The boat left Weiyangdu, and Wang Ji sat on the carriage, his face uncertain. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After bidding farewell to Fan Ju, he lost his previous flattering appearance, and looked majestic in front of his entourage, although his face was relaxed, he did not dare to relax in his heart, because this time out of the customs is not only related to the prime minister's national policy, but also related to his future future!

The reason why Wang Ji worked so hard to help Fan Ju enter Qin back then, and even did not hesitate to offend the marquis, naturally had his purpose. Now that Fan Ju has become the prime minister of Great Qin who is above 10,000 people under one person, and has been named the marquis, it is time to ask for a return.

So not long ago, he timidly said to Fan Ju: "In life, there are three things that are unpredictable. The king died suddenly, the prime minister died suddenly, I died suddenly, all three of these are unpredictable. In addition, there is also one thing that I can't do about it, and that is when the above three things happened, the prime minister didn't have time to recommend me to the king......"

He is demonstrating this in the future, and the good reward he said back then should be fulfilled.

Although Fan Ju has a ruthless temperament, he is never ambiguous in repaying his kindness and revenge, claiming that the grace of a meal will be repaid, and the grievances of the eyes will be repaid, and after becoming rich, he will immediately give away his wealth to those who helped him when he was in trouble.

Wang Ji asked for not money, but status, Fan Ju immediately entered the palace to show the King of Qin, stating that if there was no Wang Ji to save him, there would be no him today, and begged the King of Qin to add an official to Wang Ji.

But Qin Wangji is a rigid person, the most important thing in his life is his own power and Qin's legal decrees, the Empress Dowager Wei Ran and others control the government, destroy the law cronyism scene he remembers vividly, although he agreed to give Wang Ji a knighthood, but rejected the proposal to let him go outside to be a county guard.

"The reward of the Lord will be added to the merit, and the punishment will be judged by the guilty, the king means that the feudal officials must have the merit of the past, otherwise they will not be in accordance with the law and will not be able to obey the public." After Fan Ju came back, he said this to Wang Ji, so he gave him an errand.

"Qin can't get what he wants, Zhao Ye, now that Pingyuan Jun openly accepts the defection of the old thief Wei Qi, it is clear that he wants to go against Qin."

Wang Ji thought at first that he was asking him to go to Zhao State to force Pingyuan Jun to hand over Wei Qi, but Fan Ju shook his head: "For more than ten years, Zhao State has been a faint enemy of Qin. Accepting Wei Qi was deliberately done by Zhao Guo, and Pingyuan Jun would not obediently send Wei Qi's head because of my Qin State's request. How can I forget my duty because of my own selfishness? and pretended not to know about it, and when the situation changed and the time came, someone would naturally obediently send Wei Qi's head. ”

When a master plays chess, he never only looks at the chess pieces in front of him, but looks far away, Fan Ju was not dazzled by the hatred of the year, he bypassed Zhao Guo and saw the Qi State behind him.

"At the beginning of the year, Qin attacked Zhao, and Zhao sent hostages to Qi to seek assistance from Qi, so that he had the confidence to be an enemy of Qin, so if he wanted to make Zhao submit, he must first get rid of his wings, and there is no more effective way than to win over Qi."

With this purpose in mind, Wang Ji hurried on the road with light and simple clothes, and when he arrived at Hangu Pass, he caught up with a large convoy......

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The chariots, horses and horses, and the thousands of convoys of horses passed through the narrow road of Hangu Pass, and the six-horse-drawn chariots were as big as a moving palace, and the attendants and servants were shoulder to shoulder, and there were thousands of people, and they looked very magnificent, although most of their faces were uneasy.

This is the convoy of Marquis Wei Ran, he has just been expelled by the King of Qin, dragged the sick body out of the customs, and went to Taoqiu to seal it, because there were too many belongings dragged with him, and the speed was too slow, so he was caught up by Wang Ji.

The Hangu guard Wang Ling is the brother of Wang Ji, so he confided in Wang Ji: "The officials guarding the customs inspected the treasures and artifacts of the marquis, and found that there were more treasures than the palace. The king and the prime minister didn't even pursue it, and were willing to let him go! ”

"After all, he is the king's own uncle, not to mention that the queen mother is still here, and the king can't do too much." Wang Ji stood on the Hangu Pass, watching the down-and-out convoy pass the pass, thinking that Wei Ran was paralyzed in the car at the moment and sullen, how majestic he was when he was in power to the Qin State, and how embarrassed he was when he was forced to leave now.

At that time, King Wu of Qin died of his death, and his brothers competed for the throne, which was known as the Jijun Rebellion. At that time, thanks to Wei Ran's real power, he supported Qin Wangji and helped Qin Wang eliminate his opponents for the throne.

In the next forty years, Wei Ran relied on his special relationship with the Empress Dowager Mi to monopolize power in the Qin State, four Qin ministers in his life, many party henchmen, and also promoted Bai Qi as a general, attacked the city in the east, defeated the three Jin and Qiang Chu, and achieved outstanding results, and shocked the princes.

"It's a pity that when people get old, they will be confused after all." Wang Ji thought silently, if this Wei Ran can hand over power, after his death, at least it will be the courtesy of Yan Jun's illness, and it is not impossible to accompany the temple, why is he so greedy that he uses the army of Qin State to attack the distant Qi State, just to expand the fief?

This became a major sin for Fan Ju to overthrow Wei Ran, and he believed that the Qin State was solid, with Ganquan and Gukou in the north, Jing and Wei in the south, Long, Shu on the right, and Guan and Han on the left. There are millions of fighting in the country, thousands of chariots, attacking if it is advantageous, and defending if it is unfavorable, this is a good place for hegemony!

After being restrained by the Qin law for several generations, the people have been timid in private fights and brave in public wars, which is a good citizen who is called the king. The Qin State had both geographical advantages, people and these two favorable conditions, and it was as easy as releasing the Luzi dogs of Korea to catch lame rabbits, and it was easy to achieve hegemony. However, since the seizure of the land of Jianghan in the Chu State, for more than ten years, there has been no achievement in expanding the territory, but it was defeated first by Yan He, and then by a few, all because the Marquis Wei Ran was not loyal to the Qin State and used the wrong policy!

Fan Ju insisted that Wei Ran crossed Han and Wei to attack Qi State, purely to expand his fiefdom, but did not have the slightest interest in Qin State itself, and if he sent fewer troops, he could not damage Qi State, and if he sent more troops, he would damage Qin State itself.

What's more serious is that this is a repeat of the fact that King Min of Qi and Meng Weijun crossed Han Wei with the Qi army to attack the Chu State, fought a battle of the sand, killed the Chu army, beheaded the Chu generals, and opened up a territory thousands of miles away, but in the end, the Qi State did not even get the land the size of an inch, but Han Wei each increased the territory of half a county, and the strength increased greatly.

Wei Ran, who seemed to be unbreakable, was pulled down by Fan Ju in this way, and he was sealed when he left the customs in disgrace.

"You are extremely rich, a husband said, and he is ...... to seize the power" Looking at the convoy of the marquis who went out of the customs, Wang Ling, the guard of Hangu Pass, couldn't help but feel palpitations, Wang Ji, as the right-hand man of the new prime minister, felt that Wei Ran deserved it.

"If you are loyal to you, how can it be?" He glanced disdainfully at the end of the convoy, got off the Hangu Pass, boarded the car and continued his journey.

Different from the foreign policy when the Marquis was in power, Fan Ju was the prime minister, and Qin's foreign policy would take on a new look.

The Three Jin Dynasty and Qin are adjacent to each other, and in the next ten years, Qin will focus on the Three Jin Dynasty, and be kind to Qi Yan and Chu, so that the inch will be the inch of Qin; The ruler is also the ruler of Qin.

This is the strategy of long-distance and close-range attack!

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Fan Ju believed that if Qin wanted to swallow Han Wei, he must first defeat Zhao, and if he wanted to defeat Zhao, he must first isolate him, so he first started with a change in his attitude towards Qiguo.

He told Wang Ji in Weiyang Pavilion that after hearing that Zhao had entered Qi at the beginning of the month, he immediately asked Qin Wangji to dictate a private letter, which was written by Fan Ju and sent to Qi State.

"The letter is full of threats." Fan Ju said with a smile at the time: "The king claims that if Qi helps Zhao again, the Qin soldiers may have to go east from Taoqiu and fight another battle of Pushang." ”

The battle of Pushang was fifty years ago, a direct conflict between Qin and Qi, in the eighth year of King Xuan of Qi, Qi and Song jointly attacked Wei's boiled dates, Wei asked Qin for help, Qin Huiwen Wang sent the general Zhu Li to attack Qi with the combined forces of Qin, Wei and Han, until Pushui, the Qi army was defeated, Shengzi was killed, and Kuang Zhang was defeated and fled back.

That war made a deep impression on the Qi State, and the King of Qin brought up the old story again, and the threat was full of meaning.

"But in addition to this letter, there is also a brief letter from me, but it is extremely humble, talking about the past when he entered Qi to see the king of Qi, he sighed, and stated that Qin actually has no entanglement with Qi State, it is all Zhao State that provokes it, so Qin is very willing to reconcile with Qi!"

In this way, one long and one short two letters, the King of Qin showed toughness, Fan Ju showed softness, and both soft and hard were given, and the Qi country would be afraid, and I am afraid it would not be so firm.

Stroking the official state letter stored close to him, Wang Ji secretly thought: "The prime minister is really full of clever plans, he used Wei Qi to test the countries, and now he has also used the marquis who has lost power. Wei Ran has suppressed the cronies and officials of our king for decades, and now he is like a lost old dog, driving him to Taoqiu, which can tell Qi that the tough people in Qin have fallen, and now Fan Ju, who is friendly to Qi, is in power, and will try his best to promote reconciliation between Qin and Qi......"

One ring after another, Fan Ju's strategy is quite the essence of the art of war, and the combination of odd is difficult to guard against.

Wang Ji couldn't help but think happily: "Now that the Ming Lord is in power, those who have merit have to be rewarded, those who are capable have to be officials, those who work hard are generous, and those who have more merit have their lords, as long as I do this, the prime minister in the court can be in a high position!" ”

However, the first thing he had to do was to submit an official credential to persuade the King of Qi to change his mind, understand the reason, and move the interests to let the State of Qi expel Chang'anjun, the proton of the Zhao State!

From Xianyang to Linzi, it is two thousand miles away, even if Wang Ji travels lightly, it is still a month's walk.

By the time he arrived at Taoqiu, Qin's eastern territory, in late May, the Qi army that had previously besieged it had retreated, and Wang Ji learned from the Taoqiu guards that Anping Jun Tiandan had returned to Linzi......