Before leaving, Zhao Kuo once again feasted the kings of Chu, Wei, and Han.

"The widow wants to buy some war horses from King Zhao." King Chu raised his glass and said.

The war horses of the Central Plains were used to pull carts from generation to generation, and their body size degenerated to be shorter than the border war horses, which were not suitable for riding. If the Chu State wanted to obtain a good war horse, it could only buy it from the Qin, Zhao, and Yan states.

In the past, the commercial exchanges between the Chu State and the Qin State were very frequent, and the Chu State exchanged lacquerware, gold, etc. for the war horses of the Qin State, although they were all castrated, but the war horses purchased from the Zhao State and the Yan State were also enough.

However, starting last year, the Qin State obtained stirrups and saddles from the Zhao State, and began to expand the cavalry on a large scale, strictly prohibiting the outflow of domestic war horses, preferring not to have fine lacquerware and gold than to sell war horses to the Chu State.

The road to the south of the Yan State was also cut off by the Zhao State, and if you wanted to buy a horse, you had to pass through the territory of the Zhao State, but the war horses of the Zhao State were also forbidden to go south.

The huge state of Chu can only buy expensive smuggling horses.

But even then, it is not enough.

In desperation, the King of Chu could only come to Zhao Kuo in person.

The horse-drawn carriage mentioned before is tired, and wanting a few good horses is just a tentative word, if Zhao Kuo's attitude is acceptable, he then proposes to buy a horse, if Zhao Kuo's attitude is cold, he will not mention this matter again.

"I wonder how many war horses King Chu plans to buy?" Zhao Kuo asked.

"Thirty thousand." King Chu said.

Whether it is a cavalry or a chariot, a large number of war horses are needed, and if he can, the king of Chu even wants to buy 100,000 war horses, but he also knows that it is impossible for Zhao Guo to agree.

Even if he agreed, he couldn't afford it.

"Don't hide it from the King of Chu, in recent years, my Zhao State has been in constant wars, and the war horses have suffered heavy losses. And the country is withering, and Ma Zheng is almost collapsing, I'm afraid ...... Unable to meet the needs of the state of Chu. Zhao Kuo sighed and shook his head.

"How about the 10,000 horses, the widow can exchange grain and gold, and the price is set by King Zhao."

The king of Chu really has no choice, and the Qin State will not let go, even if the Chu State doubles the price, he will not sell it.

As for Yan Guo, not to mention, Zhao Guo disagreed, and Yan Guo's war horses didn't even want to go south.

"Now it's 10,000 war horses, and I can't take out Zhao Guo, and I don't want a pony under six feet if I want to come to the King of Chu." Zhao Kuo said.

"That's nature." The king of Chu nodded and said, Chu is just short of good horses, not horses, there are many short horses, and there are wild pony herds in the southwest. "In that case, how many horses can Zhao Guo buy?"

"Don't worry about the king of Chu first, this king plans to send troops to attack the Xiongnu next year and recover the entire territory of Hetao. At that time, how many war horses and how many war horses did the Chu State want. Zhao Kuo said loudly.

Since the Battle of Changping, the northern strength of Zhao State is weak, tens of thousands of people have to defend the border of more than 2,000 miles, it is really difficult to take care of all places, the Xiongnu took the opportunity to go south, break through the Gaoque Fortress, and occupy the fat Hetao.

Although Yan Zhou and Li Mu had led their troops to repel the Xiongnu and recover some land, it was difficult to inflict heavy losses on the Xiongnu due to the limited number of troops.

Moreover, the Xiongnu have grown stronger and stronger in recent years, and the threat to Zhao has become more and more serious, and if Zhao wants to dominate the Central Plains, there must be a stable rear, and now this rear is obviously not stable.

"Zhao plans to attack the Xiongnu next year?" King Wei said in surprise.

"Not bad." Zhao Kuo nodded,

"This king heard that after the death of King Wu Lu, Fucha was afraid that he would forget the hatred of Yueguo, so he arranged for the palace people to stand on a high place every day and shouted to himself: "Fucha, have you forgotten that Yueguo killed your monarch?" Whenever he heard a shout, he would stand up and reply loudly, "Don't dare! "In this way, Wu finally became strong day by day, and finally defeated Yue and won the Central Plains."

Later, Goujian, the king of Yue, in order to take revenge and revive the Yue country, hung a bitter gall in the place of eating, and every time he ate, he tasted the bitter taste first, and then asked himself: "Have you forgotten the shame of the year?" "He also removed the mats, used firewood and grass as mattresses, and sharpened himself with a difficult life, and finally destroyed the state of Wu."

"Although this king is not as good as the two kings of Fucha and Goujian, he also has ambitions in his heart. Not an inch of the ancestral land can fall into the hands of the enemy, even if it is to throw away the head and spill blood, it must be taken back. ”

Zhao Kuo clenched his hands into fists and slammed them on the eucalyptus platform, his body stood up, and his expression was excited.

"King Zhao's words won the hearts of the widows." King Wei's face turned red, he stood up reluctantly, picked up the wine glass, drank it all, and echoed loudly.

When the king of Wei was young, the state of Wei was constantly weakened under the pressure of the Qin state.

First, he lost 240,000 troops in the Battle of Yinque, and his national strength was greatly damaged, and he ceded 400 miles of land east of the river, and then lost 61 cities, and then even the old capital Anyi was occupied by Qin.

Since then, the king of Wei has vowed to revitalize the Wei state.

But in the second year of his succession, the man dealt him a heavy blow, as if as a warning, and captured two cities of Wei.

In the third year, Wei Ran's troops surrounded Daliang.

In the fourth year, Hu Yang defeated Wei again.

In the fifth year, in order to restore the national strength, the king of Wei decided to send troops to attack Korea to expand his territory. Then he was pressed to the ground by Wei Ran, Bai Qi, and Hu Yang of the Qin State and rubbed it, and the 150,000 army was wiped out, leaving only the commander Mang Mao to escape back......

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The successive defeats knocked out all the anger of the King of Wei.

Bai Qi left a great shadow in the heart of King Wei.

He no longer thought about how to revitalize the Wei State, as long as the Wei State did not perish in his hands, he would be satisfied.

But after recovering Hedong, King Wei's dry heart beat again, and he saw the hope of Wei's revival again!

Hedong has been recovered, will Hexi be far away?

The King of Chu and the King of Han were a little excited in their eyes, the three brothers and sisters were all suppressed by the Qin State, especially the Chu State, so they were still in the hands of the Qin State, and the royal tomb was also burned down.

Zhao Kuo was overjoyed when he saw the reaction of the three of them. What Cai Ze said is indeed right, as long as he is provoked by the land of his ancestors, King Wei will not be able to bear it.

Now it seems that it is not only the King of Wei, but even the King of Chu and the King of Han can't help it.

If this kind of thing is completely hopeless, it is just that, what I am most afraid of is that there is a little hope, at this time, in order to recover the homeland, the three kingdoms will definitely do their best to attack the Qin State, and the Zhao State can take the opportunity to profit from it.

"King Zhao has good ambitions, so the widow is here to congratulate King Zhao on his victory." King Chu raised his glass and said.

"It's the same with widows." King Han raised a glass together.

If Zhao Kuo attacked Yan or Qi, in order to prevent Zhao from growing, they would inevitably find ways to drag their feet, but attacking the Xiongnu was different.

In the eyes of the countries of the Central Plains, the surrounding alien races are all barren lands, and even if they are defeated, they will not be able to increase their strength much, and they will lose their troops in vain. This is also one of the reasons why the state of Chu is desperately developing to the north and looks down on the south at all.

"Thank you, three monarchs."

Looking at the backs of the three of them leaving, a surging smile appeared at the corner of Zhao Kuo's mouth, the seeds have been planted, and all that remains is to wait for them to sprout slowly.