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Chapter 22: Mr. Pingyuan

After the remarks of Jianxin, he submitted another letter from the empress dowager Zhao Ji of Qin, and then he stepped back. Linghui read the letter and looked at Guo Kai again, but he didn't say anything for a while. However, Guo Kai said, "Empress Dowager, the Qin people are not trustworthy. Although Zhao and Qin are brothers, they have deep hatred to this day..."

Guo Kai instinctively did not believe in Qin State, nor did he believe in repaying virtue with virtue. The Qin people have long been no longer Qin people who repay virtue with virtue and directly repay their grievances. They have become afraid of power but not be virtuous. If you treat him well, he will think you are weak and can be bullied, and will change his previous politeness and arrogance; if you treat him badly, kill him and blood flows into a river, and even burn the entire Xianyang, he will instinctively fear you and gradually be polite to you. This is the current Qin people.

The helplessness of Zhao State is that he no longer has the ability to be bad to Qin State and has to gradually be good to Qin State. The most painful thing in life is to know everything but not do anything. Guo Kai smiled and felt helpless pain.

"How about Chu State?" Linghui's face was also painful, but she was different from Guo Kai. What she wanted was very simple: first, Zhao State was never sacrificed, which was an explanation to her husband; second, naturally, her life and food and clothing were her and her son.

"Reported to the Empress Dowager, there is no news in the State of Chu. However, if it is early, this month, and if it is late, there will be news in the capital of Ying." Guo Kaiyi said.

"There is indeed a message in Yingdu," Lian Yu did not inform Handan of Xiong Jing's brain disease, but he spread other news to Handan. "The State of Chu restored Ying and wanted to move the capital. The King of Chu had arrived at the old Ying more than ten days ago. The Chu army had also attacked Nanzheng, hoping to compete with the Qin people for the land of Bashu in Hanzhong and save Zhao..."

The Chu army counterattacked one after another and regained the land and towns lost fifty years ago, but the Zhao State was about to perish. Ling Mei's calm face showed a hint of abusive laughter. She instinctively did not believe in men, although she became a queen because of men. Thinking of what Zhao Ji said in the letter, she asked: "The Grand Tutor thinks that which one is more important to our Zhao State and Qin and Chu?"

"Now the Qin people are weak and are eager to reconcile with me and attack Chu. However, Guo Kai is very clear about the current situation. Three hundred thousand Qin troops were dragged in Handan, and tens of thousands of Qin troops were assisting Qin officials to accept the county and town of Zhao. As long as Handan surrenders, the Qin army can immediately free up four or five hundred thousand troops to fight against Chu. This is the value of Zhao.

"Where is Yu Chu?" Ling Mei interrupted Guo Kai's statement and asked about the State of Chu.

"The State of Chu should make me persevere and not surrender, so that I can win Hanzhong Bashu." Guo Kai answered again.

"In this way, both countries are not good people." Linghui said. "If Chu does not save me, it is better to surrender him than to be captured by Qin."

"The Queen Mother, the Qin people have been sieging the city unremittingly, but Handan is not unable to defend." Guo Kai easily made such a conclusion when he saw Linghui, and immediately couldn't sit still. "And the Queen Mother wants to surrender, but the King of Pingyuan doesn't surrender, what can you do?"

The King of Qin had the final say in Qin, and the King of Chu had nothing to say in Chu. The King of Chu had nothing to say in Zhao. The State of Zhao was between the two, especially Zhao Qian was young and was born in a humble background. Although the general guarding the city was Zhao Cong, there were thousands of servants from the Zhaoying of Pingyuan Jun. Once the news of surrender was spread, those servants from Pingyuan Jun would definitely rebel.

"No, no, no..." Pingyuan Jun Zhao Ying made Linghui taboo. His father Pingyuan Jun Zhao Sheng was a person who was guarding Handan to death. Zhao Ying inherited his title, but his family background was not declining, but was even better. To surrender, he must pass the Zhao Ying level.

"I think it's too early to say this matter. Only when the cooked bones in Handan change their son and the Yanmu is a spear can you surrender. Or if the State of Chu sends troops to rescue me again, it's unknown." Guo Kai said. Seeing that the spiritual cord was persuaded by him, he retreated.

The Qin army conquered the city every day. After Jianxinjun entered the city, he stopped for a day for the first time, which gave Zhao's ministers a day to consider whether to surrender. The King of Handan was outside the Handan City, and the concrete of Chu State was connected to the city. After Jianxinjun withdrew from the palace, the next visit was the King of Pingyuan Jun Zhaoying.

‘Pingyuan Jun’s house is located in the big city rather than the royal city.

The walls of the big city are obviously one shorter than those of the royal city, and the shortest places are only three and six feet tall, but the walls of the big city are full of doors and holes. The city walls are not obstacles to block the enemy and us, but fortifications that can be used. The Qin army besieged the city with a small force, and the defenders must come out to attack them, kill their soldiers and strong men, and burn their chariots and ladders; the Qin army will fight in a row, so there will be no time to attack the city.

Jianxinjun saw that outside the city was full of burned ladders and chariots, and the Qin people, and the corpses of Zhao people who were driven forward by the Qin people. Outside the city, the city was also devastated. In order to provide enough bullets for the trenchers behind the wall, all the houses several miles away from the city wall were demolished. This made the ground bumpy after the carriage entered the city, and the air was filled with corpse stench. Only when approaching the Pingyuan Jun Mansion, the road surface became flat again. Not only did there be no corpse stench in the air, but there was a scent of wine.

"Jun Jianxin asked to see Mr. Pingyuan." The carriage arrived at Pingyuanjun's mansion. Mr. Jianxin did not need to get off the car, and he had his servants to tell him. But strangely, when he learned that he was visiting, Mr. Pingyuan was indifferent and sent the priest to greet him.

"Master..." Pingyuan Jun was rude, and his servant was already displeased.

Even the Queen Mother wanted to live with him, but Pingyuan Jun did not greet him in person. Jianxin Jun was also unhappy. But there are two forces in Handan. If you want to surrender, you must be with Pingyuan Jun for a while. Jianxin Jun smiled and said, "What's wrong." After that, he got off the carriage and walked to the Mingtang, the mansion under the smile of the priest of Pingyuan Jun's family. When he advanced to the hall, he found that Pingyuan Jun Zhaoying was not in Mingtang.

"...Wonderful Lord's intention is like this." In the dim West Room, Mu Ling, the eldest disciple of Wu Guanzi, has finished interpreting the message on the secret message. Pingyuan Jun Zhaoying is the backbone of the Zhao clan. This is known to the officials, and Yingdu is very clear about it. From a certain perspective, Yingdu prefers to deal with Pingyuan Jun rather than with the Handan court.

"But Handan is the capital of my Zhao people, so I abandoned it like this..." The Grand Sima Mansion's plan was to withdraw all 400,000 Zhao people from Handan City as a force to restore Zhao in the future. People can be transported away, but Taimiao, Taishe, and palaces cannot be transported away. This is what Zhao camp is concerned about. "And when Zhao people in various counties see me leaving the capital, Zhao will be destroyed."

"The Wei army has 100,000 soldiers, and the Qi people are very unreliable. The Chu army is only 200,000. They are confronting Li Xin, Meng Tian and 700,000 people in Fangcheng. Once Zhao is rescued, Chu will be taken by the Qin people. It is good to fight with the Chu army. If you don't fight with the Chu army..."

The lack of troops is the current situation of the four countries. Especially after the Wei army ran out of Mo, the army that the four countries could truly fight in field was 200,000 Chu troops. However, this army could only defend one place, and it was not enough to take care of it from Hangu Pass to Zhao's territory for more than a thousand miles.

"Oh!" Zhao Ying also understood this reality, of course. "So you can't attack Guanzhong again?"

"The King of Qin speaks Chu in full and pretends to be our army and flees. Do you think the Chu army can win the King of Qin invade Guanzhong?" Mu Ling asked back.

"King of Qin..." Zhao Ying widened his eyes when he heard the first half of the sentence, and finally burst into laughter uncontrollably. "Hahahaha, hahahahaha... The king of a country speaks Chu language and pretends to be a Chu army soldier?!" Zhao Ying was fat and laughed like a tumbler with his belly in his arms.

Seeing him like this, Mu Ling couldn't help laughing. "This is known to everyone in the world, and you haven't heard of it?"

"Haha. I haven't...haha, I haven't...heard." Zhao Ying thought about the scene of the King of Qin's escape, and this laughter released all his aggrievances for several months. "When the King of Qin was a magistrate in Handan, I often chased and humiliated him with the prince. Today he is the king of a country, and he still does not change his former nature of running around the pillar."

Zhao Ying's memories were only a moment, and he turned to say, "The King of Qin died without regard to the king's honor, and it would be useless for the Chu army to enter Guanzhong again. If he could only do this... When will the boat arrive?"

"When the north wind blows," the entire Zhao State, the Pingyuan Jun Zhao Ying was the most trustworthy person in Chu State. Mu Ling did not hide the truth from him. Seeing that Zhao Ying was puzzled, he said: "There are 400,000 people in Handan, and the boats are not enough, so the sea boats should ride the north wind against the river and go up to the people's towns. This is only possible when the north wind is strong."

The climate of East Asia is always controlled by the winter monsoon in the north and the summer monsoon in the south. Wherever the two confront each other, the rainy season is the rainy season. The summer monsoon begins to move north in May, so the rainy season in May; the summer monsoon advances into the Yangtze River in June and July, so the Yangtze River begins to plum rain; the summer monsoon arrives in North China in August, so the rainy North China begins to rain.

The summer monsoon takes several months to enter North China and even Northeast China, but the retreat is very rapid. In August and September, North China will become cloudless in more than ten days, and the autumn will be clear and cool, but the weather will be cool at this time, and the winter monsoon begins to rule the sky in the north.

Mu Ling, who has never taken the aviation school course, cannot explain this truth. He can only say that the north wind is blowing.

"In this way, you can get there after one month?" Zhao Ying knew that the north wind would be in these ten days every year. And when the north wind was strong, it would be enough next month.

"It should be like this. The sea boats have arrived at Zhongyi Port, and the other boats are based on the sea boats sailing up the water to reach the people's towns. I only wish that Zhao State would not surrender to Qin." Mu Ling emphasized that this was the only requirement for Zhao State.

"Zhao Qin's blood feud, how can I, the Zhao people, surrender to Qin?" Zhao Ying said angrily, "But if someone wants to surrender to Qin, Zhao Ying will kill him soon!"

"Report to the Lord, Jianxin is here." Zhao Ying just said that he had killed someone, but his servant bowed to him and told Jianxin is here.

"Jun Jianxin? Is that person not in Qin?" Zhao Ying was very surprised.

"I don't know." The minister couldn't tell the origin of Jianxinjun, and was even more uncertain about Jianxinjun's purpose this time.
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