This is the third day that the envoy of Zhongshan State ran to Wei Hou to cry, although the idlers in front of the Wei Palace did not know what was going on in the palace, but when the gate of the Wei Palace was suddenly opened, and several of the carriages were neatly driven out under the escort of hundreds of warriors, it still attracted the attention of many people. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info This is also a common thing in Anyi, so no one cares.

At noon, the news was gathered in a small courtyard in the central area of the city, and it was sent to the agreed place in the afternoon, and then it was quietly brought into the palace by the royal guards who seemed to be loitering, and when it was presented to Zhou Bian, it was already afternoon Shen Shi.

"Coming out of the east gate, the intersection is to the north, and it looks like it is an envoy to a big country, then it is either Yan or Zhao, this must be the envoy sent by Wei to Zhao, and Wei Hou does not want to use troops before the alliance." Ning Yue analyzed.

"If the envoy is really sent, it must be that Wei Hou doesn't want to use troops immediately, it seems that we are too worried." Zhou Bian wiped the sweat on his head and said, the weather is already hot.

"In this way, in order to confirm the news, let's bring two jugs of wine and visit Gongzi Ang in the evening." Ning Yue arched his hand.

"Okay, please." Zhou Bian smiled slightly.

The news is basically about Ning Yue and Wang Sunman, and the main object is Gongzi Ang and others who are good friends with the royal family and even sympathize with the royal family, and the most important thing in the Anyi royal family is soju, so there are a lot of preparations here, and of course Gongzi Ang and others have drunk a lot.

The night did not make Zhou Bian wait too long, and when it was not completely dark, Ning Yue came back with a drunken step.

Although he was full of alcohol, Ning Yue was not actually drunk, but became energetic as soon as he saw Zhou Bian.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty is fortunate not to be dishonored, and it has been confirmed that Marquis Wei will not send troops before the alliance." Ning Yue's face was still glowing red from drinking.

"How do I confirm?" Zhou Bian asked.

"After three rounds of drinking, when his subordinates pretended to inadvertently talk about hearing about the envoy of Zhongshan Kingdom, Gongzi Ang smiled directly, today the prince has arranged for a general to go to Zhao State to say, guess which general?" Speaking of this, Ning Yue paused, but waved his hand as if he had reacted immediately.

"This is all said by Gongzi Ang, it's not that the subordinates want to ask the king to guess, but that Gongzi Ang wants to ask the subordinates to guess. However, his subordinates naturally couldn't guess it, so after smiling, Gongzi Ang said that it was the old general of Luoyang. ”

"Luo Yang? I really haven't heard of it. Zhou Bian shook his head.

"Back to the king, this Luo family is a veteran nobleman of the Wei State, Luo Yang is a person who has followed the Marquis of Wei Wu to fight, the merits are high and hard, and the children of the Luo family are also more soldiers, and the third generation of King Luo Wen and Luo Wu have all seen it."

Hearing Ning Yue's words, Zhou Bian recalled that the one named Luo Wen was the commander who Wei Hou first arranged to protect him, but later changed to Baning, but he still had a little impression that he was a strict soldier, and that Luo Wu seemed to have heard of it, and he was very brave in battle, and he made meritorious contributions in the battle of Qi because of the war book.

So Zhou Bian nodded and said that he still remembered.

"The king, when it came to this at the banquet, Gongzi Ang smiled and said, is this Luo Yang a person who can act as a messenger. Then a few people around Gongzi Ang joked, then why did the king send him? Gongzi Ang smiled and said nothing, and when he asked again, he said, this is the genius of the king! Then this matter came to this point, but what Wei Hou meant, his subordinates understood. ”

"How?" Zhou Bian asked.

"As I said earlier, this Luo Yang is a general, and he is quite old, but this is not the point, the key point is that this Luo ** does not know how to make an envoy, and he has never been a messenger, and then it is said that this person is short-tempered, not good at words, but brave in battle, and a very rough man." Ning Yue explained with a smile.

"Such a person can also be on an envoy?" Zhou Bian said.

"Yes, although this Luoyang person is coarse, but the title is high, it is the secretary of Wei and the marquis of Wu, so a secretary of law also attaches great importance to Zhao State. However, Wei Hou is also high here, because although Luo Yang is noble, he is short-tempered, so let him send an envoy, it is very likely that he will quarrel with Zhao Hou on the spot, not to mention persuading Zhao Jun to retreat, it is possible to provoke Zhao Jun to come directly to fight Wei State, so Wei Hou is openly trying to persuade Zhao Jun to retreat, but in fact, Wei Hou does not want Zhao Jun to retreat at all. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Bian couldn't help but nodded, it seems that it is also very important to choose an envoy in the future, in order to achieve the goal, it is really important to choose the right person, and you can also learn things from Wei Hou.

"Well, since it has been determined that Wei Hou is not ready to send troops now, then we must take good precautions for Wei Hou to come in a few months, and we will still carry out the original plan." Zhou Bian nodded.

This worry and verification was just a small episode, and Zhou Bian soon put it behind him and continued to study how to delay Wei's hegemony, or help Zhao's plan.

But just two days later, Wei Hou made a little joke to Zhou Bian again, he didn't think that on this day, the army of Wei stationed in the camp outside Anyi actually developed a team of 10,000 people to go east, Zhou Bian hurriedly ordered Ning Yue to inquire, this time he went directly to inquire, but the Wei people did not care, but told the royal family an unexpected result, these 10,000 people actually went to serve Zhou Bian.

It turned out that he was going to the land of Fengze to build a palace or something like a building for the land of the alliance, hearing this result, Zhou Bian smiled, it turned out that he thought about it too much, and he thought he was going to Zhongshan Country to the east, but he didn't think that Fengze was also in the east. Zhou Bian believes that although the Wei people are under the banner of building a palace for the Son of Heaven, they are actually built for Wei Hou himself, and the Wei Hou will never want to have a trace of coldness in the palace scene of the court meeting the Son of Heaven and the alliance of the world, and the people love face since ancient times.

Time flies, a few days later, Zhou Bian received a letter from Luoyang, in which Taishi and Bai Gui and others were deeply concerned about Zhou Bian's concerns, and also expressed their resolute implementation of the king's strategy, and at the same time Bai Gui also mentioned that he could secretly contact Gongsun Qi in South Korea, who hated Wei deeply and could contact him, so that he could come forward to communicate with Chu to deal with Wei together. Zhou Bian thought about it carefully and thought that it was indeed feasible and could be used as a supplement to other ways to communicate with the nobles of Chu in the commercial channel, so he replied to the letter and approved, also asking that the people of the royal family should not be caught in it, after all, the royal family is now wrestling with the Marquis of Wei, and it is like walking on thin ice, and it is not a wrong step.

In the blink of an eye, it has been more than 20 days since Su Rui accepted a thousand soldiers, and he finally got Su Rui's official report, Su Rui claimed that after these 25 days of training with all his heart and soul and even eating and living with these 1,000 people, he finally practiced it and could take it back to Luoyang.

Five days earlier than the time given by Zhou Bian, Zhou Bian believes that Su Rui must have put a lot of effort into it, since he has decided to integrate into the royal family, Zhou Bian believes that Su Rui will definitely do the first thing he officially gave him.

Thinking back and forth, Zhou Bian decided to give Su Rui a chance to perform, and the parade was scheduled for the third day.

Although Zhou Bian was already very low-key, as soon as Zhou Bian went out, a large number of Wei doctors, generals, and warriors followed, and they drove out of the city in a huge group.

The military parade is very simple, but it is half an hour smaller, because there is no weapon for these Qi people, so there is no related content of martial arts, some are just queue drills, 1,000 people are divided into ten squads, run together, advance together, stop together, etc., the main performance is an order to prohibit.

Although it is far less than the military parade of later generations, and it is not as good as the elite soldiers trained when the royal family was just returning to Luoyang, the neatness of these thousand soldiers and the speed of response to orders still made Zhou Bian nod with satisfaction, after all, he has only practiced for more than 20 days, it seems that Su Ruiguo has lived up to his expectations and can basically implement the order and prohibition, which shows that Su Rui's control over these thousand people is already very high, enough to lead the team back to Luoyang.

After the parade, Ning Yue delivered a speech on behalf of the royal family, expressing praise and higher requirements, and then returning to the city.

During the whole process, Zhou Bian had been observing, not only observing Su Rui's soldiers, but also observing the attitudes of the Wei people who followed. Zhou Bian noticed that most of the Wei people, especially those who seemed to be Gongzi and some samurai, came with a contemptuous attitude, and still laughed when they left, it seems that these young people still did not regard the Qi people or the royal family as a thing, but the elderly Wei doctor, as well as several generals, including Gongsun or others, gradually changed their faces from nonchalant to solemn attention in the process of following and watching.

Zhou Bian knew that Gongsun had seen blood on the battlefield and led soldiers, he must have felt the changes in this Qianqi people, and he must have known the importance of orders and prohibitions to an army, and the same should be true for several other generals whose faces have changed.

So, on the carriage back to the city, Zhou Bian told Ning Yue about his findings and concerns, "Are we too high-profile in this military parade?" Could it have attracted the attention of the Wei people? Will the Marquis of Wei forcibly leave it for borrowing like he did with Dongqiang, the son of the Wei Dynasty? ”

"At this juncture, the Wei State should not leave Su Rui behind." Ning Yue groaned.

"If they really want to force Su Rui to stay, the king, you can go to Wei Hou to cry, and leave the rest to your subordinates." Ning Yue added.

"Then what this king is more worried about is that if Su Rui's ability to lead troops is valued by the Wei people, will the Wei people think that since the Zhou family can capture Su Rui, wouldn't there be a more powerful general than Su Rui? This has caused the Wei people to be wary of our royal family, which is inconsistent with the low-key strategy we set when we left Luoyang with the Wei army last year. Zhou Bian has obviously begun to introspect, or regret a little.

But seeing Ning Yue shook his head, "Great King, no, no matter how strong the generals in my royal family are, they are only the land of Heluo, how can they compare to the threat of Zhao Wei and other big powers to the Wei State?" The Marquis of Wei held the king hostage, just to borrow the name of the king, and his subordinates thought about it carefully, and said that they were worried about the revival of my Zhou family, and there would still be a little bit of it, but it was definitely not the main thing. Therefore, the king can rest assured that for a long time to come, the Wei State will not regard my Zhou Room as the main opponent. ”

Zhou Bian nodded in agreement.

I only heard Ning Yue continue, "In addition, the king said a few days ago that Marquis Wei only has the idea of hegemony today, and when he becomes strong in the future, he may not know how to look at my royal family, these words have inspired His Majesty." ”

"Please." Zhou Bian turned his head in interest.

"No!" Ning Yue saluted.

"The king, when he just left Luoyang last year, the king and his ministers decided that the king would not speak up, and everything would be dealt with by the ministers."

"Yes." Zhou Bian nodded, this is to keep a low profile for himself, so as not to let the Wei people see their superiority and not let him go back to China.

"Your Majesty, thank you for your trust. Now, the ministers think that in addition to the king keeping a low profile, the ministers are waiting in Luoyang, but they have to behave in a high-profile manner. Now under the influence of Zhou Bian, Ning Yue has also learned such a fresh word as low-key and high-profile.

"How?" Zhou Bian seemed to have thought of something.

"That's the case, if Luoyang is also as low-key as the king, then the Wei people will despise my royal family, maybe they don't care about the dignity of my royal family at all, and always treat my royal family as a puppet."

"On the contrary, if only the king is low-key, the Wei people will only despise the king, and Luoyang shows a certain strength, which will make the Wei people scruple and feel that my royal family is not free to knead, so maybe they will be more willing to put the seemingly useless king back in Luoyang."

"Makes sense." Zhou Bian immediately nodded.

"Please forgive your subordinates for their disrespectful words." Ning Yue bowed his head and said.

"Ning Qing's words are very reasonable, this king has not yet adopted it, how can he blame it?" Zhou Bian said with a smile. "By the way, how many soldiers are there in Luoyang, and what are they doing at the moment?"

"Back to the king, there are still 20,000, and some time ago I was developing land in Luoyang Xiye." Ning Yue replied respectfully.

"If the land is developed, let's let them step up their training, but don't be compared to Su Rui's thousand Qi people." Zhou Bian said with a smile.

Ning Yue also laughed, and the hearty laughter came out of the car, only to hear Gongsun or frowning not far behind the car, thinking that Ning Yue had told the young son of heaven some joke.

The weather in June is already very hot, as far as the lunar calendar is concerned, June is actually the hottest month of the year, after returning from the parade, Zhou Bian stayed in the house, enjoying the fan service of the maids, and at the same time began to watch the dancing girls sent by Wei Hou dancing or ancient or elegant or gorgeous dances, at the same time Zhou Bian also has a beautiful little maid around him, that is, the cold and beautiful girl captured by the Wei army outside Xinzheng City, after listening to Ning Yue's words on the way back from the parade, Zhou Bian accepted her calmly.

On the third day after the parade, despite the heat of the weather and the retention of the Wei people, Su Rui still led a thousand recruits on the road to Luoyang. It's just that he can't push the kindness of the Wei people, on the way back, Wei still sent two hundred soldiers to escort him, and Wei did not wait for the royal family to ask for his escort as the royal family guessed at the beginning, but took the initiative, just like Ning Yue said later, Wei was afraid that before he arrived in Luoyang, these Qi people would run away.

Although China two thousand years ago did not have the greenhouse effect of later generations, nor did it have the heat island effect of millions of big cities in later generations, but it still made Zhou Bian feel a little hot, the main reason is that people in this era, especially nobles, have to wear robes at any time.

It's just that what Zhou Bian didn't expect was that in the hottest ten days, ice cubes were actually sent to the Wei Palace, and a carriage was full of horses in one day.

Time passed quickly, and it was the end of June in a blink of an eye, probably because of the heat, or the discussion had already been discussed, and the quarrel in the Wei Palace was much quieter during this time.

But at the end of June, more than ten days after Su Rui left with his troops, the news that the first team of the engineering corps led by Su Rui had arrived in Luoyang safely.

Zhou Bian, who received the news, pursed his lips, and it took eight days for all the staff to arrive, which was already extremely good, but looking back at the book written by the Taishi, Zhou Bian became angry, what he didn't expect was that when Su Rui's 1,000 people returned to Luoyang, the old nobles in Luoyang City actually made trouble, united and ran to the Queen Mother to cry, saying that they had sacrificed hundreds of slaves to guard Luoyang City for the royal family, but the royal family now got a thousand prisoners, but they were not rewarded.

Seeing this Zhou Bian was very angry, although the bamboo slip did not say it, but Zhou Bian could imagine the grimaces of these old nobles, they must be saying that the previous king's rules and captives were to be rewarded to the nobles, they must be saying that the young man was young and ignorant, and he was provoked by traitors in a foreign country, and so on.

For the contribution of these nobles to the royal family, Zhou Bian will not forget, originally thought that he would compensate for the money in the future, but he didn't expect that now it is almost called a forced palace, Zhou Bian believes that any person in power will not like the feeling of being manipulated by his subordinates, angry, Zhou Bian carefully looked at the list of nobles who made trouble, after reading it, Zhou Bian breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, there are no Tianyi, Yiying, Xin Zhongli, Zhao Piao, Wang Shou and Du He and other nobles that Zhou Bian still values more, and these nobles who make trouble are mostly surnamed Wang and Zi, So don't ask, it's a branch of the royal family, and more importantly, these people are not the families that gave the most domestic slaves at the beginning, and the most of the people who made trouble in Zhou Bian's memory were only one thousand and one thousand, and most of them didn't even have a hundred.

Looking back, Zhou Bian's anger disappeared a little, it turned out that under the persuasion of Taishi, Tian Yi and others, these nobles finally dispersed, Zhou Bian didn't know what the Taishi promised, but Zhou Bian believed that they would not make decisions for themselves, and what Zhou Bian cared about the most was that in the process of persuasion, Tian Yi, Yi Ying and other old nobles played a great role.

There are still some people available, Zhou Bian couldn't help but sigh.

Then Bai Gui's letter also mentioned that the next day these nobles saw that the thousand captives were actually stationed outside the city and began to build roads, and it was clear from their conversation that these nobles had a lot in their hearts. This made Zhou Bian couldn't help but smile.

Putting down the bamboo slips, Zhou Bian secretly kept this matter in his heart, now that he is in a different place, many things should be talked about when he goes back, and now he still has to worry about the current affairs, because Zhou Bian heard that the envoys and doctors of the countries will return to China next month.