In any case, Zhao's mission in Qi was successfully completed.

With the first batch of 300,000 quintals of grain from Qi and 100,000 quintals of grain from Chu arrived safely in Huaisi County, it can be said that the food crisis of Zhao has basically been substantially resolved.

Immediately afterwards, from Zhongshan County and Daibei County, Zhao Kuo mobilized a large number of ordnance and sent them to Qi State according to the agreement. Of course, among this batch of armaments, swords and shields are the mainstay, and the number of armor, bows, arrows, and arrows with high "technological content" is only enough to arm more than 10,000 people.

However, this result was already very satisfactory to the King of Qi, and he immediately gave this batch of ordnance to his palace garrison.

Looking at the urgency of King Qi, this batch of weapons does not seem to be as simple as it seems, and Qi Guo is far from being cowardly that can be summed up in its entirety.

In fact, everything is irrational for its very reasonable reasons. Some are hidden deeper inside, others are historical debts. It's like "It's a cool autumn" we read when we were children, and it is always in the afternoon of middle age that we can feel the intensity of autumn.

As it is with people, so it is with nations.

Today's Qi State is no longer Jiang Shang's Qi State, and what betrayers are most afraid of is precisely betrayal.

The Tian family of Qi, no matter how it is beautified, is after all a rebellion with a different surname, and the Tian family, as a usurper, the king of Qi in the past dynasties, is most afraid that someone will drive him down in the same way.

This is also one of the reasons why the King of Qi had to squeeze out Tian Dan, an important minister who saved the Qi State from fire and water.

However, in this journey of Dai Qi, there are too many dragons, and the Tian family has made too many promises for Dai Qi.

If the state of Chu is a country divided between the king of Chu and the major nobles, then for the state of Qi, it is the king of Qi and the major families who govern the country together.

Although the rights of the families of the Qi State in the territory are not as almost a small kingdom as the nobles of the Chu State, the participation of the major families of the Qi State in state affairs, and even the control of the army, is even worse than that of the Chu State.

In the state of Chu, although the nobles can be lawless in their own fiefdoms, but the king of Chu gives an order, whether he is willing or not, he does not do his best and says otherwise, but he should send troops and soldiers, and he should also have food.

But in the country of Qi, the rights of the king of Qi were locked directly at the source.

Want to go to war? It's not like you, King Qi, said he agreed. This is also one of the reasons that led to the defeat of the Five Kingdoms and the fiasco of the Qi State.

Obviously, the King of Qi had to rely on these families because of his improper position, which led to the delay in the expansion of the power of the King of Qi.

Throughout his life, what King Qi wanted to do was never be the Eastern Emperor, but to take back the rights that should have belonged to the king from the hands of this group of ministers.

And the best way to take power is to go to war, especially foreign wars.

Once the war starts, King Qi is at the moral high ground, and anything that goes against his will will will be regarded as an act that hinders the war, and King Qi can naturally strike openly.

So, in 301 BC, as soon as King Qi ascended the throne, the Qi general Kuang Zhang led the combined forces of Qi, Wei and Han to break the Chu army in Chuisha.

Immediately afterwards, the State of Qi, whose territory had been greatly expanded, had no intention of stopping at all, and immediately fought with the State of Qin. From 298 BC to 296 BC, under the leadership of King Qi Xiang, the allied forces of Qi, Wei, and Han even besieged Qin for a time, and finally broke through Hangu Pass, forcing Qin to cede land and sue for peace.

It should be said that until this time, King Qi's journey to regain power was also smooth.

But immediately after, the Yan State launched an attack on the Qi State, and inexplicably, the weak Yan army attacked the hinterland of the Qi State.

You must know that since Qi Guo dared to fight Qin Guo's idea, it must have expected the possibility of Yan Guo's little brother ending up in a critical time.

But the Qi State, which was obviously prepared, was easily broken through by the Yan army's border defense line and penetrated deep into the Qi State.

Coincidentally, the letter of state for peace on the Qin side had already been handed to Qi

Wang's desk. Although he was unwilling, the King of Qi could only recall the army and deal with the internal Yan army first.

And this Yan army was easily defeated by the Qi army that came back to help. How could such a weak Yan army break through the army laid by King Qi on the border?

The answer is already obvious - there are inner girls!

To be precise, it should be the ministers of Qi who finally saw King Qi's intention to fight fake and seize power, and then launched a counterattack against King Qi.

Naturally, as ministers who control the state apparatus, they have already made a move, so it is impossible to stop so easily.

Soon, the vicious political incident of "Tianjia Robbing the King" occurred.

Obviously, Tian Jia, as a member of the royal family, had no motive to rob the King of Qi at all. But this happened.

The only explanation is that he and the king of Qi relied on him to think that he was friendly with Xiangguo Tianwen, who was also a member of the royal family.

The purpose of this is self-evident. The ministers of the Qi State wanted to use Tian Wen, an insignificant person, to separate the King of Qi and his thoughts on Tian Dan.

Things turned out to be as they expected, and Tian Wen was forced to leave.

At the right time, the man who was about to wear the seal of the Six Kingdoms on his waist, but was actually a dead man, appeared in front of the King of Qi, with a belly full of talent, full of sincerity and the anointed land of the Song Kingdom, and slowly walked towards the King of Qi.

It is obviously not easy to gain the trust of King Qi.

Of course, there is Su Qin's resourcefulness in this, but no matter how powerful Su Qin's spy is, he is also a person from another country in the end, how can the King of Qi completely trust it?

And for so many years in the Qi country, how could it not leave any traces?

Since there are clues, why have no courtiers ever dissuaded the King of Qi?

There is only one possibility, as an outsider, Su Qin, from the moment he entered the court of Qi, he became the best choice for the King of Qi to deal with the old forces.

From King Qi's subsequent swelling confidence, it is not difficult to see that Su Qin has completed his task very well. And this premise, the reality is that Su Qin, with his astute mind, has really taken back a lot of rights for King Qi again.

It's a pity that this is a poisonous bait.

With all the hard work and dedication, Su Qin just wanted to bring the last dish to the King of Qi - the Song Kingdom.

Out of trust in Su Qin, or out of greed, King Qi quickly got into Su Qin's full set.

It's just that even the attack on Song is full of weirdness.

An attack on the Song Kingdom, it can be said that the King of Qi was moved by profit;

The second attack on the Song State can also be said to be that the King of Qi was unwilling to leave like this;

However, the three times the Song Kingdom, which would rather offend all its allies, can only be explained by madness.

However, it was clear that King Qi was in the prime of life, and it was impossible for him to suddenly become ignorant.

Obviously, the war of the Song Dynasty was another battle like the attack on Qin - it seemed to be a foreign war, but in fact, it was another attempt by the King of Qi to gather power.

Again and again, the king of Qi gradually gathered his power by the hands of various countries.

But at the same time, it also made the ministers of Qi completely see the intentions of the King of Qi.

As a result, what should have been a gradual battle turned into the Qi State driving out Zhao and Wei and annexing the Song Realm.

The state of Qi, which lost the support of the Three Jin Dynasty, was attacked by the alliance of the Five Kingdoms in the next year (286 BC).

Of course, even at this point, the State of Qi is still strong, and in the perennial campaign, the army under the King of Qi is not a rabble, on the contrary, the Five Nations Alliance is divided into two camps, Qin Yan is naturally together, and the Three Jin Dynasty has other ideas.

And the coalition army came from afar, even if the strength of the Qi army was slightly weaker, it was not completely without a chance.

Not to mention a big victory over the coalition forces, at least a small defeat or even an undefeated defeat can be guaranteed.

But on the contrary, the Qi army was defeated and defeated, and the family wealth that King Qi had accumulated for many years instantly came to naught. The reason is indeed that the main general of the Qi army has touched the touch, and he fled in fear of the battle.

Defeat is defeat.

Qin

The army has also broken through the Hangu Pass, and it has also risen!

Continue to resist step by step, delaying the enemy on the one hand, and mobilizing troops on the other hand to hold the capital.

After all, Qi is a big country, no one can eat Qi in one bite, and the five countries have come from afar, and they still have to retreat after all.

But a strange thing happened again, the city in the territory of Qi almost fell from the wind, and the alliance of the five countries arrived at the city of Linzi almost bloodlessly.

Then the city was broken again.

Then flee.

It doesn't matter if he is not welcomed in Wei, Zou, and Lu countries, it is easy to return to Judu, one of the five capitals of Qi State, and there is not even a single soldier around him (with the general of Chu State, Naoya, trying to counterattack with Chu soldiers, it can only show that in Qi State, King Qi is almost alone)

But Naoya, the general of Chu State, tortured and killed him.

Who gave him this guts?

You must know that King Chu Huai was starved to death in the Qin State, and from then on, Qin and Zhao were completely evil; And to torture and kill a monarch who has not yet died is simply unimaginable.

What's even more ridiculous is that since the death of King Qi, the ministers of Qi suddenly appeared, and one by one the troops were quickly formed, and King Qi Xiang ascended the throne almost immediately.

After that, everyone is very clear.

Tian Dan trained his troops in Jimo, lost more than 70 cities in a row, and finally restored the country for Qi.

It can be said that in his life, King Qi did one thing, fighting against the ministers of Qi and trying to take back the royal power.

It's a pity that under the combined effect of internal and external factors, he failed, and he even got a bad "Xiang" slander.

Naturally, as a descendant of King Qi, the current King of Qi not only has the ambition to inherit the legacy of his father, but also has a profound lesson, and he will not shake the country's foundation easily.

This also led to Qi ignoring the dispute between the six countries in the days that followed.

However, the king of Qi is also a king in the end, whether it is for the sake of inheriting the will or for his own safety, it is inevitable to increase his bargaining chips.

As a result, there was also the matter that the king of Qi wanted to use the envoys of Zhao to collect grain, and in Linzi, he cut a handful of leeks fiercely, and there was also the matter that the king of Qi gave priority to the armament and equipment transported from Zhao to his own army.

These things did not cause the ministers to fight back, but they also aroused the vigilance of the ministers again.

A tugging is inevitable between the monarchs and ministers of the Qi State.

These situations soon spread to the ears of Zhao Kuo, who was far away in Handan, through detailed work. With such a Qi country, Zhao Kuo obviously doesn't have to worry about whether it will rise one day.

Of course, these have little to do with the current Zhao State.

Because just when the grain of Qi finally left Handan and was transported to Jiuyuan, Zhao Kuo didn't have time to take a breath, but in this Handan city, a team of unvegetarian guests was ushered in.