In the seventh year of King Zhao's reign, mid-autumn (August), the beginning of the year.

The residual heat of summer has not yet dissipated, but the ministers of Lulong City have felt the chill of deep winter early. Perhaps, since last year, winter has not passed.

Hanging over the capital of King Zhao was a dark cloud that lasted for a whole year.

As early as May last year, some courtiers proposed that the king had reached the age of the crown and should be in power.

Although the courtiers who wrote the letter were quickly reprimanded, they could not prevent the ministers from going forward.

In the end, the Empress Dowager Song personally said that the king was born in Lidong, just a few days later than the beginning of the year (October 1), so this year can only be counted as nineteen, not to the year of the weak crown, Xiangbang Jiang Zhong acquiesced, and hundreds of officials seconded it.

But then, the Empress Dowager Song frantically made profits for her lover, wantonly giving the other party all the privileges that the royal family can enjoy, mountains, forests, rivers, thousands of fertile fields, and countless servants. even forcibly forced his son to be an Xinhou - apparently fighting with his ex-lover, Changxinhou Jiang Zhong.

In order to get the support of the Empress Dowager Song, Jiang Zhong closed his eyes and nodded. Because he knows that it is difficult for him to ride a tiger now, and he must make military achievements in order to maintain his position, so he is extremely urgent to recapture Gaoqi Pass.

After a hard battle, the Zhao army recaptured Gaoqi Pass, but Jiang Zhong decided to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and the troops were divided into two ways to start a war against Zheng and Liang.

Unexpectedly, Chang'an Jun was young, strayed into the enemy's trap, was captured by Zheng Guo, and then, surrendered Zheng Guo.

As soon as this incident came out, the whole country was in an uproar.

Because the king has no personal government, this account can only be counted on the two rulers of the queen mother and Xiangbang.

For a time, the domestic public opinion was surging, and many ministers were extremely angry, although they did not dare to directly say that these two people in power were not good, but they knocked on the side, this year, the king is always weak, and he can be pro-government, right?

Although the war of the Zhao army in the Liang State went smoothly and conquered more than a dozen cities one after another, the king of Liang listened to the advice of the strategists and sent important ministers with generous gifts to lobby the Marquis of Anxin. provoked An Xinhou to seize power and deal with Jiang Zhong.

Marquis An Xinzi knew that once the king was in power, as the queen mother's lover, and usurped so many privileges of the royal family, he would definitely die, so he naturally frantically forced the courtiers to stand in line.

For a time, the domestic situation was chaotic and turned into an either/or situation.

But all the ministers in the palace must stand in line, whether they stand on the side of the Empress Dowager Song or on the side of Xiangbang.

With the DPRK and China dragging its feet like this, the front line is naturally not much better.

In the end, this military operation ended with the Zhao army retreating to the Gaoqi Pass and barely holding the Xiongguan Pass.

In May, to add insult to injury, a solar eclipse in the sky, followed by days of torrential rain and flooding of rivers. The water of the Lan River was unusual, swimming upstream, swimming to Ba Shui, and then being pushed ashore by the surging water. The people went to eat fish in the water, but the minister was very worried.

Fish belong to the yin category, the appearance of the people. The fish swims against the current, which means that the people do not obey the king's orders and will be in chaos.

For a time, the spearhead was directed at An Xinhou.

An Xinhou also broke the jar and lobbied the Empress Dowager Song, insisting that although the king was about to weaken the crown, his body was weak, and he had no beard so far. Although the birth of the eldest son proved that there was no problem with the king, the Empress Dowager Song obeyed her lover's words, used the power in her hands to force the courtiers, and continued to delay the time of the king's pro-government.

In other words, in October this year, the king may still not be able to go to the old capital, crown, and sword.

In this situation of "having to stand in line, and losing his life at every turn", today's palace ministers may become slaves of Chengdan tomorrow, and the people are panicked, and the nobles are like frightened birds.

The people were not affected much, but they listened to the gossip very happily.

And in Lulong City, there are a group of special people.

That is the proton sent by the six eastern countries - except for Zheng Guo and Chen Guo, the protons sent by the other four countries are all the princes of various countries.

"Today's Jingjie ......" Prince Yan stood on the hill on the outskirts of the city, watching the convoy from a distance, and muttered to himself, "Isn't it that the Empress Dowager Song is back?" ”

"Hui Gongzi, this is the team of Princess Zhaoguo." The doorman immediately replied.

"Princess?"

The prince of Yan had heard that King Zhao had a sister, but she had already been exiled to Minjun.

Although in the past two years, Minjun's brocade, beauties, rice, dried fish, etc. have all swept Lulongcheng, so that everyone can discover, oh, Minjun is not a poor country!

But everyone knows that it is because of the repair of the Yulei embankment, and they don't pay attention to this princess at all.

I can't say the same either.

At least the six countries of Proton are very concerned about this princess.

"King Zhao suddenly recalled his sister, isn't it because the domestic ministers are in turmoil, and he wants to marry his sister to another country and strive for help? King Zhao is not married, the princess is not married, this coming and going, it is two in-laws. The doorman guessed.

Another adviser said excitedly: "The prince had better ask the princess as soon as possible to show his sincerity!" ”

These strategists, life and death, honor and disgrace are pinned on the mastermind, but the mastermind is a proton, and he is also precarious in Zhaoguo, and he may be brutally killed at any time because of the war between countries.

In this case, marrying the princess of Zhaoguo is undoubtedly a way to save your life.

Take the current King Zhu as an example, when he was also the prince, he came to Zhaoguo as a proton, and then married the princess, which is the aunt and grandmother of the current king. Under the protection of the princess, he was safe and sound, and after the death of Lao Zhuwang, he sneaked back to China and inherited the throne.

As for the wife and children?

His wife was hit too hard because of her husband's abandonment of his wife and children, and she couldn't afford to fall ill, otherwise she should go to Zhuguo to be the queen.

And his eldest son was detained in Zhaoguo, obviously a legitimate candidate for the crown prince, but his identity was a little embarrassing.

Zhaoguo's side recognized the identity of the eldest son of the king, and directly sealed the king, and the courtesy was doubled, this person is still the king's teacher, and the relationship is irreversible, and the Zhuguo side ...... didn't say that he didn't admit it, but he didn't think he was a person.

But for Proton, marrying the princess of Zhaoguo is definitely a lucrative business, and as for the future, I will talk about it later. It's a big deal to learn the current Zhuwang and abandon his wife and children!

The same conversation took place around the protons of the other five countries.

This group of protons knew that no matter which one of them King Zhao married his sister, it meant that King Zhao was going to form an alliance with their country, and their life would naturally be better.

King Zhao only has such a sister, and he has to wait until his daughter is born, and he doesn't know when. It can be said that after this village, there is no such shop.

Therefore, they must win the princess as a wife!

As for the rumors, what princess is disfigured, stupid, much younger than them, and so on...... What does it matter, as long as she is the princess of Zhaoguo!

At this time, Anche slowly drove into the Hanzhang Palace.

Zheng Gao was already waiting there, and said respectfully, "Please get out of the car, princess." ”