Before Lian Yu and Fox Baby went to Chu, the news of Fanwu's defeat had reached Jinyang west of Taihang Mountain. Jinyang was the place where Zhao was born and the foundation of Zhao, but although the city rebelled several times, it was still conquered by the Qin. Jinyang was sleeping in the Yan Dynasty, and when he heard that the front line was defeated, Zhao Zheng, who had a slight smile on his face, instantly turned into ice, he gritted his teeth and was silent for a long time before waving his sleeves and saying: "Go down." ”

"Wei Yi greets the king." Following the news of the defeat, Wei Yu, who also went to Jinyang, came to visit the Yan Dynasty.

Zhao Zheng glanced at him coldly, and said unhappily: "What's the matter with the national captain?" ”

After three years of defeat, two defeats have to make people wonder if Zhao is correct. While Zhao was still resisting, the three kingdoms of Chu, Qi, and Wei had been allied, and a stronger opponent began to emerge. Both the court and the palace complained about Zhao. Wei Yi heard Zhao Zheng's displeasure, but said with a smile: "The minister heard that there are nine blades for the mountain, and the success is not enough. I don't believe it, today I know that the ancestors did not deceive me, does the king want to cut down the thorns? ”

Wei Yu asked, and without waiting for Zhao Zheng to answer him, he said: "What is the difference between cutting Zhao and Jing?" Jingguo Haizhou leads to the west of Zhongzhou, gets the dragon horse of Xizhou, and obtains the gold stone of Nanzhou. Our army will be able to destroy the thorns? If Jing can't be destroyed, the alliance of the four countries is still there, but it is just the main alliance of Zhao. The opponents of Great Qin, only Jing and Zhao, and the division of Qi and Wei were already unbearable for a battle, and only increased their momentum. And the king only saw the victory of the Zhao army, but did not see the defeat of the Zhao army......"

Although Wei Yu's words had the flavor of strong arguments, the situation in which Great Qin was located was indeed like this. It's just that the two Jing Kings would bow down to the Qin State before, but now this Jing King is completely stunned, and he disdains the Qin State. Almost everywhere against the Qin State. The state of Chu is in the south, the state of Zhao is in the north, and it is difficult to take care of the north and south of the Qin state, which is the reason why it is difficult to ride a tiger today.

"Why did Mr. persuade the widow to cut down the thorn in the past, and why did he persuade the widow to cut down Zhao later?" Zhao Zheng said distressedly. "Today is obviously a big victory for the Zhao army, why do you talk about the defeat of the Zhao army?"

"In the past, the ministers persuaded the king to cut down Jing, because Jing is my great Qin's fierce enemy, if he doesn't cut down Jing, he will become a disaster for Qin in the future." Wei Wei explained. "After three years of cutting thorns, I didn't win. The king really wants to put the fortune of the Great Qin on top of the Jingjing? If he wins, he will destroy the six kingdoms and go down for a day; If defeated, will the country be destroyed and the society will not exist?

Since the momentum of Jing State has been achieved, it should not be pinned on a battle, but should be Xu Tu. It is difficult to cut down wattles, it is easy to cut down Zhao, it is easy to cut down first, and then it is difficult. If Zhao is destroyed, the Great Qin of the world has already taken the third. Qi Wei can be soft and surrendered, why did Jing State recover? Just like the battle between the two armies, those who can break the enemy's formation by hitting them, and those who can break the enemy's formation by attacking left and right, Daqin is also the strategy of attacking.

Although the Zhao army won again and again, the soldiers of Zhao State were almost exhausted, and the number of soldiers who could fight was only 300,000. But the same is true of the soldiers of war, and the same is true of the grain and corn. Although Jing and Qi lost Su and Zhao, they only lost a few million stones a year, which is a drop in the bucket. At this time, the Zhao State had no pawns and no millets, and there was no big victory. If one is defeated, his kingdom will perish. ”

Wei Yu's strategic thinking is completely correct, and it is impossible to destroy Chu. Even if the Qin army defeated the Chu army, the Chu state could retreat to the east of the Great River, or even to the south of the Nanling Ridge. The judgment of the Guoweifu was that the state of Chu that retreated to Jiangdong could not be destroyed until it built a boat that could rival the great wing war boat of the Chu state. The state of Chu, which cannot be destroyed, will drag Great Qin into a protracted war, and when the state of Zhao finishes digesting the land of Yan and recuperates for ten years, it will not be so easy for Daqin, who has been exhausted in the war to destroy Chu, to destroy Zhao again.

"Li Mu is the Great Wall of Zhao, how can he be defeated?" After thinking about it, Zhao Zheng's blame for Wei Yu was minimized, so that he would express his heart and sigh at Li Mu's Great Wall of Zhao.

"The embankment of a thousand feet collapses with the nest of ants; The hundred-foot room was burned with a sudden gap. "Wei Yu said." Mourning the death of King Xiang, Zhao Rensu remembered the abolition of Prince Jia, especially Li Mu. Empress Dowager Zhao and Xiangbang Chunping Jun Gou and Zhao Qianfang ascended the throne, which should make people spread rumors in Handan, saying that Li Mu wants to abolish the crown prince Zhao Jia as the king of Zhao, or ......"

Wei Yi wanted to speak and stopped, in fact, he had a better plan, but he didn't dare to say it because of Zhao Zheng.

"How is Yan Dan?" Wei Yi knew the situation in Handan well, but Zhao Zheng wanted to destroy Zhao as soon as possible.

"Jing Ke has gone to the Zhao camp, our army has been defeated, he should be Li Muzhi's cronies, and then ......" Yan Dan finished talking to Jing Ke, and set off to return to Jinyang on the same day, and he arrived at the same time as the news of the defeat of the Qin army.

"So what?" The assassination was a dishonorable thing, and the king should not be involved in it, and Zhao Zheng couldn't care about it so much.

"Jing Ke said, Li Mu is guarded by many Hu people, and the assassination will be after the end of the year." Wei Yu relayed Yan Dan's words.

"After the period?" Zhao Zheng was taken aback, he, like Yan Dan, thought that Jing Ke would be able to make contributions in a few months.

"Jing Ke is a Wei person, not a Zhao person, Yan Dan has been assassinated several times, Li Mu is very strict, and it is necessary to be a few years later." Wei Yu did not doubt what Yan Dan said about the period after the year. The Warring States period is not like the Spring and Autumn Period, trusting a person is completely trusted, Li Mu is of course not a Qingji, many assassinations have made him highly vigilant, although Jing Ke entered the Li Mu shogunate, it is impossible without a year's efforts.

"If it is after the period, does the Qin army need to be defeated again?" Zhao Zheng asked angrily. "Li Mu doesn't believe it, you can punish the whole Jing Ke clan to make it believe."

"The king shall not." Wei Yu said urgently. "If you really punish the whole Jing Ke clan, Jing Ke will rebel, this is not allowed!"

"Why not? Otherwise, how can Li Mu be a cronie? Although Zhao Zheng said this, he still took a step back, and he called Zhao Gao: "In the name of rebellion against Qin, the whole Jing Ke clan will be punished, and his father and son will be replaced by others." This matter must be publicized so that the whole world may know about it. ”

King Zhao Zheng gave an order, and Zhao Gao went out of bed after receiving the order, Wei Yi still said uneasily: "If Jing Ke betrays me......"

"If Jing Ke is rebellious, the widow will punish his seven clans. If he did not rebel and kill Li Mu, the widow would not only defend the country, but also treat his father as a secretary. Zhao Zheng's teeth clucked, but after he finished speaking, he suddenly smiled and said: "Before Wei Qing met, the widow was reading the biography of Mu Tianzi, and as Wei Qing knew, what other country was there in the west of Kunlun?" ”

Previously, everyone in the world thought that the biography of Mu Tianzi was nonsense, but with the passage of the sea boat of Chu to the west of Zhongzhou, Hu merchants and Chu countries, this statement disappeared. Zhao Zheng also set his sights more and more on the west of the Qin state. It's just that the Qin State is not on the trade route connecting the world in Kunlun, and the previous road of Hu Shang was from the north of Yinshan Mountain across the Qin State, and then from the clouds into Jinyang, from Jinyang to Luoyang. After the Qin army occupied Jinyang and Luoyang, the trade route crossed the clouds from Yanmen County to Zhao, and then passed through Handan to Daliang and Linzi.

The business road is around the Qin State, why is it so Zhao Zheng of course knows that the law of the Shang Dynasty is heavy on its rent, making it ten times more simple, no businessman is willing to come to the Qin State to do business, and all the domestic commerce of the Qin State is replaced by state institutions. In the Qin State, there were only government commercial institutions, and there were no merchants in the real sense.

If a country has a large number of merchants, it will be harmful to the national strength if it cultivates the tools of suffering, gathers boiling wealth, and accumulates it for a while, and the profits of the farmers are not done by the people. The strength of the Qin state was largely due to the strict prohibition of private merchants. However, Shang Jia does not mean that there are only a hundred harms and no benefits, and Shang Jia sells dragon horses to Chu State is a big profit.

During this time, Zhao Zheng was thinking about the west of Kunlun and the eight-foot dragon horse. However, he really knew very little about the west of Kunlun, so he could only ask Wei Yu. After Mr. Guigu is the minister of King Yin, if Guigu doesn't know about the world, then no one knows.

"I don't know what ministers are west of Kunlun, and the ministers have heard that there are Cypriots west of Kunlun." Wei Yu recalled the armor classics of the Ghost Valley and said.

"Cypriots?" Zhao Zheng was puzzled. "What do you mean by a Cypriot?"

"Cypriots, nomads. With Qiang humans, but not Qiang people. Its eyes are deep and blue, and the crown is thin, like Lu Hun's Rong. Its country has a queen but no monarch, and Mu Tianzi will also have the queen mother. There are good horses, good riding and shooting, and both men and women of the clan fight. According to its customs, a woman cannot bear a child unless she kills a man. Kill a man and make his skull a winemaker, and have a guest to drink. If the guest does not praise his bravery, he will be displeased. ”

"Hu Shang's Maxima is from the Cypriots?" Zhao Zheng couldn't imagine a tribe where a woman would also fight, all he cared about was Maxima.

"Yes, yes." Wei Yu replied. "The Cypriots are heavy on horseback and inherently good horses. Mu Tianzi's Eight Horses, Chiji, Thief, Baiyi, Yulun, Shanzi, Quhuang, Hualiu, and Green Ear, all seek from the Queen of the Cypriots. But the king sent men west to seek horses, and he also tried to prevent them from getting horses. ”

The envoy who asked for horses set out last year, but the envoy did not take the grassland road north of Yinshan, but took the Di Dao (that is, the Hexi Corridor) path, and occupied the Di Dao is the Yueshi Yu branch. Just as the forces of the world form factions, the forces on the grassland also form factions.

The Hu merchants who traveled north of Yinshan and the herding tribes under the rule of the Xiongnu later, although they had fought with the Zhao State, but the relationship between them was broken since the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, and the marriages continued. The Qin State and the Yue Clan have always been friendly friends, so much so that the Han Dynasty sent envoys to the west, a big purpose was to contact the former ally Yue Clan, and strategically encircle the Xiongnu from the flank. Later, the Qiang people in the Hexi Corridor (no longer the Qiang people of the pre-Qin period) established a country, and the country name was called Later Qin.

Wei Yi suggested that the Jing people should be prevented from winning the horses, which meant that a large army was sent out of Yin Mountain to intercept the Hu merchant horse team. Zhao Zheng was speechless when he heard this. Wei Yu said again: "If you don't stop the Jing people from getting the horse, what if the envoy begs the horse to return to Qin?" The Qin army does not have to go in person, the king makes people thick coins and words, and asks Yu to send troops to stop it. The minister heard that Hu Shang bought more Jingren soldiers and armor, and Yu Zhi could get armor. ”

"Good." It is best to let the people of the Yu branch come forward to intercept the caravan of the Hu people, Zhao Zheng first agreed, and soon he thought of a question: "If the Sai people learn that it is my Great Qin Youshui Yue clan Yu sent troops, they will blame me Great Qin." ”

"So please send the king to send a martial horse to the clouds to block it." If the Yuzhi people can't strictly keep secrets, it is indeed a hidden danger, and if they want to act strictly, they can only exclude the cavalry of the Qin army. "Make it fake Zhao and Hu people, and don't lose one."