Hou Ying looked very happy.

As a janitor, Hou Ying has basically spent most of his life dealing with people who are at the bottom of society, such as Hou Ying's good friend butcher Zhu Hai.

It is precisely because of this that Hou Ying has never enjoyed this kind of dinner in the Xinling Monarch's mansion, which can be called the top enjoyment of the Warring States Period.

In fact, let alone enjoyment, with Hou Ying's identity before, I'm afraid he doesn't even have the qualifications to enter this kind of banquet.

But the era of the Warring States period is so magical, as long as you are useful to the lords, then it doesn't matter what your background was before, no matter how you pretend to be rude in front of the lords.

The key is that you have to be able to help the monarchs solve their problems.

Hundreds of years of turmoil have long swept the patriarchal hierarchy of the founding of the Zhou Dynasty into the garbage heap of history, and all the countries that are still clinging to the old Zhou Dynasty have either perished, or they can only be a trembling lamb in the cracks of the Seven Heroes like the Lu State.

In order to be strong, the lords can leave everything behind and let you pretend to be crazy.

But you have to be useful.

There is no doubt that Wei Wuji has given Hou Ying enough face, let Hou Ying pretend to be enough, get out of the limelight, and enjoy the treatment and respect that Hou Ying has never enjoyed.

There is a saying that goes like this: "If you treat me as a soldier, I will repay me as a soldier." ”

Now it's time for Hou to earn returns.

At this moment, Hou Ying's face was full of red light, his beard and cheeks were still stained with a mysterious liquid that I didn't know if it was wine or soup, obviously the singer had retreated for a while, but Hou Ying was still there shaking his head and holding a dagger and knocking on the table, humming a messy ballad that he couldn't understand the melody in his mouth, and he looked like he was completely drunk.

Zhao Sheng couldn't help but muttered a little in his heart when he saw Hou Ying's appearance, feeling that his brother-in-law Wei Wuji was somewhat unreliable this time.

It's really not Zhao Sheng who judges people by his appearance, just such a sloppy old drunkard, what good ideas can he have?

However, Wei Wuji obviously did not think like Zhao Sheng, on the contrary, Wei Wuji seemed to have a lot of confidence in Hou Ying.

Hou Ying did seem to be drunk, obviously Wei Wuji had already opened his mouth to ask Hou Ying just now, but Hou Ying was still there laughing to himself, and there was no sign of sobering up.

Zhao Sheng's brows furrowed even more when he saw this, this Hou Ying is afraid that he is already drunk and confused, right?

Fortunately, when Wei Wuji was about to ask for the second time, Hou Ying's body suddenly shook violently, as if he had sobered up in an instant, and turned his gaze to Wei Wuji.

"The king is a minister?"

This is the so-called eating people with a short mouth, just a mouthful of a son, after drinking two glasses of wine, he immediately became a king.

Wei Wuji patiently repeated what he had just said, and asked Hou Ying for help.

To be honest, given that Hou Ying now looks drunk and unadult, Wei Wuji's questioning is somewhat intended to perfunctory Zhao Sheng, and then wait until tomorrow when Hou Ying is sober before asking.

After all, Wei Wuji has 3,000 disciples, and there are many arrogant people like Hou Ying, Wei Wuji can be said to be very experienced in how to deal with these guys.

However, what Wei Wuji didn't expect was that this Hou Ying really didn't follow the routine.

Almost at the moment when Wei Wuji was about to open his mouth to play a round, Hou Ying preemptively spoke.

"What the king is worried about is nothing more than Zhao destroying and hurting Wei. I don't know what the old minister said, yes or no? ”

Wei Wuji was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

What Hou Ying said was indeed the worry in Wei Wuji's heart.

As a person with a long-term vision far more than his own brother Wei Wangyu, Wei Wuji's heart was very clear about the importance of the barriers of Zhao and Korea to Wei State.

Since the loss of the old capital of Anyi and its surrounding lands, Wei no longer borders on Qin's Guanzhong proper.

It is precisely because of this that although the Wei State has been scattered by the Qin State in the vicinity of Tao County over the years, it is not too deadly.

But once Zhao Changping was defeated and the Qin army occupied Shangdang, then Wei itself would once again face the menacing Qin tiger and wolf army.

That's definitely not a good thing.

Before this, although the Qin State had never stopped the pace of eastward expansion, it was a few cities this year and a few more next year, which was a slow encroachment.

But since the Southern Heavenly Tyrant Chu State and the Eastern Emperor Qi State, who were able to compete with the Qin State, were successively killed, the appetite of the Qin people is getting bigger and bigger, the movements are becoming more and more rampant, and the appearance of eating is becoming more and more ugly.

The last time he fought the Chu State, he captured thousands of miles of fertile fields in the two battles, adding two counties to the Qin State.

This time to fight South Korea, it is also to swallow the entire land of Shangdang County in one go.

Now it seems that the Qin State cannot be satisfied without a county of land.

But Wei is only five or six counties now, and once it borders Qin again, this bit of territory will be robbed by the Qin people in less than ten years.

It's a pity that no matter how Wei Wuji persuades, Wei Wangyu still seems to be unmoved.

Not everyone has a long-term vision, and in any age there will always be a very small number of wise people, and neither are wise kings.

Sometimes, being too smart is a pain, like Wei Wuji in the hall at this moment.

Even though he had foreseen it, he could only watch his motherland slide step by step towards the abyss.

Wei Wuji needed someone to help him out of this pain, and he hoped that person was Hou Ying.

Hou Ying was looking at Wei Wuji at the moment.

It's strange to say, just a moment ago, Hou Ying was still acting like a bad drunkard, but in just one minute, Hou Ying's eyes quickly became sober, and even revealed a bit of sharp light.

Sharp as a goshawk leaping into the sky, about to pounce down.

Hou Ying said: "The minister has a word to ask the king, but please forgive the minister's sin first." ”

Wei Wuji paused for a moment, and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

In this era, scholars have always spoken freely in front of the sovereign, and there is almost no need to scruple about offending the sovereign.

Hou Ying actually confessed to Wei Wuji before he spoke, which was very unusual.

This old boy, you don't want to say anything terrible, do you?

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Wei Wuji straightened up slightly, and said to Hou Yingzhengse: "Sir, it's okay to say." ”

Hou Ying smiled when he heard this, looked directly at Wei Wuji, and said word by word: "The minister dares to ask the king, as a courtier of the king of Wei, how should the king behave?" ”

Wei Wuji blurted out without thinking: "For the king's courtiers, be loyal to the king and the country." ”

The corners of Hou Ying's mouth twitched slightly, revealing an extremely weird smile, and an extremely strong sip of wine spurted out from the big yellow teeth: "If loyalty to the monarch and serving the country can't be both, how can the monarch be fooled?" ”

The hall fell silent.