Chapter Ninety-Eight: Conditions

On the other side, Zhao Kuo led the army to conquer ten cities in one day, and had already fought from Weinan to Xiyi (now Lintong, Xi'an).

"I'm afraid King Qin won't be able to sit still now." Zhao Kuo said with a smile.

"Marshal, should we continue to attack?" Yan Ju said eagerly.

Along the way, although he captured a lot of cities, but the battle did not experience a few, most of the defenders saw the murderous army under the city, did not dare to have any resistance and opened the city gate.

"General Yan Ju, next time it's time for us to rush to the front, eight of the ten cities along the way were all shot down by you, so let's drink some soup." Xin Yuanyan shouted.

I thought that the credit for this sneak attack was theirs, after all, only one of the three teams was infantry, suitable for attacking the city. Who knew that those defenders were so spineless, and surrendered the city before they could attack.

As a result, all the credit fell to Zhao Feiqi, who ran at the front.

"Your legs are too slow, and when you knock down the city, the Qin army will surround it from behind." Yan Ju pouted and said.

"Okay, don't fight, don't fight today, repair overnight, if the Qin army doesn't send someone to sue for peace tomorrow, continue to attack." Zhao Kuo said.

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The next morning, just as Zhao Kuo was preparing to lead his army to attack, Fan Ju came to the city with Prince Zhu and Wang Sun Yiren.

"King Kong is not bad Dazhai Master"

"Fan Ju, the envoy of the Qin State, asks to see the commander of your army, and he hopes that the general will report it." Fan Ju stood under the city and leaned over and said.

He felt a little bitter in his heart, thinking that as the prime minister of Qin, he was named the Marquis by the King of Qin, and wherever he went, he held his head high and was respected by people, but he didn't expect that he would now be reduced to saluting a city guard.

"Wait a minute, I'll go and report to the commander." Xin Yuanyan said.

The task of besieging the city was not his turn, and in the end it was his turn to defend the city, after all, you can't let Zhao Fei ride a cavalry to defend the city.

As for the strong crossbowmen, some of them were defending the city.

"Thank you, General." Fan Ju said.

Xin Yuanyan turned around and left, and not long after, the city gate opened, and Zhao Kuo led Tian Dan and Yan Ju out.

"Fan Ju meets Ma Fuzi." Fan Ju bowed.

"You're Fan Ju?" Zhao Kuo looked at Fan Ju with some curiosity.

Fan Ju's appearance is very ordinary, he belongs to the kind that can't be found if he throws it into the pile, his face is a little old, his forehead and cheeks are covered with the carvings of time, and his eyes flash cold and gloomy from time to time.

In history, Fan Ju has been evaluated both positively and negatively, but Zhao Kuo admires him very much.

At that time, Fan Ju was beaten by Wei Qi and almost died, threw him into the toilet, let others pee on him without saying a word, and finally persuaded the guards to let him out, and then met the King of Qin through the help of Zheng Anping and Wang Ji, and relied on the eradication of the four nobles as the way to promotion, and successfully became the prime minister of Qin.

Under one man, above ten thousand.

Fan Ju's story is much more inspirational than most inspirational stories in later generations.

Later generations commented that Fan Ju was narrow-minded, insidious and cunning, and Zhao Kuo asked himself, if he experienced all this, he would probably be even more narrow-minded than Fan Ju.

Don't persuade others to be kind without others suffering.

"Ma Fuzi has heard of Ju?" Fan Ju asked curiously.

"Hahaha, no one knows the name of Mr., no one knows. Is the gentleman willing to join Zhao? Zhao Kuo took a step forward, grabbed Fan Ju's hands, and said sincerely.

If it was before, Zhao Kuo would never be like this, even if Fan Ju was caught on the battlefield, I am afraid that he would just be locked up like Zheng Anping and Hu Yang, and he would not be taken care of.

But now it's different, since it's decided to start an incident, the more people the better.

"Don't be kidding." Fan Ju silently withdrew his hand and wiped it twice in his sleeve.

He was the prime minister of the Qin State, and he was deeply favored by Qin Wangji, so he would go to the Zhao State if he had a hole in his brain.

"Who are these two?" Zhao Kuo looked at the two behind Fan Ju.

"This is the crown prince pillar of my Qin State, and the one next to him is Wang Sun Yiren." Fan Ju introduced.

"Wang Sun Yiren, shouldn't you be a hostage in Zhao State now?" Zhao Kuo was a little surprised.

"The king has consulted with the king of Zhao and has brought the king back to the king." Fan Ju said.

Zhao Kuo frowned, Yiren has returned to Qin, isn't Qin Shihuang ...... No, it is recorded in the history books that Qin Shi Huang was born in the first month, and it is only the end of December, and there are still a few days before the first month, so Zhao Ji should not be able to take the carriage at this time.

In this way, Zhao Ji and Qin Shi Huang should still be in Zhao State.

Zhao Kuo glanced at Yiren and wanted to ask him if he had left Zhao Ji in Zhao Kingdom, but it was really difficult to speak.

"Pillar/Inhuman has seen Mafuko." Prince Zhu and Wang Sun Yiren saluted.

Zhao Kuo returned the salute and introduced Tian Dan and Yan Ju to Fan Ju, followed by another salute.

"Inhumans have heard of Ma Fuzi in Handan for a long time over the years." Yiren said to Zhao Kuo.

"Hahaha, I also have to thank the Qin State for this matter, if it weren't for the help of the Qin State, I'm afraid I wouldn't have had the opportunity to lead the army to Guanzhong." Zhao Kuo said with a smile.

The Inhuman suddenly choked and couldn't speak.

"Ma Fuzi won't invite us into the city?" Fan Ju said.

"At the invitation of the marquis, the crown prince, and the prince and grandson." Zhao Kuo stretched out his hand and said.

After taking their seats, the banquet was quickly set up.

"Ju is here to seek peace, I don't know ...... Ma Fuzi," Fan Ju said.

"Summation? Hehe, I can't believe your Qin State's request for peace, let's wait for our army to reach Xianyang and then talk about peace. Zhao Kuo said angrily.

"This time the Qin State is really seeking peace, and there is no falsehood." Fan Ju hurriedly said.

He knew that Zhao Kuo was just pretending, and it was impossible to really break up peace. But people are under the eaves, and they should cooperate or cooperate.

"It's okay to sum, I have two conditions." Zhao Kuo said.

"Ma Fuzi, please speak." Fan Ju said.

"The first condition, since it is a peace, then the generals of Zhao, Wei, Han and Qin will naturally be present, and they will also come in vain." Zhao Kuo said.

Now that he is alone, Bai Qi may cut off his back road at any time, if Bai Qi can't come up, he can't rest assured that he will be able to negotiate peace with Qin Jun.

"Yes." Fan Ju thought for a moment and nodded.

"The second condition, the Qin army will cede the two cities of Wangcheng and Heyang to be occupied by our army." Zhao Kuo said.

Wangcheng and Heyang are located along the river, as long as the coalition forces occupy these two cities, even if the Qin state repents, the coalition forces can use this as a springboard to quickly capture Hexi.

"Yes." Fan Ju nodded again.

"Okay, when the time comes, the Qin army will give up the two cities of Wangcheng and Heyang, let's talk about it." Zhao Kuo waved his hand.

"That being the case, Fan Ju retired first." Fan Ju said.

"You don't have to retire, Ying Hou will live in the city, the same is true for Prince Zhu and Wang Sun Yiren, you just send a subordinate back to inform King Qin." Zhao Kuo said.

Zhao Kuo believed that Qin Guo really wanted to ask for peace this time, otherwise he would never have sent Fan Ju, the crown prince and Wang Sun Yiren over.

However, the heart of guarding against people is indispensable, in case the Qin State repents halfway and secretly mobilizes a large army to surround it, where can Zhao Kuo reason with it?

He didn't want to use his head to test whether the Qin State was honest, and the last King of Chu Huai's grave grass was more than a foot high.

"You ......" Prince Zhu stood up suddenly, his trembling fingers pointed at Zhao Kuo angrily, and he was about to say something, when a sharp pain suddenly came from his heart, and he couldn't say anything.

"Father."

"Prince."

Yiren and Fan Ju hurriedly helped the prince pillar to sit back on the seat.

"I'm afraid this prince of Qin State doesn't have a heart attack." Zhao Kuo looked at Prince Zhu suspiciously, and it could be seen from the painful expression and the dense beads of sweat on his forehead that it should not be pretended.

However, Zhao Kuo didn't have the ability to treat heart disease, so he could only watch dryly, cheering for Prince Zhu, hoping that the other party would not die here.

After a while, Prince Zhu's mood calmed down, and he glanced at Zhao Kuo resentfully, but did not speak.

"Then it's going to be a lot of work." Fan Ju leaned over and said.