Chapter Seventy-Six: Peace with Zhao (I)
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Zhao Guo, Handan.
Although the time is already in March, the atmosphere in Handan City seems to be still cold. Although the fiasco at Hanoi and Dong Gun, which cost more than 100,000 troops, was not an unbearable pain for Zhao. After all, this time it was the Four Kingdoms who attacked Korea, and without the help of Qi, Zhao could still unite Qin and Chu to put pressure on South Korea, and if they persevered, victory would belong to Zhao after all.
It's just that the good situation changed with the South Korean army's invasion of Guanzhong, and with the South Korean army's encirclement of Yingdu. The state of Chu transferred half of the army assembled in Huaisi back to Yingdu, and directly guided Korea to have no worries. The Qin State, which was originally born in the east wind of the river and defeated the Korean army, was like a heavy blow after the Korean army broke through the pass, and suddenly fell into a desperate situation! After all, Guanzhong is the foundation of the Qin State, and without the barrier of the lofty mountains and the Xiongguan fortress, the empty Guanzhong is vulnerable to the Korean army!
What's worse is that Yan Guo has sent troops, and as soon as he sends troops, it is almost a national army! 200,000 elites of the Yan Kingdom went south, and the Qi Kingdom was defeated and retreated! At this time, whether it is out of morality or interests, what Zhao needs to do is to immediately send troops to help Qin and Qi, and combine the strength of the three kingdoms to be able to deal with Han and Yan! Therefore, Pingyuan Jun is on the book, Lin Xiangru is on the book, Pingyang Jun is on the book, Lian Po and Zhao Hao are on the book, please save Qin and Qi, but the Empress Dowager Zhao has only one answer, that is, to save it! Because, the messenger of King Han is here!
King Han took the pawn Chen Zheng as an envoy to meet the Empress Dowager Zhao and coerce and lure. There is only one theme, that is, Zhao Guo dares to send a soldier to rescue Qi or Qin. South Korea will take the Chang'an Jun sacrifice flag, raise 400,000 troops, attack Handan, Handan will not break, South Korea will not withdraw its troops! If Zhao is willing to sacrifice Puyang and Xinlingjun, Korea will send Chang'anjun back to Handan in three months!
Empress Dowager Zhao at a critical moment. Feelings overcame reason and agreed to South Korea's conditions. Therefore, in the face of the ministers' requests to rescue Qin and Qi, she rejected them all. Even, for the sake of purity of the ears, he refused the ministers' request to see!
Of course, she would not admit that she did this to save the life of her youngest son Chang Anjun, but released the news that Zhao Guo had no more than 200,000 soldiers available and wanted to rescue Qin State. It is necessary to go on an expedition, there are fewer to go, it is useless, and if you go more, Handan is dangerous! Qin has Bai Qi as a general, and what he is best at is to defeat the strong with the weak, and with the strength of the Qin State, even if he can't win it in battle. It can also keep half of the level. As for the plan to encircle Han and save Qin, where is the result of Hanoi's battle. Whoever thinks they can defeat Li Mu's 100,000 army will go and fight on their own! In a word, Zhao Guo didn't need to rescue Qin State at all!
As for the Qi State, the national strength of the Qi State is not below the Yan State at all! At present, the fundamental reason why the Qi country is losing and retreating is because the Qi country cannot afford to use the field list! When Tiandan's army can't defeat Yan Guo, let's discuss the matter of sending troops! Now I want to send troops to rescue the ministers of the Qi Kingdom. must have received a bribe from Qi Guo, whoever goes to the book again will punish him for his crimes!
In order to prevent someone from forcing the palace, Empress Dowager Zhao mobilized her henchmen to guard the palace and personally kept the tiger talisman! And so it goes. The ministers of Zhao could only let Qi and Qin fight their own battles, isolated and helpless!
On the Plains Monarch's Mansion, where does Xinling Jun, who used to talk and laugh, still have the demeanor of the four sons of the Warring States, looking lost and depressed, borrowing wine all day long to drown his sorrows! Pingyuanjun's wife, that is, Xinlingjun's sister, couldn't stop Xinlingjun, so she simply let him go! The state of Wei died, the king of Wei was demoted to a concubine, and he was locked up in a mansion in Luoyang, maybe Xinling Jun could only rely on wine to numb himself!
Pingyuan Jun is also helpless to his wife and brother Xinling Jun's approach, and he can't accept the fact that Wei Guo, who once shocked the world, actually said that he would die, die so quickly, and die so suddenly! Finally, he painstakingly entangled the million-strong army of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu to attack Korea, intending to recover Wei, but in the end, Qi, Chu, and Qin cut the land to seek peace, and Zhao did not move! After this half-year-long war, the world has been terrified of South Korea, and the restoration of Wei is even more distant! It is almost foreseeable that it will not be long before South Korea will force Zhao to hand over Xinlingjun with the power of a great victory!
Pingyuan Jun also persuaded Xinlingjun to make plans early, such as hiding his name, such as going away, but Xinlingjun obviously lost his fighting spirit completely, and only replied, "Although the world is big, there is no place for Mowgli, where can Mowgli go?" It's better to stay at your brother-in-law's house and get by! "Pingyuan-kun was speechless!
With the pride of Xinling Jun, he is absolutely unwilling to be incognito or in the company of the Hu people, he is the dignified son of Wei, how can he live like a gopher! If you can't live with dignity, I'm afraid Xinlingjun would rather die!
March 10, Yanguo, Jicheng.
After King Yan sent the envoy of King Han out of the palace, he hurriedly summoned the prime minister Jiangqu, the eldest husband Ju Xin, and the middle doctor Li Belly to discuss state affairs.
King Yan's face is not heavy, because now the Yan army is like entering a no-man's land, and the Qi country is defeated and retreated, seeing that it can cross Jishui dozens of miles ahead, and the soldiers are coming to Linzi City, but King Han sent people to stop the army himself. How could King Yan feel comfortable in his heart?!
"Your Majesty! The minister thought that we should listen to the construction of the king of Han and make peace with the state of Qi! Prime Minister Jiangqu was the first to speak.
"Reason!" King Yan said succinctly.
"There are three reasons, one is that South Korea is the largest country in the world, and it must not be offended. Now the State of Qi asked for help from the State of Zhao and the State of Zhao rescued it, because of the pressure from South Korea, if the State of Yan did not comply, South Korea would be dissatisfied, they did not even have to send troops to save Qi, just hint to the State of Zhao, and the army of the State of Zhao would cut off General Rong's retreat! Second, the State of Qi has already ceded land to South Korea and asked for peace, and half of the country has been removed at once, and the State of Qi is no longer worried! But now the less Qi country its land, the more precious, Qi country currently has nearly 200,000 troops, relying on the Luo, Ji two rivers to set up a defense line, our Yan country wants to come to Linzi City, casualties are bound to be large! Third, spring ploughing has begun, the army is war-weary, the plan of the year lies in the spring, raising half of the country's elite, delaying the agricultural time, not a good policy! ”
"The minister seconded the proposal! This time, 200,000 troops were dispatched, but it was not more than a month. Having acquired two hundred miles of land is already a great achievement! The king still sells South Korea a face, so that the people can do agriculture, care for the people, and make profits when the situation changes! "The eldest husband is also in favor of the boycott.
"The minister seconded the proposal!" Dr. Li and others also seconded the proposal.
Although King Yan was unwilling, he had to admit it. Qi Guo has less trouble with his abdomen and back, and Yan Guo will definitely lose more than he gains if he fights Qi Guo again. had to sell his favor to South Korea, and ordered the main force of Rong Yi to lead the army on the front line to return, leaving only more than 30,000 people to defend the front line of Luoshui.
On the Qi side, after hearing the news of the withdrawal of the Yan army, they all breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, no one cared about the prince who had arrived in Luoyang (the younger brother of the king of Qi, PS thought about it carefully, the king of Qi had not yet performed the crown salute at this time, and it was too young to have a son. Let's let his younger brother be a hostage) and Anping Jun Tiandan's situation, they are only glad that South Korea kept its promise, and really let Yan Guo withdraw his troops, and Qi Guo escaped!
This spring was extremely busy for South Korea, expanding its territory for nearly a thousand miles at once, and these lands belonged to the three kingdoms of Qin, Qi, and Chu. In terms of personnel appointments alone, the three princes and nine secretaries are also very busy. Because spring ploughing is in full swing. In any case, it was too late to enact the new law in the newly occupied counties of Korea, and in order to appease the people, especially the local wealthy people, the new law was not enacted. Rather, it was announced that the policy would continue as before.
Emissaries from various countries arrived in Luoyang in an endless stream to make good friends with the Korean minister, and wanted to get closer to South Korea, the hegemon of the world, but Zhao did not send envoys without embarrassment. It seems that the Korean storage zài has been forgotten!
Li Mu's army has retreated from the front line of Dangyin, and now, the Han army in Dangyin City is only 10,000 people, and Zhao Guo quickly disbanded the army while breathing a sigh of relief! No one dared to say that Empress Dowager Zhao took the opportunity to seize Hanoi, because Zhao had already delayed the agricultural time for a long time, and if he did not disband the army and let the young and strong return to their hometowns, Zhao's autumn harvest would be reduced by at least thirty percent! You must know that there is not much grain and grass in Zhao Kingdom, if it is less than thirty percent, the consequences will be unimaginable!
It was under such circumstances that the imperial historian Fan Sui arrived in Handan unhurriedly. Pingyuan Jun Zhao Sheng and Pingyang Jun Zhao Bao personally went out of the city and welcomed Fan Sui into Handan. Although according to etiquette, Fan Sui is just a doctor of the imperial history, not the prime minister of South Korea, Zhao Guo only needs to send Lin Xiangru to pick him up. But Zhao Guo seems to have deliberately raised the treatment of Fan Sui, and the meaning of flattery or attention is very clear at a glance. Lin Xiangru and Lian Po did not come forward, which appropriately shows Zhao Guo's bottom line, that is, he will not flatter South Korea without a bottom line.
Back at Pingyuan Jun's mansion, Zhao Sheng, Zhao Bao, and Fan Sui were in place and began to discuss political affairs. Although he knew that the other party should be coming for Chang'an Jun and Xinling Jun, Zhao Sheng still pretended not to know, and even didn't say a word about the big victory of South Korea and the defeat of Zhao State, but just laughed softly: "The Imperial Doctor came from afar, and he must have the mission of the King of Han, I don't know what (Zhao) Sheng can do for the Imperial Doctor?" ”
"How dare you!" Fan Sui quipped: "In this world, the only people who can drive Pingyuan Jun are King Zhao and Empress Dowager Zhao. ”
Pingyuan Jun feigned anger and said unhappily: "Doctor Yu Shi came from afar to be a guest, and he is better than the master, how can he be lazy?!" ”
Pingyang Jun Zhao Bao also smiled and said: "Brother Wang, the imperial historian is here with the king's order, and he must want to meet the king and the queen mother as much as possible." If Brother Wang really wants to help the Imperial Doctor, then quickly arrange for the Imperial Doctor to enter the palace to meet him! Right, Dr. Goshi? ”
Fan Sui nodded with a smile and said, "People say that Pingyang Jun is very smart, but now when I see it, it really deserves its name." Zhao Guo is really blessed, there are people like Pingyuanjun and Pingyangjun! Then I'm tired of the introduction of Pingyuan Jun! ”
"Doctor Yu Shi is gracious! But it's getting late today, and the imperial historian is tired of traveling and driving, so it's better to rest for the night, how about entering the palace tomorrow? "Hirahara-kun is amiable.
"Yiqiē obeys Pingyuan-kun's arrangement!" Fan Sui replied politely.
"Doctor Yu Shi has come all the way, I don't know why?" Pingyangjun asked.
Pingyuanjun also looked at Fan Sui with a smile, but he was a little nervous in his heart, if the other party was determined to believe in Lingjun's head, would he give it or not?! Whether you give it or not is a big problem!
"King Han heard that Empress Dowager Zhao misses her youngest son Chang'anjun, and she thinks about it so much that she doesn't think about tea and dinner, I don't know if there is such a thing?" Fan Sui said out of his mind.
Because the Empress Dowager Zhao never informed Pingyuanjun of her agreement with South Korea, so, at first glance, Pingyuanjun thought that Fan Sui was testing himself, if he admitted it, it would mean that the Empress Dowager Zhao was already in poor health, and without the Empress Dowager Zhao in the palace, South Korea would despise Zhao even more. If you don't admit it, South Korea will ask more! What's more, South Korea will definitely not be untargeted!
"King Lao Han is bothered! After Chang Anjun went to Luoyang, the Queen Mother was very worried, but her body was good and her diet was acceptable! Plains Jun pondered.
Fan Sui nodded with a smile and said, "That's fine!" However, Chang'anjun is a little unaccustomed to the soil and water in Luoyang! Poor Chang Anjun is young, missing the Empress Dowager Zhao, and she is getting haggard day by day, which is really distressing! ”
Pingyuan Jun was taken aback, and said in his heart, could it be that the old Korean matter was brought up again, and he wanted to use Chang'anjun to blackmail Zhao Guo? Now South Korea is the first power in the world, Qin, Qi, and Chu have ceded land to South Korea to seek peace, and Yan is desperately following South Korea, South Korea has now withdrawn its hand, and it is very simple to repair Zhao State! Speaking of which, the four countries invaded Korea, and only Zhao has not cedered land and sued for peace! But Pingyuan Jun knew that as long as Korea was willing, as long as it was not a city near Handan, most of the people in the court were willing to cede land to Korea to settle the matter.
"I don't want to come to Chang'anjun yet, children, it's good after a long time! South Korea's benevolence and righteousness must have convened a famous doctor for consultation and treatment! Pingyuan-kun pretended to be calm.
"Yes! It's a consultation! Doctors all said that Chang'anjun was suffering from heart disease! This heart disease still needs heart medicine! Therefore, King Han was wondering, would it be better for Chang'an Jun to return to Handan! What does Pingyuan-kun think? Fan Sui looked at Pingyuanjun with a smile on his face.
"This", Pingyuanjun quickly looked at Pingyangjun for a moment before replying: "If you can, then it is naturally excellent!" However, Chang'anjun is in Luoyang, and whether he comes back or not is not a victory to discuss, this matter still needs to be decided by the queen mother and the king! ”
"Pingyuan-kun is right! However, Sui heard that Chang'an Jun was once drunk and said that he was willing to exchange Puyang City for his freedom, but he didn't know if it was true or not! Hehe! I'm tired of driving such a long way, so let's say goodbye here! Fan Sui suddenly got up and said.
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PS: There's one more chapter, and that's the end of this volume! Because the results are so miserable, I think about whether to write another volume to finale, or take another look.