In the small bed, the Empress Dowager Zhao is looking at the maid's newly braided hair bun in the mirror, the real hair is fused with the wig, making the hair bun like a towering mountain, the mountains are staggered and decorated with gold and jade gems, the majesty is extremely exquisite, and the delicacy is luxurious. Under the bun, there is the beautiful face of the spirit robe, but what makes people's hearts sway more than the face is the white jade cleavage under the low neckline, which can not be seen at a glance, and the faint appearance under the tulle is deliberately smeared with pink rouge......

Looking at her flawless self in the mirror, Lingfu Dai's eyebrows frowned slightly, she sighed and asked behind her: "Why hasn't Xiangbang come yet?" ”

"Empress Dowager, Xiangbang has left the city." The maid cautiously agreed. "Promise, promise, ......"

"The Qin people are attacking me, the state affairs are busy, why should Xiangbang go out of the city?" Instead of looking at himself in the mirror, he turned his head sideways.

"The Queen Mother." The temple people on the outer side bowed and spoke carefully.

"Words." The spirit robe glanced at him. Living in the dormitory, her news mostly depends on the temple people.

"Empress Dowager, the Zhao army was defeated in Pingyang, and Xiangbang urgently asked the ministers for countermeasures." The temple is humane, and what he said is actually the news of the road. "Xiangbang went out of the city, I am afraid to see Mr. Queguan in the west of the city. Mr. Crane Guan is the prince of the king of Chu, and he is ......"

"Yu Pingyang's defeat?" Pingyang is about ninety miles south of Handan, where the Zhao army was defeated, and Handan was already in danger of being besieged. Although Lingyuan is a woman, it is not that she does not understand national politics. "Where is the general?" She asked urgently.

"Tai, Queen Mother," the temple man's face changed several times, and under the pressure of the spirit robe, he finally said: "General Huxuan...... Pawn. ”

"Ahh The spirit robe couldn't help but whisper. General Zhao is not the general of Chu, and the general is actually equal to the great Sima of Chu. The general died, that is, the actual commander of the Zhao army died, and this was also the reason why Zhao Liang, the Marquis of Chunping, blocked the news. Lingyuan suddenly felt that it was difficult to even breathe, and she gasped vigorously for a while before saying, "Summoning Taifu, summoning Taifu quickly!" ”

A smart person would never put his eggs in one basket, let alone a woman from a humble background who is extremely insecure. Taifu Guo Kai is another reliance of the Lingyuan, although this reliance is still very weak compared to the power of the Zhao clan represented by Zhao Liang, the Marquis of Chunping, but it is independent of the power of the Marquis of Chunping after all.

Guo Kai, who knew his status completely, hurried to come as soon as he saw the summoning festival, and on the way, he already knew the reason why the spirit robe summoned him, and he said at the first sight of the spirit robe: "Empress Dowager, the Qin people want to destroy my Zhao country, and the Zhao country is in danger." However, Xiangbang did not need to go to the secretary Sima Kong's strategy to seek help from the Chu State, which was also a mistake. ”

"What is the best way to do it? What is the policy? Lingyuan asked, Sikong Ma was appointed by her husband Zhao Yan after he dismissed Jianxin Jun, and her impression of Sima Kong was not bad, but very good.

"I don't know." Guo Kaidao. "The minister only heard that Shangqing was expelled from the prime minister's mansion by Xiangbang, and Shangqing said outside the mansion: 'The minister is foolish, Xiangbang does not need it, it is the minister who has nothing to do with Zhao, and he is willing to invite himself'."

Sikong Ma couldn't use it after offering the plan, so he invited himself to Zhao, and Lingluo immediately couldn't sit still when he heard this. However, Sikong Ma's plan is a national policy, and according to the tacit agreement she maintained with Chunpinghou, she cannot participate in national politics, because Chunpinghou promised to return the national government to Zhao Qian when Zhao Qian was crowned. It's just that if Zhao Guo dies like this......

"Can Taifu make people ask what Shangqing has offered?" After hesitating for a while, the spirit robe was still determined to ask. Soon, in less than an hour, Sikong Ma's plan was displayed in front of Ling's eyes: on the map of Zhao State, the Hutuo Water flowing from west to east was heavily marked. With Hutuoshui as the boundary, the south only accounts for one-seventh or even one-eighth of the land area of Zhao, and Sikongma's plan is to cede all the Zhao land south of Hutuoshui to Qin, in exchange for Qin's resignation.

Sight is deceiving. The map only shows the land area, and in fact, the land north of Yanshan has no cultivation value. Once the land between the rivers and the Handan Plain south of Hutuoshui were ceded to the Zhao State, there would be very little arable land left in the Zhao State, and even if there was a supplement from the land of the Yan State, the national strength would be greatly damaged.

"In this way, Zhao Guo can survive?" The spirit robe, who didn't know what the south of Hutuoshui represented, looked at Guo Kai.

"I think so." Guo Kai nodded again and again. "Qin attacked Zhao because Zhao was based on Yandi, and he was afraid of Zhao Fuqiang. If half of the country is cut off from Qin, Zhao is weak. Zhao is weak, Qin Zidang is Chu and Qi, and Zhao Guocun is also. Xiangbang didn't need this plan and begged Chu to save Zhao, first of all, I didn't say whether Chu saved me, I only said that Chu and Qin fought for three years, and there was no power to save Zhao, unless ......"

Guo Kai also thought of what Gu Guanzi thought of at this time: if the State of Chu was angry with the State of Qin, it was likely that there would be a result of killing Chu and saving Zhao. It's just that Chu is so stupid?

"Unless what?" Seeing that he was stunned, Lingyuan hurriedly asked.

"If Chu can attack Qin, Qin will attack Chu. Qin Fachu, Zhao Yicun also. Guo Kai told the truth that although he and the Marquis of Chunping were political enemies, this was only a difference in political views, especially in the tactics adopted in the negotiations with Qin, not that he really wanted to betray Zhao.

Guo Tongyu, the Guo family was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty after the Duke of the Kingdom of Qiu. When Zhao Jianzi opened up Jinyang, Guo then integrated into the Zhao state, and then the Zhao state moved its capital to Handan, and the Guo family's iron-smelting craftsmen migrated with it. After more than two hundred years of marriage, the Guo family has become a part of the nobility of the Zhao State. Betraying Zhao is not good for the Guo family, as smart as Guo Kai, he can fully predict the fate of the Guo family after the fall of the Zhao State. He also understood that Zhao State would not be able to withstand the continuous attacks of Qin State no matter what, and with the current situation, he could only break his wrist if he could not lead to trouble.

"Then can the state of Chu attack Qin?" The temptation of the calamity to the south made Lingluo breathe rapidly again, if the Qin State could cut down Chu for another three years, the Zhao State would be safe. "Can you please ask the Empress Dowager of Chu to ......?"

"I don't think I can't." Guo Kai thought about it for a while, and finally shook his head. "The Empress Dowager of Chu has no power. The government of Chu is not in the hands of the king of Chu but in the hands of Zhu Ao. Zhu Ao was elected by the honorable people of the Gong family, and his feelings were reached, and the king's power was elbowed, and the king of Chu could not raise troops with a thought.

Only when the king of Chu met in the Gaotang Dynasty, one of the Ao Cheng Jie drew his sword and killed the Qin envoy angrily, and he insulted the king of Qin, saying that he was not the son of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, but the son of Lü Buwei, the Marquis of Wenxin, and called him Lü Zheng. If the king of Qin is angry, he may attack Chu. ”

Guo Kai mentioned the news from the Gaotang Alliance. The most sensational thing besides the killing of Qin envoy Yao Jia was the son of Lü Buwei, the king of Qin. The Kwantung states hated Qin for a long time. As soon as this news came out, it seemed to have grown wings, and it spread to Handan within a few days, and spread throughout Qi, Zhao, Wei, Korea, and Chu within ten days.

The story of Lü Buwei's 'dedication to hide his concubine' did not circulate in this era, this is a story that only existed in the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian recorded it in the "Historical Records of Lü Buwei", and then Ban Gu wrote it into the "Book of Han" after Ruo Ao.

In fact, there is no evidence to prove that Zhao Zheng is the son of Lü Buwei. At the beginning, Lü Buwei only thought of 'establishing the master of the country', since it was just to 'establish the master of the country', there was no need to risk sending a pregnant beauty to the future 'master of the country'. In case of an incident - even if Zhao Ji doesn't say anything, and those who know don't say anything, the child born is very likely to look like Lu Buwei.

Not only is this extremely probable, but it cannot be changed. Lü Buwei, who was born in a businessman, gambled on 'establishing the lord of the country', rather than giving an heir to the Qin state. Even if the matter is lucky, the Qin State is still surnamed Zhao, and Lu Zheng sacrifices to the ancestors of the Zhao family instead of the ancestors of the Lu family, maybe he will punish the Lu family for the sake of secrecy, and it is impossible for 'Ze can be left behind'.

Only, as Tacitus said, once the emperor became the object of hatred, the good and bad things he did aroused people's disgust with him. All the countries in the world hated the Qin State, and some of the new Qiantou who had become 'Qin people' hated the Qin State even more. Once the rumors spread, Luoyang, which was closest to Kanto, was the first to spread the Qin Wang clan and Lu Fei clan Zhao. Luoyang Ling soon used the 'slanderer clan' to sit on the people who spread the matter, but the news still spread uncontrollably to Guanzhong and to Xianyang.

"Tell the king, the slanderers have condemned their three tribes. Those who heard this have already moved ......" Tingwei Li Si lay in front of the case of King Qin in Zhangtai Palace, Zheng Dynasty, and talked about the way to deal with the rumor. He heard Zhao Zheng gritting his teeth and making a gee-like sound.

"King, the minister has a plan to break this rumor." Xiong Qijin, the right prime minister, Changping Jun, said that when he saw Zhao Zheng looking over, he immediately said: "The eldest son Fusu Xiao Jixian King, the minister thought that the eldest son Fusu could be established as the prince of Qin, and told the world: Qin established the eldest son Fusu as the prince, because of his Xiao Ji first king. If the son, or Xiao's father or Xiao's mother, is true as the rumors spread, why is the eldest son the first king? ”

"I think it's okay." Kui Xiang and other ministers immediately agreed. "Please make the eldest son, Fusu, the crown prince, the crown prince."

"The king, the prince is still young, if you ......" Xiong Qi borrowed his strength to make the son of Chu Nu the prince. Seeing that the king did not agree, Feng Quji, the imperial historian who did not belong to the Chu family, immediately spoke out to express his opposition. "The minister thinks that the clear person is self-purifying, and the turbid person is self-turbid, and the more people who hate Qin in this matter, the more they believe it, they should not argue, and the clan can be punished."

"Dr. Feng." Xiong Qi, who seized the opportunity, was reluctant to let go. "It is precisely because this matter should not be argued with those who hate Qin, that the eldest son Fusu should be appointed as the crown prince, and the eldest son Xiao Ji should be the first king to refute the rumors. Great King, this matter is related to the Great Qin Society, don't slack off. ”

"This rumor is spread by Jing Ao Chengjie, if you want to refute the rumor, you should kill Jing people." As soon as Xiong Qi said that he was the crown prince, Wei Yi knew his plan, so he specially asked for the thorn. "What do you think?"

"The Jing people killed my envoys and insulted my king, and they must be cut down." Xiong Qi pretended to have an angry expression and bowed: "Please ask the king to cut down the jing, as a punishment." ”

The Qin army has completely attacked Zhao, and the war against Chu is regarded as child's play. Xiong Qi, who maintained close ties with the state of Chu, could not ask for this, and the great Sima Mansion thought that the most important thing for him to do was to make the national policy of the state of Qin waver, one year to attack Chu, one year to attack Zhao, one year to attack Wei, and so on. Only by disrupting the strategic rhythm of the Qin State sweeping away the world is the most beneficial to the Chu State.

Wei Yi didn't expect Xiong Qi to really ask Zhao Zheng to raise troops to attack Chu, and he was speechless for a while, but fortunately, Zhao Zheng on the throne said coldly, 'retreat from the dynasty', which relieved him of his embarrassment.