Chapter 48: Say it all
"The king must not establish a prince early!" Wei Liao, who retreated from the court and chased into the main hall, said anxiously.
"Why can't you stand up early?" Zhao Zheng knew that Wei Liao would follow him, so he walked slowly a few steps away waiting for him.
"The world is not yet determined, and the princes have not grown up, so you should not stand up early." Wei Liao bowed and told him. When he saw Zhao Zheng still staring at him, he had to bow his head and say again: "The ancestor Zhaoxiang of the ancestors, who had been expelling the four nobles and using Fan Sui. If it were not for Fan Sui's strategy of fighting far and near to attack, and not attacking the land alone and attacking others, how could the Qin Dynasty have today's power? If the king had established the eldest son Fusu, the four nobles would be in the court in the future."
"Oh." Zhao Zheng understood what he meant. "Wei Qing just wanted me to establish the crown prince late?"
"Yes." Wei Liao said. "The king is in full swing in spring and autumn, so why should he establish a prince early? It is not too late to destroy the six kingdoms and establish another one."
"Then... what about Jing people?" Zhao Zheng narrowed his eyes. He was already angry, but he still wanted to be angry now. "What should we do if the Jing people killed my envoy and humiliated my ancestors and their mothers?"
"I think it is not necessary to attack Jing." Wei Liao said. "Once Zhao is attacked, Zhao cannot rest. Why is Qin defeating the countries of Guandong? Just talking about military affairs, there are more armored soldiers, corn, and horses than other countries. Qin can fight for years, but Guandong cannot fight for years. Therefore, it should be attacked again and again, and only after a long period of time can it be seen that its achievements are achieved. If the attack is unstable, the country cannot be destroyed.
The people of Jing were rampant. I heard that King Jing wanted to relieve Jing Qi's beauties. The people of Qi always regarded Jing as barbarians, and regarded this as a great humiliation. I thought it could be intercepted."
"How to make a difference?" Zhao Zheng took a few deep breaths to suppress his anger that was about to rise again.
"I ask the king to send envoys to Qi again, and marry Qi without asking about the crimes of the King of Qi." Wei Liao said. "As the King of Qi loves Princess Kejia, he will ping it for the eldest son Fusu."
"Fusu?! You..." Fusu and the Princess Kejia of Qi were very different from each other. However, Zhao Zheng already had a queen, and even if he married a princess of Qi, he would not be as important as the Crown Princess in the future.
"Yes." Wei Liao said. "Jing and Zhao are connected with Qi. During the war, Jing and Zhao both asked Qi for food. If Qi and Qin were all allying with each other, not only would the Jing and Zhao have disastrous transportation, Qi would no longer have an alliance with Jing and Zhao. Even if Jing and Zhao were connected by sea, they would have to bypass Qi and form mountains. If Qi could block the boat troops, Chu would not have horses, and Zhao would not have a huge armor. In addition, I heard that Qi had twenty weapons to destroy the city. If Qi had an alliance with Qi, it would be possible to obtain it."
"The State of Qi really has a weapon to break the city?" Nothing is more important than a weapon to break the city, Zhao Zheng asked urgently.
"Yes." Wei Liao nodded. "I had shortage of food in the last year and sold it to Qi."
"The weapon to break the city, the weapon to break the city..." Zhao Zheng thought about it several times, and finally made up his mind to say, "I hope I will send someone to Qi to marry Qi. As long as the King of Qi can give me the weapon to break the city."
The Guowei Mansion had a conclusion before: that is, the wars that the Qin Dynasty wiped out the six kingdoms were mostly siege wars rather than field wars. If the weapon to break the city could be obtained, it would take half a year to pull out the big city, and two or three months to pull out; because of the deterrence of the weapon to break the city, it might open the door and surrender after firing a few stone bombs.
The weapon to break the city is so important. When Qin attacked Chu a few years ago, Qin asked Chu to offer the weapon to break the city, but unfortunately the strategy was not achieved. The Shaofu could not understand the principle of the weapon to break the city by relying on the battlefield alone. Now Zhao also has the weapon to break the city, and Qi also has it. It is impossible to obtain the weapon to break the city from Zhao, but now it is an opportunity to get the weapon to break the city.
Xianyang decided to make plans, and the new envoy of Qin quickly moved eastward. Hearing that the Qin envoy came, the Linzi court, who had been quarreling over the Chu strategy for a long time, was silent that day. No one knew what the Qin envoy was doing in Linzi? Was he asking for guilt? Declaring war? Reproach? Yes...
The court officials were confused in their hearts, and no one wanted to speak, for fear that they would be asked by King Tian Jian of Qi when they opened their mouths. They might have strategies for Chu. What strategies can they have for Qin? In addition to bribing Qin or surrendering, they would be scolded by others whether they bribing Qin or surrendering.
"The Qin people came to envoy, and the ministers thought it was supposed to be?" In just over a month, King Tian Jian of Qi seemed to have become ten years older.
Marijuana destroyed his desires, and he was no longer interested in anything, and even felt that immortality was meaningless; while Xiong Jing's words in the day humiliated his spirit. Tui Ping was a naked humiliation, but this humiliation was caused by oneself. Whenever he thought of him, his ears were hot, and he wanted to slap himself a few times.
"I think," no one said anything except Tian Jue. "We should send people to the inn, so that we can know what the Qin people want."
"Seriously, my brother Wang went to the inn to discuss with the Qin envoy." Tian Jian asked Tian to go to the inn to meet the Qin envoy. The ministers in the court immediately breathed a sigh of relief. They knew that whoever had the idea of such a thing would be unlucky.
"Major..." Tian Jian looked at Hou Sheng, and he meant that the Prime Minister would go, so who would let Hou Sheng marry Qin?
"King, minister, minister..." Hou Sheng had a bitter face and was about to cry out in pain as he touched his head. Qin sent him only to know Yao Jia. This time he came to Wang Ao, who had never heard of him, and he didn't want to go. "I'm getting sick recently."
"Report to the king, I'll just be alone." Tian Kuo didn't look at Hou Sheng, and he didn't think Qin envoy was so terrible.
Of course he guessed correctly. The Qin envoy Wang Ao came not to ask for guilt, but to marry him. Hou Sheng was very happy to learn about this news. After he met Tianwu, he immediately went to the inn and talked with the Qin envoy before he spoke loudly on the Yan court.
"King, I think we should marry Qin quickly. In this way, Qi will no longer be afraid of Chu and Zhao's attack. I also heard that the King of Qin has always loved the queen and the eldest son Fusu. The Princess Kejia married the eldest son of Qin and will be the queen of Qin in the future. Since he was the queen of Qi, Qin would not attack Qi."
"How ridiculous is the prime minister!" Tian Jiao angrily rebuked. "But Jia is seven years old, and the eldest son of Qin Fusu is less than two years old. He is so disagreeable, so why get married? Qin and Qi are in marriage, and they want our Qi to prevent Chu and Zhao from helping Chu and Zhao, but they really want to join us. Chu and Zhao will all be destroyed in the future, and Qi will also be destroyed. Qin is a country of tigers and wolves, without trust and righteousness. The king must not marry the Qin people into an alliance."
After the Gaotang Dynasty, Tian Jian had another piece of rebellion scale. He heard that Tian Xiu said that Qin Wuxin was not convinced, so he moved his butt and moved his position. Hou Sheng, who was observing his expression, immediately blamed Tian Xiu: "How dare you borrow the famous sayings of the Qin people, the King Wuxin?"
"How could I say that the king has no faith?" Tian Kuo was confused. He was clearly talking about Qin.
"What do you mean?" Hou Sheng said again. "How wise is the king not to join Chu and Zhao!"
"The king does not join forces with Chu and Zhao, this..." Tian Kuo was not Hou Sheng. He could not praise Tian Jian's behavior against his will, so he got stuck there after he said half of the sentence.
Hou Sheng, who seized the opportunity, asked anxiously: "What? What? Is this not a wise move?"
"This..." Tian Kuo no longer looked at Hou Sheng but looked at Tian Jian. "I think this is inappropriate."
"Sure!" Hou Sheng shouted excitedly. "You use the name of Qin people to slander the king, saying that the king has no faith and no righteousness. King, he..."
"King, I didn't mean this." Tian Kuo hurriedly defended, but Tian Jian was already glaring at him. "I think the king should not be against King Chu, King Zhao broke his promise, and the three kingdoms should work together..."
"Irrespectful! How dare you slander the king, and you still apologize to the king?" Hou Sheng saw Tian Jian's face getting heavier and he said again.
"Get out!" Tian Jian didn't want Tian Jue to apologize. He just didn't want to see Tian Jue's younger brother again.
"King, please listen to me..." Tian Jiao just wanted to argue, but he didn't know how to argue.
"Get back-!" Tian Jian suddenly stood up, then shouted loudly, and his voice shook the house. Tian Kuo was stunned. Without waiting for Tian Jian to say anything, the soldiers outside the bed immediately invited him out of the bed.
"King, Tian Jiao should be bribed by the people of Chu, otherwise why would he say that the people of Chu are good..." Hou Sheng was driven away and was secretly happy. When he was about to take the opportunity to strengthen Tian Jian's disgust for him, Tian Jian, who sat down, asked: "The Qin people really want to be an alliance with our Qi State?"
"That's right." Hou Sheng heard the tiredness of Tian Jian's words and quickly said, "If the two countries marry, the Qin army will not attack me. Qin attacked Zhao to restore Yan, and it is definitely not to destroy Zhao. The King of Chu said that Qin wanted to wipe out the six countries and the whole world, which was a threatening remark. Otherwise, how can the king and Chu and Zhao join forces?
In the Battle of Changping, the Qin people killed 400,000 Zhao troops, and the white bones were still seen in Danshui. In the Battle of Yan and Ying, the Qin army flooded the city with water and drowned more than 300,000 Chu people. The stinking corpses can be heard for several months. Both countries have hated Qin Shishi and hated Qin for a long time. These have nothing to do with Qi. If Qin destroys Qi, they can go down the river and go straight to Linzi, but Qin has not yet existed."
The King of Qi likes and fears, Hou Sheng knows everything; he also knows what Qi needs and fears. What Qi is most afraid of is not the attack between Chu and Zhao, but the Qin army goes south through the East County. Once it goes south, Qi will be destroyed.
The previous year, the Qi State had already sent troops to Zhao to Qin's Dongjun for a long time. If Zhao State could really take the opportunity to send troops to attack Badongjun, Qi State would be willing to send troops to get a share. In this way, the alliance between the Three Kingdoms would not be successful. Unfortunately, Zhao State hesitated for several months, and did not send troops to attack Qin until the river was frozen, and the Qi people were completely disappointed.
Agreeing with the Three Kingdoms Alliance was the personal promise of the King of Qi. Like Chu, the King of Qi could not completely control the major affairs of Qi. The power of Qi was not in Linzi, but in the hands of officials from various towns. He was not untrustworthy or brave, but he was just not careful in his words under the temptation of the immortal medicine.
Tian Jian, the king of Qi who was mentally tortured, urgently needed a reason to comfort himself: I was right, but the world was wrong. Hou Sheng's lonely words provided him with such a reason. As he listened, he finally burst into laughter.
"The marriage will be left to you." After laughing, Tian Jian no longer wanted to go back on his word. Chu and Zhao had no good intentions and wanted to drag Qi into their war with Qin. They hated Qin, but Qi did not hate Qin.
"King, Qin envoy needs..." Since the marriage agreed, everything else was easy to say, Hou Sheng raised the slasher again.
Chapter completed!