A few days later, Zhao Dan, who was in Handan, saw Mao Sui who came to return to his life.

To be honest, Zhao Dan was still in a very good mood at this time.

Because since this period of time, the envoys sent by Zhao Dan to the other five countries have returned to Handan one after another, and each envoy has brought back news that Zhao Dan is satisfied with.

Korea and Chu had already agreed to Zhao Dan's plan to divide Wei together, and they also agreed to Zhao Dan's conditions for the partition.

According to this partition plan, by that time, Zhao State would be able to occupy at least about 45% of Wei's land and more than half of Wei's population, which can definitely be said to be an out-and-out bumper harvest.

From the perspective of the entire diplomatic environment, the diplomatic encirclement network created by Zhao Dan against Duan Ganzi has also been fully formed, and no country will lend a helping hand to Duan Ganzi when the war starts.

But as the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible, so what Zhao Dan wants to know from Mao Sui's mouth now is all the specific information about Duan Ganzi from Taoyi City.

"How's it going?" Zhao Dan asked Mao Sui.

Mao Sui didn't dare to slack off, and said to Zhao Dan very respectfully: "Back to the king, Duan Ganzi has obviously believed in the king's promise, and feels that the king will help him solve Tian Chong when the time comes, and let him control the Wei State." ”

Zhao Dan asked, "Didn't he have any suspicions?" ”

Mao Sui said: "Duan Ganzi did have some suspicions, but what he suspected was that the poisoning of Wei Wang Yu was from Hu Yiwei's hand, as for the conditions offered by the king, he obviously thought that it was just that the king wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, and he didn't think much about it." ”

Hearing this, the corners of Zhao Dan's mouth twitched slightly, showed a smile, and said to Mao Sui: "Not bad, very good." This time you did a great job. ”

Yes, the reason why Zhao Dan specially sent Mao Sui and asked Mao Sui to put forward a lot of decent conditions to Duan Ganzi, and to negotiate a deal with Duan Ganzi was not because he really wanted to make such a deal with Duan Ganzi.

What Zhao Dan hopes to do is very simple, that is, to stabilize Duan Ganzi first, so that Duan Ganzi will not make any messy accidents this winter, which will cause the whole situation to get out of Zhao Dan's control.

As long as it is spring, Zhao Dan leads the allied forces of all countries to march towards Taoyi, at that time, even if Duan Ganzi knows that he has been tricked by Zhao Dan, he has no choice but to face a cruel fate.

From the very beginning, Duan Ganzi was just a chess piece, a chess piece that Zhao Dan used to pry into the situation of Wei and even the entire continent, and finally successfully included Wei in Zhao's bag.

Zhao Dan thought about it, and seemed to be a little uneasy, so he said to Mao Sui again: "You will talk to the widow about Duan Ganzi's behavior for a while. ”

Mao Sui nodded and said to Zhao Dan: "King Hui, because the whole world believes that Duan Ganzi poisoned the King of Wei, especially many ministers in the Wei State witnessed it with their own eyes. Therefore, there have always been many ministers loyal to the royal family in Wei who refused to recognize the legitimacy of Duan Ganzi's rule, and have been looking for opportunities to overthrow Duan Ganzi's rule. ”

Zhao Dan raised his eyebrows slightly, and said to Mao Sui: "In this case, Duan Ganzi must have a lot of trouble during this time, right?" ”

Mao Sui nodded and said, "That's right, now Duan Ganzi needs at least a thousand soldiers to protect him when he goes out." Even so, he was assassinated several times, and in one case was even an old retainer who had served in his mansion for nearly twenty years. ”

Zhao Dan couldn't help but smile dumbly when he heard this, and said: "Since you can be betrayed by your retainers, this cadre is really miserable...... With his character, he must not be indifferent to this, right? ”

Mao Sui nodded and said, "What the king said is exact. Many Wei ministers have been arrested, imprisoned and even beheaded, and hundreds of corpses are being thrown at the entrance of the Taoyi vegetable market every day these days, and the entire Taoyi city is now in fear. According to the king's instructions, the ministers also secretly protected some ministers, and these ministers were also willing to provide some help to the king when the future king attacked Taoyi. ”

Zhao Dan thought for a while, and then said to Mao Sui: "Manager Mao, for these ministers of the Wei State, you should let the Hu Yiwei on the Zhao side pay more attention, if you can put them under the command of the widows, then after the widows conquer the Wei State in the future, the rule of the Wei land will be much smoother, understand?" ”

Mao Sui nodded very respectfully.

Zhao Dan thought for a moment, and then said to Mao Sui: "Among the other counties of the Wei State, how is the rebellion of those county guards and county magistrates going? ”

Speaking of which, this trick was also learned by Zhao Dan and the Qin Shi Huang in history.

The reason why Qin was able to pacify the Six Kingdoms in ten years was that it was obviously not enough to rule the Six Kingdoms with Qin's own officials, so Qin recruited a large number of officials from the Six Kingdoms during this period of time, and let these officials rule the place for Qin.

Under such guidelines, as long as the Qin army conquered an important city, then many large and small cities under the rule of the city would surrender one after another, and the officials of the six kingdoms would also change in an instant, from officials of Chu, Qi, and Zhao to Qin officials.

Of course, there are drawbacks to doing so. Its disadvantage is that the officials at this time were basically scholars, and scholars were the most basic level of the aristocracy.

In other words, a large number of the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms successfully blended into the ruling class of the Qin State and became the "own people" of the Qin State. And these so-called "own people" couldn't wait to follow Chen Sheng and Wu Guang immediately after the death of Qin Shi Huang to raise the banner of rebellion, and finally succeeded in counterattacking and destroying the Qin Dynasty.

From the current point of view, Zhao Dan feels that he only needs to pay attention to this "benefit", and as for the disadvantages, Zhao Dan also has some solutions, but that is after the complete destruction of the Wei State.

Zhao Dan's question, Mao Sui's whole face immediately showed an excited expression, and said to Zhao Dan: "Back to the king, now there are three county guards and a full twenty-one county commanders of the Wei State who are willing to respond to the call of the king together at that time and jointly overthrow Duan Ganzi. Among these people, there was another county guard and six county commanders who were willing to join the Zhao State and serve the king. ”

The smile on Zhao Dan's face became even richer: "Very good, but you must also pay attention to confidentiality and don't leak the news, otherwise, once Duan Ganzi is aware of this matter, then there will be other variables." ”

Mao Sui also bowed down, then remembered something, and said to Zhao Dan: "King, there is another question at the end." That is, the king's previous ministers created public opinion in various parts of the Wei State, but the problem is that the Hu Yiwei in the Wei State is too few now, and can only spread the remarks that the king asks to spread in a small number of counties and counties, and it is difficult to involve them in most places. ”

As soon as Zhao Dan heard this, his brows couldn't help frowning.

In Zhao Dan's prediction in advance, Mao Sui and Hu Yiwei should spread the rumors throughout the Wei State, so that when the Zhao State raised troops to defeat Duan Ganzi, the Wei people would naturally be "eating pot pulp to welcome the king's master".

It's just that Zhao Dan realized that he had overlooked one point after hearing Mao Sui's answer, that is, in this era, the spread of information is actually very unsmooth.

In addition, in winter, most places are almost cut off from transportation, which means that the effect of spreading rumors is often only effective in larger cities.

Moreover, when Hu Yiwei screened the manpower, it was very strict, so the number was actually not much, although there were hundreds of spies in the Wei State, but these hundreds of people were simply a drop in the ocean for the Wei State with a population of two or three million.

Zhao Dan was silent for a long time, and then said: "This matter is a bit of a miscalculation, so let's pass the order and let them do as much as they can." Wei is a place where commerce and trade are developed, and Taoyi is a large commercial city in the Central Plains where people come and go, as long as the winter passes, those rumors will naturally spread with the flow of merchants, and eventually spread to all corners of Wei State. ”

After Mao Sui left, Zhao Dan sat there, carefully thought back and forth about all his arrangements for Wei Guo and Duan Ganzi, and finally came to a conclusion.

From now on, everything should be ready, only the spring breeze is owed.

As long as the spring winds return to this land, then it is time to start this plan to completely annex Wei.

Zhao Dan is looking forward to the arrival of the next spring.

Once upon a time, as a traverser, Zhao Dan was very frightened in the face of the powerful Qin State, and the whole person trembled, lest he be defeated and annexed by the powerful Qin State by accident.

But after so many years of hard work, Zhao Dan was finally pleased to find that the original history had been completely reversed by himself.

The goddess of fate seemed to have completely abandoned the Qin State and instead smiled charmingly at the Zhao State.

Today, for the first time, Zhao Dan felt from the bottom of his heart-

This chaotic era of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which has lasted for hundreds of years, may really be able to start the prelude to the end.