Time goes back to the original battle of Hangu Pass.

When Zhang Yi and Yan Taiping's Qin-Yan alliance reached and supported him in ruling the Yan Kingdom, Yan Taiping's troops immediately withdrew from the Hezong Alliance and returned to the Yan Kingdom!

In his mind, with the short time since he left for only one or two months, no matter how strong Zizhi is, it is impossible to change the situation in Yan Kingdom. However, it was only after he returned to China that he found that the situation in the entire Yan Kingdom had completely changed!

Before he sent his troops, Zizhi, as the prime minister of Yan, was himself a powerful minister who held the military and political power of Yan State. And after Prince Ping left the Yan Kingdom, with the absolute superiority in his hands, Ziyi cleaned up a large number of nobles loyal to the royal family in one fell swoop. Subsequently, he asked the Confucian Lu Maoshou to do the work of Yan Wangxu in person.

Lu Maoshou and the three ancient kings all prevailed in the system of Zen concession to persuade Yan Wang. First of all, let Zizhi give Yan Wang a promise, guaranteeing that after he gives up, in addition to not enjoying the actual royal power, he will definitely be able to have a standard of living comparable to the current Yan Wang!

Secondly, after the King of Yan gave way, he would be completely freed from the huge government affairs of the Yan Kingdom, and he could do whatever he wanted from now on! In order to make King Yan have this interest, Lu Maoshou even found some magicians from the Qi Kingdom who were suppressed by the Yin and Yang family, persuaded King Yan to "cultivate immortals", and told King Yan that as long as he could become an immortal, he could live forever!

Obviously, Cheng Xian's attraction to Yan Wang Hui is still greater than that of being a mortal king to Yan Wang Xu!

And the most attractive thing to Yan Wangxu is the praise of Lu Maoshou and others! In their thoughts, if Yan Wang Hao can really practice the system of Zen concession, then he will be another "holy king" who practices Zen concession after the Three Kings! Its reputation will be passed on to future generations forever and admired by all generations!

After listening to Lu Maoshou's statement, Yan Wang Xue no longer rejected Zen Rang. Before Prince Yan returned to China, he had already issued an order to the whole country that Yan Guo would soon practice Zen and let the system, and Yan Wang Hui would give up the throne to the "virtuous" son of Yan State!

The system of Zen concession is a matter for King Yan to decide on his own, and as a result, those forces loyal to the royal family have nothing to say! And when Prince Yan returned to China, he found that he was no longer able to fight against Zizhi!

Considering that Prince Ping is the prince and his influence in the Yan Kingdom, in order to eliminate this influence, Zizhi further persuaded Yan Wang Hao to abolish Ji Ping's position as the crown prince!

King Yan, who was confused, immediately agreed with Zizhi's opinion, and soon officially abolished Ji Ping's position as the crown prince! Subsequently, in order to allow Zizhi to better control the power of Yan Kingdom, Yan Wang Xu took back all the official seals of more than 300 stones and handed them over to Zizhi, so that Zizhi could reappoint officials and master the power of Yan Kingdom!

After doing these things, under the witness of the subjects of Yan and even the envoys of the surrounding countries, he held a ceremony of Zen concession in Jidu, officially giving up the position of King Yan to Zizhi!

Personally promoting and witnessing the Zen Order, so that the ancient things can be reproduced in the world, which makes those Confucian scholars who came to Yan from other countries extremely excited! In their opinion, they have already made history, and in the whole world, a new saint has been born! Yan has this righteous act, and it will surely prosper in the world!

It's a pity that the matter of Yan Guochan is different from the scene where the Confucian scholars thought that Yan Guo celebrated with the whole world, and the whole world was cheering. Almost no one in the entire Yan Kingdom is really happy, and all the countries in the world, even if they go to visit the Zen Rang Grand Ceremony, no country is willing to recognize the throne of the Yan King of Zizhi!

And only a month after Chan Rang, civil strife broke out in Yan Kingdom! General Yanguo City was the first to rise up against! As an ambitious person, in his opinion, Zizhi was just a minister of King Yan before, how can he let King Yan bow now? So he forcibly raised his army and began to attack Zizhi!

Zizhi has the power of the entire Yan Kingdom, so naturally he will not want the city to be disturbed by the Yan Kingdom! So the handsome army began to fight back, and it was easy to defeat the city!

And after the city was defeated, Zizhi did not kill them all, and finally turned the army led by the city into a rogue who caused chaos in the Yan country! Subsequently, the city was led by a large army to march elsewhere, and he pointed his gaze directly at Yicheng, the capital of the Yan Kingdom, where Yan Prince Ping lived!

The city was captured and Yicheng was captured, and Taiziping disappeared. Some people say that he died in the war, and some people say that he fled to Wuzhong Mountain, and an obvious fact is: Prince Yan has completely disappeared from Yan Country since then!

And as soon as Ji Ping disappeared from Yan Kingdom, Zizhi, as a powerful minister who had experienced sinister, began to show his fangs! He mobilized all the troops at his disposal, attacked Yicheng, the capital of the Yan Kingdom, and soon broke through the city, captured the city quilt and brought it back to Jidu, and killed the city!

At the same time, he began to secretly order Ji Ping to be wanted, and it was necessary to completely solve this trouble!

At this time, Yan Guo and even the world understood that Zizhi used the method of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf to cut off the opposition forces in the entire Yan country!

Although this civil strife in the Yan Kingdom only lasted for a few months, it had a huge impact on the entire Yan Kingdom! Because of this civil war, it was mainly between Jicheng, the upper capital of Yan Kingdom, and Yicheng, the lower capital, which was originally the essence of the entire Yan Kingdom, and was the richest area of Yan Kingdom!

Now that such a civil strife has fallen, tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and wounded! The essence of the entire Yan Kingdom was ruined and completely turned into ruins! This made the people of the entire Yan Kingdom extremely dissatisfied with the original Yan Wang and the new prince!

And the sons of Yan Wangxu, in order to avoid being harmed by their sons, also fled to other countries in a hurry to take refuge!

After Yan Guo experienced such a Zen concession, the originally good country became a ruin. The people are centrifuged and the prince defects, which has become a joke in the whole world!

Yan Guo has become like this, and all countries in the world are not only laughing at it, but some people are coveting it! This is the King of Qi who has always regarded himself as the suzerainty of Yan and regarded Yan as his homeland!

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Yan Kingdom was destroyed by the Shanrong, and it was the era of Qi Huangong, the most powerful Qi State. Qi Huan was assisted by the public management of Zhong, carried out strict reforms at home, and implemented the policy of "respecting the king and conquering the king" externally, thus becoming the first overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period! At that time, as Beidi's Shanjung was strong, and many countries such as Yan State, Criminal State, and Wei State were destroyed one after another, which had seriously threatened the existence of Zhuxia!

So Qi Huan Gong led the army to crusade against Shanrong, save Xing to save the guard, and attack the Shanrong nest to the north, cut off the lonely bamboo, destroy the Lingzhi, and recaptured the hometown of Yanguo. Considering that the Qi State could not rule the large area of bitter cold land in the north for the time being, and Shanrong also needed Zhuxia to monitor it, the Duke of Qi Huan donated the northern land to the Duke of Yanzhuang and helped the Yan State re-establish the country!

Qi has always had some superior momentum towards Yan State, plus Qi State's own national strength is stronger than Yan State, and Yan State is not easy to say anything as a neighbor. In the Spring and Autumn Period, because the scope of the country's actual control was not large after all, the contradiction between Yan and Qi was not too big, but after entering the Warring States Period, the contradiction between the two neighboring countries began to intensify!

Qi Guo thinks that he has the grace to save the country in Yan State, but in Yan Guo's opinion, the current Tian Qi State is no longer the Qi State that helped Yan State survive in the past! Today's Qi country is just a group of Tian clan's rebels who have stolen the Jiang clan's country! In the eyes of the generous and sad Yan people, who value faith and righteousness, Yan Guo should repay the kindness of the Jiang family back then, drive the Tian family out of the Qi country, and let the Jiang family take the throne again!

In addition, after the Yan State stabilized the north, he always hoped to enter the Central Plains and expand his influence, and he did not want to always attend the princes' alliance as a vassal of the Qi State! In fact, there are already many contradictions between the two countries!

At such a time, Yan was in civil strife, and for the Qi State, which has always liked to take advantage, not sending troops to intervene would be simply sorry for the identity of the Qi people who love money like their lives!

The ministers of Qi have written to the king of Qi, asking the king of Qi to send troops to Yan to interfere in the civil strife in Yan and "seek justice" for the king of Yan and even the princes of Yan!

Regarding this matter, the king of Qi even personally went to the palace and personally asked the Confucian giant Mencius! After all, it is Prince Yan who is now in power in the Yan Kingdom, and behind it, there is still the power of Confucianism!

Contrary to the expectations of the King of Qi, Mencius, who had always preached "benevolent government" and opposed the king's wanton conquest, this time he actually raised his hands to support the King of Qi's crusade against Yan!

Mencius believes that now Zizhi's deception of King Yan is clearly Zen, but it is actually a rebellion! As a big country, if the Qi State allows such rebellious things to be carried out in the world, and the rebellious ministers and thieves live above the Yan State court, and do not uphold justice, then if there are rebels and rebels in the Qi State in the future, then I am afraid that there will be no other countries to stand up for the Tian family!

Mencius even thought that now the Qi State will be "a good time for King Wen of Zhou and King Wu to cut down Yan"! If the army of Qi enters the Yan Kingdom, then the Yan people will inevitably eat pot pulp to welcome the king, such a good opportunity must not be missed!

Hearing that even Mencius, who had always opposed the war, supported this war, the King of Qi was also quite excited, so he immediately began to mobilize at home and contact foreign forces, hoping that everyone would act together to increase their combat power!

After all, today's Yan Kingdom, no matter how unbearable it is, is still a medium-sized power after all. It is not difficult to defeat it, but what the King of Qi wants to do is to destroy its country, seize its land, and completely turn Yan Land into his own county! At this time, it is difficult to do it by relying on the power of Qi and one country alone!

In the East, the State of Qi is a superpower with superior power! Its strength is not like the Qin State, which relies solely on excellent systems and strong soldiers; It is also not as extensive as the state of Chu, with many lords. Although it is powerful, although it also has its own reasons, but more importantly, it has a group of subordinate brothers who surround it and listen to its orders!

Among the weaker of its subject powers, there are Lu, Teng, Zou and other Sishang states; The powerful ones are even more medium-sized powers such as Zhongshan and Song! Qi can command these small countries through marriages, cultural inspiration, and even the threat of force, and form part of Qi's power!

Under the orders of the King of Qi, the small states of Sishang, which were the real vassals of Qi, such as Lu and Teng, also sent thousands of soldiers to show their loyalty. And what Qi really attaches importance to is actually the attitude of the middle powers, Zhongshan and Song!

Zhongshan is close to Yan State, if it can help Qi State to calm the opposition forces in Yan State, after Qi State gives a lure and promises to cede several Yan Kingdom cities to Zhongshan State, Zhongshan King immediately happily agrees to send troops to Yan State!

For the Song Kingdom, a powerful country that has risen in recent years, King Qi is also very interested. In his opinion, the Song State, which can draw with the Chu State, is definitely not weak, and if it can be co-opted to go north together, it will definitely be of great benefit to the Qi State to subdue the Yan State!

At the same time, if the Song State lost soldiers and horses in the Yan State, it would also be able to weaken the Song State on another level! This is also beneficial to Qi Guo!