Hou Sheng thought of one thing wrong, that is, in fact, it was not Tian Yan who advocated the war this time, but Qi Wangjian's mother, the queen.

There are not many people who can influence Qi Wangjian's decision-making, and the most influential of them is undoubtedly Qin Wangji's biological mother and Hou Sheng's sister Junwang.

The reason why Hou Sheng ignored the queen, his own sister, is also very simple, that is, the queen is sick.

What disease?

Cold.

Don't look at it as just a small wind chill, but in ancient times, this disease was not very easy to treat.

The queen was bedridden for a month, and had not been seen for a long time.

It is precisely because of this that Hou Sheng did not expect that just after he went to Handan, the queen's wind and cold finally slowly improved.

If this is only the case, then the empress dowager of the Qi State should obviously only recuperate in the deep palace.

After all, the queen herself is not a person who loves power, and the power that should be handed over has already been handed over to Qi Wangjian, and she will not inquire about any Qi court.

On the other hand, as a filial son, Qi Wangjian naturally would not tell the queen about these bad news.

After all, the queen mother has just come back from the ghost gate, and it is obviously too much to talk about these unhappy things to the queen mother.

Of course, there are also some selfish intentions of Qi Wangjian, after all, Qi Wangjian knows very well that his mother has always advocated war against Zhao State, and now Qi Wangjian's policy of seeking peace with Zhao State is known by his own mother, then it will inevitably make some waves.

But obviously, the ministers of the main battle faction in the court of Qi are also very clear about this.

Therefore, after finding out that the queen had woken up, these ministers of the main battle faction of the Qi country naturally immediately tried their best, and finally passed the message to the queen on the sickbed.

So what should have happened happened naturally, the queen was furious when she learned about the war, and directly summoned Qi Wangjian to the bed and scolded her, and then there was a second letter from Qi Wangjian that made Housheng depressed.

In the final analysis, it is a sentence - nine times out of ten, things are not going as expected in the world.

This sentence is actually very applicable to Zhao Zhu in Xianyang Palace.

"The Yiqu people are rioting again?" As soon as Zhao Zhu heard the news, he couldn't help but rub his temples, obviously having a headache.

Since the mourning period has not yet ended, Zhao Zhu is still the "regent" as the crown prince of Qin.

But whether it was Zhao Zhu himself or the other Qin ministers present, it was obvious that they had already treated Zhao Zhu as the future monarch of Qin.

As long as it takes another month or two, wait for the first anniversary of the funeral of Qin Wangji, who is nicknamed "King Qin Zhaoxiang", Zhao Zhu can officially succeed to the throne through a ceremony and become the new monarch of Qin - Qin Wangzhu.

The things that this Qin Wangzhu had to face were obviously a lot more troublesome than Qin Wangji when he had just succeeded to the throne.

Although Qin Wangji was young at that time, he had his uncle Wei Ran on the outside, and his mother Empress Dowager Xuan's eight sons on the inside, and the Qin State at that time was still in the ascending channel of a country.

Although there are difficulties, the future is indeed optimistic and bright.

But now that Zhao Zhu has taken over this Qin State from Qin Wangji, it is completely different.

In the past few years, the Qin state has not only suffered defeats one after another, but also lost a large number of young people and land, which has caused the people's hearts to fluctuate in the entire country, and the authority and rule of the Qin royal family have begun to show faint signs of wavering.

This can be seen from the fact that the Yiqu people, who had been in peace for many years, began to riot again.

Yiqu, or Yiqu Rong, originally belonged to a branch of the northern nomads like Lin Hu and Lou Fu, and established its own country, the Yiqu State.

In history, the entanglement between the Yiqu State and the Qin State was very complicated, the two sides fought for hundreds of years, and there were times when they had the upper hand, and in the end it was the Qin State that came from behind, conquered a large territory of Yiqu, and forced the Yiqu State to submit to the Qin State.

Later, Qin Wangji's mother, the Empress Dowager Xuan, had an affair with the then King of Yiqu and gave birth to two children.

Finally, in 272 BC, King Yiqu and his two children were murdered by their wife and mother, Empress Dowager Xuan, and Qin Wangji, and Qin took the opportunity to completely annex Yiqu.

A full sixteen years have passed since then.

Although the Qin State implemented a very strict rule over the hometown of Yiqu, the Yiqu people have been established for nearly a thousand years and already have their own culture and traditions, so how can they be assimilated in just fifteen years?

The rebellion of the Yiqu people is inevitable.

It's just that at the beginning, the Qin State was strong, and even a few rebellions of the Yiqu people were easily extinguished, so the Yiqu people were also settled for a few years.

But in the past few years, the Qin State has been defeated in successive battles in the face of the Zhao State, especially in the first battle last year, Li Mu led a large number of Zhao cavalry from Yiqu's hometown to the south to attack Guanzhong, which greatly touched the Yiqu people.

Since that time, the Yiqu people once again had the idea of recovering the country, and finally chose to launch it brazenly at this time of this year.

Zhao Zhu slowly flipped through the information in front of him, and couldn't help but have a sneer on the corner of his mouth when he looked at it: "Enough weapons, eliminated armor, and even some crossbows?" Hey, who will tell me where the Yiqu people got these things, could it be that there are still such dereliction of duty among my Great Qin? ”

In the end, Zhao Zhu, who has always been gentle, is already full of voice, and he will cut people if he disagrees.

It's no wonder that Zhao Zhu lost his temper, after the Yiqu people were together, they immediately formed a thousand-person army with weapons, armor and even crossbows, and in just a few days, they captured the two county towns of the Qin State in a row, and now most of the upper counties of the Qin State have fallen into the smoke of the uprising of the Yiqu people, how can Zhao Zhu not be angry?

Without these armor weapons and crossbows, the rebellion of the Yiqu people would certainly not have grown to the point it is now.

Yangquan Jun Mi Chen on the side said: "An Guojun, it has now been ascertained that these weapons are all flowing from Dingxi City and Zhenbei City."

Zhao Zhu's face stiffened slightly, and after a while, he showed a wry smile: "Are there two counties in Zhao Guohetao...... Hey, this Zhao Wangdan, it's really a good time to choose! Come on, pass on the widow's order, immediately let Sima Jin lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to Shangjun to quell the chaos, and anyone who rebels with Yiqu will be killed! ”

For these rebellious ministers and thieves, Zhao Zhu will not have the slightest politeness and want to restore the country? You and the other Yiqu people are not from Zhongshan, and Daqin is not from Wei!

Zhao Zhu's decision was adopted without any objection.

But there is another issue to be resolved, that is, now that Zhao has officially started a war with Qi and Wei, what should Qin do?

Regarding this question, Zhao Zhu waved his hand angrily: "According to the previous statement, I will order Wang Ling to lead 10,000 troops to the opposite side of Pujindu and contain the people of Zhao Guo!" As long as the people of Zhao are not stupid, then they will not think that I will attack Hedong County with this force of 10,000 people! Alright, I'm tired, that's all for today! ”

Zhao Zhu stood up after throwing off these words, and walked towards the back of the hall with a little shaky footsteps.

For some reason, Zhao Zhu recently found that he seemed to have some problems with his body, which had never happened before, such as dizziness and dizziness, such as falling inexplicably.

Maybe it's just because he's old. The prince of Qin, who had not yet officially succeeded to the throne, comforted himself in his heart.

It must be like this.