"The land south of Wuyang and Yishui is the best land in my Yan Kingdom except for the vicinity of Jicheng, and the foreign ministers can make the decision and cede it to the Zhao State."

"However, Shanggu County has poor soil, mostly mountains, and there are foreign enemies such as Xiongnu, Donghu, and Linhu in the north. Zhao obtained Shanggu County, although it ostensibly increased the territory, but in fact it needed to send more soldiers to guard the frontier, which greatly increased the burden on the country. Overall, the harm outweighs the good. For the sake of the king, it is better to leave Shanggu in the Yan Kingdom, and let the Yan Kingdom help the king share the foreign enemies. Jiang Qu looked like he was thinking about Zhao Guo.

Although Shanggu County is not as prosperous as the Central Plains, it is actually not as bad as Jiangqu said, and its strategic significance is significant.

As long as Shanggu County is occupied, Zhao State can attack from both sides in the north and south, and send troops to destroy Yan State at any time.

Jiangqu obviously understands the reason, so he is reluctant to cede Shanggu County.

Zhao Kuo thought for a while, and also knew that it was a little difficult for Yan Guo to cede the land of the two counties, so he said: "That's it, Yan Guo will cede Shanggu County to Zhao Guo, and then I will exchange Shanggu County and Yan Guo for one person." In this way, the Yan Kingdom is equivalent to not ceding Shanggu County. ”

"Dare to ask Zhao Jun who he wants to change?" Jiang Qu asked.

"Chestnut belly." Zhao Kuo said.

"Hasn't Chestnut been captured by Zhao Jun?" Jiang Qu was a little puzzled.

Everyone is in your hands, what else do you change?

"He hasn't surrendered yet." Zhao Kuo said with a headache.

Whether it was Le Jian, Rong Yan, or Qing Qin, or Ju Xin, they all surrendered numbly after being captured. is the only chestnut belly, loyal to the monarch and patriotic, refusing to surrender alive or dead, and even committing suicide on a hunger strike, like a donkey.

If Zhao Kuo hadn't taken a fancy to his talent, he would have given him a knife and let him kill himself.

But everyone has weaknesses, and neither does chestnut belly.

He is loyal to Yan Guo, if Yan Guo sells him to Zhao Guo at this time, Chestnut's own belief will collapse in an instant, just like Tian Dan back then.

When the time comes, Zhao Kuo will surrender again without much effort.

"This ...... The ministers did not dare to call the shots. "It's a bit of a dilemma.

Although King Yan ordered that he be solely responsible for the peace talks, he really didn't dare to sell the chestnut belly casually.

Even if he was defeated and captured, he was still nominally the prime minister of Yan State, and he would rather die so far, and he couldn't bear this responsibility.

"It's okay, you can send someone back to ask King Yan, and we'll continue to talk about the future." Zhao Kuo said.

He believed that King Yan would definitely agree.

"I, the Yan State, am willing to be a vassal to the Zhao State and offer ten thousand gold and yi, hoping to exchange it for our prisoners." Jiang Qu leaned over and said.

"Gold Wan Yi wants to exchange it for 200,000 strong? Hehe, sir is really calculating. It's better to be like this, this king will pay 20,000 yuan of gold, and only ask Yan Guo to sell another 100,000 to this king. I don't know how? Zhao Kuo sneered.

Jiang Qu was a little embarrassed on his face, and said: "If Zhao Jun is not satisfied, my Yan Kingdom can add a little more, and it is useless to keep these captives Zhao Jun, and they have to be fed with food, and it will hurt Tianhe if they are killed." ”

"This king doesn't hide it from Mr., this king can make concessions under other conditions, but it is absolutely impossible for this king to release these 200,000 captives back to Yan Kingdom, and the reason is also clear, if these captives are put back, then this battle will be equivalent to fighting in vain for my Zhao Kingdom." Zhao Kuo said in a deep voice.

"Can the king bear to let the wives of 200,000 families be separated?" Jiang Qu said sadly.

"It is your Yan Kingdom that caused the separation of 200,000 families, not this king." Zhao Kuomeng patted the platform and said loudly, "If you Yan Kingdom don't want their wives to be separated, you can let all their relatives move into Zhao Kingdom." This king hereby guarantees that all Yanmin will be treated equally, and there will be absolutely no mistreatment. Do you dare? ”

"The king should know what the family scroll of the 200,000 army means, if it is all handed over to the Zhao State, then what is the difference between my Yan Kingdom and the Death Kingdom?" Jiang Qu said.

"If you don't give it, you won't lose your country?" Zhao Kuo's voice was full of chill.

"Is Zhao Jun threatening my Yan Kingdom? If my Yan country dies, Zhao will also die. Jiang stood up and said sharply.

Countries can watch Yan cut land and seek peace, but they will definitely not watch Zhao destroy Yan and become bigger and stronger step by step.

"This king can abandon the Zhao Kingdom and retreat to the Yan Kingdom. What about your Yan Kingdom? Zhao Kuo said indifferently.

"......" stopped Qu suddenly, he knew that Zhao Kuo couldn't do this, but what if?

In the end, of course, Yan and Zhao were both defeated, but Zhao Guo at least had a glimmer of life, and Yan Guo had nothing, and everything he did would all become Qin Qi and Han Wei's wedding dress!

"I am willing to ask Zhao Jun to be tolerant for a few days, and the foreign minister will go back to discuss with the king." Jiang Qu gritted his teeth and said.

"Since Mr. can't be the master, it's better to let King Yan come over and talk to this king." Zhao Kuo said directly.

Once this kind of thing starts to rip off, it is impossible to talk about it without ten days and half a month, but now Yan Guo can afford to wait, Zhao Guo can't afford to wait, and there are still four countries attacking Zhao State behind it.

In his opinion, King Yan's purpose is to let Jiangqu pass the word and delay back and forth.

Then he simply called King Yan over, and the two monarchs talked directly.

But what Zhao Kuo didn't know was that King Yan really didn't want to delay time this time, but really couldn't come!

Historically, King Yan Wucheng would not die until next year, but this defeat hit him too hard, and he fell ill all of a sudden, and he may not even survive this year.

"The king is seriously ill and it is difficult to travel far, and I hope that King Zhao will forgive me." Jiang Qu sighed.

Zhao Kuo looked at the four of them and found that the four of them were a little surprised in their eyes, and they immediately didn't believe Jiang Qu's words. But at this time, Liu Ping leaned over and whispered: "The minister received the news that King Yan seems to be seriously ill. ”

"Since King Yan is seriously ill, then Mr. will send someone back, and it just so happens that the matter of Shanggu County's exchange of chestnut belly has also been reported. The king can give the gentleman two days. Zhao Kuo said, as if Shanggu County had become Zhao's.

"The minister obeys." He leaned over and retreated.

In less than two days, in the evening of the next day, the knights of the Yan Kingdom rushed back and handed over the order of the King of Yan to Jiang Qu.

Jiangqu immediately asked to see Zhao Kuo: "The king promised to exchange the chestnut belly for Shanggu County." ”

"King Yan is wise, what about the relatives of the captives." Zhao Kuo asked.

"The king did not agree." Jiang Qu shook his head.

Zhao Kuo was silent, he originally thought that even if he could ask for some of it, he didn't expect Yan Guo to be so tough in this regard.

"The king said, my Yan Kingdom can exchange 20,000 gold and fifteen cities for prisoners, I wonder if King Zhao can agree?"

Jiang Qu's heart was full of powerlessness, after this battle, even if Zhao returned the captives to Yan Guo, Yan Guo would not be able to recover within five years.

Zhao Kuo shook his head and said, "These captives are still raised by this king to help Yan Guo." ”

Jiang Qu sighed deeply and did not continue to ask.

Obviously, neither Yan nor Zhao is willing to take a step back in this regard.

Soon, a peace treaty was signed.

The peace treaty stipulated: Yan State ceded all the land south of Shanggu County, Wuyang City, and Yishui to Zhao State, and Zhao State exchanged Shanggu County for Yan Xiang Li's belly.

Yan State compensated Zhao State with 1.3 million stone of grain, 50,000 catties of copper, and 50,000 catties of iron.

The state of Yan declared itself a vassal to the state of Zhao, and it was not allowed to send troops to attack the state of Zhao for five years.

As for the matter of the captives and the family scrolls, there is no mention.

Zhao Kuo knew that it was impossible for Yan Guo to hand over the captive's family scroll.

Jiang Qu also understood that it was impossible for Zhao Kuo to release the captives.

After signing the peace treaty, Jiangqu looked back at the majestic and tall Yan Kingdom Xiadu hundreds of meters away, and his heart was full of sadness.

From now on, this city no longer belongs to the Yan Kingdom......

"The minister retired." Jiangqu's face was full of bitterness, he bowed, and turned to leave.

"This king sends off sir." Zhao Kuo personally sent Jiangqu to the north of the city, and when he came back, he said to the guards next to him, "Go and call the chestnut belly." ”

Not long after, chestnut belly was brought into the camp tent, and he didn't speak, just looked at Zhao Kuo coldly.

"Let's see." Zhao Kuo handed the peace treaty to the guards, and the guards sent it to the chestnut belly.

Chestnut took the peace agreement and looked at it, the whole person was stunned for an instant, his body trembled slightly, two lines of turbid tears gushed out from his eyes, he slowly knelt on the ground, facing the north, and cried bitterly.

"King, what is the minister sorry for you, you want to sell the minister." Chestnut belly hysterical roar.

The wind and clouds were surging in the sky, and the spiritual power of the chestnut belly rushed out of his mind crazily, rolling up the sky full of wind and clouds, completely ignoring his own life and death, and everyone present felt a terrifying pressure spread from the chestnut belly.

In about a quarter of an hour, chestnut belly slowly calmed down, and the huge spiritual power gradually submerged into the body, he slowly got up, his cold face did not have any expression, the whole person was as cold as cold iron, walked in front of Zhao Kuo, leaned over and saluted: "Chestnut belly, meet the king." ”

"Sir, please." Zhao Kuo lifted his chestnut belly, "In order to get Mr. before, I used some means, and I hope Mr. is not strange." ”

"The king is not to blame for this." Chestnut shook his head, two cold glints flashing in his eyes.

Compared with Zhao Kuo, it is obvious that King Yan, who sold him, is even more hateful.

"Sir, take a seat." Zhao Kuo pointed to the seat next to him and said.

After the chestnut belly sat down, Zhao Kuo also walked to the seat and sat down.

"Send someone to pass the peace treaty back to Handan, and let Pingyang Jun and his second brother come over and take charge of the handover with Yan State. In addition, Hejian County was established in the area between the two rivers, with Wuyang as the county and Jin Huang as the county guard. Zhao Kuo ordered.

The Yellow River is different from ordinary rivers, which have many tributaries and few dibutaries.

But the Yellow River is different, it has many tributaries, more diversions, the whole land of Hebei, everywhere is its branches, I can't count how many.

The river flows to the vicinity of Wushe County and divides into two main trunks and numerous tributaries, and then a main trunk in the north divides into two again near Wusui, and the northernmost point reaches the vicinity of Jicheng.

There are nine large tributaries alone, known as the Nine Rivers, and the small ones are simply innumerable.

The river is usually referred to as the largest divide, which is the border between the states of Zhao and Qi.

As for the Hejian County divided by Zhao Kuo, it is a large area north of Wusui, south of Wuyang, and east of the river.

This area was uninhabited during the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was not gradually developed until the Warring States Period, and it was not until the Han Dynasty that it was developed into the granary of the world.

"The minister commands." Jin Huang immediately stepped forward and leaned over and said.

He had no opinion on this arrangement, and he did prefer the ruling side to lead the troops into battle.

"Words of the captive......" Zhao Kuo couldn't help but feel a little pain when he thought of this.

Xunzi wants to track down corruption, Zhao Bao wants to hand over to Yan Guo, Xu Li has not come back since he visited the farmer's house, Zhao Sheng is still in the party organization to work for relief, Lin Xiangru is recuperating again, Yu Xin and Wei Qi need to sit in the central government, and no one uses Zhao Guo!

"Daijun and Hejian are each responsible for 50,000 prisoners, and the remaining 100,000 prisoners are handed over to Lejian to be responsible, with chestnut belly and Gongsun Long assisting from the side." Zhao Kuo said.

"The last general/minister is commanded." Lejian, Libei, Gongsun Long, and Jin Huang leaned over and said.

"This king asks you to reclaim farmland in Daijun, Zhongshan, Hejian and other places, build water conservancy, and build city walls. All prisoners are managed by a joint sitting system, and if one person escapes, the whole army will sit together. One of them fled, and all of them sat together, and so on. Tell the captives that they can go home after five years of service, and that if they behave well, the king can let them go back early. Zhao Kuo said.

These 200,000 young men are all free laborers, and they do not need to consume any money except for food and lodging. Five years is enough to develop most of the land in the Hebei region of Zhaoguo.

And no one will scold Zhao Kuo for this, the captives have no human rights, even those so-called celebrities and gentlemen will not put their minds on the captives.

Zhao Kuo did not kill them all, but promised to let them go back after five years of work, which was very merciful.

You must know that the prisoners killed by the old Qin family next door have already piled up.

"Don't be too harsh on the captives, take care of enough food every day, and leave a certain amount of rest. In addition, I will negotiate between this king and Yan Guo to take over their family rolls, and tell them that Yan Guo did not agree. Zhao Kuo said again.

"No." Rakuma and other humanites.

Chestnut's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at Zhao Kuo in shock, others may not have noticed, but he immediately understood Zhao Kuo's plan.

If one's own person treats oneself badly, it is far more profound than the hatred caused by the enemy's bad treatment of oneself.

In the same way, the enemy's kindness to himself is far more grateful than the kindness of his own people.

These captives didn't know a single word, they didn't think about why Yan Guo didn't send their family scrolls to Zhao State to reunite with them, they only knew that Zhao Guo had worked hard for this, and Yan Guo did not agree.

As a result, their original hatred for Zhao State will be transferred to Yan State.

What's more, Yan Guo was originally sorry for these soldiers, and every time the reward was exploited through layers of exploitation, very few fell into their hands, and it could even be said that it could not fall into their hands.

Now Zhao Guo did not harsh them, and he only needed to work for five years to return to Yan Kingdom. For most people, five years is not a long time, and it will pass after a while.

However, in the past five years, their hatred for Yan has deepened.

Even in the middle, Zhao Kuo added a little more "material", even if these captives finally returned to Yan Kingdom, they would not become Yan people, but "Zhao people" in Yan Kingdom! ”

In the end, Yan Guo found that there was no way, because it was impossible for Yan Guo to expel or kill these people, let alone strip them out!

This is a naked conspiracy against Yan Guo!