Qin Wang Yingji himself had no time to pay attention to it, and the undercurrents of his son An Guojun and Lü Buwei and others were surging in private. For this seventy-year-old man, his eyes were always on the countries of the Central Plains, especially the Yan Kingdom.

"Gang Chengjun, after Li Mu, the general of the northern frontier of Zhao State, returned to Yan State, the three counties of Zhao Guodai County, Yanmen, and Yunzhong have been completely included in Yan State's territory, and Yan State also borders on my Qin State. What should I do next? ”

Yingji asked Cai Ze in the hall.

"Your Majesty, after the Yan Kingdom occupied the three counties in the northern part of the Zhao Kingdom, its northern territory has been connected. Geographically speaking, for the countries of the Central Plains, including our Qin State, a condescending oppressive situation has been formed, and our Qin State must be guarded against. ”

Cai Ze bowed back to Yingji.

Yingji walked back and forth twice in the hall, and her mood was extremely depressed.

"Gang Chengjun, in addition to the Yan Kingdom, the Central Plains countries are also not peaceful! After Wei Wuji, the king of Xinling, returned to the Wei State, he actually started a large-scale reform of the law, and referred to the practices of my Qin State and even the Yan State to promulgate the "Wei Household Law". ”

Speaking of this, Yingji sneered:

"Humph! Is Wei Wangyu awakened and ready to change the law to make the Wei State rise again? ”

At the beginning of this year, Wei Wangyu accepted the suggestion of his younger brother Xin Lingjun and began to change the law in China. "Wei Hu Law" is the focus of the Wei State reform, and the main content is the punishment of "false door against the brigade and son-in-law and husband".

According to this law, in order to maintain the "state for the sake of the state" system in the Wei state, it is stipulated that from this year onwards, all the "jiamen" who do business in the Wei state, the shopkeepers who run the "reverse brigades", the "sons-in-law" who recruit the widows with sons, and the "stepfathers" who recruit the widows with sons are all regarded as low-status people, and are not allowed to become independent households, and are not granted land and house foundations.

According to this law, such low-status people could not change their status until three generations later in the Wei state. And after three generations, if you change your identity and want to be an official, you have to write on the official register: "Therefore, the great-grandson of a certain son-in-law and a certain history." ”

The "Wei Household Law" also stipulates that those who do not belong to the above such low-status can obtain the right to receive land in the Wei State Household.

Cai Ze laughed and said to King Yingji of Qin: "Your Majesty, if the Wei State does this, it does not apply to my Qin State. The implementation of this law in Wei has caused great chaos in Wei, and the king does not need to worry. ”

Yingji nodded and said to Cai Ze: "What will Wei do again?" The widow is not worried. His Wei State is no longer the Wei State at the beginning of the founding of the country, and it is too late to change the law and try to become stronger. ”

"South Korea doesn't have to say that anymore; Zhao Guo was also crumbling under the blow of Yan Guo; As for the State of Chu, he King Xiong Wan of Chu was as timid as a mouse, and in order to avoid the soldiers of the Yan State, he actually moved the capital to Juyang. The only person who is worried about the widow at the moment is Yan Guoer. ”

Cai Ze didn't reply immediately, lowered his head and pondered.

Regarding Qin Wang Yingji's thoughts, Cai Ze knows everything clearly.

The current development of Yan State and the strengthening of national strength year by year make Qin Wang Yingji have a sense of crisis.

Since the accession to the throne of King Yingji of Qin, the state of Qin has continuously weakened the strength of various countries. However, over the past few decades, the Central Plains countries have not destroyed one of them, but have attracted the spearheads of the Central Plains countries to Qin.

More and more information shows that Qin Wang Yingji understands that the current Yan State is the biggest obstacle to Qin's domination of the world.

However, the Qin State is powerless for the development and growth of the Yan State.

Yan State attacked Zhao this year, and did not take the approach of attacking from all sides, but concentrated troops to attack the northern frontier of Zhao State, so far the northern land of the Central Plains has completely fallen into the hands of Yan Wang Kang, and Jinyang, the ancient capital of Zhao State, may also be in danger.

The most important thing is that Yan Wangkang's age also made Qin Wang Yingji very worried.

It is now the fifty-fifth year of Qin Wang Yingji, and Yan Wang Kang is only twenty-one years old. At this age, as the king of a country, he has destroyed many countries, so that the territory of Yan Kingdom is expanding day by day. For Qin Wang Yingji, it's fake not to worry!

As the saying goes, people are rare in their seventies. Qin Wang Yingji is seventy-three years old this year, and her health is worried. Once Qin Wang Yingji has three longs and two shorts, the successor of Qin State can be said to have no advantage in the face of Yan Wangkang.

Thinking of this, a wave of depression surged into Yingji's heart, making him cough violently.

Ying Ji held back and said to Cai Ze: "Gang Chengjun, Wei is partial to Zhu Hai, unwilling to surrender to my Qin State, and has committed suicide, you have to inform the envoys of Wei State and return Zhu Hai's body to them." ”

"Obey the edict." Cai Ze already knew about this, and bowed down at this moment to agree.

In July, the capital of Wei, the summer is very hot.

It rained heavily last night, and the road in the eastern suburbs of Daliang was very muddy.

In the early morning, the rain stopped, but it still didn't clear. Clouds gathered above the sky, and in the distance, the fields and villages on the outskirts were hazy and shrouded in mist.

In a large camp of the Wei army in the eastern suburbs, Wei Wuji, the king of Xinling, was standing on a high platform at this time, watching the many soldiers in the barracks drilling.

Behind Wei Wuji, there were more than a dozen Wei generals. Around the high platform, a large number of guards were distributed on the side, armed with long ge, war knives, bows and crossbows, maintaining calm and vigilance, and no one spoke.

Since Wei Wuji returned to Daliang from Handan, given the current state of Wei, Wei Wangyu seems to have put Wei Wuji to great use on the surface, putting him in charge of recruiting and training new soldiers.

At this time, the non-commissioned officers who were training in the barracks were all armed with wooden swords and guns, lined up in simple military formations, and drilled one by one. Although it is a wooden weapon, it is also very spectacular for thousands of soldiers to kill each other.

"Childe, after these months of training, these recruits seem to be pretty good. After a while, you can go into battle and kill the enemy. Behind Xin Lingjun, the doorman Tang Ju said to Wei Wuji.

Wei Wuji shook his head and said, "This is the only way, if you want to train this batch of recruits to become the military soldiers of my Wei State, the national strength of my Wei State does not allow it now." ”

When the doorman Tang Ju heard this, he stopped talking, knowing the regret in Wei Wuji's heart.

There are very few real Wei warriors in the Wei army now, that is, the 30,000 palace guards guarding the Great Liang. The specific combat power is far inferior to the military soldiers at the beginning of the founding of the Wei State.

At this time, a scout came to the bottom of the high platform, dismounted, came to the stage in front of Wei Wuji, knelt down on one knee and said:

"Qiyu Gongzi, a message came from Xianyang, and Zhu Hai, a wrestler who accompanied the envoy to Xianyang, died in the Qin State."

"What?" Wei Wuji was taken aback.

Hearing this bad news, Wei Wuji's body couldn't help but shake a few times on the high platform.

At the door, Tang Ju hurriedly stepped forward to support Wei Wuji, and said loudly to this reprimand:

"What's going on? You tell me carefully. ”

After half a ring, Wei Wuji, Tang Ju and the others knew what was going on.

After Xinlingjun returned to Wei, he became famous for a while, and was highly valued by his brother Wei Wangyu. Wei Wangyu also pardoned Zhu Hai's crime of killing Jin Contempt without permission, and appointed him as a partial general.

Seeing that Xinlingjun had the ability to defeat Qin, King Yingji of Qin used Cai Ze's strategy to send an envoy to invite Xinlingjun to meet with Qin, but in fact he intended to capture and kill. When Xinling Jun heard the news, he refused to enter Qin, so he admonished the King of Wei and asked Zhu Hai to envoy Qin, and the King of Wei agreed.

As a result, after Zhu Hai arrived in the Qin State, the Qin King Yingji did not let Zhu Hai return and asked him to serve the Qin State. Zhu Hai disagreed. The king of Qin put Zhu Hai in a large iron cage containing a tiger to threaten Zhu Hai.

When the tiger saw someone being thrown into a cage, it pounced.

Zhu Hai shouted, "Brute, you dare!" ”

The tiger was so frightened that he lay at Zhu Hai's feet and didn't dare to move.

Qin Wang Yingji had no choice but to imprison Zhu Hai. Zhu Hai saw that there was no hope of returning to China, so he hit the pillar with his head, and the pillar broke but did not die, so he strangled his throat with his hand, and his throat was broken and he died.

Knowing that Zhu Hai died so heroically, Wei Wuji cried loudly.

"Brother Zhuhai, I killed you!"

At the same time, Wei Wangyu, who was in the palace of the Great Liang Palace, said to a cronie beside him:

"Presumably now that Xinlingjun already knows the news of Zhu Hai's death, you can go to the Jin Mansion immediately and inform the general Jin Sui of this information, he will naturally understand the widow's thoughts."

"No." The waiter's heart sank, and he bowed and replied.

After the waiter left, Wei Wangyu sneered twice and said to himself:

"Brother Wang, there are too many roosters and dog thieves under your command, and the widow is still very worried!"

Jin Sui, the general of Wei, also cried loudly after knowing that his father's murderer, Zhu Hai, had died in Qin.

personally came to the ancestral hall of the family and informed the spirit card that was reported to his father Jin Sui.

"Father, Zhu Hai, the murderer who personally killed you, has already died in the Qin State. However, the murderer who let you die a truly tragic death is still at large. The revenge of killing the father is not shared, and the child will not forget it. ”