"Plains-kun?" As soon as Zhao Dan said this, all the ministers present showed surprised expressions.

This Zhao Sheng had just returned from Daliang not long ago, and now he was sent again? The king is not in the brain?

Among them, the most surprising was undoubtedly Zhao Sheng himself, who almost subconsciously excused himself: "King, the minister thinks that this person who made the Great Liang should discuss it again." ”

"Not necessarily." Zhao Dan shook his head, looking at Zhao Sheng with a bright look in his eyes, and his tone of voice was extremely affirmative: "The ability of the Plains Monarch is unknown to few people." Confucius said, 'If a person is not a sage, who can be without fault?' 'A few days ago, but the horse missed. Therefore, this time I went to Daliang, and the widow thought that the plain king would be able to succeed and live up to the trust of the widow! ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Sheng's heart was called a grateful cry, the frustration brought to him by the successive setbacks suddenly disappeared in his heart, and a voice shouted frantically in his heart: "King, still trust me!" ”

Zhao Sheng's face was solemn, and he bowed deeply to Zhao Dan: "Please rest assured that the king will do his best to live up to the king's trust!" ”

Seeing this, the other three ministers were also thoughtful: "It seems that although this Plains King has suffered a setback, his grace is still there." ”

Zhao Dan sat on the top and saw the faces of the ministers below.

Why Zhao Sheng? There are two main reasons for this.

First of all, Zhao Dan thought about it and felt that if he wanted to solve the problem of Wei, it was basically impossible to find foreign aid, and he could only solve it from within Wei.

And the most likely and most capable candidate to help Zhao within Wei is undoubtedly Zhao Sheng's brother-in-law, Xinling Jun Wei Wuji.

Wei Wuji is a person, whether it is talent or strategy, he is undoubtedly a first-class existence today, but everyone will have their own weaknesses, through memory, Zhao Dan feels that Wei Wuji's weakness should be family affection.

This is a very affectionate person, especially for his loved ones.

In history, it was precisely because of the repeated urgent letters from Mrs. Pingyuan Jun and Wei Wuji's half-sister that there was a later Xinling Jun who rescued Zhao Poqin under the city of Handan.

And Zhao Sheng's failure in the last envoy was somewhat related to not playing this family card, so Zhao Dan thought about it, and still felt that letting Zhao Sheng envoy Wei was more certain than other people's envoys to Wei.

Secondly, this incident of Wei actually sounded the alarm for Zhao Dan.

After all, now is the end of the Warring States Period, the climax of the entire world of great contention, Zhao State is facing a hegemonic and powerful enemy like Qin State, and it is facing a combination of Ming monarchs and virtuous ministers like Qin Wangji and Fan Sui.

At such a time, if a mediocre person occupies the position of Zhao State's prime minister, this can only play a negative role for Zhao Dan and Zhao State.

So Zhao Dan changed his mind again, if Zhao Sheng couldn't succeed in convincing Wei this time, at least let Wei remain neutral, then Zhao Sheng's position as a prime minister would definitely have to be replaced.

In his position, he must seek his government! If Zhao Sheng is in the position of Xiangbang, but he can't make the slightest contribution to Zhao State at such a critical moment, then what does Zhao Dan want him to do?

To a certain extent, these successive events made the sense of urgency in Zhao Dan's heart even stronger.

The ministers of Zhao State present did not have as many thoughts as Zhao Dan, except for lamenting that Zhao Sheng really had a good birth, and that the king trusted Zhao Sheng so much, they did not have too many other ideas.

It stands to reason that this meeting should have ended here, but at this time, Lou Chang, one of the three giants of the Gong Clan faction, who had never been too presence, suddenly spoke: "King, the minister has a strategy, I don't know whether to talk about it or not." ”

Zhao Dan glanced at Lou Chang with some surprise, and said in his heart, is this guy going to do something? But Zhao Dan still said: "It's okay for the doctor to say. ”

Lou Chang coughed lightly, touched the beard under his chin, and a fine light flashed in his triangular eyes: "King, why don't you negotiate peace with the Qin State?" ”

"Peace?" As soon as Lou Chang said this, everyone was shocked.

Yu Xin frowned, and the first one jumped out to object: "Doctor Lou, doesn't Doctor Lou know that Zheng Zhufang has returned from Xianyang?" The Qin people are completely insincere, so how can we talk about peace? ”

For Yu Xin, it is difficult to accept peace negotiations. After all, Yu Xin finally said that he had moved the Chu State to send troops, so he naturally hoped that the Zhao and Chu coalition forces could break the Qin army, so Yu Xin's contribution as a messenger to persuade the King of Chu was naturally great. But once peace is negotiated, Yu Xin's credit will shrink.

Lou Chang was obviously prepared, and after hearing Yu Xin's words, he smiled and said, "Yu Qing doesn't know this time, and that time." Previously, my Zhao State was weak and difficult to be a Qin army, so the Qin people were unwilling to discuss peace. Now that I, Zhao, Chu and Qi are in full swing, their strength is stronger than that of Qin, and the strength and weakness have been transposed. Isn't this what Yu Qing once said? ”

When Lou Chang said this, Yu Xin opened his mouth, and suddenly found that it seemed a little difficult to refute.

Why is it so hard to refute? Because Lou Chang's proposition at this moment was exactly Yu Xin's suggestion to Zhao Dan before Zheng Zhu sent an envoy to the Qin State!

A few months ago, when Zhao Dan was about to send Zheng Zhu as an envoy to Qin, Yu Xin had fiercely opposed this suggestion.

At that time, Yu Xin said: "The king listened to the views of his ministers, and sent an envoy with a heavy treasure to marry Chu and Wei. If Zhao envoys enter Chu and Wei and are treated favorably, Qin will suspect that our three kingdoms will attack Qin together, and the Qin people will be afraid of it. In this way, it is possible to negotiate peace. ”

Although Zhao Dan, who had not been crossed at that time, did not take Yu Xin's suggestion, but sent Zheng Zhu to Xianyang to negotiate peace, and directly led to the passive situation of Zhao State in the ensuing state.

But even Yu Xin didn't expect that even if the king didn't take the suggestion at that time, after a while, things were still the same as he said before!

Moreover, what Yu Xin had envisioned before was just to reveal the rumors of the alliance of the Three Kingdoms to force the Qin State to seek peace, but now the situation is that the Chu army has directly sent troops to attack Nanyang County of the Qin State, and the situation is a few points better than Yu Xin imagined at that time!

Under such circumstances, forcing Qin to negotiate peace is no longer an impossible dream, but a fact that is very likely to be realized.

After all, the current army of Chu State is making trouble in Nanyang County of Qin State just like Sun Wukong got into the belly of Princess Iron Fan, and on the other hand, Qin State's possible attitude of helping Wei State and Yan State is quite ambiguous, at least for now, there is no open war against Zhao State, and the overall situation of Qin State is more passive than Zhao State.

When fighting a war could not achieve one's goals and might even make the situation worse, negotiating and stopping losses was something that Qin had no choice but had to do.

More importantly, if Zhao and Qin negotiate peace now, and use the Line of Actual Control between the two sides as the truce border, Zhao will have a big advantage.

Nowadays, almost all of the Shangdang County that Qin and Zhao are fighting for is located in the Taihang Mountain, so it is divided into three parts by the Taihang Mountain, which is a lofty mountain, which is the Beishang Party centered on Tunliu, the Xishang Party centered on Duanshi, and the Dongshang Party centered on Hyun's City on the Changping Battlefield.

The historical records record that "the Shangdang soldiers and civilians went to Zhao, and Lian Po accepted them" refers to the fact that the Korean soldiers and civilians of the Western Shangdang Party fled to the area controlled by the Dongshang Party Zhao, and then were accepted by the general of Zhao Guoda, Lian Po.

Among these three plots of land, the Beishang Party is now owned by the Zhao State, the Xishang Party is occupied by the Qin State, and the Changping part of the Dongshang Party is half of everyone.

If calculated in terms of area, since Zhao's Beishang Party was larger than Qin's Xishang Party, Zhao actually controlled 55% of Shangdang County's land, while Qin controlled 45% of the land.

Zhao Guo has fought in the battle of Shangdang until now, and the casualties paid are about 40,000 to 50,000 people, which is a lot less, but it is not too much.

And what about the state of Qin? Qin began to attack South Korea five years ago in an attempt to conspire against Shangdang, and as a result, after five years of hard fighting, it cost more than 100,000 people, several times the number of casualties of Zhao State, to occupy less than half of Shangdang County!

This is the reason why Qin Wangji wanted to make such a big move and fight with Zhao in Changping with the strength of the country. I, the Qin Kingdom, fought for life and death, and finally won the victory, and I am looking at you, Zhao Guo came to pick peaches, how can there be such a good thing in the world? If I don't teach you a hard lesson, you don't even know how to write a typo!

In the last peace, the bottom line that Zhao Dan gave to Zheng Zhu at that time was that the Beishang Party must be kept, and the Xishang Party and the Dongshang Party could be given to the Qin people.

But now the situation is different, because Zhao State has a temporary advantage in the overall situation, so it is completely reasonable to keep the 55% of the territory of Shangdang County that it currently occupies, and even go further, ask the Qin army to withdraw from Dongshangdang, and assign nearly 70% of the Shangdang County in the east and north to Zhao!

In this way, Zhao Guo will definitely make a lot of money.

So Lou Chang's proposal seems to be a bit at first sound, but if you think about it carefully, it seems to be not bad.

The hall fell silent again for a while, and everyone turned their eyes to Zhao Dan, who was at the top.

Due to the wise decisions made these days, Zhao Dan's prestige in the hearts of these ministers has been greatly enhanced, and now he has the weight of being able to "decide in one word".

And, or discord?

It's all in Zhao Dan's thoughts.