Because of Tian Dan's words, everyone's eyes were on Lou Yan's body.

Lou Yan widened his eyes and stood up with a cane, then he said angrily: "Why do you slander me like this?" He suddenly looked at King Zhao and said seriously: "Shangjun... If I just came from Qin and pushed these things to me, then who would dare to serve you again?" King Zhao looked at Lou Yan with a little suspicious look. After hearing his defense, he did not speak, but just waited for Tian Dan.

Zhao Kuo was also a little surprised. He never focused on Lou Yan. Since returning to Zhao State, Lou Yan has been acting low-key and worked hard to help Yu Qing handle state affairs. According to what Wei Wuji said, Wei Wuji tried him several times, but he did not do anything that harmed Zhao State. Pang Gong also told the matter that he was wronged back then, which made Zhao people not hate his previous behavior of surrendering to Qin.

He was sent to Qin, but he was betrayed and wrongly imprisoned.

Arita Dan reminded that Zhao Kuo seemed to suddenly become a little more awake. Lou Yan and Lou Chang, the assassination of Dong Chengzi, a group of elite spies who can pass the "assessment". Yes, Lou Yan serves as a lieutenant, and he is responsible for the assessment. If he wants some people to pass the assessment smoothly, this is not a difficult thing. He can know the domestic conflicts in a timely manner and constantly intensify the conflicts.

At the beginning, he pointed many things at Chang'an Jun and diverted his gaze. Zhao Kuo seemed to have figured out a lot of things for a moment. He looked at Lou Yan, the harmless old man. He shook his head and sighed: "Mr. Tian did not lie to me. I trust others too easily. I actually believed in a Qin minister who came to Zhao to negotiate peace? But he was forced to stay by Shangjun."

"You are also bold... making trouble in Handan? There is no fear at all?"

Lou Yan looked at Zhao Kuo, and Lou Yan shook his head. He said, "Do you want to convict me based on guesses? I heard? You teach your disciples to govern the country with the law? The law is the foundation of the country. Does the law value evidence? You have no way to prove my crime? You have to convict me because of your own suspicion. This is contrary to your daily teachings. What a person says is different from what he does. Is this okay?"

Zhao Kuo smiled? Shaking his head and said, "I don't want to convict you? That's what Dong Chengzi wants to do. I just put forward my own guess. Dong Chengzi will still have to review your business. I think? In your mansion, you should be able to find the evidence you want. I heard that the evil people cover their crimes tightly, just like Mount Tai covered by heavy fog? But the fog will always dissipate? The crimes will stand high like Mount Tai? Everyone sees it? It cannot be destroyed."

Immediately, a warrior stood behind Lou Yan, and Dong Chengzi also stood up.

King Zhao narrowed his eyes and looked at Lou Yan. Although he was more willing to believe in Zhao Kuo, King Zhao asked sadly: "Lou Gong, I will make every effort to make up for the debts that Zhao State had previously owed to you, give you the best courtyard, and promote you to an important official position. You will sit at the top of each banquet. Can't these things make you return to Zhao State? You are a Zhao person, why do you do this?"

Lou Yan looked at King Zhao with a smile, and he looked at Dong Chengzi again. He knew in his heart that the matter had been exposed. Although he himself didn't know how it was exposed, he was wary of many people, but he missed Tian Dan. He did not expect that the old man would take the initiative to participate in this matter. However, Lou Yan's face was not worried, afraid, nor ashamed. Even his old friend Pang Nuan's stern gaze did not make him feel ashamed.

There is indeed a lot of evidence in his mansion, such as letters that he had not had time to deal with, and letters that were about to be sent.

Lou Yan looked at King Zhao and said seriously: "I heard that Confucius from Wei State wanted to attack Tai Shu to seek Confucius' opinions. Confucius said: I have learned about rituals and music, but I don't know about leading troops to fight. After Confucius said goodbye, Confucius wanted to leave Wei State. Confucius said: Only birds choose trees as nests, so where is the reason why trees choose birds?"

"Now there is a big tree that shakes its branches and leaves, and wants to attract more birds, but the trunk has been bitten by borers and almost rotten and may collapse at any time. Do you think there will be birds who choose such a big tree to build a nest? If the big tree falls, will the nest be destroyed together?"

"Don't think about getting rid of borers, don't think about making your branches more and making your leaves more, but just looking at the birds hovering in the sky, hoping that more birds will fall down. This is the disadvantage of Zhao State now."

"You are indeed different from your ancestors. You respect me and love me. I shouldn't have done this, but I don't regret my own actions. You can kill me. Before this, what I want to tell you is that Zhao State cannot make Zhao State stronger by recruiting more talents. Today's ministers, such as Ma Fujun, Xinling, Xinping, Yu Qing, Lejian, Dong Chengzi, Xu Li, Pang Nuan... Oh, and Duke Tian."

"Any one of them, a vast country, will become stronger because of their arrival and weaken because of their departure... Look at Qin, only one Yinghou can issue orders and help the King of Qin discuss important matters, and only one Wu'an Jun can fight and fight wars, help the King of Qin conquer other countries. But why is Zhao, which has so many talented people, not the opponent of Qin?"

"Ma Fujun, Xinling, Yu Qing and others, aren't as good as Yinghou and can't govern the country well?"

"Ma Fujun, Xinling, Xinping, aren't they as good as Wu'an, and can't defeat the enemy for you?"

"There are only Yinghou and Wu'anjun around the King of Qin, but he can listen to all the suggestions of Yinghou. Even if Yinghou's plan fails, he will not blame him. He smiled and comforted him. He would adopt the most adventurous style of Wu'anjun. Even if Wu'anjun did not win, he would not forget to reward him. Because the King of Qin was able to use people, although there were not many wise men around him, he could turn Qin into the most powerful country."

"You have these outstanding talents around you, but you cannot appoint them. You did not support the reform proposed by Ma Fujun, and the King of Qin adopted it, so Qin became stronger. Xinling Jun wanted to implement the reform, and you let Pingyang Jun go against him. Therefore, the reforms in Zhao have not achieved success for several years. Xinping Jun wanted to fight Wu'an Jun safely and take steady steps, but you didn't trust him and refused to even give him a lord. Treat Zheng Anping even better than him."

"Dong Chengzi is simple, but you allow your son to bully his son and refuse to apologize to him. Yu Qing is upright, so you always reject him and refuse to obey his advice. Pang Nuan is knowledgeable and is inferior to everyone. But once did you call him to the palace to ask him for advice? Xu Li is not from a high school, so you always send him to do the most tiring things, but you are unwilling to give equal rewards."

"You seem to value talents but do not support them, and do not give them the opportunity to display their talents. Can this be called recruiting talents?"

Lou Yan shook his head, looked at the ministers present seriously, and said, "It's a pity that these people. If they were in Qin, the King of Qin would definitely run out of Xianyang to greet them and put them in the most suitable position. They would not be immersed in pain all day long as they are now. As Confucius said, excellent birds can choose the trees that are most suitable for it, and excellent ministers should serve and reuse their monarchs."

"Stop it!!" King Zhao shouted angrily. Lou Yan's words made him very angry, and he was a little ashamed. He was angry and used in the current King Zhao, perhaps the most suitable one. King Zhao said to Dong Chengzi angrily: "Please punish him more severely!" Dong Chengzi nodded, and then sent a warrior to escort Lou Yan and walked out of the palace. Lou Yan just looked at the ministers around him with pity and kept shaking his head.

"What a pity...it's a pity."

The criminal who was about to be executed was pitying the noble ministers around him. It looked a bit incredible, just like these people were prisoners, which made everyone feel a little uncomfortable. King Zhao looked at everyone, and suddenly he found that he was afraid to look at these people's eyes. He was afraid of seeing anger and resentment from these people's eyes. He could not lose these people!

Zheng Anping in the crowd was even more trembling. Lou Yan was behind the scenes? I want to go home!!

King Zhao did not speak, and the ministers did not dare to speak. Everyone was silent, and the atmosphere was a little strange. After staying like this for a long time, King Zhao let everyone leave.

Two warriors from the palace took Zhao Bao out and escorted him home. Although Lou Yan's crime was exposed, King Zhao did not exempt him from punishment for Zhao Bao. Pingyang Jun, for the next period of time, was likely to be unable to leave his mansion. Everyone watched the lonely King Pingyang got on the carriage, lowered his head, and left the palace. Zhao Kuo hurriedly followed Tian Dan. Tian Shan didn't say a word, but just walked.

"Thank you... If it weren't for you, I really didn't expect it to be Lou Yan. Sometimes, the easiest thing to think of is because it's too simple, but it's easiest to be ignored." Zhao Kuo said, quickly following Tian Dan. Tian Dan ignored him. Zhao Kuo seemed to be leaning over by Di, talking endlessly about his suspicion and review process over the days, and asked Tian Dan how he saw something wrong. Finally, under Zhao Kuo's inquiry, Tian Dan stopped angrily.

He turned around and looked at Zhao Kuo coldly.

"The rebels passed the assessment, and the lieutenant was responsible for the assessment. You are so smart that you have never sent anyone to investigate the lieutenant? It was understandable that someone assassinated Dong Chengzi. There were no disciples around Dong Chengzi, but Lou Yan, who knew that Lou Yan had a group of elite Qin guards around him. Who would send an assassin to assassin him? Therefore, I suspected that I went up Lou Yan. I investigated the dead assassin, and many people saw him drinking and chatting with Chang'an Jun..."

"I asked Chang'an Jun, and he said: This man came to him and offered him a good horse."

"I looked at the good horse again. Whenever such good horse enters Handan, I have to leave a record. After comparing it, I found that the record of this good horse was brought into the city by the merchants of Yan State. I sent someone to find the merchants of Yan State..." Tian Dan said briefly and said: "The people who followed Lou Yan to enter Handan have records at the city gate because they were from Qin... My portrait of Zhao Lai was for the merchants of Yan State to identify and confirm that the person who came to buy horses for him that day was Lou Yan's disciple."

"But this made me discover another more important thing. Lou Yan's current guests were not the guests who had followed him into the city. Later, Lou Yan said that he had recruited some escorts because of the assassination, but his number of escorts did not change, it was just to make people enter and exit, and it was just a group of people who had changed. If no one had compared it carefully, it would be difficult to find out. The assassin who died at the time also entered the city with many companions not long before he died... I investigated these people who entered the city and found that they were Lou Yan's current guests...."

Tian Dan told a not-so-excellent story, but Zhao Kuo listened very seriously and nodded from time to time.

"Okay, it's that simple. I'm not doing this to help you. I just want to have a stable old age..." Tian Dan waved his hand unhappily, and then jumped into the carriage. He didn't look like an old man who wanted to spend his old age in peace. The carriage quickly left, and Zhao Kuo just watched Tian Dan leave. Han Fei frowned and stood not far away. He looked a little guilty.

"At the beginning, I went to visit Lou Yan, and Lou Yan said let me wait for a while and had something to deal with. After leaving for a while, he was assassinated. It seems that he had arranged the assassination of himself during the period of departure, and deliberately let me... I saw that I was deceived by him... I decided that he was also the target of assassination... so I didn't expect it might be him..." Han Fei frowned, feeling really bad.

This young man probably felt a sense of frustration. He was quite confident in himself. In many cases, he was the only student who dared to argue with Zhao Kuo. But today, Lou Yan's incident hit him a big blow, making him wake up from his confidence and arrogance. Zhao Kuo felt that this was a good thing. Everyone grew up like this. He smiled and said to Han Fei:

"Don't do this again next time."

Han Fei nodded solemnly.
Chapter completed!