Although the Marquis of Wei defeated three major countries in a row and coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, after all, he was not the real boss of this Warring States Era, and his national strength and prestige could not be reached, so when the Marquis of Wei sat on the dream of being a hegemon, there were still people who jumped out to make people feel unhappy. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This time it was Zhao Guo who jumped out.

At the beginning of June, in the Wei Palace of Anyi, the quarrel of the countries was strongly suppressed by the Marquis of Wei, and finally had a preliminary result, although the quarrel lasted for two months, it was much worse than the efficiency of Qi Huan Jinwen who ordered the world to meet the Son of Heaven together, but in the opinion of the Marquis of Wei, the result was still similar after all. But just when the Marquis of Wei began to worship himself with the princes of more than a dozen countries, no, it was Zhou Tianzi beside him, while offering gifts to the Son of Heaven while praising the dream of Wei Hou Kuang's great cause of supporting the royal family, bad news suddenly came, which suddenly ruined Wei Hou's mood.

The bad news is that the envoy of Zhongshan Kingdom ran into the palace crying and crying, it was originally from Zhao Guo After the doctor ran back to Handan angrily, Zhao Jun didn't know which tendon wanted to turn, and with a wave of his hand, 100,000 Zhao soldiers marched to the southeast and invaded Zhongshan in an all-round way.

The predecessor of this Zhongshan country is the Xianyu tribe of the northern Di people, surnamed Bai Di of Ji, although it is also after King Wen of Zhou, but it is not the feudal state of the Zhou royal family, but it is its own country, and the founding time is much later than those feudal countries, Zhongshan is mixed with the Jin State, Qi State, Yan State and other large countries, it is not easy to survive, but it has developed the indomitable of Zhongshan people. His country was destroyed by Wu Qi during the reign of Wei Wenhou, but it invaded Zhao and re-established the country, sandwiched between the east and west of Zhao, so it has been a major problem for Zhao since the founding of the country.

Although the Zhongshan Kingdom was destroyed by the Wei State in the previous generation, in the later period of the Marquis Wu of Wei, considering that the Zhongshan State was far away from the Wei State but inserted in the Zhao State, the Wei State accepted the gift of the Zhongshan State and became the suzerainty of the Zhongshan State. The news of the previous Wei State holding the Son of Heaven came out, Qi and Qin were dispatched, and Zhao State also sent troops to attack Zhongshan State, first, Zhao State did not dare to directly confront Wei State, and secondly, under the banner of helping the Son of Heaven, he could do some private work to solve the trouble of Zhongshan, but the Zhao army had not even crossed the Great Wall of Zhongshan State, and the Wei army had already defeated the Qi army, and the general of Zhao State hurriedly returned to China to set up defenses.

It should be said that for the strength of the Wei army, Zhao is still a little afraid, after all, the Zhao State of Zhao in this era has not yet been born, although the people of Yan and Zhao are strong, but in fact, in this era when the vast majority of people are not full of food and not well-fed, the people in the Central Plains are also strong, so against the Wei State, which is at the peak since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhao State should not dare to face it directly.

I can also think that Zhao Guo wants to take advantage of the fact that the Marquis of Wei will ally the world and has no energy to take care of other things, especially the war, and does not want to delay the time of the alliance, with a strong force, quickly take Zhongshan State, in order to solve this internal trouble that is not an internal trouble, and then make every effort to block the possible retaliation of the Wei army, and finally solve the problem by negotiating and losing money.

Without Ning Yue and others analyzing, Zhou Bian instantly thought of Zhao Hou's plan, I have to say that on the surface, this plan is very feasible, but at this juncture, Zhou Bian, who understands the true historical trajectory of later generations, has to worry about the fate of Zhao Guo.

Because in the middle of King Wei Hui's accession to the throne, the Wei army once broke through Handan and occupied Handan for several years, and then after being defeated by Qi to besiege Wei and save Zhao, under the pressure of a bunch of princes led by Qi, Handan City was abandoned, and Zhao was able to return the capital Handan. So now the Marquis of Wei, ascending the throne for only three or four years, it is the time of full of vigor, and the new defeat of the Three Kingdoms, the morale of the army is high, Zhou Bian believes that with the courage of the Marquis of Wei, he will definitely go north quickly after the alliance of the world, and take advantage of the power of the Son of Heaven and the allies, and then defeat the Zhao State, and even surround Handan in one fell swoop, and even attack Handan in advance, it is not impossible.

And more importantly, on the real historical trajectory of later generations, Zhao lost Handan, and it was Qi that besieged Wei to save Zhao, so let's take a look at the current Qi State, which has just been defeated by Wei, and the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers does not take more than a year, not to mention whether there is an army in Qi State, but the determination of the government and the opposition to be able to fight, do they have it?

So you can't count on Qi State.

Then look at the real historical trajectory, before the siege of Wei to save Zhao, Wei attacked Zhao and Korea at the same time, and Qin took the opportunity to send troops, creating the prestige of the Battle of Shaoliang, and at the same time reducing the pressure on Han and Zhao, this happened before Handan was breached, according to the current time, it is also several years later. So now, will there still be Qin to relieve the pressure on Zhao State?

The answer is also no, the Qin State has just been defeated, and Zhou Bian also clearly knows that for the current Duke of Qin, life must be difficult, because the pressure of the old nobles in the country is too great. Although Zhou Bian also cast his hopes on Qin, the plan was to be rolled out a year later, and by that time, who knew what would happen outside the city of Handan.

So who else will be able to save Zhao Guo, or relieve the pressure on Zhao Guo, South Korea? Chu? Zhou Bian shook his head, Zhao Hou is out now, he can only rely on himself.

Perhaps in Zhao Guo's view, although he did not dare to compete with Wei, it should be enough to protect himself, but in this era, perhaps only Zhou Bian firmly believed that Zhao was by no means Wei's opponent.

Zhou Bian has already begun to mourn for Zhao Hou, and at the peak of Wei Hou's life, he gave such a big gift, so that Wei Guo didn't even have to find a reason to do anything to Zhao Guo.

But what made Zhou Bian feel most depressed was not Zhao Guo's sorrow, but that his plan was about to be disrupted because of Zhao Guo's actions.

According to the analysis just now, Zhao will be defeated against the Wei State, and no one will come to save it, then it will further increase the prestige and morale of the Wei State, if the Wei State occupies the land of the Zhao State, the national strength of the Wei State will also increase, so can the Qin State or the Qi State have the courage to break the legend of the Wei army in a short time?

Zhou Bian believes that it is worrying.

And Wei Hou now has no ambition to be the king, so after defeating Zhao and even occupying Handan, will the feeling of being invincible make Wei Hou's ambition swell, and suddenly find that it is no longer so important to use the name of Zhou Tianzi? Then his own people only have one role left in the hands of Wei Hou.

Thinking of this, Zhou Bian shuddered, this is absolutely possible.

No, it must not be allowed to happen. Thinking of this, after a shudder, Zhou Bian immediately clenched his fists, since he thought of this possibility, then he had to do his best to prevent this from happening, to stop the strength of the Wei State, especially before he returned to Luoyang.

On the day the news came back, Zhou Bian, Ning Yue and others immediately gathered around a simple map of the vassal states and discussed nervously until dark.

Ningyue Wang Sun Manfan Yu and the others were not fools, as soon as Zhou Bian said the worry in his heart, they immediately understood, although they did not understand why the king concluded that Zhao was by no means the opponent of Wei, but they also believed that the Wei army always created miracles and had to be guarded against.

But unfortunately, until dark, everyone was exhausted, and they didn't come up with a good idea.

The next day, for Zhou Bian, it was another groggy day, and he wanted to break his head, but he didn't think of the best way to break the game.

The more we know the true historical trajectory of later generations, the more we understand the strength of the Wei army at this time, and the more worried we are about the current situation.

Everyone has also discussed six strategies, the first plan is to encourage Qi and Qin to attack Zhao when Wei attacks Zhao, and at the same time attack Wei, Qin from Hexi to Anyi direction, Qi from Puyang to Daliang direction, to an upgraded version of Wei to rescue Zhao, but the difficulty lies in how to persuade Qi and Qin to send troops and the direction of the troops, and how to grasp the time to send troops, the diplomatic difficulty is still quite large, but there are alternatives.

The second plan is to use means to persuade Zhao Hou to withdraw his troops, but think about the envoys of Zhongshan Kingdom are crying, obviously Zhao Jun has already hit the border of Zhongshan Kingdom, and it is unlikely to retreat again, and regardless of whether he retreats or not, since he has already fought, then the excuse has been given to Wei Hou, unless Zhao Hou personally comes to make amends, but it is impossible to think about it, so this plan was the first to be vetoed.

The third plan, there are many small countries with Wei as the suzerain, if it can provoke a big country to attack a small country, causing the anger of the Marquis of Wei, maybe Wei will divide the army into two ways, even if the army is not divided into two ways, Wei will immediately turn the army after attacking Zhao, and will not besiege Handan City until it is broken like in the real history of later generations, then this will reduce the pressure on Zhao. But the problem is that it is not easy to choose which small country, and which big country is not easy to choose, Qin is not connected to other countries at all when it is oppressed by Wei, it can be excluded first, Qi and South Korea don't know if the monarch still has the courage, it is estimated that there is no, otherwise it will directly implement the plan one, and then it is the Chu State, but now the Chu State is using troops on both sides, facing Vietnam in the east and Ba in the west, and the domestic aristocracy of the Chu State is huge, and the monarch's power is insufficient, so I don't know if the Chu State has the determination to go north.

The fourth plan is to focus on the state of Chu, although the state of Chu has so many problems mentioned above, but after all, the land is thousands of miles, with a million, and the war of the state of Chu against the state of Wei has been lost many times, and even the Liang of the State of Wei was snatched from the hands of the State of Chu, so you can try to persuade the State of Chu to go north and directly attack the land of the Great Liang of the State of Wei.

Plan five, secretly support Zhao and help Zhao resist the attack of Wei, but the key is that the royal family has no strength to support Zhao, no people and property, like the later Mo attack can help one country to resist another country, Zhou Bian believes that if there is one person in this era who can do it, that is himself, from later generations, Zhou Bian still has this self-confidence, for example, Luoyang blocked 100,000 Korean troops, but more importantly, can he go to Zhao? If you send someone else, Zhou Bian believes that the effect is not very great, unless there is continuous communication back and forth from Anyi to Handan, and he remotely controls the Handan battlefield, but it is not very likely to think about it, there is no telephone in this era, where can the communication be smooth, especially when the Wei army is besieging the city. Another difficulty is how to make Zhao Guo believe in the people he sent. However, in the end, this plan still has a certain degree of feasibility.

Plan 6 is similar to plan 5, but it is not the royal family to support Zhao State, but to persuade Qi Qin, especially Qi State to support Zhao State, it is better to send troops for direct support, so you can persuade Zhao Hou to secretly support, such as secretly sending some grain, grass and weapons, and then secretly sending some soldiers, directly assigned to Zhao Jun, if he was captured by the Wei army, the reason Zhou Bian thought about it for Qi State, so he said that he was a volunteer soldier of Qi State, and secretly ran to help Zhao State fight without telling the country, and Qi Hou did not know at all. This plan is feasible, but the key to implementation lies in how to convince Qi Jun.

Of course, all plans have a common difficulty, and even a fatal key, that is, how to remove the royal family, so that the Wei people will not think that it is the Zhou royal family behind the scenes.

All the plans are almost to distract the energy of the Wei army or enhance the strength of the Zhao State, at present, it seems that each one is not easy to achieve, and the realization may not necessarily solve the problem, that is to say, there is still no best way, and the strength is still not good, Zhou Bian patted his head depressedly.

After another day of intense discussions, it was finally decided that the six plans would go hand in hand and be implemented together, although it seemed to be very grandiose, but Zhou Bian knew that although the six plans did not interfere with each other, the biggest problem for the royal family was that there was no manpower and no financial resources.

Although it is six plans, but in fact, it is only for four countries, Qi, Qin, Zhao, Chu, Qi can only be handed over to the state of Qi, Zhou Bian will send an envoy to catch up with the country, then the task of the country is first to contact the high-level of the state of Qi, and then persuade the contact person to advise the marquis of Qi to send troops to rescue Zhao at a critical time, if you do not send troops to secretly support the state of Zhao, this is actually two plans, but plan six has become an alternative to plan one.

There are no good candidates on the Qin side, so we can only see if we can contact the reliable people of the Qin State through the commercial channel, because last year's agreement, the royal family industry will provide some soju for the Qin people, and I only see if I can make an idea for the Qin people, which is basically the same plan as persuading the Qi State, the difference is whether I can help the Qin State recapture Hexi, and see if the people in the dark group can provide some information for the Qin people in Hexi.

Zhao Guo can contact Guo Zong, the giant businessman who has a connection with the royal family to buy and sell ironware, he is a native of Handan, and wants to talk to the high-level officials of Zhao State and even Zhao Hou, originally the business dealings between the royal family and the Guo family are secret, and the people in the royal family vaguely express their worries about the current situation to the Guo family in their personal capacity, and they will not attract the attention of the Wei people, so this will be handed over to Bai Gui in Luoyang, because the Guo family has a Guo Heng stationed in Luoyang, Zhou Bian believes that through the Guo family, he can still build a bridge with Zhao Guo.

The last is the State of Chu, but it is a pity that the royal family has not known much about the State of Chu, the character of the monarch of the State of Chu, the strength of the country and the distribution of troops, and the distribution of large and small forces in the State of Chu, they do not know very much, and none of the courtiers and nobles of the State of Chu have any acquaintance, and then the key is that the royal family does not have a good way to make friends with candidates, so it can be said that the soldiers are too little to use, and Zhou Bian only hates that time is not waiting for me, and finally he has to repair a letter to Bai Gui, so that he can communicate through the Bai family's previous business methods.

The four directions are used at the same time, and Zhou Bian also emphasized, not to expose the role of the royal family in it, Zhou Bian knows that this is difficult, it will make people do things with their hands and feet, looking forward to the future, but Zhou Bian has no way. In fact, Zhou Bian also thought about it carefully, as long as his efforts played a role, then even if Wei Hou knew the role of the royal family in the future, he would not do anything to himself, at most for a few more years, and then the royal family gave an explanation, saying that it was a courtier's private behavior, but it was about to give the courtier's life, of course Zhou Bian was unwilling to do this, so he repeatedly emphasized the concealment of his identity. Among them, only Qin and Zhao had no way to reveal a little bit of their identities, but Zhou Bian also demanded that they must find reliable people on the other side.

Looking at those messengers or going straight to Luoyang in a carriage, or running to the east and west in disguise, Zhou Bian's heart began to be full of expectations, this is the first time he has strongly intervened in the current situation of the whole world, will it receive the expected effect?

However, just after all the messengers left, when Zhou Bian summoned Ning Yue and the other three to continue the discussion, Fan Yu's casual words suddenly confused Zhou Bian's heart.

What Fan Yu said was, "If I were the Marquis of Wei, I might immediately send troops to Zhongshan Kingdom, now there are three months before the September Alliance, Wei and Zhao are adjacent, three months is enough to help Zhongshan Kingdom defeat Zhao's attack, and then meet the world, wouldn't it be more prestigious?" ”

In this case, all the efforts made by Zhou Bian were too late, so Zhou Bian looked at Ning Yue. The latter nodded and said, "Indeed, Zhao Hou thought that Wei Hou was not sure that he would defeat him within three months, so he would send troops, and Wei Hou won three consecutive victories, and they were all quick victories, so in Wei Hou's opinion, there is still hope to defeat Zhao within three months." ”

"And the most important thing is that Zhao Bing has already hit Zhongshan State, and Wei Hou has set the date of the alliance to today is only a dozen days, which means that Zhao Guo sent troops and didn't know that Wei Hou still had three months to do things, so if you look at it this way, Wei Hou's heart is not easy to guess."

Yes, in the end, it depends on Wei Hou's heart, Zhou Bian accepted this fact depressedly, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was more likely that Wei Hou would send troops after the alliance, because this Wei Hou's character Zhou Bian knew too well, that is, it was a great achievement, after all, three months could only defeat Zhao Guo like he did against Qi State, and he could not make Zhao Guo hurt his muscles and bones.

Finally, Wei Hou didn't let Zhou Bian guess for too long, and the answer was given on the third day.