"This battle is only to seize the territory of the Yan Kingdom, not to destroy the Yan Kingdom."

"And in recent years, my country has repeatedly shown favor to Qin, and the King of Qin has stayed in Zhao for several years, and he has a bad relationship with many Zhao people, how can he attack Zhao!"

"The matter of helping Wei Fayan has been decided, you have to say more!"

In the face of Zhao Jia's bitter advice, Zhao Yan couldn't listen to it at all, and he didn't give Zhao Jia a chance to continue the advice, so he brushed his sleeves away.

"Father!"

Zhao Jia chased after him, wanting to know with reason and move with emotion.

"The envoys of Wei are here, how can you be presumptuous, and you don't retreat quickly!"

Zhao Yan has never liked his eldest son, but Zhao Jia's sharpness in the past few years made Zhao Yan feel the crisis and regarded him as a potential enemy.

Mo said that Zhao Yan did not think that the Qin State would send troops to attack Zhao at this time, and even if he really had doubts, he probably would not adopt Zhao Jia's suggestion.

In the face of Zhao Yan's reprimand, although Zhao Jia was full of anger, the other party was his father after all.

Even if there is no trace of affection between father and son, Zhao Jia cannot disobey his father's orders, otherwise his reputation will be ruined, and there will be no future.

Forcibly holding back the anger and anxiety in his heart, Zhao Jia frowned for a long time, and finally walked towards the inner hall.

In the inner hall of the palace, in the most luxurious bedroom, King Zhao was lying on the bed, his face was a little pale.

Today's King Zhao is getting worse and worse, and he doesn't even have much energy to deal with government affairs, which makes Zhao Yan govern.

It's just that Zhao Dan is the king of Zhao after all.

If Zhao Jia can convince King Zhao, even if Zhao Yan is unwilling in his heart, he can only obey the king's name.

"Qian'er, you are well-behaved and filial, and you often come to see the widow, but what reward do you want!"

King Zhao looked at Zhao Qian, who was standing beside him, with appreciation in his eyes, obviously extremely satisfied with his grandson.

"A grandson should be filial to the king's father, and the grandson has only done his duty, how dare he ask the king's father for a reward."

In a few years, Zhao Qian, who was once arrogant and domineering, has also changed slightly.

Especially in the past years, Zhao Qian was slapped in the face by Zhao Jia on the street, and saw that Zhao Jia began to show his sharpness and marry the princess of Chu State, Zhao Qian also began to slowly restrain his domineering character.

At the suggestion of his mother Li Ji, Zhao Qian not only tried his best to curry favor with Zhao Yan, but also visited King Zhao every once in a while.

At the beginning, King Zhao was busy with government affairs, and he was still a little impatient with Zhao Qian's visit.

Since King Zhao's health became worse and worse, and he handed over government affairs to Zhao Yan to deal with, he didn't seem to hate Zhao Qian so much.

"You kid, you're sensible!"

A smile appeared on King Zhao's face, and he waved his hand to signal Zhao Qian to sit on the bed.

"By the way, what has Brother Ru Jia been busy with lately, he seems to have entered the palace less and less."

King Zhao remembered Zhao Jia, who was heroic in the past, and asked.

When Zhao Qian heard this, he sighed deeply, and then said with some concern: "Since my brother married the princess of Chu State, he has been obsessed with beauty and obscene skills, and he rarely even enters the court to share his father's worries. ”

"During this time, my brother has always been busy with that Tianxianglou and the craftsmen he recruited."

When King Zhao heard this, the smile on his face gradually converged.

Originally, King Zhao attached great importance to Zhao Jia, and felt that his eldest grandson would definitely become a generation of Ming Jun in the future.

It's a pity that in recent years, Zhao Jia has opened Tianxiang Building, recruited all kinds of low-level people, and enclosed land to study messy things, which also makes King Zhao quite unhappy.

In King Zhao's view, those are all things that only inferior people do, and like Zhao Jia's noble status, he should be more involved in the government and share worries for the country, rather than being discouraged by playthings and making friends with some messy people.

"The king, Gongzi Jia asks to see you."

At this moment, the eunuch stepped forward and whispered to King Zhao.

Zhao Qian, who was sitting next to him, heard this, his face changed slightly, but he quickly returned to normal.

"Let him in."

King Zhao was obviously a little surprised, but he quickly calmed down and gave an order to the eunuch.

Zhao Jia followed the eunuch into the house, and when he saw King Zhao and Zhao Qian, his brows furrowed slightly.

"I've seen my brother!"

As soon as he was about to salute King Zhao, he saw Zhao Qian get up from the bed, walk in front of him, and salute very respectfully.

Zhao Jia's eyes narrowed slightly, and a smile quickly appeared on his face, and he stepped forward to grab Zhao Qian's arm.

"I haven't seen you for a few days, and I miss my brother very much."

Both brothers were smiling on their faces, but they both had indifference in their eyes, and they were extremely tired in their hearts, and they didn't want to be polite to each other.

However, in front of King Zhao, no matter how discordant the two brothers are, they still have to pretend to be brothers, friends and brothers.

After the greetings, Zhao Jia came to King Zhao and saluted solemnly: "Grandson to meet the royal father!" ”

King Zhao sat up from the bed, waved his hand, and said, "Jia'er entered the palace this time to see the widow, what happened?" ”

Listening to King Zhao's tone, Zhao Jia secretly screamed badly.

He quickly came to his senses, with a look of concern on his face, and said: "Grandson heard that the royal father was not in good health, so he deliberately let Tianxianglou collect elixirs in the countries at a great cost, and wanted to regulate his body for the royal father. ”

"The grandson has already asked the medicinal herbs to be handed over to the medical officer, and they will dispense the medicine according to the royal father's body."

"The grandson came here to ask the royal father if he had anything he liked to eat, and no matter what the royal father wanted to eat, the grandson would find it for the royal father at any cost."

When King Zhao heard this, his originally tense face suddenly softened, and a slight smile appeared in his eyes.

"You kid, you have a heart."

"However, the state affairs are difficult, and you have grown up, so you naturally have to share more worries about your father and pay more attention to the affairs of the court."

"The widow's body knows in his heart, no matter how good the medicine is, it will not have much effect."

Speaking of this, King Zhao's tone was obviously a little lonely.

Zhao Jia stepped forward and grabbed King Zhao's hands, and said with some emotion: "The royal father will definitely be able to live a long life, and the Zhao Kingdom will also be able to inherit it for all generations." ”

"I hope so."

The smile in King Zhao's eyes grew thicker and thicker.

Obviously, although what Zhao Jia said was impossible to achieve, it also happened to be on King Zhao's heart.

His own body and the future of Zhao Guo are exactly what King Zhao values most.

"Brother, the royal father's health will naturally get better, but if the elder brother has time, he should also come to see the royal father more, the royal father can always think about you."

"If you are really busy with the restaurant business, you might as well tell the foolish brother, and the foolish brother will naturally replace the elder brother and visit the royal father twice."

Zhao Qian saw that the two of them were getting more and more harmonious as they chatted, so he immediately walked over and said with a chuckle.

Zhao Jia's eyes narrowed slightly, but he didn't want to continue to intrigue with Zhao Qian, and his face became serious.

"Does the royal father know that Wei invited our country to fight against Yan State?"

King Zhao bowed his head: "I have heard of it." ”

Zhao Jia said cautiously: "In the past, the nations could not succeed in dividing Yan, but what about Zhao and Wei? ”

"According to Sun Er's opinion, Zhao's great enemy is Qin Ye, and it is not appropriate to continue to send troops to Yan State at this time, otherwise the country will be empty, and it is likely to invite Qin State to attack."

King Zhao didn't answer, so Zhao Qian smiled and said, "Brother's words are wrong. ”

"In the past, the countries were divided into Yan, and the Qin State could not sit idly by and watch the Yan State perish, but now that Zhao and Wei have only captured a few cities, how can they anger the Qin State?"

"And the Qin State is strong, and my Zhao State is inferior now, when the words are the mainstay, how can they be regarded as a great enemy before they have the ability to compete with it, so wouldn't it be self-inflicted?"

"In the past, the royal father sent someone to send Qin Guo's love Ji and heirs back to Qin, and he has formed a friendship with the King of Qin.

"On the contrary, if the current Zhao State wants to grow, attacking the Yan State is the best choice, only after the Zhao State is strong, can it really compete with the Qin State, and it will be a shame for the snow to be peaceful!"

Listening to Zhao Qian's clear and well-founded remarks, King Zhao also bowed slightly.

"Jia'er doesn't need to worry about the Qin State."

"After the end of the Battle of Handan, Zhao repeatedly showed favor to Qin, and now the King of Qin has a deep relationship with Zhao, and even the princess of Qin is also a Zhao person."

"With the current relationship between Qin and Zhao, if Zhao only captures a few Yan Kingdom cities, how can Qin State send troops to attack Zhao?"

"And Jia'er, don't forget, you married the princess of Chu, and Zhao and Chu have formed a real alliance, how can Qin take the risk of attacking Zhao at this time!"

The Battle of Changping, although the Zhao people were extremely hostile to the Qin State, also planted the seeds of fear in their hearts.

After the Battle of Handan, from the king of Zhao and the ministers of the court and the central government, to the generals in the army, they actually knew the gap between Qin and Zhao, and did not dare to start the war between the two countries.

This also prompted the Zhao court to treat the Qin State very ambiguously.

A certain incident in history is very interesting: Zhao attacked Yan, Yan sent an envoy to Qin for help, but the envoy was caught when he passed through Zhao, and the king of Zhao wanted to detain the envoy.

The envoy said: "The king's attack on Yan is a matter of Zhao and Yan, and I am an envoy to Qin, but it is a matter of Yan and Qin." ”

"If the king detains me, it will detain the envoy who rushed to the Qin State, which will cause a rift in the intimate relationship between the Qin State and the Zhao State."

When the king of Zhao heard the words of the envoy of Yan, he let the envoy of Yan go, and as a result, the envoy of Yan said that he would send troops from Qin to attack Zhao.

It can also be seen from this that Zhao not only feared Qin, but also thought that after Zhao was friendly to Qin, Qin would not abandon Zhao and favor Yan.

It was this superficial short-sighted gaze that made Zhao Guo humiliated by Qin.

At this time, King Zhao and Zhao Qian were holding such a mentality.

Zhao Jia looked at King Zhao, who was optimistic, but his fiery heart was half cold, he didn't expect that Zhao Guo, who had experienced the defeat of Changping, had not seen the face of Qin Guo clearly, and he still hoped that goodwill and groveling would be able to obtain the peace of Qin.

But they forgot that Qin Guo is a tiger and wolf, as long as they find an opportunity, no matter who the opponent is, they will pounce on it and bite it hard.

The so-called goodwill and allies, as long as they touch the vital interests of the Qin State, can be trampled on without hesitation at any time.

Zhao Jia also seemed to understand why the countries had repeatedly joined forces to attack Qin, but they all ended in failure.

It's not that the countries are not strong, but they haven't deeply realized how terrifying the Qin State is, and some countries may even be shaken with luck when they face the promises made by the Qin State.