Chapter 237: The King of the Five Kingdoms

Such a change was actually a change that gradually took place before his class returned to Handan, and even in the years before.

In the past five years, although the world seems to be calm, after Zhang Yi dominated the national affairs of Qin, the situation between Qin, Wei, Han and other countries has begun to change amazingly!

Zhang Yi is a clever columnist, and his strategy is very good. After marrying the state of Chu before, the two sides became allies. After the weakening of the Wei State, in order to fight against the powerful Qin State, he began to close to the Qi State, hoping that the strength of the Qi State would compete with the Qin State!

However, Qin had Chu as its in-laws, so Qi naturally didn't dare to help, and it naturally had no fear to deal with Wei alone, and began to attack Wei recklessly, not only regaining back the territories that had been returned to Wei before, but also reoccupying part of the territory of Wei!

After achieving amazing results on the battlefield, in order to improve its own image, the Qin State pretended to be generous and returned part of the territory to the Wei State. Using such a strategy of two steps forward and one step back, the Qin State gradually encroached on the territory of the Wei State and has become the number one enemy of the Wei State!

Although Qin's approach seems fair on the surface, South Korea, which is at odds with Wei, is not a fool! Now in front of South Korea, there is also the Wei State as a shield. If the territory of Wei is encroached upon, will there be a peaceful day in Korea? After all, these two countries are separated from the Jin Kingdom, and no one understands the truth better than them!

As a result, over the course of a few years, Korea and Wei gradually began to form a close alliance and began to prepare against Qin. And in the Wei State, Gongsun Yan, a famous scholar who advocated cooperation, also began to gradually grasp the real power of the two countries!

Gongsun Yan saw very clearly that today's Wei and South Korea are weak countries compared to the surrounding Qin, Chu, and Qi countries, and if they don't want to try to hold a unity alliance, they will eventually become fish on the chopping block of the three kingdoms!

If you want to hold a unity alliance, then you must choose small countries and weak countries to form alliances. Therefore, after gaining the trust of Korea, Gongsun Yan began to target the alliance with the middle powers of Zhao, Song, Zhongshan and Yan!

If you want the six countries to be able to form an alliance without obstacles, then you must first establish an equal relationship between the six countries! Now that Wei and Korea have become kings, if you want to make the status of each country equal, then the best way is to be the king!

Gongsun Yan officially proposed that Wei, Korea, Zhao, Zhongshan, Song and Yan should be kings together, and everyone recognized each other's thrones, which was the king of the six kingdoms!

After this proposal was put forward, Song Junzi was happy and ready to respond. However, Dai Yan was a slap in the face, and he directly stopped Zixi!

In Dai Yan's view, although the Song State is nominally an independent country, it has actually become a buffer zone between the two great powers of Chu and Qi! If the Song State rashly claims to be the king, then it will inevitably be attacked by the Qi State and the Chu State repeatedly, so the Song State will be extremely dangerous!

Under Dai Yan's strong persuasion, Zixi finally restrained his desires, but he just wanted Wei to state that Song Guoguo was weak and did not have the strength to be king, so he did not get involved in the matter of King Xiang. The Song Kingdom will uphold the fine tradition of the Song Kingdom and maintain absolute neutrality in future disputes!

Gongsun Yan was a little surprised when he saw that Song Guo was not involved, but he didn't care too much! Because in his plan, he won over the Song State, but he didn't want the territories of the Qi State and the Chu State to be connected together, so as to form an alliance!

Although the Song State is not involved in the affairs of the Prime Minister, the Song State also maintains neutrality, and it can be regarded as achieving its goal by separating Qi and Chu through the Song State!

As a result, Gongsun Yan's plan for the prime minister of the six kingdoms has become the prime minister of the five kingdoms!

In his plan of cooperation, the five kingdoms of Wei, Korea, Zhao, Zhongshan and Yan were united, so that the vast area from Yanshan in the north to Jianghuai in the south formed an extremely large alliance! This alliance accounts for nearly 40% of the entire population of the world, and from these five countries, more than one million troops can be conscripted at most!

The five countries are united, whether it is to attack Qi in the east, Chu in the south, or Qin in the west, there is no problem!

When Zhao Yong's class returned to Jinyang, Gongsun Yan rushed to Jinyang one step earlier and waited for Zhao Yong. Prior to this, Gongsun Yan had already persuaded the other monarchs of the Four Kingdoms, and now as long as Zhao Yong nodded, the Prime Minister of the Five Kingdoms would be able to form immediately!

Of course, Zhao Yong couldn't decide on such a big thing as being the king alone, so after he dealt with the affairs of Zhao Guoxifu, he returned to Handan and began to discuss the matter of the prime minister of the five kingdoms in the entire court, and see how the ministers of Zhao Guo reacted!

Today's Zhao State has just opened up Yanmen County and Yunzhong County, and it is the time for the whole country to be excited! However, regarding the matter of the prime minister of the five kingdoms, everyone's disagreement is relatively large.

Some ministers believe that today's Zhao State is a great country with ten thousand times, and it has recently opened up its territory, so of course it has enough strength to be the king! However, Zhao Guo is the king, and he can do it alone and let the country recognize it, so why bother to join everyone? With such thoughts, it is naturally the Xifu of Zhao State. These people think that the western border of Zhao State is protected by mountains and mountains, and now Zhao State has recently opened up Yanmen County and Yunzhong County, which is the most suitable time to call the king the king!

The other ministers believed that Zhao should respond to Gongsun Yan's initiative and the five kingdoms should be kings together! And everyone has no opinion on the alliance formed by the prime ministers of the five countries! However, for the dominance of this alliance, Zhao Guo must get it! In this way, Zhao Guofang can better control Yan and Zhongshan, two countries that are always stumbling behind it!

The one who holds this idea is naturally the Dongfu of Zhao State. In their eyes, Zhao's biggest enemies now are naturally Qi, Yan, and Zhongshan, which are located on the North China Plain! If you can join this Xiangwang Alliance and take charge of the entire alliance, then your back will be guaranteed, and Zhao Guo will be able to compete with Qi State for the land near Jishui unscrupulously!

As for those who accept the prime ministers of the Five Kingdoms and treat each other as equals with the four kingdoms of Wei, Han, Zhongshan, and Yan, under the current thriving national situation of Zhao State, the entire Zhao State cannot be found alone!

Such a scene made Gongsun Yan very embarrassed. Gongsun Yan is the prime minister of Wei, and what he considers is naturally the interests of Wei first! The King of Wei asked Gongsun Yan to organize such an alliance, although he had the idea of uniting together to confront the surrounding powers, but what he wanted in his heart was still to use the residual power accumulated by Wei's century-old hegemony to give orders to the middle powers in the world!

Now that Zhao Guo wants to ride on the head of Wei State, it is bearable, but it is unbearable!

When the attitude of King Wei was conveyed to Gongsun Yan in Handan, Gongsun Yan was also a little embarrassed about such a thing. In his plan, the five kingdoms are the king, and the most important of them is the attitude of Zhao Guo!

Zhao and Wei and Korea are both after the Three Jin Dynasty, and blocked the road from Yan and Zhongshan to Wei and Han, if there is no participation of Zhao, the Yan and Zhongshan countries that have been persuaded will be completely separated from Han and Wei, and the purpose of uniting the alliance through cooperation and unity will not be achieved at all!

Therefore, Gongsun Yan directly began the unique flickering Dafa of the Zongheng family, and said to the ministers of Zhao State in the court of Zhao State: "Zhao State is the country of ten thousand times, so it naturally has the strength to give orders and rule the world!" However, there are many mountains in the country of Zhao, and the terrain is blocked! Facing the powerful Qi State in the east, and the newly rising Qin State in the west, it has the threat of Zhongshan State in its heart, and the Yan State is peeping behind it, even if Zhao has ten thousand soldiers, in the face of the enemy in all directions, the strength that Zhao can use in the same place is extremely limited! In such a situation, Zhao Guo can be described as dangerous! If Zhao can participate in the meeting of the five kingdoms, then at least the threat of Zhao in the heart and north will be completely swept away! And in such a situation, Zhao can attack Qi or Qin through such an alliance, which is a great benefit to Zhao! I hope Zhao Hou can think about it carefully! ”

Although Gongsun Yan did not say that Han Wei could be an enemy of Zhao, whether it was Zhao Yongyi or Zhao Guoqun's ministers, they could understand Gongsun Yan's subtext: If Zhao Guo did not agree to the plan of alliance, he would definitely be attacked from all directions!

Therefore, the people who thought that Zhao Guo could be the king alone immediately began to abandon their views, and it seems that the only one who remained in front of Zhao Guo was to join King Xiang. However, in the entire alliance of the Xiangwang, let the Zhao State accept the management of the Wei State, which is absolutely unwilling for the ministers of the Zhao State!

In the face of such a stalemate, coupled with the fact that Zhao has the East and West Mansions to seize power, the entire Zhao State has begun to become a little crazy!

In March, nearly a month after Zhao Yong returned to Handan, on the border of Zhao and Qi, due to the competition between Zhao and Qi people for water sources, this triggered a fight between dozens of ordinary people at the bottom of the two countries!

This kind of thing, if it were in the past, when both sides maintained smooth communication, it would not easily lead to a national war similar to the fight between Wu and Chu in the past!

However, in today's stalemate, this is no longer the case! The doctor of the border town of Zhao got the hint of Handan Dongfu, and directly dispatched an army to attack the neighboring border town of Qi Wuyan, and captured Wuyan with almost no losses!

The Zhao army so easily occupied the city of Qi State, which surprised Duke Sun Yan, and he also began to think about whether it was time to redefine the strength of Zhao State in order to give Zhao State a suitable position!

However, the triumphant Zhao Guodongfu didn't know that their behavior like this had actually caused a catastrophe, they had provoked the ruthless people of Qi State, and revenge would follow!