April 3, 259 BC.

In the Xianyang Palace, Qin Wangji sat on the throne with a serious face, and asked several ministers in front of him: "Is the matter of going on the expedition ready?"

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move the grain and grass, logistics is actually very important for fighting a war, and it is certainly impossible for Qin Wangji to ignore this.

It was Fan Sui who answered Qin Wangji: "Back to the king, everything is ready."

Although it is said that because of the failure of the Battle of Changping, there are some disagreements between Qin Wangji and Fan Sui, the golden pair, but at least so far Fan Sui is still sitting in the position of the prime minister of Qin, so the domestic government affairs are still led by Fan Sui, and logistics is naturally no exception.

Qin Wangji looked at Wang Ji on the side again: "How is the recruitment of troops going?" ”

In fact, Wang Ji was not qualified to attend this kind of meeting, but because the position of Wang Di leading the army was confirmed in the last meeting, Qin Wangji promoted Wang Ji to the captain of the escort army, and became the de facto leader of the Qin State military, so he was naturally qualified to attend.

Seeing Qin Wangji's question, Wang Ji hurriedly replied: "The assembly has been completed, and we can go out on the expedition as long as the king's order is given." ”

Qin Wangji nodded, expressed his approval of Wang Di's work, and turned his head to look at Fan Sui: "What is Qi's reply?" ”

Since it is necessary to attack the state of Chu, it is still necessary to do a good job in diplomacy.

The alliance of the Three Jin Dynasty has spread all over the world, although it is said that the envoys and spies of the Qin State have tried a lot of hard work to sabotage it, but the result has not been successful.

After all, the deeds of Zhao State that had just defeated Qin State were here, and even Wei Wangyu, the monarch who was inclined to Qin State in his heart, had to obediently go to Zhongmu to sign an unequal treaty to recognize Zhao Dan as his eldest brother, what could Qin Wangji do?

Unless Qin Wangji is now willing to raise the army of the country to fight with the people of Zhao again, and then use the victory to get back the face lost in the Battle of Changping, it will be impossible for Wei and Han to return to the arms of Qin in a short time.

Under such a realistic situation, the focus of Qin's diplomatic work, in addition to maintaining the alliance of Yan, was to go all out to win over Qi.

Fan Sui replied: "The minister has sent an envoy with a lot of money to lobby the great manager of Qi to win Housheng, and Housheng has been invited by the envoy, but King Jian of Qi is still hesitant. ”

Qin Wangji's brows furrowed again, obviously not too satisfied with Fan Sui's work.

Seeing this, Fan Sui's heart jumped, and he hurriedly said: "King, if you wait a little longer, you will be able to convince King Qi if you want to come." ”

"Wait a while?" Qin Wangji looked at Fan Sui with blazing eyes: "Fan Jun, you know that what the widow lacks most now is this time!" ”

What Qin Wangji said was not wrong at all.

Although the two successive defeats have greatly damaged the vitality of the Qin State, the foundation of the Qin State is still here after all, and the current Qin State is still the number one power in the world.

It's just that Zhao Guo, the second in the world, has also caught up, and the gap with Qin is only a millimeter.

In addition, there is also a Chu State that has just regained Yingdu and may become strong again at any time.

Don't forget, more than half of the two southeastern counties of Qin are still under the control of the people of Chu.

Considering that Shangdang County was not originally the territory of Qin, the loss of the two southeastern counties was the biggest loss of Qin in the First Battle of Changping.

Since the two southeastern counties were originally the territory of the Chu State, the Chu army received a lot of support in the battle of the two southeastern counties, otherwise it would not have been possible to create a miracle of three cities in three months.

This shows that the state of Chu still has a broad mass base in the two counties in the southeast, which is not a good thing for the state of Qin.

This mass base meant that the state of Chu was able to quickly regain control of the two southeastern counties, so as to achieve a faster revival.

From the perspective of the Qin State, if the Zhao State cannot be dealt with now, then the only way to take a step back is to contain the rise of the Chu State.

Considering that Zhao and Chu are allies, once the Chu State is revived, it is very likely that Qin State will have to face the joint pressure of the two hegemon-level countries of Zhao and Chu.

Time is running out.

Fan Sui did not panic in the face of Qin Wangji's criticism, but said: "Don't forget, the king, then Zhao Wangdan swears to calm the disputes in the world with the alliance of the Three Jins." ”

The corners of Qin Wangji's mouth twitched slightly, revealing a hint of mockery that could not be overlooked: "Huangkou child, ignorant words!" There has been a long history of strife in this world, how can he alone be calmed down! ”

Fan Sui said: "Regardless of whether Zhao Wangdan can be pacified, at this moment the three Jin are allies, if the king sends troops to attack Chu and the three Jin come to the rescue, this battle may be difficult to win." ”

As soon as Fan Sui said this, the hall was silent.

At the beginning, when it was agreed to attack the Chu State, there was no plan for the Qin State to fight four, but at that time, the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State did not know that Zhao Dan would suddenly make such a thing as the Three Jin Alliance.

So the current Qin State is a bit passive.

Qin Wangji snorted and said, "The widow has already had an agreement with that Zhao Wang Dan, Zhao attacks Yan, Qin attacks Chu!" ”

That's true.

Fan Sui said: "But in careful words, the alliance of the Three Jin Dynasty is really to destroy Qin!" ”

Qin Wangji's face became more and more gloomy.

What level of intelligence sources of the Zhao State of Qin came from, Qin Wangji is still very clear.

It seems that things have reached a dead end by now.

Once the Three Jin Alliances led by Zhao and Chu colluded together to engage in the Four-Kingdom Alliance, the pressure on Qin would be too great to move at all.

Qin Wangji took a deep breath and looked at Fan Sui with some distraction.

"How can we make the Qi Kingdom unified?"

If Qi doesn't join again, then there is really no way to play, and you can only be trapped in Guanzhong.

Fan Sui said: "Today's three Jin alliances, its strength is overwhelming, although the king of Qi is dull, but there is no shortage of capable ministers in the Qi country, the king only needs to wait for a few days, there will be good news." ”

Qin Wangji knocked on the table irritably, but in the end he still didn't scold the dirty words in his heart.

Fan Sui saw that Qin Wangji was in an unhappy mood, and hurriedly said: "The minister still has two strategies, please refer to the king." ”

"Say!"

Fan Sui said: "The minister heard that Zhao was divided into two factions, one main attack on Qin and the other main attack on Qi. If people spread rumors to the King of Qi and say that Zhao wants to attack Qi, then the King of Qi will definitely turn against Zhao! ”

The matter of the Huaxia School Palace, of course, the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State have also heard of it. However, that incident only caused Qi to cut off the food supply, and the relationship with Zhao State retreated to the point of irrelevancy, not to the point of turning against each other.

Now that this is done, it is possible to make Qi Guo really turn against Zhao Guo.

Don't think this rumor is clumsy, in this era of underdeveloped information, it is very difficult to refute rumors.

Qin Wangji nodded in agreement, and then asked, "What is the other strategy?" ”

Fan Sui said: "After the Changping War, the Yan State occupied the Zhao State Wuhuan and did not return it, the Zhao State will hate it, if you send more details to make trouble on the border of Yan and Zhao and spread rumors, the King of Zhao is young and vigorous, and he will be angry and kill Yan, so the king can also take the opportunity to cut down Chu." ”

After listening to Fan Sui's words, Qin Wangji's expression on his face finally looked a lot better.

Although the two opinions put forward by Fan Sui belong to the category of conspiracy and trickery, the Qin State was originally the country that used this kind of conspiracy and trickery the best, otherwise Lian Po and Li Mu would not have stepped down one after another because of the rumors that the Qin State was taking a walk.

For Qin Wangji, this is also a helpless thing, after experiencing the Changping War, Qin State's current younger brother is only Yan State, but Zhao State has co-opted the three countries of Wei, Han and Chu, and in terms of overall strength, Qin State is already at an obvious disadvantage, how can it be done without some small means?

Qin Wangji pondered for a long time and said, "I will do it according to Fan Jun's plan." ”

After a pause, Qin Wangji looked at Fan Sui with blazing eyes, and aggravated his tone: "Be sure to hurry!" ”