In the blink of an eye, it was the early summer of 255 BC.

In the original history, the Qin army should have broken through Luoyi, captured the king of Zhou, and returned to Qin.

After that, the king of Qin will descend to the king of Zhou as a feudal king, capture the Duke of Western Zhou, the Zhou Dynasty was completely destroyed, and later historians call 255 BC the first year of Qin.

But in this time and space, although the Qin State was stronger, the attack on the Eastern Zhou was lost.

The Emperor of Wei sent people to persuade Yan and Zhao to abandon their hatred and temporarily form an alliance with Wei to rescue King Zhou.

After that, Korea and Qi successively sent troops, and the five countries entered Luoyi, and signed a joint vertical treaty again under the witness of King Zhou Xun to jointly fight against Qin.

The State of Chu originally wanted to join, but Li Mu suddenly crossed north, connecting several cities in the State of Chu, and the soldiers pointed directly at the capital of Chen.

When the king of Chu was shocked and gathered a large army to block Li Mu, Li Mu sent someone to tell the king of Chu that he could withdraw his troops unconditionally, but the state of Chu must not move, otherwise the state of Chu dared to send troops to the north, and he dared to lead the army to cross the river north again.

Under the threat of Li Mu, the king of Chu humiliated and gave up the joint column and could only stand still.

Li Mu returned to the south of the river, and Chen Bing was eyeing the Chu State by the river, so that the Chu State did not dare to tear up the contract.

When the old King Qin learned the news, he couldn't stop laughing, and it was rare to throw away the paperwork at hand and sleep all night.

It was Zi Chu who passed on what Li Mu had done back to Xianyang Palace.

Zichu hurried back to Xianyang day and night. Zhu Xiang looked at Zi Chu's pale and haggard face, wanted to speak and stopped, and finally remained silent.

At the moment when the Qin State was facing a major crisis, it was useless for him to say anything about rest and health, it was better to do more to reduce the burden on the old Qin King and Zichu.

After Zichu returned to Xianyang, the old King Qin ordered to prepare for the succession ceremony, whether he died or not, the crown prince pillar would be passed on on the first day of the first month of next year.

Before the succession ceremony, he still had an account to settle with his relatives outside Chu.

Prince Zhu has a generous temperament, even if he pats his chest and guarantees that he will not be suppressed by his relatives outside Chu, the old King Qin is still worried. So he wanted to help Prince Zhu remove obstacles at the last moment of his life, when he was the king of Qin.

Although this incident did not affect Mrs. Huayang and her younger brother, because these two only cared about enjoying glory and wealth and never interfered in government affairs, Mrs. Huayang was still scared and seriously ill.

She held on to her sick body and sent someone to give Yukihime a gift to express her gratitude. If Yukihime hadn't warned her earlier, she and her brother might have been in danger.

Seeing Mrs. Huayang like this, Xia Ji couldn't help but panic when she hurt her.

She finally began to reflect on whether she should be a little more distant from her mother's family and not do things for South Korea.

Even the relatives of Chu, who occupied half of the Qin State, were crumbling under the hands of the dying King Qin, what were she and the Korean relatives who had never had a position in the court of the Qin State?

Chu's relatives were also surprised, they didn't expect that Old King Qin would be so crazy at all.

The old King of Qin has long been dissatisfied with Chu's foreign relatives, but why should he reuse Chu's foreign relatives? This is, of course, because there are few local talents in the Qin State.

Qin is a barbarian land among the population of the Central Plains, and the establishment of the guest secretary system is to attract talents from the six countries for Qin's use.

When it comes to fighting, the people of Qin are barbaric and may not be afraid of the Six Kingdoms; But when it comes to governing the country, the court of the Qin State has no relatives outside Chu, so it almost cut off an arm.

Although the old King of Qin went south this time, some of the relatives of Chu did indeed go too far, which was basically tantamount to rebellion. But they also thought that they would not be liquidated so soon.

Old King Qin did so.

When the old Qin king made a move, they knew why the old Qin king dared to be so crazy.

Because of the Xianyang School Palace.

After the old Qin King established the Xianyang School Palace, there were many talented people in the world who admired the reputation of Zhu Xiang and Xunzi to study in Xianyang, and many of them had already become famous.

When Zhu Xiang went south, he took with him a group of outstanding students, who combined what they had learned with people's livelihood through practice and accepted the pragmatic atmosphere of the Qin people. This group of people has made up for the talent gap in the court of the Qin State.

The old Qin Wang strongly supported his sick body, and in accordance with Zhu Xiang's proposal and the perfect measures of the ministers, he held a "palace test" in Xianyang Palace to test the famous students in Xianyang School Palace or those who had actual achievements when following Zhu Xiang, and ranked them in the second official position on the spot.

Of course, when the Xianyang School Palace was established, the nobles of the Qin State sent their own family heirs to the school palace to study early.

Therefore, the old Qin King selected officials from among the disciples of the Xianyang Academy, and did not threaten their interests. They were very supportive of the old Qin king.

So in a palace test, even if the old King Qin only ordered the middle and low-level officials in the court, it had already destroyed the operation of Chu's foreign relatives in the court for many years, and cut off the dependence of the Qin court on the talents of Chu's foreign relatives.

After that, the old King of Qin recalled Cai Ze and worshiped Xunzi and Cai Ze as prime ministers.

When Cai Ze first returned to Xianyang with Zhu Xiang, he once attracted the attention of many nobles. However, Cai Ze stayed in Changping after Li Mu and Lian Po entered Qin, and silently accumulated strength in the Shangdang Heights, so that the Qin court gradually ignored his existence.

Now the old King of Qin suddenly recalled Cai Ze and worshiped Cai Ze as his prime minister, which caught them off guard.

They hurriedly went to collect Cai Ze's information and guessed Cai Ze's governing philosophy.

In addition to Cai Ze, they were also afraid that Xunzi would become the prime minister of Qin.

Xunzi is a Confucian. The Qin State has always governed the country with Legalist thoughts, and Confucianism and Legalism are almost contrary to each other, and there was even an unspoken rule that "Confucianism does not enter Qin".

How can a great Confucian become the prime minister of Qin? Is King Qin an old fool?!

Xunzi is also almost sixty years old. Being this prime minister at his age can't actually do much, and it won't change the current social and political system of the Qin State. But the key is not what Xunzi can do, but what Xunzi symbolizes when he becomes prime minister.

In the face of everyone's temptation, Xunzi Bafeng did not move, and continued to improve the etiquette he was doing to seal the gods of the Qin State.

Xunzi is not anxious, and those who are anxious are the ones who test him.

These changes in the Qin State, not to mention that the people of the Qin State are not adaptable, and the Six Kingdoms are also very anxious.

They very much hope that the old King of Qin is really old and confused, but Cai Ze is a friend of Zhu Xiang, who once had the merit of uniting Li Mu to fight against the Xiongnu, and was still the main promoter of forcing Li Mu and Lian Po to enter Qin, and his ability should not be underestimated; Xunzi's prestige and talent are even more world-famous.

These two people were appointed as prime ministers on the left and right, and they couldn't say that King Qin was old and confused.

Just when they were anxious, the old Qin king Bai Lian was quite a general.

Zhao Guo and Yan Guo's faces changed greatly.

Why hasn't Lian Po died of old age yet?! How can he still lead troops?!

Even Lian Po came out, and the legend that Bai Qi, who was about to die of illness, would not be like the Battle of Changping again, and one day suddenly showed the handsome flag and said, "Hey, I didn't expect it, the main will be me"?

The shadow of the famous tree, the murderous name of Lian Po was completely launched after the attack on the Yan Kingdom, and the murderous reputation in the Yan Kingdom may be even worse than that of the white one. He led his troops east to send a letter to Guguan, and the morale of the Yan army was immediately low.

It was clear that Lian Po had an enmity with Yan Guo, but after hearing the news that Lian Po was leading the troops, the Yan people could not raise their morale because of hatred, but instead had the intention of retreating cowardly.

Zhao's morale also fell.

Everyone knows that Lian Po and Li Mu were "sold" to Qin by King Zhao.

Especially Lian Po, after attacking Yan, his position in the hearts of the soldiers of the Zhao State is like the status of Bai Qi in the hearts of the soldiers of the Qin State. Now that their beloved general, who had led them through many crises, had actually become the enemy's commander-in-chief, the soldiers of Zhao did not even have the courage to confront Lian Po.

It's not that they're cowardly, they just don't want to, don't want to be hostile to Lian Po.

It was their Xinpingjun, it was their Zhao people's Xinpingjun, and it was Xinpingjun Lianpo who gambled his reputation to save many Zhao people from starvation. How are they going to be hostile to Lian Po?!

The commander of this coalition is of course Xinling Jun Wei Wuji.

Wei Wuji couldn't help but get drunk after Lian Po was in command of the Qin State.

He regretted very much why he didn't come to Zhao to save King Zhao earlier, so that King Zhao should not agree to let Lian Po and Li Mu enter Qin.

But no matter how regretful he was in his heart, he could only cheer up and tell the Zhao people that Xin Pingjun was now their enemy and the one they wanted to defeat.

He also wanted to slander this old general, saying that Lian Po was already very old, and it should be difficult to lead troops to fight again. The King of Qin sent Lian Po to attack the morale of the Zhao army.

Lian Po is already old, he can't fight, don't be afraid of him!

Wei Wuji used this way to stimulate the morale of the Yan people, but the morale of the Zhao people was still very low.

Because the people of Zhao are not afraid of Lian Po, but admire Lian Po. No matter whether Lian Po is old or not, whether he can still go to the battlefield will not change their admiration for Lian Po.

Wei Wuji could only smile bitterly.

He could only rejoice that King Qin had at least not lost his heart and let Zhu Xiang lead the troops. Otherwise, if they heard the news that Zhu Xiang was coming to the battlefield, this group of Zhao people would probably have no intention of fighting.

Regardless of whether Lian Po can still play or not, the old King Qin showed the card of Lian Po, which caused the morale of Zhao Guo, the most brave and good at fighting in the Five Nations Alliance, to be reduced by at least half.

Before the Qin State could fight head-on with the Five Nations Alliance, it had already won a game.

Cai Ze said to the old King Qin: "Your Majesty, please let me win another game as a gift to celebrate the succession of the new king." ”

The old King of Qin bowed his head.

Cai Ze was a county guard in the land of Sanjin, but he didn't just do the trivial matter of helping Zhu Xiang manage Changping.

He is a longitudinal and horizontal family, took over the responsibilities of Fan Ju's intelligence chief, and was responsible for Fan Ju's original affairs.

When he joined the party, Cai Ze had already sent countless nails to the six countries and planted countless seeds of discord. Especially the henchman of the Qin State, Xin Lingjun, who has been preparing for a long time.

At this time, Cai Ze's back hand was finally launched at the most appropriate time.

The King of Wei was originally jealous of Wei Wuji's talent and prestige, and after Cai Ze took over Fan Ju's work, he spent a lot of money to make a name for Wei Wuji in the Six Kingdoms.

He even used Zhu Xiang as a stepping stone for Wei Wuji, commenting that although Zhu Xiang was good, he was far inferior to Wei Wuji.

Zhu Xiang came from a humble background, but he only took the road of Qin's relatives to soar. And Wei Wuji is the younger brother of the King of Wei, and he is the most noble person in the Seven Kingdoms after the monarch;

Zhu Xiang can only farm. Wei Wuji can do anything, especially national politics and fighting, this is the real talent;

Zhu Xiang is known to be famous all over the world, but he has no followers, which shows that his reputation is false, and the real talents disdain to defect to Zhu Xiang. Wei Wuji has many customers, all of whom are talented, this is what a real name should look like in the world......

Cai Ze held Wei Wuji high, saying that the Qin State had attacked the land of the Three Jin Dynasty many times, so why did he not have much friction with the Wei State? This was, of course, because King Qin was afraid of Wei Wuji.

Although the king of Wei was mediocre, there were few virtuous ministers and famous generals in Wei who could resist Qin. But who let Wei have Wei Wuji? Wei Wuji alone offset the negative impact of Wei's mediocre monarchs and ministers, so that the king of Qin did not dare to easily move troops against Wei.

If it weren't for Wei Wuji, the king of Xinling, Wei Wuji, he would have died long ago.

"It's a pity that the King of Wei is not Wei Wuji, otherwise Wei is estimated to have become a big problem for Qin."

Cai Ze preached.

King Wei himself heard these rumors and said many times that it was good that the widow had Wuji's younger brother, otherwise the people of Qin would come.

Wei Wuji was very relieved when he heard his brother say this.

The King of Wei showed great trust in Wei Wuji, the king of Xinling, and Wei Wuji also thought that the king of Wei was really not afraid of him. In fact, he had always sensed that King Wei was jealous of him. But as the Qin State became stronger and stronger, his brother seemed to have finally abandoned that little bit of jealousy and trusted him more and more.

This time, he can become the commander of the five-nation alliance, which is the support of his brother.

Therefore, Cai Ze's beautiful words, Xin Lingjun did not take it to heart.

He is proud, and although his praise is somewhat exaggerated, most of it is the truth.

Cai Ze is indeed telling the truth.

There's nothing better than adding a little bit of exaggeration to the truth. It is precisely because it is telling the truth that those who are jealous of Xinlingjun will be even more uncomfortable.

Now it's time for Cai Ze to harvest.

The state of Qin sent envoys to make peace with the alliance of the five kingdoms, expressing their willingness to help Wei Wuji become the king of Wei, and only hoped that Wei Wuji would not interfere in the war between the Qin state and the Zhou royal family.

At the same time that Qin sent envoys, Cai Ze spread the news to the ears of King Wei.