Jucheng, Qi Palace.

As one of the five capitals of Qi, there is indeed a palace in Jucheng. Although it is less than one-tenth of Linzi Palace City, it is enough to live for the young Qi King Tian Fazhang.

The King of Qi needed a queen, so Tian Fazhang got married.

That happened about two months ago. The marriage partner was the daughter of Taishi who rescued him into Jucheng that day.

This is a gentle, dignified and generous woman. Although the two sides have been together for a short time, she gave Tian Fazhang comfort that he had never been in other places.

Perhaps, this is the damn God. He will always give you some compensation when he takes something from you, but whether the compensation can offset the loss is an old saying - only God knows.

At least at this moment, Tian Fazhang was satisfied.

"Queen, when I take back Linzi in the future, I don't want to do anything. The two of us will be playing in the palace. I will take you to pick flowers, fish in Zibo, and go to the city to hunt horses, okay?"

The queen nodded with a smile. Her smile was always so healing: "All children listen to the king, and the king must be handsome in riding a horse."

Tian Fazhang laughed haha, with a strange look on his young face: "Actually, my equestrian is really good, otherwise I wouldn't have come from Linzi... to Jucheng. But when you saw me that day, my physical strength had been exhausted, otherwise the two greedy little soldiers would be killed if I went down with two swords."

The queen said: "The king is wise and powerful, so naturally he cannot be humiliated by just two young soldiers. They have been sent by his father to destroy the entire clan."

Tian Fazhang sighed: "Actually, I hope to do it myself more. You don't know what I have experienced on the road. Sometimes I feel that even the so-called Yellow Springs and Underworld is probably just like this."

The queen said softly: "The king is full of great luck, so he will naturally not be harmed by a slut."

Tian Fazhang shook his head, and the expression on his face suddenly became strange: "Happiness? Daqi...ah!"

Tian Fazhang wanted to speak but stopped, and all his words turned into a long sigh.

The queen did not speak anymore, but stretched out a pair of tender gums and gently massaged Tian Fazhang's shoulders.

Suddenly, a burst of rapid footsteps came, and an eunuch appeared in a hurry: "King, good news, the people of Zhao have withdrawn!"

"What?" Tian Fazhang's face changed drastically, and he stood up suddenly: "You said, the people of Zhao retreated?"

"Really!" the eunuch nodded excitedly and said, "It has spread throughout the city!"

Tian Fazhang was overjoyed.

In the past period, 100,000 Zhao army soldiers led by Zhao Zhufu were in the north of Jucheng, which brought great psychological pressure to Tian Fazhang.

Many nights, Tian Fazhang suddenly woke up from his nightmare due to excessive mental pressure. His dreams were the same. After the Zhao army entered the city, they attacked everywhere and killed the military and civilians of Qi.

Even though there were 100,000 Chu troops here, Tian Fazhang had no sense of security in his heart.

If even Gaotang and Linzi could be captured by the Zhao army, then what reason would the Zhao army not be able to conquer Jucheng?

Fortunately, now it's finally over.

That damn Zhao Jun finally retreated!

Tian Fazhang breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared from the bottom of his heart for the first time on his face.

He said excitedly: "Hurry, go and invite Zhaoju, Shangzhuguo of Chu, and Lord Langya to come over to discuss matters!"

After the eunuch took the order and left, Tian Fazhang turned his head and looked at the queen apologetically, saying, "Queen, I can't accompany you to see the flowers."

The queen smiled softly and said, "Go, go."

Tian Fazhang walked away quickly.

A moment later, Tian Fazhang met the former general of Chu, now the prime minister of Qi, and the Langya Jun Naochi in the main hall.

Tian Fazhang asked in confusion: "Langya Jun, where is the Shangzhu Kingdom?"

Although Tian Fazhang is the King of Qi and Naochi is the Prime Minister of Qi, everyone knows that only Zhaoju, the upper pillar of Chu, is the one who can truly decide everything.

The reason is also very simple, because Zhao Ju is the real commander of the 100,000 Chu troops.

Nao Chi's face was calm and he said to Tian Fazhang: "King, Shangzhu Kingdom has gone out of the city to observe the situation of Zhao's army."

Tian Fazhang was stunned at first, then said happily: "It turns out that he also knows the news that the people of Zhao retreated."

Naochi smiled, with a strange look on his face: "The king is joking. How can Shangzhu Kingdom, as the commander of the army, not know about such an important matter?"

Tian Fazhang was slightly stagnant.

Naochi's tone was not very good. At least in Tian Fazhang's opinion, that was not the tone that some ministers should have when talking to the king.

But Tian Fazhang knew even more clearly that he could not turn against Naochi now.

Of course, there are not without Qi troops in Jucheng. There are at least about 10,000 Qi troops in Jucheng that can be used by them, and this ten thousand Qi troops are now under the command of Naochi.

Although Tian Fazhang was named King Qi, he, as King Qi, had no major national affairs to deal with, nor did he have any civil and military officials who could command the command, and his status was very embarrassing.

Tian Fazhang took a deep breath and tried to make his tone sound obviously gentler: "Langya Jun, since the Zhao army has retreated, I wonder when Langya Jun will go to talk to Shangzhu Kingdom and ask him to send troops north to recover the lost territory of Daqi?"

Naochi frowned slightly, and the expression on his face became more and more strange: "The king wants to recover the lost land?"

Tian Fazhang was stunned: "Don't Mr. Langya want to?"

At this moment, a voice came from the door of the hall: "It's not that I don't want it, but that I can't."

Tian Fazhang subconsciously looked up and saw a familiar figure.

The state of Chu is Zhaoju.

Zhao Ju walked into the hall, bowed symbolically to Tian Fazhang, and sat down.

This very rude behavior made Tian Fazhang frown again, but he still couldn't do it. He could only suppress his anger and said, "Why did Shangzhuguo say this?"

As early as the day he ascended the throne, Tian Fazhang knew very well that he would never be able to turn against the people of Chu - at least not before the Great Qi revived the country.

Zhao Ju looked at Tian Fazhang, smiled and said, "Is the king really so impatient to recover the country?"

Tian Fazhang said seriously: "Shangzhu Kingdom is joking. I am the king of the Great Qi. If I cannot restore the territory of the Great Qi, how can I face the ancestors of the Great Qi?"

The smile on Zhaoju's face disappeared, replaced by a serious expression. He saluted Tian Fazhang again: "What the king taught him is that the foreign minister was abrupt."

Just when Tian Fazhang's mood just got a little better because of Zhao Ju's behavior of advancing and retreating, Zhao Ju's next sentence completely destroyed Tian Fazhang's good mood: "But even so, the foreign minister still has a word to tell the king - forget about going north, at least before next spring comes, this matter is impossible."

The smile on Tian Fazhang's face also disappeared, his face turned red instantly, and his hands, which were wrapped in his sleeves, clenched their fists tightly, wishing to punch the damn Chu man in front of him.

But Tian Fazhang finally held back and used a lot of perseverance.

Tian Fazhang said in a deep voice: "Why can't you go to the battle?"

In a very short sentence, because Tian Fazhang was afraid that if he said more, the anger that had finally suppressed in his heart would burst out instantly.

Zhao Ju looked at Tian Fazhang's face and shook her head with sympathy: "King, it's not that Da Chu is unwilling to help Qi, but now winter is coming..."

Tian Fazhang interrupted Zhao Ju's words: "As long as the Shangzhu Kingdom is willing to send troops to help me, I can ced Langya and the seven surrounding cities to serve as the fief of Shangzhu Kingdom!"

Langya was once the territory of Yue. Later, Yue was destroyed by Chu and Langya was included in Chu. After the Battle of Chuisha, it was seized by Qi from Chu. Now it is controlled by Zhao.

Zhao Ju still shook her head and said, "King, the Zhao army has not retreated much."

"What?" Tian Fazhang was shocked.

Zhao Ju said: "According to the report of the spies from Dachu, the Zhao army's target should be Zhuyi, which is the base camp for the Zhao army to transport food and grass to the front line of Jucheng. After the Zhao people arrived there, they should be stationed for the winter and would not continue to retreat northward."

Tian Fazhang's head exploded with a bang.

He finally realized that he was too impatient and too optimistic.

The retreat of the Zhao people was not as Tian Yinqi imagined, as he had to make concessions after being unable to support it, but was just a temporary retreat because of concerns about winter.

It is natural for the people of Chu to be unwilling to send troops. It is only a hundred miles from Jucheng to Zhuyi. There are only a few small cities in this hundred miles. If they are captured at this moment, they will have to use a lot of manpower and material resources to defend in the following winter, which is a waste of resources.

Zhao Ju seemed to have said something, but Tian Fazhang's head had already become blank and he could not listen to any words.

When Tian Fazhang came to his senses, he was alone in the hall, and Zhaoju and Naochi had left at any time.

Tian Fazhang himself didn't know how he returned to the harem.

When he came to his senses again, he found that he was already lying on the bed, beside him a naked queen.

Judging from the messiness of the wooden couch, it is obvious that Tian Fazhang and the Queen have just done some very intense and physically consuming things.

"King..." The queen stretched out her white hand like a lotus root and hugged Tian Fazhang's body, and her head was pressed against Tian Fazhang's chest, calling out very gently.

Tian Fazhang subconsciously hugged his queen tightly.

Then, he cried.

He cried loudly.

The queen hugged Tian Fazhang tightly, as if she was holding a child of her own.

After a long time, Tian Fazhang finally put away his crying.

The young King Qi gritted his teeth and expressed his two wishes to his queen.

"One day, I will stale Yingdu and slaughter all Handan, and then I will eliminate the shame and hatred of Da Qi!"

Tian Fazhang roared and pounced on the queen again.

...

Handan.

"Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager!" With a soft call, Empress Dowager Zhao State Wu Mengyao slowly opened his eyes.

The Queen Mother blinked her eyes, with obvious doubts on her face. After a long time, she said in disbelief: "Master Father?"
To be continued...