Some people may be about to ask, now that hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops are fighting to the death of the people of Qin on the front line of Changping, you Zhao Dan, the monarch of Zhao State, is either Qi State and Wei State or Chu State and Yan State every day, can you still do something serious?

This brings us to the importance of diplomacy to a country.

In later generations of Europe, there was a very famous country called Germany, which is often referred to as Germany. It was not until the 19th century that Germany was unified, and it was the Kingdom of Prussia under the famous Duke Bismarck.

But although the name of Prussia's Iron Army and Bismarck's "iron-blooded prime minister" were powerful all over the world, what did Prussia rely on to unify Germany?

The answer is diplomacy.

Around Prussia at that time, there were five powerful neighbors: Denmark, France, Great Britain, Austria, and Tsarist Russia. Many of these countries were at odds with Prussia, and none of the five countries wished to see Prussia unified.

It was under these circumstances that Prussia defeated Denmark, Austria and France in three dynastic wars, and finally completed the great cause of unifying Germany.

You must know that each of these five countries is almost above Prussia in terms of territory and population, and a single one is enough for Prussia to drink a pot, and any two of them together Prussia will not be able to eat and walk around, and any three of them will be in danger of destroying the country.

Surrounded by five powerful neighbors and all opposed to the unification of Prussia, the cause of unification seemed to be a matter of Prussia taking on the five great powers alone. However, in the three dynastic wars in the process of unification, Prussia either fought two or one-on-one in each case, and never fought more with less.

Amazing, right?

This is where Bismarck's brilliant foreign policy comes into play. Every time Prussia started a war, Bismarck would try his best to diplomatically isolate the country that was about to become Prussia's enemy, befriend all the other powers, so that the Prussian enemy country could not be helped by any power, and then use Prussia's powerful army to launch it in one fell swoop, one-on-one and then defeat the enemy.

Does this feel a little familiar? That's right, Bismarck's diplomatic strategy is exactly the same as the "long-distance and close-range attack" proposed by Fan Sui, the current Qin minister.

Fan Sui's long-distance and close attack is also to befriend other continental powers, and then after determining that the current enemy is isolated, he will go all out, relying on his own superior military strength and national strength to win one-on-one heads-up, first destroy Han Zhao Wei, and then destroy Yan Chuqi, break the six countries, and finally unify China.

In essence, there is no difference between Bismarck's and Fan Sui's diplomatic strategies, and if they were to swap places with each other, the result would inevitably be the same. This is one of the two famous ministers in China, one and the other, and I am afraid that it is not as good as a small soldier in terms of battlefield fighting, but the role it plays is definitely better than that of a million heroes.

It was under the guidance of these two famous ministers that the Great Qin Empire and the First German Empire completed their unification, stepped onto the world stage, and reached their respective peaks.

This is the importance of diplomacy for a country!

As a monarch who aspires to dominate the world, if Zhao Dan can ignore diplomacy, which is still more important than the military, then Zhao Dan would be stupid.

It was precisely because Zhao Dan understood the importance of diplomacy in his heart that Zhao Dan first stopped the change of generals after the crossing, and then immediately sent envoys to the three kingdoms of Wei and Chuqi without stopping.

The Qin army has a strong front, and there are peerless military gods like Bai Qi, it is too difficult and difficult to defeat the Qin army led by Bai Qi head-on, at least Zhao Dan feels that he has no ability.

But if Zhao wants to defeat the people of Qin and Bai Qi, must he have to fight with Qin alone?

Your Qin national strength is 95 points, and my Zhao national strength is 85 points, I can't do you alone, but it doesn't matter. I'll pull up the 70-point Wei State, the 75-point Chu State, and the 70-point Qi State, and the four countries will you together, no matter how powerful you are in the Qin State and Bai Qi, can you still have three heads and six arms, and fight against most of the world with your own strength?

The hegemony between countries has never been a playhouse, not to pay attention to what to fight alone, let alone to pay attention to any false etiquette and shame, you can be in the loser after the victory and then put your Virgin posture and tolerance, but before the victory, please be sure to do whatever it takes to kill your opponent!

What Zhao Dan wants to do now is to completely isolate the Qin state on the diplomatic stage, as the great founding leader said, to "make our friends as many as possible, and make the enemies as few as possible." ”

Just as Prussia was unable to deal with a group fight from multiple opponents, of course, the Qin State was not able to resist the simultaneous attack of multiple opponents, at least for now, the second of the Seven Heroes, Zhao State, had not been defeated, no!

If the Qin State can fight against six with one enemy, then it is still a fart to attack from afar, directly frame A and push the six countries of Shandong. How can you lose when you have a flying dragon riding face? Right.

In terms of specific affairs, Zhao Dan at this moment had already received a quick reply from Wei and Chu, and understood the envoy situation of Zhao Sheng and Yu Xin.

In view of the fact that Zhao State was indeed weaker than Qin State at this moment, if any of the three envoys sent by Zhao Dan to Qi Wei Chu at the beginning succeeded, then Zhao State and Qin State could basically open five or five; If the two messengers succeeded, then Zhao Guo already had a slight upper hand; If all the three-way envoys succeeded, then Zhao Guo's battle could basically be said to be nine out of ten.

The current situation is that Zhao Guo's MT is in front, Chu Guo's output is cut from the flank, and there is Qi Guo's nurse behind him, although the main output of Wei is missing, but the problem is actually not too big, Zhao Dan and Zhao Guo already have the confidence to fight against the big boss of Qin State.

In general, the overall diplomatic situation is now extremely favorable to the Zhao State, and it has basically completely reversed the unfavorable situation of the Zhao State in history.

Therefore, Zhao Dan only needs to eliminate the last unstable factor, Yan State, and then he can pour the power of Zhao State westward and deal with the people of Qin State with all his might.

This is the task that Zhao Dan wants to entrust to Pang Xuan - to envoy Yan Guo.

Don't forget, although Pang Xuan is famous for his military talents, Pang Xuan also has another name, that is, "the last longitudinal and horizontal family in the Warring States Period". For Zonghengjia, it goes without saying that the job of a diplomatic envoy is definitely a professional counterpart and familiar with the way.

As for why not let Su Dai, who had been an important minister of Yan for a long time, return from the envoy to the Qi State, mainly because Su Dai and the current King of Yan have some grievances, and if Su Dai went to the envoy, the task was not completed, and his head was estimated to be cut off by King Yan first...

Sure enough, as soon as Pang Xuan heard Zhao Dan's task, his face immediately showed joy, and he said respectfully to Zhao Dan: "The king has a life, how dare you disobey?" It's just that I don't know what happened when the king ordered his ministers to envoy Yan Kingdom? ”

Zhao Dan was also happy when he saw Pang Xuan agree, so he smiled and said: "Actually, the task of Mr. Pang's trip is very simple, the widow hopes that Mr. Pang will explain to the king of Yan on behalf of the widow that Zhao Guo is friendly with Yan State, so that Yan State will not send troops to my Zhao State, and then send a letter to the widow's sister Yanhou for the widow, and finally recruit a talent for the widow." ”

Pang Xuan thought about it for a while, and found that except for the recruitment of talents, the other two tasks of these three tasks did not seem to be too difficult, so he asked: "I don't know who the talent the king is talking about?" ”

Zhao Dan smiled slightly and said, "This person is Mr. Pang's old acquaintance, and his name is Ju Xin!" ”

"Drama Xin?" After the name was said, Pang Xuan was obviously stunned for a while, glanced at Zhao Dan very unexpectedly, and said after a while: "Xuan will do his best." ”

Pang Xuan did know this drama Xin, and the two used to be good friends, but later because of the Dune Palace Change, drama Xin went to Yan Kingdom and Pang Xuan followed Shizun Guanzi to Chu State to live in seclusion, and the two have not met for decades.

After Ju Xin went to Yan State, he was reused under the then monarch of Yan State, King Yan Zhao, and played a very important role as a diplomatic envoy of Yan State in foreign liaison during the Five Kingdoms War, and was once one of Yan State's important ministers.

However, with the successive deaths of King Yan Zhao and King Yan Hui, King Yan Wucheng, another branch of the Yan royal family, ascended the throne, and the former minister Ju Xin was also forced to retire and is currently in a state of retirement in the Yan Kingdom.

If history goes on a normal trajectory, Ju Xin will be used by Yan Wangxi twenty years later, leading the Yan army to attack Zhao while the fire is hot, and then defeated by Pang Xuan's Zhao army, and Ju Xin will also die at the hands of his old friend Pang Xuan in that battle.

Of course, with Zhao Dan's crossing, the trajectory of the entire history has inevitably shifted and changed, and now Zhao Dan is planning to take advantage of the opportunity when Ju Xin Xia Ye Fu is idle at home to see if he can recruit Ju Xin, a Zhao national, back to China again.

Although Ju Xin may not be the kind of top talent, but at least he is also a first-class talent, after all, there is no invincible person around Zhao Dan, Lu Bu, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, and other top military generals and ministers who are casually summoned, so as long as it is a talent useful to Zhao Guo, Zhao Dan doesn't mind being under his command.

If you are talented, you will be given important positions; If it is a middle talent, it will be given a secondary position; If it is a small talent, it will be given an inconsequential position. To put it bluntly, isn't this the most basic skill of being a monarch?

Anyway, as long as it's talent, the more the merrier!

This can also be seen from the damage to Zhao Guo caused by the change of the Dune Palace, a generation of male lord Zhao Wuling King starved to death in the Dune Palace, not to mention the serious internal friction of Zhao State, the list of runaway talents is also a large list, Zhao Hao, Le Yi, Pang Xuan, Ju Xin... How many talents have been lost!

In addition, the task assigned by Zhao Dan to Pang Xuan is actually a secret mystery, which actually hides Zhao Dan's big plan for Yan State, and the main implementer of the plan is Hu Yiwei, a secret external organization that Zhao Dan has just formed.

However, this matter can be said to be an absolute secret of Zhao Guo, and few people know about it, for the time being, Pang Xuan is not qualified to know about this matter, and Zhao Dan naturally will not say it.

After everything was agreed, Pang Xuan naturally retired and went back to prepare for the envoy to Yan Kingdom.

After sending Pang Xuan away, Zhao Dan also let out a long breath. So far, Zhao Dan has been constantly conceiving and perfecting the plan since the beginning of the crossing, and basically has a rough framework, which is gradually taking shape.

Speaking of which, Zhao Dan is also very painful, after all, he was a small civil servant in his previous life, he didn't know anything about cement explosives, cannons, etc., and he didn't understand anything about metallurgical cast iron, except for a saddle stirrup with no technical content, he couldn't make anything out, which was very painful.

But is it true that only Pantech can defeat the natives? Zhao Dan thinks it may not be. In many cases, people tend to overlook the power of knowledge.

Li Shimin, a generation of Ming monarch Tang Taizong, once said: "Taking the ancient as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall." As a visitor two thousand years later, Zhao Dan's biggest reliance is this "ancient mirror".

Qin Wangji and Fan Sui are certainly a generation of wise and virtuous ministers, but can they know their future fate? Zhao Danneng. Will they be able to know what was wrong with Qin's system and why Qin eventually fell? Zhao Dan understands. Can they know that those people in this world will succeed and those will fail in the future? Zhao Dan also understands.

When it comes to personal talent, Zhao Dan may not be as good as Qin Wangji and Fan Sui, but when it comes to the things just mentioned, Zhao Dan from later generations is not bragging, and Qin Wangji and Fan Sui together definitely don't know as much as Zhao Dan.

Zhao Dan is not a traverser himself who is fighting against the Qin State, he is standing on the shoulders of the giants of the historians, thinkers, politicians and diplomats of the next two thousand years, relying on the systematic knowledge and theories that have been developed by this society for two thousand years, and is confronting the Qin State, a behemoth that wants to annex the world!

This serious asymmetry of information and knowledge between the two sides is Zhao Dan's only and biggest advantage!

As the saying goes, "When you get to a certain level, you'll slowly start to understand what real operations are." ”

Zhao Dan felt that with so many days of "micro-operation", he seemed to have gradually begun to touch some "operation" doorways.