After Zhai Zhang received the letter from Fangcheng County, he didn't care much at first, but when he opened the letter and saw the content of the letter, he was stunned for a moment.

Chu State's good intentions to create friction on the border?

At that time, Zhai Zhang stroked the beard on his chin and thought for a moment, and then went straight to the palace with this letter.

When he came to the palace and saw Wang Wei Wang, Zhai Zhang immediately presented Meng Sui's letter, and at the same time said: "Great King, Meng Zhong's brother Meng Sui sent this letter in Fangcheng County, and the old minister thought it was ...... It's kind of interesting. ”

『……』

Looking at Zhai Zhang's strange look, Wei Wangyun's face showed a little confusion, so he spread out the bamboo slip presented by Zhai Zhang and looked at it carefully, looking at it, his brows furrowed.

Thinking of Zhai Zhang's sentence 'a little interesting', Wei Wangjun guessed with some hesitation: "What does Da Sima mean is that Chu State's move ...... Could it be the instigation of the Qin State? ”

"Aside from this explanation, Lao Chen really can't think of any reason for the Chu State to suddenly create friction on the border." Zhai Zhang said with a smile: "Qin Guo is borrowing the hand of Chu State, and intends to ask the king to transfer that kid from Meng Zhong back to Fangcheng County......"

The king of Wei stroked his beard and pondered for a moment, and then ordered the attendants to the left and right: "Go and invite the minister of state to come, just say that the widow has important things to discuss." ”

"No." The waiter answered.

At this time, Wei Wangfu picked up Mengsui's letter again and looked at it carefully word by word.

Regarding the situation in Fangcheng County, in fact, many people secretly reported to King Wei before and after.

At first, Tian Wen, who was at odds with Meng Zhong, spoke ill of Meng Zhong in front of Wei Wang Yun more than once, saying that Meng Zhong had taken in more than 200,000 refugees from Chu without authorization but asked Wei to transport grain for relief.

Then he accused Meng Zhong of accepting Qu Yuan, an exiled minister of the Chu State, and let the latter participate in the governance of Yeyi and not abide by the rules.

It may be because Meng Zhong's three teachers are so famous that even Tian Wen did not dare to frame Meng Zhong with trumped-up reasons, so he can only pick these Meng Zhong's 'unruly' behaviors, such as accepting more than 200,000 refugees without consulting the monarch of his country, and now he still accepts displaced people without refusing, which has caused population and food pressure on the county towns in the south of Wei - in this contemporary era when population is not regarded as a precious strategic resource, Meng Zhong's behavior is in the eyes of outsiders, exceptNegative speculations such as 'bad intentions' are left with only one guess to win a good reputation.

However, for these things, Wei Wangjun is very open, firstly, Meng Zhong is becoming more and more important to his Wei State, and secondly, Meng Zhong is a disciple of the three schools of Taoism, Ming, and Confucianism, and is an excellent disciple of Zhuangzi, Huizi, and Mencius, and there is such a figure committed to his Wei State, he naturally has to be tolerant, and Wei Wangjun also knows that the young Yuncheng Jun knows very well what he is doing - Meng Zhong is a disciple of a saint, and he will not do anything that damages the reputation of his teacher.

What's more, when Meng Zhong was in Fangcheng County, he also sent several letters of advice on the future development prospects of the Wei State, among which 'uniting Han Chu to resist the Qin State' was originally the view advocated by Meng Zhong, so in recent years, Meng Zhong has basically focused on the treatment of the Chu State, especially the Chu people, and Wei Wangjun is not surprised.

Otherwise, will the State of Chu be able to stop that Yuncheng Jun?

Wei Wangjun didn't believe it.

What is interesting is that it is clear that Meng Zhong is trying his best to deal with the problem of Chu State, but this time, Chu State still creates friction on the Wei and Chu border for no reason, just like Zhai Zhang said, this is very interesting - of course he will not suspect that Meng Sui stabbed some basket but shifted the responsibility to Chu State, after all, Meng Sui is Meng Zhong's brother, even if he really caused any problems, it should be dealt with by Meng Zhong in the future.

As the saying goes, the courtiers of the courtiers are not the courtiers of the king, and the king only needs to take care of his own courtiers, especially the generals and saint disciples like Meng Zhong who can't fight, can't scold, and can only be coaxed.

Not long after, the minister of state, Tian Wen, hurriedly came to the palace.

Seeing him walk into the palace, his eyes immediately swept to see Zhai Zhang sitting in the palace, his face immediately became solemn, and when he saw the king of Wei, he arched his hand and asked, "Tian Wen has seen the king." …… King, what happened to Yin Jin? ”

"Huh? Ah, no. ”

King Wei waved his hand, signaled the left and right attendants to hand Meng Sui's letter to Tian Wen, and explained: "This is sent by Meng Sui, the brother of Yuncheng Jun, from Fangcheng County, so let's take a look at it first." ”

Tian Wen took the letter with a strange expression and read it carefully, and then his face became even stranger.

At this time, Wei Wang Yan smiled and asked, "Have you finished reading Tian Xiang?" I don't know what Tian thinks about this. ”

I saw Tian Wen look at the letter in his hand and ponder for a moment, and then said in a sullen voice: "The minister saw that Yunchengjun was very strong on the Yin and Jin fronts, which made Qin feel very headaches, so Qin instructed Chu to create friction on the border, and put on the posture of Wei and Chu fighting again, forcing my Wei State to transfer Yunchengjun back to Fangcheng County." ”

Sure enough, with Tian Wen's vision, he naturally saw through the truth at a glance.

"Bang bang."

King Wei stroked his palms and laughed, and said with a smile: "Hahaha, the three of my monarchs and ministers coincide." ”

Zhai Zhang and Tian Wen laughed very cooperatively, and then complimented Wei Wang Yun a few words, which was probably flattering words such as 'how dare the minister dare to be compared with the king', which made Wei Wang laugh heartily.

After laughing, the smile on Wei Wangjun's face slowly put away, and said in a deep voice: "Yun Chengjun wrote a letter, the two of you should still remember that although the negotiations with Wei Ran are still in the stalemate stage, Yin Jin, Yun Chengjun and Gongsun Junshou have already taken it from Li Dui's hands......"

Listening to Wei Wangyun's words, Zhai Zhang and Tian Wen couldn't help but begin to recall Meng Zhong's last letter.

In Meng Zhong's last letter, which was actually more than half a month ago, Meng Zhong wrote out the general process of "peace talks between the Qin state and the coalition forces", and reasonably suspected that the Qin state had no intention of ceding land and calming the people—at least not for Wei and Han.

Therefore, Meng Zhong advised Wei Wang Jun in his letter that at this critical moment, Wei must resist the pressure, and not be frightened by some so-called threats of Qin's death and nets, if Qin wants to fight, then Wei will gather the strength of the whole country to fight this battle with Qin, and completely defeat Qin.

To be honest, Wei Wangjun was a little hesitant about Meng Zhong's persuasion.

After all, Qin is not a weak country, even if Qin is now beaten like that by the Five Nations Alliance, but its country size is still the most powerful country in the world today, in case Wei is fighting with it at the same time, it is gradually weakening, how can this be good?

You must know that Qin is not the only country with ambitions to dominate the Central Plains: Qi dreams of dominating the Central Plains like its ancestors; The gradually rising state of Zhao did not have the intention of dominating the Central Plains; There is also the state of Chu, and even the state of Song.

Yes, Song State, don't look at Song State, at most it is slightly stronger than South Korea, but this country has great potential, as long as Song State is given a few decades, it is really hard to say whether Song State will jump up and become one of the great powers.

Don't forget, Meng Zhong, who was out of breath this time, is a Song person, and he is the righteous brother of Song Xiang Hui'an, although his relationship with Song Wangyan is not rumored to be harmonious in the outside world, but Meng Zhong has a good relationship with Song Prince Dai Wu.

Not to mention, the relationship between Meng Zhong and Song Wangyan is not harmonious, this is just hearsay - don't forget, Meng Zhong's title of 'Yuncheng Jun' was fought for by Song Wangyan against his Wei State and fought for Meng Zhong, this is called a discordant relationship?

Based on this, Wei Wangjun also doubted Meng Zhong's intentions afterwards, and wondered if Meng Zhong deliberately wanted him to make Wei and Qin lose both, so as to create an opportunity for Song to rise.

But after thinking about it, what Meng Zhong said is indeed reasonable: if you hold your strength and hit the Qin State hard, and bite off a piece of fat from the Qin State at the risk of launching a decisive battle with the Qin State, then wouldn't all this go back to the starting point? When Qin caught its breath, it would still attack Wei and Han year after year.

All in all, it took a few days for the King of Wei to clear his mind before he finally made a decision: to defeat the Qin State first!

It is undeniable that the states of Qi, Zhao, Chu, and even the state of Song, which has an alliance with him, are likely to take advantage of the situation in this war between Wei and Qin, but even so, Qin is still the most threatening of these states.

first defeat the Qin State, and then break the Qi State, the Chu State and the Zhao State one by one, if the Song State takes the opportunity to rise during this period, and even Meng Zhong also returns to the Song State, he Wei Yun will admit it, and the big deal will be to deal with the Song State when the time comes; And if the Song State failed to take advantage of the opportunity to develop during this period of time, and still needed to rely on the Wei State, then the Wei State would be the final winner in this Central Plains War.

Yes, at least Wei Wangjun still thought so far yesterday, but today, after receiving Meng Sui's letter, he suddenly hesitated again, because he was afraid that the state of Chu would intervene in this war at this time.

Thinking of this, the King of Wei asked Zhai Zhang, "Da Sima, what percentage of you say is it possible for the State of Chu to intervene in this war?" ”

"Less than fifty percent."

Zhai Zhang shook his head and said.

He was very close to Meng Zhong's gang, so he also learned a lot of things, and he explained to Wei Wangjun: "Qu Ping, or Qu Yuan, this person is very famous in the Chu State, through this person, Meng Zhong got acquainted with Zhao Ju, Zhuang Xin and other courtiers of the Chu State, Zhao Ju, Zhuang Xin and those people, are hostile to the Qin State, advocating 'joining Wei to resist Qin', but Chu Xiangzilan is friendly to the Qin State and the King of Chu favors Zilan, so Chu is still allied with the Qin State." …… But don't forget, the king is not good at commanding the army, and he doesn't dare to leave Chu Ying, otherwise wouldn't he have given Zhaoju, Zhuang Xin and other direct ministers the opportunity to advise? Therefore, in the end, only Zhao Ju led the army. The minister just said that Zhaoju is Qu Yuan's brother-in-law, and he is a Chu minister who advocates 'joining Wei to resist Qin', even if Qin instructs Zilan and asks Zilan to send Zhaoju to attack Fangcheng County, Zhaoju will deliberately delay for various reasons. …… During the battle of Wanfang that year, Meng Zhong, who had been there for less than half a year, actually used a secret path to sneak attack the granary of the Qin army in Wancheng, however, Wancheng was originally the territory of the Chu State, and the Chu State occupied it for more than 100 years, but Zhaoju did not know about this path, and he did not tell the Qin army about the existence of this path, and asked the Qin army to be on guard, which is very interesting. …… Although Meng Zhong did not reveal it afterwards, Lao Chen still suspected that Zhao Ju deliberately tricked the Qin army in this matter, and even at that time, he may have had some connection with Meng Zhong in private. ”

"Hmm." After listening to Zhai Zhang's words, Wei Wangjun nodded slightly.

Whether Meng Zhong had a personal relationship with Zhao Ju of Chu State, he didn't bother to care, anyway, he was sure that Meng Zhong would not do anything to damage the reputation of his three teachers, and the only thing he was worried about was that Chu State would take the opportunity to attack him Wei State.

It's not necessarily that he can't win, but in this way, he Wei State confronts Qin and Chu at the same time, which is very hurtful, even if that Zhao Ju is secretly merciful to his Wei State subordinates as Zhai Zhang said, so as to resist Qin's instructions.

"Otherwise, accept Qin's promise to cede land?"

This thought flashed through Wei Wangqi's heart.

To be honest, in fact, the promise of land cession given by the Qin State is not small, after all, it is also dozens of miles of land including Linjin and Dali, in the past, he may have already agreed, and the main reason is that the generals led by Gongsun Zhu and Meng Zhong are not satisfied, and they hope to weaken the Qin State to a greater extent - this is of course a manifestation of loyalty to the Wei State, but the Wei Wang Wei is worried that it will cause a strong counterattack from the Qin State.

For the sake of safety, it is better to accept the conditions given by Qin State this time, anyway, with Meng Zhong here, he Wei State may find something next time......

"No!"

After thinking about it, Wei Wangyun rejected his idea again, because he suddenly remembered Meng Zhong's words.

This time, it was because of the five kingdoms that attacked Qin, and the armies of Qi, Zhao, and Yan all participated in this operation, and they were skillfully tied to the chariot by Meng Zhong, so that even if these countries had other thoughts about his Wei State, it was not easy to start because of the fact that their own troops were involved in this operation, but next time, it may not be the case.

Considering the current situation of the Qin State, the Zhao State will definitely not help him Wei State to crusade against the Qin State, and neither will the Qi and Yan countries, considering the vigilance against these countries, in the future, he Wei and Han will crusade against the Qin State, and maybe they will have to give a hand to these countries - especially the Qi State, and it is the practice of the Qi State to fall into the well against the allies.

This time, he Wei used the power of the five countries to hit the Qin State hard, and next time, he Wei and Han could only raise more than 200,000 troops on their own, and even had to defend against Zhao, Qi, Yan and other countries in turn.

Thinking of this, Wei Wangfu once again deeply realized why Meng Zhong thought that this opportunity was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and hoped that Wei must withstand the pressure at home.

Even if the armies of Zhao, Qi, and Yan don't help him Wei this time, at least these three countries will not stumble on Wei - on the one hand, it is too late in time, on the other hand, Meng Zhong will not be stupid enough to easily let the armies of these three countries run away, and will definitely try their best to drag these three armies, at least let these three countries throw into the mouse, and dare not play any tricks on Wei State.

In a word, if you miss this time, it will not come again!

While Wei Wangyun was pondering, Zhai Zhang was telling his opinion: "...... On the side of Fangcheng County, removing the relationship between Qu Yuan, Zhao Ju, Zhuang Xin and others, in fact, Fangcheng County is not without the strength to fight. Most of the Fangcheng army is in the local area, as for the generals who lead the troops, like Meng Sui, Wu Ying, Xiang Yu, and Le Xu, they are all young people who followed Meng Zhong to the north and south in the early years, and were born and died......

As he spoke, he saw that Wei Wangfu turned his head and did not object, he lowered his voice and said: "The Qin State is just playing a trick, why should I, the Wei State, mess up with myself?" The king might as well go back to a trick and let the Qin State understand the determination of my Wei State! ”

"Oh? What kind of tricks? Wei Wangyun asked curiously.

I saw Zhai Zhang chuckle lightly and said: "Feng Meng is the Fang Cheng Order, and Bai Meng Zhong is the Hedong Guard!" ”

King Wei was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Zhai Zhang meant: Didn't you Qin Guo want Meng Zhong to be transferred back to Fangcheng? I just worshiped Meng Zhong to guard the east of the river, so that your Qin State and Meng Zhong's east side of the river are next to each other, so that your Qin people can see this enemy general with a headache every day.

I think that after the Qin people learned about this, I believe that their expressions will be very exciting.

couldn't help laughing, Wei Wangyu immediately held back again, and pretended to groan: "This ...... Not right, right? The widow needs to consider the attitude of the Gongsun County Guard......"

"Gongsun Zhu?" Zhai Zhang said casually: "Gongsun Zhu wishes that Meng Zhong would take over from him as soon as possible......

Speaking of this, his eyes glanced at Tian Wen, who was standing in the hall and did not speak.

He knew that in fact, what Wei Wangfu was thinking about was the attitude of this one......

Sure enough, after listening to Zhai Zhang's words, Wei Wangyun touched his beard pretending to be pensive, turned his gaze to Tian Wen, and asked, "Tian Xiang, I don't know what Tian Xiang's opinion is on Da Sima's proposal?" ”

Looking at Wei Wangyun, and then at Zhai Zhang, whose smile was uncertain, Tian Wen opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

Yes, he didn't want to see Meng Zhong sit in the position of Hedong Shou, this secret was not a secret in the Wei dynasty, Wei Wangyun, Zhai Zhang, Gongsun Zhu and other monarchs and ministers knew it, and even Meng Zhong himself knew it.

But the current situation seems to be unable to prevent Meng Zhong from entering Hedong County - after all, Meng Zhong's position in Hedong may be able to scare the Qin State, so that the Qin State can only accept that harsh condition; It doesn't matter if you don't accept it, then the next thing is that Meng Zhong is sitting in Hedong County, just like standing in the front yard of the Wei State, facing the Qin State at all times, a neighbor who is only separated by a fence.

In the big picture, it's really an excellent arrangement, it's just ......

The humiliation of going to Qin that year......

The old hatred that was once humiliated by Meng Zhong in the Zhao State......

The interests of the Wei state......

After struggling for a full twenty breaths, Tian Wen gritted his teeth, lowered his head and said, "Minister...... There is no objection. ”

Seeing that Tian Wen finally compromised, Wei Wangjun said decisively: "Okay! Since Tian Xiang had no objections, he followed Da Sima's suggestion to change the title of Meng Sui to Fang Cheng Order, and ordered him to be vigilant against the Chu State; Worship Yuncheng Jun again as the guard of Hedong, let him sit in Hedong, and take charge of Qin affairs......"

"The king is wise."

Zhai Zhang bowed his hand, and then laughed and said: "King, it is better to let the old minister go on a trip in person, the old minister also wants to see the face of the Qin people after learning about this." ”

King Wei smiled and agreed.

After a while, Tian Wen walked out of the palace in a bit of despair.

"This time, that kid is really going to be on an equal footing with my Tian Wen...... Hmph, it's just a small clan of the Song Kingdom......

Tian Wen sneered and sneered, and then talked self-deprecatingly.

In fact, he knew early on that one day he would not be able to suppress Meng Zhong, but he never expected that this day would come so quickly.

"That's it, this kid once apologized to me, for the sake of him making Qin Guo lose face this time...... No, I'm just using Meng Zhong to deal with the Qin State! Hmph, my Tian Wen is so easy to kill? This is the reward for your Qin State for wanting to kill my Tian Wen in the first place!"

Thinking of this, Tian Wen was suddenly relieved, and his mood improved a lot.

I saw him humming an unknown tune, getting into the carriage outside the palace and returning to his mansion.