While Yang Ming was tasting the sweetness that belonged to Flame Spirit Ji, someone was tasting the bitter taste.

Zhao Du, Zhao Wanggong, Zhao Wangyan, who was over thirty years old, looked at the battle report from Taiyuan, and a look of disappointment appeared on his face, which looked a little pale because of excessive wine.

It's a pity.

Zhao Wangyan originally wanted to take advantage of the great victory to recover the ancestral land of Taiyuan in one fell swoop, take Dongjun, and reproduce the momentum of the Three Jin Alliance, but unfortunately, there is always an excessive gap between the wish and the truth.

The 70,000 Zhao army on the southern front lost troops in Baimayi, including the general Zhao Cong, there were many dead in the battle, but they failed to seize an inch of land in Dongjun, and the Zhao army that attacked Taiyuan County in addition to capturing a few insignificant small cities, but the important town of Taiyuan County Jinyang was helpless, this was built by the ancestors of Zhao State, marking the opening of the Zhao king's road to the city, in the hands of the Qin army, it was also a city that was difficult for the Zhao army to overcome.

"Korea has no power to resist, Wei has suffered two consecutive defeats in the past three years, it has been completely crippled, and Dongjun is difficult to capture, it is impossible to reproduce the momentum of the Three Jin Alliance, where is the road of Zhao?" Zhao Wangyan groaned, feeling a deep sense of tiredness.

The state of Zhao was passed on to his generation, and it was no longer the state of Zhao of the year, and the national strength was greatly weakened in the midst of the loss of the country, but at the same time, the power of the state of Qin was constantly increasing, and now it has become a behemoth.

At the thought that Zhao Guo would face non-stop attacks from Qin in the future, Zhao Wangyan had a deep sense of tiredness, that is, a feeling of no hope.

"The trend of northward expansion has come to an end, Qi State can't bully too much, the Qin State in the west has gained a firm foothold in Taiyuan, and the south is within the range of Qin's soldiers, it seems that the only direction that Zhao State can point to is Yan State." Zhao Wangyan thought about it, and his thoughts had already run to his neighbor Yan Guo in the north.

Accumulating national strength is not an overnight thing, and at the moment, for Zhao Guo, time is the most precious thing, so if you want to enhance your national strength in a short time, there is only one way, that is, grabbing.

And Yan Guo, a neighbor of Yan Guo, who repeatedly wanted to take advantage of Zhao Guoxing's robbery, naturally became Zhao Guo's first choice.

In Zhao Wangyan's thoughts, a middle-aged man with a white face and a short beard walked into the main hall: "King, the edict has been drafted, and the king can use the seal." ”

Zhao Wangyan looked at the person who came and said, "Guo Kai, how about what we do to Yan Guo?"

"Yan Guo? Great King, Yan Guo stabbed us Zhao Guo in the back three times and twice, and it is long overdue to teach it a lesson. Guo Kai, who grew up with Zhao Wangyan since he was a child, understood Zhao Wangyan's mind at the first time.

And for what Zhao Wangyan said about the use of troops against Yan State, Guo Kai fully agreed, and the general Zhao Cong, who was good with him, died in Dongjun, so that Guo Kai had no collaborators who could exert influence in Zhao Guojun, and Wu Anjun Li Mu won another big victory over the Qin army, and received great favor from Zhao Wangyan.

With the experience of Lian Po in the past, Guo Kai has already regarded Li Mu as his future competitor, and in order to increase his voice in the Zhao court, he must have his own allies in the army, Pang Xuan is old, Zhao Cong is dead, he can only find new collaborators.

And Yan Guo is the bargaining chip he can come up with, attacking Qin is too risky, but attacking Yan State is almost a military feat for Zhao Jun, so Guo Kai must take the right to speak on the matter of attacking Yan.

"That's exactly what the widow means, you go down to collect the grain tax and prepare for the attack on Yan." Zhao Wang Yan said.

"Yes." Guo Kai responded.

After Guo Kai left the palace, he didn't go far, but he was blocked by a palace maid, Guo Kai, who was the prime minister of Zhao Guo, was blocked by a palace maid, but he didn't see the slightest anger, but said with a warm smile: "Miss Hong'er, this is what you want?" ”

"The queen is waiting for you in front." The woman who was called 'Hong'er Girl' by Guo Kai naturally has the capital to make Guo Kai face it, although she is just a palace maid, but she is now Queen Zhao's close attendant, and she is Queen Zhao's most relied on confidant.

is also a villain, no one can understand the power of villains better than Guo Kai, villains may not be successful enough, but failures are enough, so for Hong'er, the palace maid, Guo Kai has always been courteous.

Not only Hong'er, but also Guo Kai in the face of others, except for people who have a real conflict of interest with him, Guo Kai has always been kind to others, which makes his reputation in Zhao Guo flawed, but it is still quite good.

But if anyone has a direct conflict of interest with him, then Guo Kai will be ruthless, and he will do everything to knock it into the dust, or even completely destroy it.

Lian Po, who was also able to have contacts with Bai Qi when he fought back then, suffered a big loss in the hands of Guo Kai in this way, and had to live in exile for 10,000 years.

Hearing that Queen Zhao was waiting for him, Guo Kai didn't dare to delay in the slightest, walked forward quickly, and came to a carriage in a secluded part of the street.

"In Wu'an County, there is a manor that was burned down five years ago and has an owner again, have you heard?" Through the car curtain, Queen Zhao's voice came into Guo Kai's ears.

"Wu'an County? Wu Anjun's fiefdom? Guo Kai was slightly stunned, and he couldn't react for a while.

How could the queen care about the fiefdom of Li Mu, the king of Wu Anjun? But after a moment of doubt, Guo Kai, who was reminded by 'five years ago', suddenly thought of one thing, in order to completely wash away the hidden dangers on her body and allow herself to seek the position of queen, Queen Zhao conspired with Guo Kai to do a thing to destroy the door in Wu'an County.

In that incident, more than 100 people in a manor were wiped out, but in the end, a teenager and a girl escaped with their lives.

Could it be that the queen is talking about the manor? But why does the queen want to bring up the old thing again? I heard that the girl finally appeared in Yanmen County and was adopted by Li Mu, and now Li Mu is named Wu'an Jun, could he bring that girl back to Wu'an County?

What does the queen want to do when she revisits the old story? Is it possible that you still want to kill your mouth? Guo Kai thought about it, and he didn't know what Queen Zhao meant for a while.

"Hongu doesn't want to see that manor again, you know?" Queen Zhao said.

Now she is actively seeking the position of the crown prince of Zhao for her son, and her ex-husband's daughter reappeared in Wu'an County, which is not far from Zhao, which makes Queen Zhao a little uneasy.

In the past, she had already shot at her daughter once, and if she shot again, it would naturally be nothing.

"Queen, that manor is in Wu Anjun's fiefdom, if you do it, I'm afraid it won't be too easy, and now that Wu Anjun is in the limelight, it is better to avoid its edge." Guo Kai said cautiously.

Recently, he wanted to plan the affairs of Yan Kingdom, but he was not in the mood to care about Queen Zhao's parents.

"If you can't do it, you can do killer things, in Zhao Kingdom, there are not many killers." Queen Zhao said.

In the past, she was entangled and painful for a long time before she had to make such a decision, and when her daughter survived that disaster, she even had a trace of happiness in disappointment, glad that her daughter was still alive, but when her daughter's news appeared in her world again, the first thing she thought of was to completely destroy her daughter.

Because of guilt, because of weakness, because of interests, but also because of selfishness and malice.

"Yes." Guo Kai could only agree that a large part of his power in Zhao now comes from the support of Queen Zhao behind him, and Guo Kai has no room to refuse Queen Zhao's request or request.

In the sound of the axle turning, only Guo Kai was left in place.

The little girl is back, but what about the teenager? Guo Kai thought about the young man who was in the pursuit but could protect Queen Zhao's daughter all the way to Yanmen County, and there was a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart.

Guo Kai also knows the truth of not bullying young people to be poor, because he was that kind of teenager back then.

I'm thinking too much, right? Now I am in Zhao Guo, although I am not under one person, but I can definitely be said to be above 10,000 people, there are countless third-rate masters under the door, second-rate masters can enter the house, and there are several first-class masters, how can I be afraid of a young man with strong martial arts. Thinking of the worries that arose in his heart in an instant, Guo Kai couldn't help laughing, only feeling that he was really suspicious?

But is Guo Kai's worry really unnecessary?

Taiyuan County, under the city of Jinyang, the attack of the Zhao army was repulsed again, and Li Mu, the martial artist of Zhao State, looked at the retreating Zhao army, and there was no sadness or joy on his resolute face.

"General, the king has an edict." A light horse came from afar and sent a sealed edict to Li Mu.

Li Mu took the edict and put it away after a few glances, and after a long time, he said to the people left and right: "You can arrange the retreat of the army, the Dongjun side has been defeated, and this Jinyang City can no longer be captured." “

"Defeated by the East Gun?" Hearing Li Mu's statement, the people on the left and right were all stunned, and then they all reacted, once Dongjun was defeated, the Qin State could fully support Taiyuan County, and under the heavy army and fortified city, the Zhao army really had no hope of capturing Jinyang.

In the reactions of the different expressions of the people, Li Mu took a few steps forward, looking at Jinyang City in the distance, his expression was quite complicated, he knew very well that the war between the Zhao State and the Qin State, unless it was the destruction of a country, there would be no day at all.

But now is different from the past, the war between Zhao and Qin, in a sense, is a border war, although the hinterland of Zhao sent troops and food, but it will not be directly destroyed, but now it is different, in the war not long ago, the Qin army actually cut directly into the hinterland of Zhao, leading the war to the hinterland of Zhao.

Although the Zhao army won the war, it was completely at a disadvantage in terms of national strength and military strength.

If the Qin army continued to exhaust Zhao with more powerful national strength, Zhao might be able to support it in ten years, but ten years later, it would ......

For a while, even if he was as brave and good at fighting as Li Mu, he couldn't help but be a little pessimistic about the future of Zhao State.