Half an hour passed after leaving the Pingyuan Jun's mansion, and the hurried Mao Sui entered the palace city of Zhao State.

Walking alone in the Miyagi passage, Mao Sui's eyes fell to the ground, watching his shadow constantly change shape and direction in this firelight, so that Mao Sui's heart couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

As the successor of the eunuch Ling Miaoxian, the secret intelligence organization of the entire Zhao State, Hu Yiwei and Supervisor Wei are in the hands of Mao Sui, and it is precisely because of this that Mao Sui has the right to enter and leave the palace at any time.

However, because Mao Sui was not a eunuch himself, the places he walked in the court were quite limited, and even the routes had strict regulations.

After entering the palace, Mao Sui had to go directly to see Zhao Dan, and he could not stay anywhere for any reason, let alone enter and leave other palaces such as Fengtai, where the queen and many concubines were located.

Feeling the sights falling from time to time on the palace wall above his head, Mao Sui suddenly remembered one thing, that is, there was actually an unknown secret army in the hands of his own king.

This army is composed of dead soldiers selected from all over the Zhao State and deeply favored by the Zhao royal family for generations.

Mao Sui also knew that among these dead soldiers, in the past two years, there had begun to appear orphans from the orphan camp in Beidaying, most of those orphans were their fathers who died in the war, and at the same time, they could not be protected and adopted by the clan for various reasons, so they were taken in by the orphanage camp, or the Zhao royal family.

To put it bluntly, the lives of these guys are given by the king, and it is precisely because of this that their loyalty to the king is also the highest.

Speaking of which, maybe Zhao Dan's trust in these dead soldiers is higher than Mao Sui himself, right?

However, Mao Sui quickly came to his senses and laughed at himself, how could he compare himself with a group of dead soldiers? It's really not enough to fall.

With such a strange thought, Mao Sui slowly walked towards Longtai.

Zhao Dan is actually not a very fond of women, or that he is not as obsessed with women as many emperors in history, which can be seen from the fact that Zhao Dan has only married a Qin and pro-Lady of Qin since he ascended the throne for so many years.

Therefore, Zhao Dan did not stay in Fengtai every night, on the contrary, he stayed in his Longtai for at least half a month.

As soon as he walked to the long steps under the dragon platform, Mao Sui was unceremoniously stopped by several palace guards standing there.

"Who's coming?"

Mao Sui glanced at these palace guards and said, "Hu Yiwei, the chief manager, Mao Sui, has something important to ask to see the king. ”

"Show your belt." It's still hard words.

Mao Sui took out a waist card from his bosom and handed it to one of the palace guards.

The palace guard carefully examined the waist card for a while, and then took the waist card into the hands of another court guard.

The second palace guard also checked the waist card very carefully, and then the two looked at each other and nodded to each other in unison.

Then the second court guard turned around and walked up the stairs of the dragon platform with his waist card.

Mao Sui stood there quietly, without any expression on his face, obviously accustomed to such things.

A moment later, the palace guards returned, followed by several palace guards, led by the chief of the court guards of the Zhao State.

"Offended, Mr. Mao."

Several palace guards swarmed up and searched Mao Sui very carefully.

In fact, when he first entered the palace, Mao Sui had already undergone a body search, but this time the body search was even stricter than the last time.

After making sure that Mao Sui did not carry any dangerous goods that could be assassinated, the chief of the palace guard slowly spoke: "Chief Mao, please come with me." ”

By the time all of this had been done, a full quarter of an hour had passed.

Mao Sui walked into the palace and saw Zhao Dan sitting there in his regular clothes.

This made Mao Sui's heart a little surprised, because according to previous experience, Zhao Dan was often asleep at this time.

Mao Sui didn't dare to slack off, and saluted respectfully to the king in front of him: "The minister Mao Sui has seen the king." ”

Zhao Dan seemed to be thinking about something, the whole person was a little distracted, and he didn't notice Mao Sui's arrival at once, and it wasn't until Mao Sui opened his mouth to speak that Zhao Dan's eyes fell on Mao Sui's body.

"How's it going?" Zhao Dan's tone was very calm, as if he was asking for an ordinary order.

Mao Sui nodded and said, "Back to the king, the matter has been done." It looked like he had obviously been scared into the gods, and all the reactions were expected by the king. ”

"Was everything expected by the widow?" Zhao Dan couldn't help but laugh after hearing this, then sighed softly and said, "If the widow can really predict everything, then the rebellion of the Koreans will not cause such a big trouble." ”

Mao Sui hurriedly smiled at Zhao Dan and said: "King, haven't the Koreans apologized to the king now, and ceded the land to sue for peace?" ”

Zhao Dan shook his head, and did not continue to dwell on this matter, but carefully asked Mao Sui about the persuasion process of Duan Ganzi.

After asking the whole process several times, Zhao Dan finally nodded with satisfaction and said to Mao Sui: "This time it was very good." ”

Mao Sui bowed to Zhao Dan and said: "All this is the king's planning, the minister is just acting according to orders, how dare he take credit in front of the king?" ”

Zhao Dan shook his head and scolded with a smile: "This sycophant kung fu is getting better and better day by day. Okay, since everything has been planned, let's let the Wei State Branch cooperate with this operation. By the way, there shouldn't be any problems with the arrangement over there, right? If there is a problem, you should speak up as soon as possible and find a way to solve it, and don't wait until the end of the matter to rush and cause the whole project to fail, you know? ”

Mao Sui replied very respectfully: "Please rest assured, the people over there are all arranged in advance when the minister was in Wei a few years ago, and they are all a group of old people who have been lurking for about three years. They had been lurking for all these years and had never received any orders, for this operation. ”

Zhao Dan nodded and said, "Since this is the case, then arrange it as soon as possible, and you will be solely responsible for this matter." Remember, don't let any rumors go. ”

After Zhao Dan finished speaking, he took out a thing from his hand and put it in front of him.

It's half a small bronze statue, and it looks like a tiger talisman, but if you look at it with confidence, you'll see that the animal on it is actually a wolf.

The wolf talisman, the unique talisman of Hu Yiwei and the Supervision Guard, even Mao Sui, who is the head of Hu Yiwei, needs to use the wolf talisman to mobilize the most secret Hu Yiwei power when it comes to major matters.

Mao Sui showed an excited look on his face, respectfully took the wolf talisman, and then withdrew.

After Mao Sui retreated, only Zhao Dan was left in the entire hall.

But Zhao Dan didn't fall asleep immediately, but stared at the slightly shaking bronze palace lamp in front of him and was stunned.

After a long time, Zhao Dan sighed slowly.

"It's been five years......"

Speaking of which, this is the fifth year that Zhao Dan has traveled to this world.

Throughout the past five years, Zhao Dan feels that although he has indeed made great achievements, making Zhao the number one power in the world today, he is still far from his goal.

As a Chinese person from later generations, the idea of great unification has long been engraved in Zhao Dan's heart, and his desire for territory far exceeds that of everyone in this era.

But thinking back carefully over the past five years, Zhao Dan still has a feeling from time to time - too slow.

Zhao Guo's pace still seems to be too slow.

It is true that Qin Shi Huang in history launched the unification war after 25 years, and completely unified the entire Warring States Seven Heroes after 35 years, but don't forget that Qin Shi Huang and Zhao Dan are not the same age after all.

The current Qin Shi Huang is just a five-year-old child, but the current Zhao Dan is already over the age and is about to usher in his thirty-third birthday.

Even in terms of the lifespan of the next life, the age of 30 can be regarded as halfway through life.

If you use the time when Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries in history, Zhao Dan at that time was also sixty or seventy years old, and basically he was not far from death.

But don't forget, the unification of the Six Kingdoms is not just the end, Zhao Dan also needs to deal with the Xiongnu and other nomads in the north, and also wants to open up the Hexi Corridor to control the Western Regions, and also go south to conquer Dongyue, Minyue and many other mountainous Yue tribes, and bring the lands of Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Yunnan under the control of the central government.

In addition, Zhao Dan also hoped that he could conquer the Northeast, conquer Korea, strangle the future Goguryeo in its infancy, and let the people there become the subjects of China

There is also the Northeast, there is Tibet, there is the Mongolian Plateau known as Mobei, there is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, there is also Siberia, Central Asia, and even India......

If he could, Zhao Dan even hoped to start the prelude to China's outward colonization in this generation.

There are too many things to do, but Zhao Dan has too little time.

How many things are never in a hurry. The world is turning, and time is pressing. 10,000 years is too long, seize the day!

It is precisely because of this that after a long hesitation, Zhao Dan finally made up his mind.

It's time to speed up the process of unification.

It is precisely because of this that when Hu Yiwei submitted this plan against Wei Wangyu and Wei Guo, Zhao Dan thought about it for three whole days, and quietly solicited Zhao Sheng's opinion, and finally agreed to this plan.

You must know that Wei Wangyu is also the monarch of one country anyway, and Zhao Dan is the king of another country, but he wants to design to kill Wei Wangyu, if the whole thing is exposed, then Zhao Dan will become the target of the whole world, and Zhao will also become the public enemy of the world.

But Sun Wu has a very good saying, that is, "Soldiers, with the right fit, with the odd victory." ”

A man who is good at using soldiers not only needs upright strength to defeat the enemy, but also needs some weird, unknown, and even shady strategies to destroy the enemy and cause the enemy to collapse from within.

This is like the strategy used by Qin against Zhao in the Battle of Changping in history, or the strategy of Qin Shi Huang's continuous co-optation of Qi during the unification process to keep Qi neutral and watch the other states perish.

Even for example, the assassination of Zhao Dan a few years ago.

After five years of attempts, Zhao Dan finally determined one point, that is, if he blindly sought "righteousness", it would take at least another fifteen to twenty years to unify the six countries.

Zhao Dan couldn't wait that long.

Whether Zhao Dan likes it or not, whether he wants it or not, but, it's already time.

It's time for more "surprises".

Zhao Dan sat there quietly, and he didn't know how long it was, until it was already the dead of night, he suddenly stood up, came to the table and took a piece of paper, and then used a brush to write six big characters on this piece of paper.

"It's nothing more than a king and a loser."