Chapter Twenty-Six: The Great Gambling
"Your Majesty, do you want to risk winning, or do you want to wait for death?" At this point, the Xuannu had to take a risk.
"Risking a chance to win? How to say this. King Zhao pondered these four words, and when he listened to them, he could feel the terrible feeling of walking on the cliff.
"You can't let Xia Guo grow up, and the comprehensive strength of Xia Guo who has grown up can be compared to Zheng Guo, but Zheng Guo also has family constraints, Xia Guo does not, so Xia Guo's strength will be stronger than Zheng Guo's when he arrives, plus Shou'an Fang Yu is lost, it can be said that if Xia Guo is given four or five years, Xia Guo will be able to reach the current level of Zhao Guo."
Xuannu is not alarmist, she is just stating a fact, Xia Guo's snake swallowing elephant has grown at an amazing rate after digestion, and taking back Fang Yu Shou'an can still be slightly limited now, and now Zhao Guo has lost Shou'an Fang Yu, and he has lost his mobile forces, so he can only watch Xia Guo eat fat.
"I know, but what can I do, I don't have the strength to stop him, he has no worries, the rear is integrated into an iron plate, I am involved by Jing and Zheng, I can only watch him become bigger."
King Zhao was unwilling and a little helpless, was he willing to let Fang Yu and Shou'an go? It's not those rat-eyed wastes, and the thought of it hurts and I can't breathe.
"Unite with Zheng Guo and let him swallow Jingguo in the north, we will use all our forces to attack Xia Guo, and completely defeat Xia Guo and destroy him before Xia Guo can't move."
Xuannu's tone was cold, and when she reached this point, she had no emotion or ruthlessness, and now the situation of the country has reached the point where you live or die.
"Uniting Zheng Guo, we are feuding?" King Zhao was stunned, Zhao Guo and Zheng Guo are united, it is better to want to unite with Xia Guo, at least Xia Guo has some affection.
"Feud, how long, but only a few decades, the elders are still related to the past, and the matter of national interests is not a matter of your feelings."
Xuannu realistically said that the consideration of interests is what countries should do, people can talk about feelings, just like Zhao Guo defeated Xia Guo, she can beg for mercy for Zhuang Xun and save his life, but the hostility between Xia and Zhao Guo, she will not favor Xia Guo.
"This ......" Empress Dowager Jiang also taught King Zhao like this since she was a child, and the previous Zhao Kingdom was invincible in the world, so she naturally didn't want to, but now she has been frustrated, it's time to think about it.
"This is also our only way, Jing Guo is going to be stable, Xia Guo is also going to be stable, Jing Guo and Zheng Guo alone are enough for Zhao Guo to be uncomfortable, and now there is another Xia Guo, if you do nothing, Zhao Guo is facing gradual extinction."
There is no alarmism, this is a naked reality, the Xia State is now growing in unity, and the Zhao State has developed to the top, waiting to catch up, and if it really makes the Xia State catch up, it will be trapped to death, and it will not be able to break out of the encirclement of the Three Kingdoms.
Zhao Guo was not panicked before, and it was expected to recapture Fang Yu and Shou'an, maintain the overall strength, and at the same time face the two-front battle with ease.
Originally, the strength of Zhao State could deter the Three Kingdoms, so that whoever fights me, who I fight and dies with him, has understood human nature, and is in a relatively safe environment, that is, using soldiers as a barrier to attack instead of defending.
In this way, when the time changes, new forces join the gladiatorial battle, or the hostile Three Kingdoms make mistakes and mistakes, they can give Zhao State a chance, without Shou'an and Fang Yu, the development of Xia State is to the limit, and the Tiance army it supports is only on the same level as Zheng Guo.
The initiative of time and space is in Zhao State, whether it is planning, provoking, or oppressing, there is a lot of room for maneuver in Yuzhou, and it can be suppressed left and right.
He can't guarantee that he can fight the Three Kingdoms, but he can guarantee that none of them can live comfortably.
Now it can only be a point of five-line combat The fault tolerance rate has been greatly increased, not to mention, it will also provoke the ambitions of the people around him, originally in Jing Zheng can't take the Zhao State, but now from the perspective of strength, the original Jing Zheng can take the current Zhao State, and it is impossible not to change his mind, and the wolves are waiting.
Zhuang Xun, who got the two ways of Shou'an Fangyu and consolidated his strength, can unite any country to raise an army to attack Zhao, and Zhao no longer has the same deterrent power as it used to be, and it is impossible to wait for the situation to change, so it is a slow death.
Without the 40,000 mobile Xuanjia Army, and without the Shou'an Fangyu, in the eyes of a group of top strategists, the Zhao State, which has no danger to defend, is like this.
Empress Dowager Jiang is a strategist, she saw it, and saw from Shao Guoliang's example, it is impossible to change, the system of Zhao State has been frozen, and the interest groups have gone crazy, so she will feel pain, despair, and finally get out of the summer.
"How can Zheng Guo cooperate with us, Zheng Guo is wary and wary of us, you know how much."
King Zhao did not hold out hope, and there was a basis for instigating Zheng Guo and Jing Guo to fight each other, but to form an alliance with Zhao Guo would be nonsense.
"I know, but that was before, Zhao Guozhuang was strong in the past, no matter how big the contradiction between Zheng Jing and the two countries is, they will be unanimous in the face of Zhao Guo, but now it is different, Zhao Guo is weak."
Xuannu smiled bitterly, she was invincible in the past, she had no friends, only subordinates, and now that Zhao Guo is lame, it's time to bend over.
"No matter how weak we are, we are stronger than Zheng Guo, Zheng Guo will not allow us to attack Xia Guo and solve the sword hanging over our heads."
King Zhao substituted for him, unless King Zheng was a faint monarch and couldn't see the danger, otherwise he would not agree.
It's just that Yuzhou is not Jizhou, this is a high-end bureau, and there will not be such a dim monarch as King Youwang and King Cheng, otherwise they would have been killed a long time ago.
These individual actuarial calculations are better than the other, involving each other, and even many are willing to sell their interests rather than make their opponents better.
"So Zhao Guo needs to be weaker, so weak that Zheng Guo feels that there is no danger, and he will not form a crushing strength for Zheng Guo."
Xuannu's words were unexpected by King Zhao, and for a while, he felt that Xuannu was the same as himself, and he was also mad.
"Weaker?" King Zhao asked for confirmation with doubts, and he had all kinds of thoughts, knowing that it was an immortal in front of him.
"That's right, so what I said to Your Majesty is to take the risk to win, we have to break our bones to survive, and only by lowering us to the same level as Zheng Guo will Zheng Guo not worry about cooperating with us and losing himself."
Understanding human nature, Xuannu said coldly, this time, either life or death, it is already a trapped dragon situation, so break the tail to survive.
"I don't understand, please teach the national teacher!" King Zhao didn't laugh when he saw the appearance of the Xuannu, and bowed down to ask for advice.
"Lost Shou'an, Fang Yu, and lost 40,000 Xuanjia troops, where is Zhao Bizheng Guoqiang?"
Xuannu first asked, what direction is a Zhao Guo stronger than Zheng Guo, which can make Zheng Guo so jealous, dare not cooperate with it, afraid of seeking skin with the tiger.
"The first is land and population, the land and population of Zhao are still far more than any country, the second is the family system, the family of Zhao is slightly decayed compared with Xia Guo, but it is better and more active than Jing and Zheng, and the third is the army, Zhao's Xuanjia army still has more than 100,000, which is stronger than Zheng Guo."
Compared with the country's data, King Zhao is handy, he knows very well the advantages and disadvantages of Zhao and other countries, and he will not be blindly arrogant, nor will he think he is weak.
"The current Zhao State has been taken away from Fang Yu and Shou'an, but it is still strong relative to Zheng Guo, but if Zhao Guo loses the Yunshan and Tianqing Dao that captured Jingguo, Zhao Guo will clean up the domestic family at this time, causing the strength to weaken."
Xuannu's tone was cold and scary, and the words she said shocked King Zhao, who was also a smart person, and he understood it at once.
"Is the national teacher going to use these two to provoke Zheng Guo and Jing Guo?"
King Zhao guessed that in exchange for the Xuannu nodding, the Xuannu's tone was low, and she said her plan.
"That's right, it's to provoke them, if the two captured are exchanged for attacking Xia Guo, Zheng Guo doesn't make a move, but lets him deal with Jing Guo, will King Zheng agree?"
"How could King Zheng agree...... King Zhao smiled dumbly, but quickly realized something.
"It's really possible to agree, if we make a big fight with the family and weaken the power of the Zhao State, King Zheng won't feel so much pressure, and it is possible to form an alliance with us, but, it's just ......"
"It's just that Zhao Guo wants to make a big move, is he reluctant?" Xuannu looked directly at King Zhao, King Zhao had nowhere to hide, what he said was true, King Zhao was reluctant.
"That's the land of the two realms, the population and resources, are they going to be given up in vain?"
King Zhao has lost Shou'an Fangyu at this time, thanks to Jingguo's land to make up for it, it is better, and now he has to hand over the bait, and King Zhao is also in pain.
"You can see the benefits, these two are handed over to Zheng Guo, the alliance between Jing Guo and Zheng Guo is immediately null and void, because Zhao Guo's strength has weakened, Zheng Guo will no longer encircle and suppress, because at this moment, Zheng Guo, the greater hostility is Jing Guo who is in civil strife, because he can't beat us, and this is also the only way we can solve the dilemma."
Xuannu calmly calculated and said, this is a yang conspiracy that cannot be cracked, I believe in people's greed, fight for the dragon, there is only one dragon, Jing and Zheng can rely on each other because of the persecution of Zhao Guo, they all know that no matter how big the contradiction is, they will not fight against Zhao Guoda.
If Zhao is not so big and not so strong, the basis for the alliance between the two countries will be gone, and there will be no tolerance for each other.
As for why Zheng Guo will not return Jingguo's land and resolve this contradiction, this is a false proposition, who will spit out the land that has been swallowed, or give it to the future enemy.
Not to mention that there are contradictions between the two sides themselves, King Jing, who will ascend the throne soon, is not supported by Zheng Guo, and they have made a lot of small moves with each other, and they don't like each other in the first place, and now there are land disputes.
Feudal kingdom, what is more valuable than land, Zheng Guoguo, who got two ways, wants to destroy Jingguo, and Jingguo, who has lost his land, will also complain about Zheng Guo while complaining about Zhao, human nature is like this.
As long as the two sides fight, Zhao will get out, and he will be able to attack Xia with superior forces and completely solve Xia Guo.
"In this way, Zheng Guo will have to become bigger, reproduce the process of Xia Guo getting the Youguo, even if we capture Xia Guo, we will have to face a tricky opponent." King Zhao was still a little hesitant.
"This country belongs to Your Majesty, if Your Majesty is unwilling, the minister can only watch the Zhao Kingdom disappear."
Xuannu said firmly, it was also for the sake of King Zhao not fainting that she put forward this suggestion that required great courage to implement, if King Zhao was mediocre, she would have given up.
"National teacher, I don't mean that, I mean, I mean there are other ways?"
King Zhao explained with some embarrassment that he had lost a lot of sharpness, and he did not have the courage to swallow the world before.
"Your Majesty knows that this is a trapped dragon situation, and if you want to escape without paying the price, you can't help but think too well, and this is not completely unbeneficial to Zhao Guo."
Xuannu maintained a cold face, she was an immortal, but she couldn't directly use meteorites to destroy the enemy's army, as a national teacher, what she actually had to do was to coordinate the gods to do a good job of natural disasters and rain, and then there was to manage the cultivators and solve the supernatural things.
Making suggestions is really too deeply bound to Zhao Guo, it is her hope for ascension, and she wants to find a way out for Zhao Guo.
"What benefits? Attack the Xia Kingdom? "King Zhao also wants to beat Xia Guo for shame, Xia Guo has given him too much shame.
"To clean up the family, as part of the self-surrendering forces, we must solve the problem of being big but not unified, big but not strong."
Xuannu's coldness is as cold as ice, these two failures made by the family, she is also emotional when she sees it, and it is impossible to be indifferent.
"Clean up the family?" King Zhao is energetic, this word is like a bread when he is hungry, and he can't care about his thirst, so he has to stuff it into his mouth.
"What do you think is the problem of losing to Xia Guo?" Xuannu asked, and the hand holding the jade bottle clenched.
"Needless to say, the family is not united, and they only know about their own family's affairs and ignore the country's affairs."
King Zhao will not protect the family, he just sent this evil fire, and here it is directly to the core issue.
"Therefore, it is just to rejuvenate the army and attack the Xia, without solving the problem of the family, no matter how many troops there are, it is not enough for the family to do such a scourge, it is all to send armor and horses to the Xia country, we should have seized power with the family, reduced our military strength, and made the army more united."
Xuannu reminded that King Zhao was in a trance, indeed, if the family is not rectified, it will never win, and the disunited army will lose no matter what.
"Take advantage of this opportunity to pull out the hands of the family that go deep into the army, the Queen Mother should have taught you the truth of pulling a batch and fighting a batch, leaving the group that is loyal to you and understanding the overall situation, and solving those arrogant ones, the problems caused by it, the decline in the army's combat effectiveness is short-lived, and the upper echelons are more united in the long run."
Xuannu planned to say that after two consecutive failures, Xuannu had lost patience, and both times it was the family pulling her crotch, how did she do it.
"Risk, forty percent of the odds, don't take risks and don't have one percent of the odds, reduce yourself to the level of Zheng Guo, that is to fight for the dragon, and after fighting with Xia Guo, fight with Zheng Guo, if you want to wait for stability, that is the trapped dragon, look at Zheng Guo Xia Guo to fight for the dragon, Your Majesty, you choose yourself."
Xuannu stopped talking, giving King Zhao time to think, King Zhao frowned and thought a lot, a lot.
There is the humiliation given by Xia Guo, the anger of the family's backstabbing, and the indescribable regret, many things he should have insisted on, such as not appointing Tang Yunfu as an adjutant.
"I want to fight, the national teacher listens to you, I want to fight."
(End of chapter)