The reason why Shao Ping ran to Zhao Xie to say such things while wearing filial piety was, of course, at the instigation of Xiang Kang, in fact, Xiang Kang deliberately inserted Shao Ping'an into Zhao Guo and placed him by Zhao Xie's side, just to let Shao Ping say these words to Zhao Xie at the right time, and try to solve the Zhao State problem by peaceful means.

Among several princes with different surnames, only Zhao Xie is suitable for abolition of the throne with this method similar to the release of military power with a glass of wine, as for the reason is also very simple, Zhao Xie, the king of Zhao, was first overlooked by Zhang Er and Chen Yu, and then Han Ting and Zhao Xiangxia said that they cooperated with each other to overhead each other, and the real power in his hands has always been very pitiful, and the direct showdown with him is not only a small risk factor, but Zhao Xie, who has long been accustomed to the puppet life, is also relatively easy to be persuaded, and takes the initiative to ask for the abolition of the prince in exchange for life and the glory and wealth of the second half of his life.

Of course, Shao Ping is also very risky to do this, after all these years of dismal management, at least the palace guards are basically mastered by Zhao Xie, if Zhao Xie is really forced to be in a hurry, Zhao Xie only needs to give an order, and the Zhao Palace guards will be able to divide Shao Ping's body immediately, so don't look at Shao Ping calmly and calmly talking in front of Zhao Xie, in fact, when entering the palace to persuade Zhao Xie, Shao Ping was still mentally prepared to never get out of the gate of King Zhao's palace again.

Fortunately, Shao Ping's persuasion worked for Zhou Zeng, and it also worked for Zhao Xie, after hesitating again and again, although Zhao Xie did not make up his mind on the spot, he still let Shao Ping leave his palace smoothly. But of course, this matter is not over yet, after Shao Ping walked out of the palace gate, he only breathed a sigh of relief temporarily, and then said in his heart: "The matter has not been decided yet, the key is to see tomorrow, if Zhao Xie is reluctant to give up the throne, if it is fast, tonight, if it is slow, it will be tomorrow morning's court meeting, and there will definitely be a bloody storm in Handan City." ”

Because of this, after Shao Ping, who had long been determined to die, returned to his residence in Handan City, he immediately took a bath, changed into clean clothes, and sat calmly in his lobby waiting for the verdict of fate, and then as if God was deliberately playing tricks on Shao Ping, it didn't take long for a servant to rush into the lobby quickly, and when he entered the door, he tripped over the threshold, and fell a dog on the spot. Could it be that Zhao Xie really wants to jump over the wall in a hurry and fight with us to break the net? ”

"My lord, someone from the Prime Minister's Mansion is here, saying that Xia Xiang has something to meet with you, and I want to invite you to the Prime Minister's Mansion."

The servant's groaning report relieved Shao Ping, and after putting his heart back in his stomach, Shao Ping said: "Go and tell Xia Xiang's messenger, just say that everything will be known within tomorrow, please continue to be careful, I will not go to see him." If Li sent someone to invite me to come over to talk, he would tell the person he sent as well. Also, be careful when walking, next time you scare me like this, be careful of hitting the board. ”

It's just that the servant who accidentally fell was inexplicable, and hurriedly went out to convey Shao Ping's message, and Shao Ping said in his heart: "Xia said that he is a fine person, as long as he hints at him a little, there is no need to let him know the content of what Zhao Xie and I said." Next, it depends on how Zhao Xie chooses. ”

This is destined to be a sleepless night for countless people, after nightfall, everything seems to be normal on the surface of Handan City, but Shao Ping, who is sitting in his own lobby, knows very well in his heart that in this seemingly calm night, the defenders in Handan City who are still indirectly controlled by Li Yuan, as well as the Zhao army stationed in the camp outside the city that Xia Shuo mastered, must have entered a state of combat readiness. will once again suffer from the poison of war and the disaster of war!

"The key is the guards in the palace, they are the only army under Zhao Xie's control, if Zhao Xie makes any moves, he can only use this army, I don't know how they are now, are they loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and are they quietly ready to do it at any time?"

Still in the second half of the night, unable to resist the invasion of the sleeping demon, Shao Pingcai's head gradually fell asleep little by little, and suddenly woke up when he was about to fall asleep, and said secretly: "What if Zhao Xie doesn't do it tonight?" When the court meeting tomorrow enters the palace, Zhao Xie can just catch us all? ”

Such worries made Shao Ping unable to sleep anymore, and finally survived until the rooster crowed three times, and when the sky was about to dawn, Shao Ping once had the idea of finding an excuse not to attend the court meeting, but after careful consideration, Shao Ping dispelled this idea again, and said secretly: "You have to go, otherwise, if you see that I don't go to the court meeting, Zhao Xie will definitely suspect that His Majesty the Emperor is not sincere, even if he makes up his mind, there may be repetition." ”

"Go ahead, anyway, my family is in Xianyang, and I don't plan to get out of Handan City alive." After making up his mind, Shao Ping did not hesitate, quickly washed up and finished breakfast, then changed into official clothes, walked out of his residence with his head held high, and walked towards the palace of King Zhao, which was most likely full of murderous machines.

In front of the palace, the treacherous and meticulous Zhao Xiangxia said that he still said that he was still sick and did not come to participate in the routine court meeting, which also made Shao Ping a little relieved, knowing that Xia said that he was supporting the army, and even if Zhao Xie made any moves, it would be impossible to eradicate the Han court's power in Handan in one fell swoop, but what worried Shao Ping was that Li Yuan, who had been sealed as a fake, came to the palace to prepare to enter the palace regardless of the danger, but secretly fell to the middle doctor Jiao Wen of the Han court, and it was obvious that he had smelled danger.

Taking the opportunity to be polite with everyone, Shao Ping walked to Li Yuan's side seemingly casually, and gave Li Yuan a look, Li Yuan understood, and said in a low voice: "It's okay, borrow his courage, he doesn't dare to come nonsense." ”

Shao Ping nodded, and said in his heart: "I hope so." ”

The bell of the last dynasty finally rang, and after the procession with Zhao Guo's civil and military forces went up to the main hall, Shao Ping was worried, and also made some unaware Zhao Guowen and military officials strange that after a considerable amount of time, Zhao Xie was not seen coming to the main hall. And just as Shao Ping raised his heart to his throat again, Xu Shen's male duck voice suddenly came from behind the palace, "The king has arrived." ”

With the symbolic salute of the officials, Shao Ping quietly raised his head and peeked at Zhao Xie who walked out of the back of the hall, and what made Shao Ping worry was that Zhao Xie, who was obviously in a poor emotional state a few days ago, suddenly became much more energetic today, although the dark circles in his eyes were more obvious, and he walked quickly, and seemed to have made up his mind, and then it was normal for people to immediately subconsciously peek at the guards of Zhao Palace standing on both sides of the main hall, as well as the Xueliang weapons in their hands.

"Ladies and gentlemen, excuse me." Zhao Xie's voice was hoarse, but it was very loud, and he said loudly: "Today, the widow has a big event to announce to you. ”

It's still human nature, at this moment, Shao Ping's heart almost stopped beating, and then fortunately, Zhao Xie suddenly showed the slip that Shao Ping handed over to him yesterday, raised his voice and ordered: "Before announcing this important event, Eunuch Xu ordered you to recite this slip in public for the widow." ”

"No." Xu Shen agreed, his voice was also very hoarse, and after respectfully taking the slip, Xu Shen cried and recited aloud in his signature male duck voice, "Today, there are people living in Yangchun in Handan, and I dare to sue the prince of Zhao Guo Jia for conniving at the guests and beating my son ......." ”

Hearing this slip of the tongue, it turned out to be the people of Handan accusing the prince of Zhao State, of course, the unaware Zhao State civil and military officials were in an uproar, but what made these Zhao State civil and military officials even more surprised and strange was that the voice hoarse chanted the slip, not only tears quickly poured out of the eyes of the Zhao State eunuch Ling Xu Shen, Zhao Xie couldn't help but burst into tears, sitting on the throne and crying, and finally when he finally finished reading the Jane, Xu Shen couldn't help but hide his face and cry, and bowed down in front of Zhao Xie and paused.

"All Aiqing, have you heard that?" Zhao Xie ignored Xu Shen, but said to everyone with tears in his eyes: "The widow's rebel son is so lawless, he dares to connive at the guests to beat the officials, and afterwards he relied on the power of the widow to force the Sikouguan Temple not to be investigated, the crime is obvious, and the evidence is ironclad. The widow has decided to put this rebel into a prison car and escort him to Xianyang to be handed over to the imperial court for punishment, so as to set an example. ”

The uninformed officials of Zhao Guo heard of it and of course there was a big uproar, and they all said that Zhao Xie's punishment seemed to be too heavy, and they all advised Zhao Xie to deal with his son in the country, and there was no need to take his son to Xianyang to punish the crime, but Zhao Xie shook his head with a painful expression and refused, and said: "Not only that, the widow has no way to teach his son, and it is also an unforgivable crime to connive at the rebel son to do such an ugly thing." The widow now announced that he would personally send the rebel son to Xianyang to ask the court to punish the crime, and at the same time respectfully ask the court to abolish the widow's prince and set up a new king to govern the Zhao country! ”

Of course, Zhao Xie's words dropped a bomb on the court, and before he could finish speaking, almost all of Zhao Guo's civil and military forces had already fallen to their knees, either from the bottom of their hearts, or with a coy attitude, scrambling to beg Zhao Xie to take back his life, not to ask himself to abolish the king for this matter, and the unaware Zhao Guosi Kou Sun Cheng was even more kowtowing and bleeding, saying that he was more responsible for this matter, and would rather commit suicide to apologize, but also beg Zhao Xie not to ask himself to abolish the king.

Zhao Xie, who had already made up his mind, of course rejected the kindness of everyone, insisted on personally escorting his son to Xianyang to punish the crime, casually begged Xiang Kang to abolish his throne in person, and also announced that he would leave Handan with his son on the same day, and rushed to Xianyang to meet Xiang Kang.

When Zhao Xie escorted his unlucky son out of the city, of course, all the officials of Zhao State went to see him off outside the city, and Shao Ping was naturally among them. ”

"Didn't you force me?" Zhao Xie forcibly swallowed back the words that had been said to his lips, then shook his head, and without looking back, he ordered to set off without any sign decoration. - By the way, in history, Xiang Yu divided the princes in Guanzhong, deliberately split the territory of the three kingdoms of Yan, Zhao and Qi, and weakened the strength of Tian Shi, Han Guang and Zhao Xie, among which Han Guang and Tian Shi both chose to fight with Xiang Yu, as long as Zhao Xie, who was weakened the most, did not dare to resist, and obediently obeyed Xiang Yu's orders.

After Zhao Xie left, several of his cronies of the same clan all obediently ran to meet him. Zhao Xiangxia, who was sick in bed, said that he took the initiative to hand over the only power they held to guard the soldiers of Zhao Gong, and no one dared to say a word of nonsense in front of Xia Shuo, who actually controlled the military power of Zhao State, on the contrary, after a few days, there was news from Baimajin, saying that it was the eunuch of Zhao State who accompanied Zhao Xie to Xianyang to ask for guilt, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water when crossing the Yellow River in the south, leaving a little face for Zhao Xie's close confidants, proving that Zhao Xie, the long-time puppet King Zhao, was not completely without loyal ministers.

After receiving this report, Xiang Kang, who succeeded in his treacherous scheme, laughed, and immediately decided to make Zhao Xie the second duke of the Han court except for Uncle Zhou, and gave Zhao Xie ten cities of food, in recognition of Zhao Xie's knowledge, obediently abdicated, and allowed himself to peacefully solve the problem of Zhao. However, after Chen Ping saluted and congratulated Xiang Kang, he immediately reminded: "Your Majesty, you have to guard against Yan Wang Zang Di, he will definitely not be as smart and interesting as Zhao Xie." ”

Xiang Kang nodded, and also admitted that Zang Di, who actually held the power of Yan State, would never take the initiative to hand over the throne, and after a little calculation, Xiang Kang asked: "Mr. Chen Ping, in your opinion, do you think Zang Di will directly raise an army to rebel?" ”

"Your Majesty forgives your sins, and your subordinates forgive me for speaking bluntly, I'm afraid this may be very big." Chen Ping said in a deep voice: "When Yingbu rebels ambushed the thief before, Zang Di's reaction was obviously to suspect that Your Majesty had plans to attack him, and now that Zhao Xie obediently handed over the throne, only he and an insignificant Wu Rui were left among the princes and kings of the world, and in order to keep the throne and power, he may not have the intention of striking first." ”

"Zang Tu is not terrible." Xiang Kang pondered and said: "Yan Country has a thin population and scarce money and food, even if Zang Di really raises troops to rebel, we are sure to deal with it easily." I'm afraid that he will collude with the Xiongnu and borrow troops from the Xiongnu, then we will be in big trouble. ”

"Your Majesty has counted a little less, the season and the climate." Chen Ping said: "It's winter soon, if Zang Di really jumps over the wall in a hurry, chooses to rebel in winter, and borrows troops from the Xiongnu to resist the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court, then we will be in greater trouble to fight the Xiongnu army that adapts to the cold climate in the ice and snow." ”

Xiang Kang nodded again, and quickly ordered: "Let's do it now, do everything we can to temporarily stabilize Zang Di, and make every effort to survive this winter, and then we don't have to be afraid of anything." ”

Chen Ping hurriedly sang the promise, and Xiang Kang said again: "And the Huns, try to think of a way to see if there is any way to stabilize the Huns Shan Yu Maodun, so that he doesn't interfere in the trouble when Zang Tu is rebelling." ”

"Well, I'm afraid it's difficult, right?" Chen Ping was a little embarrassed, and said with a wry smile: "It is certain to ask your subordinates to find a way to temporarily stabilize Zang Di, but your subordinates know very little about the Huns and do not know the enemy's situation, so I am afraid it will be difficult to use the strategy of delaying the army." ”

"It's okay, I believe that with your Mr. Chen Ping's ingenuity, I will be able to do it." Xiang Kang smiled and said: "This matter will be handed over to you, as long as you can do this, I am willing to pay some more price." ”