King Zhao still did not execute Lou Yan.

This is really incredible. When facing betrayal of him, he scolded Lou Yan, who was determined to die. King Zhao ordered him to be imprisoned in the mansion, dismissed the people who served him, and arranged several retainers to supervise him. Dong Chengzi originally sentenced Lou Yan to death, and King Zhao directly ordered him to change the final result, which made Dong Chengzi very angry and believed that King Zhao's behavior violated the law.

King Zhao no longer asked Dong Chengzi to take charge of Lou Yan's verdict, but Zhao Hui was instead responsible. Zhao Hui was a greedy villain who had been bribed by Xinlingjun long ago and secretly informed Xinlingjun of Zhao Bao's plan. After taking over Dong Chengzi, after deep thought, he refused to implement King Zhao's instructions on the grounds that he did not know the law. Lou Yan offended too many people, including Xinlingjun and Ma Fujun. He would rather anger King Zhao than offend these two at the same time.

The King of Zhao was naturally very angry, but King Zhao was surprised to find that he could not find anyone in the palace who could execute his orders, so he handed over the matter to Zheng Anping to take charge. Zheng Anping was in tears. He originally wanted to live a low-key life, but he could no longer keep his head down. He could only follow the orders of King Zhao and imprison Lou Yan in his original mansion, and arranged for a warrior to take care of the custody.

Such a judgment also caused a huge sensation in Zhao. The nobles and ministers in the country were very dissatisfied with the result of this judgment. In their opinion, this was simply a mess, and accusing the prime minister like this? A person who even started a rebellion? Can he continue to live?

Zhao Kuo did not express his opinion on this matter. He had more important things to do? He was going to get married. Isn’t Zhao Kuo in a hurry to get married? But after Zhao’s mother learned that the civil strife was over, she began to send people to urge her? Zhao Kuo had to return to Mafu Township.

Because the judgment on Lou Yan caused huge controversy, King Zhao had to come to meet all the ministers who came to persuade him one by one.

The first person to come to him was naturally Dong Chengzi? When King Zhao tactfully told Dong Chengzi that he wanted to save his life downstairs, Dong Chengzi was furious. He grabbed his few hair and argued loudly with King Zhao. The law he first formulated included the punishment for serious crimes such as treason and rebellion, including execution and removal of the recommended person, compared with Qin Rule? It was just that there was a large-scale contingency.

This is already a very tolerant law. Do you still want to forgive the traitors? What does this mean?

In the end, the two parted in dissatisfaction? Dong Chengzi left the palace unhappily. Yu Qing, Xu Li, Lian Po and others came in? They all persuaded King Zhao to kill Lou Yan. Lou Yan betrayed Zhao State, causing rebellion, and falsely accused the Prime Minister of the State. No matter which crime was, it was enough to take his life. However, King Zhao refused, and didn't know what crazy he was. After Zhao Hui also righteously rejected King Zhao's proposal, King Zhao was very angry and drove Zhao Hui out of the palace.

He even deprived Zhao Hui of his official position and demoted him to a commoner.

No one knew why King Zhao wanted to protect Lou Yan, and why he had to argue with so many ministers for Lou Yan. Everyone found it strange. In the end, only Zheng Anping and Pang Nuan supported King Zhao. Yes, Pang Nuan actually supported King Zhao and forgive Lou Yan's death penalty. Perhaps because he and Lou Yan had been friends for many years, or because of other reasons.

In the huge palace, Zhao Dan sat alone in front of the desk, looked at the candlelight around him, and took another sip of wine. He was silent, there were no warriors in the hall. He looked at the empty hall, smiled, and took another sip of wine. Just as he was drinking, a figure surrounded by the warriors and walked into the hall under the night. The visitor sat directly in front of Zhao Dan, and without hesitation, he picked up the wine cup and started drinking.

Zhao Dan looked at Zhongfu in front of him, with an indescribable complex expression in his eyes.

The person coming was Zhao Bao. Zhao Bao drank wine and asked, "Have you finally found out?"

King Zhao did not speak, but just frowned.

"I have persuaded you many times... It is not a good thing that the ministers are strong and weak, but you are just immersed in the sweet words of these talents and even scolded me. Now? You can't even release a prisoner, and all the ministers are against you. Of course, your order is wrong, and Lou Yan should be executed." Zhao Bao paused and said, "But in the past, you issued a lot of wrong orders. At that time, there were still many people who supported you."

"No minister dares to oppose you, no minister is not afraid of you, your orders are accessible in Zhao State, no one can violate them, even if it is a wrong order...what now?"

"Ma Fujun, Ma Fujun... I asked clearly, do you know? He just stepped forward and waved his hand to the rebels, and the rebels surrendered... He dared not go against him. Do you think, if you go out of the city and waved to the rebels, the rebels will surrender to you?" Zhao Bao laughed, he laughed a little loudly, he shook his head and said, "You are still young and young. The child who was crying behind me has not grown up now."

King Zhao shook his head and said seriously: "I know that Ma Fujun will not betray me."

"Of course, after all, he claims to be kind and righteous... He is in Zhao State, which is the luck of Zhao State, but it is your misfortune. His orders are more effective than your orders. The people of Zhao only know that Ma Fujun, but they don't know that there is you. The people can dance happily when they hear his name. The soldiers are willing to fight with him when they see his back. The ministers listen to the truth he tells. What about you?"

"Ma Fujun may not make trouble, but only a few Qin people can raise tens of thousands of soldiers with Xinling Jun's reputation. If there are people who want to follow Ma Fujun to gain wealth and use Ma Fujun's prestige to gather the people, the next day, you will be driven out of the palace... Do you believe it?" Zhao Bao asked several times, but King Zhao still said nothing, his face became increasingly sad, and he drank wine and said, "Ma Fujun will not allow such things."

"Yes, Ma Fujun is proficient in war, can better govern the country, and can recommend talented wise men. Therefore, you are in the palace and do your King Zhao and outside the palace. You can completely hand over to Ma Fujun and let him do it. Anyway, this palace is quite big..." Zhao Bao looked around and said with a smile.

"I want to tell you a story." Zhao Bao suddenly spoke.

"Please tell me."

"There is a wise man in Yan State called Zizhi. The people of Yan respected him very much. He was righteous and made all talented wise men. The King of Yan handed over all the major affairs in the country to him, and more and more people supported him. So, some ministers advised the King of Yan, hoping that the King of Yan would abdicate the throne to Zizhi. Well, you know what happened later. The King of Yan abdicated, the Prince of Yan attacked Zizhi, and the State of Qi took advantage of the chaos to attack and killed the King of Yan and Zizhi... The State of Yan was almost destroyed."

"Who has a higher prestige than Yan Guozizhi now?"

"Ma Fujun..."

"How about those who are willing to follow Ma Fujun than those who are willing to follow Zizhi?"

"this..."

"Now the ministers in the court are unwilling to execute your orders. If they give advice in the future, they ask you to abdicate and serve the horse, can you refuse?"

King Zhao didn't say anything, but just looked at Zhao Bao coldly and said, "At least, Ma Fujun will not be used to murder Zhao State." Zhao Bao sighed and said, "I know, you still blame me, but what I want to do is just protect you. I can swear to you that if I do one thing is out of selfishness, I have no place to bury myself."

"You are still young and there are many things I don't know how to tell you... Of course, it's inconvenient to tell you about these things. Now, you no longer trust me. This banquet is probably for me to see you off. You won't see me again in the future..." Zhao Bao said, with a slightly lonely face on his face. He said: "The country, not only does it require a wise man like Ma Fujun, but of course he also needs some villains who flatter and flatter..."

"They will support the king's decision and can also replace your crimes when necessary." Zhao Bao did not continue to talk about this. He suddenly smiled and said, "I still remember when you were young, you always liked to go out of the city to play with me. Do you still remember? I once told you about hunting. You like hunting very much. You like to collect bones of various prey to show them to others to watch... Now, I am old and I can't match you with hunting anymore."

"But, you must hold the bow and arrow in your hand. You are the monarch of Zhao State. The arrow you want to shoot should hit the target without any resistance... Otherwise, now someone dares to stop your arrow and lose it. When you can't hold the bow, someone will take it away from you." Zhao Bao said, standing up, leaning over and bowing towards King Zhao. King Zhao's lips trembled, but he still didn't say anything.

Zhao Bao left the palace and also left Handan. He wanted to rush to his fiefdom, Pingyang. Chang'an Jun was reluctant to leave him and went out of the city to see him farewell. Zhao Bao looked at Zhao Qiyue in front of him with complicated expressions, and then looked at the warriors around him who "escorted" him to leave, and told Chang'an Jun seriously: "Protect your brother, and support your brother no matter whenever you are, and in the face of family affection, everything must be made way for it!"

Chang'an Jun didn't know if he understood Zhao Bao's words. After seeing Zhao Bao off, Chang'an Jun lived in Zhao Bao's original mansion. He took over the strength left by Pingyang Jun, that is, the guests, land, wealth, etc. This made Chang'an Jun temporarily forget the pain of parting with Pingyang Jun. He used this money to start buying horses and took the guests to run wildly outside the city, and his life was enjoyable.

"What?? The Censor?"

Chang'an Jun widened his eyes and listened to King Zhao's words, he almost jumped up. He was having fun all these days, and he wanted to be a censor. He was obviously a little angry and frowned. Looking at his brother with a gloomy face in front of him, he did not dare to refute. Now Zhao Bao did not come to protect him again. Chang'an Jun thought for a moment, then squeezed out a smile and said to King Zhao: "Shangjun, you can let Bu take charge. He is serious in his work and has military achievements."

King Zhao looked at this incompetent brother, shook his head helplessly and said, "He can't do it. Before Mr. Pingyang left, tell me that he must not use him."

"Ah?!How could it be? He is my uncle's only son. Why would my uncle say that?" Chang'an Jun asked in surprise. King Zhao narrowed his eyes and said, "Probably... it's because he was too impulsive in doing things." Chang'an Jun looked helpless and pondered for a moment before saying, "Then please come to be the censor. He is older than me and has a reputation. Most Chinese people love him and think he has the style of his father..."

"So he can't do it either, he can only let you take charge."

"Why? I don't understand political affairs, and I don't even know what the censor does! The ministers in the country don't like me, I don't like them, and I don't want to be with them." Chang'an Jun said aggrievedly, his face full of troubles. King Zhao looked at him with an appraisal and said, "Yue... Pingyuan Jun is in Wei, Pingyang Jun... is not in China. You are the only one I can use. You have to grow up slowly and learn to govern. You are the son of Zhao."

He said again: "In the future, you can't make friends with those humble evil people, and you can't take the lead in doing evil. Be gentle to others, be cautious in doing things, and do things. I will strictly demand you. If you dare to violate what I said, I will lock you up in my fiefdom immediately! You will never be allowed to leave your mansion!" King Zhao said loudly. After King Zhao had done such a thing once, the Lord of Chang'an no longer dared to question it.

He didn't want to fall to the position of Pingyang Jun, who was imprisoned in the fief... He had no choice but to nod and said, "I understand."

King Zhao's face became gentler. He asked Chang'an Jun to sit in front of him, and then he reminded: "Tomorrow, I will summon all the ministers and announce this matter. There are two things you have to do for me."

"Please tell me, I will definitely not let my mission down."

"The first thing is that you have to persuade me to leave my life for a slow life..."

"Why?!" Chang'an Jun shouted in surprise, "That guy betrayed Zhao State, he deserves to die!" King Zhao said calmly: "Just just pay attention to the proposal, and don't pay attention to other matters. If a minister insults you, you can argue with them, but you can't be too rude..."

Chang'an Jun nodded a little aggrievedly.

King Zhao said again: "The second thing is that you should advise me to negotiate peace with Qin and stop this war."

"Why..." Chang'an Jun was about to ask a question, but he saw King Zhao's angry face again, and did not ask again, and nodded with a sigh.

King Zhao then smiled and said, "In the future, you must come to the palace often. I will have something to tell you. If you meet a wise man who can be promoted, you can tell me that I will let them enter the palace to help you."

"Okay... OK, I suggest this. The ministers in the court are afraid that they want to eat me in anger. No, my brother wants me to do this, so I will do it. Anyway, they don't like me." Chang'an Jun smiled and said, "Anyway, I have always been a villain. I used to be, now, and I will definitely be in the future. Brother, you didn't want that hunting dog anymore, so why did you let me..."

"No need to say more about the past."
Chapter completed!