"I haven't seen the Queen Mother for many years, but the Queen Mother is still fine, and the minister is very pleased......"

At the end of July, Qi Anping Jun Tiandan entered Handan, and on the first day of August, Tiandan first met with King Zhao and handed over the credentials of the two countries to set up the prime minister and form an alliance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info The next day, he came to Fengtai of the Zhao Palace, and met the real ruler of the Zhao State, the Empress Dowager Zhao.

Because Empress Dowager Zhao is the daughter of King Min of Qi and the princess of Qi State, Tian Dan does not have to call herself a "foreign minister", but respectfully performs the courtesy.

Empress Dowager Zhao didn't appreciate it, and said lukewarmly: "An Pingjun doesn't need to say these scenes, the old woman's body is far from being well-described, in the past few months, I have been thinking about my young son who went to Linzi to be a hostage, it is really unpleasant, and I can't sleep at night......."

Indeed, after removing the screen, Tian Dan saw that when King Zhao Huiwen came to visit Handan in the thirtieth year, the beautiful and dignified Queen Zhao was now a lot older, although he was not yet fifty years old, but there were already a lot of silver threads on his head, and the brilliance of his cheeks and his mother's ritual were all due to heavy fat and thick powder.

The years are unforgiving, King Qi and Empress Dowager Zhao, the two brothers and sisters are not old, and Empress Dowager Zhao doesn't seem to be in a good mood, and her speech is also very scathing: "Fortunately, An Pingjun sent Wu'er back in time, but he suffered some flesh wounds......"

Tian Dan saw that Empress Dowager Zhao wanted to be angry and tried to explain, but was interrupted by her wave of her hand.

She sneered: "The old woman has been married to Linzi for twenty or thirty years from the Qi State, and the Zhao people have taken good care of her, and even a cold hair is not missing. Wu'er went to Linzi for four months, but was assassinated and almost died, An Pingjun, is it because the old woman remembered wrongly? When I left the country of Qi, the hospitality of the country of Qi was not like this! ”

This Tian Dan was a little speechless, I heard that the Empress Dowager Zhao doted on Chang'an Jun, and it really deserved her reputation, but now the Empress Dowager was in front of him, and began to be angry that Qi Guo didn't take care of it!

The eunuch on the side made Miao Xian look at his nose and nose, in his opinion, of course the Empress Dowager Zhao would be angry, her baby son was assassinated, when she heard about this, she was directly frightened and fainted, and finally woke up, under the six gods without a master, shouting to go to Linzi to see her son......

For Empress Dowager Zhao, her husband is no longer there, if the most beloved youngest son also goes, and she sends a white-haired person to a black-haired person, then do you want to live!?

Fortunately, there was no danger in the end, and when Mingyue returned to Handan, the Empress Dowager Zhao didn't say a word, and first asked dozens of imperial doctors in the Zhao Palace to line up to diagnose his pulse, and after verifying that it was indeed only a flesh wound, there was no poisoning and no sequelae, and he breathed a sigh of relief and relieved himself under Mingyue's kind words and persuasion.

But she also had a lot of dissatisfaction with the country and the king of Qi.

It was also Tian Dan's bad luck that he happened to come to the audience, so he became the punching bag of the Empress Dowager Zhao.

Tian Dan is about to become the prime minister of Zhao, and he is also the mouthpiece and eyes of the king of Qi in Handan, seeing that the face of the Empress Dowager Zhao is difficult to hide, he secretly said that it is not good, so he held up the silk book and said: "The queen mother, the widow's letter has been submitted to the king of Zhao, this is the widow's family letter, and I hope the queen mother will open the ...... in person."

Miao Xian took the silk book and handed it to the Empress Dowager Zhao, holding this fluttering silk "family letter", the Empress Dowager Zhao's mood was mixed, she was still young when she left the Qi Kingdom, and now she has not seen her brother for nearly 30 years, and even the correspondence is very rare.

He is no longer the good brother who doesn't have too much thought, and will lead the horse to take the sisters to play in the garden, the difficulty of overthrowing the country has made him utilitarian and suspicious, and he is already a king with a lot of hearts, his meanness and ruthlessness make the Empress Dowager Zhao grit her teeth, but she can understand.

Because, she is no longer the petite princess of Qi Kingdom, but the queen mother of Zhao Kingdom, who has a beloved heir, and the people of Zhao Kingdom who need her to take care of her dead husband......

However, she still secretly cares about everything in Qi Kingdom, and when Mingyue came back this time, she also brought her Qi specialties. For example, the salt of Qi State, for so many years, Empress Dowager Zhao has always insisted on using the sea salt of Qi State when she used it, and she always felt that this sea salt was more flavorful than the salt of Zhao State and Wei State......

Perhaps, this is what it is like to be home.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but smile a little, but it was fleeting, and she didn't open the silk book, but asked Tian Dan first: "Dare to ask An Pingjun, is Qi Guo's harvest good this year?" How are the people of Qidi? How is the old woman's brother? ”

Tian Dan was a little strange, and kindly reminded: "Queen Mother, the minister came to meet the Queen Mother on the order of King Qi, according to common sense, shouldn't you ask the king first, but you first ask Nian Cheng and the people, isn't it humble first and then noble?" ”

Empress Dowager Zhao smiled and said: "Otherwise, if the year is not good, how can the people make a living?" If there were no people, how could a king establish a country? If you ask Brother Wang first, this is the end of the sacrifice, as for the humbleness......"

There was nothing wrong with this, Tian Dan had no choice but to say: "The Queen Mother's words are reasonable. ”

I thought that Empress Dowager Zhao's slightly vindictive "lesson" against King Qi was over, but I didn't think about it, this was the beginning.

Next, Empress Dowager Zhao seemed to be deliberately making things difficult, and asked about the recent situation of some figures in Qi State.

The old woman remembered that there were two wise men in Linzi, Zhong Ion and Ye Yangzi, who were generous, loved the widowed, raised the lonely, rescued the poor, and made up for the shortcomings. This is to assist the monarch to feed the people, the old woman once asked Chang'anjun to visit, but found that the two of them are still white, and they have not been entrusted with important responsibilities, what are the officials in charge of visiting and recommending in the state of Qi doing? ”

"There is also the daughter of the Beigong family, because she is an only daughter, in order to take care of her blind parents, she does not marry in her old age, which is an example of women's virtue and teaches the people to obey filial piety. Why hasn't she been named a wife to this day? The two wise men have not yet been appointed, and a filial daughter is not rewarded, An Pingjun, how have you assisted Brother Wang in governing Qi all these years? ”

Tian Dan was stunned and admitted his mistake with a wry smile: "This ...... The minister is guilty of negligence. ”

Empress Dowager Zhao asked questions one after another as the princess of Qi State, and at the same time asked Tian Dan about the mistakes of King Qi, this chiseled words, said continuously, dripping, and reasonable, all of which made the unlucky Tian Dan speechless, he secretly thought, no wonder Chang'an Jun is hanging in the river at the mouth of Linzi, it turns out that this tricky and sharp is learned from his mother!

said that Empress Dowager Zhao was rude, she was concerned about her mother's family affairs; said that Empress Dowager Zhao was domineering, but she was from the perspective of thinking about the Qi country. The most terrifying thing is, why does she even know the things of these little people clearly, is it Chang'an Jun who has been looking for her, or has she been caring about Qi Guo?

After saying this, Empress Dowager Zhao opened the "family letter" written to her by King Qi in a hurry, and sure enough, it was basically full of scenes, and even the handwriting was not like what King Qi wrote.

Looking at those familiar and unfamiliar Qi State seal characters, Empress Dowager Zhao sighed, and the resentment that King Qi didn't take care of her son gradually disappeared, and said earnestly:

"I remember when Mencius entered the palace of Linzi Qi to give a lecture, he openly claimed that 'the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light', which caused an uproar among the people, and my grandfather King Xuan was also greatly frightened, but I think it makes sense."

"Those who have won the hearts of the people are the Son of Heaven, those who have received the consent of the Son of Heaven are princes, and those who have received the consent of the princes are doctors. If the princes do not fulfill their duties, they will endanger the society, and the people will oppose him and change the king. ”

After saying these words that Mencius said back then, the Empress Dowager Zhao sighed: "The old woman didn't understand the deep meaning of this remark, and after coming to the Zhao country, she was shocked to realize that the Tian family replaced the Lu family, Zhao Wei and Han carved up the Jin country, and my father King Min was abandoned by the people for his perverse behavior, so he couldn't come out with this sentence." The reason why the old woman complained so much about An Pingjun was because she also regarded Qi Country as her mother country, and she did not forget the teacher of the future, and only hoped that Brother Wang would ...... And the prince of Qi can remember......"

"If the minister can return to Linzi, he will definitely convey it on behalf of the Queen Mother." Tian Dan was deeply touched, no wonder Zhao Guo was able to stabilize quickly after the death of King Huiwen, it seems that it is inseparable from the Queen Mother's way of governing the country by valuing the people, he is loyal to the Qi State, and only hopes that after a hundred years of King Qi, the queen can also do as good as the Empress Dowager Zhao.

Thinking of the interests of the Qi State, his mind turned sharply, and seeing that the Empress Dowager Zhao was no longer playing a petty temper, he bowed again: "This time Chang'an Jun was assassinated, although the Qi State was not well taken care of, but in the final analysis, the assassin was too insidious and vicious......

It's okay that Tian Dan didn't mention it, but as soon as he mentioned the assassination, Empress Dowager Zhao was angry.

Now what annoys Empress Dowager Zhao the most is those assassins who killed the heavens, as well as her good son-in-law Yan Wang.

Back then, King Yan Hui was killed by the powerful minister Gongsun Cao, and now King Yan, as the younger brother of King Yan Hui, was supported by Gongsun Cao to ascend the throne. At that time, in order to let Zhao State block the soldiers of the four countries, Yan Guo grovelled in the national book and regarded himself as a son and nephew, and King Yan also asked Zhao Guo to marry a princess to be the queen of Yan. King Zhao Huiwen considered his old friendship with King Yan Zhao, so he stepped forward to block the soldiers of Han and Wei and quelled the matter......

Who would have thought, this King Yan is a white-eyed wolf, now that seven years have passed, not only does he not think about Yan Zhao's in-laws, but also forgets Zhao Guo's kindness to him back then, and he is wholeheartedly with Qin, and he also attacked Zhongshan in Zhao State, and even sent someone to assassinate her beloved son! Vainly trying to separate the relationship between Qi and Zhao!

Thinking of this, the Empress Dowager Zhao couldn't wait to immediately order the army to attack Yan, but unfortunately the generals of Zhao suggested that the border should be guarded first, and then send a general after the autumn harvest was completed.

Tian Dan's entry into Zhao is also closely related to this matter, under the mediation and planning of Chang'an Jun, Qi and Zhao coordinated the dispatch of troops, but in terms of details, it still needs to wait for the two sides to slowly argue.

Next, the atmosphere was not as tense as at the beginning, the Empress Dowager Zhao and Tian Dan talked about the old news of Qidi without a word, and at the end of the audience, Tian Dan saw that the Empress Dowager Zhao was in a good mood, so he put forward his plea.

"The queen mother, the minister and the Yan country also have a deep enmity, this time Qi and Zhao coordinated the troops, the momentum is enough, but the use of troops, the most taboo order out of the door, if the generals of Qi and Zhao are suspicious, it will inevitably delay the fighter, and even lead to defeat. Therefore, the minister has a reluctant request, let me lead the Zhao army as Zhao Xiang, Qi and Zhao are united, why should Yan Guo not be broken! ”

Empress Dowager Zhao couldn't help but be stunned, a little incredulous: "An Pingjun...... Want to be a general of Zhao and the Northern Expedition to Yan? ”

"The minister is a little old." Tian Dan smiled a little ashamedly, and pointed to the hair under his crown: "The hair is slightly white, and the King of Qi also thinks that I am weak, let me stay in Handan, don't go to the front line in person, but the minister hopes to break the Yan Kingdom before he dies, as for the truth of the minister's intentions, Chang'an Jun should know!" ”