Meng Yi had to admit that he still received the influence of later generations' evaluation of Qin Shi Huang's brutal and miserable life, so he was on guard everywhere.

In general, in addition to the powerful minister Lu Buwei, Yingzheng treats loyal and meritorious ministers quite well.

Compared with Qin Wang Yingzheng and Qin Zhaoxiang Wang Yingji, they were superior for a while. King Yingzheng of Qin gave Meng Fu great glory before and after his death, and Qin Zhaoxiang Wang Yingji made Bai Qi infamous and could not die well.

is also a master of high merit, why is Meng Fu so much better than Bai Qi?

Because Bai Qi is a native of Qin, his loyalty to Qin is unquestionable.

As for Meng Fu, he is actually a native of Qi State, and King Qin Zhaoxiang came to Qin State before he came to Qin State, and since then he has gradually grown up in Qin State and become a famous general who makes the enemy fearful. Although the foundation of Meng Fu is not as good as Bai Qi, in the end, he was able to go through the four dynasties of Qin Zhaoxiang, Qin Xiaowen, Qin Zhuangxiang to Qin Shi Huang, and after four dynasties, there must be a reason behind it, what is the reason? Because he is Meng Tian's grandfather, it is definitely not, the reason why Meng Fu taught Meng Wu, Meng Tian, Meng Yi and other children and grandchildren, but it is just a good way to teach, it is not the reason why he is highly skilled but not suspicious, and has not fallen through four dynasties, and the real reason comes from a small story. Before telling the story of Meng Qi, let's take a look at why Bai Qi was killed.

As we all know, after the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi wanted to take advantage of the hot iron to destroy Zhao, but King Qin Zhaoxiang did not agree with his opinion and issued an edict to withdraw the army. In the second year, King Qin Zhaoxiang ordered him to attack Zhao again, but Bai Qi thought that the best time to attack Zhao had passed, so he opposed the war on the grounds of illness, and refused to carry out the king's orders at the critical moment. This is beyond the scope of general policy debates, from the perspective of the monarchs of the Qin dynasty, they are basically still very enlightened, when discussing national policies, you can raise any opinions, even if they are very sharp, they will not be punished, but once a resolution is formed, you must implement it unconditionally.

Bai Qi's illness violated the king's taboo, what taboo? You are a sharp knife, but not an obedient one. A sharp knife can certainly kill people, but if you are disobedient and uncontrolled, you can also hurt yourself. In this way, Bai Qi couldn't stay even if he had great ability, so he ended up committing suicide.

And Meng Fu, who has the same excellent military talent and very powerful credit, his approach is different, even now, we can see that this person is very introverted, very scheming, and to what extent is scheming.

One year, when Fan Ju lost his fiefdom Runan from Korea, King Zhaoxiang of Qin asked him, "Are you sad to lose your fief?"

Fan Ju replied very generously: I was originally a poor boy who had nothing, and I was rewarded by the king to get wealth and fiefdom, and now I have lost it, just like I never had it back then, what is there to be sad about.

Although Fan Ju answered very decently, he was suspicious of the king, why should King Qin Zhaoxiang be suspicious of him?

Because King Qin Zhaoxiang thought to himself: As the monarch of a country, I am rich all over the world, and I will be sad and sleepless all night if I lose a piece of land, and now Fan Ju has lost such a large piece of fiefdom, but there is nothing at all, this is unreasonable, does he still hide it from me. The more I thought about it, the more I felt uneasy, so I found Meng Fu and instructed: The prime minister is not sad that he lost the biggest fief, I think there must be another hidden secret, you go and inquire about it for me.

So, Meng Fu went to Fan Ju's mansion, do you think Meng Fu would say, directly confronting the king's order? No, if you do this, you will not be a smart person, caught between the two for no reason, in a dilemma, his statement is very ingenious, as soon as he saw Fan Ju, he said: "I have been sad recently and want to commit suicide." ”

When Fan Ju heard this, he was very surprised, and hurriedly asked, "Why does the general have such thoughts?" ”

Meng Fu replied: "The king takes Your Excellency as a teacher, this is known to everyone in the world, I am Meng Fu, trusted by the king, and became the general of Qin, what does the general do, don't you just protect your family and defend the country, and solve some of the things that the king is worried about, now the weak South Korea actually dares to violate the majesty of Qin, and boldly take away Your Excellency's fiefdom, which is equivalent to a slap in the face of Qin, you say, Qin is insulted like this, do I still have the face to live." ”

Fan Ju is a smart person, and he immediately understood what Meng Yu meant, this is talking about himself, a vague reminder, some things can't be ignored, so he hurriedly replied: "I don't care about the fief anymore, how to recapture Runan, it's all entrusted to the general." ”

Since then, King Qin Zhaoxiang has understood, it turns out that your kid is a hypocrite, so whenever Fan Ju mentions Korea in the future, King Qin Zhaoxiang will think that this is Fan Ju thinking about how to regain his fiefdom, so he doesn't want to listen to it.

What does this story mean? The world is turbid, why do you need to be alone, why don't you go with the flow, so that you can have the opportunity to wash your feet happily by the river.

Sima Qian's historical records have a very high evaluation of Meng Fu, and Meng Wei has been an internal history, so the historical records say: Meng's Qin general, internal history Zhongxian.

Loyal and virtuous, and so scheming, can grasp the situation well, and use the situation to maximize the realization of their life value.

Confucius said: There is a way in the state, and dangerous words and deeds; There is no way to do it, and it is dangerous to say goodbye. To put it simply, the monarch is very wise, and he can say whatever he wants; The monarch is more confused, or more irritable, etc., it is appropriate to maintain an upright character, but it is necessary to pay attention to ways and means when speaking and doing things. Perhaps this is the real reason why Bai Qi was killed, and Meng Fu survived four dynasties.

At this moment, in addition to shouldering the heavy responsibility of stopping the "Dragon Slayer", Meng Yi also estimates the life and death of hundreds of members of the Meng family, and no one knows if he takes away the woman of King Yingzheng of Qin, will it make King Yingzheng of Qin lose control of his emotions, thus eradicating the Meng family, and then affecting the course of history.

In a word, difficult!

At the same time that Meng Yi was entangled, Qin Zhao's war situation underwent major changes.

In 235 B.C., King Zhao Mourning Xiang was very fond of the Empress Advocate who was born and deposed the virtuous prince Zhao Jia, who was born with his wife, and established Zhao Yan, who was a misbehaving, as the crown prince. In the winter of the same year, Zhao Yan, the king of Zhao, died, and was called King Zhao Mourning, and Zhao Yan, the prince of Zhao, succeeded to the throne.

Since the Battle of Changping, the national strength of the Zhao State has declined, and the monarchs have become more absurd and incompetent than the other, and they were finally destroyed by the Qin State. At this time, there was a prince Jia in Zhao State, who was the crown prince of Zhao Mourning King Xiang, although it was later abandoned, but after Handan City was captured by the Qin army, he gathered the remnants of Zhao State, went north to Dai County, overcame many difficulties, insisted on resisting Qin for six years, and sang a heroic hymn of heroic and poignant. There will be a wonderful plot in the future, so stay tuned!

Due to the fact that Zhao was attacked by Qin for decades, its national strength was exhausted. Although Zhao has famous generals, but people with a discerning eye know that there are only 4 counties left in Zhao now, except for Handan County, which is still relatively rich, and the remaining three northern counties are desolate, which has dragged down the little money and grain left in Zhao State. If it weren't for the fact that the State of Qi secretly supported a batch of money and grain, the State of Zhao at this time would probably have perished long ago.

The new king of Zhao, Zhao Qian, is also a mediocre and incompetent lord, appointing the traitor Guo Kai. And Guo Kai saw that Zhao Guo's rivers were declining, and he actually came up with the idea of secretly communicating with Qin State. According to historical records, Guo Kai is a native of Jinyang. At the end of the Warring States Period, Zhao Qian, the favorite minister of Zhao Wang, was born in Taiyuan Guo, and was the monarch of Zhao Yan, the king of Zhao Mourning, and Zhao Qian, the king of Zhao Youmiao. The slanderous rumors framed the famous generals Lian Po and Li Mu, which hastened the demise of the Zhao State. Enter the Qin State and worship as Shangqing. Later, he returned to Handan to carry his belongings and was killed by thieves along the way.

In 234 BC, the Qin general Huan Qi led a new army of 300,000 to attack the southern part of Zhao again, and the troops pointed directly at Yecheng, an important town in the south of Handan, and coerced Handan, the capital of Zhao.

Under the aggressive offensive of the Qin general Huan Qi, the general of the Zhao State could only defend Yecheng. At the same time, in order to consolidate Yecheng, he personally led the elite soldiers to guard Donggu Mountain outside Yecheng City.

The general of Qin, Huan Qi, was not in a hurry, but just built a trench and a camp between Yecheng and Donggu Mountain, making it look like he wanted to besiege 100,000 Zhao troops.

For a month, two months, and three months, the Qin army not only cut off the connection between Yecheng and Donggu Mountain, but also cut off the connection between Yecheng and the rear of Zhao.

Handan, Zhao State, the palace hall.

"The king, if you only defend and not attack, the pressure on the grain and grass in the rear of our country has increased greatly. On the other hand, Qin has two major granaries of Bashu and Hanzhong, and in the long run, I am afraid that it will repeat the mistakes of the Battle of Changping. Guo Kai, the minister of Zhao Guoquan, reminded Zhao Qian in a timely manner.

In the First Battle of Changping, 650,000 Zhao troops were surrounded. Daqin was trapped for two months, which made the Zhao army surrender. In that battle, Daqin invested more than one million troops in the army, and only then did it win the first battle of Changping. Before the war, the elite army of Qin had 600,000, while the elite army of Zhao had 450,000, and later the two sides successively recruited young and strong, resulting in the total strength of the Qin army reaching one million, and the total strength of Zhao also reaching 650,000. After two months of siege, the Zhao army was left with only 450,000 hungry and exhausted soldiers, while the Qin state also suffered more than 200,000 casualties. In order to completely weaken the military strength of the Zhao State, the general of the Qin State simply killed more than 400,000 Zhao troops.

"But there are 300,000 people in Qin, so you can't let Hu Yu hit a stone with an egg, right?" Although the new Zhao King Zhao Qian has no ability, he still understands the truth that "it is often difficult to win more with less".

"The king's words are wrong, the Qin army has been stationed between Yecheng and Donggu Mountain for a long time, and the transportation of grain and grass is more difficult than our Zhao State, and Zhao State has more elite soldiers and strong generals, if the Qin army can be defeated under Yecheng, then Zhao State can get a chance to recuperate." Guo Kai, the minister of Zhao State, tried his best to keep his tongue and constantly bewitched the new Zhao King Zhao Qian.

"In this way, the widow ordered to find an opportunity to send troops, not to defeat the Qin army, as long as the Qin army was forced back, it would be a great achievement." Zhao Qian, the new king of Zhao, thought about it left and right, but still felt that he couldn't sit still: Anyway, the grain and grass are not enough, fight hard! Maybe there is another turnaround?

If Lian Po is still in Zhao State, he will definitely be disappointed, because this is a copy of the Battle of Changping back then! Food and grass are scarce, and they can't last long!

The traitor Guo Kai was also very happy at the moment, he was completely a mercenary and selfish villain, seeing that he couldn't get much benefit from being a courtier of Zhao State, he simply contacted Wang Ao, the minister of Qin State, secretly. received a heavy gift of tens of thousands of taels of gold from the Qin State, and the traitorous minister Guo Kai naturally betrayed the country to seek glory!