King Zhao was stunned, he just sighed for a while, which actually triggered Feiyi's resignation, so he hurriedly said: "What does Xiangguo mean by this, the widow does not mean to blame Mr. In the past few years, because of the change of the law, Xiangguo not only needs to work state affairs and implement the law change, but also needs to be on guard against the hidden arrows shot by the nobles of the clan at all times, where can he take care of external affairs.

Besides, Zhao Guo's military affairs have always been personally responsible for the affairs of the country, and even if it is wrong, it is not to blame the gentleman, but he was blinded by interests for a while, so he was dizzy. ”

Fei Yi bowed down and said: "King, resign from the position of Xiangguo, this is the minister's thoughtful consideration. ”

King Zhao was startled, hurriedly stepped down from the throne, helped Fei Yi, with tears in his eyes, and said with deep affection: "Mr. was entrusted by the previous king, and began to assist the widow when he was young, and it has been almost twenty years now. If the widow asked the gentleman to resign because of such a trivial matter, how could the widow be such an ungrateful person! ”

Fei Yi shook his head and said: "Great King, the minister served as the prime minister for the Zhao country, and now he resigns from the phase is also for the Zhao country." Since the reform of the law, although the king has deliberately encircled the nobles of the clan, they have gradually become separated from the king, so that they have become obstructed by the king's actions.

Now that this is still the case in the face of Qin's attack, then when the future king attacks Zhongshan, won't the internal constraints be even more serious? ”

Seeing that King Zhao was thoughtful, Fei Yi bowed again: "King, after a few years of changing the law, now the people and officials no longer contradict each other, and the reform of Hufu cavalry and archery has basically been completed, and it only needs to be pushed forward slowly." At this time, instead of continuing to stay in the position of Xiangguo and making the nobles of the clan unhappy, it is better to let a Zhao clan serve as Xiangguo to unite the whole Zhao State. ”

"This..." King Zhao hesitated slightly.

Fei Yi said again: "King, Zhongshan is not a small country, if Zhao wants to swallow Zhongshan, he needs to go all out." ”

King Zhao was silent for a long time when he heard this, and then nodded.

After a long time, King Zhao spoke: "Xiangguo, now the widow wants to get out of Shangjun and make peace with Qin. In addition, in the case of the Qi State being weakened one after another, the widows are now more and more afraid of the Wei State and the Chu State, and the widows are worried that the Wei State will hold itself strong and will send troops to intervene when the Zhao State is attacking Zhongshan State, and they will do nothing about it. ”

Fei Yi opened his mouth and said: "Now that we are constantly in trouble with the Qin State in Shangjun, we still need an opportunity to make friends with the Qin State. As for the Wei State, now is the opportunity. Because of Qin, Wei rashly intervened in the battle of Qi and Chu, and got closer and closer to Qi, causing the jealousy of Chu, which was an opportunity to weaken Wei.

For the affairs of the Wei State, the ministers thought that there was no need to worry, and the real worries of the ministers were the Chu State, the Chu State defeated the Qi State, and the morale was flourishing. Moreover, the state of Chu still controls the coalition army of this county, if the state of Chu is unhappy, it will be a heavy blow to our state of Zhao. ”

Fei Yi paused for a moment, and then said: "Therefore, the minister thinks that we now have a request from the Chu State, and we should hand over the Chu State openly, at least not let the Chu State withdraw the coalition forces in Shangjun." However, secretly, we should instigate Wei to continue to oppose Chu, and preferably, let Wei organize a war that weakens Chu. ”

King Zhao nodded and said, "Yes, what Mr. said is reasonable, the Chu State is too strong now, which is also the worry of the widow." The State of Qi suffered such a defeat, I am afraid that it will be difficult to recover in a few years, and with the strength of Qi and Wei, I am afraid that it is not the opponent of the State of Chu. ”

Saying that, King Zhao's eyes were cold: "Since the Wei State wants to join forces with the Qi State to fight against the Chu State, then the widow will obey the will of the King of Wei and support the Wei State." However, he can only follow the example of Qin and secretly support Wei and Chu to confront him, after all, Chu is too far away from Zhao, and there is no direct conflict between Chu and Zhao, even if Zhao wins Chu, what good is it. ”

Fei Yi groaned: "King, before the King of Song asked us to send a minister to serve in the Song Kingdom, so we sent Qiu Liquid. Now, Qiu Liquid is in the Song Dynasty, just in time to get the King of Song to pull the Chu State to start a war with Qi and Wei. Only if they fight inexorably, can we Zhao find an opportunity, not only to make peace with Qin, but also to attack Zhongshan. ”

King Zhao smiled: "What Mr. said is reasonable. ”

The monarchs and ministers looked at each other and smiled, and then, King Zhao said worriedly: "Sir, what about the rest of the Qin State, in the near future, the Qin State will definitely attack the Zhao State in a big way." ”

Fei Yi thought for a while and said, "In the current form, we still need to prepare for war with all our strength to block the next attack of the Qin State. As long as the Qin State does not go to the county, then we can use the big war in the south as an excuse to cut the upper county to the Qin State, make peace with the Qin State, and defend ourselves across the river. ”

Hearing this, King Zhao sighed: "The Qin State is strong, and it is harmful to leave Shangjun, so it can only be so." ”

As he spoke, he paused and said to Feiyi: "Sir, you have to arrange for the envoy to send envoys to the four kingdoms of Qi, Chu, Wei and Song, and let the envoy secretly promise to the four kingdoms, saying that as long as the widow has his hands free, he will not stand idly by." ”

"Yui."

After Feiyi left, King Zhao commanded loudly: "Pass the order of the widow and invite the general Zhao Cheng to come to the palace for a while." ”

"Yui."

In the Chu camp outside Xue City.

Xiong Huai summoned all the three important ministers around him, and after telling the ministers the news from Gongsun Yan, he spoke: "Zhuqing, Wei has the support of Qin, and not long ago officially worshiped Tian Wen as the prime minister, and the two countries exchanged hostages, and the Qi State agreed to take Zhai Qiang as the prime minister. The current situation is very worried, and I don't know why you can teach me. ”

The ministers were shocked when they heard this, the three kingdoms of Qin, Qi and Wei had a tendency to unite, and this situation was very unfavorable to the Chu State.

The three kingdoms of Qin, Qi and Wei, from the state of Qi on the coast of the sea to the state of Qin in the west, all border with the state of Chu, and once there is a conflict, the front of the state of Chu, which stretches for thousands of miles, will definitely fall into a multi-sided war, which the state of Chu does not want to see.

Among the ministers present, Jing Cui had the highest status, so Jing Cui took the lead in speaking: "Great King, now that the Wei State has fallen to the Qi State, we will not be able to achieve more results if we continue to stay in Xue Di. Not only that, but Xue Di is too far away from the mainland, and the consumption is huge, so continuing to stay here will do more harm than good.

Therefore, the minister thought that the king should return to Yingdu and mobilize the forces of the entire Chu State to deal with the challenge from the Three Kingdoms. ”

Chen Zhen agreed: "Great King, what Zhu Guo said is extremely true, in the face of the alliance of the three kingdoms, we cannot continue to stay in Xuecheng, and we should get out of Xuecheng as soon as possible and rearrange the world." ”

Xiong Huai nodded.

The main force of Chu is in Yingdu, and now that the king of Chu has issued an order, it still needs to be transmitted from Xuecheng to Yingdu, and then issued from Yingdu, which is too delayed.

Moreover, Xiong Huai and Ling Yin Jingli are too far apart, and just communicating by letter will inevitably make Jingli and them unable to fully understand what King Chu means.

It's just that when he thought of the unscrupulous actions of Qi and Wei, Xiong Huai shook his head again, not that he didn't want to go back, in fact, he had wanted to go back for a long time, but if he retreated at this time, it would undoubtedly fuel the arrogance of Wei and make Wei think that Chu was afraid, so he would become more unscrupulous.