Volume 1 The World Moves Chapter 57 King Yan Recruits Talents
In the spring of 311 BC, shortly after King Ji of Yanzhao ascended the throne as queen, he formally concluded an alliance with Qin and became an ally. King Qin Huiwen saw that everything in the country was stable, and this was also the time when the Great Qin was strong, so he gathered forces to prepare for an expedition to the Western Regions to put an end to the unsettled things in the past.
Yan Zhao Wang Ji Zhi and Zhao Wuling Wang Zhao Yong, both ordered to recruit talents and strengthen the country at a time of crisis. King Yan Zhao was the first to visit Guo Kui, a famous scholar of Yan State, and asked Guo Kui for advice on how to recruit talents, in order to obtain a real virtuous minister. Guo Kui listened to King Yan Zhao's impassioned words and said:
"Once upon a time, there was a monarch who wanted to buy a maxima, but he didn't buy it for three years. The guards beside him said to him, 'Let me buy it, my lord,' and the king sent him. Three months later, he bought a dead horse and returned to the king. The king was furious and said, 'I want a live horse, how can I buy a dead horse for five hundred gold?' The servant replied, 'It is better to buy a dead horse for five hundred gold, let alone a live horse?' If the king really wants to recruit talented people now, please start by appointing me, Guo Kui; old people like me are still being treated with great favor, let alone those who are more talented than me? Do they still think that a thousand miles are too far away?"
King Yan Zhao felt good after hearing this, so he reused Guo Kui. After people all over the world heard this, there were really many capable people who flocked to it, and for a while, even famous people like Zou Yan and Ju Xin came. King Yan Zhao was thinking about revenge on Qi State, and felt that Yan State lacked a general, so he told Guo Kui about Le Yi.
"If he is really Mr. Guiguzi's student, the king should really keep him in Yan Kingdom!" Guo Kui said after hearing this.
"Zhao Jun also treats him very well, and the three of us are the same year, how can I invite him?" King Yan Zhao said helplessly.
"The king is wrong! Zhao Jun treated him favorably, but he only gave him 600 stones! The king gave him 3,000 stones, and worshiped him as a general, how could he not come?"
"I don't think he looks like a money-grubbing man, it's not enough to be so afraid!"
Since he said, 'There is gold under the knees of the prince,' so you will pile up gold there to show your admiration and respect for him!"
"With ┄┄, my lord, this reminds me!" King Yan Zhao patted his thigh and said.
"Oh, there's a way!" Guo Kui said happily, and then changed his words:
"There is another person, unparalleled in the world, and the king can do his best to do it!"
"Who?"
"Su Qin! Su Qin is also a high-ranking disciple under Guiguzi, the king can send the Empress Dowager Wen to personally repair a book, he will be moved!"
"Empress Dowager Wen? King Yan Zhao didn't know that there was a leg between Su Qin and Mrs. Wen, so he was surprised.
"Don't ask too much, just do it!" Guo Kui is an old man in Yan Kingdom, of course he has heard of these things, but it is not easy to explain them thoroughly, so he asked King Yan to do it.
So King Yan Zhao asked Mrs. Wen to write a letter to Su Qin, and at the same time built a high platform outside Wuyang City.
After Su Qin received Mrs. Wen's letter asking him to return to Yan Kingdom, he thought about it for a long time and sent someone to ask Mrs. Wen to meet him. The two met secretly, and first confided in each other, Su Qin said:
"In the past, I didn't say goodbye, and I hope that Mrs. is not strange!"
"Mr. takes care of the reputation of a slut, how can I not know, how can I blame him!" Mrs. Wen took Su Qin's hand and said.
"All these days have passed, and we are getting old!"
"I asked Mr. to return to Yan, just for state affairs, and it's not that way!" Mrs. Wen said a little awkwardly.
Su Qin knew what she meant, and said with a long sigh:
"I have been in the Qi Kingdom for many years, although I have won the trust of the King of Qi, but I only have the Yan Kingdom in my heart, and I only have you, Mrs., so I have never done my best for the King of Qi, do you understand my intentions?"
"Although I am a woman, I also know that Mr. is a man of great talent, and he was plotted by the King of Qi in the past, but he was just pandering, how can he have a real plan!"
"Madame knows me, but I wonder if King Yan believes in me as much as Madame?"
"Sir's eyes are like torches, don't you know the king's personality if you don't meet? The king treats the Su family well, and the queen of Yi refuses to embarrass Su Daihe's family members in the Yan Kingdom!"
"I know this in my heart!Please tell the king of Yan on my behalf, I only have the country of Yan in my heart in this life, and I am willing to plan for the king, please don't doubt it!"
Mrs. Wen was overjoyed when she heard this, and hurriedly asked:
"When will the gentleman leave?"
"I can't go back now, I want to stay in Qi Country and seek the death of Qi Xingyan for the king!"
"Death Qi, the Qi country is so powerful, if the gentleman wants to shake it, isn't it an extremely dangerous thing?" Mrs. Wen said hurriedly.
"Hahaha! The eldest husband is alive, and he can only be called a hero if he can't do what others can!" Su Qin said.
After receiving Mrs. Wen's letter, Su Qin originally intended to return to Yan, but the letter was from Mrs. Wen's hand, and of course Su Qin knew that it was instructed by King Yan! Su Qin felt that if he returned to Yan this time, since he was in the court, he would have an affair with King Yan's grandmother, which would be very inappropriate! In Su Qin's opinion, since King Yan had instructed Mrs. Wen to write a letter, of course he knew about their relationship, and King Yan knew that he was having an affair with his grandmother, so he still asked him to go back in order to get him, so his heart and sincerity were clear at a glance! Su Qin was a young man, and as the prime minister of the Six Kingdoms, he had great ambitions, but because of Mrs. Wen's incident, he left the court, causing the Yan Kingdom to almost lose the country, and he felt ashamed! Therefore, Su Qin thought that it was necessary for him to help Yan Guo and the people of Yan Kingdom to take revenge, and Yan Guo could not go back! Su Qin made up his mind in his heart and decided to do something earth-shattering, so he made an appointment with Mrs. Wen to come to see her, first, to explain to her, and second, to let her convey to King Yan and express his ambition to King Yan!
King Yan Zhao got Su Qin's words, although he felt sorry that he couldn't get along with him day and night, but after all, Su Qin agreed to serve Yan Guo, and he was still very relieved in his heart.
King Yan Zhao soon built a large square platform outside Wuyang City, which was dozens of acres large and twenty meters high, which was very eye-catching. King Yan Zhao named this Zhaoxian Terrace, set up an altar on the platform, placed a pile of gold high, and told the world: as long as Le Yi comes to Yan, he will give all the gold to the people of the country, and worship him as a general!
Le Yi soon learned about this, and thought to himself that the Lord was like this, what more could the husband ask for! Le Yi felt that Feiyi was very proper in Zhao State, and he had Lou Zhuan, Qiu Li, Li Dui and others under him, and he didn't have much room for development, so he resolutely went to Yan Kingdom. King Yan Zhao got Le Yi, immediately worshiped as a general, and moved the capital from Jicheng to Wuyang, in order to commemorate Le Yi's arrival! Because of Le Yi's arrival, the Yan people got a share of the gold, so they called King Yan Zhao's recruitment platform "Golden Terrace" to commemorate his virtuous deeds.
After everything was ready, King Qin Huiwen began his journey to the west. He personally took command, and with Sima Cuo as his deputy, he led 50,000 horses and 2,000 wolf eagle warriors to the border of the White Wolf State in Xirong, and then sent an envoy to inform the king of the White Wolf Country and ask the White Wolf Country to provide support. At this time, the Qin State was strong, the Xirong States submitted, and the White Wolf Country was a small country backed by the desert, so the King of Qin chose the White Wolf Kingdom as a logistics support point.
This time, King Yingsi of Qin learned the lesson of the previous reckless invasion of the desert and led to a fiasco, and prepared to adopt the strategy of attacking in turns and tentative attacks, so he first found logistics support for the army before the attack and prepared to fight steadily. Although Yingsi had the experience of Mengying and Lizi attacking the Loulan city-state this time, the Loulan city-state was divided into Libang and foreign, and they still didn't know where Libang was, so they were ready to find out the situation before making plans.