.

The matter of Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains, is still a trivial matter.

The most critical event for Zhao is the top and bottom of Zhao State, I don't know when the army of Yan State will come?

You must know that the veteran Lian Po's "commotion" when he went south to Fan Cheng offended Yan Guo to death.

From Yan Guo's point of view, you Zhao Guo is not playing "fake" like Chu Guo, you Zhao Guo really can't be real this time, you want to completely "kill" my Yan Guo!

This hatred is really big!

Just like Empress Dowager Yan Ji Zhao, what she said to Yan Wangkang:

"Since Zhao Wangdan doesn't have my sister in his eyes, then I won't have this brother in the future. Yan Guo wanted to do whatever he wanted to Zhao Guo, and he no longer had to ask the opinion of the mourning family. ”

During this time, for the people of Zhao State, especially the people of Zhao State bordering Yan State, it can be described as "three shocks a day". This fearful day is really impossible to live.

However, fortunately, from the current point of view, the army of Yan in Weidi only stayed in Weidi after recovering the territory that originally belonged to Weidi, and did not open to the territory of Zhao State.

This was a little relieved for Zhao Wangdan.

After discussing with the ministers of the Zhao court, regardless of whether Yan agreed or not, he still sent Zheng Zhu, the Yaqing who had just been appointed by Zhao Wangdan, to Jidu to renew his friendship with Yan and form the original alliance between the two countries.

In this case, does Zheng Zhu want to go to Yan Kingdom? The answer is simple, definitely don't want to go.

However, there is no way, it is necessary to go.

Before leaving, Zhao Wangdan called Zheng Zhu to the palace and said to him: "Zheng Qing, you go to Yan Country this time, you have a great responsibility, and you can say unabashedly that your trip to Yan Country is related to the life and death of my Zhao Kingdom." ”

"If Yan Guo can agree not to invade my Zhao State, he is willing to sign an alliance with my Zhao State again. No matter what conditions Yan Wangkang proposes, you can agree on behalf of this king. Zheng Qing, do you understand what the widow means? ”

Zheng Zhu suddenly felt "a lot of pressure", so he had to bow down and say to Zhao Wangdan:

"Great king, the minister can only do his best to live up to the trust of my king."

"Go ahead, please Zheng Qing." After that, he bowed and bowed to Zheng Zhu.

After the failure of the Five Kingdoms to attack Yan, Zhao handled its relationship with Yan in this way.

For Xiong Wan, the king of Chu, he was in a very good mood.

When the Yan army defeated the Three Kingdoms alliance led by Zhao Yi and the Zhao army led by Lian Po under the cities of Diqiu and Fancheng, Xiong Wan, the king of Chu, immediately issued an edict to let Jingyang, the general who confronted the Yan army in Langya County, immediately lead the army back.

At the same time, Chunshenjun Huang Xie was summoned into the palace, and Huang Xie was praised for "fierce".

"Chun Shenjun, the plan you gave to this king seems to be a perfect strategy! Now the 300,000 coalition troops led by Zhao Yi, and the 100,000 elite Zhao troops led by the famous general Lian Po, are all defeated and defended. ”

"Zhao Yi, the general of the Qin State, also died on the battlefield because of this; The veteran Lian Po, I heard that he almost cut himself in front of the battle. On the contrary, because of your strategy, my Chu State did not lose a single soldier. For my Chu State, you have made another great contribution. ”

Chun Shenjun Huang Xie was praised by King Xiong Wan of Chu, and he was very embarrassed.

said in his heart: "As long as you are the king, don't blame me for being your "old king next door" in the future, Weichen will be grateful. ”

At the end of last year, Li Yanyan, the sister of her concubine and doorman Li Yuan, who was sent into the palace by Chunshenjun Huang Xie, has been renamed Li Huan. And at the end of last year, he gave birth to a big fat boy to Xiong Wan, the king of Chu, and named him Xiong Han.

Xiong Wan, the king of Chu, was very happy, and immediately canonized Li Huan as the king of Chu, and set up his newborn son Xiong Han as the crown prince of Chu. Correspondingly, Li Yuan, the elder brother of Li Huan, the queen of Chu, was also reused by Chunshenjun Huang Xie.

Huang Xie bowed down and said to Xiong Wang, the king of Chu:

"My king has an overreputation for his ministers, and my king reuses his ministers and appoints his ministers as the commander of Chu State. This matter is the duty of the micro-minister, and he should take the initiative to plan for the king, and he is not worthy of my king's praise of the micro-minister. ”

Huang Xie's humble attitude made King Xiong Wan of Chu even more happy.

said to Huang Xie: "Chun Shenjun, Yan has indeed risen to become a great power in the Central Plains, not to mention anything else, it can actually be defeated several times, and the Qin army, which is known as the army of tigers and wolves by the world, has repeatedly won the general of Qin. ”

Speaking of this, King Xiong of Chu couldn't help but show a worried look on his face:

"Chun Shenjun, in the face of such a strong Yan State, how should my Chu State deal with it?"

Huang Xie pondered for a moment and said to Xiong Wan, the king of Chu:

"Don't worry too much, your lord. Our Chu State is located in the south of the Central Plains, and in this battle of the Yan Dynasty, our Chu State offended the Yan State too much because of the tacit understanding with the Yan State in advance, and was not as stupid as the Zhao State. ”

"At the moment, in the opinion of the ministers, the Yan State will not attack my Chu State. If you want to attack, Yan will also attack Zhao first. On the contrary, the minister thinks that the rise of the Yan State is a good thing for my Chu State. ”

After listening to Huang Xie's words, Chu Wang Xiong was stunned and wondered: "Good thing? ”

Huang Xie nodded, bowed to Xiong Wan and said:

"The king thinks about it, the rise of the Yan Kingdom has caused great uneasiness in Qiang Qin. This time, King Yingji of Qin crossed the country to cut down Yan, which is a clear proof. Yan Guo will inevitably regard Qin Guo as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh. ”

"The Qin State is a tiger wolf, and the Yan State is also a vicious dog. If nothing else, the future national policy of Yan will inevitably be to attack Zhao in the south and chase the Central Plains. And the national policy of the Qin State has long been the land of Guanzhong in the east and won the world. ”

"The three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei, and Han in the Central Plains will inevitably be the first targets of Yan and Qin in the future. As the saying goes: "When two tigers fight, there will be casualties", the unlucky ones are Zhao, Wei, and Han, and my Chu State only needs to sit and watch Yan and Qin fight. ”

Huang Xie's words made King Xiong of Chu understand.

"Chun Shenjun, what do you mean is that my Chu State will still carry out the policy of cutting down Yan on the same day in the future, not to offend Yan and Qin, but to let them fight each other and weaken each other's national and military strength?"

Huang Xie flicked his sleeves, put his hands together, and bowed to Xiong Wan and said:

"King Shengming, this is exactly the policy. At present, our Chu State should move its capital to Juyang (now Taihe, Anhui) as soon as possible, so as to avoid the soldiers of Yan, Qin, and even the Central Plains, and let them fight each other. ”

"In this process, our Chu country can wait and see the changes and seek opportunities to seek the greatest interests of our Chu country. When Yan and Qin are fighting, Qin is weak and our Chu State helps Qin, and Yan is weak and our Chu State helps Yan, so that both Yan and Qin have to ask for our Chu State, but they dare not attack our Chu State. ”

"As for the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei, and Han, Zhao is far away from my Chu country, so I can't consider it for the time being. However, Wei and Han border our Chu State, and our Chu State can appropriately seek Wei and Han to strengthen the national strength of our Chu State. ”

"Chun Shenjun's words are very much in line with the meaning of the widow. In the future, our Chu State will proceed according to this policy. ”

After listening to Huang Xie's above words, King Xiong of Chu laughed.