Chapter 033: Reminiscing about the past
"The old slave knows simply, fifteen years ago, Chu and Qin joined forces to send troops to fight Qi first, and then to fight my Zhao and South Korea, Chu and Qin are powerful, and there are many generals, no matter which country can resist their attack, and then it was my Zhao Emperor who united the remaining four countries and formed a five-nation alliance, which resisted the footsteps of Chu and Qin's conquest."
"I still remember the Seven Kingdoms War fifteen years ago, and I still remember what happened, when the Great Zhou Empire had fallen, and many forces in various places fought against each other, and finally left the current Seven Kingdoms. However, the war has not stopped, Qin and Chu formed an alliance and continued to wage war, my Zhao State and Qi State two emperors personally led troops to fight with Chu in the south, fought for more than a year, after thousands of hardships, and finally although they repelled the Chu army, but my father and the then Qi Emperor were both killed, and the Qin State in the north was a country at the same time against the Wei, Yan and Han three kingdoms alliance, the three countries fought a country or fought for two years to win the Qin army, this is still in the case of the Qin general Bai Qi was recalled by the Qin Emperor to win, you can think of how powerful the Qin State was at that time, Wei Yan and Han three kingdoms are also heavy losses, Wei Huang returned to Wei soon after, was his own brother took the opportunity to seize the throne, Han Huang was seriously injured, not long after returning to the west of the crane, Yan Huang returned to Yan safely, but after the war with Qin, the elite of Yan disappeared, the national strength was greatly damaged, resulting in Yan for many years can not help the Xiongnu, and so on the younger generation of the Yan army finally grew up, the national strength recovered slightly, but not long ago in a big battle with the Xiongnu, was killed by the Xiongnu 120,000 soldiers, This time, if Zhao State does not send troops to help them resist the Xiongnu, I really don't know if Emperor Yan and his Yan Kingdom will be able to survive it. ”
"Your Majesty, in recent years, there have been frequent wars between our country and the Yan Kingdom, could it be that Chu and Qin are supporting the Xiongnu and Western Xia behind their backs? Could it be that Chu and Qin are ready to join forces to attack us again? ”
"I don't know if it's now, so I asked the people of the Inspectorate to check it out, after the Great War that year, the Qin State also greatly reduced its national strength and lost its position as the head of the Seven Kingdoms, although the Chu State was defeated by my Zhao State and the Qi State Alliance, but it did not suffer much loss, and the national strength is still strong, and later it took over the Qin State and became the most powerful country in the Seven Kingdoms, but for some reason, it was also after that war, although the Chu State became more and more powerful, it did not launch a war in the following years, but frequently warned other countries to coexist peacefully, Jointly resisting the Xiongnu and the Turks, claiming that the Seven Kingdoms were originally one family, and the surrounding aliens were the real enemies of everyone, this behavior is really incomprehensible, and I didn't understand what the Chu State was plotting. ”
"The old slave is incompetent, the old slave is stupid, and he can't share the emperor's worries"
"I have been on the throne for many years, and I know that my ability is limited, so I have never thought about expanding the territory, I just want Zhao to have no war, develop the national strength well, and let the people live a good life, but in recent years, wars have broken out frequently, and the war seems to be coming again, alas, troubled times."
"The emperor cares about the people, which is really a blessing for the people of my Zhao country."
Emperor Zhao glared at Li Ying and said, "You old thing knows how to slap horses, and you will tell me what is good."
"By the way, what has happened to the Turks recently, have you checked the people from the Inspection Division? Is there any war between them and the Qi State? ”
"Back to the emperor, since the Qi State defeated the Turks three years ago, the Turks have not dared to enter the territory of the Qi State for several years to plunder,"
"Really? This Qi Emperor is really powerful, I remember that he seems to be about the same age as Wu'er, right? Sure enough, it was a hero out of a young man, I still remember, when the old Emperor Qi died in battle, he was only three years old when he ascended the throne, and he was still young, at that time, the Qi State was in the hands of his two uncles, and all the big and small things of the Qi State were decided by his uncle, he was like a puppet ornament, I never thought that when he was only twelve years old, he would take back the military and government back into his hands step by step, it was really not simple."
"Old slave Jue, Emperor Qi is still a little worse than the emperor, and Emperor Qi is also thanks to the help of his sister who can fight well, so he was able to regain the military and political power of Qi at a young age."
"You old thing, I said that you should be less sloppy, why don't you listen?" Emperor Zhao smiled at Li Ying and scolded, "If I'm not mistaken, Emperor Qi's sister seems to be called Qi Xuan, right?" ”
Li Ying nodded, and Emperor Zhao continued: "I still remember when she was young, I saw her once, and when I saw her beautiful and beautiful, I praised her, and her uncle was going to make a marriage contract with me for her and Zhao Wen after hearing this, who knows, after Emperor Qi took back power from his uncle, he directly broke this marriage contract with me, and it was really a resounding slap in the face to me at that time, hehe"
"Your Majesty, it will be your birthday in two months, the old slave heard that Emperor Qi would let his sister come to Zhao Du on his behalf to convey blessings to you, if this is the case, then the emperor will be able to see her again."
Zhao Huang smiled, "Time flies, it's fleeting, the children of the year are now grown up, and I'm also old" Zhao Huang actually coughed a few times violently when he said this.
When Li Ying saw this, he hurriedly ran to Emperor Zhao and patted him on the back with his hand and said, "Your Majesty, let's call the imperial doctor to come and see you again?" ”
Zhao Huang waved his hand, coughed a few times in a row before stopping, and the whole person's face also changed: "No need, it's an old problem anyway, let them look like this"
After that, he looked at Li Ying and continued: "Alas, I am really old, this body is not as good as day by day, and now I am very tired after a while, you have been serving me for so many years, and you are also old."
"Your Majesty, the slave is old, you are not old, you still have to ......"
Emperor Zhao directly interrupted Li Ying with a wave of his hand, and then said: "It seems that it is time to choose someone to sit on the throne of this prince."
At this moment, a eunuch hurriedly ran in and knelt down to report back: "Your Majesty, Yan Guo is urgent"
"Submit it" When Emperor Zhao heard that it was Yan Guo's urgent report, his face instantly became serious.
Li Ying hurriedly took the report from the person who came and handed it to Emperor Zhao.
Emperor Zhao opened the report, and after reading it for a while, he closed the report, and then sighed deeply and said to Li Ying: "Emperor Yan sent someone to send an urgent report, saying that the Xiongnu sent an army of 180,000 troops to have begun a full-scale invasion of Yan, and Yan was powerless to resist. Alas, originally I still wanted to delay it, and I also wanted to see if Yan Guo could solve it by itself, after all, there would be casualties in the war, and I didn't want the soldiers of Zhao State to die in other countries, but now it seems that their situation is not optimistic."
"But if you don't send troops to aid him in time, don't say that you don't trust Emperor Yan, in case Yan is really destroyed this time, your lips are cold, and the next target of the Huns should be my Zhao State, and now there are frequent incidents in the West Xia, if the Huns come again, then my Zhao State will not be able to bear it."
Emperor Zhao walked back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, thinking about something, and muttering to himself: "The Huns sent 180,000 troops, 180,000."
And Li Ying stood motionless and waited.
Emperor Zhao walked back and forth in the room for a while and then asked Li Ying, "How many defenders are there in Yanyun City?" ”
"Back to the emperor, there are currently more than 35,000 soldiers in Yanyun City"
"You immediately draw up a will for me to send to Yanyun City, let Yanyun City first send 30,000 people north into the territory of Yan Kingdom, and then draw 20,000 people from Yudu City, a total of 50,000 troops into Yan Kingdom, to help Yan Kingdom resist the Xiongnu together"
"Your Majesty, Yanyun City is an important city in the north of my Zhao Kingdom, if another 30,000 troops are dispatched, then there will only be more than 5,000 defenders left in the city, and if Yanyun City is attacked by other countries again, I am afraid it will ......."
Emperor Zhao waved his hand to him: "Just do it according to my will, the top priority is to let the army enter the Yan State first, help the Yan State block the attack of the Huns, and never let the Huns capture Yandu, otherwise the Yan State will be destroyed, and my Zhao State will directly face the Huns in the future, which will be even more troublesome." ”
"I don't know who the emperor is going to send this time?"
Emperor Zhao thought for a while and said, "Lian Feng, send Lian Feng to go, isn't he still around there now?" You immediately send someone to tell him, let him first order the troops and horses in Yanyun City, and lead the troops into the territory of Yan Kingdom as soon as possible, as for finding out about their attack by the Huns this time, you send someone from your inspection department to help him investigate."
When Li Ying heard Emperor Zhao say this, he replied with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, the Inspection Department is currently investigating a lot of things, and now there are no more people to investigate this matter."
"Then put it there for the time being, you hurry up and expand the personnel of your patrol department"
"The old slave will receive the will, and the old slave will go to convey the will of the saints"
Emperor Zhao nodded at him: "Go ahead...... Wait"
As soon as Li Ying walked to the door, Emperor Zhao called out to him again, and Li Ying retreated back, "What else do you have to order, Your Majesty?" ”
"Isn't Zhao Kuo having nothing to do now? Seeing that he seems to have become interested in the affairs of the court when he returns this time, it just so happens that you are short of people here, and he can't always be idle as my son, so let's go to his will to preach my will later, just tell him that I will let him recruit some people, and in the future, the main thing is to assist your inspection department to investigate intelligence, well, if he can really be formed, the name of the department will be "Western Patrol Division", and you will change it to the Eastern Patrol Division in the future."
"Your Majesty, this... It seems that something is wrong," Li Ying said to Emperor Zhao with some embarrassment.
"Huh? What's wrong? ”
"Your Majesty, have you forgotten? Since the establishment of the Patrol Division, all the people in it are eunuchs, which makes the Fourth Highness come to form a Patrol Division again, which... Doesn't this make others think that the Fourth Highness is also a eunuch? In this way, the reputation of the Four Highnesses in the future can be. It affected it."
"You mean this, it's nothing, didn't I just say that? If he really sets it up for me, I will separate him from you, and I will let him not only recruit eunuchs."
"So the old slave went to convey the will of God."
After Li Ying went out, Emperor Zhao returned to his seat and sat down, picked up the pile of music on the table and looked at it, didn't look at it for a while, and shouted outside the door: "Come on, Xuan Lin is like Lian Po and enter the palace to see me." ”