Chapter 11: The End of the War

"Qin Shu * The Biography of Fan Ju" contains: Fan Ju, the one who will repay him.

"Zhao Shu * Wei Hou Biography" contains: In the summer of the 32nd year of King Huiwen of Zhao, Qin thought that Wei Qi would attack Zhao and take three cities.

On the second day, Fan Sui got a four-horse cart and personally drove Xu Jia directly into the Prime Minister's Mansion of Qin. The people in the Prime Minister's Mansion saw Fan Sui driving the car and politely avoided leaving. Suja was surprised to see this, but didn't ask much.

The carriage drove straight to the door of the office of Xiangguo of Qin, Fan Sui carefully helped Xu Jia out of the car, and then saluted respectfully: "Please wait here for a while, I will go in for you first to inform Xiangguo Zhang Jun." ”

Xu Jia didn't dare to hold it up in Xiangguo's mansion, and after listening to Fan Ju's words, he waited cautiously at the door. A minute passed, five minutes passed, and the time for a cup of tea passed...... After waiting for a long time, no one came, so he respectfully asked the doorman guarding the door: "Uncle Fan has been in for a long time and hasn't come out, what's the matter?" ”

The doorman replied with some puzzlement: "There is no Uncle Fan here." ”

Su Jia thought that the doorman didn't know Fan Ju, so he continued to explain: "Uncle Fan is the one who rode in with me just now. ”

The doorman suddenly realized: "You should recognize the wrong person, the person who just rode with you is not Uncle Fan, he is our Xiangguo Zhang Jun." ”

When Su Jia heard this, he was shocked, and knew that he had been tricked in, so he quickly took off his shirt, walked on his knees with bare arms, and asked the doorman to confess his guilt to Fan Sui.

When Fan Sui heard the report of the guards, he sent people to hang a grand and festive tent in the mansion, and urgently summoned many officials of the Qin State. After doing all this, Fan Ju asked Xu Jia to come to the court to see him.

As soon as Su Jia saw Fan Sui, he was so frightened that he knocked his head and said that he was guilty of death: "Xiangguo is a great talent, and the envoys of the lower country have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, but I didn't expect you to become the Xiangguo of Qin by your own ability." From then on, I never dared to read the world's books again, and I never dared to participate in the world's affairs again. I have committed a great sin that should be killed, and even if you throw me into a desolate and savage land, I will willingly let me live or let me die, all in your thoughts! ”

Fan Sui said with a sullen face: "You only know that you are guilty, so how much do you know about your crimes?" ”

Suja hurriedly kowtowed and replied, "My sins are innumerable, even if I pluck my hair to count my sins, it is not enough. ”

Fan Sui continued to accuse Xu Dao: "I think you don't know your crimes!" In that case, let me tell you. There are three counts against you. ”

"First, you are jealous of meritocracy, and you have shamelessly framed me. In the past, when the king of Chu Zhao was the king of Chu, Shen Baoxu planned to repel the Wu army for the Chu state, and the king of Chu gave him 5,000 households in the Chu land as a food estate, but Shen Baoxu refused to accept it, the reason was because his ancestral tomb was buried in the Chu state, and his ancestral tomb could be kept by repelling the Wu army. Now my ancestral grave is in the Wei State, but you thought that I had a secret heart for the Wei State and secretly communicated with the Qi State and said bad things about me in front of Wei Qi. ”

"Second, you have no mercy. The Confucian scholar Meng Ren once said: "At the beginning of man, his nature is good" is what you made me realize the absurdity of this sentence. When Wei Qi whipped me and threw me into the toilet and insulted me, you didn't intercede for me and didn't stop me. ”

"Third, you are cruel and inhumane. You got drunk and peed on me in the toilet, so you can see how ruthless you are. You can't claim to be a human anymore, and even beasts are much better than you. ”

"With the third sin that can make heaven and man angry, I can make you die without a place to be buried, and the world will praise me for removing harm from the people. But because you gave me a thick silk robe yesterday, it can be seen from this that you still have a little attachment to an old friend, so I gave you a way to live and let you go. ”

Then Fan Ju said goodbye to Xu Jia angrily and ended the meeting. After that, Fan Sui entered the palace again and reported the incident to King Zhao, decided not to accept the envoy of Wei, and ordered Xu Jia to return to China.

Faced with the strength of the Qin State, Xu Jia had no choice but to return to China. Before leaving, Xu Jia went to say goodbye to Fan Sui.

Fan Sui held a banquet in the prime minister's mansion, invited the envoys of all the vassal states, and sat in the same hall with them, and the wine, food and food in front of them were quite richly arranged. And Su Jia was arranged to sit in the hall, and a trough of grass bean mixed feed was placed in front of him.

After Suja bowed and sat down, Fan Ju ordered two prisoners who had been tortured to hold him between his sides and feed him feed him like a horse. Fan Sui ordered him: "Tell me the King of Wei, hurry up and get Wei Qi's head!" Otherwise, I'll have to slaughter the beams. ”

The scene that happened in the Prime Minister of Qin's mansion soon spread all over the world. Ten days later, Xu Jia returned to Wei and told Wei Qi about the situation, and Wei Qi was so frightened that he fled to Zhao and hid in Pingyuanjun's house.

The situation in the world has become troubled again because of the grievances between Wei Qi and Fan Ju.

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"Urgent signal, pedestrian evasion." In the heavy rain, an urgent military information was transmitted from the frontier to Handan City. After a while, the military intelligence report arrived in Zhao Dan's hands.

"Let Pingyuanjun, Pingyangjun, and Yuqing, Lin Xiangru, and Lecheng enter the palace urgently." Zhao Dan glanced at the letter in his hand and hurriedly ordered.

Ten minutes later, under the rain curtain, five carriages gathered in front of the Handan Palace. "The king has ordered that several adults can enter the palace by car." The eunuch decreed in front of the palace gate.

"Drive!" When the ministers heard this, they shouted in unison, and the carriages drove into the palace in turn.

When Pingyuanjun and the others came to Zhao Dan's study, Zhao Dan was already sitting on the throne waiting. "Ladies and gentlemen, the Qin State has attacked us, this is a battle report sent from the border." Zhao Dan couldn't wait to hand the battle report to the ministers who entered the door.

"The county guards of the county of Qin raised 200,000 troops to attack the three border cities, and the three cities are now in danger, and I hope the imperial court will raise troops to rescue them." Pingyuanjun glanced at the battle report, and then summarized the content.

"Now that General Lian Po led 50,000 elite garrisons in Handan has joined the party, and it is too late to recall the military emergency, the only way to do this is to choose another general to rush to the rescue. Zhao Dan took the lead in saying and set the tone of the matter - rescue.

"Your Majesty, Weichen is willing to go to the rescue." Seeing that he was the only military general among the people present, Le Cheng immediately understood what the king meant, so he volunteered to say when he heard the words.

"This is going to the frontier, if you want to save the three cities, you need soldiers." Zhao Dan asked cautiously.

"The Qin army gathered 200,000 troops to attack Zhao, and I hope that the king can also give me the same number." Lecheng thought for a moment, and then said.

"The border adjacent to Shangdang in the western region can gather about 100,000 troops, and you can mobilize troops and horses with the king's order; The garrison near Handan should be able to send out 100,000 to go to the rescue with you. Zhao Dan thought carefully.

"King, there are 300,000 soldiers that can be gathered around Handan, General Lian Po takes 50,000, and 100,000 are needed to garrison each city. Once the State of Qi and the State of Wei take the opportunity to attack, we will have no troops to send, and we can only watch the enemy country fight under the city of Handan. Pingyang Jun Zhao Baoyu reported.

"Then how many troops can be gathered around Handan?" Zhao Dan, who was splashed with a basin of cold water, asked.

"The troops around Handan are not only responsible for defending the national capital, but also guarding the southern border of our Zhao State, and now they can mobilize up to 30,000 troops." Pingyang Jun, who is the Great Sima, made a rough estimate, and then said.

"How many troops can be transferred in the northern region?" Hearing this, Zhao Dan continued to ask.

"Great King, the northern region is vast and has few people, and the total number of troops that can be gathered is only 200,000, and in the face of the invasion of millions of nomads, it is good to be able to hold it, and it is absolutely impossible to draw troops from there." Zhao Bao continued to retort.

"Then now only the eastern region is left with the troops." Zhao Dan continued to ask unwillingly.

"The eastern region needs to guard against the two kingdoms of Yan and Qi, both of which are powerful countries and cannot be taken lightly, so the troops that can be deployed will not exceed 30,000 at most."

"When my huge Zhao State is facing an invasion by a strong enemy, can we only transfer 150,000 people as a maneuver?" Zhao Dan couldn't help but be angry when he heard this, he stood up and asked the ministers.

The ministers were silent, waiting for Zhao Dan to dissipate. The old ministers who served King Zhao Huiwen actually understood what the reason for this situation was, but they would not explain it to Zhao Dan, because this issue needs to be thought out by the superiors themselves, and it is not for the courtiers to put their beaks in their mouths.

A few years later, this problem was still in front of Zhao Jie, and after a series of lessons, Zhao Jie understood the truth. The state of Zhao is in the land of four wars, and there is no so-called strategic rear. There are many countries in the surrounding area, and there are quite a few countries that need to be guarded against. When Zhao vaguely became the leader of the six eastern countries, the neighboring countries were afraid of Zhao's invasion, and they would involuntarily regard Zhao as an enemy and deploy heavy troops in the border area. In order to avoid the sudden invasion of neighboring countries, Zhao was also forced to increase the number of troops stationed on the border, so there was bound to be a shortage of troops.

This is the sorrow of the country of the four wars as the overlord, and the Jin country is a living example of what used to be, "We have no friends, so we are the overlords." The words of the sage of the Jin Kingdom ruthlessly reveal the cruelty of reality. The hegemon is destined to have no friends and face many enemies,. A multiple-choice question in front of the king of Zhao: whether to choose to dominate the world and be an enemy, or choose to be a weak person and make friends everywhere.