Puyang is the capital of the country, and it also has an extremely domineering name: Diqiu. The mausoleum of the emperor is here, and it is reasonable to say that it is a good place for outstanding individuals, but now the defense of the country is so depressed that it is almost losing the status of a prince.

Although Weijun's city palace retains the pattern since the Spring and Autumn Period, it still looks like a great city, which is different from the prosperity of the city, but the palace room shows a decadent and dilapidated appearance. Not only are there few guards, but even the palace maids are also shabby - although the women of the defense of the country are also known for their enchanting beauty, but the ones with good appearance have been sent to please the King of Wei, and the rest can only be picked and selected for the servants of the wife of the guard.

Here, Mingyue met Wei Jun's public period.

Gong Ji is the 42nd generation of monarchs of the country, which sounds like a long history, leaving behind the Zhao Wei, Han Tian, and Qi countries that have been inherited for less than ten generations, but today's Weiguo has to rely on these rising generations to wagging their tails and begging for mercy in exchange for survival.

More than 100 years ago, at that time, the Zhao State was still bent on developing to the south, and the Wei State was the land that the Zhao State first wanted to annex, when Zhao attacked and defended and fell into 73 townships, if it were not for the Wei State to send the general Pang Juan to the rescue, the Wei State would have perished.

After that, Wei Guo fell into the cracks of the three great powers of Wei, Zhao and Qi, left and right, cutting a city to Wei Xiang for Tang Muyi today, and sending a city to Qi envoys tomorrow to beg them to say more good things in front of the king of Qi. So the country is cut and occupied, and now there are only Puyang and a few surrounding small towns left......

However, the geographical location of Puyang is extremely important, the plain of the river is flat, and the roads are reaching

Chong Yao, Qi Zhao with a belt, elbows and armpit beams, plus Puyang's emaciated camels are larger than horses, and the population is quite large, so it has become a must for the princes.

Wei Jun naturally understands the situation of his country, so whenever the princes and princes and feudal monarchs cross the border, he must greet them ceremoniously and make friends with them. And Pingyuan Jun may be the most valuable investment for Wei Jun to succeed to the throne for more than 20 years, and he doesn't know how much money he spent to feed Ping Yuanjun, so in recent years, Pingyuan Jun has spoken in Handan, and Zhao Guo's attitude towards Wei Guo has improved.

Now, Chang'an Jun, who is full of Yan Zhao Qi, came to congratulate him on his birthday, and Wei Jun's public period was even more happy, sending people to the border to wait for him again and again, and waiting at the palace gate to greet him.

Therefore, when Mingyue first saw the groveling and guarded the monarch's public period, his impression of him was that "he is not like a human king, so he is not afraid of it".

After meeting, the two inevitably greeted each other for a while, but soon, the anxious Wei Jun invited Mingyue into the secret room to talk in detail - in fact, the birthday celebration is fake, and Mingyue's real purpose here is to promise Pingyuanjun to help him deal with the matter of defending the country.

A month ago, Duke Wei Jun, who had been secretly in contact with Pingyuan Jun, wrote a letter for help to Handan, saying that his younger brother Gongzi Nan had the heart to seize the throne! And after the deed is completed, it is likely that Wei will be dedicated to Wei, and Wei will lose his neutral status between Zhao and Wei and become the feudal monarch of Wei......

As soon as he entered the secret room, Wei Jun, who was in his forties, ignored his status as a monarch and bowed to Mingyue Chang: "Chang'anjun, widow...... Since I succeeded to the throne, I have always been a vassal to Zhao and served the first king of Zhao with great respect. “

Mingyue didn't ask for it, and hurriedly avoided the table, after some training in Qi and Yan, he was also quite proficient in foreign affairs, so Pingyuan Jun handed over this secret mission to him.

"As far as I know, Wei Jun is not just a minister to Zhao." He said with a smile: "When King Qi Min passed through the guard, Wei Jun actually took the initiative to give up his palace and let King Qi Min live, and called him a king, avoiding himself as a minister? ”

This is a fact, twenty years ago, when King Qi Min lost Linzi, he came to a reverse escape and ran to Puyang, the country. Wei Jun ignored the opposition of the ministers, received the king of Qi Min, although the country of Qi was captured by Le Yi, but after all, the king of Qi Min is the person who has called the emperor, the tiger died and the aftermath is there, when will the country be restored, the Yan country of the year after the rebellion of the son, is not it to come back from the dead? So Wei Jun was very polite to King Qi Min, and as long as King Qi Min asked for it, he tried his best to meet it.

Although King Qi Min lost his country, he did not restrain his arrogant character at all outside, he was not satisfied with everything in Puyang, either because the palace was small or because the palace maid was not good-looking, and Wei Jun scolded and scolded him, and simply regarded him as a slave. Wei Jun was still young at that time, and he endured it again and again, but the ministers couldn't bear it, so they drove King Qi Min out of Wei Guo.

"This ......" mentioned the past, and Wei Jun was immediately embarrassed.

Fortunately, Chang Anjun pointed to himself again and said: "Actually, I am also the grandson of King Qi Min, Wei Jun has treated King Qi Min with benevolence and righteousness, although there is no good result in the end, but even the queen mother has no intention of blaming, only gratitude." “

"That's good, that's good, alas, I wanted to serve King Qi Min all the time, but the minister was unwilling, and sent troops to chase him away......"

Before Wei Jun could breathe a sigh of relief, Mingyue smiled again: "But in addition to King Qi Min, Wei Jun also called Qin, Wei and even Yan Du?" The annual gifts, also in duplicate, were sent to Linzi, Handan, Daliang and Xianyang. “

At this time, Wei Jun couldn't explain it well, so he had to insist: "Although I defend the country and claim to several countries at the same time, my heart has always been only towards Handan and Zhao!" Chang'an Jun, at the moment, my brother colluded with Wei to make Wei rebel against Zhao and return to Wei, if Wei Guo became a county of Wei, it would be useless for Zhao to be, Pingyuan Jun promised to keep my throne, and this time let Gongzi come, it is also for this matter. Dare to ask Childe, will the plan be released? “

Mingyue has nothing to say about Wei Jun, who bows down to all the great powers, and steals his life, this is the way for a small country to survive after the middle of the Warring States period. He was not in a hurry, he continued to fish for Wei Jun's appetite, shook his head and said: "I am just a weak crown feudal monarch, I just came to wish Wei Jun a birthday for Xiangbang, and Wei Jun asked about our country?" But it's the wrong person. “

"I have heard that Chang'anjun is good at arguing and resourceful." Wei Jun was anxious, and couldn't stop praising Mingyue and said: "When he was in Qi State, he defeated the Qin envoy, and the envoy Yan State also successfully completed the peace talks. “

After speaking, he waved his hand and ordered the palace maids guarding the door: "Close the door, if Chang'anjun doesn't help me today, I won't want to go out!" “

Mingyue couldn't cry or laugh, this Wei Jun really didn't regard himself as a monarch at all, Zhao Guofeng Jun stayed in the Wei Palace at night, and it was passed out?

He had no choice but to half-push and half-say: "In this case, I hope that Wei Jun will tell me this matter as it is, or there may be a countermeasure." “

……

It turned out that Wei Jun's Gongqi and Gongzi Nan were both the sons of Wei Heijun, Gongji was born to Ji Ji, and Zinan was born to Wei Ji.

To say that this Wei Heijun is also a very characteristic monarch of a small country, unlike the generally dull and stupid Wei Guojun, this guy is extremely shrewd, and Wei Guo can continue to survive in an environment where great powers are juxtaposed, thanks to his wisdom.

This person can be seen from one thing, when a slave escaped to Wei in Wei, and because this person knew how to heal, he treated the queen of King Wei Xiang. When Wei Sijun heard about it, he sent an envoy to ask King Wei Xiang to redeem this person with fifty gold, and the envoy went back and forth five times, but King Wei Xiang just didn't give it, so Wei Sijun planned to exchange it for Zuo's city.

The left and right courtiers advised Wei Heijun and said: "It is probably not worth it to redeem a piece of land with a hundred gold." Wei Sijun said: "Stability is not in the country, and chaos is not due to the country." By indoctrination to guide the people, even a city of 300 households can be governed; If the people don't pay attention to honesty and etiquette, even if there are ten Zuo cities, then what is the use? He insisted on exchanging the city for people, and after the matter reached the ears of King Wei Xiang, he carried the fugitive back to Wei Guo in a car, delivered it to Wei Heijun at no cost, and married a Wei clan daughter to him as a side room.

It can be seen that this Wei Heijun does have some ideas.

In weighing the government and the harem, he also played tricks. Wei Heijun valued his courtiers as his ears and doted on his concubine Ji, but he was afraid that they would deceive himself by pampering him, so he promoted another courtier to match Ru'er, and respected Wei Ji to fight against him, saying: "It is also a coincidence." ”

Therefore, during the reign of Wei Heijun, although the country declined but did not die, the internal balance was maintained very well, and in a chaotic scene, it was also regarded as the peace of the country and the people.

But when Wei Heijun let go, and the prime minister he chose was Yin Shun and died of old age, the evil consequences of playing political balance back then were highlighted.

Wei Ji's son, Gongzi Nan, grew up day by day, and with the support of a group of patriotic doctors, he began to have some thoughts......

"Zinan wants to be a state call!" Wei Jun insisted that he was very dissatisfied with this younger brother who had the support of Wei, but he was helpless, he always felt that the purpose of Gongzi Nan's recent proposal to King Wei was to collude with Wei and oust himself.

"It's a pity that now there is no paraffin wax in the country......"

Zhou Hu is the son who killed his brother Wei Huan Gong in the Spring and Autumn Period, and now Wei Guo is like a vassal of Wei State, if the King of Wei is determined to support Gongzi Nan, waiting for Wei Jun, he will either be exiled or killed......

Uncle Wei Kang's legacy is gone, and Wei Jun doesn't expect to have loyal ministers who kill his relatives to save him.

So he was desperate, so he had to use his contacts that had been in business for more than ten years to ask Pingyuan Jun, who had just ascended to the position of Zhao Xiang, for help. I hope to get closer to Zhao Guo politically and beg Zhao Guo to stop this matter - it is different from a hundred years ago, and the current situation, no matter how you look at it, Zhao is strong and Wei is weak, if Zhao Guo can come forward, Gongzi Nanxing may not dare to make a mistake.

But on Mingyue's side, seeing that Qin's military operations around Shangdang are becoming more and more frequent, and the time of the big war is getting closer and closer, how can he clash with Wei for the sake of defending the country and treating the land as a forbidden country?

But on Wei Guo's side, he can't give up rashly, after all, Ping Yuanjun has received a lot of bribes from Wei Jun over the years, and although Wei Guo is small, if he uses it well, he is also a chess piece that can be used to pry the situation......

"Gongzi Nan wants to marry the daughter of King Wei in the near future?" Mingyue pondered for a long time and asked Wei Jundao.

"However, I heard that King Wei has promised to marry, and next month, I will send someone to welcome Zinan." Wei Jun gritted his teeth with hatred.

"That's great!"

Mingyue laughed out loud, slapped her palm, and gave Wei Jun a bad idea.

"Doesn't Wei Jun hear about Wei Xuangong and King Chuping?"