Chapter Seventy-Five: Decision

Qu Guang lobbied the king of Qi to fail, so that Yu Ji's Mu Ling, that is not even Zhao Ting's entry, can only meet his mentor Que Guanzi, and then ask Que Guanzi to try to persuade King Zhao to save Chu. After returning to Zhao for a long time, Qu Guanzi imitated the precedent of Chu to persuade King Zhao to also set up a teacher school, and more than 100 students were recruited, but it is still undecided where these students will teach after leaving the school.

Confucius was praised by the world for his education and inclass, but that was hundreds of years ago, and now his advocacy of education for all is easily opposed by bureaucrats and scholars. And Zhao Yan, the king of Zhao, did not intend to imitate the Chu State to implement the policy of emphasizing culture and education, and with the current national strength of the Zhao State, it was impossible to implement the policy of emphasizing culture and education and increase the number of teachers by 20,000 or 30,000.

In the sound of the teacher's loud reading, Mu Ling could only let Que Guanzi be the main planner after he finished speaking. At the end of October, Zhao Guofei was covered with snow, and although there was a carbon fire indoors, Mu Ling felt cold. Que Guanzi sighed: "King Zhao wants to attack Yan, and he has an alliance with the Qin State, how can he send troops to save Chu?" ”

"Cutting Yan?" Mu Ling looked at the teacher, "Why doesn't King Zhao take this opportunity to understand and rest with the people?" How do you want to crusade against the Yan Kingdom? ”

Mu Ling has never been to the north, nor has he been to Zhao State, Que Guanzi said: "Zhao Yan has a feud, but if Zhao is defeated, Yan will be defeated, but if Zhao is defeated, Yan will be defeated." Xiangbang Jianxin Jun believed in the Qin people and was persuading King Zhao to cut down Yan, but the doctor Sikong Ma persuaded King Zhao not to cut Yan. Cutting Yan, the Qin army should take the opportunity to attack Zhao. The army is not in a hurry to return to Handan, and Handan is afraid of loss. ”

"Empty horse?" Mu Ling had never heard of this person.

"The king of Qin chased away the guests, and the guests of the Marquis of Wenxin all left Qin. Sikong Ma is a confidant of the Marquis of Wenxin, and was the secretary of the Xiangbang Mansion. Enter Zhao, Zhao Wang Houzhi, worship the doctor. "Que Guanzi didn't know that this person was the protector of the army that attacked Chu Mengwu last year, but he only knew that he was a guest of LΓΌ Buwei.

"The King of Qin is also chasing guests?" Mu Ling was a little surprised, he hadn't heard of this news before he joined Zhao.

"Yes, yes." Que Guanzi said, "The Marquis of Wenxin is in the country, and there are thousands of people who refuse to go, and the King of Qin may be afraid of it." ”

Que Guanzi said his guess, in fact, he didn't know what was going on in the Qin State, he was more like an independent scholar who lived in the world of words, although he had the skill of helping the world and the state, but he was incompatible with the whole world, and he didn't have a channel to understand the countries in the world, so he could only sit and talk about it.

When the master and apprentice answered each other in the school, in the Ming Hall of the Handan Palace, Zhao Yan, the king of Zhao, was sitting peacefully, and he and Guo Kai listened to the discussion between the doctor Sikong Ma and Xiangbang Jianxinjun. Jianxinjun wanted to kill Yan, and the people of Yan couldn't defeat Zhao, but every time they were about to capture Yandu, someone would send troops to rescue Yan and hit Zhao's back.

"The king has made a bloody alliance with the king of Qin, as long as the state of Zhao does not save Chu and the army cuts down Yan, the king of Qin should not be saved." During this period of time, Jianxinjun became more and more of a great power, especially to promote the alliance with Qin. "Now the army of Qin is attacking Chu and besieging the king of Chu in Chencheng. The king of Qin has been evil for a long time, and he will kill the king of Chu and then quickly, the king will not send troops to attack Yan at this time, and when will he stay? ”

"The King of Qin has been evil for a long time, but the King of Qin has faith?" Zhao Yan who Jian Xinjun said nodded again and again, and as soon as Sikong Ma appeared, he shouted loudly to attract Zhao Yan's attention. "Last year, the Qin army attacked Chu, it was deliberately done by Xiangbang, not the evil Chu of the King of Qin, if it is evil Chu, why did the King of Qin marry the daughter of Chu as the queen and not marry the daughter of Zhao as the queen?"

A few months ago, the King of Qin had asked Zhao Nacai for his name, and when he was about to recruit him, the Empress Dowager Huayang suddenly fell ill, and the King of Qin remarried the princess of Chu. This incident disappointed Zhao Yan and Jian Xinjun. Now that Sikong Ma mentioned it, Jian Xinjun's face was gloomy, and Zhao Yan was thoughtful.

"Aiqing thinks that King Qin's war against Chu is fake?" Zhao Yan asked urgently, Sikong Ma had just left Qin, and he still had a high opinion of him.

"Definitely." Empty horse road. "The King of Qin is the evil King of Chu, but he is even more evil of the Zhao State, once the Zhao army defeats Yan, the Qin army will raise troops to attack Zhao. When the army is far away in Yishui, how to save it? ”

"My lord, this is also a fallacy. The Qin army of 400,000 was in Chu, and the day before yesterday Fang heard that it had leveled the public opinion and attacked Xiangcheng. Chencheng and Xiangcheng are more than 1,000 miles away from me, how can you say that I will be cut down? Jian Xinjun retorted. Qin's right prime minister, Changping Jun, and the Chu people, after the alliance with the Qin, the king of Qin was exempted, which was the harbinger of Qin's evil Chu. Marrying a Chu girl as the queen is not the intention of the King of Qin, but the intention of the Empress Dowager of Qin Huayang. What is the weight of the queen? Isn't there a Qin girl and a Yan girl in the palace? ”

"The Qin army is 400,000 in Chu, but the Qin army is not only 400,000?" Jianxinjun's voice did not fall into the interface. "The Qin State has more than 3 million households, and one household should have 3 million people. Guanzhong has been fighting for many years, Ding men are scarce, but there are also millions of people from Fu. Ding Nan is like this, and the grain is even more innumerable, and the grain of Ao Cang alone can feed a million army for two years. The four-wheeled car of the Chu State, the Qin State also made it, this car is far better than the double-wheel car, and it can transport grain and straw at one time. Qin Zhidong County, only separated from me by a big river, the army goes north to Yishui, and the Qin army can cut me down every day. ”

"King, King Qin has made it clear that I will not save Yan if I cut down Yan!" Seeing that Zhao Yan was about to listen to Sikong Ma's words, Jian Xinjun had no choice but to bring out King Qin.

"King, the king of Qin is not credible, I will kill Yan and me. This is the words of the state. Sikong Ma carried out Lu Buwei.

"Widow ......," Zhao Yan yawned. After the alliance with Qin, he was no longer worried about the destruction of Zhao by the Qin State, and it happened that a pair of concubines were newly accepted in the harem, and Shengge's body was inevitably a little tired every night. "Aiqing, Wen Xinhou said that if I cut Yan Qin, I will be killed, how can I believe it? Has the Qin army entered Puyang? Have you entered Zhongmu? ”

Puyang is the capital of Wei, just on the south bank of the Yellow River. After moving Weijun to the wild queen, this place has been returned to the eastern county of Qin. Zhongmu is the place of the alliance a few months ago, and it is the border of Qin and Zhao. If the Qin State invades Zhao, it should be stationed in these two places.

"Tell the king, there is no Qin army in Puyang, but there is grain, once the army goes north, Yishui ......" Sikong Ma said.

"Where is the Qin army?" Zhao Yan interrupted. After listening to it for a long time, he still seemed to believe Jianxinjun's words, and the most important thing was that King Qin promised not to save Yan, which was a tacit consent to Zhao Guo's war against Yan. And the Qin army is all in Chu, and it will take at least a month to transfer hundreds of thousands of troops from Chu to Hebei. In this month, Zhao Jun had gone south from Yishui.

"The king, the king of Qin has no faith!" Sikong Ma heard what Zhao Yan meant, and was a little distressed. "If you cut Yan, Qin will cut Zhao."

"Yan Country is definitely not Qin State, cut down Yan, if Qin doesn't save it, the widow will destroy this dynasty." Zhao Yan said, waving his sleeves with a bit of a kingly demeanor.

"Think about it, if the Zhao State destroys Yan, what will be the benefit of Qin? In the battle of Changping, the Qin army narrowly won, so far the Qin state dominated the world and the countries were in awe. Back then, the Qin State narrowly defeated the Zhao State with the strength of the whole country, how could it sit back and watch the Zhao State calmly destroy Yan and become a fierce rival again? "Sikong Ma can only reason with Zhao Yan and try to persuade him for the last time." The Qin people are very profitable, once the Zhao army pulls out the Yandu, the army can go straight to the Zhao realm along the river, the Zhao army is in the easy water, and the return to the city is by land, the land route is thirty miles a day, when can it return to Handan? ”

The difference between water and land made Zhao Yan stunned. Going down the river, if you also sail at night, more than 200 miles a day, it is said that the state of Chu has done it. Xianyang to Puyang is only 1,600 or 700 miles, and it is certainly impossible for the Qin army to set off from Xianyang. From Xianyang to Puyang is the Qin realm, the army is assembled along the river, with the efficiency of the Qin army, ten days can go to the territory of Zhao to fight. In ten days, it seems that there are only 800 miles from Yishui to Handan, and it takes more than 20 days to walk 30 miles a day, and Zhao Jun can't catch up at all.

Sikong Ma's last words dispelled Zhao Yan's thoughts, Guo Kai was still there after he and Jianxinjun went to bed, Zhao Yan said: "Guo Qing thinks ...... Is it a widow to cut down a swallow? ”

"Whether the king cuts Yan or not, it depends on the battle of Chencheng." Guo Kai listened to it for a long time and knew the current trend.

"Oh?" Zhao Yan was puzzled, "The Qin army has besieged Chencheng, and the king of Chu is trapped in it. The Qin army of 200,000 and the Wei army of 200,000 attacked day and night, and the news of the destruction of Chen Cheng and the death of the king of Chu may be heard next month. If the widow doesn't cut down the swallow, it's too late! ”

"Definitely. Chen Cheng was once the capital of Chu and was a strong city. The Chu army has the advantage of iron, and it has the weapon of throwing stones, and it is even more ...... "Guo Kai originally wanted to say that it was Lian Po who defended the city, but Lian Po was an anti-Qin faction, and it was politically incorrect to mention him." β€œβ€¦β€¦ There is also the king of Chu in charge, and the army of Qin and Wei will not be able to break the city next month. ”

"Guo Qing's meaning, the widow should take the opportunity to cut down Yan?" When Zhao Yan heard that the battle in Chen Cheng was about to stalemate, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

"Definitely. That's not what the minister meant. Guo Kai hurriedly denied it, "Whether to cut Yan or not, the matter is big, and the minister is not familiar with military affairs......"

Zhao Yan originally wanted to listen to Guo Kai's opinion, but Guo Kai didn't dare to intervene in such a matter at all. This is a political gamble, if the Qin army really took advantage of the emptiness of Handan to attack Zhao, the people who supported Yan had no possibility of turning over politically, although he had meritorious service, he would just avoid death.

"How can this be?" Zhao Yan stood up impatiently. This kind of thing should be kept secret, he can't ask everyone for advice, and the opinions of the close courtiers are too different for him to choose.

'Woo woo woo ......' snow outside the Ming Hall, when the temple people came in, the curtain opened, and the cold wind carried the snowflakes into the Ming Hall. The hall was suddenly cold, Zhao Yan sat down to roast the fire again, and after yawning a few times, he planned not to think about this annoying decision anymore, on such a cold day, it was better to retreat to Xiaoqing, change into deep clothes and talk to the two Ai Ji on the collapse is the most comfortable.

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"I've seen the king! I've seen the king! I have seen the king...... "Chen Yingchengtou, the frost is all over the ground, and the female wall is even more frozen with pieces of blood, which is what the Wei army left last night." At this time, Xiong Jing also patrolled the city like Lian Po, and whenever the county guards saw him coming, even if they were shivering from the cold, they would bow to him with their heads held high.

"But sick?" A county pawn had a runny nose and an abnormally red face, and Xiong Jing saw it.

This is an era when there is no cotton, and there is only floc in addition to fur to protect against the cold. What is Flocculation? The flocculent is the residue of the bad cocoon, the filament of the good cocoon, and the broken filament, which is sold on stone, and the common people buy it and stuff it in their clothes to avoid the cold.

"Yu Da, Dawang ......" was already nervous when he saw the county pawn, and when he heard the king's questioning, the county pawn became even more nervous.

"I've seen the king." The pawn ran over, and he didn't know why the king had stopped.

"Let the witch take his temperature, if the temperature is high...... "If the temperature is high, Xiong Jing doesn't know what to do?" In the era of lack of medical treatment, most of the diseases are cured by the patients themselves.