Chapter 183: Jicheng

"Who is Pang Xuan? Does Brother Bracket know? ”

That night, Mingyue had been thinking about the person who was recommended to him when the drama Xin was leaving, the name Pang Xuan seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember what he did in history, maybe he was an unknown hermit, so Mingyue hadn't heard anyone talk about it when she was in Handan. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

So he asked Zhao Kuo next door to come over to warm the wine and talk at night, and by the way, he asked where this Pang Xuan was sacred.

"I heard my father say the name of this man."

Half a cup of warm wine, Zhao Kuo thought about it, and also remembered the deeds related to Pang Xuan.

It turned out that Pang Xuan was after the Wei general Pang Juan, and the Pang family was exiled to the Zhao State after the Wei State lost power. He and Xi Xin are childhood friends, because of the family art of war, is a well-known genius boy, at the age of ten he was familiar with Sun Wu, at the age of fifteen can already talk about the current situation, so King Wuling occasionally asks Pang Xuan some art of war and state affairs.

Hearing this, Mingyue couldn't help but glance at Zhao Kuo, so to speak, when this Pang Xuan was young, wasn't he very similar to Zhao Kuo in front of him?

"According to my father, at that time, King Wu asked Pang Xuan Sun Tzu in the Art of War, 'A hundred battles are won, and those who are not good are also good, and those who are good are also victorious without fighting, and those who are good are also good'. The use of stratagem is to confuse the monarch of the enemy country and confuse the country. Because of personnel, it is to buy the people of the enemy country, so that the king cannot tell the truth, and when the enemy country is in chaos, then the war can be conquered. In the past, a small country could defeat a big country, which relied on the art of nocturnal conspiracy, which was the reason why Yin Shengxia, Zhou Shengshang, and Yue Shengwu were victorious...... After hearing this, King Wu praised and said, "When the widow hears this, the sun and the moon have a self-observation......"

Zhao Kuo said: "On that day, my father was on the side with Dai Anyang Jun's son, so I could hear this. ”

At this time, the young Pang Xuan was already familiar with conspiracy and the art of war, and King Zhao Wuling also admired him a lot, and his future was immeasurable, but it was a pity that King Zhao Wuling died in the Dune Rebellion, and Zhao Hao, Le Yi, and Ju Xin were all disappointed and ran away, and Pang Xuan was no exception.

"However, according to my father, Pang Xuan did not go to the monarch of another country at that time, but went to the south, worshiped the Taoist famous scholar Que Guanzi as a teacher, and since then he has not been able to find out, and occasionally can hear about some of his words and deeds in Chu and Qi......

"I don't want to be an all-rounder." Mingyue smiled, thinking that Pang Xuan should have a connection with his old friend Ju Xin, but this person's whereabouts are uncertain, where to find it? Even if they find it, they may not be willing to go out of the mountain in the style of Taoist hermits.

He had to put the matter aside for the time being, and continued to concentrate on this mission, and the next day, they set off again, and approached Jicheng, the capital of Yanshang, in a light snow that came and went.

There are dense jujube trees and chestnut trees outside Jicheng, and the people of Jicheng are also the only ones in the Seven Kingdoms who often take jujube and chestnut as the main food in autumn and winter.

Walking through these bare woods, Mingyue finally saw the outline of the city wall of Yanshangdu......

Looking at Jicheng from afar, listening to the familiar and unfamiliar evening drum and morning bell, Mingyue's heart is complicated.

"I don't want to go back to the Fifth Ring Road of the imperial capital after more than 2,000 years."

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"Yan is also a metropolis between the Bohai Sea and Jieshi, Qi and Zhao in the south, Hu in the north, and Raccoon Dog and North Korea in the east, enjoying the rapery of fish and salt, and there are thousands of chestnuts and jujubes......"

The location of Jicheng, the capital of Yan Kingdom, is near Guang'anmen Gate in Beijing in the later generations, where Mingyue used to pass by by on the subway in the past, but now there are no high-rise buildings. However, the scale of this Yanshangdu is far inferior to Handan, Linzi, and Wuyang, perhaps because the construction age is too early, the city is a little narrow, the streets and alleys are also a little crowded, and there is no big country with a broad bearing, no wonder the kings of Yanguo prefer Wuyang.

Fortunately, although it is winter, there is no thick haze here, the snowflakes falling on the tiles of the city wall look exceptionally clean, and although the northwest wind blows fiercely, the sky is still clear, and it is not a world of dust, sand and dust. The mud left behind by the car on the road, there was no trace of snow white in the gray and black, and the moment Mingyue got off the bus in the pavilion, she unexpectedly did not step on a puddle of snow water, but was covered with rutted ice.

The wax moon has arrived, and the temperature has plummeted below freezing, and the dripping water has turned into ice.

However, what worried him was not the weather, but the request to meet King Yan in a letter, and he was prevaricated by Su Belly, and it seemed that King Yan was not very happy to see him.

It wasn't until the third day of arriving in Jicheng that Mingyue was able to enter the palace and meet his brother-in-law, who is also the current King of Yan, in the Ningtai Palace.

Yan Wang Minglang, the youngest son of King Yan Zhao, is over forty years old, and he looks weak and lacking in blood and blood, which is very different from the men of Yan Kingdom who are strong in blood and qi seen along the way in Mingyue. Although he is wearing the crown clothes of the princes, but to borrow a sentence from Mencius, it is "not like a human king", his eyes are not bright, and his back is a little hunched, just in terms of appearance, even Zhao Wang Dan is not as good.

In Mingyue's heart, she suddenly felt contempt, such a person is indeed like a guy who abandoned Wuyang and fled north when he was frightened. Because he was the king of Yan Kingdom, Mingyue held the festival in his hand and bowed respectfully.

"Zhao envoy Chang'an Jun Gongzi Guang, I have seen King Yan, and I greet King Yan and Queen Yan on behalf of the widow, and I wish King Yan and Queen Yan no harm!"

"Childe, don't be polite."

King Yan glanced at Su Bei, squeezed out a smile, pretended to be kind and asked Mingyue to get up, and greeted him with warmth, this time Yan Ren didn't get rid of Ma Wei. After a long time, the conversation was pulled back to the topic by Mingyue: "The king sent an envoy to Handan to ask for peace, and the foreign minister came to Yan this time in order to complete the peace talks between the two countries, and also wanted to ask the king for the queen mother, Yan Zhao was originally a country of in-laws, why did the king violate the old alliance and send troops to attack Zhao, and do this thing that is painful for relatives and happy for enemies?" ”

King Yan knew that he was at a loss, and said hesitantly: "This time Yan Zhao fought with troops, it is really a great achievement for the border generals, and they rashly invaded your country, and the widow has no such intention!" ”

As soon as he said this, King Yan began to talk about him left and right, and actually pushed the responsibility for starting the war to the front-line generals, which meant that Gao Yang Jun Rong was responsible for it, Mingyue couldn't help but sigh with emotion, feeling sorry for Rong Yan for such a non-responsible king.

In addition, King Yan, like Su Belly, strenuously denied that he had sent assassins to assassinate Mingyue.

"Chang'an Jun is not only the younger brother of Queen Yan, but also like the widow's own brother, how can there be a reason for the brother to send someone to assassinate the younger brother? There must be some misunderstanding in this......"

"There was indeed a misunderstanding in this matter."

Mingyue did not deny it, he took over the conversation and said: "The assassination of Linzi is full of suspicions, and the foreign ministers have long suspected it, if it is really the assassin of Yan State, how can he blatantly take Yan Guo's money and silk?" ”

King Yan nodded hurriedly: "Not bad, not bad." ”

Mingyue looked at the hall and said in a low voice: "Please also ask the king to retreat, the foreign minister has a confidential matter to tell." ”

When King Yan heard this, he immediately let the idle people and others go out, and after a while, only King Yan, Su Bei, and two guards were left in the palace.

Su belly smiled: "I don't know what is important to Chang'anjun, he has been hiding from me all the way." ”

"This matter is related to the relationship between the three kingdoms of Yan, Zhao and Qi, and the foreign ministers really dare not say it at will."

Mingyue let out a long sigh, and said to King Yan and Su Belly, who were hung up by him: "Actually, I have found out, it turns out that the mastermind who assassinated me in Linzi was not Yan Ren, all of this was done by Qi Guo!" In order to make Yan Zhao turn against him! And the country of Qi profited from it! ”

PS; There are two more chapters in the evening