Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

"Why is this?"

Not long after he walked out of the door, Mao Sui ran into Ales.

"Zhao Zhong has met the manager." Ales saluted Mao Sui respectfully.

Mao Sui patted Ales on the shoulder calmly: "From now on, Perseus will only have you by his side. You have a whole winter to make him treat you as his true confidant. I hope you can do that." to this point."

Ales took a deep breath and said, "I will not disgrace my life."

Mao Sui suddenly laughed: "Speaking of which, is your wife about to give birth?"

Ales froze for a moment, then smiled a little embarrassedly: "Yes."

Ales now spends a lot of time wandering outside every day, and sometimes he even goes out quietly by himself, out of Perseus' sight for a few days.

In Perseus's view, it was Ales who was diligently investigating intelligence for him, and what Ales dictated also confirmed Perseus' feeling.

But what Perseus didn't know was that Ales had already married a woman in Handan City, had a small family, and would soon have his first child.

Mao Sui looked at Ales seriously: "If you die during the next spring's expedition, then I will support your wife myself."

Ales bowed deeply: "Thank you, Zhao Zhong, Manager."

Chapter One thousand and eleven

Yingdu.

Chu State Order Yin Liyuan was sitting at the top of the palace, looking quite tired, while stretching out his hands and kneading his temples, while listening to the report from his subordinates in front of him.

"Your Majesty, the current situation is not very good. Now the entire Changsha County has been occupied by the rebels of the three major families. If the fighting continues like this, it will not be too long before the rebels of the three major families The soldiers will come to the city of Yingdu, and by then Yingdu will be really in danger."

After hearing the news, Li Yuan's brows twitched, and he couldn't help but said, "Didn't I mobilize another [-] reinforcements a while ago? Could it be that these [-] reinforcements are useless?" Will it work?"

During this period of nearly two years of civil war, Li Yuan's troops seldom gained the upper hand when facing the troops of the three major families. Basically, they lost more than they won.

Since the three major families have occupied the high positions in Chu State for so many years, there are actually a lot of forces in Chu State that oppose the three major families. It is precisely because of the strong support of these nobles who oppose the three major families that Li Yuan can support it until now.

But even so, the current precarious situation made Li Yuan uncontrollably angry.

The confidantes standing in front of Li Yuan looked at each other, and finally one of them replied: "Your Majesty, the main reason is that when recruiting before, they promised to have salaries and rewards, but the rewards were not fulfilled after these soldiers arrived at the front line. , so the morale of these soldiers will become quite low.”

Li Yuan bang on the case, and said angrily: "Didn't you tell them before that, as long as you can defeat the traitors of the three major families, then there will naturally be a large piece of land in Kuaiji County for them afterwards? Is it still so greedy? The territory has not been laid down, and now let me cash in, how can I cash in?"

Li Yuan's roar kept echoing in the palace, and no one dared to raise his head to answer.

In fact, they know the real reason for poor morale.

I heard that on the side of the three major families, they used real money to recruit and motivate the soldiers who joined the army. No matter how bad they were, they also distributed food and cloth.

On the other hand, Li Yuan has nothing practical at all, they are just some seemingly illusory promises. If he dies in battle, he doesn't know whether these promises can be fulfilled.

Under such circumstances, it is very normal that Li Yuan's troops cannot beat the troops of the three major families.

Fighting is a matter of hard work, and it is no good to want people to work hard. Who would do it?

Li Yuan looked at the staff in front of him, bowed his head like an ostrich, and felt a little angry, and when he was about to get angry, someone suddenly reported: "Your Majesty, the envoy of Zhao Guo has come. "

"An envoy from the Zhao Kingdom?" Li Yuan couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words, and after hesitating for a while, he said, "Invite someone here."

Li Yuan dared not neglect Zhao Guo's envoy.

A moment later, a young Zhao Guoguo appeared in front of Li Yuan, and saluted Li Yuan very politely: "I have seen you, Your Majesty."

Li Yuan nodded, and said very politely to the Zhao Guo envoy in front of him, "Why did you come here this time?"

When he said this, Li Yuan's tone was not only a bit wary, but also a little bit of anticipation.

Needless to say, beware of that, Li Yuan, the heart of the tiger and wolf who is now annexing the world in Zhao Guo, is naturally very clear, and has always been very vigilant.

As for this expectation, of course, if Zhao Guo does not plan to invade Chu in the south, then maybe Zhao Guoguo wants to use Li Yuan's knife to completely wipe out the three major families.

In this way, Zhao Guo may still have a slight possibility to provide follow-up assistance to Li Yuan.

But it turns out that Li Yuan really thought too much about this idea.

After a simple greeting, the envoy from Zhao country immediately looked at Li Yuan with aggressive eyes, and said domineeringly: "I don't know if you have heard that the prince of our country was assassinated in Qidi a while ago." matter?"

Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "I have indeed heard about this matter."

Zhao Guo's envoy also nodded, and then said: "Very good, since that's the case, then please ask the general to hand over the murderer."

"What?" Li Yuan's eyes widened all of a sudden, and he said in disbelief, "Could it be that King Zhao suspects that this assassin was sent by me, Li Yuan?"

The envoy nodded, and said proudly: "Exactly. According to the joint investigation of our country's supervisory guards and Hu Yiwei, this assassin is obviously from Yingdu. Therefore, I was ordered to come here this time to hope that your majesty You can give my king an explanation. Otherwise, if you offend my king, when the Handan army goes south, the king will be in danger, and the capital of Ying will be in danger!"

The words were full of threats.

Li Yuan slapped the table and said angrily: "It's bloody, I never sent any assassins to Qi State, this assassination has nothing to do with Chu State at all!"

The envoy glanced at Li Yuan with a half-smile, and then said, "If you say that, is your majesty not going to hand over the murderer?"

Li Yuan snorted heavily, and said: "Even if I want to hand over the murderer, there must be a murderer who can hand it over first! Go back and tell King Zhao that there must be some misunderstanding in this matter. The prince The assassination has absolutely nothing to do with me and Da Chu."

The Zhao Guo envoy did not continue to say anything, but moved towards Li Yuan, and then left the palace with his head held high.

Li Yuan sat there blankly, as if he had suddenly aged several years.

After a long while, Li Yuan sighed suddenly, summoned the few confidants who were waiting outside again, and then said to the few confidants in front of him: "Immediately send envoys to tell the three major families that I want to make peace with you." They make peace.

"Negotiate peace?" As soon as Li Yuan said these words, several of his confidants were startled, and immediately persuaded: "Your Majesty, the three major families now regard you as a thorn in their side, and vow to Get rid of it and hurry up. Even if you really want to negotiate peace with them sincerely, it is impossible for the three major families to agree."

Li Yuan snorted, his expression suddenly became a little sad, and he said: "They will agree, because the Zhao people will call soon. Tell them, if you don't want to be taken advantage of by the Zhao people, then agree immediately My request, and then find a way to deal with the upcoming Zhao invasion!"

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Zhao Dan was not surprised by Li Yuan's refusal.

On the contrary, another part of Chu State, that is, the three major families, has made "progress" that Zhao Dan himself did not expect.

"Qu Yang?" Zhao Dan couldn't help being a little surprised when he looked at the information in his hand.

The three major families actually handed over a murderer, a guy named Qu Yang.

This is something that even Zhao Dan himself has never thought about.

"In this way, is this Qu Yang really the murderer?" Si Kou Yuxin, who was sitting in front of Zhao Dan, couldn't help but raise his opinion.

Zhao Dan laughed and said, "No, this Qu Yang is not the murderer."