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The next day, a messenger sent by Fengyang Jun Li Dui came to Zheng County and invited Storm Kite, Meng Zhong, Tian Touch, and Le Yi to go to the Zhao military camp, saying that they had important matters to discuss.

Regarding this matter, the violent kite said to Meng Zhong in private: "It seems that the Qin State can't sit still, so he sent an envoy to meet Li Dui again." …… Perhaps, Li Dui has reached some agreement with Qin State at this time. ”

Meng Zhong smiled slightly, but did not speak.

But in his heart, he echoed the speculation of the tyrannical kite.

Thinking about it, at this moment, Li Dui suddenly summoned the generals of all countries to Zhaoying to discuss what so-called major matters, and this is the only possibility, otherwise how could Li Dui suddenly summon several of their generals from various countries?

Subsequently, Storm Kite and Meng Zhong met with Tian Touch and Le Yi to confirm that they had been invited by Li Dui, and then the four of them temporarily handed over their troops to the deputy general, each with a team of guards, and slowly went to Zhao Ying.

Towards the end of the evening, the four of Storm Kite, Meng Zhong, Tian Touch, and Le Yi arrived at the Zhao camp about twenty or thirty miles south of the Yin and Jin Dynasties, and under the leadership of Zhao Shu, they came to Li Dui's tent - Li Dui personally greeted the four people outside the tent at that time.

After a few words of greeting, the violent kite asked Li Dui with a smile: "The Qin State has sent a messenger again?" ”

Probably because he noticed that Meng Zhong, Tian Touch, and Le Yi all glanced at him intentionally or unintentionally, Li Dui hesitated for a moment, and then nodded with a smile: "Yes, Qin Guo is very sincere this time, so the old man immediately sent someone to invite you to come here to discuss." …… Let's talk about it first. ”

"Qin Guo is very sincere this time?"

Meng Zhong secretly pondered Li Dui's words, and followed the violent kite into the tent, but as soon as he entered the tent, he caught a glimpse of a person sitting in the tent out of the corner of his eye.

He turned his head to take a look, and immediately his face changed slightly.

Wei Ran!

The envoy sent by the Qin State this time was actually Wei Ran! The minister of Qin, Marquis Wei Ran!

The storm kite also noticed Wei Ran, and watched Wei Ran stand up from his seat with a smile in a daze, and bowed to them with his hand.

At this time, Li Dui walked to Wei Ran's side and introduced Wei Ran to Storm Kite and the others with a smile: "This one, you must be all familiar with it, right?" …… Oh, Le Sima may not know, so the old man will introduce here, this is the minister of Western Qin, Wei Ran and Wei Xiang, who are known as the marquis. ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to Wei Ran and smiled, "Marquis, these people don't need to be introduced to you, right?" ”

"Hahahaha."

Wei Ran smiled, his smile was kind and gentle, which made people feel like a spring breeze.

I saw his gaze sweeping over Storm Kite, Meng Zhong and others one by one, and said with a smile: "The Storm Kite Storm General of Wei State, Yun Chengjun of Wei State, the Tentacle of Qi State, and Le Yi Le Da Sima of Yan State...... Wei Ran is polite here. ”

Seeing that Wei Ran took the initiative to salute, the four of Storm Kite, Meng Zhong, Tian Touch, and Le Yi also returned the salute one after another.

It is worth mentioning that during this period, these four people had different expressions, and Wei Ran also saw them in his eyes.

After saluting each other, everyone sat down in the tent, Li Dui was in the main seat, Wei Ran sat as a guest on the east side, and Storm Kite, Meng Zhong, Tian Touch, and Le Yi all sat on the west side in turn.

Seeing Wei Ran, who was looking at him with a smile, Meng Zhong was thoughtful.

Although when Li Dui sent someone to invite them to come, they had already guessed that it must be the Qin State that had sent a new envoy, but they never expected that it would be Wei Ran who came in person.

You must know that Wei Ran's status in the Qin State is not inferior to Tian Wen, who served as the prime minister in the Wei State, and it is even better.

Such a character came forward in person, on the one hand, it can be understood that the Qin State was indeed cornered by them, but on the other hand, Meng Zhong thought that he also had to be wary of this Wei Ran.

Meng Zhong still remembered that this Wei Ran had just repelled the invasion of the Qi army for the Song State on the front foot, and ran to Linzi, the capital of the Qi State, on the back foot, and presented the "Qin and Qi Emperor" strategy to the King of Qi, selling the Song State in disguise.

Although this is related to the refusal of Song Wangyan and Song Xianghui'an to turn their backs on Wei in the dispute between Qin and Wei, it is enough to prove that this Wei Ran is definitely a very decisive person, and he is ruthless - when Lord Zhao's father helped Gongzi Ji fight for the throne, it was Wei Ran who decisively led the army to kill Gongzi Zhuang and other nephews' competitors for the throne, and also expelled the queens of King Yingdang of Qin Wu to Wei, which can be described as both decisive and ruthless.

looked at Wei Ran, and then at Wei Ran, Meng Zhong secretly kept an eye on himself.

At this time, the Zhao soldiers summoned by Li Dui had already brought up all the wine and food prepared in advance.

After these Zhao pawns retreated, Li Dui smiled and said: "Yesterday, the Marquis of Qin came on behalf of the Qin State and expressed his intention to ask for peace to our coalition army, in order to show his sincerity, the Qin State is willing to take the initiative to hand over Yin Jin to the coalition army......

Hearing this, Storm Kite, Meng Zhong, Tian Touch, and Le Yi all changed their faces, and after each of them glanced at Wei Ran quietly, Storm Kite and Meng Zhong exchanged a look, and Tian Touch and Le Yi exchanged a look, but no one spoke rashly.

Probably noticing the stiffness of the atmosphere in the tent, Wei Ran smiled and nodded in agreement: "As Fengyangjun said, I came with full sincerity this time, and there is no malice at all. …… This heart can learn from the sun and the moon! ”

But the strange thing is that Storm Kite, Meng Zhong, Tian Touch, and Le Yi still have no one to pick up, and they all seem to be thinking about something.

Seeing this, Li Dui coughed, and said to himself a little abruptly: "Yesterday, the old man and the marquis have chatted a little, and after the persuasion of the old man, the marquis has promised to invite the king of Qin after going back, and ask the king of Qin to abolish the emperor's name......"

『…… Old fox.'"

After thinking about it, Storm Kite figured out the key to it, and secretly scolded Li Dui for his cunning in his heart.

Before he started, Meng Zhong was stunned for a moment, and he didn't react for a while.

It's no wonder, after all, he is a very pragmatic person, and he didn't come from the beginning in the name of "maintaining the orthodoxy of the Zhou royal family", he just wanted to take the opportunity to weaken the Qin State, which made Li Dui mention this matter at this moment, Meng Zhong suddenly realized: Oh, yes, there is this matter.

The rest of Tian Touch and Le Yi, Le Yi looked at his nose and mouth from beginning to end, his face was expressionless, and Tian Touch snorted coldly quietly, probably also mocking Li Dui.

After all, if the Qin State really abolished the emperor title, the people of the world must first think that it is the credit of Li Dui and the credit of the Zhao State, who made Li Dui the commander of this war against Qin?

And after Li Dui finished speaking, Wei Ran also lowered his posture and said with a gentle excuse: "If a few people are willing to stop the war, on behalf of our king, I am willing to give some compensation to all countries and you......"

Is that the time to talk about the conditions?

Exchanging a look with Meng Zhong, Storm Kite smiled and said, "As long as your country is willing to cede the land of Huakun and Hangu Pass, my South Korea can withdraw its troops." ”

『……』

Rao is Wei Ran had already guessed that Storm Kite, Meng Zhong and others would take the opportunity to open their mouths, and they were so angry by Storm Kite's words that they almost attacked.

He thought to himself, you said that you Korea, the thing that is at the bottom of the Three Jin Dynasty, and even the weak country that the current Song State may not be able to win, actually dares to put forward such excessive conditions to my Qin State?

Ceded the land of Huakun and Hangu Pass to you? Hey! If it weren't for the Wei State, the next year would have brought you to the fall of Korea!

I have to say that the Qin State has always been indifferent to South Korea, and the reason why the Qin State has not annexed Korea so far is mainly due to the Wei State, such as the Battle of Yique a few years ago, to put it bluntly, the Qin State wanted to try to annex Korea, but was resolutely prevented by the Wei State.

"Is this the condition of your country...... Anyway, I'll make a note first. ”

Wei Ran didn't have a seizure in the end, nodded with a smile, and then turned his head and asked Meng Zhongdao, "I don't know what about Yunchengjun?" Saying that, he didn't wait for Meng Zhong to speak, so he smiled and said again: "For the sake of my Great Qin to protect the Song Kingdom last year, the conditions proposed by Yun Chengjun should not be as harsh as the Great Sima of the Storm Kite, right?" ”

Seeing Wei Ran's words, Meng Zhong replied calmly: "As a Song person, I am very grateful to your country for your help to the Song country back then, if there is any pleading from your country in the future that does not involve the interests of the Wei country, I will definitely give a helping hand as appropriate." But today, as the general of the Wei State, he cannot disappoint the King of Wei and the trust of the subjects of the Wei State for his personal reasons, and I hope that the Marquis can give understanding. ”

"This Meng Zhong ......"

"Huh." Wei Ran smiled and nodded slightly, seemingly accepting Meng Zhong's explanation.

But in fact, from the bottom of my heart......

Hey, doesn't involve the interests of the Wei State?

As the biggest obstacle for Qin to set foot in the Central Plains, as long as Qin marched to the Central Plains, how could it be possible to bypass Wei?

Therefore, Meng Zhong's promise is the same as not saying it.

But Wei Ran still pretended to believe it, after all, maybe there would really be a time to use Meng Zhong's power in the future? Don't say no to everything, after all, the world is unpredictable.

At this time, Meng Zhong had also put forward his conditions: asking the Qin State to cede six cities in Hexi, including Heyang, Yuanli, Linjin, and Dali, which was initially estimated to be a piece of land nearly 200 miles in circumference.

I have to say that in terms of the lion's big mouth, Meng Zhong is not inferior to the violent kite.

But surprisingly, there was no anger in Wei Ran's heart at this moment, why? Because the other party is qualified to open this mouth!

The results of the coalition forces so far, conservatively speaking, Meng Zhong alone will account for eighty or ninety percent; And to exaggerate, his Qin State was completely defeated by Meng Zhong and the Five Nations Alliance under his command this time - yes, in Wei Ran's opinion, even if there were no Li Dui, Storm Kite, Tian Touch, and Le Yi, Meng Zhong could still do it, as long as he could fully control the more than 200,000 coalition troops under his command.

Even, thanks to the fact that there are Li Dui, Tian Touch, and Le Yi in the coalition army, otherwise, if Meng Zhong led more than 200,000 troops to obey his orders alone, and this guy had already broken through Xianyang of his Qin State, where was there any possibility of peace?

"Hehehe, Yun Chengjun is really loyal to King Wei, and he refuses to care about the old kindness at all......"

Shaking his head with a chuckle, Wei Ran turned his head to look at Tian Touch and Le Yi, and asked with a smile, "What about the two?" ”

I have to say that in fact, the most complicated mood in the tent at the moment is to count Tian Touch.

If it is said that now, Storm Kite and Meng Zhong are the 'main battle faction', and what they hope most is to continue to crusade against the Qin State, while Li Dui is the 'main peace faction', hoping to make peace with the Qin State as soon as possible, and is unwilling to be the helper of Wei and Han to weaken the Qin State, then Tian Touch is actually 'I can't wait for the Qin State and Wei and Han to fight the brains faction'.

Maybe even Li Dui was wrong, Li Dui thought that Tian Touch would support him and Qin Guoyan to make peace, but in fact, Tian Touch was actually more inclined to support Meng Zhong.

Just look at Tian Touch's actions in the past few days: when Meng Zhong put on a posture of wanting to attack Liyang and then threaten Xianyang, what was Tian Touch doing? He stationed all his troops in Zheng County, and several times vaguely reminded Meng Zhong to take Liyang, but Meng Zhong thought that it would be difficult to capture Liyang before winter, so he refused to continue to march.

This is the reason why the four armies of Wei, Han, Qi and Yan are all stationed in Zheng County in the near time, and only the Zhao army is stationed in Yin and Jin, and it is also the reason why Tian Touch did not say anything after Li Dui told Wei Ran's intention.

He actually did not support peace with Qin Guoyan, he hoped that this battle would continue, and it would be best to fight until Qin and Sanjin were both defeated.

The only concern he had about this was that the Qin State had not yet shown the strength that a strong country should have, and it was actually suppressed by Meng Zhong, so that Tian Feng was also a little worried in his heart, worried that the Qin State would not be defeated by Meng Zhong - just like Li Dui's concerns, if the Qin State weakened and the Wei State rose, it would not be a good thing for the Qi State.

Because of the above reasons, Tian Touch is also struggling at this time, struggling with what to do.

It was precisely because of the entanglement in his heart that when Wei Ran opened his mouth to ask him, Tian Touch actually didn't know the bottom in his heart, he first said a high-sounding word with righteousness, and then said that he wanted to ask for instructions in China, even Wei Ran didn't guess Tian Touch's true intentions, so that he secretly despised Tian Touch.

However, it was the condition proposed by Le Yi that made Wei Ran couldn't help but take a few more glances at this Yan Guo Grand Sima who was about the same age as Meng Zhong.

Le Yi's condition was this, he neither wanted the land of Qin, nor the wealth of Qin, but only asked Qin to send a group of craftsmen of all kinds to Yan.

At that time, except for Tian Touch, in fact, everyone else looked at Le Yi thoughtfully, but no one cared.

After all, although the allusion of King Yan's position of "buying horse bones" has spread throughout the Central Plains, not only making the world's unambitious talents flock to Yan State, but also making all countries more or less understand the ambition of this King of Yan, but in general, Yan State is still too weak now, except for a few weak countries such as Lu State and Wei State, it is the weakest Yan State, so countries think that they have nothing to guard against.

The most threatening thing now has to be the Wei State!

The Wei State with Meng Zhong!

The existence of Meng Zhong has made the Qin State jealous of the Wei State for three points, and the Zhao State for the Wei State for three points - it is clear that Meng Zhong was born in the Zhao State at the beginning...... Cough!

After thinking about it, Wei Ran said in embarrassment: "The conditions proposed by Fengyang Jun, Touchzi, and Le Da Sima can all be met by my Great Qin, as for the conditions proposed by General Tyrant and Yun Chengjun...... With all due respect, it's too harsh. ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Meng Zhong and said sincerely: "If Yun Chengjun just asks for Linjin, he is still in charge and cedes that radius of dozens of li to your country, but Yun Chengjun wants my Great Qin to cede more than 200 li in one go, doesn't Yun Chengjun feel that it is too much to deceive people?" ”

Hearing Wei Ran's words, Meng Zhong did not pretend to threaten, after all, the negotiations between countries will eventually end in mutual compromise and concession, although he proposed the condition of ceding more than 200 li of land, but in fact, he also knew that the final result of the negotiation may be dozens of li of land, and it will last for 100 li.

For this kind of mutual tussip, it depends on who is more patient.

In contrast, Meng Zhong cared more about whether Wei Ran had other intentions - to be honest, even if he had cornered the Qin State at first glance, he still didn't believe that the Qin State would be so obedient and obedient, and if it were him, he would not be willing to endure the shame of ceding his country's land and cities to another country.

Today, Wei Ran's low-voiced attitude, to be honest, made Meng Zhong more and more vigilant.

In the end, Wei Ran's response that he wanted to send a letter to Xianyang to let Qin Wangji make a decision, ended the day's discussion.

Of course, although the negotiation process was not very smooth this time, Wei Ran was still willing to hand over Yin and Jin to the coalition forces first to prove the sincerity of his Qin state.

The next day, under the personal witness of Li Dui, Wei Ran, Storm Kite, Meng Zhong and others, Huayang Jun Mi Rong led the Qin army to retreat from Yin Jin City, and slowly went west - at that time, Meng Zhong sent the accompanying guards to follow for a while, only to learn that Huayang Jun Mi Rong's army had withdrawn from Weishui, and it seemed that they had gone to Chongquan and Liyang.

After the Qin army withdrew from the Yin and Jin Dynasty, the Zhao general Zhao Xi led the Zhao army into the Yin Jin Dynasty, and the Yin Jin Dynasty eventually fell into the hands of the coalition forces.

Seeing that no one was paying attention, the storm kite secretly said to Meng Zhong: "This Wei Ran is very cunning. ”

"Hmm." Meng Zhong nodded slightly.

Isn't that cunning?

You must know that the tens of thousands of troops of Huayang Jun Mi Rong are not enough to reverse the situation at all, at best, they will be nailed to Jinyin, making it difficult for the coalition army to transport grain, but the coalition army can force Xianyang to call Mi Rong to return to Xianyang, to put it bluntly, Yin Jin will fall into the hands of the coalition army sooner or later.

And after Wei Ran saw this, he took the initiative to hand over Yin Jin, which would eventually fall into the hands of the coalition army, to the coalition army, so as to show the "sincerity" of the Qin State, isn't this cunning?

And to go deeper, Wei Ran's cunning is not only that, for example, his practice of handing over Jin Yin to the coalition army successfully aroused Li Dui's desire to make peace with the Qin State - some time ago, Li Dui was worried that the Qin army would take the opportunity to attack his coalition army after winter, but now that Yin Jin is in hand, Li Dui is naturally not worried, in this case, of course, he will no longer help Storm Kite and Meng Zhong to continue the crusade against Qin.

It is not difficult to see from the subtle eye contact between Li Dui and Wei Ran during today's discussion that Li Dui and Wei Ran may indeed have reached an agreement.

In addition, Huayang Jun Qirong retreated to Liyang and Chongquan, which also increased the difficulty of Meng Zhong's attack on Hexi in disguise.

At present, Liyi on the west side is guarded by Baiqi, and Liyang in the north is guarded by Huayang Jun Qirong, and the two roads leading from Zheng County to Xianyang happen to be blocked.

This made Meng Zhong realize one thing: if he wanted the Qin State to submit and obediently agree to the conditions of Wei and Han, I am afraid it will not be so easy.

"First...... Hold your troops and see what Wei Ran wants to do, anyway, you and I need time to wait for General Gongsun to lead the army here......"

On the way back to Zheng County, Meng Zhong said to the storm kite.

The Gongsun military general in his mouth, that is, the Gongsun Zhu of Hedong.