Guancheng is located between Han and Wei, after an exchange of interests, it is currently the fief of Xinling Jun, and the Guancheng order is recommended by Xinling Jun and appointed by King Han; All other officials were appointed by Shinlingjun. All officials were paid by the King of Wei. Some of Xinlingjun's doormen had dealings with Yu Qing, and before leaving, the entourage had already obtained a way to contact these doormen from Yu Qing, so to speak, when they arrived in Guancheng, it was equivalent to seeing Xinlingjun.

Guancheng is located between Hanwei and Luoyang, and has the conditions to become a commercial hub. After more than ten years of development, it has grown from a small town with a population of only 100 households to a large town with a household registration of 2 or 3,000. The dilapidated site of the Guancheng has been renovated and strengthened many times, and it has become very strong. The small town next to it was bought by merchants and renovated and is now a commercial port. The indigenous people have all moved out, forming residential areas around the two cities.

The two attendants did not go directly to the inn to find the order, but stayed in the carriage shop. The carriage and horse shop in Guancheng was jointly built by Bai, Chen, Ba and Lu outside Huayang City, and Uncle Tang sent people to operate it; And its current operators turned out to be Cao Bao, who took refuge in Xinlingjun more than ten years ago, and his sturdy wife Ba Sister. The coachmen and handymen in the shop are naturally new and local.

Seeing two dusty and crumbling attendants approaching, the handyman in charge of soliciting customers even thought it was two homeless men, and did not go up to solicit them; Seeing the two of them walking towards the car shop, they realized that it was the guest who came to the door, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Guest, do you want a car and a stay?" ”

An entourage asked weakly: "Dare to invite brother, there is Uncle Tang, who has an old relationship with me, and is willing to vote for him." Hearing that it is in the city of Guancheng, dare to see it! ”

The handyman saw that the two of them were ragged and dusty, and they had obviously walked a long way, so he said: "The car is in the hands of Uncle Tang, but it was paid to Uncle Cao a few years ago." The guest wants to see Uncle Tang...... A little bit, the father of Rong Xiaozibao! ”

He walked in and asked Uncle Tang in the front hall, but the man was impatient and said, "Tang people go to Xingyang, why do you care about the city!" The handyman heard the words and was about to come out to reply, but was stopped by Cao Bao in the room next to the hall and asked, "Who wants to see Uncle Tang?" ”

The miscellaneous servant said: "Two strangers, it is obvious that they have traveled thousands of miles. ”

Cao Bao said: "Lead me to look at it." ”

The miscellaneous servant led Cao Bao out, pointed to the two entourages and said, "It's the second guest who wants to see Uncle Tang." ”

Cao Bao asked: "Where did the guest come from, and what happened to Uncle Tang?" ”

The entourage said: "We are from Handan, and there are Uncle Yu and Uncle Tang!" ”

Cao Bao asked, "Where is his faith?" ”

The attendant said: "Dare to ask for the honorable number!" ”

Cao Bao said: "My Cao family is Uncle Tang's old friend, and if Uncle Tang wants to do it, he will order me to be in charge of the car." ”

The attendant said: "Since it is Uncle Cao, please read this letter." He took out a bamboo slip from his bosom and handed it over. Uncle Cao took it and saw that there was only one word "Yu" on the Jane. Cao Bao handed the bamboo slip back and said, "In this case, I should respect the guests to enter the shop!" He said to the miscellaneous servants: "Send the two guests to rest in the courtyard and arrange soup." He went to the stable, found the sister who was still tending to the livestock, and said, "Yu Qing is here to see the king." ”

Sister Ba wiped her hands and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Cao Bao said: "He is very sick, and he is consulted when he eats and drinks." ”

Sister Ba said: "He is from Handan, there must be something important, and it is not too late." But it is also possible to hold soup and eat to ask. ”

Cao Bao listened, and sure enough, he went down to the kitchen, boiled the soup, and carried it into a small courtyard with the handymen. Knock on the door and ask the two of them to come out to Tang Mu. saw that the two of them looked awkward and almost sat down on the ground. When Cao Bao saw it, he hurriedly instructed the miscellaneous servants: "Quickly get a jar of honey water." ”

The miscellaneous servant also saw that the two were in critical condition, so they ran out, and when they were young, they brought a jar of honey water, and Cao Bao personally poured out a lamp and held it with an entourage, and the attendant drank it all in Cao Bao's hand, and sat aside to breathe. Cao Bao poured another lamp, handed it to another attendant, and drank it too.

Cao Bao looked at the faces of the two of them, and seemed to be a little relieved, so he gave another one.

After drinking two glasses of honey, the two rested for a while, recovered some of their spirits, and then sat up to greet Cao Bao and said, "With Uncle Cao's gift, how can my heart be at peace!" ”

Cao Bao said: "The second son is Uncle Tang's friend, that is, my friend. May not say more! Let's get up with the soup. He and the handymen picked up one of them, and when they came to the courtyard, they bathed in front of the wok.

After bathing, the two attendants only wrapped a piece of cloth around their waists, and the handyman took out the clothes to be washed, and Cao Bao helped the two into the room. At this time, the cook also brought two porridge dishes. Cao Bao said: "The second son is hungry and tired, so he can't drink meat and wine, but he has a porridge to nourish his stomach." ”

The two were grateful: "Uncle Lao Cao is generous, how dare you do it!" "I don't care about the hot porridge, and I gulp it down.

After eating, Cao Bao put aside the eating utensils and asked, "What did the second son teach me?" ”

An entourage said: "Therefore, Wei Qi, the prime minister of Wei, was forced by Qin to go to Handan and send it to Pingyuan Jun." King Juezhi of Qin, if the king of the plain enters Xianyang and stays there, he will get the head of Wei Qi and the king of the plain. King Zhao had no plan and arrested Wei Qi. Yu Qing couldn't bear it, Bao Wei Qi ran to Chu, and now he is trapped on the way, may Xinling Jun save him! ”

When Cao Bao heard this, he thought for a moment and said, "I will report to you." The son is worry-free, and the king will help him! "Tell the two of them to rest, come out by themselves, and ask for an order.

Guan Ling is a pro-Jin doctor, and he is a junior in front of the old qualified guest of Xinling Jun, so naturally Cao Bao said what it was, and immediately sent a post guard into the city to send a letter to Daliang.

Since the Battle of Huayang, the Wei State has been very calm in recent years, except for the loss of all Nanyang, the surrounding area of Daliang has maintained a peaceful scene. In the first battle of Huayang, the world-famous Wei soldiers lost most of them, and the Wei State no longer had enough arable land to recruit new soldiers, so they simply stopped recruiting soldiers, but took the existing soldiers as the backbone and sent them to the villages, trained the people in peacetime, and served as the chief of the Shiwu and even the uncle in wartime. In the past, military soldiers generally only reached the level of soldiers, and the chief of the army was usually held by the people of Yimin, but now the military commander serves as the commander of the army, and the level of management and training of the troops has been improved. This made King Wei and Xin Lingjun feel a little confident, and they felt that if they continued to do this for a few years, they should be able to quickly recover the lost frontier land when they had the opportunity.

Duan Zigan once established a set of weapons manufacturing institutions in the Wei State, but because there were no copper and iron mines in the Wei State, the built institutions could only stare dryly, and the weapons still had to be purchased from other princes, and these institutions could only repair damaged weapons at most. As a result, Duan Zigan lost the trust of the King of Wei and left the Wei State, missing his whereabouts. - Some people say that he went to Anyi, and some people say that he went to Chencheng. After Duan Zigan left, Jin was appointed as a general and led the training of the national people's army.

After Wei Qi left, the King of Wei also appointed several Wei ministers, but they were basically decorations and couldn't manage things. Without Wei Qi's mediation, King Wei and Xinlingjun rarely met. But the two maintained a tacit understanding: King Wei's opinion, Xinlingjun fully agreed; Xinlingjun's opinion was adopted by King Wei. If the two have any different opinions, Long Yangjun will become the only channel of communication.

As Su Jia grew older, Wang Shang's task gradually shifted to Su Bo'an. In fact, he has become a new generation of Suja, but he does not yet have the title of middle doctor.

Among the disciples, Hou Huan gradually came to the center of power, and Xin Lingjun attached great importance to his opinions; And Mr. Zhang Yu and Mr. Zhong Yue, although they are still guests, gradually take a back seat. Hou Huan still lives next to Yimen, although he no longer holds the position of Yimen, but he still has close contacts with the old and new doormen, as well as the market butchers.

More than ten years of peace have made Daliang more prosperous. The rice in the nursery is the main export commodity of Daliang, which is exported to the north, bringing huge benefits. The geographical location of the beam itself determines that it must be one of the trade centers of the princes, with tens of millions of catties of goods coming in and out every day, and large and small ships filling the chasm, even ten miles away. Kaifeng has long lost the traces of the war of the year, and it is still a prosperous commercial port.

But neither King Wei nor King Xinling dared to take it lightly, and the Qin State was like a mountain pressing on their heads, so that they could not be at peace for a day. They know that the peaceful days of the past ten years have been exchanged for endless humiliation, including letting Wei Qi run to Zhao! What Su Jia endured in Xianyang still makes them unable to let go. When the Qin State encroached on Nanyang in Hanoi, the Sanjin did not dare to say a word, watching their cities fall one after another, and there was nothing they could do; And every country is watching with fear who the next target of the Qin State will be after occupying Nanyang.

When the news of Feng Ting's dedication of Shangdang to Zhao came out, both the King of Wei and the King of Xinling cheered from the bottom of their hearts: the threat of the Qin army had finally left the Wei State temporarily, and Qin and Zhao would start a desperate struggle in the most suitable place for Shangdang.

The reason why Shangdang is the most suitable place is that the terrain here is complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Zhao army is the defensive side, and the Qin army is the offensive side; Shangdang is backed by Handan, the capital of Zhao, and is not far from Taiyuan, another strategic base of Zhao, which is only four or five hundred miles. But it is too far away from Xianyang, twice as far as Handan and Taiyuan. Although four or five hundred miles is already far away, it is still much closer than thousands of miles! Therefore, Qin Zhao's struggle with the party was a time-consuming and laborious war, and it was a huge drain on the national strength of both sides, and both sides had to go all out.

But what everyone didn't expect was that the Qin army actually annihilated more than 400,000 Zhao troops in Changping! What's even more frightening is that they all seem to have spare strength: the Qin army barely rested, and immediately attacked Wu'an and Taiyuan in two ways, while the Zhao army was defeated, but also effectively contained the Qin army's attack.

This progress left the entire Wei state in a state of confusion. Because it was not clear how much Qin and Zhao had lost in Changping and what their current strength was, the Wei army never dared to dispatch. Shinling-kun mobilized almost all of his forces, but he was unable to grasp the true situation. On the surface, both Qin and Zhao maintained the strength to defeat any of the vassal states, or at least to protect themselves.